Blu-ray/DVD

Blu-Review: La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri, 1973) – Arrow Video

Salo and Leaving Las Vegas comes to mind but this film is a beast of its own as these men set out to do what they came there to do, having trucks filled with meats, vegetables, and other essential ingredients unloaded off at the property where every room is an exercise in consumerism of a grotesque exaggeration that only these bourgeois could afford.

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Blu-Review: Island of Death (Nico Mastorakis, 1976) – Arrow Video

When you hear a film has been influenced by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre you most likely will figure that the film will at least have something shocking in it. As to what those shocking things might be you would never in a million years think of the crazy shit that goes down in this Greek “video nasty” Island of Death.

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Blu-Review: Massacre Gun (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1967) – Arrow Video

1967 was a great year for Jo Shishido. It saw the release of not only what he says to be his favorite film of his, A Colt is My Passport, but also what he will probably be known for, Branded to Kill. Arrow Video, still in the first months of breaking into the  North American market, has released another 1967 film starring Shishido.

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