Shout!Factory has released Richard Lowenstein’s profoundly personal account of the troubled singer Michael Hutchence’s rise to fame with INXS and the circumstances that led to his death by suicide. A very well made and empathetic documentary.
Nightmare at Noon is a campy action film from Nico Mastorakis that borrows from Westerns and The Crazies. Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins star.
Vice Squad is a gritty piece of filmmaking from the Eighties with a standout performance by Wings Hauser.
Shout!Factory has put together a solid Collector’s Edition of this enjoyable Horror-Western from John Carpenter. James Woods stars as a vampire hunter in one of his few roles as an action star.
Framing John DeLorean is an interesting documentary that stumbles a little bit from its more meta elements. Alec Baldwin and other actors star in the re-enactments. Shout!Factory has provided some excellent supplemental material that fleshes out the story.
The Entity is an effective supernatural thriller starring Barbara Hershey, but the intense scenes of sexual assault are sure to keep many viewers from the film. Shout!Factory has given it a pristine release in a new Collector’s Edition.
Genius Party and a Genius Party:Beyond will please fans of anime and MTV’s Liquid Television.
Universal Horror Collection: Volume 3 finds the set expanding towards numerous genres with a lot of classic horror actors on display.
Bob Dylan stars in a surreal movie he co-wrote with director Larry Charles. It is a strange and funny film that will please as many Dylan fans as it leaves scratching their heads.
This box set features four films featuring the great actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Classic horror fans will find this set too great a bargain to pass up.
Charles Bronson stars as a no-nonsense cop chasing a nude serial killer in this exploitative crime film from the Eighties.