DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for January 11, 2010

Hey Fiends!  Hope everyone has recovered from the holidays.  We have another week of releases for you including Alexandre Aja’s remake Pirahna on DVD, Blu-Ray and 3D Blu-Ray as well as some other releases.  Read beyond the break for the full details..

The Chainsaw Sally Show, Season 1

Format: DVD
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From Hershell Gordon Lewis, the Godfather of Gore, comes Chainsaw Sally! Watch as buxom, bloody, and busty Sally act as Judge, Jury and executioner on the scum infecting her small town. Bonus Features Include: 2 Behind The Scenes, Still Gallery, Music Video.

Not Available on Netflix

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Once Upon a Time in America

Format: Blu-Ray

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Once Upon a Time in America has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director’s cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it’s almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone’s elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. –Marshall Fine

Once Upon a Time in America on Netflix

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Piranha

Format: DVD | Blu-Ray | 3D Blu-Ray
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From IMDB.com – After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.

Read the Theatrical Review here

Piranha on Netflix

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (The Criterion Collection)

Format: Blu-Ray
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Special effects wunderkind and genre master Byron Haskin (The War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits) won a place in the hearts of fantasy film lovers everywhere with this gorgeously designed journey into the unknown. Robinson Crusoe on Mars tells the story of U.S. astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper (Paul Mantee), who must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, a pet monkey his only companion. But is he actually alone? Shot in vast Techniscope and blazing color, this is an imaginative and beloved marvel of classic science fiction.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars on Netflix

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There’s Nothing Out There

Format: DVD
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See the original film that inspired SCREAM! 3 hot body teens look to get away for the weekend at a vacation house on the lake. Little do they know that There’s Something Out There! An creature that wants to eat the men and mate with the women. Bonus Features Include – Interviews, Commentary by the Director, Pre-Production footage, stills, trailers, auditions. Behind the scenes.

There’s Nothing Out There on Netflix