DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for February 15, 2011
Hey Fiends! We are going to try to have your DVD and Blu-Ray Releases compiled and posted on Mondays now. This week is sort of light on the media releases, but there are still some things to check out, including a new Twilight Zone Season on Blu-Ray
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Death Tube 2
Format: DVD
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The sequel to the exciting terror film! `Death Tube,` the website where murders are streamed live in real time, is back online with a new generation of challengers / victims! Who will escape and what will be left of them? The real killer is about to be revealed!
Not Available on Netflix
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The Lady Hermit (Shaw Brothers)
Format: DVD
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She’ll teach you a thing or two about bloodshed.
From the vaults of the Shaw Brothers hails a film that showcases the legendary wuxia masters’ talent like a blood-soaked prize. In a performance celebrated as her magnum opus, Cheng Pei-Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) memorably demands body parts from her foes in a vengeful rage.
Cheng is the Lady Hermit: a paragon of poise and stealth, in hiding for years, plotting revenge ever since her injurious run-in with the sinister Black Knight. Shih Szu (Shaolin Handlock) is a lethal go-getter with wicked bullwhip skills who begs Cheng to teach her, hoping to slay the demon herself. The Black Knight’s days are numbered as the Lady Hermit and her protege perfect the technique to take him down – one called the Flying Tiger.
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The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
Format: DVD
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Jeff, a down on his luck office worker finds out he is the last living relative of horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft. What he doesn’t know is that Lovecraft’s monsters are real and will soon threaten the very existence of mankind. Jeff and his best friend Charlie are forced to embark on a perilous adventure and they enlist the help of high school acquaintance, Paul, a self proclaimed Lovecraft specialist. Together the three unlikely heroes must protect an alien relic and prevent the release of an ancient evil, known as Cthulhu.
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Love at First Kill
Format: DVD
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Love At First Kill is a provocative thriller about seduction, deception, madness and murder. Harry is a young artist who lives with his overprotective widowed mother, Beth. But when a sexy divorcee moves next-door, Beth’s paranoia triggers a chain of events that will shatter their worlds forever. What is the shocking secret behind Harry’s recurring nightmares? What really happened to his long-dead father? And what horror is Beth capable of when pushed too far?
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October Moon 2: November Son
Format: DVD
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Two years after a gay obsession became a murderous rage, a mother still cries out for her dead son. A best friend begs for a new companion. A jilted fiancée can’t shake the gruesome image of her dead lover. They all seek answers to end their guilt, and think they’ve found it when two mysterious, handsome men enter their lives. Soon, however, hope and peace evolve into terror and paranoia as the psycho drama enveloping them explodes into a new round of revenge and bloodshed.
Not Available on Netflix
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Respire
Format: DVD
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The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one’s body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930’s, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes its contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
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Stag Night
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Four men out on a Stag Night in New York prematurely exit an underground train after the soon-to-be best man begins to hassle two women. Trapped at a deserted station, these six adults become the target of a gruesome manhunt when a secret gang of cannibal dwellers living in the tunnels discovers them. Tensions will rise as they fight to make it through the night with all their limbs attached.
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The Twilight Zone: Season 3
Format: Blu-Ray
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All 37 episodes of the third season of Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series, now presented in pristine high-definition for the first time ever, along with hours of new and exclusive bonus features not available anywhere else!
Episodes: Two, The Arrival , The Shelter, The Passerby, A Game of Pool, The Mirror, The Grave, It’s a Good Life, Death’s Head Revisited , The Midnight Sun, Still Valley, The Jungle, Once Upon a Time, Five Characters in Search of an Exit, A Quality of Mercy, Nothing in the Dark, One More Pallbearer, Dead Man’s Shoes, The Hunt , Showdown with Rance McGrew, Kick the Can, A Piano in the House, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank, To Serve Man, The Fugitive, Little Girl Lost, Person or Persons Unknown, The Little People, Four O’Clock , Hocus-Pocus and Frisby, The Trade-ins, The Gift, The Dummy, Young Man’s Fancy, I Sing the Body Electric, Cavender Is Coming , The Changing of the Guard
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Web of Death
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It s back to the Shaolin Monastery for one of the most unusual action-packed tales to invade its hallowed halls. Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the Five Poison Web . In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li. Under the direction of Chu Yuan and action choreographers Tang Chia and Yuen Cheung-yan, The Web Of Death goes places where no other Shaolin kung-fu movie has gone before.
Not Available on Netflix
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The Working Girls
Format: DVD
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From IMDB.com – Honey comes to Los Angeles to seek her new lifestyle, but is flat broke. She gets a place to stay with Denise and Jill. Honey has hard luck finding a job, but eventually gets hired by a millionaire to just talk to him. Denise falls in love with a guitar player Honey brings home, but there’s something shady going on with him. Jill works at the local strip bar as a waitress, and the manager has new plans for her. Soon the girls get thrown into danger by the illegal activities of the men they love, and must find a way to solve the problem. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Not Available on Netflix
Andy Triefenbach
Andy Triefenbach is the Editor-in-Chief and owner of DestroytheBrain.com. In addition to his role on the site, he also programs St. Louis' monthly horror & exploitation theatrical midnight program, Late Nite Grindhouse. Coming from a household of a sci-fi father and a horror/supernatural loving mother, Andy's path to loving genre film was clear. He misses VHS and his personal Saturday night 6 tape movie marathons from his youth.