DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for June 22, 2010
Well, it’s another week with barely and blood on disc. However, Roger Corman’s produced DEATH RACE 2000 makes an appearance on DVD & Blu-Ray! Check out the break below to order and to check out the other releases.
Death Race 2000 (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics)
1975
starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone
d. Paul Bartel
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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Welcome to the year 2000, now a place plagued by a lack of morals and political unrest. The only thing that society looks forward to is the three-day Transcontinental Death Race, a high-speed competition that is won by the driver who collects the most points by killing spectators and pedestrians. But this year the drivers have something to worry about other than getting killed by rival contestants: there is a group of anti-race activists trying to stop the race for good. The games all-time champion, Frankenstein (David Carradine), takes on such colorful characters as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov), Nero The Hero (Martin Kove) and Matilda The Hun (Roberta Collins) in this dark comedy-science fiction classic directed by Paul Bartel ( Eating Raoul).
Red Desert (Criterion Collection)
1964
starring: Richard Harris, Monica Vitti
d. Michelangelo Antonioni
Format: DVD | Blu-ray
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Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and RED DESERT, his first color film, remains one of his greatest. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age–about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti (L’avventura), wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)–continues to exert force over viewers. With one startling, painterly composition after another–of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, overwhelming docked ships–RED DESERT creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.
Thirst
2008
starring: Lacey Chabert, Brandon Quinn
d. Jeffrey Scott Lando
Format: DVD
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Two couples roll their truck in the desert 50 miles away from anywhere. (Description from imdb.com)
Wolf Moon
2009
starring: Max Ryan, Maria Conchita Alonso
d. Dana Mennie
Format: DVD
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Amy (Ginny Weirick), a small-town girl meets and falls in love with Dan (Chris Divecchio), a mysterious drifter. Amy learns that Dan possesses a family curse and the unimaginable horror that was passed on to him by his father, Bender (Max Ryan). Dan and Amy’s love is put to the test when town locals (Billy Drago, Maria Conchita Alonso, Chris Mulkey) unite in the ultimate showdown with Bender to eliminate the terror he has brought to their town.
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.
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