DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for June 29, 2010

[Editor’s Note: The list was published late because of the delays with Amazon.com and also the API for Netflix is down, so I am unable to add the Netflix widget to all the releases.  DTB appreciates your patience]

Hello Fiends!  Another week of Horror and Cult Cinema on digital media for your home to inhabit.  Mya Communications has some good ones in here as well as Code Red’s Teenage Hitchhikers and the long forgotten Bonnie’s Kids all round out your releases for June 29, 2010.

Blood on the Highway (2008)

2008
starring: Deva George, Nate Rubin
d. Barak Epstein, Blair Rowan
Format: DVD
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On their way to a rock concert, Carrie, her boyfriend Sam, and Bone, her thug ex-boyfriend, get lost and wind up in Fate, Texas – a town populated by bloodthirsty, dimwitted vampires. Featuring genre favorites Nicholas Brendon and Tom Towles.

Bonnie’s Kids (Special Edition)

1973
starring: Alex Rocco, Tiffany Bolling
d. Arthur Marks
Format: DVD
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Now Uncut & Uncensored On DVD
For The First Time Ever!

Get ready for one of the true lost classics of 70s exploitation cinema: Tiffany Bolling (THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS) and Robin Mattson (ALL MY CHILDREN) deliver eye-popping performances as small town sisters who murder their pervert stepfather and flee to the big city, where they ll tangle with horny private eyes, predatory lesbians, $400,000 in stolen mob money, and a bantering pair of black and white hitmen (Alex Rocco of THE GODFATHER and Timothy Brown of NASHVILLE) that historians cite as a key inspiration for PULP FICTION. Steve Sandor (THE NINTH CONFIGURATION), famed tough-guy actor Scott Brady (JOHNNY GUITAR) and Sharon Gless (in her film debut) co-star in this notorious drive-in noir from writer/director Arthur Marks (DETROIT 9000, BUCKTOWN), now fully restored in HD from the original 35mm negative with an all-new featurette for the first time ever on DVD.

The Crazies [Blu-ray]

2010
starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell
d. Breck Eisner
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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In this terrifying glimpse into the “American Dream” gone wrong, an unexplainable phenomenon has taken over the citizens of Ogden Marsh. One by one the townsfolk are falling victim to an unknown toxin and are turning sadistically violent.  People who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives are now depraved, blood-thirsty killers. While Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell), try to make sense of the escalating violence, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected.  In this film that Pat Jankiewicz of Fangoria calls “disturbing,” an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for the few remaining survivors as they do their best to get out of town alive.

Devil Within

2010
starring: Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Sarah Kathryn Harrison
d. Tom Hardy
Format: DVD
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A night of sex, drugs and partying in the Hollywood Hill’s is the perfect setting for Serina’s 18th birthday – until this high school pool party goes horribly wrong when an uninvited guest begins killing everyone.

The Eclipse

2010
starring: Ciaran Hinds (Actor), Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn
d. Conor McPherson
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone
since his wife died two years earlier, has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night. He isn’t
sure if he is having nightmares, or if he’s experiencing a haunting. Working as a volunteer for an international literary festival, he is assigned to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural.
Establishing a rapport with one another, Michael opens up and shares his terrifying experiences with her. However, Lena’s attention is distracted by another novelist, Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), with whom she had a brief affair. The trajectories of these three people lead them into a life-altering collision where the challenges of love, fear of the unknown, and release from the burden of grief are explored.

Lorna The Exorcist

1974
starring: Pamela Stanford
d. Jess Franco
Format: DVD
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Patrick, a rich businessman, celebrates his daughter Linda’s 18th birthday by taking her and his wife to a famous casino resort in the south of France, where, 20 years earlier, he had won the money that enabled him to start his business and begin his rise to the top. At the casino he meets the beautiful and mysterious Lorna, whom he first encountered that night 20 years ago. She reminds him that he made a promise to her back then. She is the power behind his success and now she has returned to claim her reward – his daughter, Linda. A masterpiece of transgressive horror from Jess Franco.

Love Games

1981
starring: Janet Argen
d. Paul Lezy
Format: DVD
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A bunch of smoking hot girls set out to get all the benefits they can by using their peculiar skills. The plan is simple: lure the rich ones into bed and then take everything away while they still think they landed the most gorgeous girl on the planet! The girls hop from one bed to another and quickly begin getting rich. Everything seems to go smooth and fine as planned until something unpredictable comes up. What happens when finally Cupid comes knocking at your door and you fall in love with your own prey?

A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire

2007
starring: Alex Spears, Vanessa de Largie, Patrick Boyle
d. Bill Mousoulis
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From the Australian undeground comes a dynamic gothic original. Z and X are vampires bound by love and driven by their lust for blood. Together they stalk their unsuspecting prey in the dark streets and back alleys of Melbourne, but tonight they aren’t the only killers lurking in the shadows. A moody and atmospheric thriller, A NOCTURNE: NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE is a sophisticated reworking of the vampire genre with film noir stylistics.

Nuclear Hurricane

2007
starring: Jack Scalia
d. Fred Olen Ray
Format: DVD
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When a devastating hurricane heads towards a nuclear power plant, the desperate workers race to thwart nature’s fury and prevent catastrophe. Starring Jamie Luner, Jack Scalia and Erin Gray.

Paranormal Cops: The Complete Season One

2010
starring: Reality Series
d. Matthew Hobin
Format: DVD
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PARANORMAL COPS follows a group of larger-than-life cops who walk one beat during the day as real-life Chicago-area police officers and another at night when they apply their forensic and investigative expertise to paranormal casework.

Responding to the pleas of people who are victimized by distressing and inexplicable activities in their homes and workplaces, these cops bring their no-nonsense approach to hunting ghosts, and their real-life police skills to separating fact from fiction and often happen upon results much scarier than the paranormal.

Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition) [Blu-ray]

1987
starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers
d. John McTiernan
Format: Blu-Ray
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Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood’s most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they’ve been assigned to search for South American officials who’ve been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realize that they’re now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that’s heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film’s special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie’s so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. –Jeff Shannon

Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman

1969
starring: Jimmy Wang Yu
d. Cheh Chang
Format: DVD
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The one-armed swordsman comes out of retirement to save the day in this action-packed sequel to the box office hit, One-Armed Swordsman. The film boasts more villains, more weapons, more fighting, and more over-the-top action than its predecessor, says lovehkfilm.com

Sandok

1965
starring: Richard Harrison, Wilbert Bradley
d. Umberto Lenzi
Format: DVD
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The rajah of Punjab wants to come into possession of a famous gem known as “Mountain of Light”. He asks adventurer Allan Foster to steal it for him, but Foster has other plans and he’s not willing to share this precious booty. Cult director Umberto Lenzi directs a true gem of a Euro-adventure stomper! Taken from the famous Emilio Salgari’s novel and starring cult-stalwart Richard Harrison, “Sandok” is a cinematic adventure that tastes like the good old days.

Stolen

2009
starring: Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm, James Van Der Beek
d. Anders Anderson
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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Golden Globe® Award winner Jon Hamm of MAD MEN stars as Detective Tom Adkins, a devoted cop haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his young son eight years earlier. But when Adkins discovers the buried remains of a boy who was brutally murdered more than half a century ago, he becomes obsessed with investigating the long-forgotten crime. Is the 1958 mystery surrounding down-on-his-luck family man Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas of GLORY ROAD) and his own abducted son linked in any way to Adkins tragedy? And even if Adkins can prove a connection, can he face the shocking truth about the killer? Rhona Mitra (BOSTON LEGAL, DOOMSDAY), Morena Baccarin (SERENITY) and James Van Der Beek co-star in this harrowing thriller about the parallel lives of two men for whom secrets will not stay hidden when hope has been STOLEN.

Submission of a Woman

1991
starring: Gianluca Favilla, Paolo Lorimer
d. Alessandro Lucidi
Format: DVD
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Luisa and Giorgio have plans for a very special weekend, but not even in their worst nightmares could they have foreseen the evil that is about to be unleashed on them. While waiting for the babysitter they get assaulted by a viciously violent sex maniac. The man wreaks disastrous havoc on their lives. Giorgio ends up beaten to a pulp, while helpless Luisa and the babysitter have to witness the horror. But the worst of all fate awaits beautiful Luisa. But no woman is as dangerous as a woman who seeks revenge.

SuicideGirls Must Die! (Unrated)

2010
starring: The Suicide Girls
d. Sawa Suicide
Format: DVD
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Teenage Hitchhikers

1975
starring: Sandra Cassell, Chris Jordan
d. Gerri Sedley
Format: DVD
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In this ripe slice of hippiesploitation, two girls (Sandra Cassell, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT; Chris Jordan, CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE) hitch-hike their way across the good ole U.S.A. with no apparent destination in mind. Despite being penniless, they find that their nubile nude bodies are currency enough to get them where they’re going. Along the way, they encounter horny males of all stripes (and a female or two) eager to help them. All manner of 70s silliness ensues, including an encounter with a hapless escaped rapist and an all-out orgy in a hippie commune. Loaded with nudity and a breezy sense of humor, TEENAGE HITCH-HIKERS is a lost sleazy gem that delivers the goods.

Temptation

2009
starring: Caroline Haines, Laura Evans, Rachel Waters
d. Catherine Taylor
Format: DVD
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After a heavy night out with the girls, Isabel, and attractive young professional woman catches an illegal mini-cab home. Things take a turn for the worse when the cabbie pulls her into an ally and violently forces himself onto her, taking her life. From high above on the rooftop, an ancient female Vampire notices. Taken in by Isabel’s beauty and innocence, she dispatches the Cabbie and feeds Isabel a drop of her immortal blood. Isabel awakes with 48 hours to decide whether to embrace immortality, or kill herself before she becomes undead. Written by Brit Films

Uncle Sam [Blu-ray]

1997
starring: Bo Hopkins, Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, P.J. Soles, William Smith
d. William Lustig
Format: Blu-Ray
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The Star Spangled Shocker From The Creators Of MANIAC COP

It’s Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper – killed by ‘friendly fire’ during the first Gulf War – is returned to his all-American hometown. But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran (Soul icon Isaac Hayes of SHAFT and SOUTH PARK fame) can stop his red-blooded rampage. Draft dodgers, tax cheats, crooked politicians and flag-burners beware: Uncle Sam wants you… DEAD!

Timothy Bottoms (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), Bo Hopkins (THE WILD BUNCH), William Smith (FAST COMPANY), P.J. Soles (HALLOWEEN, CARRIE) and Oscar(r) nominee Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN) co-star in this zombie horror hit directed by William Lustig (MANIAC, RELENTLESS) and written by Larry Cohen (IT’S ALIVE, THE STUFF). UNCLE SAM has been remastered in sparkling High Definition from original negative materials and loaded with illuminating Extras!

EXTRAS:
Audio Commentary #1 with Director William Lustig, Writer Larry Cohen and Producer George G. Braunstein
Audio Commentary #2 with Director William Lustig and Star Isaac Hayes
“Fire Stunts” with Audio Commentary by Stunt Coordinator Spiro Razatos
Deleted Scene
Gag Reel
Theatrical Trailer
Poster & Still Galleries

Versus Blu-ray

2000
starring: Tak Sakaguchi
d. Ryuhei Kitamura
Format: Blu-Ray
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Deep within the mysterious Forest of Resurrection, the spectacular battle between good and evil has gone on since the dawn of time. When Prisoner KSC2-303 escapes from a maximum security jail, he enters the forest believing it will lead him to a safe haven. Instead, he finds himself a pawn in an endless struggle played out against an ever-changing background across multiple temporal planes of existence. His opponent: a mysterious man who seemingly cannot be killed. The battle to be waged between these warriors: Good versus Evil in the pursuit of a beautiful woman who holds the power to grant eternal life. But what Prisoner KSC2-303 cannot remember is whether he is the personification of good or the very essence of darkness.

Warehouse 13: Season One

2009
starring: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly
d. Various
Format: DVD
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After saving the life of the President, two top Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 — a massive, top-secret storage facility in the badlands of South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. Now the pair — off-the-cuff Agent Pete Lattimer and by-the-book Agent Myka Bering — must chase down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects for their eccentric new boss, Artie Nielsen, to safeguard at the Warehouse. It’s a wildly entertaining adventure full of inventive gadgetry and thrilling action, and with all twelve Warehouse 13: Season One episodes cataloged and archived in this collectible three-disc set, now’s your chance to snag it, bag it and tag it!