‘X’ploder: Herschell Gordon Lewis’ LINDA AND ABILENE (1969)
Contradictory as it may sound, better isn’t always better. Such is the case with Herschell Gordon Lewis’ turn of the decade sexploitation Western Linda and Abilene, best known these days for being one...
View ArticleHo Meng Hua’s THE OILY MANIAC「 油鬼子」to Blu-ray in July from 88 Films
Today in “things I never thought I’d live to see”, 88 Films have announced via their facebook page that director Ho Meng Hua’s deliciously bizarre action-horror-revenge fantasy The Oily Maniac 「 油鬼子」,...
View ArticleThe return of ‘The Return of Godzilla’
After decades in licensing limbo, Toho’s 1984 series reboot The Return of Godzilla (Gojira) will this month be making its belated premiere on Stateside DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of Kraken Releasing....
View ArticleA release date for SHIN GODZILLA 「シン・ゴジラ」?
I’m awaiting confirmation of this from more official sources (updated! see the note at the end of this article), but according to one Twitter user fans can expect a home video release of Shin Godzilla...
View ArticleKeiichi Hara’s MISS HOKUSAI 「百日紅」to North American Blu-ray from Universal in...
Fresh from a limited theatrical release through GKids last fall, Production I.G’s animated historical drama Miss Hokusai (adapted from the manga by Hinako SUGIURA) will soon find a more permanent home...
View ArticleWOLF GUY 「ウルフガイ 燃えろ狼男」 lives! To Blu-ray in the UK / US this Spring from Arrow
In a bombshell of an announcement for fans of elusive ’70s exploitation, Arrow Video have revealed that they’ll be releasing Toei’s seldom seen 1975 action oddity Wolf Guy to Blu-ray and DVD in the...
View ArticleFRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON and MATANGO to Toho Blu-ray in November
In addition to the two classic films from Ishiro HONDA, Kihachi Okamoto’s Battle of Okinawa and Japan’s Longest Day as well as the complete ’90s Mothra trilogy will also see release. All five are...
View ArticleKrieg im Weltenraum! Ishiro Honda’s BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE blasts onto Blu-ray...
Anolis Entertainment continue to impress with their steady slate of vintage genre Blu-rays. Following on the heels of their dual-format release of The H-Man in March, next week will see the high...
View ArticleATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: New 4k Restoration to Blu-ray in January
File this under “shit we never thought we’d see”. I first stumbled upon John DeBello’s improbable and indomitable cult item on a video store shelf as a kid, rented it with hard-earned allowance money,...
View ArticleWill you believe it when you’re dead?? THE GREEN SLIME creeps to Blu-ray this...
When I first started ExB way back in 2013, our first recurring feature was a dumb little thing called “99 Reasons for The Green Slime on Blu-ray”. That feature, which came with a petition for… guess…,...
View ArticleS.O.S. Tidal Wave surges to Blu-ray from Olive in October
Olive Films dives deep into the Republic archives for this quickie thriller from 1939, notable for its wholesale plundering of the monumental disaster footage from R.K.O.’s ill-fated 1933 apocalypse...
View ArticleLION MAN resurrected – 4k Restoration of THE SWORD AND THE CLAW to Blu-ray...
For all the persistent talk of how physical media is dying, it’s been a great few years to be a genre video fan – and the more niche, the better. To that end, the American Genre Film Archive are...
View ArticlePhantom Beast AGON roars to Blu-ray this December from T.C. Entertainment
Tokusatsu completists take note. Nippon Denpa Eiga’s oddball daikaiju serial Agon「アゴン」will mark the 50th anniversary of its original broadcast next January, an occasion monster fans will be able to...
View ArticleA Billion Volts of Death in Every Finger! THE PROJECTED MAN to Blu-ray from...
It looks like another longtime ExB favorite is heading to Blu-ray, courtesy Shout! Factory’s dependable genre imprint Scream Factory. The Projected Man wasn’t exactly a staple of early ’90s television...
View ArticleBlu Notes: The Neptune Factor (An Undersea Odyssey) ⋅ 2016 ⋅ Kino Lorber...
Ben Gazzara and a rag-tag crew of scientists and engineers (Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes) fend off the inexplicably gargantuan denizens of a deep-sea trench on their way to rescuing...
View ArticleApocalyptic sci-fi epic VIRUS「復活の日」DAY OF RESURRECTION infects 4k UHD and...
Director Kinji FUKASAKU’s bigger-than-big 1980 adaptation of Sakyo KOMATSU’s classic sci-fi novel Day of Resurrection「復活の日」is seeing the home video reissue it’s always deserved this December from...
View ArticleRare musical re-issue of JACK THE GIANT KILLER to Blu-ray in 2018 from Kino...
I should really stop being surprised by the things that are announced for Blu-ray these days, but this is another that arrived out of nowhere. The Edward Small-produced Seventh Voyage of...
View ArticleBlu Notes: VIRUS「復活の日」⋅ 4K UHD + Restored Blu-ray ⋅ 2017 ⋅ Kadokawa
Were someone to ask me for a capsule opinion of Kadokawa’s recent reissue of the 1980 epic Virus, they’d get a lengthy pause, a sigh, and ultimately a grudging, “It’s complicated.” So settle in, kids....
View ArticleThe Man-Eaters of Severin, Part I
"Though infamous for its transgressive depictions of violence 'Anthropophagous' trades in such graphic imagery far less than its reputation might suggest, instead relying on old-school horror shtick...
View ArticleThe Man-Eaters of Severin, Part II
"Absurd's villain is just that, a man turned towering and immortal self-regenerating murderer by a tangle with a nuclear test. Transplanted from Greece to Italy, with scientist-priest Edward Purdom in...
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