NEW DVD RELEASES: JULY 29TH – 31ST
Monster Pictures is your number one source of what’s weird and wonder in the world of dvd. You’re in for a treat this week. We have classics films frin Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Roger Corma. – Enjoy
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PICK OF THE WEEK!
Paths of Glory (1957) Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker. (Blu-ray)
‘Paths of Glory’ is a criminally underrated Stanley Kubrick film. When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. ‘Paths of Glory’ has an extra layer of heart and humanity that other Kubrick films are lacking.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
Burn Witch Burn (1962): Director: Sidney Hayers. Starring: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair. (DVD)
A skeptical college professor discovers his wife is a witch and his professional rivals are working magic against him. Her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Release date: 31 July 2013
Driller Killer (1979): Director: Abel Ferrara. Starring: Able Farrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day. (DVD)
An artist slowly goes insane. This leads him to taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
Lifeboat (1944): Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix. (Blu-ray)
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it. Alfred Hitchcock Classic.
Release Date: 31 July 2013
Masters of The Universe (1987) Director: Gary Goddard. Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella. (Blu-ray)
A live-action feature film based on the popular cartoon kids show about a prince turned warrior named He-Man. It’s affectionately considered the greatest worst superhero movie of its era.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Boston Strangler (1968) Director: Richard Fleischer. Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda. (Blu-ray)
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) Director: Gordon Hessler. Starring: Jason Robards. (DVD)
LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) Director: Roger Corman. Starring: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd. (DVD)
Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the “female thing” that lived in the Tomb of the Cat! Roger Corman, Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe are always a winning combination.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957): Director: Joseph Pevney. Starring: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone. (DVD)
Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Killing (1956) / The Killer’s Kiss (1955) (Blu-ray)
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane.
Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. | As a man waits at a train station for his girl, he tells us about the recent past and we segue into a long flashback.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Invisible Man Returns (1940). Director: Joe May. Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincet Price. (DVD)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
The Night of The Hunter (1955) Director: Charles Laughton. Starring: Robert Mitchum. (Blu-ray)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he’d stolen in a robbery.
Release Date: 31st July 2013
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
The Last Exorcism: Part 2 (2013) Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly. Starring: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner. Spencer Treat Clark. (DVD or Blu-ray)
As Nell Sweetzer tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie, the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan.
Release Date: 31 July 2013
PEACOCK FILMS
The Hidden (2002) Director: Brett W. Wagner. Starring: Kris Carr, Timothy Altmeyer, Todd Swenson.(DVD)
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place.
Date: 31st July 2013
What’s your pick of the week? Let us know in the comments or on facebook. Be sure to check for these titles or pre-order them at good places like JB Hi-Fi!
