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Visual Vengeance, the new sister label of Wild Eye Releasing that focuses on special blu-ray releases of micro budget indie genre flicks that were shot on video, has announced their next release.    Todd Sheets' werewolf action flick Moonchild will be getting the special treatment this October. Visual Vengeance doesn't skimp on the extras either, presenting a package that has a slew of extras and goodies.    You also have to appreciate the level of chutzpah on display in the trailer down below. It truly looks like Sheets made the most of the tools he had, and when he ran out of those just kept on going. Moonchild just looks as next level bonkers as micro indies could get back then. Check it out below....

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Takahisa Zeze's The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 19 – December 18, 2019 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Above: Heaven's StoryOne of the carefully hidden programming delights of Venice '19 was a showcase of current Japanese films—industry-only thus not in the general schedule. Among the new releases screened there was (The Promised Land), by Takahisa Zeze—a name a friend remembered fondly from decades ago when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like Waisetsu bōsō shūdan: Kemono, Kōkyū Soap Technique 4: Monzetsu higi, Honban Les: Hazukashii taii, or Sukebe tenkomori toured the Western festival circuit as the latest in avant-garde entertainment. As she had the necessary kind of festival badge, this friend was able to enter the screening. A little over two hours later, she exited with glowing eyes wondering: “Why on earth...

April 9th is set to be a fun day for cult film fans (but perhaps a bad day for their bank accounts), as we have tons of great titles headed to Blu-ray and DVD this week. Scream Factory is bringing The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires home on Tuesday, and for you giallo aficionados out there, you’ll definitely want to add The Iguana With The Tongue of Fire to your personal collections as well. Agfa is resurrecting Blood Lake this week, and Severin is keeping busy with their impressive Hemisphere Box of Horrors set as well.

Other notable home media releases for April 9th include Moon Child, The Amityville Murders, Matriarch, and The La Llorona Curse.

Blood Lake: Special Edition

Blood Lake is the most fascinating -- and stupefying -- shot-on-video slasher that ever escaped from 1987. A group of unhinged party animals, including adolescent horn-dog Lil' Tony, embark...

Short notes on the impressive and unexpected retrospective of Spanish-Catalan auteur Agustí Villaronga:

His debut Tras en cristal (1987) reveals the filmmaker belonging to the post-Hitchcock group of filmmakers like Chabrol, De Palma, Argento, and Lynch who use a stylized decoupage of specific sequences to express subjective psychological states often involving sexuality and suspense. Villaronga here likes the gaudy camera pen set-piece as much as De Palma, and can be as twisted in his subject as Argento. Why Villaronga leapt to immediate fame with this first film is probably the extra element Argento or De Palma wouldn’t touch, that is, specifically linking a cinema of sensual-psychological suspense and violence to actual history. The subject here is of an exiled Nazi who used to torture and abuse children and is now paralyzed and terrorized by a former victim.

What’s particularly interesting about Villaronga is that in comparison to these...