i think this is currently the best cover of any Dimension Extreme dvd release that i’ve seen (even with the big red banner on the upper left hand corner). it certainly stands out from the rest of their library:
unfortunately the movie plays like an awfully paced, bad after school special/comedy from the 80’s. it did have its moments.
this movie is simply bloody. but that doesnt necessarily give you an idea of how bloody it is (in both quality and quantity). i guess you can lump this with the Saw movies as far as gore is concerned but this movie is more heartwarming? er, touching? hard to explain, it’s like poignant yet overly brutal, violent…and bloody.
ryuhei kitamura’s cult classic. i already had the original release but this is a much better release (steelbook case FTW!)
trailer:
this is the kind of movie you can get with a $10 blockbuster giftcard:
low budgety brit horror flick that’s actually well made. story-wise not all that original (think Alien or John Carpenter’s The Thing…except with mutant baby cows)
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not that great of a screenshot, i’d describe the creature(s) as caramelized soft-shelled crabs like you’d find at chinese buffets…except served with some heaping of blood and bovine innards
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dvd also has a pretty good short film extra, written and directed by Billy O’Brien (who’s also the director of Isolation):
kinda reminds me of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller.
written and directed by Shane Meadows. great movie. about skinheads (if you briefly skimmed the trailer or read the story synopsis). it’s really more about friendship, bonds and loyalty. no preaching about the direction of the main character’s life.
Leone’s Dollars trilogy was re-released as a boxset in 2007 with similar design packaging to the 2004 Special Edition of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. i had already bought the anniversary edition of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly a year after it came out (which would be around 2005) so i ended up just buying the 2007 re-releases of Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More separately. (also waited for them to go on sale. Fistful was on sale for 9.99 while Few Dollars More went on sale recently for 14.99)
the actual disc design looks a lot like the Taxi Driver dvd i posted before, but that one was designed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. i can’t find a listing for the packaging design of Leone’s trilogy.
trailers:
btw, some of the interviews that were in the 2004 release of The Good The Bad & The Ugly (titled Leone’s West and Leone’s Style) end up on the extras disc of Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. so you’re not really getting that much original extra interviews if you had all 3 movies.
this came only with 2 discs and no booklet. okay. but why couldn’t they have used a single sized case which can also hold 2 discs instead?
direct to dvd batman animated short stories coming this summer. similar to Animatrix (some of the same anime studios are working on the segments). also similar to Dark Fury, another direct to dvd animated feature by Peter Chung (of Aeon Flux fame) in that the stories are set in between the Batman Begins movie and the upcoming Dark Knight.
the full sneak preview:
just the anime segments:
link to article and screenshots
Madhouse studios (whose animating one of the stories) is most famous in the west for creating Ninja Scroll. the first work i saw from them was a short called Running Man that was shown in the second season of MTV’s Liquid Television. Liquid Television also used segments of Ninja Scroll in a later season.
The Running Man is available on the dvd Neo Tokyo, which seems to be hard to find these days (i checked amazon.com and it’s priced at $60!!!). i guess i wont be replacing my Hong Kong version of the dvd just yet.
bloody english humor 
also starring Amanda Donohoe. they used to show this on Bravo back in the 90’s. not available on any region 1 dvds. it’s split up if you watch it on youtube.
i’m going to try and put it together as one video file using iMovie. cuz Justin Long says it’s quite easy to do:
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