Posts Tagged ‘EurekaClassics’
DVD And Blu-ray
Violent Streets
Rating: 4/5. Dark, mean, with a fatalistic streak, Violent Streets (Bôryoku gai) is widely regarded as one of the wildest, and most visually stunning yakuza exploitation movies ever made. And for good reason… Violent Streets AK...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lon Chaney wasn’t the first to bring the titular character of the Hunchback of Notre Dame to the big screen, but his performance—set against Wallace Worsley’s spectacular Parisian backdrop— was the one that set the benchmark fo...
DVD And Blu-ray
Karloff: Maniacal Mayhem
Eureka are really spoiling us. Last month their limited edition blu-ray, Karloff Universal Terror, shone the spotlight on a trio of post-Frankenstein Universal dramas. This month, Karloff: Maniacal Mayhem opens the vaults to de...
DVD And Blu-ray
Karloff Universal Terror
According to his daughter, he was “the least scary human being in the world”. But to fans, William Henry Pratt—AKA Boris Karloff—was the undisputed king of horror. The veteran actor had already appeared in 80 films when Franken...
DVD And Blu-ray
Vampyr
Disconcerting, unnerving, difficult… Carl Th. Dreyer’s Vampyr is arguably one of early cinema’s most memorable and controversial horrors. Panned by the critics on its original release, the film has since been acknowledged as a ...
DVD And Blu-ray
Three Monster Tales Of Sc-Fi Horror
Arguably the lasting power of the Universal Horror owes as much to their subtext as they do to their iconic imagery. Frankenstein, for instance, explores what it means to be human—and what it really takes to ‘a monster’. The C...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Love of Jeanne Ney
An epic of Weimar silent cinema, The Love Of Jeanne Ney follows the adventures of a young French woman amidst the chaos of post-World War I Europe. Blending ‘American style’ big-studio blockbuster, with the eerie camerawork an...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Specialists
From Sergio Corbucci, the legendary director of Django, Navajo Joe, The Great Silence, Companeros and The Mercenary comes The Specialists, starring French music and film great Johnny Hallyday (The Man On The Train, Détective, V...
