Sunday, May 30, 2021

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Mommie Dearest, Spare Parts & Boogie

 

June 1st 2021


 New month and new bluray's to potentially add to our growing collections. First up this week from Paramount Presents line is classic, Mommie Dearest. This is definitely one I will be adding to my collection. Next up this week is Spare Parts, this film sounds interested and I've heard very little about it so looking forward to this title. Rounding out the week is Basketball drama Boogie, Smokey and The Bandit in 4K ultra HD and action mystery The Courier. So what will you be buying, renting or skipping this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

 

 

Mommie Dearest: Amazon - $29.99

Mommie Dearest, best selling memoir, turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother...screen queen Joan Crawford.
 

Boogie (Blu-ray) 

Boogie: Amazon - $21.99

Set in contemporary New York City and follows a Chinese-American basketball phenom who struggles to balance the expectations of his immigrant family with his own dreams of becoming a player for the NBA.
 

Spare Parts (Blu-ray) 

Spare Parts: Amazon - $28.99

A group of girls get lost on a random dirt road. The tow truck driver tows them to his junkyard. Everything seems normal until they wake up with weapons for limbs, and thrown into the fight of their lives.

But I'm a Cheerleader (Blu-ray) 

But I'm A Cheerleader: Amazon - $17.99

Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is a high school student who has it all. She's popular, pretty, a model student, dates the captain of the football team and is a cheerleader. But she's also a vegetarian, likes Georgia O'Keefe and hates kissing her boyfriend, leading her horrified parents to conclude that she's... a lesbian! Their solution is to send Megan to True Directions, a "rehabilitation camp" run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. At first, Megan resists "rehabilitation." Then she meets Graham, a sexy tomboy who shows her exactly what her "true direction" is.
 

Smokey and the Bandit 4K (Blu-ray) 

Smokey and The Bandit (4K): Amazon - $21.99

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
 

The Courier (Blu-ray) 

The Courier: Amazon - $21.99

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Endangered Species (Blu-ray) 

Endangered Species: Amazon - $15.99

Endangered Species is an intense, action packed survival-adventure about a wealthy American family who travel to the vast African wilderness of Kenya hoping for a dream vacation filled with excitement, bonding and a chance to fix the growing rifts within their family. But when their safari vehicle is attacked by a rhino protecting her calf, the family is left stranded miles from help and their dream vacation turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival in a world where they are the bottom of the food chain.
 

The Stepford Wives (Blu-ray) 

The Stepford Wives: Amazon - $9.99

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller.
 

 


 -The Impostor

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Overlook Hour Podcast Show Notes #247


If I can find animated images of our guest, I use them.

We love you Calvin McCarthy!

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Turns out Birdman isn't Brench Fry 

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Here is the short covered in the TBR segment. THE NEST

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Post recording our interview with Calvin he recommended a movie called "Hell's Highway".

After seeing the films poster I felt inspired to share a couple similar images from my personal collection.

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Thank you Breaking Glass for this beautiful poster

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Definitely not Mutant Zombies from the Planet Neptune

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I'm still working on tracking this one down

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Episode 247!

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-Lord Battle

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Chaos Walking, Supernatural Final Season & The Outpost

 

May 25th 2021


 Bluray Tuesday creeps up on us once again. First up is Sci-fi action thriller, Chaos Walking. Staring Daisy Ridley of the last few Star Wars films and Tom Holland from the latest Spider-Man and Avengers films. I enjoyed this film and look forward to owning it. I can say it's definitely not for everyone so I'd recommend a rent on this title first. Next up this week is the fifteenth and final season of Supernatural. This show was intended to end at season five but the fan base kept it alive 10 more seasons! I'm a fan and look forward to catch up and check this final season out, Rounding out the week is action film The Outpost, The Hand from Scream Factory and Psycho in 4K. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Chaos Walking 4K (Blu-ray)

Chaos Walking: Amazon - $24.99

A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each others' thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

The Outpost 4K (Blu-ray)
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The Outpost: Amazon - $19.99

A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
 

Supernatural: The Complete Fifteenth and Final Season (Blu-ray) 

Supernatural (Season 15): Amazon - $34.99

Sam Winchester grew up hunting unearthly horrors. But now law school and a normal life beckon. That is, until Sam’s estranged brother Dean appears with troubling news: their father has disappeared, a man who’s hunted evil for 22 years. So to find their father, the brothers must hunt what he hunts... and Sam must return to the life he’d rather leave behind.
 

Don't Look Now (Blu-ray) 

Don't Look Now: Amazon - $14.99

Following a family tragedy, a married couple on an extended trip to Venice has a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.

Happily (Blu-ray) 

Happily: Amazon - $14.99

A dark romantic comedy. Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.
 

Deadly Force: Mission Budapest (Blu-ray) 

Deadly Force: Amazon - $16.99

Extreme sport lover Zhou Feng got involved in an international illegal trade by accident. So he had to follow an international special agent Bruce to Budapest. Together with a crappy police officer Miao Yan, a non-professional scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV, they became an amateur unit. In company with the senior agent Bruce, these four rookies started a fight with the terrorists that was both thrilling and hilarious.
 

The Hand (Blu-ray) 

The Hand: Amazon - $24.99

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him...
 

Psycho 4K (Blu-ray) 

Psycho (4K): Amazon - $22.99

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000. On the run she checks into the remote Bates Motel, run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
 

Terror Express (Blu-ray) 

Terror Express: Amazon - $19.99

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
 

The Final Countdown 4K (Blu-ray)
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The Final Countdown: Amazon - $47.99

Due to a freak electrical storm, USS Nimitz the world's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is transported back to December 6, 1941.
 

Deliver Us from Evil (Blu-ray) 

Deliver Us From Evil: Amazon - $17.99

An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed.
 

 


 - The Impostor

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Overlook Hour Podcast Show Notes #246

Find Graham on SPOON! He's live every Wednesday

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The 5th submission from Brench Fry

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21 Savage - Spiral

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Nigel Bach presents The Witch Bitch

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The UFF24hr smash hit SPACE CLOWN

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If you couldn't hang with Space Clown give Sequence Break a shot

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Forget about part 1, it's forgettable 😉 (but seriously, what part 1)

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Enjoy episode 246! You can also find it on iTunes

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-Lord Battle

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Son, Hunted & Raya and The Last Dragon

 

May 18th 2021

Bluray Tuesday returns! First up this week is two Shudder exclusive releases Son and Hunted. Hunted I wanted to like but felt under whelmed by but will give it another shot. Son is one that caught me by surprise and would recommend checking out. Also hitting shelves is Disney's Raya and The Last Dragon. This new Disney title is pretty solid and I'd also recommenced this week. Rounding out the week is Alien invasion film Cosmic Sin, Tom and Jerry The Movie and The Nest from Scream Factory. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Hunted (Blu-ray) 

Hunted: Amazon - $12.99

Eve meets what she thinks is a charming guy in a bar. Yet things go terribly wrong once she realizes she has come across a psychopath and his accomplice. They engage in a death chase until she decides to fight back with the forest as her only ally.
 

Son (Blu-ray) 

Son: Amazon - $16.99

When a young boy falls ill to a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
 

Raya and the Last Dragon 4K (Blu-ray) 

Raya and The Last Dragon: Best Buy - $29.99

In a land called Kumandra, split into five different regions, a warrior named Raya searches for the last dragon in the world.

Eyes of a Stranger (Blu-ray) 

Eyes of A Stranger: Amazon - $24.99

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.
 

He Knows You're Alone (Blu-ray)
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He Knows You're Alone: Amazon - $24.99

A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?

Above Suspicion (Blu-ray) 

Above Suspicion: Amazon - $15.99

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation's top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.
 

The Nest (Blu-ray) 

The Nest: Amazon - $17.99

Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into a English country manor.
 

Cosmic Sin (Blu-ray) 

Cosmic Sin: Amazon - $12.99

A group of warriors and scientists fight to save society from a hostile alien invasion
 

Tom & Jerry (Blu-ray) 

Tom & Jerry The Movie: Amazon - $19.99

Adaption of the classic Hanna-Barbera property, which reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry.

Minari (Blu-ray) 

Minari: Amazon - $15.99

A Korean family moves to Arkansas to start a farm in the 1980s.
 

 


- The Impostor

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Overlook Hour Podcast Show Notes #245


Familiarize yourself with Valeri Milev's work. The man is an incredible talent and it's insane more people in the horror scene don't know his name.

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Redundancy is terrifying to me

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Valeri Milev directed this video for Ivo Dimchev and I don't know what he's singing about, but I like it

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Project Zenit - Қанағаттандырылмағандықтарыңыздан AKA the video that started it all

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If you are on the fence about checking out Bullets of Justice, check out the trailer and you'll be sold

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Wrong Turn, Valeri Milev style

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-Lord Battle

Monday, May 10, 2021

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Saw (4K), The Marksman & Scavenger

 

May 11th 2021


 Bluray Tuesday returns! First up this week is Saw in 4K. Perfect for the release of Spiral hitting theaters this weekend. Best Buy will carry an exclusive steelbook packaging for this. The latest Liam Nesson action / thriller, The Marksman also releases today. Rounding out the week is Scavenger special edition, DC animated Justice Society: World War II, and Spanish supernatural horror Morgue. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Saw 4K (Blu-ray) 

Saw 4K (Blu-ray)

Saw (4K): Amazon - $16.99

Best Buy Steelbook: Best Buy - $18.99

Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back or die trying...

The Marksman (Blu-ray) 

The Marksman: Amazon - $27.99

A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S.
 

Scavenger (Blu-ray) 

Scavenger: Amazon - $19.99

In a post apocalyptic world with its own rules;Tisha, an assassin and organ dealer with a dark past, seeks revenge for a crime that marked her life.

Morgue (Blu-ray)
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Morgue: Amazon - $16.99

The story is about a night that Diego Martínez is locked inside the morgue of the Regional Hospital of Encarnación and recounts the paranormal events that the security guard spent.
 

The Mauritanian (Blu-ray) 

The Mauritanian: Amazon - 22.99

A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

Shrek 4K (Blu-ray) 

Shrek (4K): Amazon - $22.99

Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad. Determined to save their home (not to mention his own), Shrek cuts a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue Princess Fiona to be Farquaad's bride, with the help of a wisecracking donkey. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret.
 

Justice Society: World War II 4K (Blu-ray) 

Justice Society: World War II: Amazon - $24.99

 The Justice Society of America , a group of heroes aiding the allies in World War 2, acquire an ally from the future who sends them on an adventure that changes history.

King Kong (Blu-ray) 

King Kong: Amazon - $27.99

The Big Apple is again besieged by the monstrous King Kong. Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange star in this ambitious remake of the 1933 original, which adds a great deal of camp and good fun to the story. Again, the gargantuan ape battles attacking aircraft high above the streets of New York, this time plunging from the top of the World Trade Center to his death amidst thousands of horrified onlookers. KING KONG won an Oscar for special effects, and the horror and the thrills are brought anew to another generation in this classic and classy production.
 

The Fast and the Furious 4K (Blu-ray) 

The Fast & Furious (4K) (Steelbook): Amazon - $21.99

Dominic Toretto drives the streets of LA like he owns them. As far as his crew is concerned, he
does. He spends his days rebuilding high performance race cars and perfecting the art of
computer controlled fuel injection. By night, Dom pockets up to $10,000 each time someone
dares to race him in his own earth-bound rocket of a car. Dom lives off of the adrenaline of
street car racing and his fans treat him like a rock star. Brian particularly looks up to Dominic
and seeks his approval, but to the rest of the crowd, he's white bread. After a blazing
encounter with the ruthless Johnny Tran, Dom decides to take Brian under his wing. Dom's
sister Mia sees something she likes in Brian, too. Trouble is, neither of them realize he's an
undercover cop and Dominic and his rival Johnny Tran are both the leading suspects in a case
involving dirty money and big-rig hijacking.
 

Land (Blu-ray) 

Land: Amazon - $27.99

A local hunter brings a grieving lawyer back from the brink of death after she retreats to the harsh wilderness of the Rockies.

 

- The Impostor