Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Battle Beyond The Stars, The Purge (Season Two), & Stardust

 

June 29th 2021

 Bluray Tuesday creeps up on us once more. First up is a newly restored Battle Beyond The Stars in a collectible steelbook packaging from Scream Factory, Next up this week is The Purge season two released in time before this Friday's The Forever Purge film hitting theaters. Rounding out the week is Stardust from Shout Factory, His Dark Materials season two and The anniversary 4K release of Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments or social media. Until next week!

 

Battle Beyond The Stars (Steelbook): Amazon - $22.99

Shad must scour the cosmos to recruit mercenaries from different planets and cultures, in order to save his peaceful home planet from the threat of the evil tyrant Sador, bent on dominating and enslaving the entire universe. Joining this "magnificant seven" of mercenaries are the deadly Gelt, carefree Cowboy, and the sexy Valkyrie Saint-Exmin.

 

His Dark Materials (Season Two): Amazon - $17.99

Two children embark on a magical adventure through parallel universes.
 

 

The Purge (Season Two): Amazon - $32.99

Based on the hit movie franchise, The Purge revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Season 2 explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the course of the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge. From Blumhouse Television and UCP, the second season of the anthology series opens on Purge night but dives deeper than ever before in to what the Purge world looks like the other 364 days of the year.
 

 

Stardust: Amazon - $17.99

Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971 - a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
 

 

The Watch (Season One): Amazon - $22.99 

The Watch, an unlikely group of misfits, finds the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in the process. The series pits trolls, werewolves, wizards and other improbable heroes against an evil plot to resurrect a great dragon.

 

Here Are The Young Men: Amazon - $17.99

Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
 

 

Adoration: Amazon - $32.99

12-year-old Paul lives an isolated existence with his mother, who works at a private psychiatric hospital in the woods near their house. One day, Paul encounters a young teen named Gloria, a mysterious new patient with whom he quickly becomes infatuated. As the fledgling pair forge a tentative friendship, Gloria convinces Paul to help her escape. But when they embark on a perilous journey together, his devotion is put to the test as Gloria's dangerous unpredictability gradually starts to surface.
 

 

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (4K): Amazon - $24.99

The story of Charlie Bucket, a little boy with no money and a good heart, who dreams wistfully
of being able to buy the candy that other children enjoy. Charlie enters into a magical world
when he wins one of five "Golden Tickets" to visit the mysterious chocolate factory owned by
the eccentric Willy Wonka and run by his capable crew of Oompa-Loompas. Once behind the
gates, a cast of characters join Charlie and Grandpa Joe on a journey to discover that a kind
heart is a far finer possession than a sweet tooth.
 

 

- The Impostor

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Nobody, The Unholy, & Sibera

 June 22nd 2021

New week and new Blurays to potentially add to our collections. First up is one of the highlights of the year for me, Nobody. From the producers of the John Wick films and it shows but a highly enjoyable film I'd recommend checking it out. Next up this week is supernatural horror The Unholy which I thought was just okay and would recommend a rent before buying. Rounding out the week is thriller Siberia, new Batman DC animated feature and Hunter Hunter. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week. Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

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Nobody: Amazon - $27.99

A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord.

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The Unholy: Amazon - $19.99

A struggling journalist stumbles upon a series of strange events in a small New England town and uses them to salvage his career.

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Siberia: Amazon - $14.99

Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.

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Hunter Hunter: Amazon - $16.99

A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness. But they soon become increasingly worried when a severely injured man shows up to disrupt their peaceful existence.

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Night of The Sicario: Amazon - $13.99

Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a Colombian woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful drug cartel in Federal Court, as ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down.

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Hanger: Amazon - $29.99

A pregnant prostitute is forced to have a brutal abortion in a dark back alley, an act of sheer violence that will eventually lead to a bloody revenge.

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Batman: The Long Halloween (Part One): Best Buy - $26.99

During the holidays, a brutal series of murders strike fear into the city of Gotham. Batman sets out to pursue the serial killer with the support of police officer James Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent.

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Strike Commando: Amazon - $27.99

The sole survivor (Reb Brown) of a Vietnam mission is ordered by his commanding officer (Christopher Connely) to photograph Soviets.

 

Strike Commando 2: Amazon  - $25.99

Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local tough-girl Rosanna Boom, is dispatched by the C.I.A. to recapture Jenkins, and put a stop to his heroin-smuggling captors. But not all is as it appears.

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The Umbrella Academy (Season One): Amazon - $34.99

A disbanded group of superheroes reunite after their adoptive father, who trained them to save the world, dies.

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- The Impostor 

Overlook Hour Podcast Show Notes #250

 

San Francisco's own Kai Wada Roath joins us to mark his return to the now reopened Balboa Theatre on Wed June 23rd - 7:30pm

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Is this the end of 2 Sentence Horror Stories, Brench Fry, and Creepy Clark?!

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TBR Report!

HERE is a link to the article by Margrit Schreier I referenced

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Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) - Trailer

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Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter (1982) - FULL

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Someone edited out the "boring" parts of AJ's found footage-esque Bohemian Grove adventure

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The Phantom Patriot - Parliament of Owls

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San Gabriel, the Man from Mars

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Episode 250! 

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-Lord Battle

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Godzilla Vs Kong, Anything For Jackson & Voyagers

 June 15th 2021

Once again Bluray Tuesday creeps up on us! First up this week is one of my favorites of the year Godzilla Vs. Kong. This one caught me by surprise and I went in with low expectations, expecting lots of talking and not enough action between these two titans, but I was wrong! There is a good amount of both. I'd highly recommend checking this one out. It was definitely a fun theater experience. Best Buy will carry an exclusive steelbook packaging for this title for a limited time. Next up this week is Shudder exclusive film that's another highlight, Anything For Jackson. Rounding out the week is sci-fi thriller Voyagers, the new The Walking Dead spin off World Beyond and Parks and Recreation the complete series on Bluray. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

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Godzilla Vs Kong: Amazon - $29.99

Best Buy Steelbook: Amazon - $36.99

Legends collide as Godzilla and Kong, the two most powerful forces of nature, clash on the big screen in a spectacular battle for the ages. As a squadron embarks on a perilous mission into fantastic uncharted terrain, unearthing clues to the Titans' very origins and mankind's survival, a conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures, both good and bad, from the face of the earth forever.

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Anything For Jackson: Amazon -  $14.99

After losing their only grandson, Jackson, in a car accident, grief-stricken Audrey and Henry, a doctor, kidnap Henry's pregnant patient with the intention of performing a "reverse exorcism," putting Jackson inside her unborn child. It doesn't take long to figure out Jackson isn't the only ghost the grandparents invited into their home. Now, it's a race against time for the couple, as well as the pregnant woman, to figure a way out of the haunting they've set upon themselves.

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Voyagers: Amazon - $30.99

Set in the near future, the film chronicles the odyssey of 30 young men and women who are sent deep into space on a multi-generational mission in search of a new home. The mission descends into madness, as the crew reverts to its most primal state, not knowing if the real threat they face is what's outside the ship or who they're becoming inside it.

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The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Amazon - $23.99

Now a decade into the apocalypse, sisters Hope (Mansour) and Iris Bennett (Royale) have grown up inside the walls of one of the few remaining first-world communities. Their home, the Campus Colony, is a satellite settlement with a population of just under ten-thousand, located a hundred miles outside surviving city of Omaha, Nebraska. The sisters' scientist father conducts research over one-thousand miles away in a research facility run by the Civic Republic, an ally of Omaha, but one that does not reveal its location to outsiders. When the sisters receive a message that their father might be in a danger, they defy their own community's rules and enlist their friends Elton (Cantu) and Silas (Cumpston)to embark on a cross-country quest to save him. Leaving their sheltered upbringing behind, these teenagers learn how to fight threats both living and dead as they travel through a beautiful but decaying and dangerous world.

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The Awakening: Amazon - $22.99

An archaeologist from the US is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it's accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter. Years later it transpires that the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen left the tomb just as he was entering, and possessed his baby girl. As the truth becomes clear, the archaeologist realizes that he must destroy his daughter in a ceremonial ritual, before she uses her awesome powers to threaten the safety of mankind.

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Last Train From Gun Hill: Amazon - $22.99

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

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Kindred: Amazon - $17.99

When her boyfriend dies suddenly in an accident, psychologically fragile mother-to-be Charlotte is taken in by his family - but they seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Her suspicions grow and panic builds - but just how far will they go in their desire to control her and her unborn baby?

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The Being: Amazon - $19.99

Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry

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French Exit: Amazon - $22.99

An aging Manhattan socialite living on what's barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat.

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Parks And Recreation (Complete Series): Amazon - $69.99

The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.
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 - The Impostor

Overlook Hour Podcast Show Notes #249

Matthew John Lawrence joins us to talk about his Uncle Peckerhead

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Will anyone ever bench the Brench?

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Worble III, babeeee

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Secrets of the Supernatural - Ed and Lorraine full interview

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Randy's #5 of the 2020 Lookie Awards!

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Here is the AV Club article I referenced titled:

"Hold on, a film named Uncle Peckerhead is actually enjoyable?"

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Episode #249

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-Lord Battle

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: The Stylist, Flashback & The Unhealer

 June 8th 2021

New week and new blurays to add to our growing collections. First up from Arrow Video is hairdresser slasher The Stylist. This was an entertaining watch and I'm looking forward to adding it to the collection this week. Next up is sci-fi thriller Flashback from Lionsgate and sci-fi drama The Unhealer from Shout Factory. Both have interesting premises that I'd like to check out in the near future. Rounding out the week is the Indiana Jones 40th anniversary 4 film box set remastered in full 4K ultra HD, Nextflix original The Lovebirds and 1981's Scream. So what are you looking forward to buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

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The Stylist: Amazon - $27.99

We all dream of being someone else... but for Claire (Najarra Townsend, Contracted), that dream goes from an obsession to a living nightmare. Hairstylist by day, serial killer and collector of scalps by night, Claire's lonely existence is thrown into turmoil when her regular client, Olivia (Brea Grant, After Midnight; director of 12 Hour Shift), asks her to style her hair for her wedding day. Increasingly fixated on Olivia's seemingly flawless life, Claire vows to lock up her scalp collection and change her ways for good -- only to discover that repressing your deadly desires is easier said than done...

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Flashback: Amazon - $14.99

After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past.

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The Unhealer: Amazon - $16.99

A bullied teenager gains the means to fight back when a botched faith healing bestows supernatural, shamanistic powers upon him. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that causes the death of someone he loves, the teen uses his newfound abilities for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (4K): Amazon - $22.99

This computer animated film picks up where the PlayStation Final Fantasy VII video game left off. Cloud Strife, the hero of the game, has retired into seclusion, but when a mysterious and lethal disease known as Geostigma begins to spread across the planet, and three powerful, villainous children appear, he reluctantly emerges to face the new and mysterious threats. Featuring some of the most spectacularly lavish computer graphics ever created, 'Advent Children' continues the complex and compelling tradition that has made the Final Fantasy series one of the most popular games of all time.

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Indiana Jones 4 Movie Collection (4K): Amazon - $86.99

Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy and his ex-flame Marion escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.

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The Howl of The Devil: Amazon - $29.99

Paul Naschy plays several roles in this film about a nowhere actor who likes to pick up prostitutes and play sex games. His nephew resides with him, and is lost in a fantasy world of his own.

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Scream (1981): Amazon - $17.99

A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

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Hunting Ground: Amazon - $29.99

Assumpta Serna plays a lawyer who passionately defends 'criminal scum'. Her latest defendants though have no quarrels in singling her out as their next victim. They steal her car, find keys to her country villa and decide to rob the place at the next opportunity. Unfortunately, the lawyer's family turns up at the villa, a struggle ensues and the husband is killed. But this is only the beginning of the nightmare...

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The Lovebirds: Amazon - $14.99

On the brink of breaking up, a couple gets unintentionally embroiled in a bizarre murder mystery. As they get closer to clearing their names and solving the case, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

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- The Impostor