It’s New Release Tuesday! Tons of wild stuff from Vinegar Syndrome and friends, plus vintage vampires, Tom Brady, two (2) new Birdemics, and new Criterion 4K!

5 WOMEN FOR THE KILLER (1974)

Giorgio Pisani, a journalist, has just returned from an international assignment only to discover that, in his absence, his wife has died during childbirth. However, a seemingly unavoidable tragedy takes an unexpectedly sinister turn when Lydia Franzi, his wife’s doctor, reveals that Giorgio is sterile and therefore couldn’t have fathered his wife’s child. Soon after learning this terrible news, a mysterious, black-clad killer begins stalking the city, viciously murdering pregnant women who were in the same maternity clinic as Giorgio’s deceased wife. Could Giorgio, in a fit of guilt-ridden madness, be responsible for these horrendous crimes, or is he an unwitting participant in the sinister plan of an even more wicked culprit? (BLU-RAY)

80 FOR BRADY (2023)

ACCION MUTANTE (1993)

Before The Day of the Beast and the HBO series 30 Coins, writer/director Alex de la Iglesia made his smash debut with this “delightfully tasteless” (A Wasted Life) and “ridiculously aggressive” (Reel Rundown) “crazy genius sci-fi classic you’ve probably never seen” (A Taste of Cinema). In a dystopian future ruled by the wealthy and attractive, a deformed and disabled terrorist organization known as ‘Mutant Action’ will kidnap an heiress, flee to a desolate mining planet and trigger an intergalactic bloodbath of berserk vengeance. (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

BABY RUBY (2022)

BABY RUBY tells the story of Jo (Noémie Merlant), a lifestyle entrepreneur who is happily pregnant and awaiting the arrival of her first child. But soon after she and her husband (Kit Harington) welcome their new baby girl Ruby home, something starts to feel off. Jo soon finds herself plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone’s motives seem sinister – including Ruby’s. (DVD)

BEYTO (2020)

BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION (2013)

A platoon of eagles and vultures attack Hollywood, California. Why did the eagles and vultures attack? Who will survive? (BLU-RAY)

BIRDEMIC 3: SEA EAGLE (2022)

When global warming triggers climate chaos along the Northern California coast, two scientific researchers will discover tender romance, sudden wealth, awkward dancing, appalling CGI, space elevators, automatic weapons and a plague of sea eagle attacks that could lead to the extinction of life on Earth. (BLU-RAY)

BORDER INCIDENT (1949) (WARNER ARCHIVE)

U.S. Agent Jack Bearnes lies in an open field, shot and beaten. A giant, harrowing machine suddenly roars to life, its blades biting into the earth. Terrified, Bearnes tries to crawl away. But the machine crawls faster. As searing as a shot of tequila down a dust-parched throat, this steely thriller stars Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy as agents from each side of the Mexico-California border. Their job: Catch the thieves, murderers and moneymen who prey on illegal aliens desperate to make a few Americano dollars sweating as farm laborers. Anthony Mann (Winchester ’73, The Naked Spur) directs, turning his lens to the beauty and the terror of stark desert wastelands. Blending classic film noir with a surprisingly contemporary plot, Border Incident is a relentless, cutting-edge gem of the genre. (BLU-RAY)

BULLETS OVER SUMMER (1999)

Plainclothes officers Mike (Francis Ng) and Brian (Louis Koo) are on the trail of trigger-happy fugitive Dragon. Planning a stakeout, they commandeer the apartment of an elderly woman (Helena Law Lan) who mistakes them for her estranged grandsons. Their mission is further disrupted by wandering schoolgirl Yen (Michelle Saram) and Mike’s nascent feelings for the neighborhood’s laundress (Stephanie Lim) who complete the fortuitous family put at risk when Dragon and his goons come knocking. (BLU-RAY)

CAT CREEPS (1946)

When a wealthy widow sends a one thousand dollar bill to the local newspaper claiming murder, blackmail, a corrupt politician and $200,000 fortune to be had, it’s up to reporter Terry Nichols and photographer Pidge ‘Flash’ Laurie to figure out the nefarious plot and clear the politician’s (who’s Terry’s soon-to-be father-in-law) name. But they won’t be alone. Among the colorful cast of characters are Terry’s beautiful fiancee, a lawyer with his feline phobic secretary, a very deceiving private detective, and finally a mysterious woman and her even stranger black cat, which maybe involved with the murders itself! (BLU-RAY)

CHAMPIONS (2023)

CIVIL DEAD (2022)

A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences. (BLU-RAY)

CLASH BY NIGHT (1952) (WARNER ARCHIVE)

Mae Doyle is a good-time girl, but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men, she returns to her girlhood home, the fishing village of Monterey, California. There she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman – and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend. Film noir master Fritz Lang (The Big Heat, Ministry of Fear) directs four towering talents – Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and rising star Marilyn Monroe – in a stark tale of lives burnished by human emotion and shattered by human failings. Intense and powerfully realistic, Clash by Night (from a Clifford Odets play) is about many towns, many families. Serene on the surface. Roiling with desperation underneath. (BLU-RAY)

CURSE OF THE BLUE LIGHTS (1988)

The desolate town of Blue Lights, which gets its name from a mysterious nightly illumination close to the graveyard, is rumored to be cursed. The origin of both the lights and curse itself have been left to legend, but rumor has it that ancient monsters roam the area and have been responsible for the countless deaths and tragedies which have afflicted nearby residents. When a group of college students decide to spend a night investigating these supernatural occurrences, they quickly find themselves in for a nasty surprise, after uncovering an ancient relic, which leads them into the terrifying subterranean layer of The Muldoon Men; giant monsters who need to ingest human corpses in order to sustain their strength… (BLU-RAY)

FULL MOON TRILOGY (FILMS BY JOE SWANBERG) (2011)

Silver Bullets
An actress disrupts her relationship with an indie arthouse director when she takes a role in a more successful genre filmmaker’s new werewolf project. Largely improvised and shot over several years, Silver Bullets draws inspiration from Chekhov ‘s The Seagull.

Art History
When a director becomes jealous of the budding relationship between his film’s stars, his emotions threaten to sabotage his own production. Set entirely in one location over the course of a few days, ART HISTORY vacillates between Adam Wingard’s long dreamy static takes and Swanberg’s chaotic hand held camera work to create a mood of claustrophobia and mystery.

The Zone
A young engaged filmmaker couple and their actress roommate find themselves hosting a mysterious visitor. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, at which point the characters, and the actors playing them, attempt to figure out what just happened.(BLU-RAY)

FULL TIME (2021)

Single mom Julie Roy (Laure Calamy) knew she could do more with her college education than be head chambermaid at a posh Paris hotel. The plates she spins at home and work so she can sneak out to a dream job interview, however, threaten to hit the floor as the city becomes snarled in an ill-timed transit strike. (DVD)

GREAT BASIN (2021)

From below the earth to the stars, The Great Basin is a documentary feature that builds a complex panorama of rural Nevada, in the Western United States, through a tapestry of characters who work, live, and play there. The Great Basin is the location of the “Loneliest Road in America” and can be seen as a microcosm of the economic, social, and ecological marginalization of 21st-century rural communities. (BLU-RAY)

HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (1973)

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institutions, where time itself doesn’t seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories become indistinguishable. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

JUSTICE NINJA STYLE (1985)

Brad Tolan (Brent Bell) is a martial arts instructor who moves to DeSoto to open a karate school. He is framed by chief deputy George (Rick Rykart) and his partner officer Grady (William R. Johnson) for a murder he did not commit and is thrown in jail, uncertain if he will ever see a trial. With the help of a mysterious ninja (Ron D. White), Brad escapes from jail and must evade capture while he tries to clear his name. (BLU-RAY)

KRATT (2020)

When children are left at Grandma’s without smartphones they’re bored to tears. That is until Grandma finds them loads to do. She also tells them about a magical creature named Kratt that’ll do whatever its master says. When they stumble upon an instruction manual on how to build one, they don’t hesitate. All they have to do now is buy a soul from the devil… (BLU-RAY)

LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)

A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousity of a bookkeeper. (DVD)

LONG WAIT (1954)

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride (Anthony Quinn) is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

Arriving in Lyncastle, Johnny learns to his regret that the photo in question was taken from a wanted poster and that he’s the prime suspect in the murder of the town’s district attorney—after he allegedly stole $250,000 from the bank at which he was employed. In order to solve the mystery of his identity and the crimes, McBride sets out to find old flame Vera West whom he believes can prove his innocence. As the clues start piling up, Johnny encounters resistance from several townspeople, most notably from mob boss Servo (Gene Evans), who rules Lyncastle with an iron fist. (DVD)

RED COCKROACHES (2003)

Set against the backdrop of a futuristic New York City besieged by acid rain and populated with mutated insects and flying cars, bartender Adam (Adam Plotch) repeatedly encounters a mysterious and enchanting young woman (Talia Rubel) who leaves behind a tooth on the subway, triggering an obsession that quickly disrupts the overall banality of his day to day existence. This enigma slowly begins reappearing in different aspects of Adam’s life; as a prospective roommate, during a graveyard tryst, and eventually as his long lost sister who’s recently awoken from a coma after being presumed dead in a car wreck ten years prior. Oddly, this new found revelation of sibling kinship does not bring a stop to the couples’ lustful impulses and sexually charged mind games, eventually leading to a blood soaked climax fueled by repressed familial abuse, fast food foreplay, and the ever watchful eye of the ominous DNA 21 Corporation. (BLU-RAY)

SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES (1971) (INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION)

Jean Rollin’s third feature film, 1971’s The Shiver of the Vampires (Le Frisson des vampires), established themes and visual motifs to which he would return throughout his career, blending horror, eroticism, fairy tale, and surrealism to create his unique cinema of the fantastique.

Arriving at a decrepit chateau for their honeymoon, young newlyweds undergo a series of surreal and sinister encounters, and come to realize that they are the prey of the resident vampires… (BLU-RAY)

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT (2022)

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their Los Angeles apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives. An ever-deeper, darker rabbit hole, their friendship frays as they uncover the dangers of the phenomena, the city and each other. (BLU-RAY)

SPEAKING PARTS (1989)

Hotel employee Lisa (The Sweet Hereafter’s Arsinée Khanjian) develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance (Dog Park’s Michael McManus), a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra. With the help of a local video store, Lisa carefully investigates Lance’s body of work, as he undergoes his own pursuit – of screenwriter Clara (The Stepfather’s Gabrielle Rose) and a film role inspired by her late brother. As their connection grows, this production’s ties to reality start to unravel… and so do our three protagonists. (BLU-RAY)

TAMING THE GARDEN (2021)

An ode to the rivalry between men and nature, Taming the Garden is the story of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby by having century-old trees uprooted in communities along the Georgian coast and transplanted to his private garden. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

TIME OF ROSES (1969)

Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture – “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. (She caused a public scandal by asking three of her wealthy, powerful lovers to pay for an abortion). Raimo finds Saara’s identical double – an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) — and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara’s life and death for TV. (BLU-RAY)

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (1997) (INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION)

Originally released in 1997, Two Orphan Vampires (Les Deux orphelines vampires) finds Jean Rollin, the master of the fantastique, returning to the vampire genre with which he had made his name.

By day, blind orphans Henriette and Louise seem to be the picture of innocence. But when darkness falls, their sight returns, and they wander the streets of Paris, encountering the city’s strange nocturnal denizens, and leaving a trail of corpses in their quest for fresh blood. (BLU-RAY)

VACATION OF TERROR 1&2 (1991)

After inheriting a new summer home from a deceased relative, wealthy Fernando brings his family, his niece Paulina (Gabriela Hassel, Don’t Panic) and her boyfriend, Julio (Pedro Fernández, Hell’s Trap), who happens to be an occult expert along for the vacation. Quickly they discover strange happenings on the property, but when Fernando’s young daughter Gaby falls into a well and returns with an old doll, things take a turn for the horrific. Possessed by the evil spirit of a witch, Gaby and her doll run amok, with telekinesis, terrifying hallucinations, fiery car crashes, and ample scares. Only Julio with his knowledge of the dark arts, and the help of a mystical amulet, can bring this VACATION OF TERROR to an end!

Fitting into the lineage of sequels that outshine their predecessor, the Vacation franchise returns even bigger and better with VACATION OF TERROR II: DIABOLICAL BIRTHDAY. Julio (Pedro Fernández) is back, quietly running an antique shop when a chance encounter with singer Mayra (Mexican pop icon Tatiana) and her younger sister Tanya, brings him face to face with the evil doll and the nightmare begins again! Racing to a birthday party for the young Tanya, who is now under the doll’s spell, Julio arrives in time to witness the carnage begin, but will he be able to stop it again? Filled with action-packed set pieces, face-melting gore and buckets of blood, this sequel ratchets up every aspect of the original.(BLU-RAY)

VINYL NATION (2020)

The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats.

VINYL NATION digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other? (BLU-RAY)

WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) (CRITERION)

WOUNDED MAN (1983)

Henri is a frustrated teenager living with his parents in a provincial French coastal town. When they drag him to the train station to bid adieu to his sister, Henri sneaks off to a secluded bathroom and interrupts a hustler named Jean satisfying the masochistic desires of an older male client. Henri falls desperately in love with the sexy criminal, but Jean evades Henri’s affections. Undeterred, Henri shadows Jean as he traverses the dark and dangerous underbelly of their sleepy village. But as he descends deeper and deeper into Jean’s world, there may not be an easy way out. (BLU-RAY and DVD)