John Woo's The Killer & Hard-Boiled 4K The Biggest Imprint Via Vision Haul Yet!

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[00:00:01][music] >> Hi, and welcome to Terry Talks Movies and welcome to a mega haul from Imprint via Vision. I've got a large box of stuff that's been sent to me. I've got genres galore, bit of everything, something for everyone in our comedy tonight. So, we'll get started with the two 4Ks that are not Imprint. They are via Vision, but they're not Imprint. Both of them are horror movie sets. Both of them are fairly well known. They're not obscurities at all. Both of them have lenticular covers, and I know a lot of people really dig their lenticulars.

[00:00:44]The first one is a Stephen King adaptation from a while ago. It's a limited edition of 2,000, and it is 1408 based on the Stephen King story. It's about a skeptical journalist played by John Cusack who goes into a haunted hotel room at a hotel. He's been warned off by the >> [snorts] >> manager of the hotel played by Samuel L.

[00:01:06]Jackson, and spooky [ __ ] happens. Basically, that's what you need to know with this one. Cuz the Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of its rooms, except one.

[00:01:16]There's the back cover.

[00:01:20]We have a reverse J-card on it. So, underneath it you've got John Cusack with a migraine.

[00:01:27]Inside, we get art cards. We'll start with the art cards. John Cusack, hang on, let me just angle that right. John Cusack knocking on the walls. John Cusack inspecting the walls.

[00:01:40]John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

[00:01:44]John Cusack checking out the laptop.

[00:01:48]John Cusack again, and John Cusack with what may be a ghost.

[00:01:54]I have seen this film a long time ago.

[00:01:55]I'm going to revisit it because I've got a 4K now. There are a lot of extras on this one.

[00:02:02]As you expect from a prestige edition like this.

[00:02:06]It's hard to see what they are, but I'm going to hold them up and see if I can enhance them in post to give you an idea of all the extras there.

[00:02:16]Hopefully that'll come through.

[00:02:17]Then of course we get to the box with a disc in it.

[00:02:20]We've got that artwork.

[00:02:23]Standard back cover on it. Inside, oh this is nice. We have the 4K and the Blu-ray looking like the hotel door.

[00:02:33]Theatrical cut and a director's cut on Blu-ray. So you get a bit of everything. Yep, theatrical and director's cuts on 4K and on Blu-ray. So this is your 4K.

[00:02:44]This is your Blu-ray of each different cut of the movie. Sometimes director's cuts are very cool.

[00:02:50]Sometimes they're a little bit unnecessary. I don't know which is the better cut in this case.

[00:02:56]But I'm glad to get the option. That's probably the takeaway when you get a release of a movie where you get a director's cut and a theatrical cut.

[00:03:05]My theory would be to lay lean towards the director's cut because theatrical cuts are usually economical in the sense that they cut things out so that they can shorten the run time so they can get more sessions in in the day.

[00:03:20]So there's a there're economic reasons why they do a theatrical cut.

[00:03:24]Director's cuts are more about the vision for the movie. So I would lean towards the director's cut were I to um have the option, which indeed you do have with this one. That's the first one. The next one is body horror galore, directed by two experts in body horror in the modern era.

[00:03:42]One [snorts] of whom is Eli Roth and the other one is Ti West.

[00:03:47]And it is the Cabin Fever Collection.

[00:03:51]Cabin Fever, the original from When's it from? 2002.

[00:03:57]Was directed by Eli Roth.

[00:03:59]And it's basically the story of four friends who go on a vacation deep in the mountains. Then somebody gets sick.

[00:04:05]Because there's a flesh-eating bacteria that they all get infected with. They all start getting extreme effects from that. It It's quite gory. It's very bloody. And they've got to try to get some help for this.

[00:04:20]There is a sequel on this Cabin Fever 2 from 2009.

[00:04:26]And what And the one survivor from the previous lot of people is trying to get to people so he can tell them, "Don't drink the water. It's got flesh-eating bacteria in it. You're going to end up looking as bad as I do."

[00:04:39]But in the meantime, a water bottling plant is starting to use the water. And that will lead to consequences. That's it. And then you have Cabin Fever from 2016.

[00:04:52]Which is a Ti West remake.

[00:04:54]You can always have the argument about whether a movie from 2002 needs a remake in 2016. It's only 14 years later.

[00:05:02]But they do that. And horror movies always hit financially.

[00:05:06]It's very difficult to make a horror movie that doesn't make money if you do it right. There are extras on each of them on the 4K and the Blu-ray of Cabin Fever. The original has a 4K and a Blu-ray.

[00:05:17]And the others are on Blu-ray itself.

[00:05:20]There are all of the extras. And hopefully we'll get that accurately so you can check them all out.

[00:05:27]Again, you got these great hard boxes that Imprint Films do.

[00:05:31]You got the reverse J-card, of course.

[00:05:33]And you've got one of the people who is um having a bad time underneath the reverse J-card. Inside, we got a poster. And it's not a small one. I do like the tagline at the start of this. And I can I'm going to have trouble showing this.

[00:05:48]It says, "Terror in the flesh." So, it is an enormous poster for the original Cabin Fever.

[00:05:58]And those of you who are horror movie fans I've seen a number of people online who've got some really good posters up on their walls, and I think this one classifies as that. We also get Cabin Fever collection. We get a book of essays and information on this one. Got to be careful what I show you on this.

[00:06:16]I can show you that is a car covered in blood.

[00:06:19]But, we do get essays and information about the movie, about the script, about the music. Uh, there's there's not necessarily essays in here, but there are a lot of production notes.

[00:06:34]And some pictures, only some of which I can show you because you know what um YouTube's like with this sort of thing. So, yeah, there are Basically, it's a book of production notes for all the movies, which is useful, particularly if you're interested in how the sausages get made. Then we come to the actual discs themselves.

[00:06:55]There is the case for the 4K and the Blu-rays. The original Cabin Fever unrated, so you get all the juicy stuff.

[00:07:03]You have the standard Blu-ray edition.

[00:07:05]You have Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, the sequel.

[00:07:09]And you get the remake. Both of those are on Blu-ray.

[00:07:14]Again, that's an acquired taste, this kind of horror film. But, I've kind of acquired the taste over time.

[00:07:20]And uh thanks to a lot of the things I've had to review, I've uh got used to and can embrace the enjoyment of various kinds of um body horror in particular. I'm not a big fan of Eli Roth. I respect what he does, and I know he's made some good movies, and I've seen them.

[00:07:40]But, for me, he's not my favorite director. Ti West, the guy who did the remake better as a director because he did the Pearl trilogy and things like that.

[00:07:50]This one again is a limited edition of 2,000 copies.

[00:07:54]And this is from Via Vision, not from Imprint itself. So, that's the Via Vision stuff out of the way. Let's get on to Yeah, we'll do the Imprint Asia stuff next.

[00:08:05]There are two single movies, and there are also some um very good 4Ks. Now, there are two 4Ks and there are two standard editions.

[00:08:14]This is a movie from 2001 by Wang Xiaoshuai.

[00:08:19]Beijing Bicycle.

[00:08:21]A 17-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen and finds it with a schoolboy of his age. The story is this guy gets a bicycle as part of his job to be a courier.

[00:08:36]He's very proud of the bicycle. It gets stolen. And then a teenage boy the same age as this bicycle courier, but from a different socioeconomic bracket, his father buys him the bicycle second hand from the person who stole it. And the courier finds the bicycle, and the boys decide to share it, one day on, one day off each.

[00:08:55]They form a friendship as things go on.

[00:08:58]There's a back cover with the extras.

[00:09:02]Of course, this does have a lot of parallels with Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, the Italian neorealist movie from the 1940s.

[00:09:11]And that's fully acknowledged by the filmmakers, but it's in a very different cultural context. And the movie plays out differently than De Sica's Bicycle Thieves.

[00:09:21]There's the inside cover art.

[00:09:25]Inside, we have the disc, and we have a still from the movie itself.

[00:09:33]Looking forward to this one. When I'm not watching sleazy movies, I do like a little bit of a movie from a different cultural context. If I was going to watch this, which I am going to do, I'll probably watch Bicycle Thieves first of the seeker one and then watch Beijing Bicycle so I can get the full parallels between the movies.

[00:09:51]But I'm glad that Imprint at Via Vision are putting this one out. By the way, it is number 52 in the Imprint Asia series.

[00:10:02]Nice catch that one. The next one's a little bit lighter. It's from 2002. It's got an Australian actor in it, Richard Roxburgh. Sibling acrobats must embark on a perilous journey to protect an ancient treasure once guarded by their ancestors. This one's got a feature at the making of the movie and it's the original cut. An ancient legend of special family trained for generations to protect a sacred treasure.

[00:10:25]And it's a movie called The Touch which has Michelle Yeoh and Richard Roxburgh in it. Back in the days when Richard Roxburgh was doing a lot of international films playing bad guys. It also has Bin Ben Chaplin in it. I don't know anything about this one. This one totally missed my radar.

[00:10:41]It's good to have a a video flick you don't know anything about and just go into it cold.

[00:10:45]Inside, we've got Michelle Yeoh there.

[00:10:49]We've got the back cover there.

[00:10:52]Here's your disc.

[00:10:54]And there's Michelle Yeoh kicking ass.

[00:10:58]Again, very much in obscurity.

[00:11:00]The reviews of it online are kind to it, but I think if you're in the mood for just a an action film and you're a Michelle Yeoh fan, you're going to go for that one.

[00:11:11]I don't know why it's called The Touch, but when I watch it, I'll find out. Now, last month Imprint Asia put out A Better Tomorrow trilogy. I've already unboxed that one from last month with Chow Yun-fat. Fun movies.

[00:11:24]Chow Yun-fat is always great in films.

[00:11:27]And they've upped the ante this month.

[00:11:30]There are two 4K box uh steel books of two John Woo directed Chow Yun-fat movies. We're going with this one first cuz this is the one I've watched again this week. Chow Yun-fat, directed by John Woo, in The Killer.

[00:11:46]There's the front, there's the back.

[00:11:49]We do have a card with all the extras on it, but I've slipped it into the box to protect it. It was produced by Tsui Hark, directed by John Woo. This is revenge Basically, it's from the production company is called Golden Princess.

[00:12:04]There's a card with a ton of extras on it for the movie.

[00:12:10]I'll watch this one. It's about a killer played by Chow Yun-fat, who's basically an assassin for hire. And while he's doing a hit on a guy in a nightclub, he accidentally shoots in front of a young singer, and the muzzle flash blinds her, and he feels bad about that cuz she's an innocent person in the deal. He helps her. He helps her with He wants to get enough money to be able to send her to America so she can get her eyes fixed. Her cornea is totally shot by the shot, and he falls in love with her, and they form a relationship. Meanwhile, the cop who is trying to find the killer gets involved, and they form an uneasy friendship together, which is really interesting.

[00:12:52]It's a very, very John Woo movie.

[00:12:53]There's a lot of Christian symbolism cuz John Woo is a Catholic. There's the churches, there's the doves, there's the candles, all that kind of stuff in it.

[00:13:01]Fantastic action film, and it beds down all of those tropes that we're very familiar with with John Woo movies.

[00:13:07]Inside, we've got a book. There's Chow Yun-fat wearing a fake mustache doing another hit at a dragon boat race.

[00:13:15]There's the back. There are a bunch of essays in here. The Killer by Sean Gilman. There is a lot of blood in this movie, and there's about 700 people killed.

[00:13:24]There's Chow Yun-fat's character with the young singer. There's another essay by Brian Tallerico in this one. This has been a well-researched movie. It is one of the seminal John Woo movies from before he went to Hollywood and did things like Mission Impossible 2, which is filmed in Sydney. Then of course we get the actual movie itself.

[00:13:44]In a steelbook. There's the front of it.

[00:13:49]There's the spine. There's the back.

[00:13:51]Inside and this looks good on 4K.

[00:13:55]It's fantastic.

[00:13:56]There's your 4K disc.

[00:13:59]There's your Blu-ray.

[00:14:01]And there is a disc of additional features in here as well.

[00:14:08]And there you have your protagonist and antagonist.

[00:14:11]And one of the things I like about John Woo movies that makes them kind of unusual is the lines between protagonist and antagonist definitely blur when you get an assassin and a cop going up against some heavy-duty gangsters because they actually have to, because they'll be dead if they don't.

[00:14:30]That kind of stuff is really interesting in John Woo movies. The lines blur and the moral compasses shift as in this case the killer played by Chow Yun-fat finds himself feeling guilty because of the job he does and the impact it has on this young woman.

[00:14:52]Really interesting film.

[00:14:54]They do have of course the standard John Woo thing of the infinite bullet glitch.

[00:14:58]Sometimes they have to change magazines in the guns. Other times there are about 87 bullets in the guns. But you just got to embrace that with John Woo movies.

[00:15:07]The killer is fantastic. You should see it.

[00:15:10]But there's more. There's another one of these this month and that's Hard Boiled.

[00:15:15]Another one where Chow Yun-fat's playing a cop this time, a guy called Tequila, who is going up against the gangsters again and protecting a baby in a hospital? That one is crazy. The hospital shootouts in this something unequal in this kind of cinema. Haven't really watched this one yet, but I did have it on VHS once upon a time when the world was young. Again, tons and tons of extras.

[00:15:47]John Woo movies from these movies which were late 1980s into early 1990s. That period of John Woo's great. Nobody was making movies as crazy as these ones with the gun play and the moral complexity and the the yearning for redemption that some of the characters have. There's a moral arc to these movies that is kind of unprecedented in this kind of action cinema. There's a booklet again with Chow Yun-fat.

[00:16:16]It'd be nice if um Eureka Asia could get the God of Gamblers trilogy or something like that because those would really hit too.

[00:16:26]Uh there's an essay here, Bullets Don't Go to Waste: Hard Boiled in the Art of Turning Chaos into Cinema. That's a good way of putting it, too. Turning chaos into cinema because the fights in these movies that's by Panos Cosmatos.

[00:16:40]Um there's an explosion outside the hospital.

[00:16:43]Chow Yun-fat, one of the great charismatic action hero actors of the late 20th century. Kenneth Tsang is in this one. Very John Woo moment that where the protagonist and the antagonist are holding a gun against each other and they don't know what to do because there's a whole bunch of people want to kill them.

[00:17:01]Uh Tequila and Ginger Ale: Guns and Babes and Mayhem and Contemplation by Vernon. There's an essay there, too.

[00:17:10]There's Chow Yun-fat with the baby.

[00:17:12]Insane action films these John Woo Chow Yun-fat collaborations are just fantastic. There's a steelbook.

[00:17:20]There it is there as well.

[00:17:22]Inside we get the 4K.

[00:17:26]We get the Blu-ray.

[00:17:29]We get the additional features disc as well.

[00:17:32]And underneath we get that photograph.

[00:17:37]I know back in the '80s and '90s in particular there were a number of movie fans like myself who were action movies fans and they were really embracing what was coming out of Hong Kong. This is Hong Kong before the handover.

[00:17:52]This is when Hong Kong cinema had a moment when anything was possible, anything could be shown. It was just a totally crazy time in the cinema of Hong Kong. John Woo who Woo himself is Taiwanese.

[00:18:08]He's not actually from Hong Kong or mainland China. He's from Taiwan. Came in and just started making movies that were unlike anything else that was being made by anyone else anywhere else in the world. Fantastic that Hard Boiled come out. We've got the Better Tomorrow trilogy came out last month.

[00:18:25]We've got The Killer and Hard Boiled coming out this month. It's a good month for fans of Hong Kong action cinema. Now let's get on to the box sets and we have four box sets all all of which are in different series that Imprint have been putting out.

[00:18:42]Let's start with the most recent series.

[00:18:46]This is volume collection two of Tales of the Wild West. It has one of my favorite westerns. Big chunky box set, the usual hard box set that Imprint do for these things. I'll get the I'll show you the extras. No, actually I'll do the movies before I show the extras. There's from 1975 Posse with Kirk Douglas, directed by Kirk Douglas.

[00:19:11]Good supporting cast in this as well.

[00:19:13]Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy.

[00:19:16]US Marshal and his posse are on the hunt for an infamous train robber. His posse soon learn just how far the US Marshal will go and just what their limit is. This one has a 1080p presentation. A tinkling twang the western soundscapes of Maurice Jarre, a video essay by film historian Daniel Kremer from 2026.

[00:19:38]Inside got the disc.

[00:19:42]Inside we've got that production still from the movie.

[00:19:47]A late Kirk Douglas western, but I hear good things about and if Daniel Kremer did the essay on it, it's at least noteworthy.

[00:19:56]Then we've got a couple of real swinging dicks.

[00:20:00]Five cards star Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum.

[00:20:02]Five card stud from 1968.

[00:20:07]Again, a later western toward the end of the studio era. After the men responsible for the murder of a high stakes card game player go unpunished, someone decides to take justice into their own hands and take care of them one by one. This one's got an audio commentary by Lee Pfeiffer, Tony Latino and Paul Schrader from 2026.

[00:20:28]Disguised as purity, a video essay by Will Harris Ross from 2026. Radio spot and an image gallery.

[00:20:36]Supporting cast in this one's good. You got of course you got Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. Robert Mitchum playing a reverend. Anytime you get Robert Mitchum playing a reverend, shit's going down.

[00:20:46]Inger Stevens is on there, Roddy McDowall. Directed by Henry Hathaway.

[00:20:52]There's your disc.

[00:20:54]There's Dean Martin and Inger Stevens from the movie. This is a late Inger Stevens role. Unfortunately, she died quite early. Again, a slightly unusual and slightly forgotten western.

[00:21:06]And that's what this um collection of Town of Wall West specializes in, forgotten Westerns that are interesting. Another Dean Martin Western from 1971.

[00:21:17]So, this is very late in the starring career of Dean Martin.

[00:21:21]Dean Martin and Brian Keith in Something Big.

[00:21:26]I knew nothing about this one.

[00:21:28]Everybody wants to do something big once in a life, and it's just that most people don't have to hold up a stagecoach, steal a girl, and swap her for a gun to do it. And that's exactly what Dean Martin's character does. It's got a good supporting cast again.

[00:21:42]Honor Blackman's in this one. Denver Pyle, Joyce Van Patten, Carol White. There's an essay The Films of Andrew McLaglen.

[00:21:51]Andrew McLaglen was the director.

[00:21:54]By C. Courtney Joyner, Trails from Hill Something Big featuring screenwriter Larry Karaszewski. Inside, we get the disc, and we get Dean Martin.

[00:22:05]This may be the second last starring role that Dean Martin did. I think Mr. Rico he did after this, about him being a city lawyer in modern times.

[00:22:15]But Something Big, I don't even know whether it got a theatrical release here in Australia.

[00:22:20]It's one of those obscurities that I get a bit surprised people find and manage to get released.

[00:22:27]Then we got William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, and Susan Hayward in a 1972 movie The Revengers.

[00:22:38]When a Civil War veteran returns home and finds his family have been killed, he recruits six condemned men to get his revenge, but will he be able to rein them in to succeed with his plan?

[00:22:51]Uh there's an essay about William Holden in Westerns by C. Courtney Joyner on this one.

[00:22:56]Again, an obscure rare Western.

[00:23:00]There's the disc.

[00:23:04]There is the ensemble.

[00:23:07]Yeah, these are all late stage Westerns that were made at a time when Westerns were starting to fade in the popular culture of the time.

[00:23:17]People were looking for other things and Westerns, which had been big since the 1910s, '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, in the mid-'60s they started to decline as a genre.

[00:23:31]But in 1968, a very good Western was made by Tom Gries starring Charlton Heston, Donald Pleasence.

[00:23:39]Lee Majors is in this as well.

[00:23:42]And this is a Western I really, really like. It actually has a strong emotional thread through it.

[00:23:48]Will Penny.

[00:23:50]This one's great.

[00:23:52]Left for dead by a gang of outlaws, an aging cowboy is saved by a beautiful married woman. He's now faced with two problems.

[00:24:00]Falling in love with another man's woman and the outlaw gang coming back to finish the job.

[00:24:07]And that's pretty much it. Audio commentary by Daniel Kremer, Remembering Will Penny featurette, The Cowboys of Will Penny featurette, Anthony Zerbe's in this one, Bruce Dern, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, um Clifton James.

[00:24:20]Directed by Tom Gries who was a really fine director. I always cried at the end of this movie. It's the only Western I always cried at the end of. It's got such strong emotional beats at the end of it.

[00:24:32]There's the inside of it. I'm so glad this got a release in Australia. I do have an overseas Blu-ray of it, which I'm going to find a good home for because I think it's a movie that deserves respect. And when you do get an upgrade to a movie like this, I think the obligation on you is not to just keep two copies of it for yourself, but to find a good home for it.

[00:24:54]And that's what I'm going to do with my American Blu-ray of Will Penny because I think it is that good a Western.

[00:25:01]It's strong. It's Charlton Heston's best movie for me.

[00:25:05]I really think that he uses that kind of taciturn tight-jawed persona he pursued in movies and shows us the other side of it. Shows us something very different from the usual [ __ ] you got from Charlton Heston.

[00:25:19]And there it is.

[00:25:21]This is a good collection. Tales of the Wild West collection, too.

[00:25:26]Good solid obscurities. And as time goes on, I've fallen in love more and more with obscure movies rather than the big tempo ones, the ones that everybody's talking about, the ones everybody knows.

[00:25:40]Finding movies that aren't that and embracing them and seeing the virtue in them is part of the joy of being a movie buff in our modern era where things like this are becoming accessible.

[00:25:52]So, there's that collection. Terrific stuff. Let's get on to some noir. We've got neo-noir and we've got film noir.

[00:26:00]And we'll start with the After Dark neo-noir collection four.

[00:26:04]In enormous chunky box, there are literally too many um extras on these to talk about, but I'll save the card till after I show you what the movies are. Got a bit of David Lynch in here as well. The 4K in this box set has a movie starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, and Madeleine Stowe.

[00:26:22]Unlawful Entry.

[00:26:26]From 1992. So, it's kind of not quite young, but not old Kurt Russell. A young couple befriends an LAPD officer after a robbery attempt on their suburban home.

[00:26:38]But, the friendship turns into a twisted obsession as he forces his way into their lives.

[00:26:44]The cop played by Ray Liotta, the husband and wife are played by Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe.

[00:26:50]This alone has a lot of extras on it.

[00:26:56]There's your 4K.

[00:26:58]There's your Blu-ray.

[00:27:00]I'm sure I've seen this, but I don't remember it.

[00:27:03]It was back in that the days when I was renting like five for $10 at the video store. And I'll pick up a whole bunch of VHS tapes and just ran them through every night after work. So, I'm sure I've seen this movie, but I don't recall the details. Next one's a remake of a Steve McQueen Ali MacGraw movie. This one's from 1994, directed by Roger Donaldson.

[00:27:29]Good action director.

[00:27:30]The Getaway with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.

[00:27:34]To be honest, I like the original better cuz Steve McQueen above Alec Baldwin, absolutely. Ali MacGraw and Kim Basinger, I'd go Basinger on that.

[00:27:43]But, when a husband and wife attempt to pull off a major robbery to pay back their former partner, they soon find themselves on the run with a bag of stolen cash and a rising body count. Supporting cast, Michael Madsen's in here, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth and James Woods.

[00:28:01]Again, a lot of extras there.

[00:28:08]Inside, disc.

[00:28:13]Baldwin and Basinger, which I who I think were married at the time.

[00:28:17]In the same way that Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen were together when they made the original version.

[00:28:23]And Ali MacGraw left Robert Evans, a producer, to ask hook up with Steve McQueen. It was a whole thing. But, there's that.

[00:28:31]Lots of action in that one.

[00:28:33]Roger Donaldson was known for his action. I think he's a New Zealand director, if I recall correctly. I'm doing this all off the cuff. This one's directed by another New Zealander, Lee Tamahori, from 1996.

[00:28:45]Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen again, Chris Penn, and John Malkovich in Mulholland Falls.

[00:28:58]In 1950s Los Angeles, an elite squad of detectives play by their own rules, dealing with criminals by using deadly force.

[00:29:07]When they investigate the murder of a beautiful young woman, the detectives find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that will take them to the highest levels of government. They can never have it in real life.

[00:29:18]Lots of extras on that one as well.

[00:29:24]There's the front of it with a very 1950s everyone's wearing hat kind of look. Inside you got the disc.

[00:29:30]You got Chris Penn about to plug someone.

[00:29:35]Whatever happened to his brother?

[00:29:37]So, we've got Mulholland Falls in there.

[00:29:39]But, we have much more. Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton from 1997, directed by John Irvin.

[00:29:48]Supporting cast, Famke Janssen's in this one. Some movie called City of Industry.

[00:29:54]After being double-crossed by a greedy accomplice, retired thief will stop at nothing to have his revenge. There are all the extras, and there are a ton of them.

[00:30:04]This box set is going to keep you going for months.

[00:30:08]There's your disc.

[00:30:11]There's Stephen Dorff Dorff with dyed blonde hair.

[00:30:15]Haven't seen this one, I'll be honest.

[00:30:16]Haven't seen this one.

[00:30:18]But, does look interesting. These are the big two in the box set.

[00:30:22]We will start with this one, directed by Matthew Bright. This is the movie that made Reese Witherspoon a star. Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland in Freeway from 1996.

[00:30:39]This is about a a teenage girl called Vanessa who escapes an abusive household in search of her grandmother whom she has never met.

[00:30:49]While on her journey, she accepts a ride from a mild-mannered man who is in fact a serial killer. He's played by Kiefer Sutherland.

[00:30:57]This is Little Red Riding Hood done as a modern crime movie.

[00:31:03]And it's fantastic. The Vanessa character played by Reese Witherspoon is a force of nature.

[00:31:08]If you haven't seen this movie, this is a good movie to have.

[00:31:12]Freeway is fantastic. There is a sequel with Natasha Lyonne, but forget that.

[00:31:17]This original one is just terrific.

[00:31:20]Uh supporting cast, let's have a look.

[00:31:23]Shh. Amanda Plummer's in there playing her mother.

[00:31:26]Brooke Shields is in there playing the wife of Kiefer Sutherland's character.

[00:31:31]This is a funny, transgressive, wild action film. And deservedly, there are a lot of extras on this one. Freeway's a nice catch.

[00:31:40]You've got to get the box set if only for Freeway. I saw it on VHS. I rented it. I bought a copy on VHS. I've actually got a DVD of it as well.

[00:31:51]There's your disc.

[00:31:52]There's Vanessa and the serial killer played by Kiefer Sutherland.

[00:31:57]Wild film. This movie should be talked about a lot more than it is.

[00:32:02]It is just one of the great crime movies of the '90s that nobody's talking about.

[00:32:08]Last but not least, haven't even got to the book yet. There's a book with this one as well. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, a film by David Lynch.

[00:32:15]Wild at Heart.

[00:32:18]Sailor and Lula are two young lovers on the run from Lula's wicked wick witch mother who puts a murder contract out on Sailor.

[00:32:27]Will their dreams take them somewhere over the rainbow or will they break along the yellow brick road? Being a David Lynch movie tons and tons and tons of extras there.

[00:32:40]Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are fun in this movie.

[00:32:43]It is a David Lynch film. Why would you not want it in your collection?

[00:32:48]There's your disc.

[00:32:51]There's Sailor and Lula.

[00:32:55]Good haul. I mean, there are some David Lynch movies that really get a lot of love. All the usual stuff, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, um June.

[00:33:05]But Wild at Heart, I like. I think it's wild. I think it's somewhat different for a Lynch film, but it's a notable piece of Lynch's work.

[00:33:17]Good stuff that's in there. Then we get a hard cover book.

[00:33:23]Kurt Russell on the back.

[00:33:25]The Promethean Fire of Wild at Heart by Walter Chaw.

[00:33:30]Coyotes, a 1990s home video noir of unlawful entry.

[00:33:38]They Getaway by Patrick Bromley. So there's an essay on The Getaway.

[00:33:42]I wonder if they got all of the movies having an essay written in this. Yep. Um Atomic Wire, Tribal Law in Mulholland Forms by Blake Howard.

[00:33:52]Lots of production stills in this as well. Trash, Trauma, and Revenge in Matthew Bright's Freeway by Jerry J.

[00:33:58]Simpson.

[00:34:01]So we do get a little essay about Freeway.

[00:34:06]And uh to find to finish up, let's see, boom boom boom, City of Industry by Roxana Hadivi.

[00:34:14]So each of the movies gets an essay, which is cool, in a hard cover book. I did say I'd show you the card with all of the extras on it.

[00:34:23]So you can freeze frame that one.

[00:34:28]Yeah, fantastic box set with a lot of movies out of this time. Two more box sets to go. We're going to be here forever. We'll do the film noir box set cuz that's conventional, kind of fun. Essential film noir collection number six.

[00:34:42]There it is there.

[00:34:44]There's the back of it.

[00:34:47]I'll do the card last again.

[00:34:49]But we do have four movies in here. And these are what we used to call B pictures. These are the kind of movies were shown on Saturday afternoons on linear television back in the day before we had physical media. Yvonne De Carlo in Flame of the Islands.

[00:35:05]A tycoon's mistress inherits $100,000 upon his death.

[00:35:10]And she invests in a gambling casino in the Bahamas as you would.

[00:35:15]As hostess and singer, she doesn't expect the drama and heartache that comes in tow.

[00:35:21]B picture as I said.

[00:35:23]There's an essay in here The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, a video essay by Philip Berry about Yvonne De Carlo. This is way before Lily Munster.

[00:35:32]Inside, I've got the disc.

[00:35:37]And we've got that. Who's the love interest in this one? Zachary Scott.

[00:35:42]Howard Duff is in there as well.

[00:35:44]Who was married to Ida Lupino. James Arness. Directed by Edward Ludwig.

[00:35:50]Interesting.

[00:35:51]Next up, I've seen this movie. I saw it on YouTube. Hell's Island with John Payne and Mary Murphy. Very much a B picture.

[00:36:01]A washed-up alcoholic bouncer is offered a job to retrieve a rare jewel which may be in the hands of the woman who jilted him. And so begins an adventure in the Caribbean like no other. This has an audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani.

[00:36:17]And the United States versus Hell's Island, a recreation of a 1965 Senate testimony of Paramount Vice President Frank Freeman. So there was some political problems with this movie for some reason.

[00:36:30]Directed by Phil Karlson, who did a lot of good noir films in the 1950s.

[00:36:37]So, you get that.

[00:36:39]You get the disc. You get this really interesting picture from the movie.

[00:36:46]Phil Karlson is a director whose work has been getting a lot of interest and a lot of kind of academic writing about it in the last 20 years.

[00:36:57]Very much a B picture kind of director.

[00:37:00]But people, ever since the days of Cahiers du Cinéma and all those French geezers in the 1950s and '60s, who started really analyzing B pictures from America.

[00:37:11]Phil Karlson is one of the directors I talk about. Next one has two people playing themselves in it. Clyde Beatty, a guy who collected animal wild animals, and Mickey Spillane, who wrote crime novels, in a movie called Ring of Fear, playing themselves or versions of themselves.

[00:37:29]This one did get a DVD release in Australia 30 years ago, but this is a quality release.

[00:37:35]You know, the audio commentary with Max Allan Collins, who's a crime writer, and Serial Midnight host Heath Holland.

[00:37:42]Hi, Heath. Uh as themselves. Video essay by film maker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson.

[00:37:47]About Mickey Spillane and Clyde Beatty playing themselves in this mystery. Mickey Spillane himself is called in to solve the mystery when a homicidal maniac hides out at the world-famous Clyde Beatty Circus.

[00:38:03]Interesting idea for a film.

[00:38:05]Inside, we get the disc, and we get Mickey Spillane looking not entirely happy.

[00:38:14]Again, real obscurity that people just don't talk about. And I love those kind of films. I love B pictures that nobody talks about. And then we get Hayden and the wonderful Gloria Grahame. I like Sterling Grahame. I like Sterling Hayden. I like Gloria Grahame.

[00:38:28]The story of a love with the law at its heels.

[00:38:33]Naked Alibi.

[00:38:36]Who directed this one? Jerry Hopper.

[00:38:38]Um who else is it? Jean Barry is it?

[00:38:40]After the death of his colleagues, a police chief goes on the hunt for a previous murder suspect who has skipped town to join his femme fatale girlfriend in Mexico. The femme fatale has got to be Gloria Grahame.

[00:38:52]What do you call a country by Sam Deegan?

[00:38:55]Shadows on the Border video essay by Eloise Ross.

[00:38:59]Naked Alibi college radio ad recreation.

[00:39:03]And a short film called The Cinematographer from 1951. Sterling Hayden was of course in The Killer.

[00:39:09]The um Kubrick film amongst other things. Really good in this kind of film noir role.

[00:39:14]There's your disc.

[00:39:16]There's Jean Barry.

[00:39:19]And there is your card with all of the extras from everything.

[00:39:24]Interesting one this. They're digging deep for these obscure films noir.

[00:39:29]And I like that. I think they they deserve respect and they deserve an analysis. They like all film noir tell you about the time which they made. Whether it's a neo noir movie or a film noir movie. There are things each of the movies say about the culture at the moment at which they made. I always like that. Last box set now. Kent Tails of Adventure collection.

[00:39:53]There's the front of it.

[00:39:55]Not a lot of extras on this one, which is okay. The movies are fun. I will show you the card anyway. There are a few extras.

[00:40:04]Rita Hayworth on the back. The films themselves, I've actually got a DVD copy of this one. Really interesting film from 1951 when the female star of the movie was about 40 years old playing a an exotic um servant girl in a sense.

[00:40:18]The Magic Carpet starring Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, and Raymond Burr.

[00:40:26]I've seen that one. And much as Lucille Ball is good in a lot of things, she's just a bit old for the role in this one, which is makes it even interesting. When his parents are overthrown by a tyrant, a young boy vows revenge. Together with a handful of friends and a magic flying carpet, he must face the usurper and claim his throne. There is a bonus feature, 101 Arabian Nights. So, you get an extra movie in this one.

[00:40:49]So, there's the front of it.

[00:40:50]There's the back of it. It's even black and white. I think all of these ones are in black and white, which is okay.

[00:40:56]Lucille Ball there.

[00:40:59]And Lucille Ball there.

[00:41:01]The picture's in color, but the movie's not. Still, it's an interesting film.

[00:41:05]It's one of those Arabian Nights adventures that were very popular at the time. This one's from '53.

[00:41:11]Stewart Granger and Rita Hayworth in Salome.

[00:41:16]Directed by William Dieterle, who did a lot of stuff from as far back as the silent movie era. After a banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee, where Prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias.

[00:41:34]Charles Laughton's in this one.

[00:41:36]Great.

[00:41:37]Judith Anderson, Australian. Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Sydney, Arnold Moss, Alan Badel. This is worth it just for the supporting cast.

[00:41:47]There's your disc. There's Stewart Granger and Rita Hayworth.

[00:41:52]Charles Laughton's in this.

[00:41:54]Got to check that one out. Then Maria Montez, John Hall, and Turhan Bey from 1945 when Turhan Bey and John Hall and Maria Montez were making a lot of these kind of movies.

[00:42:07]Sudan.

[00:42:08]After becoming queen of Chemis, when her father is killed in a slave revolt, Naila goes searching for the rebel leader.

[00:42:16]When she's captured through palace treachery, who else but the leader himself could come to her rescue? Audio commentary by Heath Holland from Serial at Midnight, Golden Days of the Arabian Nights, a video essay by Josh Nelson, a trailer and it's in high def as well.

[00:42:32]That looks like a bit of fun.

[00:42:34]There's a disc.

[00:42:37]There is Maria Montez and I think to have a buyer. Is it to have a buyer John Hall? Can't tell from this angle. One of them. So we have that. Sword, the sword of Ali Baba starring Peter Man, Jocelyn Lane, Frank McGrath, Peter Whitney.

[00:42:53]Um very much a B picture. It's got an audio commentary by Gary Gerani.

[00:42:58]Escaping from the Mongolian conquest of his city, a young boy is adopted by a group of bandits.

[00:43:03]As a grown man together with his 40 thieves, he decides to return to the city for revenge. This is definitely a B picture Arabian Nights kind of adventure.

[00:43:12]And somebody's for the chop on that one.

[00:43:14]I do like these kind of adventure movies. Again, they're this kind of Saturday afternoon adventure flicks that many of us grew up with when, you know, it was too rainy or something to go outside. You'd sit down in front of the linear TV, usually channel 9, and watch these kind of adventure films.

[00:43:32]Interesting stuff. So that's what I've got for you this time around. Tons of VCI Vision, tons of Imprint.

[00:43:38]Really interesting obscurities for the most part. Plus John Woo and Ringo Starr and John Woo working together and a couple of interesting Chinese movies as well. Lots of things, very diverse.

[00:43:47]We've got film noir, we've got neo noir, got Arabian Nights adventures, we've got westerns, John Woo action films, a bit of everything in this one.

[00:43:56]So thanks a lot for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please like, subscribe, leave a comment, hit the notification bell, do all the things.

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[00:44:11]Next up, we'll have either a Wednesday video or Science Fiction Saturday. This is a long video.

[00:44:17]I don't know whether I'm breaking up into two or not, or just letting it run long.

[00:44:22]One way or the other, there will be something further coming out. So, until then, watch some good movies, watch some bad movies.

[00:44:28]Get some Arabian Nights adventures in ya, and I'll catch you next time.

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