This Week on DVD (12/30/08)…

Updated on December 30, 2008 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

Slow week, unsurprisingly, between Christmas and New Year’s. Still a couple of items of interest.

Although the mind-blowingly good recent Gamera note signed off on one of the greatest cliff hangers ever, the next Gamera movie would be a standalone kiddie movie. Gamera the Brave is now available for a look. Just be aware of what it is before going into it.

The good folks at BCI, who the last several years have really be raising the level of their wares, offers a two-pack of genuinely awful ’70s junk, Al Adamson’s Blood of Dracula’s Castle, and the (to me) far funnier Cameron Mitchell vehicle Nightmare in Wax. Both movies are presented in anamorphic widescreen, and for under $10. Cool.

Resident Evil: Degeneration seems like an animation continuation of the action horror series.

Amazon isn’t selling the above at particular good prices, so I won’t link to them. Check dvdpricesearch.com for the best deals.

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  • Ericb

    You should put a generic Amazon link somewhere though as there seems to be a bug on you blog page that prevents many of us from accessing any blog posts before and including the post on 1984 horror movies.

  • Yeah, sadly the front page template is locked up right now, so that I can’t add anything. Chris thinks he can do a freshening up in March, maybe, but until then there’s not a lot I can do with it.

  • Plissken79

    Actually, the new Residen Evil movie (saw it yesterday, not bad at all), was nothing to do with the live action films. It serves as a bridge between the video games Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5

  • rockrocky77

    that bug is on IE but on Firefox it seems to bypass it though.

  • I remember watching the third Gamera movie… “Revenge of Iris”, I think… and continually thinking, “Oh my god. That is one bad-ass turtle.” I’ll probably still get the new one, as it’s a giant monster movie, but I really wish they’d resolve that cliffhanger.

  • Sandy Petersen

    Actually “spoiler alert” they kind of DO resolve the cliffhanger at the end of Iris, since it’s made abundantly clear that Gamera died in a massive self-destruction explosion which (presumably) killed the Gyaos.

    But I absolutely love “Nightmare in Wax”. I first watched it on a little black-and-white TV when I was like 13 years old, and it really impressed me for some reason. I had never seen Cameron Mithell before and thought he was great. On the other hand, I was really impressed with “Twisted Brain” at the same age, too.

  • Hmm, that resolution might be abundantly clear to you, but not to anybody else. Google “gamera, iris, cliffhanger.’