Alice Faye Collection 2: Includes "Rose of Washington Square," "Hollywood Cavalcade," "The Great American Broadcast," "Hello, Frisco, Hello" and "Four Jills In A Jeep."
Lexx: Season One: Based on the title, disk count and running length, I'm guessing this is the original four part miniseries, with Eva Habermann as the Zev Bellringer (as opposed to the later transformation into Xenia Seeberg as Xev Bellringer.) I should probably get around to reviewing this one.
Mutant X: The Complete Collection: According to this TVShowsOnDVD.com report, this release has actually been cancelled. That's an extremely reliable site, so I'm listing this only to inform those who've already ordered the package about why they won't be getting it.
Ray Harryhausen Gift Set: Includes "20 Million Miles to Earth," "It Came From Beneath The Sea," "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" and a statue of Ymir. It does not includes "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad." That's available individually.
Sleeping Beauty: Two Disc Platinum Edition: Note that the Blu-Ray edition also includes a DVD edition, so if you ever plan to upgrade, that's an option well worth considering.
Ray Harryhausen Collection: Includes "20 Million Miles To Earth," "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," "It Came From Beneath The Sea" and "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad."
Sleeping Beauty: This includes two Blu-Ray disks with the same content as the DVD edition, as well as a third disk with a DVD copy of the movie itself, so you can watch it on DVD now and have Blu-Ray access after a hardware upgrade later.
Finally, the pick of the week. There's a nice selection of library titles this week, but the selection of new titles coming out in the next two weeks is excellent. My advice this week is to hold out for a week or two and check out those options before figuring out what you'll get with this month's budget.
I saw this on video back in the early '90s. It shows a lot of death, both for animals and humans. There's footage of an actual beheading as well as an electric chair execution. One that really stuck with me was when some diners ordered monkey brains--then they find out they have to first kill the monkey by bludgeoning it to death with a hammer (the experience took away their appetites). And at the end of the movie there is a cult that eats a fresh human cadaver. That part was too gross for me. All in all, however, I enjoyed watching it.
One that really stuck with me was when some diners ordered monkey brains--then they find out they have to first kill the monkey by bludgeoning it to death with a hammer (the experience took away their appetites).
That is the only thing I remember clearly about that movie. My friends all wanted to watch it because it had supposedly been banned in <x> number of states, and I don't recall much anything else (maybe a guy falling from a building?) besides the monkey brains scene.
I'm in no particular hurry to watch that movie again.
If there are any aspiring filmmakers out there, I highly recommend Touch of Evil. The first fifteen minutes alone should be required viewing for all film students.
I'm going to go for the Trial of a Time Lord boxed set, if only because I've been waiting a while for this to come out stateside, and I've really been looking forward to this Doctor Who season.
