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Hammer Films’ Twins of Evil coming to Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ May 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Hammer Films hits just keep on coming to Blu-ray, this time all the way to our North American shores. Synapse Films plans to follow up their domestic release of Hammer’s Vampire Circus with the grand finale of the studio’s Karnstein Trilogy of films, Twins of Evil, hitting store shelves in July. Next up for the US label’s Hammer Horror Collection are the classics Countess Dracula and Hands of the Ripper, hopefully coming before the end of the year. …Continued…

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of December 14

By Brenden ⋅ December 14, 2010 ⋅ One comment

What a tough week! On first glance, it didn’t seem to me that there was a whole lot hitting the shops but then, when I began to assemble the TOP 5 list, I quickly discovered otherwise. There’s some great stuff here, including a couple of films that my girlfriend has claimed are the best movies she’s seen all year and a whole lot of amazing catalogue releases including the first ever North American Hammer Films release in HD! …Continued…

Synapse Films to bring Hammer’s Vampire Circus to Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ October 24, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Now that’s more like it! You might have read my rant about the studios treating classic Hammer and Universal horror films as second class citizens. If not, just know that it’s a serious point of contention between me and the majors. We’re barely on speaking terms these days. Well, thank the good lord for Synapse Films who have taken it upon themselves to rescue and distribute the Hammer spectacular Vampire Circus. It’s certainly one of the lesser known titles but hell, at this point, I’ll take what I can get. …Continued…

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