Here’s our latest roundup of videos posted on our ever-expanding YouTube channel. As ever, we encourage you to visit the channel and like, comment, share and subscribe – you’ll find an increasingly expansive amount of content there and not only are you helping both the channel and this site grow and continue but also, your support is one in the eye of the haters. A win-win, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Opening up, we have a few videos that are ‘unboxing’ or otherwise exploring new Blu-ray and UHD releases – mostly titles that your humble editor has had some involvement with, either through audio commentary, on-screen interview or booklet text. The first of these covers a mixed bag of titles from 88 Films and Nucleus Films that range from classic Tigon terror from the late Sixties and early Seventies, through outrageous Japanese horror to kinky French erotica.
Next, we have a pair of Joe D’Amato video nasties from 88 Films – Anthropophagous and Absurd, a pair of gore-drenched oddities that have been issued in spankingly nice new UHD special editions. Here, we get into nasties, Satanic Panic and D’Amato’s outrageous career.
Our final look at new video releases is of something rather different – Guy Ritchie’s 2015 ‘re-imagining’ of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which has just been issued by Arrow. Here, we look at the original TV show, the new UHD edition and ponder just what the appeal of remaking legacy titles is…
It’s not all Blu-ray unwrapping though.
We’ve unearthed the full version of our interview with Texas Chain Saw Massacre star Gunnar Hansen which was shot as part of the 2000 featurette Krug Conquers England, a look at the UK tour that Hansen and David Hess did and the controversy surrounding Chain Saw and Last House on the Left.
Continuing our look at odd and entertaining toys and novelties with a movie connection, we’ve dusted off our personal collection of Godzilla oddities – from Aurora model kits to money banks, via plush toys and wall clocks. There is some amazing stuff here that only works on video and we urge you to check this one out.
Last, but certainly not least, is our documentation of the new Barbie exhibition at London’s Design Museum – an exhibit that is a lot of fun while also frustratingly incomplete. We urge you to check the show out, but if you have any doubts, our video offers a sneak preview of the highlights as well as a discussion about what is missing.
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