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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the feature film in a new Dolby Vision/HDR master from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative (approved by director Simon Wincer), with a new audio commentary by Simon Wincer moderated by filmmaker Douglas Hosdale. The masked, purple-clad defender of the Bengalla jungle leaves his island home for New York when ruthless businessman Xander Drax sets out to gather the three Skulls of Touganda, artifacts whose combined power could let him rule the world. Kit Walker — the latest in an unbroken line of Phantoms, the Ghost Who Walks — teams up with old flame Diana Palmer to race Drax and the Sengh Brotherhood to the skulls.

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The masked, purple-clad defender of the jungle leaps from the comics pages to the big screen with this thrilling adventure saga. Billy Zane stars as the "Ghost Who Walks," latest in a line of familial Phantoms, who must battle a scheming businessman in search of the mystical Skulls of Touganda. Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones also star. 100 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English DTS 5.1, DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interviews; theatrical trailer.

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Tough Brooklyn street cop and Vietnam veteran Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited by CURE, a secret United States organization: his death is faked, his face surgically altered, and he is given a new name — Remo Williams, taken from the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room. Trained into a human killing machine by Chiun, an aged and impassive Korean martial arts master, Remo is sent after a corrupt arms dealer, culminating in a showdown on the scaffolded Statue of Liberty.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the feature film in a new Dolby Vision/HDR master from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, with audio commentaries by producers Larry Spiegel and Judy Goldstein and by film journalist Brandon Streussnig. Tough Brooklyn street cop and Vietnam veteran Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited by CURE, a secret United States organization: his death is faked, his face surgically altered, and he is given a new name — Remo Williams, taken from the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room. Trained into a human killing machine by Chiun, an aged and impassive Korean martial arts master, Remo is sent after a corrupt arms dealer, culminating in a showdown on the scaffolded Statue of Liberty.

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Escaped convicts Manny, an aging bank robber, and Buck, a cocky young thug, flee their isolated Alaska prison through a storm drain and hop a freight train to freedom — but when the engineer dies of a heart attack at the throttle, they and lone railroad worker Sara are trapped aboard a driverless juggernaut racing toward disaster, with Warden Ranken closing in. Andrei Konchalovsky's action thriller, from a screenplay originated by Akira Kurosawa.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD. The set's Blu-ray disc is listed separately. Two escaped convicts - aging bank robber Manny and cocky young thug Buck - flee their isolated Alaska prison through a storm drain and hop a freight train to freedom. But when the engineer dies of a heart attack at the throttle, the train becomes a runaway, and the two men, along with railroad worker Sara, are trapped aboard a rolling juggernaut speeding toward disaster.

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Disc 1 contains episodes 1–6 of the twelve-episode serial, with audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas on select episodes. Adventurer Jacques d'Athys returns to Nice from Indochina with his Laotian fiancée, Ti-Minh — and, unknowingly, a codebook containing sensitive government intelligence picked up on his travels. The couple become the targets of ruthless spies who will stop at nothing to obtain it. Louis Feuillade's twelve-episode espionage serial, also known as In the Clutches of the Hindu.

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Disc 2 contains episodes 7–12 of the twelve-episode serial, completing Tih-Minh (1919), presented in Gaumont's 2018 4K restoration with a modern music score and audio commentaries by novelist and critic Tim Lucas on select episodes. The first disc of this set is listed separately. Adventurer Jacques d'Athys returns to Nice from Indochina with his Laotian fiancée, Tih-Minh, unaware that he has brought home a codebook containing sensitive government intelligence and the key to a hidden treasure. The ruthless spies living next door will stop at nothing — kidnapping, drugs and hypnosis included — to obtain the document, in Louis Feuillade's twelve-episode espionage serial.

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Iris, a Frenchwoman adrift in Seoul with no means of supporting herself, begins teaching French by an eccentric method: conversing with her students in English, translating their own words into French, and having them repeat the phrases back. Through a series of encounters with her students and their families, the mysteries of her own circumstances only deepen, in a comedy of improbable encounters, unlikely language lessons and the comforts of makgeolli.

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High-society thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily Vautier fall for each other in Venice while trying to con one another, then head to Paris, where their latest mark — the chic, wealthy Madame Colet — proves their match both as a target and as a romantic rival. Ernst Lubitsch's pre-Code jewel glitters with witty innuendo, elegant comic invention and high deco style.

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High-society thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily Vautier fall for each other in Venice while trying to con one another, then head to Paris, where their latest mark — the chic, wealthy Madame Colet — proves their match both as a target and as a romantic rival. Ernst Lubitsch's pre-Code jewel glitters with witty innuendo, elegant comic invention and high deco style.

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A hard-pressed farmer brings in a mysterious, hard-drinking, chain-smoking backwoods accountant with a knack for numbers and a love of beer. Can the accountant's skills stop a national conspiracy and save the family farm — and a way of life? Ray McKinnon's 40-minute film won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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This all-new, much-extended cut of the documentary about Chris Carter's landmark television series Millennium looks back at what makes the dark, visionary series endure, twenty years after it ended. Featuring interviews with creator Chris Carter and stars Lance Henriksen and Megan Gallagher alongside many more of the show's cast and crew, it is the most complete exploration of the Millennium phenomenon ever assembled.

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The curse of Amityville lives on as ten underground filmmakers each contribute their own warped vision of the world's most haunted address. Segments include 'Amityville Clownopalooza,' 'Skeleton Cop Goes to Amityville,' 'Amityville Death Toilet: Reprise,' 'Amityville Mime,' 'Scamityville,' 'Amityville Killer,' 'A-Mall-Tyville,' 'Amityville Next Door,' 'Amityville Lawn Flamingo' and 'Amityville Murder Hammer' in an outrageous horror anthology of suburban terror and supernatural absurdity.

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After a rash of 'toilet murders' sweeps across Amityville, New York, ghost hunter and paranormal podcaster Gregg G. Allin is called in to investigate. With Mayor Dump demanding answers and an end to the killings, Gregg traces the murders back to the town's haunted house of yesteryear — and after a toilet in the house mutilates Sebastian the caretaker, he is pushed to the very limits of hell and beyond in a battle to save the town, and the world.

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When genetic scientist Meredith Weaver finds out about her husband's affair, she doses him with an experimental and very unstable serum — which causes his body parts to separate from his torso and take on monstrous lives of their own, all of them craving human flesh. Soon he is stalking the streets in search of young women to quench the insatiable hunger of his evil appendages in Tom Berna's rarely seen, stop-motion-heavy Super 8 body-horror film, presented in a new director-supervised 2K transfer from the original Super 8 elements.

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In 19th-century Japan, in the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, young Jiro returns home one fateful evening to discover his adopted family has been murdered. Blamed for the killings after stumbling upon a mysterious dagger, he is chased from his village and taken in by an enigmatic monk who teaches him the way of the shinobi. Years later, Jiro sets out to solve an old Ainu mystery — and realizes he may be walking into an elaborate trap. Madhouse and legendary director Rintaro's thrilling feudal odyssey, newly restored in stunning high definition.

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Disc 2 contains the film on Blu-ray, along with all of the set's special features: an audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel, an interview with film-noir historian Eddie Muller, a program featuring Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann discussing their appreciation for Gilda, 'The Odyssey of Rita Hayworth' (a 1964 episode of Hollywood and the Stars), and the trailer. The 4K UHD disc of this set is listed separately. Small-time gambler Johnny Farrell goes to work for Buenos Aires casino owner Ballin Mundson, only to discover that his new boss's wife is Gilda — the sultry former flame who once broke his heart. As Gilda drives both men mad with desire and jealousy, Johnny is caught in an ever-shifting battle of love and betrayal played out on the casino's glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, in one of the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.

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Disc 1 contains the film on 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR from the new 4K digital restoration. The Blu-ray disc of this set, which holds the film and all of the special features, is listed separately. Small-time gambler Johnny Farrell goes to work for Buenos Aires casino owner Ballin Mundson, only to discover that his new boss's wife is Gilda — the sultry former flame who once broke his heart. As Gilda drives both men mad with desire and jealousy, Johnny is caught in an ever-shifting battle of love and betrayal played out on the casino's glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, in one of the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.

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Having lost most of her family in a shelling, Aleppo hospital doctor Amira chooses to flee civil war-torn Syria with her young daughter Rasha. Their bid for safety is told through the interlocking points of view of the strangers whose paths cross theirs — a Syrian soldier, a Turkish human smuggler, a refugee crossing the Aegean, and a Greek coast guard officer — in an affecting drama about survival and humanity. Also known as 'The Strangers' Case.'

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In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot that follows the motions of a man wearing a special control suit. Zimmer has offered the invention to the United States, but his partner Drago has different plans and wants to sell the Mandroid to the military — and as the forces of good and evil collide, the monstrous Mandroid lurches to life. A first-wave Full Moon sci-fi favorite, presented in high definition for the first time, remastered from the original negative.

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In the near future, detective Chris Raven stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.

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In the near future, detective Chris Raven stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.

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Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes' debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up in a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness — rumored to spread through the gaze between men — sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes a target of suspicion and violence. Seen through Lidia's eyes, it is a haunting allegory of love, myth and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western.

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A car full of drunken teens crashes beside a graveyard where the Emperor of the Night and his Princess are being entertained by dancing dead girls. Stranded, the teens stumble onto the scene as the dead return to the land of the living for another night of debauchery, hosted by the Emperor and the Princess of the Night. A homemade homage to Ed Wood's 1965 cult classic Orgy of the Dead.

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Cartoon Network's first animated miniseries tells the story of two brothers, Wirt and Greg, who find themselves lost in a strange forest. With the help of a bluebird named Beatrice, they must travel across this eerie land in hopes of finding their way home.

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Paranormal investigator Kyle Jennings is called to the Englewood Theater, where an unseen force comes alive after dark. The moment he steps inside, the theater seals itself shut, the screen tears open like a doorway, and the low-budget zombie movie playing suddenly becomes real. With the undead spilling into the aisles, Jennings must uncover the source of the disturbance before the entire theater becomes a feeding ground — and the only clues may be trapped inside the film itself.

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At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias hires himself out — for a reasonable fee — to fill any social role his clients desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend' to 'pilot dad' at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows ever deeper into his fictitious lives. A biting social satire about the masks we wear in the pursuit of human connection.

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Jenna wakes in a seemingly abandoned asylum wearing a princess ballgown, a tiara and a white mask glued to her face, with no memory of how she got there. Armed only with a lantern and an old storybook whose torn pages are hidden around the decrepit building, she must solve a series of puzzles to recover the book — and with it her memories of the unethical Storybook Program she was subjected to — while evading the axe-wielding Dragon stalking the halls.

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Good ol' boy Randy Pearson can't seem to help getting in over his head, so he borrows from the Mob. When he can't pay, his only hope is a helping hand from his long-suffering wife Charlotte, his estranged gay twin brother, and Tino Armani, a mysterious mob fixer with flawless fashion sense, a gift for Italian cooking, and a knack for making money appear — and disappear.

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Twenty years after their last feature, the Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish author and visual artist Bruno Schulz. A son's visit to his dying father begins with a phantom train ride to a decaying, otherworldly sanatorium, where he experiences seven fragmented 'manifestations' of a parental entity. Rendered in the Quays' meticulously handcrafted stop-motion puppet animation with moments of live action, it is an anti-war statement of stark, macabre beauty, presented by Christopher Nolan.

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Fresh out of prison, one-eyed Billie robs a bank in a desperate bid to save her parents' home — and inadvertently takes pregnant teenager Franny hostage when the job goes wrong. The two outsiders forge an unlikely bond on a crime-filled road trip across America, finding kinship and solace in each other no matter how much they get on each other's nerves.

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When a misfit group of friends in a small town encounters a ravenous alien rodent during a chaotic Halloween night, their survival depends on wit, makeshift weapons, and embracing their inner heroes.

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The found-footage franchise returns with a collection of Halloween-themed videotapes that unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival, in segments from directors Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman, R.H. Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, Anna Zlokovic.

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Nami, known as the 'Red Cherry Blossom,' returns to her old Ginza haunts after serving a prison term for killing a yakuza boss, hoping to go straight — but the gambling, deception and violence of 1970s Tokyo's mean streets drag her back in.

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Disc 1 contains Angel's Leap (Le Saut de l'ange) (1971) and Mad Enough to Kill (Folle à tuer) (1975) — two of the four Yves Boisset thrillers in Kino Lorber's Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset set, both from new 4K restorations, in French with English subtitles, with new audio commentaries. The second disc of this set is listed separately. Two thrillers by Yves Boisset. In Angel's Leap (1971), you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you: an ex-gangster living in Bangkok returns to Marseille to exact revenge on his siblings' murderers, in an ultra-violent vendetta tale starring Jean Yanne, Sterling Hayden and Senta Berger. In Mad Enough to Kill (1975), a wealthy industrialist hires a former psychiatric patient (Marlène Jobert) to look after his recently orphaned nephew — but the woman and the boy soon find themselves ensnared by a cold-blooded hitman (Tomas Milian).

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film on Blu-ray, an audio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth, the interviews and featurettes 'The Core of the Monster', 'Latex Memories' and 'Monster Kids: The Heritage of Tonino Ricci and Rino Carboni', and alternate English titles. The set's 4K UHD disc is listed separately. In the small English town of Newton, a pharmaceutical company's vaccine experiments go disastrously wrong when a laboratory accident unleashes a deadly virus and head scientist Dr. Adams vanishes. As mutilated bodies drained of blood begin to turn up, Captain Kirk is drafted in to get the outbreak under control — and discovers that Adams himself has been transformed into a blood-drinking mutant, with the authorities ready to take drastic action if Kirk fails.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with an audio commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth. The set's Blu-ray disc, with the film and the remaining special features, is listed separately. In the small English town of Newton, a pharmaceutical company's experiments with a new vaccine end in a laboratory accident that exposes head scientist Dr. Adams to a deadly virus. Adams vanishes, and when mutilated bodies drained of blood start turning up, Captain Kirk is brought in to track him down. Adams has been transformed into a blood-drinking mutant, and with the town under quarantine, Kirk must kill the creature before the authorities take drastic action against the town itself.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film and the special features: a new audio commentary featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng, Action et vérité (2006), a documentary featuring director Tsui Hark, coscreenwriter Koan Hui, and actor Xiong Xin-xin, a new video essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting), a New York Asian Film Festival Q&A with Tsui Hark from 2011, an alternate English-dubbed track, international-version opening and end credits, and the trailer. The set's 4K UHD disc is listed separately. The young sword-maker Ding On loses an arm in an ambush by the tattooed bandit Flying Dragon, the same man who murdered his father. Hiding out with a farming family, he teaches himself a ferocious new one-armed fighting style using his father's broken blade, half-burning a secret martial-arts manual in the process. When the bandits return, Ding On sets out to avenge his father - a quest told in a whirlwind of fractured editing and brutal close-ups that turns the one-armed-swordsman legend into something far darker.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with a new audio commentary featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng. The set's Blu-ray disc, with the film and the special features, is listed separately. The young sword-maker Ding On loses an arm in an ambush by the tattooed bandit Flying Dragon, the same man who murdered his father. Hiding out with a farming family, he teaches himself a ferocious new one-armed fighting style using his father's broken blade, half-burning a secret martial-arts manual in the process. When the bandits return, Ding On sets out to avenge his father - a quest told in a whirlwind of fractured editing and brutal close-ups that turns the one-armed-swordsman legend into something far darker.

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Troubled teens Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become fast friends. Inspired by MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura, founder of the one-minute fight tournament Breaking Down, the two boys plan to fight their way to a better life by competing in his event. After their release, they find they first have to defeat their own pasts outside the ring before they can become champions inside it.

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In a village in the Dolomites, young Junta is shunned as a witch because she alone can climb to the mountain cave that glows with a mysterious blue light at the full moon — a light blamed for luring the village's young men to their deaths. A visiting painter falls in love with her and discovers the secret of the crystals she guards, with tragic consequences.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film in both its unrated director's cut and R-rated theatrical cut, along with the set's special features: "Seamless, Sensual Cinematography," an interview with cinematographer Douglas Milsome; "The Production of Provocation," an interview with director Uli Edel; "The Madonna and The Whore," a video essay by Jennifer Moorman; the archival making-of featurette "Love or Murder"; a still gallery; and the theatrical trailer. The set's 4K UHD disc is listed separately. Wealthy Andrew Marsh is found dead of a heart attack, handcuffed to his bed, with a homemade sex tape still playing. His much younger lover Rebecca Carlson was not only on the tape but stands to inherit $8 million from his will, and the district attorney charges her with using her own body as the murder weapon. Only her defense attorney, Frank Dulaney, believes she is innocent - but as the trial proceeds, their professional relationship turns into a dangerous physical obsession that clouds his judgment.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR, in both its unrated director's cut and R-rated theatrical cut. The set's Blu-ray disc, with the film and the special features, is listed separately. Wealthy Andrew Marsh is found dead of a heart attack, handcuffed to his bed, with a homemade sex tape still playing. His much younger lover Rebecca Carlson was not only on the tape but stands to inherit $8 million from his will, and the district attorney charges her with using her own body as the murder weapon. Only her defense attorney, Frank Dulaney, believes she is innocent - but as the trial proceeds, their professional relationship turns into a dangerous physical obsession that clouds his judgment.

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Since high school, Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour Polatkin and Aristotle Joseph have taken different paths: Seymour left for college in Seattle and became a successful, openly gay poet and unofficial spokesman for Native Americans, while Aristotle returned home embittered. Sixteen years later, the death of their childhood friend Mouse brings Seymour back to the reservation for the wake, where he faces the resentment of a community that feels he has built his career on their stories.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains the film plus the special features: audio commentaries with director Robert Fuest and film historian Stephen R. Bissette; Confessions Of Tom, an interview with actor Tom Skerritt; The Devil's Makeup, an interview with special FX artist Tom Burman; an archival 1975 interview with actor William Shatner; First Stop Durango, an interview with script supervisor Ana Maria Quintana; Consulting With The Devil, a conversation with the High Priest and High Priestess of the Church of Satan; Hail Satan!, an interview with Anton LaVey biographer Blanche Barton; Daniel Roebuck on The Devil's Rain; Ana Maria Quintana's on-set Polaroid gallery accompanied by radio spots; a poster/still gallery; the theatrical trailer; and TV spots. The set's 4K UHD disc is listed separately. For generations the Preston family has guarded a book containing the names of those who sold their souls to the Devil, along with the Devil's Rain, a bottle holding the souls of the already damned. Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis, who made his pact centuries ago, will stop at nothing to reclaim the book. With occult expert Dr. Richards helping them, the Prestons fight back against Corbis and his congregation of eyeless followers.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains the film in 4K UHD, with audio commentaries by director Robert Fuest and film historian Stephen R. Bissette and the theatrical trailer. The set's Blu-ray disc, with the film and the remaining special features, is listed separately. For generations the Preston family has guarded a book containing the names of those who sold their souls to the Devil, along with the Devil's Rain, a bottle holding the souls of the already damned. Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis, who made his pact centuries ago, will stop at nothing to reclaim the book. With occult expert Dr. Richards helping them, the Prestons fight back against Corbis and his congregation of eyeless followers.

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Disc 3 contains 11 Samurai, presented in high definition (1080p) with original lossless Japanese mono audio and newly translated English subtitles, plus a brand new audio commentary by film critic David West, Fighting the Poison, a video essay by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jonathan Clements on the film's historical setting and context, Samurai Guerilla Part 3, an archival interview with Misao Arai and Dirty Kudo, and Eiichi Kudo: The Art of Realism, an archival interview with Fabrice Arduini. Discs 1 (13 Assassins) and 2 (The Great Killing) of the set are listed separately. The lord of the Oshi fief is murdered by his hunting neighbour Nariatsu, the cruel and despotic son of the former Shogun. When the Oshi clan is blamed for the incident and sentenced to be disbanded, eleven of its finest samurai reject the verdict and swear to trade their lives for justice by assassinating Nariatsu.

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Disc 1 contains 13 Assassins, presented in high definition (1080p) with original lossless Japanese mono audio and newly translated English subtitles, plus a brand new audio commentary by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes, The Samurai Variations, a video essay by music supervisor and Japanese cinema expert James Balmont on Akira Ifukube's score for the film, Samurai Guerilla Part 1, an archival interview with Misao Arai and Dirty Kudo on Eiichi Kudo and Toei's role in the 1960s Japanese film landscape, and the theatrical trailers. Discs 2 (The Great Killing) and 3 (11 Samurai) of the set are listed separately. In 1844, the Shogun's half-brother Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira terrorises his domain with sadistic impunity, and the shogunate, desperate to stop his rise to higher office, secretly orders veteran samurai Shinzaemon Shimada to assassinate him. Shimada recruits twelve more swordsmen and converts a mountain village into an elaborate death trap for Naritsugu's vastly larger escort.

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Disc 2 contains The Great Killing, presented in high definition (1080p) with original lossless Japanese mono audio and newly translated English subtitles, plus a brand new audio commentary by film critic David West, Magician of Light and Shadow, a video essay by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Daisuke Miyao on the cinematography seen in the film, Samurai Guerilla Part 2, an archival interview with Misao Arai and Dirty Kudo, and Masaaki Ito Remembers Eiichi Kudo, a tribute by the director's former assistant and brother-in-law. Discs 1 (13 Assassins) and 3 (11 Samurai) of the set are listed separately. A Shogunate elder schemes to rule Japan by installing Tsunashige, the Shogun's brother and his own puppet, as the next Shogun. The strategist Yamaga assembles a cabal of swordsmen to stop him, but the plot is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured, leaving a cynical surviving samurai to carry out the assassination almost single-handed.