Coming to DVD: He-men, vampires, bloodbaths
A few notable DVD releases on tap this June from Brentwood Home Video:
• More animated, toy-inspired swordplay with HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: SEASON 2, VOLUME 1, with 33 episodes, two new documentaries and lotsa stuff to keep your clicker busy.
• Fans of wrestling – particular involving women in Spandex – might want to keep an eye out for the two-disc set WOMEN’S EXTREME WRESTLING: VOLUME 3. I’m not into the sport, but I’m totally into their names. Tai “Killer” Weed? G.I. Ho? That’s hott.
• Two more KUNG FU THEATER double features: One with CHINESE DRAGON and EVERLASTING DUEL. The other with Jackie Chan in MASTER OF DISASTER and Don “The Dragon” Wilson (interviewed at length in Hitch #5!) in NEW YORK CHINATOWN. I suspect MASTER is one of those titles where Jackie appears in the background for a second when the camera swoops over or something, but I’d still watch it.
• Not enough Asian insanity for you? How about another EASTERN HORROR double feature? This one has MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE (which had me at “Filipino circus magician”) and COUNTER DESTROYER, which sounds totally awesome because of the appearances of “Robovampire, a Chinese Freddy Krueger and a Taoist Priest with their vampire assistants.” Meet you at my place; we’ll get pizza.
• Finally, there’s a new 4-pack in BLOOD BATH II, containing the horror flicks LEGACY OF SATAN, THE BRIDE, BLOOD SONG and – love this title – JACK THE RIPPER GOES WEST. Note: It is not necessary to have seen the previous 4-pack BLOOD BATH to be able to follow these films.
Soon all these suckers should be up at Amazon.
In other Brentwood news, the company will release all 93 episodes of the HE-MAN companion series SHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER. First up in July is a two-disc “best of” package with the top 5 episodes as voted on by fans, along with her 1985 feature film THE SECRET OF THE SWORD. You can vote on the episodes to be included in the “best of” at he-man.org.
March 26th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
>I suspect MASTER is one of those titles where Jackie appears in the >background for a second when the camera swoops over or something, >but I’d still watch it.
Oh, it’s even dumber than that. It’s actually a movie called NEW KIDS IN TOWN, with scenes from the Hong Kong version of Jackie Chan’s THE PROTECTOR randomly spliced into it. It had previously been available from the infamous bootleg company, Xenon. BCI’s releases of SHAOLIN DOLEMITE (another former Xenon title) and SHOWDOWN AT THE COTTON MILL (a bootleg from Video Asia) have convinced me that BCI has been licensing their stuff from George Tan, who allegedly supplied Xenon and Ground Zero with the bulk of their titles and is supposed to be behind Video Asia.