Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: June 5th, 2023.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Bill Hunter, George Lazenby, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Sammo Hung
Year: 1975
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The Man From Hong Kong – Movie Review:

The Man From Hong Kong opens with a scene in which a Chinese drug dealer named Win Chan (Sammo Hung) is arrested by Australian police and shipped off to Sydney. When word gets back to the police...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: December 3rd, 2021.
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Cast: Zalman King, Richard Crystal, Mark Goddard, Deborah Winters, Robert Walden
Year: 1977
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Blue Sunshine – Movie Review:

Blue Sunshine, directed by Jeff Lieberman (the man behind Squirm and Just Before Dawn) is one of those odd films that just can’t seem to figure out where it really belongs – and that’s a big...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: March 24th, 2020.
Director: Stelvio Massi
Cast: Maurizio Merli, Giancarlo Sbragia, Angelo Infanti, Lilli Carati
Year: 1977
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Poliziotto Sprint - Movie Review: Also known as Highway Racer, Stelvio Massi's 1977 film Poliziotto Sprint revolves around a cop named Marco Palma (Maurizio Merli, minus his trademark moustache!). He and, to a much lesser extent, his sandwich loving part...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: January 21st, 2020.
Director: Raphael Delpard
Cast: Isabelle Goguey, Charlotte De Turckheim, Betty Beckers, Michel Debrane, Ernest Menzer, Georges Lucas
Year: 1980
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Night Of Death - Movie Review: While La Nuit De La Mort was been released on DVD in its native France courtesy of KVP some time ago (sans English subs), it doesn't' seem to have had a home video release in North Am...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: November, 2019.
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Cast: Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Ricardo Palacios, Pepita James
Year: 1984
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Monster Dog - Movie Review: What do you get when you combine the directing skills of Claudio Fragasso, the man best known for Troll 2, and the acting and musical talents of Alice Cooper? Why, 1984's Monster Dog, that's what! When the fi...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: July 10th, 2019.
Director: Duccio Tessari
Cast: Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Evelyn Stewart, Gunther Stoll
Year: 1971
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The Bloodstained Butterfly - Movie Review: Directed by Duccio Tessari The Bloodstained Butterfly centers around the murder of a beautiful French foreign exchange student named Francoise Pigaut (Carole Andre) after her body is found stabbed to death in a ...

The last few years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of cult titles on DVD and especially Blu-ray and for fans, well, 2017 was an embarrassment of riches. We hear at R!S!P! have been privileged enough to have the opportunity to review a lot of the best and most interesting to come out this year, and with 2018 just a few short hours away, why not look back on the last twelve months? So without further ado, here are our favorite titles that we were able to write up this year, ranked in...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: December 8^th, 2017.
Director: René Manzor
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Louis Ducreux, Patrick Floersheim, Alain Lalanne
Year: 1989
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The Movie: Thomas (Alain Lalanne as Alain Musy) is a weird kid. He lives in a massive castle with his aged grandfather (Louis Ducreux) and his hardworking, business minded mother Julie (Brigitte Fossey). His father passed away some time ago but Jul...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: September 20th, 2017.
Director: Vittorio Salerno
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Gianfranco De Grassi, Guido De Carli, Enrico Maria Salerno
Year: 1975
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The Movie: A fairly insane Italian cross between A Clockwork Orange and Falling Down, Vittorio Salerno's Fango Bollente opens with an interesting scene of foreshadowing. In the laboratory of a faceless corporation headquartered in Turin, a...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: April 27th, 2018.
Director: Silvio Amadio
Cast: Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri, Barbara Bouchet, Patrizia Viotti
Year: 1972
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The Movie: Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouche) takes a new job as a secretary for a famous and well off writer named Richard Stuart (Farley Granger). He lives in a fairly massive old house out on an island near Venice with his beautiful wife Eleanora (R...

2016 was an absolutely awesome year for DVD and especially Blu-ray releases, proving once again that physical media is far from dead. While we're not able to cover everything here at Rock! Shock! Pop!, we manage to cover a lot - and from that coverage we're pleased to present our picks for the best DVD and Blu-ray releases from the last twelve months. Truly we live in an age of miracles! So without further ado and presented in no particular order our Top Releases Of 2016… ...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: October 2016.
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Cast: Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi, Farley Granger
Year: 1974
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The Movie:

Massimo Dallamano directed this 1974 film as a pseudo follow-up to What Have You Done to Solange?, a picture he'd made two years prior but this film is far less a traditional giallo than the earlier picture....

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: February 5th, 2016.
Director: Vittorio Salerno
Cast: Enzo Cerusico, Enrico Maria Salerno, Riccardo Cucciolla
Year: 1973
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The Movie: Making its proper English language home video debut with this Blu-ray release from Camera Obscura is Vittorio Salerno's directorial debut, the oddly titled No, The Case Is Happily Resolved from 1973. The film starts off with a pretty grisly scen...

Physical media is dead. Long live physical media. 2015 saw an insane amount of product out from boutique labels, the kind that cult movie fans tend to go rabid for, and man oh man, did we ever cover a lot of them. Not all of them, we're only human after all, but yeah, we wrote about a lot of DVD and Blu-ray releases this year. And with 2015 now, somehow, in the rear view mirror, what better time than this to look back on some of them? So wit...

Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: October, 2015.
Director: Aldo Lado
Cast: Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach, Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin
Year: 1971
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The Movie: Written and directed by Aldo Lado, 1971's Short Night Of Glass Dolls (also known as Malastrana) tells the strange story of Gregory (Jean Sorel), an American reporter who is working in Prague and whose body is found dead in a garden as the movie opens. The ...