JESS FRANCO: FROM BANGKOK WITH BULLETS (Severin Blu-ray Collection Review)
May 12th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Severin Films dives into one of the stranger corners of Jess Franco’s career with From Bangkok with Bullets, a double-feature collection built around his mid-1980s detour into offbeat spy and crime adventures. Shot on a shoestring budget but dressed up with real Thailand location footage captured by cinematographer Juan Soler, the set pairs the eccentric espionage mystery Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included with the colorful comic-book chaos of Bangkok, Date with Death starring Lina Romay.
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Severin Films today announced the release of Episode 2 of their new series My Fleapit, My Palace, an international exploration with friends, colleagues and icons through the movie theaters and moviegoing adventures of their youth. In this new episode, writer/director Jörg Buttgereit (NEKROMANTIK, DER TODESKING, NEKROMANTIK 2, SCHRAMM) takes us on a tour of Berlin’s iconic cinema culture, from the still-active Xenon (where Buttgereit worked as a teen projectionist and filmed several memorable scenes from his 1988 genre classic NEKROMANTIK) to the repurposed Metropol (whose exterior is familiar to all fans of Lamberto Bava’s Italian horror hit DEMONS), the long-gone Royal-Palast (once Europe’s largest screen) and more, with special guests that include German Godzilla, The Damned (sans a dosed Dave Vanian), Christiane F. and COMBAT SHOCK writer/director Buddy Giovinazzo who opines, “If your date can sit through NEKROMANTIK, marry them.”
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Arrow Video’s June Slate Sizzles with a Classic Neo-Noir Thriller, Intrigue in the Outback, A Terrifying & Notorious J-Horror, the Ultimate Jackie Chan Collection, and More Madcap Martial Arts Mayhem! Marlowe Makes its Worldwide Blu-ray Debut, Wake In Fright Arrives in Hi-Def, plus Global 4K UHD Premieres for Takashi Miike’s Audition, Mortal Kombat Kollection, and Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits!
Hot off the record-setting resurrection of EVIL DEAD RISE, writer/director Lee Cronin turns to one of the most iconic horror stories of all time with an audacious and twisted retelling: LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY. The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.
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A modern tank tears through waves of samurai cavalry while helicopters hover above warriors armed with bows and spears. This is 
Paranoia runs through Blue Thunder, a big, noisy helicopter picture full of exploding buildings and dogfights, punctuated with Roy Scheider squinting through aviators. Director John Badham set out to make a film about the fear of surveillance, militarized policing, and the people who claim to protect society already controlling it.
Originally airing on Cartoon Network in 2014, Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall, a ten-part miniseries, follows anxious teenager Wirt (Elijah Wood) and his cheerful younger stepbrother Greg (Collin Dean), who tumble into a strange woodland realm known only as The Unknown after climbing over a garden wall on Halloween night. What unfolds is an emotionally layered meditation on fear, guilt, mortality, and the transition between childhood and adulthood. Along the way, the boys encounter a mournful Woodsman (Christopher Lloyd), a sharp-tongued bluebird named Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey), and the looming shadow of the Beast (Samuel Ramey).
These four films represent a very specific corner of 1950s American genre filmmaking that can be described as fast, cheap, and independent. They were sci-fi movies produced for drive-ins, small-town theaters, and late-night television. These filmmakers were turning out monster movies in under a week, relying on practical effects, stock footage, oversized performances, and pure enthusiasm to keep audiences entertained.
The summer of song and storytelling will launch when the filmed version of the Broadway smash Hamilton is released for the first time in 4K UHD Blu-ray on June 16.
Released in 1951 after years of false starts, abandoned drafts, and creative infighting, Alice in Wonderland arrived carrying the weight of Lewis Carroll’s beloved novels but refusing to behave like a traditional Disney fairy tale. Audiences expecting another warm-hearted fantasy in the mold of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Cinderella instead found themselves trapped inside a kaleidoscope of talking flowers, vanishing cats, screaming royalty, and logic that intentionally collapses in on itself. The result initially confused critics and underperformed commercially, disappointing Walt Disney himself. Yet it’s slowly transformed from a black sheep into one of the studio’s most visually distinctive cult classics.
One of the most celebrated sitcoms in television history returns in its most complete and ultimate form ever with THE OFFICE: THE COMPLETE SERIES – SUPERFAN EXTENDED EPISODES, available on Digital platforms and Blu-ray™ beginning July 14, 2026, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Spanning 194 expanded episodes, this all-new collection reconstructs every installment of the landmark series with additional footage per episode, delivering more than 25 hours of unaired* material. It’s the ultimate version of The Office—bigger, longer, and more uncomfortably hilarious than ever before.
The bizarre legacy of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER lives on as Severin Films today announced pre-orders for the 4-Disc DISCO ITALIANA Collection featuring the Italian Discosploitation classics AMERICAN FEVER, GREASE ROCK and JOHN TRAVOLTO: THE FACE WITH 2 LEFT FEET with 5+ combined hours of new Special Features and Bonus Soundtrack CD, plus the 1979 UK hit THE MUSIC MACHINE starring singer Patti Boulaye OBE, Clarke Peters of The Wire and Academy Award
Will (Caleb McLaughlin) is a determined young goat in the vine-covered city of Vineland who dreams of playing professional roarball, a brutal, oversized spin on basketball dominated by towering animals. His passion is rooted in a childhood memory of attending a Thorns game with his mother, Louise (Jennifer Hudson), where he first idolizes star player Jett Fillmore (Gabrielle Union). Years later, that dream feels out of reach. Will’s broke, undersized, and dismissed as a “small.” That is, until a scrappy, viral one-on-one against arrogant MVP Mane Attraction (Aaron Pierre) unexpectedly lands him a spot on the struggling Thorns.
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