Tag Archive for 'Janet Leigh'
July 2nd, 2023 by Gerard Iribe
Charlton Heston portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy American businessman on the US side of the border. As Vargas investigates, his newly-wed wife Susie (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock’s Psycho) is kidnapped by a gang out […]
December 18th, 2020 by Brandon Peters
I’m not the first person to tell you 2020 has felt like forever and a day and then forever again. We were fortunate to have still been given a constant flux of new 4K Ultra-HD and standard Blu-ray releases despite the global pandemic. Heck, When charting back for this list, I was stunned at some […]
September 12th, 2020 by Brandon Peters
When a new format breaks out, it should be mandatory that the entire catalog of Alfred Hitchcock be immediately upgraded, restored and released. Unfortunately, in these streamy times we live in, that doesn’t seem to be of interest as finally in 2020 we are delivered just a small sampling size of his collection of masterpieces. […]
May 31st, 2018 by Brandon Peters
The 1970s brought us an interesting little horror genre, the Eco-horror film. This decade was littered with many person against nature films. Of course, the biggest one of them all was Jaws, but we were also subjected to things like the appropriately titled “Frogs” where, well you can guess the source of villainous evil in […]
May 8th, 2018 by Brandon Peters
How many eyes does horror have? How many times will terror strike? Giant mutant rabbits are on the loose in the campy 70’s cult classic Night Of The Lepus for the first time on Blu-ray on June 19, 2018 from Scream Factory. This release features a new 2K scan of the original film elements and comes complete […]
January 30th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Universal Studios is finally releasing two classics from their extensive vault in April. Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity and Orson Welles’ Touch Of Evil will both make their long overdue debuts on Blu-ray on April 15. Its kind of a bummer it takes classics like these so long to make the jump to the format, but […]
July 11th, 2013 by Brandon Peters
John Carpenter hit success big with Halloween in 1978. Following up that first big success is always a challenge. He was dubbed the “next Hitchcock” and there was a lot of anticipation for his next film. But with that, studios offering him deals wanted him to tackle the horror genre again. Carpenter had no problem […]
May 30th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
Time to dive back into the classics! Classic films on Blu-ray always make me smile, because of the luster and time period, and because most of the time I wasn’t even born yet. It’s great to see how films were made back in the day. The Manchurian Candidate is one of these films. Make no […]