#direct to video

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[theactioneer]

TC 2000 (T.J. Scott, 1993)

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I don't know if I love bad movies because MST3K instilled it in me, or it was just coming up in the VHS rental generation in general. It's a real chicken or the egg scenario. Perhaps one helped the other?

[bulimic-cinema]

Vampirella (1996)

[showamagicalgirls]

Last night I watched Ozma of Oz, which was (as far as I've been able to ascertain) an English-language recut of episodes thirty-one through forty-one of the Japanese TV anime The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い). These episodes correspond to L. Frank Baum's third Land of Oz book and also to the portions of his stories that were adapted into the 1985 Disney feature, Return to Oz.

So I really didn't think I was going to like it because I thought it was very likely impossible that it would have been recut in a manner that I enjoyed as much as the other ways this story has been told, but actually I thought they did a pretty good job.

And to memorialize this viewing on my blog here, I thought I would post images of three characters from the animated film next to the way those same figures were presented in Return to Oz. It's quite a contrast.

[popping-your-culture]

It’s time for the first installment of Direct-to-Video Shannon Smackdown, featuring ‘90s erotic thriller stars Shannon Tweed and Shannon Whirry. These two goddesses were basically the reigning queens of ‘90s DTV erotic cult films.

Which Shannon is your favorite? Let us know!

[bryan-damage]

Twisted Issues 1988 Splatterpunk movie from Gainesville, Florida

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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, 1997

[brokehorrorfan]

Tremors 2: Aftershocks will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on November 28 via Arrow Films. Matt Frank designed the new cover art for the 1996 direct-to-video horror-comedy sequel.

Tremors co-writers S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock returned to pen the script, with Wilson stepping into the director's chair. Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver, Marcelo Tubert, and Michael Gross star.

The limited edition set comes with a booklet featuring writing by Jonathan Melville and Dave Wain & Matty Budrewicz and two fold-out posters, all packaged in a slipcase designed by Frank.

Tremors 2: Aftershocks has been newly restored in 4K from teh original negative, approved by Wilson, with Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) and original lossless 2.0 and 4.0 surround audio.

Special features are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging and contents.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer S.S. Wilson and co-producer Nancy Roberts (new)

Audio commentary by Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors author Jonathan Melville (new)

Interview with special effects designer Peter Chesney (new)

Interview with CG supervisor Phil Tippett (new)

The Making of Tremors 2

Outtakes

Tremors & Tremors 2: Aftershocks trailers

Image gallery

Additional contents:

Perfect bound booklet with new writing by Jonathan Melville on the Tremors 2 scripts that never got made and Dave Wain & Matty Budrewicz on the history of Universal's direct-to-video sequel division

Double-sided fold-out poster with original and new art by Matt Frank

Small fold-out poster with new Shrieker X-ray art by Matt Frank

Earl Bassett (Fred Ward)’s celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he’s recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil. With the help of a scientist (Helen Shaver) and a new sidekick (Christopher Gartin) – not to mention the return of his gun-toting survivalist pal Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) – Earl is about to learn the Graboids have evolved and are deadlier than ever!

Pre-order Tremors 2: Aftershocks.

[schlock-luster-video]

On April 20, 1997, Cruel Jaws was released on VHS in the United States and Mexico.

Here's some new art to celebrate!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Emperor's New Groove (2000, Mark Dindal)

17/01/2024

The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 animated film directed by Mark Dindal.

It is the 40th Disney classic, and began as an epic musical called Kingdom of the Sun with directors Dindal and Roger Allers, but over the course of its six years of production it was transformed by Disney executives into a light buddy comedy about Kuzco, a young and selfish Inca emperor who, mistakenly transformed into a llama by his former advisor Yzma in an attempt to poison him, tries to regain his human form aided by the generous farmer Pacha, who teaches him to be altruistic.

The film, shown for the first time in the United States on December 15, 2000, was not a great financial success but received generally positive reviews, being considered one of the best films of Disney's post-Renaissance era and being nominated for an Academy Award for Best song for My Funny Friend and Me, performed by Sting.

However, the film achieved greater success and notoriety from the public later, thanks to excellent sales on the home-video market, and had a sequel and direct-to-video spin-off entitled Kronk's New Groove (2005) and an animated television series entitled The Emperor's New School (2006-2008).

Kuzco, a spoiled, selfish and arrogant young Inca emperor, intends to build, as a birthday present, a new holiday home with a swimming pool called Kuzcotopia on the top of a hill, at the price of destroying an entire village of farmers. Due to the naivety of Kronk, Yzma's aide, a potion is poured into the glass from which the emperor drinks that transforms him into a llama.

The emperor ventures into the jungle alone, coming across a pack of black jaguars; saved at the last minute by Pacha, Kuzco accepts the latter's conditions to be able to return to the palace.

Meanwhile, Yzma celebrates the emperor's funeral and is proclaimed empress; while she toasts with Kronk to her success, the latter lets slip that the emperor is still alive, so the two leave together to look for him.

Kuzco: protagonist of the story, he is the emperor of the Inca Empire.

The idea for Kingdom of the Sun was conceived by Roger Allers and Matthew Jacobs, and development of the project began in 1994. When pitching the project to Disney's then-CEO and president Michael Eisner, the latter said that "it has all the elements of a classic Disney film", and thanks to his success as director of The Lion King that same year, Eisner gave Allers carte blanche with both casting and plot. In January 1995 Variety reported that Allers was working on "an original Incan-themed story".

In 1996 the production team took a trip to Machu Picchu, Peru, to study Inca artifacts and architecture and the landscape in which this empire was created.

Kingdom of the Sun was supposed to be the story of a greedy, selfish emperor (voiced by David Spade) who finds a farmer who looks just like him (voiced by Owen Wilson); the emperor trades places with the peasant for fun, just as in Mark Twain's archetypal novel The Prince and the Pauper. However, the evil witch Yzma plans to summon the evil god Supay and capture the sun so she can stay young forever (the sun gives her wrinkles, so she speculates that living in a world of darkness would prevent her from aging).

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Fun Song Factory (Videos, 1994-2004)

You can watch various episodes from the show's three incarnations here; the seven videos here are all of the original direct-to-VHS releases, these nine episodes are from the 1998 TV series, and these twelve episodes are from the show's 2004 incarnation; other episodes may also be present at the first link or this one.

[theactioneer]

Cyber Vengeance (J. Christian Ingvordsen, 1997)

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He! 🥰🥰🥰

[bulimic-cinema]

"Is it live or is it Memorex?"

Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)

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Kiriko (1994) 『 妖闘地帯KIRIKO 』 Directed by Takeshi Miyasaka 宮坂武志