Nine Guests For A Crime is a late 70’s giallo set on a Mediterranean island- with a selection of bickering ‘n’ bitchy of rich folks, glimpses of female flesh, touches of eerier atmospherics, and odd dabs of gore. Here from 88 Films is a new Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a new commentary from three genre experts,  and a mix of new/ archive extras.

Dracones is the latest release from Hüma Utku, who maps and performs a journey from pregnancy to motherhood with astounding clarity and detail. Unlike so many other personal narratives transposed into sound, Dracones is anything but celebratory or self-indulgent. Instead, Utku manages to press our noses up against the immediacy and claustrophobia of the corporeal changes she underwent while making this album, building a dark and moody background through minimal instrumentation. 

Eclipse is a little-known/ rarely-seen British film, which sits somewhere between glum drama and a slowly unfolding psychological thriller. The late 1970s picture is largely set in the wintertime on the lonely and barren Scottish coast. It regards a death at sea, and a small Christmas gathering touched by moments of troubling behaviour, doubt, unsettling reveals- all edged by an uneasy to jarring electronic score, which bubbles up ever so often.  Here from the BFI’s Flipside series is a new Blu-ray release of the film, taking a new 2k scan, new commentary track, and a small selection of new & archive extras.

The Cat ( aka Die Katze) is a late 80s German bank robber thriller, with some distinctive elements, and clever twists 'n’ turns in its make-up. It’s a film that quickly pulls you, then nicely notches up the tension, as a tense chess game-like unfold between the robbers & police. Here, from Radiance for the first time outside Germany, is a Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a new scan of the film, and new interviews/ selected scene commentary track.

Impact, from the late 1940s, is a mix of noir and small-town/ courtroom drama. It concerns a scheming wife who tries to off her big city millionaire husband, but instead, her lover gets killed- though the press reports her husband is dead, as he goes into hiding in small town America, and she goes to the slammer. Here from VCI Entertainment is a dual DVD/Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a commentary track

What's the difference between love and herpes? Herpes lasts forever. In this case, the French band Herpes continued to live on as the old-school death metal-inspired Disfuneral. Ten years into the game, the quartet releases their second full-length, In Horror, Reborn, which is nine tracks of classic death - raw, fast, and thrashing. What they lack in flash, they make up for with passion, and In Horror, Reborn quickly draws the listener in to its old-school revelry. Riffs, dissonance, throaty screams, and propulsive drums meld together to provide a familiar experience; one of fun, headbanging, fist-pumping action.