Salutations! Savant's new reviews today are

We launch into February with a quartet of horror films from Italy, England, Brazil and Mexico. The Mexican El esqueleto de la señora Morales is actually a macabre black comedy, but it's close enough. The only thing odd about Dark Sky's Kill, Baby ... Kill! disc is that it won't be here until March 27. Just a few days later, Anchor Bay will be issuing their version of the show in a Mario Bava Boxed set. Full details of the box set contents have been posted on the Feb. 3 entry of Tim Lucas' website Video WatchBlog.

Savant grabbed a copy of the Japanese Science Fiction film Virus last month, but it was defective. I have another copy from Amazon but as it is a birthday gift, I am holding off until later in the week to check it out. Stuart Galbraith IV warns me not to expect too much, yet I think I'm going to like it. Stuart just reviewed for DVDTalk another 80s Japanese Sci-Fi called Sayonara Jupiter. The dystopian political Sci-Fi winner from last fall Children of Men is expected on March 27 as well; it was the best film I saw last year save for Pedro Almodóvar's Volver. Hope to be finally catching up with Letters from Iwo Jima next week.

Thanks for reading, and for the suggestions for the Savant Wish List; it's shaping up as a good general-purpose list. Glenn Erickson