May 20, 2007
Tuesday May 22, 2007

Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are

The Screwfly Solution
Masters of Horror
Anchor Bay / Starz
The Third Man Reissue
Criterion
The Tyrone Power Swashbuckler Box Set
Blood and Sand, Son of Fury - the Story of Benjamin Blake;
Captain from Castile, Prince of Foxes, The Black Rose
Fox
and
Violette (Nozière)
Koch Lorber

Savant has to apologize for hia delay in the review for The Tyrone Power Box Set, but the screeners arrived after street date and both a contractual obligation and an editing job slowed me up. I haven't got a dog so I can't claim he ate the review, either.

The big shock of the week was watching Anchor Bay's new DVD of the Masters of Horror episode of The Screwfly Solution, which those of you with Showtime Cable may have seen last December. We're in a major trend of miserable torture-based theatrical horror films right now, and it's refreshing to find a horror outing with something behind its scares besides vicarious sadism. In this case, the 'something' is a potent concept that may make the show an instant classic. Packed with dangerous & edgy ideas and highly recommended. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson.

Posted by DVD Savant at May 20, 2007 07:59 PM