Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are
Criterion
¡Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas!
Genius Entertainment
The Spaghetti West
Docurama and
Bridge to Terabithia
Disney
Various news bits here ... many review sites are receiving only a few of the hotly-desired upcoming Cult Camp disc sets from Warners. 
My reviews for two of the sets will be up next Friday. I'm putting in a special request (beg and plead may be a better choice of words) for the other two, and am asking myself if I 'feel lucky.' How can Savant not review Zero Hour!, The Colossus of Rhodes and especially Land of the Pharaohs?
On other news fronts, It looks like September will be the month for Criterion's Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Also coming that month will be the 1930 G.W. Pabst musical The Threepenny Opera, the version with Lotte Lenya.
The DVD Drive-In site reports that MGM's forthcoming DVD of Witchfinder General a.k.a. The Conqueror Worm will have a commentary with producer Philip Waddilove and star Ian Ogilvy. Among many other titles, Tom Weaver also reports that Fox will be releasing a special edition of Irwin Allen's lizardosaur epic The Lost World from 1960. Yes, it's no classic, but I'll never forget the great color and mighty dino roars on the soundtrack when I was an impressionable eight year-old.
A reader wrote in to tell me that on my main page, the photo I posted crowded or overlapped my text. I don't like that phenomenon when I see it on other pages, so I'm concerned about this ... does anybody else get that problem on Savant pages?
Gary Teetzel reported that the makers of the movie Saw and the rights holders to the old RKO library intend to remake some of the old Val Lewton movies, including the doesn't-need-remaking I Walked with a Zombie. Knowing exactly what the modern horror market needs, I rushed out this treatment synopsis:
The aloof, Byronic sugar cane planter's troubled personality can be subtly linked to his history of torturing wives, nurses and co-ed nude models come to San Sebastian for Hustler photo shoots. We're making the new-in-town nurse from the original story a sexy C.S.I. investigator instead. The Zombies will be an ethnically diverse bunch of pro wrestlers. Since there's no pro-Voodoo lobby, that part of the story can stay the same.
We've also come up with something brand new in the genre, a demented Zombie Master character who controls the horde of flesh-eating killers. He'll have narrow, bright lights always illuminating his eyes and will speak ever so slowly in an incomprehensible Hungarian accent. Creepy, huh? The sinister Calypso folk singer who insinuates evil tidings through his song lyrics is now a Rap singer and pro-Zombie Rights activist. The big revelation arrives when we discover that the Zombies are really mutated prisoners escaped from the luxurious GITMO detention center. They're part of a sinister Arab fundamentalist plot to destroy our freedoms from within by 'sneaking' themselves into the soft, cushy extra-territorial U.S. custody system.
Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at June 18, 2007 04:14 PM