HCF Reviews
BROKEN OATH [1977]
AKA PO JE HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 2ist October, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 98 mins / 102 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera A woman lies dying in a women’s prison after giving birth […]
Year Made: 1977
Guilty Pleasures
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC [1977]
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 7th October, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 117 mins / 106 mins Reviewed by: Dr Lenera It’s been four years since the exorcism that saved the life of Regan MacNeil […]
HCF Reviews
CROSS OF IRON [1977]
CROSS OF IRON [1977] WEST GERMANY / UK AVAILABLE ON: UHD Steelbook, Blu-ray and DVD from STUDIOCANAL RUNNING TIME: 133 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Russia – the Taman Peninsula – 1943, The Retreat. […]
HCF Reviews
MARTIN [1977]
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 27TH MARCH, from SECOND SIGHT FILMS RUNNING TIME: 96 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Martin is not a normal teenager. Okay – he’s awkward, shy and rarely engages […]
HCF Reviews
THE SHAOLIN PLOT [1977]
AKA SI DA MEN PAI HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 20TH JUNE, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMMENT REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera The Manchu Prince Dagulen is after the secret manuals of the four great martial arts schools, […]
Giallo
GIALLO ESSENTIALS [1965-1978]: On Blu-ray 25th October
GIALLO ESSENTIALS [1965-1978]: On Blu-ray 25th October, from ARROW VIDEO Arrow have bundled together three earlier releases for this new box set. I was eager to check out two gialli I’d never come across before […]
Giallo
THE PSYCHIC [1977]: On Blu-ray and On-Demand 9th August
AKA SETTE NOTE IN NERO, SEVEN BLACK NOTES, SEVEN NOTES IN BLACK, MURDER TO THE TUNE OF SEVEN BLACK NOTES, DEATH TOLLS SEVEN TIMES Italy AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND AND ON-DEMAND: 9TH AUGUST, from SHAMELESS FILMS […]
HCF Reviews
Eraserhead (1977) – On Blu-ray October 19th
A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things Despite not having released anything in the realm of TV or film since 2017, with the world shutting down many months ago, it has surprisingly proved to be […]
HCF Reviews
THE IRON-FISTED MONK [1977]: On Blu-ray Now, in the THREE FILMS WITH SAMMO HUNG boxset
AKA SAN DE HUO SHANG YU CHONG MI LIUS Hong Kong AVAILABLE IN THE ‘THREE FILMS WITH SAMMO HUNG’ BOXSET FROM EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 97 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic […]
Fantasy
SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER [1977]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 113 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Prince Kassim is transformed during his coronation as Caliph of the city of Charak into a baboon […]
HCF Reviews
THE CHILD (1977) – American Horror Project Vol. 2
THE CHILD (1977) Directed by Robert Voskanian Part of American Horror Project Vol. 2 from Arrow Video A young woman named Alicianne, on the way to her new nanny job, is run off road resulting […]
HCF Reviews
TO KILL WITH INTRIGUE [1977]
AKA JIAN HUA TAN YU JIANG NAN Hong Kong/Korea AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 106 mins/99 mins/ 89 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Fifteen years ago Lei Shao-feng’s father […]
Drama
THE SERPENT’S EGG [1977]: On Dual Format 3rd December
USA/ West Germany AVAILABLE ON DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD: 3rd December, from ARROW ACADEMY RUNNING TIME: 120 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In the depressed, poverty-stricken Berlin of 1923, American-born […]
HCF Reviews
TENTACLES [1977]
Italy AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD: REGION ‘A’ only RUNNING TIME: 102 mins/91 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic SPOILERS! Mysterious deaths begin to occur at a beach community in California, with […]
HCF Reviews
SLEEPING DOGS [1977]: On Blu-ray and DVD Now
New Zealand AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD: NOW, from ARROW ACADEMY RUNNING TIME: 112 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic After learning that his wife Gloria has started seeing another man, Smith […]
Drama
SCALPEL [1977]: On Blu-ray Now
AKA FALSE FACE USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 95 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Plastic surgeon Dr. Phillip Reynolds learns at the will reading of his […]
Comedy
HOUSE [1977]: On Blu-ray Now
AKA HAUSU Japan AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 88 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic . Schoolgirl Gorgeous has plans for a summer vacation with her father who’s […]
Guilty Pleasures
THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN [1977]: DOC’S DODGY 1970’S KING KONG CASH-IN TRIPLE BILL, FILM 3
AKA XING XING WANG, GOLIATHON, COLOSSUS OF CONGO AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 90 min REVIEWED BY:Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Hong Kong entrepreneur Lu Tien mounts an expedition, headed by hunter […]