Subtitles: None Disc: BD25 / BD50 Release Date: 08/23/2011 Reviewed from a screener provided by Shout! Factory LLC (Thanks Mitzye!) Available for preorder through Amazon.com
This is to be a technical review only. If you wish to hear what I have to say about the three films in this collection then please read my earlier coverage of the DVD edition.
Shout! Factory released the Women in Cages Collection to DVD just over a month ago. For my money it was a very strong release, with plenty of cult appeal and considerable supplemental heft. Now that the Blu-ray edition has arrived there are two questions demanding to be answered: How does it compare to the earlier DVD, and is the difference between the two substantial enough to warrant the considerably higher price tag?
To answer the first question, the Women in Cages Blu-ray collection does offer a substantial upgrade in audio-visual quality in comparison to the earlier DVD, and perhaps even more of an upgrade than this reviewer was expecting of it. That’s not to say that the release is without its problems, unfortunately, but at least they’re not of the same damnable stuff that have compromised some of the other discs recently reviewed here.



Shout! Factory are at it again, with the latest in their continuing line of Roger Corman’s Cult Classics turning up the heat just in time for summer to hit its stride. The Women in Cages Collection brings together a course trio of Philippines-produced ‘women in prison’ exploitationers from the early years of Corman’s New World Pictures, all of which center around blaxploitation megastar Pam Grier (Foxy Brown) and her considerable assets, professional and otherwise. The Women in Cages collection offers just about everything fans of Corman productions could ever ask for – plenty of exposed flesh and wanton depravity balanced by a hefty dose of blistering woman-scorned revenge.







Trailers From Hell Volume 2
July 18th, 2011 | article by Kevin Pyrtle | No Comments »Tags: Commentaries, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Shout! Factory, Trailers From Hell
Subtitles: None Disc: DVD9 Release Date: 07/05/2011 Reviewed from a screener provided by Shout! Factory LLC (Thanks Mitzye!) Available for purchase at Amazon.com
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