The month of Halloween is almost over but studios are still putting out the spooky stuff on this week’s edition of physical media talk with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski. Criterion has one of the great modern haunted house tales with one of Nicole Kidman’s best performances. Brett Ratner tries to remake Michael Mann, Lewis Teague does his first Stephen King and Roland Emmerich completely botches Godzilla. Paramount has a whole box set of frights with some 4K debuts including a surprise title that really gets under Peter’s skin. Indicator has some Jean Rollin and a box set of film noir. There is more Shaw Brothers, Sammo Hung, Mario Bava and, naturally, Bill Haley and the Comets. Plus the one thing that every show, big and small, needs – Muppets!

0:00 - Intro

0:59 - Criterion (The Others (4K))

7:43 - Arrow Films (The Iron-Fisted Monk)

9:51 - Shout! Factory (Shaw Brothers Classics: Volume Three)

12:30 - Indicator (Universal Noir #2 (1945-1949), Fascination (4K), Lips of Blood (4K))

27:46 - Kino (Red Dragon (4K), Black Sabbath (60th Anniversary), Cujo (4K), It! The Terror from Beyond Space)

49:33 - Sony (Rock Around the Clock, Godzilla 1998 (4K), The Muppets Take Manhattan (4K))

1:07:53 - Paramount (Paramount Scares Vol. 1 (4K))

1:19:34 – Theatrical Titles and Television New on Blu-ray

1:21:00 – New Blu-ray Announcements

1:23:21 - Outro

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