Welcome to Mondo Digital's second annual Top Ten DVD Countdown. A few more guests were invited to participate this year; hopefully they'll open your eyes to several releases you may have missed. After all, that is what this whole thing is about.  

2004 was practically overwhelming with its number of must-have titles issued on disc. I contemplated opening up the lists to twenty entries, just to avoid skipping on excellent DVDs like Pickup on South Street, The Majorettes or Graveyard of Honor, but a line had to be drawn somewhere and the traditional ten-count won out. Maybe next year we'll do a baker's dozen.  

Each writer could come up with their own criteria for their picks. Some went on artistic merits or quality of presentation, others simply chose favorite films or ones with sentimental meanings. There was only one stipulation: Anchor Bay's Dawn of the Dead: Ultimate Edition and Criterion's Videodrome were ineligible. Why? Because these two releases were hands down the cream of 2004's genre crop -- amazing films, gorgeous presentations, interesting supplements -- and all readers of Mondo Digital should already have them in their collections. Why use the space when there's so much more out there?

So strap on your reading glasses and get out your credit cards… you're going to need 'em!   -- Bruce Holecheck

JOHN CHARLES
John Charles is Associate Editor of Video Watchdog magazine and Webmaster of Hong Kong Digital.

• DEATHDREAM (Blue Underground): After the typically awful Gorgon Video release and battered Canadian TV version, who would have guessed that this low-budget horror sleeper could look so damn good? Another superb presentation from Blue Underground, with their usual line of terrific supplements.
  
• EIGHT DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER (Intercontinental, HK R3): In a year where collectors are quite rightfully ripping Celestial a new one for their horrendously misguided and inept re-mixes of Shaw Brothers classics, it is a relief that Lau Kar-leung's exhilarating masterpiece escaped with only minimal, non-destructive alterations (wish I could say the same for Lau's <i>Legendary Weapons of China</i>). Color and detail levels are very good, making it all the easier to enjoy some of the greatest fighting and choreography found in the genre.
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): Georges Franju's hypnotic marriage of poetry and exploitation has had a somewhat problematic video history, but Criterion's outstanding DVD presentation makes all of the tapes and Image's LD instantly obsolete. Fine extras, too, though the cover does not rank among the company's better efforts.
  
• FAST COMPANY (Blue Underground): While certainly one of David Cronenberg's lesser achievements, Fast Company is still a terrific B-movie and has certainly never looked or sounded as good as it does here. On top of that, Blue Underground has also blessed us with the director's experimental rarities, Stereo and Crimes of the Future, making this one of 2004's preeminent "must-have" titles.
  
• FREAKS (Warner): Another unexpectedly good restoration, this also boasts high-quality extras and, thankfully, includes captioning, making it much easier to understand the often garbled dialogue.
  
• THE GHASTLY ONES / SEEDS OF SIN (Something Weird/Image): Andy Milligan in a Top Ten list?! Yes, neither the films nor the presentations belong here, but this disc qualifies as my guilty pleasure of 2004. Frank Henenlotter and Hal Borske's hilariously profane commentary never fails to pick up my spirits and releases like this make me grateful for the strides SWV has made in preserving America's gutter film culture.
  
• HOLY FLAME OF THE MARTIAL WORLD (Intercontinental, HK R3): Shaw Brothers' manic answer to Golden Harvest's far more magisterial Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, this wonderfully crazy period fantasy features so many quirky elements and wacky highlights, it feels like five films rolled into one. Why can't Western children's movies be half this much fun? Another beautiful presentation with only minimal soundtrack tampering. "Diamond! I like it! I like it!"
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): Don May gives another worthy obscurity the red carpet treatment, revealing qualities barely apparent in previous releases (authorized and not so authorized). A splendid effort in every regard, imbued with the sort of hands-on loving care demonstrated only by true cinephiles.
  
• OLDBOY (Starmax, South Korea R3): A powerful, challenging, and often disturbing work, this South Korean picture is, in its own way, as grueling, merciless, and darkly humorous as a more primal and far less polished work like Last House on Dead End Street. The DVD is outstanding though most of the extras lack English translation and there is no Dolby Digital 5.1 option (just 2.0 and an extremely dynamic DTS track).
  
• THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Criterion): Judging from the lamentably pathetic condition of the print used for the old Embassy tape release, it seemed almost certain that we would never get an acceptable version of this outstanding Fritz Lang picture. Criterion's transfer is better than acceptable - it's breathtaking - and this optimum quality carries through to every aspect of the release.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  AN AMOROUS WOMAN OF TANG DYNASTY (Intercontinental, HK R3)
  BUBBA HO-TEP (MGM)
  EXECUTIONERS FROM SHAOLIN (Intercontinental, HK R3)
  MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN (Mondo Macabro)
  MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Intercontinental, HK R3)
  

MIKE CLARK
Mark Clark's book, Smirk, Sneer and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema, is now available from McFarland & Co., or from the author's website. Mark also contributed to Actors Series: Peter Cushing, currently available from Midnight Marquee Press, and Science Fiction America, coming later this year from McFarland. His work also appears in Scarlet Street, Monsters from the Vault and other magazines. 

• COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE / THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA (MGM): My favorite disc over the year, Under-$10 division.
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): Another cult film treated with the reverence it deserves. Considering the source is Criterion, such treatment isn't as surprising, but it's just as impressive.
  
• THE FILM NOIR CLASSICS COLLECTION (Warner): Warner unveiled this glorious assembly of noir masterworks, all making their DVD premieres. Great movies, beautiful transfers. The best big-studio, non-genre release of the year. We can only hope for more of the same.
  
• LEGACY COLLECTIONS (Universal): Too bad Universal didn't follow Warner's lead. Studio bungling left fans with sub par transfers of both Dracula and The Invisible Man. Nevertheless, between these six collections, Universal released 27 of its most beloved films, some newly returned from moratorium limbo, several others available for the first time, all of them available at a very comfortable price point. Although far from perfect, collectively this remains one of the most significant releases of the year.
  
• FREAKS (Warner): Warner treated Tod Browning's legendary cult film with far more reverence than fans had any reason to expect. Films of this vintage aren't supposed to look as good as this. And major studios aren't supposed to invest this kind of effort into a relatively obscure library title: Hiring noted film scholar David Skal to oversee the production of numerous supplements, including a feature-length documentary and a fascinating audio commentary. Here's hoping Warner keeps breaking the rules.
  
• THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES and THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (MPI): MPI concluded its masterful remastering effort of the entire Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series with these two titles. They saved the best for last, both in terms of the films as well as the transfers and supplements.
  
• LA DOLCE VITA (Koch Lorber): Looking to establish itself as a rival for Criterion, Koch Lorber got off on the right foot with its presentation of one of Federico Fellini's finest films.
  
• LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION, VOL. 2 (Warner) - How can you go wrong with four discs worth of vintage WB toons? The bonus materials are a lot of fun, too.
  
• THE RULES OF THE GAME (Criterion): Jean Renoir's "French Citizen Kane" made its belated Region 1 debut in a scintillating Special Edition from Criterion. Featuring a spectacular transfer of the most complete version of the film available, and packed with illuminating bonus materials, this 2-disc set was a cause celebre for cineastes.
  

TRAVIS CRAWFORD
Travis Crawford is the Associate Program Director of the Philadelphia Film Festival and is responsible for - among other programming - the festival's Danger After Dark series devoted to international genre cinema. He also regularly reviews DVDs for the Danger After Dark retail website and is a contributing writer to such publications as Filmmaker, Film Comment, MovieMaker, and Fangoria. In addition, he has written genre film criticism for the books 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe, and The Eyeball Compendium.

Selecting ten (alright, I cheated, eleven) releases from such a bountiful DVD year proved to be a rather daunting task, so I limited myself by imposing a few self-created and largely arbitrary stipulations: half of the list would feature boxed-set, multi-film collections, the other half would be composed of single-disc releases, and only one release per label would be included in each of those two divisions (the Blue Underground cheat should keep me on Bill Lustig's Christmas card mailing list for at least another year, no?). Also -- no new 2004 films, and no import releases (fully opening the race up to the latter category would've quite possibly driven me insane in my efforts to streamline a list down to ten releases for the entire year). Now having said that, I would at least like to highlight a few releases that would fall into one -- and in one case, both -- of those two categorizations. Firstly, I honestly think that the continued Celestial/Intercontinental Hong Kong DVD releases of the Shaw Brothers catalog comprises the most important series of digital releases in this, or any other, year, and I'm pleased to empty my checking account by purchasing almost all of them (please don't come to my apartment and rob me). Secondly, the late-2004 DVD's released in Italy by Raro Video and Nocturno ("Il Cinema Segreto Italiano") all come highly recommended as outstanding presentations of oft-neglected examples of 1970s Italian genre cinema -- particularly the remarkable The Perfume of the Lady in Black, my favorite (previously?) underrated Italian horror film of all time. Finally -- if Park Chan-wook's OldBoy was the genre film of the year (and it was), then it's probably safe to say that the South Korean 4-disc (!) boxed-set OldBoy: Ultimate Edition was the new genre film DVD release of the year. While most of its extra features are regrettably unsubtitled, it's still an exhausting/exhaustive tour through the best film of 2004 -- and it looks pretty damn cool sitting on your shelf in its ribbon-topped purple box as well.

• THE ALAN CLARKE COLLECTION (Blue Underground)
  
• THE DEADLY SPAWN (Synapse)
  
• DEATHDREAM (Blue Underground)
  
• THE FILM NOIR CLASSICS COLLECTION (Warner)
  
• THE INGMAR BERGMAN COLLECTION (MGM)
  
• JOHN CASSAVETES: FIVE FILMS (Criterion)
  
• LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro)
  
• THE LOVELESS (Blue Underground)
  
• SIN IN THE SUBURBS / THE SWAP AND HOW THEY MAKE IT (Image/Something Weird)
  
• WATTSTAX (Warner)
  
• THE YAKUZA PAPERS COLLECTION (Home Vision)
  

SHANE M. DALLMANN
Shane Dallmann is a reviewer for Video Watchdog, the host of "Remo D's Manor of Mayhem", the co-writer/co-director of The Wooden Gate (in the editing stages) and the founder of The Jonelle Snead Fund (a charity for terminal illness patients).

• GODZILLA, MOTHRA, KING GHIDORAH--GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK (Columbia): This was the year that we finally started getting "perfect" Godzilla DVDs in America -- uncut and in the original Japanese! And if that wasn't enough, this just happened to be one of the best films in the entire 50-year span of the series...
  
• JU-ON (Columbia): The most frightening film I saw on the big screen all year comes to DVD loaded with commentary, deleted scenes and additional supplements -- and the packaging let it be itself and not "the film that inspired The Grudge!" A class act all around.
  
• KINGDOM HOSPITAL: THE COMPLETE SERIES (Columbia): Hey -- if the very idea of Stephen King reworking <i>The Kingdom</i> upsets you, tell it to Lars von Trier -- he liked it! Freed of commercials, on-screen promos, squashed credits and ABC's frantic day/time changes and delays, there's a lot of terrific grisly fun just waiting to be discovered here.
  
• LEGACY COLLECTIONS (Universal): A thoroughly satisfying continuation of Universal's "Classic Monster" lineup -- again, beautifully packaged and loaded with respectful extras (minus overhype for Van Helsing this time around). And you can get the Abbott and Costello Meet entries in the comedians' own collections.
  
• LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (Warner): This criminally neglected extravaganza has it all -- Joe Dante's perfect understanding of how to make the classic cartoon characters work, a human cast that blends in seamlessly, clever grown-up humor that doesn't put the youngsters off, and an endless supply of beautiful slapstick insanity. If you haven't seen this yet, what are you waiting for?
  
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (SPECIAL EXTENDED VERSION) (New Line): Loved the movie in the first place, but now Christopher Lee is back where he belongs and all is right with the world. Well, Middle Earth, anyway.
  
• SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Universal): Well, if you can't pick (the original) Dawn, how about the best Romero tribute ever made? Yes, films have succeeded in being gory and funny at the same time before -- but add "clever," "knowledgeable," "intelligent" and "well-acted" to that. This one doesn't just play the notes -- it knows the music.
  
• SPIDER-MAN: THE '67 COLLECTION (Buena Vista): Okay, we all know this wasn't the greatest animated series of all time. Hell, by Season Three things got out and out terrible! But it's important, it's indelible, it's influential, and this complete compilation just gives you so much nostalgia that you won't be able to stop talking about it for quite a while...
  
• TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (Warner): Another fine crop of Hammer hits domestic DVD -- they're all good, but this one gives you never-before-released footage. And Ralph Bates! Drink, damn you! Don't insult the Master!
  
• ZOMBIE / ZOMBI 2 (Blue Underground/Media Blasters): I'm cheating. Lucio Fulci's U.S. breakthrough has never looked better in either case. The Media Blasters release loses to Blue Underground by allowing significant chunks of audio to drop out of the original English-language two-channel track... however, their double-disc edition contains the definitive feast of supplements.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  BOA VS. PYTHON (Columbia)
  HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Warner)
  HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (Mondo Crash)
  NOIR: COMPLETE SERIES (ADV)
  SALEM'S LOT (TNT) 

ART ETTINGER
Art Ettinger is the managing editor of Ultra Violent Magazine. He also reviews records for Punk Planet magazine. He lives in Pittsburgh, where he works as a public defender.

• BAADASSSSS! (Columbia): The year's best theatrical experience is also one of the year's best discs, loaded with interesting extras that fans of both blaxploitation films and exploitation films in general will find fascinating.
  
• DRILLER KILLER / THE EARLY SHORT FILMS OF ABEL FERRARA (Cult Epics): Cult Epics finally rights their prior wrong by giving Ferrara's classic a proper special edition release. It should have been an anamorphic presentation, but otherwise this two-disc release is perfect. The extras are amazing, including the previously released/legendary commentary track, the trailer for Ferrara's XXX film, and Ferrara's early short films.
  
• FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA (Voice in the Head): One of the most sophisticated self-released discs to date, this is the two-disc special edition of Douglas Buck's engaging short films, and the newly edited feature that ties three of them together. It is packed with extras, including a whopping seven commentary tracks, complete screenplays for two of the shorts, his first short film, and much more.
  
• HELL HIGH (Shriek Show/Media Blasters): A sleazy classic if ever there was one, Hell High is one of Shriek Show's best discs to date. The extras, including a fun commentary from Joe Bob Briggs, shed light on this overlooked film that little was known about until now.
  
• LIVING HELL (Subversive): Subversive put itself on the map with this great loaded DVD of a fun Japanese film. Here's to more labor of love discs from this promising new company.
  
• LOVE OBJECT (Lions Gate): Theatrical horror is in serious trouble when remarkable independent films like this are seen primarily on home formats, but you can't go wrong with this quirky gem of a film.
  
• NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (Blue Underground): Besides a non-English audio glitch during the opening credits, this ultimate <i>Last House on the Left</i> knockoff is given beautiful DVD treatment on this must-have disc.
  
• SPECIAL EFFECTS (MGM): Many Larry Cohen fans are sadly still overlooking this essential title. MGM's disc lacks the extras the Blue Underground Cohen titles have, but the film never looked better and is one of the director's very best.
  
• THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (Obsidian/Monarch): This benchmark blaxploitation title finally got the special edition treatment it deserves on this classy disc that includes worthy extras, such as an interview with its loquacious writer.
  
• TO BE TWENTY (AVERE VENT'ANNI) (Raro, Italy R2): The best other-region release of the year, Raro's Avere Vent'anni delivers everything a lover of this seedy cult classic could ask for. This anamorphic two-disc special edition includes the English version of the film, one of the Italian versions of the film (with English subtitles available), a well-made new documentary, and other essential supplements.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE (Blue Underground)
  HOLLYWOOD STRANGLER MEETS THE SKID ROW SLASHER (Guilty Pleasures/Media Blasters)
  LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro)
  LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN (Raro, Italy R2)
  NAIL GUN MASSACRE (Futuristic) 

MATTHEW KIERNAN
Matthew Kiernan is a DVD critic for Fangoria magazine.

• ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY/ WAKE UP, RON BURGUNDY! (Dreamworks/Universal): Name me another DVD that contains another entire movie made of outtakes from the main feature. None! Don't see any! It may take everyone else years to figure out the unbridled genius that is Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy, but I can see it clearly now and man, these discs are fun. Two whole DVDs of nothing but Ron Burgundy? Here, take my money. Just take it!!!
  
• ANGEL HEART (Artisan/Lions Gate): I've always liked Alan Parker's supernatural thriller quite a bit and Artisan, thankfully, did not fuck this disc up. The Mickey Rourke interview ended up being unexpectedly poignant.
  
• THE APPLE (MGM): You'll be hypnotized and you'll be victimized by this Menahem Golan masterpiece, finally available in a beautiful widescreen transfer. The only supplement is a trailer, and that's all you really need, quite frankly.
  
• FAST COMPANY (Blue Underground): Yes, I do work for Blue Underground's distributor. Doesn't mean I can't praise their product. Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated Cronenberg DVD of all, a simple commentary, some shorts and a few featurettes sure can do the trick. Love that Cronenberg!
  
• HELLBOY (Columbia): You know, sometimes they just jam a DVD with stuff and call it a disc. But there are other times when that "stuff" has a purpose. This is one of those discs.
  
• IKIRU (Criterion): Oh, I'm sorry, did I actually put an actual film classic on here? I shouldn't have done that. Either way, Kurosawa's best film (no debate) and one of the all-time greats finally made it to the U.S. thanks to Criterion.
  
• SCTV, Volumes 1 & 2 (Shout! Factory): The greatest TV show ever is now perfectly preserved on DVD. Huge props to Shout! Factory for taking the time and effort (over 800 music clearances!) to put these discs together.
  
• SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Universal): You're OK with either the U.S. or U.K. discs, but it's great no matter which way you go. Worth many repeated viewings.
  
• THE STAR WARS TRILOGY (Fox): Well, duh!
  
• Honorable Mention:
  FUTURAMA, SEASON 4 (Fox)
  MASTER & COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Fox)
  TERKEL IN TROUBLE (Nordisk, Denmark R2)
  Universal's "Franchise" Collections, especially AIRPORT, Don Knots, SMOKEY & THE BANDIT, all the Universal Monster films and the Abbott & Costello sets.
  WILD IN THE STREETS / GASSSS (MGM)
  

VINCENT PEREIRA
Vincent Pereira is the director of A Better Place. Keep in mind that I'm sure there are tons of worthy titles that I haven't even seen this year, but from what I have seen, these impressed me for various reasons.

• CHRISTINE (Columbia): A terrific, low-priced special edition of John Carpenter's Stephen King adaptation. This DVD includes a nice anamorphic transfer, a great commentary track with Carpenter and star Keith Gordon, nearly 30 minutes of extended and deleted scenes, plus three informative featurettes, all for under $20. A great deal for a great DVD.
  
• THE DEADLY SPAWN (Synapse): Don May again goes beyond the call of duty, creating a brand-new 16mm interpositive from the original A/B roll 16mm camera negatives for the windowboxed digital film-to-tape transfer. Add to that a ton of fun extras, and you've got a truly winning special-edition DVD release, and at a great price, to boot.
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): Excellent special edition of this French classic.
  
• FANNY & ALEXANDER (Criterion): This 5-disc set from Criterion, featuring both the television miniseries and theatrical edit of the film meticulously remastered in 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen and approved by Ingmar Bergman, is truly a comprehensive release with a wealth of terrific extras.
  
• LA HAINE (HATE) (Optimum World, UK R2): Nice special edition of Matheiu Kassovitz's great film following a day in the life of turbulent lower-class Parisian youth. DVD features a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, commentary by Kassovitz (in English), behind-the-scenes footage, a selection of original color dailies, and more. A fine release of a fine film.
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): A stunning DVD release of this 1970s cult-classic. Transferred in High-Definition from the original 35mm negative, to say this film "has never looked better" is an understatement. This gets my vote for the single best film-to-tape transfer of the year.
  
• REN & STIMPY: THE COMPLETE 1ST AND 2ND SEASONS (Paramount): Great 3-disc set of the "essential" Ren & Stimpy - namely, the episodes before John K. got canned and the show went to hell. Includes uncut versions of episodes that were aired in censored form by Nickelodeon, plus the "lost" episode "Man's Best Friend," which they never even aired at all! (Though it did finally screen on Spike TV many years later.) Also includes many extras like commentary on selected episodes, etc. A must have for fans of this show!
  
• SANTA SANGRE (Anchor Bay UK, UK R2): Great features, a nice anamorphic transfer, and a fascinating commentary make this a notable release of Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal classic.
  
• STRANGERS WITH CANDY, SEASON 3 (Paramount): The third and final season of Comedy Central's wonderfully politically-incorrect series following the adventures of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 47-year old former "user, boozer, and loser" who returns home after having run away 32 years ago and re-enters high school. This 2-disc set includes all ten hilariously offensive episodes, plus an extended selection of out-takes and bloopers that cover all three seasons of this hysterical show. Catch up with the original episodes in anticipation of the upcoming feature film version!
  
• WONDERLAND (Lions Gate): Lion's Gate serves up an amazingly smooth, film-like transfer of this account of John Holmes and his involvement with the Wonderland murders of 1981, plus a wealth of extras, including a feature-length documentary about the real John Holmes on a separate, second disc that isn't even mentioned on the packaging! Talk about an "Easter egg"- a complete second disc that isn't even mentioned! Other extras include deleted scenes, commentary, and, for those who can stomach it, the actual unedited police crime-scene footage from the Wonderland murder scene.
  

CHRIS POGGIALI
Chris Poggiali is a writer for Fangoria magazine and Shock Cinema.

• All of the Jerry Lewis movies released in 2004, but especially THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE BELLBOY, THE PATSY and THE LADIES MAN (Paramount): I hate to bitch and moan, but maybe Paramount will take this as a suggestion rather than a complaint: For the next batch, can Tim Lucas or someone else sit in with Lewis on the audio commentaries instead of Steve Lawrence?
  
• BREAKFAST WITH HUNTER (Wayne Ewing Films): A treasure trove of goodies for Hunter S. Thompson fans. The good doctor's jaw-dropping confrontation with Alex Cox and fire extinguisher assault on Jan Wenner's office are the two clips you'll throw on at a party, but the whole DVD is really fascinating.
  
• CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Columbia): I miss those few seconds of "Basketball Jones," but if cutting out the property of Warner Brothers was all it took to get this released to the home video market (finally!) in a beautiful letterboxed edition, complete with an audio commentary by Gould, Segal, Altman and Joseph Walsh, then I'll gladly throw on my old LP of "Los Cochinos" to simulate the movie theater experience.
  
• I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (Universal): Cast interviews would've been a nice addition to this DVD, but I'm thrilled that this got released at all and I love the Zemeckis & Gale audio commentary.
  
• IT'S ALIVE / IT LIVES AGAIN / IT'S ALIVE III (Warner): I still enjoy the hell out of all three movies, and the Larry Cohen commentaries are top-notch as usual.
  
• JOHN CASSAVETES: FIVE FILMS (Criterion): It's too bad Ray Carney and his print of Shadows got the cold shoulder from Gena, but otherwise, this is a must-have for anyone interested in American independent cinema in general and Cassavetes in particular.
  
• NOTHING BUT A MAN (New Video NYC): I think when The Spook who Sat by the Door came out last year, I said something like, "Yeah! Excellent! Now, someone needs to put out Nothing but a Man." Well, here it is, and - Abbey Lincoln's insufferable ramblings aside - it's a great 40th year anniversary edition. After her embarrassingly wrongheaded statement in Ken Burns' Jazz about those four white boys from Liverpool destroying her singing career (Motown and Aretha had nothing to do with it, you see), I should've stayed the hell away from Ms. Lincoln's supplemental interview. A moment of weakness found me hitting "play" and I now know for sure why Poitier delivers nearly every line of dialogue through grinding teeth in For Love of Ivy. As for Nothing but a Man itself, it still packs an emotional wallop, and that interview with Ivan Dixon left me saying, "Yeah! Excellent! Now, someone needs to put out Trouble Man!"
  
• SOUL TO SOUL (Rhino): A nearly perfect presentation of another great concert film/documentary on DVD, and at the same time, a nice reminder that we still need grey market video dealers. I say "nearly perfect" because Roberta Flack's performance has been cut from the DVD, presumably because of $, and I give props to the grey market guys because they've been carrying the original cut of this movie for over a decade now. I'd like to get on Rhino's case for plugging this DVD as the "full-length feature film" when it clearly isn't, but they've done a fantastic job otherwise by including outtake performances, a 24-page booklet with liner notes by Rob Bowman, the original soundtrack CD, and 4 separate commentary tracks (!) featuring the likes of Mavis Staples, Ike Turner, and Santana drummer Mike Shrieve.
  
• STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, SEASONS 1-3 (Paramount): All three seasons on DVD and a new album ("Has Been")?! For Shatner fans, it was a very good year indeed.
  
• WATTSTAX (Warner): Never released on VHS - legally, anyway - this 30th anniversary edition of Mel Stuart's superb concert film/documentary not only restores all of the Isaac Hayes performance footage but also includes two audio commentaries. I first saw this on the big screen, lucky me, on a double bill with Three Tough Guys, at the height of my five-times-a-day "Holy Ghost" habit, so The Bar-Kays were my main concern, but a grey market tape obtained a couple of years later pulled my coat to the thousand other pleasures this masterpiece has to offer. I'll point out just one tonight: Rufus Thomas calling hundreds of people out onto the field to do the Funky Chicken, and then heckling the one fool who refuses to go back up in the stands when the song is finished. [Memo to Paramount: Did you notice that Soul to Soul and Wattstax both made my Top 10? Good. Now please get to work on that Save the Children special edition DVD. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris Poggiali]
  
• Honorable Mention:
  DUEL (Universal)
  ENTER THE DRAGON (Warner)
  THE GREAT ESCAPE (Warner)
  THE LEOPARD (Criterion)
  THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse) 

GEORGE REIS
George Reis is the Webmaster of DVD Drive-In.

• COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE / RETURN OF COUNT YORGA (MGM)
  
• DEATHDREAM (Blue Underground) 
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse) 
• MARK OF THE DEVIL (Blue Underground) 
• MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN (Mondo Macabro)
  
• THE MONSTER CLUB (Pathfinder) 
• NIGHT STALKER / NIGHT STRANGLER (MGM) 
• TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (Warner) 
• THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse) 
• ZOMBI 2 (Media Blasters)
  

CASEY SCOTT
Casey Scott is a writer for DVD Drive-In and is currently working on Diamonds in the Rough, a book detailing the behind-the-scenes stories of some of exploitation's most unsung masterpieces. 

• FLESH AND LACE / PASSION IN HOT HOLLOWS (Something Weird/Image): 2004 was a pretty bland year for Something Weird, at least in comparison to the number of incredible platters which came out in 2003, but this one was one of their best. To kick off a proposed Joe Sarno series through 2005, Flesh and Lace / Passion in Hot Hollows streeted with another Sarno double-feature, Sin in the Suburbs / The Swap and How they Make It. This one was the better of the two, in my opinion, because of the casts (June Roberts, Alice Linville, Uta Erickson, Linda Boyce) and the audio commentary by Sarno and his wife Peggy touches on more interesting subjects (the Findlays, Barry Mahon, shooting in Sweden) than the sister disc.
  
• FORBIDDEN ZONE (Fantoma): Fantoma has been kinda quiet on the cult and exploitation front for quite some time, but this disc should have received more attention in 2004. It was probably overshadowed by releases by Blue Underground (who remains noticeably absent from my Top 10 list), but every reader should have this on their shelf. Richard Elfman's black-and-white musical is unlike anything you've seen before or since, with plenty of politically incorrect humor, awesome animated sequences and an amazing score by Danny Elfman before he graduated to Tim Burton's world. Fantoma includes a great audio commentary, a new documentary detailing the genesis of the film, deleted scenes, outtakes, excerpts from the original version of the film "The Hercules Family" and more. The #1 cult DVD release of the year, hands-down!
  
• THE GHASTLY ONES / SEEDS OF SIN (Something Weird/Image): Another superb disc from Something Weird in 2004. I think the lukewarm reception it received may have scared them away from attempting more double-features of his work... Hell, The Ghastly Ones / Seeds of Sin is still getting bad reviews from those who are unprepared for the world of Andy Milligan, but the DVD is worth seeing alone for Seeds. This is Milligan's masterpiece, with nasty characters, venomous dialogue and a wonderful Paul Morrissey-esque atmosphere. The mouthwatering addition of a rare workprint of Seeds, presenting several minutes of previously unseen footage, is the icing on the cake.
  
• THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (MGM): Last year saw Paramount unleash a lavish special edition of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, considered the greatest spaghetti western of all time. Usually vying for that title is Leone's earlier film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. MGM restores scenes from the European cut, interviews every major surviving cast and crew member in a lengthy multi-part documentary and best of all, the disc is scrumptious to look at. Bonus points for the large box-like packaging...it makes it hard to put on the shelf, but it draws a lot of attention to itself this way.
  
• LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro): What a year for Mondo Macabro! Above all the rest of their discs in 2004, this one is the most fun. Lady Terminator is incredible! Outrageous violence, eye-popping nudity, ridiculous 80s hair, costumes and dialogue and not one boring moment in the entire opus, here's Indonesian horror at its best and Mondo Macabro is invited...no...obligated to please, pretty please release more like this one! The transfer from the negative looks great, and the accompanying documentary about Indonesian exploitation leaves me wanting to see every flick I can!
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): Two years after the premature passing of cult starlet Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, Synapse released the ultimate tribute to her: a simply stunning DVD edition of her first feature film. Long considered a lost film because of the scarce print count, Don May unearthed the original camera negative (!) and also included a superb audio commentary with cast and crew.
  
• MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Fox): OK, this shouldn't have come out before the quintessential Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but in the world of DVD, it's a miracle that Fox released this at all! This is the film that almost sank the studio and it's been a skeleton in their closet for over 30 years! Well, not only is the film presented uncut, uncensored, and in glorious remastered widescreen, but the extras include dueling commentaries by star Raquel Welch and director Michael Sarne and the AMC Backstory documentary which dishes even more dirt. The film is still much-loathed among film circles, but I liked it after seeing it on this beautiful DVD. Doesn't make a lick of sense, but Raquel is beautiful and it's a trainwreck you can't turn away from.
  
• THE SEDUCTION OF INGA (RetroSeduction Cinema/E.I.): The crown jewel in RetroSeduction Cinema's catalog was their 2002 release of Inga, the Joe Sarno Swedish sex pic which made a star of Marie Liljedahl. It took 2 years and wading through Nick Phillips trash to get the sequel, The Seduction of Inga, out on DVD. This limited edition is a 2-disc set, with two versions of the film, interviews with Sarno, Liljedahl and Peggy Steffans-Sarno, a special music video with the theme by future ABBA members Bjorn and Benny, and a long-lost Sarno film, Indelicate Balance, with a commentary by Steffans-Sarno! Incredible!!
  
• THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse): Don May, Jr.'s Synapse released two ultimate editions of a pair of beloved cult classics. Drawing more attention to this disc was the well-publicized legal battle between May and the film's director Bo Vibenius. All this aside, this is the #1 Eurocult DVD release of the year. The extras are slim, but compliment the film well. And it is the film here which takes predecence. Thriller remains the rape-revenge film of the 1970s which never received the publicity of a Last House or an I Spit. Swedish sex starlet Christina Lindberg turns in the performance of her career, and the film's mix of arthouse personality and grindhouse sensibility is astounding.
  
• TRAILER TRASH (Chucky Lou A/V Group): OK, this isn't a real DVD, it's a DVD-R, but this saw more play in my DVD player than most other discs from bigger legitimate companies! Compiling an incredible selection of rare trailers and previews for all manner of genre faves (from The Candy Snatchers to Jonathon Livingston Seagull, from Real Life to The Touchables), Gary Huggins has created the party disc of the year. Throw this baby in your player and let the shindig begin!
  
• Honorable Mention:
  ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (Shriek Show/Media Blasters)
  THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (Anchor Bay UK, UK R2)
  THE DEADLY SPAWN (Synapse)
  DEATHDREAM (Blue Underground)
  LADY SNOWBLOOD (AnimEigo) 

RICHARD HARLAND SMITH
Richard Harland Smith is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and critic for Video Watchdog magazine. He co-authored the liner notes for Synapse Films' DVD release of Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural with Chris Poggiali.
Dick's Picks, or Ten the Hard Way:

• THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE (Fox): Titles and end-stage make-ups don't get any goonier but between these crass bookends is a thoughtful meditation on the limits of appearance as a gauge of the soul. Fox's DVD is a joy to behold in all its CinemaScope splendor.  
  
• DEATHDREAM (Blue Underground): This early effort from Bob Clark and Alan Ormsby has too long shivered in the shadows of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things and Black Christmas. Blue Underground's loaded disc can only do so much with this cheaply made sleeper but the package is the stuff deathdreams are made on.
  
• DUEL (Universal): This early work from Steven Spielberg remains one of his best and leanest works and is still firing on all cylinders a generation later. Universal's disc is packed with choice extras.
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): In a genre larded with paupers and pretenders to the throne, Les yeux sans visage is genuine horror royalty and Criterion's deluxe DVD is fit for a king. Bow your heads.  
  
• FREAKS (Warner): In addition to a feature length commentary by classic horror freak David Skal and a commemorative documentary, this package boasts three alternate endings. Gooble-gooble indeed!
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): So what if I wrote the liner notes - I'd still praise Synapse's save of this niche title as the digital horror event of the year.
  
• NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (Blue Underground): While Aldo Lado's refire of Wes Craven's <i>Last House on the Left</i> remains inferior by comparison, it shucks the incongruous comedy for a sober examination of the communicability of violence and argues that vengeance rarely touches those most responsible. Blue Underground's disc makes this ugly film look pretty as a picture.
  
• ONIBABA (Criterion): One of the scariest movies ever finally makes it to DVD in a characteristically loaded package from Criterion that includes, among other treasures, 8mm home movies taken on-set.
  
• PREY (Image): Norman J. Warren's downmarket grafting of D. H. Lawrence's The Fox with Walter Tevis' The Man who Came to Earth is preposterous, exploitative… and infinitely re-watchable. Vampyres' Sally Faulkner plays the autocratic top of a pair of lesbian recluses providing succor to ravening E.T. Barry Stokes (The Corruption of Chris Miller) with unfortunate results. Image/Redemption's Region 1 disc is good, if not superlative, but the purchase is essential.
  
• THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse): Synapse scores again with another grindhouse favorite for which many of us have long been keeping an eye out. It's not for the squeamish but it's '70s cinema at its most cynical and fans of Kill Bill should note this primary influence.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  THE DEMON (Home Vision)
  THE MUMMY: THE LEGACY COLLECTION (Universal)
  STREET MOBSTER (Home Vision)
  TINTORERA (Desert Mountain Media)
  ZERO FOCUS (Home Vision) 

NATHANIEL THOMPSON
Along with maintaining the very site you're reading now, Nathaniel Thompson is the editor of the DVD Delirium book series and writes for Video Watchdog, Turner Classic Movies, and many others. He is currently writing two books at the same time and trying to maintain his sanity.

• ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (Shriek Show): Toss out those bootlegs and import DVDs; Sergio Martino's loopiest thriller (distraught wife gets psychiatric aid by gulping fox blood and getting gang-banged at a Satanic orgy) looks smashing and comes with loads of extras including the hilarious Independent International trailer.
  
• THE BEAST (Cult Epics): Someone finally got it right. Walerian Borowczyk's lovely, hysterical, and utterly obscene drawing room farce with a horny monster just gets better with age.
  
• BLACK ANGEL (Universal): Of all the landmark film noir releases in 2004, this is the one for which I'm most grateful. Cornell Woolrich's dark, nasty murder mystery features jaw-dropping camerawork, a sleazy Peter Lorre, and some terrific, surprisingly grim twists. Thanks, Universal - now how about Phantom Lady?
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): One of the most beautiful horror films ever made, now looking even better than the theatrical experience. Don't miss.
  
• THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (Warner): Roman Polanski's eye-candy/fairy-tale/bloodsucking classic simply sparkles on DVD, and the promo featurette here is to die for. Too bad they didn't include that cartoon opening from the laserdisc, but it was pretty awful anyway.
• FORBIDDEN ZONE (Fantoma): Danny Elfman is Satan! Herve Villechaize rules the world!
  
• LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro): The strangest rip-off of a Hollywood hit imaginable, and that's counting the entire output of India and Thailand. Watch it back to back with MM's Dangerous Seductress for maximum mind-bending effect.
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): More fairy tale horror, this time with an unlikely drive-in gem resurrected on DVD looking better than ever before. Another jewel in the Synapse crown.
  
• MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Fox): Barely beating out The Apple in the "how the hell did that get on DVD?" category, this indescribable mangling of Gore Vidal's novel is also thoroughly entertaining and strangely prescient in its frantic, pop-culture-oriented editing style. Bonus points for the best dueling commentary tracks this side of Cannibal Ferox.
  
• THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST (Paramount): Too bad they couldn't be bothered to add extras, but at least we finally have the uncut, full-strength version of this paranoid '60s classic complete with all the original music - and a spiffy new transfer to boot.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Warner)
  DAY OF THE LCCUST (Paramount)
  THE LEOPARD (Criterion)
  EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (Shriek Show)
  THE APPLE (MGM)
  

PETE TOMBS & ANDY STARKE
Pete Tombs and Andy Starke are the force behind the Mondo Macabro DVD label.

• THE ALAN CLARKE COLLECTION (Blue Underground): Outside of Videodrome this has to be the best package!
  
• AUTOFOCUS (Columbia): Great film and great menus!
  
• CASTLE KEEP (Columbia): Power to the people in getting the scope print out.
  
• DEATH GAME (VCI): Great movie, but we should have released it!
  
• ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Universal): Carrey proves he's more than just many pretty faces.
  
• EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Criterion): C'est bien!
  
• FAST COMPANY (Blue Underground): For Stereo and Crimes of the Future.
  
• FREAKS (Warner): About time!
  
• THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER (Tartan): For C. Thomas Howell.
  
• MALEFIQUE (H2F, France R2): The film is a triumph of low budget imagination versus big bucks mediocrity. Four guys stuck in one tiny room for an hour and a half? How do you make that interesting? Well, Eric Valette's movie answers this question and goes on to do much, much more. The French special edition is a great package that never oversells the film but provides reams of useful and fascinating inside info. A faultless 16:9 transfer of the film plus a 30-min "making of," a very entertaining commentary track with director Valette, tireless genre enthusiast Francois Cognard and the film's two scriptwriters, two earlier short films from Valette, trailers and more...
  

LEE WILLIAMS
British ex-pat Lee-Norman Williams continues to do his utmost to make sure that the flagship TLA Video rental store in downtown Philadelphia, PA has one of the most impressive horror, cult and classic adult film collections in the country. Stop by and say "hello" if you're ever in town.

• BLUE RITA (VIP, Switzerland R0): In a year that saw many rare Franco treasures get nice DVD editions I'm singling out this psychosexual sci-fi oddity for no other reason than it's one of the director's most bizarre and thus interesting creations - of his Dietrich or any other period. Now if someone can put a restored Macumba Sexual disc in my hands by the end of 2005 I'll be a happy, happy Francophile.
  
• DOOR INTO DARKNESS (Dragon, Germany R0): A DVD release of these vintage Dario Argento TV movies finally saw the light of day in 2004 in the form of a handsomely packaged two-disc set from Dragon. All four episodes deliver the goods, especially the mini-giallo The Tram. Luigi Cozzi provides plenty of background information about the series in a host of interviews and introductions.
  
• EVILSPEAK (Anchor Bay): Finally, an uncut DVD release of the ludicrous eighties splatter film that features woman eating pigs, high school satanic rituals, Clint Howard at his geeky best and the most amusing computers-can-do-anything silliness this side of WarGames.
  
• FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA (Voice in the Head): Douglas Buck's short film trilogy about sexual abuse, mutilation and murder is one of most well conceived of, executed and, above all, deeply disturbing independent efforts you'll ever see. Each film is presented with thoughtful extras and the release also contains a bonus disc presenting a feature length anthology version of the films.
  
• LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro): Praise continues to be justifiably heaped upon Mondo Macabro, this time for releasing an uncut, extras packed edition of this Indonesian sleaze 'n' bullets jaw-dropper. Grindhouse excess doesn't get much better than this and like all Mondo Macabro discs this one has very informative and well-assembled extras.
  
• LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL (Synapse): This restoration of Richard Blackburn's dark fairytale is a true revelation. Those familiar with the film via murky VHS copies were floored when they popped this beauty in for the first time. It's no exaggeration to say that this disc is a benchmark for what can be achieved when a little care and attention is lavished upon a barely remembered film.
  
• MALADOLESCENZA (X-Rated Kult, Germany R2): Only Andreas Bethmann and his German X-Rated label would have the guts to unleash this highly questionable, yet undeniably intriguing, underage sex stunner on DVD. This was arguably the surprise release of the year. Grab a copy while you can, because it's very unlikely this perverse nugget of seventies Euro sleaze will ever get released in the U.S.
  
• THE NORMAN J. WARREN COLLECTION (Anchor Bay UK, UK R2): Any box set that includes extras packed editions of Satan's Slave, Terror, Inseminoid and Prey has got my vote. Anchor Bay UK deserves a big pat on the back for giving this often overlooked British director a set to call his own.
  
• SCHOOLGIRL KILLER (X-Rated Kult, Germany R2): X-Rated continues to resurrect some of the rarer Euro trash and this entertaining late sixties giallo by Antonio Margheriti is no exception. As with all X-Rated releases this one comes housed in a dazzling oversized box; buy one of these collectable beauties and you'll want more. Trust me.
  
• THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse): Don May and his Synapse crew hit another out the ballpark with a daring restoration of this Swedish rape revenge shocker. It was long in coming and worth every day we waited for it.
  
• Honorable Mention:
  CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TALE (X-Rated Kult, Germany R2)
  DANGEROUS SEDUCTRESS (Mondo Macabro)
  THE DEADLY SPAWN (Synapse)
  DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (X-Rated Kult, Germany R2)
  NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (Blue Underground)

DAVID ZUZELO
David Zuzelo yaks about movies and comics a whole lot on the web. Visit him at Morpho's Lair, Cinema Nocturna and at IndieGods Publishing. He'll continue to talk in '05…

• CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST: THE BEGINNING (Media Suits, Japan R2): Bruno Mattei returns to sleaze with this stunning homage / pastiche / rip-off of Cannibal Holocaust. Anamorphic widescreen has never looked so crisp and greasy at the same time. Big Bad Bruno continues to shock in 2004…join the celebration!
  
• THE CRIPPLED AVENGERS (Intercontinental, HK R3): Not the best Chang Cheh movie but a film that almost any kung fu fan can adore. Gimmick fights and the Venoms shine through in this amazing transfer.  
  
• THE DEADLY SPAWN (Synapse): A sweet reminder of the splatterdays of the '80s, now transferred to DVD with an unexpected and amazing degree of care. The Eating Machines look better than ever with every rubbery inch on display!   
  
• FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE (Blue Underground): A true grindhouse film looking better than ever. That this disc lays in wait in most mainstream media chains just waiting to shock the gentle-at-heart consumer is heartwarming.
  
• LADY TERMINATOR (Mondo Macabro): The lads at MM provide Indonesian Action mavens an indefatigable classic on shiny disc. Beautifully presented and with the now golden standard of Mondo Macabro special features, even the most jaded dumpster diving DVD buyer will stand up and cheer. 
• THE NEW BARBARIANS (Shriek Show/Media Blasters): Post Nuke historians unite! With a nifty widescreen transfer it's one of the best films made from spare jockstraps and dune buggies on DVD. A nice variety of extras rounds out the fun, and it's a Shriek Show disc you won't even have to worry about ethereal exchange programs with. Yay!
  
• THE NORMAN J. WARREN COLLECTION (Anchor Bay UK, UK R2): Though perfect transfers are elusive and it is debatable if these versions are definitive, the amazing Norman Warren went all the way with ABUK, taking an outstanding dive into providing bonus material and insight into his work. Entertaining commentary tracks for all the films, featurettes, behind the scenes material, deleted footage (though one bit couldn't make it past the BBFC) and even a rare short film. Satan's Slave in widescreen is a wonderful thing and you'll go far beyond the films with this unique collection.
  
• RIGOR MORTIS: THE FINAL COLOURS (NEO Cinema, Germany R2): Timo Rose is one of Germany's most promising new talents and this outstanding film shows why. Subtitled in English and containing an interesting making of program, it's an opportunity for the world to peek in on a little group who know well that splatter films aren't dead, just resting…waiting to strike.
  
• RUBBER'S LOVER (Unearthed): The hard work of Biro and crew paid off in 2004, with this rarity as a prime example. Spanning two discs (counting Pinocchio 964), Shozin Fukui steps out of the nth degree video murk and lack of proper translation and titillates and nauseates without pause in this slick and demented cyberpunk opus. The inclusion of Fukui's short films and interview footage push this up into the top spots of the year. 
  
• THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (Synapse): Christina Lindberg doesn't say a word but stands tall over all the abuse Boarne Vibenius could dump on her (and we won't mention what gets dumped on her body double). An enigmatic and difficult-to-find film and filmmaker stirred up drama and is finally… finally unearthed for all to see. An artistic triumph and a masterwork of gutter cinema - truly a cruel must-have. Perhaps the best edition this movie can ever be presented in.
• Honorable Mention:
  BLUE RITA (VIP, Switzerland R0)
  CONQUEST (Blue Underground)
  DOOR INTO DARKNESS (Dragon, Germany R0)
  DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (X-Rated Kult, Germany R2)
  PINNOCHIO 964 (Unearthed)