A young girl with telekinetic powers. A war between good and
evil. The fight to give the girl a brother to mate with. And blond Jesus
Christ. These are just a few of the elements that make Giulio Paradisi’s 1979
movie The Visitor the “Mount Everest
of insane ’70s Italian movies,” coming out this week on DVD!
Don’t believe me? Here’s the official description: “In this
unforgettable assault on reality — fully restored and presented completely uncut
theatrically for the first time ever in the U.S.—legendary Hollywood
director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle
against a demonic 8-year-old girl and her pet hawk, while the fate of the
universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent
profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transport the viewer to a stat
unlike anything they’ve experienced… somewhere between Hell, the darkest
reaches of outer space, and Atlanta, GA.”
Academy Award-winning director Wong Kar-wai gets into the
“let’s make a movie about Ip Man, the guy who trained Bruce Lee” game.
• Oldboy
Spike Lee gets into the “let’s make a remake of an Asian
movie that was already completely awesome on its own” game.
The adorable ragamuffin mouse Fievel fails to go west, but
he does finally come to Blu-ray. Virtually no extras came with him, though.
A bunch of extremely selfish astronauts’ return home from
Mars is delayed when one of them accidentally turns into an alien zombie thing.
• Nadia,
The Secret of Blue Water: Complete Series:
The beloved 1990 anime series directed by Evangelion’s Hideaki Anno, from an idea
by Spirited Away’s Hayao Miyazaki,
about a girl named Nadia, the lost city of Atlantis, and a mysterious pedant
that ties the two together.
• Are
You Afraid of the Dark Vol. 2
Thirteen episodes of the classic kids’ horror series from
Nickelodeon.
• Dracano
Volcano + dragons, obviously.
