In the early days of VHS ( I kinda miss those days), Charles Band’s Wizard Video blazed trails, importing strange, unusual and exciting international horror, action and exploitation for the rental market, some for the very first time in North America. Many of these weird and wonderful titles were licensed from iconic French genre film studio Eurocine, including key pictures from directors like Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Jose Luis Merino and more.
To honor their long, storied history with Eurocine, Full Moon has resurrected Wizard Video and collected six stunning films together on 6 Blu-rays, packed into one deluxe Wizard “Big Box”!
See Sybil Danning pulverize her enemies in 1984’s PANTHER SQUAD. Jess Franco turns his eye to action with 1990’s COUNTDOWN TO ESMERALDA BAY, 1989’s NIGHT OF THE EAGLES and 1994’s DOWNTOWN HEAT! The stylish and unnerving 1985’s ANGEL OF DEATH has Franco sharing directorial duties with BURIAL GROUND legend Andrea Bianchi! And Bianchi goes solo for the insane Chuck Conners slasher chiller 1987’s MANIA KILLER!
The UK price is £48.00 and well worth the price. I think the only film in the set that I have seen is Downtown Heat which I do remember being a ton of fun when I saw it in the mid 90s.
These six startling classic Eurocult films come loaded with features (I don’t have a list of what those features as yet) and are fully remastered in HD and as an extra bit of awesomeness, the box comes with a set of gorgeous postcards! Looks like an amazing set.
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