From The Woods To The Cosmos — John Leman Riley On The History Of Soviet Fantasy And Sci-Fi Film (34 mins) Bloody Disgusting can now exclusively report on the box set’s complete details, and it’s loaded with worldwide Blu-ray premieres and *hours* of brand new bonus features. Considered a classic of Norwegian cinema, a group of colleagues venture to a remote cabin to look for a missing friend and are spooked by an old legend: that the cabin had belonged to a man who killed his sister and her lover and then drowned himself in the lake. Since then, it is said that anyone who stays in the cabin will be driven to the same fate.

Cast: Kevin Kí¶lsch, Dennis Widmyer, Piers Haggard, Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic Robin Redbreast also gets the English language 24-bit DTS-HD 2.0 Mono treatment with optional English subtitles. This one suffers a bit from the available elements, it's a little muffled in spots, but overall it's serviceable enough, just don't expect crystal clear fidelity. Audio Commentary With Director James Bogle, Moderated By Veteran Film Journalist Michael Helms (Fatal Visions)The Pledge (Digby Rumsey, 1982) (22 mins) Based on the short story by early 20th Century Fantasy Writer Lord Dunsany, The Pledge concerns a group of Highwaymen who make a pact to save the should of their hanged partner. A dark, luscious film co-edited by an uncredited Peter Greenaway and featuring music by Michael Nyman. Courtesy of The British Film Institute. Starring Henki Kolstad, Bjørg Engh, Henny Moan, André Bjerke, Per Lillo-Stenberg, Øyvind Øyen, Georg Richter, It has a very nice hardcase and a very nice, lengthy booklet with some essays both about film and the origins of some folk legends. Perhaps someone will quibble about the sleeves/book where the discs are kept, but I think that will be a matter of personal preference. Severin Films (Blu-ray) (US R0 HD), KinoPolska (DVD) (Poland R0 PAL) LOKIS: A MANUSCRIPT OF PROFESSOR WITTEMBACH

This made-for-TV film shares the Icelandic lore of the Tilbury, a creature who could be summoned by women in times of financial hardship and starvation. But the gifts of the Tilbury come with their own brand of destruction. Set in 1940, during the British occupation, a country boy discovers his childhood sweetheart is having an affair with a British soldier, but suspects it could be one of the evil creatures. Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol, VIY remains the height of Soviet fantasy cinema . In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to test his faith, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Extras on the first disc start off with a nine minute video introduction by Writer/Director/Producer Kier-La Janisse wherein she discusses how the documentary started off as a bonus feature for Blood On Satan's Claw and then took on a life of its own, growing in length and scope by leaps and bounds. She notes how this was really her first time producing a picture, David Gregory's support of the project, the importance of knowing the right people, expanding the piece from a British-focused study to an international one, details on putting the production together and bringing it to life and more. proclaiming it "a compendium of folk horror", which may then beg the next obvious question as to what exactly "folk horror" is. In that Audio Commentary by James Machin and Matthew Hale, Editors of the book "Of Mud & Flame: The Penda's Fen Sourcebook"Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched is presented in AVC encoded 1080p high definition and framed at 1.78.1 widescreen with the feature given 43.4GBs of space on the 50GB disc. The video quality of the newly shot footage, which was clearly done on high definition digital video, looks great. It's clean, crisp and as nicely detailed as you'd expect it to be. Understandably, the archival clips vary in quality quite a bit, some look pristine while others less so, it seems to be entirely a matter of available elements. Even the lesser quality clips are more than watchable, however. Really, no problems to report here, it all looks just fine. A man travelling through the countryside is drawn to a strange castle, which is reputed by the locals to be haunted. There he meets a beguiling young woman who ensnares him in her world of secrets. The seminal American folk horror film, unavailable on home video for decades, now debuts in a new 4K restoration. A rogue 18 th century preacher and his followers make their way downriver to establish a new settlement beyond the western frontier and encounter a forest enchanted by strange spirits that will bring an apocalyptic madness upon them. Films included: WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED (192 mins/1.85:1/English 2.0/CC), EYES OF FIRE (86 mins/1.85:1/English 1.0/CC), LEPTIRICA (65 mins/1.33:1/Serbian 1.0/English Subtitles), WITCHHAMMER (107 mins/2.35:1/Czech 1.0/English Subtitles), VIY (76 mins/1.33:1/Russian 1.0/English 1.0/English Subtitles), LAKE OF THE DEAD (77 mins/2.40:1/Norwegian 1.0/English Subtitles), TILBURY (57 mins/1.33:1/Icelandic 1.0/English Subtitles), THE DREAMING (90 mins/1.85:1/English 1.0/CC), KADAICHA (88 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC), CELIA (103 mins/1.85:1/ English 1.0/CC), ALISON'S BIRTHDAY (99 mins/1.85:1/ English 1.0/CC), WILCZYCA (103 mins/1.33:1/Polish 1.0/English Subtitles), LOKIS: A MANUSCRIPT OF PROFESSOR WITTEMBACH (100 mins/1.66:1/Polish 1.0/English Subtitles), CLEARCUT (98 mins/2.35:1/English 5.1/English 2.0/CC), IL DEMONIO (100 mins/1.85:1/Italian 1.0/English Subtitles), DARK WATERS (89 mins/1.85:1/Italian 2.0/English Subtitles), A FIELD IN ENGLAND (90 mins/2.35:1/English 5.1/English 2.0/CC), ANCHORESS (108 mins/1.66:1/English 1.0/CC), PENDA'S FEN (90 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC), ROBIN REDBREAST (76 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC) This early student film from the director of TILBURY transposes the ghostly Icelandic legend of The Deacon of Dark River to 1970s France.