No other company has done more of Australian cinema than Umbrella Entertainment – the home of Ozploitaion, but the Melbourne-based label is also responsible for some of the most random and outrageous Blu-ray releases on the market.
You probably didn’t know that not only is The Return of Captain Invincible an Australian film, but our very first superhero movie (not to mention a rare hybrid musical to boot). Dwelling in the abysses of alcoholism, a retired Captain Invincible, played by American actor Alan Arkin, has been living in Australia long since his […]
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Much like a stray cat begging for a home, I plucked a shabby DVD copy of Cat’s Eye out from a $5 bin last October. Always in the mood for a horror anthology during the spooktacular month and since NBN workers accidentally cut off my phone and internet (hooray for government infrastructure), I thought why
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You really have to hand it to Umbrella Entertainment for exploring annals of Australian cinema to unearth two highly obscure titles from the glory days of VHS; and despite the less than desirable quality, packaging them into a neat world exclusive DVD. I’m taking about Kadaicha from 1988 and Innocent Prey from 1984, two cult
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Due to some unfortunate events prior to its release, Dark Age never made it to cinema screens in Australia. Fourteen years later the now-Ozploitation classic finally found its way on home video in the form of very modest DVD by Umbrella Entertainment. However, fans can now rejoice as Dark Age has been given the long-awaited
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Based on one of the most extraordinary cases in parapsychology, The Entity is a supernatural thriller that has experienced somewhat of a resurgence in recent years due to the wave of true story-inspired horror films like The Conjuring. Sidney J. Furie’s classic returns to Blu-ray in what can only be described as world class release
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Capitalising on the newfound popularity of Cannon Films and its library of guilty pleasures, Umbrella Entertainment have released a second double feature highlighting another two classics, this time in the form of Death Wish II and Death Wish 3, starring the one and only Charles Bronson. Eight years after the gritty original, audiences are re-united
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Umbrella Entertainment are developing quite the knack for selecting cult titles to join their ever expanding catalogue of obscure cinema. One of the latest is Terminal Island; an action thriller in which convicted murders are dumped on an off shore island, established after abolition of the death penalty. When the newest inmate arrives, a hot-tempered
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Outside of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my phase of watching movies centred around the traditional Japanese art of Ninjutsu was relatively short lived, with only a couple of titles leaving an impression. Due to the continuing wave of celebration towards the now-defunct Cannon Films, I was recently able to re-experience one of those (said)
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I feel very fortunate for having been too distracted to read up on what appears to be a much talked about title among horror fans. To give you a basic rundown and to steer clear of any spoilers, a mystery body is found with no evidence of injury or foul play at grisly crime scenes. Later
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Last week an unexpected short day at work left me with some free time, so I sat down to watch a little horror film by the name of Bite, via Umbrella Entertainment’s On Demand streaming service. This fifth feature by Canadian director Chad Archibald is a cautionary tale about bride-to-be, Casey, who is bitten by
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