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Arrow: The Complete First Season (DVD)

After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. Reinventing the DC Comics character for a modern-day audience, the Arrow is not a superhero … but a hero – every bit as dangerous as the criminals he’s hunting. A dark and dangerous crime procedural with edge, intrigue and action, Oliver’s story is told from three perspectives: the Queen family, Oliver’s harrowing ordeal on the island and the Arrow’s adventures in Starling City. Showing all facets of the mysterious loner, this realistic drama follows the charismatic but shallow Oliver that disappeared, the hardened Oliver that returned and the Oliver that has been forged into the weapon against injustice known as … the Arrow.

Arrow: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)

Based on DC Comics, Green Arrow superhero comic book series, Arrow has been reinvented for a modern day audience and comes to DVD and BD for the first time. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, the Oliver returns to Starling City a new man — determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those who’ve corrupted his city. But Oliver finds his crusade complicated by his friends and family who are all affected by his return.

Arrow: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)

Based on DC Comics, Green Arrow superhero comic book series, Arrow has been reinvented for a modern day audience and comes to DVD and BD for the first time. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, the Oliver returns to Starling City a new man — determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those who’ve corrupted his city. But Oliver finds his crusade complicated by his friends and family who are all affected by his return.

Product Description

A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. The original producers reunite to present a genuinely terrifying re-imagining of their original horror masterpiece. Five young friends have found the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead. Unable to resist its temptation, they release a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all. Who will be left to fight for their survival and defeat this unearthly force of murderous carnage?

Additional Features

The main fact viewers will take away from the supplemental features on the Evil Dead Blu-ray is that the picture was, by all accounts, a tremendous challenge for both its cast and filmmakers. Lead Jane Levy (Suburgatory) appears to have taken the brunt of the strain, as detailed in Making Life Difficult and Being Mia, two short extras that focus on the physical and emotional toll taken by playing her character in both its human and demonic forms. Levy has an ingratiating off-camera presence, and appears to have taken her lumps for the production team with good cheer. She’s also present on a roundtable commentary track with director Fede Alvarez, his screenwriter Rodo Sayagues, and her costars Lou Taylor Pucci and Jessica Lucas. It reveals no real hidden treasures–watching the other featurettes and a casual perusal of promotional interviews from outside sources will provide roughly the same level of behind-the-scenes information–but the participants are proud of their work, which buoys the track. Alvarez gets his own spotlight piece, Directing the Dead, which provides very brief insight into his directorial focus, while Unleashing the Evil Force covers the Book of the Dead in equally abbreviated terms. More interesting, if only slightly longer, is Evil Dead–The Reboot, a 10-minute talk with executive producers Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell, who discuss their initial feelings about the reboot (Tapert and the conspicuously absent Sam Raimi were gung ho, while Campbell was more reluctant to undertake the project) and their advice to the new cast and crew. While not particularly in-depth, and sorely lacking in deleted or extended scenes, the extras for the Evil Dead Blu-ray give a basic blow-by-blow of the trials and tribulations endured in bringing the picture to screen. –Paul Gaita

Product Description

A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. The original producers reunite to present a genuinely terrifying re-imagining of their original horror masterpiece. Five young friends have found the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead. Unable to resist its temptation, they release a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all. Who will be left to fight for their survival and defeat this unearthly force of murderous carnage?

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You leave a staple gun lying around an isolated cabin, you’re asking for trouble. But that’s the least of the mortal worries in Evil Dead, the 2013 reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1981 kook-classic horror picture. This version takes the same general outline as the original (young people at a cabin, forbidden book of occult spells, all hell breaking loose) and plays it as an intense, blood-soaked exercise in nonstop action. Ostensibly the friends are there to help Mia (Jane Levy) kick her drug addiction, but they get slightly distracted by the dead animals hanging in the basement and the book of incantations wrapped in barbed wire. The nerd (Lou Taylor Pucci) in the group takes the next step–actually speaking some of the book’s mumbo-jumbo out loud–and the rest is no-holds-barred, utterly berserk bloodletting. If any of this had real force, or if any of the characters had more than a single character trait to prop them up, maybe Evil Dead could succeed as a genre exercise. Certainly, director Fede Alvarez has the technical skills to horrify an audience for 90 minutes, and the film is grueling in its quest to find a grisly touch that will top the previous scene. But there’s absolutely nothing going on beyond the usual template for this kind of movie (didn’t Cabin in the Woods finish that off?) and ultimately we’re left with another horror picture that relies on people doing stupid things. –Robert Horton