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    One Other February DVD Title…Nightmare Detective

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    Nightmare Detective One SheetOne DVD release in February that Andrew missed in his post down below (yes it looks like an expensive month for those interested in the under appreciated gems from last year) was the Region 1 DVD release of Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Nightmare Detective. Indeed, this film is great enough to deserve its own post. It is highly misleading to assume from the trailer (below) that this is just another J-Horror cell-phone type horror movie. With Tsukamoto at the helm, even a straight-up genre flick delves deep into strange and dark corners. The three of us here at rowthree that caught the film (in the third row no less) during Toronto After Dark were split on the film. Andrew was luke-warm on it (hence his omission below!), but John and I loved this film. Pay no attention to Dimension’s extremely crappy DVD-Cover, and give this one a shot, in the dark, with the covers pulled up to your eyes.
    My full review of Nightmare Detective is over at Twitch. John’s is at Film Grotto. Nightmare Detective is set for a February 19th release date.

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  1. Andrew James says:
    February 2, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    I didn’t omit this from the relaese post because I don’t care for it, I ommitted it because I didn’t know it was being released.

    And though I was luke warm on it, I still recommend it to most fans of mood setting horror that want to try something different.

    The end makes no sense and strays completely from the whole premise of the first half of the film, but hey, most people I talked to really liked it; so go for it y’all!

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  2. Shannon the Movie Moxie says:
    February 4, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    omg, that cover is just … wrong… it does not give at all the tone of the film. I quite enjoyed this film, I thought the story was interesting and enjoyed some of the unconventional choices it made. It has stuck with me since seeing it at TADFF.

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  3. Marina Antunes says:
    February 5, 2008 at 11:09 am

    I’m not running out to buy it just yet but I’ll definitely be looking for it at the local rental store.

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