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In a toy crossover for the ages (that’ll likely please a lot of ’80s geeks out there), Lego is teaming up with rival-brand Hasbro to create an immaculate brick-built version of Transformer‘s Optimus Prime–and it can actually transform!

“Billund, Denmark May 12th: Leading global toy companies, the Lego Group and Hasbro, Inc. unite for the first time to bring the iconic Transformers Autobot, Optimus Prime, to life in Lego form – complete with alt mode. The new Lego Transformers Optimus Prime set is a tribute to the heroic Autobot leader with over 1,500 detailed Lego pieces. Once assembled, the figure features 19 points of articulation that allow fans to convert from robot to truck alt mode and back again. This is one of the first times a Lego set has been able to convert between two models, without the need to rebuild.”

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May’s home entertainment offerings are ending on a high note, led by the release of Alex Garland’s Annihilation on various formats this Tuesday. There are a handful of cult films getting an HD overhaul this week, including Zombie 3, Zombie 4: After Death, and Shocking Death from Severin Films, as well as Bloodsuckers from Outer Space (courtesy of those wonderful maniacs over at Vinegar Syndrome), and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud from Kino Lorber Classics.

Other notable releases for May 29th include Haunted: The Complete Series, They Remain,and The Lodgers.

Annihilation

Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how...

The home video boom of the early ‘80s changed the horror and exploitation film landscape forever.

Obscure, low-budget films from the past became more accessible and gave horror fans a chance to see those titles only read about in Famous Monsters and Fangoria. The rise of “mom and pop” rental shops also helped to put the final nail in the coffin of the independent movie houses. Drive-in theaters and past-their-prime “hardtops” (affectionately known as grindhouses) that exhibited first-run, low-budget genre films slowly began to disappear.

Why would exploitation audiences take the trouble to go to the drive-in when they could create their own lurid triple-feature at home? Not only did the home video market change the way low budget films were seen, it also greatly altered the quality of the productions when the “direct-to-video” wave hit. Say what you will about the micro-budgeted genre films of the ‘60s and ‘70s...

We just got some interesting news in from Bloodsuckers From Outer Space (review) director Glen Coburn. A familiar face from the 1980s has come out of retirement to entertain the masses via YouTube!

Muther Video has returned with her unique style of film critiquing. Check out her first new review below!

- Syxx

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