REVENGE OF THE SHOGUN WOMEN 1977 in 3D

   Kino Lorber in association with the 3-D Film archive have announced REVENGE OF SHOGUN WOMEN 1977 (aka 13 NUNS) on Blu-ray and 3D for release later this year.

   Reuniting the director (Mei Chun Chang) and star (Ying Bai) of 1977's 3D extravaganza DYNASTY it sells the story of a group of women in 18th century China who band together to take revenge on a group of bandits who attacked their village. I was lucky to see this on the big screen several years ago in 3D and while not reaching the giddy "coming at you" heights of its predecessor, it's still will be a great experience for those with 3D capabilities. Let's face it, this is what you want from 3D - shit coming at you and not just boring depth of field stuff. 

THE MASK 1961

 PUT ON THE MASK !....PUT ON THE MASK !....PUT ON THE MASK !....

    Although they came kind of late to the game, for their first entry in the horror genre Canada came up with this interesting cult curio that is finally getting a nice release courtesy of Kino on Nov. 24. Directed by Julian Roth this 1961 feature while not technically a "3D movie" does contain several hallucinatory 3D sequences that are brought about by the characters putting on a creepy ancient mask. Movie patrons were given a cardboard replica of the mask and intoned during the course of the film to "Put on the mask !" (along with the characters in the movie) during the 3D sequences.
    There was a nice DVD released in Germany (with the 3D sequences intact) a few years back, but for the most part this has been represented by only an old VHS release from Rhino and a couple questionable quasi bootleg DVD. Fully restored with both anaglyph and actual 3D (as seen in the theatres), this is will be a pretty cool release.