Bermuda Island - DVD

Master of the macabre Boris Karloff delivers a rare non-monster performance as the leader of an investigation of mysterious disappearances on a South Pacific island that is the proposed site of an exclusive resort. But after a few encounters with carnivorous plants and zombies, he realizes that this might not be the ideal place for a vacation and that his team will be lucky to make it off the island alive!

The most celebrated star in the history of screen horror headlines these two atmospheric works filled with producer Val Lewton's trademark mix of mood, madness and premeditated dread. Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested -- perhaps spirit-haunted -- Isle of the Dead. St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum in 1761 London is the setting for Bedlam. Karloff gives an uncanny performance as the doomed ov

Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself. THE DEPARTURE captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him what makes life worth living?The second documentary by award-winning director Lana Wilson (AFTER TILLER), THE DEPARTURE is a poetic and deeply moving film that contemplates death as a way of better understanding how we should live.This DVD includes an audio commentary track featuring director Lana Wilson and editor David Teague, the official THE DEPARTURE trailer and comes in Japanese with English subtitles.