Jess Franco, Larry Cohen and heroic bloodshed on Eureka Blu-ray in September and October
30 July 2025
Eureka has announced three new Limited Edition Blu-ray releases for September and October in the shape of explosive Hong Kong crime action thriller starring Chow Yun-fat Flaming Brothers, Larry Cohen's darkly satirical thrill‑ride, The Ambulance, and Jess Franco's 1966 cult horror classic, The Diabolical Dr. Z. Full details of all three releases below.
FLAMING BROTHERS [GONG WOO LUNG FOO DAU] (Hong Kong 1987)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 15/16 September 2025 | £22.99 (UK), $39.95 (USA & Canada)
Eureka Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Flaming Brothers, the explosive crime action thriller that epitomises the “heroic bloodshed” genre of 1980s Hong Kong cinema. Presented from a stunning new 2K restoration, this marks the film’s Blu-ray debut in both the UK and North America. Flaming Brothers will be released as part of the Eureka Classics range on 15 September 2025 in the UK and 16 September 2025 in North America, in a Limited Edition of 2,000 copies per territory. Each edition will feature an exclusive O-card slipcase and a collectors’ booklet.
A standout Hong Kong crime thriller released amidst the wave of heroic bloodshed films that followed in the wake of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow and Ringo Lam’s City on Fire, Flaming Brothers features Alan Tang and Chow Yun-fat (who was quickly rising to superstardom in the late 1980s) as triad brothers determined to protect their criminal operation – and each other – no matter what the cost.
Both orphaned at a young age, Cheung Ho-tin (Chow) and Chan Wai-lun (Tang) grew up together on the streets, forming a strong bond in their childhood that remains unbroken as they become triad brothers in adulthood. Having recently opened a nightclub together, they begin to feel that they have finally made it. That is, at least, until they become embroiled in a conflict with the ruthless gangster Ko Lo-sei (Patrick Tse) and his right-hand man (Norman Chui), who threaten to take away everything that Tin and Lun have worked for.
In equal parts an action-packed thrill-ride and a rumination on the bonds of male friendship, Flaming Brothers boasts a screenplay written by Wong Kar-wai, the celebrated auteur who would go on to write and direct Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. Eureka Classics is presenting the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK and North America from a 2K restoration.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
Limited to 2,000 copies
Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Time Tomorrow
Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on Flaming Brothers by Hong Kong cinema expert Camille Zaurin
Flaming Brothers presented in 1080p HD from a new 2K restoration
Original Cantonese audio
Optional English dubbed audio
Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
New audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
New video locations piece by CFK
Archival interview with director Joe Cheung
Original theatrical trailer
* All extras subject to change
THE AMBULANCE (USA 1990)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 13 October 2025 | £22.99
Eureka Entertainment is to release Larry Cohen’s The Ambulance, a darkly satirical thrill‑ride starring Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range.
A maverick of independent cinema, Larry Cohen made a habit of transforming the seemingly benevolent into the malevolent: infants in It’s Alive, ice cream in The Stuff, police officers in Maniac Cop and the personification of the United States in Uncle Sam. In The Ambulance, it is the very thing that should save our lives that might transport us to our deaths.
When comic book artist Josh (Eric Roberts) meets Cheryl (Janine Turner) in New York City, he believes he might have run into the woman of his dreams. But just as they are getting to know each other, Cheryl begins to feel ill. She is picked up by an ambulance – and then disappears into thin air. Unable to track her to any of the city’s hospitals, Josh learns that Cheryl is not the only missing person connected to the mysterious ambulance and takes it upon himself to investigate an apparent conspiracy to kidnap people from the streets of New York. But Josh’s interference isn’t welcomed – either by Lieutenant Frank Spencer of the NYPD (James Earl Jones) or the sinister forces behind the ambulance itself…
One of Larry Cohen’s most underrated and underseen films (featuring an unlikely cameo by Marvel legend Stan Lee), The Ambulance deserves to reach the same cult status as his earlier horror movies It’s Alive, God Told Me To, Q – The Winged Serpent and The Stuff.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
Limited edition of 2,000 copies
Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by John Dunn
Limited edition booklet featuring new cover art by John Dunn and an essay on The Ambulance by genre film expert Liam Hathaway
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
New audio commentary by Steve Mitchell, director of the 2017 documentary King Cohen
Archival audio commentary with director Larry Cohen, moderated by Steve Mitchell
Catch Your Death – a newly edited, previously unseen interview with Larry Cohen on The Ambulance originally shot for King Cohen
Sickness and Health – a new video essay on The Ambulance and medical horror by film scholar Murray Leeder
Keep Making Pictures – new interview with film writer Michael Doyle, author of Larry Cohen: The Stuff of Gods and Monsters
Original theatrical trailer
* All extras subject to change
THE DIABOLICAL DR. Z [MISS MUERTE] (1966)
Limited Edition Blu-ray | 20 October 2025 | £22.99
Eureka Entertainment has announced the release of The Diabolical Dr. Z, the 1966 cult horror classic from visionary director Jesús “Jess” Franco, presented from a 2K restoration for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range.
A Spanish-French co-production directed by the inimitable Jesús “Jess” Franco (Count Dracula) from a screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), The Diabolical Dr Z – also known by its original Spanish title Miss Meurte – was released at the height of the gothic horror boom that swept Europe during the 1960s and followed Franco’s earlier gothic chillers The Awful Dr Orloff, The Sadistic Baron von Klaus and Dr Orloff’s Monster.
Before his untimely death, mad scientist Dr Zimmer (Antonio Jiménez Escribano) created a device that would allow him to control human minds. In the aftermath of his passing, his daughter Irma Zimmer (Mabel Karr) takes it upon herself to continue his work – and seek revenge on his behalf. To punish those who discredited and disgraced the late Dr Zimmer, she uses his invention to possess nightclub performer Miss Meurte (Estella Blain), who lures her victims to their deaths at the hands of her razor-sharp, poisoned nails…
An early film by a titan of cult cinema who would continue making films until his death in 2013, The Diabolical Dr Z is both an atmospheric and accomplished contribution to the European gothic horror cycle of the 1960s and a forerunner to the more outrageous exploitation films that would later catapult Franco to infamy.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES:
Limited edition of 2,000 copies
Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Poochamin
Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on The Diabolical Dr Z and its director by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, co-editor of The Films of Jess Franco
1080p presentation from a 2K restoration by Gaumont Film Company
Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
Audio commentary by genre film expert and Video Watchdog founder Tim Lucas
Death on the Continent – a new discussion of European gothic horror in the 1960s with Xavier Aldana Reyes, author of Spanish Gothic
Awful, Diabolical, Sadistic – new video essay by film historian Samm Deighan on mad science in gothic horror from Mary Shelley to Jess Franco
Archival interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
Archival interview with film historian Lucas Balbo
Archival interview with Stéphane du Mesnildot, journalist and author of Jess Franco: Énergies du Fantasme
