DownTown Heat [Blu-ray] [US] Alvin Rakoff Understanding the Madness

Understanding the Madness

Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics William Bibbiani and Sally Christie

Grzegorz Królikiewicz (Through and Through) crafts a viscerally affecting portrait of a changing country through the fate of a man ruined by ambition

James Hong (Missing in Action) and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Mortal Kombat)

DownTown Heat [Blu-ray] [US] Alvin Rakoff Understanding the MadnessRelease Date: 19 8 2025 From director Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS, JACK THE RIPPER), one of the most important and revered purveyors of international cinema, and legendary French exploitation film studio Eurocine (PANTHER SQUAD, ZOMBIE LAKE) comes DOWNTOWN HEAT (aka CIUDAD BAJA), a rarely seen 1994 action thriller starring MANNIX himself, Mike Connors, along with Josephine Chaplin (Franco's JACK THE RIPPER) and Franco's main muse Lina Romay. It's a