Upcoming DVD releases

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus

Excellent news. I've wanted to see this for years.

Yea me too. :)

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Shout! Factory has signed a deal with New Horizons Picture Corporation securing exclusive North American home entertainment rights to more than 50 Roger Corman properties.

The partners are planning to remaster a number of Corman titles that have been long out of print and are creating bonus content for upcoming special edition and double feature launches.

The first titles to go out under the Roger Corman’s Cult Classics label will be Piranha: Special Edition DVD, Humanoids From The Deep, Up From The Depths, and Demon Of Paradise in April.

Rock ’N’ Roll High School: Special Edition DVD, Suburbia, Death Race 2000, Warlords Of The 21st Century, Deathsport, Forbidden World and Galaxy Of Terror are among other releases.

“Roger holds an incredibly rich legacy in Hollywood,” Shout! Factory founding partners Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos. who made the announcement with Corman, said. “His cinematic works, spanning decades, continue to influence film-makers worldwide.”

[fortunato]

Oh, wow. This is great news.
Can't wait for a special edition of Rock N Roll High School, among others.

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On April 6th, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) opens the doors to the Hammer vault with the release of six films making their DVD debuts in The Icons of Suspense Collection Presents Hammer Films.

Hammer Films made their name with monsters and vampires, but this third compilation from SPHE proves they could frighten the public without them.

Topping the set is the uncut version of the futuristic classic These Are The Damned (aka The Damned, 1963), directed by the legendary Joseph Loseygr.
Peter Cushing and Andre Morell match wits in Cash on Demand (1961).
Oscar®-winning cinematographer Guy Green directed The Snorkel (1958), about a young girl who can’t convince anyone her stepfather is a murderer.
The renowned Val Guest directed the startling psychodrama Stop Me Before I Kill! (aka The Full Treatment, 1960).
Kerwin Matthews finds himself in the middle of a strange mother/daughter threesome in the Jimmy Sangster-written Maniac (1963).
Plus, this ultimate rarity:
Cyril Frankel’s astounding Never Take Candy from a Stranger (aka Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, 1960), a serious, and still horrifyingly timely, chiller about a small town terrorized by an elderly child molester.

You won’t do better than this impeccable collection from the darkest corners of the Hammer imagination, which will be available for $24.96 SRP.

Beginning January 15, fans have the rare opportunity to vote on the final box art from a selection of three different versions for The Icons of Suspense Collection Presents Hammer Films. The contest runs on Columbia-Classics.com from 1/15/10 to 1/26/10.

DVD Special Features Include:

· Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
· Full Screen Presentation
· Original Theatrical Trailers




January 19, 2010 Releases


BLOOD CREEK: Lionsgate



Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill star as brothers on a mission of revenge who become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment that dates back to the Third Reich.


KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS: Shout! Factory



William Shatner stars as veterinarian Rack Hansen in this cult classic about an Arizona town infested with a horde of arachnids that turn on the humans whose insecticides have depleted their natural food supply.


PANDORUM (DVD & Blu-ray): Anchor Bay



Two crewmen awaken from hyper-sleep aboard a spacecraft. None of their equipment is working, and their memories are incomplete. What was their mission? How much time has passed? Where are they? Who are they? As they try to piece things together, they discover they are not alone, and the ship's new inhabitants - tribal warriors carrying crudely made weapons - are moving among them, intent on killing all aboard. As the space travelers unravel the frightening and deadly secrets the ship harbors, they realize the survival of mankind hinges on their actions. They must regain control of the ship before PANDORUM takes over.


SPIRITS OF THE FALL: R Squared Films



This Halloween, the spirits are restless and things that go bump in the night are closer than they seem for Chris, a widower who is coming to terms with his loss. While living in his hotel, strange things begin to happen. Voices in the night and faces at the window are not uncommon and things are about to get a lot worse when he is forced to face the paranormal and save his wife s soul from the evil spirit of her killer.


WHITEOUT (DVD & Blu-ray): Warner



For U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, things are about to get even more dangerous. The only law enforcement in this unforgiving territory, she has just been sent to investigate a body on the ice. Antarctica's first homicide. A shocking discovery in itself, it will plunge her into an even more bizarre mystery and the revelation of secrets long-buried under the endless ice...secrets that someone believes are still worth killing for. As Stetko races to find the killer before he finds her, winter is already closing in. In the deadly Antarctic whiteout, she won't see him till he's a breath away.

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Releasing in the UK on Monday, 25th Jan 2010...





House (Hausu)

DVD, Eureka

To get a good idea of just how unhinged and bizarre this lost 1977 classic is, one only needs to look at the DVD's chapter headings. They start off quite innocently - "Summer Holiday", "Journey", "Supper" - but for the closing quarters of the film they are reduced to: "Not Good", "Blimey", "Indescribable" and "...!!!". When you watch the film you'll see these descriptions are perfectly accurate.

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi managed to convince producers that his debut movie would be as entertaining as Jaws, hence the vogueish one-word title. Instead of a shark, though, he relied on suggestions from his 13-year-old daughter as to what would supply the scares. Her list included a piano that bites fingers off and a severed head dropped down a well. He did the right thing listening to her. The story concerns a group of schoolgirls with names that sum up their character traits – Prof, Melody, Kung-Fu etc – taking a summer holiday in an aunt's country house. The house then tries to kill them. Simple as that.

Stylistically, it starts off over the top, then continues upwards. It's the kind of film that can have a man turn into a pile of bananas or a creepy painting of a cat spew blood everywhere without breaking its stride. It revels in artifice, with painted backdrops, excessive bloodletting and animation all over the place. The girls are attacked by lampshades, clocks, furniture, anything really. It's far too giddy and jaw-dropping to actually be scary but then you can't have everything. And everything is very nearly what this film delivers.

[fortunato]

^Mine's in the mail!

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January 26, 2010 Releases


BAD BIOLOGY: Shriek Show



Acclaimed director Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker) is back with a twisted tale of love and weirdness. Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god-awful love story.... With bizarre special effects by Gabe Bartalos, a hip-hop soundtrack from Prince Paul, and shot in glorious 35mm, Bad Biology is guaranteed to shock even the most desensitized of audiences, and sure to become a modern cult classic.


DEAD AT THE BOX OFFICE: Sub Rosa

A film reel of a mind control experiment created by a Nazi scientist is found hidden in a theater projection room. The theater employees mistakenly show the film prior to a midnight screening of the classic zombie movie Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero. The audience members turn into zombies and the theater employees fight to stay alive while government agents attempt to contain the zombie threat.


DEMONIC TOYS 2: Full Moon

Dr. Lorca from Hideous! is back and is continuing to collect strange oddities, along with the help of Caitlin and her boyfriend David. Along the way, they collect the mysterious pieces of the last Demonic Toys and they continue their search at a mysterious castle in Italy, where there have been rumors of a mysterious, ancient puppet alive and walking around, which is under the control of a mysterious demon, who takes on the human form of a little woman named Lilith. When not looking, the puppet brings the Demonic Toys back to life, and now... blood, terror and death counts will rise again.


DOCTOR DEATH, SEEKER OF SOULS: Scorpion Releasing

Meet the charming, flamboyant Doctor Death, a 1000-year-old man who has mastered the art of "selective reincarnation", promising to keep one's soul alive forever! The catch? He needs a fresh body to host it for you, and finding willing volunteers is an impossibility. When Fred's beloved wife dies, he refuses to believe she is gone forever. Dr. Death's loyal assistant, Tana, offers a supernatural solution to return his wife to him...only to run into trouble when Dr. Death can't find a suitable body for her to reside in! The bodies pile up and Fred must choose between his lost love and stopping a mad doctor hellbent on success!


THE DOUBLE BORN: Celebrity

In this tense and twisty thriller, a grieving mother embarks on a strange and dangerous friendship with a pair of troubled day laborers hired to repaint her dead son's room, with terrifying and tragic results. Unable to put her child's death behind her, Sophonisba's desire for motherhood is further frustrated by a sterile husband. As she becomes increasingly unhinged, she proves more dangerous than the bad boys she befriends.


INALIENABLE: Anchor Bay



Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA. Is this his new son or – as the government believes – a threat to mankind?


MADNESS: Well Go USA

Cheerleaders, Tara and Jenna are on their way to Minneapolis to complete in a cheerleading competition. When they stop for gas they meet a couple guys dealing with car trouble and eager to catch a ride back to the city. The four also see this as an opportunity to party together. However, what they don t realize is they re being watched by a group of ruthless killers in desperate search of their next victims. It s wrong direction....ruthless rage....crazy guys and cheerleaders.....It s Madness!


NIGHT OF TERROR: Video Pictures

Horror spoof parody about mad scientists performing brain surgery on unsuspecting patients and turning them into trained killers. Can the teenagers, the psychic, the nurse, the doctors, the patients, the party guests, the rock band and the street people all survive this haunted night of terror? Probably not many!


PONTYPOOL: IFC Films



A small-town radio station discovers that recent madness in the local population may be caused by a virus transmitted through speech.


SAW VI (DVD & Blu-ray): Lionsgate



Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.


THE TOOLBOX MURDERS (Blu-ray): Blue Underground



In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering 'immoral' women with the tools of his trade - claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning of this landmark epic of violence and depravity that was vilified by critics, banned by censors, and treasured by splatter fans worldwide. This is... THE TOOLBOX MURDERS!

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This is a remake of 2002 Korean romantic mystery-thriller Jungdok aka Addicted, arriving on DVD March 9 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace and Michael Landes, this suspenseful mystery explores the darkest secrets of love and grief for one happy couple.Newlyweds Jess (Gellar) and Ryan (Landes) seem to have it all until a car accident renders both Ryan and his brother Roman (Pace) comatose. But things spin even more eerily out of control when Roman wakes up and tries to convince Jess that he is her husband. Beside herself with fear and grief, Jess grapples with the one question: could the man before her actually be the man she lost…or does something far more sinister await her in his arms?

Possession Trailer

The DVD features deleted and alternate scenes as well as an alternate ending and will be available for the suggested retail price of $22.98. DVD Special Features:
Featurette
Deleted and Alternate Scenes
Alternate Ending
Theatrical Trailer

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Releasing on 6th April on Blu-Ray...




Arriving in stores on Christmas 2010...

[Doc Faustus]

I heard about Bad Biology. Sounds like it should be awesome.