Shout! Factory / Scream Factory

[domino harvey]

Paul Rudd bonus feature or no sale

[cdnchris]

My siblings loved this movie so watched it all the time and we had it on VHS. It admittedly grew on me, but yes it is awful.

[DarkImbecile]

Paul Rudd bonus feature or no sale

I'm going to need a full audio commentary with him and Conan.

[Bumstead]

Does someone here know if Ridley's THE DUELLISTS will return on bluray in the US? Shout Factory disc is OOP and fetching upwards of $100. It's a Paramount title.

[beamish13]

The Plague Dogs is absolutely monumental. One of the greatest films of the 1980's, and its original cut has only been commercially available in a low-quality transfer on an R4 disc from Martin Rosen's 35mm print (which is what screened at the Cinefamily a while back). Hopefully, Shout creates a fresh transfer from an interpositive or the original camera negative. If you haven't seen it, trust me when I say that it's even better than Watership Down.

[L.A.]

The UK DVD of The Plague Dogs also includes two cuts of the film.

[solaris72]

Had assumed The Plague Dogs would be Criterion. Glad it's coming though, have been wanting to see it for years.

[tenia]

It also functions as the longest McDonald's and Coca-Cola ad you'll ever see.

Yes, most of what I read / saw about it was about how it was forcibly advertising for it and so focused on it that it's hard to be taken as a movie at all.

[flyonthewall2983]

My siblings loved this movie so watched it all the time and we had it on VHS. It admittedly grew on me, but yes it is awful.

I remember watching it at least once when I was a kid. Maybe as a VHS rental and later on television. I probably enjoyed it too, to be honest. Maybe this was always the case, but it felt like the 80's were ground zero for bad movies and television with the incredibly low aim of being "family entertainment".

[dwk]

Scream confirmed that Misery is a new 4K scan and here is the cover art:

[Costa]

Ohhh. Great! I love that cover.


By the way, if you want both cuts of Plague dogs, please let them know in their facebook.
I'm almost sure they will use the short US cut!
And it's so severely cut, it's not just 1-2 minutes.

[dwk]

Paul Naschy Collection 2 coming on November 14th. Will have the following films:
- Hunchback of the Morgue (1973)
- Devil’s Possessed (1974)
- The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
- Exorcism (1975)
- A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)

and here is the awful cover:

[Big Ben]

MichaelB would probably have more information than I would but I know for a fact that The Werewolf and the Yeti is one of the infamous Video Nasties. A brief bit of research states that the film has never seen the light of day in the United Kingdom because of this. The info goes on to mention that this one is full of significantly more gore and nudity than the other Naschy films. I don't know anything about UK import laws but I thought I should make this information more widely available to the forum.

[AfterTheRain]

D.C. Follies: The Complete Series coming out in November.

[domino harvey]

Green Acres: the Complete Series coming in October

[AfterTheRain]

American Gothic coming out on Blu-ray in December.

[Noiradelic]

Finally, Shaun Cassidy's TV series gets a release!

[JamesF]

Finally, Shaun Cassidy's TV series gets a release!

If only Certainly an English-language release with the episodes in the correct order would be a must-buy!

[AfterTheRain]

Finally, Shaun Cassidy's TV series gets a release!

Actually, it's the 1988 cult horror starring Rod Steiger and Yvonne De Carlo.

[AfterTheRain]

Also, collector's editions of Hell Night and Matinee are due out in December too.

[AfterTheRain]

One Day at a Time: The Complete Series and the collector's edition of Silent Night, Deadly Night due on December 5th.

[dwk]

Shout posted on facebook that they are losing the rights to the Bruce Lee films later this year. The Shout Select releases are the best versions of the films on Blu-ray, so get them while you can.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Extras for A Quiet Day In The Country:

NEW Interview With Actor Franco Nero
NEW Audio Commentary With Film Historian/Author Troy Howarth

[dwk]

Specs for Land of the Dead

DISC ONE: Theatrical Cut of the film
• NEW 2K Scan of the interpositive
• NEW Cholo’s Reckoning - an interview with actor John Leguizamo
• NEW Charlie’s Story – an interview with actor Robert Joy
• NEW The Pillsbury Factor – an interview with actor Pedro Miguel Arce
• NEW Four of the Apocalypse – an interview with actors Eugene Clark, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks and Jasmin Geljo
• Dream of the Dead: The director’s cut with optional commentary by director Roy Frumkes
• Deleted footage from Dream of the Dead
• Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer

DISC TWO: Uncut Version of the film
• NEW 2K Scan of the interpositive with HD inserts
• NEW Audio Commentary with zombie performers Matt Blazi, Glena Chao, Michael Felsher and Rob Mayr
• Audio Commentary with writer/director George A. Romero, producer Peter Grunwald and editor Michael Doherty
• Undead Again: The Making of Land of the Dead
• Bringing The Dead To Life
• Scenes of Carnage
• Zombie Effects: From Green Screen to Finished Scene
• Scream Test – CGI test
• Bringing the Storyboards to Life
• A Day with the Living Dead hosted by John Leguizamo
• When Shaun Met George

and the Dawn of the Dead remake

DISC ONE – Theatrical Version:
• NEW HD master derived from the digital intermediate archival negative
• NEW Take A Chance on Me – an interview with actor Ty Burrell
• NEW Gunn for Hire – an interview with writer James Gunn
• NEW Punk, Rock & Zombie – an interview with actor Jake Weber
• NEW Killing Time at the Mall: The Special Effects of Dawn of the Dead – an interview with special makeup effects artists David Anderson and Heather Langenkamp Anderson
• Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by director Zach Snyder and producer Eric Newman
• Theatrical Trailer
• Still Gallery

DISC TWO – Unrated Version:
• NEW HD master derived from the digital intermediate archival negative with HD inserts
• Audio Commentary with director Zach Snyder and producer Eric Newman
• Splitting Headaches: Anatomy of Exploding Heads
• Attack of the Living Dead
• Raising the Dead
• Andy’s Lost Tape
• Special Report: Zombie Invasion
• Undead and Loving It: A Mockumentary
• Drawing the Dead featurette
• Storyboard Comparisons
• Hidden Easter Egg

[colinr0380]

NEW Killing Time at the Mall: The Special Effects of Dawn of the Dead – an interview with special makeup effects artists David Anderson and Heather Langenkamp Anderson

And yes, that is the Heather Langenkamp who starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Her special effects technician husband was also folded into the meta-narrative of Wes Craven's New Nightmare (he appears as the special effects technician in the nightmare sequence at the beginning of that film).