The Freeway Collection

[Finch]

2-DISC 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of both films in HDR10
- Original lossless stereo 2.0 and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde
- Collectors' booklet featuring new writing by film scholars Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Cerise Howard, Martyn Pedler and Michelle J. Smith

DISC 1 - FREEWAY
- Includes both the 104-minute Uncut version and the 102-minute Theatrical version of the film
- Brand new audio commentary by film critics BJ & Harmony Colangelo
- Two archival audio commentaries by writer/director Matthew Bright (2022 and 1997)
- Illegally Blonde: The Transgressive Teenage Shocks of Freeway and Freeway 2, a new appreciation by film critic Willow Catelyn Maclay
- Vulgarity is Timeless, an archival interview with writer/ director Matthew Bright
- Producing Freeway, an archival interview with producer Brad Wyman
- Changing Lanes, an archival interview with editor Maysie Hoy
- To Catch a Predator, an archival interview with actor Wolfgang Bodison
- You're Under Arrest, an archival interview with actor Robert Peters
- Murder Twins, an archival interview with actresses Leanna Creel and Monica Lacy
- Archival interviews with director Matthew Bright, actress Amanda Plummer, composer Danny Elfman, executive producer Oliver Stone and co-producer Samuel Hadida
- EPK featurette, behind the scenes footage and interviews
- Trailer

DISC 2 - FREEWAY II: CONFESSIONS OF A TRICKBABY
- Brand new audio commentary by Louise Weard (director of Castration Movie) and film historian Elizabeth Purchell
- Once Upon a White Girl: Remembering Confessions of a Trickbaby, a feature-length documentary with cast and crew interviews
- Archival interviews with director Matthew Bright and producers Chris Hanley and Samuel Hadida
- Behind the scenes footage
- Trailer
- Image gallery

[The Narrator Returns]

Fun that Louise Weard is doing boutique-label releases that aren’t her own movies, she should be a good talker for a commentary. What I’ve heard about Freeway II certainly fits with her vibe.

[beamish14]

Hope this sells well enough to get the Director’s cut of Matthew Bright’s Tiptoes out

[Grand Wazoo]

Hope this sells well enough to get the Director’s cut of Matthew Bright’s Tiptoes out

No joke my holy grail release.

[colinr0380]

The first Freeway at least is a modern interpretation of Red Riding Hood (with Keifer Sutherland as the 'wolf') mixed with the 'criminal road movie' trend of the first half of the 1990s (Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia, Thelma & Louise). The idea of modernising and adulting up Red Riding Hood was a bit of a thing at the time, as there is a great 1999 Belgium-Dutch short that does much the same thing starring Rising Damp's Don Warrington(!) and put into a Christmas-time dystopian sci-fi context and Aphex Twinned to the max - Black XXX-mas (NSFW - though despite the title its not (that) explicit in a sexual manner, just gory).