Upcoming DVD releases

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New Line Entertainment has announced DVD ($28.98) and Blu-ray ($35.99) releases of The Final Destination for January 5th.

DVD Active reports that each will include 2D and 3D versions of the film, along with 2 pairs of 3-D glasses. The only extra material on the DVD release will be additional scenes.
The Blu-ray release will also include alternate endings, a Body Count: The Deaths of The Final Destination featurette, Pre-Visualization/Storyboard Segments, BD-Live features, and a digital copy of the film.


Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced rated DVD ($28.96), unrated DVD ($28.96), and Blu-ray editions of Halloween II for January 12th.

DVD Active reports that extras on the rated DVD will include deleted and alternate scenes, audition footage, Uncle Seymour Coffins' Stand-Up Routines, a Michael - Interior feature, Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures Music Videos, and a blooper reel.

The unrated DVD and Blu-ray will also include an additional commentary with Writer/Director Rob Zombie.

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Early word has listed Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland for DVD and Blu-ray release on February 2nd in regular and special editions.

No word on extra features, but interviews teased multiple endings and alternate scenes.

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other. Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard and Bill Murray also star.



Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray ($39.98) releases of Pandorum which stars Dennis Quaid, and Ben Foster.

DVD Active reports that each will be available to own on December 22.

Extras will include an audio commentary, a World of Elysium: Behind-the-Scenes featurette, a Flight Team Training Video, deleted and alternate scenes, and still galleries. The Blu-ray release will also include a digital copy of the film.

A young crew member awakes from his hyper sleep chamber to discover he's alone on a massive spaceship. He ventures towards the bridge in search of others and to try and figure out what happened.

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Synapse has been handling distribution for stock left over from the now-defunct Casa Negra and Panik House DVD labels, specializing in vintage Mexican and Asian fear fare respectively.

No more of these discs will be manufactured (with the exception of SEX & FURY, which will be repressed with a new cover featuring actress Christina Lindberg), so if you want any of ’em, grab ’em now!

The titles are:

Panik House:

BANGKOK HAUNTED
BLIND BEAST VS. KILLER DWARF
FEMALE YAKUZA TALE
GIRL BOSS GUERILLA
OMEN
THE PINKY VIOLENCE COLLECTION
SCREWED
SEX & FURY
SEX IS ZERO
TERRIFYING GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL
TOKYO PSYCHO
THE UNINVITED


Casa Negra:

THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M
BRAINIAC
CHABELO Y PEPITO CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS
CHABELO Y PEPITO DETECTIVES
THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN
THE LIVING COFFIN
THE MAN AND THE MONSTER
PEPITO Y LA LÁMPARA MARAVILLOSA
THE VAMPIRE COLLECTION
THE WITCH’S MIRROR

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Oh by the way...if you are a fan of Oldboy and director Park Chan-wook, be sure to pick this up at your nearest DVD store (released yesterday) -



From the acclaimed director of the global hit Old Boy comes a shockingly original vampire story with a chilling, erotic style. A blood transfusion saves the life of a priest, but also transforms him into a vampire. He struggles to control his insatiable thirst for blood until a love affair unleashes his darkest desires in deadly new ways.

Hailed as “Daring, operatic, and bloody funny!” (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly), Thirst is a truly wicked love story that takes classic vampire lore to twisted new heights.

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Tati (1907-1982) was the screen's most fastidious director of comedy and the greatest visual humorist since the silent days of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd whom he revered, and this comic cornucopia contains all his feature films except Trafic (1971). The first four are increasingly ambitious masterpieces generally using onomatopoeic sound rather than dialogue. The last, Parade (1974), is an anthology of his stage mimes performed as in a circus and made for Swedish TV.

Tati burst on the world as a moustachioed rural postman in Jour de fête (1949), then adopted the screen persona of the accident-prone, neo-Luddite Monsieur Hulot whose slouch hat, raincoat, pipe, ankle-length trousers and umbrella made him as recognisable as Chaplin's tramp. In the black-and-white Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), he disrupts a holiday resort; in Mon oncle (1957), beautifully designed and shot in colour, he leaves a trail of disasters in a gadget-laden Paris suburb. The satire on soulless, conformist modernity continues in Play Time (1967); shot on fantastic sets over three years, it bankrupted him, but is now regarded as his greatest work.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jacques-Coll...8910294&sr=1-1

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Arriving on December 29th from Paramount Home Entertainment...



The “truly scary” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), edge-of-your-seat horror film PARANORMAL ACTIVITY will make its presence known on DVD and two-disc Blu-ray December 29, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Hailed as “a horror phenomenon” (Richard Corliss, Time) and “one of the scariest movies of all time” (BloodyDisgusting.com) the hypnotic and harrowing film drove filmgoers to demand that it play in their cities, ultimately earning over $100 million at the domestic box office. Loaded with suspense and punctuated by moments of sudden and unexpected horror right up to the shocking ending, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is more frightening to watch at home, even with the lights on.

Written and directed by Oren Peli, the intense and chilling story follows a young, middle-class couple who become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially while they sleep.

The DVD and two-disc Blu-ray include the original theatrical version of the film, plus an unrated version with a shocking alternate ending not seen in theaters. The Blu-ray also includes a digital copy of the theatrical version.

The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround (theatrical version only) and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The two-disc Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital (theatrical version only) and English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles.

Special features include:

o Unrated version with alternate ending not seen in theaters
o Digital copy of theatrical version (Blu-ray only)

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Rejoice!

The long-neglected, kaleidoscopic, absolutely bat-shit insane Japanese horror/comedy Hausu (1977) has been in Janus Films' distribution rights aggregate for years, and now it's finally going to get the works!

Hausu page on Janus' website

They've already started a theatrical run for the movie:

http://www.janusfilms.com/house/dates.html

and they're adding more dates all the time. They've confirmed that Chicago will be getting dates soon, too.

Eureka Masters of Cinema series will be releasing the film in Jan. 2010; Criterion will be handling the R1 release, though they haven't posted the release date yet.

Here's the cover for the MoC release:



Anyone that has not had the fortune of experiencing this singular weirdo-masterpiece should definitely make a showing if the fates allow, or at least pick it up on DVD when it comes out.
Experience heaps of violent, bizarre, childish goofiness!

Trailer:

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

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Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?

You should, if you’re a Clint Eastwood fan. Because Warner Brothers has announced the forthcoming release of a massive retrospective box set of his work at the studio.





Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros. is set to hit stores Feb. 16 at $179.98, and will cover a large swathe of the squinting icon’s filmography, from 1968’s Where Eagles Dare to last year’s Gran Torino (which is 40 years of the icon's film journey).

It will also include Eastwood Factor, a documentary on the filmmaker by Time magazine critic Richard Schickel.

The 19-disc set will, of course, comprise the Dirty Harry pentalogy, as well as his Oscar-festooned works like Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. It also has some of his not-so-classics, like the geriatrics-in-orbit Space Cowboys and the orangutan buddy comedy Every Which Way But Loose.





But the real gems that make this set worthwhile are the truly excellent films scattered throughout his career that weren’t made during his much-revered Philip Rothian late-life burst of creativity. Like Bird, his beautiful biopic of Charlie Parker; White Hunter, Black Heart, his thinly veiled biopic of John Huston; the emotionally draining A Perfect World; and The Outlaw Josey Wales, which demonstrated an interest in deconstructing the genre that made him famous, the Western, way before Unforgiven.

It’s a hell of a deal for any Eastwood fan. The only negative is it’s not available on Blu-ray.





It's being touted as the largest ever DVD box set featuring a single artist. But it's not the biggest DVD box set ever. For info about that, you have to go here :-

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/01/...t-of-all-time/

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December 01, 2009 Releases


DEADER COUNTY

ZOMBIES! NAKED NYMPHS! ALIENS! ANIMATED CATS! WARLOCKS! CYBORGS! STRANGE HYBRID CREATURES! NUDE VIXENS & GHOSTLY APPARITIONS! Yep, we ve covered everything. Get ready for another exploitation ride!


DEADLINE

Alice, an artist recovering from a psychological breakdown, retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and focus on finishing her screenplay in time for a fast approaching deadline. When she begins hearing strange sounds and seeing apparitions, Alice searches for the source, only to find disturbing videotapes in the attic.


GREMLINS (Blu-ray)

A man buys a Mogwai as a Christmas present for his son. The young boy is told to keep the pet away from water, out of the light and never to feed it after midnight. Inadvertently, the creature is dampened and almost instantly, produces half a dozen furry replicas of itself --which continue to multiply and turn the small town upside-down.


KNIFE OF ICE

Martha Caldwell has been mute since a terrible accident killed her parents when she was a child. Since then she has lived with her wealthy uncle in the Spanish countryside. When Martha's cousin Jenny comes to visit, she is soon found dead. She seems to be the latest victim of a murderer who is killing pretty young girls in the area.


POKER RUN

Weekend bikers Robert and Allan are plunged into a world of horrifying violence when their wives are abducted by a pair of psychopaths. The two desperate men are forced to follow a series of frighteningly bizarre clues that includes several terrifying tasks that will leave the sweltering Mojave Desert awash in blood.


SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT III – V (Box Set)



SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! - Ricky Caldwell, the notorious "Killer Santa Claus," awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman named Laura, who is traveling with her brother Chris and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother’s house for Christmas Eve.

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 4: INITIATION - A female reporter investigates the death of a woman who, while on fire, leapt off a building to her death. Her investigation leads her to discover the existence of a strange cult dedicated to the Egyptian god Isis--and the cult wants her as its new queen.

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5: THE TOY MAKER - A young boy sees his father killed by a toy that was anonymously delivered to his house. After that, he is too traumatized to speak, and his mother must deal with both him and the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, a toy maker named Joe Petto builds some suspicious-looking toys, and a mysterious man creeps around both the toy store and the boys house.


SINS OF THE FATHER

Peter Jacobs returns to Fairview Falls to uncover the truth behind his family s murder. Every step he takes brings him closer to the Black Rose Killer, Ethan Fernier. Peter gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that Ethan is dying and his chance to bring him to justice is slipping away.


TERMINATOR: SALVATION (DVD & Blu-Ray)



In the aftermath of Judgment Day and the machine takeover, resistance leader John Connor counter Skynet’s plan to terminate mankind. Rallying his underground street fighters for a last, desperate battle, he realizes that to save the future he must rescue his own father Kyle Reese. But the most shocking discovery comes with the arrival of Marcus Wright, a mysterious loner from the past who challenges Connor with an impossible choice and leads them both on a brutal journey into the heart of the enemy.




December 08, 2009 Releases


ALPHABET KILLER (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

A ten year old girl is found brutally murdered outside the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. But when the child-killings resume two years later, Megan’s return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations.


BEHIND THE MASK (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay



Leslie Vernon, good-natured killing machine and the next great psycho slasher, has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo. When the actual carnage begins, where do you draw the line between voyeuristic thrills, mythic evil and good old-fashioned slasher movie mayhem?


THE CHAMELEON KILLER: Dark Night FIlms

In the small mid-western town of Acid Falls, which has the lowest murder ratio in the country, the most vicious serial killer the world has ever seen is about to strike. Now, this unprepared little town must deal with relentless attacks by a faceless killer who leaves a different mask based on a different horror slasher at each murder scene.


CYCLOPS (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

When a terrifying Cyclops is terrorizing the Roman countryside the corrupt emperor, Tiberius, sends in his strongest general, Marcus. Soon the Cyclops is captured and brought to the great city to fight as a gladiator, but the tables quickly turn on Marcus who must fight as well.


GOZU: Cinema Epoch



What starts out as a gangster film spirals rapidly out of control when a young yakuza is ordered to assassinate his own superior, who also happens to be his closest friend. When his target disappears before he can do the job, he sets out for a search that leads him into a mysterious town filled with lowlifes, oddballs, and a cow-headed demon.


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.


JACK BROOKS MONSTER SLAYER (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay



After witnessing the brutal murder of his family when he was just a young boy, Jack Brooks is left with an unquenchable fury. Now working as a plumber, Jack attempts to fix his professor’s plumbing, only to unknowingly awaken an ancient evil. Prof. Crowley becomes possessed and starts a slow, gruesome transformation into the depths of evil.


THE LIGHTS: Osiris Entertainment

Four friends set out on a road trip to catch a better view of a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But what begins as a high-spirited lark soon turns deadly serious when the teens ignore the ominous warning of the local sheriff and find themselves stranded in backwater Texas, locked in an evil game of cat and mouse.


LOST TREASURE OF THE GRAND CANYON (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

In the early days of the 20th Century, an expedition led by Dr. Samuel Jordon traveled deep into the Grand Canyon in search of a long-rumored hidden city. The entire team disappeared. But when Jordon’s archaeologist daughter Susan leads a rescue party into the uncharted valley, she will discover an ancient civilization ruled by savage warriors, human sacrifice and a mythological monster that feeds on carnage.


RED MIST (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

The medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidentally puts the facility’s creepy janitor into a deep coma. But when one responsible student tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental injection, she instead sends his brainwaves berserk.


RUN BITCH RUN: Breaking Glass

In the tradition of I Spit on Your Grave and Ms. 45 comes Run! Bitch Run!, an action-packed thriller that pits an innocent and beautiful young woman against a horde of violent, sex-depraved degenerates. Catherine and Rebecca are Catholic school girls selling Bibles door-to-door. They pick the wrong address, however, when they witness a murder committed by a slimy pimp/drug dealer. Taken hostage and beaten and raped, Catherine eventually escapes and dressed as a nurse and ready to mend all ills returns to wreak vengeance on the dastardly lowlifes who took her innocence away.


SANDS OF OBLIVION (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

A true unsolved Hollywood mystery: After the completion of the original TEN COMMANDMENTS -- a film that was never released – famed producer Cecille B. DeMille had the ancient Egyptian set buried in the sands of the central California desert. A modern day excavation crew discovers that DeMille was secretly trying to imprison an avenging Egyptian god. Now, this team, intent on preserving the Hollywood legacy, unknowingly releases the terror.


SCREAMS IN THE NIGHT: Celebrity

Following the untimely death of his father, Gerardo, returns home to join one of his brothers for the funeral. By chance, he meets Noemi, a local newspaper reporter, originally in route to Cantun to cover an assignment, now stranded in the tiny, rural town of Piguen. They take an instant liking to each other and she accompanies him to the funeral.


WALLED IN (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

Recent engineering graduate Sam Walczak travels to the middle of nowhere to supervise demolition of the mysterious Malestrazza Building. She soon comes face to face with the horrifying secrets of the building and its past inhabitants, many of whom were entombed alive within the walls of the pristine building by its obsessed architect.


WHILE SHE WAS OUT (Blu-ray): Anchor Bay

A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs.