If you're wondering, no, I haven't thrown in the towel yet. I've just spent the past few weeks packing up everything I own, moving everything I own and then unpacking everything I own in a different house. I now hate everything that I own and pray I don't have to move it all again. So since moving all of my stuff is a massive ordeal I've had very little time to really worry about keeping up with movie news and releases. I'm pretty much done with the move, so I should be able to get back into action here.
The big release today is of course the Director's Cut of Nightbreed from Scream Factory. Available in both a standard Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and the way more expensive Limited Edition 3-disc version that includes the theatrical cut as well as the Director's Cut.
For the first time on home video, you can experience Clive Barker’s original director’s cut of Nightbreed with over 40 minutes of new footage, all mastered in high definition from the original camera negative!
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters.
Hellraiser creator Clive Barker writes (adapting his novel Cabal) and directs this vivid leap into horror that asks: in the battle of man vs. monster, who's really the monster? The answer supplies flesh-crawling suspense, sudden fear, a colorful Danny Elfman score and a creepy array of shape-shifting beings. They are the Nightbreed, denizens of a world beyond death, beyond the imagination, perhaps beyond anything you've seen.
Bonus Features
- New "Director's Cut" presentation of the film which contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage
- Introduction by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
- Audio Commentary by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
- Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed featuring interviews with Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, Doug Bradley and more… (72 min.)
- Making Monsters - interviews with makeup effects artists Bob Keen, Martin Mercer and Paul Jones (42 min.)
- Fire! Fights! Stunts! 2nd Unit Shooting - an interview with Andy Armstrong (20 min.)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Bonus Features
- --- DISC 1: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT ---
- New "Director's Cut" presentation of the film which contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage
- Introduction by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
- Audio Commentary by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
- Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed featuring interviews with Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, Doug Bradley and more… (72 min.)
- Making Monsters - interviews with makeup effects artists Bob Keen, Martin Mercer and Paul Jones (42 min.)
- Fire! Fights! Stunts! 2nd Unit Shooting - an interview with Andy Armstrong (20 min.)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- --- DISC 2: BONUS DISC ---
- Deleted and Alternate Scenes (approx. 20 min.)
- Monster Prosthetics Master Class
- Cutting Compromise – an interview with editor Mark Goldblatt
- The Painted Landscape: The Concept Art of Ralph McQuarrie
- Matte Painting Tests
- Makeup Tests
- Stop Motion Lost Footage
- Extended Torture Scene
- Rehearsal of Boone's dream
- Extensive Still Galleries – Early Sketches, Deleted Scene, Posters and Pre-Production art, On the Set, The Cast and Crew
- --- DISC 3: THE THEATRICAL CUT ---
- New transfer from the inter-positive
Also from Scream is Jeff Lieberman's tongue-in-cheek killer worm epic Squirm. Finally, those of us who didn't import Arrow's release will have a chance to watch unappealing lead actors fight earthworms and spend half the movie searching for a dead guy named Mr. Beardsley (spoiler alert) - in high definition!
When a powerful storm knocks Fly Creek, Georgia’s power lines
down onto wet soil, the resulting surge of electricity drives large,
bloodthirsty worms to the surface: and then out of their soil-tilling
minds! Soon, the townspeople discover that their sleepy fishing village
is overrun with worms that burrow right into their skin! Inundated by
hundreds of thousands of carnivorous creatures, the terrorized locals
race to find the cause of the rampage: before becoming tilled under
themselves!
A New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) begins
investigating a series of bizarre and disturbing inexplicable crimes.
When he uncovers that the crimes are of super-natural origins, he must
join forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in
the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic
possessions that are taking over and terrorizing their city. Filled with
action and thrilling suspense, the film is inspired by the book, which
details Sarchie’s bone-chilling real-life cases.
From Kino comes Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires
A Close Encounter Of The Undead Kind! Get sucked into a chilling
black hole of cosmic creepiness when an evil alien race zeroes in on a
crew of unsuspecting astronauts, turning them into zonked-out zombies!
Packed with space-age suspense and extraterrestrial terror, this eerily
photographed and electrifying thriller drips with an intoxicating,
feverish atmosphere of dread. A band of space travelers has just
intercepted a distress call from a distant world! Is it a desperate cry
for help... or something far more sinister? After landing on the shadowy
planet, the crew is attacked by a horde of disembodied aliens with a
diabolical plan: to conquer the universe by controlling the crew's minds
and stealing their souls-proving that even in outer space, possession
is 9/10 of the law! Directed by horror legend Mario Bava (Black Sunday,
Black Sabbath).
Daniela, a woman troubled from a childhood trauma, begins to have delusions that she is a werewolf. She spends her nights seducing and killing men, until she meets a kind man named Luca, who she falls in love with. Her happiness is short-lived when she is raped and Luca is killed, reverting her back to her werewolf delusions. Daniela gets her revenge by killing her rapists and Luca's killers.
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