Rob Savage's horror film The Boogeyman based on Stephen King's short story of the same name will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 10. The film will be available at digital retailers on August 29th.
In this horror-thriller from the mind of Stephen King, two sisters — along with their therapist father — are reeling from their mother’s death. When a desperate patient comes to their home, he leaves behind a terrifying entity that feeds on its victims’ suffering.
The Blu-ray + Digital release will include a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack and supplements include:
Pre-orders should be available soon and here is the full press release:
.“A THRILLING STEPHEN KING ADAPTATION” – Jonathan Sim, Coming Soon
Be the first to watch The Boogeyman when it arrives exclusively on Digital August 29 and Blu-ray™ and DVD October 10
Watch new spot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_J276ZNi8c
BURBANK, CA (August 1, 2023) – Relive your most terrifying childhood fears when The Boogeyman, “the scariest horror film of the year” (Matt Donato, IGN) arrives at digital retail including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango/Vudu on August 29 and on Blu-ray and DVD October 10. Horror fans can add the film to their movie collection and access exclusive bonus features including a behind-the-scenes look into director Rob Savage’s vision for this frightening tale along with outtakes and more.
Film Synopsis
In this horror-thriller from the mind of Stephen King, two sisters — along with their therapist father — are reeling from their mother’s death. When a desperate patient comes to their home, he leaves behind a terrifying entity that feeds on its victims’ suffering.
Bonus Features*
• Into the Darkness Featurette – Open the door into the dark world of The Boogeyman as the cast and crew share how the terrifying tale, based on Stephen King's classic short story, was crafted.
• Outtakes – It’s not all just jump scares and bumps in the night. Join the cast for some lighthearted fun in the outtakes.
*Bonus features vary by product and retailer
Cast
Sophie Thatcher as Sadie Harper
Chris Messina as Will Harper
Vivien Lyra Blair as Sawyer Harper
Marin Ireland as Rita Billings
Madison Hu as Bethany
LisaGay Hamilton as Dr. Weller
David Dastmalchian as Lester Billings
Maddie Nichols as Natalie
Leeann Ross as Cassidy
Rio Machado as Anne
Shauna Rappold as Cara Harper
Cristala Carter as Detective Garland
Directed by
Rob Savage
Written by
Scott Beck
Bryan Woods
Mark Heyman
Produced by
Shawn Levy
Dan Levine
Dan Cohen
Music by
Patrick Jonsson
Based on the short story
“The Boogeyman” by Stephen King
Product Specifications
Release Date
Digital: August 29
Physical: October 10
Product SKUs
Digital: 4K UHD, HD, SD
Physical: Blu-ray (Blu-ray + Digital Code), DVD
Feature Run Time
Approx. 98 minutes
Rating
U.S. Rated PG-13
* Rated PG-13 for terror, violent content, teen drug use and some strong language.
Aspect Ratio
Digital: 2.35:1
Physical: 2.35:1
Disc Size
Blu-ray: 50GB
DVD: 8.5GB
U.S. Audio
Blu-ray: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, English AD 2.0 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital
DVD: English 5.1 Dolby, English AD 2.0 Dolby, Spanish 5.1 Dolby, French 5.1 Dolby
Digital: English 5.1 & 2.0 Dolby Digital, English Descriptive Audio 2.0 Dolby Digital (some platforms), Spanish 5.1 & 2.0 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 & 2.0 Dolby Digital
U.S. Subtitles
Blu-ray: English SDH, Spanish, French
DVD: English SDH, Spanish, French
Digital: English SDH, Spanish (some platforms), French (some platforms)
"Someday I'm gonna make great machines that fly. And me and my friends are gonna go flying together, into the forever and beautiful sky" - Rocket Raccoon, GOTG3
Just like that, July closes out and August begins. This week gives us Guardians of the Galaxy 3, James Dean, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Bueller.. Bueller.. Bueller and more.
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 9 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of July 30th - August 5th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
Import Monday begins with another Japanese Artwork Steelbook, this one is for The Meg. As Japanese Artwork Editions go, this is about the most non-Japanese Artwork Edtion looking cover thus far.
And this one shows sold out, a StudioCanal Vintage Classics Line release for Cross of Iron. You may be able to find this on Amazon US, Diabolik DVD or have to resort to the secondary market.
On to Domestic Tuesday, and the new release this week is for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. This one is available as a Standard Edition, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook and as a Walmart Exclusive.
Catalog titles next, let's begin with 2 Guns from Universal Pictures. Quite an all star cast on this one, and just like last week's slate, more Bill Paxton (minus the chickens)! There is also a SteelBook that has been added at the last second (no, Universal never adds them at the last second!)
If you are not a Disney Movie Club Member and did not shop the secondary market, Cinderella (1950) now gets a general release. This one is also available as a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook. Bippety Boppety Boo!
And another pair of "Disney 100" SteelBooks are also available this week from Best Buy with Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Frozen.
Let's talk classic film, or rather, a pair of them. First we get East of Eden, which stars Julie Harris, James Dean and Raymond Massey. When it comes to an expert opinion, I cannot do this film justice, so follow our link, read David's review, then purchase it via our link.
And next, follow the same workflow for Rio Bravo which stars John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. Read the review, make that purchase!
Next, a cult classic from Shout Factory, Clive Barker's Nightbreed.
This next one is sort of a double-dip, a release from the Universal Essentials Collection, The Big Lebowski: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition. Finally, a swag-filled set for a favorite film. And just like 2 Guns, a SteelBook has been added at the last second.
Next week, Fast X, Swamp Thing, Enter the Dragon and more!
Blu-ray counterparts of the above titles include the (likely) region B locked import for Cross of Iron from StudioCanal and likely a region-free domestic release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 from Disney.
I did mention it last week, this week's blu-ray calendar is an arid landscape. There are less than 10 actual previously unreleased skus.
New release from Universal, not to be confused with that Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon film from decades ago with a similar title, we drop the word The and give you River Wild. Reading the synopsis of both, they do sound quite similar.
Anime highlights include Black Summoner: The Complete Season and Vermeil in Gold - Complete Collection. Because we are really reaching, we will mention a few repackages here, Dragon Ball Z has new editions available; Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Season 8 and Season 9. And if you want the whole shebang in one box set, check out the Amazon Exclusive Set that is available too.
How about a comedy/crime film with Tina Fey and Jon Hamm? Yeah, that would be Maggie Moore(s).
From Shout Factory, Assault On Hill 400, a World War II based film.
Import Friday features several Imprint Films Director Collections:
Directed By… Sidney J. Furie (1970 – 1978) – Imprint Collection #231 – #235
Directed By… Walter Hill (1975 – 2006) – Imprint Collection #164 – #169
Film Focus: Gene Hackman (1970 – 1977) – Imprint Collection #236 – #239
Arrow Video has revealed their October slate. For the USA/Canada, look for Witness in both both blu-ray and 4K editions, The Iron-Fisted Monk blu-ray and The Desperate Hours blu-ray. For the UK, Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment in blu-ray and 4K edition, as well as an Arrow Video store exclusive, and The House by the Cemetery, both blu-ray and 4K editions, and, yup, an Arrow Video store exclusive too/
Paramount will be releasing Scream 3 as a 4K and 4K SteelBook, as well as a Scream 4K trilogy. Seeing as how we just bought Scream VI, hopefully the studio fills in the gaps to our 4K library.
Universal will be releassing American Graffiti to 4K and 4K SteelBook on November 17th, shortly after a theatrical run.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
As previously reported, The Criterion Collection and Janus Films are teaming up to produce a new series of Blu-rays. The first three are coming this October are all from 2022: Jerzy Skolimowski's EO, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, and Louis Garrel' The Innocent.
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess (Isabelle Huppert) and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by Michał Dymek coupled with Paweł Mykietyn’s resonant score, EO presents the follies and triumphs of humankind from the perspective of its four-legged protagonist on a quest for freedom.
SPECIAL FEATURES
No Bears - Janus Contemporaries
One of the world’s great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears—completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022—Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal. As he struggles to complete his feature, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, as well as the universal desire to reject oppression.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The Innocent - Janus Contemporaries
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel’s The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel (Roschdy Zem). Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clémence (Noémie Merlant), Abel’s brazen coworker, who convinces him to take part in the heist. Directing from a screenplay he cowrote (with Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet), Garrel explores the comedic results of playacting’s intrusion into reality, as well as reality’s comedic tendency to transform us into what we never thought we could be.
SPECIAL FEATURES
We will update with preorder links as soon as they become available and all three titles will be available on Blu-ray on October 17th.
In case you have missed any of our recent announcements, we've provided an abridged version here for your convenience. It also includes some of the titles that we think you might find interesting that have recently been added to the release calendar.
Speeding its way to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray on August 8 is Universal's Fast X starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Jason Momoa, and many more. The 10th film in The Fast and the Furious franchise is directed by Louis Leterrier and will also have a Walmart exclusive as well as a SteelBook only at Best Buy.
On September 12, Lionsgate and Walmart will be wrapping up some horror flicks in Blu-ray SteelBooks just in time for Halloween. Choose from The Leprechaun Collection, Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy, Rob Zombie's Halloween 1 & 2, Blair Witch & The Blair Witch Project, and Saw 1-8.
We've also added to our release calendar 4K Blu-ray SteelBooks for William Friedkin's horror classic The Exorcist from Warner Brothers, and for those afraid of heights - Netflix and Lionsgate's thriller Fall.. Both arrive on September 19 only at Best Buy.
Lionsgate doesn't stop there, on August 7 they will be reissuing the 2013 novel-inspired science fiction action-adventure Ender's Game starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in a Best Buy exclusive SteelBook.
Warner Brothers has revealed that they are prepping a 30th anniversary edition of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. The 4K UHD Blu-ray + Digital package will include a fully remastered HDR/SDR transfer and audio as well with a September 12 release date.
RLJ Entertainment has a slew of SteelBooks coming exclusively to Walmart this fall: Werewolves Within, Vesper, PG: Psycho Goreman, and Bone Tomahawk on Blu-ray, as well as Arizona, Color Out of Space, and The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot on 4K UHD Blu-ray. The SteelBooks will hit stores on November 14.
Two more erotic horrors from sleaze-maestro Jean Rollin have been announced by Powerhouse Films for limited edition home video releases. Fascination will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray and Lips of Blood will also be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray. They will be available on October 24.
Imprint has six more Blu-rays for their library. They are: The Orphanage (2007), Wind Chill (2007), Bug (2006), The Skeleton Key (2005), The Mad Room (1969), and Night of the Eagle (1962). All six limited edition Blu-rays will be available in early November.
And finally, The Criterion Collection and Janus Films' new Janus Contemporaries line is coming this fall beginning with Jerzy Skolimowski's EO, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, and Louis Garrel' The Innocent on Blu-ray. The three releases will hit stores October 17.
That's all we have for now so until next time...Have a great weekend!
Your collection of guilty pleasure exploitation and sexploitation titles is about to get a whole lot... bigger!
Do you remember going to your local video rental shop back in the day and there was that mysterious adjacent room just past the Horror section full of "Adult Only" titles? Back then the only thing that separated you from those alluring flicks was a soft velvety curtain. For fans of classic exploitation and sexploitation cinema, you may just want to recreate that fabled room in your home complete with curtain and red twinkle lights now that Vinegar Syndrome and Distribpix are joining forces to bring some of the biggest, best, and kinkiest titles to home video!
Full details of which titles haven't been fully hashed out but we're talking about hundreds of titles potentially coming to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - let alone picking up their very first disc releases ever! With a new distribution partner comes some exciting new labels populating the already broad swath of genres and labels under the Vinegar Syndrome umbrella.
Take a look at the press release for all the details:
Bridgeport, Connecticut - Vinegar Syndrome is excited to announce an exclusive distribution partnership with legendary NYC-based exploitation and sexploitation producer and distributor, Distribpix Inc.
This partnership will bring Distribpix’s extensive catalog of close to 300 feature films to Home Video, including countless never-on-disc titles as well as classic exploitation films from genre masters such as Michael and Roberta Findlay, the Amero Brothers, Joe Sarno, Chuck Vincent, Radley Metzger, Ron Sullivan, and Shaun Costello, among dozens more. Additionally, Distribpix’s unprecedented archive of key 1960s and early 70s exploitation rarities, many of which have been completely unavailable since the VHS and early DVD era, will, at last, be making their return to disc, all newly restored and presented in the type of deluxe, collector-centric editions that both Distribpix and Vinegar Syndrome are known for creating.
Vinegar Syndrome co-founder Joe Rubin, in describing the collaboration said, “Vinegar Syndrome and Distribpix have worked together before Vinegar Syndrome existed. This venture has been a long time coming and I couldn’t be more excited to be working on preserving, restoring and releasing this collection. So many of the best and most significant sexploitation and early hardcore features were produced by Distribpix and it is an honor to finally be able to consider them part of the Vinegar Syndrome family.”
Head of Distribpix Inc, Steven Morowitz responded “The gang at Vinegar Syndrome is wonderful; they opened their doors and welcomed me into their family. I am honored and grateful for this opportunity and together we are going to produce some absolutely amazing packages. Vinegar Syndrome is the best at what they do, from the highest quality restorations, to top-notch physical releases, so this really is a perfect match and the best spot for Distribpix. Our companies not only thrive on excellent restorations and releasing, but there is a major emphasis on film preservation and archiving, which was equally attractive to me.”
While schedule specifics are still being worked out, Radley Metzger and Gerard Kikoine’s, The Tale of Tiffany Lust (1981), starring Veronica Hart, Vanessa Del Rio, Desiree Cousteau, Samantha Fox, George Payne, and Dominique St Clair, will be making its world 4K UHD and Blu-Ray debut late this summer, while Michael Findlay’s notorious Flesh Trilogy is being prepared for a Blu-Ray release this fall, in partnership with Something Weird Video. Additionally, the Command Cinema line which has been distributed by Distribpix for the last several years will also be joining the Distribpix/Vinegar Syndrome family and will see both Blu-ray and 4K debuts of producer/director, Cecil Howard’s acclaimed erotica.
This monumental merger coincides with the launch of Mélusine, a new online marketplace for premium home video editions of sexploitation and hardcore cinema primarily produced during both genres’ golden ages: the early 1960s through the late 1980s. In addition to serving as the new retail home for Command Cinema, several other brandings will be launched:
Mélusine, which will serve as the flagship brand, will offer deluxe 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo pack editions of some of the landmark works in hardcore theatrical features, with an emphasis on works by the genre’s most acclaimed filmmakers.
Quality X, the name of which pays homage to what was one of the most esteemed early home video distributors of erotic entertainment, will offer single film Blu-ray editions of standout and hidden gem theatrical hardcore features from around the globe.
Distribpix itself will become home to all things sexploitation, pulling from both Vinegar Syndrome and Distribpix’s vast libraries and ranging from the earliest nudie cuties all the way through the tail end of theatrical softcore. Releases will be single, double and triple feature Blu-rays.
Finally, Vinegar Syndrome’s acclaimed hardcore feature branding, Peekarama, will continue to offer double feature Blu-rays of hardcore films in all genres. In keeping with Vinegar Syndrome and Distribpix’s focus on film preservation, releases under all branding will meet the highest standards in presentation quality and the most comprehensive available extras.
The union between the two companies will produce the widest and most diverse catalog of exploitation, sexploitation, and classic hardcore features, available on disc anywhere in the world.
"Ray Malcolm? That's my brother's boy. I gotta finish feedin' these chickens. It's gettin' hot as hell around here at noontime." ( Old Man Malcolm - One False Move)
If you are in the market for 4K titles, this week definitely has a few to pick from. From a new DC animated, we also get Needful Things, get married to an axe murderer, World War Z gets upgraded, more Bill Paxton and much more! Now if you are looking for blu-ray this week, prepare to deflate your wallet because there are close to 100 skus to pick from!
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 8 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of July 23rd - July 29th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
As far as New Releases this week, Sony brings us a SteelBook of Resident Evil: Death Island.
Next, we get another DC animated title from Warner Bros, Justice League: Warworld.
Moving on to catalog titles, in alphabetical order (more or less) let's start with a horror titled Black Magic Rites from Powerhouse Films. Be aware that the blu-ray is delayed a month, I expect this to be delayed as well.
From Vinegar Syndrome and their related partner labels, we get general releases of The Boogey Man, Effects, Night Screams and Undefeatable. Site exclusives of Gorgo and Terror at Tenkiller, which are only available direct from their site, and typically become general releases on Amazon and other merchants 2 months later.
Another appreciated boutique label, Kino Lorber brings us Needful Things.
Criterion Collection releases One False Move this week, a crime/thriller with Bill Paxton. Since Paxton's death, it's nice to see more of his films on disc, 4K no less!
Sony Pictures has So I Married an Axe Murderer, a romcom thriller.
Shout! Factory upgrades World War Z to 4K this week.
Not quite a double-dip, Paramount releases The War of the Worlds (1953). This go round it's just the single film package with no bonus blu-ray for When World Collide.
Next week, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, GOTG3, James Dean and Dean Martin classics, more Disney 100 SteelBooks, and so much more!
Blu-ray counterparts of the above releases include Resident Evil: Death Island from Sony Pictures, Justice League: Warworld from Warner Bros, Needful Things from Kino Lorber and One False Move from Criterion.
The remainder of this category is very crowded this week even when we omit any reissues. Doing our best to bring the highlights, the daunting task of where to begin starts now.
Arrow Video presents Blood Money - Four Western Classics Vol. 2. No doubt another top rated presentation from Arrow.
New sports documentary titled It Ain't Over. With a cast of Yogi Berra, Bob Costas, Billy Crystal, Joe Garagiola, Derek Jeter and Vin Scully, this one sounds interesting.
Anime highlights include The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm, Animal Treasure Island, High School of the Dead Complete Collection, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Complete Collection and Sailor Moon S: Complete Third Season.
TV on disc includes just Gangs of London: Season Two. Feast or famine is what this category is all about.
Warner Archive Collection's primary drop of July titles is this week and the titles are The Broadway Melody (1929), Cimarron (1931), Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), Helen of Troy (1956) and The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954).
The general release for Robot Monster - 3-D is available this week.
The next Vestron Video Collector's Series release, My Best Friend is a Vampire debuts to blu-ray this week via LionsGate.
Honorable Mention: Barring any last second delay, Screen Media/Cinedigm has a special interest release that sounds intriguing, Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.
Next week in this category, a polar opposite. Aside from the reissues, there are probably less than ten titles.
Criterion Collection has announced their October 2023 slate, and although there are no Halloween themed movies, it is quite a list nonetheless. Check out the news story here.
A24 has an over the top collector's edition for Everything Everywhere All at Once, both blu-ray and 4K releases with an August 7 street date. The A24 shop uses the same page for blu-ray and 4K versions, just be certain which version you are proceeding with before checking out.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
It isn't the Halloween season without a bunch of slick repackages of our favorite horror movies!
We all have a favorite scary movie... well, maybe more than one. In some cases, we have entire franchises we obsessively collect. Being dutiful physical media fanatics, chances are pretty good we've already bought them a time or two. But when Lionsgate and Walmart team up to give us slick new packaging of our old favorites - what's one more copy right? Leprechaun, Firefly Family, Halloween, Saw, and the Blair Witch are each getting new multi-film Blu-ray SteelBooks and I gotta say as someone who already owns most of these, it's damned tempting to pick them up again with the really fun artwork updates. Each of these SteelBooks should hit store shelves on September 12th.
Leprechaun Collection - Walmart Blu-ray SteelBook
Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy - Walmart Blu-ray SteelBook
Rob Zombie's Halloween I & II - Walmart Blu-ray SteelBook
Blair Witch & The Blair Witch Project - Walmart Blu-ray SteelBook
Saw Collection 1-8 - Walmart Blu-ray SteelBook
All of these are up and ready to pre-order - Happy Collecting!
Below is the full press release:
Only at Walmart
SteelBooks® in Blu-ray™ + Digital multi-film available 9/12/23
SAW 1-8 Blu-ray™ + Digital multi-film SteelBook® SRP: $49.99
Leprechaun 1-8 Blu-ray™ + Digital multi-film SteelBook® SRP: $49.99
Rob Zombie Triple Feature Blu-ray™ + Digital multi-film SteelBook® SRP: $39.99
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 & 2 Double Feature Blu-ray™ + Digital
multi-film SteelBook® SRP: $34.99
Blair Witch and The Blair Witch Project Double Feature Blu-ray™ + Digital
multi-film SteelBook® SRP: $34.99
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Curate the ultimate horror collection before Halloween when these exclusive SteelBooks® arrive September 12th from Lionsgate at a Walmart near you on Blu-ray™ + Digital. Each frightful SteelBook® memorializes these iconic titles through an all-new stylized and ageless look, with artwork created by the artist Bond. The featured titles include SAW 1-8 for the suggested retail price of $49.99, Leprechaun 1-8 for the suggested retail price of $49.99, Rob Zombie Triple Feature (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and 3 from Hell) for the suggested retail price of $39.99, Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II Double Feature for the suggested retail price of $34.99, and Blair Witch Project Double Feature for the suggested retail price of $34.99.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
Celebrate the scariest time of year – Halloween – with a set of spine-tingling, hair-raising SteelBooks®! Lionsgate’s series of Walmart-exclusive Blu-rayTM + Digital multi-film SteelBooks®, inspired by the vivid, eye-catching artwork of vintage pulp novels, rises from the grave on September 12. Included in this collection are the terror-tinged The Blair Witch Project and its evil twin, Blair Witch; the reimagined Halloween I & II and unhinged Firefly trilogy (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and 3 from Hell) from fright master Rob Zombie; and an 8-film round of repulsion care of SAW (including Jigsaw) and the devilish hijinks of the Leprechaun. It’s an endless SteelBook® scare-a-thon!
CAST
Tobin Bell Mississippi Burning, The Firm
Warwick Davis Willow, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Sheri Moon Zombie The Munsters, The Lords of Salem
Sid Haig The Big Bird Cage, Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
Tyler Mane Penance Lane, Playing with Fire
Heather Donahue Seven and a Match, TV’s “Taken”
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Year of Production: Various
Title Copyright: See below for all titles
SAW 1-8: SAW © 2004 Saw Productions. SAW II, SAW III, SAW IV, SAW V, SAW VI, SAW: The Final Chapter, Jigsaw © 2005-2017, Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, ™ & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Leprechaun 1-8: Leprechaun, Leprechaun 2, Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4 in Space, Leprechaun in the Hood © 1992-1999 Trimark Pictures, Inc. Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood © 2003 Lions Gate Films Inc. Leprechaun: Origins © 2013 Lions Gate Films Inc. and WWE Studios, Inc. Leprechaun Returns © 2018 Leprechaun Returns. Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, TM & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Rob Zombie Triple Feature: House of 1000 Corpses © 2002 House of 1,000 Corpses, LLC, The Devil’s Rejects © 2005 Cinelamda Internationale Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. 1 Beteiligungs-KG, 3 from Hell © 2019, Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, TM & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II Double Feature: Halloween © 2007, Halloween II © 2009, Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, TM & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Blair Witch Double Feature: The Blair Witch Project © 1999 Blair Witch Film Partners, Ltd. “The Blair Witch Project” and “Stickman” are the registered trademarks and service marks of Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Artwork & Supplementary Materials ®, TM & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Blair Witch © 2016, Artwork & Supplementary Materials ® & © 2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc.
Genre: Horror
Type: Catalog Re-Release
Rating: SAW 1-8: Unrated; Leprechaun 1-8 R; Rob Zombie Triple Feature: House of 1000 Corpses R, The Devil’s Rejects Unrated, 3 from Hell Unrated; Rob Zombie’s Halloween I & II Double Feature Unrated; Blair Witch Project Double Feature R
Genre: Horror
Closed-Captioned: N/A
Blu-ray™ Subtitles: Various
Blu-ray™ Format: Various
Blu-ray™ Audio: Various
Artist Information: Bond
With Prime Day in the rearview, and other retailers also having tried to get a piece of the pie, how well did you do? Yes, Movies and TV is my primary category on Prime Day, but Books, Toys and Games and Computers & Accessories always gets a look from me. You? Amazon announced they had their best Prime Day event ever.
For 4K this week we get a most excellent Bruce Lee import, that Evil Dead Rise SteelBook I told you to wait for, TWO Criterion releases, and so much more.
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 7 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of July 16th - July 22nd, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
Import Monday new release begins with Evil Dead Rise in a SteelBook package, the US domestic release of a standard case edition was a couple of weeks ago.
No waiting a couple of weeks for the SteelBook release of The Last of Us: The Complete First Season, and our links bring you over to Amazon UK.
Import Catalog title of Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest should grab your attention. Some of Bruce Lee's finest work, all in 4K. At present, the US market is only getting Enter The Dragon in 4K on August 8th, and I really doubt the rest of these films will, so it might be wise to import this set. Alternately, the Arrow Video Store has their store exclusive set for purchase as well.
Moving on to Domestic Tuesday, there's one new release, HBO's The Last of Us: The Complete First Season. Best I can tell, there is no digital copy included in this set, so go with whichever case/cover art you prefer. It would be ironic that a TV series based on a video game would be played on a gaming console that the actual game is installed on. Be careful, you might cause dimensional paradox right there.
Criterion Collection has Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, a new-wave crime film.
TWO Criterion 4K releases the same week? Yup, next let's snatch The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher, a collection of five Western films from director Budd Boetticher starring Randolph Scott. With the Barnes & Noble Criterion Sale going on right now, almost every one of these Criterion titles is half price at B & N physical stores, online, and on Amazon.com as well.
From Arrow Video, 2011's Martin Scorsese hit Hugo gets a 4K upgrade. This one has the 3D disc inside as well.
Universal releases Les Misérables (2012). If you can figure out the formula in which Uni uses to determine which releases they do themselves and which ones Shout! Factory gets to do, you might be on to something, please let us know.
Kino Lorber keeps cranking out what movie buffs want, this week William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A..
Next week more Resident Evil, another DC animated, more Kino, more in general!
Blu-ray counterparts of the above titles include The Last of Us: The Complete First Season from HBO, Hugo 2D/3D from Arrow Video and To Live and Die in L.A. from Kino Lorber.
Look for some fresh comedy from LionsGate titled Fool's Paradise.
New romcom from Sony Pictures with Love Again.
Delayed from a couple of weeks ago, Land of the Pharaohs is now available from Warner Archive. Reading David's review makes me chuckle, an exposed navel was considered obscene back then.
TV on disc includes Moonhaven: Season One and South Park: Seasons 21-25.
Anime highlights include The Devil Is a Part-Timer!: Season 2, Medaka Box (Seasons 1 & 2) Complete Collection and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.
In the zero-day advance notice category (I'm sure you can tell I am talking about Universal again!), action/thriller Kandahar with Gerard Butler comes to blu-ray. Can't say for certain if this film merits a 4K disc, but undoubtedly the digital release will be 4K and in general, this type of movie would sell as a 4K disc.
Honorable Mention: Kino's Audie Murphy Collection II is available this week.
Next week, if you shop a lot of blu-rays, Tuesday alone currently has just under a hundred skus listed, prepare yourself!
East of Eden 4K and Rio Bravo 4K got moved to August 1st. Warner Bros has seemingly done this a fair amount of times for older catalog titles, no doubt for all the right reasons.
Warner Bros has announced the 2023 film for The Flash to have a disc street date of August 29th.
LionsGate has announced Tim Story's The Blackening to disc release on August 22.
Although not officially announced, Fast X appears on track, on, track, for an August 8th street date. Expect an announcement by August 5th.
Parts 4-7 of the Chucky movies have been pushed back a month to August 29.
Last week, the SAG joined the WGA in a strike. How is this going to affect the entertainment industry in general?
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
While Disney/20th Century Studios waits for the perfect time to release the long-rumored and over-due James Cameron classic, The Abyss, you can order Roger Corman's knockoff right now from Shout! Factory!
If you can't get The Abyss on Blu-ray, go ahead and grab yourself a copy of Leviathan. If that doesn't suit you, well shoot for Deep Star Six. And if that's not enough, strike for your third-best option - Lords of the Deep! As they said in Superman: The Movie the Son becomes the Father, and the Father becomes the Son. And so too goes the world of filmmaking. James Cameron who got his start working visual effects and directing Piranha II: The Spawning for Roger Corman, Corman would go on to rip off his former protege with 1989's daffy science fiction aquatic epic Lords of the Deep. Directed by Mary Ann Fisher and starring Priscilla Barnes and a joyfully over-the-top Bradford Dillman, the film is a nonsensical masterpiece of schlock that was also (partially) shot by famed cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. The fishy alien flick also features some genuinely impressive visual effects work from Robert and Dennis Skotak - who also did effects work on James Cameron's Aliens, The Abyss, and Terminator 2 among numerous other productions.
And now Lords of the Deep beats fan-favorite, much-desired, The Abyss to Blu-ray! Due to ship on July 25th, this release is limited to 1500 copies and carries a lumpy price tag of about $30 before shipping. On top of a new 2K scan, the disc sports DTS-HD MA mono audio, trailer, and the hilarious 12-season Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode!
These cult classics move fast so get that order in while you can!
It's here. The 48 hours we fear the most, dreading with every fiber of our being...
The financial apocalypse that is Prime Day is upon us once again promising any number of great deals on everything from toilet paper stands and bidets to bone-conducting headphones to deals on cheap accessories for cats. But for physical media collectors, it's the dreaded opportunity to stock up on some titles we held back grabbing in hopes of a good deal. Now those deals are here, and your financial standing may never survive. On top of the rapid-fire lightning deals on recent releases and favorite titles at big discounts, Amazon has a range of great deals on a slew of titles including big recent releases to complete series collections to guilty favorite titles on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.
We're going to do some hunting for you by section and here are some of the best deals we've spotted so far:
Lord of the Rings The Motion Picture Trilogy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $39.99
James Bond: Daniel Craig 5-Film Collection 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $34.99
Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection Blu-ray - $19.99
Top Gun: Maverick 2-Film Collection 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $26.99
The Flintstones The Complete Series Blu-ray - $29.99
The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Blu-ray - $14.99
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $34.99
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 2 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray - $34.99
Sonic The Hedgehog 2-Movie SteelBook 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $26.99
Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 11-Film Collection 4K ultra HD Blu-ray - $149.49
Game of Thrones The Complete Series 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $99.99
The Godfather 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook - $16.49
The Godfather Part II 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook - $15.99
The Godfather: Coda The Death of Michael Corleone 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook - $12.99
The Untouchables 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook - $17.99
The Bionic Woman Complete Series Blu-ray - $89.99
Supernatural: The Complete Series Blu-ray - $129.99
Space 1999 Complete Series Blu-ray - $52.24
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series Blu-ray - $49.99
Smallville: The Complete Series Blu-ray - $84.99
Charmed: The Complete Series Blu-ray - $89.99
Justified: The Complete Series Blu-ray - $92.49
Dune (2021) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.49
Casablanca 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $11.99
The Maltese Falcon 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - 14.99
The Thing 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $10.99
Event Horizon 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $15.99
Dragonheart 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $18.49
Freaky 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $18.99
Used Cars 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $20.41
Nope 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $11.99
Jaws: 45th Anniversary Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $15.99
Rebel Without A Cause 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray $14.99
The Lost Boys 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray $11.99
1917 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.49
Cool Hand Luke 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $14.99
Poltergeist 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $11.99
Godzilla 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99
The Meg 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99
Braveheart 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $12.99
Highlander 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $13.49
The Suicide Squad 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $11.49
The Outsiders 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $18.99
Old Henry 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $16.99
The Last Detail 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $17.99
The Green Mile 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $10.99
Spartacus 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $13.00
Training Day 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $14.24
Scott Pilgrim Saves The World 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99
The Whale Blu-ray - $10.99
Clerks III Blu-ray - $7.96
Candyman III Day of the Dead Blu-ray - $4.99
Fall Blu-ray - $8.49
Warlock Collection (3-Films) Blu-ray - $16.49
House of 1000 Corpses 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray - $32.45
Without Remorse Blu-ray - $10.99
Big Night Blu-ray - $13.99
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Blu-ray - $15.99
Now obviously there's a bunch more great discs out there waiting to take up space on your shelves - and this is only Day One! Tomorrow may see more new deals!
