Scream Factory have announced that they will release The Vincent Price Collection — which presents six of the horror icons movies on Blu-ray for the first time — on October 22.
The four-disc set will include 1960’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher, 1961’s The Pit And The Pendulum, 1963’s The Haunted Palace, 1964’s The Masque Of Red Death, 1968’s Witchfinder General, and 1971’s The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Scream Factory have announced that the original Assault On Precinct 13 will be released on Blu-ray on November 19.
Directed by John Carpenter of Halloween fame, the movie was originally released in 1976, two years before Carpenter made Halloween. It is described in the release thusly: “Isolated and cut off from the city inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station, a group of police officers and convicts must join forces to defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder, who have taken a blood oath to kill someone trapped inside the precinct.”
Along with the film, the Assault On Precinct 13 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray will come with a collectible and reversable cover that, on one side, features new but retro-style artwork.
It will also feature other extras, but in the release it says, “Bonus extras for this collection are still in development. Final bonus features will be announced as they become available.”
Assault On Precinct 13 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray is currently available from Amazon for preorder for $24.99.
Scream Factory have announced that they’ll release John Carpenter Presents Body Bags, a 1993 horror anthology film in the spirit of Creepshow, in a special edition DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on November 12.
According to the press release, the movie, “features John Carpenter as a creepy-looking coroner introducing a trilogy of blood-curdling tales: “The Gas Station” directed by Carpenter and starring Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds) and Alex Datcher (Passenger 57); “Hair” also directed by Carpenter and starring Stacy Keach (The Bourne Legacy); and “Eye,” directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) and starring Mark Hamill (Star Wars).”
“Young college student Anne ( Datcher) works the late shift at “The Gas Station” while a killer is on the loose. Then, middle-aged business man Richard Coberts (Keach) can’t stand the thought of losing his “Hair” and he’ll do anything to keep it. And finally, Brent Matthews (Hamill), a baseball player submits to an “Eye” transplant after he loses an eye in a car accident. After going through the revolutionary eye surgery, he ends up getting more than just his eye sight back.”
Along with the movie, the John Carpenter Presents Body Bags Collector’s Edition Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack will include the original trailer commentary by Carpenter and Carradine on “The Gas Station,” commentary by Carpenter and Keach on “Hair,” commentary “Eye” by producer Sandy King, and interviews with Carpenter, Keach, Carradine, and King.
John Carpenter Presents Body Bags Collector’s Edition Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack is currently available for preorder from Amazon for $26.94.
Criterion have announced that they will release Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman — a massive DVD/Blu-ray boxed set with the 25 Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973 — on November 26.
The collection, which will span 18 DVDs and 9 Blu-rays, marks the first time all 25 of these classic Zatoichi movies have been available in a single collection. It is the longest-running action series in Japanese film history (though this just begs the question, why did we never see Zatoichi Vs. Godzilla? Or Gozilla Vs. Zatoichi? Or Gozilla & Zatoichi Vs. The Smog Monster?).
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 8.
Along with the film, both the DVD and Blu-ray editions will include “A Father’s Legacy,” a featurette on stars Will and Jaden Smith; “1,000 Years In 300 Seconds,” an on-set featurette with the cast; “The Nature Of The Future” featurette, which looks at the environment and creatures in the movie; a digital copy of the film; and the winning video in the “XPRIZE After Earth” challenge, which, according to the release, had “teams from around the world submitted video proposals to address the global challenge of promoting a more sustainable way of living, as well as the steps they would take when using an unmanned rover to assess whether Nova Prime, mankinds potential new home, is inhabitable.”
In addition, the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack will alsoa previously unseen version of the film’s opening, a featurette on how the world was created, a look at how the action scenes were constructed, and a featurette with previously unseen animatics and storyboards.
No price was listed in the announcement, but Amazon currently has the DVD available for preoder for $27.89 and the DVD/BD combo pack for $32.39.
Warner Home Video have announced that the newest Superman movie, Man Of Steel, will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital formats on November 12.
Shout! Factory and Morgan Creek Productions have announced that an extended director’s cut of Clive Barker’s 1990 fantasy horror movie Nightbreed will be released next year on both physical and digital formats through Shout!’s imprint Scream Factory.
NECA have announced that they will release the fourth series of their Gremlins Mogwai action figures this November.
Since its release in 2010, the real-world superhero movie Kick-Ass has garnered a much-deserved cult following for its dark humor and darker action. And now its sequel picks up that mantle, in every conceivable way.