H.P. Lovecraft’s 'Re-Animator' - Stuart Gordon’s seminal 'outrageous, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting, exhilarating' horror – is set for Dual 4K UHD/Blu-ray Limited Edition and Standard Editions on 15 December 2025

H.P. LOVECRAFT’S

RE-ANIMATOR

Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray

&

Standard Editions 4K UHD & Blu-ray

Arrive 15 December 2025

One of the most celebrated, outrageous and original 1980s horror films – Re-Animator – is being revived thanks to Second Sight Films, with the highly anticipated release of Stuart Gordon’s seminal film on Dual 4K UHD/Bluray Limited Edition and Standard Editions this winter. 

Get ready to see H.P. Lovecraft’s terrifying tale – produced by Brian Yuzna and starring Jeffrey Combs (The Frighteners, Star Trek: Deep Space 9), Bruce Abbott (Interzone, The Bride of Re-Animator) and queen of horror Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, You’re Next) – in all its gory glory, alongside a bloody bucketload of special 

features. 

The horror classic will be released on 15 December 2025, in a barnstorming new Box Set presented in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi and a fascinating essay filled 120-page book. It includes a dual format three-disc edition including one UHD and two Blu-rays, with main feature and bonus features on both discs. Special features include The Integral Version in HD, a new audio commentary and a slew of archive

commentaries, interviews and features. Please see full list below.

Brilliant, if somewhat deranged, medical student Herbert West (Combs) arrives at Miskatonic Medical School and is not impressed by his professor’s outdated views on death. West has his own outlandish theories and 

when he discovers a serum that can re-animate dead flesh, all hell breaks loose. 

Roping in fellow student Dan Cain (Abott) and his girlfriend Megan Halsey (Crampton), their shocking 

experiments work all too well with horrific results, and it isn’t long until the campus is overrun by the undead, placing the faculty and fellow students in devastatingly disturbing danger.

Bring your collection back to life with the dead good Re-Animator Dual Limited Edition, another must-have set from Second Sight Films.

Special Features

• UHD Presented in HDR with Dolby Vision approved by producer Brian Yuzna

• Dual format three-disc edition including one UHD and two Blu-rays with main feature and bonus features on both discs

• Includes ‘The Integral Version’ in HD

• New Audio Commentary by Eddie Falvey

• Audio Commentary with director Stuart Gordon

• Audio Commentary with producer Brian Yuzna and Actors Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Robert 

Sampson

• The Cosmic Horror of HP Lovecraft: a video essay by Mike Muncer

• Re-Animator at 40: conversation with actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and Producer Brian Yuzna

• Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator: an interview with editor Lee Percy

• Suzie Sorority and The Good College Boy: an interview with actor Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

• The Horror of it All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator

• Barbara Crampton in Conversation

• A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema

• Re-Animator Resurrectus

• Interview with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna

• Interview with writer Dennis Paoli

• Interview with composer Richard Band

• Interview with former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone

• Extended Scenes

• Deleted Scene

• Theatrical Trailer

• TV Spots Still

• Gallery

Limited Edition Contents

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi

• 120-page book with new essays by Sean Abley, Becky Darke, Lindsay Hallam, Josh Hurtado, Michelle Kisner, Justin 

LaLiberty, Phil Nobile Jr and Heather Wixson

• Six collectors' art cards

Title: Re-Animator Limited Edition Dual 4K UHD/Blu-ray

Release Date: 15 December 2025

Cat.No.: 2NDBR4274 

Run Time: 86 mins

Cert: 18 

Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/Re-AnimatorLtdEd

Region: Free

Title: Re-Animator Standard 4K/UHD 

Release Date: 15 December 2025

Cat.No.: 2NDBR4276 

Run Time: 86 mins 

Cert: 18 

Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/Re-AnimatorUHD

Region: Free 

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Announces One Battle After Another

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

From Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson and Starring Academy Award Winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the Film Becomes Available Digitally for the First Time at Home

“One Battle After Another” Debuts in the U.S. and Canada on Digital on November 14

4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD arrive on January 20

Collectible Steelbook with Special Features available Spring 2026

“One Battle After Another”, the latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, debuts Digitally at home on November 14. From Warner Bros. Pictures comes “One Battle After Another,” written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Academy Award and BAFTA winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti.

Anderson directs from his own screenplay. The producers are Oscar and BAFTA nominees Adam Somner and Sara Murphy and Anderson, with Will Weiske executive producing.

The creative team behind the camera includes several frequent collaborators, among them director of photography Michael Bauman; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning production designer Florencia Martin; BAFTA-nominated editor Andy Jurgensen; Oscar and BAFTA-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood; casting director Cassandra Kulukundis; and Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated composer Jonny Greenwood.

Audiences can also still experience “One Battle After Another” in theaters.

On November 14, “One Battle After Another” will be available Digitally at home on participating digital platforms, including AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, and more.

On January 20, “One Battle After Another” will be available to own on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from online and physical retailers. “One Battle After Another” will also continue to be available in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.

In Spring 2026, “One Battle After Another” will be available to own on in collectible steelbook packaging in 4K UHD from online and physical retailers. The collectible steelbook will include a bonus disc with special features created by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Washed-up stoner dad, Bob, (DiCaprio) exists in a state of paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti).  When his evil nemesis (Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

SPECIAL FEATURES

- The “One Battle After Another” 4K UHD collectible steelbook (available Spring 2026) will contain a bonus disc with special features created by Anderson. (Note: The 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD contain no special features.)

Premium Digital: November 14

4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: January 20

4K UHD collectible steelbook with special features: Spring 2026

4K Languages: English, Canadian French, Latin Spanish, Italian, German 

4K Subtitles: English SDH, Parisian French, Latin Spanish, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish 

BD Languages: English, Canadian French, Latin Spanish

BD Subtitles: English SDH, Parisian French, Latin Spanish

DVD Languages: English, Canadian French, Latin Spanish, Japanese

DVD Subtitles: English SDH, Parisian French, Latin Spanish, Japanese, Complex Chinese

Running Time: 162 minutes

Rating: R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content, and drug use

DVD: DLBY/DGTL

4K UHD and Blu-ray: ATMOS TrueHD, DLBY/DGTL

 

THE EPITAPH VOL. 105 - BRIEF REMEMBRANCES OF THE RECENTLY RELEASED!

BRIEF REMEMBRANCES OF THE RECENTLY RELEASED

VOL. 105 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 7-FILM COLLECTION

(1984-1994) - ROBOT CHICKEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES (2095-2021) - F1: THE MOVIE (2025) - THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR  (1991) - TULSA TERRORS (2024) - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975) 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 7-FILM COLLECTION
(1984-1994) 4K Ultra HD + Digital 

The finger-knives nightmare that is Freddy Krueger has been a long time coming to 4K UHD, but it finally happened. Last year we got the film film as a standalone release, but now we have all seven film of the original films have finally gotten gorgeous 4K remasters with Dolby Atmos audio and HDR10 color-grading. Was it worth the wait, of course! The 4K upgrades look fantastic, blowing away the previous Blu-ray set with more depth and clarity, the colors are truer, the blacks are deeper, the whites are crisper, and the blood, gory special effects and Freddy's burned visage have never look better, it was literally like seeing these again for the first time, which is just a gift to horror fans. The set includes the uncut versions of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Dream Child, the alternate ending of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare with anaglyph 3D and complete with 3D glasses in the physical collection. We also get a full compliment of archival extras, plus new extras by way of the 8-min Boiler Room Confessional , the 8-min Freddy's Footnotes and the newly unearthed archival Becoming a Filmmaker with Wes Craven that was apparently never included on any other release. I do wish we got new audio commentaries and more substantive new extras, but the new restorations look terrific. The 7-disc 4K set arrives in a large black keepcase with flipper trays housing the seven discs, and we get a single pair of 3D anaglyph glasses branded with the Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare logo, plus a redemption code for a digital 4K copy all 7 films, and a slipcover with the same artwork.  

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 91 Minutes 10 Second (Theatrical), 91 Minutes 19 Seconds (Uncut)

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (True HD 7.1), DTS-HD MA Original Theatrical 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Wes Craven 

Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakely, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Can your nightmares be fatal? In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred man who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killers' teenaged children ... And the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep. Read our review for the first film here. 

Special Features:

- Ready Freddy Focus Points (18:13) 

- Audio Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronnie Blakely, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher.

- Audio Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin.

- Alternate Endings (4:58) 

- The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror (21:52) 

- Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street (49:54) 

- Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares (15:33) 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE (1985) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 85 Minutes 32 Seconds 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (True HD 7.1), DTS-HD MA Original Theatrical 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Jack Sholder 

Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Galager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund

Producers: Robert Shaye

Synopsis: Freddy's back...and he wants revenge. When teenager Jesse Walsh moves to Elm Street, Freddy Krueger starts appearing in his nightmares. This time Freddy takes possession of Jesse's body whenever the teenager falls asleep, using Jesse to kill ... and there's nothing Jesse can do to stop him.

Special Features:

- Freddy on 8th Street (5:28) 

- Heroes and Villains (6:22)  

- The Male Witch (2:46) 

- Psychosexual Circus (3:26: 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS (1987) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration:  86 Minutes 22 Seconds 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1), DTS HD-MA 2.0 Theatrical Stereo with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Chuck Russell 

Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, John Saxon, Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Freddy Krueger invades the minds of a new group of teens ... and the nightmares begin again. When local teenagers start dying, only Nancy Thompson knows the truth. Now a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, she is the lone survivor of one of Freddy's previous killing sprees. Now, it's a fight against her co-workers' disbelief and a race against time to stop Freddy before he kills again.

Special Features:

- Behind the Story: Burnout (3:38) 

- Behind the Story: Fan Mail (0:45) 

- Behind the Story: The House that Freddy Built

- Behind the Story: Onward Christian Soldiers (9:01) 

- Behind the Story: Snakes and Ladders (6:04) 

- Behind the Story: That’s Showbiz (2:00) 

- Behind the Story: Trading 8’s (4:09) 

- Dokken Dream Warriors Music Video (5:05) 

 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER (1988) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 93 Minutes 14 Seconds 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1), DTS HD-MA 2.0 Theatrical Stereo with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Renny Harlan

Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Tuesday Knight, Brooke Theiss, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Andras Jones 

Synopsis: Freddy Kreuger resurrects--hideously scarred--and returns to haunt the dreams of the teenaged children of the people who lynched him. It's just a nightmare ... but a nightmare that can kill in this tale of terror.

Special Features:

- The Finnish Line (2:27) 

- Krueger, Freddy Krueger (8:06) 

- Hopeless Chest (3:45) 

- Let’s Makeup (2:20) 

 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD (1989) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 90 Minutes 2 Seconds (Uncut) 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1), DTS HD-MA 2.0 Theatrical Stereo with Optional English Subtitles  

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Stephen Hopkins 

Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox

Synopsis: For five years, a walking nightmare named Freddy Krueger has haunted their sleep--seeking revenge for the horribly disfiguring death he suffered at the hands of the children's parents. Now, through the dreams of an unborn child, Freddy has resurrected himself ... and he's looking for new victims.

Special Features:

- Behind the Story: Womb Raiders (6:25) 

- Behind the Story: The Sticky Floor (5:44) 

- Behind the Story: Take the Stairs (0:56) 

- Behind the Story: Hopkins Directs (0:35) 

- Behind the Story: A Slight Miscalculation (1:26) 

 

FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1), DTS HD-MA 2.0 Theatrical Stereo with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Rachel Talalay

Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Dean, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In this sixth return to the horrifying world of Nightmare on Elm Street, the town of Springwood decides to forever end Freddy Krueger's deadly hold on their dreams. Freddy finally confronts the one person he has never been able to defeat, a psychologist who now learns the source of her lifelong nightmares, Freddy's daughter.

Special Features:

- 86’D (1:40) 

- Hellraiser (:40) 

- Rachel’s Dream (2:48) 

- 3D Demise (2:18) 

WES CRAVEN’S NEW NIGHTMARE (1994) 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 112 Minutes 

Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1), DTS HD-MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 

Director: Wes Craven 

Cast: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, John Saxon

Synopsis: Ten years after writer and director Wes Craven brought his personal nightmares to the movie screen as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the horrifying child killer returns, stepping out of his celluloid world to haunt the life of the actress who first defeated him on film.

Special Features:

- Audio Commentary with Wes Craven

- NEW! Boiler Room Confessional (7:33) 

- NEW! Freddy’s Footnotes (7:48) 

- Becoming a Filmmaker (7:55) 

- Filmmaker (4:37) 

- An Insane Troupe (0:51) 

- The Problem with Sequels (1:35) 

- Two Worlds (2:05) 

- Welcome to Prime Time: It Really Happened

- Welcome to Prime Time: A Childhood Memory

- Welcome to Prime Time: Sometime in the Early 80s

- Welcome to Prime Time: So It Began

- Welcome to Prime Time: Beauty and the Beast

- Welcome to Prime Time: Making the Glove

- Welcome to Prime Time: Shapeshifter

- Welcome to Prime Time: The Shoot

- Welcome to Prime Time: The Revolving Room

- Welcome to Prime Time: All’s Well that Ends Well

- Welcome to Prime Time: Talalay’s Tally

- Welcome to Prime Time: It Couldn’t Have Happened

- Welcome to Prime Time: - Alternate Ending Version

- Conclusion: Where Gothic Plots Come From

- Conclusion: Why We Like Gothic

- Conclusion: Sadomasochism

- Conclusion: Freddy vs. Pinhead

- Conclusion: Freddy’s Manic Energy

- Conclusion: Creating Lasting Characters in Horror

- Conclusion: No More Magic Tricks

- Conclusion: Monster with Personality

- Conclusion: Freddy as Sex Machine

- Conclusion: Campfire Stories

 

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ROBOT CHICKEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES (2095-2021) 

24 -Disc DVD Set

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: 1

Rating: TV-MA

Duration:

Audio: English Dolby Digital with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: 

Yes my friends, all 228 episodes of the Adult Swim series, including iconic specials themed around DC, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Archie Comics, Christmas, and more, are now available in one definitive 24-disc DVD collection! Created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich this nerd-gasm of irreverent lampooning of pop-culture is handcrafted with old-school stop-motion animation with some of the sharpest and sketchiest pop-culture send-ups of all-time. The 24-disc set arrives in a high capacity clamshell keepcase with each disc on it's own hub. It's very similar to the Epik Pak cases except the flipper trays are not free-gloating inside the clamshell, they are secured to the case itself, which I appreciated. We also get a cool Slipcover with metallic foil highlights. Unfortunately there is no episodes/extras guide included to help navigate the set, so I just committed to starting off with season one and I am still working my way through it, and loving every moment so far, I love that short attention span  channel flipping aesthetic which emulates the sensation of channel flipping, the pre-internet version of doom-scrolling. I never owned the individual sets so I am unsure if this includes all the previous extras, but it looks pretty stacked, and includes some 20th anniversary special bonus content, which is only available on this DVD set. 

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F1 THE MOVIE (2025) 

4K Ultra HD + Digital 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 

Region Code: Region Free

Rating: PG-13

Duration: 155 Minutes 

Audio: Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1) with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: Dolby Vision HDR10 4K Ultra HD Widescreen 

Director: Joseph Kosinski 

Cast: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Damson Idris

F1, directed by Joseph Kosinki, is a fun enough popcorn muncher, but I am not the target audience for this sort of thing, I mean I have zero interest in racing films, unless it's a rally flick like Cannonball Run II, The Gumball Rally or Rat Race, so much so that I still have not watched Days of Thunder or Talladega Nights, but I will tell you what, I love me some Brad Pitt, and his admittedly one-dimensional turn as the washed-up racecar driver Sonny Hayes finds himself on the road to redemption was superficially fun, and it looks and sounds terrific in 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos/Vision. I found the story to be less interesting that the visuals and star-power, but sometimes you just need a fun flick to munch popcorn to, and this fits the bill. Not a high recommend to be honest but if you're looking for a slick, glossy flick with some big stars that you can just turn your brain off and watch for fun, you could do worse.  

Special Features: 

- Inside the “F1 The Movie” Table Read ( 5:05) 

- The Anatomy of a Crash (6:23) 

- Getting Up to Speed (5:00) 

- APXGP Innovations (5:21) 

- Making it to Silverstone (5:04) 

- Lewis Hamilton: Producer (5:14 ) 

- APXGP Sets and Locations Around the World (9:17)

- APXGP and F1: How it was Filmed (5:53) 

- Sound of Speed (5:10)  

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THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR  (1991) Blu-ray 

Label: Deaf Crocodile 

Region Code: A

Rating: Unrated 

Duration: 102 Mintes  33 Seconds (Russian Version), 104 Minutes 45 Seconds (English Version)

Audio: English or Russian DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: 1080p HD Fullcreen (1.37:1) 

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

Actor: Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Anzhela Ptashuk, Viktor Seferov, Olga Antonova, Dariya Majorova, Evgeniya Kryukova, Alyona Teremizova, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Olga Borisova, Aleksey Logunov, Vyacheslav Mukhov, Denis Dmitriev, Vyacheslav Vdovin

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov (Zerograd) is a gorgeous Russian psychological drama starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) mental patient as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that he's the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The timeline would seem to disprove this, but he is deep into his psychosis, and the sympathetic head of the hospital, Dr. Smirnov (Oleg Yankovskiy) is determined to cure Timofeyev of his madness, using a very unorthodox method to pull him back to reality, which seemingly pulls him out the delusion as well. The film is wonderfully acted by McDowell and Yankoviskiy, and it gorgeously shot with terrific flashbacks to an earlier time period to the period of the assassinations of the tsars, It's a fascinating and beautiful film and should be of great interest to fans of McDowell. The Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile includes the longer English-language version with McDowell's voice and a different score, and the 2-min shorter Russian version with McDowell's voice dubbed and the rest of the cast speaking in Russian. We also get new, lengthy, interviews with Malcolm McDowel, Karen Shakhnazarov, and a new commentary track by film writer and historian Samm Deighan, pus a booklet with writing on the film by film critic and historian Walter Chaw

Special Features: 

- New restoration from the 35mm elements by Mosfilm

- Includes both English language and Russian language version of film with different edit and score

- New interview with star Malcolm McDowell (54:35) 

- New interview with director Karen Shakhnazarov (68:16) 

- New commentary track by film writer and historian Samm Deighan

- 8-Page Illustrated Booklet with New essay by film critic and historian Walter Chaw

- Blu-ray authoring by David - Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion

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TULSA TERRORS (2024) 

Blu-ray

Label: VCI Entertainment 

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: Unrated

Duration: 80 Minutes 

Audio:

Video: 1080p HD Widescreen 

Director: Brian Crain, John Wooley

Cast: 

Tulsa Terrors is a documentary directed by Brian Crain and co-written and narrated by John Wooley, that explores how Tulsa, Oklahoma became the unlikely birthplace of shot-on-video horror, when VCI's Bill Blair approached Christopher and Linda Lewis to make the film Blood Cult, the first film to me marketed as the first film shot-on-video flick made for the direct-to-video market. Other shot-on-video films were made before Blood Cult, like Boardinghouse (1982) and the mind-melting Sledgehammer (1983), but Blood Cult has the distinction of being the first marketed as an SOV made for the then thriving VHS market, and it proved highly successful, and inspired many other s to follow with their own SOV cheapies. Also discussed are Lewis' follow-up SOV flicks The Ripper (1985) and Revenge (1986), as well as other SOV horrors like Mutilations (1986), and later analog video flicks Party Crasher: My Bloody Birthday (2000) and The Stitcher (2007). Of course we get loads of  rare footage and interviews with key figures from the golden age of VHS horror including VCI's Bob Blair, directors  Christopher Lewis (Blood Cult), producer Paul Cowdin (Mutilations), Fangoria contributor John Wooley, composer, actor Rod Slane (Forever Evil), Harvey Shell (Mutilations), director Darla Enlow (The Stitcher), actress Dana Pike (The Stitcher) and more. If you're a fan of low-budget shot-on-video cheapies this is a pretty fantastic doc, I don't know if it's going to appeal to a general audiences,. but if you're into niche cult films, a direct-to-video junkie,  or a lover of SOV oddities this is terrific stuff. 

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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975) 

4K Ultra HD + Digital 

Label: WBDHE

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: R

Duration: 134 Minutes 4 Seconds 

Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono, 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (1.85:1)

Director: Miloš Forman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Flether, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Brad Dourif,  Christopher Lloyd

Here's another classic that has been a longtime coming to 4K UHD, a classic psychological drama/dark comedy  starring Jack Nicholson (The Shining) as Randle McMurphy, who pretends to have mental illness to avoid being sent to the work farm for statutory rape. There he becomes a Svengali of a sort on the mental ward where he starts to exert his influence over the other patients, including the towering, mute native American Chief (Will Sampson, Poltergeist II: The Other Side), the child-like Martini (Danny DeVito, War of the Roses), William Redfield, the stuttering young man Billy (Brad Dourif, Spontaneous Combustion), angry neurotic Charlie (Sydney Lassick, The Unseen), the thoughtful but repressed Dale (William Redfield, Conquest of Space) and Max (Christopher Lloyd, Back tot he Future). McMurphy antics rub the stern, and disturbingly abusive, Head Nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher, Strange Behavior) the wrong way. She does like his disruptive influence, but he keeps playing his games and causing outbursts, not realizing until it's too late that true stakes, his antics are leading him to a tragic fate. I've blogged about this before, but the first time I saw this film was, of all places, at the Willard Psychiatric Center in Willard, NY, where my dad was an orderly in the Hatch building in '80s. They screened 35mm movies at the asylum on Saturday mornings once a month for the patients, but we as kids of the  staff would often attend as well, and considering that the nearest theater to me was over thirty miles away, it was rare experience for us to go to an actual theater, so from about 1986-'88 you would often find me at the psychiatric center watching projected movies along with the divergent masses. Dad would drop me off in front of Hadley Hall and I would walk up the stairs into the main auditorium and find a seat among the patients in fold-up chairs gathered in the center of the auditorium, or if I was feeling especially self conscious or awkward, I would find a spot on the Nautilus exercise equipment that lined the rear and sides of the auditorium. I saw a lot of strange things happening there, as you might expect. There would usually be a handful of other kids my age also enjoying the movies, most likely the offspring of other employees such as myself. In retrospect it may seem odd but at the time I wasn't all that alarmed to be watching movies with the "nutters" as I heard some older kids call them, sure, a few were a bit peculiar and prone to Tourette-style outbursts but it wasn't any more distracting than a typical Friday at the cinema these with annoying chatty teens texting away on their phones. The programming was pretty eclectic, a nice mix of repertory and second-run showings of comedies, fantasy-adventure and drama. A few of the movies I watched included Armed and Dangerous, Spies Like Us, Cloak and Dagger, King Solomon's Mines, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, King Kong Lives, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Foul Play, 2001: A Space Odyssey and, perhaps unbelievably, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest -  which even as young kid I knew was all sorts of wrong, the irony was not at all lost on me even at that young age. I don't really have any specific memories of the viewing other than being self-conscious of how weird it felt watching it in that environment. Years later I remember being incredulous of my own memory of seeing it and asking my dad if it was a legit memory, did I see that film at the psychiatric center? He couldn't verify that it was true, but he said that knowing the guys who programmed the film series at the time he wouldn't doubt it, they just programmed films they wanted to see, which as an adult seems like such a cruel and potentially traumatic thing to do. Anyway, the new 4K restoration is terrific, having never upgraded from the DVD this was a stunning rediscovery for me, gorgeously restored with lush grain levels, the HDR10 color-grade is tasteful, and we get both the 5.1 mix with the added foley effects, and a truer 2.0 dual-mono track, plus some terrific new extras featuring  actors Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, and producer Michael Douglas, the 86-min 1997 doc directed by Charles Kiselyak, and five deleted scenes. The 4K includes a slipcover and a redemption code for a 4K digital copy of the film. Highly recommended! 

Special Features:

- New! Conversations on Cuckoo: Group Therapy: Producer Michael Douglas leads a star-studded conversation with Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif on the unorthodox casting process that launched the careers of the famous ensemble fifty years ago. (13:07)

- NEW! Conversations on Cuckoo: Moviemaking Memories: Memories of working with Jack Nicholson and director Miloš Forman and filming the Academy Award-winning film are shared by Producer Michael Douglas and cast members Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Brad Dourif. (10:34) 

- Completely Cuckoo: A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tracing the path from Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel to the 1963 Broadway play starring Kirk Douglas to the 1975 film that would sweep that year’s Academy Awards. (86:17) 

- Deleted Scenes: Pecking Party (2:17), Where are your Clothes? (1:50), Meet Nurse Ratched (1:39), First Group Therapy (2:36), Shaving Chief (0:49)

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SOME LIKE IT RARE (2021) 

Label: Brainstorm Media

Region Code: A

Duration: 87 Minutes 25 Seconds 

Rating: 

Audio: French DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.35:1) 

Director: Fabrice Eboué

Cast: Virginie Hocq, Jean-François Cayrey, Lisa Do Couto Texeira

When a struggling butcher accidentally kills a vegan activist vandalizing his store, he uses his skills to dispose of the body…to the delight of his clueless customers.

Special Features: 

- Behind the Scenes Featurette (10:39)

- Trailer (1:59) 

- 20-Page Booklet with new writing by film critic Kat Hughes

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THE DEMON'S ROOK (2013) 

Label: Dekanalog

Region Code: Region-Free 

Rating: Region-Free 

Duration: 103 Minutes 20 Seconds 

Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo with Optional English Subtitles 

Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) 

Director: James Sizemore

Cast: James Sizemore, Ashleigh Jo Sizemore, John Chatham, Melanie Richardson, Josh Gould, Sade Smith, Dustin Dorough

"A glimmering gem in a sea of low-budget splatter, The Demon's Rook is flat-out unlike anything previously put to film — a mindbending tour de force of DIY filmmaking that delivers in spades what films ten times its budget cannot. The fever dreams of Lucio Fulci collide with ’80s creature features in this surreal horror/fantasy, wherein a young boy named Roscoe is lured into a parallel dimension by the good demon Dimwos. Raised to manhood in this dark realm, a Christ-like Roscoe (played by writer/director James Sizemore) pops out of the Earth decades later, bringing with him the secrets of the netherworld. Unfortunately, a trio of malevolent demons is none too pleased with this and, after turning a group of dimwitted construction workers into marauding ghouls and slaughtering a gaggle of campers, is after Roscoe with a maniacal vengeance. Now, Earth’s only chance at survival is a hipster raised in Hell and his damaged childhood chum Eva, whose path to glory is lit in every colour of Argento’s rainbow.

The homage-loving Sizemore has created a low-budget orgy of grue that can only be described as Return of the Living Dead by way of Jodorowsky, having lensed the entire head-scratching fantasy in his native Georgia and employing a nearly all-amateur cast and crew. The results, however, are astounding — with all manner of throat-ripping, head-smashing, and limb-severing from the self-taught Sizemore (who also handled a large majority of the film’s ample effects) and his band of skillful Southerners. And thanks to a helping hand from Ultra 8 executive producers (and TIFF superheroes) Colin Geddes and Katarina Gligorijevic, the finished product is polished and tight, while still feeling as indie as a feature can get.

Featuring supernatural mind melds, fog-drenched weirdness, and naked women with blood oozing from their gaping eyes, The Demon's Rook is the sort of surreal cinematic oddity that will set your head spinning while simultaneously blowing your mind with its unabashed devotion to bucking the studio system and keeping things gleefully odd. By the time Roscoe and Eva face down the demons with their super-psychic, head-poppin’ powers, our nightmares have successfully made the leap from fantasy into the strange lo-fi world Sizemore has created for us. And regardless of his limited budget, this self-taught, first-time feature director has delivered a wonderfully weird film that will not be soon forgotten."

- Ted Geoghegan

Special Features: 

- New Restoration

- New Audio Commentary with Filmmaker James Sizemore and Producer Tim Reis

- Archival Audio Commentary with Filmmaker James Sizemore

- 3 Deleted Scenes: Art Shop Massacre (1:25), Death Train (2:02), Vulgura vs. Angela (1:05) 

- Gag Reel (4:49)

- Short Film: The Goat Witch (2014) (13:48)

- Making The Demon's Rook (5:15)

- The Demon's Rook Music Video: El Fossil & Where.Are.We "The Demon's Rook" (5:40) 

- Theatrical Trailer (2:18) 

- Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery

- Concept Art Photo Gallery (1:57) 

- Fantasia International Film Festival Premiere Footage (15:54) 

- 32-Page Illustrated Booklet Essay by filmmaker Keith Bearden

- Reversible Wrap 

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