Tuesday, September 19, 2017

WARNER ARCHIVE OCTOBER TITLES DETAILED!


OCTOBER 3RD:

SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE 
EXTENDED CUT & SPECIAL EDITION 2-FILM COLLECTION (1978,2000)

Duration 188 Minutes (EXTENDED CUT, NEW 2017 1080p HD MASTER, 151 Minutes (SPECIAL EDITION)
Audio: English DTS-HD-Master Audio 2.0(EXTENDED CUT), English DTS- HD-Master Audio 5.1, English DOLBY DIGITAL SURROUND 5.1 with Optional English, Spanish and French SDH Subtitles 
Video: 1080P HD Widescreen (2.40:1)

Special Features (on Superman The Special Edition Disc): Commentary by Director Richard Donner and Creative Consultant Tom Mankiewicz; 3 Documentaries Taking Flight: The Development of Superman, Making Superman: Filming the Legend and The Magic Behind the Cape; Screen Tests; Restored Scenes; Additional Scenes; Additional Music Cues; Music-Only Track

Decades before blockbuster Extended Cuts were common, Superman proved a true “Man of Tomorrow.” Superman: The Movie received an ahead-of-its-time makeover for its television premiere – nearly 40 more minutes of story, creating a two-night television event. Audiences had already been swept off their feet by Christopher Reeve’s Last Son of Krypton, and now there was more to enjoy. Unseen in decades, this version is paired here with Richard Donner’s definitive vision of his film, the Special Edition Director’s Cut (2000), to create a supersized celebration of Metropolis’ favorite son that preserves the director’s intent while feeding superfan demands.


THE HIDDEN (1987)

Duration: 97 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS- HD-Master Audio 2.0 (Original Theatrical Audio) with Optional English SDH Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features: 
- Commentary by Director Jack Sholder and Tim Hunter
- Special Effects Production Footage Narrated by Jack Sholder
- Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Something hideous is changing law-abiding citizens into monstrous, hyperviolent psychopaths. Now, only Kyle MacLachlan (Dune, Twin Peaks) and Michael Nouri (Flashdance) can halt the terrifying rampage of The Hidden!

A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective Tom Beck (Nouri) totally baffled. And it doesn’t help when mysterious FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (MacLachlan) tells him that a demonic extraterrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims – and transforming them into inhuman killers with an unearthly fondness for heavy-metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence!

Also coming back in print on DVD!

October 10th:
THE GREEN SLIME (1968)

NEW 2017 1080p HD MASTER!
Duration: 90 Minutes 
Region: Region-FREE
Audio: English DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.35:1) 

Special Feature: 
- Theatrical Trailer (HD)

After a perilous mission to a huge asteroid, a crew returns to its space station, unaware that a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman’s uniform. The green goop grows – into murderous, tentacled monsters. And as station members fight to live, gunk from the monsters’ wounds turns into more monsters! That’s the story. Now enjoy as our heroes fight to preserve Earth and, unintentionally, our own senses of humor with a movie that Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called “one of the funniest made-in-Japan sci-fi monster movies ever.” Kinji Fukasaku, whose later work was championed by Quentin Tarantino, directs. The world would be a far more bleak and joyless place without marvels like The Green Slime.

October 24TH:


NIGHT SCHOOL (1981)

NEW 2017 1080p HD MASTER!
Duration: 89 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 with Optional English SDH Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) 

Special Feature: 
- Theatrical Trailer (HD)

They work by day, take a full schedule of classes all night and somehow find time for study and an occasional date. Women in the evening curriculum at Boston’s distinguished Wendell College do a lot to get ahead in life. But there’s someone who will go to even greater lengths. Someone who will do anything to get a head.

A killer whose m.o. is the ritualistic decapitation of victims makes terror a required course at Night School, directed by Kenneth Hughes (Casino Royale 1967) and starring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds; After Dark, My Sweet) in her screen debut. Leonard Mann plays the homicide lieutenant assigned to the puzzling case. He has hunches, not clues. Suspects, not evidence. And a rising body count. Finals are coming early this year at Wendell. And for those who don’t make the grade, heads will roll.