EDDIE MACON'S RUN (1983) (Blu-ray Review)

EDDIE MACON'S RUN (1983) 

Label: Mill Creek Entertainment 
Region Code: A
Duration: 95 Minutes
Rating: PG
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 
Director: Jeff Kanew
Cast: John Schneider, Kirk Douglas, Lee Purcell, John Goodman, Tom Noonan, Gil Rogers

Eddie Macon's Run (1983) teams-up screen legend Kirk Douglas (The Fury) with current TV star John Schneider, the latter of whom was smack dab in the middle of his popularity on the hit TV show The Dukes of Hazard (1979-1985). In it Schneider plays the titular character who after physically assaulting his payroll skimming boss Mr. Herbert (John Goodman, The Big Lebowski) is sent to prison for what seems a bit excessive for a little dust-up. When we catch-up with Eddie he's been incarcerated for a few years already, and we're show through flashback - there are a lot of flashbacks - that Eddie has already managed to escape prison once, attempting to get back to his wife Chris (Leah Ayres, The Burning)and their little boy Bobby. During which he was captured by bounty hunter Carl 'Buster' Marzack (Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory), but not before knocking the bounty hunter upside the noggin leaving a scar. 

As this film opens Eddie's incarcerated in Texas and is partaking in a prison rodeo event, where we find him sneaking aboard a departing cattle truck where he lays low for a few hundred miles away, eventually getting off at a designated spot in Texas where he recovers a bag full of street clothes, a pair of running shoes, and a map of the Texas desert. It's revealed, again through flashback, that he and his wife have been plotting this second prison escape for awhile now, with Eddie reading up on survival techniques and mapping out a route to Mexico in the prison library. His plan is to literally run across the Texas desert into Mexico, where he will be reunited with his wife and child and they will presumably live happily ever after South of the Border. 

When the aging bounty hunter hears news of Macon's latest escape he takes a personal interest in the re-capture, interviewing his cell mate and checking out his reading list at the library. Now he has a good idea of where Macon's headed and he plans on intercepting him, still smarting from that knock upside the head. Macon sleeps during the day and runs cross-country at night, but occasionally he finds trouble, like an angry cottonmouth snake during a river crossing, and then a pair of vigilante cattle ranchers who mistake him for a cattle rustler, 
menacingly played by Jay Sanders (My Boyfriend's Back) and Tom Noonan (Manhunter), not to mention their nut-job girlfriend (Lisa Dunsheath, The Prowler) who cannot wait to hang the fugitive as soon as possible, she is absolutely ecstatic at the notion. He manages to escape, but just barely, and only after gravely injuring the demented brothers after they try to hang him.

Later on during his fugitive journey Marzack seems poised to have the felon in his sights, literally, but gets thrown a curve ball when Eddie intervenes to stops a rape in progress. He saves a woman named Jilly (Lee Purcell, Necromancy), who turns out to be the niece of a Texan politician, initially taking her as a hostage, but along the way she makes it quite clear that she's gonna help him get where he needs to go, even getting him off the hook when they are pulled over by a cop. This new relationship with Jill is a bit complicated, she is clearly sexually attracted to him, and he to her, but he makes it clear that he's married and in love with his wife, so I give him a lot of credit, Purcell is a smoke-show stunner with eyes that just pull you in, Eddie is definitely a principled man with a strong will, if it had ever been in doubt now we know. This dynamic was some of the best stuff in the film in my opinion, way better than any of the stuff with is wife, they have a lot of chemistry together.  

As the steadfast formula goes the bounty hunter eventually catches up with the fugitive in Laredo and there are a few heated encounters, culminating in a car chase through a cemetery with cool car turnover. How it all pans out is a bit on the predictable side, I saw it coming early on, and it's as saccharine as I'd expected, but it's still a solid watch. 

It's no surprise that Kirk Douglass is so damn great, I love his exaggerated
facial expressions, he's funny but also a bit of gruff asshole who is willing to work outside the colored lines with multiple shades of gray, it's great stuff. The guy was ancient back then, but still spry, and only died recently at the vintage age of 103, he truly was the Charles Atlas of Hollywood. The real takeaway for me was how great John Schneider was, he was terrific as Clark's dad on TV's Smallville, but I am surprised that he did not a bigger movie career after this, he had good range and had the looks for sure. It was also great to see a very young John Goodman, this is even before he appeared in C.H.U.D., playing a piece of shit oil rig boss, it's a small but pivotal role. 

Audio/Video: Eddie Macon's Run (1983) arrives on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment licensed from Universal Pictures. It's great see these minor catalog title get a Blu-ray. It does look like this is coming from a dated existing master, but it's solid. The source is in good shape and colors are fine, black levels are solid, though it doesn't have the nuance a newer scan would have afforded it. 

Audio on the disc comes by way of an English DTS-HD MA 2.0 with optional English subtitles. Everything is crisp and clean, dialogue and the score are well balanced, and there were no distortions I picked-up on. The film has a score from Norton Buffalo (Blood Beach) and Mike Hinton, including a few country songs sung by film's star John Schneider.

There are no extras, just a static menu with the option to turn on the English subtitles. The single-disc release is housed in a standard keepcase with a sleeve of artwork featuring the original movie poster, the disc itself features an excerpt of the same key art. The spine is a bit busy-looking with images on the top and bottom portion of the spine, surrounding a bunched-up logo. 

Eddie Macon's Run (1983) is not the sort of catalog title that gonna burn the house down but it's cool to see it arrive on Blu-ray. I'd never seen it before and thought it was an engaging watch with a solid cast, it's a cool fugitive thriller, well worth watching if you're a fan of either Kirk Douglas or John Schneider, or just a fan of forgotten gems.  

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ROBOCOP 2 (1990) (Collector's Edition Blu-ray Review)

ROBOCOP 2 (1990) 

Label: Scream Factory
Region Code: A
Rating: R
Duration: 117 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen 
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Gabriel Damon, Belinda Bauer, Dan O'Herlihy, Nancy Allen, Peter Weller, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: RoboCop 2 pits two unstoppable cyborgs against each other in a battle to the death! When Detroit's descent into chaos is further compounded by a police department strike and a new designer drug called "Nuke," only RoboCopTM can stop the mayhem. But in his way are an evil corporation that profits from Motor City crime and a bigger and tougher cyborg with a deadly directive: Take out RoboCop. Containing the latest gadgetry and weaponry as well as the mind of the madman who designed "Nuke," this new cyborg isn't just more sophisticated than his predecessor... he's psychotic and out of control! And it's going to take everything RoboCop has – maybe even his life – to save Detroit from complete and utter anarchy.

Thinking back on this one I realized it is the only Robocop film I caught first run in the cinema, I don't have the best memory of loving it at the time, and the movie has sort of languished in the back of my mind as a less than stellar sequel to an amazing, dark and violently satirical first film. Director Paul Verhoeven did not return for this sequel, he was making Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger at the time, so the producers brought in director Irvin Kershner, the guy who directed, in my opinion, the best sequels of all-time, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), but let's be real, he also directed one of the worst, the non-cannon 007 flick Never Say Never Again (1983), but he also directed The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), which I have a soft spot for. Producers also brought in comics writer Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) as screenwriter, which again is both good and bad, I like a lot of Miller's work, but I don't think the he quite captured the satirical stuff I loved about the first Robocop for the sequel, his tone is dark, but different.

Again we have Robocop (Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) in Detroit battling the evils of the inner-city, Omni Consumer Products (OCP)are still trying to create a new Robocop, literally calling their creation Robocop 2! OCP are also out to build the city of the future, something called Delta City, and to that end they are out to force the city to default on their payments to OCP, which would somehow force them surrender control of the city to OCP. The Old Man (Dan O'Herlihy, Halloween III) returns as the OCP CEO, and he's turned into quite a corporate bastard since the first film, wherein he seemed alright, for a corporate guy. The idea of Detroit declaring bankruptcy probably seemed like such a oddly dystopian idea back in '90, but not these days, haha.

As OCP own the cops they make things worse for Detroit by cutting wages and pension plans for cops, causing a city wide police strike, leaving Robocop and his partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen, Carrie) as the only cops out on the streets, so as you can imagine the whole damn city is thick with crime. The movie opens with a fun neon-lit montage of a thief robbing a bag lady only to be roughed-up by some violent prostitutes, so it does have a bit of the Verhoeven satire to it, mixed in with some of Frank Miller's darkness, you see a lot of his vision bleeding through, including the commercials, one of which features actor John Glover (Gremlins 2) selling a lethal form of car alarm, it's good stuff but not on par with the first film, which was more biting. Sadly we do not get any of the infamous "Id buy that for a dollar!" lines peppered throughout. 

One of the villains of this movie is a drug dealer named Cain (Tom Noonan, Manhunter)who peddles a new designer drug called Nuke. Cain is a weird cult-leader new age spiritualist, Noonan is nicely creepy in the role, but we don't get enough of him in my opinion. His right hand man is actually a young kid named Hobs (Gabriel Damon), a pint-sized killer with a shit attitude, and Cain's girlfriend Angie (Galyn Görg). Also working against Robocop are the corporate baddies at OCP who are looking to replace goodie-goodie Robocop with a new successor, after the failure of good old ED-209 from the first film. 

OCP are still using fallen officers to create cyborg robocops, but the problem they're having is that their creations tend to go insane, shooting up the lab techs before committing suicide. Enter psycho-psychologist Dr. Juliette Faxx (Belinda Bauer) who aligns herself with The Old Man to create a new Robocop, unwisely using the criminal Cain as the brain inside the new armored Robocop 2! Great idea, what could go wrong? Perhaps the idea that you now have a drug addicted Robocop might pose a bit of a problem, which of course it does.

Faults aside I have to say the movie holds up better way than I remembered, which is not usually the case usually i remember older movie far more fondly than they deserve, but that is not the case with this one. Sure, it's not on par with the original (so few are), but the violence is good and strong, Miller does channel some of the same darkness and satire that Verhoeven brought, but it is toned down, and that was a huge part of what I loved about the first movie. It also touches on an area I thought could have given the character of Murphy/Robocop a bit of new life, like when we catch him stalking his ex wife, keeping tabs on her, but that tasty tidbit of a subplot evaporates before it can even begin to boil. Nancy Allen returns here as officer Lewis but she is awful, more fairly, she doesn't have a whole lot to do, and the character is poorly written. I love Allen in De Palma's movies, but watching her in this, the next sequel and Poltergeist III (1988) recently, she can be a bad actress when not given some proper direction, real bad.

What the sequel does right is keep the action coming, this is a violent movie, the gore is toned way down, but I love the stop-motion animation between Robocop and Robocop 2 at the end of the movie. With Cain's brain inside the armored R2 we sadly do not get enough of Noonan as Cain, who is relegated to a Lawnmower Man esque digital face on a TV screen once inside the steel-machine, so as much as I loved the R2 design, I wish somehow we would have had more of Noonan incorporated into it.

This would be the last time we would see Weller in the role of Murphy/Robocop, and already it's a case of diminishing returns, honestly they just don't explore his humanity enough to keep the personal story interesting, it's dropped in there but just disappears, wrapped up way to fast for my tastes. I will say I love the new Robocop suit this time out, it has a pearly blue/purple tone to it that looks great on film, and Weller is iconic in his own way, giving some distinct line readings, which will be sorely missed in the bland sequel to this one. 

Robocop 2 is a fun watch, it's a lesser film but still maintains just enough of what I loved about the first to keep me plugged in right till the end credits. There's plenty of action, some watered down satire, Miller's dark humor and some bloody violence, unlike R3 this one maintains an R-rating and isn't aimed at the kiddies. 

Audio/Video: Robocop 2 (1990) arrives on Blu-ray from Scream Factory with a brand new 2K scan from the interpositive with a new color correction. The results are very pleasing, I own the MGM Trilogy Blu-ray set and this is a nice upgrade. Grain is nicely managed, the colors are more impressive, black levels are good and deep. The image is sharp, nicely detailed with some good depth, this is good stuff. 

Audio on the disc includes English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1, the surround offers some good use of the surrounds when the action amps up, a solid surround track. The stereo track is also solid with good stereo separation. Optional english subtitles are included. 

Extras on the disc are plentiful and nicely in-depth, beginning with the 32-minute making of doc  with new and vintage interviews with director Irvin Kershner, producer Jon Davidson, cast members Tom Noonan, Nancy Allen, Galyn Görg, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin and author/CG supervision Paul M. Sammon. A nice, honest, remembrance of the making of, including producer Jon Davidson speaking about the convoluted process of making the movie, the original story ideas including a Robocop love story! 

There'a also a 32-min FX featurette with Phil Tippett, Peter Kuran, Craig Hayes, Jim Aupperle, Kirk Thatcher, Paul Gentry, Don Waller, Justin Kohn, Randal Dutra and Kevin Kutchaver, an 9-min interview with RoboCop armor fabricator James Belohovek, a 6-min interview with comic book writer Steven Grant on adapting Frank Millers screenplay for Robocop 2, plus 46-min of archival production and behind-the-scenes videos including interviews with director Irvin Kershner, actors Peter Weller, Dan O’Herlihy  and a look at the filming of some deleted scene. Additionally we have trailers and a series of image galleries rounding out the extras. Almost forgot to mention the 3-min deleted scene gallery, which sadly is not actual deleted scenes but descriptions of some significant story elements that were left on the cutting room floor, I think if Scream had been able to unearth the actual deleted footage that would have certainly made this a much more sought after release, but as it stands this is a damn fine release. 

The single disc release comes housed in a standard blue keepcase with a sleeve of reversible artwork, featuring a new illustration by Paul Shipper, which sadly looks like a painted version of the usual floating head photoshop stuff, which I hated. The reverse side features the original one-sheet poster, which isn't much better< sadly, this is one of the ugliest packaging artworks I've seen from Scream Factory. There's also a slipcase (o-ring) featuring the Shipper artwork, groan.   

Special Features:
- NEW 2K scan of the inter-positive
- NEW Audio Commentary with author/CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon
- NEW Audio Commentary with the makers of “RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop” documentary – Gary Smart, Chris Griffiths and Eastwood Allen
- NEW Corporate Wars: The Making of ROBOCOP 2 – featuring new and vintage interviews with director Irvin Kershner, producer Jon Davidson, cast members Tom Noonan, Nancy Allen, Galyn Görg, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin and author/CG supervision Paul M. Sammon (32 min)HD 
- NEW Machine Parts: The FX of ROBOCOP 2 – featuring Phil Tippett, Peter Kuran, Craig Hayes, Jim Aupperle, Kirk Thatcher, Paul Gentry, Don Waller, Justin Kohn, Randal Dutra and Kevin Kutchaver (32 min)HD
- NEW Robo-Fabricator – an interview with RoboCop armor fabricator James Belohovek (9 min)HD
- NEW Adapting Frank Miller’s ROBOCOP 2 – an interview with comic book writer Steven Grant (6 min)HD
- NEW OCP Declassified – a collection of rare archival production and behind-the-scenes videos including interviews with director Irvin Kershner, actors Peter Weller, Dan O’Herlihy  and a look at the filming of some deleted scene (46 min) HD
- Theatrical Trailer (2 min) HD 
- Teaser Trailers (2 min) HD 
- TV Spots (1 min) HD 
- Deleted Scenes (2 min) HD 
- Still Gallery (1 min) HD 
- Still Galleries (behind-the-scenes photos, stills, posters and lobby cards)(9 min) 

I was surprised how much I enjoyed re watching this sequel, it holds up surprisingly well, way better than I remembered. Sure, it's got a few parts that are less than stellar, and the satire and humor aren't up to the standards of Verhoeven's original, but this is a fun watch and loaded with plenty of Robocop action. The new transfer looks top notch and the extras are fantastic. 3/5 

MANHUNTER (1986) (Collector's Edition Blu-ray Review)

MANHUNTER (1986) 

Label: Scream Factory 
Region Code: A
Duration: 120 Minutes I 124 Minutes
Rating: R I Unrated
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.35:1) 
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan, William Petersen, Joan Allen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox

Synopsis: The first film to feature the iconic character Hannibal Lecktor, Manhunter follows former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, To Live and Die in L.A., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) as he reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as the "Tooth Fairy." But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Lecktor (Brian Cox, X-Men 2, Red), the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life… and whose insights into the "Tooth Fairy" could prove as dangerous as the killer himself.

A few years before The Silence of the Lambs (1991) swept through the cinema establishing Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lector as one of the premiere cannibal bogeymen of the ages Michael Mann first adapted Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon into a '80s drenched slice of thriller cinema starring William Petersen as retired FBI profiler Will Graham who captured and imprisoned Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecktor years earlier. The capture took a toll on Graham, it nearly killed him and drove him insane, and now his FBI superior Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina) has come to him in hopes that the uncanny profiler will advise on a new series of grisly murders, the new killer has been dubbed "The Tooth Fairy" by the press because of the bite marks left on the bodies of his victims. Against the wishes of his concerned wife who knows just how deeply affected Graham was by the Lecktor case, Graham accepts the case and begins down a disturbing path. Those who are familiar with the Hannibal TV show will recognize the influence of this movie on that show, the roots run deep into this movie as it firmly centered on Graham and how the process is hugely devastating on his own psyche. 

Graham begins by visiting the latest crime scene, a horrific blood-spattered home where an entire family has been slaughtered, shards of mirror have been jammed into their eyes. The profiler gets deep into the psyche of the killer but finds that he has lost some of his process through the years, to that end he visits Lecktor in the asylum hoping to pick up the old scent so to speak, and to consult Lecktor about the tooth fairy murders. However, Graham is unaware that Lecktor and the new serial killer have been corresponding through coded messages in the local paper, and are in fact working against him. Things are further complicated when sleazy tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds (an unrecognizable Stephen Lang of Avatar) snaps a pic of Graham emerging from the asylum angering his wife and disturbing Graham, there's a nice side story about Lounds and how he comes to meet the Tooth Fairy face to face, a very memorable scene with a nice payoff. 

The movie makes no attempt to mask the identity of the Tooth Fairy, his name is Francis Dollarhyde (a quietly menacing Noonan) who works at a film developing lab, where he begins a relationship with a blind co-worker named Reba (Joan Allen), whom is not at all put off by his weirdness and the two form a relationship. Just when it seems Dollarhyde's blood lust might be waning things begin to disintegrate for the lovers and the movie erupts into a climatic finale of violence set to the tune of Iron Butterfly's heavy anthem "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Mann sure knows how to make a thriller, I love this guys work in the '80s. 

Thomas Harris' Red Dragon was later remade with Anthony Hopkins in the role of Lector with a fine turn as Dollarhyde by Ralph Feines but an ill-cast Edward Norton as Graham, which ruined it for me. It is Mann's Manhunter that I return to when I feel the need to revisit the story, there's just something about William Peterson's admittedly blank and underplayed performance that I love. I also love the 80s vibe and synth heavy score, I love the nefarious Lecktor played by Brian Cox, a versatile actor who brings a load of polite menace to the small but pivotal role, and then there's Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde, a sadistic murderer who you actually have some sympathy for despite the violence you know he is capable of, you want him to fall in love but the guy is just too deranged for that too happen, it is just not in the cards and it is tragic.

In a lot of way this is a thriller that celebrates style over substance thriller, but Mann is such a vibrant stylist that I cannot help but forgive it's shortcomings, the way he strays from the book and takes so many short cuts in favor of creating an atmospheric and chilling movie. Silence of the Lambs might be a more cohesive and well-structured slice of cinema this is the Thomas Harris adaptation I return to when I get the urge, partly because of the slick and stylish atmosphere and partly because of the combination of William Petersen, Tom Noonan and Brian Cox, these guys are pure magic onscreen when combined with the style and visual alchemy of Michael Mann and cinematographer Dante Spinotti. 

Audio/Video: Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986) arrives n a 2idisc Blu-ray Collector's Edition from Scream Factory, presenting both the theatrical (120 Mins) and director's cut (124 Mins) of the film on separate discs. The theatrical cuts fares the better with some nice deep color saturation, the deep blue and colored hues really pop in HD, Mann's movie is stylish and artfully rendered and look nice and crisp for a mid eighties movie. The director's cut is in HD with standard definition inserts which to be honest are an eyesore, I do enjoy the director's cut and what it adds, but as an HD presentation it does suffer considerably. As an extra on disc two Scream Factory have also included a standard def version of the movie which make the inserts somewhat less unsightly or noticeable. 

Both versions of the movie have English language DTS-HD MA Stereo 2.0 and Surround 5.1 mixes with optional English subtitles. The glorious synth-heavy score comes through strong, some might say the mix is overpowering at times, but not for me, I loved it. Dialogue and sounds effects come through nicely balanced and crisp. 

Onto the extras which are spread out over two discs we have The Making of Manhunter which are brand new interviews produced for this release broken down into five interviews with William Petersen (18 Mins), Joan Allen (16 Mins), Tom Noonan (22 Mins), Brian Cox (40 Mins), and director of photography Dante Spinotti (36 Mins) which make for some fascinating viewing. Petersen looks back on working with Mann on a number of films in smaller parts such as Heat and Thief, his turn in William Friedken's To Live and Die in L.A. which wasn't even in theatres when he was cast in the role of Will Graham. Tom Noonan is always a great interview, the actor is a bit odd but that is part of the reason why I love him, he speaks about avoiding everyone on-set he shared a scene with until they filmed the scene, which must just be his thing, I seem to recall a similar statement from him on the Monster Squad Blu-ray extras. 

Fans of the synth score on the movie will ove the 42-minute The Music of MANHUNTER – including interviews with composer Michel Rubini, Barry Andrews (Shriekback), Gary Putman (The Prime Movers), Rick Shaffer (The Reds) and Gene Stashuk (Red 7), which s very in-depth. 

The First Lecktor – an interview with actor Brian Cox (40 Mins) is a nice sit-down interview with the actor who first brought Hannibal Lecktor (sic) to the big screen, and to be honest is still my favorite version of the character. Cox speaks at length about what research he did to inform the role and about nearly winding up as Lector in a version of Silence of the Lambs. Disc one is finished-up with a theatrical trailer for the movie and an image gallery of poster artwork, screenshots and behind-the-scenes pics. 

Onto disc two we have the previously mentioned standard-def version of the director's cut which makes the insert shots less jarring, but trust me, just watch the HD version. The extras on the second disc are carry overs from the previous versions of the movie including the audio commentary by writer/director Michael Mann, plus vintage interviews with cinematographer Dante Spinotti and stars William Petersen, Joan Allen, Brian Cox and Tom Noonan totalling about a half hour in length. 

The 2-disc Blu-ray set comes housed in a standard blue keepcase with a sleeve of reversible artwork featuring the original one-sheet art and a new illustration artists Christopher Franchi which captures the dark neon feel of the movie, that particular 80s Michael Mann aesthetic. 

Special Features: 

Disc 1: Theatrical Version (HD) (120 Mins) 
- NEW The Mind of Madness – an interview with William Petersen (18 Mins) HD 
- NEW Courting a Killer – an interview with actress Joan Allen (16 Mins) HD 
- NEW Francis is Gone Forever – an interview with actor Tom Noonan (22 Mins) HD 
- NEW The First Lecktor – an interview with actor Brian Cox (40 Mins) HD 
- NEW The Eye of the Storm – an interview with director of photography Dante Spinotti (36 Mins) HD 
- NEW The Music of MANHUNTER – including interviews with composer Michel Rubini, Barry Andrews (Shriekback), Gary Putman (The Prime Movers), Rick Shaffer (The Reds) and Gene Stashuk (Red 7) (42 minutes) HD
- Theatrical Trailer (2 Mins) HD 
- Still Gallery (8 Mins) HD 

Disc 2: Director’s Cut (HD with Standard Definition inserts)(124 Mins) 
- Director’s Cut (Standard Definition)(124 Mins) 
- The Manhunter Look - A Conversation with cinematographer Dante Spinotti (10 minutes)
- Inside Manhunter with stars William Petersen, Joan Allen, Brian Cox and Tom Noonan (18 minutes)

Scream Factory's Manhunter (1986) 2-disc Collector's Edition is the definitive version of the movie with a sweet A/V presentation and a nice selection of new and old extras. If you only know this story through Red Dragon (2002) I recommend a viewing of Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986), this atmospheric slice of '80s serial killer cinema is a fantastic watch.