BURN AFTER READING -- DVD Review by Porfle

 

Originally posted on 12/13/08

 

One thing about the Coen brothers--you never know what to expect when you sit down to watch one of their films. This is especially true of their comedies, which can range from lowbrow slapstick (RAISING ARIZONA) to chilly, intellectual aloofness (THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE).

As for their latest, BURN AFTER READING (2008), I just watched it twice and I still don't know what to make of it. It's an intense political thriller filled with intrigue, except that there aren't any politics and the intrigue all stems from a complex web of misunderstanding, paranoia, and just plain stupidity. It's like a BOURNE movie in which Matt Damon has been replaced with the Three Stooges.

John Malkovich plays Osbourne Cox, a low-level CIA analyst who quits in a huff after being demoted due to a drinking problem, and then sets about writing his memoirs, which somehow end up in the hands of Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt), a couple of dingbats who work at a health club.

Certain that they've stumbled onto some vital classified information, Linda and Chad attempt to blackmail Cox so that Linda can finally afford a series of cosmetic surgeries that will improve her social life. When Cox refuses to pay, they take the floppy disc to the Russian embassy, where a bemused official named Krapotkin doesn't know what to make of it or them.

 

Meanwhile, Cox's ice-cold wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is having an affair with their health-nut friend Harry (George Clooney), a sex addict who has also hooked up with Linda through a computer dating service. Katie's planning to divorce Osbourne and marry Harry, while Harry still loves his wife (who's planning to divorce him and is having him shadowed by a detective) and also is falling for Linda.

When Linda sends Chad to Osbourne's house to try and dig up more secret information, he runs into Harry, who thinks he's a spy. The increasingly paranoid Harry then discovers that Linda's involved in the whole thing and thinks she's a spy, too. An important element in all this is that Harry's job requires him to carry a gun, which isn't a good idea under the circumstances.

It's a hard story to put into a nutshell, and it's even harder to convey just how goofy and off-the-wall this movie is. All the trappings of the political potboiler are here--car chases, shootings, break-ins, deceptions, people being followed by shadowy figures, the whole shebang--but while one half of the cast is made up of serious people living their lives in the really real world, the other half is composed of colossal idiots blundering their way into this serious milieu and gumming up the works with catastrophic results.

The Coens direct it like a straightfaced thriller with the chameleonlike Carter Burwell supplying a pulse-pounding musical score, and their deadpan approach to this material makes it delightfully fun to watch. It's also wonderfully unpredictable--I dare anyone to try and figure out what's going to happen next at any point in the story--with one or two developments that are wild enough to give the viewer whiplash. Like Janet Leigh's fatal shower in PSYCHO or the jaw-dropping ending of TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., this story often manages to whip the rug right out from under us with prankish glee.

Frances McDormand gives us another quirky, memorable Coen character here, but unlike FARGO's Marge Gundersen, her Linda Litzke is a ditzy wacko. Brad Pitt has a great time playing the equally idiotic Chad, and together they make quite a pair. George Clooney is hilarious as the increasingly frazzled Harry, whose life is flying to pieces around him for reasons he can't even begin to understand. Malkovich, of course, is fascinating to watch as the equally paranoid Osbourne Cox, as he tries to figure out who the hell Linda and Chad are and what insidious government conspiracy is closing in around him.

As his wife Katie, Tilda Swinton is about as cold and ruthless a bitch as you could imagine. Another Coen regular, Richard Jenkins, expertly underplays his part as usual and is probably the film's most sympathetic character. In lesser roles, David Rasche and J.K. Simmons are pitch-perfect as a couple of bland, weary CIA officials struggling to make sense of the whole twisted affair--their final scene together is a subtle, deftly-played wrap-up that had me howling in giddy disbelief as the closing credits appeared, aghast that the Coen brothers had pulled off something so audaciously messed up.

The DVD is 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1, and it looks and sounds fine to me. There are three brief bonus featurettes: "Finding the Burn", a making-of short; "DC Insiders Run Amuck", a look at the film's talented cast; and "Welcome Back George", which marks George Clooney's third collaboration with the Coens.

BURN AFTER READING won't appeal to everyone, which is something Joel and Ethan Coen have never seemed overly concerned about. They appear content to make whatever kind of film strikes their fancy at the time and let it find whatever audience happens to latch onto it. I'm glad I latched onto this one, because not only did I have a grand time watching it, but the characters have been running around inside my head all day reenacting scenes from the movie, and I kinda like it.

 

BURN AFTER READING -- DVD Review by Porfle

"BURN AFTER READING" Available on DVD and Blu-Ray Hi-Def From Universal 12/23/08

An all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction, and physical fitness!

"A Comedic Masterpiece" –Larry King

Intelligence is relative in this hilarious new spy comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, the
Academy Award ® -winning directors of No Country for Old Men and The Big Lebowski. Academy Award ® winners George Clooney and Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, and Academy Award ® winner Tilda Swinton star in this brilliantly clever and endlessly entertaining comedy of errors.

When a disc filled with some of the CIA’s most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two
determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!

BONUS FEATURES (AVAILABLE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY HI-DEF):
 FINDING THE BURN: The making of Burn After Reading from inspiration to the big screen.
 DC INSIDERS RUN AMUCK: We show the strength in putting together some of the most amazing talent in the world to create a world of Washington, DC insiders all trying to get ahead or find true love.
 WELCOME BACK GEORGE: This is a companion, comedy piece, focusing on Mr. Clooney as he returns for his third collaboration with Ethan and Joel Coen.

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Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes

"BURN AFTER READING" Available on DVD and Blu-Ray Hi-Def From Universal 12/23/08

SLEDGE HAMMER!: THE COMPLETE SERIES -- DVD Review by Porfle

 

Originally posted on 12/8/11

 

Having just watched the 5-DVD set SLEDGE HAMMER!: THE COMPLETE SERIES, I find that, once again, I dislike something at first and then end up liking it after further consideration.  This proves either one of two things: (a) I'm wishy-washy, or (b) you can't always go by first impressions.  I'm going to go with the second alternative, since it's less uncomplimentary toward me.

I have a vague memory of seeing an episode of this show during its first run (1986-88) and dismissing it as a crappy "Police Squad!" wannabe.  That criminally brief 1982 series (six big  episodes and out) by the Zucker brothers, which introduced Leslie Nielsen's celebrated "Frank Drebin" character and inspired the NAKED GUN movie trilogy, continued the same outlandishly farcical yet totally deadpan vibe of the Zuckers' AIRPLANE! on a smaller scale. 

Naturally, I was disappointed when I approached "Sledge Hammer!" expecting it to be more of the same.  What I finally realized after watching several episodes, however, is that this show is its own addlebrained entity--it's still a lightheaded farce that often resembles something out of MAD Magazine and celebrates silliness for its own sake, but the deadpan humor is shot through (pun alert!) with heaps of pure, giddy goofiness.  In fact, "Sledge Hammer!" works both when it's aping the bone-dry "Police Squad!" comedy style and when it's making funny faces at us.



It takes awhile to get its groove on, though.  The first episode is a bit of a mess--production values are murky, the direction and editing are flabby, and, worst of all, there's a laugh track pointing out the funny parts to us.  Still, it has John Vernon (ANIMAL HOUSE) as the mayor, who demands that Sledge be let loose on the case when his daughter is kidnapped by terrorists. 

There are some funny bits and Hammer's character, who is a cross between Dirty Harry and his watered-down TV equivalent "Hunter" (also a likable fascist cop with a female partner), is well established when he uses a bazooka to demolish an entire building in order to stop a sniper ("Trust me, I know what I'm doing" is his oft-heard motto).  Overall, though, it's pretty limp.

We get to watch the show get its bearings and start firing on more cylinders as the season progresses, with the scripts getting funnier and more daring, and the direction improving (Bill Bixby eventually helmed eight of the series' best episodes, with Dick Martin of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" contributing a couple of good ones).  Despite its lesser moments, there's a relentless quality to the hot-and-cold-running gags and a sort of earnestness from the stars that makes the first season somehow likable.  And some of the gags actually score big laughs, as when Hammer and an informant (guest star Dennis Fimple) conduct a secret conversation via adjoining pay phones.



Before long, the chemistry between Hammer and his female partner Det. Dori Doreau starts to click.  RUNAWAY's Anne-Marie Martin (who, incidentally, co-wrote TWISTER with Michael Crichton) is an appealing foil for Hammer even though her comedic skills take awhile to develop, and their relationship has a certain charm--Doreau sees the good behind Hammer's fascist, violence-loving, ultra-right-wing exterior and eventually finds herself falling for him even though Hammer's first love is his gun, which he talks to and sleeps with. 

As Hammer, David Rasche (BURN AFTER READING, UNITED 93) has a firm grasp on the character from the start but also gets better as he goes along.  Rasche has a field day in the role, with his trigger-happy detective shooting first and asking questions later while gleefully roughing up everyone from jaywalkers to the mayor's wife.  He reels off one-liners like nobody's business--when a nagging reporter asks if he has any predictions, Hammer's deadpan response is, "Yes...scientists will perform the first brain transplant, and you'll be the recipient."  We eventually learn that Hammer thinks the death penalty is too lenient, his favorite song is "Taps", and the only thing he fears is world peace.

As season one comes to a close, just about the time Patrick Wayne does a delightful guest shot as Hammer's long-lost brother, the show really starts getting serious about being funny.  The season-one cliffhanger is insane, opening with a introduction by Robin Leach in which he announces that the series is making a bid for renewal by packing more sex and violence into the upcoming episode and ending with Hammer frantically trying to disarm a nuclear warhead that could annihilate the entire city.  Cult star Mary Woronov plays the mad villainess in this one, which actually does end with a nuclear explosion. 

How they resolve this open-ended situation at the start of season two is undoubtedly one of network television's nuttiest moments, with the show even changing its name temporarily as part of the joke!  And this is just the beginning of a series of episodes that get progressively more willing to be weird, while cast and crew all seem to be on the same page at last and making funny things happen.  Movie spoofs dominate, with films such as SHAMPOO, JAGGED EDGE, and VERTIGO getting the treatment (with the occasional misfire such as a weak parody of PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM). 

"Hammeroid" finds Hammer seriously wounded by a juggernaut robot (which is reminiscent of a similar character on the cult series "The Avengers") and turned into a cyborg a la ROBOCOP.  Fans of that movie should love this affectionate spoof, while Bela Lugosi fans are in for a treat with "Last of the Red Hot Vampires", in which "Love Boat" alumnus Bernie Kopel does a surprisingly good Lugosi imitation.  (The episode is "dedicated to Mr. Blasko", the actor's real last name.)



In "Jagged Sledge", Rasche gives a tour-de-force performance when Hammer must defend himself while on trial for the murder of a mob boss (the great Tige Andrews of "Mod Squad" fame).  Another episode, which finds Hammer going undercover as a prison convict involved in a breakout attempt, actually beats NAKED GUN 33 1/3 (1994) to the punch with a strangely similar premise.

Harrison Page (CARNOSAUR) is undoubtedly the funniest supporting actor in the role of Captain Trunk, a dead-on spoof of the perpetually screaming squad captain whose blood pressure is always sky-high thanks to Hammer's destructive hijinks.  Avoiding what could've been a one-note performance, Page is one of the best things about the show and is a constant delight.  In addition to those already mentioned, a sterling roster of guest stars includes Ronnie Schell, Bill Dana, Nicholas Guest, Ray Walston, David Clennon, Armin Shimerman, Richard Moll, Adam Ant, Brion James, Bud Cort, Mark Blankfield, and Russ Meyer regular Edy Williams.  Directors Bixby and Martin pop up in cameos.

The 5-disc DVD (22 episodes) from Image Entertainment is in 1.33:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital mono.  No subtitles or extras.

It's interesting watching a show go from blah to good as we see with SLEDGE HAMMER!: THE COMPLETE SERIES.  It may not be perfect but it's just plain fun, and by the time the last few episodes rolled around, I didn't want it to stop being Hammer Time. 

SLEDGE HAMMER!: THE COMPLETE SERIES -- DVD Review by Porfle

"MUTANT CHRONICLES" and "DEMON WARRIORS" -- Coming Aug. 4 From Magnolia Home Entertainment

Dystopian, Steampunk Sci-Fi/Horror Epic, MUTANT CHRONICLES Arrives As A Two-Disc Collector’s Edition On DVD And A Blu-ray Disc August 4 From The Magnet Label of Magnolia Home Entertainment

Also Available As A Single-Disc Collector’s Edition

“Brilliantly Ballistic Blood-spattered action...Incredibly violent. Wall-to-wall splatter. Visually striking sci-fi/horror epic.”- Fangoria

In the year 2707, war rages between Earth’s four giant corporations as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. Amid heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific necromutant army from its eternal prison deep within the Earth. As the mutant plague threatens human extinction, a single squad of soldiers descends into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of mutants.

Based on the classic role-playing game that has already inspired card games, video games, novels, comic books and collectible miniatures, MUTANT CHRONICLES stars Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher, The Sweetest Thing), Golden Globe®-winner Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, “Beauty and the Beast”) and Oscar®-nominee John Malkovich (The Great Buck Howard, Burn After Reading, Changeling).

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DEMON WARRIORS, An Action-Packed Supernatural Adventure From the Creators of Ong-Bak, Dynamite Warriors and The Protector, lands on DVD August 4 from Magnolia Home Entertainment Under the Magnet Label.

“Ingredients for a nasty version of X-Men…”Variety

Detective Techit’s biggest case calls for the ultimate sacrifice – his life. In order to investigate the existence of mysterious spirits called Opapatikas, he must follow them into the eternal limbo existence in which they dwell. When an otherworldly warrior promises Techit incredible powers of intuition upon entering the Opapatika world, Techit leaps at the chance to be a better detective, committing suicide and using death as a doorway into a supernatural world populated by ghouls, warriors, and eternal raging battles. Once there Techit is caught in the fray and quickly discovers that each time he fights an Opapatika, he loses one of his five senses. Surrounded by enemies and running out of power, Techit must conquer the afterlife or face an eternity of misery.

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THE VISITOR -- DVD review

Richard Jenkins is one of those solid actors whose face you always recognize even if you don't know his name. "Six Feet Under" viewers will know him, as will anyone who's seen such movies as THE CORE, THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, BURN AFTER READING, STEP BROTHERS, and many more. What's really cool is seeing one of these stalwart character actors given a juicy lead role and making the most of it, as Jenkins does here in writer-director Thomas McCarthy's emotionally-resonant 2007 film THE VISITOR.

Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a widowed college professor in Connecticut for whom life has lost all meaning. He wanders sad and zombielike through his daily responsibilities, dealing with people and situations with a kind of empty politeness and resigned tolerance. What he needs is something exotic and unexpected to jolt him back into life, right? Well, that's what he gets when he's sent to New York City on college business and discovers a young couple living in the apartment he keeps there. (It's one of those THE GOODBYE GIRL-type subletting mixups.) Being a basically decent sort, Walter allows Syrian immigrant Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and his African girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) to stay until they find other accomodations.

With this set-up, we just know that Tarek and Zainab are going to breathe new life into stuffy old Walter, but the question is how unrealistic and predictably "zany" will it all get? Surprisingly, not at all. Every step of the way, THE VISITOR remains a thoughtful, introspective, compassionate character study that delights by keeping its characters real despite its sitcom potential. Tarek, we find, plays an African drum called a "Djembe" in small jazz clubs and sidewalk jam sessions, and when the instrument and the African beats eminating from it begin to fascinate Walter and draw him ever so slowly out of his shell, the process is amusingly subtle..

The turning point in the story comes when Tarek is arrested for a minor infraction and placed in detention. Walter discovers that Tarek and Zainab are illegal aliens, and, with his old life becoming less important to him by the minute, he starts to focus his attention on getting Tarek out and preventing his imminent deportation. But there's more--Tarek's mother Mouna (a very effective Hiam Abbass, MUNICH) shows up, and thus begins a wonderfully genteel romance between her and Walter that achieves remarkable depth by its very subtlety and restraint.

Since Walter is such a lifeless stiff when we first meet him, every little thing that puts a spark into his demeanor comes as a small joy. Richard Jenkins pulls it off by keeping the character under total control the whole time. His tentative efforts to learn to play the Djembe, letting down his reserve ever so gradually each time, lead to some great moments such as his taking part in a sidewalk percussion circle or simply drumming absently on the desk during a boring college conference. His relationship with Tarek is natural and unforced, with none of the usual contrived nonsense that would usually result from such an odd-couple pairing. Best of all, the romance between Walter and Mouna is so delicately handled and sweet, their final moment together brims with an emotional depth that may leave you holding back the sniffles.

Available in both full-screen and anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby 5.1 surround sound, the DVD looks and sounds fine. Extras include an interesting commentary with Jenkins and McCarthy, a brief behind-the-scenes featurette, some minor deleted stuff, a trailer, and a look at the Djembe.

"I have waited my entire professional career to be part of something like this," Richard Jenkins reveals during the featurette, and it's easy to see why. Low-key to the point of being almost no-key at first, THE VISITOR slowly draws us into its deliberate pace and rewards us for our patience by paying off in all sorts of ways. It won't bust your gut with laughter, deluge you with melodrama, or blow you through the back wall of your livingroom, but it doesn't have to.

THE VISITOR -- DVD review

"SLEDGE HAMMER! THE COMPLETE SERIES" coming December 13th from Image Entertainment

SLEDGE HAMMER!  THE COMPLETE SERIES From Image Entertainment December 13th

Both Seasons On One Complete DVD Set For The Very First Time – At A Great Low Price!

Using extreme force to enforce the law, Sledge Hammer is a trigger-happy crime fighter who’s gunning for criminals – be they murderers or jaywalkers!   On December 13, Image Entertainment presents “Sledge Hammer!  The Complete Series,” the notoriously funny cult comedy about a clueless cop who always gets results:  one hilarious way or another!   Including both seasons – all 41 episodes – “Sledge Hammer!  The Complete Series” will be available as a 5-disc DVD set for an explosive SRP of $34.98.  Pre-book is November 15. 

Sledge Hammer:  known for battling the Mafia, revolutionaries, even an Elvis impersonator serial killer; notorious for tying a gangster to the hood of his car (“my favorite hood ornament”). David Rasche (Burn After Reading, “Bored to Death,” “All My Children,” “Rubicon”) stars as Sledge, the multi-decorated – and multi-suspended – rebel cop his boss, Captain Trunk (Harrison Page – “JAG,” “Ally McBeal”), relies on time and time again. Sometimes using grenades, Uzi machine guns or bazookas, Sledge is never far from his beloved .44 Magnum in his comedic quest to make the streets safe for all law-abiding citizens.

Created by Alan Spencer, and co-starring Anne-Marie Martin as Dori Doreau, Sledge’s long-suffering partner in crime-fighting, “Sledge Hammer!” episodes were directed by such notables as Bill Bixby (“My Favorite Martian,” “The Incredible Hulk”), Charles Braverman (“Melrose Place,” “Northern Exposure”) and Jackie Cooper (Treasure Island, the Christopher Reeve Superman films). Wanna make your day? Get “Sledge Hammer! The Complete Series DVD!”

Sledge Hammer!  The Complete Series DVD
Genre:             Comedy, Television, Cops, Crime/Criminals, Crooked Cops
Rating:            Not Rated
Languages:      English 
Format:            1.33:1
Audio:             Dolby Digital Mono
Year:               1986
SRP :                $34.98
Street Date:     December 13, 2011
Pre-Book:        November 15, 2011
Length:            1,025 minutes
UPC :               014381776522                       
Catalog #:        LAK7765DVD

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"SLEDGE HAMMER! THE COMPLETE SERIES" coming December 13th from Image Entertainment

Hunter Schafer, Academy Award® Nominee John Malkovich, Gemma Chan, and Sofia Boutella To Star In Tilman Singer's "CUCKOO" For Neon

 

HUNTER SCHAFER, ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE JOHN MALKOVICH, GEMMA CHAN AND SOFIA BOUTELLA TO STAR IN TILMAN SINGER’S “CUCKOO” FOR NEON

NEON is Financing the Horror Pic which Begins Principal Photography in 2022


New York, NY, August 31, 2021 – NEON today announced that Hunter Schafer, Academy Award® Nominee John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella will star in the upcoming Cuckoo, written and to be directed by Tilman Singer. Jan Bluthardt, Zita Hanrot, and Proschat Madani round out the cast. Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment are producing along with Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka of FICTION PARK, and Thor Bradwell.  NEON is financing the horror picture, which will begin principal photography in April 2022.

Cuckoo marks Tilman’s sophomore feature following his supernatural horror film Luz, which debuted at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Horror Film at Fantastic Fest and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival. The team behind Luz is also reuniting for Cuckoo, which includes Paul Faltz as Cinematographer, Simon Waskow as Composer, and Dario Mendez Acosta as Production Designer.

Schafer made her acting debut portraying Jules in the HBO critically acclaimed series “Euphoria.” She also co-wrote and co-executive produced a special episode for the series, which aired earlier this year. In 2021, Time named her to its Next list of 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future.

Malkovich was nominated for two Academy Awards for his roles inPlaces in the Heart and In the Line of Fire.  He has starred in over 70 films, including The Killing Fields, Empire of the Sun, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Mulholland Falls, Con Air, Rounders, Being John Malkovich, Shadow of the Vampire, Ripley's Game, Johnny English, Burn After Reading, Red, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Warm Bodies, Cesar Chavez, Bird Box, and Velvet Buzzsaw.  He will next star in Charlie Day’s El Tonto with Kate Beckinsale and Jason Sudeikis and Empress of Serenity with Bill Hader and Issa Rae.

Chan gained widespread recognition for her role in Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, which became a critical and commercial hit.   She recently joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel. Last year she also starred opposite Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk, an original comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh, and she can currently be heard as the voice of Namaari in Disney’s latest animation, Raya and the Last Dragon. Chan will star in the upcoming Marvel Studios film Eternals alongside Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington, Richard Madden, and Salma Hayek, and in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling with Florence Pugh, Chris Pine and Harry Styles.

Boutella came to be known for her break out turn in the hit franchise film The Kingsman. She went on to star in Universal's The Mummy with Tom Cruise, Atomic Blonde alongside Charlize Theron, Ramin Bahrini's Fahrenheit 451 for HBO and A24's Climax for Gaspar Noé. She can currently be seen in Wyatt Rockefeller’s feature debut Settlers for IFC Films.

Schafer is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, Malkovich by WME, Chan by Independent Talent Group, WME and M88, and Boutella is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and 42. Cuckoo will have additional support from German Regional Fund Film und Median Stiftung NRW.

NEON recently debuted three titles to critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, and took their second Palme d’Or winner in a row, just off the heels of Parasite, with Julia Ducournau’s Titane. The company also premiered Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton, which tied for the Jury Prize, and the anthology feature The Year of the Everlasting Storm.  Out of the festival, NEON acquired the breakout instant classic The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier, which took the Best Actress Award for Renate Reinsve, as well as Jonas Carpignano’s festival sensation A Chiara, which won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors’ Fortnight section.

The company’s upcoming slate also include Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee, executive produced by Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, as well as Zhang Yimou’s One Second and Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman, both of which will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

 

About NEON:

In just four years, NEON has garnered 12 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $150M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards®, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture. The film, which also unanimously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, has amassed over $53M at the domestic box office and broke multiple records including highest per screen average of the year and highest per screen average for a foreign language film of all time. NEON has amassed a library of over 50 films with noteworthy releases including: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov’s award-winning and record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11, 2019's highest grossing documentary with a worldwide gross of $16M; Tim Wardle's Three Identical Strangers, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Storytelling which surpassed $13M at the box office; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.

The company has several projects in various stages of development and production, including Pablo Larraín’s Spencer starring Kristen Stewart; The Painter and the Thief narrative remake, and Duke Johnson’s The Actor starring Ryan Gosling.  NEON continues to be an impressive force recently debuting three titles to critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, and taking their second Palme d’Or winner in a row, just off the heels of Parasite, with Julia Ducournau’s Titane. The company also premiered Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton, which tied for the Jury Prize, and the anthology feature The Year of the Everlasting Storm. Out of the festival they also acquired: The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier, which took the Best Actress Award for Renate Reinsve; Jonas Carpignano’s festival sensation A Chiara, which won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Additional recent acquisitions include:Zhang Yimou’s One Second and Céline Sciamma’s Petite Mamanwhich will both premiere at at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival; and Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee, executive produced by Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.  NEON’s recent releases include: Jamila Wignot’s Ailey; Pig, starring Nicolas Cage; Venice's Grand Jury Prize Winner Michel Franco's New Order; Gunda directed by Victor Kossakovsky and executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix; Robert Machoian’s powerful thriller The Killing of Two Lovers; Ben Wheatley's Horror Film In The Earth; R.J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry Night of the Kings, Philippe Lacôte’s Ivory Coast Oscar Submission; Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades!, Russia’s Academy Award Submission;  Francis Lee’s romantic drama Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan; Alex’s Gibney’s documentary Totally Under Control; Max Barbakow’s sought after Palm Springs starring Andy Samberg, which NEON acquired with Hulu; Josephine Decker’s Shirley starring Elisabeth Moss; and the critically acclaimed Cannes hit Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes® and Independent Spirit Awards.

After their successful collaboration on I, Tonya in January 2018, 30WEST (Dan Friedkin's and Micah Green's strategic venture) partnered with NEON's Tom Quinn (Founder & CEO) and Tim League (Co-Founder) to become majority investors in the company.

 

About WAYPOINT Entertainment:

WAYPOINT Entertainment is a film and television development and production company co-founded in 2010 by Ken Kao. Waypoint recently produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ film THE FAVOURITE, and Jonah Hill’s directorial debut MID90S. THE FAVOURITE garnered ten Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress for Olivia Colman’s performance, in addition to seven BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe. Additionally, Kao and Waypoint have produced films such as THE NICE GUYS, HOSTILES, THE GLASS CASTLE, SILENCE, SONG TO SONG and KNIGHT OF CUPS.

Josh Rosenbaum joined Kao across his various entertainment companies in 2015. He executive produced THE FAVOURITE and served as co-producer on MID90s and HOSTILES among others.

 

About Thor Bradwell:

Thor Bradwell started his career at WME. He spent a decade there cultivating the careers of young actors and directors including AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, ALDEN EHERENEICH, XAVIER DOLAN, ZAC EFRON, TROYE SIVAN, RILEY KEOUGH, TAYLOR LAUTNER, etc. In 2013, Thor Bradwell joined RICK YORN as PRODUCER/MANAGER at LBI. Client list included: MARTIN SCORSESE, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, TODD FIELD, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE etc. In 2016, Thor started his own management/production firm, THIRTY THREE

MANAGEMENT. Currently, Thor is producing BRATNEY AND THE GIRLS with A24 for FX starring Awkwafina, Sara Paulson, Willam Dafoe and Drake.

 

About FICTION PARK:

FICTION PARK Entertainment was founded in the spring of 2017, by producers Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka based on the idea entertainment is not a bad word, and trusting storytelling’s power to heal and inspire.

Maria has been part of Greek Argonauts Productions as Producer and Head of Development for more than 10 years, and until 2017. She has been involved in commercial, art-house and international productions. Markus started working as producer in 1996. In 2001 he founded busse & halberschmidt and today has an expertise based on several international feature film productions including BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES (VT/FR/DE/NL, Berlinale Competition, 2015). Supported by a variety of financiers from Germany, their projects aim to attract and move international audiences. FICTION PARK’s line-up includes projects in various stages of development and financing. Among them are the feature films LIFE ON LAIKA (sci-fi thriller) and BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS (drama, crime, coproduction with GR). Additionally series such as 1631: YEAR OF THE SPIDER (historical political drama) and MÜLLER (dramedy).

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AVAILABLE NOW - Listen to the Carter Burwell Soundtrack from Joel Coen's "THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH"

 

"THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH"

SOUNDTRACK FROM THE APPLE ORIGINAL FILM

WITH MUSIC BY CARTER BURWELL

AVAILABLE NOW FROM MILAN RECORDS 

AVAILABLE NOW IN SELECT THEATERS, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH PREMIERES GLOBALLY ON APPLE TV+ TODAY, JANUARY 14



NEW YORK, NY – Milan Records announces the release of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE APPLE ORIGINAL FILM) by award-winning composer CARTER BURWELL. Available everywhere now, the album features music written by Burwell for the Apple Original Film based on the play by William Shakespeare, written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen. The film is the latest in a career-spanning partnership between Burwell and Coen, whose prolific partnership dates back to 1984 and has gone on to include almost every film from the four-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit and more.

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Speaking of his approach to the score, composer CARTER BURWELL says, “Among the ways one might play Macbeth musically are to let the witches run the show, or make Lady Macbeth a bully, or play Macbeth as a blood-thirsty madman. I did none of these in The Tragedy of Macbeth. The way Joel Coen adapted the play, and the way the actors played it, the Macbeths are human and supportive of each other. Loving even. And culpable. But the music also plays the film as a thriller. A murder sets a mechanism in motion that will unwind with greater pace and greater stakes until the end.”

The soundtrack finds Burwell weaving string-heavy instrumentation with onscreen dialogues performed throughout the film, with vocal contributions by Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and more featuring on nearly half of the album’s 13 tracks. Burwell’s orchestra of strings further showcase the melodic quality of the Shakespearean dialogue, of which the composer says:

“In any adaptation of Shakespeare, the language is the featured player, and Joel and I often discussed how much or little the music should play during the great monologues. We arrived at the maxim that, in these scenes, the dialogue was the melody and the score its accompaniment. With this in mind I tried to write around and below the words, placing much of the score in the lowest registers – cellos and basses – where it wouldn’t fight the speech. This also accentuates the darkness of a very dark story.”

The score’s ominous tone is punctuated by moments of solo violin Burwell describes as “taking flight out of the darkness.” Eerily alien and slightly off-kilter, these portions reflect a conscious decision by Burwell to find something “rough-hewn like a fiddle, but not a fiddle from any place we know.” Burwell enlisted award-winning violinist Tim Fain to help create a folk-style sound from unknown lands, crediting the musician for his ability to go “off the page” enough to give the compositions character and life. From Shakespearean speeches to simmering, otherworldly textures, Burwell’s score coalesces into a darkly foreboding and propulsive soundscape that ultimately captures the essence of the story as well as its nuances.

Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, The Tragedy of Macbeth is available now in select theaters from A24 and premieres globally on Apple TV+ today, January 14.

 
 

 
ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation; a tale of murder, madness, ambition and wrathful cunning.

Apple Original Films presents an A24 and IAC Films production, The Tragedy of Macbeth, based on the play by William Shakespeare and written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen. The film stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling and Brendan Gleeson. The producers are Joel Coen, Frances McDormand and Robert Graf. The film features casting by Ellen Chenoweth, music by Carter Burwell, costumes by Mary Zophres, editing by Lucian Johnston and Reginald Jaynes, production design by Stefan Dechant and cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel.

 

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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE APPLE ORIGINAL FILM)

TRACKLISTING –

1.    Fair Is Foul (feat. Kathryn Hunter)

2.    My Black Desires

3.    Come What Come May (feat. Denzel Washington)

4.    Leave All the Rest to Me (feat. Denzel Washington & Frances McDormand)

5.    Blood Will Have Blood

6.    Is This a Dagger? (feat. Denzel Washington)

7.    Something Wicked This Way Comes

8.    Be Not Found Here

9.    Out Damned Spot (feat. Frances McDormand, Nancy Daly & Jefferson Mays)

10.  Birnam Wood

11.  Come Seeling Night

12.  Tomorrow and Tomorrow (feat. Denzel Washington)

13.  The End of Macbeth

 
 

 
ABOUT CARTER BURWELL

Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 90 feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee for Film Music), Before Night Falls, A Knight’s Tale, The Rookie, Adaptation., Intolerable Cruelty, No Country for Old Men, In Bruges, Burn After Reading, Twilight, Where the Wild Things Are (Golden Globe Nominee for Best Original Score), A Serious Man, The Blind Side, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2, Mr. Holmes, Legend, Anomalisa, Hail, Caesar!, The Founder, Missing Link and The Good Liar.

For television, Burwell wrote the music for Apple’s drama series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup and Steve Carell which had it first season premiere on November 1, 2019. The second season of The Morning Show premiered on September 17, 2021. Burwell also wrote the music for the first season of the comedy series Space Force starring Steve Carell which premiered on Netflix on May 29, 2020.

In 2017 Burwell wrote the music for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Burwell received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his work for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Music on behalf of the film.

In 2015 Burwell wrote the music for the drama Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara directed by Todd Haynes. Burwell received his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for Carol, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award. Burwell won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Award for Best Music Score for Carol and Anomalisa.

Other recent films include Wonderstruck which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017 and was Burwell’s fourth collaboration with director Todd Haynes, and the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a six-part Western anthology film for Netflix which marked their 17th project together and premiered in November 2018. His original score for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was named to the 2019 Oscar shortlist.

Burwell also previously worked with Todd Haynes on Velvet Goldmine and HBO’s mini-series Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet for which Burwell was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning in the category of Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score).

His most recent project is the upcoming The Tragedy of Macbeth directed and adapted by Joel Coen starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand which opened in select theatres on December 25, 2021 and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on January 14, 2022.

His theater work includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and the Mabou Mines productions Mother and Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day.

In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled Theater of the New Ear, presented in New York, London and Los Angeles. The text, by Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The music was performed by the 8-member Parabola Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Burwell.

Burwell’s dance compositions include the pieces The Return of Lot's Wife, choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, and RABL, choreographed by Patrice Regnier. He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir.

His writing includes the essays "Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now," published in the inaugural issue of Esopus magazine in 2003 and reprinted in Harper's Magazine in 2004, “No Country For Old Music” in the 2013 Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, and “How Nino Rota Saved Me from a Subterranean Freakout” in Arcana IX, 2021.

Burwell has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

His website is carterburwell.com.

AVAILABLE NOW - Listen to the Carter Burwell Soundtrack from Joel Coen's "THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH"

Celebrate Halloween with Fox and MGM DVDs. Specs and other info!

Thanks to Derek for giving us the info on these upcoming DVDs.

FOX AND MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT THE WORKS OF THE ORIGINAL MASTER OF HORROR,

VINCENT PRICE

THE FLY COLLECTION

MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION

WITCHFINDER GENERAL

A Gruesome Collection of Horror Classics Arrive on DVD
September 11, Just In Time For Halloween

DVD Debuts of Curse of the Fly and Witchfinder General

CENTURY CITY, Calif. – The silver screen legend whose distinctive voice and unique look propelled him to the forefront of the horror genre, Vincent Price is recognized as a true Hollywood treasure whose villainous roles inspired filmmakers, musicians and other actors for generations to come. Now, just in time for Halloween, Fox and MGM Home Entertainment celebrate his storied career with nearly a dozen creepy classics including THE FLY COLLECTION, MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION and WITCHFINDER GENERAL, arriving on DVD September 11, 2007.

A science-fiction classic that spawned a trilogy of terror, THE FLY COLLECTION features the original 1958 film THE FLY, its sequel RETURN OF THE FLY and the DVD debut of THE CURSE OF THE FLY, including all new documentaries and featurettes in a collectible boxed set.

The terror continues with MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION; a seven-movie set that immortalizes the iconic screen legend with THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN, THEATER OF BLOOD, MADHOUSE, TALES OF TERROR, TWICE TOLD TALES and the long-awaited DVD debut of WITCHFINDER GENERAL. The collection also features an exclusive BONUS DISC OF HORROR including rare interviews with the Merchant of Menace himself!

Finally, one of the most requested titles in the MGM catalog; WITCHFINDER GENERAL finally crawls its way onto DVD. Originally released theatrically as The Conqueror Worm, WITCHFINDER GENERAL is a frightening tale of a brutal witch-hunt in war torn England. The DVD also features audio commentary by the producer and star of the film and a documentary about the film’s importance to the genre. THE FLY COLLECTION is available for a suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S. / $54.98 Canada, with MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE available for $39.98 U.S. / $54.98 Canada and WITCHFINDER GENERAL available for $14.98 U.S. / $15.98. Prebook is August 18, 2007.

Marketing Support:

Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have a comprehensive consumer marketing and strategic publicity campaign in place for the Vincent Price titles, leveraging targeted public relations focusing on radio, print, broadcast and online outreach that specifically targets fans of the films and classic horror while capitalizing on the timeliness of the Halloween holiday season.

The Fly Collection Special Features

• Disc One – The Fly (1958)
• Disc Two – The Return Of The Fly (1959)
• Disc Three – The Curse Of The Fly (1965)
• Disc Four – Bonus Disc
• Vincent Price biography
• “Fly Trap: Catching A Classic” featurette
• The Fly bonus features
• Trailer
• Playboy article and gallery
• Photo gallery
• Lobby cards and posters
• The Return Of The Fly bonus features
• Trailer and TV spots
• Lobby cards and posters
• Photo gallery
• The Curse Of The Fly bonus features
• Trailer
• Pressbook gallery
• Lobby cards and posters
• Photo gallery

MGM Scream Legends Collection: Vincent Price Collection Special Features

• Disc One – ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES/DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN Double Feature
• Disc Two - THEATER OF BLOOD/MADHOUSE Double Feature
• Disc Three - TALES OF TERROR/TWICE TOLD TALES Double Feature
• Disc Four – Witchfinder General
• Witchfinder General: Michael Reeve’s Horror Classic Featurette
• Audio commentary with producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy

• Disc Five – Bonus Disc of Horror
• “Vincent Price: Renaissance Man” documentary
• “The Art Of Fear” featurette
• “Working With Vincent Price” featurette

WITCHFINDER GENERAL Special Features

• Witchfinder General: Michael Reeve’s Horror Classic Featurette
• Audio commentary with producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy

The Fly Synopsis

Experimental scientist Andre Delambre (David Hedison) attempts to transfer matter through a space, using himself as the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a house fly buzzes into the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids…one of them being Andre! Now with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, Andre, desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) and his brother Francois (Vincent Price) can capture the other mutant – the human-headed, one-armed fly – in hopes of reversing the experiment!

The Return Of The Fly Synopsis

Despite warnings from his uncle Francois (Vincent Price), the young scientist Philippe Delambre (Brett Halsey) is determined to reattempt his late father’s teleportation experiments with the help of his assistant Ronald (David Frankham). But Ronald schemes against Philippe and turns him into the same horrifying man-fly creature that his father had become…and with the same disastrous fate! Once again, it is up to Francois to try and make things right!

The Curse Of The Fly Synopsis

The Delambre family curse continues in the terrifying third and final chapter, The Curse of the Fly! Filled with “disorienting suspense” (Scarlet Street) and gruesome special effects, it’s a horrific tale of science gone mad!

After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) is rescued by scientist Martin Delambre (George Baker), the grandson of the doomed teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but Patricia quickly realizes her new husband’s science experiments are as horrific as his family’s past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them before she becomes the next human-insect hybrid!

The Abominable Dr. Phibes Synopsis

Meet Doctor Phibes: a one-time concert musician who’s now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: “Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine eternities in doom!”

After a team of surgeons botch his beloved wife’s surgery, leaving her for dead, the emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashes a score of old testament atrocities – from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats -- on his enemies that climax in what may be one of “the eeriest endings on screen record” (Syracuse Herald-Journal)!

Dr. Phibes Rises Again Synopsis

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with his mute aide-de-camp Vulnavia and the corpse of his dead wife. To resurrect his spouse, Phibes gets up to his usual, diabolical tricks: cleverly murdering people in strange and heinous ways to invoke a magical incantation. But once he is in the tomb of the dead Pharaohs, the good doctor uncovers that his pursuit of an after-life may be foiled by his nemesis who wants to end the reign of this sadistic surgeon of gore.

Theater Of Blood Synopsis

Vincent Price delivers a thrilling “tour-de-force” performance (Variety) as a small-time actor plotting big-time revenge! Boasting a top notch supporting cast, this dramatically “delicious concoction” (New York Magazine) is an “equal mixture of horror, comedy and Shakespeare [that’ll] please just about everyone -- critics included” (Boxoffice)!

After years of suffering deadly reviews, hammy Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Price) decides it’s curtains for his critics! Bumping off his detractors with executions inspired by the Bard, Lionheart stages a beheading after the manner of “Cymbeline,” a stabbing inspired by “Julius Caesar,” and even an untimely removal of a pound of flesh improvised from “The Merchant of Venice” -- proving once and for all, that all the world really is a stage…for MURDER!

Madhouse Synopsis

Madhouse Masters of macabre Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry give performances to die for in this “diverting little chiller” (Boxoffice)! When horror star Paul Toombes’ fiancée is brutally killed, he loses more than this job he loses his mind. But twelve years later, when he returns to TV – only to discover a fresh batch of corpses – Paul finally begins to understand that melodrama can be murder on your career!

Tales Of Terror /Twice Told Tale Synopsis

This triple treat of terror is a three-episode treat dripping with murder, necrophilia, dementia, live burials, zombies and the terrifying performances of some of horror’s greatest spooks – Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone – resulting in nothing less than “juicy entertainment” and “spine-chilling cinema” (Cue)!

Witchfinder General Synopsis

“Vincent Price proves once again that he is still the greatest ghoul going” (Motion Picture Herald) in this Edgar Allen Poe thriller about a witch hunter who finds career satisfaction touring the English countryside torturing hapless victims and putting innocent people to death in the name of purifying souls. It’s a tale of “love, villainy and retribution” (Film Daily) and a “sadist’s delight” (Los Angeles Times) for those who love historical bloodfests.

As superstition and spells sweep the middle ages, an educated rogue named Hopkins (Price) wanders from town to town proclaiming to be an official witch finder. Town leaders pay him to accuse and then execute – usually innocent – suspects. But when a brave soldier returns home to find his sweetheart on the rack, ready to burn, Hopkins realizes he may have whacked his last witch.

THE FLY COLLECTION

Street Date: September 11, 2007

Prebook Date: August 15, 2007

DVD Price: $39.98 U.S. / $54.98Canada

Total Running Time: 252 minutes

Catalog Number: 2246202U.S.

Rating: N/A

Canadian Rating: N/A

Audio: English Mono

Subtitles: English/French/Spanish

Format: Wide Screen

Closed Captioned: Yes

MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION

Street Date: September 11, 2007

Prebook Date: August 15, 2007

DVD Price: $39.98 U.S. / $49.98 Canada

Total Running Time: 674 minutes

Catalog Number: M108780

U.S. Rating: N/A

Canadian Rating: N/A

Audio: English Mono

Format: Wide Screen

Closed Captioned: Yes

WITCHFINDER GENERAL

Street Date: September 11, 2007

Prebook Date: August 15, 2007

DVD Price: $14.98 U.S. / $15.98 Canada

Total Running Time: 86 minutes

Catalog Number: M108765

U.S. Rating: N/A

Canadian Rating: N/A

Audio: English Mono

Subtitles: English/French/Spanish

Format: Wide Screen

Closed Captioned: Yes

MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS A TERRIFYING COLLECTION FROM
THE MASTER OF B-MOVIES

THE ROGER CORMAN COLLECTION

Eight Films From One Of The Most Influential Directors In Modern American Cinema Arrive In A Collectible Box Set September 18

LOS ANGELES, CA – Before “Grindhouse” theaters opened their doors, Roger Corman was making movies. A filmmaker who is responsible for giving many of Hollywood’s top directors their first big break including Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), Martin Scorsese (The Departed),
Ron Howard (The DaVinci Code), James Cameron (Titanic), Peter Bogdanovich
(The Last Picture Show) and Joe Dante (Gremlins); Corman’s prolific career of making low-budget, yet wildly entertaining exploitation films cemented his place in film history.
MGM Home Entertainment celebrates his legendary career with an anthology of his very best work with The Roger Corman Collection, coming to DVD September 18.

Featuring eight films on four discs, the box set includes Peter Fonda (Ghost Rider, Easy Rider) and Bruce Dern (The Astronaut Farmer, Diggstown) in the motorcycle thriller The Wild Angels, the artsy horror story A Bucket Of Blood, the apocalyptic Gas-s-s-s, the Edgar Allan Poe tale Premature Burial, the science-fiction classic X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes and the acid-fueled tale written by Jack Nicholson (The Departed, As Good As It Gets); The Trip. Additionally, the collection offers two Corman classics never before available on DVD – Shelly Winters (The Poseidon Adventure, The Diary of Anne Frank) and Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull) in the psychological gangster film Bloody Mama and the grand prix action spectacular The Young Racers. The Roger Corman Collection is available for the suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S. / $45.98 Canada. Prebook is August 15, 2007.

Synopses:

Bloody Mama

Shelley Winters, Robert DeNiro and Bruce Dern take on the Great Depression the only way they know how in this explosive saga based on the lives of the Ma Barker Gang!

A Bucket of Blood

In a jumpin' java joint, filled to the brim with kooky beatniks, poets and hipsters, an artist wannabe discovers he has a talent for modern art...and murder. Dripping with blood, social satire and "sick, sick comedy," this film, according to critic Leonard Maltin, "nicely captures the spirit of the beatnik era" and zips along with vibes of counterculture creepiness. Walter (Dick Miller) is a busboy overly impressed with the cool cats who hang out at The Yellow Door coffee house, and he wonders how to become "hip." When he accidentally kills his landlady's pet cat, Walter panics and covers it with clay. His prayers are answered, and before he knows it, he's the "cat's meow" of the art world. His talent develops and - surprise! - he can sculpt humans the same way too. Like so many artists, his real talent won't be discovered - until he's dead.

Gas-s-s

Anarchy goes airborne when a deadly gas kills everyone over 25 and the world devolves into a chaotic – and zany – struggle for power.

The Trip

Written by Jack Nicholson, The Trip takes you to a whole new world of extreme beauty and sheer terror…on a passport the size of a stamp!

The Premature Burial

The obsessive fear of being buried alive compels a medical student to build himself a tomb with a view, equipped with everything he can think of to escape death.

X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes

A “fantastic” (Los Angeles Times) tale of heart-pounding suspense, this “harrowing [and] terrifying” (Boxoffice) sci-fi shocker “will fascinate horror film fans” (The Hollywood Reporter).

The Young Racers

An ex-racing champion gets back in the driver’s seat to take on the current champ in a match with a climax so explosive, it has to be seen to be believed.

The Wild Angeles

Grab your chick, hop on your Harley and fly with this “sociological shocker [from the] cut-rate master of the macabre” (Time) starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.

The Roger Corman Collection

Price: $39.98U.S. / $45.98 Canada

Street Date: September 18, 2007

Prebook Date: August 22, 2007

Catalog Number: M108589

Bloody Mama (Disc One A)

Total Running Time: 90 minutes

U.S Rating R

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Captioned: N/A

A Bucket of Blood (Disc One B)

Total Running Time: 66 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

Gas-s-s (Disc Two A)

Total Running Time: 78 minutes

U.S Rating R

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

The Trip (Disc Two B)

Total Running Time: 79 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

The Premature Burial (Disc Three A)

Total Running Time: 81 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (Disc Three B)

Total Running Time: 79 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

The Young Racers (Disc Four A)

Total Running Time: 84 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

The Wild Angeles (Disc Four B)

Total Running Time: 86 minutes

U.S Rating Not Rated

Canadian Rating N/A

Closed Caption N/A

THIS HALLOWEEN

FOX AND MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT DOUBLE THE CREATURE AND DOUBLE THE FEATURE WITH

Creepy Camp Classics

Come Back To Life

On DVD September 11

A Vast Collection Of Midnite Movies Make Their DVD Debut Including Bat People, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues,

Food Of The Gods, House On Skull Mountain and More

Street Date: September 11, 2007

Pre-book Date: August 15, 2007

Launch Highlights:

· Back by popular demand after an online petition gathered nearly 5,000 signatures to save the line, MGM Home Entertainment’s Midnite Movies return with new titles, never-before-on-DVD, including Bat People, Beast with a Million Eyes, Yongary; Monster From The Deep, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues, Return Of Dracula, The Vampire and Curse of the Faceless Man!

· Fox Home Entertainment joins the Midnite Movies madness by unleashing six new two-disc double features of their own, including Blueprint For Murder, Man In The Attic, Chosen Survivors, Earth Dies Screaming, Devils Of Darkness, Witchcraft, Gorilla At Large, Mystery At Monster Island, House On Skull Mountain, Mephisto Waltz, Tales From The Crypt and Vault Of Horror!

· Based on the novel by H. G. Wells, Food Of The Gods crawls onto DVD for the first time ever as MGM Home Entertainment’s Midnite Movie single feature!

· Get ready for some campy and macabre fun with Midnite Movies from MGM Home Entertainment and Fox Home Entertainment as new titles are released in time for Halloween for the suggested retail price of $14.98 U.S. and $15.98 Canada.

New MGM Midnite Movie Double Features Priced At $14.98 U.S./$15.98 Canada

Title: Length:

The Beast Within/Bat People 98 min./95 min.

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues/The Beast With A Million Eyes 80 min./75 min.

Pharoh’s Curse/Curse of the Faceless Man 66 min./67 min.

Return Of Dracula/The Vampire 77 min./95 min.

Yongary, Monster From The Deep/Konga 79 min./90 min.

New MGM Midnite Movie Singles Priced At $14.98 U.S./$15.98 Canada

Title: Length:

Food Of The Gods 88 min.

New Fox Midnite Movie Double Features Priced At $14.98 U.S./$15.98 Canada

Title: Length:

Blueprint For Murder/Man In The Attic 82 min./77 min.

Chosen Survivors/Earth Dies Screaming 130 min./62 min.

Devils Of Darkness/Witchcraft 88 min./79 min.

Gorilla At Large/Mystery At Monster Island 84 min./83 min.

House On Skull Mountain/Mephisto Waltz 115 min./89 min.

Tales From The Crypt/Vault Of Horror 83 min./92 min.

FIVE NEW MGM MIDNITE MOVIES DOUBLE FEATURES:

The Beast Within/Bat People Catalog #: M108631

The Beast With (1982) – He was on the verge of becoming a Man…Eater! A Teenage boy is coming face to face with his true past as it keeps on coming back to haunt him. Will he learn who his true father is? Will he accept his fate and it’s consequences?

Bat People (1974) – After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat creature, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife.

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues/ Beast With A Million Eyes Catalog #: M108637

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (1955) – An unusual radioactive rock on the sea bottom mutates the ocean life into a horrible monster.

Beast With A Million Eyes (1955) – After landing a space craft in the desert, an alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals. As the animals attack, the terror begins.

Pharoh’s Curse/Cure Of The Faceless Man Catalog #: M108640

Pharoh’s Curse (1957) – Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood-sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse by entering a Pharaoh's tomb.

Cure Of The Faceless Man (1958) - When scientists uncover the body of a gladiator from the ruins of Pompeii, they discover he is still alive and set on finding his ancient lost love, but people left alone with the seemingly petrified “faceless man” keep dying of crushed skulls

Return Of Dracula/The Vampire Catalog #: M108643

Return Of Dracula (1958) – After killing a passenger on a train in Transylvania and stealing his identity, Count Dracula comes to a small community in California where the Mayberry’s are expecting their cousin from Europe.

The Vampire (1957) – A man mistakenly takes vampire pills created by a mad doctor and goes on a killing spree in this by prescription camp classic.

Yongary, Monster From The Deep/Konga Catalog #: M108634

Yongary, Monster From The Deep (1967) – A nuclear test in China releases a giant dinosaur from hibernation. The monster rampages through Korea until a young inventor kills it with a special chemical.

Konga (1961) – A chimp is transformed into a giant gorilla and terrorizes London!

A NEW MGM MIDNITE MOVIE SINGLE:

Food Of The Gods (1976) Catalog #: M108762

Based on a novel by H. G. Wells, a group of bloodthirsty, oversized creatures (including rates, chickens, wasps and worms) have taken over a remote island after ingesting a mysterious growth known as “Food of the Gods.” It is up to an unusual group of people to put an end to this animal threat, directed by B-Movie Icon, Bert I. Gordon.

SIX NEW FOX MIDNITE MOVIES 2-DISC DOUBLE FEATURES:

Blueprint For Murder/Man In The Attic Catalog #: 2245978

Blueprint For Murder (1953) – When one of two orphans, who live with their stepmother, collapses with the same mysterious symptoms that killed her father, the visiting uncle is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning… When no case can be made against the obvious suspect, what can the uncle do to save the next victim?

Man In The Attic (1953) – On the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing in 1888, London, a research pathologist takes lodgings in a gloomy attic room for “experiments.” The Mrs. of the house is increasingly suspect and expects the worst: her niece to become attracted to the man. Is she in danger or are the aunt’s suspicions merely a red herring?

Chosen Survivors/Earth Dies Screaming Catalog #: 2245968

Chosen Survivors (1974) – A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert. Their shelter was designed to hold them comfortable until they are faced with an unexpected threat.

Earth Dies Screaming (1964) – A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots!

Devils Of Darkness/Witchcraft Catalog #: 2245976

Devils Of Darkness (1965) – A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims of human sacrifice rituals.

Witchcraft (1964) – Three hundred years after the Lanier family buried Vanessa Whitlock alive, a woman suspected to be a witch, Amy Whitlock and Bill Lanier are to be married. When the Lanier family decides to bulldoze the old Whitlock Estate, graves are overturned and Vanessa rises from the grave to take revenge on the Lanier family one-by-one.

Gorilla At Large/Mystery At Monster Island Catalog #: 2245974

Gorilla At Large (1954) – At the sinister carnival, The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath, Barker Joey Matthews is about to enter the gorilla act when a man is found bead of a broken neck. Was is Goliath or someone wearing Joey’s gorilla suit?

Mystery At Monster Island (1981) – A young man about to marry his long-term girlfriend wants to travel around the world. His wealthy uncle sends him on an expedition, but when en route, the travelers are shipwrecked on a remote island.

House On Skull Mountain/Mephisto Waltz Catalog #: 2245970

House On Skull Mountain (1974) – The heirs to a rich man’s fortune are called together for the reading of the will at a creepy mansion outside of Atlanta. Soon they are being killed off one-by-one. The survivors try to find the killer before he finishes them all off.

Mephisto Waltz (1971) – A classical piano player on the rise befriends a famous player himself who’s at death’s door. Unknown to him, the player is a Satanist who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death so that he can be young again and continue to play piano.

Tales From The Crypt/Vault Of Horror Catalog #: 2245972

Tales From The Crypt (1972) – Five people are trapped in a crypt and are shown their futures by the evil crypt keeper. They’re given the option of avoiding their fates – by avoiding living out the rest of their lives.

Vault Of Horror (1973) – Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, East Indian mysticism, an insurance scam and an artist who kills by paining his victim’s deaths.

THIS HALLOWEEN...VOTE FOR GORE!

FOX AND MGM JOIN FORCES AS

THE HOME FOR HORROR

Spine-Tingling Tales Turn Loose September 11

Bloodcurdling Films New To DVD Include

The Burning, Scarecrows, The Lost World Special Edition And More

Street Date: September 11, 2007

Pre-book Date: August 15, 2007

Launch Highlights:

· Debuting on DVD in an all-new Special Edition from Fox Home Entertainment, The Lost World explores a land that lives today exactly as it did at the dawn of time. Based on the 1912 Novel, this remake of the 1925 film by the “original master of Disaster” Irwin Allen, was a critically acclaimed film of the 60’s. Digitally restored and re-mastered, this two-disc set features film historian commentary, making of documentaries, rare still images, press book galleries and the 1925 Willis O’Brien stop-motion special-effects film.

· MGM Home Entertainment unleashes four creepy tales jumping out on DVD for the first time ever. The Burning (1981), featuring film debuts from Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens, tells the gruesome tale of a severely burned summer camp janitor returning to camp hell-bent on vengeance on a new batch of hormone-driven campers. Witness the birth of evil with Manhunter (1986), the eerie and intense film debut of Hannibal Lecter, staring Brian Cox. Thieves on the run find themselves trapped in a cornfield haunted by dark, lurid figures in Scarecrows (1988); and the television movie based on a short story by Stephen King, Sometimes They Come Back (1991) makes its mark on DVD starring
Tim Matheson and Brooke Adams.

· Psycho killers, zombies, sci-fi creatures and evil children are set loose when Fox Home Entertainment promotes dozens of horror filled treats flicks and collections ranging from $9.98 to $39.98 in time Halloween 2007, including The Hills Have Eyes, The Omen Collection, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 28 Days Later and the all-new 4-Disc Fly Classic Collection!

· Beware of vampires, tormented souls, madmen and madwomen as
MGM Home Entertainment’s catalog of ghoulish titles is re-priced in time for Halloween ranging from $9.98 to $39.98, The Amityville Horror Collection,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
The Hannibal Lector Collection, The Howling, Child’s Play, among many others!

New To Special Edition DVD From Fox Priced At $19.98 U.S. and $25.98 Canada

Title: Length:

The Lost World (Special Edition) 97 min.

New To DVD Titles From MGM Priced At $14.98 U.S. and $15.98 Canada

Title: Length:

The Burning 91 min.

Manhunter 124 min.

Scarecrows 83 min.

Sometimes They Come Back 97 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $39.98 U.S

Title: Length:

The Complete Omen Collection 533 min.

The Fly Classic Collection (4-Disc) 252 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $39.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

Stephen King DVD Collector Set 447 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $29.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

The Hannibal Lector Collection 369 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $26.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

AVP – Alien vs. Predator (Collector’s Edition) 108 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $26.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

The Silence of the Lambs (Collector’s Edition) 118 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $22.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

Hannibal (Special Edition) 131 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $19.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show / Shock Treatment 192 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $19.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

The Fly (Collector's Edition) 95 min.

Fly II (Collector's Edition) 104 min.

From Hell (2-disc) 121 min.

Hide & Seek (Widescreen & Full Screen) 101 min.

The Hills Have Eyes (Rated) 107 min.

The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated) 108 min.

Night Watch 114 min.

The Omen (Collector's Edition) 111 min.

Predator (Collector's Edition) (Widescreen & Full Screen) 106 min.

Predator 2 (Collector's Edition) 108 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $19.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Collector’s Edition) 157 min.

Bubba Ho-Tep (Collector’s Edition) 95 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $14.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

28 Days Later (Widescreen & Full Screen) 113 min.

Alien 116 min.

Aliens 154 min.

Alien 3 115 min.

Alien Resurrection 108 min.

Alien vs. Predator (Widescreen & Full Screen) 108 min.

The Cabinet of Caligari 105 min.

Club Dread (Rated) 104 min.

Club Dread (Unrated) 119 min.

The Day the Earth Stood Still 92 min.

Doctor and the Devils 92 min.

Don't Say A Word 113 min.

Dressed To Kill ('41) 74 min.

Frankenstein Unbound 85 min.

From Hell (single disc) 121 min.

The Fury 95 min.

High Crimes 115 min.

House of the Dammed ('63) 63 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $14.98 U.S. (cont’d)

Title: Length:

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte 132 min.

The Innocents 100 min.

Lifeboat (Special Edition) 96 min.

Night Train to Paris ('64) 65 min.

One Hour Photo (Widescreen & Full Screen) 96 min.

The Other ('72) 100 min.

Phone Booth 81 min.

Pretty Poison ('68) 89 min.

Rocky Horror Picture Show (single disc) 100 min.

Runaway Jury (Widescreen & Full Screen) 127 min.

Sexy Beast 89 min.

Shock Treatment 92 min.

Unfaithful (Widescreen & Full Screen) 124 min.

Wrong Turn 84 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $14.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

After Midnight 93 min.

The Amityville Horror 119 min.

The Amityville Horror (’05) 89 min.

Amityville II: The Possession 104 min.

Amityville III: The Demon 93 min.

Audrey Rose 113 min.

The Believers 115 min.

Blacula 93 min.

Breeders 77 min.

The Brood 92 min.

Burnt Offerings 114 min.

Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh 91 min.

Carrie (Special Edition) 98 min.

Child’s Play 87 min.

Christina’s House 97 min.

Dark Half 121 min.

Dolls 78 min.

Dressed To Kill (’80) 105 min.

Edge of Sanity 91 min.

The First Power 98 min.

The Fog (Special Edition) 90 min.

Frogs 90 min.

From a Whisper to a Scream 100 min.

The Ghoul 80 min.

Ghoulies / Ghoulies II 171 min.

Hannibal 131 min.

The House Where Evil Dwells 88 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $14.98 U.S. (cont’d)

Title: Length:

The Howling (Special Edition) 91 min.

The Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf 91 min.

I, Madman 89 min.

Jeepers Creepers 90 min.

Jeepers Creepers 2 (Special Edition) 104 min.

Killer Clowns from Outer Space 86 min.

The Lady in White 118 min.

The Last House on the Left 84 min.

Leviathan 98 min.

Lifeforce 116 min.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 92 min.

Lord of Illusions 121 min.

Night of the Comet 95 min.

The Night of the Hunter 93 min.

The Night Stalker / The Night Strangler 164 min.

Night Visitor 94 min.

Nomads 93 min.

The Phantom of the Opera (’89) 93 min.

Poltergeist II / Poltergeist III 189 min.

The Rage: Carrie 2 105 min.

Rampage: the Hillside Strangler Murders 85 min.

Scream, Blacula, Scream 96 min.

Shredder 86 min.

The Silence of the Lambs 118 min.

Stigmata 102 min.

Swamp Thing 91 min.

Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too 186 min.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Special Edition) 101 min.

Troll / Troll 2 178 min.

What Ever Happened To Aunt Alice? 101 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $9.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

The Alligator People 74 min.

Best Laid Plans 92 min.

Black Widow 101 min.

The Boston Strangler 116 min.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Movie) 86 min.

The Clearing 94 min.

Damien: The Omen II 107 min.

Darkwolf 94 min.

The Deep End 101 min.

The Edge 120 min.

The Good Son 86 min.

Fox DVDs Priced At $9.98 U.S. (cont’d)

Title: Length:

Hear No Evil 97 min.

Joy Ride 96 min.

Killer Tomatoes Eat France 93 min.

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back 87 min.

Lake Placid (Widescreen & Full Screen) 82 min.

Legend of Hell House 95 min.

Omen III: The Final Conflict 108 min.

The Omen ('06) (Widescreen & Full Screen) 110 min.

The Order 102 min.

Phantom of the Paradise 92 min.

Ravenous 100 min.

Sleeping with the Enemy 99 min.

Swimfan 85 min.

Terror Train 97 min.

The Vanishing 109 min.

MGM DVDs Priced At $9.98 U.S.

Title: Length:

Squirm 93 min.

Carrie (’02) 132 min.

Synopses:

The Burning Catalog #: M108553

A legend of terror isn’t a campfire story anymore! Cropsy (Lou David), a summer camp caretaker, is horribly disfigured by fire after a teenage prank goes awry. Years later, he emerges from the burn ward hell-bent on vengeance on a new batch of hormone-driven campers with an oversized pair of garden shears. One of the first producing and writing credits for both Harvey Weinstein (Shakespeare In Love, Scream, Kill Bill) and Brad Grey (The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show), The Burning (1981) also includes film debuts by Holly Hunter (The Piano, Copycat, Thirteen), Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”, “Listen Up”), Fisher Stevens (Short Circuit, Reversal Of Fortune, Hackers) and Brian Backer (Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Moving Violations) with gruesome special effects by the talented Tom Savini (Friday The 13^th, Dawn Of The Dead).

The Lost World Special Edition Catalog #: 2245965

Prepare yourself to fall off the brink of time and enter The Lost World – A word that lives today exactly as it did at the dawn of time. Professor Challenger and his team of scientists embark on an expedition to a remote plateau deep within the Amazonian jungle to investigate reports that dinosaurs are still alive there. Suddenly, they are exposed to the death-battle of the Jurassic dinosaurs, a wild 70 lb. brontosaurus, a Tyrannosaurus hatching a baby monster, a sea-serpent of a lava lake appearing from the depths, spiders that stalk humans and more! Finally reliving on DVD, this 2-disc special edition will also feature the following bonus features:

· Film Historian Commentary

· Making-of Documentaries

· Rare Still Images

· Press Book Galleries

· The 1925 Willis O’Brien Special Effect Masterpiece

Manhunter Catalog #: M108559

Enter the mind of a serial killer… you may never come back. Based on Thomas Harris’s novel Red Dragon, Manhunter introduces the notorious serial killer Hannibal
“The Cannibal” Lecter to film in this prequel to The Silence Of The Lambs. Nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Motion Picture in 1987, Manhunter stars William Petersen (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” The Contender) as ex-FBI agent
Will Graham, who seeks counsel with Lecter (Brian Cox, Adaptation, X2, “Deadwood”) to track down a vicious killer who has thwarted authorities at every turn.

Scarecrows Catalog #: M108562

When it comes to terror, trespassers are in a field of their own. Centering around a group of thieves who, after stealing millions the Camp Pendleton payroll, kidnap a pilot and his daughter in attempt to escape to Mexico. While en route, one of the thieves gets greedy and double-crosses the others by parachuting out of the aircraft with the loot into a dark cornfield maze with more than it’s share of creepy scarecrows. As the others delve into the field after the stolen cash, they begin to realize that these scarecrows aren’t just hanging around. They’re out for blood!

Sometimes They Come Back Catalog #: M108565

Based on the story by Stephen King, Tim Matheson (“The West Wing,” “The Quest”) stars as troubled high school teacher Jim Norman who returns to his hometown with his family where he must confront some painful and haunting memories. Some 27 years earlier, Tim’s brother was murdered by a group of high school thugs, who were killed themselves by an oncoming train. As some of Tim’s students begin to die one by one, the ghostly apparitions of the bullies from his past begin to appear. It’s up to Tim to protect his wife and son and cast off the shackles of his past to stop these supernatural killers.

HORROR CAMP CLASSICS ARE BACK…

THEY’RE HUNGRY…

AND THEY’RE NOT VEGETARIAN

FROM BEYOND UNRATED

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
COLLECTOR’S EDITION

Two Gory Horror Masterpieces Arrive On DVD

September 11 From MGM Home Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, CA – Two iconic splatter classics that were pioneers in the horror genre make their way to DVD when From Beyond Unrated and The Return Of The Living Dead Collector’s Edition arrive on September 11 from MGM Home Entertainment. Just in time for Halloween, these 80s cult classics represent some of the most dark and original content created and started a new trend in black comedy. Based on the short story of the same name by legendary writer H.P. Lovecraft, comes a science-fiction experiment gone horribly wrong in From Beyond. Starring horror legend Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator, The Frighteners) and shot by cult director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dolls), From Beyond Unrated is available for the first time on DVD and includes all new featurettes, a photomontage and the original Director’s Unrated Cut.

Writer/director Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Lifeforce) puts a hilarious spin on the zombie movie with The Return Of The Living Dead. Considered one of the most bizarre yet incredibly funny horror films in its time, The Return Of The Living Dead helped launch the career of scream queen Linnea Quigley (Sorority Babes In The Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama, Vice Academy) and is a true punk rock zombie comedy. The Collector’s Edition DVD comes in collectible glow in the dark packaging and features audio commentary from cast, crew and the undead, behind-the-scenes featurettes, an 80s horror film retrospective hosted by the mistress of the night herself, Elvira and of course, zombie subtitles.

Both From Beyond Unrated and The Return Of The Living Dead Collector’s Edition are available for the suggested retail price of $19.98 U.S. / $25.98 Canada. Prebook is August 15, 2007.

Synopses:

From Beyond Unrated

H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of suspense became “a grisly amalgam of sex, shock and satire” (Newsweek) in the hands of the creators of Re-animator. And now, armed with shocking never-before-seen footage and special features and on DVD for the first time, this “bloody good entertainment” (Time) has evolved into one of the most gruesomely riveting film experiences of all time! The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. But when a beautiful psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe…and to the deviant behavior within the human psyche. With its victims becoming creatures who feed on – and become aroused by – human brains, the Resonator is the ultimate man-made monster. And now something’s gone horribly wrong and no one can turn it off!

From Beyond Unrated Special Features:

Ø “The Director’s Perspective” featurette

Ø “The Editing Room: Lost and Found” featurette

Ø Interview with composer

Ø Photo montage

Ø Storyboard to Film Comparisons w/ introduction

Ø Deleted scenes:

o Appearance of Dr. Pretorus

o Death of Bubba

o Hospital Escape

o Katherine Frees Herself

The Return Of The Living Dead Collector’s Edition

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cemetery, those brain-eating zombies are back and hungry for more tasty mortals. A fiendish mix of outrageous humor and heart-stopping terror, The Return of the Living Dead is a veritable smorgasbord of fun (LA Herald-Examiner) filled with skin-crawling jolts, eye-popping visuals and relentless surprise! On his first day on the job at an army surplus store, poor Freddy unwittingly releases nerve gas from a secret U.S. military canister, unleashing an unbelievable terror. The gas re-animates a corps of corpses, who arise from their graves with a ravenous hunger for human brains! And luckily for those carnivorous cadavers, there is a group of partying teens nearby, just waiting to be eaten!

The Return Of The Living Dead: Collector’s Edition Special Features

Ø Cast, crew and undead commentary

Ø “Remembering The Dead: Cast Recollections” featurette

Ø “From The Underground: The Rise of Horror in the 80s” featurette

Ø Zombie subtitle stream

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