The UK’s Studiocanal will release a quartet of Amicus adventure films on 30th July. The films include THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1967), THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1975), AT THE EARTH’S CORE (1976) and WARLORD’S OF ATLANTIS (1978).
The films are presented in widescreen with mono sound. The only confirmed special features are interviews with Kevin Conor and Susan Penhaligon on THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
Source: The Digital Fix
UPDATE! PRE-ORDERS NOW BEING TAKEN!
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that’s so new. The truth in the most deadly unique way I’ve ever read.
– Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Fire and Ice, etc.
This sharply-designed book with a 16-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!
HARDBACK STRICTLY LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES WORLDWIDE
Limited edition hardback comes with alternative cover artwork, plus an exclusive free gift of a flexi-disc postcard featuring the song ‘Somebody’s Waitin’ for You’ by Charles Bernstein, from the 1972 film PIGS!
PRE-ORDER THE STRICTLY LIMTED EDITION HARDBACK HERE
From the Finders Keepers site…
“As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records presents his previously unreleased electro/orchestral/experimental score for Andrzej Zulawski’s surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession…
…This is the first time any of this music has been released outside of the films original context and is packaged on CD, 12″ vinyl and conceptual green compact cassettes housed in miniature clamshell cases reminiscent of the films original VHS release that briefly adorned UK video shops in the early 1980s”
More info and audio clips at this link
Pre-order the CD or luxury vinyl edition at this link
The line up for this years Fantastic Films Weekend in Bradford was announced this week and yet again shows a strong assortment of classic horror and sci-fi that should see any genre fan happy. One stand out screening is a rare outing for an original 35mm print of Dario Argento’s FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET which is being shown on the final day of the festival.
For the full listing of what’s on and booking info check out the official website at this link
The US division of Redemption has been issuing its library on Blu-ray at quite a pace and things aren’t set to slow down, as a host of Mario Bava’s finest films will join those of prolific Spanish cult filmmaker Jess Franco before the end of this year. While exact dates and disc specifications have yet to be announced, you can expect to see HD versions of the following: BLACK SUNDAY, LISA AND THE DEVIL, A HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON, FEMAL VAMPIRE, EXORCISM and VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD. The first titles are expected in Spetember/October.
Source: Blu-ray.com
Coming this July from FAB Press…
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that’s so new. The truth in the most deadly unique way I’ve ever read.
– Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Fire and Ice, etc.
This sharply-designed book with a 16-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!
HARDBACK STRICTLY LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES WORLDWIDE
Limited edition hardback comes with alternative cover artwork, plus an exclusive free gift of a flexi-disc postcard featuring the song ‘Somebody’s Waitin’ for You’ by Charles Bernstein, from the 1972 film PIGS!
Ordering info and more details can be found over at the FAB Press website HERE
After a series of false starts and delays, the 23rd official James Bond film went before the cameras earlier this year and is currently in post production – it arrives in UK cinemas on 26th October.
The film, which has been shrouded in secrecy, was written by Bond regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade in collaboration with GLADIATOR scribe John Logan. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes (AMERICAN BEAUTY) steps behind the camera to direct his first action picture. Daniel Craig is joined by series stalwart Judi Dench as M and a phenomenal cast that includes Albert Finney, Ralph Finenes, Javier Bardem, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe.
The above poster was unveiled just last week so it comes as a surprise that the film’s first trailer would arrive less than seven days later, though there was some whispering about it going out with MEN IN BLACK 3.
From looking at the trailer it would seem we’re in for a treat and a fitting tribute to the characters big screen 50th anniversary but it’s going to be a long five months!
Redemption have announced further titles via their Facebook page :- Mask of Satan, Lisa and the Devil / House of Exorcism, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Black Magic Rites, Au Pair Girls, Zeta One, Female Vampire, Exorcism, A Virgin Among the Living Dead, House of Whipcord, The Comeback, Die Screaming Marianne, Burke and Hare, The Blood Beast Terror, The Living Dead Girl, Two Orphan Vampires, & Visions of Ecstasy / Sacred Flesh / Axel / Faustine
More details will be posted once available.
Franc Roddam’s perennial cult classic QUADROPHENIA will be issued on Blu-ray in the US this August by the Criterion Collection. Based on the concept album by the Who, QUADROPHENIA stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy, a disaffected youth who embraces Mod culture in 1960s Britain. The film co-stars Sting, Ray Winstone, Toyah Wilcox and Leslie Ash.
Made in 1979, QUADROPHENIA marked the second of three films commissioned by The Who Films, following the documentary THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT from the same year and prison drama MCVICAR in 1980. Of all the films with which the band was involved (also including Ken Russell’s TOMMY), it’s safe to say that QUADROPHENIA is probably the most popular and is director Roddam’s best-known film (he would go on to make THE BRIDE and K2).
The specs for Criterion’s disc have appeared on Blu-ray.com:
Studiocanal is set to unleash more Hammer goodness in the UK this autumn when it issues RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONK as a Blu-ray + DVD combo. Considered one of the British studio’s most enduring classics, RASPUTIN stars Hammer stalwart Christopher Lee as the Russian mystic and was directed by Don Sharp (THE VIOLENT ENEMY). Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Suzan Farmer and Joss Ackland co-star.
RASPUTIN will street on 10th September along THE MUMMY’S SHROUD which will also be released as a combo pack. Directed by John Gilling (THE REPTILE, PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES), THE MUMMY’S SHROUD was the third of four Egyptology horrors from Hammer, following THE MUMMY and CURSE OF THE MUMMY’S TOMB, and followed by BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB. The film stars André Morell, David Buck and John Phillips.
News source: Blu-ray.com
Image source: Hammer Films