I’d been kind of waiting and hoping that we’d be hearing about another wave of MGM Midnite Movie or Universal Horror/Sci-Fi Classics DVDs for Halloween, but at this point, it doesn’t appear that anything like that is going to happen. Too bad!
Still, there is, as always, some stuff coming up in the next few months.
This October, BCI has a number of fun cult and horror DVDs slated for release. October 21 brings a two-disc special edition of STANLEY (1972), William Grefe’s killer snake movie starring Chris Robinson and Alex Rocco. The two-disc set will include two audio commentaries, two documentaries on “the making of STANLEY”, a photo gallery, trailers…and more! October 14 will bring an “Exploitation Cinema” double feature of early 1980s gorefests MAUSOLEUM starring Bobbie Bressee and BLOOD SONG starring Frankie Avalon. MAUSOLEUM will feature and audio commentary with star Bobbie Bressee. On the same date, another “Exploitation Cinema” sees a re-release of GALAXINA double billed with Luigi Cozzi’s STAR CRASH, starring Christopher Plummer, Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner. October 14 sees the release of SWEET SIXTEEN: DIRECTOR’S CUT. The 1980s slasher film will include a new anamorphic widescreen transfer of the original theatrical version and director’s cut, an introduction by HOSTEL producer Scott Spiegel, on-camera interviews with stars Bo Hopkins and Aleisa Shirley and more!
Starcrash is the big title there (along with Stanley). It’s been out on several butchered, panned and scanned editions previously, but this one looks to be widescreened and possibly remastered. BCI has really been making a bid for respectibility in the cult movie market. Keep it up!
BCI will also release two double bills in September; the dreadful Vampire Hookers with John Carradine / and Cemetary Girls, aka Dracula’s Great Love, a Paul Naschy flick (yes, he played the Count) which has been made available several times in the past. Both film will be in anamorphic widescreen, and the set should cost $10 or less depending on the retailer. Also up is a pair of Brit horror flicks, not available before on home video: Satan’s Slaves with Michael Gough and Terror.
Oct 14th sees a set of four more Hammer horrors, including the long-awaited The Gorgon, along with Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (a nice change of pace where an ugly Jekyll actually becomes more handsome as Mr. Hyde) and the psycho flick Scream of Fear.
I talked about this earlier, but remember, September 9th sees the Classic Media (their last such release, unfortunately) going for broke by releasing Rodan and the loooooooong awaited War of the Gargantuas out in one set, with each film, as they always have, being presented in both the English cuts and the original Japanese versions to boot. Commentaries, documentaries, etc. All for about $15!!!! Insane. Classic earlier released Frankenstein Conquers the World, to which War of the Gargantuas is a half-assed sequel. Now you can watch them together and put the pieces together.
