On DVD next week: STARCRASH!!

Updated on September 10, 2010 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Worthy of a pre-order link, I believe.  The disc will be released on Tuesday.

The disc offers the following bounty:

New Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1.78:1) And DTS 5.1 Surround Sound

Audio Commentary By Writer And Starcrash Expert Stephen Romano

A Look At The Film’s Special Effects With Special Effects Director Armando Valcauda Including Unused Footage, Rare Photos, Original Drawings And More

New Interview With Writer/Director Luigi Cozzi (aka Lewis Coates)

New Interview With Actress Caroline Munro Discussing Her Time As Stella Star And A Look At Her Career

Extensive Stills Galleries Including Behind-The-Scenes Photos, Posters, Stills, Original Production Art And Storyboards

Behind-The-Scenes Footage With Commentary

Deleted And Extended Scenes

Theatrical Trailer

Theatrical Trailer With Commentaries By Eli Roth And Joe Dante, Courtesy Of Trailersfromhell

12-Page Booklet With Liner Notes By Stephen Romano

The Original Script (DVD-ROM)

And Much More!!

Sure to be one of the major b-movie releases of the year.  Also available in a Blu Ray (!!!!!!) edition.

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  • alex

    When I was a little kid my cousin had a figurine of the Joe Spinell character. Those toys were made to look like the wildly popular Kenner Star Wars action figures no doubt to fool the parents into buying them thinking they were part of the same thing. Anybody my age (late 30s) remember seeing Starcrash figurines?

  • Gamera

    There were StarCrash figures!?!?! I can’t even imagine what someone would pay for one on ebay today.

    I’ll buy the thing just for featuring decent video quality. I’m not sure who made my copy but it looks awful. Gee, what’s the point of having Caroline Munro in a black leather bikini if the video is so bad she looks like a pink and black blur?

  • Rock Baker

    This is heartwarming, one can only hope other drive-in junk gets a simlarly loving release (I’d settle for scope transfers of movies like Creature from Black Lake, Legend of Boggy Creek, and Colossus The Forbin Project)!

  • MatthewF

    No, no, no, it isn’t worth it. Think of all the good films that aren’t available. This deluxe packaging is a triumph of irony over goodsense. This is a terrible, terrible movie.

  • Rock Baker

    I guess that depends on what you’re looking for from a movie. I think enough fun can be squeezed out of an Italian Star Wars ripoff starring a barely clad Caroline Munro and featuring space battles to make it worth a view. And think of all those stinkers Something Weird puts out with everything-and-the-kitchen-sink extras, those disks are worth buying even if the main feature is horrible. Look at it this way, the more jazzy a release of a nominal flick like Starcrash is, the better for bigger, better movies because the heat (in theory) will be on them to compete with their releases.

  • zombiewhacker

    Minor quibble, but I consider Forbin Project to be top drawer sci-fi, not drive-in junk.

  • Rock Baker

    Yes, I really should’ve singled out Forbin based on quality, but all I’m really getting at is that there’s many a film, of every quality, that scream out for more than a simple token release. If a marginal flick like Starcrash can get star treatment, why not a designated classic like Colossus?

  • Rock — A lot of that is simply, and ironically, because Forbin is owned and would be released by a huge corporation for which it would be a minutely minor matter of one small division of the company. Whereas when a small outfit like Shout! Factory gets a film, it is a major production for them. Moreover, these are usually ‘fan’ companies, so their efforts are motivated by love as well. Star Crash might be crap, but it is crap beloved by many.

    Man, maybe they could do a MegaForce dvd.

  • Rock Baker

    Shows you how much things change. Forbin is a Universal picture, and gets a cropped, bare-bones release. Yet in the old days, Castle Films was a division of Universal, and the Castle releases are still considered the best home movie digests ever made. If Universal cared a little more, they should really dig out these digests and include them as extra features. (True, such digests were also cropped and edited down, but done with much more care to make a nice release. When a digest was all that was availible, they really didn’t NEED to go all out, but back then it was a source of pride to be the best the market had to offer.)