Invasion of the Body Snatchers Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD

 

release date: 15th February 2024

When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.

Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman’s brilliant update of the 1956 classic is a rare and memorable exception. Transposing the action to the heart of San Francisco allows Kaufman to retain all the suspense of Jack Finney’s original story while adding caustic social commentary about the selfishness of the 1970s “me generation” that remains all too relevant today.

 

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)

• Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 and 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio sound

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Audio commentary with director Philip Kaufman

• Discussing the Pod, a panel conversation about Invasion of the Body Snatchers and invasion cinema featuring critic Kim Newman and filmmakers Ben Wheatley (Kill List) and Norman J. Warren (Satan’s Slave)

• Writing the Pod, an interview with Jack Seabrook, author of Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney about Finney’s original novel The Body Snatchers

• Re-Visitors from Outer Space: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod, a documentary on the making of the film featuring Philip Kaufman, Donald Sutherland, writer W.D. Richter and more

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Inside Limited Edition

 

release date: 5th February 2024

Following the death of her husband, an expectant mother is tormented in her home on Christmas Eve by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

 

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal

• 70-page book with new essays by ​​Chad Collins, Kat Ellinger, Annie Rose Malamet and Hannah Strong

• 6 collectors’ art cards 

• New audio commentary by Anna Bogutskaya

• New audio commentary by Elena Lazic

• First Born: a new interview with Co-Writer/Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury

• Labour Pains: a new interview with Actor Alysson Paradis

• A New Extreme: a new interview with Producer Franck Ribière

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Lone Star – The Criterion Collection

 

release date: 26th February 2024

A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles and director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• New conversation between Sayles and filmmaker Gregory Nava

• New interview with Dryburgh

• Trailer

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by scholar Domino Renee Perez

• New cover by Jacob Phillips

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Hellraiser

 

release date: 26th February 2024

Stephen King was once famously quoted as saying, “I have seen the future of horror… his name is Clive Barker.” That future was realised in 1987 with the release of Barker’s directorial debut Hellraiser.

Hedonist Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) thinks he has reached the limits of earthly pleasure. But a mysterious puzzle box will take him further than he can possibly imagine, opening the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible and summoning the Cenobites, whose experiments in the higher reaches of experience will tear his soul apart. When he manages to escape, Frank returns to the world skinless and in need of help. Now his former lover Julia (Clare Higgins) must kill to make him whole again. But the Cenobites want Frank back, and there’ll be hell to pay when they find him.

 

• 4K restoration from the original camera negatives by Arrow Films

• Power of Imagination, 60-minute discussion about Hellraiser and the work of Clive Barker by film scholars Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer) and Karmel Kniprath

• Draft screenplays

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative

• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative

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Psycho: The Story Continues

 

release date: 26th February 2024

Twenty three years after Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho shattered expectations and shocked audiences around the world, Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin (Patrick, Road Games) boldly followed in the master’s footsteps and directed Psycho II, a sequel that not only delivered on the promise of his earlier films, but arguably lived up to the original.

Psycho III would see Anthony Perkins himself take the franchise’s reins for his directorial debut, bringing a stylish flair that suggested his time working with not only Alfred Hitchcock, but Orson Welles and Ken Russell had been well spent.

Psycho IV: The Beginning, written by Joseph Stefano (screenwriter of the 1960 original) and directed by master of horror Mick Garris, returns to the primal scene to show us how it all began in Anthony Perkins’ final franchise appearance. The story set up by the most shocking film of all time continues in these three sequels, each more terrifying than the next, and restored from the original camera negatives.

 

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of Psycho II, Psycho III, and Psycho IV: The Beginning, all restored from the original camera negatives

• Original stereo and 5.1 options for Psycho II and Psycho III, and stereo audio for Psycho IV

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin

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Allonsanfan

 

release date: 26th February 2024

After the fall of Napoleon, the Restoration begins. Fulvio (Marcello Mastroianni, La dolce vita), an aristocrat who has dedicated his life to the revolution has become disillusioned and his cowardice keeps him from joining his comrades. As he struggles to manage his evasion and lies he gets swept up in a suicidal uprising in Southern Italy. Stunningly photographed with lush period detail and featuring the Taviani brothers’ trademark magic realism and absurdist irony, Allonsanfàn has Mastroianni on top form as the reluctant insurgent and one of Ennio Morricone’s finest scores. Radiance Films is proud to present this essential film on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.

 

• New 2K restoration of the film from the original negative, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the world

• Original uncompressed mono PCM audio

• Audio commentary by critic Michael Brooke

• Archival interview with the Taviani brothers by critic Gideon Bachmann in which they discuss filmmaking approaches, the role of the director, the future of cinema and more (57 mins)

• Original trailer

• Newly translated English subtitles

• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters

• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Italian cinema expert Robert Lumley and a newly translated contemporary interview with the Taviani brothers 

• Single pressing of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings 

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Mudbound – The Criterion Collection

 

release date: 12th February 2024

In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families—one of white landholders, one of Black tenant farmers—are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter Virgil Williams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historical realities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from her ensemble cast—including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, and Jonathan Banks—and backed by Rachel Morrison’s darkly burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance based upon Hillary Jordan’s novel.

 

• New 2K digital master, supervised by director Dee Rees and director of photography Rachel Morrison, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack

• New audio commentary featuring Rees

• New documentary featuring Rees, composer Tamar-kali, editor Mako Kamitsuna, and makeup artist Angie Wells

• New documentary made on set, featuring members of the cast and crew

• Interview with Morrison

• New interview with production designer David J. Bomba

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Zeder

 

release date: 19th February 2024

From Italian director Pupi Avati (THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS) Zeder combines the aesthetics and atmospherics of the Giallo feature with those of the zombie movie in a slickly presented horror thriller.

When Stefano, a young novelist is given a vintage typewriter as a birthday present, he discovers that the machine’s ribbon contains the writings of a scientist proposing the existence of ‘K-Zones’, places where the dead can actually rise from their graves.

Stylish, creepy and downright chilling, Zeder is the perfect movie for lovers of 80s Italian exploitation

 

• Remastered 2K Transfer in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio from the Original Negative

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

• 2.0 English DTS-HD MA

• 2.0 Italian DTS-HD MA with newly-translated English Subtitles

• Audio commentary with Asian cinema experts Kim Newman and Sean Hogan

• Audio commentary with Italian Genre experts Barry Forshaw and Eugenio Ercolani

• The Avati Brothers – An Interview with Antonio Avati

• Working with the Avati’s – An Interview with Gabriele Lavia

• Northern Gothic – An Interview with Pupi Avati

• Dressing Terror – An Interview with Steno Tonelli

• Original Italian Trailer

• Reversible sleeve with Classic Poster Artwork

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The Kingdom trilogy

 

release date: 5th February 2024

Filmmaker Lars von Trier’s internationally acclaimed, cult classic series tells the story of a hospital built on top of the old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen, where evil has taken root and medical science faces a daily struggle with itself; where the Swedes curse the Danes, and the mysterious and inexplicable blend together in a mixture of horror and humor. Featuring the original series THE KINGDOM I & II in stunningly restored, never-before-seen versions, as well as the long-awaited follow-up series THE KINGDOM EXODUS.

 

• In Lars von Trier’s Kingdom’ documentary

• Behind the Scenes – Interviews with Lars von Trier and cast

• Selected episode commentary by Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel and Molly Stensgård

• TV commercials for the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet – Directed by Lars von Trier

• ‘The Kingdom Trilogy – A Companion’ booklet

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The Whip and the Body

 

release date: 5th February 2024

Seduction, sadism and sexual obsession – The Whip and the Body is one of the greatest films of legendary director Mario Bava (Hatchet for the Honeymoon; Black Sunday).

The equally legendary Christopher Lee (everything from Dracula to The Lord of the Rings) plays Kurt Menliff. He’s the black sheep of his family, banished for his wicked, wicked ways. But now he’s home, and keen to resume his sadomasochistic affair with his brother’s wife Nevenka (Daliah Lavi). So keen, in fact, that not even his untimely death cannot put a stop to his violent lust…

A delirious journey into troubled souls, this is arguably the greatest film Bava ever made – and now it’s looking better than ever, gorgeously restored from newly discovered film elements. 88 Films are proud to present Bava’s masterpiece, finally resplendent in all its gothic splendour.

 

• New 4K Scan and 2K Restoration from archive print materials

• 2.0 Italian LPCM Mono with newly-translated English Subtitles

• Audio Commentary with Critics Kim Newman and Sean Hogan

• Audio Commentary with Italian Cinema Experts Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson

• The Gothic and the Fantastic – An Interview with Lamberto Bava

• Working with Bava – An Interview with Sergio Martino

• Whipping the Body – An Interview with Ernesto Gastaldi

• Italian Trailer

• French Trailer

• Reversible sleeve featuring original Italian poster

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