DVD & Blu-ray Releases: July 28, 2015
Ghost Town [Blu-ray]
Starring: Bruce Glover, Catherine Hickland
Synopsis: A dusty ghost town, seemingly abandoned, holds the lives of its original inhabitants in an animated netherworld for 100 years…
When a modern-day sheriff’s deputy is lured to a desolate, spooky ghost town in search of a missing woman, he comes face-to-face with a malevolent spirit from the town’s past. The spell of death and suffering over the undead townspeople must end to set them free from eternal pain. The horrors of a possessed outlaw, in a time-suspended dimension are only the setting for a frightening battle for the mind, nerves and flesh.
Starring: Franc Luz (The Nest, When Harry Met Sally), Jimmie F. Skaggs (Oblivion, Puppetmaster), Catherine Hickland (Witchery) and Bruce Glover (Diamonds Are Forever, Chinatown, Walking Tall), Ghost Town is an unnerving, white-knuckle walk into the wild, undead west.
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (Blu-ray + DVD + CD)
Starring: Richard Stanley, Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider, Robert Shaye, Edward R. Pressman
Synopsis: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (Blu-ray + DVD + CD) In 1995, visionary writer/director Richard Stanley (HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL) got the green light for his dream project: An epic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ‘The Island Of Doctor Moreau’ starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. But only days into production, an unprecedented storm of natural disasters, monstrous egos and disturbing imagery – along with chaos, insanity and witchcraft – would trigger perhaps the most infamous behind-the-scenes catastrophe in modern movie history. Now director/producer David Gregory (THE THEATRE BIZARRE, PLAGUE TOWN) reveals the untold story behind one of the all-time greatest cinematic train wrecks (Variety) in this wonderfully weird and gripping (Entertainment Weekly) documentary featuring never-before-seen footage, startling new interviews with actors Fairuza Balk and Rob Morrow, studio executives, crew members and – for the first time ever – the notoriously reclusive Stanley himself, plus nearly 2 hours of exclusive Bonus Features.
In 1995, visionary writer/director Richard Stanley (HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL) got the green light for his dream project: An epic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ‘The Island Of Doctor Moreau’ starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. But only days into production, an unprecedented storm of natural disasters, monstrous egos and disturbing imagery – along with chaos, insanity and witchcraft – would trigger perhaps the most infamous behind-the-scenes catastrophe in modern movie history. Now director/producer David Gregory (THE THEATRE BIZARRE, PLAGUE TOWN) reveals the untold story behind one of the all-time greatest cinematic train wrecks (Variety) in this wonderfully weird and gripping (Entertainment Weekly) documentary featuring never-before-seen footage, startling new interviews with actors Fairuza Balk and Rob Morrow, studio executives, crew members and – for the first time ever – the notoriously reclusive Stanley himself, plus nearly 2 hours of exclusive Bonus Features.
Special Features:
DISC 1
Out-takes (sub-menu: Richard Stanley, Marco Hofschneider, Bruce Fuller, Jim Sbardellati, Graham Humphreys and others TBD
Graham Humphreys Concept Gallery With Commentary By Richard Stanley
Archive Moreau Interview With John Frankenheimer
Barbara Steele Recalls Moreau Audio Interview
The Beast Of Morbido Featurette
Return To The Moreau Locations Featurette
Boar Man Diary
DISC 2
The H.G. Wells Files Bonus Disc
Insel Der Verschollenen (Island of the Lost) – Recently Discovered 1921 German version of Moreau
H.G. Wells On Film Featurette With Expert Sylvia Hardy
Richard Stanley on Wells
BONUS AUDIO CD
Richard Stanley Reads The Island Of Dr. Moreau By H.G. Wells
Tango Of Perversion
Starring: Larry Daniels, Erika Raffael, Dorothy Moore, Vagelis Voulgaridis
Synopsis: The Tango club is the favorite hangout for a group of swingers who live for nothing but pleasure. Rosita, a beautiful lesbian, seduces Joanna by giving her dope. Stathis, Joanna’s sleazy boyfriend catches the two women in bed together and takes his brutal revenge on them, ending in Rosita’s death. All this happens in the house of Joachim, a rich playboy who gets his kicks by secretly filming Stathis having sex with girls from the Tango club. Joachim believes he is impotent, until he makes love to Rosita’s dead body. After that, things start to get weird… Sex, drugs, necrophilia, voyeurism and a dose of Greek psychedelia, this film has it all.
One of the legendary exploitation films of the early 1970s now makes its US home video debut in a brand new print, complete and uncut.
Special Features:
Uncut Version
Greek/English Audio Choices
Optional English Subtitles
Interviews
Trailers
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Starring: Howard Vernon, Beatriz Savón, Britt Nichols, Anne Liberty, Alberto Dalbés
Synopsis: After the death of Victor Frankenstein (Dennis Price), two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster (Fernando Bilbao) and the radical technology that created him: the scientist’s daughter, Vera (Beatriz Savón), and the immortal wizard Cagliostro (Howard Vernon), who is assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood (Anne Libert).
With THE?EROTIC?RITES?OF?FRANKENSTEIN, controversial filmmaker Jess Franco merged his fondness for old-school horror with his unique and perverse tastes in sex and violence, partly inspired by the garish adult European comics of the early 1970s.
Special Features: Mastered in HD from the original 35mm negative, Audio commentary by Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog, French with optional English subtitles, English dubbed, Original theatrical trailer
Strangler of the Tower / Monster of London City Double Feature
Starring: Ady Berber, Birgit Bergen, Christa Linder, Robert A. Stemmle, Bryan Edgar Wallace
Synopsis: We present a double-dose of German Krimi terror and mystery as Phantom Killers stalk the night! You’ll shudder in fear as Christa Linder (Miss Austria of 1962) is terrorized by a cult of masked villains in STRANGLER OF THE TOWER (1966), a chiller which follows the fate of those who desecrate a pagan temple; the price they must pay…is death! Then you’ll run for the hills as the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to return to haunt the streets in MONSTER OF LONDON CITY (1964, based on an Edgar Wallace story! Stars Marianne Koch, Hans Nielsen, Hansjörg Felmy. Mastered from a Progressive Scan HD Film Transfer.
