Arrow Video to Release Argento's The Cat O' Nine Tails on Blu-ray

Release Date: 26 Sep 2011

Starring: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Directed by: Dario Argento
Rating: TBC
Duration: 111 mins

Overview: Caught between the truth and a murderer’s hand!

A break in at a genetics lab leads to a spiralling vortex of bloody murder in Cat O’ Nine Tails, Dario Argento’s 70s Giallo classic.

Strange circumstances surrounding the crime pique the interest of a journalist and a blind crossword compiler whose sharp ears have overheard talk of blackmail. However, all the would be investigators leads soon regret the help they gave as scientists die in front of speeding trains and photographers are viciously slain while others fall to their screaming deaths down elevator shafts in this surreal and nightmarish thriller from one of the acknowledged masters of Italian horror.

As the body count increases, will no one escape the sting of The Cat O’ Nine Tails?

THIS AMAZING EDITION CONTAINS:
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Two-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing by Alan Jones, author of ‘Profondo Argento’
BLU-RAY DISC CONTAINS:
- Brand new High Definition transfer of the film (1080p)
- Optional English & Italian Mono Audio
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Dario Argento Remembers The Cat O’ Nine Tails (1080p)
- The Cat O’ Nine Tails in Reflection, an interview with long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi (1080p)
- Sergio Martino: The Art and Arteries of the Giallo (1080p)

Original Artwork by Rick Melton

In original 2.35:1 (16x9) aspect ratio
Optional English and Italian Language with English subtitles for Italian language
BD50 Region ABC

Arrow Video to Release Tobe Hooper's Funhouse on July 18th

Arrow Films is set to release another grindhouse, well "classic" doesn't seem right so I'm going to use the word "film" on Blu-ray and it has some swanky special features.  Some people think I was too hard on Tobe Hooper in my half-assed review of The Funhouse, but those people can eat a bag of dicks.  I'm just kidding!  I love you all.  You can read the review HERE if you're bored. 


The Funhouse (1981)

Starring: Elizabeth Berridge, Miles Chapin, Shawn Carson
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Duration: 95 mins

Overview: Something is alive in The Funhouse!

The carnival is a place for fun and laughter, but not for Amy and her friends. When their childish dare to stay all night in the spooky funhouse backfires, it leaves a trail of dismembered teenagers a mile long in Tobe Hooper’s classic video nasty era slasher.

Will anyone escape the clutches of the stumbling madman that stalks to sideshow? Is there no end to the carnival barkers chilling sadism? The only way to find out is ascend into the funhouse, where the games have no rules and the only prize on offer is a grisly demise.

Join us in The Funhouse. So much fun that you’ll never leave...Alive!

THIS BLU-RAY EDITION CONTAINS:
- Brand new transfer of the film in glorious High Definition (1080p)
- 4 panel reversible sleeve options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by critic and author Kim Newman.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Audio commentary with The Funhouse S/FX wizard Craig Reardon and Jeffrey Reddick (creator of The Final Destination series)
- Audio commentary with producer Derek Power and genre scholar Howard S. Berger
- Audio commentary with Justin Kerswell, author of ‘Teenage Wasteland’ and host of the slasher cinema website Hysteria Lives, and author Calum Waddell
- Carnage at the Carnival: Tobe Hooper Remembers ‘The Funhouse’
- Miles of Mayhem: Acting in Tobe’s Funhouse with star Miles Chapin
- A Trilogy of Terror: The Make-up Madness of Craig Reardon, the S/FX wizard recollects his collaborations with Tobe Hooper; ‘Eaten Alive’, ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘The Funhouse’
- Master Class of Horror: Mick Garris, the director of Sleepwalkers and The Shining reflects on the crimson-covered career of his longtime colleague Tobe Hooper
- Live Q&A with Tobe Hooper from San Francisco
- Never before seen behind the scenes photographs from the collection of Craig Reardon
- Trailer

Original Aspect Ratio 2.35:1 (16x9)
Optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired

Release Date:  18 July 2011

Arrow to Release Argento's Tenebrae on DVD and Blu-ray

Over the years, Arrow Video has released a whole bloody slew of Dario Argento movies including Two Evil Eyes, The Stendhal Syndrome, Inferno, Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Phenomena and The Card Player.  Now they are adding one more to the list and it has all kinds of shiny new extras and special features. 

Tenebrae (1982)

Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi, John Saxon
Directed by: Dario Argento
Rating: 18
Duration: TBC

Overview: A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.

A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn’t the obsessive killer’s only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer’s slashing blade…

Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy’s master of horror.

THIS AMAZING EDITION CONTAINS:
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned art work
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing on Tenebrae by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento
- Brand new HD restoration of the film
- Audio Commentary with Argento experts, journalists and writers Kim Newman and Alan Jones
- Audio Commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock
- Introduction by Daria Nicolodi
- Screaming Queen! Daria Nicolodi remembers Tenebrae
- The Unsane World of Tenebrae: An interview with Dario Argento
- A Composition for Carnage: Claudio Simonetti on Tenebrae
- Goblin: Tenebrae and Phenomena Live from the Glasgow Arches
- Original Trailer

Original art by Rick Melton

In original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with LPCM mono English & Italian audio with optional English subtitles for English and Italian audio

Release Date: 27 June 2011

Hare Rama

This July 4th, celebrate America's independence from those bastards across the pond with a copy of Kentucky Fried Movie from Arrow Films.

From Arrow:

Welcome to Kentucky Fried Movie, the Citizen Kane of bad taste, gross out, screwball movies. This is the film that birthed a thousand low rent comedies, a million playground quotes and brought the ancient mysteries of Kung Fu to the West in the awe inspiring mini-movie, A Fistful of Yen.

Hollywood legends The Zucker Brothers (Airplane, Top Secret) team up with John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers) for an adults-only comedy trip through the worlds of advertising, TV, movies and, of course... SEX!

I’m not wearing any pants... Film at 11.

THIS EDITION CONTAINS:
- 4 panel eversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector’s booklet featuring a new interview with director John Landis and new writing on the film by critic and author Calum Waddell

DISC 1 CONTAINS:
- Feature presented in Widescreen 1.85:1 and Full Frame 1.33:1
- Original mono audio
- Original Trailer
- The audio recollections of director John Landis, writers Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and producer Robert K. Weiss

DISC 2 CONTAINS:
- A conversation with David and Jerry Zucker: A feature length interview with the co-creators of The Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane and The Naked Gun about their lives and career, from growing up and starting out in show business to their comedy influences and spoofing Midnight Cowboy!
- Jerry Zucker’s on-set Home Video shot during the making of the movie
- Behind-the-scenes photo gallery

DVD feature running time 85 mins
Subtitles- English, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish
DVD Region 0 PAL

Release date 4th July 2011

Here are a couple of politically incorrect skits to remind you of the Kentucky Fried goodness.