Let’s take a look at some of the titles in the offer…

inglourious basterds

 

Format: Blu-ray

Quentin Tarantino directs this ensemble action drama set in Europe during World War Two. In the first of two converging storylines, Shosanna (Melanie Laurent), a young Jewish woman in occupied France, seeks to avenge the death of her parents by the Nazis after narrowly escaping execution herself and fleeing to Paris. There she creates a new identity for herself as the owner and manager of a cinema. Meanwhile, a group of Jewish American soldiers known as ‘The Basterds’, led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), joins forces with German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. The Basterds cross paths with Shosanna when her cinema, which has been commandeered by the Nazis for the screening of their latest propaganda film, becomes the target for their next attack. However, unbeknown to them, Shosanna has devised a revenge plan of her own. Christoph Waltz gained the Best Supporting Actor Awards at both the 2010 BAFTAs and Academy Awards for his portrayal of the devious Colonel Hans Landa.

 

• Commentary: Tim Lucas (author/critic)

• Documentaries: Making It Right, Film History On Fire, Nation’s Pride, The Making of Nation’s Pride, The Original Inglorious Bastards, A Conversation With Rod Taylor, Rod Taylor On Victoria Bitter, Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel, Hi Sallys, Film Poster Gallery Tour With Elvis Mitchell

• Interviews: Fred Raskin (editor), Greg Nicotero (special make-up effects supervisor), Omar Doom (actor), Christine Leteux (film scholar/author), Quentin Tarantino (writer/director), Brad Pitt (actor), Elvis Mitchell

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oldboy

 

Format: 4k uhd

Korean action thriller directed by Park Chan-Wook. Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) has never taken his role as husband and father seriously and has just been released from police custody for drunk and disorderly behaviour on his own baby daughter’s birthday. When he finds himself in solitary confinement in a prison cell after being mysteriously abducted on the street, he has no idea what is going on or why. A year into his imprisonment, he learns from the small television in his cell that his wife is dead and that he himself is suspected of the crime. When, fifteen years later, he is released as suddenly and inexplicably as he was detained, he is determined to track down his tormentors and wreak his revenge. But little does he know that his kidnappers have even worse horrors in store for him…

 

• Additional Features: Deleted scenes (with optional director commentary), Behind-the-scenes featurettes, Music and effects track, Trailers and teasers, Image gallery, Reversible sleeve with artwork by Justin Erickson

• Commentary: Park Chan-wook (director); Park Chan-wook & Jung Jung-hoon (cinematographer); Park Chan-wook, Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae & Kang Hye-jung (actors); Jasper Sharp (critic) & Simon Ward (writer)

• Documentaries: Old Days: An Oldboy Story (2016), Autobiography of Oldboy (three-and-a-half-hour video diary), Out of the Past (appreciation by Tony Rayns)

• Interviews: Extensive cast and crew interviews

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Candyman

 

format: 4k uhd

Dare you say his name five times? From the chilling imagination of horror master Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), comes Candyman – one of the greatest horror movies of the ’90s, now restored on 4K UHD from Arrow Video. When grad student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) begins working on a thesis about urban legends, she comes across the terrifying tale of the Candyman – a vengeful, hook-handed spirit who can be summoned by saying his name five times in the mirror. As her research leads her into the bowels of Chicago’s deprived housing projects and deeper into the Candyman’s world, Helen learns that some legends are best left well alone. Expertly directed by British filmmaker Bernard Rose (Paperhouse) and boasting an astounding score by composer Philip Glass, Candyman ingeniously reworks Clive Barker’s original short story “The Forbidden” (originally published as part of his groundbreaking Books of Blood series) into a modern horror parable that remains as timely today as ever.

 

• Additional Features: Bonus footage, Reversible sleeve and poster, Three rare Bernard Rose short films (A Bomb With No Name On It [1975], The Wreckers [1976], Looking at Alice [1977]), US R-rated version and original UK theatrical version, Trailers, Image gallery

• Commentary: Bernard Rose (writer/director) & Tony Todd (actor); Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (authors)

• Documentaries: Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman, A Story to Tell: Clive Barker’s “The Forbidden”, Forbidden Flesh: The Makeup FX of Candyman, The Writing on the Wall: The Production Design of Candyman

• Interviews: Virginia Madsen (actor), Tony Todd (actor), Clive Barker (author)

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Deep Blue Sea

 

format: 4k uhd & blu-ray

From Renny Harlin, maximalist director of Die Hard II, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, comes Deep Blue Sea, a shark-infested action-thriller where everyone is on the menu.

At an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean, a team of scientists, led by Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), are working on a cure for Alzheimer’s by genetically altering the brains of sharks. When a shark escapes and attacks a pleasure boat, the company sponsoring the research threatens to pull its funding and sends corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate. McAlester has just 48 hours to prove the value of her work, but her experiments have made the sharks smarter. No longer happy to be injected, prodded, and caged, they begin to turn the tables. As a freak storm causes chaos on the surface, making it impossible to leave, the facility is flooded and the scientists must fight to survive against the rising water and the hungry sharks that now swim freely through the corridors.

 

• Additional Features: Bonus footage, Deleted scenes, Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece, Postcards from Aquatica, Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Preece, Trailers, Image gallery

• Commentary: Duncan Kennedy (screenwriter); Rebekah McKendry (film-maker/critic); Renny Harlin (director) & Samuel L. Jackson (actor)

• Documentaries: Beneath the Surface, When Sharks Attack: The Making of “Deep Blue Sea”, The Sharks of the Deep Blue Sea

• Interviews: William Sandell (production designer)

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true romance

 

format: 4k uhd

In 1993, action movie supremo Tony Scott teamed up with a hot new screenwriter named Quentin Tarantino to bring True Romance to the screen, one of the most beloved and widely-quoted films of the decade.

Elvis-worshipping comic book store employee Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is minding his own business at a Sonny Chiba triple bill when Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) walks into his life – and from then on, the two are inseparable. Within 24 hours, they’re married and on the run after Clarence is forced to kill Alabama’s possessive, psychopathic pimp. Driving a Cadillac across the country from Detroit to Hollywood, the newlyweds plan to sell off a suitcase full of stolen drugs to fund a new life for themselves… but little do they suspect that the cops and the Mafia are closing in on them. Will they escape and make their dream of a happy ending come true?

 

• Additional Features: New 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and the Director’s Cut by Arrow Films, Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Gilbey, Deleted scenes (with optional commentary), Alternate ending (with optional commentaries), Electronic press kit featurettes, Behind-the-scenes footage, Trailers and TV spots, Image galleries

• Commentary: Tony Scott (director); Quentin Tarantino (writer); Christian Slater & Patricia Arquette (actors); Tim Lucas (critic); Select scene commentaries by Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Michael Rapaport; Saul Rubinek & Bronson Pinchot (co-stars)

• Interviews: Susan Becker (costume designer); Michael Tronick (co-editor); Mark Mancina & John Van Tongeren (co-composers); Larry Taylor (author); Daniel Storm (True Romance Fest co-founder)

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the usual suspects

 

format: 4k uhd

Amidst the wave of neo-noir thrillers that swept American cinema in the 1990s, few films made as much impact as The Usual Suspects, which revolutionised the genre, won two Academy Awards® and is still regarded as one of the greatest crime films ever made. 

After a brutal massacre on a cargo ship off the coast of Los Angeles leaves 27 men dead, Special Agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) interrogates one of the only two survivors, small-time con artist Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). During the interview, Kint tells Kujan of how he was recruited by the fearsome crime lord Keyser Söze to commit a series of daring heists with four other crooked misfits: Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Mike McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Fred Fenster (Benicio del Toro) and Todd Hockey (Kevin Pollak). But as Kint’s account of the events leading up to the massacre becomes more convoluted, Kujan becomes increasingly sceptical and determined to discover the identity of the elusive Keyser Söze.

With an unforgettably twisty and tightly written Oscar®-winning script by Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects is an unmissable entry in the canon of American indie cinema. 

 

• Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus footage, Deleted scenes, Outtakes, Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket, Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket, TV spots, Trailers

• Commentary: Bryan Singer (director) and Christopher McQuarrie (writer); John Ottman (composer)

• Documentaries: Round Up: Deposing the Usual Suspects; Keyser Soze (Lie or Legend?); Heisting Cannes With ‘The Usual Suspects’; Introducing ‘The Usual Suspects’

• Interviews: Newton Thomas Siegel (cinematographer); John Ottman (composer)

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ringu

 

format: 4k uhd

In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film’s success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata’s original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week – unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse…

 

• Additional Features: Bonus footage, Sadako’s video, Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options, Trailers

• Commentary: David Kalat (film historian)

• Documentaries: The ‘Ringu’ Legacy; A Vicious Circle; Circumnavigating ‘Ringu’; Spooks, Sighs and Videotape

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ju-on – the grudge

 

format: 4k uhd

“Ju-On”: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed… Deep in the shadows of the attic of an ordinary family home in the Tokyo suburbs, something malevolent is stirring. When social worker Rika (Megumi Okina) is sent to check on a traumatised old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.

 

• Additional Features: Behind the scenes, Bonus footage, Deleted scenes with commentary by Takashi Shimizu, Deleted scenes, Image gallery, Reversible sleeve, Introduction by Takashi Shimizu, Trailers

• Commentary: David Kalat (film historian); Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel

• Documentaries: The Evolution of ‘Ju-On’; ‘Ju-On’ True Stories

• Interviews: Takashi Shimizu (director/writer); Megumi Okina (actor); Kayoko Shibata (actor); Misaki Ito (actor); Misa Uehara (actor); Yui Ichikawa (actor)

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the chronicles of riddick

 

format: 4k uhd

Following the sleeper success of their breakthrough sci-fi/horror smash Pitch Black, writer-director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel reunited for 2004’s action-packed The Chronicles of Riddick, an expansive and ambitious sequel that took their eponymous antihero to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

Riddick (Diesel) is an intergalactic fugitive whose dark past catches up with him when he is lured out of hiding by Imam (Keith David, The Thing), another survivor of the planet of horrors they barely escaped from five years earlier. Now out of the shadows, Riddick is identified by an ethereal emissary (Academy Award winner Dame Judi Dench) as the descendant of an ancient race of warriors who may be the universe’s last hope against the Necromongers, an evil army of fanatics intent on bending the world to their will. As enemies close in on all sides, including the ruthless Lord Marshal (Colm Feore, Thor) and his scheming lieutenant Vaako (Karl Urban, The Boys), Riddick finds himself a reluctant saviour of the cosmos, with only his razor-sharp wits and cunning killer instinct standing in the way of total annihilation.

 

• Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Deleted Scenes, Introduction by David Twohy, Interactive Production Calendar, Production Vignettes, Virtual Guide to The Chronicles of Riddick, Trailers

• Commentary: David Twohy and Vin Diesel; David Twohy, Karl Urban and Alexa Davelos

• Documentaries: Ambition On Another Scale: Chronicling a Blockbuster Sequel; Creation of New Mecca; Riddick Rises; Keep What You Kill; Visual Effects Revealed

• Interviews: David Twohy (director/writer); Brian Murray (storyboard artist); Keith David (actor); On-set interviews with David Twohy, Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Colm Feore, Alexa Davelos, Thandie Newton, Scott Kroopf (producer); Promotional interviews with David Twohy, Vin Diesel, Thandie Newton, Karl Urban, Alexa Davelos, Colm Feore

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time bandits

 

format: 4k uhd

The film that established Terry Gilliam as more than just Monty Python’s resident animator, this delightfully inventive children’s fantasy is about young Kevin (Craig Warnock) who finds himself travelling through holes in the space-time continuum in the company of half a dozen fractious dwarfs.

Along the way, he encounters Agamemnon (Sean Connery), Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon (Ian Holm) and winds up as a passenger on the Titanic, although not necessarily in that order. But is this just random entertainment laid on for history fan Kevin’s benefit, or part of a wider struggle between the forces of Good (Ralph Richardson) and Evil (David Warner)?

This is a rare example of an independent British film taking on American blockbusters. Now, it’s a much-loved fantasy classic bursting with inspired images and ideas: Gilliam and co-writer Michael Palin (who also appears) are clearly enjoying themselves as much as their audience.

 

• Additional Features: Bonus Footage

• Documentaries: From Script to Screen, Trailers

• Interviews: Terry Gilliam (director/co-writer); Michael Palin (actor/co-writer); Kent Houston (peerless camera company founder); David Warner (actor); James Acheson (costume designer); Milly Burns (production designer)

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Demolition Man

 

format: blu-ray

In 2032, arch criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a world where crime is almost non-existent – a serene utopia ripe for the taking. With the police no longer equipped to deal with his 90s-style brutality, they revive ‘Demolition Man’ Sgt. John Spartan (Stallone), the no-holds-barred police officer unjustly sentenced to CryoPrison who originally took Phoenix down. Old-school cop against old-school criminal, settling their scores on the streets of San Angeles? The future won’t know what’s hit it.

With a script co-written by Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns) and a supporting cast that includes Denis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, and Sandra Bullock in her breakout role, Demolition Man is an awesome mix of action and humor!

 

• Additional Features: Bonus Footage, Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley, Includes both the domestic ‘Taco Bell’ and international ‘Pizza Hut’ versions of the film presented via seamless branching

• Commentary: Marco Brambilla (director) and Daniel Waters (screenwriter); Mike White (film historian); Marco Brambilla and Joel Silver (producer), Documentaries: Somewhere Over the Rambo, Image Gallery, Trailers 

• Interviews: David L. Snyder (production designer); Charles Percini (stunt coordinator); Chris Biggs (special make-up effects artist); Jeff Farley (body effects set coordinator)

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Heathers

 

Format: 4k uhd

Widely acknowledged as a true cult classic of modern American cinema, Heathers has captured the imaginations of troubled teenagers the world over with its acerbic satire of the sugar coated high school movies of the 1980s…

At Westerburg High School, an elite clique of snobby girls known as “Heathers” reign supreme. Smart and popular, Veronica (Winona Ryder, Stranger Things) is a reluctant member of the gang and disapproves of the other girls’ cruel behaviour. When Veronica and her mysterious new boyfriend, JD (Christian Slater, True Romance), play a trick on the clique leader, Heather Chandler (Kim Walker), and accidentally poison her, they make it appear a suicide. But it soon becomes clear to Veronica that JD is a sociopath intent on vengefully killing the school’s popular students. She races to stop him, clashing with the clique’s new leader, Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty), and leading to an explosive final confrontation with her troubled former lover.

Directed by Michael Lehmann, Heathers pushed the teen comedy into dark and nightmarish territory and is distinguished by the career defining central performances of its stars Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The film is presented here on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray alongside a wealth of extra material providing insight into the making of this hilarious and shocking film.

 

• Additional Features: Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Robert Sammelin, Bonus Footage, Trailers, The Beaver Gets a Boner Michael Lehmann’s 1985 student film

• Commentary: Michael Lehmann (director), Denise Di Novi (producer) and Daniel Waters (writer),

• Documentaries: Pizzicato Croquet; How Very: The Art and Design of Heathers; Casting Westerberg High; Scott and Larry and Dan and ‘Heathers’; The Big Bowie Theory; Return to Westerberg High; Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads

• Interviews: Michael Lehmann (director); Lisanne Falk (actor)

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Blood and Black Lace

 

Format: 4k uhd

The Christian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models… and backstabbing… and blackmail… and drug deals… and MURDER. Having established a template forthe giallo with The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava set about cementing its rules with Blood and Black Lace. In doing so, he created one of the most influential films ever made – an Italian classic that would spearhead the giallo genre, provide a prototype for the slasher movie, and have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese.

Restored from the original camera negative and presented here in its original uncut form, this 4K Ultra HD release allows fans to see Blood and Black Lace afresh and offers newcomers the ideal introduction to a major piece of cult filmmaking.

 

• additional features: bonus footage, image gallery, reversible sleeve, blood and bava panel from the 2014 courmayeur film festival, the sinister image (episode of david del valle’s tv series starring cameron mitchell), alternative us opening titles, trailers

• commentary: tim lucas (mario bava’s biographer)

• documentaries: psycho analysis, gender and giallo

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Flatliners

 

Format: 4k uhd

Known for his impressively eclectic filmography and for helping to launch the careers of several young Hollywood stars of the 80s and 90s, Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, St. Elmo’s Fire) tackles the existential question that, at one time or another, haunts us all: what awaits us after we die?

At the University Hospital School of Medicine, five ambitious students subject themselves to a daring experiment: to temporarily induce their own deaths, hoping to glimpse the afterlife before being brought back to life. But as competition within the group intensifies and their visions of the world beyond increasingly bleed into their waking lives, they’re about to learn that the greatest threat comes not from the spirit world but from the long-suppressed secrets of their own pasts…

Stylishly photographed by Jan de Bont (Basic Instinct) and featuring a cast of Hollywood’s hottest talent – including Kiefer Sutherland (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me), Julia Roberts (Secret in their Eyes) and Kevin Bacon (Wild Things) – Flatliners is the ultimate life-and-death thrill ride.

 

• additional features: theatrical trailer, image gallery, reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by gary pullin

• commentary: bryan rees, max evry

• interviews: peter filardi (screenwriter), jan de bont (director of photography), edward ayer (chief lighting technician), john kretchmer (assistant director), eugenio zanetti (production designer), larry lundy (art director), james newton howard (composer), chris boardman (orchestrator), susan becker (costume designer)

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the beta test

 

Format: Blu-ray

Eyes Wide Shut meets Office Space, The Player and Black Mirror in The Beta Test, the acclaimed thriller from Jim Cummings, creator of Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow.

A ruthless, manipulative, and soon-to-be married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter inviting him to an anonymous sexual encounter. After some uncertainty he accepts, but euphoria turns to paranoia as he becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lies, infidelity and murder.

Strikingly shot and with pitch-perfect performances that will make you squirm in your seat, The Beta Test is a stylish, scathing satire of preening toxic masculinity, the dangers of technology, and the hollowness of Hollywood success.

 

• Bonus Features: Bonus Footage, Image Gallery, Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork options, Trailers

• Commentary: Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe (directors/writers/actors)

• Documentaries: Sex, Lies & Purple Envelopes – Visual essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (author/film scholar), Trapped. Hiding. Boom – Visual essay by Guy Adams (author/critic)

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the last stop in yuma county

 

Format: Blu-ray

Blending elements of the western and neo-noir, The Last Stop in Yuma County is a loving and expertly crafted homage to the spirit of 1970s American crime thrillers with a modern twist, winning the prize for Best Film at the Sitges International Film Festival.

A travelling knife salesman impatiently awaits the arrival of a fuel truck in an isolated roadside diner in rural Arizona. His attempt to wile away the hours with a crossword puzzle and a cup of coffee is interrupted by the arrival of Travis and Beau, two bank robbers fleeing from a heist. Realising they’ve been recognised, the thieves intimidate the diner’s staff and clientele into silence just as more oblivious patrons begin to trickle in. As the tension mounts and pressure spirals, the salesman is caught between protecting the safety of the other customers and his own survival, and will make a decision that will change his life forever.

Featuring gripping performances by a cast loaded with genre favourites, including Jim Cummings (The Beta Test), Richard Brake (Barbarian), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Jocelin Donahue (The House of the Devil) and Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), The Last Stop in Yuma County is a thrilling exploration of the difficult choices and fragile alliances that arise in desperate situations.

 

• Bonus Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Image Gallery, Reversible sleeve featuring artwork by Eric Adrian Lee and Nicholas Moegly, Six vintage-style lobby cards featuring newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee, Three screenplay-to-film comparisons, Trailers

• Commentary: Francis Galluppi and James Claeys (executive producer); Francis Galluppi, Jim Cummings (actor) and Jocelin Donahue (actor); Francis Galluppi and Mac Fisken (cinematographer)

• Documentaries: Sell Your House, Leave the Gun, Take the Rhubarb

• Interviews: Francis Galluppi (writer/director)

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game of death

 

Format: Blu-ray & 4k uhd

Five years after the release of Enter the Dragon and the death of its star Bruce Lee, director Robert Clouse was recruited by Golden Harvest to complete Lee’s last, unfinished masterwork, only a third of which was filmed before he died: Game of Death. The result is an exciting rollercoaster ride that blends Lee’s martial arts mastery with Clouse’s eye for nail-biting suspense. Billy Lo (Lee) is a kung fu superstar in the Hong Kong film industry whose happy life with his girlfriend Ann (Colleen Camp) is being intruded upon by a threatening group of American gangsters led by Dr Land (Dean Jagger) and henchman Steiner (Hugh O’Brian), intent on bringing Billy under their control. When Billy refuses, their lethal response sets about a chain of events where a disguised Billy turns the tables on the syndicate, fighting his way through the city for his and Ann’s freedom. With fantastic fight choreography by Sammo Hung, the leading inheritor to Lee’s throne at that time, and a much-beloved music score by John Barry, Game of Death was an international smash hit that helped to keep Lee’s star burning bright long after he was gone.

 

• Bonus Features: Behind the Scenes, Booklet, Bonus Footage, Deleted Scenes, Image Gallery, Reversible sleeve, Alternate endings, Fight scene dailies directed by Sammo Hung, Trailers

• Commentary: ‘Game of Death’: Brandon Bentley and Mike Leeder; ‘Game of Death II’: Frank Djeng and Michael Worth

• Documentaries: Locations featurette; Pre-production sales featurette (1976)

• Interviews: Colleen Camp (actor); Dan Inosanto (actor); Bob Wall (actor); Roy Horan (actor)

• Versions Included: ‘Game of Death II’ (1981) plus Hong Kong theatrical cut ‘Tower of Death’ and Korean and US versions; ‘Game of Death’: International cut and Japanese cut

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The Terminal Man

 

Format: Blu-ray & 4k uhd

From the director of Get Carter and the writer of Jurassic Park comes a chilling techno-thriller. George Segal is… The Terminal Man.

Harry Benson (Segal) is a brilliant computer scientist who suffers from seizures that induce blackouts and violent behaviour. Undergoing experimental surgery, electrodes are implanted in his brain to detect oncoming seizures and stop them with an electrical impulse. But the pleasure centre of his brain becomes addicted to the stimulus, triggering seizures at shorter and shorter intervals. If they become continuous the blackouts will be permanent, and Benson a homicidal killer.

Much admired by Terrence Malick and Stanley Kubrick, Mike Hodges’ film of Michael Crichton’s novel is an unnerving slow-burn masterpiece long overdue for re-evaluation.

 

• Bonus Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Image Gallery, Trailers,Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde; Theatrical and Director’s Cuts included

• Documentaries: A (Misunderstood) Modern Masterpiece; Who Am I If Not Myself; The Skin We Live In

  Interviews: Mike Hodges (writer/director)

• Commentary: Howard S. Berger and Steven Mitchell (film historians)

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The Gift

 

Format: Blu-ray 

Director Sam Raimi combined the spooky underpinnings of his early work with his newly proven talent for handling powerful drama in the supernatural thriller The Gift, coaxing nuanced performances from a star-studded cast to bring a gripping script by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson (One False Move) to life.

In rural Georgia, recently widowed psychic Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) works as a tarot reader to support her young family. When she is introduced to her son’s affable school principal (Greg Kinnear) and his socialite fiancée (Katie Holmes), Annie has a grisly premonition of things yet to come. After her violent vision comes true, all eyes turn to Annie, leaving her with no choice but to use her clairvoyant abilities to find the culprit herself. Could it be the abusive husband (Keanu Reeves) of one of Annie’s regular clients (Hilary Swank)? Or the nervy mechanic (Giovanni Ribisi) whose yearning for friendship masks an uncontrollable rage? Or is another terrible secret hiding in plain sight?

 

• Bonus Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Bonus Tracks: Furnace Room Lullaby – neko case, Isolated Score, TV & radio spots, Footage from the film’s world premiere, Trailers

• Commentary: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (critics); Meagan Navarro (critic)

• Documentaries: The Gift: A Look Inside; The Making of The Gift; The Cast On Sam Raimi; Sam Raimi On the Cast

• Interviews: Chelcie Ross (actor); Bob Murawski and Arthur Coburn (editors); Christopher Young (composer); Promotional interviews with Sam Raimi (director), Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, and Giovanni Ribisi (actors)

• Extras: Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Thinh Dinh

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Rampo Noir

 

Format: Blu-ray 

Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).

In “Mars’s Canal”, by music video director and visual artist Suguru Takeuchi, a lone man encounters the other side of his psyche beyond the reflective surface of a circular pond set in a desolate landscape. Japanese New Wave auteur and longtime director of the Ultraman series Akio Jissoji (This Transient Life, Mandala) harnesses his distinctive stylistic sheen in his story of a mad mirror maker, “Mirror Hell”. “Caterpillar” sees the singular vision of cult director Hisayasu Sato (The Bedroom, Naked Blood) at its most grotesque, in his portrait of a wounded war veteran who returns from the frontline as little more than a bloody torso, helpless to defend himself against the increasingly perverted caprices of an embittered wife. Finally, a famous actor is subjected to the obsessive attentions of her limo driver in “Crawling Bugs”, the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed manga artist Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun).

 

• Bonus Features: Booklet, Image Gallery, Archive stage greeting footage with the cast and directors from the Japanese premiere of Rampo Noir,

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Insect

• Commentary: Jasper Sharp and Alexander Zahlten (Japanese film experts)

• Documentaries: Crossing the Lens

• Interviews: Suguru Takeuchi (director); Hisayasu Sato (director); Atsushi Kaneko (director/manga artist); Masao Nakabori (cinematographer); Akiko Ashizawa (cinematographer)

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