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Fopp’s Picks

August 2025

a goldmine for film lovers — this month’s collector’s editions deliver stunning restorations, deluxe packaging, and rare cinematic gems you won’t want to miss.

scum

release: 18th august 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray / dvd

 

After the banning of their original 1977 BBC TV version, director Alan Clarke (The Firm) and writer Roy Minton (Funny Farm) set out to remake their drama for the big screen to ensure that their vision got the audience it deserved. The resulting film was an even more vitriolic portrait of a corrupt and violent institution which stunned cinema audiences and caused outrage. Uncompromising in its depiction of everyday violence, retribution, suicide and sexual assault, Scum remains a cornerstone of the British realist cinema movement, and a savage and still shocking indictment of institutionalised violence and abuse.

 

  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Troy Howarth and Eugenio Ercolani; Kim Newman and Sean Hogan
  • Image Gallery
  • Interviews: Dony Boyd (executive producer), Michael Bradsell (editor), Esta Charkham (casting director), Mick Ford (actor), Phil Méheux (cinematographer), Ray Burdis (actor), Perry Benson (actor, Martin Campbell (producer)
  • Survival Rules OK Video Essay 
  • Trailers

bad lieutenant

release: 18th august 2025
available on 4k uhd 

 

101 Films presents Abel Ferrara’s iconic neo-noir Bad Lieutenant (1992), released on 4K UHD in the UK for the first time. Driven by a career bestperformance by the legendary Harvey Keitel as the titular Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara’s unfiltered tale of self-destruction, guilt, forgiveness and redemption shocked audiences and critics alike with its uncompromising depiction of crime in New York’s seedy underbelly. In a career full of provocative filmmaking, the notorious Bad Lieutenant stands alone as Ferrara’s most incendiary and certainly his finest piece of work. 
For twenty years, he has ruled the streets—gambling, stealing, using, killing. A corrupt, drug-addicted New York City cop spirals deeper into vice while investigating the brutal assault of a young nun. As the case forces him to confront his own sins, he walks the line of self-destruction and the elusive promise of redemption. 

 

  • Shooting in New York – Interview with Abel Ferrara
  • Ken & Abel: Interview with Cinematographer Ken Kelsch
  • Bad Neighborhoods – The locations of Bad Lieutenant
  • Limited edition booklet includes Body of Evidence: How Harvey Keitel’s Bad Lieutenant Topped a Career of Fearless, Frank Performances by James Mottram
  • Morality Crisis: The Vice and Virtues of Abel Ferrara by Rich Johnson
  • It All Happens Here – The making of Bad Lieutenant
  • Audio Commentary with Abel Ferrara & Ken Kelsch
  • Interview with Abel Ferrara

aguirre, the wrath of god

release: 25th august 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

Shot entirely on location in the wild Amazonian jungle near Machu Picchu, Aguirre, the Wrath of God stars the legendarily volatile Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre) as Don Lope de Aguirre, a power-crazed sixteenth-century explorer who leads a troupe of conquistadors on a doomed expedition in search of El Dorado, the fabled ‘City of Gold’. A visceral, ambitious exploration of megalomania and savage beauty, Aguirre remains one of Herzog’s most brilliant achievements and one of German cinema’s totemic masterpieces.

 

  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Fata Morgana – Werner Herzog (writer/director)
  • Image Gallery
  • Fata Morgana (1971)
  • Short satire: Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
  • Short film: Last Words (1968)
  • The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
  • Trailers

mishma: a life in four chapters

release: 4th august 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

Paul Schrader’s visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima’s life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer’s past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

 

  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Paul Schrader (director) and Alan Poul (producer)
  • Documentaries: Program on Yukio Mishima; The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)
  • Interviews: Chieko Schrader (co-screenwriter); Yukio Mishima
  • Making of Documentary
  • Two alternate English narrations (including one by actor Roy Scheider)
  • Essay by Kevin Jackson (critic)
  • A piece on the film’s censorship in Japan
  • Photographs of Ishioka’s sets
  • Cover by Neil Kellerhouse

the hidden fortress

release: 18th august 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

A story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress, The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa’s first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope, and he exploited this to the full in the film’s rich variety of landscape locations, including the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Hidden Fortress became Kurosawa’s biggest box office hit to date and won several awards, including the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Festival. Some twenty years on, the film’s influence would have even greater impact on the world’s box office, when George Lucas borrowed elements of its plot for the first of his Star Wars series.

 

  • Restored 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Newly recorded audio commentary by Japanese-cinema expert Tony Rayns
  • Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – Hidden Fortress (2002)
  • Interview with George Lucas(2001, 8 mins)
  • Original trailer
  • **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with a new essay on the film by Kenta McGrath
  • Commentary: Tony Rayns (Japanese cinema expert)
  • Documentaries: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Hidden Fortress (2002)
  • Interviews: George Lucas
  • Trailers

enemy territory

release: 4th august 2025
available on blu-ray

 

Down-on-his-luck insurance salesman Barry (Gary Frank) finds himself trapped in an apartment building on the wrong side of town with a street gang called “The Vampires” out for his blood. With the help of a telephone repairman (Ray Parker Jr.), a disabled Vietnam vet (Jan-Michael Vincent), and the granddaughter of his client (Stacey Dash), Barry must fight for his life to make it all the way down from the top floor in the hope of getting out alive.
Directed by Peter Manoogian (Eliminators), photographed by Ernest Dickerson (Do the Right Thing) and featuring a stand out early role for genre legend Tony Todd (Candyman), Enemy Territory is a cult classic that continues to pack a powerful punch.

 

  • Brand new restoration from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films 
  • High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation 
  • Brand new audio commentary by director Peter Manoogian with film critics Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz 
  • Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Josh Nelson 
  • Den of Vampires, a newly filmed interview with cinematographer Ernest Dickerson 
  • Giving up the Ghost, a newly filmed interview with actor Gary Frank 
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley 
  • Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley 
  • Illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing by film critics Paul Lê and Martyn Conterio

devil fetus

release: 25th august 2025
available on blu-ray

 

IT HAS RETURNED. A decade after Cheng Shu-ching was possessed and killed by a demon, it comes back to claim the rest of her family – in the most unpleasant ways possible. The only way to defeat it is with traditional Taoist magic, but that will prove harder than they realise.
A maximalist Hong Kong horror in the tradition of The Boxer’s Omen and Black Magic, The Devil Foetus blends extreme imagery with esoteric lore for something a bit wilder than western horror movies. 88 Films are proud to present a true classic of Asian fantasy cinema on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

 

  • O-ring and rigid slipcase featuring artwork by R.P. “Kung Fu Bob” O’Brien
  • Collectable postcard
  • 40-page perfect bound book featuring new writing on the film by Zoë Rose Smith, Andrew Heskins and C.J. Lines
  • Brand-new 2K restoration of the complete uncut ‘Category III’ version
  • High-definition uncut Blu-ray presentation in original 2.35:1 aspect ratio
  • Original Cantonese Mono 2.0 with newly translated English subtitles
  • Rare English Mono 2.0 dub
  • Audio commentary with David West
  • Excerpts from the alternate version
  • Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original Hong Kong poster artwor

shinobi: siege/the return of mist saizo/The Last Iga Spy

release: 18th august 2025
available on blu-ray

 

Three more spectacular tales continue the legendary Shinobi series, with Raizo Ichikawa returning as Mist Saizo – a deadly ninja on a mission to bring down the Tokugawa shogun. Full of epic battles, ingenious spycraft, and fierce rivalries, these films dive deeper into Japan’s martial past. In Siege and Return of Mist Saizo, Saizo’s vendetta drives him through betrayals and bloodshed, while in part six, his son Saisuke inherits the name and the cause. With stunning action, including a rooftop showdown that ranks among the series’ finest, this trio cements Shinobi as a landmark in period ninja cinema.

 

  • Booklet
  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Siege – Select-scene audio commentary by Tom Mes
  • Interviews: Taichi Kasuga (Japanese period film historian); Mance Thompson (ninja film scholar)
  • Six postcards featuring promotional images from the films
  • Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original promotional materials
  • Trailers

the odd job

release: 25th august 2025
available on blu-ray

 

In the 1978 black comedy from director Peter Medak, Graham Chapman – just prior to Monty Python’s Life of Brian – stars as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly leaves him. Unable to complete the task himself, he asks a strange handyman (BAFTA Award winner Sir David Jason of Only Fools and Horses, in a role once intended for Keith Moon) to kill him instead. But when Arthur’s wife comes back, he discovers that his homicidal hire has every intention of finishing the job. Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited), Carolyn Seymour (The Ruling Class), Simon Williams (Jabberwocky), Bill Paterson (Fleabag) and Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) co-star in this “crazy comedy” (Travalanche), co-written by Chapman with Bernard McKenna (Yellowbeard) and produced by Mark Forstater (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), now scanned in 2K from Peter Medak’s personal 35MM print.
 
  • Documentaries: The Odd Job Men
  • Interviews: Peter Medak (director); Bernard McKenna (writer); Mark Forstater (co-producer); Richard O’Brien (actor); Carolyn Seymour (actor); Simon Williams (actor)
  • Introduction by Peter Medak

the texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning

release: 25th august 2025
available on 4k uhd

 

After 2003’s successful remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes would take another trip to the Lone Star State for the terrifying prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. In the summer of 1969, brothers Eric and Dean and their girlfriends Chrissie and Bailey are having one last road trip before the boys set off to Vietnam. An altercation with a shotgun-wielding biker leads them to crash their car, only for them to be rescued by Sheriff Hoyt. But their saviour isn’t as benevolent as he seems, and the gang are taken hostage and dragged to the residence of the murderous Hewitt family, among them Hoyt’s brother Thomas, a hulking brute who conceals his face behind a leather mask.

 

  • Booklet
  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Uncut version – Jonathan Liebesman (director); Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (producers); Steve ‘Uncle Creepy’ Barton (Dread Central co-founder); Chris MacGibbon (co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast)
  • Documentaries: Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
  • Interviews: Lukas Ettlin (cinematographer); Jake Garber (special effects makeup artist); Kevin Wasner (special effects makeup technician); Lew Temple (actor)
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
  • Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea

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