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Major new Shout!, Scream, and Arrow Video announcements, plus Disney/Pixar’s final batch of 4K animated titles on 3/3
All right, we’ve got major new announcements from Shout! Factory and Scream for you today...
For March, the companies have added Jack Smight’s British production of Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) to their 3/24 slate. Shout! is also releasing The Transformers: The Complete Original Series DVD box set on 3/31.
In April, in addition to the Escape from L.A.: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on 4/28, Shout! and Scream will release Swift and Knives and Skin (for IFC) on 4/7, Homeboy and Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter on 4/14, The Spider (1958) and The Curse of the Werewolf: Collector’s Edition (1961) on 4/21, and Underdog: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition (DVD), Shatter (1974), and The Lost Continent (1968) on 4/28. [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Arrow Video
- Disney and Pixar 4K
- Up 4K
- WALLE 4K
- A Bug's Life 4K
- Monsters Inc 4K
- Monsters University 4K
- Flicker Alley
- 3D Film Archive
- 3D Rarities: Volume II
- Frankenstein: The True Story
- Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
- The Curse of the Werewolf: Collector’s Edition
- The Lost Continent
- Underdog: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition
- Idle Hands: Collector’s Edition
- The Good Place: The Complete Series
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
- Hammer Films
- The Evil of Frankenstein: Collector’s Edition
- Danger: Diabolik
- Sixteen Candles
- The Current War BD
- Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
- Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukomoto
Frankenstein bust giveaway, Cat People, Warner Archive & complete Enterprise: S3 BD extras!
Afternoon, folks! Today’s Oktoberfest Giveaway is a real dandy – Factory Entertainment’s awesome Frankenstein VFX Bust: Limited Edition – a $450 value and one of just 400 worldwide! For your chance to win that bad boy, head on over to our Jahnke’s Electric Theater Facebook page and participate in the Giveaway which starts at Noon (Pacific). Good luck and special thanks to our friends at Factory Entertainment for providing the sweet Giveaway!
Don’t forget: Bits readers have an exclusive 25% discount on any in stock item over $25 all month over at the Factory Entertainment website – just use the discount code D1G1TALB1TS10 at checkout!
Meanwhile, here at The Bits today, Dr. Jahnke’s Hell Plaza Oktoberfest review of the day is none other than Warner Archive’s Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell on MOD DVD, starring Peter Cushing and David Prowse – yes, that Cushing and Prowse. It’s an appropriate choice we’d say!
Meanwhile, Tim has turned in a look at John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13: Collector’s Edition now available on Blu-ray from our friends at Shout! and Scream Factory. Enjoy! [Read on here…]
Burnt Offerings For August 27: The Return Of Orlock
Some long out of print titles from both Warner Bros. and Paramount are the focus of this week’s new releases from Warner Archive. There are some first-rate choices this week, so let’s take a look at ‘em.
Targets (1968) – Boris Karloff gave his last great performance as Byron Orlock, a fading horror star who feels irrelevant in the modern world. He comes face to face with real terror in the form of a psychotic sniper, picking off victims at random. A remarkable early film from Peter Bogdanovich.
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) – Hammer Films’ final Frankenstein entry finds Peter Cushing continuing his experiments in an insane asylum. David Prowse, still a few years away from becoming Darth Vader, plays the Creature. [...]