Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century will be reissued on Blu-ray on May 31 via Code Red. The 1977 Italian kaiju movie was produced in the wake of 1976’s King Kong.
Gianfranco Parolini (Sabata) directs from a script he co-wrote with Marcello Coscia (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) and Mario di Nardo (Five Dolls for an August Moon). Antonella Interlenghi, Jim Sullivan, Mimmo Crao, John Stacy, and Tony Kendall star.
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century was previously remastered in high definition from the original 35mm camera negative. It’s presented with its original Italian audio and English subtitles. The only extras are trailers.
Special features:
Trailers
Jane (Antonella Interlenghi) discovers her “Tarzan” in the form of a giant Yeti (Mimmo Crao) that is taken into captivity and put on public display. When the Yeti breaks loose, it’s Godzilla-style special effects galore as he smashes through the city, crushing the bad guys and searching for his new love, Jane.
Terror Circus will be reissued on Blu-ray on July 12 via Code Red. The 1974 horror film is also known as Nightmare Circus and as Barn of the Naked Dead.
Alan Rudolph (Mortal Thoughts, Breakfast of Champions) directs from a script he co-wrote with Roman Valenti. Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni, and Chuck Niles star.
Terror Circus was remastered in high definition from the original camera negative in 2015. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Born Again! Returning to Terror Circus - Interviews with actress Jennifer Ashley, associate producer Marvin Almeas, costume designer Allan A. Apone, and special effects creators Byrd Holland and Douglas J. White
Three beautiful young women are bound for Las Vegas to become showgirls. It's not long before their car breaks down, stranding them in the middle of the Nevada desert. After spending the night in their car, a man named Andre (Andrew Prine) offers them a lift to his place and a tow truck. But the girls quickly learn there's more to Andre than meets the eye and they're soon taken prisoner, joining a slew of other women. Andre fancies himself a ringleader and these girls are trained and whipped like circus animals. Meanwhile, Andre's daddy is a hideous mutant locked in an outhouse shed, and one of his captives reminds Andre of his dead mommy. Escape seems hopeless at first, but when the pretty girls don't show up for their gig, their agent, Derek Moore (Chuck Niles) starts looking for them.
The Violent Breed will be released on Blu-ray on April 5 via Code Red, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1984 Italian action movie is also known as Real Soulja.
Fernando Di Leo (Caliber 9) directs from a script he co-wrote with Nino Marino (Turn the Other Cheek). Henry Silva, Harrison Muller, Woody Strode, Carole André, and Luigina Rocchi star.
The Violent Breed has been newly restored in 2K. It’s presented in its native Italian with English subtitles. The only special feature is the trailer.
Special features:
Trailer
Stone-faced CIA boss Kirk Cooper (Henry Silva) gets word of a renegade American working the world's richest drug source, the Golden Triangle. It's a billion-dollar business with Mafia connections on one side, and a Russian arms deal on the other. And it must be stopped. He sends Vietnam vet Mike Martin (Harrison Muller) into the jungles of Southeast Asia to eliminate the tough-as-nails kingpin, Polo (Woody Strode). It's one man against an army of cutthroats in The Violent Breed.
Delirium will be reissued on Blu-ray on June 29 via Code Red, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1987 Italian giallo film is also known as Photos of Gioia.
Lamberto Bava (Demons) directs from a script by Gianfranco Clerici (Cannibal Holocaust) and Daniele Stroppa (Witchery). Serena Grandi, George Eastman, and Daria Nicolodi star.
Scream was mastered in high definition in 2016. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Interviews with director Lamberto Bava, actor George Eastman, cinematographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia, and art director Massimo Antonello Geleng
Vintage interviews with director Lamberto Bava and actors George Eastman and David Brandon
Trailers
Gioia (Serena Grandi) is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's new admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.
Death Ring will be released on Blu-ray on September 7 via Code Red, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1992 action film is directed by R.J. Kizer (Hell Comes to Frogtown).
Mike Norris, Chad McQueen, Don Swayze, Billy Drago, Elizabeth Sung, and Ron Thompson star in the direct-to-video flick. George T. LeBrun penned the script.
No special features are listed.
Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year he holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill a human being. This time, Collins is to be the hunted. Vachs uses Lauren as motivation for Collins to really fight to survive and thus provide the buyers with a truly exceptional hunt. Collins is turned loose on an uncharted island and four killers set out to find and kill him.
Guyana: Cult of the Damned will be released on Blu-ray on August 24 via Code Red in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1979 Mexican-American exploitation film is based on the Jonestown massacre.
Also known as Guyana: Crime of the Century, the movie is directed by René Cardona Jr. (Tintorera: Killer Shark), who co-wrote the script with Carlos Valdemar (Cemetery of Terror). Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Jennifer Ashley, Bradford Dillman, and Joseph Cotten star.
Guyana: Cult of the Damned has been newly mastered in 2K. It includes reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Isolated score and effects audio track
Theatrical trailer
Reverend Jim Jones, the priest of an independent church in the South American country Guyana, orders his followers to commit suicide. But not all of them follow him blindly and begin to think on their own.
The Dead Pit will be reissued on Blu-ray on December 14 via Code Red, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1989 zombie film includes a slipcover that matches the cover.
Brett Leonard (The Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity) directs from a script he co-wrote with Gimel Everett (The Lawnmower Man). Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, and Danny Gochnauer.
The Dead Pit was previously restored in 2K from the original camera negative. Special features - including a new commentary - are listed below.
Audio commentary by writer/director Brett Leonard, writer/producer Gimel Everette, and actor Jeremy Slate (new)
Interview with director Brett Leonard
Interview with writer/producer Gimel Everette
Interview with actor Jeremy Slate
Interview with actress Cheryl Lawson
Trailers
Dr. Ramzi, a deviant who enjoys torturing his patients, is killed by a fellow doctor and buried in the basement of a mental health facility. Twenty years later, the hospital is up and running again and a "Jane Doe" arrives at the institute with amnesia. Upon her arrival, a major earthquake rocks the building and unearths the now undead Dr. Ramzi and his legion of zombie patients so he can continue his work.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker will be reissued on Blu-ray on August 3 via Code Red, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. The 1981 horror film includes reversible artwork featuring its alternate title, Night Warning.
William Asher (Bewitched) directs from a script by Steve Breimer, Alan Jay Glueckman, and Boon Collins. Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Bill Paxton, and Julia Duffy star.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker was remastered in 2K form the original camera negative in 2017. A limited edition slipcase is included. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by writer/producer Steven Breimer and writer Alan Jay Glueckman, moderated by Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson
Audio commentary by actor Jimmy McNichol
Interviews with actors Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, and Steven Eastin, writer Steve Breimer, and make-up artist Allan A. Alpone
Theatrical trailer
Terror begins when a night of murder and bloodshed leads bigoted police detective Joe Carlson (Bo Svenson) to try to frame orphaned high school basketball player Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol). However, Billy's aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell) is the real knife-wielding culprit, and with Billy about to graduate, her twisted urge to keep him all to herself is about to erupt in a wave of carnage. No one is safe when an unstable lawman and a psychotic aunt converge in a shocking climax you'll never forget!
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