JANUARY 28
Opera [1987]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Dario Argento
WRITER: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
PRINCIPAL CAST: Antonella Vitale, Antonino Iuorio, Barbara Cupisti, Bjorn Hammer, Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
SYNOPSIS: NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERE3 DISC COLLECTION INCLUDES 2 RESTORED VERSIONS WITH 8+ HOURS OF SPECIAL Features It’s been acclaimed by aficionados worldwide as his biggest film (Bloody Disgusting), a breathtaking visual feast (Daily Dead) and up there with DEEP RED and SUSPIRIA (DVD Drive-In). Now experience Dario Argento’s last full-fledged masterpiece (Slant Magazine) in The Director’s Cut and U.S. Theatrical Version, both in UHD: When a young opera singer (Cristina Marsillach, in her career-defining performance) is stalked by a masked psychopath, she will be forced into a grisly aria of murder, memories and unimaginable torment. Ian Charleson (CHARIOTS OF FIRE), Urbano Barberini (DEMONS), Antonella Vitale (THE CHURCH), Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (MOTHER OF TEARS) and Daria Nicolodi (TENEBRE) co-star in this definitive presentation of one of Argento’s best (IndieWire) – co-written by Franco Ferrini (PHENOMENA) with cinematography by Oscar® winner Ronnie Taylor (GANDHI) and music by Brian Eno, Bill Wyman and Claudio Simonetti – newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negatives at Cinecittà with over 8 hours of Special Features.
Disc 1:
- UHD (2.35:1 Director’s Cut / U.S. Cut + Special Features)
- Commentary Tracks With Cristina Marsillach And Ángel Sala*, Alan Jones And Kim Newman*, Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth*Trailers**Included On Blu-ray
Disc 2:
- Blu-ray (2.35:1 Director’s Cut / U.S. Cut + Special Features)
- New Interviews With Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini And Cristina Marsillach
Disc 3:
- Blu-ray (1.85:1 Director’s Cut + Special Features)
- New Interviews With Fabrizio Spurio And Alan Jones Archival Featurette With Dario Argento, Ronnie Taylor, Daria Nicolodi, Urbano Barberini, Sergio Stivaletti And Claudio Simonetti2006 Q&A With Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini And Lamberto Bava
TAGLINES:
- An Aria of Terror from the Maestro of Horror – Dario Argento
- murder. madness.
- A star is born tonight… will she live to see tomorrow?
- The last note is a real killer.
GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 107 Minutes
STUDIO: Severin Films
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093677/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMGRC78M/
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The Keep [1983]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Michael Mann
WRITER: Michael Mann, F. Paul Wilson
PRINCIPAL CAST: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Ian McKellen
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.
Nazi-occupied Romania, 1941: In a small and gloomy village hidden deep in the mountains, German troops have arrived to lay siege. Although warned by the townspeople to stay out of a mysterious and ornately carved structure known only as “The Keep,” two arrogant soldiers ignore their orders and break into the obelisk, hoping to find stowed treasure, but instead unleash an ancient evil force which, with each new victim, grows stronger and more powerful. After suffering large casualties at its hands, Captain Klaus Woermann is informed that the only person who might be capable of defeating this monstrous and demonic entity is an elderly Jewish historian named Dr. Theodore Cuza, who is being held captive with his daughter in a concentration camp…
The legendary horror spectacle from director Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice), adapted from genre writer F. Paul Wilson’s New York Times best-selling novel, THE KEEP is a mesmerizing visual feast of supernatural terror enhanced by a remarkable original score by Tangerine Dream (Sorcerer) along with jaw-dropping special effects by Nick Maley (Superman, Lifeforce). Starring Scott Glenn (The Hunt for Red October), Jürgen Prochnow (David Lynch’s Dune, Das Boot), Alberta Watson (Hackers), and two-time Oscar® nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings film franchise), Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to at last offer the 4K UHD and Blu-ray debut of this highly sought-after and long unavailable cult film classic, newly restored for this release from its original camera negative and featuring exclusive new interviews with cast and crew revealing the fascinating production history of this one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.
Bonus Features:
1. 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
2. 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
3. Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
4. Commentary track with Film Historian Matthew Aspery Gear
5. “Out of the Darkness” (7 min) – an interview with producer Gene Kirkwood
6. “Something Is Murdering My Men” (24 min) – an interview with The Keep author F. Paul Wilson
7. “What He Left Unfinished” (6 min) – an interview with VFX producer Peter Kuran
8. “An Evil Most Ancient” (24 min) – an interview with make-up effects designer Nick Maley
9. “Other Sounds for Other Worlds” (11 min) – an interview with co-composer Johannes Schmoelling
10. “I, Molasar” (25 min) – an interview with actor Michael Carter
11. Still gallery
12. Original trailer
13. TV spot
14. Reversible sleeve artwork
15. English SDH subtitles
TAGLINE: THEY WERE ALL DRAWN TO THE KEEP. The soldiers who brought death. The father and daughter fighting for life. The people who have always feared it. And the one man who knows its secret… THE KEEP Tonight, they will all face the evil.
GENRE: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPJFFGBL/
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Congo [1995]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Frank Marshall
WRITER: Michael Crichton, John Patrick Shanley
PRINCIPAL CAST: Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.
TraviCom owner and multimillionaire R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker, Walking Tall) sends his son Charles (Bruce Campbell, The Evil Dead) and his friend Jeffrey (Taylor Nichols, Metropolitan) to the Congo to search for rare blue diamonds that can work as powerful conduits for telecommunications lasers. When Charles and Jeffrey are ambushed, his ex-fiancé Dr. Karen Ross (Laura Linney, The Truman Show), who observes the attack via remote video feed, is sent by R.B. Travis to follow in his son’s footsteps back to the Congo to finish what was started and, hopefully, find Charles alive. Upon embarking, Karen encounters Dr. Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh, Nobody’s Fool), his assistant (Grant Helsov, True Lies) and a gorilla named Amy, who can communicate with humans via a sign language-controlled glove that translates her movements into audible dialogue (voiced by Shayna Fox, Reggie Rocket on Nickelodeon’s Rocket Power). Dr. Elliot is on a poorly-funded expedition to bring Amy back to the Congo, which ends up being made financially viable by a Romanian philanthropist (Tim Curry, Clue) and Karen, who opts to tag along. Once in Africa, they meet up with their guide (Ernie Hudson, Ghostbusters) and find themselves targets of various local militaries, tribes, and a race of gray, killer apes along the way to find the Lost City of Zinj.
Based on a long-gestating 1980 novel by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Disclosure), CONGO started its adventure to movie screens well over a decade before it hit theaters in the summer of 1995. A similar mash-up of tech-heavy sci-fi and roaring adventure to blockbuster juggernaut Jurassic Park two years prior, Frank Marshall’s (Arachnophobia) screen adaptation of Crichton’s unclassifiable genre amalgam comes to vivid life with a script by noted playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Joe Versus the Volcano), lush cinematography by Spielberg collaborator Allen Daviau (E.T., The Color Purple) and a suitably bombastic score by Jerry Goldsmith (Alien, Poltergeist). Vinegar Syndrome Ultra is proud to present this undeniable staple of mid-90s blockbuster filmmaking in its world UHD debut with a brand new 4K restoration from its original 35mm camera negative alongside a robust assortment of new extras.
Bonus Features:
1. 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD (High Bitrate UHD100) / Region A Blu-ray
2. 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
3. Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
4. Commentary track with author/screenwriter Kelly Goodner and film historian Jim Hemphill
5. “A Crash Course in Ape School. Looking Back at the Creation of Congo’s Gorillas” (50 min) – a new making-of documentary featuring interviews with Stan Winston Studio crew: Christian Colquhoun, Richard Landon, J. Alan Scott, and gorilla suit performers Misty Rosas and Nicholas Kadi
6. “Withstand the Test of Time: A Conversation with Congo’s Make-up FX Team” (13 min) – a featurette with artists Matthew Mungle and Michael McCracken
7. “Journey into the Unknown” (25 min) – an archival making-of featurette
8. Extensive behind-the-scenes photo gallery (7 min)
9. Original teaser trailer
10. Original theatrical trailer
11. Reversible sleeve artwork
12. English SDH subtitles
TAGLINES:
- There are the thing from another world that fates other worse than death.
- Where you are the endangered species
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Adventure, Action
RATING: Rated PG-13
RUN TIME: 108 Minutes
STUDIO: Vinegar Syndrome
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112715/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPJCNZM7/
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Cannibal! The Musical [1993]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Trey Parker
WRITER: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
PRINCIPAL CAST: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Stan Brakhage, Stephen Blackpool
SYNOPSIS:
*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*
Alferd Packer, awaiting his execution on the charge of cannibalism, recounts his harrowing story of survival in the snow-covered Colorado mountains while on an ill-fated quest for riches. After being convinced by a group of gold prospectors to join their expedition, Alferd loses his beloved horse, Liane, which unwittingly sets the men on an unplanned adventure, including encounters with a group of very unusual Indians, facing off with ultra-manly fur trappers, and, of course, fudge packing, all before becoming stranded in the freezing winter with no provisions. As tempers flare and stomachs growl, the posse is forced to make the only logical decision: eat each other!
From the deranged and brilliant minds behind the international TV sensation South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s legendary feature filmmaking debut CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL is the over-the-top, all-singing, and all-dancing story of real-life Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer! Starring Parker as Packer and featuring a guest appearance from legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, this unpredictable and thoroughly unhinged musical memoir through one of the grislier footnotes in American history comes to Blu-ray from Degausser Video, newly restored from the best-surviving video and film materials; presented both from the video master plus, for the first time ever, from the only existing 35mm print, and featuring an exclusive and all new feature-length making-of documentary in addition to loads of archival extras and revealing new interviews!
Bonus Features:
1. 2-disc Region Free Blu-ray Set
2. Presented in two high-bitrate viewing options: Brand new video restoration from the best-surviving Betacam tape master, or Brand new 4K restoration from the only surviving film material, a 35mm theatrical print
3. Archival ‘inebriated’ commentary with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Jason McHugh, Dian Bachar and Andy Kemler
4. Archival ‘Colorado’ commentary with producers Ian Hardin and Alexandra Kelly, costume designer Elki Neiberger and actors Robert Muratore, Jon Hegel and Toddy Walters
5. Brand new cast and crew commentary track with Jon Hegel, Alex & Ian Keldin, Andy Kemler, Elki Neiberger, Robert Muratore and Toddy Walters
6. “Fudge, Packer? The True Story of Cannibal! The Musical” (67 min) – a making-of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew
7. “Nineteen and Horny” (20 min) – a brand new interview with actor Dian Bachar
8. “Despite All the Cannibalism” (17 min) – a brand new featurette on adapting Cannibal! The Musical to the stage
9. Still gallery from producer Jason McHugh’s personal archive
10. Interviews from the 2008 Troma DVD with Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Jason McHugh
11. “A Tromatic Visit with the Creators of Cannibal! The Musical” – an archival featurette with Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Jason McHugh
12. Behind-the-scenes footage
13. Various Troma introductions
14. Original Alferd Packer: The Musical trailer
15. Cannibal! The Musical trailer
16. Deleted scene
17. Archival gallery
18. Alternate Alferd Packer: The Musical titles
19. South Park & Cannibal! The Musical VHS promo video
20. “Cannibal! The Musical: Close Ups!” – a look at homegrown productions
21. Compiled footage from Cannibal! The Musical stage productions
22. Lloyd Kaufman live on stage in a production of Cannibal! The Musical
23. Reversible sleeve artwork
24. English SDH subtitles
TAGLINES:
- All Singing! All Dancing! All Flesh Eating!
- In the tradition of Friday the 13th Part 2… and Oklahoma comes the first intelligent movie about cannibalism!
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, Western
RATING: Rated R
RUN TIME: 96 Minutes
STUDIO: Degausser Video
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPJCSM3Z/
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Orca: The Killer Whale [1977]
PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray
DIRECTOR: Michael Anderson
WRITER: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati, Robert Towne
PRINCIPAL CAST: Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek, Will Sampson
SYNOPSIS: The killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. Producer Dino De Laurentiis (Death Wish, King Kong) and director Michael Anderson (Logan’s Run) join forces to present the rousing action-adventure story of Orca: The Killer Whale. It’s the epic tale of one powerful being against another: a strong, determined fisherman named Captain Nolan (the mighty Richard Harris, Juggernaut) versus an equally determined whale. When the giant whale’s pregnant mate is maimed and killed by Nolan, in a twist on Moby Dick, the whale seeks vengeance on the man. Orca smashes boats, collapses buildings and even manages to cause enormous destruction by fire in this slick seafaring thriller brimming with nerve-jangling suspense and spectacular special effects! Featuring music by the maestro Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and co-starring screen icons Charlotte Rampling (Zardoz), Will Sampson (The White Buffalo) and Bo Derek (10) in her stunning movie debut.
Special Features:
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
- Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin
- 1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
- Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
- Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin
- Theatrical Trailer
- 1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
- Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
TAGLINES:
- Orca – the killer whale, is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance – across seas, across time, across all obstacles.
- Terror just beneath the surface
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Adventure, Drama
RATING: Rated PG
RUN TIME: 92 Minutes
STUDIO: KL Studio Classics
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076504/
https://www.amazon.com/Orca-4KUHD-aka-Killer-Whale/dp/B0DNNLX5VF/
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