Death Machine (1994) - Coming from Kino

[DR Herbert West]

Death Machine Blu-ray

The year is 2003. Chaank Industries, ruthless world leaders in future weapons technology, hires a new Chief Executive, Hayden Cale. Cale soon uncovers a secret and unethical weapons project the company is involved in. Her first order of business is to shut it down. Her troubles just begin as she also tries to fire the company technological mastermind, Jack Dante—a childlike psychotic with a dark genius for exotic weapons design. Dante retaliates by unleashing into the corporate headquarters the Death Machine—the ultimate killing unit. A weapon that tracks its target by sensing fear and has the power to rip through walls with its hard steel strength and razor teeth. Cale must wage a desperate bloody battle with the terrifying force that has no mercy, no pity and no fear in this cutting-edge cyberpunk classic from filmmaker and SFX wizard Stephen Norrington (Blade, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). Dante is played with oddball relish by Brad Dourif (Child’s Play, Spontaneous Combustion) in a cast featuring Ely Pouget (The Rift), William Hootkins (Star Wars, Hardware), John Sharian (The Machinist), Richard Brake (3 from Hell) and Rachel Weisz (The Mummy). This 2-disc special edition loaded with extras includes three cuts of the film, The 100-minute U.S. version, the 122-minute foreign version and newly created 106-minute director’s cut in 7.1 surround sound.

Special Features:

DISC 1:
THE U.S. VERSION (100 Minutes)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the Interpositive
• NEW Audio Commentary by Horror-Fix.com’s James G. Chandler and Ash Hamilton
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• Optional English Subtitles
NEWLY CREATED DIRECTOR’S CUT (106 Minutes)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Stephen Norrington and Film Historian Michael Felsher
• NEW Technical Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Stephen Norrington
• NEW Audio Conversation with Writer/Director Stephen Norrington and Creature Creator & Make-up Artist Alec Gillis
• Isolated Original Score Audio Track
• 7.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2:
THE FOREIGN VERSION (122 Minutes)
• 2019 Restoration
• Conducting Chaos: Composer Crispin Merrell on the Sound of Death Machine (25m)
• Cutting Edge Action: Editor Paul Endacott talks about Death Machine (19m)
• Cyberpunk on a Budget: Costume Designer Stephanie Collier on Death Machine (18m)
• Looking Death in the Eye: Producer Ray Burdis talks about Death Machine (16m)
• Mechanical Mayhem: Co-Producer Stuart St Paul remembers Death Machine (21m)
• Artwork & Design Still Gallery (4m)
• Behind-The-Scenes Still Gallery (9m)
• German Theatrical Trailer (3m)
• Japanese Theatrical Trailer (3m)
• Vintage BTS Promo from Japanese Laserdisc (6m)
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Optional English Subtitles

PACKAGING
• Commissioned Cover Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Chuat & Ronan-Wolf Chuat
• Title Treatment by Sascha Meurer

[kamphausd1]

Long overdue if you ask me.

[Fat Phil]

One of my absolute favourites. Already own two copies of the German blu-ray (with different artwork) but this remaster will be a day one regardless.

Considering it's budget, I still think the practical effects are wicked. And well, it stars Brad Dourif in the most Brad Dourif-iest role of his career, so that automatically gives it eleventy-seven bonus cool points.

[SeanJoyce]

I'm intrigued. Is this better than Hardware, which I admittedly wasn't much a fan of?

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

I'm intrigued. Is this better than Hardware, which I admittedly wasn't much a fan of?

They're not really that comparable despite being 90s scifi/horror movies. Hardware seems to have been re-evaluated as some kind of minor classic, while Death Machine seems to be considered solid genre fare at best. It's more just a dumb sci-fi slasher with some cool designs. That might be more appealing to you, who knows. But in general I'd say it has a worse rep.

[kamphausd1]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

I'm intrigued. Is this better than Hardware, which I admittedly wasn't much a fan of?

I personally enjoyed Hardware. It was definitely much more artsy than I was expecting.

[cheez avenger]

Day 1!

[WaverBoy]

Never heard of this one but I just watched the trailer. Holy shit it looks fantastic. I’m all in.

[HipsterTrash]

Another Stephen Norrington film. Yes!

[Jawaburger]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

I'm intrigued. Is this better than Hardware, which I admittedly wasn't much a fan of?

I enjoy Hardware significantly more.

[Moonlight Shadow]

"Hardware" isn't a great movie but it's much better than the boring "Death Machine".

[ramboraph]

Which cut of the film would it be? There are 3 versions.
The shortened theatrical version in the US, the director's cut in the UK, and the unrated cut in Germany.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Whatever happened to Norrington?

[Fat Phil]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

Whatever happened to Norrington?

He made The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - which was apparently an experience so awful that he never made another movie again. That same movie also resulted in Sean Connery saying "F*ck thish." and immediately retire from live action movies to go and play golf in Scotland for the rest of his life

[zellebytus]

Kino

Meh compression.

[DR Herbert West]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2DkxXbQ1Y

[DR Herbert West]

Release date is November 14th.

[jedidarrick]

I asked KLI about which cut would be included, this is what they had to say.

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

I didn't know there were more than 1 cut.

The running time for our master is around 100 minutes.

[Nailwraps]

Like they said, they didn't know more than 1 cut existed so maybe's now is a good time to ask them about including the unrated cut.

[Jay H.]

I had heard a lot of good things about this, so I finally watched it about 2 years ago (no idea which cut I watched). I'm happy for the fans that this is getting released. Unless this isn't the cut that most fans want. In that case, I'm perturbed.