Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Oscar Rothman

**NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT!**

Two tales of supernatural Italian-made shenanigans are both coming to blu-ray for the first time! 1988’s GHOSTHOUSE (directed by Umberto Lenzi of Nightmare City and Cannibal Ferox fame) will be doubled-billed with WITCHERY (which sports Linda Blair AND David Hasselhoff!?) for a planned June 30th release. Pre-order links should go up next month.

I feel like crying lol. Awesome!

[RandyK]

I've recently fallen in love with crappy Italian horror movies and both of these look great.

[dsman71]

Never heard of either one but I might try them

[GumballRally]

Have The Fog, got Escape From New York preordered, and plan to pick up They Live and Prince of Darkness at some point...any word on whether they'll do a collector's copy of In The Mouth of Madness?

[Ghostdini]

Very excited for these, I've had the German imports of all the Ghosthouse films (Witchery is known as Ghosthouse 5 in Germany) for sometime so it's great to see a couple get the HD treatment!

[redrunner97]

Originally Posted by Scream Factory FB

**ARTWORK REVEAL: SLEEPAWAY CAMP 2 & 3! **
It may be Friday the 13th in the winter, but we're already in Summer mood…Summer camp mood that is! We’re pleased to premiere the newly-commissioned artwork for both Collector’s Editions of SLEEPAWAY CAMP II & III—both which will release on 6/9.
Since artist Nathan Thomas Milliner created the well-received art for our original Sleepaway Camp release last year, we naturally went to him to design its sequels so that the “trilogy” would have a similar creative aesthetic to them. As fans know, Parts 2 & 3 are really over-the-top with lots of humor (intentional and unintentional) and we wanted to have as much with that and exploit that comedy visually. We hope you agree that it’s hard not to smile when you see these. smile emoticon
For those wondering, reverse art on will be included and will sport the 80s VHS covers we all remember.
Pre-order links for both films should go up early next month. A full list of extras and specs will be announced at the later date.

[RandyK]

Her face on II is meh but everything else is great. Will match perfectly with the first one.

[Omen2002]

Didn't see it mentioned but they posted this earlier on Facebook.

Originally Posted by Scream Factory

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH!!

Good news to report about our upcoming releases of FOOD OF THE GODS and EMPIRE OF THE ANTS. We have a new interview with actress Belinda Balaski (The Howling, Piranha) on FOOD and we have a brand-new audio commentary with Director Bert I Gordon on both FOOD and EMPIRE!
Street date is May 26th.

[Mystic]

Originally Posted by GumballRally

Have The Fog, got Escape From New York preordered, and plan to pick up They Live and Prince of Darkness at some point...any word on whether they'll do a collector's copy of In The Mouth of Madness?

New Line Cinema (or whomever owns New Line) issued a blu ray disc of In The Mouth of Madness in the Fall of 2013.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by dsman71

Never heard of either one but I might try them

In some countries, they are called Evil Dead 3&4. Witchery is also referred to as Return of the Exorcist, because of its Linda Blair connection.

[NeMo_ET]

that artwork on sleepaway camp 2 is a little disappointing. Too cartoony. Her expression is a joke. I'll still buy both, but seriously...wtf?

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by csg91

What are the chances of The Keep (1983) seeing the light of day from SF? Or any company for that matter. Especially if they were able to do a theatrical version and restore all that the can from the cut footage.

Doubtful. Mann hates it and, from what I heard, has been actively blocking a digital release. Paramount owns it though, so if it's anyone, it's Olive.

[stephenwilson04]

Originally Posted by demonknight

In some countries, they are called Evil Dead 3&4. Witchery is also referred to as Return of the Exorcist, because of its Linda Blair connection.

And just to confuse matters even more, Witchery was released as Witchcraft in the UK.

[Omen2002]

From Facebook:

Originally Posted by Scream Factory

Our Friday the 13th "update-a-thon" event continues by revealing the final list extras that will be included on our anticipated Collector’s Edition of CLASS OF 1984!

• NEW High-Definition Transfer of the Film From the Interpositive
• NEW interviews with Director Mark Lester, composer Lalo Schifrin and Actors Lisa Langlois and Erin Noble
• NEW career retrospective interview with Actor Perry King
• Audio Commentary with Mark Lester
• Blood and Blackboards featurette – featuring interviews with Mark Lester, Perry King and Merrie Lynn Ross
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Original Theatrical Trailer & TV Spots

[Member-222782]

New transfer seals the deal. Definitely don't feel guilty about getting rid of my old Anchor Bay DVD copy of Class of '84, even if it did have a cool slip . Out with the old, in with the new

[StingingVelvet]

I like those Sleepaway Camp covers more than most Scream stuff, but it probably helps I barely remember the original posters.

[spawningblue]

Glad to see Scream entering the Italian horror market!

Also, I can't say I love those covers for the Sleepaway Camp sequels, but at least they have strayed away from the multiple heads format.

[RandyK]

Recap from Facebook:

Our Friday the 13th celebration continues today with several updates on upcoming titles we’ve previously announced. So let’s get right to them!
- Extras for CLASS OF 1984 (4/14) have been announced earlier today (for those who didn't see the news)!
- Extras for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (4/21) will finally be announced before end of the month! BTW, the exclusive 18” x 24” free-with-purchase posters are going fast so pre-order now directly from us to lock yours in!
- MAD MAX – Full list of extras to be announced March. Fans should be pleased to know that we have taken MGM’s transfer of the film and have spent time removing thousands of instances of dirt and debris from the master, making it a cleaner picture and best video presentation to date.
- The (now standalone) blu-ray release of SCARECROWS will stalk on 6/2.
- Announced earlier today, Collector’s Editions of SLEEPAWAY CAMP II & SLEEPAWAY CAMP III will camp out on 6/9. (BTW: Pre-order links for all June titles will go up in early March.)
- The TENTACLES & REPTILICUS double-feature blu-ray release swims ashore on 6/16
- ROBOT JOX marches in on 7/7 (artwork shown is final)
- HOWLING II bares its fangs on 7/14 (artwork shown is final).
We one more surprise in store for today so stay tuned to this page in the next hour!

Covers:

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[Omen2002]

From Facebook:

Originally Posted by Scream Factory

**NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT! **

Our Friday the 13th celebration continues with our last post today by announcing that the underrated 1989 horror-thriller I, MADMAN will be coming to the Scream Factory family sometime this year!
Directed by Tibor Takacs (The Gate), the film stars Jenny Wright (Near Dark, The Lawnmower Man) and Clayton Rohner (April Fool’s Day, Just One of the Guys).

No details to report at this time and we’ll keep you posted when a street date has been locked down.

[LordCrumb]

Really, really don't like the artwork for the Sleepaway Camp sequels.

I thought they could have just done a double feature for those two?