Fresh out of theaters, currently available on VOD and now streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX, Bloody Disgusting’s Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is coming home for the holidays, arriving as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on December 19, loaded with bonus features, extended/deleted scenes, commentaries and an exclusive slipcover.

Less than 250 limited edition copies remain of both Convoy Busters and Shanghai Joe. Thanks for your support on these titles and making them a success! For those that haven’t yet secured their copies, now is the time. Paura, Lucio Fulci Remembered Vol. 1 (42:42) - these archival interviews with cast and crew were first included on the 2009 Tempe DVD. As Cauldron writes in its prefatory note, the user can navigate through each interview by using the Chapter button on remote control. Several of the interviews are in English and not subtitled. Compulsory English subs accompany the Italian interviews. Cinematographer Sergio Salvati ( Crawlspace, Cellar Dweller) creates a picture rich with atmosphere and a strong visual style. Fulci loves close-ups of people’s eyes, usually involving some sort of trauma but also within simple dialogue scenes. One particularly harrowing sequence finds Mary waking in her coffin and the efforts to free her. Another key element is the hypnotic score by Fabio Frizzi ( Zombie, Pieces) with its steady, pulse pounding beat helping to build suspense as the evil forces swell.After Zombi 2 grossed over 1.5 billion lire in Italy, director Lucio Fulci began working on a new horror script with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti. [7] Elements of the story are influenced by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, such as naming the town the film is set in Dunwich, after Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror. [8] Sacchetti noted that Fulci had just reread Lovecraft before working on the film's script, stating he wanted to re-create a Lovecraftian atmosphere. [8] In Sacchetti's original writings, the story is not set in Dunwich, but Salem. [9] This script also includes characters not used in the film, such as Mike, a homeless man who is devoured by cats and reappears later in the film as a zombie. [9] The dead walk. Blood flows from walls, eyes, and wounds. Maggots swarm like a plague of locusts. Scalps are peeled like oranges. Gino De Rossi’s ( Zombie, Cannibal Ferox) effects are positively gruesome. While the fake head used for the infamous sequence in which a young woman vomits up her own innards is noticeably artificial in 4K, the image of a power drill piercing through a man’s skull will burrow its way into your mind like, well, a power drill.

NEW Zombie Kings: Interview with Massimo Antonello Geleng (1080p; 45:46) – Production Designer Geleng is interviewed in the wilderness with his axe as well as playing pool, and he discusses his love-hate relationship with Fulci, working on costume design, and how his own self-portrait made it into the film.This stunningly crisp Arrow Video release, exclusive 4K restoration of City of the Living Dead is out on the 8 th Oct. 2018 on Blu-ray in the UK.

On Stage: Q&A with Venantino Venantini & Ruggero Deodato (1080p; 46:03) – A lengthy interview with Venantini and Deodato filmed in Rome in 2017.

The film was released on DVD in the United States by Anchor Bay in 2000, and on DVD and Blu-ray by Blue Underground in 2010. [17] In 2018, Arrow Video released a limited edition 4K remaster of both the City and the Gates versions in the United Kingdom. [18] In 2020, the Gates version was given a Blu-ray release in the United States as an online exclusive item. [19] Reception [ edit ] Contemporary [ edit ] A priest hangs himself in a cemetery in Dunwich, Massachusetts, setting off a chain of events that will lead to the opening of the gates of Hell, bringing the end of humanity. Mary Woodhouse has a vision of the priest during a séance in New York and apparently dies of fright. Journalist Peter Bell is investigating the case and while visiting her recently dug grave, discovers she is in fact still alive and he saves her. Together, they head to Dunwich to close the gates and save the world. Once there, they meet a therapist, his patient, their friends and a squirrelly social misfit named Bob. They also run into the living dead, who teleport around town and crush people’s brains. Can they survive, or is this truly the end of the world?

Scorpion Releasing has detailed their exciting 4K restoration of Italian horror maestro’s THE GATES OF HELL Special Edition Blu-ray! The 1989 film is also known as City Of The Living Dead. The film stars Christopher George and Catriona MacColl. Look for the disc’s release coming soon this Summer. Get all the disc details and specs right here after the break. Bonus features all around are incredibly robust, with a fine mixture of new and archival materials. Interviews tend to be candid and informative: production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng sits, axe in hand, on the front stoop of his woodshed, explaining how he went from working with Fellini and Visconti to Deodato and Fulci; Giovanni Radice (Bob) humorously dishes on his distaste for the horror genre before going into how he came to work for Il Maestro. There are archival featurettes with SFX artist Gino De Rossi, actors Catriona MacColl, Venantino Venantini (paired with filmmaker Ruggero Deodato), and Carlo De Mejo, as well as composer Fabio Frizzi. We also get an image gallery, trailers, and a drone-shot tour of the Georgia cemetery used to stand in for New England in the film, which is set to some atmospheric music. There’s far more than what was just listed here, as well as four audio commentaries, including one newly-commissioned from Samm Deighan. All in all, it’s more than you’ll be able to get through in a single weekend.

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NEW Zombie Kings: An Interview with Massimo Antonello Geleng (45:46, 1080p) - this 2017 interview was conducted by Eugenio Ercolani. Geleng looks like he is at his rural abode in the Italian town of Rieti (Lazio). This is a fascinating and highly detailed interview. Geleng talks about working as a painter in the art department for Fellini's films and also briefly for Visconti. He covers his work on Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and several other films. Geleng gives the many sides of Lucio Fulci. He describes the production design of City of the Living Dead and how the wind effects were achieved. Additionally, Geleng compares the portrayals of zombies in Michele Soavi's movies with other Italian, as well as American, directors. In Italian, with optional English subtitles. Synopsis: The Seven Gates of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George of Pieces) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl of The Beyond) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive – with the horrors of the living dead!