Full Moon Gets Blu with Meridian; Code Red Unleashing Italian Horrors on Hi-Def
If you’re a fan of Sherilyn Fenn having sex with a werewolf or Italian cannibals, Lamberto Bava giallos, or the movie that was Sharktopus long before Syfy ever conjured up such a preposterous sea beast, then Full Moon and Code Red have some upcoming Blu-ray titles to further lead you into bankruptcy.
Full Moon has been slowly cranking out Blu-ray releases of some of their more well known early 1990’s titles. One in particular isn’t as well known for its top-notch storytelling so much as its, ummm, how does one say this delicately? Just add a “t” to “its,” and you get the idea. It’s Meridian AKA Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, Charles Band’s erotic riff on Beauty and the Beast from 1990 with Sherilyn Fenn’s “Twin Peaks” having sex with a hairy beast while Charlie Spradling gets naked with the beast’s less hairy brother.
Catherine Bomarzini (Sherilyn Fenn; “Twin Peaks”) returns to the family castle in Italy after her father’s death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle with a man (Malcolm Jamieson) who is at times repulsive, at other times enchanting, and a creature of the night whose gentle eyes and touch reveal his infinite love and devotion.
With the help of Martha (Hilary Mason), her faithful childhood nanny, and the ghost of a slain young girl, Catherine discovers the medieval curse that threatens their lives and only she can dispel. Alex Daniels and Phil Fondacaro are also in the cast of the cult classic which is produced by Band & Debra Dion.
Meridian arrive on Blu-ray for the very first time on October 24th. You can watch the new hi-def trailer for the Blu-ray release below.
Meanwhile, Code Red is banking on your love for Italian horrors from the Seventies and Eighties with a trio of shockers due on Blu next year.
Ursula Andress, Claudio Cassinelli, and Stacey Keach star in the 1978 cannibal nasty Slaves of the Cannibal Gods AKA The Mountain of the Cannibal God.
A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Code Red’s deluxe edition will contain both the edited U.S. American release as well as the uncut overseas version containing all the gross cannibal action and animal cruelty you can stomach in glorious high definition. More extras to be announced…
For you Lamberto Bava fans, the Demons director’s follow-up, 1987’s Delirium, is also on the way.
A former hooker (Serena Grandi) running a successful men’s magazine becomes the object of obsession by a deranged admirer who systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine’s output) and supplies the mistress with pictures of their disfigured corpses taken in front of her semi-nude posters visible in the background. Is she going to be the psycho’s next victim?
Code Red’s special edition comes loaded with plenty of extras:
- Brand New – 2016 HD master with exclusive and extensive color correction done in the USA.
- Brand New – interviews with director Lamberto Bava
- Brand New – on camera with star George Eastman
- Brand New – interview with art director Antonella Geleg
- Brand New – interview with DP Gianlorenzo Battaglia
- Vintage interviews with Bava, Eastman, and David Brandon
Last but certainly not least, the Italian monster movie that gene spliced a shark with an octopus well before Roger Corman: Lamberto Bava’s 1984 creature feature Monster Shark. A movie you might better know under the title Devil Fish. A movie you might also know best from the time it was featured on “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
No extras have been announced for this finned fiend yet, but at the very least we’re guaranteed a new 1080p HD transfer. And Americans finally get to see the really swanky Italian artwork the movie could never live up to for the first time.
Expect these three Code Red Blu-rays sometime in 2017. Matt Serafini has already taken out a second mortgage in anticipation.
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