Massive DVD News and Artwork Update: Trancers, Subspecies, Grave Encounters, Blue Sunshine
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With Halloween right around the corner, boatloads of horror flicks are getting set to hit DVD, and we’ve got the lowdown and artwork on several top shelf releases! Get ready to break your piggy banks!
BLUE SUNSHINE
Street Date: September 20
SRP (U.S.): $24.95
35th Anniversary DVD Release from Flatiron Film Company. For horror fans or those who haven’t forgotten their last bad trip, Flatiron re-releases Jeff Lieberman’s 1978 classic, BLUE SUNSHINE. At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry (Red Shoe Diaries’ Zalman King) is on the run. More bizarre killings continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth…people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be a drug called “Blue Sunshine” that all the murderers took a decade before. By the director of Squirm, this campy, cult masterpiece of suspense and terror is available just in time for Halloween. Bonus material includes never-before-seen interview with director Jeff Lieberman; Blue Sunshine, 35 years later: Photo Gallery.
SUBSPECIES: THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES
Street Date: October 18
SRP (U.S.): $29.95
This value-priced 5-disc collection includes all five films in the cult classic series about the evil vampire Radu, who returns to his ancestral Transylvania to obtain a life-giving bloodstone: Subspecies, Subspecies II: Bloodstone, Subspecies III: Bloodlust, Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm, and Vampire Journals. (Flatiron Film Company).
TRANCERS: THE ULTIMATE DETH COLLECTION
Street Date: October 18
SRP (U.S.): $29.95
Set in the year 2247, this 5-disc collection of all 5 classic sci-fi films directed by Robert Band (Puppetmaster, Evil Bong) centers on bounty hunter Jack Deth as he tries to stop the villainous Martin Whistler, a terrorist who uses mind control to wreak havoc on the city of Los Angeles. Featuring Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, and Telma Hopkins. Bonus features include Bloopers; Making of Trancers II; Making of Trancers III; Making of Trancers IV; Making of Trancers V. (Flatiron Film Company).
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS
Street Date: October 18
SRP (U.S.): $26.95
Ghost Hunters meets Paranormal Activity in this horror film by the Vicious Brothers about a team of paranormal investigators spending the night locked inside an abandoned asylum. Lance Preston and the crew of Grave Encounters, a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. On a quest to expose the truth, the crew voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begins a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly find themselves lost in a labyrinth of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. Soon they realize that the building is more than just haunted. (Tribeca Film).
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