With Guillermo del Toro’s aquatic-monster love story THE SHAPE OF WATER in the midst of a successful platform release, and the Polish schoolyard shocker PLAYGROUND seeing U.S. exposure, now is a good time to return to Agnieszka Smoczynska’s mermaid romance/horror/musical THE LURE via its Criterion Blu-ray edition that came out this fall.
Director/producer Mark L. Lester followed up his hit CLASS OF 1984 with 1990’s more sci-fi/horror-oriented CLASS OF 1999, which is now making its way to special-edition Blu-ray as part of Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series.
With THE DISASTER ARTIST, James Franco’s dramatization of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM, heading into theaters, the time was right for Vinegar Syndrome to unearth a much lesser-known example of WTF filmmaking for Blu-ray/DVD release. Not only has the company rescued Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos’ BLOODBEAT from obscurity, they managed to track the writer/director down to state his case for his creation.
The horror-disc monsters at Arrow Video are putting out a new special-edition Blu-ray of Frank Henenlotter’s classic BASKET CASE next year, and they’ve got one of the RUE MORGUE team involved.
The new 4K digital restoration of George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD that has been making the special-screening rounds has now been dated and detailed as a Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD release, and so has a 4K restoration of Jonathan Demme’s serial-killer smash THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Read on for all the info and the cover art.
