By MICHAEL GINGOLD
When Herbert Blount took over the fright flick KNOCKED OFF and turned it into DIRECTOR’S CUT, he probably never dreamed it would get such a jam-packed Blu-ray release. We’ve got the exclusive details along with the cover art.
Shipping June 12 from Epic Pictures as part of the Dread Central Presents line, DIRECTOR’S CUT is a meta horror/comedy starring Penn Jillette (who also scripted) as Herbert, who decides to re-edit his own version of KNOCKED OFF, which he helped to crowd-fund, and kidnaps its leading lady (Missi Pyle) to co-star with him. Adam Rifkin directed, and Harry Hamlin and Hayes MacArthur co-star. The disc release is a region-free Blu-ray/DVD combo with the following extras:
- Audio commentary by director Adam Rifkin and writer/star Penn Jillette
- Audio commentary by crowdfunder Perry Friedman
- “Riffin’ with Rifkin and Penn” (32 minutes)
- “Blount’s BTS: Behind the Scenes of DIRECTOR’S CUT” (20 minutes)
- Five deleted scenes
- KNOCKED OFF “Early Cut” (14 minutes)
- Outtakes (6 minutes)
- Slamdance premiere (9 minutes)
- Brendan Mitchell at the LA premiere (14 minutes)
- “The Clap: Slate-Mania from the set of DIRECTOR’S CUT” (2:29)
- “Make Penn Bad”: original crowdfunder pitch video (4:06)
- Theatrical trailer
- Slamdance trailer
- Additional Dread Central Presents trailers
The disc set retails for $19.99, but it will be available for pre-order soon at Epic Pictures’ webstore for $14.99 until the June 12 ship date.
