Monday 1 November 2021

January 2022 releases coming from Arrow Video

New releases coming to Disc from Arrow Video next January....

THE MANGLER - Out on Blu-Ray 10th Jan. 2022  

Master of Horror Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw, Salem’s Lot, Life Force) returns to the works of Stephen King with this baroque and blackly comic adaptation of The Mangler.

When a worker at Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry is pulled into the titular laundry press and folded like a sheet, police officer John Hunton (Ted Levine - Silence of the Lambs, Hills Have Eyes [2005] ) is called to investigate. Was it an accident, or is something more sinister going on? 

As more deaths and injuries occur under the watchful eye of owner Bill Gartley (Robert Englund - A Nightmare on Elm Street), Hunton, with his demonologist brother-in-law Mark Jackson (Daniel Matmoor - Night Terrors) come to believe the machine might be possessed, and the town itself to be hiding a much deeper secret.

Like an EC horror comic come to life, THE MANGLER is bold, brash and politically aware as Hooper once again points his camera at the American Nightmare, this time turning it on the bloodthirsty machinery of capitalism itself!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• High Definition
Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation from a 2K restoration
• Lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
• Brand new audio commentary by critics and self-confessed ‘Manglophiles’ Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
• Audio commentary by co-writer Stephen David Brooks
• Nature Builds No Machines, a brand new visual essay by Scout Tafoya, author of Cinemaphagy: the Films of Tobe Hooper
• This Machine just Called Me an Asshole!, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Guy Adams on the monstrous life of inanimate objects in the work of Stephen King
• Gartley’s Gambit, an archival interview with star Robert Englund
• Behind the Scenes footage
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabelais

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Michael Gingold, Johnny Mains and Henry Blyth 

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk


SHOCK - Out on Blu-Ray 17th Jan. 2022

Dora (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red, Tenebrae) moves back into her old family home with her husband, Bruno (John Steiner - Tenebrae, Caligula), and Marco (David Colin Jr. - Beyond the Door), her young son from her previous marriage. 

But domestic bliss proves elusive as numerous strange and disturbing occurrences transpire, while Dora is haunted by a series of nightmares and hallucinations, many of them involving her dead former husband. Is the house itself possessed? Or does Dora’s increasingly fragile grip on reality originate from somewhere far closer to home?

Directed by Mario Bava (Black Sabbath, Blood and Black Lace) and released in the United States as Beyond the Door 2, SHOCK more than lives up to its name, proving that, even at this late stage in his career, Bava hadn’t lost his touch for terror. Now restored in high definition for the first time, the Maestro of the Macabre’s chilling swansong disturbs like never before in this feature-laden release from Arrow Video.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation
• Brand new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films
• Original Italian and English front and end titles and insert shots
• Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark
• A Ghost in the House, a new video interview with co-director and co-writer Lamberto Bava
• Via Dell’Orologio 33, a new video interview with co-writer Dardano Sacchetti
• The Devil Pulls the Strings, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Shock! Horror! – The Stylistic Diversity of Mario Bava, a new video appreciation by author and critic Stephen Thrower
• The Most Atrocious Tortur(e), a new interview with critic Alberto Farina
• Italian theatrical trailer
• 4 US “Beyond the Door II” TV spots
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Christopher Shy

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Troy Howarth, author of The Haunted World of Mario Bava  

Also available in a BEYOND THE DOOR 2 slipcase.

Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk


SLEEP - Out on Blu-Ray 24th Jan. 2022

Tormented by recurring nightmares of a place she has never been, Marlene (Sandra Hüller, Requiem) cannot help but investigate when she discovers the place is real. Once there, she suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Determined to discover what happened to her, Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), her daughter, follows and finds herself in Stainbach, an idyllic village with a dark history. 

What is it that so tormented her mother, and the people of Stainbach? What is the source of the nightmares she suffers? And who is the mysterious Trude that lives in the forest?

Richly conceived and confidently told, director Michael Venus draws influence from Mario Bava, David Lynch, Franz Kafka and the Brothers Grimm, but his voice is uniquely his own. As invested in substance and story as he is in style, Venus claws his way down to the roots of what haunts a people, a community, a nation and comes up screaming. “Will definitely keep you up at night” - Joey Keough, Wicked Horror

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• High Definition Blu-RayTM (1080p) presentation
• Original DTS-MA 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Audio commentary by film critic and historian Kim Newman & author Sean Hogan
• A Dark Strange Magic, a visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Sleepwalking through National Trauma, a visual essay by film critic Anton Bitel
• Dream & Folktale in Sleep, an interview with anthropologist, dream researcher, and filmmaker Louise S. Milne
• This is No Dream, a short introduction by director Michael Venus and star Gro Swantje Kohlhof
• Talking in their Sleep, director Michael Venus and star Gro Swantje Kohlhof in conversation
• A Dream We Dream Together, a compilation of film festival introductions created during lockdown by director Michael Venus and the cast of Sleep
• Making Dreams Come True, a glimpse behind the scenes of Sleep
• Deleted Scenes, four deleted scenes
• Marlene’s Sketches, explore the many obsessive dream journal sketches that are only glimpsed in the film, created by artist Christoph Vieweg, presented here in full
• Trailer
• Image Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Alison Peirse, an interview with director Michael Venus, and Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Frau Trude"
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative


Pre-order the UK BD from Amazon.co.uk




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