Friday, August 8, 2025

THE DEADLY SPAWN 4K UHD Limited Edition Now Available To Order!


THE UHD WORLD PREMIERE OF THE CULT CLASSIC THE DEADLY SPAWN OOZES TO 4K UHD + BLU-RAY FROM SYNAPSE FILMS!

Slipcase artwork by Wes Benscoter
 
The Limited Edition (5,000 units) UHD + Blu-ray combo for THE DEADLY SPAWN is available NOW exclusively from Synapse Films, DiabolikDVD.com, OrbitDVD.com, and Vinegar Syndrome's "The Archive Store"  

Orders will start to ship Monday August 11, 2025
 
A METEOR CRASHED ON EARTH…

NO ONE KNEW THE MYSTERY OF THE MUTANT SPORES INSIDE!

A pair of campers stumble upon the remnants of a meteorite and discover some fanged, worm-like creatures have hitched a ride to Earth. After the “appetizer,” the deadly alien spawn take refuge in the basement of an isolated house and prepare for the main course! With the people in the neighborhood now becoming the entrees of an intergalactic monster buffet, a group of teenagers, led by a small boy, decide to take this matter into their own hands! Will they be able to stop the creatures from reproducing and rid the Earth of the deadly spawn once and for all?

Featuring practical creature creations by John Dods (Spookies, Black Roses, Monsters TV series), The Deadly Spawn has been totally remastered in 4K from the original 16mm camera negative. With hours of supplementary material compiled from the personal collections of the cast and crew, The Deadly Spawn can finally invade your home theatre in the best version ever released to home video. Just try not to put this disc in the basement… you might be surprised at what you find down there!

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
• Limited edition set of 5000 copies • Two-disc set featuring the film and extras on both a 2160p UHD 4K Blu-ray and a 1080p Blu-ray • Rigid slipcase with new artwork from Wes Benscoter • 58 page perfect bound book with vintage articles from Fangoria magazine, a new essay by author/film critic Michael Gingold, excerpts from producer Ted A. Bohus’ book on the making of the film and a scrapbook of rare photographs • Six double-sided collector cards • Double-sided fold-out poster

MONSTROUS SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
• Brand new 4K restoration from the original uncut 16mm camera negative by Synapse Films, presented in two aspect ratios: 1.37:1 and 1.66:1 • 4K 2160p disc is presented in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) • For the first time ever, the audio options feature the original producer’s mix, as well as the 21st Century Film Corporation theatrical mix in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio • Three audio commentaries featuring the producer, director, cast and crew • Face Off – interview with actress Elizabeth Marner-Brooks (aka Elissa Neil) • Return to the Spawning Ground – a new featurette featuring a modern-day tour of the house location • A Visit with John Dods and the Deadly Spawn – vintage featurette • The Deadly Spawn comic prequel sampler • Various TV news clips featuring promotion and interviews for the film • Take One – vintage public access show segment featuring an interview with editor Marc Harwood • Original audition tapes • Behind-the-scenes footage • Alternate opening credits sequence • Still gallery • TV spot and theatrical trailer

RATED R • 1983 • COLOR • 81 MINS. • SFD0235

DISC SPECIFICATIONS FOR FEATURE PRESENTATION

4K ULTRA HD DISC: 2160p Ultra High Definition (1.37:1 and 1.66:1) Presentations • DTS-HD MA English Mono • Optional English SDH Subtitles

BLU-RAY DISC: 1080p High Definition (1.37:1 and 1.66:1) Presentations • DTS-HD MA English Mono • Optional English SDH Subtitles

ITEM NUMBER: SFD0235
UPC CODE: 654930326299

All North American orders from Synapse Films are fulfilled and shipped via our San Francisco-based replicator, CAV Distribution.  Due to our licensing agreement, Synapse Films does not ship outside North America




Thursday, August 7, 2025

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Announces A Nightmare On Elm Street 7-Film Collection on 4K UHD



A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 7-FILM COLLECTION FEATURING HORROR ICON FREDDY KRUEGER COMES TO 4K ULTRA HD

The 4K collection including the original seven films will be released on September 30, 2025

Freddy Krueger, the vengeful child killer burned alive by angry parents, returns to haunt the dreams of their children when this chilling 7-film saga becomes available as a 4K UHD collection for the first time.  From his first terrifying appearance on Elm Street to his resurrection through nightmares, Freddy unleashes horror across generations – where sleep is no escape, and dreams become deadly.

From New Line Cinema, the collection includes the original seven films –  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), and  Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) – along with the uncut versions of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Dream Child.  The collection also includes an alternate ending of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare presented in anaglyph 3D and complete with 3D glasses in the physical collection.

The collection will be available in limited edition collectible steelbook packaging and as a standard 4K collection and will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more.

4K Ultra HD showcases 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and a wider color spectrum, offering consumers brighter, deeper, and more lifelike colors for a home entertainment viewing experience like never before.  

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Can your nightmares be fatal? In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred man who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killers' teenaged children ... And the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep.

Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Producers: Robert Shaye
Director: Wes Craven
Screenplay by: Wes Craven

Special Features:
- Ready Freddy Focus Points
- Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher
- Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin
- Alternate Endings – Scary Ending, Happy Ending, Freddy Ending
- The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
- Never Sleep Again: The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

Freddy's back...and he wants revenge. When teenager Jesse Walsh moves to Elm Street, Freddy Krueger starts appearing in his nightmares. This time Freddy takes possession of Jesse's body whenever the teenager falls asleep, using Jesse to kill ... and there's nothing Jesse can do to stop him.

Based on characters by Wes Craven
Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Galager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund
Producers: Robert Shaye
Director: Jack Sholder
Screenplay by: David Chaskin

Special Features:
- Freddy on 8th Street
- Heroes and Villains
- The Male Witch
- Psychosexual Circus

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Freddy Krueger invades the minds of a new group of teens ... and the nightmares begin again. When local teenagers start dying, only Nancy Thompson knows the truth. Now a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, she is the lone survivor of one of Freddy's previous killing sprees. Now, it's a fight against her co-workers' disbelief and a race against time to stop Freddy before he kills again.

Based on characters by Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, John Saxon, Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Robert Englund
Producers: Robert Shaye, Wes Craven
Director: Chuck Russell
Screenplay by: Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell
Story by: Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner

Special Features:
- Behind the Story: Burnout
- Behind the Story: Fan Mail
- Behind the Story: The House that Freddy Built
- Behind the Story: Onward Christian Soldiers
- Behind the Story: Snakes and Ladders
- Behind the Story: That’s Showbiz
- Behind the Story: Trading 8’s
- Dokken Dream Warriors Music Video
 
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Freddy Kreuger resurrects--hideously scarred--and returns to haunt the dreams of the teenaged children of the people who lynched him. It's just a nightmare ... but a nightmare that can kill in this tale of terror.

Based on Characters by Wes Craven
Cast: Robert Englund
Producers: Robert Shaye, Rachel Talalay
Director: Renny Harlin
Screenplay by: Brian Helgeland, Scott Pierce
Story by: William Kotzwinkle, Brian Helgeland

Special Features:
- The Finnish Line
- Krueger, Freddy Krueger
- Hopeless Chest
- Let’s Makeup
 
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

For five years, a walking nightmare named Freddy Krueger has haunted their sleep--seeking revenge for the horribly disfiguring death he suffered at the hands of the children's parents. Now, through the dreams of an unborn child, Freddy has resurrected himself ... and he's looking for new victims.

Based on characters by Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, William Kotzwinkle, Brian Helgeland
Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox
Producers: Robert Shaye, Rupert Harvey
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Screenplay by: Leslie Bohem
Story by: John Skipp

Special Features:
- Behind the Story: Womb Raiders
- Behind the Story: The Sticky Floor
- Behind the Story: Take the Stairs
- Behind the Story: Hopkins Directs
- Behind the Story: A Slight Miscalculation
 
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

In this sixth return to the horrifying world of Nightmare on Elm Street, the town of Springwood decides to forever end Freddy Krueger's deadly hold on their dreams. Freddy finally confronts the one person he has never been able to defeat, a psychologist who now learns the source of her lifelong nightmares, Freddy's daughter.

Based on characters by Wes Craven
Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Dean, Yaphet Kotto
Producers: Robert Shaye, Aron Warner
Director: Rachel Talalay
Screenplay by: Michael De Luca
Story by: Rachel Talalay

Special Features:
- 86’D
- Hellraiser
- Rachel’s Dream
- 3D Demise

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Ten years after writer and director Wes Craven brought his personal nightmares to the movie screen as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the horrifying child killer returns, stepping out of his celluloid world to haunt the life of the actress who first defeated him on film.

Based on characters by Wes Craven
Cast: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, John Saxon
Producers: Marianne Maddalena
Director: Wes Craven
Screenplay by: Wes Craven

Special Features:
- Commentary with Wes Craven
- NEW – Boiler Room Confessional
- NEW – Freddy’s Footnotes
- Becoming a Filmmaker
- Filmmaker
- An Insane Troupe
- The Problem with Sequels
- Two Worlds
- Welcome to Prime Time: It Really Happened
- Welcome to Prime Time: A Childhood Memory
- Welcome to Prime Time: Sometime in the Early 80s
- Welcome to Prime Time: So It Began
- Welcome to Prime Time: Beauty and the Beast
- Welcome to Prime Time: Making the Glove
- Welcome to Prime Time: Shapeshifter
- Welcome to Prime Time: The Shoot
- Welcome to Prime Time: The Revolving Room
- Welcome to Prime Time: All’s Well that Ends Well
- Welcome to Prime Time: Talalay’s Tally
- Welcome to Prime Time: It Couldn’t Have Happened
- Welcome to Prime Time: - Alternate Ending Version
- Conclusion: Where Gothic Plots Come From
- Conclusion: Why We Like Gothic
- Conclusion: Sadomasochism
- Conclusion: Freddy vs. Pinhead
- Conclusion: Freddy’s Manic Energy
- Conclusion: Creating Lasting Characters in Horror
- Conclusion: No More Magic Tricks
- Conclusion: Monster with Personality
- Conclusion: Freddy as Sex Machine
- Conclusion: Campfire Stories
 

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Announces Tim Burton's Corpse Bride on 4K UHD

TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE
COMES TO 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAYTM AND DIGITAL ON SEPTEMBER 23

TO CELEBRATE THE BELOVED ANIMATED FEATURE’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY, TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 4K RESOLUTION WITH HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)

 Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the stop-motion-animated fantasy musical film Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the 2005 film will be available for purchase on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital for the first time on September 23.

Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he employed with amazing success in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton presents Corpse Bride, a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more. The film will also be available in collectible steelbook packaging.

Directed by Mike Johnson (in his directorial debut) and Tim Burton from a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler, the film is based on characters by Burton and Carlos Grangel. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is produced by Burton and Allison Abbate. The music is by Danny Elfman.

The all-star ensemble voice cast features Johnny Depp as Victor Van Dort and Helena Bonham Carter as Emily, the corpse bride, along with Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel, Deep Roy, Danny Elfman, and Stephen Ballantyne.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.  The film was named the National Board of Review’s Best Animated Feature in 2005 and Annie Awards Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement in 2006, where it was also nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Character Design, and Best Direction. 

Additionally, the new 4K restoration of this classic film -- in all its macabre romance and glory -- can be seen on the big screen in cinemas worldwide this October. Showtimes in the United States and Canada can be found here: https://wbclassics.warnerbros.com/anniversary/. Select territories across EMEA, APAC and Latin America will also be joining in on the anniversary celebration in cinemas -- check local listings for details.

Tim Burton presents a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale, in which a young man mistakenly weds a corpse while on a two-day trek to the village of his real bride-to-be. It is up to the groom's flesh-and-blood fiancée, who has been pining for the arrival of her intended, to face her wraith-like rival and make peace with her by promising to live her dreams for her and by vowing to remember her always. Only then are the living bride and groom free to proceed with their own wedding ceremony in the warmhearted fable Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Digital release and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc contain the following new and previously released special features:
- Digging up the Past: The Minds Behind “The Corpse Bride” – NEW
- ‘Til Death Do Us Art” A “Corpse Bride” Reflection - NEW
- Danny Elfman Interprets the Two Worlds
- Inside the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride
Making Puppets Tick
- The Animators: The Breath of Life
- The Corpse Bride Pre-Production Galleries
Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light
- Voices from the Underworld
- The Voices Behind the Voice

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Ultra HD Blu-ray Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ultra HD Blu-ray Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Run Time: 117 minutes
Rating: PG for some scary images and action, and brief mild language
Physical Street Date: September 23, 2025
Digital Street Date: September 23, 2025


Sunday, August 3, 2025

BRAINSTORM (1965) Warner Archive Blu-ray Screenshots



BRAINSTORM (1965)

Label: Warner Archive 
Region Code: Region-Free 
Rating: Unrated 
Duration: 105 Minutes 43 Seconds 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1) 
Director: William Conrad
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: A railroad crossing. A stranded car. A beautiful blonde -- unconscious. Moody scientist Jim Grayam (Jeff Hunter) rescues the lovely Lorrie (Anne Francis), only to learn that she's his boss' wife! She wants out of the marriage, but her cruel, controlling husband Cort (Dana Andrews) won't let her go. After Grayam and Lorrie embark on a torrid affair, he hatches the perfect plan: kill Cort while faking insanity to avoid a murder rap! Grayam's convincing portrayal makes everyone believe he's gone mad: the judge, the psychiatrists, and eventually even himself. In this edgy psychological thriller directed by veteran character actor and thriller specialist William Conrad (My Blood Runs Cold, Two on a Guillotine), there's method to one's madness. And you'd be crazy to miss it.

Audio/Video: REVIEW COMING SOON! 

Special Features: 
- The Hypno-Chondri-Cat (7:20) 
- Well-Worn Daffy (6:40) 
- Trailer (1:31) 

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