The month of March is quietly coming to a close in terms of home entertainment choices as there are only just a handful of genre-related titles making their way to Blu-ray and DVD this week. Paramount is releasing Christopher Nolan’s latest sci-fi epic, Interstellar, onto all formats, Blue Underground is bringing two separate collections of cult classics from both Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci to high definition, and Olive Films has dug up a few overlooked gems to release on March 31st as well.
Allan Quatermain & The Lost City of Gold (Olive Films, Blu-ray & DVD)
Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone are back for more exciting adventures in the action packed Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. Allan (Richard Chamberlain, Shogun) and Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct) are newly engaged and preparing to leave for America where they’ll be married. Or so they think. Adventure comes in the form of a mysterious stranger appearing from the jungle who declares that Allan’s presumably missing brother is, in fact, alive and has discovered The Lost City of Gold, a legendary city adorned with gold and riches beyond imagination.
Joining them on their adventure to the Lost City is Umslopgaas (James Earl Jones, Star Wars), a fierce warrior and ax-wielding friend. His friendship (and ax) will be needed as they battle to survive savage warriors and the dreaded evil High Priest, Agon (Henry Silva, Sharkey’s Machine).
Cast members include Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Night) and Robert Donner (Bite The Bullet) in a film directed by Gary Nelson (Freaky Friday, The Black Hole) from a screenplay by Gene Quintano and Lee Reynolds based on Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard.
Interstellar (Paramount Home Entertainment, Blu/DVD/Digital HD & DVD)
When a wormhole (which hypothetically connects widely-separated regions of spacetime) is newly discovered, a team of explorers and scientists embark on a voyage through it to transcend previous limitations on human space travel.
Blu-ray special features include For a limited time, the Blu-ray Combo Pack will also include an authentic, collectible Interstellar film cell from an original 70MM IMAX print of the film, The Science of Interstellar—Extended cut of the broadcast special, Plotting an Interstellar Journey—Discusses the film's origins, influences and narrative designs, Life on Cooper's Farm—Bringing Americana and the grounded nature of a farm to a sci-fi space movie, The Dust—Learn how cast and crew avoided sand blindness, and see how to create, and clean up after, a catastrophic dust storm, TARS and CASE—Designing and building these unique characters and how they were brought to life on set and in the film, Cosmic Sounds—The concepts, process, and recording of Hans Zimmer's unforgettable score, The Space Suits—A look at the design and build of the suits and helmets, and what it was like to wear them, The Endurance—Explore this massive set with a guided tour by production designer Nathan Crowley, Shooting in Iceland: Miller's Planet/Mann's Planet—Travel with the cast and crew to Iceland and see the challenges they faced in creating two vastly different worlds in one country, The Ranger and the Lander—A look at the other two spaceships in the film, Miniatures in Space—Marvel at the large-scale models used in the explosive docking sequence, The Simulation of Zero-G—Discover the various methods that the filmmakers used to create a zero gravity environment, Celestial Landmarks—Explore how the filmmakers used practical special effects informed by real scientific equations to give the illusion of real space travel for both the actors and the audience, Across All Dimensions and Time—A look at the concept and design of the Tesseract, which incorporated a practical set rather than a green screen, Final Thoughts—The cast and crew reflect back on their Interstellar experience and Theatrical Trailers.
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
The Dario Argento Collection (Blue Underground, Blu-ray)
The Lucio Fulci Collection (Blue Underground, Blu-ray)
Night Game (Olive Films, Blu-ray & DVD)
Out of the Dark (Vertical, DVD)
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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