Hey everyone! We’re back with a whole new batch of home media releases that will be arriving on Tuesday, and it includes quite an eclectic array of titles that genre fans are going to want to check out. If you missed out on the previous edition, Arrow is releasing the Standard Special Edition of Legend this week which is absolutely worth checking out, and for all you cult film fans, Severin Films is showing some love to Don’t Go Into the House with their Special Edition presentation.
Kino Lorber is resurrecting Alberto De Martino’s The Antichrist on Blu-ray this Tuesday, and if you’re looking to catch up on some recent horror, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Student Body are both being released on multiple formats as well.
Other releases for February 8th include Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata Box Set, Bloody Mary, Hiruko the Goblin, Runaway Nightmare, Daddy, The Laughing Woman, and Sukkubus.
The Antichrist aka The Tempter (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)
It’s The Exorcist, Italian style, in this Satanic shocker from director Alberto De Martino (Shadows in an Empty Room). In Rome, a beautiful young woman (Carla Gravina, Alfredo, Alfredo) is left paralyzed by the trauma of a horrific childhood accident. But when placed under hypnosis, she is seized by visions of her past life as a heretic and becomes a foul-mouthed seductress with a taste for perversion that leads to her defilement by Satan himself. Now, mankind’s only hope for salvation is a harrowing exorcism that will either cast out the Devil forever or open the door for the unspeakable birth of the Antichrist! Mel Ferrer (Nightmare City), Arthur Kennedy (Killer Cop), George Coulouris (Citizen Kane), Alida Valli (Suspiria), Umberto Orsini (Violent City) and Anita Strindberg (Almost Human) round out the cast of this puke-spewing cult classic, with cinematography by Eurosleaze king Joe D’Amato (Beyond the Darkness) and music by maestros Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Bruno Nicolai (A Full Day’s Work). Experience The Antichrist, also known as The Tempter, in all its uncut—and unholy—glory!
Special Features:
Don’t Go in the House: Special Edition (Severin Films, Blu-ray)
More than 40 years ago, it ignited a firestorm of outrage in America and DPP 39 condemnation in the UK. Now one of the grisliest gems of the '80s can be seen uncut and fully remastered like never before: A shy incinerator worker (an unnerving performance by Dan Grimaldi of THE SOPRANOS) scarred by memories of his mother's abuse begins luring women to his childhood home for incendiary torment, including ''one of the most shocking, notorious scenes in sleaze-horror history'' (Mondo Digital). Director/co-writer Joseph Ellison delivers ''an underrated classic on the same level as MANIAC'' (Ninja Dixon), now featuring a new 2K scan from the original negative - plus the alternate TV Version and The Extended Cut combining scenes from both - with 2+ hours of exclusive Special Features.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Legend: 2-Disc Standard Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu-ray)
After changing the face of science fiction cinema forever with Alien and Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott turned his visionary eye to the fantasy genre, teaming with writer William Hjortsberg (Angel Heart) to create a breathtaking cinematic fairytale with one of the screen’s most astonishingly rendered depictions of Evil.
In an idyllic, sun-dappled forest, the pure-hearted Jack (Tom Cruise) takes his true love Princess Lili (Mia Sara) to see a pair of unicorns frolicking at the forest’s edge. Little do they know, however, that the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry, in a remarkable make-up designed by The Thing’s Rob Bottin) has dispatched his minions to capture the unicorns and sever their horns so that he may plunge the world into everlasting night. After Lili and the unicorns are taken prisoner, Jack must team with a group of forest creatures and descend into Darkness’ subterranean lair to face off against the devilish creature before it is too late.
Despite a troubled production in which the elaborate full-size forest set was accidentally incinerated and a lengthy post-production that resulted in multiple versions of the film (with competing music scores by Jerry Goldsmith and Tangerine Dream), Legend has since been restored to Scott’s original cut and embraced by generations of film fans eager to see a master director’s unique vision of a world beyond our imagination.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
DISC 1: U.S. THEATRICAL CUT:
DISC 2: DIRECTOR’S CUT:
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Steelbook 4K/Blu-ray/Digital, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital, Blu-ray/Digital & DVD/Digital)
Witness the beginning of Evil. Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company's exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Special Features:
Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata Box Set (VCI Entertainment, Blu-ray)
SANTO: EL ENMASCARADO DE PLATA is a 4-disc compilation, consisting of eight, classic Mexican movies, featuring, Santo [José] Mantequilla Nápoles, the popular, wrestling, superhero and contains the following titles; • SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM (1963/92mins/B&W) • SANTO IN THE TREASURE OF DRACULA - (1969/81mins/Color/no Nudity version) • SANTO VS THE RIDERS OF TERROR (1970/80mins/Color) • SANTO in THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY (1971/87mins/Color) • SANTO VS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (1972/97mins/Color) • SANTO & BLUE DEMON VS DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN (1973/90mins/Color) • SANTO & BLUE DEMON VS DR. FRANKENSTEIN (1974/95mins/Color) • SANTO and MANTEQUILLA NAPOLES in THE REVENGE OF LA LLORONA (THE CRYING WOMAN) (1074/87mins/Color)
Bonus features include: Video Interview with René Cardona III, Extensive Photo/Poster Gallery, Liner Notes Collectible Booklet written by Dr. David Wilt, Film Historian, Special Video Intros to each movie by Dr. David Wilt, Film Historian, Video The History of the Cardona Family and Mexican Cinema
Student Body (1091 Pictures, Blu-ray & DVD)
A distressing incident compels childhood best friends Jane and Merritt to take action against their high school math teacher, driving their splintered relationship into further turmoil and provoking deadly consequences.
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
Bloody Mary (ITN Distribution, DVD)
Daddy (SRS Cinema, DVD)
Hiruko the Goblin (Mondo Macabro, Blu-ray)
The Laughing Woman (Mondo Macabro, Blu-ray)
Runaway Nightmare (Wild Eye Raw, DVD)
Sukkubus (Mondo Macabro, Blu-ray)
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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