Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday weekend (or regular weekend for those of you outside of the States). We’re back today with a brand new round-up of horror and sci-fi home media releases that are headed home today, and it includes quite the array of titles. One of my favorite movies of the year - Everything Everywhere All At Once from The Daniels - is being released to 4K as well as Blu-ray and DVD and if you’re looking to indulge in even more 4K entertainment, Edge of Tomorrow is also getting the 4K treatment, too.
Kino Lorber is keeping busy this week with an array of classic titles headed to Blu, including Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, Ants! (aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor) and Terror Out of the Sky (aka Revenge of the Savage Bees), and IFC is also releasing Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet on Blu-ray and DVD today as well.
Other releases for July 5th include Baby Oopsie, Final Caller, Silent But Deadly (which is quite possibly the greatest name for a movie, let alone a movie about a killer mime), Gore Grind, They Talk and Final Caller.
A Banquet (IFC Films, Blu-ray & DVD)
A mother is radically tested when her teenage daughter insists a supernatural experience has left her body in service to a higher power.
Ants! (aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor) (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
A mountain resort is ravaged by a deadly force in this terrifying tale of Mother Nature’s revenge—Ants!, a.k.a. It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Expecting a weekend of luxurious self-indulgence, visitors at the ritzy Lakewood Manor soon discover they’re the entrée of the day for an army of malevolent ants with an appetite for human flesh. When these killer creepy-crawlies eat toxic insecticides, they don’t die—they just get meaner. Vacation is no picnic in this cult eco-horror classic. The delicious cast includes Suzanne Somers (TV’s Three’s Company), Robert Foxworth (The Black Marble), Lynda Day George (TV’s Fear No Evil), Bernie Casey (TV’s The Martian Chronicles), Barry Van Dyke (TV’s Diagnosis Murder), Steve Franken (The Party), Karen Lamm (Trackdown) and Brian Dennehy (F/X) with a special appearance by celluloid great Myrna Loy (Love Me Tonight). Directed by TV veteran Robert Scheerer (TV’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker).
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K Master
-NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Ex-Fangoria Co-Chief Editor Rebekah McKendry
-NEW Audio Interview with Actress Barbara Brownell
-NEW Audio Interview with Actor Barry Van Dyke
-NEW Audio Interview with Actress Anita Gillette
-NEW Audio Interview with Actor Moosie Drier
-NEW Audio Interview with Production Assistant and Daughter of Producer Alan Landsburg, Valerie Landsburg
-Includes Both the 1.33:1 TV and the 1.85:1 Theatrical Versions
-Optional English Subtitles
Baby Oopsie (Full Moon, Blu-ray & DVD)
Sybil Pittman's only joy in life is her massive doll collection. Every day, she locks herself in her basement, broadcasting her doll restoration vlog all by herself, that is until the remnants of the dreaded Baby Oopsie comes into her life! After carefully restoring the doll, Sybil comes to realize that the tiny terror is alive...with murder and mayhem on its mind!
Bonus features include: Baby Oopsie Videozone Featurette, Behind the Scenes, All Dolled Up Featurette, Full Moon Features Trailers
Edge of Tomorrow 4K (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital)
An alien race, undefeatable by any existing military unit, has launched a relentless attack on Earth, and Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself dropped into a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage is thrown into a time loop, forced to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. Training alongside Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), his skills slowly evolve, and each battle moves them a step closer to defeating the enemy in this intense action thriller.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Lionsgate, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital, Blu-ray/Digital & DVD)
A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who is swept up in an insane adventure across the multiverse.
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
A skin-crawling tale of terror begins when two Americans fly down to Ecuador to pick up a load of premium coffee beans. Unbeknownst to them, the cargo contains hundreds of lethal stowaways: gigantic, venomous tarantulas. When the plane crashes in a small California town, the furry fiends escape and wreak havoc on the unsuspecting inhabitants. Beware of the chilling arachno-horror that lurks within Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo. Claude Akins (Tentacles), Charles Frank (The Right Stuff), Deborah Winters (The People Next Door), Bert Remsen (Code of Silence), Pat Hingle (The Falcon and the Snowman), Tom Atkins (Halloween III: Season of the Witch) and Howard Hesseman (Honky Tonk Freeway) are among those victimized by the eight-legged evil. Directed by TV and Film veteran Stuart Hagmann (Believe in Me).
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K Master
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Author Amanda Reyes and Film Historian
-Trailers
-Optional English Subtitles
Terror Out of the Sky (aka Revenge of the Savage Bees) (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
In this suspense-drenched followup to cult-favorite The Savage Bees, National Bee Center honcho David Martin is horrified to discover that a bloodthirsty swarm has infiltrated the research facility. Knowing that these downright deadly drones will attack relentlessly and unpredictably, he recruits his assistant Jeannie Devereux and her jealous boyfriend to help annihilate the killer bees before they descend upon Smalltown, U.S.A. The stinging menace strikes again in Terror Out of the Sky, a.k.a. The Revenge of the Savage Bees. Leading the counterattack against the invasion are Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (TV’s 77 Sunset Strip), Dan Haggerty (TV’s The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams), Tovah Feldshuh (TV’s Scream, Pretty Peggy), Lonny Chapman (TV’s The Screaming Woman), Ike Eisenmann (Escape to Witch Mountain), Charles Hallahan (Silkwood), Richard Herd (Wolf Lake), Steve Franken (Avalanche) and Philip Baker Hall (Cradle will Rock). Directed by TV and Film veteran Lee H. Katzin (Le Mans).
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K Master
-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Filmmaker David DeCoteau
-Trailers
-Optional English Subtitles
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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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