November 17th is looking to be a great day for genre-related home entertainment releases as we’ve got quite an eclectic array of titles coming out this Tuesday. For those who may have missed it earlier this year, The Stanford Prison Experiment is arriving on DVD this week and the good folks at Scream Factory are keeping busy once again with their HD releases of both Troll films as well as the 1987 thriller White of the Eye.
Olive Films is also resurrecting a bevy of cult classics this week on both Blu-ray and DVD and for those of you Amazon shoppers out there, you can pick up the 20th anniversary edition of The City of Lost Children (which is amazing if you’ve never seen it) exclusively on their site.
The City of Lost Children 20th Anniversary Edition- Amazon Exclusive (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray)
On a futuristic oil rig, a man has aged prematurely because he has lost the ability to dream. To reverse the ageing process he kidnaps children from the local harbor town so that he can steal their dreams.
Special Features include All-new director-supervised and approved HD Master, Commentary with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Actor Ron Perlman, The Making of The City of Lost Children, Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Interview with Jean-Paul Gaultier and Original Theatrical Trailers.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (MPI Home Video, DVD)
What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong?
Based on the notorious true story, THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT stars Billy Crudup (Watchmen) as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Featuring an extraordinary cast including Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Michael Angarano, and Thomas Mann, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.
Special Features include Commentary with Dr. Zimbardo & Filmmaker Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Featurette: Bringing to Life The Stanford Prison Experiment, and Featurette: The Psychology Behind The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Troll/Troll 2 Double Feature (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
Troll: Lock the doors and pull out the weed-wacker for this house party of horror! One family is about to find out there's no place like home when a troublesome troll starts taking over their building, transforming each apartment into an overgrown garden of ancient evil and turning tenants into a horde of hairy hobgoblins! Michael Moriarty and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in this super-slimy scare-fest.
Troll 2: Those greedy goblins are back and hungrier than ever in this gourmet gross-out! Disguised as friendly country folk, a pugnacious posse of people-eating trolls lures visitors to their town. But a family of four is about to discover this place is a real tourist trap... and now, the no-good gnomes must be destroyed before the family gets flambéed... and the world becomes a buffet in this feeding frenzy of fear!
For the first 5,000 copies sold, a DVD of the film Best Worst Movie will be included in the set. Best Worst Movie is an affectionate and intoxicatingly fun tribute to the single greatest bad movie ever made, and the people responsible for unleashing it upon the world. In 1989, a group of unknown Utah actors starred in what would be crowned the worst movie of all time: Troll 2!
Troll and Troll 2 Special Features Include:
Troll: NEW The Making of TROLL featuring interviews with director John Carl Buechler, producer Charles Band, writer Ed Naha, composer Richard Band, special effects artists John Vulich and Gino Crognale, visual effects artists Jim Aupperle, James Belhovek, Linda Drake and Kevin Kutchaver, Theatrical Trailer, and Behind the Scenes Still Gallery.
Troll 2: NEW audio commentary with actors George Hardy and Deborah Reed and Theatrical Trailer.
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
Cemetery Sisters (Olive Films, DVD)
Cinco de Mayo (Olive Films, Blu-ray)
Death Nurse (Olive Films, DVD)
Death Nurse 2 (Olive Films, DVD)
Faults (Screen Media, Blu-ray)
FDR: American Badass (Screen Media, Blu-ray)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition (New Line Home Video, Blu/Digital HD)
Killer Workout (Olive Films, Blu-ray)
Mask Maker (Screen Media, Blu-ray)
The Rage (Screen Media, Blu-ray)
Shock ’Em Dead (Olive Films, Blu-ray)
Splatter: Architects of Fear (Olive Films, DVD)
Ticked Off Trannies with Knives (Breaking Glass Pictures, Blu-ray)
White of the Eye (Scream Factory, Blu/DVD Combo)
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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