Paramount Home Entertainment Wants Your Two Dollars! BETTER OFF DEAD On Blu-ray August 2nd

I ignore a lot of press releases, we all do. We try very hard to make sure that what gets posted on ScreenAnarchy is worthy or "Twitchy" enough for the site. By all rights, this should have been something I ignored, but I can't help myself, I love Better Off Dead, and it's coming to Blu-ray!

That's right, the early John Cusack vehicle, directed by Savage Steve Holland, is coming in high definition! Honest, I thought this one was a ways down the road, but this made me giddy.  Better Off Dead is a silly, and often very dark, piece of comedy that could only have come from the eighties.  The film is filled with classic characters, including Cusack's Lane Meyer, the nobody who must win a downhill ski race for the love of his ex-girlfriend, as well as Curtis Armstrong as Charles de Mar, local drug dealer who remarks that the hill Lane intends to ski is made of "pure snow", and a particularly dogged newspaper delivery boy in search of his payment.

The only thing that information that I've received so far is the release date is August 2nd.  So far no word on extras, and I'm not sure there'll be any.  John Cusack is notoriously unkind to this movie, so I wouldn't expect him to show up on this release, but we can dream.  Oh, and the cover art is terrible, but I'm willing to overlook that to see this on Blu-ray.  Bring it on!

BETTER OFF DEAD

On DVD August 2 From Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment

The '80s coming of age cult-classic makes its highly anticipated hi-def debut with the Blu-ray release of BETTER OFF DEAD. Starring John Cusack as the awkward, teen Lane Meyers, the romantic dark comedy follows Lane after his girlfriend dumps him for a more popular guy. After many unsuccessful attempts to win her back, he decides that suicide is the only answer until he befriends a beautiful foreign exchange student who helps him turn his life around.
 
Price: $21.99