I love posting Arrow Video news, and today I've got four announcements for their Blu-ray and DVD lines. Not much commentary from me today, except to remind you to check out the awesome artwork from The Dude Designs' Tom Hodge on
The Exterminator!
Overview: Scorching the streets clean...
Flamethrowers ready as the alleyways of skid row are set ablaze with the brutal vengeance of one man... The Exterminator!
John Eastland has been to 'Nam and he's seen things... Things you
wouldn't believe. Surviving torture and witnessing the brutal deaths of
his friends, John returns home to a tough neighbourhood in New York and
his loving family. But when some local thugs take a crippling dislike to
his best friend Mike, leaving him paralysed, something snaps in John.
Did he fight the Vietcong for this?
Taking the law into his own hands, Eastland sets out to clean the
streets of every low life, good for nothing gang banger, mobster and
ghetto ghoul across the city in director James Glickenhaus' (McBain)
brutally violent vigilante classic.
THIS EDITION CONTAINS:
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by critic David Hayles
DVD CONTAINS:
- Introduction to the film by director James Glickenhaus
- Fire and Slice: Making The Exterminator - An interview with James Glickenhaus
- 42nd Street Then and Now: A tour of New York's former sleaze circuit from director Frank Henenlotter
- Audio commentary with Mark Buntzman, producer of The Exterminator and
writer/director of The Exterminator II, moderated by Calum Waddell.
Original Art by The Dude Designs
In original 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio
Original Uncompressed LPCM Mono Audio
Feature and extras 1080/24p Region ABC playable worldwide
RRP £24.99
Coming October 7th
Next up is Dario Argento's
Cat 'O Nine TailsOverview: Caught between the truth and a murderer's hand!
A break in at a genetics lab leads to a spiralling vortex of bloody
murder in Cat O' Nine Tails, Dario Argento's 70s Giallo classic.
Strange circumstances surrounding the crime pique the interest of a
journalist and a blind crossword compiler whose sharp ears have
overheard talk of blackmail. However, all the would be investigators
leads soon regret the help they gave as scientists die in front of
speeding trains and photographers are viciously slain while others fall
to their screaming deaths down elevator shafts in this surreal and
nightmarish thriller from one of the acknowledged masters of Italian
horror.
As the body count increases, will no one escape the sting of The Cat O' Nine Tails?
THIS AMAZING EDITION CONTAINS:
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Two-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing by Alan Jones, author of 'Profondo Argento'
BLU-RAY DISC CONTAINS:
- Brand new High Definition transfer of the film (1080p)
- Optional English & Italian Mono Audio
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Dario Argento Remembers The Cat O' Nine Tails (1080p)
- The Cat O' Nine Tails in Reflection, an interview with long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi (1080p)
- Sergio Martino: The Art and Arteries of the Giallo (1080p)
Original Artwork by Rick Melton
In original 2.35:1 (16x9) aspect ratio
Optional English and Italian Language with English subtitles for Italian language
BD50 Region ABC
RRP £24.99
Coming September 26
Then two titles on DVD, first
Deadly BlessingOverview: They'll Build A Barn From Your Bones!
Wes Craven unearths the darkness that festers beneath an isolated
community in Deadly Blessing, a rural tale of mistrust and bloody murder
from the director of Last House on the Left.
When Martha marries into a close knit sect she finds herself shunned as
an outsider by its fanatical members, but when her husband dies
mysteriously while riding a tractor expressly forbidden as a tool of the
devil, things take a darker turn. Marked as a incubus by her
neighbours, time is running out for Martha and her visiting friends, as
plagued by nightmares and fearing for their lives, they face the violent
fury and retribution of old time religion.
One of Hollywood's masters of terror presents a tale of rural horror and simmering evil from the golden age of video terror.
THIS EDITION CONTAINS:
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Rue Morgue art director Gary Pullin
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by author and critic Kim Newman
DVD CONTAINS:
- Introduction by star Michael Berryman
- Craven Images: The Horror Hits of Michael Berryman (The Hills Have
Eyes Series, Cut and Run, Weird Science) - An interview with Deadly
Blessing's iconic star
- Deadly Desires: An interview with screenwriter Glenn M. Benest
- Original Trailer
- Easter Eggs
Original art by Gary Pullin
In original 1.78:1 Anamorphic Aspect Ratio
Original Mono 1.0 Audio
Region 0 PAL
RRP £15.99
Coming November 14th
And releasing next monday, Juan Piquer Simón's classic,
PiecesOverview: When you meet him, you'll go to PIECES!
Jigsaw puzzles can be maddening. They drive to distraction. You might
even go so crazy to take your own mother down with an axe...
On a Boston Campus, young girls are missing out. Missing out on hands,
feet, arms and heads as a certain puzzled psychopath, forty years down
the line, carves a bloody swathe through the female college population.
Only one tough cop has the stones to bring him in but can he track down
the slayer before all the girls are mincemeat?
If you want classic, leering, sleazy, slasher action, then PIECES will take a chainsaw to your skull.
THIS EDITION CONTAINS
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by Stephen Thrower, author of 'Nightmare USA'.
DVD CONTAINS:
- Introduction by star Jack Taylor
- Pieces of Jack: An Actors Experience of Spanish Splatter - Actor Jack
Taylor recollects his experiences of performing in Pieces
- Pieces of Deconstruction: Looking Back at a Grindhouse Gorefest -
Hostel producer Scott Spiegel, filmmaker Howard S. Berger, Fangoria's
Michael Gingold and horror historian Santos Ellin Jr. reflect on the
lasting legacy, and lacerations, of Pieces!
- Original Trailer
- Audio Commentary with Fangoria magazine's Tony Timpone, sharing first
hand recollections of the golden age of slasher cinema, moderated by
Calum Waddell
Artwork by Jeff Zornow Must be Destroyed
In original 1.66:1 (16x9) anamorphic aspect ratio
Optional English and Spanish original stereo audio
82 mins approx
Region 0 PAL
RRP £15.99
Coming September 5th