Gird Your Wallets! GAMERA Complete Box, VIOLENCE VOYAGER, & Massive Al Adamson Sets On Their Way To Home Video Soon

J Hurtado, Editor, U.S. ; Dallas, Texas (@HatefulJosh)

It's been an expensive day for home video fans with major announcements from three major players in the cult arena. There are a lot of details in teh gallery below so, I'll keep this brief.

Arrow Video announced some of the specs for their previously announced Gamera box set. The set will include every film from the world's favorite flying turtle and friend to all children, including new 4K restorations of the '90s Heisei trilogy, and a massive pile of exclusive and archival extras. (Due July 28th, 2020)

Severin Films have formally announced their Al Adamson box set, featuring over thirty feature films and an incredible number of new extras. Also included is David Gregory's fascianting Adamson documentary, Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson. It's a huge undertaking and one of those sets that could only come from a label as insane as Severin. (Due April 21st, 2020)

Third Window Films, our friends in the UK who specialize in bringing the best in Japanese film to Western audiences, have announced their acquisition of rebel animator Ujicha's amazing features Violence Voyager and Burning Buddha Man. 

SURPRISE UK/US/CA TITLE: Gamera: The Complete Collection (Limited Edition Blu-ray box set)

The original hero in a half-shell returns! For the first time ever worldwide, all twelve tales of the adventures of everyone’s favourite titanic terrapin are collected together in one deluxe Blu-ray boxset!

Pre-order in the UK via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2SLoC1Z
Pre-order in the UK via zavvi: http://bit.ly/32dz2L2
Pre-order in the UK via hmv: https://bit.ly/3bXTXWQ
Pre-order in the US via DiabolikDVD: http://bit.ly/2vRrl16
Pre-order in the US via https://amzn.to/32eysww
Pre-order in Canada via Unobstructed View: http://bit.ly/2ujpi5x

This limited edition collectors’ set traces the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

• Limited collectors’ edition packaging, housed in a large-format rigid box, fully illustrated by Matt Frank
• All twelve uncut original Japanese versions of the films in high definition, with lossless Japanese and English audio
• 4K restorations of the critically acclaimed Heisei trilogy (Gamera the Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)
• Hours of new and archive bonus features, expert commentaries (including August Ragone, David Kalat, and Steve Ryfle & Ed Godziszewski), interviews with cast and crew, and the worldwide Blu-ray premiere of Gammera The Invincible (the American theatrical version of the first film)
• Hardback 120-page comic book including a full-color reprint of the four-issue Gamera comic series originally released by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, and the first-ever English-language printing of the prequel comic “The Last Hope” by Matt Frank and Joshua Bugosh
• Perfect-bound 80-page book including a new retrospective on the series by Patrick Macias, kaiju X-ray illustrations by Jolyon Yates, and much more!

FINAL SPECS TO BE CONFIRMED SOON

Severin Films is proud to present the most comprehensive Blu-ray box set ever dedicated to the works of a single genre filmmaker with Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, featuring 31 remastered Adamson films on 14 discs, plus trailers, audio commentaries, a 126-page book, the 2019 documentary feature BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON and more. Exhaustively compiled for the first time ever, Adamson’s ouvre spans a wild beyond belief world of bloody brains, vicious cowboys, naughty nurses, decrepit actors, sexy stewardesses, mad scientists, brutal bikers, Blaxploitation mayhem, kung fu killers and “scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!”

The life and career of B-movie maverick Adamson – known for such low budget classics as SATAN’S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES (as well as his own grisly 1995 murder) – reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.

 
Special Features/Disc Breakdown:

Disc 1: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson/The Female Bunch

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson Special Features:

  • Outtakes – The Cowboy Life Of Denver Dixon, Russ Tamblyn’s Melted TV, Manson & Screaming Angels, and The Prophetic Screenplay Makes Gary Kent Testify
  • Beyond This Earth Promo Reel
  • Trailer

The Female Bunch Special Features:

  • The Bunch Speaks Out
  • Trailers

Disc 2: Psycho A Go-Go/Fiend with the Electronic Brain/Blood of Ghastly Horror

Psycho A Go-Go Special Features:

  • Trailer

Fiend with the Electronic Brain Special Features:

  • Alternate Title Sequence: Man with the Synthetic Brain
  • Trailer

Blood of Ghastly Horror Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer Samuel M. Sherman
  • Trailer

Disc 3: Halfway to Hell/Five Bloody Graves

Five Bloody Graves Special Features:

  • Outside of Tucson: Interview with Actor/Screenwriter Robert Dix
  • Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Alternate Title Sequence: Five Bloody Days to Tombstone
  • Radio Spots
  • Trailer

Disc 4: Blood of Dracula’s Castle (Both Theatrical and TV cuts)/Horror of the Blood Monsters

Blood of Dracula’s Castle Special Features:

  • Partial Audio Commentary with Expert Brian Albright
  • Audio Interview Excerpt with Alex D’Arcy
  • Trailer

Horror of the Blood Monsters Special Features:

  • Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Alternate Title Sequence: Space Mission of the Lost Planet
  • Trailers
  • TV Spots
  • Radio Spot

Disc 5: Smashing the Crime Syndicate (a.k.a The Fakers)/Hell’s Bloody Devils

Smashing The Crime Syndicate Special Features:

  • Alternate Title Sequence: The Fakers (Original Title)

Hell’s Bloody Devils Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Sam Sherman Interviews Actor John Gabriel
  • Trailer
  • TV Spots

Disc 6: Dracula vs. Frankenstein/Brain of Blood

Dracula vs. Frankenstein Special Features:

  • Zandor and Friends: Interview with Cast & Crew
  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Feed Your Head! Lose Your Head!: An Appreciation by Cult Film Historian Howard S. Berger
  • Monster Protest Home Movie Footage
  • Sam Sherman Interviews Forry Ackerman
  • Outtakes
  • Trailer
  • TV Spot
  • Audio Spots Including Triple Feature of Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, and Horror of the Blood Monsters

Brain of Blood Special Features:

  • Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Memories of Blood: Interviews with Director Al Adamson, Producer Samuel M. Sherman, Actor Zandor Vorkov and More
  • Trailer
  • Radio Spots

Disc 7: Satan’s Sadists/Angel’s Wild Women

Satan’s Sadists Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • TV Spots
  • Outtakes
  • Radio Spots
  • Trailers

Angel’s Wild Women Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • TV Spot
  • Radio Spots
  • Trailer

Disc 8: The Naughty Stewardesses/Blazing Stewardesses

The Naughty Stewardesses Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Fly Girls: The Stewardess as Lifestyle Icon in The Golden Age of Exploitation
  • TV Spot
  • Radio Spots
  • Trailer

Blazing Stewardesses Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Alternate Title Sequence: The Great Truck Robbery
  • Trailer
  • TV Spot
  • Combo TV Spot
  • Bedroom Stewardesses (Adamson-Directed Scenes Only)
  • Radio Spots

Disc 9: Girls For Rent/Jessi’s Girls/Nurses For Sale

Girls For Rent Special Features:

  • Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Alternate Title Sequence: I Spit On Your Corpse
  • Trailer
  • Radio Spot

Jessi’s Girls Special Features:

  • Trailer

Nurses For Sale Special Features:

  • TV Spot

Disc 10: Black Heat/The Dynamite Brothers

Black Heat Special Features:

  • Partial Archival Audio Commentary by Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Alternate Title Sequence: Girls Hotel
  • Alternate Title Sequence: The Murder Gang
  • Trailers

The Dynamite Brothers Special Features:

  • TV Spots

Disc 11: Mean Mother/Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Mean Mother Special Features:

  • Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • The Joy of Marilyn Joi: Interview with Actress Marilyn Joi
  • Trailer

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Special Features:

  • TV Spots
  • Radio Spots

Disc 12: Black Samurai/Death Dimension

Black Samurai Special Features:

  • Trailer

Disc 13: Sunset Cove/Cinderella 2000/Nurse Sherri

Sunset Cove Special Features:

  • Sunset Toolbox: Interview with Producer Tony DiDio
  • TV Spot
  • Trailers

Cinderella 2000 Special Features:

  • Partial Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
  • Trailer
  • Radio Spots

Nurse Sherri Special Features:

  • Dr. Dracula: Selected Scenes Directed by Al Adamson
  • TV Spot
  • Radio Spot
  • Trailer

Disc 14: Carnival Magic/LOST

Carnival Magic Special Features:

  • A Boom To Science – A Critical Appreciation by Zack Carlson & Lars Nilsen
  • Audio Commentary with Producer Elvin Feltner
  • Outtakes
  • TV Spot
  • Trailer

LOST Special Features:

  • The Happy Hobo – Rushes for Promo From Unproduced Adamson Kids Film
  • Trailer

PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOX SET IS REGION A EXCEPT FOR DISCS 1, 12, AND 14 WHICH ARE REGION FREE.

A double bill set of crazy and unique Japanese animation from director Ujicha:
VIOLENCE VOYAGER バイオレンス・ボイジャー / BURNING BUDDHA MAN 燃える仏像人間
Out June/July!

Check out my review of Violence Voyager from Fantasia 2018
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