Warner Home Video: Halloween DVDs 2005

Warner Home Video have announced the release of five classic horror films, coming to DVD on October 4th, 2005. Priced at $19.97 SRP each will be presented in anamorphic widescreen and most will include their original theatrical trailers.

 

Dracula A.D. 1972
London's become a small town for a handful of jaded psychedelic-era hipsters. But Johnny Alucard has a groovy new way for his pals to get their kicks. A certain ritual will be the living end, he insists. And if you still wonder where Johnny's coming from, try spelling his last name backwards. Dracula is raised into the modern era in this Hammer Studios shocker that's "quite well done" (John Stanley, Creature Features). Christopher Lee dons the cape for the sixth time and seeks out fresh victims. As archnemesis Van Helsing, fellow horror legend Peter Cushing clutches a vial of holy water and edges within throwing distance. Their harrowing battle royale is not to be missed. In fact, it's the living end. Director: Alan Gibson Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Stephanie Beacham.

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.85:1
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol

Demon Seed
Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder?but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In "one of her finest, most vulnerable perfromances" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno-thriller based on the Dean Koontz novel. Packed with suspense, surprise and special effects, Demon Seed follows Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. Then Susan learns what Proteus wants: its own child, conceived in her womb and destined for domination.

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio - 2.35:1
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol

Night of the Lepus
Okay, movie fans. To all of you who like nothing better than to nuke some corn, dim the lights and settle in with cinematic mutations like gargantuan 'gators, fearsome frogs, awesome ants and monstrous moths, we quote this film: "Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way?." A hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands instead turns them into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters in Night of the Lepus. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelley are among the intrepid humans facing the behemoth bunnies. They use guns, flames and dynamite to subtract them. But the rampaging rabbits know how to multiply. Can anything stop these hare-y scary monsters?

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.85:1
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol

Private Parts (1972)
Check out who's checked in at the musty old King Edward Hotel in a seedy section of L.A.: Cheryl, a runaway teen who hopes to piece her life together. Little does she know that someone at the hotel has a nasty little penchant for chopping people into pieces. Welcome, happy campers, to one of the screen's most bizarre works of camp filmmaking. Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul, Lust in the Dust) directs, guiding this loopy foray "with the fervor of a carny barker at a freak show" (Jay Cocks, Time). Murder, fetishism, a dotty aunt, a sham clergyman, corny cops, a Peeping Tom and a guy who's a girl who goes nite-nite with a blow-up doll that has a photo of Cheryl's face taped to it - they're among the feverish parts of Private Parts. If you're without reservations, drop by the hotel.

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.85:1
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol

A Stranger Is Watching
They don't see him, but he's there. A stranger is watching, plotting, planning, and anticipating every move they make. Then he strikes. He imprisons a little girl and a famous reporter in the dank maze of tunnels beneath New York's Grand Central Station. The kidnapper is a remorseless psychopath who wants to collect a ransom, then murder his captives. His victims' only hope is their own wits - and the aid of the dazed and desperate homeless people who roam this urban netherworld. Kate Mulgrew is heartrendingly believable as the reporter and Rip Torn gives a harrowing performance as the kidnapper in this nightmarish shocker based on the Mary Higgins Clark suspense novel and directed by Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th).

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.85:1
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol

The Val Lewton Horror Collection

Also on October 4, Warner will release The Val Lewton Horror Collection. The five-disc set will contain the following horror classics: The Cat People, Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, Bedlam, The Leopard Man, Ghost Ship and The Seventh Victim.

Six of the films will be available separately on three double-feature releases: The Cat People/Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie/The Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead/Bedlam priced at $19.97 SRP each.

The complete Val Lewton Horror Collection will retail at $59.92 SRP.

Features include:
Audio Commentaries:
Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People and Curse of the Cat People
Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked With a Zombie
Steve Haberman with Robert Wise on The Body Snatcher
Tom Weaver on Bedlam
Steve Haberman on The Seventh Victim
Shadows In The Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - New Documentary on the producer
Theatrical Trailers

 

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