Awesome news from Scream Factory's Facebook page...
Norman Bates and "mother" are coming home...to Scream Factory!1983's PSYCHO II and 1986's PSYCHO III will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this Fall as Collector's Editions. No other details to report at this time so stay tune in the next few months for more developments on these great blood-curdling filmsNorman Bates and "mother" are coming home...to Scream Factory!1983's PSYCHO II and 1986's PSYCHO III will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this Fall as Collector's Editions. No other details to report at this time so stay tune in the next few months for moredevelopments on these great blood-curdling films
Yarp, awesome news. After the release of Psycho II was delayed indefinitely in Holland I was worried it might not be coming but no, everybody's favorite retro Horror label in the US steps up and BOOM not just Psycho II but III to boot.
I'm sure your all well aware of the highly anticipated Friday the 13th retrospective documentary Crystal Lake Memories. I know I am, but yesterday some epic news was posted on the excellent site Fridaythe13thfranchise.com.
Firstly and probably most importantly to this blog Crystal Lake Memories will indeed be on Blu-ray. In fact it will exclusively be on BD due to its mammoth run time making it impractical for DVD. Yep that's right MAMMOTH. How mammoth? 7 awesome hours mammoth! That's one heck of a documentary. The film is set for release on August 27th and will be available to pre order from July 8th at the Docs new website http://crystallakememories.net
I for one can not wait for this. The Friday the 13th franchise is easily my favourite series of films let alone slasher movies. It comes from the same team that made Never Sleep Again. The excellent Nightmare on Elm Street series documentary, which in case you were wondering is only available in Germany on Blu-ray but its a upscale. So chances are this will be a cracking watch.
As usual you can check out my slasher movie Blu-ray collection here...
This appears to be old news now but still its news to me. Last I'd heard it was unconfirmed whether Scream Factory would release either Hospital Massacre or Schizoid on Blu Ray. I'm happy to find out that Scream have now confirmed that the 1980's slashers will indeed make it to BD together in a BD/DVD double feature combo pack. This awesome news. I really thought it was unlikely Hospital Massacre would get a HD release from little bits of info from Scream I'd read.
So I'm a bit miffed. I've been looking forward to walking into my local store here in the UK and scooping up a copy of the long awaited sequel to the best Slasher of 2009 The Collector. I've recently noticed the preorder for the UK DVD release on April 29th at Amazon.co.uk but no sign of a preorder for a UK Blu-ray. If so I'm its very disappointing for the UK market. I hope its just preorder oversight and like magic the BD will appear here on April 29th but I fear that maybe wishful thinking.
Lol, It would be nice to not have to import practically everything!
and as always you can check out the current Slasher Movie Blu-ray collection. Currently there is 134 Slasher films in the collection and I've just had the remake of The Stepfather ship from France. In case your wondering I ordered the French edition purely as it was the cheapest way to import it.
Call me crazy but here's a few titles I'm desperate to see on shiny Blu Ray but sadly I feel I'm going to be out of luck any time soon. Obviously it goes without saying I'd love Friday 13th's remaining sequels and sooner or later I'd bet that will happen. So here you go, in no particular order 10 slasher movies I'd love to get on Blu Ray.
WARNING TRAILERS CONTAIN SPOILERS AND ARE NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
10. April Fool's Day
I've heard Warner may have got the distribution rights to April Fool's Day. If so then there is still hope this fun favourite will get the BD treatment it deserves.
09. Cherry Falls
I've always wanted to see the mythical unrated cut of this. I've heard bits and bobs about it over the years and what better way to finally get it out than a seamless branching version with the theatrical cut on BD. (I can dream can't I)
08. Silent Night, Deadly Night
I have the fantastic Arrow DVD of this classic Christmas slasher and for my money the upgrade to BD would be more than possible with that transfer. Sure the reinstated footage of gore is low quality but no more than the reinstated footage on the My Bloody Valentine BD. 07. Black Christmas (2006)
Yeah so more specifically the Unrated version as the Theatrical has been released in Germany and Canada. I really want to see this but the fact that the DVD version is more complete than the BD is infuriating to me. Frankly the Unrated version of the Prom Night remake makes the difference between a unwatchable chore of a bad movie to a just entertaining enough bad movie. If its the same with this one I'd rather hold out.
06. Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
My favourite of the Sleepaway Camp films by far. I nice box set with all of them in would be tremendous but if I had to pick one then it would be this bad boy. Having said that if the uncut footage for part 3 could be reinstated then that would be a pretty high priority.
05. Cheerleader Camp aka Bloody Pom Poms
True story. I once went through Amazon buying every genre DVD with the word Cheerleader in the title. This was easily the best one but the competetion wasn't exactly award winning. Either way I'd love to get this bad boy on Blu Ray. Perfect for a company like Scream Factory if you ask me. 04. Slumber Party Massacre
Sadly Scream Factory have gone on the record as saying that the available film elements aren't up to scratch for a Blu Ray of this low budget treasure. I can dream though can't I. 03. Malevolence Malevolence Trailer
For some reason Youtube/Blogger won't link to this so clicky to view. I heard a heck of a lot about this one. Its prequel did make it to BD but I want the original.
02. Valentine
Love this movie. Its vastly underrated IMO. I don't see it getting a BD sadly but you never know. It's a Warner title so its unlikely to get licensed but lets hope they get there on demand service going strong because I'd be surprised if it turns up any other way.
01. Jack Frost
Ok this is just not going to happen on Blu but I freaking love this film. Its got everything you could want in a film.
So yeah there you have it. Feel free to leave your top ten most wanted in the comments.
So peridocially in my quest to create trhe ultimate Slasher movie Blu-Ray collection I randomly have a butchers at a few stratigic online stores from different parts of the globe. Yesterday I discovered a bunch of cool releases I had no idea were out there from Germany. It appears like Germany has quite the hunger for slashers in HD as they seem to put out the stuff nobody else seems to worried about.
Anguish - Germany & Austria
Blood Runs Cold - Germany
Bloody Mary 3D - Germany (3D Blu-Ray only)
Madison County - Germany (2D & 3D available)
Mother's Day Massacre - Germany (cut)
All of those are out right now and these are available to preorder
The Bunnyman Massacre - Germany March 8th
The Card Player - Germany April 11th
Rites of Spring - Germany May 17th
Sleepless - Germany March 7th
We'll have to wait and see if any of those are cut but but its pretty cool none the less. I'll update the lists as and when I find out.
I've been wanting to see Madison County for some time so it's pretty exciting to find it available on BD anywhere. If your fan of lists or seeing what is available for your own collection you can view the ongoing lists of,
Previously only available as premium priced limited edition Austrian Blu-Ray Media books both Sleepless and The Card Player are being released in Germany in regular editions. This suits me fine as long as they are uncut. I've never seen either and honestly the Austrian Media books, whilst very nice are just to pricey for me to import to the UK. Sleepless is due on Blu-Ray March 7th and The Card Player April 11th from Sun Film Entertainment. It's always nice to get a bit more Dario Argento in my collection.
