Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has revealed that it plans to release on Blu-ray Freddie Francis'
Tales From the Crypt (1972), Roy Ward Baker's
Vault of Horror (1973), and Freddie Francis'
The Doctor and the Devils (1985). These releases are expected to arrive on the U.S. market later this year.
Tales From the Crypt
Prepare for a "gruesomely spine-tingling and stomach-wrenching" (Variety) journey into the heart of terror! When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the chocking events that will soon lead to their well-deserved, untimely and unavoidable deaths! Starring Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice, Ian Hendry, and Ralph Richardson.
Vault of Horror
Get ready for to descend into the darkness of horror! In this "frequently macabre and eerily funny" (Cue) collection of tales, five unsuspecting hotel guests step out of an elevator into a vault deep underground. Trapped with no way out, each guest shares a gruesome story of an encounter with death. But as the stories unfold, the men begin to suspect that their presence in the vault is no coincidence, and they may have already found that the only way out...is death! Starring Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Daniel Massey, Glynis Johns, Mike Pratt, Anna Massey, and Curd Jürgens.
The Doctor and the Devils
Based on Dylan Thomas' original screen play, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock, a brilliant young anatomy professor in 1820s Edinburgh. At first accepting only the cadavers provided him for study - those of a few hanged criminals a year - Rock eventually recruits two grave robbers (Jonathan Pryce and Stephen Rea) to secure a better supply of corpses. Coming to the gory conclusion that they will earn more the "fresher" the corpses, the two begin committing murder and delivering warm bodies to the doctor's lecture chambers. Also starring Julian Sands and Twiggy, The Doctor And The Devils brings classic chills from start to finish.