Independent U.S. distributors Olive Films have announced that they will add a number of new titles to their Blu-ray catalog in October. Amongst them are J. Lee Thompson's
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, Ron Shelton's
Dark Blue, Abel Ferrara's
Dangerous Game, and Tom McLoughlin's
Sometimes They Come Back.
King of the Hill: Season Thirteen
A hilarious slice of middle-class life in small-town America, "King of the Hill" has become one of the most beloved and long-running prime-time animated series in television history. Outrageously funny but remarkably truthful, the series follows the exploits of propane salesman Hank Hill (Mike Judge) as he reigns over a family of underachievers, a group of beer-guzzling friends, and the everyday challenges of life in Arlen, Texas. Comprised of all 24 episodes from the thirteenth and final season, this three-disc collection features guest appearances by Andy Richter, Jake Steinfeld, Jerry Lambert, Paget Brewster, Diedrich Bade, Colin Mochrie, and Chris Elliott.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 20.
Breeders
Fearing that their city is the target of a serial rapist, Manhattan Detective Dale Androtti (Lance Lewman, Riot On 42nd Street) finds an unlikely ally in Dr. Gamble Pace (Teresa Farley, Bad Girls Dormitory) when they are teamed up to investigate the brutal crimes. Their suspicions, unbelievable as they may seem, will lead them to a terrifying discovery that an alien life form is impregnating women to reproduce his species.
The terrifying Breeders, written and directed by Tim Kincaid (Mutant Hunt) co-stars Frances Raines (Disconnected) and Natalie O'Connell (Bad Girls Dormitory).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
The Meteor Man
The Meteor Man is written, directed and stars Robert Townsend, the Independent Spirits Awards nominee for Hollywood Shuffle; Cable ACE Award-winner for The Best of Robert Townsend & His Partners In Crime and the American Black Film Festival Career Achievement Award-winner.
Triple-threat Robert Townsend (writer, director & actor) stars as the shy and retiring schoolteacher, Jefferson Reed in The Meteor Man. Jefferson, who gains mysterious super powers when he's struck by a meteor fragment, uses those powers to help his neighborhood combat gang crime. A time-honored tradition of superheroes, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Jefferson's courage will be tested as his super powers diminish and he must decide where true strength really lies.
The Meteor Man, a comic-action film with heart, co-stars James Earl Jones (Star Wars, Convicts), Marla Gibbs (TV's The Jeffersons and 227), Robert Guillaume (TV's Soap and Benson), Don Cheadle (Ocean's 11, TV's House of Lies), Eddie Griffin (Undercover Brother, TV's Malcolm & Eddie), Frank Gorshin (TV's Batman), Sinbad (TV's A Different World) and singer Nancy Wilson (The Big Score).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
From bongs to bon mots, Cheech and Chong proudly place their names alongside such luminaries as the Brothers Karamazov, the Marx Brothers, the Ritz Brothers and the Smothers Brothers portraying the brothers Corsican in Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers, a comic adventure inspired by the Alexandre Dumas novella.
As the story unfolds, our two heroes, down-on-their-luck rock musicians (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Up In Smoke) wandering the streets of France after a disastrous performance (the locals have actually paid them to stop performing), happen upon a gypsy storyteller. The gypsy regales them with stories of the noble Corsican Brothers (also played by Cheech and Chong) who plot to take down the evil nobleman Fuckaire, portrayed with scenery-chewing glee by Roy Dotrice (Amadeus).
Cheech and Chong's The Corsican Brothers, as written for the screen by Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin and Rikki Marin, is a Dumas tale of adventure like no other and features a cast that includes Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Delicatessen), Rae Dawn Chong (The Color Purple) and Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller's Day Off).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
The End
Academy Award-nominee Burt Reynolds (Best Supporting Actor, Boogie Nights) directs Academy Award-winners Joanne Woodward (Best Actress, The Three Faces of Eve), Sally Field (Best Actress, Norma Rae and Places in the Heart) and Myrna Loy (Lifetime Achievement Honorary Oscar) in the darkly comic The End.
When California real-estate agent Wendell "Sonny" Lawson (Burt Reynolds, Semi-Tough) is told that he only has six months to live he decides to try and beat the grim reaper to the punch in the darkly comic The End.
After a failed overdose (a handful of pills and sour milk do not mix), the hospitalized Sonny finds the solution to his problem in his fellow inmate, the certifiably insane Marlon (Dom DeLuise, Blazing Saddles). As it turns out Marlon is of little help, botching Sonny's suicide attempts at every turn. Nothing works – not hanging, not jumping from a tower, not bludgeoning by an adjustable hospital bed, not even holding his breath until he dies. During a drowning attempt, Sonny has a change of heart. How could he possibly leave his daughter, Julie (Kristy McNichol, Little Darlings) orphaned. Marlon, unaware of Sonny's sudden zest for life, is a man on a mission who'll stop at nothing to make sure that his friend's wish is fulfilled in The End.
The End, directed by Burt Reynolds (Sharkey's Machine) from a screenplay by Jerry Belson (Smile) features Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve), Sally Field (Steel Magnolias), Pat O'Brien (Some Like It Hot), Myrna Loy (The Thin Man), Carl Reiner (Ocean's Eleven), Norman Fell (TV's Three's Company), David Steinberg (Nothing Personal) and Robby Benson (Harry & Son).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects would be J. Lee Thompson's (Academy Award nominee for Best Director, The Guns of Navarone) final film and his ninth collaboration with actor Charles Bronson (Messenger of Death).
Straddling the cultural divide between the East and West, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects stars Charles Bronson (Messenger of Death) as Lt. Crowe, a coarsened Los Angeles cop whose objectivity is compromised when a case he's investigating hits close to home.
Crowe will reexamine his prejudices when he forges a friendship with a Japanese businessman whose daughter he's saved from a child prostitution ring. But an unexpected tragedy will lead the out-for-justice Crowe into uncharted waters as he pursues the murderous pimp known as Duke (Juan Fernández, Bulletproof) in the edge-of-your seat crime drama Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.
Written by Harold Nebenzal (The Wilby Conspiracy), the film features supporting performances by Perry Lopez (Chinatown), Peggy Lipton (TV's Twin Peaks), Nicole Eggert (TV's Baywatch) and Sy Richardson (Repo Man).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Messenger of Death
The brutal murder of three Mormon women and their children is just the tip of the iceberg as an investigative reporter digs into the seamy side of religious fanaticism and political corruption in the compelling crime drama Messenger of Death.
Newspaper reporter Garret Smith (Charles Bronson, Death Wish) with the help of local editor Jastra Watson (Trish Van Devere, The Changeling) set out to solve the horrific murders which they believe may be linked to a fundamentalist sect whose excommunicated leader, Willis Beecham (Jeff Corey, True Grit) is considered a prophet. Garret and Jastra discover just how deep still waters run as clues and the list of possible suspects pile up, which includes the husband & father of the murder victims (Charles Dierkop, The Sting) and his estranged brother (John Ireland, Red River).
Directed by J. Lee Thompson (Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects) from Paul Jarrico's (The Face Behind The Mask) script (based on the book The Avenging Angel by Rex Burns), Messenger of Death co-stars Daniel Benzali (Dead Heat), Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band), Marilyn Hassett (The Other Side of The Mountain) and Tom Everett (Air Force One).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Dark Blue
A searing indictment of police corruption based on a story by noted crime novelist James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia), Dark Blue stars Kurt Russell as Sergeant Eldon Perry, a Los Angeles police officer faced with a choice so monstrous it will affect his personal life and the lives of those around him while cutting through the heart of the police department.
With the jury verdict in the Rodney King case looming in the background, Perry and his partner Detective Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman, Underworld) will be drawn into a cover-up by their commanding officer, Jack Van Meter (played with frightening malevolence and wit by Brendan Gleeson, Edge of Tomorrow) for a robbery gone bad.
Murder for revenge, double-crosses and complicity lurk around every corner in the tension-filled Dark Blue, a terrifying glimpse inside the hearts and minds of people who have been anesthetized by the inherent corruption around them.
Dark Blue, directed by Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) from a screenplay by David Ayer (Training Day) co-stars Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible), Michael Michele (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days), Dash Mihok (The Thin Red Line) and Khandi Alexander (TV's CSI: Miami).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Dangerous Game
Abel Ferrara, the director of the thought-provoking Welcome To New York and Bad Lieutenant explores the dark side of the artistic mind in Dangerous Game.
Enfant terrible director, Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant) is in Los Angeles working on his latest project, a lacerating tale of a crumbling marriage, in what will become a cinematic Rorschach test as on-screen events mirror his own deteriorating marriage and the personal lives of his actors. Eddie will push the jaded leading lady, Sarah Jennings (Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan) and her promiscuous co-star, Francis Burns (James Russo, Extremities) to the brink of insanity all while capturing every lurid detail on celluloid.
Dangerous Game, written by Nicholas St. John (King of New York) co-stars Nancy Ferrara (The Blackout), Reilly Murphy (Body Snatchers) and Victor Argo (Taxi Driver).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Impromptu
Impromptu is bursting with Oscar and Golden Globe winners & nominees including Judy Davis (Oscar nominee for Best Actress in David Lean's A Passage To India; Oscar nominee for Best Actress in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives); Emma Thompson (Oscar winner for Best Actress in Howards End) and Hugh Grant (Golden Globe winner for Best Actor in Four Weddings and A Funeral).
From the accomplished theater director James Lapine (Into The Woods) comes Impromptu, his directorial film debut, and one that could very well be called When Chopin Met Sand. A delightful, witty and beautifully crafted film, Impromptu brings together a number of historical figures of the arts & letters variety who trade bon mots at a breakneck pace in this effervescent romp. The ambitious, social climbing Duchess d'Antan's (Emma Thompson, Love Actually), salon for the "artists of the moment," brings face-to-face the wildly unconventional and recently divorced Baroness Dupin AKA author George Sand (Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives) and the object of her unbridled affection -- the talented, introspective and highly sensitive composer Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant, Four Weddings and A Funeral). These are but two shining stars in a galaxy of 19th Century glitterati that includes composer Franz Liszt (Julian Sands, A Room With A View), French poet, dramatist and author Alfred de Musset (Mandy Patinkin, Homeland) and painter Eugene Delacroix (Ralph Brown, Alien 3).
Written for the screen by Sarah Kernochan (What Lies Beneath), Impromptu is enhanced by the cinematography of Brune de Keyzer (The Princess of Montpensier) and the period costumes created by Academy Award-winning costume designer Jenny Beaven (A Room With A View).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
The One & Only
From director Carl Reiner (The Jerk) and screenwriter Steve Gordon (Arthur) comes The One and Only, a tale of marital bliss and off-kilter relationships told with wry wit and a bit of borscht belt humor. This bittersweet comedy stars Henry Winkler (TV's Happy Days), Kim Darby (True Grit), Gene Saks (Nobody's Fool) and Hervé Villechaize (TV's Fantasy Island).
From their unconventional courtship and whirlwind college romance, we follow the lives of Andy Schmidt (Winkler) and Mary Crawford (Darby) into adulthood, careers and the beckoning lights of Broadway where Andy is convinced he'll make it big on the stage. However with acting jobs in short supply the unconventional Andy will become conventional when he learns that he'll be a father.
With Andy's dreams all but dashed, triumph will come not on the boards, but in the wrestling ring. Taking a page from the flamboyant wrestler Gorgeous George, Andy creates a persona - The Lover - that will bring him great acclaim. When his outsized persona overshadows his personal life it will strain his fragile marriage, friendships and the already tense relationship with his resistant in-laws.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Partners
Straight cop Benson (Ryan O'Neal, Love Story) and gay officer Kerwin (John Hurt, Alien) make an odd couple when teamed to solve a series of murders in the comedy-thriller Partners directed by James Burrows (TV's Cheers). Thrown together by their boss, Chief Wilkins (Kenneth McMillan, Ragtime), ladies man Benson and the closeted records clerk Kerwin go undercover as a gay couple to hunt down the person responsible for a series of murders in L.A.'s gay community. Initial discomfort melts away as Benson relaxes into his role, while Kerwin finds his bliss in domesticity. But bliss will be short-lived when Benson's roving eye makes him a target for the killer and only Kerwin's clear-eyed deductions may prevent his partner from becoming the next victim.
Partners, directed by James Burrows (TV's Cheers) from a screenplay by Francis Veber (La Cage aux Folles) and featuring a musical score by Georges Delerue (Beaches), co-stars Robyn Douglass (Breaking Away), Darrell Larson (Stepmom), James Remar (Django Unchained) and Jay Robinson (Bram Stoker's Dracula).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Blue City
Golden Globe nominee Judd Nelson (Best Actor, Billionaire Boys Club) is reunited with his Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire co-star Ally Sheedy in the modern day crime drama Blue City based on the Ross MacDonald novel.
Black sheep Billy Turner (Judd Nelson, The Breakfast Club) returns to his rural Florida home to find that his father, the town's mayor, has been murdered. With little interest from local law enforcement in bringing his father's killer to justice, Billy sets out to solve the mystery with the aid of an embittered high school friend, Joey Rayford (David Caruso, TV's CSI: Miami) and Joey's sister Annie (Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club). Their lives are put in jeopardy when the local mob boss, Perry Kersh (Scott Wislon, The Great Gatsby), takes none too kindly to their investigation.
Blue City, directed by Michelle Manning (The Breakfast Club co-producer) from a screenplay by Walter Hill (48 Hours) and Lukas Heller (The Dirty Dozen) based on Ross MacDonald's novel, features a supporting cast that includes Paul Winfield (Sounder) and Anita Morris (The Hotel New Hampshire) with cinematographer Steven Poster (Donnie Darko) and composer Ry Cooder (The End of Violence) lending their considerable talents to the proceedings.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Mandingo
Academy Award-winner Richard Fleischer (Best Documentary, Design For Death) directs three-time Academy Award-nominee James Mason (Academy Award – Best Supporting Actor nominee for The Verdict; Academy Award – Best Supporting Actor nominee for Georgy Girl; Academy Award – Best Actor nominee for A Star Is Born) in the antebellum potboiler Mandingo.
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Warren Maxwell (James Mason, North By Northwest) and his son Hammond (Perry King, The Day After Tomorrow) rule their plantation and its inhabitants with an iron fist. Warren needs to see Hammond wed a woman from a respectable family, sire a son, and acquire a Mandingo slave to breed a stronger slave colony. Hammond finds that "respectable woman" in his bride, Blanche (played at fever pitch by Susan George, Straw Dogs), but her questionable chastity soon has Hammond returning to his wandering ways. When he purchases the beautiful Ellen (Brenda Sykes, Cleopatra Jones) to be a "house slave" … and his mistress … Blanche is pushed to the edge.
When the vengeful Blanche forces Mede (Ken Norton, Drum), the newly acquired Mandingo slave, into her bed she is ill prepared for the dire consequences.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
No Man's Woman
When the scheming, double-crossing Carolyn Ellenson-Grant (Marie Windsor, The Killing) is found murdered, the list of possible suspects is very long. Those who may have killed this most unpleasant woman include her husband Harlow (John Archer, White Heat), a man desperate to divorce his money-grubbing wife so that he can move on with his life; Wayne Vincent (Patric Knowles, Auntie Mame) a newspaper columnist and art collector who believed that Carolyn loved him only to find out that her interests were not purely of a romantic nature; Betty Allen (Jil Jarmyn, Lay That Rifle Down), Carolyn's assistant who discovered that Carolyn had designs on her fiancé; Dick Sawyer (Richard Crane, Mysterious Island), Betty's fiancé and the object of Carolyn's recent seduction … and blackmail plot.
The stage is set for this thrilling drama directed by Franklin Adreon (Hell's Crossroad) and photographed in silken black & white by Bud Thackery (The Crimson Ghost).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Phase IV
Saul Bass (Why Man Creates), the graphic designer responsible for some of cinema's most iconic movie poster images (Vertigo, The Man With The Golden Arm, The Shining) and credit sequences (Psycho, The Facts of Life, North By Northwest), tackles feature film directing with the hallucinatory Phase IV.
This gripping film, part science fiction, part philosophical musing on man's place in the universe, has gained cult status. Michael Murphy (Manhattan) stars as James Lesko with Nigel Davenport (A Man For All Seasons) as Dr. Ernest Hubbs, scientists in search of answers to an evolutionary shift in the ant population that's adopted a hive mentality allowing the ants to team with others of their species to create a super colony. In an effort to better understand the intelligent and powerful new life form, Lesko and Hubbs are faced with the choice of either communicating with, or eradicating their antagonists. Lynne Frederick is cast as Kendra, an ant attack survivor who'll play a pivotal role in deciphering the ants' mysterious existence.
Phase IV is written for the screen by Mayo Simon (Futureworld), photographed by Dick Bush (Ken Russell's Tommy and Mahler) and scored by Brian Gascoigne (The Emerald Forest) with contributions by Stomu Yamashta, David Vorhaus and Desmond Briscoe.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back
Tim Matheson (two-time Primetime Emmy-nominee for Best Guest Appearance in TV's The West Wing) gives what Entertainment Weekly called a "truly moving" performance in the "well-acted and skillfully produced" Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back.
Based on the short story by Stephen King (The Shining), Sometimes They Come Back, stars Tim Matheson (Animal House) as the troubled Jim Norman who moves back to his hometown with his wife Sally (Brooke Adams, The Dead Zone) and son Scott (Robert Hy Gorman, Forever Young) after accepting a teaching job at the local high school.
But the town holds dark memories for Jim who moved away years earlier following the murder of his brother, Wayne (Chris Demetral, Blank Check). The young men responsible for the murder met with their own horrific deaths and now those restless spirits have come back for revenge.
Director Tom McLoughlin's chilling Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back is adapted for the screen by Lawrence Konnor and Mark Rosenthal (Planet of the Apes co-writers) and co-stars Robert Rustler (Thrashin'), William Sanderson (Blade Runner) and Nicholas Sadler (Scent of A Woman).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
The Deadly Bees
Directed by FREDDIE FRANCIS (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt).
Freddie Francis, the two-time Academy Award winning cinematographer (Sons and Lovers, Glory) would step behind the camera as director of The Deadly Bees. The in-demand Francis would split his time lensing some of cinema's most outstanding works (The Innocents, The Elephant Man, Cape Fear, The French Lieutenant's Woman) and directing horror genre favorites Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
First there was The Birds. Now there's The Deadly Bees.
Something terrifying is taking place on Seagull Island. When pop singer Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh, Lust For A Vampire) arrives at the island to recuperate from nervous exhaustion, she'll soon discover that the cottage belonging to beekeeper Ralph Hargrove (Guy Doleman, Thunderball) and his wife Mary (Catherine Finn, The Creeping Flesh) is not the idyllic accommodation she'd hoped for. Following a series of deadly bee attacks, Vicki becomes an amateur detective at the urging of the island's other beekeeper, the mysterious H.W. Manfred (Frank Finlay, The Three Musketeers) uncovering clues to determine if the deaths were accidental or murder.
What she discovers will put her life in grave danger in The Deadly Bees.
From Freddie Francis, the renowned cinematographer of Glory (for which he'd win his second Academy Award) and the director of the spine-chilling Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, comes The Deadly Bees written for the screen by Robert Bloch (author of the novel Psycho) and Anthony Marriott (The Ghost of Monk's Island) based on the novel A Taste For Honey by H.F. Heard.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Flying Disc Man From Mars
The prolific Flying Disc Man From Mars director, Fred C. Brannon, would helm a number of the highly popular and entertaining Republic Pictures theatrical serials including The Invisible Monster and Radar Men From The Moon, as well as TV's Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.
Mota (Gregory Gaye, Ninotchka), a Martian invader intent on ruling Earth, finds a more than willing accomplice in Dr. Bryant (James Craven, Captain Midnight), a brilliant scientist with a secret Nazi past. Together they plan to harness atomic technology to further their evil goal.
But whatever diabolical plan Mota may have in mind, intrepid pilot and would-be investigator, Kent Fowler (Walter Reed, Thunderbirds), along with his crack team, Steve (Sandy Sanders, Phantom From Space) and Helen (Lois Collier, Boston Blackie), will foil Mota, his Nazi stooge and evil henchmen Drake and Ryan, at every turn, leading to a climactic battle inside of a live volcano.
All twelve episodes of Flying Disc Man From Mars (including Menace From Mars, The Volcano's Secret, Death Rides The Stratosphere and the exciting final installment, Volcanic Vengeance), directed by Fred C. Brannon (The Invisible Monster, The Crimson Ghost), are now available for your home viewing enjoyment in one exciting package.
Flying Disc Man From Mars also features Harry Lauter (The Cry Baby Killer), Richard Irving (Sons of Adventure) and Michael Carr (Hills of Oklahoma).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
A Black Veil for Lisa
Honoring the "giallo" genre (Italian for yellow denoting a "thriller"), director Massimo Dallamano (the renowned cinematographer of Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More) brings together an international cast featuring an Academy Award-winner (John Mills, Best Supporting Actor, Ryan's Daughter), a Bond girl (Luciana Paluzzi, Thunderball) and an adventurer (Robert Hoffman, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) in the tension-filled drama A Black Veil For Lisa.
In A Black Veil For Lisa, John Mills (Ryan's Daughter) is Franz Bulon, a police inspector intent on bringing down a major drug ring operating in Hamburg. Thwarted at every turn by an assassin who is systematically killing informants, jealous of his beautiful, younger wife Lisa (Luciana Paluzzi, Thunderball) and suspecting her of having an affair (is it real or imagined?), Bulon can scarcely focus on his work.
With jealousy nearing the boiling point, Bulon hires Alex (Robert Hoffman, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), the assassin he's arrested for the recent informant murders, to kill his wife. With nods to both Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo) and Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique), the film builds on the suspense from scene to tension-filled scene.
Directed by Massimo Dallamano (Dorian Gray director and the cinematographer of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More), A Black Veil For Lisa co-stars Tulio Altamura (Blood For A Silver Dollar), Carlo Hinterman (Women Of Devil's Island) and Enzo Fiermonte (Grand Prix).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors is an entertaining horror anthology directed by Freddie Francis, the two-time Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography (Sons and Lovers and Glory) and the renowned cinematographer of Jack Clayton's classic Gothic thriller The Innocents.
Five men who board a train as strangers will soon find commonality when joined by a sixth passenger, the mysterious traveler known as Dr. Schreck (Peter Cushing). Watch as their destinies unfold in the chilling and "life"-altering horror-thrill ride, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
To while away the time, the good doctor offers to read each passenger's Tarot cards. The innocent parlor game has an unexpected conclusion as each reading unfolds on screen as a terrifying vignette (a werewolf on the loose; a vengeful creeping vine; a tale of voodoo; a disembodied hand coming to life; and a vampire story) the results of which are unpredictable and shocking.
From director Freddie Francis (The Doctor and The Devils, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt) and starring horror film royalty Peter Cushing (Horror of Dracula, Evil of Frankenstein) and Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula, Lord of the Rings), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors features a stellar cast of supporting players including Donald Sutherland (Robert Altman's M.A.S.H., Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900), Max Adrian (Ken Russell's The Devils and The Boyfriend) and Michael Gough (Horror of Dracula, Tim Burton's Batman and Sleepy Hollow).
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 27.