Effects Blu-ray
HomeEffects Blu-ray
Posted April 18, 2017 04:34 PM by Webmaster
The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) will release on Blu-ray Dusty Nelson's horror thriller Effects (1980), starring Joe Pilato, Tom Savini, Susan Chapek, John Harrison, and Debra Gordon. The release will be available for purchase on August 22.
Synopsis: Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, Effects is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom Dawn of the Dead Savini, Joe Day of the Dead Pilato, and John Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between Snuff and a student film by John Carpenter, Effects is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.
*After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015, AGFA recently purchased a 4K film scanner to create new digital transfers of titles from the Something Weird library. AGFA will begin distributing their new transfers theatrically and on home video in the summer of 2017. Effects is the second of the newly restored titles to transition to Blu-ray. (The first title is The Zodiac Killer, which has already been officially announced for Blu-ray release.)
Special Features and Specs:
Synopsis: Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, Effects is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom Dawn of the Dead Savini, Joe Day of the Dead Pilato, and John Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between Snuff and a student film by John Carpenter, Effects is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.
*After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015, AGFA recently purchased a 4K film scanner to create new digital transfers of titles from the Something Weird library. AGFA will begin distributing their new transfers theatrically and on home video in the summer of 2017. Effects is the second of the newly restored titles to transition to Blu-ray. (The first title is The Zodiac Killer, which has already been officially announced for Blu-ray release.)
Special Features and Specs:
- NEW 4K restoration (master struck from the only 35mm theatrical print in existence
- Archival commentary track with John Harrison, Dusty Nelson, and Pasquale Buba
- After Effects documentary with optional commentary track
- Beasite - short film
- UBU - short film
- Liner notes by Joseph A. Ziemba of AGFA and Bleeding Skull!