British label 88 Films has announced that it will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog:
The Creeps,
Touch of Death,
The Oily Maniac, and
The Flying Guillotine The releases are expected to arrive on the market later this summer.
The Creeps
Full Moon Entertainment meets Universal Horror for THE CREEPS, a match made in the bowels of hell, as studio head Charles Band directs this tale of science run amok, as a quartet of classic monsters are reanimated to cause havoc yet again... with just one problem, they're only three feet tall.
See Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and The Mummy as you've NEVER seen them before in one of Full Moon's most heralded films of the last twenty years. With a script from Neal Marshall Stevens (Thir13en Ghosts), FX from Gabe Bartolos (Dolls) and Cinematography by the great Adolfo Bartoli (The Pit & The Pendulum), this is the iconic B-movie magic factory at its very best, presented in a drool-inducing, high-definition transfer, struck from the original camera negative.
Touch of Death
When it comes to Italian splatter flicks, no one is more admired than the late great Lucio Fulci and his 1988 gore-opus TOUCH OF DEATH is seen by many as one of his finest late-era epics! Coming from the same plasma-packed period that also gave audiences Michele Soavi's stylish STAGEFRIGHT (1987) and Ruggero Deodato's madcap BODY COUNT (1987), TOUCH OF DEATH is a similarly splattery slasher-with-giallo-aesthetics that makes no mystery about who the serial-slaughterer actually is. This aspect, however, much like with the aforementioned movies, does not mean that audiences are not treated to a murder-movie unlike any other - with cannibalism, corpses and creative deaths being the flavour of Fulci's uniquely sinister splatter riot.
Starring such beloved B-movie names as Brett Halsey (RETURN OF THE FLY) and Al Cliver (ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS) it is the pleasure of 88 Films to give this underrated but utterly essential Lucio Fulci carnage-cavalcade a UK HD release!
The Oily Maniac
A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero. A Shaw Brothers production.
Danny Lee (THE KILLER) played one of cinema's most unlikely superheroes in THE OILY MANIAC (1976) - a Shaw Brothers creature-feature classic that is only now gaining a much-deserved premiere in the UK! In this gooey gem of a monster-mash, Lee plays a Hong Kong everyman who has been crippled and is down-on-his-luck - that is, until he learns of a spell that can turn him into a transformative and transmorphing pile of ferocious but malevolent mush. Yes, he is THE OILY MANIAC - and in this Cantonese predecessor to Troma's THE TOXIC AVENGER, he is able to appear and re-appear at will, making it all the more tricky for his arch-enemies to dillute his delirious brilliance. Directed by the prolific Meng Hua Ho (THE FLYING GULLOTINE), this is one Far Eastern B-movie masterpiece that deserves to be seen and appreciated in full HD!
The Flying Guillotine
Director Meng Hua Ho (THE BLACK ENFORCER/ THE OILY MANIAC) crafted one of the most important and influential kung-fu films of all time with the 1975's THE FLYING GULLOTINE. Inspiring later directors all across the Asian straits (including the celebrated Taiwanese spin-off MASTER OF THE FLYING GULLOTINE), this original model is as brutal, bloody and bombastic as they come! Headlining the legendary Kuan Tai Chen (THE MASTER/ HERO OF SHANGHAI) in his defining role as an enforcer with a unique and deadly weapon - this period-set bout of beheading and plasma-spillage remains one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made. Fans of classic chopsocky action have been begging for THE FLYING GULLOTINE to return to British shelves, and thanks to the 88 Asia collection it is back in action - restored and remastered in HD!
Extras - commentaries by Bey Logan, booklets by Asia-based academic Calum Waddell and, yes, we might just offer a slipcover.