Second Sight: Limited Editions of Upgrade and The Amazing Mr. Blunden Dated and Detailed
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Posted August 30, 2019 04:29 PM by Webmaster
British label Second Sight has dated and detailed its upcoming Limited Editions of Leigh Whannell's Upgrade and Lionel Jeffries' The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972). The two releases will be available for purchase later this year.
Upgrade
Synopsis: In a near-future world, where technology controls everything, technophobe Grey Trace is the victim of a brutal mugging that leaves his wife dead and him paralyzed. A reclusive billionaire inventor offers him an experimental cure, an A.I. implant called STEM. Grey accepts and is immediately transformed into an unstoppable killing machine with enhanced strength and agility. Now it's payback time.
This hugely successful collaboration between genre specialists Blumhouse and the creator of the Saw franchise has become an instant cyberpunk classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Synopsis: The mysterious but kindly solicitor Mr Blunden visits Mrs Allen and her young children, offering her the position of caretaker at a derelict country mansion. More surprises are in store when the children encounter the ghosts of two former young residents and find themselves transported back in time to help their new friends right a 100-year-old wrong.
The Amazing Mr Blunden is another nostalgic family classic from The Railway Children Director, Lionel Jeffries.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Upgrade
Synopsis: In a near-future world, where technology controls everything, technophobe Grey Trace is the victim of a brutal mugging that leaves his wife dead and him paralyzed. A reclusive billionaire inventor offers him an experimental cure, an A.I. implant called STEM. Grey accepts and is immediately transformed into an unstoppable killing machine with enhanced strength and agility. Now it's payback time.
This hugely successful collaboration between genre specialists Blumhouse and the creator of the Saw franchise has become an instant cyberpunk classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Not Action. Not Sci-Fi. More: A new interview with Director Leigh Whannell
- Permission Granted: A new interview with Producer Kylie Du Fresne
- Future Noir: A new interview with Cinematographer Stefan Duscio
- Hacking Upgrade: A new interview with Editor Andy Canny
- The Art of Fighting Without Fighting: A new interview with Fight Choreographer Chris Weir
- Optional English Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
- Rigid slipcase featuring new artwork by Adam Stothard
- Poster featuring the new artwork
- 40-page soft cover book with new essays by Jon Towlson and Scott Harrison
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Synopsis: The mysterious but kindly solicitor Mr Blunden visits Mrs Allen and her young children, offering her the position of caretaker at a derelict country mansion. More surprises are in store when the children encounter the ghosts of two former young residents and find themselves transported back in time to help their new friends right a 100-year-old wrong.
The Amazing Mr Blunden is another nostalgic family classic from The Railway Children Director, Lionel Jeffries.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW SCAN AND RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- NEW audio commentary with Actors Madeline Smith, Rosalyn Landor, Stuart Lock and Marc Granger
- NEW interview with Madeline Smith
- NEW interview with Rosalyn Landor
- NEW Mark Gatiss on The Amazing Mr Blunden
- 2014 archive BFI Q&A with Madeline Smith, Rosalyn Landor and Stuart Lock
- Reversible sleeve with new artwork by Rich Davies and original artwork
- Optional English Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
- 'The Ghosts' – the original out -of-print source novel by Antonia Barber specially reproduced for this release
- Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Rich Davies
- Soft cover book with new essays by Kevin Lyons and Kim Newman
- Reversible poster with new and original artwork