Umbrella Entertainment: Restored Ozploitation Classic Hostage Coming Soon to Blu-ray

Australian label Umbrella Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Frank Shields' cult thriller Hostage (1983), starring Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, Gabriella Barraket, Vic Robins, and Doris Goddard. The release will be available for purchase on May 6.

The horrific true tale of Christine Lewis (Kerry Mack, The Lancaster Miller Affair), a naive 16-year-old who in 1974 Australia, meets a handsome German immigrant called Walter Maresch (Ralph Schicha, Nesthocker) working as a carny, and they quickly fall in love. However, his secret sadistic side quickly begins to reveal itself and he manages to strong-arm her into marriage. Things get progressively worse even after they have a baby, but her nightmare truly begins when he reveals to her that he is actually a fanatical member of the banned Nazi Party and forces her to move with him to West Germany, where the neo-Nazi group he belongs to operates. As his abusive behaviour worsens and his neo-Nazi activities turn violent, she's forced to choose between her life - and his.

Special Features:

• Anatomy of an Action Scene Narrated by Frank Shields
• Locations for Hostage Narrated by Frank Shields
• Behind the Scenes
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Australian Home Video Trailer

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Also on My 6, the label will bring to Blu-ray Richard Stanley's new film Color Out of Space, starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, and Tommy Chong.

A cosmic nightmare from the minds of H.P. Lovecraft (Re-Animator) and cult director, Richard Stanley (Hardware), Color Out Of Space follows Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage, Face/Off), Theresa Gardner (Joely Richardson, The Patriot) and their three children, whose recent retreat to rural life quickly crumbles when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time. Mutant forms of technicolor flora start sprouting, while local animals begin to display bizarre deformities. Soon, the Gardners realize that they too are susceptible to the extraterrestrial pathogen, and must escape the contagious cloud that has consumed their farm. With the help of a friendly hydrologist (Elliot Knight) and eccentric neighbour (Tommy Chong), the family attempts to battle a nebulous entity that they can barely begin to understand. What chance can a few humans have against a force capable of traversing the gulf between worlds, a nightmarish being that exists beyond the limits of the human spectrum?

Special Features:

• Making-of COLOR OUT OF SPACE
• Deleted Scenes
• Trailer
• LOST SOUL: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau