Umbrella Entertainment Announces November Releases
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Posted October 11, 2021 12:37 AM by Webmaster
Australian label Umbrella Entertainment has announced its November batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Stunt Rock (1979), Undead (2003), The Beast (1975), Prisoners of the Ghostland (2020), Sirens (1994), Head On (1998), La Strada (1954), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Coming Home in the Dark (2021), The Babadook (2014), :The Wolfman (2010), and Drive-In Delirium: The Ultimate Dusk-Till-Dawn-Till-Dusk Trailer Marathon (2016-2021).
Stunt Rock
While working on a TV show in Los Angeles, legendary Australian stuntman Grant Page (the man who put the mad in Mad Max) helps fantasy-themed rock band Sorcery develop wild special effects and dangerous stunts for their concert tour.
Directed by Ozploitation powerhouse Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man from Hong Kong) and co-starring Dutch import Monique Van de Ven and Margaret Gerard (Deathcheaters), Stunt Rock Rock is danger as you never imagined it!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Undead
An onslaught of meteorites crash-land in the small country town of Berkeley. The bombardment brings with it an otherworldly infection. The living dead are awoken and a small band of desperate survivors led by local beauty pageant winner René (Felicity Mason), and town looney Marion (Mungo McKay), fight for survival in a world gone mad. The Spierig Brothers' Undead is packed with action, loaded with laughs, and filled with wild twists and turns, defining it as an Aussie cult classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Sirens
It is 1930s Australia, a debonair, forward-thinking young clergyman, Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant, ABOUT A BOY) has arrived from England with his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald) to find a scandal brewing. Notorious bohemian Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill, THE DISH) is exhibiting a picture that has outraged the church establishment, and the Bishop of Sydney prevails on Anthony to visit the painter and negotiate its withdrawal.
The couple travel to the beautiful Blue Mountains and spend several days with the Lindsay family and three free-spirited models (Elle MacPherson, Kate Fischer and Portia De Rossi) who are posing for a nude painting of the legendary Sirens. As Anthony debates with Norman, he is shocked to realise his wife is being drawn into the seductive games of the three sirens, and soon fears his very marriage is under threat. Slyly humorous, sexy and ravishing to look at, Sirens is a feast for the senses.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Prisoners of the Ghostland
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage, COLOR OUT OF SPACE) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella, KINGSMEN: THE SECRET SERVICE) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman - and his own path to redemption.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Head On
Ari (Alex Dimitriades in a career-defining role) is a nineteen-year-old rebel who despises his Greek parents for falling victim to the strictures of tradition. Confused with his own part in the complex universe and unable to express his true feelings, Ari becomes obsessed with extremes of behaviour - sex, drugs, night-clubbing and a farrago of hedonistic activities.
Wired and defiant, mixing pain and joy as one, Ari's destiny is aimed head on into one high velocity night of dancing, sex and drugs. Ana Kokkinos' bold and confronting adaptation of author Christos Tsiolkas' (THE SLAP) debut novel Loaded.
Head On is a controversial drama about a young man coming to terms with his identity and rebelling against the constraints of family tradition in a roller coaster ride of emotion and turmoil. Nominated for 9 AFI Awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Ana Kokkinos), Best Actor (Alex Dimitriades), Actor in a Supporting Role (Paul Capsis) and Winner of Best Editing.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
La Strada
Regarded by some as Federico Fellini's (LA DOLCE VITA) finest work and the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, LA STRADA is a masterpiece of 20th Century filmmaking. Sold by her impoverished mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn, ZORBA THE GREEK), a brutish fairground wrestler, waif-like Gelsomina (Giuletta Masina, GINGER AND FRED) lives a life of drudgery as his assistant.
After taking to the road with a travelling circus, a budding relationship with a gentle-natured tightrope walking clown offers a potential refuge from her master's clutches. Trapped by her own servile nature, Gelsomina waivers and Zampano's volcanic temper erupts with tragic consequences.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Beast
A black comedy of sexual manners set around an arranged wedding to occur on the grounds of an elegant chateau, Walerian Borowczyk's controversial masterpiece.
The Beast should be approached with caution but relished with abandon! Infamous for the final scene where the titular beast ravishes American heiress Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) on the eve of her wedding to a French aristocrat, the graphic scenes of the beast coupling with its human prey sees the daring Borowczyk (Immoral Tales) expound on the animalistic nature of human sexuality. Proving far too outrageous for the censors, The Beast was banned in numerous territories for decades. One of the most bizarre and surreal experiences ever filmed, this depraved tale of animal desire is at once wry, riotous and perverse—and remains a masterwork of arthouse erotic cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Coming Home in the Dark
Coming Home in the Dark had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight section – and is based on the award-winning 1995 short-story of the same name by Owen Marshall.
A family trip through the New Zealand wilderness turns into a nightmare when they're suddenly confronted by a pair of drifters in this Sundance thriller starring Daniel Gillies (THE ORIGINALS) and Miriama McDowell (WARU). Winding down a desolate road through an endless valley, Alan and Jill stop their car to take their teenage boys on a hike through the New Zealand wilderness. As they rest for a picnic at a clearing overlooking the water, two ominous-looking drifters appear out of nowhere, silently surrounding the peaceful clan and radiating a threat of imminent danger. With a swift act of violence, these men take the family by force, a seemingly random decision that sets them all on a maddening collision course with the ghosts of their pasts – from which there is no escape.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Babadook 4K Blu-ray
Where there is imagination, there is darkness and from within that darkness lurks a being of unfathomable terror... close to home. Amelia (AFI Award winner Essie Davis, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Slap) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at her house she is forced to battle with her son's deep-seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
A chilling tale of the unseen and otherworldly in the haunting tradition of The Conjuring and The Orphanage, Jennifer Kent's visceral journey into the heart of fear itself is as terrifying as it is believable.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Wolfman
In The Wolfman, a film inspired by Universal's timeless horror classic, Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, a troubled aristocrat returning to his family's estate after a plea from Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), the fiancée of his missing brother.
Reunited with the father (Oscar® winner Sir Anthony Hopkins) he barely knows him, Talbot goes in search of his brother. That's how he finds out that a bloodthirsty creature is wreaking havoc on the village. Also the suspicious Aberline (Hugo Weaving), an inspector of Scotland Yard, is investigating the matter closely. What Talbot discovered during his hunt for the monstrous creature, is his own gruesome destiny.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Driving Miss Daisy
Acclaimed by critics and winner of four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Driving Miss Daisy is a heartwarming story of a most unlikely friendship, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Uhry and directed by Bruce Beresford (Mao's Last Dancer).
When 72 year-old Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy in an Academy Award® winning performance) crashes her car, it's cause for her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters) to step in and arrange for a chauffeur. Mild-mannered Hoke (Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption) is the man for the job, having driven for a local judge. But yearning for her independence, resentment gets in the way of their professional relationship as Daisy stubbornly clings to the past.
However, Hoke is a man of gentle means and gentler persuasion and endears himself to 'Miss' Daisy, forging a remarkable 25 year friendship, a friendship destined to survive the changing social landscape deep in the American South.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
Retro Sci-Fi Double Feature Volume 2: The Monolith Monsters / The Deadly Mantis
The Monolith Monsters (1957), 77mins
In a desperate race against time and nature, a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the effects of killer outer-space rocks that are literally petrifying people with fear!
The Deadly Mantis (1957), 79mins
What's worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic, human-eating mantis released from a deep-frozen state! A team of scientists and their assistants work frantically to try stop to this menacing insect's rampage as it strives to feed a hunger built up over a million years trapped in the ice!
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
Drive-In Delirium: The Ultimate Dusk-Till-Dawn-Till-Dusk Trailer Marathon
The ultimate mausoleum of movie madness has been desecrated unleashing an eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-numbing, skull-splitting and trouser-bulging jumbo-sized serving of delightfully depraved and garishly gory trailer trash!
THE DRIVE IN DELIRIUM DUSK TILL DAWN COLLECTION is a full-frontal, high-def assault on your mental tolerance for sex, violence, vehicular destruction, monsters and mayhem – not to mention a non-stop 24 hour body and breast count. Buckle up!
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
Stunt Rock
While working on a TV show in Los Angeles, legendary Australian stuntman Grant Page (the man who put the mad in Mad Max) helps fantasy-themed rock band Sorcery develop wild special effects and dangerous stunts for their concert tour.
Directed by Ozploitation powerhouse Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man from Hong Kong) and co-starring Dutch import Monique Van de Ven and Margaret Gerard (Deathcheaters), Stunt Rock Rock is danger as you never imagined it!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW The Ultimate Rush: A conversation with Brian and Margaret Trenchard-Smith
- Extended interviews from Not Quite Hollywood with Brian Trenchard-Smith and actor/stuntman Grant Page
- Audio commentary with Brian Trenchard-Smith, producer Marty Fink and actor Richard Blakburn (2008)
- Audio commentary with Brian Trenchard-Smith and cast members Grant Page and Margaret Trenchard-Smith
- Introduction to the film (2009)
- Interviews (2009)
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Smokey Huffs
- Marty Fink
- Audio interview with Sorcery drummer Perry Morris (2009)
- Brian Trenchard-Smith's Alamo Drafthouse Appearances
- Cannes Promo Reel
- NEW Brian Trenchard-Smith Trailer Reel
- Theatrical trailer
- Trailers From Hell with Brian Trenchard-Smith
- 16-page comic book adaptation by Dark Oz (Limited to 3000 units)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Undead
An onslaught of meteorites crash-land in the small country town of Berkeley. The bombardment brings with it an otherworldly infection. The living dead are awoken and a small band of desperate survivors led by local beauty pageant winner René (Felicity Mason), and town looney Marion (Mungo McKay), fight for survival in a world gone mad. The Spierig Brothers' Undead is packed with action, loaded with laughs, and filled with wild twists and turns, defining it as an Aussie cult classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Original Soundtrack CD
- Audio commentary with directors Peter and Michael Spierig and cinematographer Andy Stranhorn
- On the Set of Undead
- Attack of the Undead - Short film
- The Making of Undead
- Home Made Dolly Video
- Undead Camera and Make-up Tests
- Stills gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Sirens
It is 1930s Australia, a debonair, forward-thinking young clergyman, Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant, ABOUT A BOY) has arrived from England with his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald) to find a scandal brewing. Notorious bohemian Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill, THE DISH) is exhibiting a picture that has outraged the church establishment, and the Bishop of Sydney prevails on Anthony to visit the painter and negotiate its withdrawal.
The couple travel to the beautiful Blue Mountains and spend several days with the Lindsay family and three free-spirited models (Elle MacPherson, Kate Fischer and Portia De Rossi) who are posing for a nude painting of the legendary Sirens. As Anthony debates with Norman, he is shocked to realise his wife is being drawn into the seductive games of the three sirens, and soon fears his very marriage is under threat. Slyly humorous, sexy and ravishing to look at, Sirens is a feast for the senses.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Producer Sue Milliken in conversation with Paul Harris from 3RRR'S FILM BUFFS FORECAST
- Audio commentary with director John Duigan and producer Sue Milliken
- Informal home movie chat between Hugh Grant and director John Duigan
- ABC Lively Arts interview with Norman Lindsay
- Theatrical trailer
- Stills gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Prisoners of the Ghostland
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage, COLOR OUT OF SPACE) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella, KINGSMEN: THE SECRET SERVICE) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman - and his own path to redemption.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Behind the scenes Featurette
- Original trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Head On
Ari (Alex Dimitriades in a career-defining role) is a nineteen-year-old rebel who despises his Greek parents for falling victim to the strictures of tradition. Confused with his own part in the complex universe and unable to express his true feelings, Ari becomes obsessed with extremes of behaviour - sex, drugs, night-clubbing and a farrago of hedonistic activities.
Wired and defiant, mixing pain and joy as one, Ari's destiny is aimed head on into one high velocity night of dancing, sex and drugs. Ana Kokkinos' bold and confronting adaptation of author Christos Tsiolkas' (THE SLAP) debut novel Loaded.
Head On is a controversial drama about a young man coming to terms with his identity and rebelling against the constraints of family tradition in a roller coaster ride of emotion and turmoil. Nominated for 9 AFI Awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Ana Kokkinos), Best Actor (Alex Dimitriades), Actor in a Supporting Role (Paul Capsis) and Winner of Best Editing.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary with director Ana Kokkinos
- Head On - Six Years On
- Trailer
- Photo Gallery
- Head On in Athens - archival footage from the film's theatrical premiere at the Athens International Film Festival
- Paul Capsis Music Video
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
La Strada
Regarded by some as Federico Fellini's (LA DOLCE VITA) finest work and the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, LA STRADA is a masterpiece of 20th Century filmmaking. Sold by her impoverished mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn, ZORBA THE GREEK), a brutish fairground wrestler, waif-like Gelsomina (Giuletta Masina, GINGER AND FRED) lives a life of drudgery as his assistant.
After taking to the road with a travelling circus, a budding relationship with a gentle-natured tightrope walking clown offers a potential refuge from her master's clutches. Trapped by her own servile nature, Gelsomina waivers and Zampano's volcanic temper erupts with tragic consequences.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary with film buff Paul Harris
- Federico Fellini's autobiography documentary
- Theatrical trailer
The Beast
A black comedy of sexual manners set around an arranged wedding to occur on the grounds of an elegant chateau, Walerian Borowczyk's controversial masterpiece.
The Beast should be approached with caution but relished with abandon! Infamous for the final scene where the titular beast ravishes American heiress Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) on the eve of her wedding to a French aristocrat, the graphic scenes of the beast coupling with its human prey sees the daring Borowczyk (Immoral Tales) expound on the animalistic nature of human sexuality. Proving far too outrageous for the censors, The Beast was banned in numerous territories for decades. One of the most bizarre and surreal experiences ever filmed, this depraved tale of animal desire is at once wry, riotous and perverse—and remains a masterwork of arthouse erotic cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- The Making of The Beast
- Introduction by critic Peter Bradshaw
- The Frenzy of Ecstazy featurette
- Interview with Walerian Borowczyk
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
Coming Home in the Dark
Coming Home in the Dark had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight section – and is based on the award-winning 1995 short-story of the same name by Owen Marshall.
A family trip through the New Zealand wilderness turns into a nightmare when they're suddenly confronted by a pair of drifters in this Sundance thriller starring Daniel Gillies (THE ORIGINALS) and Miriama McDowell (WARU). Winding down a desolate road through an endless valley, Alan and Jill stop their car to take their teenage boys on a hike through the New Zealand wilderness. As they rest for a picnic at a clearing overlooking the water, two ominous-looking drifters appear out of nowhere, silently surrounding the peaceful clan and radiating a threat of imminent danger. With a swift act of violence, these men take the family by force, a seemingly random decision that sets them all on a maddening collision course with the ghosts of their pasts – from which there is no escape.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio Commentary with Director James Ashcroft
- Making-Of Featurettes including 'Into The Dark' with Cast & Crew
- 'Characters, Cast & Craft' with writers James Ashcroft and Eli Kent
- 'Enabling The Dark' with producers Desray Armstrong, Catherine Fitzgerald and Mike Minogue
- Extended Interview with Daniel Gillies
- Trailer with optional commentary by trailer editor Jarret Gahan
- TV Spots
- Pigs short film
- BTS Image Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
The Babadook 4K Blu-ray
Where there is imagination, there is darkness and from within that darkness lurks a being of unfathomable terror... close to home. Amelia (AFI Award winner Essie Davis, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Slap) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at her house she is forced to battle with her son's deep-seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
A chilling tale of the unseen and otherworldly in the haunting tradition of The Conjuring and The Orphanage, Jennifer Kent's visceral journey into the heart of fear itself is as terrifying as it is believable.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio Commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
- This Is My House: Interview with Essie Davis
- The Sister: Interview with Hayley McElhinney
- Don't Let It In: Interview with producer Kristina Ceyton
- Conjuring Nightmares: Interview with producer Kristian Moliere
- Shaping Darkness: Interview with editor Simon Njoo
- If It's in a Name or in a Look: Interview with production designer Alex Holmes
- The Bookmaker: Interview book designer Alexander Juhasz
- Ba-Ba-Ba...Dook!: Interview with composer Jed Kurzel
- Monster: Short Film
- They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making Of
- There's No Place Like Home: Creating the House
- Special Effects: Stabbing Scene
- The StuntsIllustrated Evil: Creating the Book
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
The Wolfman
In The Wolfman, a film inspired by Universal's timeless horror classic, Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, a troubled aristocrat returning to his family's estate after a plea from Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), the fiancée of his missing brother.
Reunited with the father (Oscar® winner Sir Anthony Hopkins) he barely knows him, Talbot goes in search of his brother. That's how he finds out that a bloodthirsty creature is wreaking havoc on the village. Also the suspicious Aberline (Hugo Weaving), an inspector of Scotland Yard, is investigating the matter closely. What Talbot discovered during his hunt for the monstrous creature, is his own gruesome destiny.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Alternate endings
- Deleted and extended scenes
- Return of the Wolfman
- The Beast Maker
- Transformation secrets
- The Wolfman Unleashed
- Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Driving Miss Daisy
Acclaimed by critics and winner of four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Driving Miss Daisy is a heartwarming story of a most unlikely friendship, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Uhry and directed by Bruce Beresford (Mao's Last Dancer).
When 72 year-old Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy in an Academy Award® winning performance) crashes her car, it's cause for her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters) to step in and arrange for a chauffeur. Mild-mannered Hoke (Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption) is the man for the job, having driven for a local judge. But yearning for her independence, resentment gets in the way of their professional relationship as Daisy stubbornly clings to the past.
However, Hoke is a man of gentle means and gentler persuasion and endears himself to 'Miss' Daisy, forging a remarkable 25 year friendship, a friendship destined to survive the changing social landscape deep in the American South.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
Retro Sci-Fi Double Feature Volume 2: The Monolith Monsters / The Deadly Mantis
The Monolith Monsters (1957), 77mins
In a desperate race against time and nature, a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the effects of killer outer-space rocks that are literally petrifying people with fear!
The Deadly Mantis (1957), 79mins
What's worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic, human-eating mantis released from a deep-frozen state! A team of scientists and their assistants work frantically to try stop to this menacing insect's rampage as it strives to feed a hunger built up over a million years trapped in the ice!
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
Drive-In Delirium: The Ultimate Dusk-Till-Dawn-Till-Dusk Trailer Marathon
The ultimate mausoleum of movie madness has been desecrated unleashing an eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-numbing, skull-splitting and trouser-bulging jumbo-sized serving of delightfully depraved and garishly gory trailer trash!
THE DRIVE IN DELIRIUM DUSK TILL DAWN COLLECTION is a full-frontal, high-def assault on your mental tolerance for sex, violence, vehicular destruction, monsters and mayhem – not to mention a non-stop 24 hour body and breast count. Buckle up!
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 11.
