Australian label Via Vision Entertainment has informed us that it plans to add several new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. Among them are:
Army of Darkness (1992),
Communion (1989), and
The Arrival (1996).
Beyond the Mat
Description: The 1999 American documentary directed, written, produced and narrated by Barry W. Blaustein is coming to Blu-ray for the first time worldwide!
Beyond the spotlight, beyond the pain, Beyond The Mat is a hard-hitting, no holds barred expos้ of professional wrestling. Be prepared to be shocked; be prepared to be sickened; be prepared to see things you have never seen in Wrestling before.
There's no script for what happens outside the ring, and there's no script for what happens in Beyond The Mat. Take a look at the men, and women, who fight in the WWF, WCW and ECW. Watch Mick Foley, Jake the Snake et all get bloody, get hurt and bare all in this fantastic movie.
Features the Theatrical Cut in High Definition, and the Director's Cut in standard definition. Go ringside with bare knuckled special features including commentaries and extended conversations with the stars of the documentary! Housed in a glossy slipcover.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Up Close And Personal Conversation with Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Mick "Makind" Foley and director Barry W. Blaustein
- Dinner With The Legends
- Audio Commentaries
- Optional English SDH subtitles
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
The Arrival
Description: This 1996 science fiction horror was written and directed by David Twohy (the Riddick series), and stars Charlie Sheen (Platoon, Two and a Half Men). Available on high-definition Blu-ray for the first time in Australia!
Zane Zaminsky is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by film historian / screenwriter Gary Gerani
- Making Of featurette
- Behind The Scenes featurette
- New Horizons featurette
- Interviews with cast & crew
- Alternate Ending
- Archival interview with actress Teri Polo
- Teaser Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
Army of Darkness
This classic dark fantasy horror comedy is the third installment in the Evil Dead film series, directed by the great Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, Drag Me To Hell).
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
Special Features:
DISC ONE - THEATRICAL CUT
- Medieval Times: The Making of "Army Of Darkness"
- Original Ending Alternate Opening With Optional Commentary By Sam Raimi And Bruce Campbell
- Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Sam Raimi And Bruce Campbell
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- U.S. Video Promo
DISC TWO - DIRECTOR'S CUT
- Audio Commentary With Director Sam Raimi, Actor Bruce Campbell, And Co-Writer Ivan Raimi
- Additional Behind-The-Scenes Footage From KNB Effects
- Creating the Deadites Vintage Featurette
- Vintage "Making Of" Featurette
- Extended Interview Clips With Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, And Robert Tapert
DISC THREE - INTERNATIONAL CUT
- Television Version With Additional Footage
- International Theatrical Trailer
- Still Galleries With Rare Behind-The-Scenes Photos From Production Designer Anthony Tremblay, Visual
- Effects Supervisor William Mesa And Special Make-Up Effects Artists Tony Gardner And KNB EFX, Inc.
- Still Gallery Of Props And Rare Photos From The Collection Of Super Fan Dennis Carter Jr.
- Storyboards For Deleted Or Alternate Scenes
- The Men Behind The Army Vintage Featurette
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 18.
Communion
Description: This 1989 science fiction horror is based on the book by Whitley Strieber, and stars Academy and SAG Award winning actor Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone). Strieber says the story is a real-life account of his own encounter with alien "visitors"
Directed by Australian artist Philippe Mora, and finally available on Blu-ray for the first time in Australia!
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. While there, the group experiences some weird occurrences
is it UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilemma was he abducted or is he going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary with Director Philippe Mora and William J. Birnes (Publisher of UFO Magazine)
- Audio commentary with Philippe Mora
- Outtakes
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Theatrical trailers
- Optional English SDH subtitles
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
The Wraith
The 1986 cult favorite sci-fi action film from director Mike Marvin and starring Charlie Sheen (The Arrival), on Blu-ray for the first time in Australia. Featuring a soundtrack chock full of 80s legends including Robert Palmer, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Bonnie Tyler and Billy Idol!
Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with his girlfriend, a mysterious power creates Jake Kesey, an extremely cool motor-biker who has a car which is invincible. Jake befriends Jamie's girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie's sweet brother Bill under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis couldn't; eliminate Packard's criminal gang the hard way
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by director Mike Marvin
- Audio commentary by actors Dave Sherrill and Jamie Bozian
- Tales From The Desert An interview with writer/director Mike Marvin
- Rughead Speaks An interview with actor Clint Howard
- Ride Of The Future interviews with stunt coordinator Buddy Joe Hooker and transportation coordinator Gary Hellerstein
- The Ghost Car interviews with visual effects producer Peter Kuran and effects animator Kevin Kutchaver
- Isolated score selections featuring audio interview with co-composer J. Peter Robinson
- The Wraith Filming Locations: Then and Now featurette
- Alternate title sequence
- Still gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- TV Spots
- Optional English SDH subtitles
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane Special Edition
Description: Amber Heard (Machete Kills) stars as Mandy Lane, an untouchable Texas high-school beauty who is invited by her classmates to a weekend getaway at a secluded ranch. But as the sun goes down and the party rages on, the festivities take a disturbing turn. And for lovely Mandy Lane, a night of endless horror has just begun. Anson Mount ("Hell on Wheels"), Whitney Able (Monsters) and Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga) co-star in this acclaimed and controversial shocker from director Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by director Jonathan Levine
- Interviews with Amber Heard
- Bedroom Walls Music Video
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 18.
The Andromeda Strain
Description: This 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the 1969 novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), was produced by Ridley Scott (Alien) and Tony Scott (Top Gun), and stars Benjamin Bratt (Law and Order), Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) and Viola Davis (The Help).
When a mysterious virus is brought to Earth by a returning satellite, an elite and dedicated squad of scientists assembles to search for the truth and stop the mutating killer before it ends life on Earth.
Special Features: TBC.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete Series
Description: Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who's spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he's forced to face his demons both metaphorical and literal.
Special Features:
SEASON ONE
- Inside the World of Ash
- How to Kill a Deadite
- Best of Ash
- Audio Commentaries
SEASON TWO
- Season 2 First Look
- Inside the World of Ash vs Evil Dead
- Up Your Ash
- Women Who Kick Ash
- Puppets Are Cute
- Dawn of the Spawn
- Bringing Henrietta Back
- The Delta
- How To Kill a Deadite
- Fatality Mash-Up
- Audio Commentaries
SEASON THREE
- Season Overview
- Inside the World of Ash vs Evil Dead
- Audio Commentaries
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 18.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Special Edition
Description: The classic British black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie comes to Blu-ray, starring Jason Statham and Vinne Jones! Includes both the Theatrical Cut and the Unrated Director's Cut, as well as a large pot worth of special features.
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- "One Smoking Camera" A featurette on the film's cinematography
- "Lock, Stock and Two F**king Barrels" A compilation of the film's expletives
- Interviews with cast and crew of the film
- Five Smoking Shorts: Inception, Shooting, Editing, Marketing, and Done
- TV Spots
- Making Of
- Director's Cut (SD only)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 18.
Honey: The Collection
HONEY (2003)
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba, Sin City) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
Special Features: TBC
HONEY 2 (2011)
After a brush with the law, Maria has returned to her gritty Bronx roots to rebuild her life with nothing but a talent for street dance and a burning ambition to prove herself.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Deleted scenes
- The Dream Continues
- Dance sequences
- Dance, Or Die Tryin'
- Behind The Dance Crews: The Making of Honey 2
- Audio commentary by director Billie Woodruff
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
HONEY 3: DATE TO DANCE (2016)
While attending college in Cape Town, Melea Martin feels constrained by the school's strict policies, and decides to set out on her own. Searching for a way to use her talents as a dancer and inspire the community around her, Melea rents a failing theater in order to put on a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet performance. But much like the Capulets and Montagues, conflicts between cast members threaten to bring the whole performance to a halt
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by director Billie Woodruff
- Extended dance sequences
- Behind The Dance: The Making of Honey 3
- Deleted scenes
- And more!
HONEY: RISE UP AND DANCE (2018)
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
Blue Crush 1 & 2
BLUE CRUSH
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Three Friends, One Passion The Making of Blue Crush
- Deleted scenes
- Lenny Kravitz Music Video "If I Could Fall In Love"
- Filming Blue Crush The Techniques used to shoot the awesome footage
- Wipeout! The best wipeouts & action scenes caught on film
- Inside The World Of Surfing A look at the history, terminology, equipment and best places to surf
- Audio commentary by Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake
- Audio commentary by director John Stockwell
- Cast and filmmakers bios
- And much more!
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
BLUE CRUSH 2
Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jeffreys Bay.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Alternative Opening
- Deleted scenes with introduction by director Mike Elliott
- Gag Reel
- The Making of Blue Crush 2
- Surf Safari! Filming in South Africa
- Ripping It! Shooting the surf scenes
- Feature audio commentary by cast and crew
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 15.
Ray Harryhausen Collection
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Randall William Cook, John Bruno & Arnold Kunert
- Featurettes
- Remembering It Came From Beneath The Sea
- Tim Burton Sits Down With Ray Harryhausen
- David Schecter on Film Music's Unsung Hero
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artist Jeffrey Okun, Ken Ralston and Arnold Kunert
- Featurettes
- Remembering Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
- The Hollywood Blacklist & Bernard Gordon
- Original Screenplay Credits
- Interview with Joan Taylor
- The Colorization Process
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects experts Phil Tippet & Randall William Cook, author Steven Smith & Arnold Kuner
- Featurettes
- Remembering The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad
- The Harryhausen Legacy
- The Music Of Bernard Herrmann
- Ray Harryhausen interviewed by John Landis
- "Sinbad May Have Been Bad, But He's Been Good To Me" music video
- Vintage featurette A Look Behind The Voyage
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing not even his charming fianc้e Elisabeth keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by film historians Randall Cook, Courtney Joyner & Stephen C. Smith
- Featurettes
- The Making Of The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver
- The Harryhausen Chronicles
- This Is Dynamation!
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home.
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary by director Peter Jackson, film historian Tony Dalton & visual effects artist Randall William Cook
- Featurette The Harryhausen Legacy
- The Harryhausen Chronicles 1hr documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy
- Original Skeleton Fight storyboards
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Featurettes
- Ray Harryhausen on Mysterious Island
- The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Featurette
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 18.