Scream Factory and Shout Factory Announce January Releases
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Posted October 30, 2023 07:22 PM by Webmaster
Scream Factory and Shout Factory have announced that they will add a number of new titles to their Blu-ray catalog. Among them are: Telefon (1977), St. Ives (1976), Forced Vengeance (1982), Funeral Home (1980), Jennifer 8 (1992), Thinner (1996), Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022), and Street Girls (1975).
Telefon
Description: The Cold War gets hot as master of action & violence Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) presents Telefon, a thriller of international intrigue. Telefon (a KGB codename for a chilling Soviet plan to blow key US military targets clear off the map) stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence as hard-nosed players in a hot-and-cold game of spy vs. spy. Hatched years ago during the icy Stalin era, the scheme enlists top Soviet agents – drugged, hypnotized, planted across America, and so secret that they don't know themselves that they're programmed to blow! The plan had been officially scrapped, but now someone is triggering the explosions, and the Soviets must stop him dead. Charles Bronson is the one man able to head off nuclear collision, with the aid of his beautiful KGB colleague (Remick). Telefon is fast and explosive ... and ringing with tension.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
St. Ives
Description: Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling, and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. When he crosses paths with a sinister man by the name of Procane, he gets something else: a price on his head. St. Ives is a hard-boiled update of classic mystery thrillers, particularly The Maltese Falcon. Charles Bronson is smoothly right as the clever title character, at odds with petty crooks and high rollers, among them Maximilian Schell as a whining lackey and Jacqueline Bisset as a modern femme fatale. But the show is stolen by John Houseman as the devilish Procane, a worthy successor to Sydney Greenstreet. Elisha Cook, Daniel J. Travanti, Jeff Goldblum, and Robert Englund are also featured in this sleek, funny caper.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Forced Vengeance
Description: Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong's Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits and the owner has been killed by the mob. The heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds one last ace: security expert Josh Randall (Chuck Norris). Determined to find the underworld boss behind the death of his friend and boss, Randall goes on the hunt. Trouble will soon follow.
Local mobsters should cash in their chips when Norris is on the case in this alive-and-kicking action fest directed by James Fargo (who directed Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and Every Which Way But Loose).
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Funeral Home
Description: Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Happy Birthday To Me) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast." It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery???
STREET DATE: JANUARY 30.
Jennifer 8 Special Edition
They are the unidentified victims of an unsolved crime spree — women linked by a serial killer's gruesome handiwork ... and by police files giving them the alias "Jennifer." Homicide investigator John Berlin believes he's made a breakthrough in the case when he uncovers a key witness — a blind woman named Helena. Yet who can truly rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see? Who can trust Berlin when he ultimately becomes a suspect in the murders? And who can keep the vulnerable Helena from becoming the next Jennifer?
Andy Garcia (Book Club), Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), and John Malkovich (In The Line Of Fire) star in this taut, suspenseful thriller from writer/director Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I, How To Get Ahead In Advertising).
STREET DATE: JANUARY 23.
Thinner
Description: Based on the riveting best seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke (RoboCop 3) and Joe Mantegna (House Of Games) in a story of supernatural terror as one man faces a countdown to the ultimate excruciating payback. A 109-year-old Romani man (Michael Constantine, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), hell-bent on revenge for the death of his daughter, exacts a shocking curse that compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out from this bizarre and relentless torture, the accursed man must find a way to reverse his predicament, though death is quickly becoming his only option.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 23.
Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Description: Ernest and Celestine return in this delightful and joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award®-nominated* adventure, where the bear and mouse became the unlikeliest of friends. When Celestine accidentally breaks the beloved violin of her grouchy companion, they embark on a journey to Ernest's homeland of Gibberitia to have it repaired. But when the duo arrives, they are shocked to discover that all forms of music have been banned for many years and the land once known for its incredible musicians has fallen silent. It is up to Ernest and Celestine and their new friends, including a mysterious masked outlaw, to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Street Girls
Description: After dropping out of college, Angel takes a job in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Succumbing to the temptations of her new life, she soon finds herself dependent on drugs and forced into prostitution to pay for her habit. When Angel's father, Sven, loses contact with his beloved daughter, he sets out to find her. Venturing into a bizarre and brutal underworld, Sven becomes increasingly desperate. Will he save Angel before it's too late?
Filmed on the mean streets of Eugene, Oregon, Street Girls is a gritty exploration of exploitation from director Michael Miller (Jackson County Jail, Silent Rage), featuring a screenplay co-written by future award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Homicide: Life On The Street).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Telefon
Description: The Cold War gets hot as master of action & violence Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) presents Telefon, a thriller of international intrigue. Telefon (a KGB codename for a chilling Soviet plan to blow key US military targets clear off the map) stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence as hard-nosed players in a hot-and-cold game of spy vs. spy. Hatched years ago during the icy Stalin era, the scheme enlists top Soviet agents – drugged, hypnotized, planted across America, and so secret that they don't know themselves that they're programmed to blow! The plan had been officially scrapped, but now someone is triggering the explosions, and the Soviets must stop him dead. Charles Bronson is the one man able to head off nuclear collision, with the aid of his beautiful KGB colleague (Remick). Telefon is fast and explosive ... and ringing with tension.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW SCAN FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE (2023)
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
St. Ives
Description: Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling, and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. When he crosses paths with a sinister man by the name of Procane, he gets something else: a price on his head. St. Ives is a hard-boiled update of classic mystery thrillers, particularly The Maltese Falcon. Charles Bronson is smoothly right as the clever title character, at odds with petty crooks and high rollers, among them Maximilian Schell as a whining lackey and Jacqueline Bisset as a modern femme fatale. But the show is stolen by John Houseman as the devilish Procane, a worthy successor to Sydney Greenstreet. Elisha Cook, Daniel J. Travanti, Jeff Goldblum, and Robert Englund are also featured in this sleek, funny caper.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW SCAN FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE (2023)
- Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
Forced Vengeance
Description: Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong's Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits and the owner has been killed by the mob. The heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds one last ace: security expert Josh Randall (Chuck Norris). Determined to find the underworld boss behind the death of his friend and boss, Randall goes on the hunt. Trouble will soon follow.
Local mobsters should cash in their chips when Norris is on the case in this alive-and-kicking action fest directed by James Fargo (who directed Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and Every Which Way But Loose).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW SCAN FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE (2023)
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
Funeral Home
Description: Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Happy Birthday To Me) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast." It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery???
STREET DATE: JANUARY 30.
Jennifer 8 Special Edition
They are the unidentified victims of an unsolved crime spree — women linked by a serial killer's gruesome handiwork ... and by police files giving them the alias "Jennifer." Homicide investigator John Berlin believes he's made a breakthrough in the case when he uncovers a key witness — a blind woman named Helena. Yet who can truly rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see? Who can trust Berlin when he ultimately becomes a suspect in the murders? And who can keep the vulnerable Helena from becoming the next Jennifer?
Andy Garcia (Book Club), Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), and John Malkovich (In The Line Of Fire) star in this taut, suspenseful thriller from writer/director Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I, How To Get Ahead In Advertising).
STREET DATE: JANUARY 23.
Thinner
Description: Based on the riveting best seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke (RoboCop 3) and Joe Mantegna (House Of Games) in a story of supernatural terror as one man faces a countdown to the ultimate excruciating payback. A 109-year-old Romani man (Michael Constantine, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), hell-bent on revenge for the death of his daughter, exacts a shocking curse that compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out from this bizarre and relentless torture, the accursed man must find a way to reverse his predicament, though death is quickly becoming his only option.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 23.
Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Description: Ernest and Celestine return in this delightful and joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award®-nominated* adventure, where the bear and mouse became the unlikeliest of friends. When Celestine accidentally breaks the beloved violin of her grouchy companion, they embark on a journey to Ernest's homeland of Gibberitia to have it repaired. But when the duo arrives, they are shocked to discover that all forms of music have been banned for many years and the land once known for its incredible musicians has fallen silent. It is up to Ernest and Celestine and their new friends, including a mysterious masked outlaw, to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Making Of
- Interview With The Directors
- Interview With The Cast
- Interview With Producer Didier Brunner
- How To Draw Ernest & Celestine
- Trailers
- Optional English and Spanish subtitles
Street Girls
Description: After dropping out of college, Angel takes a job in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Succumbing to the temptations of her new life, she soon finds herself dependent on drugs and forced into prostitution to pay for her habit. When Angel's father, Sven, loses contact with his beloved daughter, he sets out to find her. Venturing into a bizarre and brutal underworld, Sven becomes increasingly desperate. Will he save Angel before it's too late?
Filmed on the mean streets of Eugene, Oregon, Street Girls is a gritty exploration of exploitation from director Michael Miller (Jackson County Jail, Silent Rage), featuring a screenplay co-written by future award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Homicide: Life On The Street).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Master Presented In 1.85:1 And 1.66:1 Aspect Ratios
- NEW Audio Commentary With Adult Film Historian Peter Alilunas
- NEW Interview With Actor/Filmmaker Katherine Wilson
- Image Gallery
- Trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
