88 Films Reveal Upcoming Releases
Home88 Films Reveal Upcoming Releases
Posted February 8, 2024 08:34 PM by Webmaster
British distributors 88 Films have revealed their next batch of 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases. Among them are: Shock Waves (1977), The Beast in the Cellar (1971), Gator (1976), and Evolution (2001).
UNITED STATES AND CANADA RELEASES
The Project A Collection 4K Blu-ray
PROJECT A - Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan, Rush Hour) is a lieutenant in the 19th-century Hong Kong marines. Pirates have been terrorizing local waters, with assistance from the corrupt authorities. Dragon Ma hopes to defeat the evil pirate clan led by Sanpao (Dick Wei), but his plan is short-circuited. Ma then teams with a navy admiral (Hak Suen Lau), a police captain Tzu (Biao Yuen) and a crafty thief (Sammo Hung) in a new round of high-seas battles with Sanpao and his pirates.
PROJECT A: PART II - Corrupt police inspector Chun (David Lam) has made himself the most powerful law enforcement officer in Hong Kong by staging high-profile arrests of the criminals and mobsters with whom he's in cahoots. The British authorities know Chun is a dirty cop but have not been able to infiltrate his inner circle. Enter fearless and incorruptible military policeman "Dragon Ma" Yun (Jackie Chan), who comes back to his hometown to pose as Chun's new right-hand man and take down both cops and criminals.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Inspector Wears Skirts III
Description: Inspector Kan (Stanley Fung), now married to Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu), has been instructed to train the Banshee Squad Members after Madame Wu goes into semi-retirement. For their next mission, the Squad is assigned to go undercover into a Casino Ship to nab a group of thieves responsible for stolen law enforcement and military weapons.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Inspector Wears Skirts IV
Description: To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UNITED KINGDOM RELEASES
The Inspector Wears Skirts III
Description: Inspector Kan (Stanley Fung), now married to Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu), has been instructed to train the Banshee Squad Members after Madame Wu goes into semi-retirement. For their next mission, the Squad is assigned to go undercover into a Casino Ship to nab a group of thieves responsible for stolen law enforcement and military weapons.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Inspector Wears Skirts IV
Description: To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Evolution
Description: The director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II takes you on an evolutionary roller coaster ride with big laughs and even bigger special effects in EVOLUTION. Starring David Duchovny (The X Files, Return to Me), Orlando Jones(Say It Isn't So, Double Take), Seann William Scott(Road Trip, American Pie) and two time Academy Award®* nominee Julianne Moore (Hannibal, Magnolia, The End of the Affair).Community college teachers Ira Kane (Duchovny) and Harry Block (Jones) are inadvertently called to the site of a meteorite crash where they discover a variety of single-celled alien life forms. It seems that Earth's newest inhabitants hitched a ride on the meteorite and are quickly making themselves at home. Government scientist Allison Reed (Moore) gets involved and goes head to head with the local scientific duo. But when the alien cells begin evolving at the speed of sound and the monstrous creatures they become threaten the future of the human race, they find themselves playing on the same team. It's Darwin's biggest nightmare and survival of the fittest in the craziest, funniest, wildest comedy of 2001!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Gator
Description: When fresh-out-of-jail con artist Bobby 'Gator McKlusky is approached by Federal agent Irving to dish the dirt on his one-time associate and local crime boss Bama McCall, he at first refuses. But when he witnesses Bama's corruption and dirty dealing first-hand, he reconciles to bring the villain down. In this sequel to White Lightning, Burt Reynolds not only reprises his role as 'Gator he also directs this witty and action-packed follow-up.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Shock Waves
Description: Beneath The Living... Beyond The Dead... From The Depths of Hell's Ocean! In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers - un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the Allied Forces - and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived... Peter Cushing (STAR WARS), Brooke Adams (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) and John Carradine (THE BOOGEY MAN) star in this suspenseful and genuinely creepy shocker co-written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II). One of the great horror "sleepers" of the 1970s, SHOCK WAVES has been freshly transferred and fully restored in High Definition from the only known surviving materials!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Beast in the Cellar
Description: When soldiers stationed in the local community are mauled to death in the local woods, a wild cat is thought to be the culprit. However, two sisters, begin to suspect that their brother who has been locked in their cellar for 30 years may be responsible. This creepy early 70s horror starring Beryl Reid (Psychomania) and Flora Robson (Eye of the Devil, Fragment of Fear) carries a brooding tension that is both claustrophobic and horrible. A bonafide cult classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Vertical Limit
Description: K2, a 28,250-foot mountain in Pakistan's Karakoram Range, is the setting for this adrenaline-pumping action-adventure. It's a race against time when a retired mountain climber (Chris O'Donnell) leads a rescue mission to save his estranged sister (Robin Tunney) and other members of her team who have become trapped on K2 after a deadly avalanche. Martin Campbell, the celebrated director of The Mask of Zorro and GoldenEye, delivers high-voltage action and exhilarating suspense in a film that pits man against his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Fearless Hyena Part II
Description: By the early 1980s, Jackie Chan's popularity made him box-office gold. Thus when, midway through filming the sequel to his hit The Fearless Hyena, Chan walked off the production to defect to rival studio Golden Harvest, producer Lo Wei opted to complete the film with the help of stunt doubles and recycled footage. The result—the tale of two lazy cousins (Chan and Austin Wai Tin-chi) who join forces to avenge the deaths of their fathers—may not be pure Chan, but there are plenty of loony pleasures (including our hero fighting an adversary with his feet!) to be had.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UNITED STATES AND CANADA RELEASES
The Project A Collection 4K Blu-ray
PROJECT A - Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan, Rush Hour) is a lieutenant in the 19th-century Hong Kong marines. Pirates have been terrorizing local waters, with assistance from the corrupt authorities. Dragon Ma hopes to defeat the evil pirate clan led by Sanpao (Dick Wei), but his plan is short-circuited. Ma then teams with a navy admiral (Hak Suen Lau), a police captain Tzu (Biao Yuen) and a crafty thief (Sammo Hung) in a new round of high-seas battles with Sanpao and his pirates.
PROJECT A: PART II - Corrupt police inspector Chun (David Lam) has made himself the most powerful law enforcement officer in Hong Kong by staging high-profile arrests of the criminals and mobsters with whom he's in cahoots. The British authorities know Chun is a dirty cop but have not been able to infiltrate his inner circle. Enter fearless and incorruptible military policeman "Dragon Ma" Yun (Jackie Chan), who comes back to his hometown to pose as Chun's new right-hand man and take down both cops and criminals.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE HONG KONG CUT (106 min)
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE TAIWAN CUT (115 min)
- CANTONESE DOLBY ATMOS TRACK and Cantonese 1.0 and with newly translated subtitles + English Dub
- NEW Interview with Stuntman Mars (2024)
- Interview with Jackie Chan
- Interview with actor Lee Hoi San
- Interview with actor Yuen Biao
- Interview with actor Dick Wei
- Interview with producer Michael Chan Wai-Man
- Interview with composer Michael Lai
- Interview with writer and producer Edward Tang
- Interview with stuntman Mars
- LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE - Perfect-bound book
- LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE - Six Replica Lobby Cards
- LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE - Double-sided foldout Poster
- LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE - Slipcase with brand-new artwork from Kung Fu Bob
- AND MORE...
The Inspector Wears Skirts III
Description: Inspector Kan (Stanley Fung), now married to Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu), has been instructed to train the Banshee Squad Members after Madame Wu goes into semi-retirement. For their next mission, the Squad is assigned to go undercover into a Casino Ship to nab a group of thieves responsible for stolen law enforcement and military weapons.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Cantonese Mono with English Subtitles
- Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng
- Deleted Scene
- Hong Kong Trailer
The Inspector Wears Skirts IV
Description: To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Cantonese Mono with English Subtitles
- English Mono dub
- Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng
- Stills Gallery
- Hong Kong Trailer
UNITED KINGDOM RELEASES
The Inspector Wears Skirts III
Description: Inspector Kan (Stanley Fung), now married to Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu), has been instructed to train the Banshee Squad Members after Madame Wu goes into semi-retirement. For their next mission, the Squad is assigned to go undercover into a Casino Ship to nab a group of thieves responsible for stolen law enforcement and military weapons.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Cantonese Mono with English Subtitles
- Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng
- Deleted Scene
- Hong Kong Trailer
The Inspector Wears Skirts IV
Description: To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Cantonese Mono with English Subtitles
- English Mono dub
- Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng
- Stills Gallery
- Hong Kong Trailer
Evolution
Description: The director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II takes you on an evolutionary roller coaster ride with big laughs and even bigger special effects in EVOLUTION. Starring David Duchovny (The X Files, Return to Me), Orlando Jones(Say It Isn't So, Double Take), Seann William Scott(Road Trip, American Pie) and two time Academy Award®* nominee Julianne Moore (Hannibal, Magnolia, The End of the Affair).Community college teachers Ira Kane (Duchovny) and Harry Block (Jones) are inadvertently called to the site of a meteorite crash where they discover a variety of single-celled alien life forms. It seems that Earth's newest inhabitants hitched a ride on the meteorite and are quickly making themselves at home. Government scientist Allison Reed (Moore) gets involved and goes head to head with the local scientific duo. But when the alien cells begin evolving at the speed of sound and the monstrous creatures they become threaten the future of the human race, they find themselves playing on the same team. It's Darwin's biggest nightmare and survival of the fittest in the craziest, funniest, wildest comedy of 2001!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- HBO First Look Featurette
- Original Trailer
- Stills Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Gator
Description: When fresh-out-of-jail con artist Bobby 'Gator McKlusky is approached by Federal agent Irving to dish the dirt on his one-time associate and local crime boss Bama McCall, he at first refuses. But when he witnesses Bama's corruption and dirty dealing first-hand, he reconciles to bring the villain down. In this sequel to White Lightning, Burt Reynolds not only reprises his role as 'Gator he also directs this witty and action-packed follow-up.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Burt Reynolds - Back to the Bayou: Part 2
- Breaking the Waves - Charles Bernstein on Gator
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Shock Waves
Description: Beneath The Living... Beyond The Dead... From The Depths of Hell's Ocean! In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers - un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the Allied Forces - and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived... Peter Cushing (STAR WARS), Brooke Adams (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) and John Carradine (THE BOOGEY MAN) star in this suspenseful and genuinely creepy shocker co-written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II). One of the great horror "sleepers" of the 1970s, SHOCK WAVES has been freshly transferred and fully restored in High Definition from the only known surviving materials!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Ken Wiederhorn, Make-Up Designer Alan Ormsby and Filmmaker Fred Olen Ray
- Nazi Zombies On A Budget - Interview with Producer/Cinematographer Reuben Trane
- Notes For The Undead - Interview with Composer Richard Einhorn
- Sole Survivor - Interview with Star Brooke Adams
- From FLIPPER To SHOCK WAVES - Interview with Star Luke Halpin
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Radio Spot #1
- Radio Spot #2
- Poster & Still Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
The Beast in the Cellar
Description: When soldiers stationed in the local community are mauled to death in the local woods, a wild cat is thought to be the culprit. However, two sisters, begin to suspect that their brother who has been locked in their cellar for 30 years may be responsible. This creepy early 70s horror starring Beryl Reid (Psychomania) and Flora Robson (Eye of the Devil, Fragment of Fear) carries a brooding tension that is both claustrophobic and horrible. A bonafide cult classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION FROM A 4K SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
- Audio commentary by associate producer Christopher Neame and executive producer Tony Tenser, moderated by author John Hamilton
- Audio Commentary By Film Critics David Flint and Allan Bryce
- Beats in the Cellar - An Interview with Composer Tony Macaulay
- Beast in the Cells - An Interview with Editor Nicholas Napier-Bell
- Sound From the Cellar - An Interview with Sound Camera Operator Graham V. Hartstone
- Getting in the Cellar - An Interview with Actor Christopher Chittell
- Original Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Vertical Limit
Description: K2, a 28,250-foot mountain in Pakistan's Karakoram Range, is the setting for this adrenaline-pumping action-adventure. It's a race against time when a retired mountain climber (Chris O'Donnell) leads a rescue mission to save his estranged sister (Robin Tunney) and other members of her team who have become trapped on K2 after a deadly avalanche. Martin Campbell, the celebrated director of The Mask of Zorro and GoldenEye, delivers high-voltage action and exhilarating suspense in a film that pits man against his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-definition presentation
- Audio Commentary by Director Martin Campbell and Producer Lloyd Phillips
- Vertigo Magic Featurette
- As Easy As Falling Off A Cliff Featurette
- Avalanche Featurette
- The Death Zone Featurette
- Peak Performers Featurette
- Elixir Of Life Featurette
- Original Trailer
- Stills Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Fearless Hyena Part II
Description: By the early 1980s, Jackie Chan's popularity made him box-office gold. Thus when, midway through filming the sequel to his hit The Fearless Hyena, Chan walked off the production to defect to rival studio Golden Harvest, producer Lo Wei opted to complete the film with the help of stunt doubles and recycled footage. The result—the tale of two lazy cousins (Chan and Austin Wai Tin-chi) who join forces to avenge the deaths of their fathers—may not be pure Chan, but there are plenty of loony pleasures (including our hero fighting an adversary with his feet!) to be had.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-definition presentation
- Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng
- Export Opening Credits
- Japanese Theatrical End Credits
- Hong Kong Trailer
- Japanese Trailer
- Stills Gallery
