Scream Factory and Shout Factory Announce October Releases (UPDATED)
HomeScream Factory and Shout Factory Announce October Releases (UPDATED)
Posted August 4, 2025 04:48 AM by Webmaster
Scream Factory and Shout Factory have revealed their October batch of 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases. Amongst them are: End of Days (1999), Black Sunday (1960), Catch-22 (1970), and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).
End of Days 4K Blu-ray
Description: A private security guard finds himself caught up in an apocalyptic conflict. The Devil's only chance of getting out of his eternal prison is to mate with a chosen girl in the last hour of the millennium, and the guard finds himself having to protect the woman from an enemy in whom he does not even believe.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Black Sunday 4K Blu-ray
Description: Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia. Directed by Mario Bava, and starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, and Arturo Dominici. New 4K restoration of the International Version of the film.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Catch-22 4K
Description: This scathing war satire follows Capt. John Yossarian (Alan Arkin), a pilot stationed in the Mediterranean who flies bombing missions during World War II. Attempting to cope with the madness of armed conflict, Yossarian struggles to find a way out of his wartime reality. Surrounded by eccentric military officers, such as the opportunistic 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), Yossarian must resort to extreme measures to escape his dire and increasingly absurd situation.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
Nosferatu the Vampyre 4K Blu-ray
Description: Werner Herzog's remake of F.W. Murnau's classic gothic horror Nosferatu (1922). Estate agent Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) arrives at Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski)'s castle in Transylvania to complete the sale of a property in Wismar. Despite having been warned that the Count is a vampire, Jonathan remains skeptical. His haunting stay at the castle rids him of any doubt, however, and in an attempt to escape he injures himself and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile, Dracula moves to Wismar where he preys on Jonathan's wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani)...
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Savages 4K Blu-ray
Description: Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry - raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town....until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena, and her brutal enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon - with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent - wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
Scarred by the Second Impact, the Fourth Angel attacks Tokyo III and humanity's fate is left in Special Government Agency NERV's hands. Young Shinji Ikari is forced to pilot EVA-01. He and EVA-00 pilot Rei Ayanami are tasked to fight, but EVA-01 is damaged by the Sixth Angel. Misato Katsuragi draws up a plan to focus all of Japan's electricity into EVA-01's positron cannon to defeat the Angel.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 14.
A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy
Description: A deliriously zany trilogy of genre-bending classics.
A Chinese Ghost Story
A hapless tax collector takes shelter at an abandoned temple, the favorite haunting grounds of a 1000-year-old androgynous tree demon. Beset with perilous traps and temptations by deadly but seductive she-devils, the bumbling hero falls in love with a beautiful ghost, whose spirit is enslaved by the tree demon. The two lovers risk their eternal souls to escape the demon's wrath, searching for happiness together.
A Chinese Ghost Story II
Ning, the naive young tax collector of "A Chinese Ghost Story", escapes from prison and seeks refuge in the Righteous Villa, a decaying mansion where he encounters two beautiful sisters and their father, who faces execution for attempting to expose traitors at the imperial court.
A Chinese Ghost Story III
After having slept for a century, the Tree Devil, awakens to terrorize a wise High Priest and his student, who have happened upon the Orchid Temple.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Hospital emergency room Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), the daughter of a murder victim, uncover a terrible plot by small-town mask maker Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), a madman who's planning a Halloween mass murder utilizing an ancient Celtic ritual. The ritual involves a boulder stolen from Stonehenge, the use of Silver Shamrock masks and a triggering device contained in a television commercial -- all designed to kill millions of children.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 14.
The Dark Crystal 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Travel back in time to the fantasy world of Thra. Jen and Kira, surviving members of the Gelfling tribe, set out to find the crystal's missing shard and begin a dangerous journey that will bring them face to face with evil Skeksis and mysterious creatures at every turn. Jen and Kira will not back down as they race the clock to save their planet in this masterful live-action fantasy starring some of the most imaginative creatures ever put on film.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Labyrinth 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Directed by Jim Henson, who worked closely with acclaimed artist and Conceptual Designer, Brian Froud, and Executive Producer, George Lucas. With creatures brought to life by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the film is a fantasy classic that is recognized as groundbreaking and wildly ahead of its time.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Hush 4K Blu-ray SteelBook Description: In this minimalist thriller from director Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep), a deaf writer (Kate Seigel) who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
The Place Beyond the Pines 4K Blu-ray
Description: Academy AwardŽ nominees Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper star in this epic, riveting crime drama about the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons. Luke (Gosling) gives up his job as a motorcycle stunt performer in order to provide for his new family. Avery (Cooper), an ambitious rookie cop, struggles to make his way in a corrupt police department. Their two worlds collide when Luke takes part in a string of bank robberies ... and the consequences of their shocking confrontation will reverberate into the next generation. Helmed by Derek Cianfrance, the acclaimed director of Blue Valentine, and co-starring Eva Mendes (2 Fast 2 Furious), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Rose Byrne (Insidious), and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), this engaging and powerful thrill ride had critics raving!
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Hong Kong Gamblers & Gangsters
Celebrating the popular gambling and crime drama subgenres of Asian cinema, Hong Kong Gamblers & Gangsters presents six films that deal out intrigue and thrills in equal measure. Taking viewers from the glitz and glamor of the casino floors to the seedy underbelly of the city streets, this collection is one you won't want to bet against.
CASINO TYCOON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 130 min.) Benny Ho San, a refugee (Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs) with luck, charm, and skills to spare rises to the top of the thrilling world of gambling.
CASINO TYCOON II (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 112 min.) Andy Lau doubles down in this sequel, reprising his role as Benny Ho San. Now a casino boss, his power is tested by forces from without and within.
CHALLENGE OF THE GAMESTERS (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 104 min.) The money and the mahjong tiles fly in this precursor to the New Wave of Hong Kong gambling films, from acclaimed director Wong Jing.
DESTINY'S CHAMPION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 101 min.) When an aging fighter crosses paths with a streetwise kid, the boxer finds himself reliving his own violent past and the mistakes he made along the way.
GODFATHER FROM CANTON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 85 min.) After saving a government official, a man is offered a job as a policeman. Through treachery and corruption, he rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a brutal gangster.
LOVING YOU (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 83 min.) Struggling in a loveless marriage, a hard-drinking workaholic cop finds a chance at redemption after a fateful accident leaves him wounded.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 30.
End of Days 4K Blu-ray
Description: A private security guard finds himself caught up in an apocalyptic conflict. The Devil's only chance of getting out of his eternal prison is to mate with a chosen girl in the last hour of the millennium, and the guard finds himself having to protect the woman from an enemy in whom he does not even believe.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Black Sunday 4K Blu-ray
Description: Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia. Directed by Mario Bava, and starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, and Arturo Dominici. New 4K restoration of the International Version of the film.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Catch-22 4K
Description: This scathing war satire follows Capt. John Yossarian (Alan Arkin), a pilot stationed in the Mediterranean who flies bombing missions during World War II. Attempting to cope with the madness of armed conflict, Yossarian struggles to find a way out of his wartime reality. Surrounded by eccentric military officers, such as the opportunistic 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), Yossarian must resort to extreme measures to escape his dire and increasingly absurd situation.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
Nosferatu the Vampyre 4K Blu-ray
Description: Werner Herzog's remake of F.W. Murnau's classic gothic horror Nosferatu (1922). Estate agent Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) arrives at Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski)'s castle in Transylvania to complete the sale of a property in Wismar. Despite having been warned that the Count is a vampire, Jonathan remains skeptical. His haunting stay at the castle rids him of any doubt, however, and in an attempt to escape he injures himself and ends up in hospital. Meanwhile, Dracula moves to Wismar where he preys on Jonathan's wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani)...
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Savages 4K Blu-ray
Description: Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry - raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town....until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena, and her brutal enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon - with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent - wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
Scarred by the Second Impact, the Fourth Angel attacks Tokyo III and humanity's fate is left in Special Government Agency NERV's hands. Young Shinji Ikari is forced to pilot EVA-01. He and EVA-00 pilot Rei Ayanami are tasked to fight, but EVA-01 is damaged by the Sixth Angel. Misato Katsuragi draws up a plan to focus all of Japan's electricity into EVA-01's positron cannon to defeat the Angel.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 14.
A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy
Description: A deliriously zany trilogy of genre-bending classics.
A Chinese Ghost Story
A hapless tax collector takes shelter at an abandoned temple, the favorite haunting grounds of a 1000-year-old androgynous tree demon. Beset with perilous traps and temptations by deadly but seductive she-devils, the bumbling hero falls in love with a beautiful ghost, whose spirit is enslaved by the tree demon. The two lovers risk their eternal souls to escape the demon's wrath, searching for happiness together.
A Chinese Ghost Story II
Ning, the naive young tax collector of "A Chinese Ghost Story", escapes from prison and seeks refuge in the Righteous Villa, a decaying mansion where he encounters two beautiful sisters and their father, who faces execution for attempting to expose traitors at the imperial court.
A Chinese Ghost Story III
After having slept for a century, the Tree Devil, awakens to terrorize a wise High Priest and his student, who have happened upon the Orchid Temple.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Hospital emergency room Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), the daughter of a murder victim, uncover a terrible plot by small-town mask maker Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), a madman who's planning a Halloween mass murder utilizing an ancient Celtic ritual. The ritual involves a boulder stolen from Stonehenge, the use of Silver Shamrock masks and a triggering device contained in a television commercial -- all designed to kill millions of children.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 14.
The Dark Crystal 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Travel back in time to the fantasy world of Thra. Jen and Kira, surviving members of the Gelfling tribe, set out to find the crystal's missing shard and begin a dangerous journey that will bring them face to face with evil Skeksis and mysterious creatures at every turn. Jen and Kira will not back down as they race the clock to save their planet in this masterful live-action fantasy starring some of the most imaginative creatures ever put on film.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Labyrinth 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Directed by Jim Henson, who worked closely with acclaimed artist and Conceptual Designer, Brian Froud, and Executive Producer, George Lucas. With creatures brought to life by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the film is a fantasy classic that is recognized as groundbreaking and wildly ahead of its time.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 7.
Hush 4K Blu-ray SteelBook Description: In this minimalist thriller from director Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep), a deaf writer (Kate Seigel) who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 28.
The Place Beyond the Pines 4K Blu-ray
Description: Academy AwardŽ nominees Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper star in this epic, riveting crime drama about the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons. Luke (Gosling) gives up his job as a motorcycle stunt performer in order to provide for his new family. Avery (Cooper), an ambitious rookie cop, struggles to make his way in a corrupt police department. Their two worlds collide when Luke takes part in a string of bank robberies ... and the consequences of their shocking confrontation will reverberate into the next generation. Helmed by Derek Cianfrance, the acclaimed director of Blue Valentine, and co-starring Eva Mendes (2 Fast 2 Furious), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Rose Byrne (Insidious), and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), this engaging and powerful thrill ride had critics raving!
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 21.
Hong Kong Gamblers & Gangsters
Celebrating the popular gambling and crime drama subgenres of Asian cinema, Hong Kong Gamblers & Gangsters presents six films that deal out intrigue and thrills in equal measure. Taking viewers from the glitz and glamor of the casino floors to the seedy underbelly of the city streets, this collection is one you won't want to bet against.
CASINO TYCOON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 130 min.) Benny Ho San, a refugee (Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs) with luck, charm, and skills to spare rises to the top of the thrilling world of gambling.
CASINO TYCOON II (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 112 min.) Andy Lau doubles down in this sequel, reprising his role as Benny Ho San. Now a casino boss, his power is tested by forces from without and within.
CHALLENGE OF THE GAMESTERS (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 104 min.) The money and the mahjong tiles fly in this precursor to the New Wave of Hong Kong gambling films, from acclaimed director Wong Jing.
DESTINY'S CHAMPION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 101 min.) When an aging fighter crosses paths with a streetwise kid, the boxer finds himself reliving his own violent past and the mistakes he made along the way.
GODFATHER FROM CANTON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 85 min.) After saving a government official, a man is offered a job as a policeman. Through treachery and corruption, he rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a brutal gangster.
LOVING YOU (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / 83 min.) Struggling in a loveless marriage, a hard-drinking workaholic cop finds a chance at redemption after a fateful accident leaves him wounded.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 30.
