DVD Buzz-Saw #18

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

HELLRAISER: Hellworld

Dimension Home Video has released the cover art for it’s upcoming film Hellraiser: Hellworld. This time around Pinhead is drawn to a couple internet hackers who have opened a virtual Lament Configuration Website. Not much of the web surfer, Pinhead is quick to put an end to the cybering. As for the cover art, looks to me as if Pinhead is trapped in the Matrix instead of a puzzle box. I mean, could it look any more similar to the Matrix covers? Anyway, here’s the list of features coming with the DVD on September 6th…

Includes:

1.85:1 Anamorphic widescreen presentation
English Dolby Digital 5.1 track
Filmmaker Commentary
Behind the Scenes entitled "Ticket to Hellworld"

Log on to Hellworld and pre-order the movie!

PSYCHO II & III

As you know, Universal has plans on releasing the sequels to one of the greatest horror films of all time. The sequels themselves Psycho II & III (click here for Arrow review of PSYCHO 2). Below are shots of each discs menu. A lack of originality leaves us with the same menu, except a photoshopped Bates Motel Sign and a color filter. Here’s what else comes with the DVDs…

Includes:

Psycho II

English Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo tracks
Trailer

Psycho III

English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono treatment.
Trailer

To pre-order the second installment in the Psycho series Click here, for the third, Click here.

AUDITION: Uncut Special Edition

Updating you on an old old story, I bring you the slick looking cover for the highly-acclaimed Audition (see Arrow’s review here). If you like having your mind-fucked…which doesn’t sound to enjoyable but, when it’s a good ass movie doing the thrusting, it’s much appreciated. The DVD is set for an August 23rd and if you have forgotten the extras and features coming with the DVD, let me refresh your memory…

Includes:

Anamorphic wide screen presentation
English Subtitles
Japanese Dolby Digital 5.0
Tour of Egyptian Theatre
Miike’s selected scene commentary
Appearance at the American Cinematheque
Photo gallery
On-camera interview with Miike and special introduction
Chat with original story writer Ryu Murakami
AUDITION segment from the cable channel Bravo’s 100 SCARIEST MOVIE MOMENTS (pending)

Who would have known this little cutie could have such a mean streak? Pre-Order the madness now!

OLDBOY

So why is a non-horror film on a horror site? Well, because it kicks friggin’ ass, that’s why! I am talking about Tartan Video’s Oldboy (see why Arrow also thought it kicked major ass). The film will be hitting the shelves everywhere in the U.S. on August 23rd. Here are the extras to the film, view them before I pull your teeth out, with a hammer, no less…

Includes:

Anamorphic widescreen
Korean DTS Track
English Track
Audio Commentary by The Director and Cinematographer
An Interview with Park Chanwook
Deleted Scenes
A trailer created by Nikolas Pueringer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who beat 132 other entrants in a promotion on iFilm

Pre-Order for a kick ass good time!

THE VAL LEWTION HORROR COLLECTION

Warner Home Video is planning on making some unnecessary dough and releasing 5 low-budget films directed by the legendary Horror producer. Here’s the rundown of the films that are being included…

Includes:

Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People
I Walked With a Zombie
Body Snatcher
Isle of the Dead
Bedlam
The Leopard Man
Ghost Ship
The Seventh Victim.
Extras include audio commentaries (Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People and Curse of the Cat People, Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked With a Zombie, Steve Haberman with Robert Wise on The Body Snatcher, Tom Weaver on Bedlam and Steve Haberman on The Seventh Victim), the exclusive documentary “Shadows In The Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy”
Trailers

Three double-feature discs, The Cat People/Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie/Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead/Bedlam, will be available as well…

ALONE IN THE DARK (1982)

Image Entertainment has plans to release the Uwe Boll-less 1982 Cult Classic Alone in the Dark. Starring Martin Landau, Jack Palanace, Donald Pleasence, the film is about

a trio of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor’s house.

What unfolds is a pretty good 80’s horror film with some shock value and cheese. Check your local stores on September 13th for a copy. In the meantime, check out the extras for the film.

Includes:

16×9-enhanced 1.85:1 widescreen
Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks
Commentary by writer/director Sholder, new video interviews with actress Carol Levy and the punk band The Sic F*cks (who perform the legendary “Chop Up Your Mother” in one scene),
An extensive still/promo art gallery
The trailer

No Pre-order information at this time.

JUST BEFORE DAWN

This little film slipped right through my hands and I am now just getting the news on it’s release. Media Blasters is releasing the 1981film Just Before Dawn The film is being set for a July 26th release and it will also be a two-disc set. Without further a do, here is the specs and extras that will be accompanying this film to DVD shelves near you…

Includes:

First Disc

Widescreen transfer
A new 5.1 sound mix and the original mono audio track
Director Commentary

Second Disc

A featurette (approximately 45 minutes) containing interviews with Lieberman, screenwriter Mark L. Arywitz, actors Chris Lemmon, Jamie Rose and John Hunsaker and composer Brad Fiedel
An extensive photo gallery
The original trailers
Promos for the upcoming Shadow and Death Trance
A Media Blasters trailer collection, including the Fango International titles Choking Hazard , Rojo Sangre ,Hiruko the Goblin and Plaga Zombie as well as the Shriek Show label’s Flesh for the Beast, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, Touch of Death and Anthropophagus.