DVD Buzz-Saw #21

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

FACE

Tartan’s Asia Extreme label is releasing a promising Japanese-Horror film called Face. The plot of film is as follows:

Police are hot on the trail of a serial killer who burns away the flesh of his victims with acid leaving only the bones behind – turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the bones of one of the victim’s in his house, Hyun-min’s daughter begins to hear loud screams in the night and experience disturbing visions of a distraught, long-haired woman in a white robe … a woman she may know. Seems like a good ole’ mind fuck in the making. The film is set for a September 27th release and comes with the following extras…

Includes:

Anamorphic widescreen
Korean Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 Surround tracks
English subtitles will also be provided.
An interview with the director
Cast and crew behind-the-scenes photo shoot
Outtakes
Photo gallery
Trailers of Tartan Asia Extreme’s upcoming releases.

Gotta’ love the Japanese consistency in putting out solid horror flicks, let’s hope this falls into the same pattern. No pre-order info yet but I’ll keep you up to date on when you can get some face…

HITCHCOCK: The Masterpiece Collection

Rarely do Director’s collections feature the best films and even an extensive volume of films packaged. However, Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection defies the norm and boasts an impressive list of films from the Master of Suspense. The release date is October 4th for this massive set . Here’s the full rundown of the films and extra material…

Includes:

Every film is remastered
Saboteur
Shadow of a Doubth
Rope
Rear Window
The Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie
Torn Curtain
Topaz
Frenzy
Family Plot
An interview with Hitchcock conducted by Ingrid Bergman’s daughter, and an AFI Salute to Alfred Hitchcock featuring speeches from Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, James Stewart and more
A thirty-six page collectible book will also be included

With just a few titles missing, it still holds up as one of the best Hitchcock Collection’s assembled. Pre-order it now before another Collection comes out 🙂

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Season One

Good’ ol Al is getting a lot of DVD time lately and this time it’s Season One of the long lost television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The three-disc set will pack 39 total episodes and comes along with a feature entitled “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back”. Each episode will be presented in 1:33:1 full frame along with

English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono tracks. English, and Spanish subtitles will also be provided.
The set will be available Oct. 4th.

Fond memories of this show, to rekindle those Nick at Nite days, Pre-Order the DVD set by clicking on this link here…

HOUSE OF WAX

Hidden behind the deliciously-dumb Paris Hilton lies a pretty decent horror film for 2005. That of course being the sticky House of Wax, which got mixed reviews by a lot of the horror fanbase including Arrow. The Warner Bros. film will be available to own on October 25th and will be presented in a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD package. Below as always are the specs and details of the DVD…

Includes:

Presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen
English Dolby Digital 5.1 track
B-Rol and Bloopers video cast commentary
From Location: Silver Reveals House of Wax featurette
Wax On: The Design of House of Wax featurette
House Built on Wax: The Visual Effects of House of Wax featurette
Alternate opening
Gag reel (not to be confused with Hilton’s sex tape)
theatrical trailer

No Pre-Order info yet fellow Schmoes…

THE RING TWO: Unrated Edition

Updating you on the news of the Unrated Version of The Ring Two, which pretty much was bashed to bits by everybody including Arrow (see his review). So hoping that an Unrated Version can help redeem some of it’s status, Universal will be releasing one on August 23rd. The specs are still the same but there has been some added menu shots…Peep dem’ joints…

Includes:

• Another 18 minutes of deleted scenes
• RINGS, the short film revealing the connection between THE RING and its sequel (originally released in a package with the first film), with a special introduction by producer Walter F. Parkes
• Faces of Fear: The Cast : Interviews with Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins and Sissy Spacek
• Fear on Film: Special Effects featurette with Nakata, the producers and the visual FX team
• Samara: From Eye To Icon featurette on the movies’ villain, including a time-lapse look at Rick Baker’s five-hour makeup process
• The Power of Symbols featurette, in which the filmmakers as well as psychologists and urban myth experts discuss Samara, the Asian myths and ghost stories that inspired her and the impact of such stories
• HBO First Look: The Making Of THE RING TWO behind-the-scenes segment
• Cast/crew biographies and production notes

Maybe an Unrated edition can take a piece of shit and make it into a better, more defined, piece of shit. Click here to find out for yourself.

SAW: Uncut Edition

Back when I bought this DVD, I knew this day would come but yet still being the impulse buyer I am, I quickly grabbed the nearest copy of Saw (check Arrow’s review) the day it came out. Now I currently have my copy on Ebay as I now have to get the new Uncut Edition. The two-disc special edition DVD set will be in stores on October 18th. The DVD comes with the following…

Includes:

A newly re-mastered alternate cut
DTS 6.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 EX tracks
Two audio commentaries, one with director James Wan, screenwriter/actor Leigh Whannell and star Cary Elwes, and the other with the producers.
Behind the scenes featurette
Full Disclosure: Investigating Jigsaw featurette
“Saw” original short film
Jigsaw’s Workshop (build a puppet DVD-ROM)
Animated storyboard sequences
An on-set preview of Saw 2
Trailers

To all your double dippers: I have no pre-order information at this time. Please come back and I’ll be sure to give you the link to do the dip 🙂

UNDEAD

Following it’s limited release in theaters, Lion’s Gate Home Entertainment has announced the DVD for Undead (See Arrow’s review here). The underrated Australian Zombie/Alien/Undead flick is making it’s U.S. DVD debut on October 11th. The following will be included…

Includes:

Crew audio commentary
Cast audio commentary
Making-of featurette
Zombies Internet featurette
Toronto Film Festival screening featurette
Camera and makeup tests
Homemade dolly construction video
Animatic-to-film comparison
Deleted and extended scenes
Artwork and design sketches

No Pre-Order information at this time…

HIGH TENSION

After a disappointing theater run (even though it still grossed a lot compared to it’s budget) Lion’s Gate is hoping for a big return with it’s release of the Unrated and Uncut edition of it’s flick High Tension (see Arrow’s review). The DVD will be chopping up DVD shelves everywhere on October 11th. The extras on this bitch are…

Includes:

R Rated version will also be available
Both featuring options to screen the film in its U.S. theatrical audio version (with mixed use of languages), the original French version with English subtitles or with full English dubbing
Director/writer commentary with Aja and co-scripter Grégory Levasseur
A director and lead actress select-scene commentary with Aja and star Cécile De France
Making Of
Make-Up FX
Building TENSION featurettes
Various trailers for the film

* MINOR SPOILERS*

What a great film this is, well at least I think so, I mean where else can you see female masturbation, decapitated oral sex, barb-wired baseball bat-beatings and running-dresser head smashings?