Showing posts with label Jeffrey Combs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Combs. Show all posts

Friday, July 7, 2017

Film Buff Friday: Re-Animator

I remember Re-Animator causing quite a stir when it came out, yes that makes me old. I love this movie! I also saw the musical version by it's creator Stuart Gordon a few years back  in Los Angeles. 

It was on point, and Stuart was there that night. The more you know...

HERBERT WEST HAS A GOOD HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS... AND ANOTHER ONE ON HIS DESK. 

One of the most wildly popular horror movies of all-time, Stuart Gordon's enduring splatter-comedy classic Re-Animator returns to Blu-ray in a stunning restoration packed with special features!

When medical student Dean Cain advertises for a roommate, he soon finds one in the form of Dr. Herbert West. Initially a little eccentric, it some becomes clear that West entertains some seriously outlandish theories - specifically, the possibility of re-animating the dead. It's not long before Dean finds himself under West's influence, and embroiled in a serious of ghoulish experiments which threaten to go wildly out of control... 

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic terror tale Herbert West - Reanimator and featuring a standout performance from Jeffrey Combs as the deliciously deranged West, Re-Animator remains the ground-zero of '80s splatter mayhem and one of the genre's finest hours.

Features
- 4K restorations of the Unrated and Integral versions of the film
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original Stereo 2.0 and 5.1 Audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Digipak packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Justin Erickson
- Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by writer Michael Gingold
- Re-Animator - the original 1991 comic book adaptation, reprinted in its entirety

Disc 1 - Unrated Version
- Unrated version [86 mins]
- Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon
- Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson
- Re-Animator Resurrectus - documentary on the making of the film, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
- Interview with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna
- Interview with writer Dennis Paoli
- Interview with composer Richard Band
- Music Discussion with composer Richard Band
- Interview with former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
- Barbara Crampton In Conversation -the Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning discussion
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Trailer & TV Spots


Disc 2 - Integral Version - Limited Edition Exclusive
- Integral version [105 mins]
- A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema - brand new featurette looking at the many various cinematic incarnations of writer H.P. Lovecraft's work


Pre-order at MVDshop.com or on Amazon 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Mold Is Coming! Motivational Growth


Motivational Growth 
coming to DVD and Blu-ray on February 17

"Unlike anything you've seen before."
Ain't It Cool News

"A mind-numbing film that wants you to exit the theater debating the existential happenings that you and your friends just sat through."
The HollyWood Outsider


Beware of the mold that thinks...


BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE: Seattle True Independent Film Festival, 2013
BEST COMEDY FILM: Louisville Fright Night Film Fest, 2013
BEST FEATURE: Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, 2013
Ian Folivor, a depressed and reclusive 30-something, finds himself taking advice from a growth in his bathroom after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold, a smooth talking fungus who was born of the filth collecting in a corner of Ian's neglected bathroom, works to win Ian's trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. 

With The Mold's help, Ian attracts the attention of a neighbor he's been ogling through his peephole, Leah, and he manages to find a slice of happiness despite his unnatural circumstances. But Ian starts to receive strange messages from his old and broken down TV set that make him realize that The Mold may not be as helpful as it seems to be, and strange characters combined with stranger events cast Ian's life in the shadow of an epic battle between good and evil that Ian is only partially aware of.