DERANGED-DUAL FORMAT DISCUSSION THREAD

[Rik]

Deranged Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD

Real-life Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein inspired many distinguished films, including Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but none is quite as disturbing as Deranged.

Roberts Blossom gives an alarmingly convincing performance as rural eccentric Ezra Cobb, whose mother's death unhinges him to the point where he not only lovingly preserves her corpse in the living room but also goes out to find 'friends' to keep her company – not all of whom are dead when he finds them! Perversely, Ezra's more worried about what mother would say about his various activities than he is about the prospect of being found out. Indeed, like Gein, he's cheerfully open about his activities when visiting friends, but no-one believes him.

Like Carnival of Souls and The Honeymoon Killers, this is one of American horror cinema's great one-offs, an eerie, genuinely unsettling but also darkly comic experience.

Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the unrated version, featuring the infamous ‘brain-scooping scene’, available uncut in the UK for the first time!
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with special effects artist Tom Savini
- Introduction to the film by Savini
- A Blossoming Brilliance: Scott Spiegel (Intruder, Evil Dead II) speaks about Deranged star Roberts Blossom and the lasting legacy of this gore-soaked gem
- Ed Gein: From Murder to Movies - Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipide II) discusses the lurid legacy of the Wisconsin serial killer and the secrets of portraying a cinematic psychopath
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nat Marsh
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA, and an archive interview with producer Bob Clark by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
- And more to be announced!

Released 12th August

Deranged

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Eh, official threads for Arrow Video? I don't think so.

[Rik]

Good point, I'll just put discussion thread on the others, I can't change the title now though

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Good point, I'll just put discussion thread on the others, I can't change the title now though

It's cool. We can change it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Eh, official threads for Arrow Video? I don't think so.

Arrow clearly don't need to pay to advertise on Cult Labs.

Rik does it for them.

For free.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Arrow clearly don't need to pay to advertise on Cult Labs.

Rik does it for them.

For free.

And how do they repay me...by sending my order to the wrong address

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

And how do they repay me...by sending my order to the wrong address

Not very nice of them eh! Anyway, that's the other threads retitled.

[fuzzymctiger]

Ed Gein special feature sounds interesting.

Love the new artwork layouts, although the spines will be a bit interesting next to all the unlimited editions.

[Rik]

Really looking forward to seeing how this fares in HD, hopefully the infamous "eyeball spooning" scene is of a better quality than on the German 30th Anniversary DVD that I have. And a Tom Savini commentary is always welcome, the only reason I still own the cut UK DVD of Dawn of the Dead is because of his commentary with Chris Stavrakis

[sickboy]

I also have the German release of Deranged,so gonna wait for review on the quality of print.