I really like it. A good mix of violence, Melanie Griffith stripping and Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams hating on each other.

The Cinema Club dvd i have looks really good as it is.

I've got the Cinema Club DVD as well, was that version missing anything because I didn't mind it.

Apparently so, not that i'd noticed. I checked the scene at 21 mins earlier and it's the US version i have.

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=962085

It's now available to preorder for £16.99 – I have ordered it as a blind buy because it sounds like something I'd appreciate and enjoy.

https://101-films-store.com/collecti...dition-blu-ray

Anything by Abel Ferrara is something that always go well with us Cult Addicts :lol:

it was passed uncut in 2022 for a release from 101 films so I wonder why it wasn't release it in 2022 or 2023.

I'm still waiting for the Blue Underground release of 'Snuff', which was passed by the BBFC in 2003!

If I remember right from Brad Stevens excellent book The Moral Vision there was a bit of producer interference but it's still a pretty good film. Now we need a Ms 45 special edition. The US release looks good but the extras are definitely lacking. And some kind of release of the 2 and a half hour cut of Cat Chaser as well. It'd probably be an extra on a blu ray release cos I think it's only on an old VHS Ferrara saved. Quite a few Ferrara films never got releases here. 'R Xmas, New Rose Hotel, Go Go Tales and his first feature Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy. I have a dvd release of Nine Lives that is the worst transfer I've ever seen. It looks to be from a 9th Gen VHS. The VS blu ray looks absolutely amazing in comparison. To be honest I didn't think much of Hotel and Go Go Tales but if you want to see Asia Argento get off with a dog Go Go Tales has that for you.

Nice, I will buy on the black label sale a couple of months later :lol:

Mansion of the Doomed (1976) (Limited Edition) (Blu-ray)
?16.99 GBP

Released 6th May Pre-order now.
Title number 035 on our Black Label.

This Limited Edition version includes a slipcase and a booklet.

101 Films presents gruesome exploitation shocker Mansion of the Doomed (1976), available in the UK for the very first time. This limited-edition release includes a brand-new documentary on producer Charles Band's Full Moon Features, an Interview with editor Harry Keramidas, artwork from the original UK Video nasty release and a booklet featuring brand new essays on the film by Chris Alexander and Andy Marshall-Roberts.

Title 035 on the 101 Films Black Label, this limited-edition release includes a brand-new documentary produced exclusively for this release on Charles Band's Full Moon Features. Enclosed in a limited-edition slipcase featuring the original artwork from the confiscated Video Nasty release of the 80s. This release also features a limited-edition booklet with brand new writing on the film 'On Mansion of the Doomed' by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and 'The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed' by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts.

Richard Basehart (Being There, TV's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) stars as the maniacal Dr. Leonard Chaney, a brilliant surgeon who compulsively kidnaps people and rips out their eyeballs, dumping their bleeding bodies into a filthy basement cage. His masterplan? To transplant these ill-gotten orbs into the skull of his daughter, who herself was blinded in a tragic accident years before.

SPECIAL FEATURES

The Charles Band Empire - A new documentary on the career of horror legend Charles Band.
Cutting Teeth - Editor Harry Keramidas on 'Mansion of the Doomed'.
Limited edition booklet: Includes 'On Mansion of the Doomed' by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and 'The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed' by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts

https://101-films-store.com/collecti...dition-blu-ray

101 have botched Fear City.

The main theatrical cut plays full 16x9, which is to say the 1.57 ratio is stretched to fill the whole image, so everything looks fat and distorted.

The unrated feature plays fine but to have the main feature stretched is pure amateur hour.

It shouldn't be out yet!

Mid Feb they posted this on FB:

"Due to a delay during manufacturing, we have been forced to push back the release date of our upcoming FEAR CITY Blu-ray.

This will now release on 18th March.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by the date change."

Some have got it sent early direct from 101.

Ah, that explains it

So, technical botches aside, is it a good film with worthy extras?

101 Films
 

Hard pass for me. Hopefully VS will put it out. Maybe the OOP Shout Disc hasn't lost it's value after all.

My order has arrived and, although I haven't watched it yet, the rear cover states that both cuts are 1.78:1, not the correct aspect ratio.

https://www.cult-labs.com/forums/att...1&d=1710360588

Although not a massive sale, most of the 101 Films Black Label releases are reduced to ?10.

https://101-films-store.com/collections/black-label

101 Films presents groundbreaking 90s sci-fi The Lawnmower Man (1992) and its sequel, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995) on Blu-ray in the UK for the very first time. Presented in a 3-disc set including both the theatrical and director?s cuts of The Lawnmower Man, in limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork, and complete with a booklet with new writing on the film.

THE LAWNMOWER MAN

Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfecting virtual reality software. When his experiments on animals fail, he finds the ideal substitute - Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey), a slow-witted gardener. Dr. Angelo?s goal is to benefit his human guinea pig and ultimately mankind itself, but evil lurks in the guise of ?The Shop?, a shadow group that seeks to use the technology to create an invincible war machine. When the experiments change the simple Jobe into a superhuman being, the stage is set for a Jekyll-and-Hyde struggle for control of Job?s mind and the future of the world.

LAWNMOWER MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE

Enter the deadly world of virtual reality, where information is the key to world domination. Picking up where the original Lawnmower Man ended, Jobe (Matt Frewer - Max Headroom) has become a hostage in futuristic hell. But when he discovers a computer chip that will give him the key to the ultimate revenge, the battle for world control begins. With stunning special effects, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace takes you into a world where only the hardwired dare to journey.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Limited edition rigid box packaging. Limited Edition Booklet: Includes Grassroots and Cyber Suits: Variations of The Lawnmower Man by Rich Johnson and This Diseased Mainframe: The Abject Horror of Bodily Digitisation in The Lawnmower Man by Andy Marshall-Roberts

DISC 1: The Lawnmower Man Theatrical Cut

? Cybergod: Creating The Lawnmower Man ? Audio commentary with writer/Director Brett Leonard and writer producer Gimel Everett ? Deleted scenes ? Original electronic press kit with cast interviews and behind-the-scenes footage ? Edited animated sequences ? Theatrical trailer ? TV spot

DISC 2: The Lawnmower Man Director's Cut

? Audio commentary with writer/Director Brett Leonard and writer/producer Gimel Everett ? Conceptual art and design sketches ? Behind-the-scenes and production stills ? Storyboard comparison

DISC 3: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

https://101-films-store.com/products...dition-blu-ray

Not a fan of the artwork on these, especially no with no title of the front of the cases, and why do reversible covers if you're not going to use the original artwork?

The art they're using on the reverse of the first film was done for the Scream Factory release and it looks like Katie Price wearing a helmet and goggles [emoji23]

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Are 101 Films planning on releasing Bad Lieutenant? The version streaming on ITVX has their logo at the start. Or is this just a streaming only thing? Still doesn't have Schoolly D on the soundtrack though.

'A Shock To The System' (1990) - coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 101Films

Release date: May 27

"HE?S KILLING ON IMPULSE... AND HE WON?T REST UNTIL HE GETS A CORNER OFFICE

Loyal and hardworking executive Graham Marshall (screen legend Michael Caine) has paid his dues. He has suffered through mounting bills, the indignities of climbing the corporate ladder, and a nagging wife (Swoosie Kurtz, Sisters) with only an anxiously awaited promotion to keep him going. But that all changes when his promotion is instead given to a boorish associate (Peter Riegert, National Lampoon?s Animal House).

Annoyed and frustrated, Graham unleashes his rage ... in the form of an accidental killing with which he gets away clean! Emboldened by his newfound talent for murder, Graham begins to rethink his business strategy - with deadly results.

Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime, The Handmaid?s Tale), Will Patton (Remember the Titans, No Way Out), and Jenny Wright (Near Dark, The Lawnmower Man) also star in this electrifyingly pitch-black comedy of Madison Avenue and murder."

Special Features:

• Audio commentary with Director Jan Egleson
• Interview with Jan Egleson
• Alternate ending
• Theatrical trailer
• Still gallery

Nice to see 101 going down the VCI route with their 'stick some white text on a still from the movie' take on cover artworks.