The Scorpion Releasing Thread

[BAKA]

In an interview with Rock! Shock! Pop! Katarina mentioned some new titles:

R!S!P! – Are there any other releases coming out in the line that haven’t been announced yet?

KW - Yes, look out for FANTASIST, WHISPERS, SNAPSHOT, SATAN’S SLAVE, DEVIL’S MEN/TERROR, SURVIVOR, and DOUBLE EXPOSURE!

I've never seen Snapshot (The Day After Halloween, as I remember it being branded as), but I've heard it's terrible. Can't wait to finally see for myself.

[bdc]

Originally Posted by piraterob

wow i am a big fan of tna wrestling especially winter (katerina)
what does she have to do with these dvds?

She hosts the movies and has moderated an audio commentary so far...more to come.

[bdc]

Matt has some more news...

"(L.A. Is My Home Town is) A controversial BBC documentary, apparently.....hosted by Ian Whitcomb, who had a few hits ("You Turn Me On", "This Sporting Life") in the States during the British Invasion. More info at http://www.picklehead.com/ian/videos.html "

".....and Katarina reveals a few hitherto unknown surprises in the Nightmare Theater line:

DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1983)
THE FANTASIST (1989)
Dean R. Koontz's WHISPERS (1990)
SNAPSHOT a/k/a THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN (1979)
THE SURVIVOR (1981 film directed by David Hemmings?)

The last two are Australian productions."

"Confirmed that the SURVIVOR in this series is the 1981 Hemmings directed film - a lengthier 99 minute cut, and in 2:35 scope for the very first time."

"SNAPSHOT features an audio commentary with producer Antony Ginnane and (like DOUBLE EXPOSURE and THE SURVIVOR) has a first-time 2:35 presentation."

"DOUBLE EXPOSURE Features!

-Fresh widescreen 2:35 transfer
-Audio Commentary with cinematographer R. Michael Stringer
-On Camera interview with star Michael Callan"

(Big thanks to Matthew David for the info)

[bdc]

Once again thanks to Matt for the info:

PYX Press Release

On 10/18, Scorpion Releasing and Katarina's Nightmare Theater present THE PYX!

Two Academy Award® nominated actors, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER and KAREN BLACK, join forces in this suspense thriller about the murder of a prostitute with satanic overtones. Police sergeant Henderson (Academy Award® nominee Christopher Plummer, SOUND OF MUSIC, STAR TREK VI, MURDER BY DECREE, SOMEWHERE IN TIME) investigates the murder of prostitute Elizabeth Lucy (Academy Award® nominee Karen Black, FIVE EASY PIECES, DAY OF THE LOCUST, FAMILY PLOT). Around her neck she was wearing an upside down cross, and clutched in her fist, a locket, both unusal for a high class call girl. Will Henderson solve her murder? Now watch this in an all new HiDef master from the original camera negatives, in its original scope ratio!


Special Features:

Play with or without Katarina's Nightmare Theater

16x9 2:35 scope widescreen from a Brand New HD master from the original Camera Negatives

Audio commentary from star Karen Black

Original Trailer

Reversible sleeve with and without Katarina's banner


NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT Press Release

Masters of horror SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE and PETER CUSHING pair up in this spine-tingling gothic thriller! When a Scottish island orphanage is inundated by a rash of cold-blooded murders, Special Bureau Chief Bingham (Lee, DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE WICKER MAN, THE MUMMY) of Scotland Yard is dispatched to investigate. He and his ally (Cushing, STAR WARS, THE CREEPING FLESH, SHE, FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL), a hospital pathologist, begin to uncover a series of bizarre and baffling clues.


Special Features:

Play with or without Katarina's Nightmare Theater

16x9 widescreen

Liner Notes by Christopher Gullo, author of Peter Cushing biography, "In All Sincerity...Peter Cushing".

Original Trailer

Reversible sleeve with and without Katarina's banner

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Nothing But The Night is well worth a punt.
I have it on French DVD.

[bdc]

Seems Scorpion's Alien Thunder (1974) is oop?
Think this is their first oop title...

[mark meakin]

I have HUMONGOUS on order for November from Movietyme.Not seen it in years & never uncut.We have the full version of THE SURVIVOR on dvd in the UK already in it's original ratio (BRITFILMS).The older release from PRISM was the shorter version though.

[bdc]

Wondering what's up with Humongous?

New update from Matthew David

"Coming Soon....!




MARK OF CAIN (1986) / THRILL KILL (1987)






Dean R. Koontz's WHISPERS (1990)






AMERICAN NIGHTMARE (1983)

Director: Don McBrearty
Running Time: 87 min

A young pianist search of his sister. His odyssey takes him into the seamiest recesses of the porn and prostitution scenes in the Big City.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or play feature only
-Audio commentary with Producer Paul Lynch moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
-Audio interview with writer John Sheppard conducted by Katarina Leigh Waters






DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1983)

Director: William Byron Hillman
Running Time: 94 min

A photographer for a men's magazine is disturbed by a recurring dream he has that he is killing his models by various gruesome means. Then he discovers that his city is being terrorized by a slasher who is stalking and murdering women on the streets. He begins to suspect that he may actually be the killer.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- Brand New 16x9 widescreen (2:35) in its correct scope ratio, first time anywhere in the world!
- Audio commentary with Cinematographer R. Micheal Stringer and script supervisor Sally Stringer moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
- Audio commentary with Star Michael Callan and HOSTEL producer Scott Spiegel moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
- On Camera interview with Michael Callan
- Original Theatrical Trailer






SATAN'S SLAVE (1976)


Director: Norman J. Warren
Running Time: 88 min

A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her. Now for the first time, anywhere in the world, in widescreen in its completely un cut version.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- 16x9 widescreen (2:35) master of the uncensored uncut version, first time anywhere in the world
- Interview with composer John Scott
- Vintage making of featurette
- Behind the scene featurette.
- Deleted scenes
- Norman Warren's short film FRAGMENTS
- Theatrical trailer






THE DEVIL'S MEN (1976) / TERROR (1978)


Director: Kostas Karagiannis / Norman J Warren
Running Time: 92/82min
Release Date: January 17, 2012

In DEVILS MEN, A satanic cult headed by Peter Cushing kidnaps young people and sacrifices them, and Priest Donald Pleasence must stop them before they continue. This is the complete uncut version of the horror classic.

In TERROR Royal ancestors feel the wrath of the curse of the condemned witch Mad Dolly, who spews forth her prophecy while she is burned at the stake. The victims suffer death by having their heads removed in various fashions, getting their limbs caught in animal traps, knife wounds, and other methods of medieval torture.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in 'Katarina's Nightmare Theater' format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- DEVILS MEN: 16x9 (1:78) anamorphic widescreen master of the uncut longer International cut
- TERROR: 16x9 (1:78) anamorphic widescreen master
- Behind the scene Featurette for TERROR
- Deleted scene



THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN (1979)

Director: Simon Wincer
Running Time: 91 min

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van!


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- Brand New 16x9 widescreen (2:35) in its correct scope ratio, of the U.S cut, first time anywhere in the world!
- International cut, in 16 x 9 (1:78)
- Audio commentary with Producer Anthony I. Ginnaine moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters.
- Alternate title card
- Original International Trailer



THE FANTASIST (1989)

Director: Robin Hardy
Running Time: 98 min

Whenn an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to lure his victims in. Even though she is aware of this, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to this man. Will she be the next victim of the "Phone Call Killer"?


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- 16x9 widescreen (1:78) master
- Interview with writer/director Robin Hardy



THE SURVIVOR (1981)

Director: David Hemmings
Running Time: 99 min

A 747 Jetliner takes off from an international airport and within minutes it is inexplicably threatening the lives of thousands as it plummets to the ground.The Pilot Keller manages to avoid total catastrophe by bringing the aircraft down in a field but even so the resulting fire from a ruptured fuel tank ensures that from the plane, at least, there are no survivors…..except one: the Pilot himself.Tortured with the guilt and unable to explain the reasons for the disaster Keller sets upon a course of discovery, desperately seeking to overcome the temporary loss of memory that he has sustained.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- Brand New 16x9 widescreen (2:35) of the longer 99minute cut!
- Audio commentary with Producer Anthony I. Ginnaine moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
- Original Trailer






HUMAN EXPERIMENTS (1980)


Director: Gregory Goodell
Running Time: 93 min

Country singer Rachel is arrested and charged with murder and placed in prison. Psychiatric sessions are run by the sadistic Dr. Kline, whose idea of mental health is to erase the patient's personality and completely replace it with a new one through brainwashing.


DVD FEATURES:

- Watch this in "Katarina's Nightmare Theater" format with our Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or Play Feature Only.
- Brand New 16x9 (1:78) mastered in HD from the original camera negatives
- Audio commentary with director Gregory Goodell moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
- Audio interview with star Linda Haynes conducted by Katarina Leigh Waters
- Original Theatrical Trailer






HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1983) - 2 Disc Special Edition


Director: Mark Rosman
Running Time: 92 min
Release Date: January 17, 2012

Flirtatious young sorority sisters who are days away from graduation set out to throw one last decadent celebration. Unbeknownst to them, the strict matron of their house hides a horrendous secret thought long buried. A gruesome accident is witnessed by a hideous fiend, hidden within the once nurturing dwelling, which triggers a rampage of death and destruction. Before the end, the peril faced by this sisterhood will push them to the brink of annihilation. And rivers of blood will drown all who enter...The House On Sorority Row.


DVD FEATURES:

Disc 1

- Watch this in “Katarina’s Nightmare Theater” format with our hostess Katarina Leigh Waters or play feature only
- Brand New 16x9 (1:78) HD master from the original IN
- Brand New audio commentary with Director Mark Rosman moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
- Bonus commentary with Stars Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson and director Mark Rosman
- TV spots
- 3 thearical trailers

Disc 2

- On camera interview with star Kate McNeil conducted by Katarina Leigh Waters
- On camera interview with star Eileen Davidson conducted by Katarina Leigh Water
- On camera interview with Director Mark Rosman conducted by Katarina Leigh Waters
- On camera interview with co-star Harley Jane Kozak
- On camera interview with composer Richard Band
- On camera interview with co-producer Igo Kantor
- Storyboard Comparisons
- Photo Gallery"

[Pete]

Review of Nothing But the Night and Satan's Blood.

[mark meakin]

Movietyme have just emailed me to say my copy of HUMONGOUS is on its way.Be great to see it uncut at last.I'd like to see WHISPERS as I've never even come across a copy on video.