The Arrow Thread

[DayzeUK]

Originally Posted by Calum

We never gave Arrow Video permission to use our extras on Pit Stop (USA) or our Nekromantik piece on the USA edition of this. In fact we have an email from Alex Agran confirming that he would not use our stuff on any foreign editions in future in exchange for a deal we made on Mark of the Devil.

I honoured this deal and just this week had Synapse ask for our stuff on Tenebrae and Phenomena. If I see our material on Pit Stop or Nekromantik then Synapse win big time.

Really offended by this treatment of us.

This could get interesting

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by DayzeUK

This could get interesting

It's certainly not fun, especially for Calum, and could actually get quite nasty.

[DayzeUK]

I going back to listening to the radio!!

[SharonLynette]

Nightmare City! I could cry with happiness if I wasn't actually so happy at the moment to begin with.

[Hawkmonger]

Videodrome at last! What a superb package and a must for myself!

Nightmare City, Blood rage and Madman are also very welcome!

[Buboven]

None of the new titles interest me really. The only thing I would be interested to see are Cronenberg's early shorts.

How I would love if Arrow Video could give The Dead Zone the same treatment as Videodrome.

[Susan Foreman]

Ooo-err!

From the High Rising FaceBook page:

"We did not give Arrow Video permission to use our extra features on their USA edition of Pit Stop or our Q and A on their USA edition of Nekromantik (which we filmed, edited and hosted for free).

After six years of working hard to build this label we are both hurt and angry that they refuse to honour deals and still want to sell their titles on our extra features even after we have been dismissed from their label."

[Susan Foreman]

So it is time for us to reveal our August slate! First up, our 5 UK releases…

Coming to the UK - Nekromantik!

Release Date: 3rd August 2015
Region: B
Format: Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD
Starring: Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt
Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit

DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Nekromantik is the one-of-a-kind shock classic from cult director Jörg Buttgereit, weaving the tale of Rob Schmadtke (Daktari Lorenz), a young man who finds himself competing for the affections of his girlfriend with a putrefying cadaver.

An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company which cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob takes advantage of his profession to indulge in his chosen hobby - the collection of body parts. Then, one day Rob, brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of girlfriend Betty. There follows a twisted love triangle, resulting in some of the most shocking scenes ever committed to celluloid.

Nearly 30 years after its original release, Arrow Video is proud to present this classic of underground horror cinema – finally classified for UK release in its fully unexpurgated form.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• •High Definition Bluray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of three Buttgereit films: Nekromantik (1987), Hot Love (1985) [29 mins] and J.B.’s Horror Heaven (1984) [23 mins]
• •Optional English subtitles for all three films
• •Nekromantik audio commentary with Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen
• •Hot Love audio commentary with Buttgereit
• •Horror Heaven audio commentary with Buttgereit
• •Director’s Introduction to Nekromantik
• •Alternative “Grindhouse” version of Nekromantik, transferred from the only existing 35mm print [Blu-ray only]
• •In Conversation with The Death King – a brand-new 2014 interview with Buttgereit Morbid Fascination: The Nekromantik Legacy – a brand-new 2014 documentary looking at the impact of the film on the horror scene both in the UK and abroad, featuring interviews with genre critic Alan Jones, Marc Morris, producer of Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Parts 1 & 2 and Buttgereit biographer David Kerekes
• •Q&A with Jörg Buttgereit recorded at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (2014)
• •The Making of Nekromantik – A vintage featurette including behind the scenes footage, viewable with two different audio tracks: an English commentary featuring Buttgereit, co-author Franz Rodenkirchen and David Kerekes, and a German-language audio track featuring radio interviews with Buttgereit, Rodenkirchen and producer Manfred Jelinski, viewable with optional English subtitles
• •Nekromantik Featurette – A look back at the film’s production, featuring interviews with Buttgereit and Jelinski, produced for the film’s 10 year anniversary German VHS release
• •Nekromantik Premiere – short featurette comprised of footage from the film’s premiere in Berlin, January 1988
• •“Das Letzte” – short featurette comprising footage from the 1985 premiere of Hot Love
• •Two Buttgereit-directed music videos: ‘I Can’t Let Go’ by Shock Therapy (1995) and ‘Lemmy I’m a Feminist’ by Half Girl (2013)
• •Complete collection of Buttgereit film trailers: Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Nekromantik 2, Schramm
• •Extensive image gallery including behind-the-scenes stills, rare promotional material and the German-language Nekromantik der Komik, from Berlin comic artist Fil, reproduced in its entirety
• •Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Godmachine

[Susan Foreman]

Next up, the one a lot of you have been waiting for… Nightmare City!

Release Date: 3rd August 2015
Region: ABC
Format: Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD
Starring: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Directed by: Umberto Lenzi

NOW THEY ARE EVERYWHERE! THERE IS NO ESCAPE!

Long before zombies took up jogging in 28 Days Later and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, they were brandishing axes and other sharp implements in Umberto Lenzi’s utterly insane radiation-sickness opus Nightmare City.

In true Zombie Flesh Eaters form, our story begins with the arrival of an ominous, seemingly unmanned craft – in this instance, a military plane making an unscheduled landing at a European airport. Upon forcing the aircraft doors open, the waiting soldiers get a nasty shock when out bursts a horde of flesh-hungry, pizza-faced radioactive ghouls. The walking dead are here, and they’re hungry!

Counting amongst its fans the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth, Nightmare City (aka City of the Walking Dead) is a bonkers slice of Italian zombie carnage from the man who shocked the world with the notorious Cannibal Ferox.

Special Edition Contents

• •Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative
• •High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• •Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• •Newly translated subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• •Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• •Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker, Fangoria editor and Nightmare City super-fan Chris Alexander
• •Brand new interview with director Umberto Lenzi
• •Eli Roth on Nightmare City
• •Trailer
• •Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
• •Fully-illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic John Martin

[Susan Foreman]

"Next up, Madman!

Release Date: 3rd August 2015
Region: Free
Format: Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD
Starring: Gaylen Ross, Tony Fish, Harriet Bass
Directed by: Joe Giannone

THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE.

Gather around the campfire, and hear the tale of Madman Marz: an ill-tempered old farmer who, one dark night, chopped up his wife and two children into pieces. When the locals caught wind of his heinous crime, they meted out revenge - sinking an axe into his head and hanging him from a nearby tree. But the next day, Marz’s body was gone…

Thus the camp counsellor finishes his tale, closing with the warning never to say Marz’s name above a whisper, lest the hideously-deformed farmer comes looking for them… Naturally, of course, the first thing that one of the young campers does is to call out Marz’s name – precipitating a terrifying night of murder, mayhem and sexy Jacuzzi vignettes!

Inspired by the same Cropsey urban legend which informed its slasher peer The Burning, Madman stands as one of the very best of the camp-based terror flicks and was a clear influence on Hatchet, Adam Green’s love letter to the slasher genre.

• •Brand new 4K transfer from the original camera negative
• •High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• •Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• •Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• •Audio commentary with director Joe Giannone, Madman stars Paul Ehlers and Tony Fish and producer Gary Sales
• •New Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues
• •The Legend Lives: Thirty Years of Madman - 90 minute documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
• •New Interview with producer Gary Sales
• •New Interview with actor Jimmy Steele
• •New Interview with Madman star, Paul Ehlers
• •New Rare Acoustic Recording of the song inspired by his first viewing of Madman, ‘Escape From Hellview’, written, produced and performed by former CKY frontman, Deron Miller
• •Theatrical Trailers
• •TV Spots
• •Stills Gallery
• •Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin
• •Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
• •PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!

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