Curious Goods is Back Open - FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES on DVD

The first season of FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES hits DVD on September 23d, featuring twenty-six episodes spread across six discs, and includes "Original Network Launch Promos" and "Sales Presentation" footage.

The series, which was not related to our beloved hockey mask wearing killer (despite what the DVD cover's font may have you believe), focused on an antique store where the owner and his employees would collect cursed artifacts and lock them away so they could do no harm.

Could a release for the similarly-styled NIGHTMARE CAFE or FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES be far behind?

Magnet Releasing Has Six International Genre Films Lined Up

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today the launch of the SIX SHOOTER FILM SERIES, a theatrical release of six films from the vanguard of quality worldwide genre cinema. With each film hailing from a different country, the series aims to bring fans of horror, sci-fi, alternative comedy and Asian cinema a mix of the most intelligent, genre-bending titles available from around the globe. The film series is a labor of love for Magnet/Magnolia, who have been committed for some time now to bringing this kind of high-quality fare to theaters, releasing such beloved titles as Bong Joon-ho’s THE HOST and ONG BAK with Tony Jaa.

The inaugural film in the series will be Tomas Alfredson’s critically acclaimed LET THE RIGHT ONE IN from Sweden, winner of such film festival honors as “Best Narrative Feature” at the Tribeca Film Festival, the “Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award” at Edinburgh, “Best Film and Best Cinematography” at Göteborg, and “Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Best European, North or South American Film” at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN will open in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, October 24th with a regional expansion the following week. The film, based on a internationally bestselling Swedish novel, tells the story of an introverted and bullied 12-year-old boy whose wish for a friend is answered when a young girl moves into the apartment next door. However, the girl’s arrival coincides with a series of grisly murders, and their relationship is understandably complicated when the boy learns that his new friend is a vampire. Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a haunting and darkly atmospheric, yet poetic and unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence which manages to breath fresh life into the vampire genre.

“Some of the most exciting, forward-thinking cinema today falls under the genre label and deserves a showcase,” said Magnolia Pictures President Eamonn Bowles. “In the tradition of ‘The Shooting Gallery Film Series,’ we're putting together a group of films whose quality far outweighs most of what’s on offer from Hollywood. And what better way to kick things off than with LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, which is one of the best films of the year—period.”

"It's hard enough finding one film, let alone two that are benchmarks within any genre,” added Tom Quinn, SVP at Magnolia/Magnet. “We're extremely fortunate to have six stellar films—future classics, in my opinion—that will appeal to critics and audiences alike, and make great additions to discerning DVD collections."

The SIX SHOOTER FILM SERIES will continue the following month with Hal Halberman and Jeremy Passmore’s SPECIAL (U.S.A.), opening theatrically on November 21st after premiering earlier in month on November 7th as a VOD title as part of HDNet’s ULTRA VOD program. SPECIAL is an offbeat and lovable action/comedy starring Michael Rapaport as a meter-maid whose psychotic reaction to medication given to him at a clinical trial convinces him that he has super powers.

Next up in December is Nacho Vigalondo’s TIMECRIMES (Spain), a mind-bending time-travel caper, Sundance Film Festival favorite and Austin Fantastic Fest winner that has already been optioned by United Artists for an English-language remake with David Cronenberg slated to direct. In January is Franck Vestiel’s EDEN LOG (France), a dark and visually stunning sci-fi thriller which will be featured in the “Midnight Madness” section of the Toronto Film Festival next month. Ollie Blackburn’s gleefully twisted and sexually charged Sundance thriller DONKEY PUNCH (UK) with Jaime Winstone will bow in February, riding the wave of notoriety that it generated from its UK release last month. Wrapping up the series in March is Hitoshi Matsumoto’s wonderfully bizarre superhero/mockumentary hybrid, BIG MAN JAPAN (Japan), another Toronto “Midnight Madness” and Cannes Director’s Fortnight alum that re-imagines the iconic giant defender of Tokyo as a 40 year old loser who manages to incur the population’s wrath as he battles some of the strangest monsters ever committed to celluloid.

Final DVD Specs for THE BEYOND and PIECES from Grindhouse Releasings

On October 28th Grindhouse Releasings will give patient horror fans a treat with deluxe DVD editions of Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND and the Spanish splatterfest PIECES.

THE BEYOND will include the following extras, some of which were previously seen on the Anchor Bay release:

- Anamorphic Widescreen transfer of the uncut print.
- Audio commentary by stars Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck
- On-set interview with Fulci
- Cast and crew interviews
- Optional Italian-language soundtrack and original mono audio
- Lost German pre-credit sequence in color
- Necrophagia music video by Jim VanBebber
- Still and poster-art gallery
- Original theatrical trailers
- Filmographies
- Liner notes

PIECES will include the following:

- Anamorphic Widescreen transfer of the original uncut print.
- English and Spanish audio tracks
- Alternate audio track: The Vine Theater Hollywood Experience
- In-depth interviews with Simon and actor Paul L. Smith
- Still and poster-art gallery
- Filmographies
- Liner notes

Both DVDs will retail for $24.95. PIECES is currently scheduled for select theatrical showings just prior to the disc's debut.

MST3K 20th Anniversary DVD Boxset Specs Released!

Shout! Factory has released the final specs for their upcoming box set celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 that will hit DVD players on October 28th.

The set will feature four never-before-released episodes that fans have been clamoring for including:

- First Spaceship to Venus
- Laserblast
- Werewolf
- Future War

Extras includes featurettes covering the entire lifespan of MST3K and interviews with all the key players that made the series the classic it is. The set will also include lobby cards and a Crow T Robot figurine.

Shout! Factory, which now owns the entire run of the show, promises that this is merely the first of many sets that fans will surely go nuts over. Could we be seeing a Godzilla / Giant Monster themed set in the near future?

HALLOWEEN Unrated 3-Disc DVD Set Specs and Cover

If you're a fan of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN re-imagining, get ready for a deluxe DVD treatment (see cover art above) coming down the pipeline. This three-disc set includes the unrated version of the film (running eleven minutes longer than the theatrical release) as well as a MASSIVE four and a half hour documentary the covers *everything* related to making the film. This set wil also include:

- Audio commentary by writer/director Zombie
- 17 deleted scenes with optional director’s commentary
- Alternate ending with optional commentary
- Bloopers
- Casting sessions
- The Many Masks of Michael Myers featurette
- Re-Imagining HALLOWEEN featurette
- Meet the Cast featurette
- Scout Taylor-Compton screen test

At $24.95 ($34.95 for the Blu-ray version) this is a truly a bargain. The standard DVD version hits shelves on October 7th, while the Blu-ray set slashes the competition on Octber 21st.

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