Check out the latest reviews for the upcoming Bluray release of QUATERMASS & THE PIT:
“Quatermass and the Pit… a provocative and powerful slice of British science fiction cinema” says CATHODE RAY TUBE. Check out their highly detailed and informative review HERE, which also looks at the series as a whole.
“For anyone who prizes ideas over spectacle, this is not only the best film Hammer ever produced, it is one of the best Science Fiction films ever made in the UK.” CHRIS AND PHIL PRESENT offer some interesting thoughts on movies that have been influenced by Quatermass and Pit. Read more HERE
EYE FOR FILM note that the concerns that Quatermass & the Pit dealt with are still relevant today: “With London riots still fresh in the memory and some of the film’s other musings now much more relevant than they were when it was made (like the suggestion that a species may be dying out on its homeworld due to climate change; or the mind-imaging device, which we’ve just invented), Quatermass And The Pit doesn’t feel like an old film at all.” Read more HERE
Loosely based on Charles Kaufman’s 1980 Troma classic, Mother’s Day sees Rebecca De Mornay (Wedding Crashers; Lords Of Dogtown) heading a killer cast in a role that makes her psychotic character from “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” look like Mother Theresa.
Produced by Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour trilogy; X-Men: The Last Stand; Red Dragon), directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III and IV) and starring De Mornay, Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine; The Spirit), Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood), Briana Evigan (Burning Bright; Sorority Row; Step Up 2: The Streets) and Shawn Ashmore (Frozen; Hatchet II; the X-Men trilogy), this nail-biting thriller has been described as “intense” (Dread Central) and “relentlessly efficient… a cracking film” (Eye For Film).
Following a disastrous bank robbery attempt that leaves one of their number critically wounded, three brothers head for their childhood home to take refuge until the dust settles. What they don’t know is their mother (De Mornay) recently lost possession of the house in a foreclosure and no longer lives there. Instead, they stumble across the new owners, a young couple, and their guests who are in the middle of birthday celebration. Seeing no alternative, the brothers take the partygoers hostage before contacting their mother to explain their dilemma. Willing to do anything to protect her offspring, mother arrives at the scene, along with her only daughter (Woll), and immediately takes control of the situation while masterminding a plan to help her family escape across the border from the US into Canada. Unfortunately for the hostages, mother’s plot requires some serious funding and she’s determined to get hold of it any way she can. So begins a long night of psychological terror in which loyalties are tested, secrets are revealed and sins are punished by a deeply disturbed woman with maternal instincts that can only be described as murderous.
Co-starring Lyriq Bent (Saw II, III and IV), Kandyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica), Patrick John Flueger (The 4400), Warren Kole (24) and Matt O’Leary (Sorority Row; Die Hard 4), Mother’s Day is both “an intense, horrifying experience” (Alan Jones, Radio Times) and “a gruesome pleasure” (The Sun).
Interviews with stars Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Patrick Flueger, Warren Kole, Briana Evigan, Matt O’Leary, Shawn Ashmore and Lyriq Bent, producer Richard Saperstein, executive producers Lloyd Kaufman and Charles Kaufman and stunt coordinator Bobby King
B roll footage
Trailer
2.0 Stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio options
Optional English subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Digitally restored and on blu-ray for the first time.
