ARROW VIDEO PRESENTS: THE FANTASTIC FACTORY

On April 3, 2011, In Aliens, Cult Labs Promotions, Movies, TV, Celebrities, action, dvd, exploitation, horror, By sam

A BLOODY FEAST OF ZOMBIES, DEMONS, SPIDERS AND WEREWOLVES!

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From Arrow Video comes an essential collection of four of the biggest hit features from the Fantastic Factory, the specialist horror, sci-fi and fantasy genre label created by cult writer, director and producer Brian Yuzna (Beneath Still Waters; Bride Of Re-Animator; Society) and Spanish producer Julio Fernandez (Rec; Perfume; The Machinist).

This exclusive four-disc box set includes Brian Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator and Faust: Love Of The Damned, along with Arachnid, directed by Jack Sholder (A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge) and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, directed by Paco Plaza (Rec; Rec 2). Each disc comes with its own collectors’ booklet and a host of extra features interviews, commentaries, deleted scenes and more! So, get ready to enter the Fantastic Factory for a festival of gory mayhem and blood-splattered horror.

In Beyond Re-Animator, the evil Dr. Herbert West, a medical genius with an overwhelming drive to raise the dead, returns to the subjects he knows best: science and murder!

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John Jaspers is driven to insanity in Faust: Love Of The Damned when he signs a pact with the devil in order to enact a horrible vengeance on the thugs who murdered his girlfriend. Transformed into a sickening beast, he stalks the night seeking only to maim and kill.

Alien spiders threaten the very existence of man in Arachnid and only a team of scientists and mercenaries stand in the way of eight-legged doom for humanity. Trapped on an island with a nest of hungry enemies, time is running out for the team as the killer spiders make it their goal to lay their eggs inside the bodies of every last human.

A handsome traveller with a girl in every village leaves a trail of murder behind him in 19th century Spain, but is he the actual killer or is there a beast stalking the night? Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, based on a true life murder case, is a chilling tale of bloody romance, shadowy forests and lycanthropes.

Fantastic Factory Presents… (cert. 18), featuring Beyond Re-Animator, Faust: Love Of The Damned, Arachnid and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, will be released on DVD (£39.99) by Arrow Video on 18th April 2011.

Special Features

Beyond Re-Animator
Audio commentary by director Brian Yuzna; “All In The Head” – Brian Yuzna on the Re-Animator Chronicles (50 mins); original trailer; double-sided fold-out poster featuring new artwork; collectors’ booklet featuring “World Of Lovecraft” and an interview with star Jeffrey Combs by author and critic Calum Waddell as well as an extract from H.P. Lovecraft’s original story “Herbert West: Re-animator”; reversible sleeve featuring brand new and original artwork; English Stereo, English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio options.

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Faust: Love Of The Damned
Audio commentary by director Brian Yuzna; “Director Of The Damned: Brian Yuzna, Faust And The Fantastic Factory”; “The Pain in Spain: A History Of Horror In Hot Weather” with Angel Sala, director of the Sitges Film Festival; original trailer; double-sided fold-out poster featuring new artwork; collectors’ booklet “Brian Yuzna: Maestro Of Mayhem” by author and critic Calum Waddell; reversible sleeve featuring brand new and original artwork; English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio options.

Arachnid
“King of the Spiders” – Brian Yuzna remembers Arachnid; “Creature Comforts: The Monster Mayhem Of Steve Johnson”; original trailer; collectors’ booklet “Spider Man” and interview with director Jack Sholder by author and critic Calum Waddell; English Stereo, English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio options.

Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
“Romasanta: Lycanthropes, Lunacy And The Last Days Of The Fantastic Factory”; “Making Romasanta” – interviews with director Paco Plaza, stars Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky and John Sharian; interview with composer Mikel Salas; deleted Scenes with introduction and commentary by director Paco Plaza; a featurette on the SFX design in Romasanta; original trailer; collectors’ booklet “Sex, Sun And Sinful Celluloid” by author and critic Calum Waddell; English Stereo and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio options.

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THE BEYOND: FULCI

On March 13, 2011, In Movies, TV, Celebrities, artwork, blu-ray, dvd, exploitation, extreme, horror, By sam

The Beyond (cert. 18) is OUT NOW on DVD (£19.99) and Blu-ray (£24.99) by Arrow Video

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Lucio Fulci got scant regard while he was alive, his films being consigned to banned lists, kicked around by distributors armed with celluloid butchering scissors and generally treated like the work of any number of other Italio-hacks churning out cheap knock-offs of Hollywood successes.

Fulci’s work is so much more than that. Yes, there’s plenty of hokey splatter (particularly in later offerings) and a willingness to cash in on prevailing trends, a habit he shared with many of his contempories, but for cinema lovers, Fulci’s films have a few more layers than the average Spaghetti gutmuncher or sleazy Eurotrash offering.

Personally, Fulci stands out as the first director outside of the mainstream that I really became aware of. As a teenage horror geek among a peer group raised on 80s blockbusters and American Werewolf in London, I was well aware of Spielberg’s forays into big screen pulp, Lucas’ Space Westerns and John Landis, who was a bit of hero because of the jaw dropping Werewolf transformation he helped to create and his work on Thriller.

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But Lucio Fulci was different. Here was a disreputable pusher of extreme violence that I could really get my teeth into. Later on, I’d discover the full breadth of his work, but in those early days, it was the eyeball piercing extremity of Zombie Flesheaters, the buried alive terror of City of the Living Dead and the mechanical spider metaphysical weirdness of The Beyond that fired my imagination.

Here were films devoid of the MTV Horror-lite of 80s Teen-Comedy fright flicks. Here were movies that didn’t follow the logical progression of Reaganomic Slasher movies, with their strangely right wing morality and linear slayings of wayward young people tempted by premartial sex or a sneaky joint. Fulci’s movies took me down a darker path, to a place where Slasher films weren’t throwaway hokum but disturbing forays into edgy sleaze like New York Ripper. Zombies became pawns in an increasingly bizarre series of movies which twisted and distorted the rules of horror cinema with The Beyond being perhaps Fulci’s most outlandish statement. A savage but dislocated nightmare that follows the rules of dream logic rather than a conventional narrative.

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The standard tools available to a horror director – A creaking old house, stumbling corpses, creepy kids, unsettling mystics and loving attention payed to close up dismemberment – are used to create a kind of gore drenched cinematic poetry as opposed to a comforting blend of familiar genre tricks.

The Beyond remains, alongside Murder Rock (for less praiseworthy reasons), my favourite film in Fulci’s filmography and, while it’s certainly been a long time coming, the new Arrow Video edition of the film finally means the UK has a release of this vital piece of horror history that does the film justice.

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