The 88 Films Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Anthropophagus' (1980) - Pre-order available from 88Films direct for 4K UHD / Blu-Ray combo - UK$44:99 or Blu-Ray - UK$16:99

Release date: July 8

"Perhaps the most notorious 'video nasty' of all time, ANTHROPOPHAGOUS is back to deprave and corrupt a fresh wave of horror film viewers! Joe D'Amato cemented himself into genre film history with this slickly directed, and sinisterly suspenseful, creature feature which has some unprepared tourists arriving on a desolate Mediterranean island - only to find themselves stalked by a silent cannibalistic Neanderthal! Featuring gory special effects, that convinced some British moral guardians that ANTHROPOPHAGOUS was a legitimate 'snuff movie', there is little doubting that this timeless terror totem still holds up today. Also boasting a cast of genre legends, such as Tisa Farrow (ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS), Zora Kerova (CANNIBAL FEROX) and George Eastman (RABID DOGS), 88 Films is proud to present ANTHROPOPHAGOUS, fully uncut and uncensored, and re-mastered in 4K from the original 16mm Camera Negative."

Special features TBA

Special features:

4K UHD Edition: Limited Edition Website Exclusive Features

• LIMITED EDITION RIGID SLIPCASE WITH ORIGINAL VHS ARTWORK
• LIMITED EDITION DOUBLE SIDED A3 POSTER
• LIMITED EDITION 40 PAGE PERFECT BOUND BOOK FEATURING:
  - ISLANDS OF DEATH: HORRORS OF THE GREEK ARCHIPELAGO - BY JOHN LLEWELLYN PROBERT
  - DEVOURING THE INNOCENT: WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS CANNIBALISTIC PREY IN ANTHROPOPHAGOUS - BY ZO? ROSE SMITH
  - SO HORRIFIC IT MUST BE REAL: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF ANTHROPOPHAGOUS THE BEAST - BY DAVID FLINT
  - THE SAVAGE ISLAND - BY DANIEL BURNETT

4K UHD Special features:

• Brand new 4K Remaster from the Original 16mm Negatives presented in Ultra High Definition (2160p) in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio
• Presented in Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range (HDR10 Compatible)
• English DTS-HD MA Mono
• Italian DTS-HD MA Mono with newly translated English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti (English Version)

Blu-Ray Special Features:

• Brand new 4K Remaster from the Original 16mm Negatives presented in High Definition (1080p) in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio
• English DTS-HD MA Mono with optional SDH
• Italian DTS-HD MA Mono with English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• Resurrecting the Monster - An Interview with Dario Germani
• The Sacrificial Lamb - An Interview with Zora Kerowa
• The Grim Reaper - An Interview with Luigo Montefiori
• Joe, The Monster and Me - An Archive Interview with Luigo Montefiori
• Deleted Scene with Introduction by Eugenio Ercolani
• Visual Essay by Eugenio Ercolani
• Alessio Di Rocco Featurette
• Anthropophagous Trailer
• The Savage Island Trailer
• Anthropophagous The Beast Trailer
• The Grim Reaper VHS Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring new art by Graham Humphreys and original Italian poster

Technical Specs - 4K UHD / Blu-Ray:

• Region Code: ABC
• Picture Format: UHD 2160p / 1080p 1.66:1
• Audio Format: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual Mono
• Language: English / Italian
• Subtitles: English
• Certification: 18
• Running Time: 92 Mins Approx
• Discs: 2

[Susan Foreman]

"A lot of speculation and assumption that the GUTS trilogy will be cut to pieces and 88 is crazy for picking them up.

Against all expectations and despite a few setbacks all 3 will be released UNCUT so dive into the raw and unfiltered vision of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu, known for his daring and controversial films. This is a rare opportunity to experience these gore films as intended.

Here is a little extra artwork teaser"

HOWEVER... someone on FB asked the question: "Wait, uncut and "unfiltered" meaning the blurring has been removed too? Or uncut just meaning the most uncut version, but still censored in that regard? It's my understanding they can't exist without the blurring, but I want to make sure I understand" to which 88Films replied: "there is no version without the blurring, that IS the film."

So it is uncut, but still censored

Pre-order available at Amazon UK - UK$40:00

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

"A lot of speculation and assumption that the GUTS trilogy will be cut to pieces and 88 is crazy for picking them up.

Against all expectations and despite a few setbacks all 3 will be released UNCUT so dive into the raw and unfiltered vision of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu, known for his daring and controversial films. This is a rare opportunity to experience these gore films as intended.

Here is a little extra artwork teaser"

HOWEVER... someone on FB asked the question: "Wait, uncut and "unfiltered" meaning the blurring has been removed too? Or uncut just meaning the most uncut version, but still censored in that regard? It's my understanding they can't exist without the blurring, but I want to make sure I understand" to which 88Films replied: "there is no version without the blurring, that IS the film."

So it is uncut, but still censored

Pre-order available at Amazon UK - UK$40:00

It was planned and filmed with the blurring because of Japanese rules banning genitalia on screen. Blurring was standard practice. If you take away the blurring you would be able to see that the actors were wearing modesty patches. Calling it censored suggests that this was not the way it was intended to be shown.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Night Of The Big Heat' (1967) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88 Films

Release date: July 15

"A scorching picture from 1967, Night of the Big Heat is a sweat-inducing shocker based on the 1957 novel from John Lymington

The remote island of Fara is experiencing a stifling heat wave in the middle of winter, causing life, as the locals know it, to come to a halt. Tensions rise as the heat increases plus a high-pitched tone of unknown origin is incinerating the villagers

Directed by Hammer favourite, Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee alongside chisel jawed Patrick Allen, Night of the Big Heat is sizzling British sci-fi at its most intense"

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES DOUBLE WALLED REVERSE-BOARD GLOSS O-RING
• Rising Temperatures on the The Night of the Big Heat -Booklet notes by Barry Forshaw
• Restored and Re-Graded High Definition (1080p) Blu-Ray Presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• 2.0 Uncompressed Dual Mono
• Optional English SDH
• Audio Commentary by Film Journalist David Flint
• Jane Merrow Remembers Night of the Big Heat
• Mike Higgins Remembers Night of the Big Heat
• Stills Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore & original poster
• Release Date: 29th July 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Mono
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.85:1
• Runtime: 94 mins approx
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English

As a sidebar, it seems that 88Films are going to be using 'Night Of The Big Heat' as the first title in a new range - the Planet Films Production collection

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Funeral Home' (1980) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, 'Happy Birthday To Me') is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast." It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery???"

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

SPECIAL FEATURES

• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING MATTE SLIPCASE
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• Additional Restoration Carried out in the UK
• LPCM Mono Soundtrack
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio commentary by the Hysteria Continues
• Audio commentary by film historians Jason Pichonsky and Paul Corupe
• Isolated score selections & audio interview with music historian Douglass Fake (plays over the film as an alternate audio track)
• Audio interviews with actor Lesleh Donaldson, first assistant director Ray Sager, and production assistant Shelley Allen (plays over the film as an alternate audio track)
• House of Death - Lesleh Donaldson on Funeral Home
• Photographing Horror Films - Mark Irwin on Funeral Home
• The Art of Misdirection - Stephen E Miller on Funeral Home
• Cries in the Night - Lesleh Donaldson in Conversation with Ray Sager
• Dead & Breakfast - Interview with art director Susan Longmire and set assistant Elinor Galbraith
• Family Owned & Operated - Interview with Brian Allen, president of Premiere Operating, LTD. and son of producer Barry Allen
• Secrets & Shadows - Interview with cinematographer Mark Irwin
• Filming Locations - Featurette narrated by Michael Felsher
• Image Gallery
• Radio Spots
• "Cries in the Night" TV Spots
• Video Trailer
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reverse sleeve
• Release Date: 5th August 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Stereo
• Picture: 1080p HD 1:85:1
• Runtime: 92 mins approx
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Skinned Alive' (1990) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Rob Zombie popularized the 'hillbilly horror' subgenre with films like 'House of 1000 Corpses' and 'The Devil?s Rejects,' but writer / director Jon Killough did it over a decade earlier by making a movie that?s fun for the whole family? the Manson family, that is!

Crawldaddy and her kids travel cross-country selling fine leather apparel when their van breaks down in the Ohio backwoods. Auto mechanic Tom and his wife Whinnie put them up for the weekend, until ex-cop neighbor Paul discovers what their product is really made of...

Painstakingly restored from a 2K film scan of the original 16mm A/B roll cut negative with a dynamic 5.1 surround remix, 'Skinned Alive' debuts on Blu-ray. This Ultimate Edition includes hours of vintage and newly-prepared bonus materials plus three audio commentaries. Starring Scott Spiegel ('Intruder,' 'Evil Dead II,' 'From Dusk ?Til Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money) and produced by J.R. Bookwalter ('The Dead Next Door,' 'Robot Ninja')!"

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES FIRST PRESSING: DOUBLE WALLED REVERSE-BOARD MATT O-RING
• FEATURES FIRST PRESSING: It's Alive..... on Blu-ray! - Booklet notes by Calum Waddell
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation with 1.78:1 & 4:3 options
• DTS.HD MA 5.1 English Sountrack
• DD 5.1 Thai Soundtrack
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer / director Jon Killough, moderated by Tempe Historian Ross Snyder of Saturn?s Core Audio and Video
• Audio Commentary by producer J.R. Bookwalter and make-up effects artist David Lange
• Carving Up 30 Years of Skinned Alive featurette
• Call Me Daddy You Shit Head: Remembering Mary Jackson featurette
• Prissy Boy Phink: The Scott Spiegel Interview featurette
• 2020 Location Tour
• Restoration Grindhouse featurette
• Stills Galleries
• Trailer
• Skinned Alive - 1990 VHS version
• Audio Commentary by Doug Tilley and Moe Porne of The No-Budget Nightmares Podcast
• Two roommates episodes
• Joy Circuit 1987 Music Video
• Cut to the Bone: Dissecting the Making of Skinned Alive featurette
• Behind the Scenes featurette
• Camera and Wardrobe Tests
• About the 2002 Remastering
• Reversible sleeve featuring alternative VHS artwork
• Release Date: 29th July 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: DTS-HD 5.1
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.78:1 / 1.33:1
• Runtime: 78 mins approx
• Language: English / Thai
• Subtitles: English

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'The Pleasure' (1985) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Prolific Italian director Joe D?Amato is back in the softcore zone with a sordid tale about Gerard (Gabriele Tinti) who pines for his dead lover, Leonora (Andrea Guzon) whilst listening to old audio tapes of them having sex sparking memories of their erotic encounters

Back in the present his daughter, who is the mirror image of her mother finds the tapes which leads to questionable trysts and sordid couplings

With plenty of exposed flesh and the bonus of starring Laura 'Emmanuelle' Gemser this is one of D?Amato?s most stylish and accomplished bump and grind efforts. Fans of Tinto Brass will want to get their hands on this one."

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES DOUBLE WALLED ANTI SCRATCH MATT LAMINATE O-RING
• HOUSES OF TOLERANCE, JOE D'AMATO'S THE PLEASURE, SEX AND PROSTITUTION IN ITALY - Booklet notes by Francesco Massaccesi
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the English Version (93 Mins) and the Italian Version (91 Mins) with newly translated English subtitles
• Clyde on Joe - An Interview with Claudio Fragasso
• The Pleasure of It All - An Interview with Franco Grattarola
• Filmirage: Sex and/or Violence - A Visual Essay by Mike Foster
• Budget Erotica - A Visual Essay by Pier Maria Bocchi
• Italian Credits
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Sleeve featuring new artwork by Graham Humphreys & original poster
• Release Date: 29th July 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Mono
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.85:1
• Runtime: 93 / 91 mins approx
• Language: English / Italian
• Subtitles: English

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'An Autumns Tale' (1987) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"Set in New York, this bitter-sweet drama stars Chow Yun-Fat as Sam, a cool, and charismatic waiter who takes his na?ve and heart-broken NYU student cousin, Jennifer (Cherie Chung) under his wing

Their friendship grows as he shows this innocent youngster all that life in the Big Apple has to offer

This wonderful time capsule of New York as it was 1987, is perfectly constructed by director Mabel Cheung who frames each shot with care making sure that this a true love-letter to the iconic city from a very original point of view."

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES CLEAR PLASTIC O-RING
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• Cantonese Mono
• Cantonese 5.1 DTS-HD MA
• Newly Translated English Subtitles
• Interview with Alex Law
• Interview with Mabel Cheung
• Theatrical Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Mark Bell & original poster
• Release Date: 29th July 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Mono
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.85:1
• Runtime: 99 mins approx.
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: English

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Immortal Story' (1986) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"A story of lost lives and lost souls, writer / director Yonfan delivers one of his strongest studies of human fragility

The movie focuses on the relationship between a chanteuse and her Japanese lover from the time they first meet to the present day where she is now at rock bottom and he?s a washed-up drug addict.

With incredible performances from Sylvia Chang and Shingo Tsurumi, we act as a voyeur, dipping into their bleak, fragmented existences where others control their choices and the only the only light in their lives is their unbroken love."

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES CLEAR PLASTIC O-RING
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• Cantonese Mono
• Newly Translated English Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Mark Bell & original poster
• Release Date: 29th July 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Mono
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.85:1
• Runtime: 97 mins approx.
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: English

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings' (1993) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"35 years after young Tommy is killed by greaser thugs in 1958, he is brought back to life by a group of teenagers, however, he has come back in the form of Pumpkinhead an evil demon, out for revenge

This direct-to-video sequel to 1998's Pumpkinhead is an entertainingly splatter-fuelled horror movie cast in the mould of the video nasty era. Fun, fierce, and dripping with blood."

More info TBA

Special features and specs:

• FEATURES LIMITED EDITION GLOSS O-RING
• HD (1080p) Blu-ray presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• 2.0 English Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Film Journalists Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
• Audio Commentary by Director Jeff Burr
• Monster Mash - Interview with Mark McCracken (Pumpkinhead)
• The Creature Wore Tennis Shoes - Creating Pumpkinhead II
• Behind the Scenes Footage
• Original Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• Brand-new artwork by Graham Humphreys and reversible sleeve featuring original poster art
• Release Date: 5th August 2024
• Region Code: B
• Audio: LPCM Stereo
• Picture: 1080p HD 1.85:1
• Runtime: 89 mins approx.
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English