Mill Creek Entertainment announced its first wave of priced-to-collect
DVD and Blu-ray product offerings this past week … 18 selections in all that
will be arriving at home entertainment retailers on Apr. 4 (15) and Apr. 18
(3).
The month of April kicks off with a pair of three-film
Blu-ray releases — the SRP will be just $14.98 each (and that’s before
discounts at retail). The first of
these is titled Psycho Circus and it features three horror gems that will
certainly please genre fans.
Included in the mix are director Freddie Francis’ 1973 Tigon
British Film Productions release of The Creeping Flesh, teaming horror
icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in a Victorian-era tale of an ancient skeleton that comes to life —
re-growing its flesh — when exposed to water.
Is this a tale told by a mad man, confined to an insane asylum … or is his
story based on his first hand experience, you decide!
Also directed by Freddie Francis is the 1968 Amicus
Productions horror anthology film, Torture Garden, starring Burgess
Meredith as Dr. Diabolo … Peter Cushing and Jack Palance co-star.
Lastly, we have director Bernard McEveety’s 1971 cult
thriller, The Brotherhood of Satan, which features the likes of L.Q.
Jones, Strother Martin, Charles Bateman, Alvy Moore and
The other three-film Blu-ray SKU is simply titled Triple
Feature and it includes director James Foley’s 2006 mystery thriller Perfect
Stranger (with Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi), director
Gregory Jacobs’ ghostly tale, Wind Chill (with Emily Blunt and
Ashton Holmes) and X-Files’ Gillian Anderson stars in writer/director Dan Reed’s
revenge thriller, Closure.
Arriving on Apr. 4 — and priced at just $9.98 each — are the
stand-alone Blu-ray releases of writer/director David Seltzer’s 1988 “dramedy,”
Punchline,
teaming Tom Hanks with Sally Field as would-be comedians (John Goodman co-stars
as Field’s husband) and actor-turned-director Richard Benjamin’s 1988 Cold War espionage
thriller, Little Nikita, starring Sidney Poitier and River
Phoenix.
On the DVD release front on Apr. 4 look for the
aforementioned Punchline as well as five other films (all carrying a suggested
retail price point of just $9.98).
These are — writer/director Ed Solomon’s 2003 crime-themed
drama, Levity (with Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter
and Kirsten Dunst), writer/director Todd Robinson’s 2006 detective story, Lonely
Hearts (teaming John Travolta with James Gandolfini, plus Laura Dern, Salma
Hayek and Jared Leto), John Travolta also stars in filmmaker Shainee Gabel’s
2004 film adaptation of the Ronald Everett Capps’ novel, Love Song for Bobby Long
(with Scarlett Johansson), Jennifer Love Hewitt leads the way in the tale of a
one-hit-wonder band reunion, The Suburbans and Vivica A. Fox
stars in the romantic comedy, Three Can Play That Game.
Also on Apr. 4 is the double-disc DVD five-film collection
titled Mary Higgin Clark: The Queen of Suspense — it showcases such made-for-TV mysteries as Pretend
You Don't See Her (with Emma Samms), You Belong to Me (Lesley-Anne
Down), We'll Meet Again (co-starring Laura Leighton and
Brandy Ledford), I'll be Seeing You (Alison Eastwood) and Before I Say Goodbye (Sean
Young).
Rounding out the Apr. 4 selections is the true-life,
faith-based collection of stories about faith, home and survival titled Angels
in Disguise.
Shifting to the Apr. 18 DVD selections we find director Ivan
Passer’s 1995 television adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, Kidnapped:
The Complete Mini-Series, and two editions from Mill Creek
Entertainment’s popular “Baby First” series — Baby First: Let's Learn
and Baby
First: Let's Play.
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