MVD Entertainment Group
was out last week with news about director Vincent Monton’s Windrider
joining the company’s popular “Rewind Collection” series as a Blu-ray
product offering on July 24.
The spray of the surf
hasn’t settle on that news quite yet when a long-lead announcement for the
company’s next “Rewind Collection” special edition on Blu-ray surfaced. Drum roll please … mark it, Aug. 28.
The candidate for a new
hi-def push on that date is none other than director Jamie Dixon’s 1998 “soul
eating” horror gem, Shadow Builder.
Drawn from Bram Skoker’s
1881 short story, “The Shadow Builder,” we are witness to a fiendish plan by a
rogue Catholic Archbishop who summons a demon from hell to seek out and destroy
a future saint while still a child.
The beast (Andrew Jackson
— Sea
Wolf) has the power to control people’s minds and turn its victims into
“solid” shadows that crumble to dust when sunlight shines upon them. This same sunlight is the beast’s Achilles
heel in that sunlight can destroy it … it moves from shadow to shadow in seek
of its target.
Pitted against the
creature is an unlikely priest by the name of Father Vassey (Michael Rooker — Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer, JFK, Cliffhanger, Guardians of the Galaxy,
etc.), who doesn’t look or act like your typical “father.”
Bonus features for this
“Rewind Collection” special edition Blu-ray release of Shadow Builder include
commentary from director Jamie Dixon (who founded Hammerhead Productions in
1995 and became one the film industry’s top visual effects techs with credits
that include Prometheus, The Chronicles of Riddick, Titanic, Deep Blue Sea,
etc.) and three newly-prepared production featurettes — “Making of Shadow
Builder,” “Shadow Builder: Visual Effects” and “Shadow Builder: Kevin Zeger.”
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