During the Halloween
promotional season of 1987 indie theatrical specialist, International Film
Marketing brought the Manson International production of Scared Stiff to
market. The theatrical launch was
limited and it was soon available on VHS from CBS/Fox (as memory recalls), but
damned if we can find any legitimate DVD release in the intervening years.
So it certainly piqued
our attention when Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced this past week that director
Richard Friedman’s Scared Stiff will be getting a new 2K restoration for release
on Blu-ray this coming Apr. 23.
We just checked with the
amazon.com web site and a vintage VHS copy is fetching $125, so what are you
waiting for … get those orders in and get ready to be Scared Stiff on Blu-ray
in April!!!
David Young (Andrew
Stevens) is a psychiatrist who buys an old antebellum mansion in Charlesburg
(filming was actually in and around the Miami area) and settles in with his
rock star girlfriend, Kate Christopher (played by Mary Page Keller in her film
debut), who is recovering from a nervous breakdown.
It seems that the house
has a history and in no time the very “receptive” Kate is seeing ghosts … if
she was bonkers before her arrival at her new digs, you can only imagine the
hell she faces with voodoo zombies stalk the halls!!
Bonus goodies for the
Blu-ray release of Scared Stiff include a newly-prepared commentary option
featuring director Richard Friedman (Doom Asylum, Death Mask, Ground Zero,
Christmas Crime Story, etc.), who is joined by producer Dan Bacaner and film
historian Robert Ehlinger, plus a new video session with composer Billy Barber,
an image gallery and the documentary titled “Mansion of the Doomed: The Making
of Scared Stiff.”
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