MVD Entertainment Group has a new addition to its
MVD Rewind Collection series of Blu-ray releases with the announcement this
past week that writer/director Bob Yari’s Mind
Games will be released on Feb. 11.
One of the most overlooked films of 1989 — MGM was
in the middle of being bought and sold by Kirk Kerkorian to an Italian waiter
by the name of Giancarlo Parretti, who, as it turned out, scammed Crédit
Lyonnais out of a billion dollars in buying MGM — Mind
Games literally got lost in the chaos … and to make
matters worse, an old distribution deal with 20th Century-Fox was
still in play that saw the film shuffled over to them for a matter-of-course
VHS release. Gone.
Gone, yes, but not forgotten as MVD has become something of an expert in finding these misplaced cinematic treasures and Mind Games will be right at home in the company’s Rewind Collection clubhouse.
Dana (Edward Albert — Butterflies
are Free, Guarding Tess, The Ice Runner) and
his wife, Rita (Shawn Weatherly — as Jill on Baywatch),
are having a tough go of it, so they decide that a little downtime and a road
trip in their motorhome with their son, Kevin (Matt Norero), would be a good
opportunity to reset things.
Lots to see and do … and then there’s this
encounter, in the woods, on a quite stream, with a young man by the name of
Eric (Maxwell Caulfield — Grease 2, The Boys Next Door,
Gettysburg), who seems harmless
enough. For reasons that seem a little
odd, Dana invites him to join them on their road trip.
If you were sitting in a theatre back in 1989, you
were, about this point in the movie, yelling at the screen … NO! You already knew that things were about to
go south and that pretty boy Eric was really a monster — a psychopath — just
waiting for a motorhome full of victims to toy with. And toy he does!!
Bonus goodies include two newly-prepared video
sessions. The first with Maxwell
Caulfield and Shawn Weatherly, and the second featuring writer/director Bob
Yari and producer Mary Apick.
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