MVD Entertainment Group has a brand, spanking new
addition to its very popular “Rewind Collection” promotional line of Blu-ray
releases — which are “cult classics” from video stores (remember those, video
stores … get your video rentals and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy).
The candidate for a Blu-ray launch on Aug. 11 is the new film
restoration of director Dennis Dimster’s 1992 horror chiller, Mikey,
featuring Brian Bonsell (as Alexander in Star
Trek: The Next Generation), as the title
character, a nasty little psychopath in training … actually, on second thought,
he may already have arrived.
In the opening sequence our little nut job drowns
his foster sister, electrocutes his foster mom and calmly waits for his foster
father to arrive home … and then beats him to death with a baseball bat. Nice little fellow, who goes “turtle” and
hides in a closet and calmly waits for the authorities to arrive. Poor Mikey, the sole survivor … poor, poor
Mikey.
We skip ahead and a new foster family, Neil (John
Diehl — Jurassic Park III, A Time to Kill, Stripes,
etc.) and his wife, Rachel (Mimi Craven, former wife of Wes Craven), are found
for Mikey. It is a horrible bit of
luck.
Mikey,
which followed in the wake of Child’s Play,
which was released theatrically in November of 1988, is pretty much the
live-action alternative. Mikey, the boy,
is a nasty bit of business. This kid is
mentally ill, he’s a serial killer, a murderer, but because he’s a child, you
never, ever suspect that he could be as evil as he is.
Mikey is a
gem … a horror thriller that still works today. And, MVD has a top-notch addition to its
killer “Rewind Collection” line of Blu-ray products (“killer” in more ways than
one).
Bonus features include a new, feature-length
documentary that is titled The Making of Mikey,
plus the newly-minted featurette titled “Mikey: Anatomy of a Scene.”
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