Artsploitation Films' Oct. 8 DVD Debut Of Horror Stories ... Update

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The venerable horror anthology gets a fresh look on Oct. 8 with Artsploitation Films delivers the South Korean film entry, Horror Stories.

Four separate stories from four different filmmakers are spun around the conceit of a beautiful high school girl (Kim Ji-won) being kidnapped by a crazed psycho (Yoo Yeon-seok) who cleverly forestalls what she believes to be the evitable — her rape and murder — by amusing her captor with tales of horror.

If you are a fan of those great horror anthologies of the 1970s — Asylum, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From the Crypt, etc. — then you are going to feel right at home here.   Only, kick the violence, the blood and gore up a notch or two.  

Min Kyu-dong handled the introduction and connecting segments, with filmmakers Jeong Beom-shik (Epitaph) delivering “Don’t Answer the Door” (two kids are left home alone with instructions not to answer the door); Yim Dae-woong “Endless Flight” (a serial killer with a captive audience); Hong Ji-young cooks up “The Secret Recipe” (an evil step-sister steals her sister’s groom much to her regret) and the filmmaking team of Kim Gok and Kim Sun takes us for a zombie plague ride in “The Ambulance.”

A little uneven, but that’s to be expected, but overall Horror Stories from Artsploitation Films will not disappoint.   In Korean with English subtitles. 

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The Adventures Of Robin Hood DVD Collection Will Be Released By The Film Chest On Sept. 17

The Film Chest, in association with Topics Entertainment, has selected Sept. 17 as the release date for a six-disc, 26-episode DVD collection of the classic Brit-TV series starring Richard Greene, The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Launched in 1955, this series ran for five years and was a hit in both the UK and the USA.  Richard Greene starred as the Saxon knight — loyal to King Richard — who becomes an “outlaw” and enemy of Richard’s brother Prince John, but more importantly, he finds himself locked in a live-and-death struggle with the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Wheatley).   

Bernadette O'Farrell and Patricia Driscoll took on the role of Maid Marian, while Alexander Gauge starred as Friar Tuck and Archie Duncan was Little John.

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Lionsgate Home Entertainment's Red 2 Out On DVD And Blu-ray On Nov. 26

Nobody mixes action and comedy quite like Bruce Willis.   Lionsgate Home Entertainment brings Red 2 to DVD and Blu-ray on Nov. 26 

The ARR comes in at 130 days and the take was box office $52.5 million.  Bonus features include “The Red 2 Experience,” which offers an in-depth look at the characters, weapons, gadgets and stunts from the film.   There are also deleted scenes and a gag reel.

Red 2 — the follow up to the surprise 2012 hit — sees Willis as a retired black-ops CIA agent who must reunite his team of operatives to take on both terrorists and government officials.   John Malkovich (Burn After Reading), Mary-Louise Parker (Showtime's Weeds) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) are back a second time and joined by Anthony Hopkins (Thor).

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Green Apple Entertainment's A Christmas Tree Miracle Arrives On DVD On Dec. 3

A lot of families forget what Christmas is all about, and you can count the George family as one of them.  That’s the family in director J.W. Myers’ A Christmas Tree Miracle, out Dec. 3 on DVD from Green Apple Entertainment.

The set up has all the makings of an ugly Christmas — the father, David (Kevin Sizemore — Under the Dome, Red Line) is wrapped up in his job: his wife, Julie (Claudia Esposito — Doughboy, Flight to India) is too on edge to focus and teens Nick and Natalie (Barrett Carnahan and Emily Capehart) only care about the gifts.   Only young Nina (Siomha Kenney) seems to know what Christmas is really about.

When David loses his job and the family continues living its privileged suburban life as if nothing happened, something awful is bound to happen.  It may take the unexpected kindness of a near-stranger to remind this family exactly what Christmas is all about.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Sets White House Down And Breaking Bad: The Final Season For Both DVD And Blu-ray In Nov.

Instead of just involving the White House or just blowing it up, this time director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) goes primarily inside of it.   And then blows it up.

White House Down comes to DVD and Blu-ray Disc Nov. 5 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and fans will want to go with the Blu-ray on this one, getting more than an hour’s worth of bonus features, include an exclusive gag reel and nine exclusive making-of featurettes.    Both the DVD and Blu-ray feature four featurettes.

The ARR works out to 130 days and the box office take was $72.8 million.

Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, Magic Mike) is a Capitol Hill officer who just got shut down from his dream job: Secret Service agent for the President (Jamie Foxx).   Before he can leave the White House with his tail tucked between his legs, a heavily armed paramilitary group attempts a hostile take-over — he’s in the right place and wrong time, but makes the most of it.   

Also getting a swift-to-market push is Breaking Bad: The Final Season, which just launched its final cable run on Aug. 11.   Both DVD and Blu-ray sets will be available to own on Nov. 26.   

Bonus features include commentary on all eight episodes, four featurettes — “The Main Event,” “The Final Showdown,” “Life of a Show Runner” and “Behind-the-Scenes of the Alternate Ending” — deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel and a three-minute alternate ending (which seems very intriguing).  

A complete Blu-ray collection will also street on Nov. 26 featuring all 62 episodes in the series in special packaging with exclusive bonus features unique to the collection.

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Eagle Rock's Dream Theater Lands On DVD And Blu-ray On Nov. 5

The progressive metal band Dream Theater has been at it for a quarter century now, and nobody other than Eagle Rock Entertainment would be capable of treating the band’s work like this.

On Nov. 5, Eagle Rock releases Dream Theater: Live At Luna Park on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and as a deluxe edition.  The performance from Luna Park Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina (from August 2012, as part of the band’s “A Dramatic Tour Of Events” world tour) covers two nights in this concert presentation, with the centerpiece being the 160-minute main show (including the songs “Metropolis Pt. 1,” “The Silent Man,” “Pull Me Under,” “On The Backs Of Angels” and more).

Bonus features include a documentary, a behind-the-scenes featurette, a trailer, a cartoon intro, six multi-angle options for “Outcry,” and live versions of “These Walls,” “Build Me Up, Break Me Down,” “Caught In A Web,” “Wait For Sleep,” “Far From Heaven” and “Pull Me Under.” 

Spring for the deluxe edition, and fans get the package in an 11.5-inch, square 60-page hardback photo book with the Blu-ray, two DVDs and three CDs, presenting all the physical formats in one release.

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Image Entertainment's Paradise On DVD And Blu-ray Nov. 12

Meet Lamb (Julianne Hough — Rock of Ages, Footloose, Safe Haven, etc.), she’s a 21-year-old devout Christian, a proper, God-fearing young woman out of Montana, who, well, is in for a shock.  

She’s the subject of writer/director Diablo Cody’s Paradise, due out from Image Entertainment on both DVD and Blu-ray on Nov. 12 … a mid-October release in theatres (to raise awareness) is also planned.  

After a near-fatal plane crash leaves her seriously burned, Lamb’s faith is tested when she decides to use her insurance payout to try out a list of untried sins in the only place appropriate in the nation: Las Vegas.   

A bartender named William (Russell Brand) and a card dealer known as Loray (Octavia Spencer — The Help, Fruitvale Station) help out with the little things: binge drinking, tattoos and quite a bit of soul-searching.

Bonuses include an audio commentary with writer/director Diablo Cody (Oscar-winner for her Juno script and creator of the United States of Tara comedy series), behind-the-scenes footage and a trailer.

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