Major DVD Releases Coming from Fox and MGM

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 9th, 2008

Our inbox was filled with some exciting news for completists and those upgrading their DVD collections to Blu-Ray.  Check out the current plans:

THE ORIGINAL INFAMOUS SCREAM QUEEN AND
A NOTORIOUS HAUNTED HOUSE REEP MAYHEM IN HIGH-DEF
CARRIE & THE AMITYVILLE HORROR 

LOS ANGELES, CA – Just in time for a Halloween fright night, MGM Home Entertainment unleashes two bone-chilling horror classics on Blu-ray Disc (BD) October 7.

Based on Stephen King’s first published novel and directed by Brian DePalma (The Black Dahlia), CARRIE (1976) is a pulse-pounding thriller starring Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) and Piper Laurie (Twin Peaks) in their Oscar-nominated performances.  Carrie White (Spacek) is a teenage outcast, who upon learning she has telekinesis, seeks revenge on her high-school classmates and wreaks havoc during prom.  CARRIE BD will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S./$49.98 Canada.

Revisit one of the most infamous haunted house stories of all time with the horrifying BD release of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) starring James Brolin (Catch Me If You Can), Margot Kidder (Superman) and Oscar winner* Rod Steiger (In The Heat Of The Night).  From the best-selling novel by Jay Anson, Brolin and Kidder play George and Kathy Lutz, a couple who discover that their new Long Island dream home is possessed by demonic spirits.  As walls begin to drip blood and satanic forces threaten to destroy them, the Lutz family must try to escape with their lives before it is too late. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR BD will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S./$49.98 Canada.

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) BD will be presented on 25GB disc in widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 Dolby Surround Audio plus English, Spanish and French subtitles.

CARRIE (1976) BD will be presented will be presented on 25GB disc in in widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio plus English, Spanish and French subtitles.

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THE OUTER LIMITS
THE ORIGINAL SERIES COMPLETE BOX SET

LOS ANGELES, CA – MGM Home Entertainment controls all that you see and hear when The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set DVD invades homes on October 21, 2008.   Hailed as “the best program of its type to ever run on network TV” by acclaimed author Stephen King, this sci-fi fantasy original series ignited the imagination of viewers with the help of such distinguished guest star appearances by Academy Award Winner Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), Adam West (“Batman”), Eddie Albert (“Green Acres”) and Star Trek alumni William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan.  The 1960s debut of the macabre series broke new ground by blurring the line between fact and fiction with dark introspective storylines.  Fans became hooked as the series continued to challenge the human mind by making the unbelievable seem like a terrifying reality. As television’s longest running science-fiction anthology, “The Outer Limits” has garnered several awards, including four Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards and two Saturn Awards.  Featuring seven-discs, The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set contains the complete classic series, including all 49 episodes for a suggested retail price of $59.98.

The Outer Limits Synopsis
The classic, thrilling science fiction program with a different cast each week explores hard science, space travel, time travel and human evolution as it examines the probing question, “What is the true nature of Man?”

The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set DVD set includes the following episodes:

Disc One
Side A
•     Galaxy Being
•     Hundred Days of the Dragon
•     The Architects of Fear
•   The Man with the Power

Side B
•     Sixth Finger
•     The Man Who Was Never Born
•     O.B.I.T.
•     Human Factor

Disc Two
Side A
•     Corpus Earthling
•     Nightmare
•     It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
•     The Borderland

Side B
•     Tourist Attraction
•     The Zanti Misfits
•     The Mice
•     Controlled Experiment

Disc Three
Side A
•     Don’t Open Till Doomsday
•     ZZZZZ
•     The Invisibles
•     The Bellero Shield

Side B
•     The Children of Spider County
•     Specimen: Unknown
•     Second Chance
•     Moonstone

Disc Four
Side A
•     The Mutant
•     The Guests
•     Fun and Games
•     The Special One

Side B
•     A Feasibility Study
•     Production and Decay of Strange Particles
•     The Chameleon
•     The Forms of Things Unknown

Disc Five
Side A
•     Soldier
•     Cold Hands, Warm Heart
•     Behold, Eck!
•     Expanding Human

Side B
•      Demon With A Glass Hand
•     Cry of Silence

Disc Six
Side A
•     The Invisible Enemy
•     Wolf 359
•     I, Robot
•     The Inheritors (1)

Side B
•     The Inheritors (2)
•     Keeper of the Purple Twilight

Disc Seven
Side A
•     The Duplicate Man
•     Counterweight
•     The Brain of Colonel Barham
•     The Premonition

Side B
•   The Probe