On February 11, Arrow Video takes you to church with the cult traditional Alice Candy, Alice, which receives its international premiere on 4K UHD. Director Alfred Sole (Pandemonium) tapped a then-unknown Brooke Shields for her movie debut on this bloody story of faith and a dysfunctional household. The Restricted Version launch includes a model new 4K restoration from the unique digicam detrimental in Dolby Imaginative and prescient (HDR10 appropriate) and hours of particular options.
The 2 Spages sisters usually are not getting alongside after their dad and mom cut up. Karen (Brooke Shields, Fairly Child) is the candy youthful sister who’s at all times obedient for her lately divorced mom (Linda Miller, One Summer season Love), and older sister Alice (Paula Sheppard, Liquid Sky) will not be coping effectively within the aftermath of the divorce. She acts out by tormenting her youthful sister, and scares Karen by carrying a yellow raincoat and a creepy translucent masks. The mom takes consolation within the close by Catholic church and the steering of Father Tom (Rudoph Willrich, 9 ½ Weeks). Proper earlier than Karen’s First Communion ceremony on the Catholic Church, one thing horrible occurs. The suspect seems to be Alice in her raincoat and masks. Might she have achieved one thing this drastic to smash her sister’s special occasion?
The particular options embody displays of three variations through seamless branching: Communion (authentic), Alice, Candy Alice (theatrical) and Holy Terror (re-release); a brand new audio commentary with Richard Harland Smith; a classic audio commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Sole and editor M. Edward Salier; video interviews with Alfred Sole, composer Stephen Lawrence and actor Niles McMaster; a tour of the places from the film; deleted scenes; a picture gallery; a reversible sleeve; an illustrated collector’s booklet; a TV spot; and trailer.
On February 11, Arrow Video proudly introduces director Kazuo Mori’s A Sure Killer/A Killer’s Key to the English-language dwelling video marketplace for the very first time. The 2 fashionable gangster movies that includes a hitman with a novel methodology of killing have been produced by Japan’s Daiei Movies. The Restricted Version launch includes a excessive definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of each movies and hours of particular options.
In A Sure Killer, Shiozaki (Raizō Ichikawa, Shinobi: Band of Assassins) seems to be a quiet sushi chef at a low-profile restaurant, however there’s a bit extra pleasure to his life in addition to chopping fish and rolling rice: he moonlights as the highest hitman in Japan. After a little bit of coaxing, Shiozaki accepts a contract to assassinate the boss of a rival Yakuza clan. As an alternative of utilizing excessive tech weaponry, the killer’s weapon of alternative is a poisoned needle. Issues get sophisticated when a brand new waitress (Yumiko Nogawa, Gate of Flesh) arrives on the scene.
A Killer’s Key finds Shiozaki working as a conventional dance teacher. The Yakuza pay him a go to, asking him to take out an indicted tycoon freed on bail earlier than he divulges his enterprise association with the native Yakuza boss to the authorities. Shiozaki sharpens his needle when he receives their enormous money provide. However after the hit, the state of affairs will get messy. The gangsters take into account Shiozaki a free finish that must be snipped. The double cross results in the employed murderer plotting plenty of free killings.
The particular options embody commentaries on each movies by Tony Rayns; The Particular Assassin, an introduction to the movies by Mark Roberts; a picture gallery; trailers for each movies; and an illustrated collector’s booklet.
On February 25, Arrow Video takes a stroll on the wild facet with the controversial and erotic thriller, Cruising, making its world premiere on 4K UHD. Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) forged Al Pacino (The Godfather) in a riveting movie that sparked protests upon its preliminary launch in 1980. The Restricted Version launch includes a model new 4K restoration from the unique 35mm digicam detrimental in Dolby Imaginative and prescient (HDR10 appropriate), and hours of particular options.
A serial killer is preying on the homosexual males that frequent the underground leather-based and S&M bars in New York Metropolis’s meatpacking district. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino, Serpico) is assigned to go underneath deep cowl as a result of he resembles the victims who’ve been dismembered or stabbed to loss of life in low-cost lodges across the Village. A store proprietor (Powers Boothe, Crimson Daybreak) explains the handkerchief coloration code to Burns, who hopes the colours in his again pockets will lure out the killer on the golf equipment or within the park after midnight. His investigation leads him into shadowy areas that make him query every thing from his pursuit of a assassin to his relationship along with his girlfriend (Nancy Allen, Raiders of the Misplaced Ark). Can he actually return to his regular life when this intense investigation ends? Cruising additionally options Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), James Remar (The Warriors), and Joe Spinell (Rocky).
The particular options embody two classic audio commentaries with William Friedkin; audio commentary with musicians from the soundtrack; an alternate music rating by Pentagram House Video; deleted scenes; various footage; censored materials reels; video interviews with actors Karen Allen, Randy Jurgensen, Mike Starr, Jay Aconvone, Mark Zecca; an interview with the supervisor of the Mineshaft; a visible essay on the hanky-codes with David McGillivray; a brief movie on the protests; classic options on the film; William Friedkin at BeyondFest 2022; a picture gallery; the theatrical trailer; teasers; TV Spots; and a 120-page perfect-bound collector’s e book with essays, interviews and classic articles.
