Classic Films on Blu-ray: CARRIE, THE THING, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and More

Here are the classic films newly released on Blu-ray on October 11, 2016:

CARRIE: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (1976)
THE THING: Collector's Edition (1982)
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Platinum Anniversary Edition (1946)
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992)
VIOLENT COP (1989)

WITCHCRAFT (1964)
BOYHOOD - Criterion Collection (2014)
THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES (1968)
BOILING POINT (1990)
MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971)
DARK WATER (2002)
THE HILLS HAVE EYES Limited Edition (1977)

Find out more about each Blu-ray release after the jump.

CARRIE: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (1976)

Product Description: Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this "absolutely spellbinding horror movie", (Roger Ebert) has become a pervasive, pop-culture touchstone for anyone who's ever wanted to get even. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie deliver Oscar-nominated performances and John Travolta and Amy Irving are terrific in this ultimate revenge fantasy that has become one of the all-time great horror classics, and is now, finally, offered as a definitive, two-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray!

At the center of the terror is Carrie (Spacek), a high school loner with no confidence, no friends... and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her "special gift, ", causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone!

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta, Nancy Allen

Director: Brian De Palma

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 98 min

Language: English

Studio: Scream Factory

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: R

No. of Discs: 2

Audio Format: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

Interviews with writer Laurence D. Cohen, editor Paul Hirsch, actors Piper Laurie, P.J. Soles, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, William Katt, Edie McClurg, casting director Harriet B. Helberg and director of photography Mario Tosi (NEW)
Horror’s Hallowed Grounds – Revisiting The Film’s Original Locations (NEW)
Visualizing Carrie - Interviews With Brian De Palma, Jack Fisk, Lawrence D. Cohen, Paul Hirsch
A Look At “Carrie: The Musical”
Original Theatrical Trailer
Carrie Franchise Trailer Gallery
TV Spots
Radio Spots
Still Gallery – Rare Behind-The-Scenes Photos
Stephen King And The Evolution Of Carrie Text Gallery
Reversible wrap will includes original theatrical poster key art
2 Slip Covers + 2 Posters with new cover custom artwork

THE THING: Collector's Edition (1982)

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Product Description: Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.

Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat

Director: John Carpenter

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 109 min

Language: English

Studio: Scream Factory

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Rating: R

No. of Discs: 2

Audio Format: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Master Audio 4.1, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Director John Carpenter and Actor Kurt Russell
Theatrical and Teaser Trailers
TV Spots
Radio Spots
Still Galleries
Network TV Broadcast Version of 'The Thing'
John Carpenter's 'The Thing': Terror Takes Shape
The Making of a Chilling Tale
The Making of 'The Thing'
Outtakes
Vintage Featurettes
Vintage Product Reel
Vintage Behind-The-Scenes Footage
Annotated Production Archive
Audio Commentary with Director of Photography Dean Cundey
Audio Commentary with Co-Producer Stuart Cohen
Requiem for a Shape Shifter
The Men of Outpost 31
Assembling and Assimilation
Behind the Chameleon
Sounds from the Cold
Between the Lines
The Art of Mike Ploog
Back into the Cold

ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)

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Product Description: Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside…and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman. Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, They Live by Night) and featuring a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho), On Dangerous Ground is a taut, rapid-paced manhunt with two fine stars at its tortured heart. Noir master Robert Ryan captures Jim's agonized self-hatred. And Ida Lupino burnishes the screen as the sightless angel whose compassion gives him one last chance at life.

Starring: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper

Director: Nicholas Ray

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Runtime: 82 min

Language: English

Studio: Warner Bros.

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Rating: Not Rated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

Audio commentary by film historian Glenn Erickson
Original trailer

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Platinum Anniversary Edition (1946)

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Product Description: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Director: Frank Capra

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Runtime: 130 min

Language: English

Studio: Paramount

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

Rating: PG

No. of Discs: 2

Audio Format: Dolby Digital 1.0

Dubbed: French, Spanish

Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Special Features:

Colorized and black-and-white versions of the film
The Making of It’s A Wonderful Life
A Personal Remembrance
Trailer
Limited edition art cards

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992)

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Product Description: A riveting tale of desperation and betrayal based on David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, and Kevin Spacey shine in this powerful story set in the world of real estate. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Pryce

Director: James Foley

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Runtime: 100 min

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Rating: R

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: DTS-HD MA 5.1

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

None

VIOLENT COP (1989)

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Product Description: Beautifully restored in HD, this classic film is now released for the first time in North America on Blu Ray.

In his explosive directorial debut Japanese renaissance man-cum-comedian-extraordinaire Takeshi "Beat" Kitano plays vicious rogue homicide Detective Azuma who takes on a sadistic crime syndicate only to discover widespread internal corruption in the police force. Facing criminal charges for his unorthodox "Dirty Harry" type methods, Azuma finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue that sends him on a bloody trail of vengeance. But when his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma's tactics escalate towards an apocalyptic climax.

New Collector's Edition art by Benjamin Marra, the influential comic creator and artist, commissioned exclusively for retrospective screenings and the Blu Ray/DVD re-release.

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 103 min

Language: Japanese

Studio: Film Movement

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: Unrated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: LPCM 2.0

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English

Special Features:

20-minute featurette, That Man Is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano
Original Violent Cop trailer
New Violent Cop HD re-release trailer
Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, the Asian film Curator for the Freer and Sackler
Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art)

WITCHCRAFT (1964)

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Product Description: Horror icon Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man, The Black Sleep) conjures up unspeakable evil as Morgan Whitlock, a modern-day warlock whose ancestors were burned at the stake. But now, after three long centuries of waiting, Morgan's family will finally have its revenge. The Whitlocks' 300-year-old matriarch has risen from the grave to wreak havoc upon the descendants of those who destroyed her coven, confiscated her estate and buried her alive! Horror veteran Don Sharp (The Kiss of the Vampire) directed this classic horror film written by Harry Spalding (Chosen Survivors, The Earth Dies Screaming) and featuring a wonderful cast that includes Jack Hedley (The New York Ripper), Jill Dixon (A Night to Remember) and Viola Keats (The Witches).

Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, David Weston

Director: Don Sharp

Genre: Horror, Romance

Runtime: 79 min

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: Not Rated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: TBA

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English

Special Features:

None

BOYHOOD (2014)

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Product Description: There has never been another movie like Boyhood, from director Richard Linklater. An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director’s native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his divorced parents (Patricia Arquette, who won an Oscar for her performance, and Ethan Hawke), and his older sister (Lorelei Linklater). Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next. Allowing us to watch people age on film with documentary realism while gripping us in a fictional narrative of exquisite everydayness, Boyhood has a power that only the art of cinema could harness.

Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater

Director: Richard Linklater

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 165 min

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: R

No. of Discs: 2

Audio Format: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: None

Special Features:

New audio commentary featuring Linklater and nine members of the cast and crew
New documentary chronicling the film’s production, featuring footage shot over the course of its twelve years
New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane, moderated by producer John Pierson
New conversation between Coltrane and actor Ethan Hawke
New video essay by critic Michael Koresky about time in Linklater’s films, narrated by Coltrane
Collection of portraits of cast and crew by photographer Matt Lankes, narrated with personal thoughts from Linklater, Arquette, Hawke, Coltrane and producer Cathleen Sutherland
PLUS: An essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES (1968)

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Product Description: Newly Re-mastered in HD! A film that has it all… a mad astro-scientist (John Carradine, House of the Long Shadows) reviving corpses at his laboratory; two gore-crazed, solar-powered killer robot zombies; a bloody trail of girl-next-door victims; Chinese communist spies; deadly Mexican secret agents led by the insanely voluptuous Tura Satana (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and intrepid CIA agent Wendell Corey (The Killer is Loose) hot on their trail and trying to figure it all out! This cult favorite was written, produced and directed by cult legend, Ted Mikels (One Shocking Moment, Blood Orgy of the She-Devils) melds into a high-powered fusion the films of Ed Wood, Russ Meyer and George Romero with undead cannibal gore chills… hot-pants sexploitation thrills… '60's sci-fi mumbo-jumbo and Cold War espionage intrigue.

Starring: Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Rafael Campos, Tura Satana

Director: Ted V. Mikels

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 91 min

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: Not Rated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: None

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Writer/Producer/Director Ted V. Mikels NEW
RIFFTRAX Commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett NEW
Audio Commentary by Horror Cinema Historian Chris Alexander NEW
Original Theatrical Trailer
Even More Trailers

BOILING POINT (1990)

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Product Description: Beautifully restored in HD, this classic film is now released for the first time in North America on Blu Ray.

Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge. This is the second feature film from renowned action auteur Takeshi "Beat" Kitano.

New Collector's Edition art by Benjamin Marra, the influential comic creator and artist, commissioned exclusively for retrospective screenings and the Blu Ray/DVD re-release.

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takahito Iguchi

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 96 min

Language: Japanese

Studio: Film Movement

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: Unrated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: TBA

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English

Special Features:

20-minute featurette
Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut
Original Boiling Point trailer

MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971)

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Product Description: This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as an enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, and soundtrack that innovatively interweaves overlapping dialogue and haunting Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine

Director: Robert Altman

Genre: Drama, Western

Runtime: 120 min

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1

Rating: R

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: LPCM Mono

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
New documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy; casting director Graeme Clifford; and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury
New conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
Featurette from the film’s production, shot on location in 1970
Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art Directors Guild Film Society
Archival footage from interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film
Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich

DARK WATER (2002)

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Product Description: After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the dead wet girl to new heights of suspense and drama.

Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.

Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ring and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family s heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.

Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

Director: Hideo Nakata

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Runtime: 101 min

Language: Japanese

Studio: Arrow

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: PG-13

No. of Discs: 2

Audio Format: DTS-HD MA 5.1

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English

Special Features:

Brand new interview with director Hideo Nakata
Brand new interview with novelist Koji Suzuki
Brand new interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi
Archive interview with actress Asami Mizukawa
Original Making of documentary
Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

THE HILLS HAVE EYES Limited Edition (1977)

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Product Description: Horror master Wes Craven achieved critical and commercial success with the likes of Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street but for many genre fans, the director's seminal 1977 effort The Hills Have Eyes remains his masterpiece.

Taking a detour whilst on route to Los Angeles, the Carter family run into trouble when their campervan breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. With their lives under threat, the Carters are forced to fight back by any means necessary.

As gruelling a viewing experience today as it was upon initial release, The Hills Have Eyes stands alongside the likes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead as one of the defining moments in American horror cinema.

Starring: Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, John Steadman, Dee Wallace

Director: Wes Craven

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Runtime: 89 min

Language: English

Studio: Arrow Video

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Rating: Not Rated

No. of Discs: 1

Audio Format: LPCM Mono

Dubbed: None

Subtitles: English SDH

Special Features:

6 x postcards
Reversible fold-out poster featuring new and original artwork
Limited edition booklet
Audio commentary with Wes Craven and Peter Locke
Looking Back on The Hills Have Eyes
The Desert Sessions
Alternate ending, in HD for the first time
Trailers and TV Spots
Image Gallery
Original Screenplay (BD/DVD-ROM Content)
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper

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Friday, October 14, 2016

Classic Films on Blu-ray: CARRIE, THE THING, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and More

CARRIE: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (1976)

THE THING: Collector's Edition (1982)

ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Platinum Anniversary Edition (1946)

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992)

VIOLENT COP (1989)

WITCHCRAFT (1964)

BOYHOOD (2014)

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES (1968)

BOILING POINT (1990)

MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971)

DARK WATER (2002)

THE HILLS HAVE EYES Limited Edition (1977)

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