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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Classic Films on Blu-ray: January 17, 2017

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The new films released on Blu-ray on the week of January 17th, 2017 include "Concrete Night", "Hellboy II: The Golden Army", "Ali: Commemorative Edition", the "Fast & Furious" collection featuring films 1 through 6, and the classics "Something Wild" (1961) and "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1954).

Check out all the new classic movies released on Blu-ray after the jump.





CLASSIC FILMS


CONCRETE NIGHT (2013)


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Product Description: A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable 14-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Language Film captures the pain and joy of youth through exquisite, eye-popping black-and-white cinematography.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Pirjo Honkasalo

Starring: Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 96 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Altered Innocence

Special Features:
  • A Booklet Featuring an Essay by Film Critic Kyle Turner
  • Photo Gallery
  • Trailer





HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (2008)


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Product Description: The fate of mankind hangs in the balance in Hellboy II: The Golden Army when a ruthless prince awakens an unstoppable army of creatures and wages war with the human world. It’s up to Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his team of paranormal outcasts to face off with the forces of darkness in the ultimate battle of good versus evil! Prepare to be taken by the visionary director of Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) into a fantastical world with imaginative creatures and thrilling fight sequences unlike anything you’ve ever seen before!

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray + Digital HD

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Anna Walton

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Runtime: 120 min

Rating: PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and some language

Language: English

Studio: Univeral

Special Features:
  • Feature Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro
  • Feature Commentary with Cast Members Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair & Luke Gross
  • Troll Market Tour with Guillermo del Toro
  • Production Workshop
  • Zinco Epilogue Animated Comic
  • Comic Book Builder
  • Gallery
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Guillermo del Toro
  • U-Control: Scene Explorer: Schufften Goggle View
  • U-Control: Director's Notebook
  • U-Control: Set Visits
  • U-Control: Concept Art Gallery
  • BD-Live: My Chat
  • BD-Live: My Scenes Sharing
  • BD-Live: Exclusive Content





ALI: COMMEMORATIVE EDITION (2001)


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Product Description: Superstar Will Smith gives the performance of his career as boxing legend Muhammad Ali in a visually amazing epic drama from Academy Award(r) nominated director Michael Mann. Muhammad Ali thrilled the world with his ground-breaking boxing victories in the '60s and '70s. But the man behind the legend is grappling with a tumultuous romantic life, his deeply held religious beliefs and the pressures ofstaying on top. A quick-witted, winning personality and strong friendships with close associates, including renowned newscaster Howard Cosell (Golden Globe(r) nominee Jon Voight), help Ali "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee." But faced with a life-changing conflict outside of the ring, the famously opinionated boxer is forced to rely on the one person he knows the best: himself.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Michael Mann

Starring: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Jada Pinkett Smith

Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport

Runtime: 157 min

Rating: R for some language and brief violence

Language: English

Studio: Sony

Special Features:
  • "On Set with The Greatest" featurette (NEW)
  • "The Making of Ali" Featurette
  • Theatrical Trailer





FAST & FURIOUS COLLECTION: 1-6 (2001-2013)


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The Fast and the Furious - Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) must decide where his loyalties really lie when he befriends Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

2 Fast 2 Furious - Ex-LAPD cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) teams up with his ex-con friend Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and works with undercover U.S. Customs Service agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) to bring Miami-based drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) down.

    Disc 1 (The Fast and the Furious):

  • Digital Copy of The Fast and the Furious (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Dom's Charger
  • Quarter Mile at a Time
  • The Fast and the Furious Video Mash-Up
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Director Commentary
  • Hot Off the Street
  • Paul Walker Public Service Announcement
  • The Making of The Fast and the Furious
  • More Than Furious
  • Tricking Out a Hot Import Car
  • Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • Multiple Camera Angles - Stunt Sequence
  • Movie Magic Interactive - Special Effects
  • Featurette on Editing for the Motion Picture Association of America
  • Visual Effects Montage
  • Storyboards-to-Final Feature Comparison
  • Sneak Peek at 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • Ja Rule "Furious" Music Video
  • Caddillac Tah "PV City Anthem" Music Video
  • Saliva "Click Click Boom" Music Video
  • The Fast and Furious Soundtrack Spot
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Feature Commentary with Director Rob Cohen
  • Tech Specs
  • Picture in Picture
  • D-BOX


  • Disc 2 - 2 Fast 2 Furious:

  • Digital Copy of 2 Fast 2 Furious (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Fast Females
  • Hollywood Impact
  • Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Outtakes
  • Inside 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • Actor Driving School
  • Tricking Out a Hot Import Car
  • Supercharge Stunts
  • Making Music with Ludacris
  • Actor Spotlights
  • Furious Afterburners
  • Feature Commentary with Director John Singleton
  • D-BOX


The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - When convicted street racer Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) tries to start a new life on the other side of the world, his obsession with racing sets him on a collision course with the Japanese underworld.

Fast & Furious - When fugitive Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) returns to Los Angeles to avenge a loved one's death, it reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and they must test their loyalties by joining together to bring down a shared enemy.


    Disc 1 - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift:

  • Digital Copy of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Making of the Fast Franchise
  • Drift: A Sideway Craze
  • Custom Made Drifter
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary with Director Justin Lin
  • Drifting School
  • Cast Cam
  • The Big Breakdown: Han's Last Ride
  • Tricked Out to Drift
  • Welcome to Drifting
  • The Real Drift King
  • The Japanese Way
  • Don Omar "Conteo" Music Video
  • Far East Movement "Round Round" Music Video
  • Soundtrack Spot
  • Feature Commentary with Director Justin Lin
  • Storyboards
  • GPS
  • Tech Specs
  • Picture in Picture
  • D-BOX


  • Disc 2 - Fast & Furious (2009):

  • Digital Copy of Fast & Furious (2009) (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Gag Reel
  • Los Bandoleros
  • Under the Hood - Muscle Cars
  • Under the Hood - Imports
  • Getting the Gang Back Together
  • Driving School with Vin Diesel
  • Shooting the Big Rig Heist
  • Races and Chases
  • High Octane Action: The Stunts
  • South of the Border: Filming in Mexico
  • Virtual Car Garage
  • Fast & Furious Video Mash-Up
  • "Blanco" Music Video by Pitbull Featuring Pharrell
  • Trailers
  • Feature Commentary with Director Justin Lin
  • U-Control - Take Control
  • U-Control - Virtual Car Garage and Tech Specs
  • D-BOX


Fast Five - Fugitive Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) partners with former cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) on the opposite side of the law in exotic Brazil where they are hunted by a high-powered U.S. strike force led by its toughest Fed (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and an army of corrupt cops working for a ruthless drug kingpin.

Fast & Furious 6 - Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled drivers, whose mastermind (Luke Evans) is aided by the love Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) thought was dead, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez).


    Disc 1 - Fast Five:

  • Digital Copy of Fast Five (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Second Screen
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel
  • The Big Train Heist
  • Reuniting the Team
  • A New Set of Wheels
  • Dom's Journey
  • Brian O'Conner: From Fed to Con
  • Enter Federal Agent Hobbs
  • Dom vs. Hobbs
  • On Set with Director Justin Lin
  • Inside the Vault Chase
  • Tyrese TV
  • Feature Commentary with Director Justin Lin (Extended Version Only)
  • My Scenes
  • D-BOX


  • Disc 2 - Fast & Furious 6:

  • Digital Copy of Fast & Furious 6 (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Take Control
  • The Making of Fast & Furious 6: The Fastest of Them All
  • The Making of Fast & Furious 6: Reuniting the Team
  • The Making of Fast & Furious 6: Letty’s Return
  • The Making of Fast & Furious 6: The Mastermind and the Mole
  • Planes, Tanks, and Automobiles: The London Chase
  • Planes, Tanks, and Automobiles: Highway Heist: The Convoy Attack
  • Planes, Tanks, and Automobiles: The Antonov Takedown
  • Planes, Tanks, and Automobiles: Dom and Letty Race Again
  • It’s All About the Cars: On the Set with Vin
  • It’s All About the Cars: Gearhead’s Delight
  • It’s All About the Cars: The Flip Car
  • Hand to Hand Fury
  • Feature Commentary with Director Justin Lin
  • Fast & Furious 7 First Look






SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II / SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III (1987 - 1990)


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SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II

The only sane survivor of Slumber Party Massacre, Courtney (Crystal Bernard) dreams of the drill murderer returning. She can’t shake the horrible feeling that she and her friends will be viciously tormented and brutally butchered. Again and again the nightmare returns. Dazed, Courtney loses control. And her nightmare crosses into reality. No one believes her, until it’s too late. The driller killer returns, reincarnated as an evil rocker. He methodically stalks them; then violently gores them to death...one by one.

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III

Seven California co-eds are dresses to kill...and a murderer is, well, dressed to drill. He’s an insomno-maniac looking for luscious bods to bore and it looks like he’ll find them at the Slumber Party Massacre. The Driller Killer is back in Part III of the classic horror fest. This time Jackie, Diane and Martia are three high school girls who love a good time. When they party, they bust out of their bikinis and break out the brews: but the driller killer’s out for a thrill with his drill...and he’s ready to kill!

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Deborah Brock, Sally Mattison

Starring: Crystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Keely Christian, Brittain Frye, Michael Harris

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music

Runtime: 77 min / 87 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Shout! Factory

Special Features:
  • Original 76 minute R-Rated Version (HD) and Extended 85 minute Unrated Cut (Standard Definition) of Slumber Party Massacre II
  • Slumber Party Massacre II Audio Commentary with writer/director/producer Deborah Brock, producer Don Daniel and story editor Beverly Gray
  • Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres – a three-part documentary
  • Original 75 minute R-Rated Version (HD) and Extended 87 minute Unrated Cut (HD with standard definition inserts) of Slumber Party Massacre III
  • Slumber Party Massacre III Audio Commentary with director Sally Mattison, actress Hope Marie Carlton,
  • Brandi Burkett and story editor Beverly Gray
  • Trailers
  • Still Galleries





FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (1975)


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Product Description: A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend (Peter Chatel) and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Christiane Maybach

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 123 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Special Features:
  • New interview with actor Harry Baer
  • New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs
  • Excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Koresky





REVENGE OF THE BLOOD BEAST (1966)


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Product Description: A tale of demonic reincarnation reminiscent of Mario Bava s Black Sunday, Revenge of the Blood Beast (Il lago di Satana, aka The She Beast) stars Barbara Steele as Veronica, a British tourist who is stranded in a remote village with her husband Philip (Ian Ogilvy) while honeymooning in Transylvania. They meet a descendent of legendary vampire-hunter Count von Helsing (John Karlsen), who reveals that the town is haunted by a satanic curse. A mysterious car accident plunges Veronica into a nearby lake, but when her body is removed, it resembles that of the legendary Witch of the Lake.

Reawakened from her slumber, the blister-faced hag, armed with sickle and claws, rises from the makeshift morgue and unleashes her vengeance upon the descendants of those who executed her, centuries earlier. While the bumbling Soviet authorities stumble over themselves to solve the murders, Philip join forces with von Helsing to capture the witch and put an end to the dreadful curse. Director Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) mixes gruesome thrills with dark comedy (courtesy of character actor Mel Welles as a devious hotel owner), to make Revenge of the Blood Beast an especially playful entry in the Euro Horror genre.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Michael Reeves

Starring: Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy, Mel Welles, Joe Riley

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Runtime: 79 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: RaroVideo

Special Features:
  • Featurette by Nocturno (a documentary on the making of the Film)
  • A fully illustrated booklet
  • New HD transfer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation





SOMETHING WILD (1961)


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Product Description: A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma,Something Wild stars Carroll Baker, in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic played by Ralph Meeker—whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York’s Actors Studio, which transformed American cinema in the mid-twentieth century. With astonishing location and claustrophobic interior photography by Eugene Schüfftan, an opening-title sequence by the inimitable Saul Bass, and a rhythmic score by Aaron Copland, this film by Jack Garfein is a masterwork of independent cinema.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Jack Garfein

Starring: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 112 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion Collection

Special Features:
  • New conversation between Garfein and critic Kim Morgan
  • New interview with actor Carroll Baker
  • New interview with scholar Foster Hirsch on the Actors Studio’s cinematic legacy
  • Master Class with Jack Garfein, a 2015 recording of one of the director’s world-famous lectures on acting technique
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley





BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1954)


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Product Description: Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He’s welcome to leave. Or they’ll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for this film) plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he’s come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges (The Great Escape) ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy’s mission and the town’s grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town’s thugs and lap dogs. “I’m half horse, half alligator,” one says. They’ll find Macreedy is even tougher stuff.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: John Sturges

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Runtime: 81 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Warner Archive Collection

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary Track by film historian Dana Polan
  • Original Theatrical Trailer









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