First, a few street date updates: Shout! Factory’s DVD of AUDITION, which we broke the news on here, will arrive October 6. Monarch Video will release FARMHOUSE (see our review here) September 29; look for a making-of featurette and possibly other special features on that one. And First Look will issue Kyle Rankin’s big-bug opus INFESTATION on October 13, following its Syfy cable debut (see previous item here).

Lowest Common Denominator Entertainment has set an October 27 street date for its long-awaited special-edition disc of BLACK DEVIL DOLL, and gave Fango the scoop on the complete details. The saga of an executed black militant’s spirit entering a ventriloquist’s dummy and wreaking all sorts of outrageous, politically incorrect havoc will be presented in widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, plus an insane amount of special features:

• Audio commentary by director Jonathan Lewis, writer/producer Shawn Lewis and writer/designer Mitch Mayes
• Audio commentary by the cast
• Audio commentary by cinematographer/editor/visual FX supervisor John Osteen
• Audio commentary by the Black Devil Doll!
• Audio commentary by “a group of kids who were traveling around, flying, renting cars to see the movie,” Shawn Lewis tells us. “I think they’ve seen it eight times now, so I had them do a commentary, and it’s great!”
• Three exclusive trailers
• Film festival clips
• Rare footage from the New Beverly Cinema premiere
• Three Black Devil Doll animated short films
• Behind-the-scenes still gallery
• Rare interview with the Black Devil Doll
• Free bonus mini-poster

And all this can be yours for just $24.95. You’ll be able to order the disc possibly by early September at BLACK DEVIL DOLL’s official website.

The Michael Feifer serial-killer-movie juggernaut continues with DRIFTER: HENRY LEE LUCAS, coming from Lionsgate Home Entertainment September 1. This one stars Antonio Sabato Jr. (!) as Henry and Kostas Sommer as his partner-in-crime Ottis Toole, with John Diehl as the sheriff on their case; retail price is $26.98. We also got larger art and a few more details on Lionsgate’s release of the TV anthology FEAR ITSELF, which we first reported on here. The episodes presented as director’s cuts will be Stuart Gordon’s “Eater,” Darren Lynn Bousman’s “New Years Day,” Larry Fessenden’s “Skin and Bones” and Rupert Wainwright’s “Echoes,” and all 13 will be presented in 16x9-enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.



Final cover art and details have come in for BrinkDVD’s EVILUTION, streeting September 22, and Monterey Media’s HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER, out October 13. Chris Conlee’s EVILUTION, set in an apartment building where an alien microbe turns the tenants into vicious ghouls, will come with a 27-minute behind-the-scenes documentary and the trailer, while Luke Ricci’s SERIAL KILLER, which turns multiple murder into a self-help program, will include deleted scenes and a “body count” feature. You can read about both movies in FANGORIA #286, on sale in August. In addition, Monterey has picked up the rights to HURT, a psychological chiller directed by Barbara Stepansky from a script she wrote with Alison Lea Bingeman. Melora Walters and the TWILIGHT films’ Jackson Rathbone play a woman and her son who move in with her brother-in-law after her husband’s death; Sofia Vassilieva also stars as a foster child who also arrives in the household, with macabre results. This one arrives on disc November 17.



Tempe Video has a quartet of genre titles set for release in late summer/fall. Coming August 25 on the Fat Cat label are William Victor Schotten’s THE BRASS RING and the 10-pack box MAKING SINEMA. BRASS RING is a documentary about the creation of Schotten’s first feature, the Super 8 zombie opus DEAD LIFE, and comes with the following extras:

• Audio commentary by Schotten
• “The Man With The Talking Body” short film
• Schotten FilmWorks trailers
• Fat Cat DVD trailers

Retail price is $14.99. MAKING SINEMA is a six-disc set containing BRASS RING along with the previous Tempe titles BEER DRINKERS IN SPACE, KEEP DRINKING, MEN!: THE STORY OF BEER DRINKERS IN SPACE, BLOODLETTING, SHOCK CINEMA Volumes 1-4, SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT and the bonus short JULIA WEPT, with their attendant special features. Retail price is $19.99.



September 22 sees Tempe handling distribution for a pair of movies from Yellow Ape Productions and filmmaker Jim Haggerty. WITCHMASTER GENERAL stars L.A. Guns’ Phil Lewis as a sorcerer who trades souls for murder, with a behind-the-scenes featurette, a blooper reel and a trailer, while GRAVE DANGER is an anthology centering on a girl who receives scary phone calls while watching horror movies on TV, with the two trading scary stories about possessed housewives, evil dummies and threatening watchers; this one comes with just a trailer. Retail price is $19.99 each. Pre-Order WITCHMASTER here, GRAVE DANGER here.

The Asylum’s latest fright flick is HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, the supposedly fact-based saga of a family whose daughter is kidnapped by an evil force after they move into a haunted mansion. Directed by DRAGONQUEST’s Mark Atkins and scripted by him and CORPSES ARE FOREVER’s Jose Prendes, the movie will be presented in widescreen (and 3-D in some editions) with 5.1 Surround sound and a making-of piece. Retail price is $24.95. Pre-Order here.

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