Twilight Time Announces 10 to Midnight, John Carpenter’s Vampires, and More for Blu-ray this Fall
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What time is it? It’s Twilight Time! The clock is approaching 10 to Midnight, and when it strikes, you’ll have 3,000 copies before it’s sold out. Find out what other genre gems the limited printing Blu-ray company will be releasing for the Halloween season.
The Blob, Fright Night, and Christine are just a few of the out-of-print Blu-ray titles Twilight Time has released that now go for ridiculous sums on eBay. The company just announced a slew of new titles on its Facebook page that it will be bringing to Blu-ray before the end of the year. Here are the ones that may be of interest to DC readers:
10 to Midnight is the sleazy 1983 thriller that was probably the closest thing the late great Charles Bronson ever did that bordered on being a straight-up grindhouse flick. LAPD detective Bronson and his partner-in-crimefighting Andrew Stevens hunt down a handsome Ted Bundy-esque serial killer seducing, stalking, and slaying beautiful women (including Bronson’s daughter). The maniac keeps getting away with it thanks to legal loophole,s but as we all know, legal loopholes are no match for bullet holes when the grandmaster of revenge cinema takes the law into his own hands and squeezes the trigger. It will be available on Blu-ray for the first time ever September 8th.
October 13th will be the date horror fans are most interested in as that is the day Twilight Time releases four genre films also never before on Blu-ray.
John Carpenter’s Vampires may not be Carpenter at his best, but it’s an enjoyable romp thanks to James Woods hamming it up as vengeful vampire bounty hunter Jack Crow out to put a stake through the heart of a master vampire before he acquires an ancient Catholic relic that will allow the creatures of the night the power to walk in the sunlight. Daniel Baldwin and Sheryl Lee co-star in the film that had the misfortune of opening less than two months after a little something called Blade.
For those who prefer their bloodsuckers to be old school, 1970’s Count Yorga, Vampire might be more to your taste. Robert Quarry stars as the titular vamp in writer-director Bob Kelljan’s cult fave about a pair of swingin’ Sixties couples that cross paths with the fanged fiend Count Yorga.
Three of horrordom’s all-time greats were assembled for 1970’s Scream and Scream Again. Despite top billing, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee really only have supporting roles in this tale of a London serial killer draining the blood of victims whose trail of terror leads to the home of an eccentric mad scientist. At least that what we assume it’s about. Price confessed in later interviews that the script for this one made no sense to him either.
Lastly, a 1983 riff on paranoid alien invasion flicks of the 1950s and Fifties life in general, Michael Laughlin’s Strange Invaders boasts a script by Bill Condon, aka the future director of such noted fare as Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls, and both installments of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
Got all that?
Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Louis Fletcher, and Robert Shawn star in this cult fave about a group of aliens that took over a small Midwest town 25 years earlier and are preparing to return home; they are uncovered by a tabloid reporter and a professor who fathered a half-alien daughter.
As is the case with pretty much all Twilight Time Blu-rays, the titles are limited to 3,000 copies, and when they’re sold out, they’re gone. Gone to eBay that is, where people resell them for ridiculous sums.
Pre-orders should become available soon via their Screen Archives outlet.
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