Never-Before-Seen Mickey Rooney Horror Movie The Intruder Getting Blu-ray Release
Jonathan Barkan
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Garagehouse Pictures has announced that they will be releasing the never-before-seen 70’s horror film The Intruder, which starred Mickey Rooney, Yvonne De Carlo, Ted Cassidy, and Chris Robinson, to Blu-ray this August. The film is being touted as having a body count to rival films such as Friday the 13th and Bay of Blood.
Per the official press release, here’s the story:
“In 1975, actor-director-producer Chris Robinson (Stanley, Twelve O’ Clock High) accepted an offer from his brother to make a film for $25,000 dollars – but he had to script, cast and begin shooting the film in a matter of weeks! Robinson gathered together a cast of veteran professionals on both sides of the camera with whom he had worked with on previous projects, and the result was The Intruder, a bloody Agatha Christie-style mystery horror thriller… Never distributed theatrically in the 70s due to disagreements among the distributors, the only 35mm print of the film disappeared before it could debut on the home video market. Since the film’s elements were later found to be destroyed, it seemed this modest little chiller would never be seen or heard of. The film was buried in the past until 2012, when film collector and Garagehouse Pictures owner, Harry Guerro, discovered the film among piles of rotting 35mm film prints in a desert storage facility.”
Guerro, together with Robinson, who was apparently stunned to hear that a copy had been found, have been working on a special Blu-ray release that features a restored HD transfer from the only known 35MM print in existence.
Synopsis:
The lust for gold brings eleven visitors to a remote island retreat, but an unseen, seemingly unstoppable evil follows to stalk them one by one. The bodies don’t stop dropping until the final shattering conclusion. Who – or what – is the intruder? One thing is for certain: it will not stop until it kills them all.
Special features:
*Transferred in 4K from the only 35mm film print
*Sound digitally remastered from the original optical tracks
*Presented in its original aspect ratio
*Audio commentary with Chris Robinson
*Archival interview with Chris Roinson
*Liner notes
*Garagehouse Pictures trailers
*All new artwork by Stephen Romano
*All regions
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