Olive Films Bringing LOADS of Classic Horror to Blu-ray
Steve Barton
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Killer ants! Deadly bees! Flying disc men from Mars! The Devil himself! That’s just a few of the goodies that Olive Films are bringing home to Blu-ray for the first time ever this October! Read on for details!
From the Press Release
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
BREEDERS
LANCE LEWMAN (Riot on 42nd Street, TV’s House of Cards)
TERESA FARLEY (Bad Girls Dormitory)
FRANCES RAINES (Disconnected, Bad Girls Dormitory)
NATALIE O’CONNELL (Bad Girls Dormitory)
Directed by
TIM KINCAID (Mutant Hunt, Robot Holocaust)
Breeders director Tim Kincaid AKA Joe Cage is the Grabby Award-nominee for Men’s Room: Bakerfield Station.
YEAR: 1986
GENRE: HORROR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 77 mins
RATING: R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: MONO
SYNOPSIS
Fearing that their city is the target of a serial rapist, Manhattan Detective Dale Androtti (Lance Lewman, Riot On 42nd Street) finds an unlikely ally in Dr. Gamble Pace (Teresa Farley, Bad Girls Dormitory) when they are teamed up to investigate the brutal crimes. Their suspicions, unbelievable as they may seem, will lead them to a terrifying discovery that an alien life form is impregnating women to reproduce his species.
The terrifying Breeders, written and directed by Tim Kincaid (Mutant Hunt) co-stars Frances Raines (Disconnected) and Natalie O’Connell (Bad Girls Dormitory).
US+CANADA
Street: 10/27/15
BREEDERS BD
SRP: $29.95
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
PHASE IV
MICHAEL MURPHY (Manhattan, An Unmarried Woman)
NIGEL DAVENPORT (Without A Clue, A Man For All Seasons)
LYNNE FREDERICK (Nicholas and Alexandra, The Prisoner of Zenda, Voyage of The Damned)
Directed by
SAUL BASS (Why Man Creates)
Saul Bass (Why Man Creates), the graphic designer responsible for some of cinema’s most iconic movie poster images (Vertigo, The Man With The Golden Arm, The Shining) and credit sequences (Psycho, The Facts of Life, North By Northwest), tackles feature film directing with the hallucinatory Phase IV.
YEAR: 1974
GENRE: SCI-FI/HORROR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 mins
RATING: PG
ASPECT RATIO: 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: MONO
SYNOPSIS
This gripping film, part science fiction, part philosophical musing on man’s place in the universe, has gained cult status. Michael Murphy (Manhattan) stars as James Lesko with Nigel Davenport (A Man For All Seasons) as Dr. Ernest Hubbs, scientists in search of answers to an evolutionary shift in the ant population that’s adopted a hive mentality allowing the ants to team with others of their species to create a super colony. In an effort to better understand the intelligent and powerful new life form, Lesko and Hubbs are faced with the choice of either communicating with, or eradicating their antagonists. Lynne Frederick is cast as Kendra, an ant attack survivor who’ll play a pivotal role in deciphering the ants’ mysterious existence.
Phase IV is written for the screen by Mayo Simon (Futureworld), photographed by Dick Bush (Ken Russell’sTommy and Mahler) and scored by Brian Gascoigne (The Emerald Forest) with contributions by Stomu Yamashta, David Vorhaus and Desmond Briscoe.
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STREET: 10/27/15
PHASE IV DVD
SRP: $14.95
PHASE IV BD
SRP: $29.95
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
STEPHEN KING’S SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK
TIM MATHESON (Animal House, 1941, TV’s The West Wing)
BROOKE ADAMS (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
ROBERT RUSLER (Thrashin’, Weird Science, Vamp)
WILLIAM SANDERSON (Blade Runner, Last Man Standing)
Directed by
TOM MCLOUGHLIN (One Dark Night, Date With An Angel, The Unsaid)
Tim Matheson (two-time Primetime Emmy-nominee for Best Guest Appearance in TV’s The West Wing) gives what Entertainment Weekly called a “truly moving” performance in the “well-acted and skillfully produced”Stephen King’s Sometimes They Come Back.
YEAR: 1991
GENRE: HORROR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 mins
RATING: R
ASPECT RATIO: 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: STEREO
SYNOPSIS
Based on the short story by Stephen King (The Shining),Sometimes They Come Back, stars Tim Matheson (Animal House) as the troubled Jim Norman who moves back to his hometown with his wife Sally (Brooke Adams, The Dead Zone) and son Scott (Robert Hy Gorman, Forever Young) after accepting a teaching job at the local high school.
But the town holds dark memories for Jim who moved away years earlier following the murder of his brother, Wayne (Chris Demetral, Blank Check). The young men responsible for the murder met with their own horrific deaths and now those restless spirits have come back for revenge.
Director Tom McLoughlin’s chilling Stephen King’s Sometimes They Come Back is adapted for the screen by Lawrence Konnor and Mark Rosenthal (Planet of the Apesco-writers) and co-stars Robert Rustler (Thrashin’), William Sanderson (Blade Runner) and Nicholas Sadler (Scent of A Woman).
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STREET: 10/27/15
STEPHEN KING’S
SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK DVD
SRP: $14.95
STEPHEN KING’S
SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK BD
SRP: $29.95
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
THE DEADLY BEES
SUZANNA LEIGH (Boeing, Boeing; Son of Dracula)
FRANK FINLAY (The Pianist, The Three Musketeers)
GUY DOLEMAN (Thunderball, On The Beach)
CATHERINE FINN ( The Reckoning, The Creeping Flesh)
Directed by
FREDDIE FRANCIS (Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt)
Freddie Francis, the two-time Academy Award winning cinematographer (Sons and Lovers, Glory) would step behind the camera as director of The Deadly Bees. The in-demand Francis would split his time lensing some of cinema’s most outstanding works (The Innocents,The Elephant Man, Cape Fear, The French Lieutenant’s Woman) and directing horror genre favorites Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt and Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.
YEAR: 1966
GENRE: HORROR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 mins
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1:78:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: MONO
SYNOPSIS
First there was The Birds. Now there’s The Deadly Bees.
Something terrifying is taking place on Seagull Island. When pop singer Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh, Lust For A Vampire) arrives at the island to recuperate from nervous exhaustion, she’ll soon discover that the cottage belonging to beekeeper Ralph Hargrove (Guy Doleman, Thunderball) and his wife Mary (Catherine Finn, The Creeping Flesh) is not the idyllic accommodation she’d hoped for. Following a series of deadly bee attacks, Vicki becomes an amateur detective at the urging of the island’s other beekeeper, the mysterious H.W. Manfred (Frank Finlay, The Three Musketeers) uncovering clues to determine if the deaths were accidental or murder.
What she discovers will put her life in grave danger in The Deadly Bees.
From Freddie Francis, the renowned cinematographer ofGlory (for which he’d win his second Academy Award) and the director of the spine-chilling Dr. Terror’s House ofHorrors, comes The Deadly Bees written for the screen by Robert Bloch (author of the novel Psycho) and Anthony Marriott (The Ghost of Monk’s Island) based on the novel A Taste For Honey by H.F. Heard.
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STREET: 10/27/15
THE DEADLY BEES DVD
SRP: $14.95
THE DEADLY BEES BD
SRP: $29.95
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
FLYING DISC MAN FROM MARS
WALTER REED (Thunderbirds, Horizons West)
LOIS COLLIER (Boston Blackie, The Cat Creeps)
GREGORY GAYE (Ninotchka, The Eddy Duchin Story)
JAMES CRAVEN (Captain Midnight, The Clay Pigeon)
SANDY SANDERS (Phantom From Space, Outlaw Women)
Directed by
FRED C. BRANNON (The Invisible Monster, The Crimson Ghost)
The prolific Flying Disc Man From Mars director, Fred C. Brannon, would helm a number of the highly popular and entertaining Republic Pictures theatrical serials including The Invisible Monster and Radar Men FromThe Moon, as well as TV’s Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.
YEAR: 1950
GENRE: ACTION / ADVENTURE / CRIME
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 167 mins
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
SYNOPSIS:
Mota (Gregory Gaye, Ninotchka), a Martian invader intent on ruling Earth, finds a more than willing accomplice in Dr. Bryant (James Craven, Captain Midnight), a brilliant scientist with a secret Nazi past. Together they plan to harness atomic technology to further their evil goal.
But whatever diabolical plan Mota may have in mind, intrepid pilot and would-be investigator, Kent Fowler (Walter Reed, Thunderbirds), along with his crack team, Steve (Sandy Sanders, Phantom From Space) and Helen (Lois Collier, Boston Blackie), will foil Mota, his Nazi stooge and evil henchmen Drake and Ryan, at every turn, leading to a climactic battle inside of a live volcano.
All twelve episodes of Flying Disc Man From Mars (including Menace From Mars, The Volcano’s Secret, Death Rides The Stratosphere and the exciting final installment,Volcanic Vengeance), directed by Fred C. Brannon (The Invisible Monster, The Crimson Ghost), are now available for your home viewing enjoyment in one exciting package.
Flying Disc Man From Mars also features Harry Lauter (The Cry Baby Killer), Richard Irving (Sons of Adventure) and Michael Carr (Hills of Oklahoma).
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STREET: 10/27/15
FLYING DISC MAN FROM MARS DVD
SRP: $29.95
FLYING DISC MAN FROM MARS BD
SRP: $29.95
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray!
DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS
PETER CUSHING (Star Wars, Horror of Dracula)
CHRISTOPHER LEE (Lord of the Rings, Horror of Dracula)
MICHAEL GOUGH (Horror of Dracula, Batman, Berserk)
MAX ADRIAN (The Devils, The Boyfriend, The Music Lovers)
DONALD SUTHERLAND (1900, M.A.S.H., Don’t Look Now)
Directed by
FREDDIE FRANCIS (The Doctor and The Devils, Tales From The Crypt, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave)
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors is an entertaining horror anthology directed by Freddie Francis, the two-time Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography (Sons and Lovers and Glory) and the renowned cinematographer of Jack Clayton’s classic Gothic thrillerThe Innocents.
YEAR: 1965
GENRE: HORROR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 mins
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio; Color
AUDIO: MONO
SYNOPSIS
Five men who board a train as strangers will soon find commonality when joined by a sixth passenger, the mysterious traveler known as Dr. Schreck (Peter Cushing). Watch as their destinies unfold in the chilling and “life”-altering horror-thrill ride, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.
To while away the time, the good doctor offers to read each passenger’s Tarot cards. The innocent parlor game has an unexpected conclusion as each reading unfolds on screen as a terrifying vignette (a werewolf on the loose; a vengeful creeping vine; a tale of voodoo; a disembodied hand coming to life; and a vampire story) the results of which are unpredictable and shocking.
From director Freddie Francis (The Doctor and The Devils,Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt) and starring horror film royalty Peter Cushing (Horror ofDracula, Evil of Frankenstein) and Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula, Lord of the Rings), Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors features a stellar cast of supporting players including Donald Sutherland (Robert Altman’s M.A.S.H.,Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900), Max Adrian (Ken Russell’s The Devils and The Boyfriend) and Michael Gough (Horror of Dracula, Tim Burton’s Batman and Sleepy Hollow).
US+CANADA
STREET: 10/27/15
DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS DVD
SRP: $24.95
DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS BD
SRP: $29.95
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