STOCK YOUR VAULT: New DVDs & Blu-rays for 10/15/2019!

Vault Master's Pick of the Week!

Greetings collectors and welcome to another edition of  our weekly Stock Your Vault column! This week has a lot of cool releases on Blu-ray disc, ranging from silent films, to Cold War thrillers, to obscure chop-sockey flicks, plus films featuring psychotic killers, hungry gators, devilish children, bumbling vampire slayers, and giant monsters!

Lionsgate brings Rob Zombie's 3 FROM HELL to all physical media formats, CRAWL makes its DVD & Blu-ray debut, and Arrow Video delivers a great Blu-ray release for KILLER NUN. Mill Creek Entertainment flexes their muscle today by releasing Standard & Steelbook editions of the complete ULTRA Q and original ULTRAMAN TV series!

The Criterion Collection gives HAXAN a nice Blu-ray upgrade, the AGFA gives 1991's SCARY MOVIE a nice Blu-ray release, VCI fills the martial arts void with THE LEG FIGHTERS, and MVD Rewind Collection brings MY SAMURAI (COLLECTOR'S EDITION) to Blu-ray for the first time ever!

For those of you who like to binge-watch TV shows, you have the choice of owning THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (a NetFlix original) and TWIN PEAKS: THE TELEVISION COLLECTION, and for those looking for classic laughs and scares, Warner Archive Collection's got you covered with new Blus for FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS!

Kino Lorber comes out strong this week with Special Edition DVDs & Blu-rays for a trio of British thrillers, namely AND SOON THE DARKNESS, THE MIND BENDERS, and SUDDEN TERROR (aka EYEWITNESS), but it's Scream Factory who wins this week! Their lone release is THE OMEN COLLECTION (DELUXE EDITION), which comes with the original THE OMEN, its three sequels, and the remake! This 5-movie collection is packed with extras, and comes in a great-looking collectible sleeve - I can't wait for it to arrive on my doorstep!

There are plenty of other great titles out today on both DVD & Blu-ray - to see the full list of them, continue scrolling!


NEW TO DVD & BLU-RAY
3 From Hell
And Soon the Darkness (Special Edition - Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
Crawl
Deviant Behavior
Devil's Revenge
The Haunting of Hill House
The Lingering
The Mind Benders (Special Edition - Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
Night Hunter
The Noonday Witch
The Returned: Season 2
Sensual Psychedelia
Sudden Terror (aka Eyewitness - Special Edition - Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
Twin Peaks: The Television Collection


NEW TO BLU-RAY
The Bloody Brood (Kino Classics)
Chaos;Child:  The Complete Series
Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee - Complete Season 4
The Fearless Vampire Killers (Warner Archive Collection)
From Beyond the Grave (Warner Archive Collection)
Genius Party / Genius Party Beyond (Double Feature - Shout! Factory)
Golden Kamuy: Season 2
Haxan (The Criterion Collection)
Hellboy (2004 - 4K UHD)
Killer Nun (Arrow Video)
The Leg Fighters (VCI)
My Samurai (Collector's Edition - MVD Rewind Collection)
The Omen Collection (Deluxe Edition - Scream Factory)
Scarface (Gold Edition - 4K UHD)
Scarface (The World is Yours Limited Edition 4K UHD with collectible statue)
Scary Movie (1991 - AGFA)
Star Trek: Picard Movie & TV Collection
The Testament of Sister New Devil & The Testament of Sister New Devil Burst: Seasons 1 & 2
Ultraman: The Complete Series (Standard & Steelbook Editions - Mill Creek Entertainment)
Ultra Q: The Complete Series (Standard & Steelbook Editions - Mill Creek Entertainment)
Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight: The Complete Series


NEW TO DVD
The 11th Patient
The Child Remains
Clown of the Dead
Day of the Wolves
Deadly Reunion
Dragon Kingdom
The Drone
Eternal Code
Feast of Souls
Fury of the Demon
Haunt (2019)
The Librarians: The Complete Series
One Night in October
Pumpkins
Red Spring
Return of the Street Fighter (VCI)
Showdown / My Samurai (Double Feature - MVD Rewind Collection)
Street Fighter's Last Revenge (VCI)
Sword & Sandal Double Feature Volume 1: Giants of Thessaly & Sins of Rome


NEW MULTI-FILM COLLECTIONS ON DVD
Bone-Chilling Horror: 10-Movie Collection
Contains: Friday the 13th (1980), The Ring (2002), The Haunting (1999), What Lies Beneath, Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside, Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, The Ruins, Case 39, and The Uninvited (2009).

Sci-Fi Invasion: 10-Movie Collection
Contains: Project Almanac, Aeon Flux, The Relic, Ghost in the Shell (2017), Paycheck, The Island (2005), Event Horizon, The Time Machine (2002), Arrival (2016), and Terminator: Genisys.

HAXAN is Coming to Blu-ray on October 15th with a New 2K Transfer!

BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN'S FILM ABOUT "WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES" BECOMES PART OF THE CRITERION COLLECTION!

I am not well-versed in the realm of silent film - to date, I think the only ones I've seen is 1925's THE LOST WORLD and THE CALL OF CTHULUH (2006). But I have to say that HAXAN looks pretty.... well.... crazy! Witches, child sacrifice, torture, evil nuns that smooch demons on the butt, and the Devil himself all make appearances in this silent epic! Up until now I've never really paid HAXAN any mind, but after watching the trailer for it, I now realize that I absolutely need to see it!

Synopsis: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Far from a dry dissertation on the topic, the film itself is a witches' brew of the scary, the gross, and the darkly humorous. Christensen's mix-and-match approach to genre anticipates gothic horror, documentary re-creation, and the essay film, making for an experience unlike anything else in the history of cinema.

Disc Specs:
Not Rated | Black & White | 105 & 76 minutes | Region A
Video - 1080p Fullscreen (1.33:1)
Audio - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0

Extras:

• NEW! 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM!
• Music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film-music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra in 2001, presented in 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray and in Dolby Digital 5.0 on the DVD!
• Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film scholar Casper Tybjerg!
• Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968) - The seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty!
• Director Benjamin Christensen's introduction to the 1941 rerelease!
• Short selection of outtakes
• Bibliothèque Diabolique: A photographic exploration of Christensen's historical sources!
• NEW! An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, remarks on the score by Anderson, and (Blu-ray only) an essay by scholar Chloé Germaine Buckley!

Criterion's upgrade of Spine #134 seems worth it for the 2K restoration alone, but whether you already own the previous DVD release, or don't own it at all, HAXAN definitely seems like a worthwhile addition to any (Horror) movie collection! This new Blu-ray release arrives on Tuesday, October 15th, and should cost between $26 - $32! Order a copy of HAXAN today from AMAZON, BULL MOOSE, DIABOLIK DVD, or directly from CRITERION!