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Killer Snowman Flick ‘Jack Frost’ Getting 2K Blu-ray Release

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No, it’s not the one with Michael Keaton.

The horror home video scene has absolutely blown up in recent years, so much so that countless cult gems have been given deluxe edition, often newly-restored Blu-ray releases that we honestly never expected them to get. It seems that all bets are off when it comes to which movies are going to be given that loving treatment by specialty labels, and that’s why it should come as no big surprise that Jack Frost is soon headed to Blu-ray for the very first time!

Okay, so this one is still a total surprise!

As revealed by the Cinema Arcana Facebook page, Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing the 1997 killer snowman flick on Blu-ray on December 13th, and they’re giving the oddball B-movie a 2K restoration. At this time we don’t yet have full release details, but a commentary track with director Michael Cooney has been recorded.

From the Facebook page:

Coming this December from Vinegar Syndrome – it’s the Blu debut of Michael Cooney’s JACK FROST (1997)! Suffering a mid-transport collision on his way to execution, serial killer Jack Frost gets doused with an experimental concoction that molecularly fuses his body with the freshly fallen snow – creating the world’s first wise-crackin’ killer snowman. Now no one is safe in the town of Snowmonton. Yes, indeedy. A completely indefensible late-‘90s slasher that thankfully plays its absurd concept totally straight-faced, JACK FROST was slagged off upon its initial release but has slowly gained a cult of devoted followers in the years since, won over by its constant stream of one-liners and imaginative deaths. Not to mention you get a pre-AMERICAN PIE Shannon Elizabeth showing up for a shower scene, so there’s that, too.

Has Hell frozen over? We’re thinking it has. And we’re thinking that’s a good thing.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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