Australia’s Via Vision Entertainment has released some great stuff in the last year or so. Their collection of all six films in the Psycho series was one of my favorites from last year. Anytime they announce something new, I get excited. Well they just announced three new releases for May and I want them all.
Of the three releases the big one for me is The Seventh Sign from director Carl Schultz and starring Demi Moore and Michael Biehn. This late 80’s film deals with the apocalypse as told by the Book of Revelation. What has me so excited about this release is that I’m pretty sure it’ll be the first Blu-ray release of this film anywhere in the world. The more films that make it to Blu-ray, the better.
Joining The Seventh Sign will be 2002’s The Mothman Prophecies. Surprisingly this has never received a US Blu-ray and to the best of my knowledge has only been released on Blu-ray in Germany. This is a bit odd for a movie that is fairly new and was a pretty mainstream release.
And finally rounding things out will be the Cronenberg Collection. This 3-film set will feature The Dead Zone, Rabid and Shivers all from the legendary David Cronenberg. All three of these films have received previous Blu-ray releases throughout the world but not a single one has been released in the US yet.
If you’re wondering what the region coding is on these, I don’t know yet. The safe bet is to assume they are region B like most Australian releases, however, I’ve gotten a number of releases from Via Vision that have been region free. The possibility does exist that these are region free. Once I find out more, I’ll pass that info along. If they are region free that would be huge as none of these are currently available in the US.
The Seventh Sign
Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse–as outlined in the Book of Revelation–seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci, the Vatican Emissary assigned to investigate, dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn, a young American woman, has reason to fear they’re real–and that the unfolding events may spell disaster for her unborn child.The Mothman Prophecies
A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.The Dead Zone
The chilling story of a man who emerges from a five-year coma possessed with the extraordinary power to see visions of the past, present and most frighteningly, the future ….Rabid
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.Shivers
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
