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[Trailer] Exclusive Look at Arrow Video’s Upcoming ‘Edge of the Axe’ Blu-ray!
Since their 2012 release of Zombie Flesh Eaters, Arrow Video has been supplying genre fans with some of the best physical media on the market. While more and more studios launch streaming services, giving you only the films they want you to see, Arrow has continued to rummage through the discarded heaps of horror films from yesteryear thought to be long lost. Early indications suggest 2020 will be no different.
In just about two weeks, on January 28th, Arrow will release Edge of the Axe from Spanish exploitation stud, José Ramón Larraz. This gnarly slasher about a masked killer running amuck in a small town in Northern California made its way to VHS in the last ’80s and then just sort of puttered out, never to be heard from again. That is, until now.
Arrow’s release will include the English and Spanish versions of the film, sporting a brand-new 2K restoration using the original camera negatives. The new restoration looks gorgeous and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the HD-trailer to prove it!
Long lost slashers have never looked this good.
This new Arrow Blu-ray release will also include the following:
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- Newly translated English subtitles for the Spanish soundtrack
- Brand new audio commentary with actor Barton Faulks
- Brand new audio commentary with The Hysteria Continues
- Newly-filmed interview with actor Barton Faulks
- The Pain in Spain – a newly-filmed interview with special effects and make-up artist Colin Arthur
- Image Gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Amanda Reyes
Get ready for double the fun, protagonists, and body count when Ready or Not 2: Here I Come explodes on streaming next week.
Just in time for the fireworks, the sequel makes its streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+ on July 2.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are back, along with Samara Weaving, for more hide and slay mayhem.
Picking up moments after the all-out attack from the Le Domas family in the first Ready or Not movie, Grace (Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
That means a higher body count and even more explosive carnage. Just how much? A whopping 325 gallons worth, the directors previously told BD.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, and Daniel Beirne also star.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “More is more in Ready or Not 2. Bigger stakes, larger playing field, a higher (and more gruesome) body count, and even double the protagonists. It’s all designed to deliver maximum crowd-pleasing fun.”
The horror-comedy sequel is written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy.
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