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Four Film Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Now Available on 4K Ultra HD With ‘Psycho’ Uncut

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The big home video release for this week is The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection from Universal, a 4K Ultra HD set that includes Psycho, The BirdsRear Window and Vertigo. It’s available today, September 8th, and it notably includes the original uncut version of horror classic Psycho, which was released on home video for the first time back in 2018 in Germany.

The uncut version of Hitchcock’s Psycho is home to minor bits of footage that were ultimately cut from the film; this version has also aired on TV in Germany in the past.

“This collection with collectible Discbook packaging includes hours of bonus features such as documentaries, expert commentaries, interviews, screen tests and much more.”

Here’s the full breakdown…

Rear Window special features:

  • Audio commentary by Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell
  • Rear Window Ethics – 2000 documentary
  • Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes
  • Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master
  • Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
  • Masters of Cinema
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Rear Window
  • Production photo gallery
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart

Vertigo special features:

  • Audio commentary by filmmaker William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
  • Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock’s Masterpiece
  • Partners In Crime: Hitchcock’s Collaborators
  • Saul Bass: Title Champ
  • Edith Head: Dressing the Master’s Movies
  • Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock’s Maestro
  • Alma: The Master’s Muse
  • Foreign censorship ending
  • 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Restoration theatrical trailer

Psycho special features:

  • Original uncut and standard re-releases version of the film
  • The Making of Psycho
  • The Making of Psycho audio commentary with Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho author Stephen Rebello
  • Psycho Sound
  • In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy
  • Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho
  • The Shower Scene: With and Without Music
  • The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass
  • The Psycho Archives
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Psycho
  • Posters and ad gallery
  • Lobby card gallery
  • Behind-the-scenes photo gallery
  • Production photo gallery
  • Psycho theatrical trailers
  • Psycho re-release trailer

The Birds special features:

  • The Birds: Hitchcock’s Monster Movie
  • All About The Birds
  • Original ending
  • Deleted scene
  • Tippi Hedren’s screen test
  • The Birds is coming (Universal International Newsreel)
  • Suspense Story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)
  • 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics
  • 100 Years of Universal: The Lot
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut – Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo
  • Theatrical trailer

Head over to Amazon to pick up the Hitchcock Classics Collection today!

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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Shambles Onto Blu-ray in April With Audio Commentary and Deleted Scenes

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The horror-comedy Lisa Frankenstein is headed home to physical media, with the film zombie-walking its way onto DVD and Blu-ray from Universal on April 9, 2024.

Directed by Zelda Williams and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body), Lisa Frankenstein will also be available for a lower price on Digital beginning March 29.

Special Features include:

  • Audio commentary by director Zelda Williams
  • An Electric Connection featurette
  • Resurrecting the ‘80s featurette
  • A Dark Comedy Duo featurette
  • 5 deleted scenes
  • Gag reel

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting,” Billed as a coming-of-rage tale, Lisa Frankenstein instead offers a celebration of outcasts and weirdos.”

“It makes for a sugary sweet, almost wholesome effort held together by a trio of infectiously winsome performances,” Meagan’s review continued. She added, “As a celebration of teen girls and outcasts who just want to be loved, Lisa Frankenstein ultimately charms.”

Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (“Riverdale”) lead the cast for Focus Features, and the new film is rated “PG-13” for “bloody images and sexual material.”

Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher), Liza Soberano (Alone/Together), Joe Chrest (Stranger Things) and Henry Eikenberry (The Crowded Room) also star.

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In Lisa Frankenstein, “Set in 1989, the film follows an unpopular high schooler who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams using the broken tanning bed in her garage.”

Here’s the full official plot synopsis: “A coming of RAGE love story about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness… and a few missing body parts along the way.”

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