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‘Silent Scream,’ ‘Danger: Diabolik’ Hit 4K UHD in July via Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber has announced two genre films coming to 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray this summer: Silent Scream on July 8 and Danger: Diabolik on July 22.
Silent Scream has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with HDR10.
The 1979 gothic horror film marks the only effort from director Denny Harris. Jim & Ken Wheat (Pitch Black) and Wallace C. Bennett (The Philadelphia Experiment) penned the script.
Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, Barbara Steele, and Yvonne De Carlo star.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary by Writers Jim and Ken Wheat with Actress Rebecca Balding
- Audio Commentary by Actress Barbara Steele, Moderated by Film Historian David Del Valle
- Scream of Success – 30 Years Later: Featurette
- The Original Script: Featurette
- The Wheat Brothers – A Look Back: Featurette
- Interview with Actress Rebecca Balding
- Audio Interview with Director Denny Harris
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Radio Spots
- 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Unable to get housing on campus, young co-ed Scotty (Balding) finds a vacancy at the Engels’ mansion, now a boarding house for college students. Mrs. Engels (DeCarlo) and her son seem nice enough, but it soon becomes clear to Scotty that something is not right at her new residence. When her fellow boarders begin to get brutally butchered, two detectives (Schreiber and Mitchell) must solve the mystery of the Engels’ boarding house before the body count rises.
Danger: Diabolik has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative by Paramount with Dolby Vision/HDR.
The 1968 Italian comedic action movie is directed by Mario Bava (Black Sunday), who shares writing credit with Dino Maiuri, Brian Degas (Barbarella), and Tudor Gates (Barbarella)
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis (Flash Gordon, Army of Darkness), the cult classic is based on the Italian comic series Diabolik by Angela & Luciana Giussani.
John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, and Terry Thomas star. Ennio Morricone (The Thing) composed the score.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary by Actor John Phillip Law, Moderated by Film Historian Tim Lucas
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- Newly Discovered Outro
- From Fumetti to Film: 2005 Featurette
- “Body Movin” Music Video by Beastie Boys (with Optional Commentary by Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch)
- Teaser Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Diabolik, Diabolik: Ginko Attacks, and Diabolik: Who Are You? Trailers
- 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
The suave, psychedelic-era thief called Diabolik (Law) can’t get enough of life’s good or glittery things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal from under the noses of snooty government officials. And priceless jewels to lift from the boudoirs of the super-rich. The elusive scoundrel finds plenty of ways to live up to his name in this tongue-in-cheek caper. He clambers up walls, zaps a press conference with Exhilaration Gas, smacks a confession out of a crime lord while freefalling with him from an airplane, and pulls off the heist of a twenty-ton gold ingot.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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