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Fox Horror Classics: Volume 2′ DVD Announcement
Unearthed from the vaults, three of Hollywood’s finest and scariest movies are unleashed for the first time on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment on September 9th as part of the lauded Fox Cinema Classics Collection. Featuring performances from menacing horror icons Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, plus the smoldering Gene Tierney, among others, the Fox Horror Classics Volume Two three-disc DVD set includes three terrifying films – CHANDU THE MAGICIAN, DR. RENAULT’S SECRET and DRAGONWYCK – each of these horror classics has been restored and remastered and features in-depth bonus materials including behind-the-scenes featurettes, restoration comparisons, trailers and more. Read on for the full details on each release.
FOX HORROR CLASSICS: VOLUME TWO
CHANDU THE MAGICIAN
DRAGONWYCK
DR. RENAULT’S SECRET
CHANDU THE MAGICIAN
DRAGONWYCK
DR. RENAULT’S SECRET
Newly Restored And Remastered On A Three-Disc DVD Collection,
Debuting On September 9th Just In Time For Halloween
Based on the addictively popular radio serial, Chandu The Magician (1932) stars the legendary Lugosi in a stunningly photographed thriller about an ingenious inventor with plans to dominate the human race – at all costs. In Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942), a scientist’s remote villa in the French countryside leads to a forbidden terror for anyone who encounters it. And lastly, multiple Academy
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After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.