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Scream Factory Announces John Carpenter Blu-ray Steelbooks!
Get ready to double dip, Carpenter fans.
Believe it or not, the fan favorite Scream Factory label turns five years old this year, and they’re celebrating with limited edition re-releases of three John Carpenter flicks – fitting, given how much love and attention Scream Factory has given to Carpenter’s films over the years. Escape from New York, The Fog and They Live are each getting the Steelbook treatment on August 1st!
The company announced today:
It’s hard to believe at times, but our brand is now five years old. Naturally, we wanted to celebrate this milestone with something cool that would be true to our retro roots and would make a big splash. As you already know, we’ve been very successful with our John Carpenter films so we looked to some of our older releases of his for inspiration. We then remembered the question we posed sometime years ago to you about your thoughts on Steelbook® packaging, and the response was extremely strong.
Featuring new art from Nathaniel Marsh, the Steelbook Blu-rays are each limited to 10,000 and when they’re gone, they’re gone for good. We must note that while the packaging and even disc art will be different, the Blu-rays included inside will have the same content that is currently available in their respective Collector Edition releases.
If you order direct from Scream Factory’s website, you can get the releases two weeks early. You will also get 28.5” x 16.5” rolled lithographs of the illustrations, while supplies last.
One of my personal favorite horror movies of all time, 1987’s gateway horror classic The Gate is opening back up on May 14 with a brand new Blu-ray SteelBook release from Lionsgate!
The new release will feature fresh SteelBook artwork from Vance Kelly, seen below.
Special Features, all of which were previously released, include…
- Audio Commentaries
- Director Tibor Takacs, Writer Michael Nankin, and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
- Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Craig Reardon, Special Effects Artist Frank Carere, and Matte Photographer Bill Taylor
- Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview
- Featurettes:
- The Gate: Unlocked
- Minion Maker
- From Hell It Came
- The Workman Speaks!
- Made in Canada
- From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of The Gate
- The Gatekeepers
- Vintage Featurette: Making of The Gate
- Teaser Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Storyboard Gallery
- Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery
When best friends Glen (Stephen Dorff) and Terry (Louis Tripp) stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen’s backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth The Gate — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they’ve released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever . . . if it’s not too late.
If you’ve never seen The Gate, it’s now streaming on Prime Video and Tubi.
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