Kino Lorber has announced new home media releases in time for Halloween:
THE RIFT (1990)
Brand New HD Master
Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: September 20, 2016 DVD SRP $19.95
DVD UPC 738329194321 Blu-ray SRP $29.95 Blu-ray UPC 738329194420 Genre: Horror Rating R Runtime 82 min Director: Juan Piquer Simon Starring: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair Synopsis: Ray Wise (Twin Peaks, Robocop) stars in this underwater horror film in the tradition of Leviathan and DeepStar Six! The experimental submarine Siren 1, designed by Wick Hayes (Jack Scalia, Fear City), is missing. The rescue team, headed by Captain Phillips (R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket, The Siege of Firebase Gloria) and scientist Robbins (Wise), embark on a mission to find the missing sub. Complicated by the addition of Wick’s estranged wife Nina (Deborah Adair) to the rescue team, the tension mounts as the Siren 2 dives deeper than any sub has gone before. What the crew finds in the furthermost darkest recesses of the ocean is more ghastly and horrifying than they could ever imagine! Also known as Endless Descent, co-starring Ely Pouget (Death Machine) and directed by cult director Juan Piquer Simon (Pieces, Slugs) now see this thrilling horror classic from a brand new HD master. Special Features: On camera interviews with stars Ray Wise, Jack Scalia and R. Lee Ermey | Reversible Artwork
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CHOSEN SURVIVORS (1974)
 Blu-ray Street Date: October 4, 2016 Synopsis: They are mankind’s last hope… and the terror has only just begun! After a devastating global nuclear holocaust, a carefully selected group of 11 citizens are sent deep into the bowels of Planet Earth, where they will remain until it is safe to return to the surface and start re-populating the world! But something else is lurking in this subterranean refuge…a deadly, rampaging of inhuman terror that won’t stop until it has exterminated them all, one by one! TV veteran Sutton Roley (Combat, Mannix) directed classic Sci-Fi thriller starring Jackie Cooper (Superman II), Alex Cord (The Brotherhood), Richard Jaeckel (The Dirty Dozen), Bradford Dillman (The Enforcer), Pedro Armendariz Jr. (Chisum), Diana Muldaur (McQ), Lincoln Kilpatrick (The Omega Man) and Barbara Babcock (Back Roads). Special Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith |
 THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1964)Blu-ray Street Date: October 4, 2016 Blu-ray SRP $29.95 Blu-ray UPC 738329206468 Genre: Horror Rating NR Runtime 62 min Director Terence Fisher Stsrring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters, Vanda Godsell Synopsis: Their target: Humanity. Their mission: Total Annihilation! The world has just been decimated by an unstoppable, merciless army of killer robots, and millions of innocent souls have been wiped out! Only a handful of survivors have managed to escape the deadly alien apocalypse, and they must endure a non-stop struggle to save themselves from destruction, and somehow find a way to defeat the marauding death machines… before the entire human race becomes extinct! Legendary Hammer director Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula) directed this Sci-Fi thriller written by Harry Spalding (Chosen Survivors) under the pseudonym Henry Cross and starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price and Thorley Walters. Special Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith | Animated Photo Montage |
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ASTRO ZOMBIES (1968) with RiffTrax® Commentary
 Newly Re-mastered in HD! Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: October 11, 2016 DVD SRP $19.95 DVD UPC 738329204013 Blu-ray SRP $29.95 Blu-ray UPC 738329204020 Genre: Horror Rating: NR Runtime: 91 min Director: Ted V. Mikels Starring Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tura Satana, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick Synopsis: A film that has it all… a mad astro-scientist (John Carradine, House of the Long Shadows) reviving corpses at his laboratory; two gore-crazed, solar-powered killer robot zombies; a bloody trail of girl-next-door victims; Chinese communist spies; deadly Mexican secret agents led by the insanely voluptuous Tura Satana (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and intrepid CIA agent Wendell Corey (The Killer is Loose) hot on their trail and trying to figure it all out! This cult favorite was written, produced and directed by cult legend, Ted Mikels (One Shocking Moment, Blood Orgy of the She-Devils) melds into a high-powered fusion the films of Ed Wood, Russ Meyer and George Romero with undead cannibal gore chills… hot-pants sexploitation thrills… ’60’s sci-fi mumbo-jumbo and Cold War espionage intrigue. Special Features: Audio Commentary by Writer/Producer/Director Ted V. Mikels | RiffTrax® Commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett | Audio Commentary by Horror Cinema Historian Chris Alexander | Original Theatrical Trailer |
 THE PIT (1981)Brand New 2K Restoration! Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: October 18, 2016 DVD SRP $19.95 DVD UPC 738329205072 Blu-ray SRP $29.95 Blu-ray UPC 738329205089 Genre: Horror Rating: R Runtime: 96 min Director: Lew Lehman Starring: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smith, Laura Hollingsworth, Richard Alden Synopsis: Jamie wouldn’t kill anyone… unless Teddy told him to! Twelve-year-old Jamie (Sammy Snyders, Tom Sawyer of TV’s Huckleberry Finn and His Friends) is one creepy kid… he has a perverse obsession with sex, his only friend is an evil teddy bear, and he’s the only one who knows about the hole in the forest where he feeds raw meat to a ravenous pack of mutant troglodytes. Jamie will teach everyone a lesson: the kids who teased and bullied him, the mean old lady down the street, even his pretty new babysitter. Soon they – and his entire town – will face the flesh-eating horror of The Pit! The one and only directorial effort by Lew Lehman with a script by documentarian Ian A. Stuart and featuring a wonderful cast that includes Jeannie Elias (Nomads), Sonja Smith (Videodrome) and Richard Alden (The Sadist). Special Features: Interview with Star Sammy Snyders | Interview with Star Jeannie Elias | Interview with Screenwriter Ian A. Stuart | Interview with Composer Victor Davies | Audio Commentary by Film Historians Paul Corupe and Jason Pichonsky |
BEWARE! THE BLOB (1972)  Newly Re-mastered in HD! Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: September 20, 2016 DVD SRP $19.95 DVD UPC 738329203719 Blu-ray SRP $29.95 Blu-ray UPC 738329203726 Horror/GP/91 min Director: Larry Hagman Starring: Robert Walker Jr., Gywnne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lynley, Dick Van Patten, Larry Hagman, Gerrit Graham, Shelley Berman, Del Close, Cindy Williams, Sid Haig, Burgess Meredith Synopsis: The Blob returns… more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Robert Walker Jr. (Ensign Pulver), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Sid Haig (Busting), Burgess Meredith (Rocky), Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes to Harlem), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Carole Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure), Gerrit Graham (Used Cars) and Shelley Berman (You Don’t Mess with the Zohan) add to the fun. A geologist (Cambridge) unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the North Pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town. No one is safe as it crawls into a bowling alley, oozes its way across an ice rink, becoming grotesquely bloated with the blood of its victims… can this bizarre creature ever be stopped? TV legend Larry Hagman directed this cult classic, the only feature film he ever directed – upon its 1980s re-release, the film was tagged “The Film that J.R. Shot!”. Special Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith | Alternate Title Sequence |
Also Available from Kino Lorber/Redemption:
 Jess Franco’s DAUGHTER OF DRACULABlu-ray & DVD Street Date: October 4, 2016 Blu-ray SRP: $29.95 DVD SRP: $19.95 Director: Jess Franco Starring: Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Alberto Dalbés, Daniel White, Howard Vernon, Jess Franco, Fernando Bilbao Horror/1972/NR/82 min. Synopsis: In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco-inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK-revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism. Daughter of Dracula was inspired by Sheridan LeFanu’s “Carmilla” (which was also the source of Hammer’s lesbian vampire trilogy), but as one might expect, Franco’s version was unlike any treatment the story had yet received. When the nude body of a murdered woman washes onto the beach, a police inspector (Alberto Dalbés) and a reporter (Fernando Bilbao) focus their attention on the castle of Count Max Karlstein (composer Daniel White) and his niece (Britt Nichols, The Demons), a beautiful woman who appears to be wrestling with an ancestral curse. Special Features: English Subtitles, Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas, Alternate “safe” footage (less sexually explicit), Original theatrical trailer Synopsis: Based on the popular manga by Uziga Waita, MAI-CHAN’S DAILY LIFE is a diabolical dark comedy that takes fetish violence to shocking new extremes. A young woman, Miyako (Akane Miyako) responds to an advertisement for a live-in maid, and is given a job alongside the playfully alluring Mai-chan (Koshi Ann). Miyako quickly learns that housecleaning is the least of her duties, as the master (Maruyama Shogo) and his wife (Roman Soako) use the maids as toys in their unbridled erotic fantasies. Since Mai-chan possesses the uncanny ability to recover from any injury, no matter how severe, every violent desire is indulged, and Miyako soon finds herself actively involved in Mai-chan’s horrific destruction (and miraculous resurrection). Special Features: Original Trailer, “Waita’s Daily Life,” a two-part documentary of behind-the-scenes footage (31 Min.) |
