Imprint Films has announced six new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in October: Suspiria (2018), The Blair Witch Project Collection (1999-2000), The Antichrist (1974), Superstition (1982), Death Valley (1982), and Directed By…Roman Polanski (1992-1999). These represent a selection of spooky season delights not to be missed.

Imprint Films is a specialty label based out of Australia whose releases can be played in Blu-Ray players worldwide, including U.S. players. All first pressings of each release will have strictly limited-edition deluxe packaging along with new transfers, audio commentaries, exclusive bonus features & more. Details on these films can be found below:

Suspiria (4K UHD + 2 Blu-Ray) (2018)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: Inspired by Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian film of the same name, director Luca Guadagnino (Challengers) takes on the classic story in a terrifying reinvention starring Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey), Mia Goth (MaXXXine), Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass), and the legendary Tilda Swinton in three roles. A darkness swirls at the centre of a world-renowned dance company: one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up. Featuring an incredible original score by Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead.

Limited Edition 4K UHD & Blu-ray 3-Disc Hardbox with art cards including brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only!

Special Features and Technical Specs:

Disc One: 4K UHD

HDR10 presentation of the film on 4K UHD
NEW Audio Commentary by author and academic Miranda Corcoran
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Audio: Dolby Atmos + DTS-HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English Subtitles

Disc Two: Blu-ray

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary by author and academic Miranda Corcoran
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Audio: Dolby Atmos + DTS-HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Optional English Subtitles

Disc Three: Blu-ray

NEW Video Essay with Italian film critic Davide Pulici
NEW Interview with editor Walter Fasano
NEW Suspiria’s Three Fathers: Argento, Fassbinder, Guadagnino – Video Essay by author and film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
NEW Thom Yorke’s Spells: The Music of Suspiria – Video Essay by film writer Phillip Jeffries
The Making of Suspiria – featurette
Suspiria: The Secret Language of Dance – featurette
The Look – featurette
The Transformations of Suspiria – featurette
Interviews with cast Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper & composer Thom Yorke
Theatrical Trailer

The Blair Witch Project Collection (1999-2000)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: The Blair Witch Project caused a sensation when it was released in 1999, grossing over $250 million worldwide, delivering high-level scares on a microscopic budget. Now renowned as one of the greatest and most influential horror films of all time, the original found footage film and its 2000 sequel Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch are given the deluxe treatment in this Limited Edition set.

Limited Edition Blu-ray 2-Disc Hardbox including brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only!

The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Imprint Collection #357

On October 21, 1994, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams hiked into Maryland’s Black Hills Forest to shoot a documentary film on the local legend, the Blair Witch. They were never heard from again. One year later, their footage was found, documenting the students’ five day journey through the Black Hills Forest and capturing the terrifying events that led to their disappearance.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p high-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary by Matt Blazi, author of “8 Days in the Woods: The Making of The Blair Witch Project“
Audio Commentary by writers/directors Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez and producers Rob Cowie, Greg Hale & Mike Manello (1999)
Curse of the Blair Witch – documentary (1999, 44 minutes)
Alternate Endings
Discovered Footage
The Blair Witch Legacy – featurette
Director’s Interviews
Trailers & Teasers
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Optional English Subtitles

Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch (2000) – Imprint Collection #358

To cash in on all of the “real world” hype of the events in the first film, a man from Burkittsville, Maryland opens a “Blair Witch Hunt” tour, which shows patrons various locations from the original film. Four young college students decide to take the tour, which descends into a nightmare realm of murder, madness, and perception-bending supernatural horror.

Starring Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan.

Special Features & Technical Specs:

1080p high-definition presentation on Blu-ray
Audio Commentary by director Joe Berlinger
Audio Commentary on select scenes by composer Carter Burwell
NEW Interview with director Joe Berlinger
NEW Interview with director of photography Nancy Schreiber
More NEW Special Features TBC
The Secret of Esrever – featurette
Soundtrack Trailer and Live Performance by Godhead
Shadow of The Blair Witch – documentary (2000)
Burkittsville 7 – documentary (2000)
Cast Interviews
Godhead – music video
Trailer
Audio English 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Original Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Optional English Subtitles

The Antichrist (1974)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: Italian horror cult hit The Antichrist comes to Blu-ray in a brand NEW 4K restoration. From the screenwriter of the controversial cult film Cannibal Holocaust, Gianfranco Clerici, this terrifying supernatural story stars Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy and Alida Valli, and features a musical score composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars) and Bruno Nicolai. In Rome, a young woman is left paralyzed by the trauma of a horrific childhood accident, and soon becomes a Satanic seductress with a taste for extreme perversion. Now she must face a harrowing exorcism that will cast out the devil forever or usher the unspeakable birth of The Antichrist!

Blu-ray Limited Edition set with slipcover, packed with brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray of a NEW 4K restoration by StudioCanal
NEW Audio Commentary by Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine, and visual artist and author Madeleine LeDespencer
Audio Commentary by author/critic Lee Gambin and critic Sally Christie (2022)
NEW Interview with actor Remo Geroni
NEW Video essay on director Alberto De Martino by film critic Rachael Nisbet
NEW Too Vulgar a Display of Power: The Enduring Phenomenon of Exorcist Rip-Offs – Video Essay by film critic Andy Marshall-Roberts
Archival Interview with camera operator Adolfo Troinai
Sacred and Profane: The Audio Recollections of Alberto De Martino – Interview Conducted and Recorded by Eugenio Ercolani, Rome, Italy 2012 – featurette (2023)
The Antichrist: Raising Hell – interview with director Alberto de Martino and composer Ennio Morricone (2002)
The Tempter – Alternate Opening Credits
The Tempter – TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Optional English Subtitles

Superstition (1982)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: This 80’s slasher has a supernatural twist, from legendary producer Mario Kassar (First Blood, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall), and starring James Houghton (Knots Landing), Albert Salmi (Caddyshack), and Lynn Carlin (Faces). In 1784, Elondra Sharack is condemned a witch and sentenced to death by crucifixion. But as Satan’s daughter, her soul cannot be destroyed and lurks in the lake known as Blackpond. Now 200 years later, the young Rev. David Thompson and his family move into the vacant house by the lake where Elondra’s demonic spirit emerges from the dark depths to seek vengeance…

Blu-ray Limited Edition with slipcover, with brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary by Justin Kerswell author of “The Teenage Slasher Movie Book”
NEW Season of the Witch: Supernatural Slashers – Video Essay by author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine, Kat Ellinger
Lake of Fire – Interview with actor James Houghton
That Crazy Witchcraft – Interview with director James Robertson
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer
Audio English LPCM 2.0
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Optional English HOH Subtitles

Death Valley (1982)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: Academy Award nominated filmmaker Dick Richards directed this terrifying 80’s slasher featuring an all-star cast, including Paul Le Mat (American Graffiti), Catherine Hicks (7th Heaven), Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), Wilford Brimley (The Thing), and Edward Herrmann (Gilmore Girls). What starts out as an ordinary vacation into “Death Valley” instead becomes a nightmare from which the travellers neither awaken nor flee. Their relationships to one another, their sanity, and finally their lives becomes the targets of fiendish insanity in a huge surrealistic landscape where there is no place to hide.

Blu-ray Limited Edition with slipcover, with brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
Audio Commentary by director Dick Richards
NEW The Rise and Fall of the Studio Slasher – Video Essay by film historian Jarret Gahan
NEW Interview with composer Dana Kaproff
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spot
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Optional English Subtitles

Directed By…Roman Polanski (1992-1999)

Street Date: October 30, 2024

Synopsis: Infamous director Roman Polanski directed these three thrilling films of seduction, betrayal and revenge: Bitter Moon (1992), Death and the Maiden (1994), and The Ninth Gate (1999), packaged together in this 5-Disc Limited Edition Hardbox. Includes a bonus disc with 2008 feature-length documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, plus an exclusive booklet with essays from film critic Sean Burns on Bitter Moon, Lindsey Romain (Nerdist, Bright Wall / Dark Room, Vulture) on The Death and the Maiden, and filmmaker Scout Tafoya on The Ninth Gate.

5-Disc Blu-ray Limited Edition Hardbox with booklet, packed with brand NEW Special Features – 1500 copies only.

Bitter Moon (1992) – Imprint Collection #362

Hugh Grant stars alongside Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner and Kristin Scott Thomas in this shocking and steamy erotic thriller.

British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson encounter a beautiful French woman while sailing to Istanbul en route to India. When Nigel develops an irresistible infatuation with the woman, her paraplegic American husband Oscar tells him the story of their steamy love affair.

Based on the French novel Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels) by Pascal Bruckner, featuring a score from Vangelis (Chariots Of Fire, Blade Runner).

“Polanski directs it without compromise or apology… you could hear a pin drop.” – Roger Ebert

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary by filmaker Paul Anthony Nelson & film critic Emma Westwood
NEW Interview with actress Emmanuelle Seigner
Theatrical Trailer
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Optional English HOH Subtitles

Death and the Maiden (1994) – Imprint Collection # 363

Based on the stage play by Ariel Dorfman, this critically acclaimed mystery stars Sigourney Weaver on a quest for revenge.

Fifteen years ago, Paulina Escobar had her life shattered when she was taken prisoner and tortured by a sadistic doctor. Now, through a chance encounter, she may have found the man responsible for her nightmares… and tonight he’s going to pay. But how far will she go to get even?

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p high-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Interview with Ariel Dorfman, author of “Death and the Maiden”
More NEW Special Features TBC
Previously unseen behind the scenes footage
Audio English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Aspect Ratio TBC
Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Ninth Gate (1999) – Imprint Collection #364

Loosely based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel The Club Dumas, this cult neo-noir thriller stars Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella, and James Russo.

A rare book dealer who specialises in books on Satanism is hired to recover a 17th-century text with cryptic illustrations supposedly contributed by Lucifer himself. His investigation takes him to Europe, where bizarre deaths inspired by the book’s morbid illustrations befall all those who come into contact with it… except himself.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

Disc One:

1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
NEW Audio Commentary by author Troy Howarth and Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson
NEW Audio Commentary by author David Huckvale
NEW Video Essay by film critic Sally Christie
Audio Commentary by director Roman Polanski (1999)
Theatrical Trailer & Teasers
Audio English DTS-HD 5.1 Surround
Original Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Optional English HOH Subtitles

Disc Two:

NEW Interview with actress Emmanuelle Seigner
NEW Interview with actor James Russo
NEW Encyclopaedia Satanica — interview feature with occult author Gary Lachman, author/writer Mitch Horowitz and occult collector/author Brandon Hodge
NEW Occult Classics – Analysis of Film & Score with David Huckvale
NEW Lucifer’s Version – Slideshow of Book’s Illustrations with commentary by David Huckvale
In conversation with Roman Polanski – featurette
Promotional Interviews
Storyboard Selections: Storyboards and Scripts
Satanic Drawings – art gallery

Bonus Disc: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) – Feature-Length Documentary

This documentary from director Marina Zenovich examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski’s sudden flight from the United States.

Special Features and Technical Specs: