Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their April 2026 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as George Kennedy, Orson Welles, Walter Matthau, Abbott & Costello, Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 4/14/26
Synopsis: What in the living hell is on board? Screen great George Kennedy (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Airport films) stars with Richard Crenna (Wait Until Dark, Rambo films), Nick Mancuso (Rapid Fire, The Ex) and Saul Rubinek (Unforgiven, Death Wish V) in this terrifying tale of a possessed ship searching for new victims on the high seas! An ocean liner carrying vacationing passengers collides with a mysterious freighter. The handful of survivors seek refuge aboard the sinister freighter—which turns out to be possessed by the evil forces that once commanded it! This is no ordinary ship…it’s a killing machine! Also starring Sally Ann Howes (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Kate Reid (The Andromeda Strain); directed by Alvin Rakoff (City on Fire) and based on a story by Jack Hill (Foxy Brown)—Pray you are never rescued by the DEATH SHIP! This special edition also includes the extended cut in HD!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR10 Master (Theatrical Cut) – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary for the Theatrical Cut by Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and Film Historian Jason Pichonsky | NEW Audio Commentaries for Both Cuts by Film Historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master of the Theatrical Cut – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | 1080P HD Master of the Extended Cut | NEW Audio Commentary for the Theatrical Cut by Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and Film Historian Jason Pichonsky | NEW Audio Commentary for the Theatrical Cut by Film Historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson | NEW Audio Commentary for the Extended Cut by Film Historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson | Audio Commentary for the Extended Cut by Director Alvin Rakoff, Moderated by Jonathan Rigby | Isolated Score for the Extended Cut by Composer Ivor Slaney | Stormy Seas – The Voyage from Bloodstar to Death Ship: Documentary | What is the Ship Saying: Featurette with Katarina Severen of Katharina’s Nightmare Theater | Bloodstar Short Story Script by Jack Hill | 2 Theatrical Trailers | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 4/21/26
Synopsis: Starring Michèle Mercier and Robert Hossein, the iconic duo of the Angélique films, The Second Twin (La Seconde vérité) is an ultra-stylish tale of passion and murder. Middle-aged attorney Pierre (Hossein) falls for Nathalie (Mercier), who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer nearly leaves his wife over the beautiful young dancer. And when Nathalie’s wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre becomes a main suspect. A colorful whodunit unfolds from master director Christian-Jaque (The Black Tulip).
Bonus Features: A 4K Restoration by StudioCanal | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | In French with Optional English Subtitles
THE PHANTOM (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/14/26
Synopsis: A fantastic Billy Zane (Titanic) stars in this thrill-a-minute actioner based on one of the most successful comic series of all time! The story begins as an expedition lands on the island of Bengalla, seeking the legendary skulls of Touganda. Believed to harness an energy force of incalculable power, the skulls could spell disaster for mankind. And that’s exactly what ruthless tycoon Xander Drax (Treat Williams, Deep Rising) has in mind…unless one man can save it. Now evil has met its match and great movie adventure has a new name—The Phantom! Rousingly directed by Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove, Quigley Down Under) and also starring Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Mask of Zorro), James Remar (48 Hrs.), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Mortal Kombat) and Patrick McGoohan (Escape from Alcatraz).
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Approved by Director Simon Wincer) | NEW Audio Commentary by Director Simon Wincer, Moderated by Filmmaker Douglas Hosdale | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Director Simon Wincer, Moderated by Filmmaker Douglas Hosdale | Kismet in the Jungle: NEW Interview with Star Billy Zane (27:06) | Slam Evil – Scoring The Phantom: NEW Interview with Composer David Newman (14:48) | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/14/26
Synopsis: Brace yourself for hilarious, action-packed adventure! When a street-smart NYPD cop (Fred Ward, Tremors) regains consciousness after a bizarre mugging, he has a new face and a new identity! Now he’s Remo Williams, the #1 recruit of a top-secret organization, and he’s toppling evil at every turn—even atop the Statue of Liberty—in this ’80s action-comedy classic. Trained by a quirky martial arts master (Joel Grey, Cabaret) to dodge bullets, brave terrifying heights and thwart attackers with his bare hands, Remo becomes the ultimate criminal exterminator. But when he faces off against a corrupt millionaire and his army of henchmen, the real adventure begins! Helmed by Guy Hamilton, the outstanding director of Funeral in Berlin, Force 10 from Navarone, Evil Under the Sun and four James Bond classics including Goldfinger and Live and Let Die, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins features stellar support from Wilford Brimley (Hard Target), J.A. Preston (Body Heat), George Coe (The Entity) and Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway of TV’s Star Trek: Voyager).
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Journalist Brandon Streussnig | Audio Commentary by Producer Larry Spiegel and Co-Producer Judy Goldstein | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Journalist Brandon Streussnig | Audio Commentary by Producer Larry Spiegel and Co-Producer Judy Goldstein | Lessons in Popcorn Villainy: Interview with Actor Patrick Kilpatrick | Created, the Destroyer – Writing Remo Williams: Featurette | Unarmed and Dangerous – Producing Remo Williams: Featurette | Secrets of Sinanju – Training Remo Williams: Featurette | Balance of Power – Designing Remo Williams: Featurette | Assassin’s Tune – Composing Remo Williams: Featurette | Radio Spot | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
STONE COLD (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/21/26
Synopsis: When it comes to non-stop action, Stone Cold is red hot! NCAA and NFL superstar Brian “The Boz” Bosworth (One Man’s Justice, Midnight Heat) makes his movie debut as John Stone, the only cop tough enough to take out a gang of stone-cold killers. Going undercover, he has to pose as an outlaw biker to win the trust of their diabolic leader Chains and his right-hand psychopath Ice, played by screen legends Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Hard Target) and William Forsythe (Out for Justice, The Devil’s Rejects). Stone soon discovers there’s more to these bikers than heavy metal mayhem. They’re plotting a paramilitary assault on the State Capitol, where one of their men has been sentenced to execution. In a spectacular climax, Stone is up against the gang and on his own. And the killers soon discover that if you go up against John Stone, he’ll burn you cold…Stone Cold. From director Craig R. Baxley (Action Jackson, I Come in Peace), it’s a full-tilt, in-your-face thriller packed with explosive effects and breathtaking high-wire tension!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Scene Specific Audio Commentary by Director Craig R. Baxley | Audio Commentary by Action Film Historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Scene Specific Audio Commentary by Director Craig R. Baxley | Audio Commentary by Action Film Historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema | THE BOZ Goes Hollywood: Interview with Star Brian Bosworth | The Brotherhood: Interview with Actor Lance Henriksen | Cold as Ice: NEW Interview with Actor William Forsythe | Breaking Free: Interview with Actress Arabella Holzbog | Playing Straight: Interview with Actor Sam McMurray | TV Spots, VHS Release Ad, VHS Trailer & 1-900 Stone Cold Challenge Contest | 2 Theatrical Trailers | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 4/21/26
Synopsis: Witness the intrigue and suspense behind every door, every window, and every move of every player in the House of Cards! Reno Davis (George Peppard, Newman’s Law), an American boxer in Paris, stumbles upon an international conspiracy when hired by the mysterious widow Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens, Madigan) to look after her eight-year-old son. All roads lead to Rome and a showdown with devilish arch-conspirator Leschenhaut (Orson Welles, Touch of Evil). Sumptuous Technicolor cinematography and music by Francis Lai (Love Story) highlight this gripping Hitchcockian tale from John Guillermin, director of Peppard gems P.J. and The Blue Max.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 4/21/26
Synopsis: Screen legend Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie, Charley Varrick) explores the world of middle-age dating in this laugh-out-loud ’70s rom-com! When Charley (Matthau), a recent widower, embarks on a quest to be a modern-day Casanova, he jumps from one meaningless fling to the next until he meets Ann (Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class), a recent divorcée. The two end up on a rollercoaster romance that is a true exposé into the dating game. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin) and featuring wonderful performances by Art Carney (The Late Show) and Richard Benjamin (Diary of a Mad Housewife), House Calls reminds us that finding love doesn’t always come easy! The hit film was later turned into a hit TV sitcom (1979-1981), starring Wayne Rogers, Lynn Redgrave, Sharon Gless and David Wayne.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
HOLD THAT GHOST (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/28/26
Synopsis: The third Abbott and Costello movie of 1941, and perhaps their funniest of all-time, was rushed into release to capitalize on the wild success of their first two starring films, Buck Privates and In the Navy. In Hold That Ghost, Bud and Lou come into an inheritance: an abandoned roadhouse formerly belonging to a “rubbed out” mobster. This choice piece of real estate is also supposedly the hiding place for the mobster’s illicit loot. When they arrive to claim the “inheritance,” all mayhem breaks loose. People are mysteriously murdered. Lights go on and off. Walls go inside and out. Moans and shrieks are heard. And ghosts run rampant in the legendary duo’s first horror-themed outing, which paved the way for more horror-comedy classics, including the masterpiece, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Before they encountered the Universal Monsters, Bud and Lou enjoyed a jaunt with a haunt in Hold That Ghost! Co-starring Joan Davis, sensational as a “professional screamer,” and featuring toe-tappin’ musical numbers by The Andrews Sisters.
Bonus Features: Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/28/26
Synopsis: Screen greats Danny DeVito (Ruthless People) and Billy Crystal (City Slickers) are homicidally hilarious, and Anne Ramsey (The Goonies) is hysterically frightful in an Oscar-nominated performance (Best Supporting Actress, 1987), in this wickedly screwball comedy directed by DeVito (The War of the Roses)! Long-suffering momma’s boy Owen (DeVito) has a mother (Ramsey) who’s a cross between Quasimodo and the Wicked Witch of the West. Owen’s friend Larry (Crystal) has female problems of his own: an ex-wife who stole his novel and made it a bestseller. Can these hapless males help “eliminate” each other’s problems? Get ready for some of the funniest foul play on film when DeVito, Crystal and Ramsey put this laugh-a-minute comedy on track!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Hats Off Entertainment’s Joe Ramoni | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Hats Off Entertainment’s Joe Ramoni | Wide Angle Dark Humor: NEW Interview with Cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld | Crafting a Dark Comedy: Featurette | Why Do You Hate Your Mother?: Featurette | The Night Was…: Featurette | 4 Deleted Scenes | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 4/28/26
Synopsis: Maryam d’Abo (The Living Daylights) sinks her teeth into the part of a beautiful vampiress rudely awakened in modern-day Mexico City from a century of deep sleep. She suddenly finds herself pursued by two very different suitors—an eligible doctor and an evil, age-old vampire, played to perfection by Ben Cross (The Unholy). One wants to try and bring her into the 20th century; the other wants her to be his demonic bride. Modern love clashes with ancient evil in this biting blend of humor and horror!
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Interpositive | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Author Amanda Reyes | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians David Del Valle and Peter Sawyer | Optional English Subtitles
THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD
Street Date: 4/28/26
Synopsis: The year after his breakout role in The Invisible Man, Claude Rains powerfully portrayed the tragic pacifist Paul Verin in The Man Who Reclaimed His Head. Verin writes anti-war editorials and allows politician Henry Dumont (Lionel Atwill, The Secret of the Blue Room) to take credit for his words in the broadsheet he publishes. When Dumont’s political aspirations bring him closer to the very people condemned in Verin’s writings, he urges the scribe to soften his rhetoric. After Verin refuses, Dumont decides to betray his employee by sending him to the warfront and seducing his wife (a blonde Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street). Directed by Edward Ludwig (Wake of the Red Witch, Sangaree), The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is renowned today as a dark and stylish anti-war masterpiece.
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Finegrain | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth | Optional English Subtitles
THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 4/21/26
Synopsis: A mind-bending thriller from the golden age of occult cinema, The House of Seven Corpses follows a crew filming a horror movie at a crumbling mansion, once home to a cabal of satanists. When the actors speak incantations from the “Bardo Thodol”, strange incidents befall the production, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare. Headstrong director Eric Hartman (John Ireland, Red River) defiantly presses onward, bullying his leading lady (Faith Domergue, This Island Earth), a young starlet (Carole Wells, Funny Lady), and the estate’s creepy caretaker (John Carradine, Bluebeard). As the cameras grind, the dead claw their way from the graves of a nearby cemetery, and The House of Seven Corpses reveals its terrifying secrets.
Bonus Features: New Audio Commentary by Author and Film Historian David Del Valle with Producer/Director David DeCoteau (Creepozoids, Retro Puppet Master) | Audio Commentary by Associate Producer Gary Kent | Archival Interview with Actor John Carradine | Demon Dave & Joe’s “Savage Tracks” Vol. 5, Featuring Randy Cognata | Theatrical Trailer
ILSA, THE WICKED WARDEN (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 5/26/26
Synopsis: The final installment of the controversial Ilsa saga finds the former accomplice of Nazis, Stalinists, and oil barons now operating a psychiatric clinic in an unnamed Latin American country, where political prisoners are tortured. A young woman (Tania Busselier) has herself committed in order to locate her captive sister, but quickly realizes she has entered a hell of sexploitation from which she cannot escape. Dyanne Thorne plays Ilsa to camp excess but it is the ingenue, Lina Romay (Female Vampire), who steals the show as Ilsa’s pet prisoner, a woman who withstands Ilsa’s abuse and manipulates her fellow prisoners, doing anything to stay alive long enough to turn the tables on cinema’s most diabolical villainess.
Bonus Features: New Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth | Audio Commentary by Actors Dyanne Thorne and Howard Maurer, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis | A Thorne by Any Other Name: Stephen Thrower on Ilsa, the Wicked Warden | Uh-Oh…It’s ILSA! Part Two of a Sidebar Conversation with Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas and Author, Artist and Film Historian Stephen R. Bissette | Vintage Promotional Short Featuring Interviews with Director Jess Franco and Producer Erwin C. Dietrich | Theatrical Trailer | Gallery of Artwork and Stills
Street Date: 4/14/26
Synopsis: Of all the espionage serials by Louis Feuillade (including Les Vampires, Judex, and the Fantômas films), film historian Gilbert Adair calls Tih-Minh, “the greatest, which is to say, the weirdest, most uncanny, most dreamlike.” The six-hour epic begins as adventure-seeker Jacques d’Athys (René Cresté) returns to Nice from Indochina with his bride-to-be, Tih-Minh (Mary Harald), and a cryptic book which provides clues to the whereabouts of hidden treasure. Aided by his whimsical manservant Placide (Georges Biscot), Jacques races to decipher the mysteries of the book, while foiling the efforts of the mercenaries, kidnappers, and hypnotists eager to rob him of the treasure, and who are willing to use Tih-Minh as a pawn in their sinister schemes.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary for Eight Episodes by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas
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