Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their May 2025 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as Mike Myers, Woody Harrelson, Kim Novak, John Frankenheimer, Clive Owen, Audie Murphy, and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 5/13/25
Synopsis: Season Hubley (Hardcore) stars as Princess, a loving single mom by day, a Hollywood prostitute by night. But when a volatile cop (Gary Swanson, The Bone Collector) uses her to trap a sadistic killer, Princess becomes the prey of a psychotic pimp named Ramrod (a mind-blowing, take-no-prisoners performance by Wings Hauser, The Siege of Firebase Gloria). Tonight, the neon jungle of Los Angeles will explode in an orgy of vengeance and violence. And the only outlaws more desperate than the hustlers and the freaks who rule the streets are the Vice Squad. “You may think you’ve heard of every sickness and perversion movies like to titter about,” wrote Rex Reed in The New York Daily News, “but there are quite a few in Vice Squad you’ve never dreamed possible!” Scarface’s Pepe Serna and original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood and Beverly Todd (Lean on Me) co-star in this vicious ’80s action smash from the creator of the “schoolgirl hooker” hit Angel and the director of Dead & Buried and Wanted: Dead or Alive.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New UHD SDR Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary Filmmaker Steve Mitchell, the Writer/Director of Wings Hauser: Working Class Actor | Audio Commentary by Director Gary Sherman and Producer Brian Frankish | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary Filmmaker Steve Mitchell, the Writer/Director of Wings Hauser: Working Class Actor | Audio Commentary by Director Gary Sherman and Producer Brian Frankish | TV and Radio Spots | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 3 (BLU-RAY): Tracking the Beast: Interview with Actor Gary Swanson | Of Poltergeists and Neon Lights: Interview with Director Gary Sherman | Hollywood Magic: Interview with Producer Brian Frankish | The Roots of Reality: Interview with Actress Beverly Todd | Catching a Killer: Interview with Actor Pepe Serna | Princess Driver: Interview with Actor Michael Ensign | Hollywood Streetwalking: Vice Squad Filming Locations
CRACK IN THE WORLD (SPECIAL EDITION)
Street Date: 5/13/25
Synopsis: Dr. Stephen Sorensen (Dana Andrews, The Satan Bug) and his wife and fellow scientist Dr. Maggie Sorensen (Janette Scott, The Day of the Triffids) plan to utilize the geothermal energy of the Earth’s interior by detonating a powerful thermonuclear device deep within the Earth’s core. Despite warnings from Maggie’s ex-flame Dr. Ted Rampion (Kieron Moore, Arabesque), Dr. Sorensen proceeds with the experiment after he secretly learns that he is terminally ill. This experiment uses a crack within the Earth’s crust and threatens to split the Earth in two if it is not stopped in time! Heralding the boom of “disaster movies” in the 1970s like Airport and Earthquake, this rippingly entertaining ’60s sci-fi adventure will shake you to the very core!
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani | Sidebar with Tim Lucas and Stephen R. Bissette: Part I (37:04 | Sidebar with Tim Lucas and Stephen R. Bissette: Part II (32:19) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/20/25
Synopsis: Prophecy is a contemporary story of stark terror. Robert Foxworth (Ants!, The Black Marble) and Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) star as a doctor and his wife, who, at the request of a concerned friend, travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature (including fish that grow many times their normal size), and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Visionary director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin, Reindeer Games) brilliantly presents Prophecy as a “monster movie” as well as a suspenseful tale about the deadly forces which result from the pollution of our environment. The wonderful cast also includes Armand Assante (I, the Jury, Q&A) and Richard Dysart (Being There, The Thing).
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 Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES): All of Our Sins: Interview with Actress Talia Shire (18:59) | Bearing Up: Interview with Actor Robert Foxworth (10:02) | Bear and Grit It: Interview with Screenwriter David Seltzer (13:13) | Hard to Bear: Interview with Make-Up Effects Designer Tom Burman (19:34) | Prophecy Prodigy: Interview with Make-Up Effects Artist Allan Apone (21:14) | The Man Behind the Mask: Interview with Mime Artist Tom McLoughlin (21:51) | Radio Spots | Theatrical Trailer
THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF MOLL FLANDERS
Street Date: 5/20/25
Synopsis: It’s marry Olde England when Moll comes to London! The ravishing Kim Novak (Vertigo) stars in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, a bawdy comedy based on the novel by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe). An all-star supporting cast—including Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer and Cecil Parker—joins the fun as Moll sets out on her (ahem) well-laid plan to make schemes come true in 18th-century London. She masquerades as a rich widow to land a wealthy nobleman (Richard Johnson), never dreaming that he’s actually a penniless scoundrel posing to win the presumably rich Moll. What a perfect match! Lavishly directed by Terence Young (From Russia with Love, Cold Sweat), the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders add up to a rollicking, ribald cinematic romp! This new restoration by Paramount gives us the home entertainment debut of the 131-minute uncut and uncensored version of the film.
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians David Del Valle and Daniel Kremer | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
WAYNE’S WORLD 2 (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: It’s 2 excellent to be true! Wayne and Garth are back (and front) in the most awaited video since Wayne’s World—Wayne’s World 2! Having achieved godlike status as a late-night TV personality, Wayne (Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) now confronts the question that has plagued man for centuries: Is there life after cable? Wayne gets his answer in a dream, wherein a very famous (and very dead) rock star says, “Put on a rock concert, and they will come.” So Wayne and Garth (Dana Carvey, Clean Slate) present “Waynestock.” But first, Wayne must save his girlfriend Cassandra (Tia Carrere, True Lies) from a sinister record producer (Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter), as Garth grapples with the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornée (Kim Basinger, No Mercy). Featuring appearances by Aerosmith, Drew Barrymore, Chris Farley, Charlton Heston, James Hong, Heather Locklear, Tim Meadows, Ed O’Neill and Kevin Pollak. Party on!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio commentary with Director Stephen Surjik | 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 | Audio commentary with Director Stephen Surjik | Extreme Close-Up: Featurette (14:06) | 6 US TV Spots | 2 UK TV Spots | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: The guys who brought you Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary and Me, Myself & Irene strike again with a gut-busting farce that’s “just too funny” (Los Angeles Times)! Bigtime rollers Woody Harrelson (Semi-Pro), Randy Quaid (Vacation), Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) and an outrageous Bill Murray (Stripes) come up winners in this riotous, gag-a-second comedy with plenty of balls. Harrelson is Roy Munson, a pro bowler who seems destined for greatness, or as close to greatness as a bowler can get. But after a run-in with angry competitors, Roy finds himself sadder, wiser and minus his bowling hand! Years later, he meets the naive Ishmael (Quaid), an Amish bowling whiz. Together they set out for a million-dollar tournament in Reno, and along the way pick up Claudia (Vanessa Angel, Spies Like Us), a sexy vixen with brains, attitude and really big…ideas. With her help, they make it to the tournament. But will Roy and Ishmael win the big match and score fame and fortune…or will all their hopes and dreams just go barreling down the gutter?
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master (Theatrical Cut) – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): HD Masters of the Theatical Cut (NEW) and Extended Cut – From 4K Scan of the Original 35mm Elements | Audio Commentary by Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly (Extended Cut) | NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry (Theatrical Cut) | Kingpins – Extra Frames with the Farrelly Brothers: Featurette (19:14) | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: In this refreshingly unique comedy directed by Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby), two girls, PJ (Rachel Sennott, Saturday Night) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri, TV’s The Bear), start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. And their bizarre plan works! The fight club gains traction, and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Cast Members Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, and Kaia Gerber | Audio Commentary by Director Emma Seligman | Deleted Scenes | Outtakes | Ride Along: The Making of Bottoms | Theatrical Trailer
AUDIE MURPHY COLLECTION IV (THE KID FROM TEXAS/THE CIMARRON KID/DRUMS ACROSS THE RIVER)
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: This collection features three classic Technicolor westerns from the 1950s starring the incomparable Audie Murphy. The Kid from Texas (1950) – The True, Savage Story of Billy the Kid! In the movie that catapulted him into cinema legend, Audie Murphy (No Name on the Bullet) portrays the infamous William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, who becomes embroiled in the historic land wars of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. In 1879, a rancher named Jameson takes a shine to the outlaw Billy the Kid and gives him a job as a hired hand. But when thugs working for a rival rancher kill Jameson in an ambush, the young gunslinger decides to take out every man responsible for his boss’s death. Billy guns down the culprits one by one, always staying just out of the law’s reach—until Sheriff Pat Garrett catches up with him. Directed by the prolific Kurt Neumann (Island of Lost Men, The Fly) and co-starring Gale Storm (Revenge of the Zombies), Will Geer (Broken Arrow) and Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops), The Kid from Texas was Murphy’s first Technicolor western and the first film on his Universal-International Pictures contract which launched the young WWII hero into western iconography. The Cimarron Kid (1952) – He Led the Last Great Outlaw Raids! Audie Murphy (Ride a Crooked Trail) came into his own as a western star in this rousing Technicolor tale of Bill Doolin, aka The Cimarron Kid, directed by the renowned Budd Boetticher (Horizons West, Wings of the Hawk, Seven Men from Now). After being falsely accused of a payroll heist, the Cimarron Kid heads for the high country where he joins up with his boyhood pals, the notorious Dalton gang. But when the Daltons are decimated during a daring daylight bank robbery, the Kid takes over what is left of the gang and hides out at a local ranch. Here he is reformed by the love of a rancher’s daughter (Beverly Tyler, Chicago Confidential), but not so reformed that he doesn’t embark upon one last heist. James Best (Kansas Raiders), the alluring Yvette Duguay (Cattle Queen of Montana) and Hugh O’Brian (The Fiend Who Walked the West) co-star. Drums Across the River (1954) – A Wilderness of Danger! An Empire of Savage Hate! Driven to desperation by hard times, Frank Walker (Lyle Bettger, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a party of miners decide to dig for gold in Ute territory despite a peace treaty that forbids trespassing on their land. Joining the group in spite of his father’s warning is Gary Brannon (Audie Murphy, Night Passage), who has no qualms about breaking the treaty since his mother was killed by the tribe. The miners’ actions soon incur the wrath of the Ute and Gary finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly situation that threatens to explode into a bloody race war. Directed in Technicolor by Nathan Juran (Gunsmoke, The Golden Blade), Drums Across the River is distinguished by a cast of sagebrush giants such as Hugh O’Brian (The Shootist), Jay Silverheels (The Lone Ranger) and the great Walter Brennan (The Westerner).
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary for THE KID FROM TEXAS by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani | NEW Audio Commentaries for THE CIMARRON KID and DRUMS ACROSS THE RIVER by Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner and Film Historian Henry Parke | Theatrical Trailers (All 3 Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: The hypnotic final film from Mike Hodges, director of Croupier and the classic Get Carter, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is a psychological crime-drama that features an irresistible cast including Clive Owen (Inside Man), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Velvet Goldmine), Charlotte Rampling (Orca) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and asks the question: what is the price of vengeance? Ex-gangster Will Graham thought he had gained back his soul by leaving the hard-boiled life of the criminal underworld behind him and taking on the life of a drifter. But when his younger brother is found dead of a gruesome suicide, Will comes back to town and discovers that his death was motivated by a shocking event involving a local car dealer with a violent habit. To get vengeance against the man responsible, Will must deal with the unfinished business of his old life, which includes a feud with the local crime boss and lingering feelings for an old flame.
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Mike Hodges and Writer Trevor Preston | Mike Hodges and I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: Featurette | Deleted Scenes | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/27/25
Synopsis: An action-packed, swashbuckling adventure, Nate and Hayes aka Savage Islands stars screen legend Tommy Lee Jones (Black Moon Rising, The Hunted) as the notorious real-life buccaneer, Captain “Bully” Hayes, and Michael O’Keefe (Caddyshack) as the aspiring reverend Nathaniel “Nate” Williamson. The story takes place in the mid-1800s on the South Pacific islands where murderous raids and bloody battles were not uncommon. When a cutthroat gang headed by the villainous Ben Pease leaves young Nate for dead and kidnaps his beautiful fiancée Sophie (Jenny Seagrove, Local Hero), Nate’s only hope is to forge an unlikely alliance with an infamous and unpredictable swashbuckler named Hayes. Packed with humor, romance and cutlass-swinging action from stem to stern, this is a rousing pirate adventure co-written by the great John Hughes (Home Alone, Uncle Buck) from a story by David Odell (The Dark Crystal).
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Author Dwayne Epstein | Audio Commentary by Action Film Historians Mike Leeder and Russell Wait | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 5/13/25
Synopsis: While making the transition from swinging ’60s nudie films to his signature gut-wrenching horror films of the ’70s, Pete Walker directed four hardboiled gems of contemporary British noir. Walker’s milieu was a criminal underworld of posh London nightclubs and tawdry amusement halls, of bisexuality and brutality, pop stars and pornographers. Die Screaming, Marianne stars Susan George as a free-spirited hippie chick caught in a nightmarish plot to rob her of an inheritance. Usually marketed (and dismissed) as erotica, Cool It, Carol! (aka The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met) follows a small-town couple who seek adventure in the big city and find themselves involved in the smut film racket (a seedy business which also figures prominently in The Big Switch). Moon (Man of Violence) is an international heist film starring Michael Latimer as a James Bond-like gun for hire.
Bonus Features: Die Screaming Marianne Audio commentary by director Pete Walker with film historian Jonathan Rigby | Moon (Man of Violence) Audio commentary by film historians Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterior | “Pete Walker: An Eye for Terror,” an interview by Elijah Drenner | Original theatrical trailers
Street Date: 5/13/25
Synopsis: Hollywood has a long and problematic history of depicting Indigenous Peoples on screen, but Edwin Carewe’s Ramona shows that filmmakers of the silent era could exercise sensitivity and empathy. Based on the popular novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, set in 19th-century California, Ramona stars Dolores Del Rio as a woman of mixed race, who abandons her position of privilege in order to marry a Native American (Warner Baxter). At first they find an idyllic happiness in the wilderness (much of the film was shot at Zion National Park in Utah). As the years pass, they are confronted by various forms of racism, and Ramona’s hopeful love story becomes a tale of social injustice and tragic loss. This edition was restored by the Library of Congress from color-tinted 35mm materials preserved by Gosfiolmofond of Russia and the Národní National Film Archive of the Czech Republic. Music composed and performed by Ben Model.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide
Street Date: 5/20/25
Synopsis: While Rin Tin Tin may be credited as Hollywood’s first animal superstar, there was in fact a whole pack of canine performers bounding onto the screen before and after his debut. This special two-disc collection, presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress, celebrates cinema’s lesser-known dog stars with their most memorable features, shorts, and newsreel appearances (1898-1928). Wonder Dogs demonstrate their comedy chops opposite slapstick legends Charley Chase (Dog Shy), Roscoe Arbuckle (Fatty’s Faithful Fido), Mabel Normand (A Little Hero), and the notorious “Dippy-Doo-Dads” (The Watchdog). But it was in rugged outdoor adventures that dog stars were truly born: Fearless (The SIlent Trailer, directed by Francis Ford), Peter the Great (The Sign of the Claw), Klondike (The Law’s Lash), Champion (The Sky Rider), and Duke (alongside Tom Mix in the tense modern Western Teeth). Films dated as early as 1898 offer satisfying simple glimpses of dogs at play, anticipating the adorable animal videos that would become social media phenomena more than a century later.
Featuring music by:
DOGS AND LOVERS, Connor McKay
BEAR, A BOY, AND A DOG, A, Caroline Gao
DOG FACTORY, Anthony Laurie
LOST DOGS, Mohamed Araki
ILAK’S BIRTHDAY, Danielle Painter
SCREEN ALMANAC: STRONGHEART, Dana Reason
SKY RIDER, THE, Chris Rorrer
NOBLEMAN’S DOG, THE, Josh Phillips
FIDELITY, Esin Aydingoz
LAW’S LASH, THE, Jaasmaan Singh
HIS MASTER’S VOICE, Carolyn Koch
VAUDEVILLE DOGS (compilation), Adam Banks/Griffin Barbieri
WATCHDOG, THE, Jeff Schwartz
DOGS, DOGS, DOGS! (compilation), Nika Ko
DOG SHY, Carol Gao
JEAN THE MATCHMAKER, Ali Tolga Demirtas
TIN-TYPE ROMANCE, Anabel Gil Diaz
JEAN AND THE WAIF, Lorena Ruiz Trejo/María Fernanda García Solar
JEAN RESCUES, Allison Beth Fitzgerald
THE SILENT TRAILER, Mathilde Koechlin
MODERN PRODIGAL, A, Andrew Earle Simpson
LITTLE HERO, A, Dana Reason
FATTY’S FAITHFUL FIDO, Shane Prendiville
SIGN OF THE CLAW, Peter Valsamis
Bonus Features: Audio commentaries for all films by film historian Anthony Slide | Interviews with curators/archivists Lynanne Schweighofer and George Willeman | Interview with composer Andrew Earle Simpson (Teeth)
Dillon is most comfortable sitting around in a theatre all day watching both big budget and independent movies.
