Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their October 2025 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Alain Delon, George Lucas, Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
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THE BONE COLLECTOR (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 10/14/25
Synopsis: Screen greats Denzel Washington (Training Day, Inside Man) and Angelina Jolie (Changeling, Salt) star in this “extremely gripping” (The Washington Post) suspense thriller about a serial killer who takes his victims’ lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. It is now up to Lincoln Rhyme (Washington), a onetime top homicide investigator, who may be the only person who can make sense of the killer’s deranged plan. But after a tragic accident changes his life forever, Rhyme can only watch as other cops bungle the case…until he teams up with a young rookie, Amelia Donaghy (Jolie). Soon they’re on the trail of a vicious, sadistic murderer who will stop at nothing on his deadly mission. At any moment, Rhyme and Amelia could become his next targets—and their first case together could become their last. Directed by Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm, Blind Fury, Patriot Games) from the chilling bestseller, The Bone Collector also features Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzmán, Bobby Cannavale and Ed O’Neill.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Approved by Director Phillip Noyce) | Audio Commentary by Director Phillip Noyce | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Edwin Samuelson | NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist/Critic Kim Newman and Writer/Journalist Barry Forshaw | 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 (Approved by Director Phillip Noyce) | Audio Commentary by Director Phillip Noyce | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Edwin Samuelson | NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist/Critic Kim Newman and Writer/Journalist Barry Forshaw | Spotlight on Location: Featurette (22:36) | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/14/25
Synopsis: French film greats Lino Ventura (Razzia sur la chnouf) and Marlène Jobert (Rider on the Rain) star in the gritty neo-noir gem, Last Known Address (Dernier domicile connu). Inspector Léonetti (Ventura), a tough, efficient Paris cop, has been exiled to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, the young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas (Jobert). The duo are soon tasked with a very difficult mission: to find a man whose evidence is instrumental in convicting a master criminal. Their tenacity leads them through a maze of red herrings; meanwhile, they are pursued by an enigmatic gangster called Greg (Michel Constantin, Violent City). Written and directed by the famed crime-novelist/filmmaker José Giovanni (Classe tous risques, Le Deuxième souffle, Boomerang), Last Known Address is a taut, authentic police procedural highlighted by a propulsive musical score from Francois de Roubaix (Le Samouraï).
Bonus Features: 2020 4K Restoration | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/14/25
Synopsis: International icon Alain Delon (Un Flic, Icy Breasts) delivers a fine dramatic performance in Boomerang (Comme un boomerang), a compelling father-and-son story from the famed crime-novelist/filmmaker José Giovanni (Birds of Prey, Last Known Address, Scoumoune). While under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques (Delon), pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman’s widow…until the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison. The film’s title refers to the cyclical nature of violence and retribution, and how a man’s past actions can reverberate through future generations. Co-written by Delon himself, Boomerang features Carla Gravina (The Antichrist), Charles Vanel (The Wages of Fear) and a musical score by the great Georges Delerue (The Day of the Jackal, The Day of the Dolphin).
Bonus Features: 2021 4K Restoration | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/14/25
Synopsis: Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Doulos, The Hunter Will Get You) gives one of his slickest, slyest performances in the action-packed comedy-thriller, Cop or Hood (Flic ou voyou). When a small-town police chief is found dead in a prostitute’s house, a particularly handsome and quick-witted Paris commissioner named Stan Borowitz (Belmondo) is sent to investigate. Posing as the prostitute’s long-lost brother “Antonio Cerruti,” he discovers a mare’s nest of “ripoux” (French for “corrupt cops”). In fact, the whole town is downright dirty, right up to the mayor! Director Georges Lautner (Le Professionnel, Icy Breasts) teams with screenwriters Michel Audiard (The Body of My Enemy, Deadly Circuit) and Jean Herman (The Outsider, Dog Day) for one of Belmondo’s wittiest, wildest outings. Featuring the lovely Marie Laforêt (Purple Noon) and a jazzy score by Philippe Sarde (Barocco) with Chet Baker on trumpet.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/21/25
Synopsis: Charles Reece (Alex McArthur, Kiss the Girls) is the All-American boy. Handsome and well liked, he does charity work and dutifully cares for his mother. One day he buys a gun and goes on one of the most horrifying murder sprees ever recorded. Anthony Fraser (Michael Biehn, The Terminator, K2) is the liberal-minded district attorney assigned to prosecute Reece. Fraser’s objective: the death penalty, a punishment that goes against his personal beliefs. As Fraser plunges deeper and deeper into the case, he’s outraged by a system that would set a killer free by deeming him criminally insane. Ultimately, Fraser realizes he and the murderer share the same conviction: Sometimes a life must be taken. A hidden gem in the canon of William Friedkin (director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A., The Hunted and Bug), Rampage is a stark, unflinching thriller as controversial and thought-provoking as its subject. Featuring original music by Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars, The Thing). This Special Edition includes both the director’s and theatrical Cuts of the film. The director’s cut premiered in some festivals in 1987 and was shelved for five years. In 1992, Miramax acquired the film, edited the film by five minutes and gave the film its long overdue theatrical release.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Masters – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Original Version) and 35mm Interpositive (Recut Version) | NEW Audio Commentaries by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson (Both Cuts) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Masters – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Original Version) and 35mm Interpositive (Recut Version) | NEW Audio Commentaries by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson (Both Cuts) | Where’s the Blood: NEW Interview with Actor Alex McArthur | Psychotic Vampire: NEW Interview with True Crime Writer Harold Schechter | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Restored) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/21/25
Synopsis: For years, David Kenyon (Nick Mancuso, Misbegotten) had kept his twisted, violent first marriage a secret from his new wife (Suzy Amis, Two Small Bodies), their five-year-old son, friends and colleagues. But now his ex-wife, Deidre (a fiery Yancy Butler, Hard Target), has tracked him down. David’s picturesque life starts to crumble under the weight of his past as his dark, ugly secrets are cunningly exposed to his family and coworkers. But David’s ruin is just beginning as Deidre’s insane vengeance spirals out of control in this exquisitely erotic psycho-thriller, adapted from the John Lutz (Single White Female) novel by two cult-movie kings: screenwriter Larry Cohen (Perfect Strangers, The Stuff) and director Mark L. Lester (Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, Class of 1984, Commando).
Bonus Features: New HD Master Approved by Director Mark L. Lester | Playing Certifiable: NEW Interview with Actress Yancy Butler | Keeping Secrets: NEW Interview with Actor Nick Mancuso | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/21/25
Synopsis: From the mind of George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, comes a star-studded, madcap murder-mystery that brings back the heyday of live radio and will keep you laughing and guessing until the show-stopping finale! The excitement begins as Chicago radio station WBN celebrates its first night on the air, complete with live dramas, comedy acts and orchestral interludes. But the real action is behind the scenes. Someone is murdering the company employees one by one, and station secretary Penny (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her estranged writer husband Roger (Brian Benben) must join forces to find the killer. The loony suspects—and potential victims—include the eccentric sound effects man (Christopher Lloyd), the military-minded station owner (Ned Beatty), the slick announcer (Corbin Bernsen), and the toupee-topped director (Jeffrey Tambor). Before the night is over, there will be romance, thrilling chases, narrow escapes, and a spellbinding, action-packed climax. Radioland Murders lovingly evokes radio’s golden age with spectacular sets, imaginative costumes and witty appearances by George Burns, Harvey Korman and Bobcat Goldthwait. It’s a side-splitting, edge-of-your-seat adventure: part farce, part mystery, and all fun!
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Interpositive | NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry | Brian Benben’s Radioland Murders Memories: NEW Interview with Actor Brian Benben | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/21/25
Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice, The Night Porter) and Tom Courtenay (Billy Liar, The Dresser) give shattering performances in this British anti-war classic based on actual events. Private Arthur Hamp (Courtenay), a volunteer at the outbreak of the First World War, and the sole survivor of his company, decides one day to “go for a walk.” Picked up by the military police, he is sent back to his unit to face court-martial for desertion. An arrogant officer, Captain Charles Hargreaves (Bogarde), reluctantly accepts the assignment to defend him. However, during testimony, Hargreaves begins to feel sympathy for the obviously sincere but traumatized Hamp. For the first time in his military career, the officer begins to question the army’s methods and attitudes toward its men. “An intense, compelling picture” (The New York Times), King and Country was one of several acclaimed films that Dirk Bogarde made with the masterful director Joseph Losey (The Servant, Accident).
Bonus Features: 2022 HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Tom Courtenay on King & Country: Interview | 1964 Interview with Dirk Bogarde | Theatical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
DEATH WISH 3 (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: If he can’t find justice…he’ll make his own! The legend Charles Bronson (Death Wish I & II) is back as Paul Kersey, notorious vigilante, in Death Wish 3. He is stalking the mean streets of New York, and they’ve gotten meaner. Kersey has returned to the Rotting Apple at the invitation of a friend from Korean War days whose neighborhood is being terrorized by a gang of vicious young thugs. Arriving only to find his old buddy slain, Kersey resolves to terminate the hoodlums’ crime wave and restore the neighborhood to its people. Alone, but armed to the gills with guns, knives—even a bazooka—Kersey ventures out into the urban battle zone with a message for every hood around: Come and get me. He’s one law-and-order man who doesn’t believe in governmental capital punishment…but that’s because Kersey is capital punishment. Hailed as “one of the strangest, most gloriously violent films of the 1980s” (Den of Geek), this guns-blazing, no-holds-barred, action-packed classic was the sixth and final collaboration between Bronson and renegade director Michael Winner (Chato’s Land, The Mechanic, The Stone Killer, Death Wish I & II). The strong supporting cast features Deborah Raffin (God Told Me To, Nightmare in Badham County), Ed Lauter (Breakheart Pass, Death Hunt), Gavan O’Herlihy (Never Say Never Again), Alex Winter (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure), Kirk Taylor (Full Metal Jacket) and Martin Balsam (Psycho, The Stone Killer).
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Film Historian Paul Talbot, the Author of the Bronson’s Loose! Books | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Alternate Ending (Newly Restored in HDR and SDR) with Audio Commentary by Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | 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 by Film Historian Paul Talbot, the Author of the Bronson’s Loose! Books | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Alternate Ending (Newly Restored in HDR and SDR) with Audio Commentary by Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Interview with Actor Kirk Taylor | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
THE CAT AND THE CANARY (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: A decaying mansion and a stormy night provide the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the West fortune can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that an escaped lunatic is at large. So clever and stylish that it would appear to be the wellspring of all “old dark house” mysteries, The Cat and the Canary was in 1927 already a theatrical chestnut among similar popular melodramas. Even so, The Cat is a milestone of the American horror film, thanks to the ingenuity of its director, Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Man Who Laughs). One of the first film artists imported from Germany by Hollywood, Leni invigorated this stage-bound genre with Expressionist flair, transforming conventional material into a gothic visual feast.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New UHD/SDR Master by Photoplay – A 4K Restoration from Original Nitrate Prints | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Silent Film Expert Randy Haberkamp | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Anthony Slide | Music Score by Neil Brand (5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio) | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master by Photoplay – A 4K Restoration from Original Nitrate Prints | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Silent Film Expert Randy Haberkamp | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Anthony Slide | Rebus-Film No. 1: 1925 Short Film by Paul Leni (SD) | The Cat and the Canary (1939) Trailer | Music Score by Neil Brand (5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio) | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: From out of the seething heat of the endless desert comes the nameless man (Robert John Burke, RoboCop 3, Thinner), his worn-down boot-heels tapping across the hard-baked earth. His old and ruthless spirit has smelled the town dying from afar and he has come to collect the souls to build his power. Soon the wasteland is littered with burned and disfigured remains and Ben Mukurob (Zakes Mokae, The Serpent and the Rainbow), the last policeman in the small town of Bethany, is faced with a mystery that threatens his eternal soul. Into this maelstrom of horror comes Wendy (Chelsea Field, Masters of the Universe), a young woman on the run from a broken marriage. Her flight has led her into the desert and perhaps into the arms of the Devil Himself. Filmmaking visionary Richard Stanley (director of the seminal cyberpunk shocker Hardware) has conjured a mystical mélange of windswept Spaghetti Western and hallucinatory horror/fantasy, spectacularly filmed on location in the Great Namib Desert of Africa. This Special Edition of Dust Devil includes Richard Stanley’s Director’s Cut and the original, altered Theatrical Cut – both versions gloriously restored in 4K!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Includes Both the Director’s and Theatrical Cuts | Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Masters – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Approved by Director Richard Stanley) | NEW Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Richard Stanley (Director’s Cut) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Includes Both the Director’s and Theatrical Cuts | Brand New HD Masters – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (Approved by Director Richard Stanley) | NEW Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Richard Stanley (Director’s Cut) | Richard Stanley – Dust Devil and Other Misadventures: 2006 Interview with Contributions by Composer Simon Boswell (35:25) | Original Storyboards | Original Polaroids | Original 16mm Trailer (2:01) | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Remastered) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper (Beau Geste, High Noon) and Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, Joan of Arc). The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan (Cooper) who aides anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Academy Award®-winning performance), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff, The General Died at Dawn) and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the silver screen’s greatest love stories. Epic in scope yet intimate in feeling, For Whom the Bell Tolls was nominated for 9 Oscars for the wartime year of 1943, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Bergman) and Best Supporting Actor (Tamiroff), and remains a shining example of Golden Age Hollywood moviemaking at its finest.
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the UCLA Film Elements | The Roadshow Edition with Overture and Intermission | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Film Historian/Producer Dan Marino | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
AIRPORT: THE COMPLETE 4-FILM COLLECTION (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: This 4-Film collection includes all four newly-restored Airport movies. AIRPORT – Take a nonstop flight with an all-star cast to a world of tension-filled human drama in this trend-setting box-office blockbuster. Based on Arthur Hailey’s runaway bestseller, the emotion-charged adventure stars Burt Lancaster as the manager of a glamorous international airport who must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner. The lavish Ross Hunter (Portrait in Black) production co-stars a veritable Who’s Who of Hollywood’s most glittering personalities including Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan and Helen Hayes in the role that won her a second Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 1970). Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay for legendary writer-director George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Proud and Profane), this movie milestone remains a gripping trip from suspenseful take-off to senses-shattering landing.
AIRPORT 1975 – “Something hit us…the crew is dead…help us, please, please help us!” With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood’s greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve-chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made. Charlton Heston is in the cockpit for this incredible adventure as the only man who can save the 747 and its passengers when it’s hit in midair by a private plane. Karen Black is the chief stewardess who must act as the blinded pilot’s hands and eyes to take control of the plane or die trying. Myrna Loy, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Sid Caesar, George Kennedy (recreating his acclaimed Airport role) and Gloria Swanson (playing herself in her final film) are also aboard trying to survive the deadly skies of this high-flying thriller helmed by veteran director Jack Smight (Harper, Midway).
AIRPORT ’77 – Take a luxurious, privately-owned 747 jumbo jet full of VIP’s. Load it with a cargo of priceless art treasures and send it flying over the hazardous Bermuda Triangle. Add a few desperate hijackers for good measure and you’ve got the makings of one of the most harrowing adventure stories ever put on film. James Stewart is the philanthropic owner of the doomed plane and Jack Lemmon is the fearless pilot risking death at every turn in an attempt to save the luxury airliner when it is skyjacked and sent crashing to the ocean’s floor. Aboard for the ill-fated trip are Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee and returning Airport co-star George Kennedy. All face danger in the air and beneath the sea in the most thrilling Airport movie of them all, directed by action-adventure ace Jerry Jameson (Superdome, Raise the Titanic).
THE CONCORDE… AIRPORT ’79 – Matchless intrigue soars out of the sky at supersonic speed in this incredible tale of airborne suspense derived from Arthur Hailey’s all-time bestseller. Susan Blakely headlines the star-studded, tension-packed international drama as a jet-setting TV reporter who puts everyone on board a Moscow-bound Concorde in jeopardy when she becomes the target of her former lover, traitorous arms smuggler Robert Wagner. The lives of Alain Delon, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, John Davidson, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge and the mighty George Kennedy hang in the balance amid flying missiles and exploding bombs in this enthralling globe-trotting adventure helmed by director David Lowell Rich (The Horror at 37,000 Feet, SST: Death Flight), a specialist of sky-high suspense.
Bonus Features: Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Masters – From a 4K Scans of the 35mm Original Camera Negatives and 35mm Interpositive Reduction Element (Airport) | NEW Audio Commentary for AIRPORT by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner | NEW Audio Commentary for AIRPORT 1975 by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | NEW Audio Commentary for AIRPORT ’77 by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Writer/Filmmaker Peter Hankoff | NEW Audio Commentary for CONCORDE… AIRPORT ‘79 by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailers (All 4 Newly Mastered in 2K) | Airport Quartet: A Booklet Essay by Julie Kirgo 5| .1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Triple-Layered UHD100 Discs | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 10/14/25
Synopsis: A black-gloved killer stalks London, packing the suitcases of their victims before murdering them with an exotic dagger. Surrounded by potential suspects but lacking hard evidence, a smooth-talking Inspector (Fred Williams, The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse) seeks the help of famous crime-novelist Charles Barton (Horst Tappert, German TV’s Derrick). Euro-horror filmmaker Jess Franco took a break from his decadent sex thrillers (Vampyros Lesbos) to demonstrate his versatility with this whodunit. Working carefully within the genre of the German “Krimi” film, Franco nevertheless managed to infuse the film with personal touches: dynamic camerawork, seductive women, comic flourishes, all set to a jazz soundtrack by Rolf Kühn. Also released as Der Todesrächer von Soho (The Avenger of Soho), Death Packs a Suitcase was adapted from a story by Bryan Edgar Wallace, who carried on the literary tradition of his father, legendary mystery-writer Edgar Wallace (The Dark Eyes of London).
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: Widely acclaimed for having modernized television horror in the 1960s and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) also embraced more traditional approaches. This special edition presents Curtis’s made-for-TV versions of the three foundational monsters of filmdom. Adapted by Richard Matheson (Somewhere in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Eastern Europe and was the first film to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler. Bo Svenson (Part 2: Walking Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a ferocious performance by Palance as the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.
Bonus Features: Introductions to All Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis | Dracula Audio Commentary by Mark Dawidziak | Dracula Interview with Actor Jack Palance | Dracula Interview with Producer/Director Dan Curtis | Dracula Spanish language soundtrack | Dracula Alternate Footage and Scenes | Frankenstein Audio Commentary by Film Scholar Rodney F. Hill (Hofstra University) | Frankenstein Audio Commentary with Actors Robert Foxworth (Victor Frankenstein) and John Karlen (Otto Roget) | Frankenstein ABC-TV Wide World Mystery Promos | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Audio Commentary by Author, Artist and Film Historian Steve Bissette| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interview with Makeup Effects Artist Dick Smith
Street Date: 10/28/25
Synopsis: From the legendary dark minds of producer-director Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror) and writer Richard Matheson (Tales of Terror, The Last Man on Earth, The Twilight Zone) comes this thrilling triptych of spellbinding stories. Second Chance – After buying an antique automobile, Frank (Ed Begley Jr.) restores the vehicle to its original condition. Along with the car, Frank is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1926. Based on a story by Jack Finney (Invasion of the Body Snatchers). No Such Thing as a Vampire – Alexis (Anjanette Comer), the mistress of an old mansion, is terrified of vampires. When her husband (Patrick Macnee) calls in a friend (Horst Buchholz) to examine her, a macabre and bloody scheme unfolds. Bobby – In the dead of night, a boy (Lee H. Montgomery), thought to be deceased, surprises his despondent mother (Joan Hackett) at the family beach house, bringing her both extreme joy and overwhelming terror.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Audio Commentary by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas | NIntroduction by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis | Dead of Night – A Darkness At Blaisedon (HD Up-Res): 1969 TV Pilot (51:53) | Robert Cobert’s Music Score Highlights | No Such Thing as a Vampire: Deleted Scenes | Deleted Extended Opening Title Sequence | Newly Commissioned Cover Art by Tom Hodge/The Dude Designs | Optional English Subtitles
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