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Happy Monday, everyone! We have an amazing week of home media releases on the horizon that has a little something to offer every kind of genre fan out there. For you fans of the Winchester Boys out there, the final season of Supernatural is headed home on Tuesday as well as a box set of the complete series. Joe Dante’s underrated Explorers is making its way to Blu-ray this week, too, courtesy of Shout! Select, and if you’re looking to upgrade a few of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics to 4K, both Psycho and The Birds are getting the Ultra HD overhaul.

Vinegar Syndrome is also keeping busy this week with their releases of All-American Murder and The Cellar, and if you’re a fan of horror comedies, be sure to check out Benny Loves You from Epic Pictures. Nightmare Alley is getting the Criterion treatment this Tuesday and...

Oh, this makes my brain hurt.

German director Marc Vorlander appeared seemingly out of nowhere back in March, generating huge headlines all around the web with what was then known as Showgirls 2: The Story Of Hope, a completely unauthorized sequel to Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls that Vorlander claimed had more than twenty million dollars in backing. The trailer looked like something produced for closer to twenty. Period. Just twenty. The film has since cycled through a few titles before settling on Showgirls: Exposed while Vorlander has maintained an active dialogue with his online doubters.

Well, here's something else truly unexpected from the man. Vorlander is being credited as producer and co-creator of tracks on Robot Emotions, an upcoming solo record by former member of Kraftwerk Fernando Abrantes. And once again Vorlander is slapping cinematographer Geoff Schaaf's name on this (complete with customized logo) as though that will mean something to fans of Kraftwerk.

Marc Vorlander's Showgirls: The Return is one of the more perplexing projects of recent days, with widespread speculation out there that the whole thing is a hoax. But if it is, Vorlander's certainly not letting on.

Our good friends at German film site Equilibrium recently had a chat with the man in his native tongue and they have been good enough to offer up an English translation to us here at Twitch.

Equilibrium (Eq): Please describe how we have to imagine the filmmaker Marc Vorlander.

Marc Vorlander (Mv): You don't have to. However, right now I'm sitting in front of my laptop and catch up with what people write on their blogs. I like the numerous speculations about about the girl crawling on the floor ... "is she stunned or is she retarded?" I really like that and if I wasn't the director I would also ask the same questions.