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The Intruder episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Adam Walton, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Slashers, one of the most popular sub-genres in horror. One with hundreds, if not thousands of entries. While it was certainly on the downturn in the late 1980s, it still seemingly had a new title released every week. In 1989 alone, the slasher world saw the releases of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Deadly Manor, I Madman, and a whole bunch more. It was a year for slasher sequels with a few originals peppered in. Slashers were big box office and direct-to-video draw in general and studios were churning them out. The slashers were on the prowl and...

Here at Dread Central we have a lot of love for the good folks over at Synapse Films. They're one of only a handful of distributors that always go the extra mile for fans. Speaking of which ...

From the Press Release

November 8, 2011 - Synapse Films announces an ultra-exclusive Special Edition Intruder Workprint "Night Crew" DVD-r disc to the first 500 fans who purchase the Intruder Blu-ray/DVD Combo directly from the Synapse Films website. This Special Edition disc is an individually burned DVD-r (not manufactured at a pressing plant) of the original workprint of Intruder (aka Night Crew), containing additional scenes, different editing, and extended gore sequences that only appear in this singular edition. Presented in its original workprint state -- non-anamorphic and with no final music or sound effects mix -- and taken from the director’s sole personal VHS copy, you can even hear director Scott Spiegel giving off-camera...

Synapse Films recently announced that they will be releasing a director’s cut Blu-ray/DVD combo pack of 1989′s Intruder. Directed by Scott Spiegel and featuring Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell (among others), Intruder involves a killer on the loose in a grocery store.

Today, Synapse announced that the first 500 people to purchase the film from their website will receive the original workprint of Intruder, which includes additional and extended scenes:

“Romulus, Mi – November 8, 2011 – Synapse Films announces an ultraexclusive Special Edition Intruder Workprint “Night Crew” DVD-r disc to the first 500 fans who purchase the Intruder Blu-ray/DVD Combo directly from www.synapse-films.com. This Special Edition disc is an individually burned DVD-r (not manufactured at a pressing plant) of the original workprint of Intruder (aka Night Crew), containing additional scenes, different editing, and extended gore sequences that only appear in this singular edition. Presented in its original workprint state—non-anamorphic...

As a teenager back in the UK I can honestly say that Intruder was one of my favorite horror flicks. I was hooked after seeing it splattered across the cover of Gorezone (#6 I believe). It was released there on vhs with Uncut Version emblazoned across the cover art, which I believe was a mistake as it was to be released with a couple of minutes chopped off.

Anyway, December 13th will see Synapse release this beauty, which is also known as Night Crew: The Final Checkout, onto Blu-ray just in time for Christmas. And will you just look at that glorious artwork!!

This Christmas, Synapse Films Has The Grosseries!

Scott Spiegel’s infamous gore classic finally hits the aisles with a splatterific new HD Blu-ray transfer!

From Lawrence Bender, the producer of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, and the classic From Dusk Till Dawn!

Scott Spiegel’s...

Synapse Films has announced that they will be releasing a director’s cut Blu-ray/DVD combo pack of 1989′s Intruder. Directed by Scott Spiegel and featuring Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell (among others), Intruder involves a killer on the loose in a grocery store…

“It’s 10 pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good, and the night crew has a long shift ahead of them… longer than they think! The lovely check-out girl has a deranged ex-boyfriend, the store’s phone lines are cut, and the employees start dying in the most stomach-churning ways imaginable (courtesy of Academy Award®-winning Knb Efx Group). A deranged killer is on the loose in the grocery store! Can anyone stop this murderous intruder?

Synapse Films is proud to present Scott Spiegel’s Intruder, the ‘holy grail’ of extreme gore cinema,...

December isn’t a month generally associated with Halloween-style gross-out horror, but this year, December will see the Synapse Films release of director Scott Spiegel’s “Intruder,” starring one of the kings of horror, Sam Raimi. The film, from Lawrence Bender, the producer of Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” and the film “From Dusk Till Dawn,” will include special features such as an audio commentary with Spiegel and Bender; “Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder” featurette including interviews with Spiegel, Bender, the Knb Efx team, actors Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Elizabeth Cox, Danny Hicks and others; never-before-seen extended murder sequences, outtakes from “Night Crew” short film; interview featurette with filmmaker/fan...

Intruder is one of my favorite slasher flicks ever, a film I adore so much that I did a Late Night Classics retrospective on it with actor Danny Hicks. Synapse Films is giving it the special edition treatment on December 13, 2011, and we have the extra features for you to gnaw on.

• Audio commentary by Spiegel and producer Lawrence Bender

• “Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder” featurette, including interviews with Spiegel, Bender, the Knb Efx team, actors Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Elizabeth Cox, Danny Hicks and others

• Never-before-seen extended murder sequences from the original workprint

• Outtakes from Night Crew short film

• Interview featurette with filmmaker/fan Vincent Pereira on Intruder and Gorezone magazine

• Cast audition tapes

• Behind-the-scenes still gallery

• Original theatrical trailer

Retail price is $29.95.

Source: Fangoria...

If you've never seen Intruder and are indeed a fan of Eighties slasher flicks, then, boy, are you in for a treat as Synapse Films continues to build its library of cult classics on Blu-ray!

From the Press Release

Synapse Films is proud to present Scott Spiegel’s Intruder, the “holy grail” of extreme gore cinema, in an all-new 2K high-definition transfer of the original uncut, uncensored version. Sam Raimi (director of The Evil Dead and Spider-man trilogies) and Renée Estevez star in this blood-drenched cult film classic that critics call “a gorgeous low-budget shocker that has long been one of the best kept secrets of the genre scene” (Alan Simpson, Sex Gore Mutants). Be sure to look for Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead, TV’s Burn Notice) in a cameo role.

"It’s 10 pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night.

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Night of the Creeps, the original Stargate, The Sam Fuller Collection, Orphan and the complete The Prisoner series starring and created by Patrick McGoohan (pictured above).

Check them out.

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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan ~ Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer (DVD and Blu-ray)

42nd Street Forever 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition ~ Charlton Heston, Robert Englund (DVD)

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ~ Ray Romano (DVD and Blu-ray)

Into Temptation ~ Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto (DVD and Blu-ray)

Messiah of Evil: The Second Coming ~ Michael Greer,...