Well, genre fans, November 15th is a rather quiet week on the home entertainment front, as there are only a few releases coming our way this Tuesday. Scream Factory has put together a stellar Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, and Synapse Films is releasing their Collector's Edition steelbook of Dario Argento's Phenomena.
The sixth season of Game of Thrones makes its way home this week, too, and Star Wars fans can finally enjoy The Force Awakens in 3D from the comfort of their couches with a brand new set that arrives on Tuesday.
Dead Ringers: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It’s uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women: including unsuspecting Claire.
In portrayals that...
The sixth season of Game of Thrones makes its way home this week, too, and Star Wars fans can finally enjoy The Force Awakens in 3D from the comfort of their couches with a brand new set that arrives on Tuesday.
Dead Ringers: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It’s uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women: including unsuspecting Claire.
In portrayals that...
- 11/15/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
"Two bodies. Two minds. One soul." Identical twins share more than their looks in David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. Scream Factory will release the psychological thriller on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray beginning November 15th, and we've been provided with three copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Collector's Edition Blu-ray copy of Dead Ringers.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Dead Ringers Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on November 18th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Dead Ringers Collector's Edition Blu-ray: "Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot?...
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Collector's Edition Blu-ray copy of Dead Ringers.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Dead Ringers Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on November 18th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Dead Ringers Collector's Edition Blu-ray: "Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot?...
- 11/12/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Separation can be a terrifying thing." Featuring a dangerous love triangle involving identical twins, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers will be released on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray on November 15th from Scream Factory, and we have a look at a high-def clip and trailer from the film.
Dead Ringers Collector's Edition Blu-ray: "Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women – including unsuspecting Claire.
In portrayals that won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Award, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose emotional dependency collapses into mind games, madness and murder. David Cronenberg (The Fly) won the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Best Director honors for melding split-screen techniques, body doubles and Iron's uncanny acting into an eerie, fact-based tale.
Bonus Features
Disc One...
Dead Ringers Collector's Edition Blu-ray: "Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women – including unsuspecting Claire.
In portrayals that won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Award, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose emotional dependency collapses into mind games, madness and murder. David Cronenberg (The Fly) won the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Best Director honors for melding split-screen techniques, body doubles and Iron's uncanny acting into an eerie, fact-based tale.
Bonus Features
Disc One...
- 11/11/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Everyone’s gotta start somewhere. You don’t make your first masterpiece overnight, and before he made the likes of “Scanners,” “Videodrome,” “The Fly,” “Naked Lunch,” and “A History of Violence,” David Cronenberg was just a 23-year-old University of Toronto student with a English Literature and Language degree on the horizon and a dream in his eye. And that’s where he was in life when he made his first six-minute short film, 1966’s “Transfer,” which Cronenberg wrote, directed, co-produced and co-edited. And those most familiar with his work may not exactly see the genius on hand, but they can most certainly notice the creative juices were flowing out of him even from an early age. The 16mm short, uncovered by Dangerous Minds, is, as one would expect, quite odd. From the first minute onward — featuring a man in the middle of barren, snow-glazed backcountry field of grassland brushing his...
- 3/22/2016
- by Will Ashton
- The Playlist
We’re back with another horror round-up, this time focusing on release details for the home media offerings of David Cronenberg’s Rabid and Nils Timm’s Echoes, as well as information on NBC’s pilot order for the paranormal comedy, Strange Calls.
The follow-up to 1975’s Shivers, David Cronenberg’s Rabid will be available in the UK on Blu-ray / DVD from Arrow Video beginning February 16th:
Press Release – “Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the release of David Cronenberg’s much lauded horror classic Rabid (1977) which will be available on dual format Blu-ray & DVD both as an amaray and Steelbook from 16th February 2015. This new edition will mark the Blu-ray world premiere for Rabid, which served as the follow up picture to Cronenberg’s debut 1975 feature Shivers, continuing to explore the themes of viral diseases, yet upping the ante, the scale, the gore levels and the threat by unleashing...
The follow-up to 1975’s Shivers, David Cronenberg’s Rabid will be available in the UK on Blu-ray / DVD from Arrow Video beginning February 16th:
Press Release – “Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the release of David Cronenberg’s much lauded horror classic Rabid (1977) which will be available on dual format Blu-ray & DVD both as an amaray and Steelbook from 16th February 2015. This new edition will mark the Blu-ray world premiere for Rabid, which served as the follow up picture to Cronenberg’s debut 1975 feature Shivers, continuing to explore the themes of viral diseases, yet upping the ante, the scale, the gore levels and the threat by unleashing...
- 1/29/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
By Todd Garbarini
Does the world really need another documentary about George A. Romero’s watershed 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead? After having watched a new documentary directed by Rob Kuhns called Birth of the Living Dead, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Horror films have arguably never been more popular than they are now. The Internet and compact digital devices such as iPads and cell phones have permitted people who normally would not be able to afford the type of equipment necessary to make a film the ability to do so. Consequently, “found footage” films and zombie epics like 28 Days Later (2002) prosper. Digital video and the explosion of computers and digital editing capability have become a filmmaker's best friend. This is a far cry from the conditions under which Mr. Romero and company made Night.
What Birth of the Living Dead does so well is pinpoint that exact moment in history,...
Does the world really need another documentary about George A. Romero’s watershed 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead? After having watched a new documentary directed by Rob Kuhns called Birth of the Living Dead, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Horror films have arguably never been more popular than they are now. The Internet and compact digital devices such as iPads and cell phones have permitted people who normally would not be able to afford the type of equipment necessary to make a film the ability to do so. Consequently, “found footage” films and zombie epics like 28 Days Later (2002) prosper. Digital video and the explosion of computers and digital editing capability have become a filmmaker's best friend. This is a far cry from the conditions under which Mr. Romero and company made Night.
What Birth of the Living Dead does so well is pinpoint that exact moment in history,...
- 11/5/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Beginning a series of David Cronenberg retrospectives, Ryan takes a look back at David Cronenberg’s debut commercial feature, Shivers...
There’s a streak of slyly black humour running through David Cronenberg’s 1975 debut, Shivers (Aka The Parasite Murders, Aka They Came From Within). Its premise, about slug-like parasites that turn the occupants of a luxury apartment block into sex-obsessed maniacs, appears to have been conceived specifically to provoke as many people as possible. But while its story elements are straight from schlock horror - there’s a mad scientist, rubbery monsters, a vampish Barbara Steele, lashings of gore and some suspect acting - there’s still that hint of intelligence and satire that would soon become synonymous with Cronenberg’s name.
Shivers opens with a wilfully shocking scene - an apparently derranged old man killing a schoolgirl, cutting her open with a scalpel, dowsing her abdomen with acid, and...
There’s a streak of slyly black humour running through David Cronenberg’s 1975 debut, Shivers (Aka The Parasite Murders, Aka They Came From Within). Its premise, about slug-like parasites that turn the occupants of a luxury apartment block into sex-obsessed maniacs, appears to have been conceived specifically to provoke as many people as possible. But while its story elements are straight from schlock horror - there’s a mad scientist, rubbery monsters, a vampish Barbara Steele, lashings of gore and some suspect acting - there’s still that hint of intelligence and satire that would soon become synonymous with Cronenberg’s name.
Shivers opens with a wilfully shocking scene - an apparently derranged old man killing a schoolgirl, cutting her open with a scalpel, dowsing her abdomen with acid, and...
- 3/22/2012
- Den of Geek
Exploding heads, Ballardian pile-ups – and a spot of spanking with Keira Knightley. Does David Cronenberg need therapy? No, he says: he's just a regular guy
It's always tempting to imagine you can psychoanalyse a film-maker on the basis of their movies, especially so when it comes to David Cronenberg. What should we make of a director who has seared on to our collective unconscious images of exploding heads, rapist slugs coming up through the plughole, video cassettes being inserted into vaginal stomach openings, avant-garde gynaecological instruments? The fact that his new movie deals with Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and the infancy of the psychoanalytic movement only adds to the urge.
Cronenberg is sitting opposite me, on a comfortable couch, but there's little prospect of getting him to lie down on it. If anything, it's he who puts me on the couch. I tell the 67-year-old director that Scanners (its aforementioned...
It's always tempting to imagine you can psychoanalyse a film-maker on the basis of their movies, especially so when it comes to David Cronenberg. What should we make of a director who has seared on to our collective unconscious images of exploding heads, rapist slugs coming up through the plughole, video cassettes being inserted into vaginal stomach openings, avant-garde gynaecological instruments? The fact that his new movie deals with Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and the infancy of the psychoanalytic movement only adds to the urge.
Cronenberg is sitting opposite me, on a comfortable couch, but there's little prospect of getting him to lie down on it. If anything, it's he who puts me on the couch. I tell the 67-year-old director that Scanners (its aforementioned...
- 2/6/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Total Film recently travelled to the Austrian set of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, where we caught up with the legendary auteur to talk Freud, sex, and psychoanalysis. When we put it to Cronenberg that Method sounds like a departure, or at least a step still further away from his early, icky work after a run of increasingly mainstream pictures, he responded: “I have to remind people that the first film I ever made was called Transfer [1966] and it’s about a psychiatrist and his patient, a seven-minute...
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- 12/20/2011
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (see review) is out this week and will provide some challenging holiday viewing for those of you lucky enough to live in a limited-release city.
The biopic deals with the intersection of thinking that occurred between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein in the early years of the twentieth century. Their shared ideas created the thought and practice of psychoanalysis and shaped the way we think and talk about ourselves to this day, and much has been written about their intellectual (and in Jung and Spielrein’s case, physically consummated) ménage a trois.
Knightly as the troubled Sabina Spielrein in 'A Dangerous Method'
Although its central theme is sex, both the theory and the practice, the movie is, to all intents and purposes, a mannered costume drama, scripted by Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, Atonement, Chéri) and starring actorly heavyweights Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen.
The biopic deals with the intersection of thinking that occurred between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein in the early years of the twentieth century. Their shared ideas created the thought and practice of psychoanalysis and shaped the way we think and talk about ourselves to this day, and much has been written about their intellectual (and in Jung and Spielrein’s case, physically consummated) ménage a trois.
Knightly as the troubled Sabina Spielrein in 'A Dangerous Method'
Although its central theme is sex, both the theory and the practice, the movie is, to all intents and purposes, a mannered costume drama, scripted by Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, Atonement, Chéri) and starring actorly heavyweights Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen.
- 11/23/2011
- by Karina Wilson
- Planet Fury
David Cronenberg knew a lot more about Sigmund Freud than Carl Jung for his new film about the real-life psychoanalysts in A Dangerous Method, but his first real challenge was convincing Viggo Mortensen to take on the famous doctor.
David Cronenberg's, A Dangerous Method is not his first film dealing with a patient/psychiatrist relationship. His first film ever made was a short film titled Transfer about a patient and his psychiatrist. Cronenberg admits to knowing more about Freud then Jung.
"We've all been influenced by Freud. You can't grow up in the 20th century with out his influence."
When it came to casting Freud, Cronenberg thought he needed a not so obvious interpretation.
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David Cronenberg's, A Dangerous Method is not his first film dealing with a patient/psychiatrist relationship. His first film ever made was a short film titled Transfer about a patient and his psychiatrist. Cronenberg admits to knowing more about Freud then Jung.
"We've all been influenced by Freud. You can't grow up in the 20th century with out his influence."
When it came to casting Freud, Cronenberg thought he needed a not so obvious interpretation.
Read more...
- 11/23/2011
- CineMovie
A Dangerous Method
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by Christopher Hampton
2011, Canada
At the press conference immediately following a screening of David Cronenberg’s latest, A Dangerous Method, the director was asked how the film relates to the rest of his work. “I don’t really think about my other movies,” Cronenberg replied. It is a statement that is hard to accept on its face, if only because A Dangerous Method centers on the tumultuous relationship between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, their mutual compatriot (and Jung’s patient/lover) Sabina Spielrein and the birth of psychoanalysis, and Cronenberg has spent a career defining his own twisted, fleshy take on psychology and materialism. From the sexual-revolution body horror of Shivers, to the algorithmic erotica of Crash, Cronenberg has been obsessed with how sex binds the body and psyche in terrifying, destructive, but also regenerative ways. At the press conference he even...
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by Christopher Hampton
2011, Canada
At the press conference immediately following a screening of David Cronenberg’s latest, A Dangerous Method, the director was asked how the film relates to the rest of his work. “I don’t really think about my other movies,” Cronenberg replied. It is a statement that is hard to accept on its face, if only because A Dangerous Method centers on the tumultuous relationship between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, their mutual compatriot (and Jung’s patient/lover) Sabina Spielrein and the birth of psychoanalysis, and Cronenberg has spent a career defining his own twisted, fleshy take on psychology and materialism. From the sexual-revolution body horror of Shivers, to the algorithmic erotica of Crash, Cronenberg has been obsessed with how sex binds the body and psyche in terrifying, destructive, but also regenerative ways. At the press conference he even...
- 11/22/2011
- by Louis Godfrey
- SoundOnSight
A Dangerous Method
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by Christopher Hampton
2011, Canada
At the press conference immediately following a screening of David Cronenberg’s latest, A Dangerous Method, the director was asked how the film relates to the rest of his work. “I don’t really think about my other movies,” Cronenberg replied. It is a statement that is hard to accept on its face, if only because A Dangerous Method centers on the tumultuous relationship between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, their mutual compatriot (and Jung’s patient/lover) Sabina Spielrein and the birth of psychoanalysis, and Cronenberg has spent a career defining his own twisted, fleshy take on psychology and materialism. From the sexual-revolution body horror of Shivers, to the algorithmic erotica of Crash, Cronenberg has been obsessed with how sex binds the body and psyche in terrifying, destructive, but also regenerative ways. At the press conference he even...
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by Christopher Hampton
2011, Canada
At the press conference immediately following a screening of David Cronenberg’s latest, A Dangerous Method, the director was asked how the film relates to the rest of his work. “I don’t really think about my other movies,” Cronenberg replied. It is a statement that is hard to accept on its face, if only because A Dangerous Method centers on the tumultuous relationship between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, their mutual compatriot (and Jung’s patient/lover) Sabina Spielrein and the birth of psychoanalysis, and Cronenberg has spent a career defining his own twisted, fleshy take on psychology and materialism. From the sexual-revolution body horror of Shivers, to the algorithmic erotica of Crash, Cronenberg has been obsessed with how sex binds the body and psyche in terrifying, destructive, but also regenerative ways. At the press conference he even...
- 10/6/2011
- by Louis Godfrey
- SoundOnSight
Filed under: Cinematical, Blu-ray DVDs
'Best in Blu-ray' is a weekly column that recommends newly-released titles for both the Blu-ray veteran and newbie, as well as the most intriguing rental. This week's edition includes a special section on Blu-ray re-releases.
For Blu-ray Vets:
'Videodrome' (The Criterion Collection)
Twitter Tag Line: In David Cronenberg's bleak vision, television is the ultimate mind control device.
New Features Unique to Blu-ray: None. However, all of the extensive extras from the two-disk DVD edition have been carried over, and, of course, a new high-definition transfer has been made.
Transfer/Audio: "Everything is visually represented as adeptly and impressively as one might expect from Criterion and the image advances to a far more film-like appearance. ... The lossless rendering accentuates the haunting music score with some perceived depth." (DVD Beaver)
Replay Value: This is tougher to consider because the film can be so grueling to watch.
'Best in Blu-ray' is a weekly column that recommends newly-released titles for both the Blu-ray veteran and newbie, as well as the most intriguing rental. This week's edition includes a special section on Blu-ray re-releases.
For Blu-ray Vets:
'Videodrome' (The Criterion Collection)
Twitter Tag Line: In David Cronenberg's bleak vision, television is the ultimate mind control device.
New Features Unique to Blu-ray: None. However, all of the extensive extras from the two-disk DVD edition have been carried over, and, of course, a new high-definition transfer has been made.
Transfer/Audio: "Everything is visually represented as adeptly and impressively as one might expect from Criterion and the image advances to a far more film-like appearance. ... The lossless rendering accentuates the haunting music score with some perceived depth." (DVD Beaver)
Replay Value: This is tougher to consider because the film can be so grueling to watch.
- 12/8/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Moviefone
Filed under: Cinematical, Blu-ray DVDs
'Best in Blu-ray' is a weekly column that recommends newly-released titles for both the Blu-ray veteran and newbie, as well as the most intriguing rental. This week's edition includes a special section on Blu-ray re-releases.
For Blu-ray Vets:
'Videodrome' (The Criterion Collection)
Twitter Tag Line: In David Cronenberg's bleak vision, television is the ultimate mind control device.
New Features Unique to Blu-ray: None. However, all of the extensive extras from the two-disk DVD edition have been carried over, and, of course, a new high-definition transfer has been made.
Transfer/Audio: "Everything is visually represented as adeptly and impressively as one might expect from Criterion and the image advances to a far more film-like appearance. ... The lossless rendering accentuates the haunting music score with some perceived depth." (DVD Beaver)
Replay Value: This is tougher to consider because the film can be so grueling to watch.
'Best in Blu-ray' is a weekly column that recommends newly-released titles for both the Blu-ray veteran and newbie, as well as the most intriguing rental. This week's edition includes a special section on Blu-ray re-releases.
For Blu-ray Vets:
'Videodrome' (The Criterion Collection)
Twitter Tag Line: In David Cronenberg's bleak vision, television is the ultimate mind control device.
New Features Unique to Blu-ray: None. However, all of the extensive extras from the two-disk DVD edition have been carried over, and, of course, a new high-definition transfer has been made.
Transfer/Audio: "Everything is visually represented as adeptly and impressively as one might expect from Criterion and the image advances to a far more film-like appearance. ... The lossless rendering accentuates the haunting music score with some perceived depth." (DVD Beaver)
Replay Value: This is tougher to consider because the film can be so grueling to watch.
- 12/8/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
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