This movie is a cult classic! It stars actor Donald Pleasance and actress Nancy Allen as "commentators/hosts", sitting among a theater of moviegoers. Clips of numerous horror, science fiction, and suspense movies are viewed and commented on. It was a novel approach to a somewhat documentary style movie that was very entertaining. This title has seen a VHS release back in 1985, but no DVD as of yet. I believe Universal distributed the movie to theaters, but I think the DVD rights might be in public domain. This is a classic I strongly hope that Shout! Factory will look into releasing on DVD if the rights are up for grabs!
2009 marks the 25th anniversary of this film! I realize that even if this is a title that Shout! acquired and released that it likely would not happen this year. However, it would be awesome if it was released next year, maybe around Halloween. This is a film that my friends and I always watched on Halloween night!
I wanted to dig this thread out again that I started from 3 months ago about the release of this great horror movie from the mid 1980's. Shout! Factory has begun producing and releasing other horror/suspense movies from the 80's and I want to really push for this movie to be added to that list! It has never seen a DVD release and I know fans of this cult classic will be ecstatic to finally have it on a quality DVD. This is one that I will appreciate having and re-experiencing over and over again!!
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