The November releases from Arrow Video have been confirmed as James Foley's intense crime drama At Close Range, cult manga adaptation Tomie, 4K UHD editions of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and The Invasion, and the already announced and eagerly anticipated Shawscope Volume Three on Limited Edition Blu-ray, the full details of which have now been confirmed.

AT CLOSE RANGE (USA 1986)

Limited Edition Blu-ray | 4 November 2024 | £24.99

Inspired by real life events that occurred in 1970s Philadelphia, James Foley's intense At Close Range is a criminally underseen crime drama with riveting lead performances by Sean Penn (Mystic River) and Christopher Walken (True Romance).

Brad Whitewood Jr. (Penn) reconnects with his estranged father, Brad Sr. (Walken), a notorious and charismatic criminal. Fascinated by his father's lifestyle, Brad Jr. forms a gang with his brother Tommy and begins stealing tractors. Their criminal activities quickly draw them deeper into Brad Sr.'s world, but their illicit pursuits take a grim turn when the gang crosses the point of no return into murder. Now in too deep, Brad Jr. must now confront the chilling truth about his father's nefarious actions.

With a stacked supporting cast including Kiefer Sutherland (Flatliners), Crispin Glover (River's Edge) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Daniel Isn't Real), and a haunting soundtrack by frequent Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard which includes the original song "Live to Tell" performed by Madonna, At Close Range is an atmospheric thriller ripe for rediscovery.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Original lossless stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary with film critic Adrian Martin
• Archival audio commentary with director James Foley and film historian Nick Redman
• Sins of the Father: Masculinity, Murder, and Morality in At Close Range, a brand-new appreciation by author and academic Dr. Laura Mayne
• Keeping the Score, a brand-new examination of the film's score by film historian and composer Neil Brand
• Archival interview with director James Foley 
• Isolated score track
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original artwork
• Double sided foldout poster featuring original artwork
• Six postcard sized artcards
• Booklet featuring new writing by Barry Forshaw and original production notes

ELVIRIA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (USA 1988)

Limitd Edition 4K UHD | 11 November 2024 | £29.99

She's back! Elvira, Horrorland's hostess with the mostest, finally busts out on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with this long-awaited, positively bursting-at-the-seams special edition of her big screen debut, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!

Having just quit her job as a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, Elvira receives the unexpected news that she's set to inherit part of her great aunt Morgana's estate. Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals – amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to Elvira, is in fact an evil warlock secretly scheming to steal the old family spellbook for his own nefarious ends…

Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988's Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped solidify the horror hostess (played by Cassandra Peterson) as a major pop culture icon, here owning every inch of the screen with her quick wit, sass, and of course, cleaving-enhancing gown!

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films
• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing 
• Introduction to the film by director James Signorelli
• 2017 audio commentary with director James Signorelli, hosted by Fangoria editor emeritus Tony Timpone
• 2017 audio commentary with Patterson Lundquist, www.elviramistressofthedark.com webmaster and judge of US TV show The Search for the Next Elvira
• Archival audio commentary with actors Cassandra Peterson and Edie McClurg and writer John Paragon
• Too Macabre – The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark – 2018 version of this feature-length documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with various cast and crew and archival material
• Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster – 2018 version of this featurette on the concept and design of the pot monster, as well as the film's other SFX
• Original storyboards
• Extensive image galleries
• Original US theatrical and teaser trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck 
• Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck 
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Sam Irving, Kat Ellinger and Patterson Lundquist

THE INVASION (USA/Australia 2007)

Limitd Edition 4K UHD | 11 November 2024 | £29.99

Since its first publication in 1955, Jack Finney's classic sci-fi/horror novel The Body Snatchers has inspired numerous adaptations and created a whole subgenre of era-defining alien doppelgangers in books, film, and TV. 2007's The Invasion was ahead of the curve, its eerily predictive shift toward a virus-like contagion more frighteningly resonant in a post-pandemic world.

A space shuttle crashes to Earth carrying an alien organism. Soon people are changing, becoming detached and emotionless. People like CDC director Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) who is investigating the crash. Meanwhile his ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), sees the same behaviour in a friend of their son, and a patient claims that her husband is no longer her husband. As people all across Washington D.C. become infected and the insidious epidemic spreads, Carol must fight to protect herself and her son, who might just hold the key to stopping the escalating invasion.

Produced by Joel Silver, and also starring Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright, this edge-of-your-seat thriller makes its debut on 4K UHD with a wealth of new and archival extras.

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film critics Andrea Subisati and Alexandra West, co-hosts of The Faculty of Horror podcast
• Body Snatchers and Beyond, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller Nicholas
• That Bug That's Going Around, a new visual essay exploring The Invasion as pandemic prophecy by film scholar Josh Nelson
• We've Been Snatched Before, an archival featurette from 2007
• The Invasion: A New Story, an archival featurette from 2007
• The Invasion: On the Set, an archival featurette from 2007
• The Invasion: Snatched, an archival featurette from 2007
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics William Bibbiani and Sally Christie
• Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket 
• Double-sided fold out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket

The Invasion wil also be released on Limited Edition Blu-ray with the same special features.

TOMIE (Japan 1998)

Limited Edition Blu-ray | 18 November 2024 | £24.99

Based on the smash-hit series of the same name by cult manga artist Junji Itō (Uzumaki), Tomie tells the tale of an evil high-school seductress identifiable by a beauty mark beneath her left eye, whose bewitching kiss drives men to madness.

Photography student Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura, Tokyo Trash Baby, Love Exposure) is plagued by violent dreams as she struggles to recall long-suppressed memories following a teenage trauma with the help of psychiatrist Dr. Hosono (Yoriko Douguchi, Cure, Charisma). Meanwhile, as Detective Harada (Tomorō Taguchi, Tetsuo: The Iron Man) leads an investigation into a missing high-school girl, he discovers a long line of similar cases that can be traced back decades, with all of the victims going by the name of Tomie Kawakami, and all slaughtered and decapitated by jealous lovers before they reach womanhood. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's new neighbour seems to be harbouring something nasty in the downstairs apartment, something which rapidly begins to take on a dangerous form.

Tomie is a creepy supernatural chiller directed by Ataru Oikawa (screenwriter of the pioneering Japanese horror Door) and featuring a chilling turn by the sensational Miho Kanno (Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness, Dolls). Arrow Video presents this key title from the J-Horror boom of the late 1990s, which spawned a string of sequels, for the first time on Blu-ray outside of Japan, with a host of newly produced extras.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation 
• Original lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio 
• Optional English subtitles 
• Brand new audio commentary by critic and Japanese cinema expert Amber T. 
• It's a Girl's World, a brand new interview with director Ataru Oikawa 
• Scream Queen, a brand new interview with actress Mami Nakamura 
• From Manga to Screen, a brand new interview with producer Mikihiko Hirata 
• Trailer 
• Image gallery 
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Zack Davisson and Eugene Thacker 
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck

SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 3

Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set | 25 November 2024 | £169.99

Finally, we have, which was first announced back in June, but now we have the full details of the included films and the disc-specific special features.

Before Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different kind of martial arts cinema, one that channelled the blood-soaked widescreen violence of Japanese samurai epics and Italian spaghetti westerns into a uniquely Chinese form: the wuxia pian. With their enthralling tales drawn from historical myth and legend of sword-wielding (and often gravity-defying) noble heroes, the wuxia films housed in this next instalment of Arrow Video’s best-selling Shawscope series demonstrate the sweeping stylistic evolution of the genre, from the righteous stoicism of the late-60s Mandarin period, right through to the wild-and-weird anarchism of the early-80s Cantonese explosion.

The iconic One-Armed Swordsman trilogy, directed between 1967 and 1971 by wuxia cinema godfather Chang Cheh, made household names of stars Wang Yu and David Chiang and set the gory template for many of the films to come. Contrary to Chang’s tales of loyal brotherhood, many wuxia films focused on female protagonists, three very different examples of which we see next: Ho Meng-hua’s The Lady Hermit, with the great Cheng Pei-pei (Come Drink with Me) as a virtuous swordswoman called upon to stop a vicious warlord; Chor Yuen’s scandalous Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan in which the titular lady of the night masters every deadly skill she can to get revenge on those who enslaved her; and Cheng Kang’s all-star epic The 14 Amazons, in which Shaws’ finest starlets play the real-life women of the Yang dynasty, avenging their fallen menfolk in battle.

Next, Chor Yuen adapted several beloved novels by consummate wuxia storyteller Gu Long to the big screen, four of which are collected here: The Magic Blade, Clans of Intrigue, Jade Tiger and The Sentimental Swordsman, all starring the redoubtable Ti Lung. As kung fu overtook wuxia at the box office, the genre evolved into unexpected new directions, with its chivalrous knights-errant replaced by conflicted antiheroes, as seen in Sun Chung’s breathlessly exciting The Avenging Eagle and Boxer’s Omen goremeister Kuei Chih-hung’s fatalistic masterpiece Killer Constable. Finally, just when it seemed the wuxia film had nowhere left to turn, Eighties excess reigned supreme in the special-effects-soaked, fourth-wall-breaking fantastical delights of Taylor Wong’s Buddha’s Palm and Lu Chun-ku’s Bastard Swordsman.

Back with all-new exclusive restorations and hours of insightful bonus material, if you thought the previous two Shawscope sets showed the Shaw Brothers at its strongest, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY COLLECTION CONTENTS:

• High Definition (1080p) presentations of all fourteen films, including thirteen new 2K restorations by Arrow Films
• Illustrated 60-page collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by David West, Jonathan Clements and Dylan Cheung, plus cast and crew listings and notes on each film by Ian Jane
• New artwork by Chris Malbon, “Kung Fu Bob” O’Brien, Tom Ralston, Ilan Sheady, Tony Stella and Jolyon Yates
• Hours of illuminating bonus features, including feature commentaries and several cast-and-crew interviews from the Frédéric Ambroisine Video Archive
• Exclusive CD of music from the De Wolfe Music Library as heard in several Shaw Brothers classics

DISC ONE – ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN:

• Brand new 4K restoration by Celestial Pictures and L’Immagine Ritrovata
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio
• Newly translated English subtitles, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub
• Brand new commentary by David West, author of Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film
• Newly filmed appreciation of the One-Armed Swordsman series by film critic and historian Tony Rayns
• Interview with actor Wang Yu, filmed in 2001
• Interview with actor Chiao Chiao, filmed in 2005
• Interview with actor Ku Feng, filmed in 2004
• Appreciation of director Chang Cheh’s work by film historian Sam Ho, filmed in 2003
• Interview with Daniel Lee, director of the remake What Price Survival, filmed in 2004
• One-Armed Side Hustles, a brand new video essay by Brandon Bentley on Wang Yu’s career playing amputee protagonists
• Theatrical trailers, and trailers for other films by Chang Cheh

DISC TWO – RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN / THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio for both films
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dubs
• Brand new commentary on Return of the One-Armed Swordsman by critic Samm Deighan
• Brand new commentary on The New One-Armed Swordsman by martial arts cinema expert Brian Bankston
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC THREE – THE LADY HERMIT / INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio for both films
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dubs
• Brand new commentary on The Lady Hermit by critic James Mudge
• Two brand new commentaries on Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, one by film critic and historian Tony Rayns, one by critic Samm Deighan
• Alternate English export credits for Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC FOUR – THE 14 AMAZONS:

• Brand new 2K restoration from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio
• Newly translated English subtitles, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub
• Brand new commentary by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of China
• Interview with stuntwoman Sharon Yeung, filmed in 2004
• Interview with film historian Bede Chang, filmed in 2005
• Interview with film critic Law Kar, filmed in 2005
• Theatrical trailers

DISC FIVE – THE MAGIC BLADE / CLANS OF INTRIGUE:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio for The Magic Blade
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and Cantonese mono audio for Clans of Intrigue
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub on The Magic Blade
• Brand new commentary on The Magic Blade by critic Samm Deighan
• Brand new commentary on Clans of Intrigue by critic James Mudge
• Alternate version of Clans of Intrigue via seamless branching, featuring four extended scenes previously censored for explicit material
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC SIX – JADE TIGER / THE SENTIMENTAL SWORDSMAN:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin mono audio for Jade Tiger
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and Cantonese mono audio for The Sentimental Swordsman
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films
• Brand new commentary on Jade Tiger by critic Ian Jane
• Brand new commentary on The Sentimental Swordsman by David West, author of Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC SEVEN – THE AVENGING EAGLE / KILLER CONSTABLE:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin and English mono audio for both films, plus Cantonese mono for The Avenging Eagle
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dubs
• Brand new commentary on The Avenging Eagle by martial arts cinema expert Frank Djeng
• Three brand new commentaries on Killer Constable: one by film critic and historian Tony Rayns; one by Frank Djeng; one by martial arts cinema expert Brian Bankston
• Additional and alternate scenes from the South Korean version of Killer Constable (in standard-definition)
• Alternate English-language title sequences for both films
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC EIGHT – BUDDHA’S PALM / BASTARD SWORDSMAN:

• Brand new 2K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
• Newly restored uncompressed Cantonese, Mandarin and English mono audio for Buddha’s Palm
• Newly restored uncompressed Mandarin mono audio for Bastard Swordsman
• Newly translated English subtitles for both films, plus optional hard-of-hearing subtitles for the English dub on Buddha’s Palm
• Brand new commentary on Buddha’s Palm by critic and translator Dylan Cheung
• Brand new commentary on Bastard Swordsman by martial arts cinema expert Frank Djeng
• Alternate English title sequence for Buddha’s Palm, as Raiders of the Magic Palm
• Theatrical trailers for both films

DISC NINE – BONUS FEATURES:

• High Definition (with standard-definition VHS inserts) presentation of the rare Korean version of Killer Constable with newly-translated English subtitles, featuring over half an hour of exclusive alternate footage never released outside South Korea before
• Newly filmed appreciation of director Chor Yuen by film critic and historian Tony Rayns
• Interview with stuntwoman Sharon Yeung on Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, filmed in 2005
• Appreciation of Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan from 2003 by academic Sze Man-hung, musician Kwan King-chung, and filmmaker Clarence Fok (Naked Killer)
• Interview with actor Ti Lung, recorded in 2004
• Archive interviews with director Chor Yuen, actors Yuen Wah and Li Ching on The Magic Blade
• Appreciation of Chor Yuen’s career by film historian Sam Ho, filmed in 2003
• Interview with screenwriter Sze-to On on The Magic Blade, filmed in 2003
• Interview with actor Ku Feng on The Avenging Eagle, filmed in 2004
• Interview with actor Eddy Ko on The Avenging Eagle, filmed in 2004

DISC TEN – MORE MUSIC FROM SHAW BROTHERS CLASSICS (CD)