Arrow Video has annouced its December disc releases, a wonderfully eclectic collection consisting of Sylvester Styallone-starring pulp sf favourite Demolition Man, Steve McQueen wartime adventure classic The Great Escape, and genre maestro Kim Jee-woon's audatious action epic The Good, the Bad, the Weird, all on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, Abel Ferrara's gritty urban vampire tale The Addiction on 4K UHD only, plus Blu-ray only editions of four-film box set Critters: A Four Course Feast! and Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford's debut feature, The Last Video Store.

DEMOLITION MAN (USA 1993)

Limited Edition 4K UHD | Limited Edition Blu-ray | 16 December 2024 | £34.99 (UHD) £29.99 (BD)

Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in this classic sci-fi/action blockbuster from Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard and The Matrix.

In 2032, arch criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a world where crime is almost non-existent – a serene utopia ripe for the taking. With the police no longer equipped to deal with his 90s-style brutality, they revive ‘Demolition Man’ Sgt. John Spartan (Stallone), the no-holds-barred police officer unjustly sentenced to CryoPrison who originally took Phoenix down. Old-school cop against old-school criminal, settling their scores on the streets of San Angeles? The future won’t know what’s hit it.

With a script co-written by Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns) and a supporting cast that includes Denis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, and Sandra Bullock in her breakout role, Demolition Man is an awesome mix of action and humour.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Marco Brambilla

Includes both the domestic “Taco Bell” and international “Pizza Hut” versions of the film presented via seamless branching

• 4K Ultra HD (2160p) presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by director Marco Brambilla and screenwriter Daniel Waters
• Brand new audio commentary by film historian Mike White of the Projection Booth podcast
• Archive audio commentary by Marco Brambilla and producer Joel Silver
• Demolition Design, a new interview with production designer David L. Snyder
• Cryo Action, a new interview with stunt coordinator Charles Percini
• Biggs' Body Shoppe, a new interview with special make-up effects artist Chris Biggs
• Tacos and Hockey Pucks, a new interview with body effects set coordinator Jeff Farley
• Somewhere Over the Rambo, a new visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• 60-page perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing by film critics Clem Bastow, William Bibbiani, Priscilla Page and Martyn Pedler
• Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
• 6 postcard sized artcards
• ’Three Seashells’ and ‘Edgar Friendly graffiti’ stickers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley

The Limited Edition Blu-ray will have the same special features but a High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation of the film.

THE ADDICTION (USA 1995)

Limited Edition 4K UHD | 9 December 2024 | £29.99

The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high-calibre filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up-and-comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro. Amid the fangs and crucifixes, Abel Ferrara reunited with his King of New York star Christopher Walken for The Addiction, a distinctly personal take on creatures of the night.

Philosophy student Kathleen (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) is dragged into an alleyway on her way home from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) and bitten on the neck. She quickly falls ill but realises this isn’t any ordinary disease when she develops an aversion to daylight and a thirst for human blood…

Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with Body Snatchers, Ferrara’s approach to the vampire movie is in a lower key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works – including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant – and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10/compatible)
• Optional lossless 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by director Abel Ferrara, moderated by critic and biographer Brad Stevens
• Talking with the Vampires, a 2018 documentary about the film, featuring actors Christopher Walken and Lili Taylor, composer Joe Delia, cinematographer Ken Kelsch, and Ferrara himself
• 2018 interview with Abel Ferrara
• 2018 interview with Brad Stevens
• Abel Ferrara Edits The Addiction, an archival piece from the time of production
• Original trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by critic Michael Ewins and an archival interview with Ferrara by Paul Duane

THE GREAT ESCAPE (USA 1963)

Limited Edition 4K UHD | Limited Edition Blu-ray | 2 December 2024 | £34.99 (UHD) £29.99 (BD)

Director John Sturges reunites with The Magnificent Seven stars Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Charles Bronson in this timeless adaptation of Paul Brickhill’s World War II memoir of an audacious prisoner breakout.

Stalag Luft III: an impenetrable camp built to hold the most persistent escapees. Under the ruthless vigilance of the Nazi guards, a multinational group of prisoners must work together to enact their daring plan: to break out of the camp, forcing the Germans to divert precious military resources towards apprehending them. But getting beyond the camp’s barbed wire fences and gun-towers is only the beginning. Once out, the escapees must make the perilous journey to the border, all the while evading the relentless pursuit of their former captors.

Beautifully shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp (West Side Story) and featuring a rousing, infectiously hummable score by Elmer Bernstein (The Ten Commandments), The Great Escape remains one of the most beloved Hollywood historical action movies – a testament to human ingenuity, camaraderie under pressure and indomitability of the spirit.

3-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley 
• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Barry Forshaw, Neil Mitchell, Wickham Clayton and Mark Cunliffe 
• Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley

DISC 1 (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) – THE GREAT ESCAPE:

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Newly restored original lossless mono soundtrack
• Optional lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by filmmaker/historian Steve Mitchell and Steven Jay Rubin, author of Combat Films: American Realism
• Audio commentary featuring director John Sturges and members of the cast and crew, moderated by Steven Jay Rubin
• Theatrical trailer

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY) – BONUS FEATURES:

• The Real Great Escape – author and historian Guy Walters separates fact from fiction in this brand new interview
• The Great Escapism – brand new appreciation of the film by Jose Arroyo, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick
• The Great Composer – brand new interview with composer/author Neil Brand, discussing Elmer Bernstein and his iconic score
• Freedom Forged – critic and educator Rich Johnson explores the film’s place within the war movie canon in this brand new visual essay
• Michael Sragow on The Great Escape – 2020 interview exploring the career of John Sturges and the making of the film
• Heroes Underground – 2001 four-part documentary exploring the making of the film and the events which inspired it, featuring interviews with former POWs
• The Real Virgil Hilts – 2001 featurette interviewing former POW David M. Jones, widely seen as the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character
• The Untold Story – 2001 documentary exploring the planning and execution of the real-life escape
• The Untold Story: Additional Interviews
• Return to The Great Escape – 1993 featurette exploring the making of the film
• Image gallery

DISC 3 (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) – THE GREAT ESCAPE II: THE UNTOLD STORY [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]:

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in SDR
• Original lossless 2.0 stereo soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Original Trailer

The Limited Edition Blu-ray release will have the same special features but a High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation of the film and The Great Escape: The Untold Story.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD [JOEUN NOM, NAPUN NOM, ESANGHAN NOM]
(South Korea 1998)

Limited Edition 4K UHD | Limited Edition Blu-ray | 9 December 2024 | £34.99 (UHD) £29.99 (BD)

Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains.

In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung, 12.12: The Day), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun, A Bittersweet Life), rumoured to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho, Parasite), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches.

This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea. Presented here for the very first time in stunning 4K, experience this spicy slice of wild west mayhem as you’ve never seen it before.

2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 4K master, approved by director Kim Jee-woon 
• DTS-HD MA 7.1 on both cuts of the film 
• Optional English subtitles 
• Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh 
• 40-page perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing by Darcy Paquet, Kyu Hyun Kim, Cho Jae-whee, and Ariel Schudson 
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh 
• Three postcard-sized artcards  
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh

DISC ONE – FEATURE PRESENTATIONS (4K ULTRA-HD BLU-RAY):

• 4K Ultra HD (2160p) presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) 
• Includes both the International and Korean versions of the film presented via seamless branching 
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic James Marsh and film critic and producer Pierce Conran 
• Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung (International version) 
• Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon, cinematographer Lee Mo-gae, lighting director Oh Seung-chul, and art director Cho Hwa-sung (Korean Version) 
• A new introduction to the film by Kim Jee-woon

DISC TWO – BONUS FEATURES (BLU-RAY):

• Corralling chaos in the desert, a new interview with director Kim Jee-woon 
• Dusty dust-ups and sweaty saddles, a new interview with martial arts coordinator Jung Doo-hong 
  
• Archival making of films and featurettes 
• Trailer gallery 
• Image gallery

The Limited Edition Blu-ray will have the same special features but a High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation of the film.

CRITTERS: A FOUR COURSE FEAST! (1986-1992)

Limited Edition Blu-ray | 2 December 2024 | £64.99