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29 August 2016

Scream Factory splits RAISING CAIN (review)

Brian De Palma's twisted 1992 psychological thriller RAISING CAIN comes to special edition Blu-ray in its theatrical cut and a brand new recut version that restores the film's chronology to its original disorienting order.  John Lithgow plays a child psychologist whose home-life is disrupted by his wife's affair and the return of his evil twin and twisted scientist father.  Steven Bauer and Lolita Davidovich also star.

REVIEW LINK: Scream Factory/Shout! Factory (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

RAISING CAIN Blu-ray specs:
  • Disc One:
    • Theatrical Cut
      • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
      • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
      • Optional English SDH subtitles
    • Interview with actor John Lithgow
    • Interview with actor Gregg Henry
    • Interview with actor Tom Bower
    • Interview with actress Mel Harris
    • Interview with actor Steven Bauer
    • Interview with editor Paul Hirsch
    • Theatrical Trailer
    • Still Gallery
  • Disc Two:
    • Director-approved Recut Version
      • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
      • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
      • Optional English SDH subtitles
    • "Changing Cain: Brian De Palma's Cult Classic Restored"
    • "RAISING CAIN Recut: Video Essay"
  • Reversible Cover
  • Slipcover

VCI welcomes THE NIGHT VISITOR (review)

Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star in this chilly American/British/Swedish co-production about a man set up for murder and institutionalized who escapes to seek revenge on the family's remote snowbound farm with an axe.  Produced by actor Mel Ferrer.

REVIEW LINK: VCI Entertainment (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE NIGHT VISITOR Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English LPCM 2.0 stereo
  • Audio Commentary by film historian Bruce G. Hallenbeck
  • Theatrical Trailer

28 August 2016

Strand Releasing choreographs OUR LAST TANGO (Review)

The documentary OUR LAST TANGO dramatizes through dance sequences, interviews, and behind the scenes discussions the fifty year relationship between Argentina's top tango couple Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves as they ready themselves for their final performance.

REVIEW LINK: Strand Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

OUT LAST TANGO DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
  • Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Previews

Omnibus Entertainment entangles PUZZLED LOVE (review)

Thirteen up-and-coming Spanish filmmakers chronicle the year-long relationship between two exchange students in Barcelona from initial attraction to sex, drugs, rock n' roll, and despair in PUZZLED LOVE, a film described by fellow countryman J.A. Bayona (THE ORPHANAGE, THE IMPOSSIBLE) as one of the best recent Spanish films.

REVIEW LINK: Omnibus Entertainment (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

PUZZLED LOVE DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • Spanish/English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
  • Burnt-in English/Spanish subtitles
  • Previews

Film Movement gets lost in SEA FOG (review)

In this intense drama from the written by the director of SNOWPIERCER and directed by the writer of MEMORIES OF MURDER, SEA FOG takes place during the height of the 1997 Asian financial crisis when a fishing boat captain is driven by desperation to take on a human smuggling job.  He and his crew quickly find themselves in over their heads in the middle of a storm as paranoia and resentment build between the crew and the passengers.

REVIEW LINK: Film Movement (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

SEA FOG DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
  • Korean Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Bonus Short Film SEA CHILD
  • Previews

Arrow Films speaks THE UNSPOKEN (review)

The Briar House has sat empty for seventeen years since the mysterious disappearance of an entire family.  A widow buys the house and hires a local girl to care for her son who has not spoken since his father's death.  It isn't long before they start experience strange events, and the girl's dead mother tries to warn her of the house's dark secret.  They also face danger from a trio of local kids who have their own secret hidden in the house's basement, as well as whoever has been making sacrificial offerings of animals in the surrounding woods.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Films (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

UNPSOKEN DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
  • English Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Start-up Trailers

Second Run and PEOPLES OF THE MOUNTAIN (review)

A Carpathian mountain woodcutter, his wife, and young child face a series of misfortunes after they are ejected from their home and exploited in more ways than one by a logging company that has bought the land.  When the lecherous manager tries to force himself on the wife in her husband's absence, she falls ill and even praying for a miracle may not be enough.  Rarely seen outside of its native Hungary (where it was soon banned by the German occupiers) and the Venice Film Festival (De Sica and Zavattini have cited it as a major influence on Italian neorealism).

REVIEW LINK: Second Run DVD (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

PEOPLES OF THE MOUNTAIN DVD specs:
  • 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
  • Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Liner Notes Booklet by Hungarian film expert John Cunningham

23 August 2016

Vinegar Syndrome goes BOTH WAYS (review)

Donald is a successful lawyer with a house in Connecticut, a beautiful wife, a young son, and a virile male lover kept in a New York apartment.  As his two worlds collide, he goes to extreme measures to keep having it BOTH WAYS in this controversial, dramatic, and suspenseful pornographic drama starring Gerald Grant (SCORE), disco singer Andrea True ("More More More"), and Dean Tait (THE DEVIL INSIDE HER).

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Synrome (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

BOTH WAYS DVD specs:
  • 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
  • English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
  • Audio Commentary by director Jerry Douglas
  • Theatrical Trailer

21 August 2016

The Film Detective explores THE RED HOUSE (review)

Edward G. Robinson (DOUBLE INDEMNITY) and Judith Anderson (REBECCA) live in fear of THE RED HOUSE in Ox Tail Woods in the gothic noir mystery.  Allene Roberts, Lon McCallister, Julie London, and Rory Calhoun are the youths whose lives become intertwined with the mysterious screams emanating from the forbidden farmhouse.

REVIEW LINK: The Film Detective (US) Region ALL BD-R (DVDCompare)

THE RED HOUSE BD-R specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxed widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Optional English SDH subtitles

Arrow Video USA nets a BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY (review)

Duccio Tessari's stylish and underrated thriller THE BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY comes to Blu-ray from a new 4K restoration.  When a French schoolgirl is murdered in a Lombardy public park, suspicion points to the sportscaster father of her best friend.  As the evidence mounts against him and he is found guilty, similar murders have the police doubting that they caught the right man.  Helmut Berger, Carole Andre, and Silvano Tranquilli star.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region A/B Blu-ray/Region 1/2 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

THE BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:
  • Blu-ray:
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
    • English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
  • DVD:
    • 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
    • English and Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
  • Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and for the English dub
  • Audio Commentary by critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman
  • "Murder in B-Flat Minor" appreciation by historian Troy Howarth
  • "A Butterfly Named Evelyn" interview with actress Ida Galli (54 minutes)
  • "Me and Duccio" interview with actress Lorella de Luca on her husband Duccio Tessari
  • "Mad Dog Helmut" interview with actor Helmut Berger
  • Italian and English Theatrical Trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
  • 36-page booklet illustrated by Tonci Zonjic, containing a writing by James Blackford, Howard Hughes, and Leonard Jacobs

Scream Factory investigates SESSION 9 (review)

The underrated turn-of-the-millennium horror sleeper SESSION 9 comes to Blu-ray to show fans of "subtle" horror what it's really about.  When a five-man crew of asbestos abatement workers starts work on the long abandoned Danvers State Hospital, ghosts from the hospital's past as well as their own demons merge and turn the hospital into a nightmares mind trap.

REVIEW LINK: Scream Factory/Shout! Factory (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

SESSION 9 Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
  • Optional English SDH subtitles
  • Audio Commentary by director Brad Anderson and co-writer/actor Stephen Gevedon
  • "Return to Danvers" retrospective making-of featurette
  • Deleted and Alternate Scenes with optional commentary
  • Storyboard-to-Screen Comparisons
  • "The Haunted Palace" featurette on the location
  • "Horror's Hallowed Grounds" location visit
  • Theatrical Trailer

Vinegar Syndrome trades in CORPORATE ASSETS (review)

Eric Edwards and Tish Ambrose lead an irresistible cast in this sexy, suspenseful, and compelling take on eighties yuppie corporate corruption as the leader of a corporate harem risks her life for true love.  Jamie Gillis, Paul Thomas, Amber Lynn, Herschel Savage, and Harry Reems also star.

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

CORPORATE ASSETS DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
  • Interview with actor Eric Edwards
  • Theatrical Trailer

Simply Media plots with EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE (review)

Intrigue in the Forbidden City's imperial harem abounds in eighteenth century China in this lavish but juicy soap opera as a reluctant new courtesan learns to maneuver her way through the various levels of society within the kingdom and survive backstabbing plots, attempted murders, and the machinations of others for advancement.  Seventy-six forty-five minute episodes have been edited down to six ninety-minute episodes for English audiences.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE DVD specs:
  • Six ninety-minute episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
  • Optional English subtitles

18 August 2016

Arrow Video USA heats up a MICROWAVE MASSACRE (review)

Comedian Jackie Vernon (TV's FROSTY THE SNOWMAN) plays a henpecked husband who murders his nagging wife and develops a taste for human flesh in the cheesy eighties shocker MICROWAVE MASSACRE.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region ALL Blu-ray/Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

MICROWAVE MASSACRE Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:
  • Blu-ray:
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
    • English LPCM 1.0 mono
  • DVD:
    • 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
    • English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
  • Optional English SDH subtitles

14 August 2016

The Film Detective hunts THE BAT (review)

Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead star in THE BAT.  A mystery novelist searching for atmosphere in a creepy country mansion finds murder and hidden loot as a steel-clawed killer known as The Bat stalks the corridors.

REVIEW LINK: The Film Detective (US) Region ALL BD-R (DVDCompare)

THE BAT BD-R specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Optional English SDH subtitles

Well Go USA hunts THE TIGER (review)

From Park Hoon Jung (director of NEW WORLD) comes this period man versus nature drama in which Korean hunters are forced by the Japanese occupiers to wipe out the country's tiger population.  The feared Mountain Lord of Mount Jinyi, however, is not going without a fight and an old ex-hunter finds himself dragged back into his pursuit of his nemesis when his inexperienced teenage sun joins the hunting party against his wishes.

REVIEW LINK: Well Go USA (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE TIGER Blu-ray specs: 
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
  • Korean DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Trailer
  • Previews

11 August 2016

Magnolia Pictures reflects on MY GOLDEN DAYS (review)

In this prequel to Arnaud Desplechin's memorable MY SEX LIFE... OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT, Mathieu Amalric plays an anthropologist who reflects on his past and the great love of his life as he returns to France after a long self-exile.

REVIEW LINK: Magnolia Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MY GOLDEN DAYS DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
  • French Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Optional English, English SDH, and Spanish subtitles
  • "Casting Session: Paul & Esther"
  • "Two Pauls and Three Esthers: Meeting the Cast of MY GOLDEN DAYS"
  • A Conversation with director Arnaud Desplechin
  • Theatrical Trailer

Film Movement sings MAD TIGER (review)

The rockumentary MAD TIGER documents the turbulent changes Japanese/American crayola rock band Peelander-Z underwent when longtime partner Red announces his retirement and lead singer Yellow experiences feelings of loss and resentment as he realizes just how much his friend contributed to the band even as he eclipsed him.

REVIEW LINK: Film Movement (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

MAD TIGER DVD specs:
  • Two-disc set
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • Japanese/English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
  • Burnt-in English subtitles for Japanese dialogue
  • English Closed Captioning for English dialogue
  • Audio Commentary by directors Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein & performers Peelander-Yellow and Peelander-Red 
  • Music Videos "So Many Mike" and "Ninja High School"
  • "Red's Last Show" (69 minutes)
  • Deleted Scenes

Wolfe Video unveils WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED (review)

You may not know Orry-Kelly by name, but you know the films and the actresses he dressed from Bette Davis in JEZEBEL and NOW, VOYAGER to Barbara Stanwyck in BABYFACE, Delores Del Rio in BIRD OF PARADISE, to later celebrities like Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, and Jane Fonda along with three Academy Awards for LES GIRLS, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, and SOME LIKE IT HOT not to mention Busby Berkeley's major musicals.  Australian director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER) tells the story of a creative and sensitive young man from a small Australian town who found artistic and sexual freedom in prohibition-era New York with his first love Archibald Leach (who went on to become a famous actor under a different name) and cross-country as the costume designer of choice for Warner Brothers.  The film explores his life on the big screen and his private life, and by extension what it was like to be gay during Hollywood's golden age.

REVIEW LINK: Wolfe Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVD Beaver)

WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
  • Optional English SDH subtitles
  • Interviews with director Gillian Armstrong, writer Katherine Thomson, producer Damien Parer, and actors Darren Gilshenan & Deborah Kennedy
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Previews

Wolfe Video is PARCHED (review)

Four women living in a conservative and traditional rural Indian village come to realize that life is unbearable for them.  Rani is trying to organize her son's arranged marriage but barely feels like a desirable woman herself as a thirty-four year old widow.  Bijli is a dancer/prostitute who finds every proclamation of love to her made by someone who really wants to be her new pimp and make money off of her.  Lajjo is barren and abused by her husband but she discovers that she is not the infertile one in the couple in a most pleasurable way.  Rani sees her new daughter-in-law Janaki being treated as poorly by her son as she was by her husband.  One act of courage will change the direction of their lives forever.  A visually-stunning production shot by Russell Carpenter (TITANIC).

REVIEW LINK: Wolfe Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

PARCHED DVD specs:
  • 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
  • Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
  • Burnt-in English subtitles
  • 'The Making of PARCHED'
  • 'The Making of Kachua (the dance)'
  • Interview with editor Kevin Tent
  • Interview with sound designer Paul Ottosson
  • Interview with director of photography Russell Carpenter
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Previews

08 August 2016

Scorpion Releasing takes in MOVIE MOVIE (Review)

Stanely Donen made one last stab at big Hollywood filmmaking with this lush send-up of classic double bills with two films headlined by George C. Scott.  In the black and white DYNAMIE HANDS, Scott plays a trainer who coaches a young boxer (Harry Hamlin) but is powerless to keep him from being swept away by the promises of an unscrupulous manager and a femme fatale.  In the color BAXTER'S BEAUTIES OF 1933, Scott is a Broadway producer who learns he will die soon and plans to make his last show a major success for the welfare of a daughter he has not seen since she was a baby.  Art Carney, Trish Van Devere, Barry Bostwick, and Kathleen Beller also star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

MOVIE MOVIE Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Introduction by George Burns
  • Interview with actor Harry Hamlin (46 minutes)
  • Interview with actor Barry Bostwick (29 minutes)
  • Interview with actress Kathleen Beller (16 minutes)

Scream Factory resurrects RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (review)

It's "Party Time" for the living dead when they rise from the grave again in Dan O'Bannon's comic take on George Romero's and John Russo's zombie mythos.  Two bumbling warehouse workers inadvertently break the seal on a canister of military-grade pesticide and the dead erupt from the nearby cemetery trapping them, their boss, a quirky mortician, and a group of partying punks in a quarantined area with hordes of brain-eating zombies.  A cult eighties classic with a memorable soundtrack and make-up effects.

REVIEW LINK: Scream Factory/Shout! Factory (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD Blu-ray specs:
  • Disc One
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
    • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 2.0 stereo, and restored 2.0 mono
    • Optional English SDH subtitles
    • Audio Commentary with Gary Smart (co-author Of The Complete History Of The Return Of The Living Dead) and Chris Griffiths
    • Audio Commentary with director Dan O'Bannon and production Designer William Stout
    • Audio Commentary with with production designer William Stout and actors Dan Calfa, Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley, Allan Trautman, and Beverly Randolph
    • Audio Commentary with actors Thom Mathews and John Philbin and make-up effects artist Tony Gardner
    • "The Decade Of Darkness" featurette
    • Theatrical Trailers
    • TV Spots
    • Still Galleries:
    • "In Their Own Words: The Zombies Speak" subtitle track
  • Disc Two
    • 108 minute workprint version of the film
    • "More Brains: A Return To The Living Dead" two-hour documentary
    • "The FX Of The Living Dead"
    • "Party Time: The Music Of The Return Of The Living Dead" featurette
    • "Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Revisiting The Locations Of The Film"
    • A Conversation With Dan O'Bannon: His Final Interview
    • The Origins Of The Living Dead: An Interview With John A. Russo
    • "The Return Of The Living Dead: The Dead Have Risen featurette
    • "Designing The Dead" featurette
  • Reversible Cover and Collector's Slipcover

06 August 2016

Code Red takes a DEATH JOURNEY (review)

When the two witnesses scheduled to testify against a New York crime kingpin are brutally murdered, the district attorney hires ex-cop Jessie Crowder to transport the only other witness across the country.  Their journey is fraught with danger at every turn, with hitmen seemingly one step head of the duo no matter how many times they change plans.

REVIEW LINK: Code Red Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

DEATH JOURNEY Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Audio Commentary by director/star Fred Williamson
  • Interview with director/star Fred Williamson
  • Theatrical Trailer
This Blu-ray is a limited edition and available directly from Code Red.

Code Red avenges MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS (review)

Fred "The Hammer" Williamson made his directorial debut with this character-driven action film starring as a dishonorably discharged soldier who returns to Los Angeles and finds his job choices limited to minimum wage labor or working for a gangster friend whose powerful father wants to hire him to take out the competition.  Stuart Whitman also stars, and Elliot Gould makes a bizarre cameo appearance.

REVIEW LINK: Code Red Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
 
MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Audio Commentary by director/star Fred Williamson
  • Interview with actor/director Fred Williamson
  • Theatrical Trailer
This Blu-ray is a limited edition available directly from Code Red.

Scorpion Releasing unleashes FIREPOWER (review)

James Coburn, Sophia Loren, and O.J. Simpson star in this action adventure from Michael Winner.  After her husband is killed by a mail bomb and her brother-in-law causes a mob war by taking out the man suspected of the killing, Adele finds her life in danger and accepts the protection of her husband's former boss Karl Stegner, a pharmaceutical magnet who has escaped extradition from the feds in Antigua.  Adele, however, suspects that it is the mysterious Stegner who was behind her husband's death and has hired mercenary Jerry Fannon to capture him and deliver him to the feds.  Eli Wallach and Anthony Franciosa also star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

FIREPOWER Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Scorpion Releasing Trailers

03 August 2016

Synapse Films peaks into BASKET CASE II and III (review)

Duane and his homicidal deformed basket-dwelling Siamese twin Belial are back in this pair of sequels to Frank Henenlotter's Grindhouse cult classic.  In BASKET CASE 2, the twins are taken into the care of Granny Ruth and must fight with other freaks to protect their home from a prying tabloid journalist.  In BASKET CASE 3, Belial's girlfriend Eve is set to give birth to his babies and town of vigilantes is out to get them.

REVIEW LINK: Synapse Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

BASKET CASE 2 Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
  • "The Man in the Moon" interview with actor David Emge
  • Behind the Scenes

BASKET CASE 3 Blu-ray specs:
  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
  • Theatrical Trailer