CINEMA CULT Return This March With New To Blu-ray Releases
After almost six months of silence, Shock Entertainment‘s imprint label Cinema Cult will release three titles to Blu-ray & DVD this March and what’s more they’re upping their game with Slipcovers too.
STRAIGHT-JACKET (1964)
Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle. Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, Bill (Leif Erickson), his wife, Emily (Rochelle Hudson) andCarol (DianeBaker), her own daughter who is now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over …or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.
BESERK (1967)
Joan Crawford (What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?) stars as Monica Rivers, the owner of a traveling circus plagued by a series of mysterious deaths. When a high-wire performer becomes the first victim, he is replaced by Frank Hawkins (Ty Hardin, Battle of theBulge), an even more daring aerialist. But Frank’s attentions to Monica make her business manager, Dorando (Michael Gough, Batman), jealous. After Dorando becomes the brutal killer’s next victim, Police Superintendent Brooks (Robert Hardy) arrives at the scene, but the mystery is not so easy to unravel with a cast of suspects with motives including jealousy and revenge. This campy horror flick with a surprising climax also features Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love) and Diana Dors (There’s a Girl In My Soup).
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW – DIRECTOR’S CUT (1971)
Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW garnered eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and was hailed as the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane. A surprisingly frank, bittersweet drama of social and sexual mores in small-town Texas, the film features a talent-laden cast led by Jeff Bridges (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver) and TimothyBottoms (The Man in the Iron Mask). Cloris Leachman (TV’s ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’) and Ben Johnson (Rio Grande) each won Oscars for their work in supporting roles.
Cinema Cult’s latest release slate will hit stores March 9.