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Upcoming Anchor Bay SteelBooks
Posted March 27, 2014 01:36 AM by
This May, Anchor Bay Home Entertainment will release SteelBook Blu-ray editions of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, John Hillcoat's Lawless, F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen, and a four-pack of Steve Austin films. The SteelBooks will be available for purchase on May 20th.
In the summer of 1979, a group of Detroit friends with $375,000 raised from local investors headed for a cabin outside of Morristown, Tennessee to make a film about five college students possessed by an ancient Book of the Dead. The filmmakers' goal was to create the ultimate experience in grueling terror, a movie so relentless that it would stand forever as a landmark in modern horror history. When it was released in 1982, it was immediately recognized worldwide as one of the most ferociously original films ever made. Starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, and Betsy Baker.
Rob Zombie directs this horror movie in which a DJ for a metal radio station receives an anonymous record that changes her life. When Heidi, who co-hosts a show with Herman Whitey and Herman Jackson, receives a vinyl record in the mail with a note attached calling it 'a gift from the Lords', she believes it to be from a band seeking airtime and puts it on. However, when played the record exerts a strange effect on Heidi. She begins to experience flashbacks which go beyond her own life and to witch burnings that occurred in her hometown hundreds of years ago. Has Heidi reawakened dormant spirits? Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Bruce Davison, Dee Wallace and Judy Geeson.
Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974 George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan is a professional 'point man' - that is, the investigator who prepares the way for a hitman - who is assigned to track down a pair of junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker game. The star-studded supporting cast includes Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy and Sam Shepard.
Quentin Tarantino directs this Academy Award-winning western starring Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who sets out to rescue his wife from a merciless plantation owner. Django (Foxx), a slave with a violent past, earns the favour of bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Cristoph Waltz) when he helps him kill a trio of infamous murderers. Schultz frees Django and begins training him as a fully-fledged bounty hunter. The pair enjoy further success tackling some of the American South's most troublesome criminals, but Schultz gradually becomes aware that Django has motivations beyond earning a reward - Django has been searching for his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). When the duo discover that she is enslaved to the ruthless Calvin Caddie (Leonardo DiCaprio) they begin hatching a plan for her rescue. However, with Caddie's employees numbering the vigilant Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) and mindful bodyguard Butch (James Remar), it may well be the pair's biggest challenge yet.
The three Bondurant boys (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke), along with their sultry new hire (Jessica Chastain), command the most lucrative bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia. The locals consider them "indestructible." But the law - in the form of a corrupt special deputy (Guy Pearce) - wants a cut of their action, at any cost. When youngest brother Jack (LaBeouf) gets a taste of power with a deadly gangster (Gary Oldman), the whole business blows sky high. Based on the astonishing true story, the Bondurant brotherhood is the stuff of legend.
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter were brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rise (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Against his will, Nick is forced to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: either fix the flawed justice system, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating, from his jail cell, a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who always seems to be one step ahead.
The Stranger (2010). Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating, bullet and betrayal, he'll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career, his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete, and one man is about to take back his past...by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (Eureka) and Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage, stone cold vengeance, and a double- crossed killing machine known only as The Stranger.
Hunt to Kill (2010). Steve Austin (The Expendables, The Stranger) stars as U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcee mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and the girl hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead? Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption), Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary), former kickboxing champion Gary Daniels (Tekken) and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) co-star this bone-snapping, bullet-blasting, ass-kicking action/thriller where the only rule of survival is Hunt To Kill.
Maximum Conviction (2012). For former Special Forces commandos-turned-private-security-contractors Steele and Manning, it was supposed to be an easy assignment: clear a cellblock of detainees from a decommissioned, top-secret military prison. But when a coldblooded team of mercenaries attempts a 'targeted extraction' of two mysterious female inmates, the concrete fortress becomes a total kill-zone. Trained killers wait in every corner. The most dangerous convicts are out of their cells. And for two warriors who've survived dozens of battlefields, tonight will be the deadliest fight of their lives. Tae Kwon Do World Champion Bren Foster ("Fight Science"), Steph Song (Dim Sum Funeral), Aliyah O'Brien (Kill Switch), Michael Pare (BloodRayne, Eddie And The Cruisers) co-star in this stone cold action thriller produced by Austin and Seagal.
The Package (2012). Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren star in the bone-crunching action flick that delivers the goods: Austin is combat veteran Tommy Wick, a nightclub bouncer and stone-cold enforcer for a Seattle mob boss. Lundgren is 'The German,' an international crime lord and hardcore killing machine. But when Wick is asked to courier a mysterious package to The German, he'll suddenly find himself hunted by relentless teams of hit men, mercenaries, assassins and sadists. Time is running out. The bodies are piling up. And for two very pissed-off men with a history of bad blood, the ultimate retaliation is about to be ripped wide open.
The Evil Dead SteelBook looks nice. I might get this version since I don't have the original film yet. I know Best Buy had an exclusive version with an extra DVD of bonus features, so I was kind of waiting to find that.
That Evil Dead steel looks very nice. And if it's true that first copies have the bonus disc, then it destroys the current blu (even though I only paid $3.96 for it) and it's a must own for me.
Also, what a lazy back cover for Law Abiding Citizen.
EDIT: Just found out it's only the Blu-ray disc. Darn.
well we asked for MORE steelbooks and here they come...
but so much is coming out in May I only make but so much money WTH...
pockets are like dust now, Lol
I can tell anyone who's wondering that Maximum Conviction and The Package were two of the worst DTV action movies I've ever seen. So there's that. Might pick up Lords of Salem and Lawless since I don't own them yet.
Anchor Bay! I know it's my opinion but these seem rather pointless!
Reasons being:
- other than Evil Dead you didn't do much to make the artwork special other than to make them "steel". Killing Them Softly had some especially striking poster artwork that would have been great to use for these editions.
- along with Evil Dead, some of these editions have better versions that have been released on bluray earlier and you failed to include those extra discs and features.
- some of these titles feel incredibly uninspired (my opinion I know!) but I like collecting Steelbooks as much as everyone else.
Here's hoping that if there's a next wave you'll take your time with them and make these releases worth it for those of us who enjoy being Steelbook Collectors!
This piqued my interest until I saw that the cover art for these all seem to be the same covers as their regular Blu-ray releases. I would have sprung for Killing Them Softly or Django Unchained if they actually made some interesting artwork.
@Phonecia Taylor: Wat? Almost every person I've ever talked to, hated that movie. I like it but that's beside the point, where the heck did you get overrated from?
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