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Big, hot-off-the-presses news from the good folks at Severin — a domes­tic DVD release is com­ing for the 1980’s cable & VHS favorite, BMX Bandits!  For those who don’t remem­ber this title, it was part of that small genre of bike­sploita­tion films that emerged when kids were going nuts over BMX bikes dur­ing the early-to-mid 1980’s.  BMX Bandits was directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, the same mag­nif­i­cent wiz­ard of Aussie exploita­tion cin­ema who gave us Escape 2000 and Dead-End Drive-In, and fea­tures a pre-Hollywood Nicole Kidman as one of the heroes (note: she sports a bitchin’ honky-fro hairdo in this flick).  Read on for the intro­duc­tory info…

BMX BANDITS COMING TO DVD AND BLU-RAY

The name “Nicole Kidman” is one filled with pris­matic meaning.

To some, she’s the pros­thetic nose sport­ing, Oscar®-winner of The Hours. To oth­ers, she’s the mor­tally doomed siren with the morally casual atti­tude from Moulin Rouge. Or to oth­ers still she may be the high-octane head­shrinker from Days Of Thunder.

But to any­one who lost their train­ing wheels in the mid-80s, Kidman will always be Judy, the wheelie-happy, water-slide glid­ing, crime-fighting, bouffy-haired pro­tag­o­nist that pow­ers BMX Bandits.

Due to a sad con­flu­ence of cir­cum­stance, BMX Bandits, the ulti­mate cash-in-on-what-the-kids-are-into-these-days 80s epic, has some­how gone unre­leased in the United States on DVD.

Until now.

Severin is undo­ing one of home video’s great wrongs, and is open­ing up its check­book to return Nicole Kidman’s high-flying, freestyling, spoke-popping mas­ter­piece to its right­ful place in your DVD and Blu Ray collection.

At this moment, Severin is prepar­ing a stun­ning new hi-def mas­ter of Ozploitation pup­pet­mas­ter Brian Trenchard-Smith’s cel­lu­loid moun­tain top, along with a host of unfor­get­table extras.

So just be patient…because your high-flying ride to adven­ture is arriv­ing soon.

To read the orig­i­nal post from Severin, check out their offi­cial web­site at http://www.severin-films.com/.