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Today’s news is a short but sweet update from Shout! Factory about the first two releases in their forth­com­ing line of “Roger Corman Cult Classics.”  As stated before in the Schlock-Wire, these Corman reis­sues are Your Humble Reviewer’s most antic­i­pated DVD releases of 2010.  Blu-Ray fans will be happy to know that Rock ‘N’ Roll High School will now also be avail­able in that for­mat in addi­tion to the stan­dard def­i­n­i­tion DVD’s.  Keep read­ing for the info and the Amazon pre-order links (and click on the cover-scan icons to get a bet­ter look at the cover art)…

UPDATE FROM SHOUT FACTORY:

“As you may know already, Shout! Factory will launch the upcom­ing Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home enter­tain­ment series this May begin­ning with Rock’n’ Roll High School 30th Anniversary Special Edition and Suburbia Collector’s Edition.  Each DVD is set for May 4, 2010 street date in North America . Most recently, we also con­firmed the Blu-ray™ debut of Rock’n’ Roll High School 30th Anniversary Edition on May 11, 2010.

For the May DVD & Blu-ray releases as well as upcom­ing titles from Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home enter­tain­ment series, Shout! Factory DVD pro­duc­tion teams have been work­ing hard to remas­ter a num­ber of great Corman titles that have been long out of print, some never-before-available on DVD and Blu-ray. Moreover, these releases boast a wide range of newly pro­duced bonus con­tent includ­ing new inter­views, com­men­taries and featurettes.”

To pur­chase these discs directly from Shout! Factory, just click on the “Buy” but­tons below:

Rock 'N' Roll High School

Rock ‘N’ Roll High School

Vince Lombardi High School is the wildest, most rockin? high school around! That is, until a thug of a prin­ci­pal, Miss Togar, comes along and tries to make the school a total­i­tar­ian state. With the help of The Ramones, the stu­dents bat­tle Miss Togar?s iron-fisted rule and take their bat­tle to a truly rockin? con­clu­sion in this 1979 cult clas­sic! FormatAspect RatioLanguageSubtitles NTSC, Region 1, Color1.85:1 (Widescreen)EnglishN/A Run TimeRatingNo. DiscsOrig. Release 84 minutesPG11979 View Clip: player­File = “http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/public/mcmp_0.8.swf”; fpFileURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/rnrhs/RNRHS-Clip_4-512K.flv”; fpPre­viewImageURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/rnrhs/RNRHS-Clip.jpg”; play­er­Size = “360x240”; col­orScheme = “796d83”; fpBut­tonOpac­ity = “80”; cpHide­Panel = “mouse­out”; cpHid­eDe­lay = “2”;


Rock 'N' Roll High School (Blu-ray)

Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (Blu-ray)

Vince Lombardi High School is the wildest, most rockin? high school around! That is, until a thug of a prin­ci­pal, Miss Togar, comes along and tries to make the school a total­i­tar­ian state. With the help of The Ramones, the stu­dents bat­tle Miss Togar?s iron-fisted rule and take their bat­tle to a truly rockin? con­clu­sion in this 1979 cult clas­sic! FormatAspect RatioLanguageSubtitles NTSC, Region 1, Color1.85:1 (Widescreen)EnglishN/A Run TimeRatingNo. DiscsOrig. Release 84 minutesPG11979 View Clip: player­File = “http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/public/mcmp_0.8.swf”; fpFileURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/rnrhs/RNRHS-Clip_4-512K.flv”; fpPre­viewImageURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/rnrhs/RNRHS-Clip.jpg”; play­er­Size = “360x240”; col­orScheme = “796d83”; fpBut­tonOpac­ity = “80”; cpHide­Panel = “mouse­out”; cpHid­eDe­lay = “2”;

Suburbia

Suburbia

Suburbia focuses on the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their bro­ken home in an attempt to escape their alco­holic mother. They fall in with The Rejected, a gang of punks who live as squat­ters in an aban­doned shack. There the boys find a new fam­ily, but the group is tested when they become the tar­get of ?Citizens Against Crime?, a group of unhappy sub­ur­ban­ites. FormatAspect RatioLanguageSubtitles NTSC, Region 1, Color1.85:1 (Widescreen)EnglishN/A Run TimeRatingNo. DiscsOrig. Release 95 minutesR11984 View Clip: player­File = “http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/public/mcmp_0.8.swf”; fpFileURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/suburbia/Suburbia-Clip_3-512K.flv”; fpPre­viewImageURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/suburbia/Suburbia-Clip.jpg”; play­er­Size = “360x240”; col­orScheme = “796d83”; fpBut­tonOpac­ity = “80”; cpHide­Panel = “mouse­out”; cpHid­eDe­lay = “2”;