Schlock-Wire: NOT OF THE EARTH, THE TERROR WITHIN and DEAD SPACE All Coming To DVD From Shout Factory

Alien invaders are the theme for an upcom­ing bar­rage of releases from Shout! Factory’s Roger Corman Cult Classics line.  The discs in ques­tion are a spe­cial edi­tion of Not Of This Earth, the 1988 Jim Wynorski ver­sion with Traci Lords in first post-porn role, and a two-for-one pair­ing of The Terror Within and Dead Space (a pseudo-remake of Forbidden World, also avail­able from Shout! Factory).  Each will fea­ture an audio com­men­tary and all but Dead Space will have new anamor­phic trans­fers.  Read on for all the space-shock details…

on earth or in space, there is no place to hide, no place to run, and no time to scream …

SHOUT! FACTORY PRESENTS

NOT OF THIS EARTH (1988)

spe­cial edi­tion dvd

dig­i­tally remas­tered and pre­sented in widescreen for the first time

–and–

THE TERROR WITHIN / DEAD SPACE

double-feature dvd

fea­tur­ing cult favorite THE TERROR WITHIN in anamor­phic widescreen

fan favorite Marc Singer and Bryan Cranston in DEAD SPACE

INVADING STORES NATIONWIDE ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010

FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

This November 2, 2010, get ready for a trio of science-fiction ter­ror palooza when Shout! Factory, in asso­ci­a­tion with New Horizons Picture Corporation will unleash Not of This Earth (1988) Special Edition DVD and The Terror Within/ Dead Space Double-Feature DVD from the pop­u­lar Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home enter­tain­ment series.

Cult film­maker Jim Wynorski (Big Bad Mama II, Chopping Mall) offers his ren­di­tion of Roger Corman’s 1957 cult clas­sic Not of This Earth in the 1988 ver­sion, boast­ing campy per­for­mance of fan favorite Traci Lords (Blade, Cry-Baby). The double-feature DVD release of The Terror Within and Dead Space offers fear­ful futur­is­tic thrills on Earth and in outer space.  A must-have for hor­ror fans and col­lec­tors, aggre­gate your Roger Corman movie col­lec­tion with these two lat­est home enter­tain­ment releases from Roger Corman’s Cult Classics. Each DVD is sold sep­a­rately with $19.93 SRP.

Not of This Earth is out of this world!

“I directed the orig­i­nal Not of This Earth in 1957, a film which uniquely com­bined sci-fi and vam­pire gen­res. When direc­tor Jim Wynorski first approached me to remake the film, I was skep­ti­cal of mess­ing with a clas­sic. However, Jim con­vinced me with some inter­est­ing cast­ing choices, includ­ing 20-year-old Traci Lords in the Beverly Garland role.” — Roger Corman

In Los Angeles , a mys­te­ri­ous stranger (Arthur Roberts, Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke, Revenge of the Ninja) arrives in town and hires Nadine Story (Lords) as his pri­vate nurse. Although the pay is great, she becomes more and more sus­pi­cious of this mys­te­ri­ous stranger when his requests for blood trans­fu­sions become more fre­quent and insis­tent. After some ama­teur detec­tive work, Nadine finds out that her new boss is not who — or what — he appears to be. In fact, he’s from another world!

Not of This Earth was a remake of exec­u­tive pro­ducer Corman’s 1957 sci-fi hor­ror clas­sic, which he had him­self pro­duced and directed. Eager to cap­i­tal­ize on the thrills and chills of the orig­i­nal story while adding a fresh, more con­tem­po­rary layer of black com­edy and camp humor, Corman tapped producer/director Wynorski to take on the project. Not only did Wynorski accept the chal­lenge of remak­ing one of his mentor’s most pop­u­lar early films, but he vowed his could do it in less time than Corman had, 31 years before! According to Hollywood leg­end, the orig­i­nal film took Corman 12 days to make, and the remake took Wynorski 12 days to make!

The film marked Traci Lords’ tran­si­tion from adult film roles to main­stream roles. Not only did she con­tribute a gen­er­ous dose of beauty and sex appeal, as well as a dol­lop of box-office-friendly con­tro­versy, but the actress proved the naysay­ers wrong by impress­ing crit­ics and audi­ences alike with a witty, sassy per­for­mance as the quick-thinking hero­ine, Nadine Story.

Not of This Earth pro­ceeded to break box-office records with an imme­di­ate profit that paid for its pro­duc­tion within days … if not hours!

NOT OF THIS EARTH SPECIAL EDITION DVD BONUS CONTENT:

• New anamor­phic widescreen trans­fer (1.78:1)
• Nadine’s Story – a new inter­view with Traci Lords
• New audio com­men­tary with Traci Lords and direc­tor Jim Wynorski
• Original DVD audio com­men­tary with direc­tor Jim Wynorski
• Original the­atri­cal trailer
• New World trailers

In the future, fear is dom­i­nant — whether on Earth or in deep space, as is proven in truly hor­rific fash­ion by the double-feature collector’s edi­tion DVD release of The Terror Within and Dead Space.

In the after­math of a chemically-induced plague that has dec­i­mated most of the world, the only sur­vivors are a small group of sci­en­tists trapped in a hi-tech lab­o­ra­tory located 500 feet beneath the sur­face of the Mojave Desert . But, as they are soon dis­cover, they are not alone …

The Terror Within fea­tures an intense ensem­ble cast headed by Academy Award^® win­ner George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke, the Naked Gun tril­ogy, the Airport series), Golden Globe Award^® nom­i­nee Andrew Stevens (The Fury, The Boys in Company C), Terri Treas (The Nest, TV’s Alien Nation) and Starr Andreeff (Dance of the Damned, Breast Men).

Marc Singer (The Beastmaster,V) and two-time Emmy Award win­ner^® Bryan Cranston (TV’s Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle) find them­selves in deep space — and deep trou­ble — in the sci-fi chiller Dead Space, a loose remake of Corman’s Forbidden World.

For years, Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and con­trolled sci­en­tific research facil­ity until an emer­gency dis­tress sig­nals calls for Commander Kreiger (Singer) and his robot side­kick, Tinpan. Together, they fight to save the planet from a spread­ing virus and an odd, grow­ing alien cocoon. Despite Kreiger’s hero­ism, is it too late to save the men­ace from pos­si­bly engulf­ing the galaxy?

THE TERROR WITHIN/DEAD SPACE

DOUBLE-FEATURE DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:

THE TERROR WITHIN DVD Special Features:

• New anamor­phic widescreen Transfer (1.78:1)
• Audio com­men­tary with co-producer Rodman Flender
• Trailers

DEAD SPACE DVD Special Features:

• Audio com­men­tary with direc­tor Fred Gallo
• Trailers

Shout! Factory will con­tinue to present Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home enter­tain­ment releases on a monthly basis. Upcoming high­lights include The Evil, Twice Dead, The Warrior and The Sorceress, Barbarian Queen, Streets, Angel in Red, Lady in Red, Crazy Mama, Big Bad Mama, among others.

Not Of This Earth (1988) An alien race dying from radi­a­tion sends an emis­sary to Earth to find out if trans­fu­sions of human plasma might be a cure for their afflic­tion. If the plan is a suc­cess, the crea­tures intend to launch a full scale inva­sion to har­vest peo­ple for their blood.Director: Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall, Big Bad Mama II, The Return of Swamp Thing)Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny JulianoBonus Features:New Interview With Traci LordsNew Commentary With Traci Lords And Director Jim WynorskiOriginal Commentary With Director Jim WynorskiTheatrical Trailer

The Terror Within / Dead Space [Double Feature] Two tales of alien mon­ster may­hem for one low price!The Terror Within: It’s the post-apocalypse, and the world has been changed by a chem­i­cal war­fare exper­i­ment gone awry leav­ing only a few rem­nants of the human race. Eight lab stu­dents work to cre­ate a vac­cine before they are forced out­side in search for food. It is then that they dis­cover crea­tures mutated by the plague.Director: Thierry NotzStars: George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke), Andrew Stevens (The Fury, The Seduction)Bonus Features:Theatrical TrailerDead Space: A space sol­der and a sci­en­tific com­mu­nity on another planet try to destroy an alien mon­ster cre­ated by a series of out-of-control genetic experiments.Director: Fred GalloStars: Marc Singer (V: The Original Miniseries, The Beastmaster), Laura Mae TateBonus Features:Commentary With Director Fred GalloTheatrical Trailer