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Posted: **Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:52 am**

Maniac Cop 3 should be especially interesting since if I remember rightly he quite before finished shooting. I guess that's what that unrated bit is for.

Posted: **Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:17 am**

BU posted the Maniac Cop 2 Blu-ray special features:

MANIAC COP 2 Extras can finally be revealed!

• Audio Commentary with Director William Lustig and Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn
• "Back On The Beat - The Making Of MANIAC COP 2" (A newly-produced retrospective documentary including interviews with most of the cast and crew)
• Cinefamily Q&A with Director William Lustig
• Deleted Scene (The Evening News with Sam Raimi)
• Theatrical Trailers
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Isolated Music Track
• Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems

• Gorgeous new 4K High Definition transfer from the original camera negative supervised by Director of Photography James Lemmo
• Blu-ray features upgraded 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (as well as original Dolby Surround track)
• Blu-ray and DVD feature numerous subtitle options, including English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish

The MANIAC COP 2 Collector's Edition Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack will be released on November 19, 2013.

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2013 12:13 am**

and here are the Maniac Cop 3 special features:

MANIAC COP 3 Extras can now be revealed!

• "Wrong Arm Of The Law - The Making Of MANIAC COP 3" (A very candid retrospective documentary including interviews with most of the cast and crew)
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Original Synopsis
• Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems

• Gorgeous new 4K High Definition transfer from the original uncensored camera negative, presented in it's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio for the first time ever
• Blu-ray features upgraded 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (as well as original Dolby Surround track)
• Blu-ray and DVD feature numerous subtitle options, including English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Russia

The MANIAC COP 3: BADGE OF SILENCE Collector's Edition Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack will be released on November 19, 2013.

Posted: **Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:33 pm**

From their facebook page: Hell of the Living Dead Blu-ray is coming in 2014.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:32 am**

You know you're in for a heartwarming film when even a cannibal apocalypse gets a cutesy pet name.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:58 pm**

dwk wrote:From their facebook page: Hell of the Living Dead Blu-ray is coming in 2014.

Ha, never thought this'd see HD. It's barely even a movie! I'm in.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:29 pm**

Bruno Mattei on blu ray! This is a magical time to be living in.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:15 pm**

From BU's facebook page "Who woulda thunk this "classic" would make the leap to Blu-ray next year..."

(Rats - Night of Terror)

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:17 pm**

Now that I can get excited about. Second best Mattei.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:03 pm**

dwk wrote:From BU's facebook page "Who woulda thunk this "classic" would make the leap to Blu-ray next year..."

(Rats - Night of Terror)

Even better. That ending...

knives wrote:Now that I can get excited about. Second best Mattei.

Just curious, what's first best in your book?

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:16 pm**

zedz wrote:You know you're in for a heartwarming film when even a cannibal apocalypse gets a cutesy pet name.

Hell of the Living Dead is the best kind of terrible film. It starts off pretty limply (after a sequence involving a rat in a radiation suit) with a rip-off of Dawn Of The Dead's apartment block siege (down to using the same music cues) but with terrorists involved and then has a silly interlude in a village where the heroes and heroine extremely slowly figure out that you have to shoot zombies in the head.

But then it goes steadily weirder, such as the heroine trying to communicate with a tribe through getting naked and being intercut with Mondo stock footage. Or the section where one of the wackier characters bows out with a song and dance number, thereby proving that even the undead have some sense of artistic taste by stopping it in mid-performance!

I also love the final sequence of wandering around the factory. But then I do already have a strange fondness for wandering around empty industrial environments that gets played to in that sequence! And the handbrake turn into bleak nihilism was also very endearing!

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:49 pm**

Also there's a TV monologue at the end which is word-for-word from a TV monologue from Night of the Living Dead

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:50 pm**

solaris72 wrote:
knives wrote:Now that I can get excited about. Second best Mattei.
Just curious, what's first best in your book?

That rip-off of Salon Kitty. Can't remember the name.

Posted: **Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:44 pm**

SS Girls?

Posted: **Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:19 pm**

Yes, though now that I'm thinking about it Women's camp 119 is also pretty enjoyable.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:28 am**

I'll be honest, you're the first person I've ever encountered who calls Women's Camp 119 "enjoyable". I find it depressing, what with all the body parts strewn about and the sadistic degradation.

And since we're on the subject of Bruno Mattei, I highly recommend Brad Jones' series "The Bruno Mattei Show" to anyone who hasn't discovered it yet. They never finished Bruno's filmography, but they produced a strong series of episodes looking at some of his best-known work.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:28 am**

I used enjoyable mostly because I'm not sure if good applies. It's a film I'd revisit I guess would be more appropriate phrasing (than again I genuinely find Salo delightful so clearly my eagerness for masochistic viewing is higher than the norm).

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:59 am**

I also quite enjoyed Mattei's entry into the nunsploitation subgenre of Italian films that ripped off The Devils (and which also rips off zombie films, the dog scene from The Beyond, Inferno, Deep Red and Suspiria during its course too!), The Other Hell.

CSM126 wrote:And since we're on the subject of Bruno Mattei, I highly recommend Brad Jones' series "The Bruno Mattei Show" to anyone who hasn't discovered it yet. They never finished Bruno's filmography, but they produced a strong series of episodes looking at some of his best-known work.

Also add in the episodes that he did in his Cinema Snob persona on Mattei's Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws and Terminator II!

Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:00 pm**

From Blue Underground's facebook page:

Coming to Blu-ray Spring 2014...

They were asked if they have any Argento or Fulci titles in the works and they said

Sorry, no news yet. But we might be able to announce something in a few months...

Hopefully this means that Opera is finally happening.

Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:42 pm**

Snuff BD review at DVDTalk

Posted: **Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:27 am**

Turns out that Hell of the Living Dead and Rats: Night of Terror are being released as a double feature:

They haven't announced a release date, but here are the special features:

HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD Extras:
Hell Rats Of The Living Dead - Interview with Director Bruno Mattei
Theatrical Trailer
Poster & Still Gallery
Bruno Mattei Bio

RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR Extras:
Hell Rats Of The Living Dead - Interview with Director Bruno Mattei
Theatrical Trailer
Bruno Mattei Bio

Posted: **Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:55 pm**

Special Edition Blu-ray coming this Fall...

A few months ago, Alan Jones mentioned on twitter that he recorded an interview for this.

Posted: **Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:06 pm**

Bill Lustig was on the Killer POV podcast and he said BU is working on Blu-rays of the following films:
Bronx Warriors
Escape The Bronx
New Barbarians
Shockwaves
God Told Me To
Man, Pride & Vengeance

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:19 pm**

HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD / RATS on August 28
STAGEFRIGHT on September 23

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:26 pm**

Here are the special features for the Stagefright Blu-ray:
• "Theatre Of Delirium" – Interview with Director Michele Soavi
• "Head Of The Company" – Interview with Star David Brandon
• "Blood On The Stage Floor" – Interview with Star Giovanni Lombardo Radice
• "The Sound Of Aquarius" – Interview with Composer Simon Boswell
• "The Owl Murders" – Interview with Make-Up Effects Artist Pietro Tenoglio
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster & Still Gallery"

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