Roger Corman’s Cult Classics DVD series keeps bringing the cinematic gifts even after the holiday season. The next tandem of titles don’t merely give us films the king of the indies produced, but a few of his directorial titles on January 18, 2011. Don’t burn all your gift cards on foolish things like Susan Boyle CDs. In a matter of minutes, these DVD sets allow you to turn your brand new HDTV into a grindhouse. Roger Corman’s Sci-Fi Classics contains Attack of the Crab Monsters, Not of This Earth and War of the Satellites. Now this is the original version of Not of This Earth – not a re-issue of the Traci Lords remakes. There’s also a double feature DVD packed with Up From the Depths and Demon of Paradise. These are two tales of tropical fish gone bad. Here’s the press release from Shout! Factory:
ROGER CORMAN’S SCI-FI CLASSICS: ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957) and WAR OF THE SATELLITES
TRIPLE-FEATURE COLLECTOR’S EDITION 2-DVD SET
Three Films Directed and Produced by Legendary Roger Corman
featuring all new film transfers from the negatives and widescreen presentation of
Attack of the Crab Monsters and Not of This Earth
-and-
UP FROM THE DEPTHS/ DEMON OF PARADISE
DOUBLE-FEATURE COLLECTOR’S EDITION DVD
presented in anamorphic widescreen for the first time
IN STORES NATIONWIDE JANUARY 18, 2011 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY
Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: Sci-fi Classics Triple-Feature collector’s edition 2-dvd set
In ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, a group of scientists become marooned on an island while investigating the disappearance of researchers who were looking into atomic activity in the Pacific. They quickly fall prey to giant, mutant crustaceans that have the ability to absorb the minds of their prey. Starring Russell Johnson (Gilligan’s Island), Richard Garland and Mel Welles (Little Shop Of Horrors). ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS is a Roger Corman Production. Produced and directed by Roger Corman; screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. (Allied Artists Picture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGCHj6BJ9s
An alien (Birch) comes to Earth, masquerading as a human, to scout our planet for a new blood source in NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957). He needs the blood of humans to take back to his planet of Davana for his dying race. Starring Paul Birch, Beverly Garland (It Conquered The World), Morgan Jones (McMillan & Wife) and Jonathan Haze (Little Shop Of Horrors). NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957) is a Roger Corman Production. Produced and directed by Roger Corman; screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. (Allied Artists Picture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2qgCZch0Y
In WAR OF THE SATELLITES, an “unknown force” declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere. Starring Dick Miller (Bucket Of Blood), Richard Devon (Blood Of Dracula), Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman) and a cameo by Roger Corman. WAR OF THE SATELLITES is a Roger Corman Production. Produced and directed by Roger Corman; screenplay by Lawrence Louis Goldman; co-producers, Jack Rabin and Irving Block. (Allied Artists Release)
ROGER CORMAN’S SCI-FI CLASSICS Special Features:
* A SALUTE TO ROGER CORMAN – featuring new interviews with Roger Corman, Peter Fonda, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante and many more.
* Audio Commentaries on ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS and NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957) with Tom Weaver, John Brunas and Mike Brunas, authors of Universal Horrors
* THE ROGER CORMAN TRAILER COLLECTION features over 25 trailers produced and directed by Roger Corman
* All-new interview with Roger Corman looking back at all three films.
roger corman’s cult classics: up from the depths/ demon of paradise double-feature collector’s edition dvd
In UP FROM THE DEPTHS, staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant, and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from his slumber. Voraciously, the fish helps himself to a tourist buffet. Now it’s open season for the local fishermen to find the creature and kill it! Starring Sam Bottoms (Apocalypse Now, The Outlaw Josey Wales), Virgil Frye (The Hot Spot) and Kedric Wolfe (Mr. Boogedy); written by Anne Dyer; produced by Cirio Santiago; directed by Charles Griffith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_z5ngk8Jiw
The hunters become the prey when illegal dynamite-fishing prematurely ends the hibernation of a mythological carnivorous lizard-man in DEMON OF PARADISE. The owner of the local resort, whose patrons have become the appetizers on this predator’s menu, and a herpetologist join forces with the sheriff to save the tourists from succumbing to the feasting of the beast. Starring Kathryn Witt (Cocaine Wars, Star 80) and directed by cult filmmaker Cirio H. Santiago.
UP FROM THE DEPTHS/ DEMON OF PARADISE Double-Feature Collector’s Edition DVD
Special Features:
UP FROM THE DEPTHS
* New Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1.78:1)
* TV and Radio Spots
* Theatrical Trailer
DEMON OF PARADISE
* New Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1.78:1)
* Theatrical Trailer
Shout! Factory will continue to present Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment releases in 2011. Upcoming highlights include Georgia Peaches, Smokey Bites The Dust, Black Oak Conspiracy, Great Texas Dynamite, Jackson County Jail, Caged Heat, and many others.
