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‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’ Now Out On Steelbook

Over the past few months, Lionsgate has released a series of fantastic films on Steelbooks, sold exclusively at Best Buy, including 3 From Hell. The latest to be released is the brilliant film Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in 4K Ultra. Directed by legendary Acadamy Award-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now features a compelling story, fantastic acting, and an unflinching look at the horrors of the Vietnam war. It stands out as one of the finest films ever made. The film, originally released in 1979, follows a U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam who is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. Martin Sheen stars alongside Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall in the film that, unlike many others, in no way glamorizes the war instead it uses its brutality and ugliness to explain how everyday men can turn into monsters. Apocalypse Now opens with glimpses of choppers and the lush jungle which served

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: The Final Countdown (1980)

‘Round about ol’ nineteen hundred and eighty, systems analyst Warren Lasky (a staggeringly young Martin Sheen) finds himself aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, led by Captain Yelland (a staggeringly not as old as he was towards the end, but still old Kirk Douglas) down Pearl Harbor way. Lasky’s job? Tell them what a gang of fuck-ups they are and how they can improve on that via efficiency or some shit… it isn’t important until it is anyway… Anyhow, the Nimitz soon finds itself in the middle of one hell of a bizarre storm, which they assume to be the result of some sort of Soviet attack or other… which unless they got their mitts on Destro’s Weather Dominator is a bit of a stretch, but regardless the Nimitz sails straight into a laser light display straight out of a Who concert. Cue: Star Trek theatrics, lazer antics, and searing pain… After all of that glorious nonsense, our heroes find

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DanXIII
May 23, 2021
Horror Fuel

Review: Saw Unrated 4K Ultra Combo Pack

Lionsgate has just unleashed Saw: Unrated, the original Saw on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, a first for the film that kick-started a major franchise and changed the genre itself. The film centers on a morally obsessed serial killer (Tobin Bell) who forces his victims to play twisted, horrific games of torture and survival. When two men wake up to find themselves chained in a bathroom, and a dead man on the floor, their game begins. Now, Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannel) have to try and find a way to escape while a mysterious man has taken Lawrence’s family hostage. Not only will viewers see Saw in new clarity and richness, but the Combo Pack also features a ton of Special Features which includes interviews with James Wan and Leigh Whannell who created the franchise, cast members, producers, special effects artists, and much more. Fans also get a never before seen clips and pictures from behind the scenes.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2021
Horror Fuel

George A. Romero & Dario Argento’s ‘Two Evil Eyes’ Getting A 4K Ultra Re-Release

Blue Underground, the company that brought you Maniac and Zombie on 4K, is gearing up to deliver Two Evil Eyes on 4K Ultra this summer. Originally released back in 1990, the film was directed by two legendary directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. Two Evil Eyes features two tales, both based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In one story a greedy wife murders her husband, in the other, a reporter takes in a strange black cat. The movie features an all-star cast including Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs), Ramy Ada (“NYPD Blue”), Bingo O’Malley (Creepshow), John Amos (Coming to America, Coming 2 America), Tom Atkins (My Bloody Valentine, Halloween III), and Jonathan Adams (Rocky Horror Picture Show). Two Evil Eyes will be released on August 24, 2021, “in true 4K Ultra High Definition with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos audio mix.” We’ll let you know when the pre-order date is announced.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

For The First Time, SAW Is Getting A 4K Ultra Unrated Release

Spawning one of the most successful horror franchises in history, James Wan’s directorial debut returns to terrify audiences once again when SAW arrives on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital) May 11th from Lionsgate. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Kiss the Girls), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon franchise, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Color Purple), Monica Potter (The Last House on the Left, Along Came a Spider, TV’s “Wisdom of the Crowd”), Leigh Whannell (Insidious franchise, Cooties), and Tobin Bell (Mississippi Burning, The Firm, Manson Family Vacation) star Experience four times the resolution of full HD with the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, bringing entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality. When compared to a standard picture, Dolby Vision can deliver spectacular colors never before seen on a screen, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. Available for the very first time in this absolutely

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 8, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Godzilla’ Being Rereleased On Blu-ray And 4K Ultra Ahead Of ‘Godzilla VS Kong’ Premiere

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that 2014’s Godzilla will be rereleased on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital this March just ahead of the release of Godzilla vs Kong in theaters and on HBO Max. The epic action-adventure directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from the screenplay by Max Borenstein, based on a story by David Callaham, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ marked the long-awaited big-screen return of the King of the Monsters. “In this gritty, realistic sci-fi action epic, Godzilla returns to its roots as one of the world’s most recognized monsters. Directed by Gareth Edwards and featuring an all-star international cast, this spectacular adventure pits Godzilla against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.” Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception), Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Cosmopolis), and Oscar® nominee Sally

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Tremors (1990)

Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are two shit-kickin’ handymen kickin’ shit around the near non-existent desert town of Perfection. But all doesn’t stay broken fences and tumbleweeds for our heroes, as soon they are up to their asses in missing people, of which the town truly doesn’t have any to spare! The boys soon find out the culprit behind it all… the totally reasonable answer of giant mutant earthworms (nicknamed Graboids), as one would have surely guessed. Now it’s up to them, along with graduate geology student Rhonda LeBeck (Finn Carter) and survivalists Burt and Heather Gummer (Family Ties‘ Michael Gross and country-crooner/sit-com star Reba McEntire respectively) to save P-town and end that wicked worm menace once and for fuckin’ all! With it’s desert setting and ‘nature gone amok’ antagonists, you may make the assumption that the creators of Tremors may have been channeling the fright flick drive-in fare of the 1950’s when creating this putrid

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DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra Review: Vigilante (1982)

Industrial repairman Eddie Marino (the great Robert Forster) has a real problem on his grease-stained hands. You see, his wife Vickie (Rutanya Alda) got slappy with a gang of denim-clad Warrior wanna-bes called The Headhunters, and they returned the favor by using her as a pin-cushion, and blasting the couple’s son Scott (Dante Joseph) to pieces with a double-barrel shotgun. To make matters worse, The Headhunters are cleared of the murder charge thanks to some legal loopholes, and in a bizarre twist of fate, Eddie actually goes to jail for assaulting the judge. All is not lost however, as Eddie’s steel workin’ pals are a covert group of vigilantes lead by tough-ass mother fucker Nick (the legendary Fred “The Hammer” Williamson), and when he gets back on the streets Eddie and the boys are going to bring serious bodily harm to every mother fucker that’s done him wrong! Coming from director William Lustig, Vigilante was his attempt at creating a

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DanXIII
Dec 31, 2020
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Flash Gordon (1980)

Before I begin jawin’ about the movie itself, I feel it appropriate to share some thoughts on Flash Gordon. If you aren’t interested in such things… or having your’s cruelly uncharacteristically lay his soul bare, just skip down a bit. Anyway, back in December of 1980, my desire to see Flash Gordon was at an almost unbelievable level…and my parents blew my mind and agreed to drive me, and the prettiest girl in the second grade who agreed to be my date, many towns over (yes, I grew up in the literal middle of nowhere) to see the film… but mother nature had other plans; and a nor’easter (to those not in the know; Upstate New York has about 14 months of winter per year… at least it did back then) kept us in town, and Altman’s Popeye was what it had to be (and for the record, that is a charming film and a ton of fun… but it

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DanXIII
Sep 6, 2020
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Pitch Black (2000)

A space freighter gets damaged to fuck and back by some rogue comets and makes an emergency landing on a barren alien world, killing all but nine of the crew. Speaking of survivors, one such individual is bad-ass convict Riddick (Vin Diesel), who is now on the loose. As if that unpredictable psycho wasn’t enough, the planet is also home to a vicious lil’ gaggle of toothy creatures that come out once every 28 years during an eclipse… and the time for that cosmic spectacle is nigh! Now can Riddick be counted on to add to the survival rate of these hapless cosmic castaways? Pitch Black is an unbelievably entertaining sci-fi/action creature feature, and one of the reasons for it’s success is that co-writer/director David Twohy, who was also responsible for this film’s sequels; The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), and Riddick (2013), keeps things nice n’ simple as far as the basics go; this is a straight up cat n’

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DanXIII
Aug 27, 2020

More from 4K Ultra

‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’ Now Out On Steelbook

Over the past few months, Lionsgate has released a series of fantastic films on Steelbooks, sold exclusively at Best Buy, including 3 From Hell. The latest to be released is the brilliant film Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in 4K Ultra. Directed by legendary Acadamy Award-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now features a compelling story, fantastic acting, and an unflinching look at the horrors of the Vietnam war. It stands out as one of the finest films ever made. The film, originally released in 1979, follows a U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam who is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. Martin Sheen stars alongside Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall in the film that, unlike many others, in no way glamorizes the war instead it uses its brutality and ugliness to explain how everyday men can turn into monsters. Apocalypse Now opens with glimpses of choppers and the lush jungle which served

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: The Final Countdown (1980)

‘Round about ol’ nineteen hundred and eighty, systems analyst Warren Lasky (a staggeringly young Martin Sheen) finds himself aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, led by Captain Yelland (a staggeringly not as old as he was towards the end, but still old Kirk Douglas) down Pearl Harbor way. Lasky’s job? Tell them what a gang of fuck-ups they are and how they can improve on that via efficiency or some shit… it isn’t important until it is anyway… Anyhow, the Nimitz soon finds itself in the middle of one hell of a bizarre storm, which they assume to be the result of some sort of Soviet attack or other… which unless they got their mitts on Destro’s Weather Dominator is a bit of a stretch, but regardless the Nimitz sails straight into a laser light display straight out of a Who concert. Cue: Star Trek theatrics, lazer antics, and searing pain… After all of that glorious nonsense, our heroes find

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 23, 2021
Horror Fuel

Review: Saw Unrated 4K Ultra Combo Pack

Lionsgate has just unleashed Saw: Unrated, the original Saw on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, a first for the film that kick-started a major franchise and changed the genre itself. The film centers on a morally obsessed serial killer (Tobin Bell) who forces his victims to play twisted, horrific games of torture and survival. When two men wake up to find themselves chained in a bathroom, and a dead man on the floor, their game begins. Now, Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannel) have to try and find a way to escape while a mysterious man has taken Lawrence’s family hostage. Not only will viewers see Saw in new clarity and richness, but the Combo Pack also features a ton of Special Features which includes interviews with James Wan and Leigh Whannell who created the franchise, cast members, producers, special effects artists, and much more. Fans also get a never before seen clips and pictures from behind the scenes.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 21, 2021
Horror Fuel

George A. Romero & Dario Argento’s ‘Two Evil Eyes’ Getting A 4K Ultra Re-Release

Blue Underground, the company that brought you Maniac and Zombie on 4K, is gearing up to deliver Two Evil Eyes on 4K Ultra this summer. Originally released back in 1990, the film was directed by two legendary directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. Two Evil Eyes features two tales, both based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In one story a greedy wife murders her husband, in the other, a reporter takes in a strange black cat. The movie features an all-star cast including Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs), Ramy Ada (“NYPD Blue”), Bingo O’Malley (Creepshow), John Amos (Coming to America, Coming 2 America), Tom Atkins (My Bloody Valentine, Halloween III), and Jonathan Adams (Rocky Horror Picture Show). Two Evil Eyes will be released on August 24, 2021, “in true 4K Ultra High Definition with Dolby Vision HDR and a new Dolby Atmos audio mix.” We’ll let you know when the pre-order date is announced.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

For The First Time, SAW Is Getting A 4K Ultra Unrated Release

Spawning one of the most successful horror franchises in history, James Wan’s directorial debut returns to terrify audiences once again when SAW arrives on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital) May 11th from Lionsgate. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Kiss the Girls), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon franchise, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Color Purple), Monica Potter (The Last House on the Left, Along Came a Spider, TV’s “Wisdom of the Crowd”), Leigh Whannell (Insidious franchise, Cooties), and Tobin Bell (Mississippi Burning, The Firm, Manson Family Vacation) star Experience four times the resolution of full HD with the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, bringing entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality. When compared to a standard picture, Dolby Vision can deliver spectacular colors never before seen on a screen, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. Available for the very first time in this absolutely

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 8, 2021
Horror Fuel

‘Godzilla’ Being Rereleased On Blu-ray And 4K Ultra Ahead Of ‘Godzilla VS Kong’ Premiere

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that 2014’s Godzilla will be rereleased on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital this March just ahead of the release of Godzilla vs Kong in theaters and on HBO Max. The epic action-adventure directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from the screenplay by Max Borenstein, based on a story by David Callaham, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ marked the long-awaited big-screen return of the King of the Monsters. “In this gritty, realistic sci-fi action epic, Godzilla returns to its roots as one of the world’s most recognized monsters. Directed by Gareth Edwards and featuring an all-star international cast, this spectacular adventure pits Godzilla against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.” Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception), Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Cosmopolis), and Oscar® nominee Sally

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Tremors (1990)

Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are two shit-kickin’ handymen kickin’ shit around the near non-existent desert town of Perfection. But all doesn’t stay broken fences and tumbleweeds for our heroes, as soon they are up to their asses in missing people, of which the town truly doesn’t have any to spare! The boys soon find out the culprit behind it all… the totally reasonable answer of giant mutant earthworms (nicknamed Graboids), as one would have surely guessed. Now it’s up to them, along with graduate geology student Rhonda LeBeck (Finn Carter) and survivalists Burt and Heather Gummer (Family Ties‘ Michael Gross and country-crooner/sit-com star Reba McEntire respectively) to save P-town and end that wicked worm menace once and for fuckin’ all! With it’s desert setting and ‘nature gone amok’ antagonists, you may make the assumption that the creators of Tremors may have been channeling the fright flick drive-in fare of the 1950’s when creating this putrid

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 30, 2021
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra Review: Vigilante (1982)

Industrial repairman Eddie Marino (the great Robert Forster) has a real problem on his grease-stained hands. You see, his wife Vickie (Rutanya Alda) got slappy with a gang of denim-clad Warrior wanna-bes called The Headhunters, and they returned the favor by using her as a pin-cushion, and blasting the couple’s son Scott (Dante Joseph) to pieces with a double-barrel shotgun. To make matters worse, The Headhunters are cleared of the murder charge thanks to some legal loopholes, and in a bizarre twist of fate, Eddie actually goes to jail for assaulting the judge. All is not lost however, as Eddie’s steel workin’ pals are a covert group of vigilantes lead by tough-ass mother fucker Nick (the legendary Fred “The Hammer” Williamson), and when he gets back on the streets Eddie and the boys are going to bring serious bodily harm to every mother fucker that’s done him wrong! Coming from director William Lustig, Vigilante was his attempt at creating a

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Dec 31, 2020
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Flash Gordon (1980)

Before I begin jawin’ about the movie itself, I feel it appropriate to share some thoughts on Flash Gordon. If you aren’t interested in such things… or having your’s cruelly uncharacteristically lay his soul bare, just skip down a bit. Anyway, back in December of 1980, my desire to see Flash Gordon was at an almost unbelievable level…and my parents blew my mind and agreed to drive me, and the prettiest girl in the second grade who agreed to be my date, many towns over (yes, I grew up in the literal middle of nowhere) to see the film… but mother nature had other plans; and a nor’easter (to those not in the know; Upstate New York has about 14 months of winter per year… at least it did back then) kept us in town, and Altman’s Popeye was what it had to be (and for the record, that is a charming film and a ton of fun… but it

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 6, 2020
Horror Fuel

4K Ultra HD Review: Pitch Black (2000)

A space freighter gets damaged to fuck and back by some rogue comets and makes an emergency landing on a barren alien world, killing all but nine of the crew. Speaking of survivors, one such individual is bad-ass convict Riddick (Vin Diesel), who is now on the loose. As if that unpredictable psycho wasn’t enough, the planet is also home to a vicious lil’ gaggle of toothy creatures that come out once every 28 years during an eclipse… and the time for that cosmic spectacle is nigh! Now can Riddick be counted on to add to the survival rate of these hapless cosmic castaways? Pitch Black is an unbelievably entertaining sci-fi/action creature feature, and one of the reasons for it’s success is that co-writer/director David Twohy, who was also responsible for this film’s sequels; The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), and Riddick (2013), keeps things nice n’ simple as far as the basics go; this is a straight up cat n’

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 27, 2020
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