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‘The Wizard of Gore’ Remake Gets Dimension Extreme Release
Genius Products and Dimension Extreme has announced the DVD release of The Wizard of Gore (review), which stars Crispin Glover as magician Montag the Magnificent. DVD Active reports that the disc will be available to own on August 19th, and should retail at around $19.97. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. According to Fangoria, extras will include an audio commentary, 3 featurettes (Making of Wizard of Gore, Behind the Curtain: A Look at the Magic of Wizard of Gore, From Volunteer to Victim: The Suicide Girls in Wizard of Gore), deleted scenes, storyboards, design sketches and personal photography. Read on for the cover art.
This remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ exploitation classic puts an up-to-date spin on the tale of an underground illusionist (Crispin Glover) who may be performing more than just sleight-of-hand tricks since volunteers from his audience keep turning up dead.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.