When you can all drag your eyes away from Night Of The Creeps, here are a few more DVD releases in the pipeline:
On 5th May, MVD Visual will be unleashing upon us a 2-disc, Director’s Cut edition of the film that that very director once called “The Giant Spider Disaster“. The set will include a director’s commentary and an interview with Bill Rebane.
Lots of Euro-Horror news! On April 28th, Dark Sky Films will be releasing The She-Beast, Michael Reeves’ first film, starring Barbara Steele and Ian Ogilvy. In more Babs-related news, Severin have at long last named a street date for their release of Nightmare Castle: May 19th.
Meanwhile, Mya Communications will be releasing Jorge Grau’s The Legend Of Blood Castle aka The Female Butcher, another version of the Erzsebet Bathory legend, also on May 19th. On 30th June, Mya will also be releasing the original cut of Sergio Martino’s 
Island Of The Fishmen (surgically altered in the US to become Screamers), and Horrible aka Absurd, the sort-of sequel to the infamous Anthropophagus that re-teams Joe D’Amato and Aristide Massacessi. On July 28th, Blue Underground will be re-releasing two former Anchor Bay releases, Sergio Martino’s Torso aka The Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence, and The 10th Victim, directed by Elio Petri and starring Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni.
Proving that some people never learn, Sony Pictures will be releasing the fourth entry in the Anaconda franchise, Anacondas: Trail Of Blood, on 2nd June. Tragically, this time around there’s no sign of The Hoff. The same day will also see the release of Fox’s Silent Venom, directed by Fred Olen Ray. Taking a tip from 1974’s Fer-De-Lance, this film gives us snakes on a submarine, and stars Luke Perry and Krista Allen. Genius Products [sic.] will be releasing Sea Beast on 30th June. Featuring mutated angler fish and Corin Nemec (in that order), this ought to be hugely cool, but sadly seems to be just more of your typical SciFi – sorry, SyFy – crap. I include the DVD cover here so that you can all marvel at its stunning lack of originality.
#1 by Chad on April 4, 2009 - 9:15 pm
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I’m glad to see The Legend of Blood Castle is coming out; among my myriad crackpot obsessions is my love for adaptations of Elizabeth Bathory’s history. Still, I’m always surprised and a little disappointed that her story is almost always so distorted. You’d think a fairly accurate account of her life (assuming one’s not of the theory that she was entirely a victim of politics) would be fun enough.
#2 by El Santo on April 5, 2009 - 8:48 pm
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Yeah, you’d really think bathing in the blood of five zillion virgins and then being walled up alive in her own castle would be enough to hang a movie on all by itself.
#3 by Gavin on April 6, 2009 - 6:06 am
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I think the biggest problem with the Sea Beast cover is that you can tell by looking at it that the woman on the cover is actually standing and was awkwardly photoshopped in, so as to appear to be “swimming”.
#4 by Brett Wood on April 6, 2009 - 10:19 pm
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I wonder how long before we have an Anaconda movie set in Antartica. Or maybe space. As for Sea Beast, Anglerfish are cool, but considering that they feed by tricking things into their mouths, it’s going to require a lot of dumb victims. Oh wait, bad horror movie, they poor fishies are going to burst. So I wonder is it doing to by deep sea anglerfish, with the tiny parisitic males attached to them?
#5 by lyzard on April 8, 2009 - 3:39 pm
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NOOOOOO!!!!!!
DVD Drive-In reports that the release of The Giant Spider Invasion has been cancelled, so far without explanation.
#6 by The Rev. D.D. on April 8, 2009 - 7:31 pm
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Oh man! What the hell?! I want answers on this one…
*takes off in a huff*
#7 by Brett Wood on April 9, 2009 - 9:34 am
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Huh, that’s odd. Considering some of the crap that sells on DVD, Giant Spider Invasion should have no trouble bieng Crap that sells real well.
#8 by supersonic on April 9, 2009 - 7:26 pm
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wet barbara bach…