Lifeforce
Blu-Ray/DVD Combo (Collector’s Edition)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Screenwriter: Dan O’Bannon, Don Jakoby
Cast: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart
Scream Factory
Rated R | 116 Minutes
Release Date: June 18, 2013

Directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), 1985’s Lifeforce stars Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, and Patrick Stewart. Based on Colin Wilson‘s 1976 novel, The Space Vampires, Lifeforce arrives on Blu-ray June 18, 2013, and features both the film’s original theatrical version and longer international.

Presented by Scream! Factory, Lifeforce follows the crew of the space shuttle Churchill, who discover a 150-mile long spacecraft hidden in the corona of Halley’s Comet. Inside the craft the crew finds hundreds of dead, desiccated bat-like creatures and three naked humanoid bodies in suspended animation within crystal coffins.

Under the Mountain
DVD | Instant Video
Screenplay by Matthew Grainger and Jonathan King
Directed by Jonathan King
Based on the Novel by Maurice Gee
Starring: Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Oliver Driver, Leon Wardham, and Sam Neill
Lionsgate
Rated PG-13 | 91 minutes
Release Date: August 10, 2010

Under the Mountain is an adaptation of a popular children’s novel by Maurice Gee. The main characters are Rachel and Theo Matheson, twins who have a psychic bond that allows them to communicate with each other telepathically. The twins experience a family tragedy and are sent to live with relatives in Auckland. After moving to Auckland, they discover the Wilberforces, shapeshifting creatures who intend to conquer Earth. They are aided by their cousin and a mysterious older gentleman named Mr. Jones who has been battling the Wilberforces for a long time. The twins have to learn to rely on each other and rekindle their psychic bond in order to defeat the Wilberforces.

Beetlejuice: The Complete Series
DVD
Created by: Tim Burton
Director: Robin Budd
Voice Cast: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Elizabeth Hanna, Roger Dunn, Tara Strong, Len Carlson, Susan Roman
Shout! Factory
Rated TV-PG | 2160 Minutes
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Though I know I should be wary,
Still I venture someplace scary;
Ghostly haunting I turn loose…
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!

Winner of the 1990 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, Beetlejuice: The Series was created by Executive producers Tim Burton and David Geffen and ran on ABC and FOX from 1989 to 1992.

Featuring music by Danny Elfman and the vocal talent of Tabitha St. Germain (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), Stephen Ouimette (X-Men: The Animated Series), and Alyson Court (Resident Evil), Beetlejuice: The Complete Series is now available as an Amazon exclusive DVD set from Shout! Factory that’s a must-have for fans of Burton’s Ghost with the Most.

The animated series focuses on teenage goth girl Lydia Deetz (Court) and everyone’s favorite poltergeist prankster Beetlejuice (Ouimette) as they explore The Neitherworld, a wacky realm inhabited by monsters, ghosts, ghouls, and the undead.

Beetlejuice: The Complete Series includes all 94 episodes from the shows’s 4-season run. That’s 2160 minutes of macabre mayhem; 36 hours of classic hand-drawn animation of sandworms (Ya hate ’em right? I HATE ‘EM MYSELF!). Beetlejuice: The Series led to other spooky kids’ cartoons like The Addams Family, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Smallville: The Complete Series DVD box set for only $114.99 (that’s 66% off the list price of $339.88).

The 62-disc box set contains 192 hours of material, which includes all 218 episodes of Smallville (10 seasons) and over 5 hours of brand new content, like a never-before-seen Superboy pilot shot in 1961, a look back at the series with over 100 minutes of material, a decade of Comic-Con featurette, DC’s Secret Origin documentary, and more.

The Wild Hunt
DVD
Directed by Alexandre Franchi
Starring Ricky Mabe, Kaniehtiio Horn, Mark Antony Krupa
MPI Home Video
Release Date: June 7, 2011

Erik (Ricky Mabe) lives in Quebec and doesn’t have much else going for him other than taking care of his ill father Magnus (Martin Stone) and spending time with his girlfriend Lyn (Tiio Horn). Unfortunately Lyn has decided that she wants more out of life and decides to leave Erik for the spiritual and physical freedom of a live-action medieval role playing village in the countryside where she’ll serve as the feminine arm candy of Murtagh (Trevor Hayes), whose role in the village is that of the shaman and leader of a tribe of rampaging maraduders. Erik seems content to let Lyn go for all time at first but soon finds himself traveling to the village to win back the heart of his lady love. But in order to walk among the other LARPers, Erik will have to reluctantly become one of them. He also encounters Bjorn (Mark Antony Krupa, who also co-wrote), his estranged brother who left Erik with the sole responsibility of caring for their father while he embraced his role of a lusty Viking warrior with a bottomless thirst for the thrill of battle.

Erik gets into the spirit of the village enough that he is able to infiltrate Murtagh’s camp and take Lyn back, but when she refuses to return with the shaman for the purposes of the forthcoming “Big Battle” in which every member of the village will play a part Murtagh gets incensed and creates tension among the ranks of the royalty, warriors, and serfs alike. From there it can only get worse, because Murtagh and his followers are about to kickstart “the Wild Hunt,” an orgy of senseless violence and rampant pillaging, only this hunt, inflamed by Murtagh’s jealousy and petty tyranny, is going down for real.