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David, a middle-aged man stands outside an old English country house with his wife Rosemary and daughter Judy. Rosemary wears a fur coat. It is night time and the weather is very windy with occasional lightning and thunder.
David looks hesistant as he approaches. Rosemary looks very concerned.
It looked like a safe haven from the raging storm.
The outside of the house. There is one light on.
They sit at a table as an old woman, Hilary, removes their plates.
It's an odd kind of place. Where'd you folks get it from? Boris Karloff?
An old man, Gabriel, looks at him silently and sucks on a pipe.
Their hosts seemed like the essence of hospitality.
You can stay here as long as you like.
Hilary, the old woman continues to clear up the table.
Rosemary replies sarcastically "Wonderful!"
But appearances can be very deceiving.
A small dark figure with bright eyes appears and gives Judy a fright. She runs into her dad who falls back and knocks over a pile of cardboard boxes.
Gabriel crouches down to talk to Judy.
What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?
Judy approaches a friendly man carrying bags called Ralph in a corridor.
- Ralph, are you scared? - Well of course not, what's there to be afraid of? - This house. - Oh, don't be...
Lighting strikes which gives Ralph a shock.
Gabriel leans forward.
You like toys?
A young woman screams and falls to the floor. She continues to scream as she is dragged along by her feet.
Hilary stands beside Gabriel.
I'm a doll maker.
Another young woman holds a candle as she struggles to get away from something.
It is a scary looking doll with sharp teeth making a high pitched sound.
Hilary stands beside Gabriel.
I make the most wonderful toys.
Rosemary pulls back her bed covers to see lots of dolls spring to life. She cries out.
Gabriel continues.
Dolls, puppets, soliders, ballerinas.
A toy solder drops it's arms.
A line of toy soldier holding guns all fire at once shooting a young woman through the chest.
Gabriel continues.
Nobody wants a doll that's special any more.
A huge teddy bear growls as it walks menancingly towards David and Rosemary outside.
The bear growls and we can see real animal teeth.
It hits David with the back of it's claw which leaves his face with bloodied marks.
Back at the dinner table.
The weather brings out creativity. It helps me in my work.
Rosemary pulls a face after eating soup.
What kind of work is that? Witchcraft?
Gabriel and Hilary share a look then start to laugh.
A young woman screams as she is dragged face first into a skirting board. Her mouth bleeds heavily and leaves blood on the wall.
A woman holds a lighter up to a cowboy dolls that giggles manically.
A doll hits a woman in the head with a hammer. The woman falls to the floor.
A doll with sharp teeth bites someone.
A blackened doll with a skull face shakes on the floor.
The woman continues to be hit against the skirting board.
Rosemary is tied up against a wall and struggles as two puppets try to cut off her foot with a coping saw.
A doll with a very strange face.
The woman struggles with a lighter as various dolls gather around her.
We see another doll with a strange face.
Three dolls gather around.
A woman is thrown from a room into a corridor where she slides along a carpet.
The woman with the bloodied face tries to lift a finger.
The woman who was shot turns around and screams.
A doll shakes.
The bloodied woman reaches out for help as she is dragged away.
Rosemary jumps out of a window at night, smashing through the glass.
Hilary and Gabriel stand over Ralph who sits up with a jolt and screams.
They're killer dolls!
Hilary has a malevolent smile as lightning lights up her face.
Pleasant dreams!
The young woman has a doll's face covering her own. She leans forward and her eyes falls out. She feels around on the floor for them and we see there are black holes in her face where they should be. She holds them up next to her face.
Dolls. You're never too old to play with dolls until you're dead!
A caption reads: Dolls
Arrow Video
Remember the shelves of your local video store? Those days aren’t gone! Reject reality and substitute your own with Arrow Video! In 1983, entrepreneurial producer and director Charles Band founded Empire International Pictures, which would go on to make some of the most memorable and beloved genre movies of the 1980s. Empire became a mainstay of video stores across the world with their catchy titles, outlandish art and Band’s wholehearted belief in giving audiences a good time.
In The Dungeonmaster (AKA Ragewar), computer programmer Paul Bradford is sucked into a fantasy world by Mestema, a demonic sorcerer in search of a worthy opponent. Meanwhile, fresh from the one-two punch of Re-Animator and From Beyond, director Stuart Gordon takes a turn toward fairytale gothic in Dolls, in which a group of strangers find themselves forced to seek shelter at the isolated home of an old toymaker and his wife, only to find that the puppets and dolls have a vicious life of their own. In Cellar Dweller, a comic book artist (Jeffrey Combs) with a penchant for the macabre takes inspiration from an ancient tome and unleashes an ancient evil. Arena presents the ultimate fight night event: man vs monster! In the far future of 4038, a short order cook becomes the first human in fifty years to compete in an intergalactic boxing event on the far side of the universe. Finally in Robot Jox, Stuart Gordon directs Empire Pictures' most ambitious movie yet, as men and women pilot giant machines in gladiatorial battle to settle international disputes over territory.
Freshly restored for the digital era with a wealth of new and archival extras, these films have never looked better. No need for a time machine, these golden age video classics will send you back to the 80s!
Product Features
- High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentations of all five films
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
- Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
- Double sided posters for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
- 15 postcard-sized reproduction artcards
- Arrow Video store “membership card”
- 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing on the films by Lee Gambin, Dave Jay, Megan Navarro, and John Harrison plus select archival material
DISC ONE - THE DUNGEONMASTER
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original negative
- Three different versions of the film via seamless branching: the US theatrical version (The Dungeonmaster), the pre-release version and the international version (Ragewar)
- Original lossless mono audio
- New audio commentary with star Jeffrey Byron, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, a new interview with star Jeffrey Byron
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC TWO - DOLLS
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original interpositive
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary by David Decoteau, Empire alumnus and friend of Stuart Gordon
- Archive audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and writer Ed Naha
- Archive audio commentary with cast members Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Stephen Lee, Carrie Lorraine, and Ian Patrick Williams
- Assembling Dolls, a new interview with Lee Percy, editor of Dolls, Re-Animator and From Beyond
- Toys of Terror: The Making of Dolls, an archive featurette with Gordon, Yuzna, Purdy-Gordon, Williams, Brian Yuzna, Charles Band and Gabe Bartalos
- Film-to-storyboard comparison
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC THREE - CELLAR DWELLER
- Additional picture restoration by Arrow Films
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary by special make-up effects artist Michael Deak who inhabited the Cellar Dweller creature suit, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Grabbed by the Ghoulies, a new appreciation of John Carl Buechler, special make-up effects artist of many Empire Pictures films and director of Cellar Dweller, by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Inside the Cellar, a new interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
- Original sales sheet
- Original production notes
- VHS trailer
- Empire Pictures trailer reel
- Image galleries, including behind the scenes photos courtesy of special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
DISC FOUR - ARENA
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the last known surviving 35mm elements
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary with director Peter Manoogian, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Alternative fullframe presentation
- Not His Arena, a new interview with co-screenwriter Danny Bilson
- Empire of Creatures, a new interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC FIVE - ROBOT JOX
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original negative
- Original lossless stereo audio
- Archive audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon
- Archive audio commentary with associate effects director Paul Gentry, mechanical effects artist Mark Rappaport, and stop-motion animator Paul Jessell
- Crash and Burn, a new interview with actor Gary Graham
- Her Name is Athena, a new Interview with actor Anne-Marie Johnson
- The Scale of Battle: David Allen and the FX of Robot Jox, a new appreciation of stop motion animator David Allen by those who knew him, featuring contributions from fellow visual effects artists Steve Burg, Yancy Calzeda, Paul Gentry, Kevin Kutchaver, Dennis Muren and John Vincent
- Looking Back, an archival interview with actor Paul Koslo
- Original sales sheet
- Original production notes
- Theatrical trailer
- Image galleries, including behind the scenes stills courtesy of associate effects director Paul Gentry
- Arrow Video
- 427 mins approx
- Peter Manoogian
- John Carl Buechler
- Stuart Gordon
- David Allen
- Charles Band
- 18
- Paul Satterfield
- Claudia Christian
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Debrah Farentino
- Ian Patrick Williams
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
- Jeffrey Byron
- Leslie Wing
- Gary Graham
- Anne-Marie Johnson
- English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1984
- English
- 5
- B
- Arrow Video
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Come on, let's get going!
David, a middle-aged man stands outside an old English country house with his wife Rosemary and daughter Judy. Rosemary wears a fur coat. It is night time and the weather is very windy with occasional lightning and thunder.
David looks hesistant as he approaches. Rosemary looks very concerned.
It looked like a safe haven from the raging storm.
The outside of the house. There is one light on.
They sit at a table as an old woman, Hilary, removes their plates.
It's an odd kind of place. Where'd you folks get it from? Boris Karloff?
An old man, Gabriel, looks at him silently and sucks on a pipe.
Their hosts seemed like the essence of hospitality.
You can stay here as long as you like.
Hilary, the old woman continues to clear up the table.
Rosemary replies sarcastically "Wonderful!"
But appearances can be very deceiving.
A small dark figure with bright eyes appears and gives Judy a fright. She runs into her dad who falls back and knocks over a pile of cardboard boxes.
Gabriel crouches down to talk to Judy.
What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?
Judy approaches a friendly man carrying bags called Ralph in a corridor.
- Ralph, are you scared? - Well of course not, what's there to be afraid of? - This house. - Oh, don't be...
Lighting strikes which gives Ralph a shock.
Gabriel leans forward.
You like toys?
A young woman screams and falls to the floor. She continues to scream as she is dragged along by her feet.
Hilary stands beside Gabriel.
I'm a doll maker.
Another young woman holds a candle as she struggles to get away from something.
It is a scary looking doll with sharp teeth making a high pitched sound.
Hilary stands beside Gabriel.
I make the most wonderful toys.
Rosemary pulls back her bed covers to see lots of dolls spring to life. She cries out.
Gabriel continues.
Dolls, puppets, soliders, ballerinas.
A toy solder drops it's arms.
A line of toy soldier holding guns all fire at once shooting a young woman through the chest.
Gabriel continues.
Nobody wants a doll that's special any more.
A huge teddy bear growls as it walks menancingly towards David and Rosemary outside.
The bear growls and we can see real animal teeth.
It hits David with the back of it's claw which leaves his face with bloodied marks.
Back at the dinner table.
The weather brings out creativity. It helps me in my work.
Rosemary pulls a face after eating soup.
What kind of work is that? Witchcraft?
Gabriel and Hilary share a look then start to laugh.
A young woman screams as she is dragged face first into a skirting board. Her mouth bleeds heavily and leaves blood on the wall.
A woman holds a lighter up to a cowboy dolls that giggles manically.
A doll hits a woman in the head with a hammer. The woman falls to the floor.
A doll with sharp teeth bites someone.
A blackened doll with a skull face shakes on the floor.
The woman continues to be hit against the skirting board.
Rosemary is tied up against a wall and struggles as two puppets try to cut off her foot with a coping saw.
A doll with a very strange face.
The woman struggles with a lighter as various dolls gather around her.
We see another doll with a strange face.
Three dolls gather around.
A woman is thrown from a room into a corridor where she slides along a carpet.
The woman with the bloodied face tries to lift a finger.
The woman who was shot turns around and screams.
A doll shakes.
The bloodied woman reaches out for help as she is dragged away.
Rosemary jumps out of a window at night, smashing through the glass.
Hilary and Gabriel stand over Ralph who sits up with a jolt and screams.
They're killer dolls!
Hilary has a malevolent smile as lightning lights up her face.
Pleasant dreams!
The young woman has a doll's face covering her own. She leans forward and her eyes falls out. She feels around on the floor for them and we see there are black holes in her face where they should be. She holds them up next to her face.
Dolls. You're never too old to play with dolls until you're dead!
A caption reads: Dolls
Arrow Video
Remember the shelves of your local video store? Those days aren’t gone! Reject reality and substitute your own with Arrow Video! In 1983, entrepreneurial producer and director Charles Band founded Empire International Pictures, which would go on to make some of the most memorable and beloved genre movies of the 1980s. Empire became a mainstay of video stores across the world with their catchy titles, outlandish art and Band’s wholehearted belief in giving audiences a good time.
In The Dungeonmaster (AKA Ragewar), computer programmer Paul Bradford is sucked into a fantasy world by Mestema, a demonic sorcerer in search of a worthy opponent. Meanwhile, fresh from the one-two punch of Re-Animator and From Beyond, director Stuart Gordon takes a turn toward fairytale gothic in Dolls, in which a group of strangers find themselves forced to seek shelter at the isolated home of an old toymaker and his wife, only to find that the puppets and dolls have a vicious life of their own. In Cellar Dweller, a comic book artist (Jeffrey Combs) with a penchant for the macabre takes inspiration from an ancient tome and unleashes an ancient evil. Arena presents the ultimate fight night event: man vs monster! In the far future of 4038, a short order cook becomes the first human in fifty years to compete in an intergalactic boxing event on the far side of the universe. Finally in Robot Jox, Stuart Gordon directs Empire Pictures' most ambitious movie yet, as men and women pilot giant machines in gladiatorial battle to settle international disputes over territory.
Freshly restored for the digital era with a wealth of new and archival extras, these films have never looked better. No need for a time machine, these golden age video classics will send you back to the 80s!
Product Features
- High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentations of all five films
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
- Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
- Double sided posters for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
- 15 postcard-sized reproduction artcards
- Arrow Video store “membership card”
- 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing on the films by Lee Gambin, Dave Jay, Megan Navarro, and John Harrison plus select archival material
DISC ONE - THE DUNGEONMASTER
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original negative
- Three different versions of the film via seamless branching: the US theatrical version (The Dungeonmaster), the pre-release version and the international version (Ragewar)
- Original lossless mono audio
- New audio commentary with star Jeffrey Byron, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, a new interview with star Jeffrey Byron
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC TWO - DOLLS
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original interpositive
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary by David Decoteau, Empire alumnus and friend of Stuart Gordon
- Archive audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and writer Ed Naha
- Archive audio commentary with cast members Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Stephen Lee, Carrie Lorraine, and Ian Patrick Williams
- Assembling Dolls, a new interview with Lee Percy, editor of Dolls, Re-Animator and From Beyond
- Toys of Terror: The Making of Dolls, an archive featurette with Gordon, Yuzna, Purdy-Gordon, Williams, Brian Yuzna, Charles Band and Gabe Bartalos
- Film-to-storyboard comparison
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC THREE - CELLAR DWELLER
- Additional picture restoration by Arrow Films
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary by special make-up effects artist Michael Deak who inhabited the Cellar Dweller creature suit, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Grabbed by the Ghoulies, a new appreciation of John Carl Buechler, special make-up effects artist of many Empire Pictures films and director of Cellar Dweller, by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Inside the Cellar, a new interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
- Original sales sheet
- Original production notes
- VHS trailer
- Empire Pictures trailer reel
- Image galleries, including behind the scenes photos courtesy of special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
DISC FOUR - ARENA
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the last known surviving 35mm elements
- Original lossless stereo audio
- New audio commentary with director Peter Manoogian, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain
- Alternative fullframe presentation
- Not His Arena, a new interview with co-screenwriter Danny Bilson
- Empire of Creatures, a new interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC FIVE - ROBOT JOX
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original negative
- Original lossless stereo audio
- Archive audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon
- Archive audio commentary with associate effects director Paul Gentry, mechanical effects artist Mark Rappaport, and stop-motion animator Paul Jessell
- Crash and Burn, a new interview with actor Gary Graham
- Her Name is Athena, a new Interview with actor Anne-Marie Johnson
- The Scale of Battle: David Allen and the FX of Robot Jox, a new appreciation of stop motion animator David Allen by those who knew him, featuring contributions from fellow visual effects artists Steve Burg, Yancy Calzeda, Paul Gentry, Kevin Kutchaver, Dennis Muren and John Vincent
- Looking Back, an archival interview with actor Paul Koslo
- Original sales sheet
- Original production notes
- Theatrical trailer
- Image galleries, including behind the scenes stills courtesy of associate effects director Paul Gentry
- Arrow Video
- 427 mins approx
- Peter Manoogian
- John Carl Buechler
- Stuart Gordon
- David Allen
- Charles Band
- 18
- Paul Satterfield
- Claudia Christian
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Debrah Farentino
- Ian Patrick Williams
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
- Jeffrey Byron
- Leslie Wing
- Gary Graham
- Anne-Marie Johnson
- English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1984
- English
- 5
- B
- Arrow Video
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