Schlock-Wire: Shout Factory To Reissue 80’s Hospital Horrors BAD DREAMS And VISITING HOURS In September
1980’s horror fans take note: Shout Factory will be unearthing a pair of horror films from this era as part of their 20th Century Fox DVD reissue campaign. The two films are Bad Dreams and Visiting Hours. Both films will boast anamorphic transfers and trailers plus some brand-new extras for Bad Dreams. Even better, it’s a 2-DVD set that retails for a value-conscious $14.97, allowing horror fans to get two discs for the price of one catalog title. Read on for all the medical massacre details…
BAD DREAMS
Starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch,
Dean Cameron and Harris Yulin
&
VISITING HOURS
Starring Lee Grant, William Shatner, Michael Ironside and Linda Purl
OWN THIS KILLER DOUBLE-FEATURE 2-DVD SET
ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY
BAD DREAMS
In the mid-1970s the members of the love cult Unity Fields sought “the ultimate joining” by dousing themselves with gasoline and committing mass suicide. A young girl blown clear of the fiery explosion was the only survivor. Thirteen years later, Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin, Screamers) awakens from a coma inside a psychiatric hospital with only buried memories of that horrific day — but now her fellow patients are each being driven to their own violent suicides. Has the sect’s leader (Richard Lynch, Deathsport) returned to claim his final child? Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator) co-stars in the intense shocker Bad Dreams from director Andrew Fleming (The Craft) and producer Gale Anne Hurd (Punisher: War Zone, The Incredible Hulk).
Feature Running Time: +/- 80 min.
Special DVD Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1:78:1)
New Dolby Digital 5.1 Soundtrack
Commentary with writer/director Andrew Fleming
Interviews with actors Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch and Dean Cameron
The Special Effects of Bad Dreams
Behind The Scenes of Bad Dreams’ Original Ending
Theatrical Trailer
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX presents A NO FRILLS FILM Production
An ANDREW FLEMING Production
BAD DREAMS
JENNIFER RUBIN BRUCE ABBOTT RICHARD LYNCH DEAN CAMERON and HARRIS YULIN
Music by JAY FERGUSON – Director of Photography ALEXANDER GRUSZYNSKI
Screenplay by ANDREW FLEMING and STEVEN E. de SOUZA
Story by ANDREW FLEMING & MICHAEL DICK & P.J. PETTIETTE & YURI ZELTSER
Produced by GALE ANNE HURD – Directed by ANDREW FLEMING
Presented in association with American Entertainment Partners II L.P.
Color by Deluxe®
VISITING HOURS
Academy Award®–winner Lee Grant (Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for Shampoo) stars as outspoken TV journalist Deborah Ballin, whose crusade against domestic violence enrages a creepy loner (a truly disturbing performance by Michael Ironside, Scanners) in Visiting Hours. He brutally attacks the anchorwoman in her home, but Ballin survives and is hospitalized. Her assailant is enraged; he is haunted by a horrific childhood trauma . . . and now he has hidden himself inside the hospital to finish what he started. Can anybody — including her concerned boss (William Shatner), a frantic nurse (Linda Purl, Happy Days) or Deborah herself — stop the psycho’s killing spree before it reaches sick new extremes?
Feature Running Time: +/- 103 min
Special DVD Features
Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer (1.78.1)
Theatrical trailer, radio and TV spots
PIERRE DAVID and VICTOR SOLNICKI present
VISITING HOURS
Starring LEE GRANT WILLIAM SHATNER MICHAEL IRONSIDE and LINDA PURL
Screenplay by BRIAN TAGGERT – Directed by JEAN CLAUDE LORD
Produced by CLAUDE HEROUX Executive Producers PIERRE DAVID and VICTOR SOLNICKI
Music by JONATHAN GOLDSMITH – A FILMPLAN INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION
Produced with the participation of the Canadian Film Development Corporation
BAD DREAMS/ VISITING HOURS Killer Double Feature 2-DVD Set : $14.97 SRP
