• Dark Sky Films has announced a pair of vintage chillers debuting April 28. The company passed on cover art and details for 1966’s THE SHE-BEAST and 1974’s THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS.
SHE-BEAST, the debut feature by writer/director Michael Reeves of THE CONQUEROR WORM/WITCHFINDER GENERAL, stars genre veterans Barbara Steele and Ian Ogilvy as newlyweds who get into a car accident while driving through a town in Transylvania. Their vehicle winds up submerged in a lake, and while the husband emerges as himself, his wife comes out possessed by the vengeful spirit of an 18th-century witch. The movie will be presented in a new 16x9-enhanced widescreen transfer from original vault materials, with audio commentary by Steele, Ogilvy and producer Paul Maslansky. John Peyser’s CENTERFOLD GIRLS, starring B-movie stalwart Andrew Prine as a madman “punishing” women who have posed for a men’s magazine, also gets a new uncut transfer from the original camera negative, accompanied by a retrospective featurette containing interviews with Prine, actresses Francine York and Jennifer Ashley and producer Arthur Marks. Retail price is $14.98 each.
• Joe Zaso’s Cinema Image Productions has begun taking pre-orders for its DVD of Timo Rose’s BEAST, which ships March 6 (and will also be available beginning that day at Fango’s Chicago Weekend of Horrors convention). The limited-edition release of the movie, starring Zaso as a man who returns to his family (Raine Brown and Eileen Daly) while suffering a lycanthropic curse, includes a widescreen transfer, plus the following extras:
• Audio commentary by Zaso and Brown
• 30-minute making-of documentary
• Still gallery
And more. Retail price is $14.95 plus postage; the DVD covers will be signed by Brown and Zaso, and pre-orders will include an autographed photo of the two as well. See Fango #281, on sale in February, for a Notes from the Underground piece by Zaso and Brown about their experiences on BEAST et al.
• Tempe Video has announced that it is handling distribution for X Posse Productions’ RISE OF THE SCARECROWS, streeting May 5. The latest flick from EVIL AWAKENING’s Geno McGahee, it’s about a cop who moves from the city to a small town, just in time to run smack into the middle of a series of murders committed by what appear to be living straw men. The fullscreen transfer will be supplemented with a commentary by McGahee; retail price is $19.99.
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