Subkultur Releasing Switchblade Sisters On Blu-ray

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Coming in Feb....

Bonusmaterial:
- Audiokommentar von Jack Hill und Quentin Tarantino
- Audiokommentar von Marcus Stiglegger und Kai Naumann
- Bildergalerie
- US Trailer: THE JEZEBELS
- US Trailer: SWITCHBLADE SISTERS
- Brandneue Making-of-Dokumentation: "We are the Jezebels!"
- Archivinterview mit Jack Hill, Robbie Lee und Joanne Nail
- Jack Hill und Joanne Nail beim Grindhouse Film Festival
- Featurette: "On location with Jack Hill and Elijah Drenner"
- Grindhouse Trailershow
- Booklet

[Jobla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jobla]

Good to know. That release was originally expected in July of this year.

The vintage interview with Jack Hill talking with Robbie Lee and Joanne Nail dates back to the early-mid 1990's, when Jack Hill and Johnny Legend were releasing Hill's films on VHS. That filmed conversation only appeared on the Hill/Legend videocassette.

I assume that the Hill/Tarantino audio commentary was licensed from the Criterion laserdisc, but I don't know for certain.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Coming from Arrow soon.

https://arrowfilms.com/product-detai...lu-ray/FCD2057



THE WILDEST GIRL GANG THAT EVER BLASTED THE STREETS!

From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!

Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner city girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighbourhood. Mistrust and conflict turn to friendship as the girls end up in Juvenile Detention together at the mercy of abusive guards. Meanwhile, The Dagger Debs' male counterparts The Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart). But when the girls get back on the streets, a planned retaliation strike in tandem with The Silver Daggers backfires and puts Lace in hospital. Maggie assumes control, teaming up with Muff (Marlene Clark) and her gang of African-American militants from across town to declare all out war. But there's a traitor in their midst...

Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humour, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang/women in prison/action movie medley is a stone cold grindhouse classic!

Production Year: 1975
Region Code: B
Running Time: 98 mins
Number of Discs: 1
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Audio: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Colour: Colour

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
-Original uncompressed mono audio
-Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-Brand new audio commentary by historians/critics Samm Deighan & Kat Ellinger
-We Are The Jezebels, an archival documentary featuring director Jack Hill, producer John Prizer, casting director Geno Havans, production designer B.B. Neel, stunt coordinator Bob Minor, and stars Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner, and Chase Newhart
-Gangland: The locations of Switchblade Sisters, an archival documentary in which Jack Hill and filmmaker Elijah Drenner revisit the shooting locations of Switchblade Sisters
-Jack Hill and Joanne Nail at the Grindhouse Film Festival, a 2007 archival interview with the director and actor
-Interview with Jack Hill, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, an archival 1990's interview with the director and stars in conversation with Johnny Legend
-Galleries of behind the scenes stills, international posters, video covers, and lobby cards
-Theatrical trailers
-Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Heather Drain

[BW Haggar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BW Haggar]

Great news! Instant pre-order from me (my first from Arrow for a good long while).

[Epic Bisto Member Find all posts View Profile Close Epic Bisto]

Plenty of new extras and a Deighan/Ellinger commentary? Bring it on! I can finally dump the DVD with that toe-loving banana-chin gobshite spraying his scent all over the bonus features.

[killer must kill again Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close killer must kill again]

so arrow finally releasing this 5 years later (same transfer, same extras) and dropping the tarantino commentary? nope thanks, I'll keep my german release with the better cover.

[Jobla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jobla]

Almost all of the extras appear on the German Subkultur release, other than adding the new audio commentary and dropping two other ones (the one with Hill and QT, and another one in German audio). I'd be tempted to buy the Arrow if it was a region 1 release, since I'm in the US. The Subkultur Blu-ray plays in region 1.

This will be a very hard pass for me, as I've loved the film ever since seeing it first-run in a San Francisco grindhouse theater back in 1976.

However, if I read reviews that the image quality of the Arrow is somehow superior to the Subkultur, then I'll have to think again.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

Jobla, the Arrow is getting released in the US. (I'm assuming that Miramax's rights have finally expired.)

[Jobla Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jobla]

Thanks for the correction, I will probably get the Arrow in that case.

When I was in San Francisco in 1976, my buddy and I had our choice of two options, either SWITCHBLADE SISTERS and THE ARENA, or SNUFF and NECROMANIA (yep, the Ed Wood flick, although I had no knowledge of NECROMANIA back then). My buddy was afraid that SNUFF was real, so we opted for SWITCHBLADE SISTERS.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Jack Hill's masterpiece, finally.

[Terry C Tiger Fists Find all posts View Profile Close Terry C]

A must buy. Arrow is really killing it for April, and my wallet.

[bgart13 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bgart13]

Man, Arrow should be releasing this as a UHD, not that DONNIE DARKO bullsh!t.