Arrow Video Releasing Scalpel?

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

So says Cinema Arcana.

I'm going to assume it's this one, since it's from the man who made Blood Rage.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074510/

[John Lyons Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close John Lyons]

Yes, that's the one are they are releasing it.

[Marshall Crist Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Marshall Crist]

I seem to remember liking this.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

I picked up the vhs for fifty cents many years ago when a store was shutting down. Slapped it onto a dvd-r and watch it once every 18 months or so. Be tempted to pick it up if it gets released.

[Mike DiRoma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mike DiRoma]

What happened to Judith Chapman?

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

HE LOST THE FACE OF THE WOMAN HE LOVED… SO HE GAVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE.



US television staple Robert Lansing (Star Trek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone) stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty-turny psychological thriller from Blood Rage director John Grissmer.

In Scalpel, Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman, As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees his an opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use - hatching a plan to “reconstruct” her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance.

Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of Erin Brockovich and The Virgin Suicides, Scalpel is an exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic, filled finally rescued from VHS obscurity in this revelatory new Blu-ray edition from Arrow Video.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements
• 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 film historian Richard Harland Smith
• Brand new crew interviews
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet with new writing on the film by Bill Ackerman

Director: John Grissmer
Cast: Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder

RRP: £24.99
Region: B
Rating: 15
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Duration: 95 mins
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Mono
Colour
Discs: 1

UK Cat No: FCD1696
UK Barcode: 5027035018652

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

Street date pushed back to 2/27/18.

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

bought this during the last arrow sale and had more fun with it than I thought I would. this is by no means scary or horror, more like a messed up soap opera with lunatic characters. lansing and that cross-eyed chick were really hamming it up. that drug-induced dream sequence near the end was almost nicolas cage batshit level.