Slaughter High & The Funhouse Special Editions

Arrow Films have become Britain’s equivalent to Blue Underground, having released must-have special editions of many Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci movies, as well as such classics as Dawn of the Dead and Bay of Blood. Two of their latest titles announced are cult slashers that until now have received poor treatments on DVD and Blu-ray.

Slaughter High, produced in the UK in 1984 under the title April Fool’s Day, was previously released by Lionsgate with a poor selection of special features (an irrelevant trivia track), whilst Tobe Hooper’s underrated 1981 thriller The Funhouse, which was simultaneously adapted by acclaimed horror author Dean Koontz, received a vanilla release several years ago.

Slaughter High will be released on DVD on July 10th and The Funhouse will make its Blu-ray debut on July 18th.

The special features included with both films are as follows:

Slaughter High:

– Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
– Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
– Collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by author Troy Howarth
– Available on DVD for the first time in the UK!
– Introduction by co-writer/ co-director Mark Ezra
– Jesters and Jolts: Interview with co-writer/co-director Mark Ezra
– Lamb to the Slaughter: The Scream Queen Career of Caroline Munro
– Audio Commentary with star Caroline Munro, DVD World editor Allan Bryce and author and critic Calum Waddell
– Audio Commentary with co-writer/co-director Mark Ezra moderated by Teenage Wasteland author J. A. Kerswell

The Funhouse:

– 4 panel reversible sleeve options with original and newly commissioned artwork
– Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
– Collector’s booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by critic and author Kim Newman.
– Audio commentary with The Funhouse S/FX wizard Craig Reardon and Jeffrey Reddick (creator of The Final Destination series)
– Audio commentary with producer Derek Power and genre scholar Howard S. Berger
– Audio commentary with Justin Kerswell, author of ‘Teenage Wasteland’ and host of the slasher cinema website Hysteria Lives, and author Calum Waddell
– Stuck in the Funhouse with director Tobe Hooper
– Carnage at the Carnival: Tobe Hooper Remembers ‘The Funhouse’
– Miles of Mayhem: Acting in Tobe’s Funhouse with star Miles Chapin
– A Trilogy of Terror: The Make-up Madness of Craig Reardon, the S/FX wizard recollects his collaborations with Tobe Hooper; ‘Eaten Alive’, ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘The Funhouse’
– Master Class of Horror: Mick Garris, the director of Sleepwalkers and The Shining reflects on the crimson-covered career of his longtime colleague Tobe Hooper
– Live Q&A with Tobe Hooper from San Francisco
– Never before seen behind the scenes photographs from the collection of Craig Reardon

For more information visit Arrow Films.