The Criterion Collection‘s October line-up is stacked with genre heavy hitters: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Eyes Without a Face, The Shrouds, A History of Violence, Altered States, Deep Crimson, and Nightmare Alley.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 7.
Serving a prequel to “Twin Peaks,” the 1992 psychological horror film is directed by David Lynch from a script he co-wrote with Robert Engels.
Director-approved special features:
- 4K digital restoration, with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised by director David Lynch
- Alternate original 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- The Missing Pieces, ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from the film, assembled by Lynch
- Interview by Lynch with actors Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and Grace Zabriskie
- Interviews with Lee and composer Angelo Badalamenti
- Trailers
- Booklet with excerpts from an interview with Lynch from Lynch on Lynch, a 1997 book edited by filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley
Laura Palmer’s harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks’ neighboring town.
Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise, and Kyle MacLachlan star.
Fred Davis designed the cover art.
Eyes Without a Face will be released on 4K Utlra HD + Blu-ray on October 14.
The 1960 French horror film directed by Georges Franju and written by Jean Redon, Claude Sautet, Pierre Gascar, and Thomas Narcejac, based on Redon’s 1959 novel.
Special features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
- Archival interviews with Franju on the horror genre, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
- Interview with actor Edith Scob
- Excerpts from Les grand-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
- Trailers
- Booklet with essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat
A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, François Guérin, and Édith Scob star.
Aesthetic Apparatus designed the cover art.
The Shrouds will be released on Blu-ray on October 21.
Debuting under the Criterion Premieres banner, the 2024 body horror drama is written and directed by David Cronenberg.
Special features:
- Meet the Filmmakers: David Cronenberg, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Booklet with notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt star.
A History of Violence will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 21
The 2005 action thriller film is directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson, based on the 1997 graphic novel of the same name by John Wagner and Vince Locke.
Director-approved special features:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Cronenberg
- New interview with screenwriter Josh Olson, conducted by writer-producer Tom Bernardo
- Excerpts of Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen in conversation at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival
- Acts of Violence, a documentary on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage
- Three featurettes
- Deleted scene with commentary by Cronenberg
- Trailer
- Booklet with an essay by critic Nathan Lee
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, and William Hurt star.
Connor Willumsen designed the cover art.
Altered States will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 21.
The 1980 sci-fi horror film is directed by Ken Russell and written by Paddy Chayefsky, based on his 1978 novel of the same name.
Special features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan
- Archival interviews with director Ken Russell and actor William Hurt
- New interview with special-visual-effects designer Bran Ferren
- Trailer
- Booklet with an essay by film critic Jessica Kiang
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, and Charles Haid star.
Richey Beckett designed the cover art.
Deep Crimson will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 28.
Inspired by the true story of the “Lonely Hearts Killers” Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the 1996 Mexican crime thriller is directed by Arturo Ripstein and written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego.
Director-approved special features:
- New 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by director Arturo Ripstein, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New interviews with Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Panel discussion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences featuring Ripstein and Garciadiego, hosted by film scholar Cristina Venegas
- Trailer
- Booklet with an essay by film scholar Haden Guest
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho star.
Owen Smith designed the cover art.
Nightmare Alley will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 28.
The 2021 neo noir thriller is directed by Guillermo del Toro from a script he wrote with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel.
In addition to the 150-minute theatrical version, it includes Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, the 159-minute extended director’s cut presented in black and white.
Director-approved special features:
- 4K digital master of Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, a new black-and-white extended director’s cut, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- 4K digital master of the theatrical version of the film, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
- Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
- New audio commentary on the extended director’s cut featuring del Toro
- New documentary on the film’s performances, visual language, costume and production design, and score
- New conversation between del Toro and actor and producer Bradley Cooper
- New conversation between del Toro and coscreenwriter Kim Morgan
- Trailers
- Booklet with an essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman
Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn star.
Thomas Ott designed the cover art.
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