Our selection of the best upcoming releases for February
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 LIMITED EDITION
Release Date: 17/02/2025
Label: Arrow Video
Run Time: 101 mins approx
Certificate: 18
Region: A,B,C
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English SDH
Audio: LPCM 2.0
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 2160p / 1.85:1
Special Features
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
Limited edition packaging featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady and Dare Creative
Booklet featuring new writing by Johnny Mains, Anna Bogutskaya, Guy Adams and Neil Mitchell
Double-sided fold-out poster
Texas Battle Land theme park postcard
Chili cook-off recipe card
Three double-sided collector’s postcards
DISC 1 (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) – THE FILM
Commentary with director Tobe Hooper
Commentary with stars Bill Moseley, Caroline Williams and special effects legend Tom Savini
Commentary with cinematographer Richard Kooris, production designer Cary White, script supervisor Laura Kooris and property master Michael Sullivan
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY) – BONUS FEATURES
Are We Not Both the Living Dead?, new visual essay by Scout Tafoya
You’ve Got Good Taste: Cannibal Camp and Perverse Parody, new visual essay by Miranda Corcoran
Stretch Lives!, interview with Caroline Williams
Serving Tom, interview with makeup effects artist Gabe Bartalos
Texas Blood Bath, interview with makeup effects artist Barton Mixon
Remember the Alamo, interview with actor Kirk Sisco
Die Yuppie Scum, interview with actor Barry Kinyon
Extended interviews with Tobe Hooper and co-producer Cynthia Hargrave, from Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
It Runs in the Family, (plus outtakes!) on the film’s genesis, making and enduring appeal
House of Pain, interview with makeup effects artists Mixon, Bartalos, Gino Crognale and John Vulich
Yuppie Meat, interview with actors Chris Douridas and Barry Kinyon
Cutting Moments, interview with editor Alain Jakubowicz
Behind the Mask and Cutting Moments with Bob Elmore, two interviews with Leatherface’s performer
Horror’s Hallowed Grounds, featurette exploring the film’s locations
Still Feelin’ the Buzz, interview with horror expert Stephen Thrower
Behind-the-scenes
Alternate opening credits
Deleted scenes
Trailers and TV spots
Still gallery
LIFEFORCE LIMITED EDITION 4K ULTRA HD
Release Date: 17/02/2025
Label: Arrow Video
Run Time: 116 / 101 mins approx
Certificate:18
Region: A,B,C
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English SDH
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 2160p / 2.35:1
Special Features
4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dan Mumford
Collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Frank Collins
DISC ONE – INTERNATIONAL CUT
Audio commentary by director Tobe Hooper, moderated by filmmaker Tim Sullivan
Audio commentary by visual effects artist Douglas Smith, moderated by filmmaker and scholar Howard S. Berger
Audio commentary with make-up effects artist Nick Maley, moderated by filmmaker Michael Felsher
Isolated music and effects track
Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce, an epic look at the genesis, production and release of the film, featuring interviews with Hooper, associate producer Michael J. Kagan, editor John Grover, actors Aubrey Morris and Nicholas Ball, make-up artist Sandra Exelby, screenwriter Michael Armstrong, sound designer Vernon Messenger, art designers Tom Adams and Roger Stewart, and effects artist John Schoonraad
Space Vampires in London, an archive interview with Tobe Hooper
Dangerous Beauty, an archive interview with Mathilda May
Carlsen’s Curse, an archive interview with Steve Railsback
Textless opening sequence
Theatrical trailers
DISC TWO – THEATRICAL CUT
Isolated music and effects track
Interview outtakes from Mark Hartley’s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, featuring Hooper, Armstrong, Grover and Messenger
Split screen comparison with TV version
Heretic 4K Ultra HD
Release Date: 24/02/2025
Label: Universal
Run Time: 111
Certificate: 15
Region: A,B,C
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English
Audio: Dolby Atmos
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 2160p / 2.39:1
Special Features
Commentary with directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Street Trash - Double Pack [2024 and 1987]
Release Date: 17/02/2025
Label: Lightbulb Film Distribution
Run Time: 316
Certificate:18
Region: B
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English
Audio:
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 1080p / 1.85:1
Special Features
STREET TRASH 2024
Director’s Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Behind The Scenes – EPK
Music Video
STREET TRASH 1987
Deleted Scenes
’87 Short
Red Dawn Limited 4K Ultra HD & Blu-Ray Steelbook
Release Date: 03/02/2025
Label: Altitude
Run Time: 114
Certificate:15
Region: A,B,C
Language(s): English
Subtitles:English, German
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 2160p / 1.85:1
Special Features
Original Theatrical Trailer
US Teaser
German Trailer
Red Dawn Rising: Making-of
Training for WWIII
Building the Red Menace
WWIII Comes to Town
Cronos 4K Ultra HD
Release Date: 24/02/2025
Label: BFI
Run Time: 92
Certificate:15
Region: A,B,C
Language(s): Spanish
Subtitles: English
Audio: TBA
Resolution / Aspect Ratio: 2160p / 1.85:1
Special Features
Newly recorded audio commentary by Jason Wood
Audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro (2002)
Audio commentary with producers Arthur H Gorson and Bertha Navarro and co-producer Alejandro Springall (in English and Spanish with optional English subtitles)
Optional original Spanish-language voice-over introduction
Cronos – An Introduction (2024, 34 mins): director Guillermo del Toro in conversation with the former head of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes film festival and current managing director of Arte France Cinéma, Olivier Père
Geometria (1987, 7 mins): a short film by Guillermo del Toro about a young man who pays dearly to have his dreams come true
Guillermo del Toro on Geometria (7 mins): a short interview with the director about Geometria
BFI Screen Talk: Guillermo del Toro (2017, 74 mins): filmed around the release of The Shape of Water, the writer and director discusses his career with journalist, author and screenwriter Mark Salisbury and the BFI London Film Festival
The Making of Cronos: An Interview with Federico Luppi (2006, 5 mins): a short archival interview with the actor
Interview with the director (2010, 60 mins): an archival interview with Guillermo del Toro
Interview with Guillermo del Toro (2010, 18 mins): an interview with the writer and director
Interview with Guillermo Navarro (2010, 13 mins): an interview with the film’s cinematographer
Interview with Ron Pearlman (2010, 7 mins): an interview with the actor who since Cronos has gone on to become one of Del Toro’s regular collaborators
Theatrical trailer
Stills gallery
60-page book featuring new essays by Michelle Kisner, Rich Johnson, Barry Forshaw, and Michael Leader. Also includes and edited version of ‘Guillermo del Toro: The origins of horror and Cronos’, an interview that originally appeared in The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, by Jason Wood and an original Sight & Sound review by John Kraniauskas.
Fold-out poster featuring the new artwork for the film