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"Acting Carrie" - 42+ minute documentary about the performers in the film, including interviews with them and clips from the picture.
"Visualizing Carrie" - 42+ minute documentary about the film, including interviews with various people associated with it, as well as clips from the picture and behind the scenes stills.
"Carrie the Musical" - 6+ minute look at turning the film into a musical, including interviews.
Animated Photo Gallery - 6+ minute succession of stills related to the film.
Original Theatrical Trailer.
Stephen King and the Evolution of Carrie - Pages of onscreen text regarding the transition from novel to movie, including comparisons between the two.
A high school misfit (Sissy Spacek) must not only endure continual torture and harassment from her classmates, but also a religious fanatic mother (Piper Laurie) and mysterious powers of telekinesis that she doesn't understand. When a group of mean-spirited teens make her the victim of a vicious prank at the senior prom, Carrie finally wreaks her revenge, causing all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone.
Working from horror novelist Stephen King's literary work of the same name, director Brian De Palma ("Scarface," "Dressed to Kill") crafted an effective thriller with this 1976 horror flick that featured one of the best "gotcha" endings -- to make viewers jump from their seats - ever to be brought to film.
With decent performances from the cast - that includes John Travolta in just his second feature film role - and De Palma's standard, near hypnotic way of shooting the story, the film is still just about as gripping now as when it first spooked audiences decades ago.
Length: 105 minutes
Screen Formats: 2.35:1, 16x9
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Sides: 1
Extras:
Scene selection/Jump to any scene.
Un-rated and R-rated versions of the film.
"The Making of Dressed to Kill" - 43+ minute documentary about the film, including scenes from it, behind the scenes still and various interviews with people associated with the picture.
"A Film Comparison: The 3 Versions of Dressed to Kill" - 5+ minutes of comparisons between the Un-rated, R-rated and Network versions of scenes from the film.
"Slashing Dressed to Kill" - 9+ minute segment about the editing of the film to get its original R-rating.
"Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon" - 6 minute segment with the actor discussing the film.
Theatrical trailer.
Animated Photo Gallery - 6+ minute succession of stills related to the film.
Advertising Photo Gallery - Includes Ad Slicks, International Posters, Poster Concepts and Lobby Cards.
Brief Production Notes on Glossy Case Insert.
Fashionable Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliot (Michael Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women in his life (including Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen) - with a straight razor from his office.
Desperate to find the murderer before anyone else is hurt, Elliot is soon drawn into a dark and disturbing world of chilling desires. As the doctor edges closer to the terrible truth, he finds himself lost in a provocative and deadly maze of obsession, deviance and deceit - where the most harmless erotic fantasies can become the most deadly sexual nightmares.
One of writer/director Brian De Palma's earliest and most obvious bits of homage to Alfred Hitchcock, this 1980 thriller works on nothing short of a visceral level - especially when coupled with composer Pino Donaggio's chilling score (that's rather reminiscent of what one would hear in a Hitchcock film of the same nature). While no classic of the genre and designed to elicit reaction rather than thought, the film nevertheless works for what it's trying to do and be, and features some terrific individual sequences.
Length: 120 minutes
Screen Formats: 1.85:1, 16x9
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Sound: Dolby Digital 4.0
Sides: 1
Extras:
Scene selection/Jump to any scene.
Theatrical trailer for this film as well as "Alien," "The Fly" (1986), "The Fly" (1958), "Lake Placid" and "The Omen."
Still Gallery - Various images, including behind the scenes, publicity and more.
An elaborate game of mind control begins when the son (Andrew Stevens) of a government agent (Kirk Douglas) is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him, the father hires a girl (Amy Irving) with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S. agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments and is programmed for elimination.
Hot off the success of "Carrie," director Brian De Palma ("Carlito's Way," "Body Double") turned to screenwriter John Farris's adaptation of his own novel. The results are vintage De Palma - visually mesmerizing and stimulating, but ultimately rather empty.
The Fury is now available for purchase by clicking here.
Length: 92 minutes
Screen Formats: 1.85:1, 16x9
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Sides: 1
Extras:
Scene selection/Jump to any scene.
Theatrical trailer for this film, as well as "Bedazzled," "Big Trouble in Little China," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "The Legend of Hell House" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Composer Winslow Leach (William Finley) is determined to seek revenge on Swan (Paul Williams), an evil record tycoon who steals his pop version of the Faust legend to launch his enemy's palace as the mysterious Phantom of the Paradise and continues to plan his gruesome retaliation.
Written and directed by Brian De Palma ("Carrie," "The Untouchables"), this 1974 comedy/horror musical hybrid is an obvious spoof of both genres, but it's so goofy and singer/songwriter Williams is so hard to swallow in his part that the effort isn't as effective as intended. Even so, De Palma certainly keeps things both lively and visually interesting to watch.
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