Enter the Video Store: Empire of Screams

Remember the shelves of your local video store? Those days aren't gone! Reject reality and substitute your own with Arrow Video! In 1983, entrepreneurial producer and director Charles Band founded Empire International Pictures, which would go on to make some of the most memorable and beloved genre movies of the 1980s. Empire became a mainstay of video stores across the world with their catchy titles, outlandish art and Band's wholehearted belief in giving audiences a good time. In The Dungeonmaster (AKA Ragewar), computer programmer Paul Bradford is sucked into a fantasy world by Mestema, a demonic sorcerer in search of a worthy opponent. Meanwhile, fresh from the one-two punch of Re-Animator and From Beyond, director Stuart Gordon takes a turn toward fairytale gothic in Dolls, in which a group of strangers find themselves forced to seek shelter at the isolated home of an old toymaker and his wife, only to find that the puppets and dolls have a vicious life of their own. In Cellar Dweller, a comic book artist (Jeffrey Combs) with a penchant for the macabre takes inspiration from an ancient tome and unleashes an ancient evil. Arena presents the ultimate fight night event: man vs monster! In the far future of 4038, a short order cook becomes the first human in fifty years to compete in an intergalactic boxing event on the far side of the universe. Finally in Robot Jox, Stuart Gordon directs Empire Pictures' most ambitious movie yet, as men and women pilot giant machines in gladiatorial battle to settle international disputes over territory.

Special Features

Behind the Scenes, Bonus Footage, Commentary: 'The Dungeonmaster': Jeffrey Byron, moderated by Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain (critics); 'Dolls': David Decoteau; Stuart Gordon (director) and Ed Naha (writer); Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Stephen Lee, Carrie Lorraine and Ian Patrick Williams (actors); 'Cellar Dweller': Michael Deak moderated by Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain; 'Arena': Peter Manoogian (director) moderated by Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain; 'Robot Jox': Stuart Gordon (director); Paul Gentry (associate effects director), Mark Rappaport (mechanical effects artist) and Paul Jessell (stop-motion animator), Documentaries: 'Grabbed By the Ghoulies'; 'The Scale of Battle: David Allen and the FX of 'Robot Jox'', Image Gallery, Interviews: Jeffrey Byron (actor); Lee Percy (editor); Michael Deak (special make-up effects artist); Danny Bilson (writer); Paul Koslo (actor); Anne-Marie Johnson (actor); Gary Graham (actor), Making of Documentary, Reversible sleeves; 'The Dungeonmaster' US theatrical cut, pre-release cut and international version 'Ragewar'; 'Cellar Dweller'/'Robot Jox': Original sales sheet and production notes, Storyboard Comparisons, Trailers

Actors: Brian Robbins, Debrah Mullowney, Pamela Bellwood, Cheryl-Ann Wilson, Leslie Wing, Shari Shattuck, Jeffrey Byron, Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Jeffrey Combs, Danny Kamekona, Richard Moll, Gary Graham, Paul Koslo, Vince Edwards, Marc Alaimo, Claudia Christian, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Camp, Robert Sampson, Yvonne De Carlo, Hilary Mason, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart, Armin Shimerman, Stephen Lee

Audio Languages: English, English

Duration: 427 minutes

Number of Discs: 5

Subtitle Languages: English

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