Blu-ray, DVD Release: Beast From Haunted Cave / Ski Troop Attack

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 24, 2023
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Film Masters

Roger Corman’s 1959 cult favorite, Beast From Haunted Cave arrives anew in an edition that has been freshly restored from a 4K scan of 35mm archival materials!

Among the best of Corman’s early output, Beast From Haunted Cave was directed by the great Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter), launching a 15-year collaboration between the duo. The film stars Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan and Frank Wolff.

In the film, nasty gangsters hatch a plan to rob a bank in Deadwood, South Dakota, but when one of the henchmen sets off an explosion in a nearby gold mine to act as a diversion for the heist, he awakens a blood-sucking, spider-like creature that isn’t happy about the intrusion. When a violent snowstorm delays the gang’s escape, things rapidly progress from bad to blood-curdling worse.

The Collector’s Edition Blur-ay and DVD also contain Corman’s1960 World War II drama Ski Troop Attack.

Special Features:
–Hollywood Intruders: The Filmgroup Story: Part One, a Ballyhoo Motion Pictures documentary
-full-color booklet with essays by authors C. Courtney Joyner and Tom Weaver with the man behind the beast, Chris Robinson
-commentary for Beast From Haunted Cave by author and film historian Tom Weaver and filmmaker Larry Blamire
-commentary for Ski Troop Attack by author C. Courtney Joyner and filmmaker Howard S. Berger
-gallery of rare stills from camera negatives taken during the filming of Beast From Haunted Cave, courtesy of Tom Weaver
-original, 35mm-restored theatrical trailer for Beast From Haunted Cave
–new, recut trailers from restored both films using restored film elements.

Easter egg alert! Hidden on the disc is a special interview with the original “beast!”