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• IFC Films and MPI Home Video gave Fango the scoop on the details and a first look at the cover art for its DVD release of HOME MOVIE, Christopher Denham’s unnerving story of a family unraveling in frightening ways as seen through the lens of their camcorder. The disc arrives December 8.

Written and directed by Denham (an actor who appears in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming SHUTTER ISLAND) and produced by OFFSPRING and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR’s Andrew van den Houten, HOME MOVIE stars HEROES’ Adrian Pasdar, Cady McClain and real-life young siblings Austin Williams and Amber Joy Williams; see our review here. The movie will be accompanied on the disc by a making-of featurette and the trailer; retail price is $19.98.

• Media Blasters gave Fango the first news that it plans to release Frank Henenlotter’s latest feature BAD BIOLOGY, the touching story of two young people with aberrant—and hungry—sex organs, on DVD under the Shriek Show banner January 26. We’ll bring you details and cover art as soon as they’re available; check out our BIOLOGY review here. The company also passed on cover art and details for a bunch of its upcoming Asian genre titles coming on its Tokyo Shock label, including special editions of Takashi Miike’s ZEBRAMAN and Hiroyuki Nasu’s DEVILMAN.

ZEBRAMAN, about a teacher who dons the costume of a superhero who he loved as a child to escape his put-upon life, only to face the challenge of real alien monsters, will be showcased in a two-disc set streeting November 10, with a 1.78:1 transfer and Japanese and English 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks. Special features include:

• “Making of ZEBRAMAN” featurette
• Deleted scenes
• “At the Premiere” featurette
• Interview with director Miike
• Interview with star Sho Aikawa

DEVILMAN, based on the manga by Go Nagai and focusing on two high-school best friends (played by real-life twins Hisato Izaki and Yusuke Izaki!) who are transformed into the title character and an evil demon who opposes him, arrives Nov. 24, and will also be presented at 1.78:1 with Japanese and English 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks. The supplements are:

• “Making of DEVILMAN” featurette
• “Creating the Characters” featurette
• “Digital Set Creation” featurette
• Interviews
• VFX digest
• Animatics
• Test video
• EPKs
• TV spots

Retail price on both of these is $24.95 each. The Blasters also sent along the art for Shusuke Kaneko’s bloodsoaked GOD’S LEFT HAND, DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND, out on no-frills disc October 27, and Yim Pil-sung’s fairy-tale chiller HANSEL & GRETEL, coming Dec. 29. Extras, if any, on the latter have yet to be announced; you can see our advance rave for the film here and read an interview with Kaneko on GOD’S LEFT HAND in Fango #288, now on sale.

• Anchor Bay Entertainment gives the British horror film GHOST MACHINE its U.S. DVDebut Dec. 22. Directed by Chris Hartwill from a script by Sven Hughes and Malachi Smyth, it stars Sean Faris, SEE NO EVIL and SHUTTER’s Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford from THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR and THE DESCENT: PART 2’s Joshua Dallas, playing military technicians and gamers who decide to try out a stolen military virtual-training system in an abandoned prison. Needless to say, they wind up raising some very angry spirits in the process. The movie lensed in Belfast, Ireland for Generator Entertainment, the company behind another Bay release, RED MIST; special features have not yet been confirmed. Retail price is $26.97.

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