• Xenon Pictures provided Fango with the cover art and special features for its DVD of THE OUTBACK (pictured). The Australian shocker, originally titled PREY and starring Jesse Johnson (son of Don) and singer/actress Natalie Bassingthwaighte, streets July 13.

The saga of three couples who venture into the titular region and come under attack by supernatural forces commanded by an evil shaman will be accompanied by:

• “The Making of THE OUTBACK” featurette

• Photo gallery

• Trailer

Retail price is $16.98. You can check out the OUTBACK trailer here and look for further coverage at this site closer to the street date, and in Fango #295, on sale next month.

• John V. Soto, the original scripter of THE OUTBACK, made his directorial debut on the psychothriller CRUSH alongside Jeffrey Gerritsen, from Soto’s script. Emma Lung, who’s becoming a genre regular with roles in TRIANGLE and the upcoming THE GATES OF HELL (no relation to the Fulci film) and CRAVE, plays a young woman who becomes dangerously obsessed with a disgraced martial-arts champion (Chris Egan)—whose skills may be no match for her. Phase 4 Films releases CRUSH to DVD July 13, with no special features announced. Retail price is $29.99.

• Yet another Aussie flick, A NOCTURNE: NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE, arrives on DVD from Troma June 29. Directed by Bill Mousoulis from a script he wrote with Ali Alizadeh, it follows a vampire couple, X and Z (Vanessa de Largie and Alex Spears), over one night of their nocturnal existences on the streets of Melbourne—where they discover they’re not the only hunters out stalking. The disc will also include a commentary by Mousoulis and retails for $14.99.

 

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