From Severin's press release on HARDWARE (from Severin's website - pics also): "SEVERIN ALLOWS YOU TO LOSE ALL FAITH IN THE FUTURE OF MANKIND BY PURCHASING HARDWARE ON BLU RAY"
Once upon a time, HARDWARE was a major studio release, a film that ruled the box office in the United States on its way to nearly grossing 100 million dollars worldwide. Sadly, in the video domain, HARDWARE proved to be a victim of circumstance, never gaining the high profile release a film of its caliber so richly deserved.
So for years, Sci-Fi horror fans have been forced to sacrifice shelf space, aspect ratio, and a large dollop of studio-censored blood-fueled mayhem to their decade-old VHS copies of HARDWARE. Due to countless entanglements, the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk celluloid shocker somehow managed to skip an entire generation of home video formats, leaving fans of director Richard Stanley's coup de sang clinging to their videocassettes with the hope that someday, somehow someone would give them cause to replace them.
Those hopes have finally been answered by Severin Films, who have joined forces with Stanley and DVD producer Norm Hill to finally present HARDWARE the way nature and technology fully intended: uncut, unrated and fully restored.
"Just as Dylan McDermott and Stacey Travis gathered the remnants of the M.A.R.K. 13 to unwittingly rebuild a cyborg-based killing machine, Severin is gathering elements from around the globe to rebuild the legacy of one of the truly perfect genre films of our time" says Carl Daft of Severin Films. "It's an category-colliding exercise of the highest caliber, perfectly melding hard-edged dystopian Science Fiction, suspense and gloriously glory horror."
The long and twisted history of HARDWARE has left a host of never-before-seen DVD extras in its wake. Along with presenting the film uncut, Richard Stanley has unearthed a trunkful of long-believed lost footage that will be presented on the disc as deleted scenes. Even more exciting is the inclusion of Stanley's original super 8 version of HARDWARE, from which the final feature length version was based.
Severin is currently putting the finishing touches on a feature length documentary on HARDWARE's history featuring Stanley, star Stacey Travis and a host of co-conspirators in the making of this modern day classic.
Throw in a no-holds barred commentary track from Stanley, a gallery of production sketches, and you have a DVD and Blu Ray release that will reward HARDWARE's legion of fans.
Richard Stanley: "They say, "Once in every generation a plague shall fall upon you," and so it is that after an absence of almost two decades, I am proud to announce the second coming of HARDWARE to American shores in its full, savage, psychedelic, utterly unexpurgated and wholly unrated glory."
"You have been warned."
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I like the studio pics ....
oh, and Glurrk.. Stacey's in the new documentary ..
