Release date: October 28, 2019 Purchase links:Arrow Films (Sold Out) - Zavvi - Amazon UK - HMV Price: £22.00 (Arrow) - £21.99 (Zavvi - HMV) - £24.05 (Amazon) Notes: Arrow Films Store special pre-order price until August 30
New 2018 4K restoration from the original camera negative supervised by John Landis
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original uncompressed 1.0 mono and optional 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
New audio commentary by Beware the Moon filmmaker Paul Davis
Audio Commentary by actors David Naughton and Griffin Dunne
Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf, newly produced, feature-length documentary by filmmaker Daniel Griffith, featuring interviews with John Landis, David Naughton, Joe Dante and more
An American Filmmaker in London, a newly filmed interview with John Landis in which he reflects on his time working in Britain and British cinema
I Think He's a Jew: The Werewolf's Secret, new video essay by filmmaker Jon Spira (Elstree 1976) about how Landis’ film explores Jewish identity
The Werewolf’s Call, Corin Hardy, director of The Nun, chats with writer Simon Ward about their formative experiences with Landis’ film.
Wares of the Wolf, new featurette in which SFX artist Dan Martin and Tim Lawes of The Prop Store look at some of the original costumes and special effects artefacts from the film
Beware the Moon, Paul Davis’ acclaimed, feature-length exploration of Landis’ film which boasts extensive cast and crew interviews
Making An American Werewolf in London, a short archival featurette on the film’s production
An Interview with John Landis, a lengthy archival interview with the director about the film
Makeup Artist Rick Baker on An American Werewolf in London, the legendary make-up artist discusses his work on the film
I Walked with a Werewolf, an archival interview with the make-up artist about Universal horror and its legacy of Wolfman films
Casting of the Hand, archival footage from Rick Baker's workshop as they cast David Naughton's hand
Outtakes
Original trailers, teasers and radio spots
Extensive image gallery featuring over 200 stills, posters and other ephemera
Reversible sleeve featuring original poster art and artwork by Graham Humphreys
Double-sided fold-out poster
Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproductions
Arrow don't have a distribution licence for 4K UHD
Also sales of UHD discs is tiny and arrow likely be stuck with lot of unsold stock even if they got a distribution licence for a 4K UHD release due to amount of 4K UHD discs needed to be manufactured for a print run
Yes you can do a limited edition of 2000/3000/5000 but overall print run is higher for the UHD discs themselves that's where the standard release stock also comes from
To be financially viable arrow would have to share print run of UHD discs with other distributors but that means less profit on a release
Sales of UHD discs is still tiny compared to DVD and Blu-ray
This is why a lot of independent distributors not doing 4K UHD yet as they have to licence releases from Film Studios for these releases
A 4K UHD release that will be from universal themselves if they decide on doing one as they own the rights to the film
It cost film studios distributors less to do UHD releases where they own they film rights
Studiocanal for example their releases on 4K UHD they are films they own the rights that is a big difference
I think it's fair to say that some movie transfers will never be good enough for 4K, on the other hand some really are but this one always had a 'not too good' source
For those who ordered direct from arrow store may have notice payment was taken on Monday but not had their orders dispatched yet
I contacted Arrow
I was told orders will be dispatching from tonight
Arrow distribution center has been very busy this week due processing a lot sale orders and next week new releases
I can understand this happening when sale is on as they would be getting lot more orders than would usually would have to process when no sale was running