Vestron Video is back and they’re giving the Blu-ray treatment to their classic titles |

Vestron Video has been a leader in providing the most unique and wide-ranging selection of films. The company was huge during the VHS home video era and many of us fans remember seeing the company’s logo on many of the horror and b-grade sci-fi that lined the shelves of our local video shop.

Lionsgate honors the spirit of Vestron Video by presenting the “Vestron Video Collector’s Series” — a line of classic genre films newly remastered and with a wealth of supplementary features. Starting with Blood Diner, these re-releases are for the collector and horror fan alike and will be available for a limited amount of time. Starting with Chopping Mall and Blood Diner, and continuing with Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time Double Feature, Return of the Living Dead 3, and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the CHUD, these re-releases are for the collector and horror fan alike. Each will be available for a limited amount of time.

Blood Diner

In order to raise an ancient Egyptian goddess, two cannibalistic brothers use their restaurant to add something special to the menu in Blood Diner.

Each limited-edition feature, transferred from the original film elements to high-definition Blu-ray, is packed with special features including brand-new audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and interviews with cast and crew. Blood Diner’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray will be available beginning September 27, 2016.

Blood Diner Blu-ray Special Features:

Audio Commentary with Director Jackie Kong
Featurette: Queen Kong
Featurette: The Cook, The Uncle, and The Detective
Featurette: Open for Business
Featurette: Scoring for Sheetar!
Featurette: You Are What They Eat
Archival Interview with Project Consultant Eric Caidin
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Still Gallery

Chopping Mall

Teenagers trapped in a high-tech mall overnight must find a way out before three malfunctioning security robots destroy them in Chopping Mall.

Each limited-edition feature, transferred from the original film elements to high-definition Blu-ray™, is packed with special features including brand-new audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and interviews with cast & crew — including one with Chopping Mall’s robot. Chopping Mall’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray will also be available beginning September 27, 2016.

Chopping Mall Blu-ray Special Features:

Audio Commentary: Director/Co-Writer Jim Wynorski, Actress Kelli Maroney, and Co-Writer/2nd Unit Director Steve Mitchell
Audio Commentary: Historians/Authors Nathaniel Thompson (Mondo Video) and Ryan Turek (Shock Till You Drop)
Director/Co-Writer Jim Wynorski and Co-Writer/2nd Unit Director Steve Mitchell
Featurette: Back to the Mall
Featurette: Chopping Chopping Mall
Featurette: The Killbots
Featurette: Scoring Chopping Mall
Featurette: The Robot Speaks
Featurette: The Lost Scene
Featurette: Army of One
Featurette: Chopping Mall: Creating the Killbots
Isolated Score Track by Chuck Cirino
Trailer

Waxwork & Waxwork II: Lost in Time

The Vestron Video Collector’s Series unleashes the tongue-in-cheek horror classics Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray on October 18th from Lionsgate. In Waxwork, a private midnight showing at a local wax museum turns to mayhem when its soul-sucking wax exhibits come to life. In Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Mark and Sarah, who survived the killer wax museum, must travel to another dimension to combat the still-present evil figure responsible for murdering Sarah’s stepfather. The Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray double feature Blu-ray will also be available beginning October 18, 2016.

Inside the wax museum a group of teenagers are aghast at the hauntingly lifelike wax displays of Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and other character members of the Horror Hall of Fame. Each display is perfectly grotesque, yet each is missing one thing . . . a victim. Admission to the Waxwork was free but now they may pay with their lives! One by one, the students are drawn into the settings as objects of the blood thirsty creatures. They are now part of the permanent collection.

In Waxwork II: Lost in Time, having escaped the fiery destruction of the original Waxwork, Marl (Zach Galligan, Gremlins) and Sarah (Monika Schnarre, TV’s Beverly Hills, 90210) face another grueling ordeal in Waxwork II, when Sarah is accused of murdering her stepfather. Fleeing through the doors of time in a desperate search for proof of her innocence, the two lovers find themselves caught in the eternally recurring battle between good and evil. Together they must stop one of the most powerful and demonic figures of all time — Lord Scarabus.

Waxwork Blu-ray Special Features: