Arrow Video have released their schedule for August 2019 and we have details on the DVD, Blu-ray and dual format releases. Below you will find the August 2019 release schedule for U.K., U.S.A. and Canada releases.

If you missed what Arrow Video released in July 2019 you can find all the details HERE.

ALICE SWEET ALICE

Release Date: 6th August 2019 (U.S.A./Canada Release Only)

Format: Blu-ray

Directed by: Alfred Sole

A young Brooke Shields meets an untimely end in this religious-themed proto slasher par excellence from director Alfred Sole.

On the day of her first communion, young Karen (Brooke Shields) is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over – as the knife-wielding maniac strikes again and again, Karen’s bereaved parents are forced to confront the possibility that Karen’s wayward sister Alice might be the one behind the mask.

Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock, the then-booming Italian giallo film and more specifically, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, Alice, Sweet Alice is an absolutely essential – if often overlooked – entry in the canon of 1970s American horror.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 2K restoration of the theatrical version from the original camera negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original uncompressed mono audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary with Richard Harland Smith
• Archival audio commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Sole and editor Edward Salier
• First Communion: Alfred Sole Remembers Alice, Sweet Alice – director Alfred Sole looks back on his 1976 classic
• In the Name of the Father – brand new interview with actor Niles McMaster
• Sweet Memories: Dante Tomaselli on Alice, Sweet Alice – filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin of Alfred Sole, discusses his longtime connection to the film
• Lost Childhood: The Locations of Alice, Sweet Alice – a tour of the original Alice Sweet Alice shooting locations hosted by author Michael Gingold
• Alternate Holy Terror Television Cut
• Deleted scene
• Alternate Opening Titles
• Trailer and TV Spot
• Original screenplay
• Image gallery

SCHRAMM

Release Date: 12th August 2019 (U.K. Release Only)

Format: Blu-ray

Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit

Controversial German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2) takes you into the twisted mind of a deranged sex killer in the last of his feature films to date, 1993’s deeply disturbing Schramm.

Lothar Schramm, the so-called “Lipstick Killer”, lies dying in a pool of blood and paint. As he expires, fragments of his life flash before his eyes – his uneasy friendship with the prostitute that lives next door (Nekromantik 2’s Monika M); the brutal slaughter of a pair of doorstep evangelists whose bodies he poses in obscene fashion; his unhealthy pastime of hammering nails into his own manhood.

Told in an entirely non-linear fashion, Jörg Buttgereit’s Schramm – with its nightmarish hallucinatory sequences involving severed limbs and gaping, sharp-toothed female genitalia – comes about as close as a film can get to transporting you directly into the world of a sick, disordered mind.

2-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• HD transfer overseen by the filmmakers
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original uncompressed Stereo 2.0 audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Limited edition digipak packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx
• Limited edition certificate
• Set of 5 exclusive Schramm “polaroid” postcards
• Soundtrack CD
• Limited edition 60-page book

DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] – ‘SCHRAMM’:

• Archival audio commentary with director/co-writer Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen
• Archival audio commentary with actors Florian Von Gustorf and Monika M
• Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt: Scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm (2019) – brand new animated short film sequel to Schramm made by award-winning filmmaker and stop-motion artist Robert Morgan, produced exclusively for this release
• Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll – writer Kier-La Janisse on how she came to be the owner of a particularly interesting piece of Schramm memorabilia
• Jörg Buttgereit in conversation with Arrow Video’s Ewan Cant at the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival
• The Making of Schramm – archival behind-the-scenes documentary
• Mein Papi – Jörg Buttgereit short film available in HD for the first time ever and with optional director audio commentary
• Jesus – Der Film (1995) – short film segment directed by Jörg Buttgereit
• Two short films by Schramm producer Manfred Jelinski: Orpheus in der Oberwelt (1970) and Ein Ku’ze’ Film übe’ Hambu’g (1990)
• Extensive image gallery
• Jörg Buttgereit Trailer Gallery

DISC 2 [CD] – ‘SCHRAMM’ SOUNDTRACK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE:

• CD featuring the complete Schramm score

60-PAGE BOOK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE

Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing from Virginie Selavy and Graham Rae, all illustrated with new artwork and original archival stills.

CRUISING

Release Date: 19th August 2019 (U.K. Release)

20th August 2019 (U.S.A./Canada Release)

Format: Blu-ray

Directed by: William Friedkin

Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York’s seedy underbelly in CRUISING – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.

New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city’s underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker’s novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino’s haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original camera negative supervised and approved by writer-director William Friedkin
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Newly remastered 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio supervised by William Friedkin
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Archival audio commentary by William Friedkin
• The History of Cruising – archival featurette looking at the film’s origins and production
• Exorcising Cruising – archival featurette looking at the controversy surrounding the film and its enduring legacy
• Original Theatrical Trailer