March 11 New Home Entertainment Slate Includes ‘Thief,’ ‘Trick or Treat’ 4K Discs
Thief
March 11, 2025
The lineup of home entertainment releases for March 11 is dominated by catalog titles, including new 4K Ultra HD disc editions of Thief and Trick or Treat.
Arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc from the Criterion Collection March 11 is 1981’s Thief, director Michael Mann’s debut feature. James Caan stars as a no-nonsense ex-con professional thief planning to leave the criminal world behind after one last score — but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped. The film is presented in a new 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by Mann, with a 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The 4K combo pack includes a 4K disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and a regular Blu-ray disc of the film with bonus materials.
MVD Entertainment Group will release the Red Shirt Pictures/Synapse Films heavy metal horror flick Trick or Treat on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on March 11. The 1986 film follows teenage loner Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price, “Family Ties”), who is constantly bullied by the jocks at his high school, including Tim Hainey (Doug Savant, “Melrose Place”). The only thing that gives Eddie relief is his love of heavy metal. His favorite performer is Sammi Curr (Tony Fields, A Chorus Line), an infamous local musician who became a superstar, and Eddie takes it hard when he learns that Sammi has died in a mysterious fire. Eddie’s friend Nuke (KISS rocker Gene Simmons), a local radio DJ and friend of Sammi’s, comforts the grieving Eddie by handing him a demo record of Sammi’s unreleased upcoming album. When Eddie gets home, he puts the record on the turntable and plays it in reverse, revealing a personal message for Eddie that at first gives him some relief from the bullies at school. But Sammi’s messages soon take a dark turn. Is his idol using him to get revenge against those who tortured him at the same high school years earlier? Can Eddie say “no” to his heavy metal hero or will Sammi have to come out of the speakers to finish the job? Director Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud and Dolphin Tale) turns up the volume on this supernatural metal/comedy/horror film that features Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) in a cameo role as a minister.
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The Gene Wilder comedy Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc March 11 from MVD Entertainment Group and VCI Entertainment. Reminiscent of Harold & Maude and Start the Revolution Without Me, the gentle comedy is the story of a man out of step with this world, marching to the beat of his own drum. Quackser Fortune (Wilder) earns his living by following the horse-drawn delivery wagons of Dublin, scooping up the droppings and selling it as fertilizer. Margot Kidder is the American exchange student who finds herself drawn to this unlearned, but not unknowing man. Quackser Fortune, available in a restored new 4K UHD scan from the original negative, was nominated for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen at the Writers Guild of America awards in 1971.
The director’s cut of the horror film 100 Tears will be released on Blu-ray Disc March 11 from MVD Entertainment Group and Unearthed Films. In the film, after being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism, he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
Troma Entertainment and MVD Entertainment Group will release the horror comedy Eating Miss Campbell on Blu-ray March 11. In the film, Beth Conner (Lyndsey Craine, Book of Monsters) is a vegan-goth introvert who attends an elite high school in England. She emerges from her shell when new teacher Miss Campbell (Lala Barlow) arrives on campus. Their affair triggers Beth to develop a new appetite. She’s definitely not a vegan anymore. The new Beth is eager to win the school’s celebrated “All You Can Eat Massacre” contest that has a very unique first prize. Eating Miss Campbell turns a dark comic light on posh academia, cannibalism, school violence, child predators, alternate realities, horror movies, and Alec Baldwin. The movie is director Liam Regan’s follow up to My Bloody Banjo. While not a sequel, Vito Trigo (Return to Nuke ‘Em High), Lloyd Kaufman (president of Troma Entertainment and the creator of The Toxic Avenger), Dani Thompson (Video Shop Tales of Terror), and Laurence R. Harvey (“The Human Centipede” sequels) all reprise their roles from My Bloody Banjo.
Kino Classics March 11 releases on DVD Women Who Run Hollywood, a collection of four documentaries by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg that explore the pioneering women screenwriters and directors who helped establish both the art and business of film, including silent screen star and producer Mary Pickford, director Dorothy Arzner, and actress-filmmaker Ida Lupino. For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and who have come to inspire generations of aspiring artists. In this four-film collection, the sibling filmmakers focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves as influential filmmakers within the male-dominated film industry. The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016) pays homage to the first generation of women screenwriters and directors, who were integral to the evolution of cinema, both as a language and as an industry. Mary Pickford, a Blessing and a Curse (2023) profiles the silent-era superstar who leveraged her popularity as an actress to become her own producer, and eventually was one of the founders of United Artists. Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023) examines the uncompromising life and work of essentially the only woman working as a director in the 1930s studio system. Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino (2021) observes the actress with a penchant for film noir, who fearlessly confronted such taboo topics as unwed motherhood, sexual assault and bigamy.
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