Universal Studios has announced The Frighteners: Director's Cut for release on November 29th.

The 123-minute laserdisc extended cut (adding twelve minutes of footage) will come with a new 2.35 anamorphic transfer and a Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

Bonus materials haven't been announced yet, but this has been announced as a single disc release - so there's probably little chance of including the full 4.5 hour documentary. But we'll wait and see.

Retail is $26.98

Wow. This is very good news indeed.

Great news, and I was minutes away from caving and buying the existing edition.

*****in' A !!! Now where's my special editions of Brain Dead (Dead Alive) and Meet The Feebles.

I'm very wary of a single disc release. We've been waiting for this for a long time.

Well they could do a double sided dvd release like they have with Casino,Schindlers List and so forth.

So don't be too down on the single disc news until the full specs are announced. If by then,it's a bare bones release. Then begin your bitching,that is all

awesome news.

still hoping for that laserdisc documentary..

They made a 4 1/2 hour doc. of this flick?! Holy shit?

Is it even any good?

Excellent news... been waiting on a special edition of this for YEARS.

They better put the commentary and documentary on the thing though. I don't care if it's DVD18 or not.

yeah, sure it's 4 1/2 hours? seems a bit overkill for a movie doc...it's not Gone with the Wind for heaven's sake! heh

I have the laserdisc box right in front of me...

Five sides on three platters equaling roughly 270 minutes.

The story is that after Frighteners, PJ was into pre-production on King Kong. The film fell apart because of Mighty Joe Young going into production first (I think). With all the free time on his hands, Jackson poured all of his energies - that's an understatement! - into this laserdisc set.

Soon after, he began pre-production work on Lord of the Rings.

Peter said in a taped message at Comic-Con that he wants to release SE's of those along with Bad Taste. He said he has behind the scenes footage for each film. Of course, no telling when he'll have time to do a proper job but we'll see... at least it's nice to know he wants to do it.

Back OT, several months ago I found a used copy of the first release (with the good cover ) for $10. PQ and sound were pretty good... so it would depend on the extras if I'll double-dip.

i highly doubt the 4 and a half documentry will fit in one disc! they will probably release a 3 disc set later on...

I think a lot of the documentary is just things like art galleries and storyboards. If that's the case then those things really won't take up that much space and it should fit onto a single side of a DVD.

Can anyone confirm exactly what's on the laser disc set?

For me, an improved (not marginal) anamorphic transfer equals a sale, with or without a documentary. A 2nd disc of extras would certainly be welcomed as well.

A 4 1/2 hour documentary for this movie seems like a bit too much as stated earlier. Were not talking about an epic here.

If the documentary is on there, this gets a big from me. If not, I'll have to weigh in if it's worth it to upgrade. For one thing, I'm sure the cover will be a hell of a lot better than the one that's available now!

I don't fucking care. If it's on the laserdisc, there's no reason at all that it shouldn't be on the DVD. The material already exists, it just needs to be ported over.

great news

They could probably fit it on the flip of a DVD-18 if they removed the commentary over the 42 min. storyboards and just made it frame by frame. Of course that would cut the original doc, but it is Uni so it's not improbable.
Then again they could fit the whole thing on by increasing compression. The video for the documentary shoot doesn't look the best to begin with (but it could be just the quality of the presentation on LD).

I am in no way saying that I wouldn't like to have the documentary. I too believe that everything available should be put on dvd and in our hands. I'm just surprised that there is a 4 1/2 documentary for a near 2 hour movie.

I say just do a three-disc already with both versions of the film, a DTS mix, the documentary, and a buncha other stuff.

I was considering getting the LD the other day. I am glad I waited.

I have the laserdisc set and I can't wait for the DVD. I hope they add a DTS track.