Brand new factory sealed dvd features introduction and running commentary with director Peter Bogdanovich if you so choose. Fantastic debut for the young director. Excellant movie of two seemingly seperate story lines that come together in the climax. The narrative is very much like a Quentin Tarantino film.

Byron Orlock (Karloff), a veteran horror star, tells his director (Bogdanovich) he intends to retire, insisting that he is growing old and out of date, more of a joke than a menace to audiences in his traditional role as monster or mad magician. 

In the other stoyline, Bobby Thompson (O'Kelly), an apparently normal and unassuming young man, happily married and with sensible, prosperous parents, suddenly gives way to his obsession with guns. He shoots his wife and mother and a delivery boy, fills a kitbag with guns and ammunition, climbs to the top of a gas-tower overlooking the freeway, and begins to shoot at passing cars. 

But at the end old and new are fused together in a magnificent coup de theatre to touch a genuinely raw, modern nerve. Taking refuge in a drive-in movie theatre, the psychopath begins to shoot at the audience from behind the huge screen where, as the panic-stricken patrons becomes trapped in a hopeless traffic jam, Byron Orlock towers gloatingly in his latest role as a mad magician and then... 

The film was in the can before the events, but due to it's topical relevance, the King & Kennedy assassinations caused the studio to delay the release. This should have been Boris Karloff's swan song, but he went on to make 4 cheap mexican films from a wheelchair before passing.

This is the original pressed release dvd. No longer available as an official pressed release. Only available as a no frills dvd-r from Warner Archives collection. A propietary duplicating process.

They usually are not given a remastering treatment like ordinairy dvd pressings and sometimes they use the same negative that was used for the vhs release. These usually are not afforded any extras and will not play on recordable devices. The chapter stops are also random rather than carefully placed.