Back on DVD!

Amazingly, Kill And Kill Again is back in a new 30th Anniversary Special Edition release, remastered in 16x9 widescreen and with special features!

According to Amazon.com, the DVD release date was August 21, 2012 which actually makes it a little late for its 30th anniversary (having been released theatrically in 1981), but who cares?

Special features include an (audio) interview with James Ryan, an on-camera interview with John Crowther, and an "isolated music track from the original 3 track mag sound."

That last item is of particular interest to this blogger. Though a lot of the stock music used in the film has been identified from the KPM music library, there are a few tracks and bumpers still outstanding. Hopefully, this item will provide new information on the soundtrack.

A copy of the release has been ordered and should arrive within a few days. After viewing the widescreen presentation and additional features, a full review will be posted.

Available copies can be ordered here.

Misprint identified!

Back in December 2009, a blog article was posted about an odd image--completely unrelated to KKA-- appearing on the back cover of the DVD case.

Today, during an episode from Season 10 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a very familiar-looking scene presented itself:

This screenshot is taken from MST3K's screening of Final Justice, starring Joe Don Baker. The two women are actually dancers performing in a Maltese "gentlemen's club" called Smugglers' Tavern.

While this still offers no explanation for how the image was mistakenly printed on the packaging for KKA, sheer happenstance has solved a big part of this little mystery.

Special thanks to Tom, Mike, and Crow!

Owned!

According to Amazon.com, KKA has been discontinued by the manufacturer and is now only available on the secondary market where I see sale prices starting at $58 for a new DVD copy and $37+ for a used one

Not that I'm surprised it's off the primary market and will no doubt never see a Blu-Ray pressing. It just wouldn't be in enough demand to warrant it.

Amazon also tells me I purchased my copy in September of 2003 for $9.95...I guess I really lucked into it at the time.

Finding it currently out-of-print leaves me wondering about who owns the film rights now. The original copyright belonged to "The Again Corporation," which doesn't materialize on a Google search to much of any degree. I'm guessing that was perhaps just a company formed by the filmmakers at the time on paper only to shoot and distribute the film.

The DVD jacket (as well as the opening video tag at the beginning) lists the copyright--as of 1998--belonging to Liberty International Entertainment, Inc., which appears to be just a second or third-rate media company.

One interesting item to note on their packaging for the DVD is the appearance of a completely unrelated image on the back of the jacket:










Some might remember the early days of soft-porn titles in the video store which had this kind of comical censorship on the packaging with feminine nipples covered by tiny black dots.

I cannot imagine how or why this image (honestly, appearing nowhere in the film--not the scene, not even the "actresses") wound up on the packaging. Somebody in the graphics department was either careless or bored.

If any of you in the fan community have information on the current ownership of the title and/or the origin of this curiously misplaced image (in the spirit of Whose Line Is It Anyway, 1,000 points to anyone who can identify the movie it's actually from), please post a comment.

UPDATE: The source of the still image has been identified. Please see here.