By Eric Ortiz
The Fantastic Pavilion presents a Weekly Recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
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The 4K UHD of the director’s cut of The Devils (1971) is being released by Warner Bros. Clockwork on April 20. The Collector’s Edition includes two additional cuts on Blu-ray: “the UK X-Rated version and the US R-Rated version.”
Ken Russell’s controversial film, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, continues playing in select theaters.
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) is joining The Criterion Collection on February 9. The two-disc edition contains the “extravaganza from Hong Kong comedy legend Stephen Chow” on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray.
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Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn (2026) looks like a fun animated tech noir, about a “private eye (Sam Rockwell)” and “a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson).” The flick is set in “Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939.”
Ray Gunn hits cinemas on December 4 and debuts on Netflix on December 18.
Edgar Wright has directed a very funny ad for Apple Pay titled Market Mayhem. Wright said that with it he’s paying homage to his “Hong Kong heroes – Jackie Chan in particular –.”
The Werwulf (2026) soundtrack is coming out on LP and CD on January 29, via Sacred Bones Records. The score was composed by Robin Carolan (The Northman, Nosferatu), “drawing on the sounds, rituals and beliefs of the brutal, superstitious world of medieval England.”
Robert Eggers’ Werwulf opens theatrically in the U.S. on December 25 and in Mexico on January 1.