Trapped Alive (Arrow US) (Blu-Ray)

Genre regular Cameron Mitchell (The Toolbox Murders, From a Whisper to a Scream) stars in this thrilling tale of escaped hoodlums and underground-dwelling cannibals from director Leszek Burzynski and Hellraiser producer Christopher Webster.

One wintry night, pals Robin and Monica are making their way to a Christmas party when they’re carjacked by a gang of crooks recently escaped from the local penitentiary. With the two young women taken as hostages, things take an even darker turn when their vehicle plummets down an abandoned mine shaft, trapping them underground with the dangerous crooks – and a mutant cannibal.

Filmed in 1988 under the title of Forever Mine but not released until 1993, Trapped Alive was the first film to come out of Wisconsin’s now-defunct Windsor Lake Studios, which would go on to produce a number of films under the Fangoria Films label in the early-90s, including 1992’s Bruce Campbell-starring Mindwarp. 

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative 

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation 

• Original mono audio

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing 

• Brand new audio commentary with director Leszek Burzynski 

• Brand new audio commentary with special effects artist Hank Carlson and horror writer Josh Hadley

• Brand new audio commentary with The Hysteria Continues

• There’s EVIL Underground… – brand new making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Leszek Burzynski, cinematographer Nancy Schreiber, production manager Alexandra Reed and actors Alex Kubik and Sullivan Hester 

• Upper Michigan Tonight – 1988 television documentary on Windsor Lake Studios, featuring footage from behind the scenes of Trapped Alive and contemporary interviews with director Leszek Burzynski, producer Christopher Webster and production designer Brian Savegar 

• Leszek Burzynski: The Early Years – the Trapped Alive director discusses his early forays into genre movie-making 

• Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn