After years of promises, various legal clampdowns, and prints which have boggled our inquisitive minds with their nonsensical running times, Hardware is finally about to hit the North American DVD and Blu-ray market as a joint release by Norm Hill's Subversive Cinema and David Gregory's Severin Films. Hill and Gregory have both separately confirmed this information to us personally, so it's as official as it gets.

Whilst Norm Hill has earned his spurs with the North American DVD version of Dust Devil, a magnificent 5-disc edition which will remain in the format annals as one of the finest releases any movie has ever been graced with, Severin Films has also carved a strong reputation as a go-to place for cult film enthusiasts. One of their soon-to-be talked about releases will be Enzo G. Castellari's original Inglorious Bastards, which should prompt Quentin Tarantino to place his pre-order before the day closes.

With the European DVD and Blu-ray release already cleared, Hardware will be in good hands in the times to come, and the upcoming releases will no doubt serve as a reminder as to why Richard Stanley is one of the great (temporarily) forgotten masters of cult cinema.

Extras are currently set to include:

Audio commentary by Richard Stanley
Deleted scenes
Behind-the-scenes footage
Stanley's 1989 hour-long Super 8 prequel, Incidents in an Expanding Universe

We are hoping that in the spirit of his Dust Devil release, Norm Hill will eventually work his magic and procure an additional soundtrack disc, but this is yet to be confirmed.

In any case, the wait will soon be over -- and everything is under control.

3. March, 09

Amazon UK is now accepting pre-orders for a R2 DVD release of Hardware, set for release on June 22nd, 2009. What's interesting is that while there have been no concrete news on the release as of yet, the company in charge is Optimum Home Entertainment, known for their UK DVD release of Dust Devil in 2006.

Therefore, while there's a glimmer of hope that the long-suffering film may finally surface at least in Europe, all those interested should note that Amazon US did the same thing with the R1 release in 2003, even setting up a specific date. Six years after, we're still waiting.

Get those pre-orders going and keep your fingers crossed.

28. June, 08

Added an interview Richard Stanley gave to Notcoming.com last year.

19. June, 08

Kingdom Come, Stanley's open letter to the Pentagon from last year, has now been revamped and added to the writing section.

21. April, 08

We're on MySpace now.

13. April, 08

All silence is meant to broken.

First off, Richard's recent MySpace journal on the search for the Three Mothers, who are the central characters of Dario Argento's famed movie trilogy, has now been removed from its clunky original environment and completely redone to a hopefully more easily enjoyable form. Whether you read the entries last year or are a newcomer to the mystery, I recommend you check out Richard's written record on the subject here.

I'm told more concurrent news is to follow very soon...

16. Nov, 07

On October 20th, Between Death and the Devil reached the formidable age of five years. These five years have proved to be a strange journey to say the least.

At the moment, 2008 promises to give out more answers than the years before, which is why I'll withhold from going into further detail.

Hope you understand.

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