I’ve posted this picture before, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to showcase the contrast between Art Adams’ original pen-and-ink and the colored version.
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Robot Monster will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 25 via Bayview Entertainment. Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the movie is presented in frame sequential Blu-ray 3D, anaglyphic 3D, and standard 2D.
Also known as Monsters from Mars and Monsters from the Moon, the 1953 sci-fi horror film is directed by Phil Tucker and written by Wyott Ordung. George Nader, Claudia Barrett, and George Barrows star.
Robot Monster has been newly restored in 4K from 35mm 3D archival elements by the 3-D Film Archive. Special features - some of which are presented in 3D - are listed below, where you can also watch the new trailer.
Versions of the film:
Frame sequential Blu-ray 3D
Anaglyphic 3D (with a pair of glasses included)
Standard 2D
3D special features:
Stardust in Your Eyes - Robot Monster's original prologue starring Trustin "Slick Slavin" Howard
Interview with actor Greg Moffett
Travels Through Time & Space - Vintage slide presentation curated by stereoscopic anthropologist Hillary Hess
Adventures in 3D - 1953 3D comic book
Restoration demo
Vintage shorts
Trailers
2D special features:
Audio commentary by Greg Moffett, Mike Ballew, Eric Kurland, and Lawrence Kaufman.
Saving Slick - Featurette on actor Trustin "Slick Slavin" Howard
Mistakes & Innovations - 3-D Film Archive’s Bob Furmanek describes the original day-for-night footage and Robot Monster’s innovative use of “double film”
Rescuing Ro-Man - Featurette on how the discovery of 35mm prints saved the only complete 3D footage
Memorabilia gallery
Trailers from Hell - Trailer commentary by filmmaker Joe Dante
Bela Lugosi on “You Asked For It” - 1953 live TV appearance
A cosmic catastrophe has wiped out humanity, and now the last six survivors must outwit that strangely iconic alien menace, Ro-Man (George Barrows). Taking orders from the pitiless Great Guidance, Ro-Man wavers in his pursuit of human annihilation when he falls in love with a girl (Claudia Barrett). Can dashing young Roy (George Nader) save her?
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My sensors have detected the presence of a Robot Monster!
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