Overview: The cult martial arts classic available for the first time ever on Blu-ray with hours of bonus features. Simon, a fierce Kung Fu master, ventures into the city’s gritty underbelly for answers to his sister’s death.

There, a cunning spiritual master deceives him, plotting to snatch his piece of an ancient amulet he shared with her. Unraveling the scheme, Simon plunges fists and feet first into a bone-crushing battle for the fate of the world against an alien army of karate wizards, dragons, a new wave clone band, talking pigs and mystical chickens!

One of the most bizarre domestic martial arts movies ever made, Furious throws the 1980s home video chopsocky craze in a blender with elements of the supernatural, horror and superhero genres, by way of an improvised MTV video.

Featuring Hollywood martial arts legends Simon and Phillip Rhee (Best of the Best, The Matrix, Inception) in their first ever starring roles and who also handled all the non-stop action choreography on display in the film.

Blu-ray Verdict: As the story goes, Furious was shot in six days (they would have done seven, but the two leads went to Tijuana to get drunk!) with only enough negative to shoot 90 minutes, and no final script. In essence, nearly every inch of film they shot is in this movie (minus flash frames).

Shot mostly in sequence, what you see when you watch Furious is young, creative people actively figuring out a movie as they make it. With all that the filmmakers had against them, including their own disbelief that they would be able to turn out a finished product, I felt I could sense the movie fighting against its own existence whilst watching it.

It’s like a scene in an action movie when a guy has been badly beaten and shot multiple times but keeps trudging forward. Furious actually gets better and better as it goes along, getting weirder, more deliberately humorous, and quicker paced. I feel like a broken record, but again, this is what independent film could be if, as Tim Everitt points out in the archival commentary, young filmmakers were more ambitious and didn’t feel confined to filming conversations with their friends in apartments.

Oh, and interestingly, apparently the long credit scroll at the end of Furious is filled with fake names to add to the running time of the movie. The optical house that printed their credits happened to have leftover elements from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. They shifted the column containing the first names down a row so they no longer matched up to the correct last names and printed those as the Furious credits. Unbelievable!

Special Features:
Region Free Blu-ray
New SD master from original tape elements
Archival commentary with co-director Tim Everitt
Commentary with Justin Decloux of The Important Cinema Club and Peter Kuplowsky of the Toronto International Film Festival
High Kicking In Hollywood: Co-director Tom Sartori Interview
The Kung Fu Kid: Co-director Tim Everitt Interview
North American No-Budget Martial Arts Cinema Primer - Justin Decloux Video Essay
Rhee Brothers Career Overview - Justin Decloux Video Essay
Archival Scarecrow Video Podcast with Tim Everitt (2013)
Furious New Wave Band - Behind The Scenes Super 8 Footage
Scorched Earth Policy: Full Six Song EP (1987)
Cinema Face: Live in Concert (1986)
Tom Sartori 1980s Music Video Reel
Tom Sartori Super 8 Short Films Reel
Original Trailers
Visual Vengeance Trailer
Limited Edition Slipcase by The Dude - FIRST PRESSING ONLY
Limited Edition Throwing Star Key Tag - FIRST PRESSING ONLY
Reversible Sleeve Featuring Original VHS Art
Folded mini-poster reproduction of original Furious one sheet
2-sided insert with alternate art
Stick Your Own VHS Sticker Set
Optional English subtitles

Official Purchase Link