The obscure Rutger Hauer/Joan Chen Mad Max-type motion movie is seeing new life with a model new uncut restoration.
Earlier this 12 months, we tried to spotlight a number of the extra obscure movie titles that haven’t seen their day within the solar previous a VHS launch. In our record for 10 Onerous to Discover Films, we included the 1989 post-apocalypse movie The Blood of Heroes, which additionally carried the alternate title The Salute of the Jugger. This post-apocalyptic motion film comes from David Webb Peoples, the author of Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Soldier. It was a uncommon directorial effort that reteamed him with Rutger Hauer, who stars reverse a younger Joan Chen and Vincent D’Onofrio. Authorized rights limbo has stored this one obscure in North America, with varied cuts circulating in unhealthy transfers.
The rights points appear to have now been resolved, as Umbrella Leisure introduced on their Fb web page that they’re releasing a brand new uncut 4K switch of the movie, which can sport the alternate title The Salute of the Jugger. This remastering has been supervised by the cinematographer, David Eggby, who can also be identified for Mad Max, which The Blood of Heroes takes inspiration from.
Their put up reads,
“With our first announcement, we’re thrilled to disclose Umbrella’s new UNCUT 4K restoration of the post-apocalyptic gladiator showdown THE SALUTE OF THE JUGGER (aka THE BLOOD OF HEROES), supervised by cinematographer David Eggby (Mad Max) and starring the long-lasting Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Canine skulls on sticks, tires for helmets, underground cities, and wounds sewn shut with fish hooks. A future the place pleasure comes earlier than life and mud coats each inch of pores and skin the place there isn’t dried blood. Desires of heroics with no alternative however to chunk, scratch, and claw – tooth and nail – to victory!
Directed by the author of Blade Runner and Unforgiven, David Webb Peoples, and that includes Toecutter/Immortan Joe himself Hugh Keays-Byrne, this dystopian motion sci-fi utilises the barren Australian outback as an limitless area for brutal head-to-head and head-to-hammer face-offs between hardened groups of Juggers.
A non secular successor to the Mad Max franchise, that includes much more crossover from editor Richard Francis-Bruce to actor Max Fairchild, this collision of cinematic worlds stays probably the most underrated movies of its period and returns now to bolster its standing as a stone-cold cult traditional!
The Salute of the Jugger joins our latest slate of 4K restorations together with {Hardware}, Wake in Fright, Lake Mungo, Black Sheep, and much more to be introduced this week.”