CHAW Now on Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray as CHAWZ

Source: Magnolia Home Entertainment press release, Bender/Helper Impact Official Movie Site: chawzmovie.com

When a wild, man-eating boar goes on a rampage in a small Korean village, all bets are off in the inventive black comedy horror romp CHAWZ (??, 2009), now on Blu-ray and Region 1 DVD from Magnolia Home Entertainment under the Magnet Releasing label. From the acclaimed CGI specialists at Polygon Entertainment and directed by Jeong-won Shin, CHAWZ pays homage to the classic monster movies of the past with intertwined hilarity. The movie was shown in Korea and internationally as CHAW, with the name both a play on the English word `chew` and meaning `to trap` in the Korean dialect of the Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces. For the American release, Magnet slightly altered the film`s title to CHAWZ as a very intentional reference to the 1975 classic JAWS. The US distributor played this up in publicity for the film, with Magnet SVP Tom Quinn stating, "If JAWS was looking to branch out to dry land, without a doubt he’d want to be CHAWZ.” With gory bonus features including three featurettes, deleted scenes, and Q&A session from the premiere event, the CHAWZ Blu-ray Disc and DVD are available for the suggested retail price of $29.98 and $26.98, respectively. Synopsis A young police officer is transferred from Seoul to a small village in the countryside for duty when he jokingly checked the box to be deployed “anywhere.” Arriving at the village, he encounters a bumbling police force who is working with a special detective to resolve some recent murders. As the bodies add up, it becomes clear that the gruesome deaths are attributed to a beast of an animal with a voracious appetite for human flesh. A famous hunter and his team are called in to track and destroy the man-eater. During their tracking expedition, they are confronted by a boar of massive size and strength, which they discover may be a result of experimentation during wartimes. Unprepared and unarmed for taking down the mutant creature, the group must disband as the hunters become the hunted. DVD and Blu-ray Specs Running Time: 122 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audio: Korean, English (DVD)/ Korean, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. (Blu-ray) Subtitles: English, Spanish MPAA Rating: R SRP: $26.98 (DVD)/ $29.98 (Blu-ray) Street Date: April 26, 2011 Bonus Features • Three Making of CHAWZ Featurettes: Attack of the Man-Eating Wild Boar, Five-Man Pursuit, Horror vs. Comedy • Deleted Scenes with Director`s Commentary • Blooper Reel Poster Shots • Q&A Session Premiere Event • International Trailer

About Magnet Releasing

Magnet is the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, specializing in films from the vanguard of horror, action, comedy and Asian cinema, and is home to such films as Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi masterpiece MONSTERS, Tomas Alfredson’s LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, Neil Marshall’s sword and sandals bloodbath CENTURION, John Woo’s historical epic RED CLIFF, Ty West’s terrifying THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, Tony Jaa’s ONG BAK trilogy, Nicholas Winding Refn’s BRONSON, the Spanish horror film [REC]2, and George A. Romero’s SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD. Magnolia Pictures is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a vertically integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that also include the Landmark Theatres chain, the production company 2929 Productions, and high-definition cable network HDNet.

About Magnolia Home Entertainment

Magnolia Home Entertainment is the home video division of Magnolia Pictures. Launched in November 2005, the company releases a diversified slate of films both under Magnolia Home Entertainment and the Magnet label, including James Marsh’s Academy Award-winning MAN ON WIRE, Academy Award nominated documentary FOOD, INC., Academy Award nominated documentary NO END IN SIGHT, Academy Award nominated documentary, JESUS CAMP, Alex Gibney’s Academy Award nominated documentary ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, Steven Soderbergh’s BUBBLE, Roger Donaldson’s THE WORLD`S FASTEST INDIAN and Bong Joon-Ho’s THE HOST. Magnolia Home Entertainment is part of a vertically-integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that includes distributor Magnolia Pictures, the Landmark Theatres chain, production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, and high-definition cable networks HDNet and HDNet Movies. For more information visit magpictures.com.

For more information, videos, and images from CHAW please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan: