‘The Cell’ Celebrates 25th Anniversary With 4K Ultra HD Release from Arrow Video

The Cell will enter the mind of a killer on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on January 21, 2025 via Arrow Video. The 2000 psychological sci-fi horror film will be celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Fall) directs from a script by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor). Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D’Onofrio star with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber, and Dylan Baker.

The theatrical and director’s cuts have been newly restored in 4K, approved by Singh, with Dolby Vision. An alternate version of the theatrical cut created by director of photography Paul Laufer is also included.

Disc 1 – 4K UHD:

  • Theatrical cut (107 min)
  • Director’s cut (109 min)
  • Audio commentary with film scholars Josh Nelson & Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (new)
  • Audio commentary with screenwriter Mark Protosevich & film critic Kay Lynch (new)
  • Audio commentary with director Tarsem Singh
  • Audio commentary with director of photography Paul Laufer, production designer Tom Foden, makeup supervisor Michèle Burke, costume designer April Napier, visual effects supervisor Kevin Tod Haug, and composer Howard Shore
  • Projection of the Mind’s Eye – Feature-length interview with director Tarsem Singh (new)
  • Between Two Worlds – Interview with director of photography Paul Laufer (new)

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

  • Alternate version of theatrical cut – presented in 1.78:1 aspect ratio with different grading from a 2K master created by director of photography Paul Laufer (new)
  • Interview with director of photography Paul Laufer about the alternate version (new)
  • Art is Where You Find It – Visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (new)
  • The Costuming Auteur – Visual essay by film critic Abby Bender (new)
  • Style as Substance: Reflections on Tarsem
  • 8 deleted/extended scenes with optional commentary by Tarsem Singh
  • 6 multi-angle visual effects vignettes
  • Theatrical trailers
  • Image gallery

Also included:

  • Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Savieri
  • Collector’s book with new writing on the film by critics Heather Drain, Marc Edward Heuck, Josh Hurtado, and Virat Nehru

In her 20th anniversary retrospective of the film, Meagan Navarro wrote, “The Cell makes for a bizarre melding of serial killer psychological horror, science fiction, and fantasy wrapped up in a dazzling bow of lush special effects and haunting production design. It’s a straightforward story rendered more complex visually. That makes it easy to see why it tends to polarize.

“Singh essentially created a horror opera, a tragedy by way of surreal and dramatic theatricality,” Meagan continued. “It’s the precise type of risky spectacle that comes along only very rarely, which is to say that you’d be hard-pressed to find much, if at all, like The Cell.

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