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Arrow have released details of their November discs, which include the movie based on JG Ballard’s Crash.

David Cronenberg’s Crash will be released on UHD and Blu-ray on November 30. James Spader stars as James Ballard, an advertising executive whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr Helen Remington (Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.

The new release is taking from an NC-17 print, supervised by Cronenberg, with a new commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin, and interviews with key crew members including the director of photography and composer.

A week earlier, on November 23,  comes a collection of films from William Grefé. Bringing together seven of Grefé’s most outlandish features, all new to Blu-ray, this boxset packs in a macabre menagerie of demented jellyfish men (Sting of Death), zombified witch doctors (Death Curse of Tartu), homicidal hippies (The Hooked Generation) and seductive matrons (The Naked Zoo) – not to mention such titles as The Psychedelic Priest, Mako: Jaws of Death and Whiskey Mountain. There’s also a brand new, extended version of Ballyhoo Motion Pictures’ definitive documentary They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé, and a previously unpublished print interview.