Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales Gets UK Blu-ray Debut From Treasured Films
Tom Holland has spent a sizeable chunk of his career making horror fans afraid of things that really shouldn’t be causing this much trouble. Dolls, vampires living next door and occasionally people called Jerry have all fallen within his jurisdiction, and now one of the director’s lesser-known trips into the genre is getting some welcome attention from Treasured Films.
The UK label has announced a Limited Edition Blu-ray of Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales, bringing Holland’s horror anthology to Blu-ray in the UK for the first time on 22 February 2027.
Limited to 2,000 units, the release will package the nine-story anthology with newly produced interviews, archival material, a collector’s booklet and double-sided poster. Those ordering directly from the Treasured Films webstore can also get an exclusive Beast magnet, limited to just 300.
For Holland fans who somehow exhausted their annual allocation of Fright Night and Child’s Play, February just became considerably more interesting.
Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales Brings Together Some Familiar Horror Faces
Originally produced as an anthology project for FEARnet, Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales arrived in 2013 before the stories were subsequently collected for home video in 2014. Holland wrote and directed the project, as well as serving as host, introducing viewers to a collection of stories involving everything from vampires and witches to demonic possession, dark magic and technology behaving extremely badly.
It is the cast, however, that should immediately get horror fans rummaging around for their wallets.
Danielle Harris, forever part of horror history thanks to Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, appears alongside William Forsythe, whose own genre credits include Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects. Ray Wise brings some considerable Twin Peaks pedigree, while Angela Bettis will need little introduction to anybody who has seen Lucky McKee’s extraordinary May.
Elsewhere there is A.J. Bowen, Noah Hathaway, Amber Benson, James Duval, Sarah Butler, Brianne Howey and Marc Senter among a much larger ensemble. It is the kind of cast list where horror fans may find themselves repeatedly pointing at the television and announcing where they recognise somebody from, regardless of whether anyone else in the room actually asked.
The anthology format also allowed Holland to bounce between different corners of horror rather than stretching a single idea across feature length. Stories include a man being tormented by his GPS, a drug with extremely unpleasant consequences, dark supernatural forces and various other examples of people discovering that their day could, in fact, get considerably worse.
Holland’s involvement is obviously the main attraction. His genre credentials stretch far beyond the two films permanently attached to his name. He wrote and directed the original Fright Night, directed Child’s Play, helmed Thinner and The Temp, and also worked in anthology television including Tales from the Crypt and Amazing Stories. Twisted Tales therefore feels like a particularly appropriate project for him, returning Holland to the kind of compact storytelling where an entire nightmare can be established, unleashed and concluded without needing two hours and plans for a cinematic universe.
Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales Blu-ray Comes Loaded With Extras
Treasured Films isn’t simply putting the existing programme onto a disc and calling it a day. The Limited Edition includes several newly produced extras concentrating on the people behind the anthology.
Holland himself appears in the new interview Tom’s Twisted Tales, while producer Robert V. Galluzzo discusses the production in Twisted Producer. Producer Dennis DeFrehn is also interviewed for One Degree Removed from Hitchcock.
There is plenty from the archives too. Holland’s 5 or Die is represented by its teaser trailer, original 15-minute short-film version and shorter four-minute release cut. Fred and His GPS receives similar treatment, with its original teaser and eight-minute version included.
The disc also contains a Vampire Dance music video for Lisa McLowry’s Born Twice (Vampire’s Dance Remix), a ten-minute version of Vampire Dance, behind-the-scenes image gallery and trailer.
The film itself receives a high-definition Blu-ray presentation accompanied by uncompressed English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0.
Physical collectors get a new O-ring slipcase featuring artwork by Ilan Sheady of Uncle Frank Productions, a reversible sleeve offering two artwork choices, an illustrated collector’s booklet with writing by Darrell Buxton and a folded double-sided A3 poster. The aforementioned Beast magnet is exclusive to the Treasured Films webstore and limited to 300.
The overall Limited Edition is restricted to 2,000 copies, making this another relatively small run from Treasured Films rather than something collectors can necessarily assume will remain available indefinitely.
Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales has never enjoyed anything approaching the reputation of Fright Night or Child’s Play, but that is also what makes this release interesting. Boutique Blu-ray labels are at their best when they aren’t simply giving us another opportunity to buy films we’ve already purchased six times. Digging into the less celebrated corners of an important horror filmmaker’s career is exactly the sort of thing physical media can still do brilliantly.
And when that filmmaker happens to be Tom Holland and he’s brought Danielle Harris, William Forsythe, Ray Wise, Angela Bettis, A.J. Bowen and a small army of other genre favourites along for the ride, we’re quite happy to get twisted again. You can ORDER IT HERE.
