Meet Maniac Director William Lustig at FPNYC!

Thursday, October 25th 6-8pm!

October 16, 2018 Matt Desiderio Events, Movies and TV, Signings 0

William Lustig Forbidden Planet NYC signing Maniac Maniac Cop director producer

Horror fans, prepare to freak out! Forbidden Planet is beyond excited to announce an in-store meet and greet with none other than William Lustig! He is an exploitation titan with an insane list of genre-defining films like Maniac, Vigilante, and the Maniac Cop series on his directorial resume. Coupled with his work restoring and releasing under-appreciated cult classics through his company, Blue Underground, Lustig is and continues to be one of the most important and influential people in the world of genre cinema. Oh yeah, and he’s from the Bronx.

On Thursday, October 25th from 6 to 8 PM come down to Forbidden Planet NYC for an exclusive opportunity to meet William Lustig and pre-order the brand new Blu-ray release of the seminal New York City horror classic, Maniac. This limited edition Maniac Blu-ray is a new 4K restoration from the original 16mm camera negative and will not be available until December 11th, but if you come down to the event and pre-order a copy, you will receive the Blu-ray cover and a limited edition poster to get signed. Then, when the product is officially released, you can come back to Forbidden Planet to pick up your copy. But wait, that’s not all! Maniac will have a special reduced price of 29.99 at the event, what more could you ask for?

Immediately available at the signing will be DVD and Blu-ray copies of Lustig’s other films.

Can’t make it out to our William Lustig signing, but really wanna get your hands on an autographed copy of the new Blu-ray of Maniac? Forbidden Planet will have a limited amount of Blu-Ray/poster pre-orders available on our website, but we will not ship them until after the actual product is released on December 11th.

Who: Meet director William Lustig!
What: Pre-order Maniac 3-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray with new 4K restoration.
When: Thursday October 25th from 6 – 8 PM
Where: Forbidden Planet NYC 832 Broadway NY, NY
What else: Facebook event page!

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Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick. E-mail him at Mattdfpnyc@gmail.com Follow him on various social media at @horrorboobs