Those money grabbing multi dippers at Fox have a yet another boxset of the Planet of the Apes flicks heading States way early November. The jewel of the Blu-ray collection is a newly minted unrated extended cut of species war favourite Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The fourth in the film franchise, 1972's Conquest details man's fall in the face of a mutinous slave caste. Helter skelter! Conquest ran into trouble with the MPAA ratings board, narrowly avoiding an R rating. Test audiences also reacted badly to scenes of violent ape riot, culminating in the vicious execution of their human masters. Shorn of nine minutes and sporting a compromised call-for-mercy ending, this is the muddied version we've had to bear in the interim. Woe is us! Fox's new set purports to return Conquest its brutalist revolutionary flavour. Fingers crossed!
Check out this trailer for a compressed watch approximation.
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