This past June, Cinepocalypse screened a 35mm print of the newly-unearthed “gore cut” of 1994’s Tammy and the T-Rex, a bloody and “R” rated version of the film that our own Patrick Bromley called “an instant cult classic” in his review for us out of the festival.

Bromley raved, “Heads are bitten off, people are disemboweled, skulls are crushed, bodies are flattened, all with the kind of gory excess that recalls the splatstick comedies of Peter Jackson rather than the realism of Tom Savini. It’s completely out of place in a film that really can’t support it, but has now become part of what makes Tammy and the T-Rex such an odd, singular experience.”

Announced today, Vinegar Syndrome‘s new 4K restoration of the rated “R” version of the film is playing at Fantastic Fest, and more importantly, it’s getting a Blu-ray release!

Vinegar Syndrome promised, “Blu-ray (of course) will be available during our Black Friday sale in November…it will be worth the wait!”

In the Stewart Raffill-directed Tammy and the T-Rex, starring Denise Richards as Tammy and an animatronic dinosaur as, well, the T-Rex, “An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, into an Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy.”

The late Paul Walker also starred in the sci-fi/comedy!