Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is bringing the 1996 box office hit “Twister” to 4K Ultra HD for the very first time. With its much anticipated sequel only a few weeks away, it’s a great time to revisit storm chasers Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in this thoroughly entertaining disaster thriller. The film would go on to be the second highest grossing movie of 1996 and receive Academy Award nominations for visual effects and sound. Adding to the film’s noteworthy history, it is also known for being the first feature film released on the DVD format.
This 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition with Digital Copy of “Twister” will be available for purchase on July 9th. See below for a full synopsis and release information including special features.
About the Film:
Year: 1996
Runtime: 113 Minutes
Director: Jan de Bont
Screenwriter: Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, Jeremy Davies, Lois Smith, Zach Grenier, Nicholas Sadler, Abraham Benrubi, Jake Busey, Scott Thomson
Rating: PG-13
Don’t breathe! Don’t look back! Just run for your life when a destructive force of nature comes howling straight toward you, destroying everything in its path – when you’re running from a Twister. Academy Award winner Helen Hunt stars as Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding, who as a small girl watched her father sucked to his death from her family’s storm cellar by a massive tornado. Now a storm chaser, a scientist who risks her life to study the dark side of nature by taking her data-transmitting instruments directly into the path of a deadly storm, Jo chases the largest tornado ever to strike Oklahoma as her marriage implodes and rival scientists will stop at nothing to steal her breakthrough.
Special Features:
The Twister 4K UHD Disc includes the following new and previously released special features:
- The Legacy of Twister – Taken by the Wind (NEW)
- Chasing the Storm: Twister Revisited
- Anatomy of a Twister
- The Making of Twister
- Van Halen Music Video – Humans Being
- Commentary
Keith & the Movies 
I did like this, would be good to see it before the new on comes along, which I presume will be a bit of a CGI fest.
The trailer looks pretty CGI but I admit, it also looks pretty fun.
I’ll be giving it a go 🙂
I’ve always liked this film. It is so fun to watch. Van Halen is an extra. Oh boy. That was the band’s last video they made with Sammy Hagar who really didn’t want to do it and didn’t want fans to spend $18 on a CD for the song and an instrumental by Eddie and Alex. He would be fired from the band a month later and well… it led to one of the greatest disasters in popular music.
I was more of David Lee Roth guy than a Van Hagar and I was so excited when I saw Dave being back in the band only to realize it was a lame publicity stunt that made Dave look like a fool. I was 15 when that happened but if the 4-year old me saw this. He would’ve thrown a fucking fit.
I’m pretty much equal Roth and Hagar. Both brought very different vibes and both had some killer tunes. I forgot it was their last video with Sammy.
The one good thing about that whole debacle was that it got both fans of Dave and Sammy together. Oh, and Van Halen III was not Gary Cherone’s fault. It was all Eddie’s fault.