Image Entertainment Announces the Sept. 11 DVD Release of the Ultimate Halloween Spook Show, ``Monsters Crash the Pajama Party''

Business Wire, August 21, 2001

Entertainment Editors

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2001

Two Pairs of 3-D Glasses In Each Package for 3-D Short, "The Asylum of the Insane"; DVD Loaded with Rare Spook Show Trailers, Spooky Musical Soundies, a Gallery of Spook Show Stills, Audio Commentaries and more.

Image Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq:DISK), a leading licensee and distributor of DVD programming in North America, today announced the Sept. 11 DVD release of "Monsters Crash The Pajama Party" in time for Halloween.

The 214-minute disc will be packaged with two pairs of 3-D glasses and is loaded with bonus materials.

"Monsters Crash The Pajama Party" is a spook show spectacular for the whole family complete with campy ghost stories, mad scientists, asylums and monsters. The three-hour-plus spooktacular begins with the 1965 theatrical featurette about terrified teens who spend a night in a haunted house complete with insane doctor and ghoulish gang.

The fright show continues with music by The Dead Elvi, the illustrated essay, "How to Put on Your Own Spook Show," a feature-length chiller "Tormented," 45 minutes of rare spook show previews, a gallery of 300 spooky stills, an audio commentary by Ghostmasters Philip "Dr. Evil" Morris and Harry "Dr. Jekyl" Wise, and much more.

Eyes are sure to pop out of their sockets with the 3-D short, "The Asylum of the Insane." Each DVD will be packaged with two pairs of 3-D glasses, which allow viewers to experience the short in true 3-D Spookarama Vision.

Image Entertainment Inc. is a leading aggregator of content for DVD with nearly 1,500 Image-exclusive DVD titles in release. The company also has exclusive videocassette, broadcast, streaming video and downloading rights for certain properties.

The company maintains its distribution facility in Las Vegas and is one of the largest distributors of DVD programming in North America. Image has distribution agreements in Japan, China and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, and throughout most of Europe for select programming on DVD and videotape as well as for broadcast.

Additionally, the company owns and operates an e-commerce subsidiary, DVDPlanet.com. Visit Image Entertainment online at: www.image-entertainment.com.

Monsters Crash the Pajama Party

DVD Catalog No. ID0805SWDVD

DVD UPC No. 014381080520

DVD SRP: $19.99

Order Date: 8/14/01

Street Date: 9/11/01