Got word today that Anchor Bay is gearing up to release some more modern classics in the UMD format.  Read on for the press release that lays it all out:

IDT Entertainment’s Anchor Bay Entertainment proudly announces the next horror classics available on the UMD™ format: Wes Craven’s cult classic The Hills Have Eyes and Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire epic Near Dark.  Arriving March 7th, 2006, these titles also feature Dolby® Headphone for the ultimate in personal surround sound. Each disc carries an SRP of $19.98.

Designed for the PlayStation Portable™ handheld entertainment system, UMD™ provides a picture that is crisp and clear as well as being portable.  Dolby® Headphone allows listeners to experience simulated 5.1 audio playback from ordinary stereo headphones. Anchor Bay Entertainment has committed to releasing all future UMD™ titles with Dolby® Headphone encoding.

THE HILLS HAVE EYES – Wes Craven’s Cult Classic – Uncut and Uncensored! The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert. But they are not alone: Watching from the hills is a clan of marauding inbred cannibals with an unspeakable taste for human flesh and brutality.

NEAR DARK -- In the dusty heart of the American southwest, innocent country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) is seduced by a beautiful girl (Jenny Wright) into joining a roving pack of drifters led by the enigmatic Jesse (Lance Henriksen). Caleb is now trapped in a nightmare of evil that waits in the shadows, hellish mayhem that thrives on blood and horror that begins NEAR DARK.