Written by: Michael Den Boer on August 30th, 2010
Coming soon from Blue Underground on BluRay, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS.
International screen icon Delphine Seyrig (of LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD fame) stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an ageless Countess with a beautiful young ‘companion’ (Goth goddess Andrea Rau) and a legendary legacy of perversion. But when the two women seduce a troubled newlywed couple (French beauty Danielle Ouimet and John Karlen of DARK SHADOWS and CAGNEY & LACEY), they unleash a frenzy of sudden violence and depraved desire that shocked both art house audiences and grindhouse crowds worldwide.
Co-written and directed by Harry Kümel, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS remains one of the most exquisitely mesmerizing adult horror films ever made. Blue Underground is proud to present the uncensored Director’s Cut of this classic psychosexual shocker in luscious High Definition and packed with revealing Extras!
Extras:
• Audio Commentary #1 with Co-Writer/Director Harry Kümel
• Audio Commentary #2 with Star John Karlen and Journalist David Del Valle
• Locations of Darkness – Interviews with Co-Writer/Director Harry Kümel and Co-Writer/Co-Producer Pierre Drouot
• Playing the Victim – Interview with Star Danielle Ouimet
• Daughter of Darkness – Interview with Star Andrea Rau
• Theatrical Trailer
• Radio Spots
Video Specs: 1.66:1 1080p
Audio Specs: DTS-HD Mono
Languages: English
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, Français, Español
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: December 21st, 2010
Grindhouse Releasing Presents Flashback Weekend at the Midway Drive-In.
Grindhouse Releasing is presenting the amazing FLASHBACK WEEKEND 2010 at the MIDWAY DRIVE-IN, with star BRUCE CAMPBELL in person, screening the original EVIL DEAD plus EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS. Plus, screenings of the chainsaw classic PIECES and the ’60′s gore flick THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS! We are so happy that Mike Kerz is putting on this great event, and urge you to support this by posting the Flashback Weekend press release (scroll down below) to your websites, blogs, Facebook, etc.
Reminder to our L.A. friends: Duke Mitchell’s GONE WITH THE POPE plays this Friday, Aug. 27, back for the 3rd time at the New Beverly Cinema! The movie opens in Nashville, TN at the Belcourt Theatre Sept. 3 & 4 (www.belcourt.org), and it returns to Landmark’s Sunshine in NYC Sept. 17 & 18. Visit www.GonewiththePope.com for more screening dates and information about the film hailed as “A MASTERPIECE” (Detroit Metro Times) and “THE HOLY GRAIL FOR LOVERS OF B-MOVIES” (Film Radar)!
This Friday & Saturday Aug. 27 & 28, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST is screening at the Hi-Pointe Theatre in St. Louis, continuing our shows with DESTROY THE BRAIN ONLINE. This is the original – the one that goes all the way! Visit http://www.hi-pointetheatre.com/midnitemovies for details.
And this Saturday, Aug. 28, we are premiering a brand-new 35mm print of Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester. Since the producers of EVIL DEAD went back into the vaults for Blu-ray, the film will be seen for the first time in the original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/films/the-evil-dead/
Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND screens Sept. 3 & 4 at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma, WA, the first in a monthly series of screenings we are doing with Sean “The Butcher” Smithson.
We’re also excited about the Sept. 25 BRUTAL CINEMA screening of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST with star CARL YORKE in person, double-billed for the first time with our restored, uncensored 35mm print of CANNIBAL FEROX (a.k.a. MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY, “a 98 on the vomit meter!” – Joe Bob Briggs.) “Black metal horror disgust” band DIABOLOS will perform live.Visit http://www.myspace.com/brutalcinema for all the details.
Thanks to all who have supported our mission to keep movies alive on the big screen. Hope some of you can use this news online – and stay tuned, we have a big release coming on another controversial film that will terrorize theaters soon!
THE ORIGINAL DEMON ZOMBIE CLASSICS – DEMONS & DEMONS 2 ARE JOINED BY THE ALL-NEW DEMONS 3!
Arrow Video are proud to announce that in 2010 they will bring to DVD all-new transfers of the classic Dario Argento produced and Lamberto Bava directed horror classic – Demons and Demons 2. Included within each DVD package will be all-new extra features specially shot for the releases plus a two-part comic book sequel – Demons 3!
DEMONS
“Live and direct, straight from HELL!”
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you THE Gonzo Horror movie of the 1980s with Demons, a frenzied slice of gore heavy shock cinema that gives up on logic and instead assaults the screen with a riot of X-Rated violence, face chewing Zombies and pounding Heavy Metal.
In a mysterious cinema, an audience are watching a brutal horror flick when the horror rips out of the screen, unleashing a swarm of slathering Demons who are intent on spreading their evil plague across the globe.
Time to tool up and take no prisoners… The Demons are coming!
THIS AMAZING EDITION OF DEMONS INCLUDES:
- Four artwork panel option reversible sleeve with original poster and video artwork housed in a
slipcase with additional fifth artwork panel with all-new Jeff Zornow artwork recreated in foil
overlayed on matt black.
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Collector’s Booklet featuring brand new writing on Demons by Calum Wadell
- All new exclusive collector’s comic
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- The audio recollections of Director Lamberto Bava, Special Make-Up Creations Artist Sergio
Stivaletti and Journalist Loris Curci
- Interview with producer Dario Argento
- Interview with composer Claudio Simonetti
- Longtime Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi on the history of Italian horror
DEMONS 3 – THE COMIC – PARTS 1 & 2
DEMONS 3: Not ‘The Ogre’. Not ‘The Church’. Not even ‘Black Demons’! For the first time ever, Arrow Video present an original sequel to the cult classics. It is the 16th Century, the time of the plague in Southern France. Amid the carnage, a new evil is starting to take form and only one man can see it. That man is Nostradamus, but are his horrid visions of the future signs of what will come to pass? Can he stop the Demons from entering into our world? An all-new epic tale of demonic dismemberment brought to you from the writing team of Stefan Hutchinson and Barry Keating, with artwork by Jeff Zornow and Marcus Smith!
Coming Soon From Cult Epics: A New Line of Cinema in HD Quality for Men and Women Alike!
Radley Metzger’s Score
Having explored heterosexual obsessions in the critically acclaimed Camille 2000 and The Lickerish Quartet and The Image, erotic cult director Radley Metzger goes all the way in the Score, a tale of a happily married couple (Claire Wilbur, Gerald Grant) who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of naive newlyweds (Lynn Lowry “I Drink Your Blood”, Cal Culver) during a weekend get-together at their Riviera Villa.
An erotic classic, populated with strikingly beautiful people who are into free love – “dressing up” and the fine art of seduction.
Extras:
• On the set of The Score – A 25 minute featurette with Claire Wilbur, Lynn Lowry, Cal Culver and Radley Metzger
• Keeping Score with Lynn Lowry – A 20 minute new interview
• Audio commentary with Michael Bowen and Radley Metzger
• Trailers
Video Specs: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen – New, Restored High-definition Transfer
Audio Specs: Dolby Digital Mono English
Region Code: 1
DVD Suggested Retail Price: $29.95
Blu-Ray Suggested Retail Price: $34.95
Street Date: October 26th, 2010
MY SON, MY SON WHAT HAVE YE DONE
Werner Herzog and David Lynch Collaborate for the First Time with this Psychological Thriller Starring Academy Award® Nominees Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe
Available on DVD with Special Features September 14
LOS ANGELES, CA (August 5, 2010) – Absurda, Industrial Entertainment and First Look Studios present My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done, the first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog. Academy Award® Nominees Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe headline this psychological thriller, written and directed by Herzog, produced by Lynch, and featuring Grace Zabriskie, Udo Kier, and Brad Dourif.
The film plus special features will be available on DVD September 14 for a suggested retail price of $24.98. The extras include: 5.1 Dolby sound, commentaries by Herzog, writer Herb Golder and producer Eric Bassett; interviews with Golder and Herzog; plus behind-the-scenes footage. The bonuses include Plastic Bag, a short film by director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) that traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag voiced by Herzog.
My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done is loosely based on the mysterious true crime story of a young stage actor who, obsessed with a Greek tragedy he’s rehearsing, slays his own mother with a sword. David Jenkins of Time Out London gave the film five stars, calling it: “dazzling and utterly distinctive.” Dennis Dermody of Paper raved: “One of the Best Films of the Year.” Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York said: “Mesmerizing strangeness … recalls the cowriter-director’s 1976 masterpiece, Heart of Glass.” V.A. Musetto of The New York Post called it: “A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses.”
Shannon, who will star in HBO’s new Boardwalk Empire this fall, perfectly inhabits the role of Brad Macallam, a man terribly at odds with the world around him. His story emerges in a series of flashbacks that take us on a journey that includes the Peruvian wilds, an ostrich farm, a Mexican border town and a quiet San Diego neighborhood where the drama unfolds.
DVD EXTRAS:
5.1 Dolby sound
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Commentary track with Werner Herzog, Herb Golder and Eric Bassett
Interviews with Werner Herzog and Herb Golder
Behind-the-scenes footage
Previews
Short Film –Plastic Bag (narrated by Werner Herzog)
Coming Soon from Mya Communication.
September 28th, 2010
Forbidden Dreams
Sexy Radio
The Girl From Cortina
Red Hot Zorro
October 26th, 2010
November 23rd, 2010
Coming soon from Terracotta Distribution.
‘Zombie Strippers’ meets ‘The Evil Dead’ Japanese style in Big Tits Zombie, an insane horror-comedy that delivers everything the title promises and much, much more… and all in eye-popping, in-your-face 3D!
Written and directed by Takao Nakano, the man who brought you ‘Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy’, ‘Sumo Vixens’ and the ‘ExorSister’ movies, Big Tits Zombie is based on Rei Mikamoto’s infamous manga, ‘Kyonyu Dragon’, and stars legendary Japanese porn idols Sola Aoi and Risa Kasumi, the hugely popular pin-up model, Mari Sakurai, and controversial comedian, Minoru Torihada.
Recently returned to Japan from a stint in Mexico, exotic dancer Lena Jodo (Aoi) gets what she hopes will be a temporary gig dancing at a run-down hot springs resort in a deserted suburban town. Her fellow strippers – Ginko (Kasumi), Maria (Sakuri), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa) – seem to spend most of their downtime sitting around bitching at each other, until one afternoon, after discovering a hidden door in their dressing room, they decide to break the monotony by venturing into the club’s basement. There, they unearth a mysterious well and, nearby, a dusty volume that Maria declares is a rare copy of the Book of the Dead.
Reading aloud from the tome, Maria inadvertently summons the dead back to life and soon Japan is overrun by rampaging flesh-eaters. For the strippers, however, that’s of no interest. For the time being, at least, the only zombies they are worried about are those who have descended upon their club and are ready to chow down on their bare, tasty and voluptuous bodies. What’s worse, though, is that Maria, on discovering she has the power to control the undead as her slaves, has gone power mad and is intent on ruling the world with the help of her zombie army. Arming themselves with some swords and chainsaws that are handily lying around, the remaining busty babes are forced to employ their formidable ass-kicking skills in a fight to the un-death!
Chainsaw-wielding cowgirls, bloody decapitations, eyeball lollipops, zombie sushi, human buffets, samurai sword slashing strippers, gratuitous nudity, the most inappropriate flame thrower ever and a gorgeous Goth-Lolita villain who is literally to die for are just a few of the delights on offer in Big Tits Zombie, which comes to DVD as a single disc release featuring both 2D and 3D versions of the movie.
Big Tits Zombie 3D (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£14.99) by Terracotta Distribution on 11th October 2010. Special Features include: cast interviews; ‘Making of’ featurette; deleted scenes; photo gallery; trailers.
Coming soon from Blue Underground. Tinto Brass’ Uncensored Director’s Cut!
Berlin, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, power-mad SS Officer Wallenberg (Helmut Berger of THE DAMNED) is ordered to find and train Germany’s most beautiful women to work in the opulent brothel of Madam Kitty (Ingrid Thulin of CRIES AND WHISPERS). Here these Nazi nymphs will submit to the bizarre passions and carnal degradations of the Reich’s highest-ranking men and women while Wallenberg secretly records their acts for blackmail. But when an innocent young prostitute (Teresa Ann Savoy of CALIGULA) uncovers the conspiracy, her revenge will ignite a holocaust of pain, pleasure and shocking sexual perversion. The story is true. The depravity is real. The film is SALON KITTY.
John Steiner (TENEBRE), Tina Aumont (TORSO) and John Ireland (RED RIVER) co-star in this infamous epic co-written and directed by Tinto Brass and featuring exquisite production design by Oscar® winner Ken Adam (BARRY LYNDON, GOLDFINGER). Released in America as the heavily censored MADAM KITTY, this controversial shocker has been newly transferred and fully restored in opulent High Defintion from the director’s own personal vault materials featuring extended scenes of unspeakable sexual atrocities.
Extras:
• Inside Salon Kitty – Interview with Director Tinto Brass
• Designing Salon Kitty – Interview with Production Designer Ken Adam
• International Trailer
• U.S. Trailer
• Radio Spots
Video Specs: 1.85:1 1080p
Audio Specs: DTS-HD Mono
Languages: English, Italian
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, Français, Español, English on Italian Version
Suggested Retail Price: $34.98
Street Date: November 23, 2010
Severin Films To Give Undead Biker Classic “PSYCHOMANIA” Special Edition Treatment.
The grooviest zombie biker movie of them all is being exhumed and, after years of shoddy bootlegs and sub-par presentations, is getting the Special Edition treatment from Severin. Psychomania stars Beryl Reed (Beast In The Cellar) and, in his last performance, George Sanders (Village Of The Damned) who perfect a formula to return from the grave via some sort of satanic toad worship. Said formula is then used by young Tommy and his biker gang, The Living Dead, who after offing themselves in a variety of creative ways, free-wheel back from the dead to wreak havoc on a small English town. This uber-black British horror-comedy (which has one of the greatest and most original soundtracks of its era) was a staple of late night TV for years but has never been seen like this thanks to a stunning new high definition transfer. Recent interviews were shot in London with stars Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Denis Gilmore, Roy Holder and Rocky Taylor, while soundtrack composer John Cameron (Kes, Jack The Ripper) and ‘Riding Free’ crooner Harvey Andrews not only reminisced but treated us to renditions of their otherworldly work on the film. Also on the extras slate is an intro from Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander. This will be yet another amazing Severin restoration that any fan of 70s horror should not be without. Coming soon in October!
Link to ‘Riding Free’ song in PSYCOMANIA.
Link to Harvey Andrews interview and playing ‘Riding Free’ song today.
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF UNDERWORLD. NOW IT’S TIME FOR A SHOWDOWN.
The second feature from British director Steve Lawson (Just For The Record), the vampires-meet-gangsters horror romp Dead Cert marks a welcome return to a fun, almost traditional British horror filmmaking style that affectionately evokes the spirit of the contemporary-set movies of Amicus and Hammer – particularly the latter’s ‘Dracula A.D. 1972′ and ‘The Satanic Rites Of Dracula’.
An inventive hybrid of the vampire and Cockney gangster movie genres that comes complete with all the standard ingredients of both – creepy monsters, beautiful, scantily-clad women, tough-talking wise guys, guns, stakes, gratuitous bloodshed and a seemingly crazy vampire hunter – Dead Cert features a star-studded cast of familiar British acting talent that includes Craig Fairbrass (The Shouting Men; The Bank Job; Rise Of The Footsoldier), Billy Murray (Rise Of The Footsoldier; Essex Boys), Dexter Fletcher (Kick-Ass), hot newcomer Lisa McAllister (How To Lose Friends And Alienate People; Pumpkinhead: Ashes To Ashes), Steven Berkoff (44 Inch Chest), Dave Legeno (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince), Jason Flemying (Clash Of The Titans; Kick-Ass) and, in a brilliantly judged cameo, Danny Dyer (Dead Man Running; Adulthood).
When respected but small-time gangster Freddie ‘Dead Cert’ Frankham (Craig Fairbrass) is unexpectedly given the chance to make a tentative leap into the big leagues with the opening of his new nightclub in London’s East End, he doesn’t quite realize what he is getting into. Unknown to Freddie and his partners, the club stands on the former site of a Black Church, established as a temple of evil in the 17th Century by a Romanian warlord-turned-vampire known as The Wolf. Flushed out of the city by emissaries of the Vatican during the Great Fire of London, and since then exiled in mainland Europe, The Wolf and his undead disciples have now returned to England to continue their diabolical plans to expand their legions and overcome mankind.
On the opening night of the club, Freddie is approached by an uninvited guest in the form of Dante Livienko, an Eastern European businessman, gangster and drug-dealer with a fearsome reputation. Livienko and his
associates want ownership of the club and are prepared to make Freddie an offer he can’t refuse in order to get what they want. But to Freddie, his new, legitimate business means far more to him than money and he’s not about to give up his hard-earned turf without a fight. What he doesn’t know, but is soon to find out, is the man he is about to cross is a 500-year-old vampire determined to rebuild his empire of evil on its original, unhallowed site.
Produced by horror specialists Black & Blue Films and recalling the previously mentioned Hammer classics, as well as later vampire movies such as ‘Vamp’ and ‘The Lost Boys’, Dead Cert is a bloodsucking feast with more
bite than most and one that horror fans will definitely enjoy getting their teeth into – especially now that it has been selected for the opening night of the prestigious FrightFest horror film festival.
The World Premiere of Dead Cert will take place 11.30pm on Thursday 27th August at The Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London, on the opening night of the FrightFest horror film festival. Talent confirmed as attending include Craig Fairbrass, Lisa McAllister, Billy Murray, Dexter Fletcher, Jennifer Matter and screen legend Steven Berkoff along with director Steve Lawson, Executive Producer Martin Kemp and Producer Jonathan Sothcott who commented, “I’m so excited we’re going to Frightfest – it really is the best horror film festival in Europe and its a real honour that they’ve taken Dead Cert. Craig Fairbrass and I went last year and were blown away by what a quality event it is.”
Dead Cert (cert. 18 tbc) will be released on DVD (£15.99) by Momentum Pictures on 27th September 2010. Special Features include: audio commentary; ‘Making of’ featurette.
The Notorious Horror Classic Returns In An All-New 30th Anniversary Special Edition!
Frank Zito (a career performance by co-writer/co-executive producer Joe Spinell of ROCKY and THE GODFATHER fame) is a deeply disturbed man, haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. And when these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of New York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Now Frank has begun a relationship with a beautiful photographer (Caroline Munro of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), yet his vile compulsions remain. These are the atrocities of a human monster. This is the story of a MANIAC.
Directed by William Lustig (MANIAC COP, VIGILANTE) and featuring landmark gore effects by Tom Savini (DAWN OF THE DEAD, FRIDAY THE 13th), this relentlessly shocking and disturbing film was originally censored all over the world due to its graphic violence. Blue Underground is now proud to present MANIAC in a new 2K High Definition transfer from the original uncut and uncensored negative, loaded with hours of brand new Extras!
Disc 1 Extras:
• Audio Commentary #1 with Co-Producer/Director William Lustig and Co-Producer Andrew W. Garroni
• Audio Commentary #2 with Co-Producer/Director William Lustig, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Tom Savini, Editor Lorenzo Marinelli, and Joe Spinell’s Assistant Luke Walter
• Anna and the Killer – Interview with Star Caroline Munro
• The Death Dealer – Interview with Special Make-Up Effects Artist Tom Savini
• Dark Notes – Interview with Composer Jay Chattaway
• Maniac Men – Interview with Songwriters Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky
• Theatrical Trailers
• TV Spots
• Radio Spots
Disc 2 Extras:
• The Joe Spinell Story
• MANIAC Publicity
• MANIAC Controversy
Video Specs: 1.85:1 1080p
Audio Specs: 7.1 DTS-HD; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Dolby Surround 2.0
Languages: English, French, Italian, German
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, Français, Español, Português, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: October 26th, 2010