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Scarecrow Video Pre-Book Club – January 15, 2024
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Welcome to the Pre-Book Club!
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As you probably already know, this is a new program specifically design to help those who are interested in building their own collection instead of borrowing from ours. Here's how it works:

Every Monday you will receive an email with a list of titles that will street two to three weeks later (for example, this email includes titles that will street on 1/30 and 2/6.

By replying to this email, you can let us know if there are any titles you would like to order.

Your order will be placed and your credit card on file will be charged.

When the titles arrive, we will email you and they will be ready and waiting on the street date (or we can ship them to you for an additional shipping fee).

From time to time, we will also send out emails about special sales or unique buying opportunities that we will make available to our Club.

One last thing: Release dates are subject to change, so there may be delays or items that you are expecting to see on this list may not appear. If there's anything specific, either a new release or even a catalog title you've been looking for or holding off on, let us know and we'll look into it. Thanks, and happy browsing!

Releases for the week of 1/30
Please reply to this email by 1/19 to order any of the following titles.

The Criterion Collection
Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees)

In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families—one of white landholders, one of Black tenant farmers—are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter Virgil Williams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historical realities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from Rees’s ensemble cast—including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, and Jonathan Banks—and backed by Rachel Morrison’s darkly burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance, based upon Hillary Jordan’s novel.

Special Features:
  • New 2K digital master, supervised by director Dee Rees and director of photography Rachel Morrison, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
  • New audio commentary featuring Rees
  • New documentary featuring Rees, composer Tamar-kali, editor Mako Kamitsuna, and makeup artist Angie Wells
  • New documentary made on set, featuring members of the cast and crew
  • Interview with Morrison
  • New interview with production designer David J. Bomba
  • Trailer and teaser
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Danielle Amir Jackson
Blu-ray $24.95
DVD $19.95
Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle)

A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel was a major breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again, all in a bid to outrun the banality of modern existence. Kinetically cut to an iconic soundtrack of techno, rock, and Brit-pop, this indie phenomenon chooses life in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exhilaration.

Special Features:

  • New 4K digital restoration of the uncut version of the film, supervised by director Danny Boyle, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • Audio commentary featuring Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge, and actor Ewan McGregor
  • Nine deleted scenes with commentary from the filmmakers
  • New interview with production designer Kave Quinn and costume designer Rachael Fleming
  • Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting,” a documentary featuring archival interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes footage
  • Memories of “Trainspotting,” a documentary from 2008 featuring the filmmakers as well as actors McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Ewen Bremner, and Robert Carlyle
  • Reflections from soundtrack artists Iggy Pop, Jarvis Cocker, Bobby Gillespie, Damon Albarn, Leftfield, and Underworld
  • Theatrical teaser and trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: Essays by critic Graham Fuller and author Irvine Welsh, and Welsh’s glossary of terms from the novel
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $32.95
Blu-ray $24.95
Arrow
Conan the Barbarian (1982, John Milius)

THIEF. WARRIOR. GLADIATOR. KING. Ripped from the pages of Robert E. Howard's beloved pulp stories, and brought to the screen by maverick director John Milius, Conan the Barbarian is one of the most beloved fantasy-action adventures in Hollywood history, which not only popularized a new subgenre - the sword-and-sorcery film - but also made a cinematic icon of its star, former bodybuilding sensation Arnold Schwarzenegger. In an ancient land, young Conan witnesses his family being slaughtered by an evil snake cult ransacking his village. Raised as a slave, the adult Conan (Schwarzenegger) rises up through the fighting pits, becoming an unparalleled and fearsome warrior. Unexpectedly freed, Conan and his companions - two fighters, Subotai (Gerry Lopez) and Valeria (Sandahl Bergman), as well as a Wizard (Mako) - are enlisted by King Osric (Max von Sydow) to free his daughter from the hypnotic clutches of the same cult that murdered Conan's family long ago, led by the shape-shifting sorcerer Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones). Crom has commanded it: at long last, Milius' glorious ode to the days of high adventure (co-written by Oliver Stone) has been restored in glorious 4K with hours of bonus features and a heart-racing Atmos remix that immerses you in the action, accompanied throughout by an electrifying, career-best score by the late Basil Poledouris (RoboCop). If you do not listen... then to hell with you!

Special Features:
  • 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
  • Brand new 4K restoration from the original negative by Arrow Films
  • Double-sided fold-out poster
  • Six double-sided collectors’ postcards
  • Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and John Walsh, and an archive set report by Paul M. Sammon
  • DISC ONE – FEATURE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
  • 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of three versions of the film via seamless branching: the Theatrical Cut (127 mins), the International Cut (129 mins) and the Extended Cut (130 mins)
  • Newly restored original mono audio and remixed Dolby Atmos surround audio on all three cuts
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on all three cuts
  • Archive feature commentary by director John Milius and star Arnold Schwarzenegger (Extended Cut only)
  • Brand new feature commentary by genre historian Paul M. Sammon, author of Conan: The Phenomenon (Extended Cut only)
  • Newly assembled isolated score track in lossless stereo (Extended Cut only)
  • DISC TWO – EXTRAS (BLU-RAY)
  • Conan Unchained: The Making of Conan, an archive documentary from 2000 featuring interviews with Schwarzenegger, Milius, Stone, Jones, Lopez, Bergman, Poledouris and several others
  • Designing Conan, a newly filmed interview with production artist William Stout
  • Costuming Conan, a newly filmed interview with costume designer John Bloomfield
  • Barbaric Effects, a newly filmed interview with special effects crew members Colin Arthur and Ron Hone
  • Young Conan, a newly filmed interview with actor Jorge Sanz
  • Conan & The Priest, a newly filmed interview with actor Jack Taylor
  • Cutting the Barbarian, a newly filmed interview with assistant editor Peck Prior
  • Crafting Conan’s Magic, a newly filmed interview with visual effects crew members Peter Kuran and Katherine Kean
  • Barbarians and Northmen, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Robert Eggers on the film’s influence on The Northman
  • Behind the Barbarian, a newly filmed interview with John Walsh, author of Conan the Barbarian: The Official History of the Film
  • A Line in the Sand, a newly filmed interview with Alfio Leotta, author of The Cinema of John Milius
  • Conan: The Rise of a Fantasy Legend, an archive featurette on the film’s literary and comic book roots
  • Art of Steel: Sword Makers & Masters, an archive interview with sword master Kiyoshi Yamasaki
  • Conan: From the Vault, an archive compilation of on-set cast and crew interviews
  • A Tribute to Basil Poledouris, a series of videos produced by the Úbeda Film Music Festival, including video of Poledouris conducting a concert of music from the film in 2006 (remixed in 5.1 surround) and interviews with collaborators
  • Rarely-seen electronic press kit from 1982, featuring over half an hour of on-set footage and cast and crew interviews (from a watermarked tape source)
  • Outtakes, including a deleted cameo by Milius
  • Split-screen “Valeria Battles Spirits” visual effects comparison
  • Conan: The Archives, a gallery of photos and production images from 2000
  • Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, an affectionate comic tribute to the film by Jon & Al Kaplan
  • US and International teaser and theatrical trailers
  • Image gallery
4K Ultra HD $39.95
Blu-ray $32.95
Conan the Destroyer (1984, Richard Fleischer)

THE MOST POWERFUL LEGEND OF ALL IS BACK IN A NEW ADVENTURE. After conquering the box office with his first outing as the sword-wielding Cimmerian, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in Conan the Destroyer, an exciting and action-packed sequel from veteran director Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) that amps up the fantasy-adventure and hews closer to the character's pulp and comic book origins. Still mourning the death of his beloved Valeria, Conan is given an offer he can't refuse by Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas): he will escort her niece, Princess Jehnna (Olivia d'Abo), on a quest to find a mystical horn that will awaken a slumbering god, in return for Valeria being brought back from the dead. With a new group of companions by his side - including a fierce warrior woman named Zula (Grace Jones) - Conan must battle an onslaught of evil beasts, wizards and cannibals, little suspecting that the wicked Taramis intends to betray him with the aid of her head guard, Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain). Photographed by the great Academy Award-winning cinematographer Jack Cardiff, with another rousing score by Basil Poledouris, Conan the Destroyer has finally been restored in 4K with hours of brand new bonus features taking you deeper into the legend of the thief who would be king.

Special Features:
  • Brand new 4K restoration from the original negative by Arrow Films
  • 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2160p) presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Newly restored original mono audio and remixed Dolby Atmos surround audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Archive feature commentary by director Richard Fleischer
  • Archive feature commentary by actors Olivia d’Abo and Tracey Walter
  • Archive feature commentary by actor Sarah Douglas with genre historians Kim Newman & Stephen Jones
  • Brand new feature commentary by genre historian Paul M. Sammon, author of Conan: The Phenomenon
  • Newly assembled isolated score track in lossless stereo
  • Casting the Destroyer, a newly filmed interview with casting director Johanna Ray
  • Cut from a Different Cloth, a newly filmed interview with costume designer John Bloomfield
  • Dune and the Destroyer, a newly filmed interview with art director Kevin Phipps
  • Swords, Sorcery & Stunts, a newly filmed interview with stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong
  • Behind the Destroyer, a newly filmed interview with John Walsh, author of Conan the Barbarian: The Official History of the Film
  • Conan: The Making of a Comic Book Legend, an archive interview with writers Roy Thomas & Gerry Conway
  • Basil Poledouris: Composing the Conan Saga, an archive interview with the composer
  • Theatrical trailers
  • Image gallery
  • Double-sided fold-out poster
  • Six double-sided collectors’ postcards
  • Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and John Walsh, and an archive set report by Paul M. Sammon
4K Ultra HD $39.95
Blu-ray $32.95
The Conan Chronicles

THIEF. WARRIOR. GLADIATOR. KING. Ripped from the pages of Robert E. Howard's beloved pulp stories, 1982's Conan the Barbarian and its sequel, 1984's Conan the Destroyer, not only popularized a new subgenre - the sword-and-sorcery film - but also made a cinematic icon of the star playing the titular hero, former bodybuilding sensation Arnold Schwarzenegger. Conan the Barbarian, from maverick filmmaker John Milius, sees the Cimmerian thief and future king rise up from slavery to become an unparalleled and fearsome warrior, intent on vengeance against the evil snake cult that slaughtered his family long ago, led by the shape-shifting sorcerer Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones). In the sequel, helmed by action veteran Richard Fleischer, Conan finds himself on a quest to escort a princess on a quest for a mythical horn that will awaken a slumbering god, battling an onslaught of evil beasts, wizards and cannibals along the way. At long last, these glorious odes to the days of high adventure have been restored in glorious 4K with hours of bonus features and heart-racing Atmos remixes that immerse you in the action, accompanied throughout by electrifying music scores by the late Basil Poledouris (RoboCop). If you do not listen... then to hell with you!

Special Features:

  • Brand new 4K restorations of both films from the original negatives by Arrow Films
  • 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of both films in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Three versions of Conan the Barbarian via seamless branching: Theatrical Cut (127 mins), International Cut (129 mins) and Extended Cut (130 mins)
  • Newly restored original mono audio and remixed Dolby Atmos surround audio for both films
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both films
  • Archive commentary for Conan the Barbarian by John Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Archive commentaries for Conan the Destroyer by Richard Fleischer and actors Olivia d’Abo, Tracey Walter and Sarah Douglas
  • Brand new commentaries for both films by genre historian Paul M. Sammon
  • Newly assembled isolated score tracks in lossless stereo for both films
  • Newly filmed interviews for Conan the Barbarian with production artist William Stout, costume designer John Bloomfield, special effects crew members Colin Arthur and Ron Hone, actors Jorge Sanz and Jack Taylor, assistant editor Peck Prior and many others
  • Newly filmed interviews for Conan the Destroyer with Bloomfield and Walsh, casting director Johanna Ray, art director Kevin Phipps and stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong
  • Conan Unchained: The Making of Conan, an archive documentary from 2000 featuring interviews with Schwarzenegger, Milius, Stone, Jones, Lopez, Bergman, Poledouris and several others
  • Archive bonus features for both films, including interviews with sword master Kiyoshi Yamasaki, writers Roy Thomas & Gerry Conway and Poledouris, outtakes and more
  • A Tribute to Basil Poledouris, a series of videos produced by the Úbeda Film Music Festival, including video of Poledouris conducting a concert of music from Conan the Barbarian in 2006 (remixed in 5.1 surround)
  • Theatrical trailers and image galleries for both films
  • Double-sided fold-out posters for both films
  • Twelve double-sided collectors’ postcards
  • Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and John Walsh, and archive set reports for both films by Paul M. Sammon
4K Ultra HD $59.95
Blu-ray $54.95
Murphy's War (1971, Peter Yates)

WORLD WAR TWO IS ENDING, WORLD WAR MURPHY HAS JUST BEGUN... Iconic actor Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Stunt Man) joins forces with director Peter Yates (Bullit, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) in this blisteringly acerbic, wildly entertaining film about the absurdity of war. During the last days of WWII, the merchant ship 'Mount Kyle' is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Venezuela and the sailors machine-gunned in the water. Only Murphy (O'Toole) survives, making his way to shore where he is nursed to health by Dr. Hayden (Sian Phillips), a pacifist Quaker who runs a missionary settlement near the mouth of the Orinoco River. When Murphy discovers that the U-boat is now hiding further up the river using the jungle for cover, he becomes obsessed with retribution and begins a one man war to sink the German U-boat, no matter the cost. With a script by Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure), cinematography by the legendary Douglas Slocombe (The Italian Job, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and a supporting cast that includes Philippe Noiret (La Grande Bouffe, Cinema Paradiso) and Horst Janson (Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, Shout at the Devil), Murphy's War is an underseen gem.

Special Features:
  • High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
  • Original lossless mono audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Running Out of War, a new visual essay by film critic David Cairns
  • A Great Adventure, an archive interview with assistant director John Glen
  • Dougie, Chic and Me, an archive interview with focus puller Robin Vidgeon
  • One Man Army, an archive interview with film critic Sheldon Hall
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
  • Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by film critic Philip Kemp
Blu-ray $26.95
Kino Lorber
The Boogens (1981, James L. Conway)

THERE IS NO ESCAPE! In a small town near Denver, two young men begin to explore a long-abandoned old mine recently re-opened by a group of miners. When one of the men is discovered missing, his friends begin a search that leads them to horrifying consequences. They are all unaware of the evil that has been unleashed and soon, one by one, the townspeople are snatched up by a monster that no one has yet to see. Suddenly, the grisly truth is revealed and a young couple is forced to confront the unknown in order to save their lives…and the entire town. After 100 years they have reawakened…Prepare to meet The Boogens. Directed by James L. Conway (The Lincoln Conspiracy, Hangar 18) and starring Rebecca Balding (Silent Scream).

Special Features:

DISC 1 (4KUHD):

  • Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
  • NEW Audio Commentary by Actor Jeff Harlan and Film Historian Howard S. Berger
  • 2012 Audio Commentary by Director James Conway, Writer David O'Malley, and Actress Rebecca Balding, Moderated by Jeff McKay

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):

  • Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
  • NEW Audio Commentary by Actor Jeff Harlan and Film Historian Howard S. Berger
  • 2012 Audio Commentary by Director James Conway, Writer David O'Malley, and Actress Rebecca Balding, Moderated by Jeff McKay
  • William Munns: The Man Who Made The Boogens: Featurette by Howard S. Berger with Boogens Creature Designer William Munns
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Two TV Spots
  • 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $32.95
Blu-ray $19.95
Scarlet Street (1945, Fritz Lang)

A box-office hit (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is one of legendary director Fritz Lang’s (M, Metropolis) finest American films. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson, The Stranger) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett, The Woman in the Window) from the rain-slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back-lot Greenwich Village, he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris’ obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated and transformed into an avenging monster before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfyingly downbeat denouement in Hollywood history. Dan Duryea (Larceny), as Kitty’s pimp boyfriend, skillfully molds “a vicious and serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tin horn” (The New York Times). Packed with hairpin plot twists and “bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting” (Time), Scarlet Street is a dark gem of film noir.

Special Features:

DISC 1 (4KUHD):

  • Brand New HDR / Dolby Vision Master – From a 16bit 4K Scan of the 35mm Nitrate Composite Fine Grain
  • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith
  • Audio Commentary by David Kalat, the Author of The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):

  • Brand New HD Master – From a 16bit 4K Scan of the 35mm Nitrate Composite Fine Grain
  • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith
  • Audio Commentary by David Kalat, the Author of The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $32.95
Blu-ray $19.95
Lionsgate
Silent Night (2023, John Woo)

From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes this gritty revenge tale of a tormented father (Joel Kinnaman) who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death. Full of Woo's signature style, Silent Night redefines the action genre with visceral, thrill-a-minute storytelling.

Blu-ray / DVD Combo $29.95
Radiance
Goodbye & Amen (1978, Damiano Damiani)

John Dannahay (Tony Musante, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is planning to overthrow an African government. But his plan goes wrong when a corrupt colleague starts shooting people from the roof of a hotel, taking an innocent couple hostage. Director Damiano Damiani (How to Kill a Judge) wields expert tension in this gripping espionage thriller, twisting and turning its tight plot to its sensational finale. Featuring a fantastic supporting cast including Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl), John Steiner (The Case is Closed: Forget It) and Wolfango Soldati (The Heroin Busters), Goodbye & Amen is one of the great 1970s Italian action thrill rides, set to a haunting score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis (Torso, Keoma).

Special Features:
  • New 2023 restoration of the film from the original camera negative presented with Italian and, for the first time on home video, English audio options
  • Uncompressed mono PCM audio
  • Audio commentary by Eurocrime experts Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth (2023)
  • Interview with editor Antonio Siciliano
  • Archival interview with Wolfango Soldati (2013)
  • New and improved English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio
  • Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
  • Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Italian crime cinema expert Lucia Rinaldi
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Blu-ray $26.95
Severin
Danza Macabra Volume Two: The Italian Gothic Collection

In this second collection of Italian Gothic shockers, you're invited to grab your candelabra and enter cobweb-shrouded worlds of violence, madness and sexual deviance that remain unmatched in genre history: Gothic goddess Barbara Steele stars in Antonio Margheriti's certified masterpiece CASTLE OF BLOOD and its Italian version DANZA MACABRA, both restored and scanned in 4K and presented in UHD for the first time ever. JEKYLL is 1969's award-winning four-part RAI-TV sceneggiati from writer/director/star Giorgio Albertazzi that contemporizes the classic tale of man's darkest impulses. Writer/director Corrado Farina reinvents the Dracula legend as a modern-day capitalist conspiracy with his startling and long out-of-print 1971 debut THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR FACE. And a sizzling Rosalba Neri is seduced by Satan himself in 1972's THE DEVIL'S LOVER, finally available restored and uncut. All four titles are now presented in their North American Premieres, newly mastered from the best available elements with over 13 collective hours of Special Features.

Special Features:

  • DANZA MACABRA Audio Commentary With Rod Barnett Of NaschyCast And The Bloody Pit, And Dr. Adrian Smith, Co-Author Of Norman J. Warren: Gentleman of Terror
  • CASTLE OF BLOOD Selected Scene Commentary With Actress Barbara Steele And Barbara Steele Archivist Russ Lanier
  • Exploring The Castle Of Blood – Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of Books On Jess Franco And Lucio Fulci
  • The Director Who Didn't Like Blood – Interview With Edoardo Margheriti, Son Of Director Antonio Margheriti
  • Enigmatic Elegance: Unveiling The Haunting Legacy Of Barbara Steele In The Italian Gothic – Video Essay By Rachael Nisbet, Film Critic And Co-Host Of Fragments Of Fear
  • Return To The Castle – Location Featurette
  • Antonio Margheriti Remembers CASTLE OF BLOOD And Barbara Steele
  • CASTLE OF BLOOD Trailer
  • CASTLE OF BLOOD TV Spot
  • Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Albertazzi – Interview With Actor Giuliano Disperati
  • Building The World Of JEKYLL - Interview With Set Designer Emanuele Taglietti
  • The Double Spiral Staircase Of Jekyll And Hyde - Video Essay By Film Scholar Joseph Dwyer
  • THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR FACE Audio Commentary With Director Corrado Farina Moderated By Alberto Farina
  • THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR FACE Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author of Daughters Of Darkness
  • The Farina Method – Interview With Film Critic Alberto Farina, Son Of Director Corrado Farina
  • Bloodsucking Capitalists – Interview With Actor Giuliano Disperati And Editor/Screenwriter Giulio Berruti
  • Outtakes Of De Sade
  • Three Short Films By Corrado Farina
  • PRAISED BE MY LORD – Documentary Directed By Corrado Farina (84 mins)
  • Commercials Directed By Corrado Farina
  • THE DEVIL'S LOVER Audio Commentary With Annie Rose Malamet, Film Scholar And Host Of Girls, Guts, Giallo
  • Lady Of The Night: The Feminism Of Rosalba Neri – Video Essay By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Author Of The Giallo Canvas
  • Out Of The Woods – Interview With Actor Robert Woods
  • THE DEVIL'S LOVER Soundtrack CD
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $84.95
Nightmare (1981, Romano Scavolini)

It's been called "graphic and unapologetic" (SexGoreMutants), "brutally effective" (Screen Rant) and "a forgotten classic" (Horror News). It remains the most reviled, controversial and misunderstood genre film of the '80s. Now "the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made" (NY Daily News) can be experienced like never before: When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford) flees an experimental drug program, he'll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this "devastating masterpiece" (Cinefear) - whose UK release as NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN led to the imprisonment of distributor David Hamilton-Grant - has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version ever assembled.

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary With Star Baird Stafford And Special Effects Assistant Cleve Hall Moderated By Lee Christian And David DeCoteau
  • Audio Commentary With Producer William Paul
  • Kill Thy Father And Thy Mother - Interview With Director Romano Scavolini (71 mins)
  • Dreaming Up A Nightmare - Cast And Crew Interviews
  • The Nightmare Of NIGHTMARE - Interview With Erroneously Credited Special Effects Director Tom Savini
  • The Stuff That Nightmares Are Made Of - Interview With Makeup Artist Robin Stevens
  • A Nightmare On Many Streets - Locations Tour With Rue Morgue Writer Michael Gingold
  • Open Matte Peep Show Sequence
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Still Gallery
  • Trailers
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $32.95
The Psychic (1977, Lucio Fulci)

It's been called "amazing" (Oh, The Horror!), "classic" (The Geek Show) and "a magnificent film" (Diabolique Magazine). It remains writer/director Lucio Fulci's ultimate giallo masterpiece: Jennifer O'Neill (SCANNERS) stars as a woman tormented by violent visions of past slayings. Or are they premonitions of murders still to come? Gabriele Ferzetti (THE NIGHT PORTER), Marc Porel (THE SISTER OF URSULA), Gianni Garko (NIGHT OF THE DEVILS) and Evelyn Stewart (FOOTPRINTS) co-star in this "rare, rewarding experience" (The Geek Show) co-written by Fulci, Roberto Gianviti (DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING) and Dardano Sacchetti (THE BEYOND) - originally titled MURDER TO THE TUNE OF THE SEVEN BLACK NOTES - now scanned in 4K from the original negative.

Special Features:
  • Doom And Gloom - Interview With Co-Writer Dardano Sacchetti With Contributions From Director Lucio Fulci (50 mins)
  • Selected Scene Commentary With Cinematographer Sergio Salvati And Freak-O-Rama's Federico Caddeo
  • Close Up On The Eyes - Audio Interview With Camera Operator Franco Bruni
  • Elegant Ladies - Audio Interview With Costume Designer Massimo Lentini
  • Cutting Moments - Audio Interview With Editor Bruno Micheli
  • Trailer
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $32.95
Sony
Thanksgiving (2023, Eli Roth)

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

Blu-ray $29.95
DVD $25.95
Warner Archive
Cabin in the Sky (1943, Vincente Minnelli)

Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong—head an exciting cast of musical legends in this musical fantasy as temptation pulls a man toward Satan . . . and his loving and God-fearing wife fights for his eternal soul. Seriously injured in a barroom brawl, Little Joe Jackson (Anderson) hovers between life and death, dreaming that he is the centerpiece of an epic struggle between Heaven and Hell for his soul: On his side are the prayers of his loyal, pious wife, Petunia (Waters) battling on the side of darkness is Lucifer Jr. (Rex Ingram) and his most powerful weapon, the beautiful and seductive Georgia Brown, played to the hilt by a stunning Lena Horne. Based on the hit Broadway musical which starred Waters and Ingram, the film is best remembered as the feature directorial debut of the great Vincente Minnelli.

Special Features:
  • NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM PRESERVATION ELEMENTS (2023)
  • Feature commentary by Evangela Anderson and Eva Anderson (Wife and Daughter of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), Fayard Nicholas, Black Cultural Scholar Todd Boyd, Film Historian Dr. Drew Casper and Interview Excerpts of Lena Horne
  • Vintage Pete Smith Specialty "Studio Visit"
  • Audio-only bonus: Louis Armstrong "Ain't it the Truth" Outtake
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Blu-ray $22.95
A Day at the Races (1937, Sam Wood)

The Marx Brothers skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner in the hilarious A Day at the Races. In his favorite role, Groucho is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush – MD, PhD, RFD, MC, PDQ, BYOB and none of the above – dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee. Chico, Harpo and favorite foil Margaret Dumont join the fun of this thoroughly thoroughbred comedy. Enjoy tootsie-frootsie ice cream, Dumont's medical exam, Harpo's pretty-girl pantomime sketch, wallpaper wackiness and wall-to-wall hilarity the Marx way.

Special Features:
  • NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM PRESERVATION ELEMENTS (2023)
  • Feature commentary by author/film historian Glenn Mitchell
  • Making-of featurette "On Your Marx, Get Set, Go!"
  • Robert Benchley M-G-M short "A Night at the Movies"
  • 3 Classic M-G-M cartoons:
    • "Gallopin' Gals"
    • "Mama's New Hat"
    • "Old Smokey"
  • Audio-only treasures:
    • Groucho Marx radio performance of "DR. HACKENBUSH" (written for film but unused)
    • Musical outtake "A Message from the Man in the Moon"
    • Leo is On the Air Radio Promo
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Blu-ray $22.95
The Prince and the Pauper (1937, William Keighley)

Errol Flynn gives a superb performance as he stars in Mark Twain's classic tale of two nearly identical boys from vastly different worlds who trade places as--The Prince and The Pauper. As Lady Jane Seymour (Joan Valerie), consort to King Henry VIII (Montagu Love) gives birth to Prince Edward Tudor (Bobby Mauch), Tom Canty (Billy Mauch) is born in slums not far from the palace. These two boys grow up in London--one in a life of privilege, the other in poverty--until one day they meet, realize they could pass as twins and decide to trade places for a day. But fate traps each in the other's life, with only Miles Hendon (Flynn) as their ally. Now, their survival and the fate of a nation depend on these two boys convincing the royal court of their true identities. Underscored with the brilliant themes of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and directed with spirit by William Keighley, this is the definitive film version of Twain's great tale!

Special Features:
  • NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE (2023)
  • Classic WB Cartoons:
    • PLENTY OF MONEY AND YOU
    • STREAMLINED GRETA GREEN
    • SUNBONNET BLUE
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Blu-ray $22.95
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Altered Innocence
Gay USA: Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance

Stepping out of the sixties and in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, (considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement), the 1970s would prove to be a decade energized by queer activism, political and social change and pride. Celebrating such a vitally important legacy, this collection of gay protest and parade films is an essential multifaceted document of a period of revolution and jubilation.  

Heading this essential set is the incredibly poignant and mesmerizing feature documentary Gay USA (1977) from pioneering gay filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (Forbidden Letters (1979), Buddies (1985)). Bressan, Jr. documents aspects of the gay rights movement during the year of 1977 capturing the intersections of diversity in queer life; from vox pop style interviews with lesbian feminists, street drag queens, and straight allies to taking a look at the fight against notorious homophobe Anita Bryant and her "Save Our Children" campaign. Conversations with dedicated gay activists and individuals who have recently come out are masterfully intercut with images of the vast spectrum of LGBT individuals and their supporters proudly marching through sun-kissed streets. As well as being politically and socially important and a perfect snapshot of a period in time of gay solidarity and resistance, it is also a picturesque sparkling film with inspired visuals from Bressan, Jr. and his team of camera operators. Along with this magnetic feature length film comes four short films capturing queer liberation and protest: Lesbian activist Lilli Vincenz's Gay and Proud (1970), which documents the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held in New York City on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the lesbian-centric Gay Power (1971) from legendary artists/activists Sharon Hayes and Kate Millett and the Women's Liberation Cinema and two San Francisco focused films: Parade (1972) from artistic all-rounder Ronald Chase, which gives us an insight into the city's first official gay pride parade post-Stonewall and Freedom Day Parade (1974) by iconic filmmaker and choreographer Wakefield Poole (Boys in the Sand (1971)) which was shot at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.  

Special Features:
  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Commentary Track on ‘Gay USA’ by Jenni Olson, Queer Film Historian and Co-Director of The Bressan Project and Don Romesburg, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University
  • Commentary Track on ‘Freedom Day Parade’ by Jim Tushinski, Director of ‘I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole’
  • Commentary Track on 'Parade' by Director Ronald Chase
  • ‘Gay USA’ Still Photography Slideshow
  • 16-page Booklet with an Essay by Stephen A Russell, award-winning film critic, journalist and author
  • Compilation Trailer
  • Other Trailers
  • English SDH & Spanish subtitles

Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $26.95
Standard Blu-ray $19.95
DVD $19.95

The Strangler (1970, Paul Vecchiali)

An unconventional French giallo released before the sub-genre’s popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin, The Young Girls of Rochefort), a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to Émile’s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.

Praised as a “complex, melancholic meditation on isolation as well as a portrait of collective hysteria” by the New York Film Festival, the film equally subverts and indulges in the conventions of the giallo with unexpected beauty and refinement. Director Paul Vecchiali has been hailed as a “icon of a rebellious, reflexive, and emotionally excessive cinema” by Le Monde and celebrated for his prolific filmography and decades spanning career as a critic, director, and producer.

Special Features:
  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • “Lost Boys and Sad Girls”: A Video Essay by Alexandra-Heller Nicholas
  • New Trailer
  • Other Trailers
  • English & Spanish subtitles
Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $29.95
Standard Blu-ray $22.95
DVD $19.95
Canadian International
One Man (1977, Robin Spry)

They called it progress.
He called it murder.

While visiting a Montreal hospital, investigative reporter Jason Brady (Lady in White’s Len Cariou) meets concerned citizen Marion Galbraith (The Fly’s Carol Lazare), who reveals that local children are being poisoned by a nearby factory. When the victims begin dying, Brady recognizes the urgency of this story, but he encounters resistance and danger at every turn. As his obsession grows, so does his relationship with Marion, causing a rift in his marriage to Alicia (Goin' Down the Road’s Jayne Eastwood), right as a series of powerful, unscrupulous forces promise violent retaliation – on Brady, his wife, and their children.

A year before directing the harrowing drug drama Drying Up the Streets, Robin Spry concluded his impressive run at the National Film Board of Canada with One Man, an unlikely fusion of prestige issue movie, conspiracy thriller, and Canuxploitation crime saga – that won an impressive seven Canadian Film Awards. Playing like a lost TV movie classic from the ’70s, this riff on the films of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula boasts an all-star Canadian supporting cast, including Miguel Fernandes (East End Hustle), Terry Haig (The Pyx), Jean Lapointe (Orders), Marc Legault (The Mob), Barry Morse (The Changeling), August Schellenberg (Cross Country), Sean Sullivan (The Hard Part Begins), and cult filmmaker Larry Kent (The Bitter Ash). Simultaneously witty and unsettling, this is a Canadian film like no other.

Special Features:
  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Scanned and restored in 2K from the 16mm interpositive by the National Film Board of Canada
  • Audio commentary featuring filmmaker and historian Stephen Broomer
  • One Sister (2023, 10 min.) – New interview with Robin Spry’s sister Lib Spry
  • One Friend (2023, 13 min.) – New interview with Spry’s longtime collaborator Bob Presner
  • Five short films directed by Spry: Miner (1966, 19 min.), Change in the Maritimes (1966, 13 min.), Illegal Abortion (1967, 25 min.), Ride for Your Life (1967, 10 min.), and Downhill (1973, 36 min.)
  • The Dowry (1969, 20 min.) – Short film written and directed by One Man co-writer Peter Pearson
  • Cell 16 (1972, 14 min.) – Short film written by One Man co-writer Peter Madden
  • Red Shoes (1986, 24 min.) – Short film featuring One Man co-star Carol Lazare
  • Bonus short: Trafficopter (1972, 10 min.)
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Booklet featuring a new interview with star Len Cariou
  • Reversible cover artwork
  • English SDH subtitles
Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $29.95
Standard Blu-ray $22.95
Cinématographe
Little Darlings (1980, Ron Maxwell)

In the fleeting summer days of 1980, fifteen year old girls Ferris (Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon) and Angel (Kristy McNichol, Two Moon Junction) attend Camp Little Wolf outside of Atlanta, Georgia as an escape from the city. Coming from different walks of life, with the privileged Ferris at odds with the scrappy, streetwise Angel, the two immediately end up in a disagreement during their bus ride to camp which is only exacerbated by their lodging accommodations once they arrive, bunking next to one another. Fueled by their competitive peers, the two enter into a contest to see who will lose their virginity first, Angel to camper from the other side of the lake Randy (Matt Dillon, Wild Things) or Ferris to camp counselor Gary (Armand Assante, Gotti). Through the trial, the two learn as much about each other as they do themselves, turning a ribald competition into budding days of friendship.

Long elusive on home video, Ron Maxwell’s (Gettysburg) charming teen sex comedy/drama is an evocative, and often very funny, antidote and precursor to the more raucous (and masculine) sex comedies of its era, including the similarly loss of virginity focused Porky’s and Losin’ It. Written by Dalene Young (The Baby-Sitters Club) and Kimi Peck, with lush on location photography by noted Czech cinematographer Bedřich Baťka (Marketa Lazarová), Cinématographe is proud to bring LITTLE DARLINGS to blu-ray and 4K UHD for the first time in the world, newly restored from archival elements and full of illuminating special features that tell the story of this contemporary coming-of-age classic.

Special Features:
  • Region Free UHD/Region A Blu-ray
  • Audio Commentary with director Ron Maxwell
  • Audio Commentary with Millie De Chirico of I Saw What You Did podcast
  • Alternate Scenes with commentary by director Ron Maxwell
  • Hour long video interview with director Ron Maxwell
  • "Don’t Let the Title Fool You: Little Darlings Beyond the Teen Sex Comedy": a video essay by Samm Deighan
  • Essays by writers Kate Hagan and Quatoyiah Murry
  • English SDH subtitles

4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo with Limited Edition Slipcover $39.95

Deaf Crocodile
The Tune (1992, Bill Plympton)

Legendary animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton’s first feature, THE TUNE is a wildly surreal animated musical comedy about a struggling songwriter named Del (voiced by Daniel Neiden), desperate to write a hit tune to save his relationship with his long-suffering girlfriend Didi (voiced by Maureen McElheron, who co-wrote the script and composed the music). On his way to meet her and his boss, Del gets sidetracked in the cheerfully deranged Alternate Universe of Flooby Nooby: a strangely nostalgic vision of 1950s middle-class America as filtered through the affectionate-but-twisted sensibilities of David Lynch, Talking Heads and classic Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons. There’s a Doggie Elvis who croons about his pompadour; a love duet between a Burger and Fry, a slice of Cherry Pie and a Scoop of Ice Cream; and a joyfully sadistic Bellhop at The Love Sick Hotel, all singing lovably warped tunes like “Dig My Do,” “No Nose Blues” and “Tango Shmango”. Plympton’s famed animation style, done in colored pencils with a gorgeous pastel palette, is perfectly suited to this beautifully off-kilter saga of a man who loses his way only to find his heart: “Lost?” “No, I just don’t know where I am.”

Special Features:
  • New restoration of THE TUNE by the Academy Film Archive
  • "Your Face" (1987) -- Plympton's wonderfully bizarre, Oscar-nominated animated short (restored by the Academy Film Archive)
  • "How To Kiss" (1988) -- Plympton's outrageous, body-morphing cartoon short
  • “Guard Dog” (2004) – another Oscar-nominated dark comic gem from Plympton revealing a dog’s wildest fears as his owner takes him for a walk (restored by the Academy Film Archive)
  • "The Flying House - Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" - famed animator Winsor McCay's last film from 1921, restored / re-scored / newly voiced by Plymptoon Studios in 2011
  • New hour-long video interview on THE TUNE with director/writer/producer Bill Plympton, composer/co-writer/voice actor Maureen McElheron, and voice actor Daniel Neiden, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile
  • Trailer for Plympton’s new feature film SLIDE with special video introduction by Bill Plympton
  • New commentary track by animation producer and podcaster Adam Rackoff and podcaster and film critic James Hancock
  • New essay by film critic Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central)
  • Archival audio commentary from 2004 with Bill Plympton and Maureen McElheron
  • Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $29.95
Standard Blu-ray $26.95
Film Movement
The Early Films of Asghar Farhadi: Dancing In The Dust, Beautiful City

From master director Asghar Farhadi (Academy Award winners for Best International Film, THE SALESMAN and A SEPARATION), Film Movement presents his first two films, DANCING IN THE DUST and BEAUTIFUL CITY, restored and released as a double feature on Blu Ray for the first time ever in North America.

DANCING IN THE DUST:
Shortly following their impulsive wedding, the naive, young Nazar is pressured by his family into divorcing his new wife, Reyhane, after rumors circulate of her mother's possible sex-work. Still deeply in love, he insists on paying back Reyhane's marriage dowry despite his insolvency. Nazar is soon on the run from creditors and finds himself hiding out in the desert where he meets a taciturn old snake hunter. Much to the man's chagrin, Nazar insists on working with the hunter until he earns enough money to return to the city and make good on his mistakes. "Engrossing and eye-catching" (Variety), Farhadi's debut feature DANCING IN THE DUST ultimately reveals itself to be a tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption. Presented in a new 2K restoration.

BEAUTIFUL CITY:
The sophmore feature of Asghar Farhadi. After spending two years in juvenile detention for killing his girlfriend as a teenager, the troubled, young Akbar is transferred to an adult facility shortly after turning 18. No longer a minor, his death sentence will soon be legally carried out. Meanwhile outside, Ala — Akbar’s friend and newly paroled petty thief — along with Akbar's sister Firoozeh (played by Taraneh Alidoosti, in the first of her three collaborations with director Farhadi) set out to convince the victim's bereaved father to forgive Akbar, which could potentially reduce his sentence from death to life in prison. Navigating the complexities of Iran's judicial system together, the two form a close bond in their desperate attempts to seek clemency before it is too late. A “well-acted [and] compelling human drama," (The Hollywood Reporter), Beautiful City is now presented in a new 2K restoration approved by the director.

Special Features:
  • Region Free 2-Disc Blu-ray
  • Video essays
  • Trailers
  • English subtitles
Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $39.95
Standard Blu-ray $34.95
Vinegar Syndrome
Forgotten Gialli: Volume Six

Films in this set:

DEATH CARRIES A CANE (1973, Maurizio Pradeaux)

While enjoying an otherwise leisurely day, Kitty, a professional photographer, happens to witness the murder of a nude woman, via a sightseeing telescope. While she is unable to make out the black trench coat-wearing killer’s face, it’s not long before this mystery assailant begins stalking and gorily bumping off all potential witnesses to the crime. Fearing that she might become the killer’s next target, Kitty enlists the help of her boyfriend, Alberto, as the two launch their own investigation into the murders…

A sensationally trashy and fun giallo from the genre’s early 70s golden age, Maurizio Pradeaux’ DEATH CARRIES A CANE (aka Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio) offers a non-stop barrage of sex and violence, all within the confines of a clever whodunit. Starring Nieves Navarro (Death Walks on High Heels), Robert Hoffmann (Spasmo), Simón Andreu (Open Season), and Rosita Torosh (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to present the world Blu-ray debut of this deliriously sleazy hidden gem from a new, 4K restoration of its 35mm camera negative, in both its original Italian and English language dubs.

Special Features:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Presented in its original Italian mono soundtrack with optional English subtitles as well as its English mono dub soundtrack
  • Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
  • "A Life in the Suite" - an interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso
  • Promotional still gallery
  • Inside sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

NAKED YOU DIE (1968, Antonio Margheriti)

Following the arrival of a mysterious trunk to an all-girls boarding school, a series of strange disappearances and murders begin to plague the institution. To appease the panic-stricken students and staff, Inspector Durand begins searching the school grounds in a bid to unmask the culprit. However, student and amateur sleuth, Jill, decides to solve the mystery on her own, unwittingly putting herself into the sights of a bloodthirsty killer!

A transitional giallo which bridges the “style over substance” and gothic-inspired thrillers of the mid-60s with the grimier and sleazier efforts of the 1970s and beyond, Antonio Margheriti’s (Cannibal Apocalypse) debut giallo, the perfunctorily-titled NAKED YOU DIE (aka Nude... si muore; The Young, the Evil and the Savage) stars Mark Damon (The Devil’s Wedding Night), Eleonora Brown (Two Women), and Michael Rennie (The Day the Earth Stood Still). Featuring striking scope photography from Fausto Zuccoli (Zombie Holocaust) and a memorable score by Carlo Savina (The House of Exorcism), Vinegar Syndrome presents the English-friendly Blu-ray debut of NAKED YOU DIE, including the original Italian cut and English export version, both restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative.

Special Features:
  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Presented in two versions: the original 97-minute Italian cut and the 78-minute English language "School Girl Killer" edit
  • Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
  • "Young, Evil & Savage" - an interview with actress Sally Smith
  • "School Girl Killer" - an interview with actress Eleonora Brown
  • "Last Shower" - an interview with actress Malisa Longo
  • "Hello Giallo: Death Finds Its Feet" - a video essay by Mike Foster on NAKED YOU DIE and the early days of the giallo film
  • "Giallo Dawson" - a video essay by Pier Maria Bocchi on the lesser-known films of NAKED YOU DIE director Antonio Margheriti aka Anthony Dawson
  • Promotional image gallery
  • Inside sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW (1978, Antonio Bido)

In the 1950s, the body of a teenage girl was found strangled near a small village. Decades later, with the murder remaining unsolved, a young man named Stefano, who grew up in the area, returns home to visit his older brother, Paulo, who has become the local priest. Shortly after his arrival, more mysterious murders begin to plague the community, with the victims being members of a strange local sect. But when Paulo begins receiving menacing warnings from an unknown source, Stefano, with the help of his girlfriend Sandra, begins looking into the seemingly ordinary town’s sinister past...

A late 70s standout in the giallo genre, director Antonio Bido’s sophomore feature, THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW (aka Solamente nero), subverts expectations by offering a complex and serious-in-tone mystery set against the beauty and majesty of Venice. Starring American expat, Craig Hill (A Taste for Killing), Alfredo Zammi (Convoy Busters), and Italian genre film legend, Stefania Casini (Suspiria, Blood for Dracula), Vinegar Syndrome brings this this highly acclaimed thriller to Blu-ray, sourced from a new, director-approved 4K restoration and featuring a vast array of interviews with its cast and crew.

Special Features:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
  • "Deep Black" - an interview with director Antonio Bido
  • "Inkstained Shadow" - an interview with screenwriter Marisa Andalò
  • "Beauty in the Darkness" - actress Stefania Casini interviewed by Antonio Bido
  • "Rural Horror Hero" - actor Lino Capolicchio interviewed by Antonio Bido
  • "The Bloodstained Set" - an interview with production assistant Luciano Lucchi
  • "A Bloodstained Sound" - an interview with musician Claudio Simonetti
  • Still gallery featuring behind-the-scenes photos & promotional images
  • Alternate English titles & credits
  • Original Italian trailer
  • Original English trailer
  • Inside sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $51.95

Santet / Santet 2 (1988-89, Sisworo Gautama Putra)

Indonesia’s beloved scream queen, Suzzanna, stars in this decidedly demented duo of supernatural revenge thrillers, SANTET and SANTET 2, which boast not just over-the-top gore set-pieces, but an abundance of slimy creatures, wild plot twists, and even impromptu musical numbers! Vinegar Syndrome presents this hugely popular set of Southeast Asian horror classics on disc for the first time in the United States, both newly restored from their 35mm camera negatives!

SANTET: After poisoning his wife, local gangster Bisman blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric's wife Katemi (Suzzanna) escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives Katemi diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge…

SANTET 2: Katemi is trying to live a pious life in her village, but most of the villagers shun and curse her on account of her previous murderous deeds. When the mentor of Nyi Angker finds Katemi and curses her, the madness in the village starts anew as Katemi turns into a vicious tiger every night, ripping the townspeople from limb to limb!

Special Features:
  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Newly scanned & restored in 2K from their 35mm original camera negative
  • Commentary track with film historian Dr. Ekky Imanjaya for SANTET
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $32.95
Standard Blu-ray $26.95

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962, Riccardo Freda)

Brilliant scientist, Professor Bernard Hichcock, harbors a secret fascination with the corpses of beautiful young women. His perverse desires are so strong that he has developed a unique serum capable of placing people into a death-like state; a drug he has decided to experiment with on his wife, Margaretha. However, after accidentally giving her a lethal dose, the doctor panics and covers up his wife’s death. Hichcock soon remarries, this time to the orphaned Cynthia, whom he brings to live with him at his isolated castle. Shortly after her arrival, Cynthia begins to experience increasingly strange and ghastly goings-on. While her new husband dismisses these seemingly supernatural occurrences, Cynthia becomes convinced that someone - or something - is lurking in the castle and her loving husband might know more than he’s letting on…

A crucial early work in the Italian gothic horror canon, THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK, from director Riccardo Freda (Tragic Ceremony) and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh), is a macabre period chiller which stars Barbara Steele (Black Sabbath) alongside Robert Flemyng (The Blood Beast Terror), Silvano Tranquilli (So Sweet, So Dead), and Harriet Medin (Blood and Black Lace). Graced with eye-poppingly colorful cinematography from Raffaele Masciocchi (The Ghost), Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents the UHD debut of this twisted and suspenseful classic in a brand new and exclusive 4K restoration of its original negative, and loaded with fresh extras including interviews with second assistant director Marcello Avallone and star Barbara Steele!

Special Features:
  • 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD (UHD100) / Region A Blu-ray
  • 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • The 87-minute Italian cut features both its Italian and English language tracks and is available on both the UHD and Blu-ray discs
  • The 76-minute American cut with its English language track and is available on both the UHD and Blu-ray discs
  • Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
  • "The Horrible Dr. Freda" - an interview with second assistant director Marcello Avallone
  • "The Most Honorable Julyan Perry" - an interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
  • "Necropolises and Necrophiliacs" - filmmaker Marcello Avallone on Italian horror and his experiences of working within the genre
  • Scene select commentary track with actress Barbara Steele, moderated by Barbara Steele archivist Russ Lanier
  • English "Raptus" title sequence
  • Italian trailer
  • Still gallery
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo with Limited Edition Slipcover $49.95
Standard 4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $34.95

Sexmission (1984, Juliusz Machulski)

The year is 1991. Max and Albert are two pioneers about to embark on the scientific experiment of a lifetime, volunteering to be the first ever cryogenically frozen humans. If all goes well they'll wake up in 3 years to fame and fortune. Luckily for Max and Albert the experiment is a success...until they find out that the year is now 2044, a global war has taken place, the M-Bomb has wiped out all male species on Earth and reproduction is handled via test tubes in a lab. The Congress of the World Women's League is in complete control and they're the only two men alive! What seems like a dream scenario soon turns into a nightmare when they realize males have been demonized and 'The League' may be keeping a sinister secret. They'll have to convince The League that they're ready to serve in the old ways of reproduction or lose their manhood in the process of 'Naturalization'!

SEXMISSION is a side-splitting satire from Polish director Juliusz Machulski that straddles the genre lines of sci-fi and sex-romp in equal measure! Critical and skewering of both chauvinist fears about the extremes of feminism and the Polish government's fallible attempt to pull the wool over its citizen's eyes, it features a cast of Polish all-stars from Jerzy Stuhr (Dekalog) and Olgierd Łukaszewicz (Interrogation) to Boguslawa Pawelec (Blind Chance) and Dorota Stalinska (Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes). Vinegar Syndrome Labs is proud to present the North American Blu-ray debut of SEXMISSION!

Special Features:
  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Newly restored by Vinegar Syndrome from existing studio masters
  • Commentary track with author and film historian Jeremy Richey
  • "Mission-Exmission-Sexmission" (15 min) - an interview with actor Olgierd Łukaszewicz
  • "Dark Side of the Moon: Science Fiction Films in The Polish People's Republic" (12 min) - an interview with film historian Tomasz Kolankiewicz
  • "Mission Accomplished?: Womenworlds and Male Power" (17 min) - a video essay by author and film historian Andrew Nette
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • Newly translated English subtitles

Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $29.95
Standard Blu-ray $24.95

Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)

Set during the height of the Vietnam War and deep in the swamps of Louisiana, a group of National Guardsmen have been ordered to partake in a simulated jungle exploration in an isolated part of Cajun country. After getting lost during the training mission, the soldiers commandeer canoes belonging to the locals in order to take a shortcut. When the rightful owners discover the soldiers with their property, the situation spirals out of control leaving one man dead and the soldiers caught in a deadly game of retribution. What follows is a bloody fight for survival as, with only their wits and blanks for ammunition, the soldiers will have to journey deeper and deeper into the bayou as they’re forced to face the brutal reality of Cajun justice...

Special Features:
  • 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region Free Blu-ray
  • 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm interpositive
  • Commentary track with Walter Chaw, author of A Walter Hill Film: Tragedy and Masculinity in the Films of Walter Hill
  • "Battle in the Bayou" (17 min) - brand new interview with co-writer / director Walter Hill
  • "Behind Enemy Lines" (26 min) - brand new featurette with editor Freeman A. Davies and assistant editor Lisa Zeno Churgin
  • "Soldiers, Not Mailmen" (17 min) - brand new interview with costumer Dan Moore
  • "Into the Unknown" (15 min) - brand new interview with film historian Wayne Byrne on Southern Comfort and the legacy of Walter Hill
  • Archival featurette featuring interviews with: co-writer / director Walter Hill and co-writer / producer David Giler, along with actors Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Peter Coyote and Lewis Smith (27 min)
  • Still gallery
  • Video trailer
  • 20-page booklet with an essay by author Brian Brems
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo with Limited Edition Slipcover $44.95
Standard 4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $31.95

Releases for the week of 2/6
Please reply to this email by 1/26 to order any of the following titles.

The Criterion Collection
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

Special Features:

  • 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
  • Making-of documentary, featuring members of the cast and crew
  • Conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
  • Featurette from the film’s 1970 production
  • Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen
  • Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
  • Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
4K UHD / Blu-ray Combo $29.95
Mubi
Lars von Trier's The Kingdom Trilogy

Filmmaker Lars von Trier's internationally acclaimed, cult classic series tells the story of a hospital built on top of the old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen, where evil has taken root and medical science faces a daily struggle with itself; where the Swedes curse the Danes, and the mysterious and inexplicable blend together in a mixture of horror and humor. Featuring the original series THE KINGDOM I & II in stunningly restored, never-before-seen versions, as well as the long-awaited follow-up series THE KINGDOM EXODUS.

THE KINGDOM I: Strange things are happening in the underbelly of a Danish hospital in Lars von Trier's long unavailable, cult TV phenomenon The Kingdom I – a wickedly funny supernatural mystery. Let the battle between good and evil commence!

THE KINGDOM II: Picking up in the immediate aftermath of the first season's startling cliffhanger, The Kingdom II sees the troubled hospital plagued by the rise of a greater evil. Masterfully harmonizing mordant humor and poignant pathos, Lars von Trier's TV phenomenon scales new heights of white-knuckle suspense.

THE KINGDOM EXODUS: Lars von Trier returns to the world of Denmark's most famous haunted hospital with this dazzling limited event series. Set in the run-up to Christmas, The Kingdom Exodus serves an incomparable blend of the nightmarish and the absurd as it beats a compulsively entertaining path towards the promise of Armageddon.

Special Features:
  • Selected episode commentary by Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel and Molly Stensgård
  • In Lars von Trier's Kingdom - Documentary
  • Behind the Scenes - Interviews with Lars von Trier and cast
  • TV commercial for the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet - Directed by Lars von Trier
  • The Kingdom Trilogy - A Companion' - 28-page booklet
  • English subtitles
Blu-ray $64.95
Radiance
The Sting of Death (1990, Kohei Oguri)

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer's love affair with another woman drives his wife mad with distrust. Realising his errors, he tries all he can to save her from literally losing her mind. Kohei Oguri's haunting adaptation of the novel by Toshio Shimao is shot in a hyperreal style that is equal parts painterly and unflinching. Featuring striking set design, powerful lead performances and a vivid evocation of small-town life in postwar Japan, The Sting of Death won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival while stars Ittoku Kishibe and Keiko Matsuzaka won numerous awards for their performances. Radiance Films is proud to present this remarkable film on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.

Special Features:
  • Documentary on the Japanese film renaissance of the 1990s featuring interviews with Kohei Oguri, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kaneto Shindo and others (Hubert Niogret, 2011, 52 mins)
  • Interview with film scholar Hideki Maeda (2023)
  • Trailer
  • Newly translated English subtitles
  • Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
  • Limited edition booklet featuring a newly translated interview with director Kohei Oguri
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Blu-ray $26.95
Shout! Factory
Funeral Home (1980, William Fruet)

Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Happy Birthday to Me) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast." It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery???

Special Features:
  • 2023 Scan from the Original Camera Negative
  • Audio Commentary with Film Historians Jason Pichonsky and Paul Corupe
  • Isolated Score Selections & Audio Interview with Music Historian Douglass Fake
  • Audio Interviews with Actor Lesleh Donaldson, First Assistant Director Ray Sager, And Production Assistant Shelley Allen
  • Secrets & Shadows: Interview with Director of Photography Mark Irwin
  • Dead & Breakfast: Interviews with Art Director Susan Longmire and Set Assistant Elinor Galbraith
  • Family Owned & Operated: Interview with Brian Allen, President of Premier Drive-In Theatres
  • Original Filming Location Footage
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Video Trailer
  • TV Spots
  • Radio Spots
  • Still Gallery
Blu-ray $29.95
The Terminal Man (1974, Mike Hodges)

Mind control. Advances of modern science have removed it from the realm of the mystical into the all-too-probable. What happens when science loses control is the subject of The Terminal Man, based on a novel by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain) and written for the screen and directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Croupier). Computer scientist Harry Benson (George Segal) has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Electrodes are attached to 40 terminals of his brain to counteract his violent impulses. But there's no escaping his own mind. The experiment has back-fired, and the seizures return…with a terminal vengeance. Hooking into this visionary tale will unnerve you. But the truth behind its hallucinatory horrors will fascinate and stimulate you.

Blu-ray $27.95
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