Monday, November 23, 2020

All 8 titles announced for the Severin Films BLACK FRIDAY SALE - DETAILS!



Severin Films have now announced the full line up of their Annual Severin Films' Black Friday Sale! New to the announcement are the rarely-seen Euro-sleaze masterpiece CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH, our brand new original production TALES OF THE UNCANNY: THE ULTIMATE SURVEY OF ANTHOLOGY HORROR which includes three feature length horror anthologies, Buddy Giovinazzo's explosive – and long-unseen – drama NO WAY HOME (limited to 2,500 numbered copies), and THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Audio Book, read by Richard Stanley and packaged in a purple clamshell case with digital download code. The sale also will include the first ever authorized Blu-ray release of Severin's original horror anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE in special 2-disc digipak packaging with slipcase, the Blu-ray premiere of the hallucinatory horror in THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS featuring Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Ted Raimi and Alice Cooper, a new edition of PLAGUE TOWN packed with illuminating bonus features with slipcase, and the worldwide Blu-ray premiere of Douglas Buck's devastating anthology FAMILY PORTRAITS.

There are also two new episodes of the Severin Films Podcast! Both episodes feature surprise special guests and the smooth sounds of RENDEZVOUS! After Hours too! https://linktr.ee/severinfilms

CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH (1968) 

From writer/director Adrian Hoven – creator of the infamous MARK OF THE DEVIL – comes a rarely-seen EuroSleaze masterpiece packed with krimi depravity, mondo-style shocks and graphic gothic insanity: When a group of bourgeois swingers stumble upon the creepy castle of the cursed Earl of Saxon, they’ll discover an unholy nightmare of sexual violence, bombastic philosophy, deranged performances, grisly medical experiments, inappropriate music cues and one very pissed off bear. A stellar cast of Jess Franco regulars including Janine Raynaud (SUCCUBUS), Howard Vernon (SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY) and Michel Lemoine (KISS ME MONSTER) star in this sumptuous platter of late ‘60s filthwürst – also known as CASTLE OF BLOODY LUST – now scanned uncut & uncensored from the German negative for the first time ever in America.


Special Features:
- Adrian in the Castle of Bloody Lust – Archival Interview with Joyce Hoven and Percy Hoven
- MARK OF THE DEVIL Q&A with The Hoven Family at Austrian Pulp Film Fest
- Locations Featurette
- Trailers – English / German / Alt Title APPOINTMENT WITH LUST
- Textless Opening Credit Sequence
- German Opening Credit Sequence
- Exclusive Black Friday Edition includes a Limited Slip Case!

Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audio: English Mono and German Mono
Subtitles: English
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region Free
TALES OF THE UNCANNY: THE ULTIMATE SURVEY OF ANTHOLOGY HORROR (2020)

When Covid-19 hit, Severin Films chief David Gregory and House Of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse decided to ask their industry friends which Top 5 films and segments that would make the ultimate horror anthology. The result became an international Zoom-enabled documentary featuring Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Greg Nicotero, Mark Hartley, Mick Garris, Ernest Dickerson, Joko Anwar, Ramsey Campbell, David DeCoteau, Kim Newman, Jovanka Vuckovic, Luigi Cozzi, Tom Savini, Jenn Wexler, Larry Fessenden, Richard Stanley, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brian Yuzna, Gary Sherman, Rebekah McKendry and Roger Corman in a candid discussion of the best portmanteaus in film/TV history. As a Bonus, Severin is proud to include the rarely-seen 1919 German compendium EERIE TALES, the thought-lost 1949 French/Belgian anthology HISTORIES EXTRAORDINAIRE/UNUSUAL TALES, and a limited second disc with Black Friday Exclusive Bonus Horror Anthology: MASTER OF HORROR (1965) Scanned in 2k from Jack H. Harris’ dupe negative.

Special Features:
- Bonus Horror Anthology: EERIE TALES (1919) from broadcast tape master
- Bonus Horror Anthology: UNUSUAL TALES (1949) New 2k scan from only known 16mm print from Brussels Film Archive
- Limited second disc with Black Friday Exclusive Bonus Horror Anthology: MASTER OF HORROR (1965) Scanned in 2k from Jack H. Harris’ dupe negative.
- Exclusive Limited Black Friday Edition includes Disc 2 MASTER OF HORROR feature!

Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audio: English 2.0
Closed Captions: English
Region Free

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Audio Book)

“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.” So begins this legendary sci-fi/horror tale by H.P. Lovecraft about a meteorite that crashes in the fictional New England town of Arkham and proceeds to deform all vegetation on “the blasted heath” while driving its inhabitants slowly and homicidally insane. Read by award-winning filmmaker Richard Stanley – whose 2019 movie adaptation starring Nicolas Cage was called “a trippy rainbow of the gory and grotesque” (Daily Mirror) – The Colour Out Of Space remains one of the most startling and significant works in modern horror history.

Read by award-winning filmmaker Richard Stanley – HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL, COLOR OUT OF SPACE – "The Colour Out Of Space" remains one of the most startling and significant works in modern horror history.

Specs:
Purple cassette tape of audio recording
Digital download code of audio recording
Total run time: 84 minutes



THE THEATRE BIZARRE (2011) 

The concept was unprecedented: Enlist seven of horror’s most transgressive filmmakers – Douglas Buck (FAMILY PORTRAITS), Buddy Giovinazzo (COMBAT SHOCK), David Gregory (PLAGUE TOWN), Karim Hussain (SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY), Jeremy Kasten (THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS), splatter FX legend Tom Savini and Richard Stanley (HARDWARE) – and give them total creative freedom to create their own short films inspired by the Grand Guignol.The result – starring genre icons like Udo Kier (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN), Catriona MacColl (THE BEYOND), Lynn Lowry (THE CRAZIES) and Debbie Rochon (AMERICAN NIGHTMARE) – has been called “wildly unique” (Dread Central), “hilarious, grotesque and scary” (Bloody Disgusting) and “one of the best horror anthologies of all time” (Paste). Experience “a trip you’ll never forget” (Mondo Digital), finally officially available on Blu-ray with hours of exclusive Special Features.

Special Features:
- 2020 Filmmakers Audio Commentary
- 2012 Filmmakers Audio Commentary
- Backstage: The Making of THE THEATRE BIZARRE - New feature length documentary featuring interviews with Directors Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, Producers Daryl J. Tucker, Fabrice Lambot, Michael Ruggiero, Actors Udo Kier, Catriona MacColl, Lynn Lowry, Victoria Maurette, Kaniehtiio Horn and more.
- French TV On-Set Report on Richard Stanley's Return to Genre Filmmaking
- Making of VISION STAINS by Filmmaker Pat Tremblay
- Making of THE ACCIDENT by Filmmaker Pat Tremblay
- Shock Till You Drop's Choice Cuts with Buddy Giovinazzo
- Shock Till You Drop's Choice Cuts with David Gregory
- Shock Till You Drop's Choice Cuts with Jeremy Kasten
- Boswell Scores - Interview with THE MOTHER OF TOADS & VISION STAINS Soundtrack Composer Simon Boswell
- THE MOTHER OF TOADS - Extended Cut
-Trailers
- Exclusive to this Limited Black Friday Edition are an exclusive Slip Case and fold-out Digipak (showcasing original artwork for each anthology segment), as well as the first ever official soundtrack CD (with compositions by Simon Boswell, Susan DiBona, Bobb Freund, Pierre Marchand, Eric Powell and Mark Raskin).

Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: English 5.1 & 2.0, French 2.0
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region Free
THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS (2001) 

It’s been called “imaginative and audacious” (Los Angeles Times), “fantastic and surreal” (Classic Horror) and “an ideal film that verges towards masterpiece” (Weird Wild Realm). Now experience the Blu-ray premiere of the hallucinatory debut by director Jeremy Kasten (THE DEAD ONES, THE THEATRE BIZARRE, THE WIZARD OF GORE remake) about a young man committed to an asylum where madness, mayhem and murder may rip apart his mind forever. Seth Green (ROBOT CHICKEN), Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR), Andras Jones (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4), Ted Raimi (SKINNER), Wendy Robie (TWIN PEAKS) and Alice Cooper star in the 2001 shocker Fangoria hailed as “an ambitious first feature laced with a wonderful cast, quirky charms and cool twists”, scanned in 2k from the original negative with all-new special features. 

Special Features:
- Cast & Crew 20 Year Pandemic Reunion & Story of Making THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS, featuring Jeremy Kasten, Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Tim Heidecker and many more
- Alice Cooper & Jeffrey Combs Internet Reunion
- Horror Scholar Adam Rockoff Contextualizes THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS
- Exclusive Limited Black Friday Edition includes the first ever release of the original motion picture
soundtrack CD.


Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audio: English 5.1 & 2.0
Closed Captions: English
Region 0/Free

PLAGUE TOWN (2008) 

A tourist family lost in the Irish countryside. A remote village that hides a hideous secret. And the taboo-bashing indie horror milestone that has been called “maniacally twisted” (Horror News), “chilling and disturbing” (Blu-ray.com) and “an experience that goes where most mainstream horror fears to tread” (Fangoria). Experience this “brilliant” (Quiet Earth) hybrid of grisly ‘70s shockers and graphic 21st century folk-horror – hailed as “an icy hand gradually sliding along the back of your neck for 90 minutes” (Mondo Digital) – from co-writer/director David Gregory (BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON) and the producers of STAKELAND, now featuring an uncensored HD master and Special Features produced exclusively for this edition.
Special Features:
- 2009 Audio Commentary - Audio Commentary with Director David Gregory & Producer Derek Curl
- White Lace & Button Eyes - The Making of PLAGUE TOWN by Documentary Filmmaker Howard S. Berger
- A Visit to Plague Town - Behind the Scenes Featurette
- The Sounds of Plague Town
- Trailer
- Short Films - SCATHED, TIL DEATH
- Exclusive Limited Black Friday Edition includes exclusive Slip Case and the first ever release of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD.

Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English 5.1 & 2.0
Closed Captions: English
Region 0/Free

FAMILY PORTRAITS (2006) 

Over the course of seven years, three short films about the brutal dissolution of the American family – Cutting Moments (1997), Home (1998) and Prologue (2003) – elicited both horrified gasps and standing ovations at film festivals around the world. When combined into a theatrical feature, this trilogy by writer/producer/director/editor Douglas Buck – whose directing credits would eventually include the SISTERS remake and ‘The Accident’ segment of THE THEATRE BIZARRE – was hailed as “nightmarish” (The New York Times), “like Todd Solondz on crack” (Digitally Obsessed) and “the most chilling portrait of the loss of humanity in the manicured lawns of Middle America ever made” (LA Weekly). Buck’s “unbearably intense and enormously moving” (Filmecho) stunner is now scanned in 2k from the original negative for the first time ever with all-new Special Features.

Special Features:
- Commentary with Director Douglas Buck
- Commentary with Maitland McDonagh
- AFTER ALL - Early Short Film
- CUTTING MOMENTS Interviews, Circa 1998
- That’s Dark - Podcast on CUTTING MOMENTS & Interview with Director Douglas Buck
- Deleted Scene - Prologue
- Behind the Scenes - Prologue
- Stills Galleries
- Trailer

Specs:
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audio: English Mono
Closed Captions: English
Region 0/Free