NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980)
“REALLY DELIGHTFUL,
UNBELIEVABLY GORY
A triumph in oddball sleaze, like a more insane GRIZZLY.” - Oh, The Horror!
Amid the gush of early ‘80s low-budget backwoods horror, only one lost classic brought together softcore sex, hardcore violence, Satanic sex cults and a limb-tearing, gut-slinging, dick-ripping beast for “the best and bloodiest Bigfoot movie ever made.” (Buried.com): When a group of Anthropology students heads deep into the forest to investigate a series of Sasquatch attacks, they’ll discover an immortal brain-blast of crazy hermits, mutilated Girl Scouts, interspecies copulation and “one of the goriest final scenes in the whole history of splatter flicks” (A Slash Above). Producer/co-writer Jim L. Ball and director James C. Wasson deliver “an anti-masterpiece that moves like a bullet, unlike anything you’ve ever seen” (Mondo Digital) now scanned in 2K from the recently discovered 35mm answer print with over 5½ hours of Special Features on two discs.
Special Features:
DISC 1
- Exclusive Slip Cover
- Just A Little Green Kid Outta Waco, Texas — Interview With Producer Jim L. Ball
- The Demon Made Me Do It — Interview With Director James C. Wasson
- Eye Of The Demon — Interview With Cinematographer John Quick
- FRATERNITY OF HORROR — Previously Unreleased 1964 Feature Produced By Jim L. Ball And Shot By John Quick
- Trailer
DISC 2
- Cryptid Currency: Transgression Aggression In Bigfoot Cinema — Video Essay By David Coleman, Author Of The Bigfoot Filmography
- Tales From The Cryptid — Interview With Stephen R. Bissette, Co-Author Of Cryptid Cinema
- Deconstructing Patty — Interview With William Munns, Author Of When Roger Met Patty
- Mondo Bigfoot — Interview With Lyle Blackburn, Author Of Boggy Creek Casebook
- BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS!
- BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS! PART 2
- My Nasty Memories — Interview With BAN - THE SADIST VIDEOS! Director David Gregory
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
THE FORBIDDEN DOOR (2005)
“AS SLICK AS IT IS SICK... An example of what movies could be but rarely dare to try.” - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
With his third disturbing feature, Joko Anwar – Indonesian
writer/director of IMPETIGORE and the remake of SATAN’S SLAVE – became
one of the most daring new genre filmmakers in the world. Now discover why: As a successful young sculptor increasingly loses his grip on sanity, he imagines his wife, friends and family are all conspiring against him, begins filling his best-selling works with unspeakable human matter, becomes obsessed with brutal hidden-camera abuse videos,
and inches inescapably closer towards the most horrific final act of all. Fachry Albar (V/H/S/2), Marsha Timothy (THE RAID 2) and Ario Bayu (THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC) star in this “almost perfect film – eerie, terrifying and just begging to be seen” (The Focus Pull), now on disc with exclusive Special Features for the first time ever in America.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Director Joko Anwar
- Opening The Door — Interview With Joko Anwar
- Deleted & Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary By Joko Anwar
- Behind The Scenes Featurette
- Herosase Footage
- Poster & Still Gallery
- Trailers
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Indonesian Stereo
Subtitles: English
Region: All
THE HALFWAY HOUSE (2004)
“F*CKIN’ A, THIS MOVIE HAS THE GOODS…There’s plenty for fans to sit up and shout about –showers, gore, naked flesh and Mary Woronov. Sleazy fun!”
- Film Threat
From writer/director/FX fabricator Kenneth J. Hall (PUPPET MASTER,
EVIL SPAWN, CARNOSAUR) comes the ultimate union of graphic gore, evil nuns, relentless nudity, sexual depravity, Lovecraftian carnage and
unapologetically over-the-top exploitation bliss: When a missing
teen’s sister goes undercover at Mary Magdalen Halfway House for
Troubled Girls, she'll expose an unholy conspiracy of pervy priests,
bonehead cops, aggressive lesbians and a secret dungeon where naked
runaways are sacrificed to a one-eyed Cthulhu. Janet Tracy Keijser
(SCHISM), FX legend Cleve Hall (MONSTER MAN) and national treasure Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL) star in this
“incredibly wild ride with everything you could want in a B-movie”
(Video Zeta One), now on Blu-ray for the first time ever.
Special Features:
- Discipline And Sacrifice — A Look Back At THE HALFWAY HOUSE
- Cleve Hall — From Monster Kid To Monster Man
- Archival Making-Of
- Insecto Circus — Halfway To Hell Music Video
-Trailers
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Stereo
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
BALLAD IN BLOOD (2016)
“DEODATO’S RETURN TO SHOCK CINEMA…From the very first scene, this is a merciless portrait of a degenerate generation.” - Quinlan.it
For his first film in 23 years, Ruggero Deodato – the legendary
director of such ItaloSleaze classics as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK and RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS – explored a different breed of butchery inspired by the Perugia exchange student murder that shocked the world: After a wild night of sex, drugs and clubbing, a young woman, her boyfriend and his dealer pal wake to find her straight-laced roommate brutally murdered. But will what happens next reveal the most horrific secrets of all? Cinematographe.it calls Deodato’s ripped-from-the-headlines return “a disturbing thriller that’s violent, cynical and excessive,” featuring a pounding score by Claudio Simonetti (SUSPIRIA, DEMONS), with 2+ hours of startling new Special Features and available in America for the time ever.
Special Features:
- Exclusive Slip Cover
- The Day After — Interview With Director/Writer Ruggero Deodato
- Midnight Mass Hysteria — Interview With Nina Burleigh, Author Of New York Times Bestseller 'The Fatal Gift Of Beauty: The Trials Of Amanda Knox'
- It Happened In Perugia — Interview With Film Historian Fabio Melelli
- Things To Do In Perugia When You're Dead — Interview With Actress Noemi Smorra
- A Maestro At Work — Interview With Executive Producer Raffaele Mertes
- Behind The Scenes
- Trailers
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Stereo
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK (1980)
“UNRELENTING PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR…Total unabashed exploitation cinema from Ruggero Deodato, as controversial as his CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST.” - Starburst Magazine
For his follow-up to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time: David Hess of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy stars as a charismatic psychopath who, with his equally unhinged sidekick (Giovanni Lombardo Radice of CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), turns a get-together of chic New Yorkers into an ordeal of class warfare and sexual violence. Annie Belle (ABSURD), Christian Borromeo (TENEBRAE) and Lorraine De Selle (WILD BEASTS) co-star in this notorious DPP 39 Video Nasty from the screenwriters of NEW YORK RIPPER with an unforgettable soundtrack by Riz Ortolani, now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative with 3+ hours of all-new Special Features.
Special Features:
DISC 1
- Exclusive Slip Cover
- Audio Commentary By Bruce Holecheck (Cinema Arcana) And Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent)
- The Man Who Loved Women — Interview With Director Ruggero Deodato
- Lights On — Interview With Cinematographer Sergio D'Offizi
- Like A Prairie Dog — Interview With Actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- External Beauty & Internal Ugliness — Archival Interview With David Hess
- House Sweet House — Interview With Set Designer Antonello Geleng
- Poster/Lobby Card Gallery
DISC 2
- DEODATO HOLOCAUST -Feature-length documentary by Felipe M. Guerra that explores the film-by-film triumphs, tragedies and controversies of Ruggero Deodato
- Deleted Scenes
- Trailer
DISC 3
- CD soundtrack
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono
Subtitles: English
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: A
BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1965)
“THE BELOVED CLASSICK FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN HORROR…A breathtaking blend of cheesecake, pop art and Sadian excess.” - Frank Henenlotter, director of The BASKET CASE Trilogy
The most insane post-peplum psycho-sexual classic in Italian horror history just got even better: When the crew of a saucy photoshoot breaks into an abandoned castle, they will unleash the madness of the male-body-obsessed owner (muscleman Mickey Hargitay in the WTF? performance of his career) who is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a 16th century torturer. Walter Brandt (THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE) and Femi Benussi (HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON) co-star in this hair-raising orgy of sadism – also known as THE CRIMSON EXECUTIONER – from director Massimo Pupillo (TERROR-CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE) and the screenwriters of KILL, BABY... KILL! with special effects by future Oscar® winner Carlo Rambaldi (E.T.), now scanned in eye-stabbingly stunning 2K from the original uncut negative recently discovered in a Rome lab vault.
Special Features:
- Exclusive Slip Cover
- Audio Commentary With Filmmaker David DeCoteau And Film Historian David Del Valle
- Alternate Opening Sequences
- Trailer
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono
Subtitles: English
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
BLACK CANDLES (1982)
“A MERRY-GO-ROUND OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE…It remains a gratifying starting point to discover an atypical director who delights in debauchery.” - Psychovision
With classics like WHIRLPOOL, SYMPTOMS and VAMPYRES, writer/director José Ramón Larraz explored bold new realms of erotic horror. But with his most infamous film of all, the late Spanish auteur defiled nearly every taboo of sexual mayhem: When a young couple visits in-laws in the UK countryside, they will instead discover a haven of the occult where lesbianism, incest, sodomy, bestiality and beyond may all be commanded by Lucifer himself. The legendary Helga Liné (NIGHTMARE
CASTLE, THE LORELEY’S GRASP), Carmen Carrión (THE INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE) and Mauro Rivera (THE SEXUAL STORY OF O) star in this notorious orgy of Satanic depravity – also known as HOT FANTASIES, NAKED DREAMS and SEXUAL RITES OF THE DEVIL – now scanned uncut in 2K with all-new Special Features.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Rodney Barnett And Troy Guinn, Hosts Of NaschyCast
- La Dama Del Fantaterror — Documentary Short On Actress Helga Liné By Filmmaker Diego López
- Made By The Devil — Interview With Gavin Baddeley, Author Of Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock'n'Roll
- An Exception To The Norm — Interview With Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Author Of Spanish Horror Film
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Audio: English Mono
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
