Month: April 2022

Schizoid / X-Ray (4k Ultra HD / Blu-ray Set) Available April 26

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Before becoming known for their over-the-top action spectacles, Cannon Films dabbled in the early 80s slasher craze, producing a handful of original slice n’ dice classics, two of which are presented here on 4K UHD for the first time, from Vinegar Syndrome!

Pieter Fales is a renowned psychiatrist who is unable to reconcile his relationship with his teenage daughter, Alison. Julie, one of Pieter’s patients, is a successful advice columnist in the midst of a messy divorce, who has also started receiving threatening letters. When a black clad, scissors wielding killer begins murdering people in Julie’s life, she begins to suspect that her unknown writer and this mystery assailant might be one and the same…

Taking strong stylistic cues from the giallo genre, director David Paulsen’s (Savage Weekend) Schizoid is a delirious whodunit headlined by cult film superstar, Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre), alongside Donna Wilkes (Angel), Marianna Hill (Messiah of Evil), and an early appearance from Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), all amplified with a throbbing electronic score by Craig Huxley and presented here from a stunning new 4K restoration!

When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination. But when her x-rays seem to show something unusual, Susan finds herself trapped in a bizarre medical nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…

With its exceptionally colorful cinematography by Nicholas Josef von Sternberg (Slaughterhouse Rock) and otherworldly sense of surrealism, trailblazing Israeli filmmaker Boaz Davidson’s (The Last American Virgin) sole foray into horror cinema, X-RAY (aka Hospital Massacre) is a slasher like no other and has been freshly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative, allowing its one-of-a-kind weirdness to be experienced as never before.

STARRING: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill, Christopher Lloyd, Barbi Benton

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Scanner Cop II: The Showdown (1995) (4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray Set) Available April 26

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Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn, Wild At Heart), the Scanner Cop, had hoped that he could resume a normal life. When other Scanners in the Los Angeles area are being attacked, literally left drained of life, Sam is forced back into action in a desperate attempt to stop a mad Scanner named Volkin who is determined to become the most powerful – and ruthless – of his kind. But as Sam sets out to put an end to the ever increasing carnage gripping the city, he also finds himself in a personal crisis after his long estranged mother reappears, and becomes the focus of Volkin’s growing rage.

Pervasively twisted and astonishingly gory, Steve Barnett’s Scanner Cop II: The Showdown does everything in its power to up the ante in terms of the Scanners’ series violence and creative death sequences, with an array of extremely grisly and often ‘explosive’ demises courtesy of special effects wizard, John Carl Buechler (Mausoleum). Vinegar Syndrome is overjoyed to bring this unforgettable final chapter in the Scanners saga to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative and featuring a brand new extended making of documentary with it’s cast and crew.

STARRING: Daniel Quinn, Patrick Kilpatrick, Khrystyne Haje, Robert Forster, Stephen Mendel

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Scanner Cop (1994) Available April 26

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Rookie cop Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn, Wild At Heart) has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm…and death. To repress his abilities, he takes a medication designed to keep Scanners sane and rational and from exacting harm on others. When a mad scientist named Karl Glock (Richard Lynch, Invasion USA) begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to the mayhem and uncover the identity and diabolical motives of this bloodthirsty madman…

The first true sequel to David Cronenberg’s 1980 horror classic, producer Pierre David’s (Videodrome) first foray into directing, Scanner Cop, is a tense and bloody mix of gruesome body horror and action packed police thriller. Never released on disc in the US, Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings this mid 90s direct-to-video hit to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative and featuring a brand new extended making of documentary with it’s cast and crew.

STARRING: Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Grove, Richard Lynch, Hilary Shepard

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Reform School Girls (1986) Available April 26

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The Pridemore Juvenile Detention Facility isn’t just a place for troubled teenage girls to serve their time. Instead, it’s a living hell filled with sexual depravity and violence. Jenny, a fresh inmate, becomes the de facto protector of Lisa, an innocent young girl forced to be a plaything to anyone after her body. Then there’s Charlie, a hardened teenaged lesbian who torments her fellow prisoners through brutal acts of sexual sadism. But no one instills more fear in even the toughest girls than the sadistic Edna who, with a blind eye turned by money-hungry Warden Sutter, delights in terrorizing her beautiful prisoners. However, the girls have had enough and things are about to change at Pridemore…

STARRING: Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning, Pat Ast

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Pathogen (2006) Available April 26

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Conceived when filmmaker Emily Hagins was 12 and released when she was 15, PATHOGEN is one of the most accomplished horror movies ever made by a person before they could legally drive a car. A mysterious technology has transformed the residents of Austin, TX into flesh-craving zombies. Armed with a knife, an axe, and many pairs of flip-flops, middle-schooler Dannie and her pee-wee zombie squad take to the streets to battle undead parents, teens, and even a toddler. With an impressive devotion to editing and storytelling, Pathogen delivers eyeball gouging, decapitations, and knife fights, along with an endearing perspective that could only originate from a teenager. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are overjoyed to give Pathogen its first-ever wide release, complete with Zombie Girl: The Movie―a feature-length documentary about the making of the movie.

STARRING: Rose Kent-McGlew, Tiger Darrow

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Ode To Nothing (2018) Available April 26

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Sonya (Marietta Subong a.k.a. Pokwang) is a living ghost, struggling to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Lonely and thoroughly alienated by an insistent bailiff, she wanders inside her own house, leaning heavily on her favorite Chinese song, recorded on a broken cassette tape, to get through the hours and days… Until an unexpected corpse lands, rather illicitly, at her doorstep. Developing a unique relationship with the unclaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver’s absorbing mystique.

Dwein Ruedas Baltazar’s Ode To Nothing (following 2012’s Mamay Umeng and 2018’s I Like You With All My Hypothalamus) is a powerful meditation on our universal longing for connection, in increasingly precarious, uncertain and isolated times. The ineluctability and omnipresence of death is given form, here, in an uncanny cohabitation with desuetude itself – in what amounts to one of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the Philippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay award winner at Quezon City’s influential Qcinema Festival highlighting new Filipino cinema, Ode To Nothing unfolds in a languid and hypnotic manner – every careful shot oozing with the palpable texture of rot, humidity and crushing loneliness.

STARRING: Marietta Subong, Joonee Gamboa, Angelita Loresco, Dido de la Paz, Anthony Falcon

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Madman (1981) Available April 26

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Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s.

Many terrifying legends are shared around campfires, but very few of them are true. That’s what teenage Richie thought about the story of Madman Marz, a hulking brute who, as the story goes, murdered his entire family decades earlier and who can be summoned from the dead by calling his name. Unfortunately for Richie and his fellow teenage summer camp counselors, the legend is very true, and Madman Marz is back, freshly sharpened axe in hand, to continue the killing spree he began many years ago…

One of the quintessential and iconic early 80s slashers, Joe Giannone’s Madman piles on scares, suspense, and plenty of gory kills. Starring Gaylen Ross (Dawn of the Dead) and featuring colorful photography by James Lemmo (Ms. 45), Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present the ultimate MADMAN experience on UHD for the first time, from a brand new 4K restoration of the 35mm original camera negative, and featuring hours of extra features including interviews and commentaries with nearly every surviving cast and crew member.

STARRING: Gaylen Ross, Tony Nunziata, Paul Ehlers, Tom Candela, Harriet Bass

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The Last Sun of The Night (2017) Available April 26

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The Italian government decides to create several safe zones after a devastating war. In one of such zones, number 13, a big building has only three occupants remaining whose minds have slowly descended into madness.

STARRING: Andrea Lupia, Alessandra Mortelliti, Danilo Rotundo, Alessandro Damerini, Claudia Fratarcangeli

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Hard Rock Zombies / Slaughterhouse Rock (Blu-ray Set) Available April 26

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With the explosion of heavy metal and new wave music in the mid 1980s, it was inevitable that horror filmmakers would seize the opportunity to combine these popular musical stylings with blood and mayhem. While numerous such tie-ins were produced, none were as freaked out and gore soaked as this foot stomping duo, presented fully uncensored and newly restored on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!

A heavy metal band has been invited to appear in a conservative small town. What they don’t know is that their hosts are in fact a family of horrific and murderous mutants, whose patriarch is none other than Hitler! After being swiftly murdered, Cassie, the only non-violent member of this depraved clan, wills the band back to life. Soon the stuffy townspeople are faced with an unwelcome reckoning as the zombified musicians thrash and maim their way through the community, in the name of grisly revenge…and love!

Without a doubt one of the most original zombie films in the history of the genre, Krishna Shah’s Hard Rock Zombies is a dazzling blend of horror film and musical, filtered through experimental and arthouse cinema sensibilities. Jam packed with outrageous song and dance sequences juxtaposed with over-the-top violence and ludicrous plot twists, Hard Rock Zombies comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever, in its completely uncut composite version, sourced from the only known 35mm film elements with video inserts.

Alex, a college student, is being plagued by strange dreams in which a grotesque man commits heinous acts of torture and murder. With the help of his friends, Alex discovers that he has an unexplained telepathic link to a notorious killer who once lived on Alcatraz Island and whose bloodlust extends beyond the grave. When his supernatural experiences begin taking on real life manifestations, Alex and his friends sneak into the abandoned prison to put an end to their reign of terror, only to unwittingly walk into a bloodbath…

Dispensing with any sense of narrative logic, Dimitri Logothetis’ Slaughterhouse Rock gleefully combines tracks from new wave musical sensations, DEVO, with plentiful gut-busting gore, and touches of humor, all set in the spooky, fog filled environs of the infamous Alcatraz Prison. This thrill filled neon-nightmare hits Blu-ray from a brand new 4K restoration of its original 35mm camera negative, with its oft censored gore fully restored.

STARRING: Toni Basil, Nicholas Celozzi, Tammy Hyler, E.J. Curse

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The Forbidden Door (2009) (Special Edition) Available April 26

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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.

STARRING: Fachry Albar, Marsha Timothy, Ario Bayu, Tio Pakusadewo, Verdi Solaiman

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Dementia (1955) Available April 26

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An entirely unique and utterly bizarre film, John J. Parker’s Dementia is a 1950s-style foray into the mind of psycho-sexual madness. Set entirely in a nocturnal twilight zone that blends dream imagery with the cinematic stylings of film noir, Dementia follows the tormented existence of a young woman haunted by the horrors of her youth, which transformed her into a stiletto-wielding, man-hating beatnik. Accompanied by George Antheil’s sci-fi score, the camera follows a “Gamin” (Adrienne Barrett) on a surreal sleepwalk through B-movie hell, populated by prostitutes, pimps, and would-be molesters – all photographed by William Thompson (Plan 9 From Outer Space). Two years after its original release, a narration track of foreboding psychobabble (diabolically spoken by Ed McMahon) was added and the title was changed to the more sensational Daughter Of Horror. This edition presents the original cut of Dementia, digitally remastered from the 35MM negative, as well as the complete Daughter Of Horror (from a 35MM print), and the original theatrical trailer.

STARRING: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno Vesota, Ben Roseman, Angelo Rossitto

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Dead By Midnight: Y2Kill (2022) Available April 26

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Introducing Dead By Midnight: Y2Kill, a horror anthology that’s carving out a new brand of terror with original storytelling and iconic horror stars! Y2KILL has assembled a team of horror legends including Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley, and Scream Queen Linnea Quigley for five terrifying segments each more deadly than the last! All of this murderous mayhem is hosted by the Temptress of Terror but she better watch out, because the vengeful Mistress of Midnight is out to prove that she’s still the most hellish host around.

STARRING: Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Hannah Fierman, Hannah Alline

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Born Dead (2021) Available April 26

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Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. This gory and blood-soaked tale from Alex Visani (The Pyramid) will leave you breathless.

STARRING: Ingrid Monacelli, Edoardo Lazzari, Claudio Massimo Paternò, Corinna Coroneo, Lorenzo Lepori

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Backwoods Marcy (1999) Available April 26

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A wrong turn during a business trip leads an unsuspecting yuppie down a perilous road of terror after he foolishly runs afoul of Marcy; a psychotic, redneck, homeless woman who dwells deep in the ominous swamplands of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. After capturing him and caging him like an animal, the depraved Marcy methodically tortures and rapes her helpless male captive. Upon his escape, a savage fight to the death ensues where only the most cunning of the two will survive!

One of the few shot on video movies in history to be helmed by a woman, Backwoods Marcy was written, produced, scored, and directed by actress turned filmmaker Dawn Murphy, who also turns in a tour de force acting performance in a dual role that earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 1999 B-Movie Awards. Co-starring Dave Castiglione (Love is a Stranger), Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), and W.A.V.E. founder Gary Whitson (Dead North), Saturn’s Core is proud to present this long sought after, strangely feminist, ’90s era SOV horror epic, newly uncovered and restored from the vaults of the infamous South Jersey based studio Sharkey Video. As an added bonus, Backwoods Marcy now comes paired with another Sharkey Video curio; writer / director Dave Castiglione’s 1995 brain-melting, holiday themed, SOV comedy An Ex-Hooker’s Christmas Carol, which arrives newly restored and accompanied by a wealth of extras of its own!

STARRING: Dawn Murphy, Dave Castiglione, Pamela Sutch, Gary Whitson

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“Monsterland” Season One (Import) Available May 27

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Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters. The eight-episode series is grounded and contained in a different present-day American city, with a new protagonist grappling with monsters – some traditional and some metaphorical. Created and produced by Mary Laws (Preacher, Succession) the series includes such notable actors as Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black), Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable), and Mike Colter (Marvel’s Luke Cage).

STARRING: Kaitlyn Dever, Charlotte Cabell, Vivian Cabell

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Amityville In The Hood / Amityville In Space (Double Feature Blu-ray) Available August 23

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Twice the Amityville horror and weirdness on one Blu Ray!

Amityville In Space: An Amityville investigator fights his last battle with the ultimate evil, this time in space when the infamous murder house ends up in the 23rd century.

Amityville In The Hood: A gang uses the cursed Amityville property to grow marijuana, but it soon makes its way to the streets where it is giving users a killer buzz.

STARRING: Various

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Amityville In The Hood (2021) Available August 23

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An Eastside gang uses the Amityville property to grow marijuana when they are attacked by a rival gang and their drugs stolen. Soon, it’s unleashed on the Westside streets of Compton, where anyone who smokes it suffers one KILLER buzz.

STARRING: Shawn C. Phillips, Dustin Ferguson, Jennifer Nangle

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YellowBrickRoad (2010) Available August 9

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An entire town’s population walks up a mountain trail and disappears. Years later, a group of intrepid explorers, intent on solving the mystery, take a mind-bending trip up the same road and find an ancient evil still lurking in the New England woods.

STARRING: Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, Anessa Ramsey, Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman

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Intrusion: Disconnected (2020) Available August 9

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Nearly a year after the events of Intrusion the mysterious death of the rose bud killer leaves questions unresolved. Now with the body count rising once again and Holly’s mental stability slipping, she claims the killer is still alive.

STARRING: Katie Stewart, Lee Haycraft, Sebrina Scott

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The Halloween Double Trouble Horror Show Available August 9

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There is an old saying… When you set on a path to revenge, you must first dig two graves. Here we find young Tabitha, who in a fit of jealous rage finds herself vulnerable to fall into the clutches and instruction of an evil witch. What ensues are instructions of pure evil that will pave the way for a diabolical plan the witch has to unleash an unholy abomination from the very pits of hell and begin a vicious and unstoppable killing spree.

STARRING: Various

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Dr. Lamb (1992) Available August 9

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A mentally disturbed taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are brutally murdered. He likes to take photos of the victims’ dismembered bodies as his special mementos after sex with their corpses and stores their severed breasts in pickle jars. Inspector Lee and his team are called onto the case in this bizarre, nasty, and notorious Cat III film.

STARRING: Danny Lee, Simon Yam, Kent Cheng, Emily Kwan

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Archons (2018) Available August 9

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A half-decade after the release of their only hit single, fallen-from-grace rock group tries to re-capture their creative mojo out in the remote mountain wilderness with a guitar and a bag of rare psychedelic drugs. This canoe trip hits a bump when the group starts hearing strange noises during their nightly stops and can’t shake the feeling they are being followed.

STARRING: Josh Collins, Rob Raco, Samantha Carly

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Abominable (2006) (Special Edition) Available August 9

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It has been sighted 42,000 times in 68 countries, a vicious creature of myth and legend called Sasquatch, Yeti, and perhaps most infamously, Bigfoot. It’s been hunted it for years. But what happens when it decides to hunt us? After recovering from a horrific accident, paraplegic Preston Rogers moves back into the remote cabin where he and his now-deceased wife once lived. When his new neighbor Karen, is attacked by a gigantic creature, Rogers contacts the local authorities. But after the police and those around him dismiss Rogers as a delusional widower, he sets out to stop the abominable creature himself. Featuring an all-star cast that includes Matt McCoy (L.A. Confidential, HBO’s Silicon Valley) Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator, The Frighteners), Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club, Die Hard), Rex Linn (Django Unchained, A Million Ways To Die in the West), Haley Joel (Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding), Phil Morris (Seinfeld, Black Dynamite), Dee Wallace Stone (E.T., Cujo), Tiffany Shepis (Tales of Halloween, Victor Crowley) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Hard Target)in this wild and gruesome throwback horror shocker that Fangoria called the best serious fright film ever made about Bigfoot!

STARRING: Jeffrey Combs, Matt Mccoy, Dee Wallace

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