Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park – a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
STARRING: Andrew Roth, Kamillia Kataxenna Kova, Dina Cataldi
Read more “Frightworld (2006) Available August 24”A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life. Nami hosts a late night video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
STARRING: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi
Read more “Evil Dead Trap (1988) Available August 24”The night staff of roller rink are stalked and killed by a mysterious figure who they believe may be the spirit of a teenager who was accidentally killed there years ago.
STARRING: Amanda Courtney, Caedmon Holland, Alan Humphrey
Read more “Death Rink (2019) Available August 24”In this chilling tale of alien terror, a writer (William Devane, Rolling Thunder) takes a personal interest in a series of baffling, shocking murders in Los Angeles … and evidence suggests the suspect may not be human. Every night The Mangler stalks the streets, attacking and mutilating random victims. On the creature’s trail is TV reporter Zoe Owens (Cathy Lee Crosby, Coach) and police detective Dave Mooney (Richard Jaeckel, The Dirty Dozen), but the truth behind the murders is far more strange and horrifying than they could ever imagine in this 1979 cult classic from director John Bud Cardos (Kingdom of the Spiders, Mutant) and featuring Keenan Wynn (Dr. Strangelove), Casey Kasem (radio legend and American Top 40 host) and Jacquelyn Hyde (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) in her Saturn Award® nominated performance.
STARRING: Keenan Wynn, Cathy Lee Crosby, William Devane, Jacquelyn Hyde, Casey Kasem
Read more “The Dark (1979) (Collector’s Edition) Available August 24”One of the most sensational cases from Ed and Lorraine Warren’s files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before.
STARRING: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga
Read more “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Available August 24”Following the success of his debut feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, distributor Titanus tasked writer / director Dario Argento with delivering a follow-up in short order. The resulting film, granted a greatly enhanced budget and heralded in its US marketing campaign as “nine times more suspenseful” than its predecessor, was The Cat O’ Nine Tails.
When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One-Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth. And worse still, Lori (Cinzia De Carolis, Cannibal Apocalypse), Franco’s young niece, may also be in the killer’s sights…
This second entry in the so-called “Animal Trilogy” found Argento further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as the master of the giallo thriller. Co-starring Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso) and Rada Rassimov (Baron Blood), and featuring another nerve-jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), The Cat O’ Nine Tails remains one of Argento’s most suspenseful and underrated films.
STARRING: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Read more “The Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971) (Limited Edition) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray) Available August 24”WHEN THE BUTCHER GOES BERZERK!
From subversive Spanish writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia comes the international hit and DPP 39 ‘Video Nasty’ that remains among the most notorious and misunderstood shockers of the ’70s: When a slaughterhouse worker (Vicente Parra of No One Heard The Scream) accidentally kills a man during a fight, it will trigger a desperate descent into madness, mass murder and ‘the most horrific use of a single apartment since Polanski’s Repulsion’ (Mondo Digital). Emma Cohen (Cut-Throats Nine) and Eusebio Poncela (Law Of Desire) co-star in this ‘unforgettable mix of Euro arthouse and exploitive sleaze’ (DVD Drive-In) – also known as The Apartment On The 13th Floor and Week Of The Killer – now featuring both the International and extended Spanish Version newly scanned from the original negatives for the first time ever.
STARRING: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen
Read more “The Cannibal Man (1972) Available August 24”Norman J Warren’s final feature as director is also one of his most unclassifiable. Filmed in Wales, it focuses on a group of teens who find themselves on a stranded island while holidaying. The island is home to a deserted hotel, where it’s no longer the summer of 1986, but New Year’s Eve 1959, cueing a series of Warren’s famed horror set-pieces, involving ghosts, zombies, dismemberment, decapitations and much, much more besides.
STARRING: Suzy Aitchison, Mark Powley, Nikki Brooks, Daniel James
Read more “Bloody New Year (1987) (Import) Available August 27”Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japans foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).
An artists model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted, and awakens in a dark warehouse studio whose walls are decorated with outsized womens body parts eyes, lips, legs and breasts and dominated by two recumbent giant statues of male and female nudes. Her kidnapper introduces himself as Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor whom she had witnessed previously at an exhibition in which she featured intently caressing a statue of her naked torso. Michio announces his intention of using her to sculpt the perfect female form. At first defiant, she eventually succumbs to his intense fixation on her body and finds herself drawn into his sightless world, in which touch is everything.
Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all\-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish intensity.
STARRING: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori
Read more “Blind Beast (1969) Available August 24”A lonely man works on the deep web to raise enough money to finally leave his hometown and his troubled lifestyle. His friend, a certifiably crazy criminal, brings him into the darkest places of the city where their minds become obsessed with the deep web and the ability to make money quickly. The road to financial success will be full of pain as the duo tries to find a way to escape from their enemies and the darkness of their new existence. What they don’t realize is that a mysterious disfigured woman has been following them… and taking notes.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Acid Love (2021) (Amore Acido) Available August 24”One year after his international breakthrough with Cannibal Man, defiant Basque filmmaker Eloy de la Iglesia co-wrote and directed this twisted thriller – his last under Spain’s repressive Franco regime – that instantly made him ”the father of Spanish giallo” (Spanish Fear): When a woman spies her neighbor disposing of his wife’s corpse, she will cross the line from witness to accomplice to something far more depraved. Vicente Parra (Cannibal Man), Carmen Sevilla (The Glass Ceiling), María Asquerino (That Obscure Object Of Desire) and Antonio Casas (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) star in ”a must for all European film fans, with a final twist that will resonate with you for a very long time” (The Gore Splattered Corner), now featuring an HD scan from the original negative.
STARRING: Carmen Sevilla, Vicente Parra
Read more “No One Heard The Scream (1973) Available August 31”With the giallo at its peak in the early 70s, it seemed that every filmmaker working in Italy was vying to make one and put their unique creative stamp on this highly popular genre. Presented here are a trio of early 70s gialli, all directed by filmmakers who had never made one before (or after) and all presenting wildly different approaches to the genre’s most prevalent trappings.
The Girl In Room 2A: After being released from prison, Margaret (Daniela Giordano) goes to stay at a halfway house for female ex-cons, run by the kindly Mrs. Grant. It’s not long before she begins experiencing strange happenings in the old house, and things take an even more unsettling turn when she befriends Charlie, who is searching for his sister, who disappeared after staying in the house.
A bizarre giallo directed by American exploitation filmmaker, William L. Rose & produced by globe trotting sleaze impresario, Dick Randall, The Girl In Room 2A (‘House of Fear’ in Italian) plays like an American roughie that’s been dressed as a murder mystery. Vinegar Syndrome is pleased to present this in a brand new 2K restoration of its original 35mm camera negative & in its longest and most complete version ever presented on disc!
The French Sex Murders: Following the brutal death of a prostitute at a Parisian brothel, grizzled Inspector Fontaine (Robert Sacchi) is brought in to investigate. After implicating Antoine (Peter Martell), a petty thief & regular client of the murdered woman, Fontaine believes the case to be closed. However, after Antoine makes a daring attempt to escape, getting decapitated in the process, those affiliated with implicating him begin to meet their own violent ends. Has Antoine’s vengeful spirit returned to kill those he believes responsible for his own gruesome fate, or has another, more sinister character been behind these diabolical murders from the very beginning?
A sublimely trashy giallo produced by Dick Randall and helmed by assistant director, Ferdinando Merighi, The French Sex Murders straddles the line between a clever murder mystery and a distinctly 70s sleaze-fest. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present the world Blu-ray debut of this cult favorite, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative!
My Dear Killer: After a man is decapitated at a construction site, Inspector Luca Peretti (George Hilton) is assigned to the case. But what initially seems to be an isolated killing soon paves the way for an ever growing number of vicious murders. As Peretti tries to unmask the killer, he discovers that all of the victims were connected to another shocking & unsolved crime – the horrific murder of a young girl.
Directed by Tonino Valerii, My Dear Killer was his sole foray into the giallo genre. The result is a handsomely produced and unrelenting mystery-thriller that revels in clever twists and brutally depicted murders. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this sleeper masterpiece of prime era giallo cinema on Blu-ray, from a stunning new 4K restoration of its 35mm original negative.
STARRING: George Hilton, Patty Shepard, Anita Ekberg, Daniela Giordano, Rosalba Neri
Read more “Forgotten Gialli: Volume #2 Available August 31”Influenced by Dario Argento’s horror classic Suspiria, director Norman J Warren and screenwriter David McGillivray – reteaming two years after the success of Satan’s Slave – created an offbeat blend of satire and the supernatural, sending up the British exploitation film industry while delivering ever more outlandish set-pieces. An eclectic cast list includes John Nolan (Doomwatch), Carolyn Courage (Space: 1999), Glynis Barber (Dempsey and Makepeace) and Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies.
STARRING: John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey, Sarah Keller, Tricia Walsh
Read more “Terror (1978) (Import) Available August 27”For his first foray into horror cinema – the genre in which he would ensure his legacy – Norman J Warren teamed up with critic-turned-screenwriter David McGillivray (House of Whipcord) and Hammer veteran Michael Gough (The Phantom of the Opera) for a tale of witchcraft and occultism. Candace Glendenning (Tower of Evil) plays a young woman who witnesses the death of her parents en route to visiting her uncle (played by Gough) and cousin (Martin Potter, Goodbye Gemini). While recovering from the trauma at his isolated estate, she begins to suspect all is not as it seems and that dark magic may be at work…
STARRING: Candace Glendenning, Celia Hewitt, David McGillivray, Barbara Kellerman, James Bree
Read more “Satan’s Slave (1976) (Import) Available August 27”IN THIS SLEEPY TOWN, THERE IS NO REST FOR THE LIVING … OR THE DEAD.
The terrifying tale of Salem’s Lot continues in the shocking and satirical A Return To Salem’s Lot! Beneath the quaint, picture-perfect exterior of a small New England community lurks an unsettling, undead evil: vampires. When fresh blood comes to town in the form of amoral anthropologist Joe Weber and his son Jeremy, the vampires employ the father to document their story. But when the stakes are raised, Joe must take on the hellish horde or lose his son … and his soul.
Directed and co-written by genre legend Larry Cohen (the It’s Alive trilogy, Black Caesar, God Told Me To) and featuring Michael Moriarty (the star of Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent), A Return To Salem’s Lot is a ghoulishly clever follow-up to the hit miniseries based on master of horror Stephen King’s acclaimed novel.
STARRING: Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Ricky Addison Reed
Read more “A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987) Available August 24”Following the commercial success of Satan’s Slave, Norman J Warren next turned to science fiction. Barry Stokes (The Corruption of Chris Miller) plays a carnivorous, shape-shifting alien on a fact-finding mission to Earth. He discovers the rural house of a lesbian couple – played by Sally Faulkner (Vampyres) and Glory Annen (Felicity) – and the three become embroiled in a claustrophobic psychological drama of sex and violence.
STARRING: Sandy Chinney, Glory Annen, Sally Faulkner, Eddie Stacey, Barry Stokes
Read more “Prey (1977) (Import) Available August 27”One year after his international breakthrough with Cannibal Man, defiant Basque filmmaker Eloy de la Iglesia co-wrote and directed this twisted thriller – his last under Spain’s repressive Franco regime – that instantly made him ”the father of Spanish giallo” (Spanish Fear): When a woman spies her neighbor disposing of his wife’s corpse, she will cross the line from witness to accomplice to something far more depraved. Vicente Parra (Cannibal Man), Carmen Sevilla (The Glass Ceiling), María Asquerino (That Obscure Object Of Desire) and Antonio Casas (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) star in ”a must for all European film fans, with a final twist that will resonate with you for a very long time” (The Gore Splattered Corner), now featuring an HD scan from the original negative.
STARRING: Carmen Sevilla, Vicente Parra
Read more “No One Heard The Scream (1973) Available August 24”Boasting a strong female cast – including Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place), Stephanie Beacham (Tam-Lin) and Victoria Tennant (Flowers in the Attic) – and co-financed by Run Run Shaw of the Shaw Brothers, Inseminoid is among Norman J Warren’s most widely seen films… and his most infamous. Once listed as a ‘video nasty’, this science-fiction horror concerns a small crew of scientists who are terrorised by a creature on a distant planet. Comparisons with Ridley Scott’s Alien have been ever-present, though Inseminoid has a charm all of it’s own – it may not have the gloss or the budget, but it’s certainly a great deal of fun.
STARRING: Judy Geeson, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Robin Clarke, Steven Grives
Read more “Inseminoid (1981) (Import) Available August 27”WHEN THE BUTCHER GOES BERZERK!
From subversive Spanish writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia comes the international hit and DPP 39 ‘Video Nasty’ that remains among the most notorious and misunderstood shockers of the ’70s: When a slaughterhouse worker (Vicente Parra of No One Heard The Scream) accidentally kills a man during a fight, it will trigger a desperate descent into madness, mass murder and ‘the most horrific use of a single apartment since Polanski’s Repulsion’ (Mondo Digital). Emma Cohen (Cut-Throats Nine) and Eusebio Poncela (Law Of Desire) co-star in this ‘unforgettable mix of Euro arthouse and exploitive sleaze’ (DVD Drive-In) – also known as The Apartment On The 13th Floor and Week Of The Killer – now featuring both the International and extended Spanish Version newly scanned from the original negatives for the first time ever.
STARRING: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen
Read more “The Cannibal Man (1972) Available August 24”Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japans foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).
An artists model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted, and awakens in a dark warehouse studio whose walls are decorated with outsized womens body parts eyes, lips, legs and breasts and dominated by two recumbent giant statues of male and female nudes. Her kidnapper introduces himself as Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor whom she had witnessed previously at an exhibition in which she featured intently caressing a statue of her naked torso. Michio announces his intention of using her to sculpt the perfect female form. At first defiant, she eventually succumbs to his intense fixation on her body and finds herself drawn into his sightless world, in which touch is everything.
Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all\-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish intensity.
STARRING: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori
Read more “Blind Beast (1969) Available August 24”A lonely man works on the deep web to raise enough money to finally leave his hometown and his troubled lifestyle. His friend, a certifiably crazy criminal, brings him into the darkest places of the city where their minds become obsessed with the deep web and the ability to make money quickly. The road to financial success will be full of pain as the duo tries to find a way to escape from their enemies and the darkness of their new existence. What they don’t realize is that a mysterious disfigured woman has been following them… and taking notes.
STARRING: Various
Read more “Acid Love (2021) (Amore Acido) Available August 24”When a group of unsuspecting American tourists stumble across the Chernobyl exclusion zone whilst on their travels across Eastern Europe, their intrigue quickly turns to cold fear. Evil awaits in the form of ghosts of the hundreds of citizens who died trying to flee the aftermath of the explosion. It looks like the group has no hope, when they meet a mysterious barely-living girl, but will she help them escape alive?
STARRING: Micheal Golodini, Rostislav Gulbis
Read more “Ghosts Of Chernobyl (2021) Available August 17”When his fiancée Lucy falls victim to a mysterious illness, Arthur Holmwood turns to a former rival in her affections – Dr John Seward – for help. Seward calls in his mentor, Professor Van Helsing, who quickly uncovers the terrifying truth.
STARRING: Joe Street, Mark Topping
Read more “Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing (2021) Available August 17”From the creative mind of director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer) comes an eerie tale of an alien killer sentenced to live the rest of his days on Earth for committing unspeakable crimes. The strange insect-like creature arrives in a lone spaceship. When he arrives on our planet, his head explodes. His survival depends on his ability to find a new head for his body. Thus begins a carnage of murder that even the city’s toughest detectives Diana Pierce (Rae Dawn Chong, Commando) and Charles Kreiger (Don Gordon, Bullitt) are unable to solve.
STARRING: Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles
Read more “The Borrower (1991) Available August 17”A group of ex-cons-turned-movers are convinced by their creepy client to pull an all-nighter. As the night progresses, they uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion.
STARRING: Ryan Francis, Morgan Alexandria, Bryce Fernelius, Michael Flynn
Read more “Stay Out of the Attic (2020) Available August 17”When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real. Or is it just a game at her expense.
STARRING: Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener, Octavius J. Johnson
Read more “Shook (2021) Available August 17”Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and is now haunting and terrorizing the family.
STARRING: Ploy Sornarin, Theerapat Sajakul, Savika Chaiyadej
Read more “The Maid (2020) Available August 17”Fin, a wanted criminal, hides out with an escort named Val, a demon. Val offers to make his problems disappear if he follows her rules. She has been expecting him all along and it won’t be easy to escape Val’s dungeon.
STARRING: Erik Griffin, Caitlin O’ Connor, Jeana Turner, Kyle Howard, Sufe Bradshaw
Read more “Val (2021) Available November 9”Tales Of The Dim is an American animated internet horror series created by Frank Sudol (known for City Of Rott, Dead Fury, and Shock Invasion). Tales Of The Dim follows the tales of random characters who go under unfortunate events which causes them to die in horrible ways.
STARRING: Fank Sudol
Read more “Tales Of The Dim (2015) Available November 9”
