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Beware! Children at Play (1989) Available March 29

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Young Glenn and his father have gone into the woods for a fun-filled camping adventure. But when dad steps into a bear trap, the pair find themselves stranded miles from civilization, with limited supplies and nothing to eat. After his dad dies, Glenn, as a matter of survival, is forced to consume his flesh. Years later, children from a nearby town begin to disappear into the woods, never to be seen again, while adults are murdered in the most savage of fashions. Could not-so-young-anymore Glenn have something to do with all the mayhem?

Shamelessly trashy and a whole lot of fun, prolific cinematographer Mik Cribben’s (The Defiance of Good) sole directorial effort, Beware: Children At Play, is a no holds barred assault on good taste, with a plethora of ultra gory and creative deaths and one of the most ridiculous endings in the history of horror cinema. Another victim of decades of poor quality VHS copies, Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to offer the world Blu-ray debut of Beware: Children At Play, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative.

STARRING: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Jamie Kraus

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Ballad in Blood (2016) (Special Edition) Available March 29

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FROM THE CULT DIRECTOR OF CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

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? Cinemtographe.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.

STARRING: Rebecca Di Maio, Roger Garth, Ernesto Mahieux, Carlotta Morelli

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The American Scream (1988) Available March 29

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Meet the Benzigers! They’re the average American family – two unruly teenagers, a stressed out father, and a cloying mother. They’re taking the classic American Christmas vacation, at the perfect mountain resort. But the strange residents of Wilson Creek have something else planned… something gruesome. This family trip will be a trip to hell, and no one will ever be the same again!

STARRING: Pons Maar, Kevin Kaye, Blackie Dammett

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The Long Night (2022) Available April 5

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While searching for the parents she’s never known, New York transplant Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton) returns to her childhood southern stomping grounds with her boyfriend (Nolan Gerard Funk) to investigate a promising lead on her family’s whereabouts. Upon arrival, the couple’s weekend takes a bizarre, terrifying turn as a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader terrorize the pair en route to fulfilling a twisted ancient apocalyptic prophecy.

STARRING: Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jeff Fahey, Kevin Ragsdale, Deborah Kara Unger

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I Spit On Your Grave (1978) (4K Ultra HD) Available April 5

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THIS WOMAN HAS JUST CUT, CHOPPED, BROKEN AND BURNED FOUR MEN BEYOND RECOGNITION… BUT NO JURY WOULD EVER CONVICT HER!

In 1978, one film changed the face of cinema forever. Now, 44 years later, the original and notorious I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) is back and still refusing to be buried! In this new limited edition 4K UHD 3 disc set, you can re-experience the phenomenon that shocked and divided the world – and influenced an entire genre and generation of filmmakers – in Ultra High Definition. Featuring a brand new 2021 4K HDR Remaster done by Ronin Flix on 4K Ultra HD, the 2020 4K scan and restoration of director Meir Zarchi’s uncut 35mm original camera negative and the restored original mono soundtrack on Blu-ray, a bonus Blu-ray including the feature length documentary Growing up with I Spit on Your Grave (2019) and all of the historical Ronin Flix Blu-ray special features, this landmark 4K Ultra HD set belongs in every cinephiles collection.

Camille Keaton (What Have You Done to Solange?, Tragic Ceremony) stars as Jennifer Hills, a young and beautiful career woman who rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge in some of the most unforgettable scenes ever shot on film.

STARRING: Camille Keaton, Richard Pace, Eron Tabor, Anthony Nichols

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Tragedy Girls (2017) Available March 29

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Best friends Sadie and McKayla are on a mission to boost their social media fandom as amateur crime reporters hot on the trail of a deranged local serial killer. After they manage to capture the killer and secretly hold him hostage, they realize the best way to get scoops on future victims would be to, you know, murder people themselves. As the @TragedyGirls become an overnight sensation and panic grips their small town, can their friendship survive the strain of national stardom? Will they get caught? Will their accounts get verified?

STARRING: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand, Timothy V. Murphy

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Sister, Sister Available March 29

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Protective and aloof Charlotte, along with her child-like and innocent sister Lucy operate their secluded country mansion as a bed and breakfast. On a cold and rainy night, Matt, a mysterious and handsome man from the city, arrives unexpectedly to rent a room, soon after taking a fancy to Lucy. As their romance grows, mysterious acts of violence begin to plague the quiet home, threatening to unearth dark and murderous secrets buried deep in the past…

Combining heavy gothic atmosphere, touches of magical realism, and elements of violent murder mystery, Academy Award nominee Bill Condon’s (Chicago, Dreamgirls) Sister, Sister is a suspense filled study of love and revenge. Starring Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction), Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), and Emmy nominee Judith Ivey (The Devil’s Advocate), and featuring exquisite scope photography by Stephen Katz (Messiah of Evil), Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings Sister, Sister to Blu-ray for the first time in a new 2K restoration!

STARRING: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey, Dennis Lipscomb

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Red Spirit Lake / We Await Available March 29

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One of the most visionary artists to arise from the pre-digital, shot on video underground, director Charles Pinion’s awe-inspiring features fearlessly blurred the lines between punk rock, Cinema of Transgression, avant-garde surrealism, pornography, and backyard splatter films. Saturn’s Core is proud to present two of Pinion’s most daring works with newly reconstructed, director approved restorations from the original analog master tapes.

Red Spirit Lake (1993): After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harnass the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt’s estate. A meditation on The Old Dark House replete with UFO abductions, castration, frank nudity, witchcraft, fatal fistings, and slughterous saunas; Red Spirit Lake is a cacophony of subversive hyper violence, psychotic surrealism, salacious sexual choas, and picturesque winter vistas featuring acting performances by a cavalcade of legendary Cinema of Transgression era artists and filmmakers including Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tommy Turner as well as an insurgent soundtrack featuring music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.

We Await (1996): A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third third floor apartment of horrors. Featuring a man who willfully chooses to be a dog, sexual stimulation via blowtorch, and a corpulent, nude and blood soaked Godzilla-sized Jesus, We Await is a shot on video, urban riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that slowly descends into a psycho sexual, drug-fueled, analog aurora borealis nightmare like no other. Starring director Pinion, adult filmmaker David Aaron Clark, visual artist Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and boasting a blistering soundtrack featuring music by Crash Worship, Neurosis, and Unsane.

STARRING: Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Charles Pinion, Amanda Collins, Alyssa Taylor Wendt

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Flesh For Frankenstein (1973) (4K Ultra HD / 3-D Blu-ray Set) Available March 29

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In the annals of 70s horror, there are many iconic films. There is only one Flesh For Frankenstein and this edition will allow you to experience it as you never have before and probably never dreamed you could. This 3-disc package contains a 4K UHD (in HDR) edition of the film, and 2-BDs, one containing the NEVER BEFORE ON VIDEO original 3-D version of the film in both Digital 3-D and Anaglyph (glasses included), as well as the Flat version, plus close to 2 hours of newly shot video interviews. Deranged scientist, Baron von Frankenstein, with the help of his bizarre assistant, Otto, is determined to create a new master race, of which he will be the leader. To achieve his objective, he constructs two perfect ‘zombies’ from an assemblage of body parts, intending them to mate. Meanwhile, complications ensue as Nicholas, a farm hand, begins an affair with the Baron’s sexually frustrated wife all while searching for his missing friend Sacha, whose head and brain have been used for Frankenstein’s male “zombie”! A delectably gory and cynical social satire from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Morrissey (Mixed Blood), Flesh For Frankenstein is among the most original and transgressive interpretations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. With an exceptional cast, led by Udo Kier (Suspiria, Mark of the Devil), in what might be his most iconic performance, Joe Dallesandro (Cry Baby), Monique van Vooren (Sugar Cookies), and Italian child star Nicoletta Elmi (Deep Red), and featuring a lush soundtrack by Claudio Gizzi (Blood for Dracula), Flesh For Frankenstein became an immediate midnight and cult movie sensation. Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents this true genre classic on 4K UHD for the first time, along with its never on home video original 3-D version, newly restored from its original negative!

STARRING: Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Srdjan Zelenovic

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Beware! Children at Play (1989) Available March 29

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Young Glenn and his father have gone into the woods for a fun-filled camping adventure. But when dad steps into a bear trap, the pair find themselves stranded miles from civilization, with limited supplies and nothing to eat. After his dad dies, Glenn, as a matter of survival, is forced to consume his flesh. Years later, children from a nearby town begin to disappear into the woods, never to be seen again, while adults are murdered in the most savage of fashions. Could not-so-young-anymore Glenn have something to do with all the mayhem?

Shamelessly trashy and a whole lot of fun, prolific cinematographer Mik Cribben’s (The Defiance of Good) sole directorial effort, Beware: Children At Play, is a no holds barred assault on good taste, with a plethora of ultra gory and creative deaths and one of the most ridiculous endings in the history of horror cinema. Another victim of decades of poor quality VHS copies, Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to offer the world Blu-ray debut of Beware: Children At Play, newly restored from its 35mm original camera negative.

STARRING: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Jamie Kraus

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The American Scream (1988) Available March 29

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Meet the Benzigers! They’re the average American family – two unruly teenagers, a stressed out father, and a cloying mother. They’re taking the classic American Christmas vacation, at the perfect mountain resort. But the strange residents of Wilson Creek have something else planned… something gruesome. This family trip will be a trip to hell, and no one will ever be the same again!

STARRING: Pons Maar, Kevin Kaye, Blackie Dammett

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Nightmare (1964) (Collector’s Edition) Available March 15

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As a child, Janet (Jennie Linden, Old Dracula) witnessed an unbearable horror—her insane mother stabbing her father to death. Now a young woman, Janet suffers from recurring nightmares that have her convinced that she’ll follow her mother to the asylum. Accompanied by her schoolteacher, Miss Lewis (Brenda Bruce, Peeping Tom), Janet retreats to the home of her guardian (David Knight, The Devil’s Agent), who has hired lovely Grace (Moira Redmond, A Shot in the Dark) as a companion to help calm his troubled ward. But Janet’s nightly terrors, magnified by the eerie, creaky old house, bring all her fears chillingly to life. Are Janet’s problems all in her head…or is there a sinister force at work?

STARRING: David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce

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Dawn of the Dead (2004) (Unrated Director’s Cut) Available March 15

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Heart-pounding action and bone-chilling thrills power this edgy, electrifying fright-fest starring Mekhi Phifer, Ving Rhames and Sarah Polley! When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive…and human! Exploding with terrifying surprises and nerve-shredding fun, Dawn of the Dead is an edge-of-your-seat thrill-ride that FOX-TV calls “one of the best horror flicks in years.”

STARRING: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell

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8 Days to Hell Available March 15

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8 Days to Hell is a horror anthology of 7 intertwined tales that follows the paths of several serial killers on their nights of terror and destruction through Los Angeles. The story begins with Jonathan Jones, a Hollywood method actor (Shane Woodson), whose encounter with a sadistic casting director (Eric Roberts) launches a series of horrifying events over a period of 8 bloody days that include a beautiful woman (Tori London) with a secret life, an infamous serial killer (David Castro) who strikes on Halloween, a tragic husband’s sick wife who requires special treatment for her disease, a tortured artist who discovers a magic sketch book that changes his life, and culminating with a degenerate gambler playing for the highest stakes of all.

STARRING: Eric Roberts, Shane Woodson, Tori London, Jennifer Day, Drew Hale

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Slasher Double Feature – Death Row and San Franpsycho Available March 15

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Death Row: As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy, abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them in the darkness. One by one, the prisoners are slaughtered in the most brutal ways. Their only hope to survive is to learn the killer’s identity and stop the psychopath’s reign of terror. With a stellar cast that includes cult favorites Joe Estevez and Todd Bridges, this twist-filled shocker will keep you guessing until the hair-raising end!

San Franpsycho: A serial killer is stalking the city of San Francisco and sending a news reporter cryptic letters after each murder. As the body count rises, two SFPD detectives, the reporter and a psychologist-priest relentlessly pursue the madman, determined to put an end to his bloody carnage. But as the killer gets closer and closer to the news reporter, will the detectives catch him before it’s too late? Shot on location in the San Francisco Bay Area, this gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller will have you frozen in your seat as you witness the madness of the San Franpsycho.

STARRING: Joe Estevez, Todd Bridges, Jose Rosete, Jimmy Bridges, Chris Angelo

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Cold Wind Blowing (2020) Available March 15

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A brother and sister and their four friends go on Christmas vacation in the Cypress Hills. As old hurts begin to surface between the intimate circle of friends, a shocking event further illuminates their fracturing relationships.

STARRING: M.J. Kehler, Nalani Wakita, Alexander Lowe, Griffin Cork

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The Final Ride (2019) Available March 8

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An Anthology with three tales including the ghost of an 80’s fitness guru, a Tattoo that won’t stop spreading, and an Uber Driver that picks up her final customer for the night, not knowing that she’s in for the ride of her life.

STARRING: Annette Wozniak, Matthew Chisholm, Brent Baird, Ali Chappell, Keegan Chambers

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Video Psycho (1997) Available March 8

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Ryan is a drifter going from town to town looking for the perfect girlfriend. When he meets Kylie, he is instantly smitten. Only problem is, Kylie already has a boyfriend named Rick. But Ryan won’t let anyone stand in his way to be with Kylie. How far will Ryan go for love?

STARRING: Jason Alvord, Shannon Dimick, DeAnna Harrison

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