severin films is a treasure trove of all the beautiful, twisted wrecks of cinema history. they specialise in cult flicks, video nasties, and sexploitation — the kind of stuff that makes your mum clutch her pearls. severin dig up the controversial, the weird, and the downright depraved, slap a fresh coat of high-def polish on ’em, and pack ’em with extras that go deep into the guts of what made these movies legendary or infamous.

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santa sangre

 

It has been hailed as “extraordinary” (The Guardian), “visionary and haunting” (Rolling Stone) and “a grand work of art, full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language to something primal and original” (AV Club). Forget everything you have ever seen as the modern masterpiece from director Alejandro Jodorowsky returns like never before.

 

• Bonus Tracks: Simon Boswell – ‘Close Your Eyes’

• Commentary: Alejandro Jodorowsky and Alan Jones (journalist)

• Deleted Scenes: With director’s commentary, standard deleted scenes

• Documentaries: New Blood, Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of ‘Santa Sangre’, Goyo Cardenas: Spree Killer

• Interviews: Claudio Argento (producer), Danielle Nannuzzi (cinematographer), Angelo Iacono (executive producer), Mauro Bonanni (editor), Roberto Leoni (writer), Alejandro Jodorowsky (writer/director)

• Event Footage: Santa Sangre 30th Anniversary Celebration at Morbido Festival, Mexico City

• Short Films: ECHECK by Adan Jodorowsky, Blink Jodorowsky by Simon Boswell

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butcher, baker, nightmare maker

 

It remains the most joltingly violent, psychosexual grindhouse shocker of the ’80s, directed by a veteran of I Love Lucy and starring a frequently shirtless former teen idol with an epically demented performance by an Oscar nominee: Jimmy McNichol stars as an orphaned high-school student raised by his strangely overprotective aunt (Susan Tyrrell of FAT CITY fame) who becomes implicated in a grisly murder investigated by a psychotic police detective (an equally unhinged Bo Svenson of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS). 7x Emmy nominee Julia Duffy (Newhart) and Bill Paxton (in one of his first film roles) co-star in this “jaw-dropping hunk of genre insanity” (Pop Culture Beast) and former DPP 39 Video Nasty – also known as NIGHT WARNING.

 

• Bonus Footage: Included

• Commentary: Jimmy McNichol, Steve Breimer and Alan Jay Glueckman (co-writer), moderated by Nathaniel Thompson (Mondo Digital), Eugene Mazzola (co-producer/unit production manager)

• Interviews: Bo Svenson (actor), Robbie Greenberg (cinematographer), Ted Nicolaou (editor), Jimmy McNichol (actor), Susan Tyrrell (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), Allan A. Apone (make-up artist), Steve Breimer (co-writer/producer)

• Trailers: Included

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enter the clones of bruce

 

Within hours of his 1974 funeral, Hong Kong movie studios began to produce hundreds of unauthorized biopics, spin-offs and rip-offs starring a competing roster of Bruce Lee lookalikes. Over the next decade, ‘Bruceploitation’ would become a staple of global cinema. Director David Gregory – whose award-winning documentaries include LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU and BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON – now examines this fascinating phenomenon via interviews with Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce Liang and Dragon Lee; martial arts legends like Angela Mao, David Chiang, Phillip Ko and Sammo Hung; and the producers, directors, distributors and experts – along with copious clips from the films themselves – that for the first time reveal the history, controversy and legacy behind one of the most bizarre genres in movie history.

 

• Bonus Footage: Included

• Commentary: David Gregory (director/co-executive producer), Frank Djeng (co-producer), Vivian Wong (co-producer), Michael Worth (co-producer), Jim Kunz (cinematographer)

• Documentaries: Working at Shaw Brothers, Bruce Lee and I, The Lost World of Kung Fu Film Negatives, Bruce’s Hong Kong, Severin’s Kung Fu Theatre

• Trailers: Included

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bad biology

 

For his first film in 17 years, splatter master Frank Henenlotter – Writer/Director of FRANKENHOOKER, BRAIN DAMAGE and The BASKET CASE Trilogy – returned with the most graphic, transgressive and jaw-droppingly depraved black comedy shocker of his career: Jennifer (Charlee Danielson) is a homicidal nymphomaniac who spontaneously births mutant babies. Batz (Anthony Sneed) has a monstrous penis with a mind of its own. In a city ruled by pleasure and pain, will two made-for-each-other freaks deliver the ultimate orgasmic horror? Eleonore Hendricks (DADDY LONGLEGS), radio host Rude Jude and Director James Glickenhaus (THE EXTERMINATOR, THE ASTROLOGER) co-star in “one very entertaining seriously batshit film” (JoBlo) produced and co-written by underground hip-hop hero R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn with insane F/X by Gabe Bartalos (SKINNED DEEP, SAINT BERNARD), now scanned in 4K from the camera negative.

 

• Commentary With Director Frank Henenlotter, Director Of Photography Nick Deeg And Actor Anthony Sneed

• Archival Commentary With Director Frank Henenlotter And Producer R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn

• Spook House – Interviews With Director Frank Henenlotter, Producer R.A. The Rugged Man Thorburn, Production Coordinator Michael Shershenovich, Director Of Photography Nick Deeg, Retired Detective David Henenlotter And Production Manager Chaz Kangas

• In The Basement With Charlee Danielson – A Brief, Completely Off-Kilter Interview With the Elusive Miss Charlee Danielson and a Basketball

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bag boy lover boy

 

It has been hailed as “raw, funny and twisted” (PopOptiq), condemned as “soul-crushing and dripping with filth” (NextProjection.com), and cheered as “a fresh new outsider vision” (Fantasia) at film festivals around the world. In this “sincerely disturbing” (Indiewire) debut from co-writer/director Andres Torres, a slow-witted misfit named Albert (Jon Wachter, giving what HorrorNews calls “the best male performance in a horror film this year”) sells hot dogs all night from the most unsanitary food cart in downtown Manhattan. But when he’s invited to become the new model for a manipulative fetish photographer (Theodore Bouloukos), Albert will be exposed to a seething city underbelly where desire masquerades as perversion and depravity poses as art. It may shock you. You might even be appalled. But you have never seen anything quite like BAG BOY LOVER BOY.

 

• Audio Commentary With Director Andres Torres, Actor Theodore Bouloukos and Editor Charlie Williams

• The Student Films of Actor Jon Wachter: Got Light and The Never-Starting Story

• Trailer

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baskin

 

Critics have called it “gut-churning” (The Guardian), “a death-ravaged orgy” (The Film Stage) and “a waking nightmare that will melt your face off.” (Diabolique Magazine). Horror fans have compared it to the most extreme works of Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento and Clive Barker. Now the breakthrough debut of director Can Evrenol – and the film that stunned festival audiences throughout North America – finally comes to UK Blu-ray: When five cops are called to investigate a distress call at an abandoned police station, they will instead discover a Satanic slaughterhouse of horrific physical agony and psychosexual torment. But for those who survive, the worst is yet to come. “BASKIN is an inventive and terrifying trip to Hell,” raves Bloody-Disgusting.com. “It’s so shocking and so astoundingly well made that it puts an exclamation stamp next to Can Evrenol’s name as one of the futures of horror!”

 

• Original short film BASKIN (Turkish with English Subs)

• The Making of BASKIN (Turkish with English Subs)

• Theatrical Trailer

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birdemic: shock and terror

 

It is a tender love story. A graphic horror shocker. An urgent ecological warning. And around the world, it became the must-see ‘midnight movie’ sensation of the year. From writer/producer/director/visionary James Nguyen – The Master Of The Romantic Thriller – comes the story of a sexy lingerie model (Whitney Moore) and a successful software salesman (Alan Bagh) on a weekend getaway to a quaint Northern California town. But when the entire region is attacked by millions of homicidal birds, their picturesque paradise becomes a winged hell on earth. Can mankind now survive the avian onslaught of Birdemic? Hollywood legend Tippi Hendren of Hitchcock’s The Birds makes a Special Appearance in the global cult movie phenomenon that Videogum says “might end up being the greatest film of all time!”

 

• Audio Commentary With Director James Nguyen

• Audio Commentary With Stars Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore

• Deleted Scenes

• Birdemic Experience Tour Featurette

• James Nguyen on Movie Close Up

• Moviehead: The James Nguyen Story Teaser

• Birdemic Experience 2010 Trailer

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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

 

‘Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor’, screamed the 1995 headlines read around the world. But the truth behind the wild life of Al Adamson – including the production of such low budget classics as SATAN’S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES – and his grisly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians – plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself – BLOOD & FLESH is the award-winning chronicle of bikers, go-go dancers, porn stars, aging actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors that House Of Mortal Cinema calls “brilliant stuff…a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year.”

 

• Outtakes – The Cowboy Life Of Denver Dixon, Russ Tamblyn’s Melted TV, Manson & Screaming Angels, and The Prophetic Screenplay Makes Gary Kent Testify

• Beyond This Earth Promo Reel

• Trailer

• BONUS FILM: The Female Bunch

• The Bunch Speaks Out

• Trailers

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Bloody Moon

 

As the ‘body-count’ genre stabbed its way into audiences’ hearts in the early ’80s, EuroTrash auteur Jess Franco (Sadomania, Mansion Of The Living Dead) was asked to create his own saga of slaughtered schoolgirls complete with gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, and gory set pieces. But just when you thought you’d seen it all, Franco shocked the world by delivering surprising style, genuine suspense and a cavalcade of depravity that includes incest, voyeurism and roller disco. The luscious Olivia Pascal of Vanessa fame stars in this twisted thriller that was banned in England yet is now presented uncut and uncensored – including the complete ‘stone mill power saw’ sequence – for the first time ever on Blu-ray!

 

• Franco Moon: Interview with Director Jess Franco

• Theatrical Trailer

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Felicity

 

She ain’t mama’s little girl no more! The luscious Glory Annen stars as Felicity Robinson, a sheltered teen who surrenders her blossoming body to a world of bold sexual adventure. From her forbidden pleasures at an all-girl school in England to wanton hungers in the exotic underground of Hong Kong, Felicity finds herself deflowered, defiled and ultimately delighted by the shame and ecstasy of a libido unleashed. Penthouse model Joni Flynn co-stars in this notorious erotic odyssey that defined a generation of horny young men… and quite a few women, too! Severin Films is proud to present Felicity fully restored in HD for the first time ever, featuring hours of titillating extras including two complete erotic feature films from the personal vaults of writer/director John D. Lamond.

 

• Audio Commentary With Director John Lamond And Star Glory Annen

• Intimate Still Gallery

• Theatrical Trailer

• Bonus Movie: The ABC’s of Love and Sex

• Bonus Movie #2: Australia After Dark

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The Killing of America

 

In 1981, filmmakers Sheldon Renan and Academy Award® nominee Leonard Schrader (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, MISHIMA, BLUE COLLAR) created a graphic and provocative examination of America’s history with – and penchant for – senseless violence, mass shootings and cold-blooded murder. It was condemned as “exploitive and obscene” (The New York Times), acclaimed as “among the most controversial documentaries in the history of cinema” (Fantasia Festival), and never distributed, televised or made available for sale in the United States. Severin Films now presents this infamous ‘shock doc’ fully restored, uncut and loaded with exclusive Bonus Features – including the even more unnerving Japanese version known as VIOLENCE U.S.A. – which remains one of the most profoundly disturbing and still chillingly relevant documentary experiences of our time.

 

• English Language Version (New 2k Scan From Original Negative)

• Japanese Language Version (New 2k Scan From Original Negative)

• Audio commentary with Director Sheldon Renan

• Interview with Director Sheldon Renan

• Interview with Editor Lee Percy

• Interview with Mondo Movie Historian Nick Pinkerton

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Kung Fu – Trailers of Fury

 

Following the high kicking, bone shattering success of the first volume of KUNG FU TRAILERS OF FURY, Severin Films has ventured back into the vaults to bring chop socky fans another invincible collection of treachery, brutality, swordplay, wirework, darting daggers, flying fists and the most insane fighting styles ever unleashed on celluloid. RETURN OF KUNG FU TRAILERS OF FURY contains over two more hours of the greatest martial arts madness in motion picture history, newly transferred in 2K!

Experience 35 original trailers from The Golden Age of Martial Arts Cinema, starring such legends as Angela Mao, Bolo Yeung, Don Wong, Chang Yi, Bruce Li, Leanne Liu, Lo Lieh and even Chuck Norris. It’s an indomitable dynasty of Hong Kong classics that includes YELLOW-FACED TIGER, BRUCE AND THE IRON FINGER, REVENGE OF THE SHAOLIN KID, THE AVENGING BOXER, SNUFF-BOTTLE CONNECTION, HELL’S WINDSTAFF, THUNDERING MANTIS, THE LEGENDARY STRIKE, KUNG FU KILLERS, CRAZY HORSE & INTELLIGENT MONKEY, SHAOLIN INVINCIBLE STICKS and more!

 

• Audio Commentary with experts Ric Meyers (Films of Fury), Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival), Martial Arts Instructor Greg Schiller & Rick Stelow of Drunken Master Video

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Nightmares in a damaged brain

 

It’s been called “graphic and unapologetic” (SexGoreMutants), “brutally effective” (Screen Rant) and “a forgotten classic” (Horror News). It remains the most reviled, controversial and misunderstood genre film of the ‘80s. Now “the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made” (NY Daily News) can be experienced like never before: When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford) flees an experimental drug program, he’ll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this “devastating masterpiece” (Cinefear) – whose UK release as NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN led to the imprisonment of distributor David Hamilton-Grant – has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version ever assembled.

 

• • • • Audio Commentary With Star Baird Stafford and Special Effects Assistant Cleve Hall Moderated By Lee Christian and David DeCoteau

      • Audio Commentary With Producer William Paul

      • Kill Thy Father And Thy Mother – Interview With Director Romano Scavolini (71 mins)

      • Dreaming Up A Nightmare – Featuring Former President Of 21st Century Distribution Arthur Schweitzer, Actor/Unit Production Manager Mik Cribben, Production Supervisor Simon Nuchtern, Florida Producer/Special Effects Artist William Milling, Uncredited Editor Jim Markovic and Archival Interviews With Actor Baird Stafford And Special Effects Artists Edward French and Cleve Hall

      • The Nightmare Of NIGHTMARE – Interview With Erroneously Credited Special Effects Director Tom Savini

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She Killed In Ecstasy

 

For his follow-up to VAMPYROS LESBOS, writer/director Jess Franco delivered perhaps his most twisted shocker of the 70s. In what fans and critics consider to be her greatest role, the luscious Soledad Miranda in one of her final performances before her tragic death stars as the vengeful widow who seduces then murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide. Howard Vernon (THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF), Paul Muller (BARBED WIRE DOLLS), Ewa Strömberg (VAMPYROS LESBOS) and Jess himself co-star in this EuroCult classic featuring another epic sexadelic lounge score by Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab now remastered in HD and featuring all-new Extras. It’s Franco at his perversely erotic best, like you ve never seen or heard it before!

 

• Jess Killed In Ecstasy: Interview With Writer/Director Jess Franco

• Sublime Soledad: Interview With Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown

• Stephen Thrower On She Killed In Ecstasy: Interview With the Author Of Murderous Passions – The Delirious Cinema Of Jess Franco

• The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco

• Paul Muller on Jess Franco: Interview With frequent Franco Star

• Newly created cover art by Wes Benscoter

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vampyros lesbos

 

From Jess Franco, the filmmaker The Vatican called the most dangerous director in the world, comes the most celebrated movie of his legendary career: Stunning Soledad Miranda stars as a vixen vampire who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable lust for female flesh and blood. It’s a mind-bending odyssey of surreal erotica and 70s EuroHorror, featuring the psycho-sexadelic soundtrack that remains a global phenomenon. Ewa Strömberg (SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY), Dennis Price (VENUS IN FURS), Paul Muller (NIGHTMARE CASTLE) and Franco himself co-star in this landmark cult classic, now remastered in HD and featuring all-new Extras filmed with the director shortly before his death. Experience Franco’s masterpiece like you’ve never seen or heard it before!

 

• Vampyros Jesus: Interview featurette with Director Jess Franco

• Sublime Soledad: Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown

• Stephen Thrower on Vampyros Lesbos: Interview with Author of Murderous Passions – The Delirious Cinema Of Jess Franco

• Jess Is Yoda Clip

• Alternate German Opening Title Sequence – Dracula’s Heiress

• German Trailer

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