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If you’ve followed cult films on video at all in the last decade, you’re familiar with the name David Gregory. He became one of the great cult movie documentarians when he made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth in 2000 and quickly moved into a career of producing top-notch supplements for all manner of More >
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The Grand Guignol never died, it just keeps taking different shapes as the years go by. It’s latest form is The Theater Bizarre, a new horror anthology that incorporates the talents of several different directors for its stories. David Gregory put it all together and the roster of filmmaking talent includes such notables as Richard More >
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Severin Films sublabel InterVision has to be given credit: they’ve delved into the backwaters of 1980’s and 1990’s shot-on-video horror in a way few cult movie labels could be bothered with. Movies like Sledgehammer and Things are the kind of stuff you really have to love to try and make money by releasing it. InterVision More >
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As 2012 begins, InterVision has decided to take a break from the straight-to-video 1980’s horror material they’ve become known for and return to the erotic style of their early releases. This time, it’s a pair of Australian titles by John Lamond, Australia After Dark and The ABC’s Of Love & Sex Australia Style. While they More >
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It’s hard for a bargain-bin perennial to catch an even break in the home video marketplace. Even classics like Night Of The Living Dead and Messiah Of Evil have had to endure endless cheap-o grey market discs with varying versions of the same fuzzy video source. Horror Express is another title that has suffered such More >
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Here’s some great news for fans of Euro-horror: the 1972 cult fave Horror Express will finally get the release it deserves on November 29th. This longtime staple of grey market distributors is getting a new high-definition transfer plus a variety of cool new special features (including a vintage Peter Cushing interview!). Better yet, it’s being More >
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After a bumpy start with a few bottom-rung Franco films, the folks at Severin offshoot label InterVision Picture Corp. hit onto a novel marketing hook: they turned their focus to the weird straight-to-video horror films that proliferated like venereal diseases during the 1980’s. Their disc for Sledgehammer got this new approach off to a good More >
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Schlockmania completes its look at Severin’s trilogy of June horror film releases with this review of Bloody Birthday. Like The Baby, this one has been on DVD before — via an anamorphic transfer from VCI with a mediocre look to it. Thankfully, Severin’s release offers a genuine improvement in image quality and throws in a More >
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Of the trio of recent Severin Films horror DVD releases, the most interesting and cult-ish of the bunch is The Baby. This underrated gem was released on VHS back in the day and has been in and out circulation in recent years since it was released on a now out-of-print disc from Image. That transfer More >
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No can accuse Severin of going soft on the horror genre. Their late June slate of releases is totally dedicated to the genre: The Baby, Bloody Birthday and Nightmares (known to some U.S. viewers as Stage Fright). Nightmares is the least of this lot cinematically speaking but it has aspects that might interest the hardcore More >