Independent distributors Severin Films have announced that they are planning to release on Blu-ray Jim Van Bebber award-winning indie
The Manson Family (2003). The director's new short
Gator Green will also be included on the upcoming Blu-ray release. Street date is June 11th.
To celebrate the film's 10th anniversary, the distributors are also planning theatrical screenings in Landmark theaters across the nation. (Below is a partial list of engagements, with more to be announced in the coming weeks).
The Manson Family delivers an uncompromising, brutal vision of the collapse of the "Love Generation." On a ranch outside of LA the hippie dream is perverting into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman's paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the "Family", become engulfed in a delusional world where torment and slaughter is considered the path to righteousness. The Manson Family is a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group, and at the direction of their leader, ends in a brutal spree leaving seven people dead in 48 hours.
The Manson Family has been re-mastered in stunning HD for the first time ever in America. Extras include an all-new Director's commentary, the brand new short
Gator Green, the uncut version of the previously censored, feature-length documentary
The Vanbebber Family on the film's near-mythic production, and much more.
Theatrical Dates:
March 22 & 23 – Clay Theatre, San Francisco
March 22 & 23 – Esquire Theatre, Denver
March 27 – Boston Underground Film Festival – Brattle Theatre, Cambridge MA
March 29 & 30 – Landmark's Sunshine Cinema, New York City
March 29 & 30 – Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Houston
March 29 – Plaza Theatre, Atlanta
April 3 – Granoff Center for the Arts, Providence RI
April 5 – Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia
April 5 & 6 – Egyptian Theatre, Seattle
April 12 – Logan Theatre, Chicago
April 12 & 13 – Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
April 13 – Cedar Lee Theatre, Cleveland
April 19 & 20 – E Street Theatre, Washington DC
April 19 & 20 – Inwood Theatre, Dallas
April 21 – Screenland Crossroads, Kansas City MO
April 23 – New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles
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Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Director Jim VanBebber
- Gator Green - Exclusive First Release of VanBebber's latest short
- Exclusive New Interview With Phil Anselmo
- The VanBebber Family - Uncut Version of 'Making Of' Documentary Featuring Interviews with Cast and Crew
- In The Belly of The Beast - Documentary On the 1997 Fantasia Film Festival
- Interview With Charles Manson
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailers