Upcoming Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Releases
HomeUpcoming Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Releases
Posted June 14, 2018 11:05 PM by Webmaster
U.S label Vinegar Syndrome will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in July: Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s Buddies (1985), Sharron Miller's House of the Dead a.k.a. Alien Zone (1978), and Roberta Findlay's Liquid Assets (1982).
House of the Dead
Synopsis: Four tales of intrigue and horror await anyone brave enough to enter the HOUSE OF THE DEAD... When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he's taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses: a scornful teacher whose students teach her a fatal lesson, an amateur filmmaker with a deadly muse, two dueling detectives attempting to solve a mysterious murder, and a bitter man whose arrogance costs him everything...
Directed by Sharron Miller (AFTER SCHOOL SPECIALS) and featuring atmospheric photography by Ken Gibb (DRIVE-IN MASSACRE), this low budget, Oklahoma made horror anthology features a collection of ghoulish vignettes ranging from wryly comedic to genuinely grim and unsettling. Barely released theatrically and only available in murky video sourced editions, Vinegar Syndrome presents HOUSE OF THE DEAD (originally released as ALIEN ZONE) newly restored from its original 35mm negative and on Blu-ray for the first time!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Buddies
Synopsis: David (David Schachter), a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert (Geoff Edholm), a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.
The first narrative feature film made about AIDS, acclaimed independent filmmaker Arthur Bressan Jr.'s (PASSING STRANGERS, ABUSE) BUDDIES is an intensely personal study of love, death, and the need for activism during the earliest years of the AIDS crisis. Structured like a filmed play, BUDDIES would be Bressan's final film, as he too would fall victim to AIDS barely two years after its completion. Nearly impossible to see following its brief theatrical release and never officially released on home video, BUDDIES makes its home video debut, newly restored from its long lost 16mm negative, from Vinegar Syndrome.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Liquid Assets
Synopsis: Erotic comedy directed by Roberta Findlay (credited as Robert Walters) and starring Samantha Fox, Veronica Hart, Sharon Kane, Tiffany Clark, Robert Kerman, Ron Jeremy, and Rod Pierce. BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION from original film elements.
STREET DATE: JULY 31.
House of the Dead
Synopsis: Four tales of intrigue and horror await anyone brave enough to enter the HOUSE OF THE DEAD... When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he's taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses: a scornful teacher whose students teach her a fatal lesson, an amateur filmmaker with a deadly muse, two dueling detectives attempting to solve a mysterious murder, and a bitter man whose arrogance costs him everything...
Directed by Sharron Miller (AFTER SCHOOL SPECIALS) and featuring atmospheric photography by Ken Gibb (DRIVE-IN MASSACRE), this low budget, Oklahoma made horror anthology features a collection of ghoulish vignettes ranging from wryly comedic to genuinely grim and unsettling. Barely released theatrically and only available in murky video sourced editions, Vinegar Syndrome presents HOUSE OF THE DEAD (originally released as ALIEN ZONE) newly restored from its original 35mm negative and on Blu-ray for the first time!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Audio interview with director Sharron Miller
- Audio interview with writer David O'Malley
- Reversible ALIEN ZONE cover artwork
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Buddies
Synopsis: David (David Schachter), a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert (Geoff Edholm), a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.
The first narrative feature film made about AIDS, acclaimed independent filmmaker Arthur Bressan Jr.'s (PASSING STRANGERS, ABUSE) BUDDIES is an intensely personal study of love, death, and the need for activism during the earliest years of the AIDS crisis. Structured like a filmed play, BUDDIES would be Bressan's final film, as he too would fall victim to AIDS barely two years after its completion. Nearly impossible to see following its brief theatrical release and never officially released on home video, BUDDIES makes its home video debut, newly restored from its long lost 16mm negative, from Vinegar Syndrome.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Video interview with Co-Star David Schachter
- Video interview with Film Historian Thomas Waugh
- Original theatrical trailer
- Archival still/production article gallery
- Reversible cover artwork
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Liquid Assets
Synopsis: Erotic comedy directed by Roberta Findlay (credited as Robert Walters) and starring Samantha Fox, Veronica Hart, Sharon Kane, Tiffany Clark, Robert Kerman, Ron Jeremy, and Rod Pierce. BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION from original film elements.
STREET DATE: JULY 31.
