Vinegar Syndrome Announces August Titles
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Posted July 16, 2019 04:10 PM by Webmaster
Vinegar Syndrome has announced that it will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Donald G. Jackson's Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), Muscha's Decoder (1984), Abel Ferrara's 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976), and Gerard Damiano's Let My Puppets Come (1976). The four releases will be available for purchase on August 27.
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Synopsis: An 'only in the 80s' hybrid of post apocalyptic sci-fi weirdness, cynical humor, and horror touches, director Donald G. Jackson's HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is every bit as crazy as its title implies. Co-starring Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian), Rory Calhoun (Angel), and featuring a supporting performance from Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone), Vinegar Syndrome presents HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, in a brand new, 4k restoration.
In a post-nuclear holocaust wasteland, Sam Hell ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) is like most other survivors; a nomadic scavenger roaming the bombed out remnants of the world for food and survival gear. But Sam is also harboring a major secret that even he isn't aware of: he's the last fertile man on Earth. As unexpected pregnancies are discovered, the remnants of the government decide to capture him and, with the aid of scientist Spangle, fit him with a secure chastity belt to ensure his virility is used only when needed. After learning of a group of supposed virgins who are being held captive by frog-mutant savages, Sam is sent on a rescue mission to free the women and then, of course, impregnate them. Is he up for the job? You bet… An 'only in the 80s' hybrid of post apocalyptic sci-fi weirdness, cynical humor, and horror touches, director Donald G. Jackson's HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is every bit as crazy as its title implies. Co-starring Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian), Rory Calhoun (Angel), and featuring a supporting performance from Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone), Vinegar Syndrome presents HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, in a brand new, 4k restoration.
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Synopsis: An underground hit from Germany's punk and new wave infused youth culture of the early 80s, director Muscha's DECODER blends arresting visuals, urban industrial aesthetics, science fiction, and moments of shocking violence, along side searing commentary on late 20th century consumerist culture. Co-starring punk icon Christiane Felscherinow and William S. Burroughs in a supporting role and featuring music by Soft Cell,
FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous 'muzak' played through the fast food restaurant H Burger's speaker system: the tracks are laced with subliminal messages designed to ensure complacency and consumerism. Experimenting with his discovery, FM soon realizes that by changing the type of music played, he can manifest a whole range of emotional responses and stir up the populace from their consumerist subordination. But as the diners are emotionally awakened, they become more and more prone to rioting and general social unrest, which puts FM in an increasingly dangerous position, especially when the sinister and mysterious organization behind the the plot to keep the public complacent takes an interest in finding and stopping him…
An underground hit from Germany's punk and new wave infused youth culture of the early 80s, director Muscha's DECODER blends arresting visuals, urban industrial aesthetics, science fiction, and moments of shocking violence, along side searing commentary on late 20th century consumerist culture. Co-starring punk icon Christiane Felscherinow and William S. Burroughs in a supporting role and featuring music by Soft Cell, The The and industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring this criminally under-seen masterpiece of German weirdness to Blu-ray, in a brand new 2k restoration of its original 16mm camera negative.
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Synopsis: Vinegar Syndrome is pleased to present the world Blu-ray debut of this fascinating chapter in New York City made underground cinema, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative, with its most controversial sequence fully intact for the first time since its initial VHS release in the early 80s.
Pauline (Pauline LaMonde), a wealthy and bored socialite, has a secret relationship with an opium smoking tarot card reading mystic, known only as Gypsy (Dominique Santos). Recording and reporting on her various sexual experiences, as well as those of her friends, Pauline and Gypsy each use each other to explore their darkest sexual and emotional recesses. But as Pauline begins to pull away from her emotional connection to Gypsy, Gypsy herself realizes that she must keep Pauline under her control at all costs.
The notorious debut feature from future acclaimed filmmaker 'Jimmy Boy L.', 9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSY, which was shot under the more appropriate title of 'Nothing Sacred,' is a sexual fever-dream laced with astute commentary on religion, class, and general mysticism. Written by 'Nicholas George', and photographed by Francis X. Wolfe (Nightdreams), and with a throbbing, jazz-infused original soundtrack composed by Joseph Delia (Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction), 9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSY has long only been viewable in poor quality and censored editions. Vinegar Syndrome is pleased to present the world Blu-ray debut of this fascinating chapter in New York City made underground cinema, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative, with its most controversial sequence fully intact for the first time since its initial VHS release in the early 80s.
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Synopsis: Gerard Damiano's strangest film, LET MY PUPPETS COME is a [nearly] all puppet musical sex comedy featuring over half a dozen original songs, raunchy dance numbers, commercial parodies, and guest appearances from Annie Sprinkle and Al Goldstein. A would-be underground classic that never found its audience, PUPPETS was originally feature length, but was re-edited to 43 minutes by its producers and ultimately released as a supporting featurette with Damiano's 1977 film ODYSSEY. Never officially distributed uncut on video, Vinegar Syndrome presents this nearly lost midnight oddity in its fully uncut, 75 minute version, newly restored from the best known surviving film elements.
Ned, Fred, Red, and Gramps, of the Creative Concepts Systems and Procedures Brothers Unlimited Inc., are in big trouble. Their get rich quick scheme, Big League Bocce, has become a financial disaster and their only options now are to pay back their debts or get out of town…fast! Overhearing their plight, their barely literate delivery boy, Jimmy, makes a novel suggestion: produce a skin flick. With no other way to recoup their losses, they decide to give it a shot, hiring the only smut peddler they know, Lash, who operates a fetish store, along with auteur Geppetto, to add some class to the proceedings. But with their creditors closing in, can the boys get their sleaze in the can before it's too late?
Gerard Damiano's strangest film, LET MY PUPPETS COME is a [nearly] all puppet musical sex comedy featuring over half a dozen original songs, raunchy dance numbers, commercial parodies, and guest appearances from Annie Sprinkle and Al Goldstein. A would-be underground classic that never found its audience, PUPPETS was originally feature length, but was re-edited to 43 minutes by its producers and ultimately released as a supporting featurette with Damiano's 1977 film ODYSSEY. Never officially distributed uncut on video, Vinegar Syndrome presents this nearly lost midnight oddity in its fully uncut, 75 minute version, newly restored from the best known surviving film elements.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Synopsis: An 'only in the 80s' hybrid of post apocalyptic sci-fi weirdness, cynical humor, and horror touches, director Donald G. Jackson's HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is every bit as crazy as its title implies. Co-starring Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian), Rory Calhoun (Angel), and featuring a supporting performance from Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone), Vinegar Syndrome presents HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, in a brand new, 4k restoration.
In a post-nuclear holocaust wasteland, Sam Hell ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) is like most other survivors; a nomadic scavenger roaming the bombed out remnants of the world for food and survival gear. But Sam is also harboring a major secret that even he isn't aware of: he's the last fertile man on Earth. As unexpected pregnancies are discovered, the remnants of the government decide to capture him and, with the aid of scientist Spangle, fit him with a secure chastity belt to ensure his virility is used only when needed. After learning of a group of supposed virgins who are being held captive by frog-mutant savages, Sam is sent on a rescue mission to free the women and then, of course, impregnate them. Is he up for the job? You bet… An 'only in the 80s' hybrid of post apocalyptic sci-fi weirdness, cynical humor, and horror touches, director Donald G. Jackson's HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN is every bit as crazy as its title implies. Co-starring Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian), Rory Calhoun (Angel), and featuring a supporting performance from Nicholas Worth (Don't Answer the Phone), Vinegar Syndrome presents HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN on Blu-ray in North America for the first time, in a brand new, 4k restoration.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION from a 35mm interpositive
- Audio commentary with cinematographer/director Donald G. Jackson and writer/producer Randall Frakes
- "Mean and Green" – a video interview with Randall Frakes
- "Grappling with Green Gargantuans" – a video interview with lead actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
- "Amphibian Armageddon" – a video interview with actor Brian Frank
- "Creature Feature Creator" – a video interview with f/x artist Steve Wang
- Extended Scene
- Theatrical Trailer
- Reversible cover artwork
- English SDH subtitles
- REGION-FREE
Synopsis: An underground hit from Germany's punk and new wave infused youth culture of the early 80s, director Muscha's DECODER blends arresting visuals, urban industrial aesthetics, science fiction, and moments of shocking violence, along side searing commentary on late 20th century consumerist culture. Co-starring punk icon Christiane Felscherinow and William S. Burroughs in a supporting role and featuring music by Soft Cell,
FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous 'muzak' played through the fast food restaurant H Burger's speaker system: the tracks are laced with subliminal messages designed to ensure complacency and consumerism. Experimenting with his discovery, FM soon realizes that by changing the type of music played, he can manifest a whole range of emotional responses and stir up the populace from their consumerist subordination. But as the diners are emotionally awakened, they become more and more prone to rioting and general social unrest, which puts FM in an increasingly dangerous position, especially when the sinister and mysterious organization behind the the plot to keep the public complacent takes an interest in finding and stopping him…
An underground hit from Germany's punk and new wave infused youth culture of the early 80s, director Muscha's DECODER blends arresting visuals, urban industrial aesthetics, science fiction, and moments of shocking violence, along side searing commentary on late 20th century consumerist culture. Co-starring punk icon Christiane Felscherinow and William S. Burroughs in a supporting role and featuring music by Soft Cell, The The and industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring this criminally under-seen masterpiece of German weirdness to Blu-ray, in a brand new 2k restoration of its original 16mm camera negative.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE 16MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
- "Sound as a Weapon" – a brand new interview with writer/producer Klaus Maeck
- Audio commentary with critic, author and film programmer Kier-La Janisse
- Archival audio interview with Klaus Maeck
- Excerpts from "Pirate Tape" – filmmaker Derek Jarman films William S. Burroughs on set
- Video footage from the 1982 Berlin Riots
- Locations 'then and now' comparison
- Stills gallery
- Original trailer
- A mini-documentary on the Italian "Decoder Collective"
- Reversible cover artwork
- English SDH subtitles
- REGION-FREE
Synopsis: Vinegar Syndrome is pleased to present the world Blu-ray debut of this fascinating chapter in New York City made underground cinema, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative, with its most controversial sequence fully intact for the first time since its initial VHS release in the early 80s.
Pauline (Pauline LaMonde), a wealthy and bored socialite, has a secret relationship with an opium smoking tarot card reading mystic, known only as Gypsy (Dominique Santos). Recording and reporting on her various sexual experiences, as well as those of her friends, Pauline and Gypsy each use each other to explore their darkest sexual and emotional recesses. But as Pauline begins to pull away from her emotional connection to Gypsy, Gypsy herself realizes that she must keep Pauline under her control at all costs.
The notorious debut feature from future acclaimed filmmaker 'Jimmy Boy L.', 9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSY, which was shot under the more appropriate title of 'Nothing Sacred,' is a sexual fever-dream laced with astute commentary on religion, class, and general mysticism. Written by 'Nicholas George', and photographed by Francis X. Wolfe (Nightdreams), and with a throbbing, jazz-infused original soundtrack composed by Joseph Delia (Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction), 9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSY has long only been viewable in poor quality and censored editions. Vinegar Syndrome is pleased to present the world Blu-ray debut of this fascinating chapter in New York City made underground cinema, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative, with its most controversial sequence fully intact for the first time since its initial VHS release in the early 80s.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION from the 35mm camera negative
- Audio commentary with film historian Samm Deighan
- Original theatrical trailer
- Reversible cover artwork
- English SDH subtitles
- REGION-FREE
Synopsis: Gerard Damiano's strangest film, LET MY PUPPETS COME is a [nearly] all puppet musical sex comedy featuring over half a dozen original songs, raunchy dance numbers, commercial parodies, and guest appearances from Annie Sprinkle and Al Goldstein. A would-be underground classic that never found its audience, PUPPETS was originally feature length, but was re-edited to 43 minutes by its producers and ultimately released as a supporting featurette with Damiano's 1977 film ODYSSEY. Never officially distributed uncut on video, Vinegar Syndrome presents this nearly lost midnight oddity in its fully uncut, 75 minute version, newly restored from the best known surviving film elements.
Ned, Fred, Red, and Gramps, of the Creative Concepts Systems and Procedures Brothers Unlimited Inc., are in big trouble. Their get rich quick scheme, Big League Bocce, has become a financial disaster and their only options now are to pay back their debts or get out of town…fast! Overhearing their plight, their barely literate delivery boy, Jimmy, makes a novel suggestion: produce a skin flick. With no other way to recoup their losses, they decide to give it a shot, hiring the only smut peddler they know, Lash, who operates a fetish store, along with auteur Geppetto, to add some class to the proceedings. But with their creditors closing in, can the boys get their sleaze in the can before it's too late?
Gerard Damiano's strangest film, LET MY PUPPETS COME is a [nearly] all puppet musical sex comedy featuring over half a dozen original songs, raunchy dance numbers, commercial parodies, and guest appearances from Annie Sprinkle and Al Goldstein. A would-be underground classic that never found its audience, PUPPETS was originally feature length, but was re-edited to 43 minutes by its producers and ultimately released as a supporting featurette with Damiano's 1977 film ODYSSEY. Never officially distributed uncut on video, Vinegar Syndrome presents this nearly lost midnight oddity in its fully uncut, 75 minute version, newly restored from the best known surviving film elements.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION from 35mm archival elements
- Audio commentary with film historians Heather Drain and Samm Deighan
- Audio conversation with puppeteer and puppet designer James Racioppi
- Rare audio from a production of the musical "Kumquats", the inspiration for Let My Puppets Come
- Audio conversation with "Kumquats" director Nicolas Coppola
- Original theatrical trailer
- Reversible cover artwork
- English SDH subtitles
- REGION-FREE