Vinegar Syndrome Reveals New Partner Label Releases
Posted August 1, 2021 11:59 PM by Webmaster
Vinegar Syndrome has announced and detailed five new partner label releases that will be available for purchase later this month. They are: Commando Ninja (2018), Psycho Sisters (1998), A Dim Valley (2021), Beats (2019), and She Freak (1967).
Description: 1986: John Hunter is a Vietnam veteran, half commando, half ninja, 100% American. He is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped by a secret ninja organization, led by a Central American dictator who wants to create a new world order through time... Unfortunately for them, she is the only thing he would kill again for. Hunter will have to fight his way through an army of ninjas, vietcongs, punks, dinosaurs, mutants, one of his former commandos and a fully equipped private army. With the help of his old friend Hopkins, Hunter will have to combine the arts of ninjuitsu and guerilla warfare to become the ultimate soldier and rescue his daughter.
Description: Sisters Jane and Jackie Sicole (Pamela Sutch & Christine Taylor) are driven far beyond the brink of madness after witnessing the brutal rape and murder of their younger sister Janice (Tina Krause) at the hands of a drunken gang of marauding college fraternity brothers. After undergoing extensive rehabilitation therapy, Jane and Jackie are released from the insane asylum, only to promptly embark on a relentless search for the men that callously executed their innocent sister. Obsessed with revenge and fueled by a hatred for men, the sisters kill virtually every man that crosses their path, brazenly collecting the severed genitals of their victims as morbid trophies. The bloody trail ends with a climactic confrontation between the crazed girls and the savage rapists. Will this be the end of the Psycho Sisters...or just the beginning?
The directorial debut from prolific chiropractor turned filmmaker Pete Jacelone (Poetic Seduction, Creepy Clowns), the original 1994, shot on video incarnation of Psycho Sisters was a cornerstone of the mid '90s, East Coast underground video movement. Made in collaboration with director Gary Whitson and his infamous New Jersey based, custom movie studio W.A.V.E. Productions, Psycho Sisters was distinctive for transposing the archetypal gender tropes of the genre by depicting a duo of sympathetic female killers enacting sexualized violence upon a procession of hapless male victims. Notable as the only feature in the W.A.V.E. filmography to be directed by it's financier, Psycho Sisters would go on to transcend its regional roots, receive nationwide distribution on VHS, and eventually even spawn a 16mm remake. Saturn's Core Audio & Video is proud to present Psycho Sisters in this newly restored, director's approved edition, featuring remastered picture and sound elements from the original SVHS master tapes.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW TRANSFER from the original S-VHS edit master
Original "Psycho Sisters" demo video created by W.A.V.E. Productions
Vintage 1995 "afterward" with director Pete Jacelone
Vintage 1998 "afterward" with director Pete Jacelone
W.A.V.E.'s Splatter Chatter video magazine featuring footage & interviews from the 1995 theatrical premiere at Willam Paterson College
"Psycho Sisters at Chiller" - vintage interviews from the 1995 Chiller Theatre Expo
"The Day the Shopping Carts Came To Life": an early short film by Pete Jacelone
"Lost Child": an early short film by Pete Jacelone
Original video teaser trailer
Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Production trailer
Description: A curmudgeonly biologist (Robert Longstreet - The Haunting of Hill House, Halloween Kills) and his slacker graduate students (Whitmer Thomas & Zach Weintraub) muddle their way through a summer research project. Deep in the Appalachian woods, they encounter a group of mystical backpackers who disrupt their lives in beautiful and surprising ways. Part hilarious stoner comedy and part transcendental meditation on mysticism and love, A Dim Valley is a delightful ethereal journey into the cycle of love.
Description: Scotland, 1994. John and Spanner are best mates with a shared love for electronic dance music, and polar opposites destined for wildly different futures. Straight-laced Johnno (Cristian Ortega) is leaving town for a middle-class life with his mother and cop step-dad Robert, while Spanner (Lorn Macdonald) is facing a dead-end with his unhinged criminal brother Fido. When they learn of an unsanctioned underground rave, they decide to break out for one last crazy night together. Set against the backdrop of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, which banned gatherings featuring music with "repetitive beats" across the UK, Beats is a universal story of friendship, rebellion, and the irresistible power of music.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New Feature Commentary with director Brian Welsh and writer Kieran Hurley
Scotland 1994: The Making of Beats • Evolution of a Poster Gallery
Photo Gallery
Theatrical trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
REGION-FREE
FROM PARTNER LABEL AGFA (AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE):
Description: Fed up with waitressing, Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen) embarks on a new life with a traveling carnival. But she discovers that what lurks behind the curtain doesn't take too kindly to her backstabbing plans. A gutter-noir reworking Tod Browning's FREAKS and a valentine to the carnival lifestyle that defined the career of producer David F. Friedman (BLOOD FEAST), SHE FREAK is a snapshot of life, love, and revenge on the grounds of a seedy carnival in Smalltown, USA — complete with crackpot monster make-up effects from Harry Thomas (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). Like Devo's music and Ed Wood's novels, SHE FREAK creates a synthetic reality that is often preferable to our own. AGFA + Something Weird are beyond excited to present a dazzling 4K restoration of this essential weirdo classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL 35MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
Archival commentary with producer David F. Friedman and Something Weird founder Mike Vraney
ASYLUM OF THE INSANE: SHE FREAK inserts preserved in 2K
THE LAUGHING, LEERING, LAMPOONING LURES OF DAVID F. FRIEDMAN: a feature-length compilation of trailers from the Something Weird vaults, newly preserved in 2K
Vintage shorts from the carnival midway
Promotional photo gallery
Booklet with essay by Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci