Upcoming Severin Blu-ray Releases
HomeUpcoming Severin Blu-ray Releases
Posted August 24, 2021 06:21 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films has announced that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this December. They are: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror collection, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, and Eyes of Fire.
Eyes of Fire
Description: The seminal American folk horror film, unavailable on home video for decades, now debuts in a new 4K restoration. A rogue 18th century preacher and his followers make their way downriver to establish a new settlement beyond the western frontier and encounter a forest enchanted by strange spirits that will bring an apocalyptic madness upon them.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Description: WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon and its culturally specific manifestations in international horror, from its first wave in the 1970s to today.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror
Description: The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's award-winning WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED. From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world, all restored from the best available vault elements with Special Features that include short films, audio commentaries and exclusive featurettes. The ultimate genre exploration continues with the original WOODLANDS soundtrack by Jim Williams and a reading of the classic short story 'The White People' by actress Linda Hayden, as well as a 126-page illustrated book curated by Janisse and designed by Luke Insect featuring all-new writings by renowned film scholars, authors and historians.
STREET DATE: DECEMBER 7.
Eyes of Fire
Description: The seminal American folk horror film, unavailable on home video for decades, now debuts in a new 4K restoration. A rogue 18th century preacher and his followers make their way downriver to establish a new settlement beyond the western frontier and encounter a forest enchanted by strange spirits that will bring an apocalyptic madness upon them.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Audio Commentary With Colin Dickey, Author of "Ghostland: An American History In Haunted Places"
- The Secret Is In The Trees — "Nightmare USA" Author Stephen Thrower Interviews Avery Crounse (29 mins)
- Crying Blue Sky [Alternate Longer Cut restored in 2K from Director's personal 35mm answer print]
- Plus Bonus Short Films:
- The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Sam Weiss, USA 1972) (13 mins) - Genre icon John Carradine narrates this atmospheric animated adaptation of Washington Irving's classic story, newly scanned from 16mm for this release by educational film archive AV Geeks. Courtesy of Pyramid Films.
- Transformations (Barbara Hirschfeld, USA 1972) (8.5 mins) - A fascinating feminist experimental film shot on location in Vermont about a group of witches performing white magic. Courtesy of the Vermont Archive Movie Project (VAMP). vamp.vtiff.org
- Backwoods (Ryan Mackfall, UK 2018) (15 mins) - A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Picture In The House." Courtesy of Myskatonic Films.
- Optional English SDH subtitles
- REGION-FREE
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Description: WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon and its culturally specific manifestations in international horror, from its first wave in the 1970s to today.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Video Introduction By Writer/Director/Producer Kier-La Janisse (9 mins)
- Animating Folk Horror — A Conversation with Ashley Thorpe (12 mins)
- Animator Ashley Thorpe discusses his processes and inspirations for the animated sequences he created for the film.
- Outtake: What is Folk Horror? (2 mins)
- Expanded definitions of folk horror cut from the film's introductory sequence.
- Outtake: Harvest Hymns — The Sounds and Signals of Folk Horror (22 mins)
- Historians and Composers—including Marc Wilkinson, John Cameron, Jim Williams, Pentagram Home Video and more—weigh in on the sounds of folk horror from trad to electronica.
- Outtake: Terra Assombrada — Expressions of Folk Horror in Brazil (7 mins)
- Filmmaker Dennison Ramalho and Scholars Carlos Primati and Laura Loguercio Cánepa discuss the impact of Brazilian folk literature and songs on folk horror.
- Folk Poetry (5 mins) - WITCHFINDER GENERAL star Ian Ogilvy and BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW's Linda Hayden recite classic folk poems set to Super 8 footage.
- Trailer
- In English and Portuguese, with optional English subtitles
- REGION-FREE
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror
Description: The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's award-winning WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED. From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world, all restored from the best available vault elements with Special Features that include short films, audio commentaries and exclusive featurettes. The ultimate genre exploration continues with the original WOODLANDS soundtrack by Jim Williams and a reading of the classic short story 'The White People' by actress Linda Hayden, as well as a 126-page illustrated book curated by Janisse and designed by Luke Insect featuring all-new writings by renowned film scholars, authors and historians.
STREET DATE: DECEMBER 7.
