Patrick Brice and Henry Gayden Visit the Severin Cellar
Posted October 6, 2021 06:32 PM by Webmaster
The folks at Severin Films have provided a terrific new video showing directors Patrick Brice and Henry Gayden visiting their cellar and picking up a few of their favorite genre films on Blu-ray. The directors share some interesting stories about the production histories and reputations of these films as well.
Description: From co-directors Paul Donovan and Maura O'Connell (DEFCON-4) comes one of the most disturbing – and rarely-seen – Canadian shockers of the '80s, inspired by the actual 42-day Halifax police strike: When a local group of right-wing vigilantes massacres the patrons of a gay bar, the sole survivor seeks refuge in a nearby apartment building whose residents must now defend themselves in a night of hate, terror and bloodshed. Doug Lennox (BREAKING POINT), Tom Nardini (CAT BALLOU), Jack Blum (HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME) and Keith Knight (MY BLOODY VALENTINE) star in this "dark and intense thriller, still uncomfortably relevant 35 years after it was made" (Blog Of Horror) – released in the U.S. as SELF DEFENSE – scanned in 2K from the original negative recently discovered in a Nova Scotia archive.
Description: Description: Get ready to fall in love all over again with one of the most popular romantic comedies of our time: Oscar-winner Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star in this riches-to-rags love story about a snobby yacht-owning socialite (Goldie) whose accidental amnesia presents the perfect opportunity for a widowed local carpenter (Russell) to convince her she's his wife and mother to his four out-of-control kids. Edward Herrmann (ANNIE), Katherine Helmond (TIME BANDITS) and Roddy McDowall co-star in the 24-carat Goldie & Kurt classic from director Garry Marshall (PRETTY WOMAN, THE PRINCESS DIARIES) and screenwriter Leslie Dixon (MRS. DOUBTFIRE), now scanned in 2K for the first time ever.
Description: The Ozploitation classic – and one of the most unique shockers of the '80s – returns like never before: Michael Murphy (MANHATTAN), Dan Shor (BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE) and Fiona Lewis (THE FURY) star in this grisly saga of bizarre experiments, butchered teens, New Zealand doubling for suburban Illinois, and a killer in a Tor Johnson mask. Dey Young (ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL), Marc McClure (SUPERMAN), Scott Brady (JOHNNY GUITAR) and Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) co-star in this cult favorite – released in America as STRANGE BEHAVIOR – featuring a hypnotic score by Tangerine Dream, co-written by the Oscar-winning writer-director of GODS AND MONSTERS, directed by the producer of TWO LANE BLACKTOP, now loaded with Extras and transferred in HD from the original negative for the first time ever.
Description: What was intended to be an unofficial sequel to Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU instead became one of the most notoriously fascinating productions in EuroCult history: Klaus Kinski – "now fully in the grip of the 'batsh*t crazy' phase of his career" (Rock! Shock! Pop!) – gives his penultimate performance as the legendary vampire resurrected in modern-day Venice with an insatiable hunger for warm blood and rough sex. Donald Pleasence and Academy Award® winner Christopher Plummer co-star in this sumptuously insane shocker that features music by Oscar® winner Vangelis (CHARIOTS OF FIRE), employed five different directors – including Mario Caiano (NIGHTMARE CASTLE), Luigi Cozzi (PAGANINI HORROR), writer/producer Augusto Caminito and reportedly Kinski himself – and still delivers "one eye-popping scene after another" (Cinema Retro), now scanned in 2k from the original negative.
Description: "There have been enough post-holocaust nuclear winter films to constitute a genre" says Time Out, "but there has never been anything quite like this." Three decades after it first shattered audiences worldwide, Severin Kids is proud to present the animated classic about an elderly couple – voiced by Academy Award® winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft – attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami (HEAVY METAL, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS), adapted by Raymond Briggs from his acclaimed graphic novel, and featuring an original score by Roger Waters with title song by David Bowie, experience what Rock! Shock! Pop! calls "a fascinating achievement in filmmaking, and one that remains timeless more than 30 years after its creation."
Description: He's been described as "The Fassbinder of 42nd Street" (Artforum), "a celebration of hate" (Bleeding Skull) and "an unmatched voice from the underbelly of low-budget cinema" (Rue Morgue). More than a quarter century after his death, he remains perhaps the most divisive name in genre history. Severin Films now presents the cranium-cleaving collection devoted to writer/actor/director Andy Milligan – "a gay sadist who pioneered New York's avant-garde theater world and made astonishingly unique exploitation movies" (Diabolique Magazine) – on 8 Blu-rays featuring 14 surviving films from his NYC and London years, 10+ hours of trailers, outtakes, interviews & audio commentaries, a bonus CD and an all-new 128-page book by Stephen Thrower that explores the profane madness behind it all. From his provocative underground work through his international scuzz-horror classics, experience the venomous legacy of the filmmaker Time Magazine calls "depraved, degenerate, desperate, damned" like never before.