Severin Announces April Releases
HomeSeverin Announces April Releases
Posted March 1, 2022 07:55 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films has announced its April batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Mardi Gras Massacre (1978), The Big Sleazy Jack Weis Double Feature (1975-1976), and Hey, Stop Stabbing Me! (2003). All releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on April 26.
Mardi Gras Massacre
Description: With only five films, New Orleans-based writer/producer/director Jack Weis became one of the most enigmatic figures in '70s exploitation. And for his final trashterpiece, Weis delivered a filth-fueled, disco-drenched and gore-soaked epic of butchered hookers, hard-boiled homicide cops and a prissy psycho with an Aztec sacrifice fetish that remains a once-in-a-lifetime sleaze experience. Curt Dawson (BLOOD BATH), Ronald Tanet (CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS) and February '75 Playboy Playmate Laura Misch star in this "shocking-yet-hysterical fever dream of regional filmmaking" (Bleeding Skull) with a soundtrack by Dennis Coffey & Mike Theodore (BLACK BELT JONES) and still banned in the UK as one of the original DPP 39 Video Nasties, now featuring a 2K master compiled from the best surviving post-Katrina elements and a revealing new interview with Weis himself.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Perhaps the most bizarre film by New Orleans writer/producer/director Jack Weis (MARDI GRAS MASSACRE), CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS is "71 minutes of supernatural sleaze" (Every '70s Movie) featuring voodoo vengeance, a possessed swamp stripper, and multiple feats of knuckleheaded folk horror, newly mastered from the original negative.
Thought lost for more than 30 years, DEATH BRINGS ROSES is the Big Easy auteur's epic of pimps, hookers, mob bosses, double-crosses, a stupefying parade of performances by non-professional locals, and Henny Youngman. Real-life Hollywood tough guy Scott Brady (JOHNNY GUITAR), Oscarฎ winner Broderick Crawford (ALL THE KING'S MEN) and Hermione Gingold (GIGI) co-star in this French Quarter crime saga that "walks a fine line between utter hilarity and bubbling sleaze" (Bleeding Skull), now scanned in 2K from Weis' personal 35mm print. Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Long before they became big-time Hollywood players with DORM DAZE, GOLAN THE INSATIABLE and the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG movies, 20-year-old producer/co-writer/director Josh Miller and producer/co-writer/star Pat Casey spent the summer of 2000 with $500, a MiniDV cam and a group of friends in Bloomington, MN creating what remains the most insanely accomplished and long-out-of-print comedy/horror hit of the SOV era. It's a deranged suburban saga of hole diggers, serial killers, nympho girlfriends, clothes-stealing monsters and lawn mower murders that Film Threat calls "goofy and funny with charm to spare, filled with ideas both creative and bizarre." Intervision is proud to present this justifiable cult favorite now lovingly remastered in HD with all-new reunion featurettes, audio commentaries, short films and much more.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Mardi Gras Massacre
Description: With only five films, New Orleans-based writer/producer/director Jack Weis became one of the most enigmatic figures in '70s exploitation. And for his final trashterpiece, Weis delivered a filth-fueled, disco-drenched and gore-soaked epic of butchered hookers, hard-boiled homicide cops and a prissy psycho with an Aztec sacrifice fetish that remains a once-in-a-lifetime sleaze experience. Curt Dawson (BLOOD BATH), Ronald Tanet (CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS) and February '75 Playboy Playmate Laura Misch star in this "shocking-yet-hysterical fever dream of regional filmmaking" (Bleeding Skull) with a soundtrack by Dennis Coffey & Mike Theodore (BLACK BELT JONES) and still banned in the UK as one of the original DPP 39 Video Nasties, now featuring a 2K master compiled from the best surviving post-Katrina elements and a revealing new interview with Weis himself.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATION AND RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE BEST SURVIVING ELEMENTS
- I'm Not Into Hollywood Interview With Director Jack Weis
- The Mardi Gras Killer Interview With Actor William Metzo
- The First Victim Interview With Actress Laura Misch
- Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Description: Perhaps the most bizarre film by New Orleans writer/producer/director Jack Weis (MARDI GRAS MASSACRE), CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS is "71 minutes of supernatural sleaze" (Every '70s Movie) featuring voodoo vengeance, a possessed swamp stripper, and multiple feats of knuckleheaded folk horror, newly mastered from the original negative.
Thought lost for more than 30 years, DEATH BRINGS ROSES is the Big Easy auteur's epic of pimps, hookers, mob bosses, double-crosses, a stupefying parade of performances by non-professional locals, and Henny Youngman. Real-life Hollywood tough guy Scott Brady (JOHNNY GUITAR), Oscarฎ winner Broderick Crawford (ALL THE KING'S MEN) and Hermione Gingold (GIGI) co-star in this French Quarter crime saga that "walks a fine line between utter hilarity and bubbling sleaze" (Bleeding Skull), now scanned in 2K from Weis' personal 35mm print. Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATIONS
- CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS Trailer
- Aspect ratio: Crypt of Dark Secrets: 1.85:1 / Death Brings Roses: 1.37:1
- Optional English SDH subtitles for each film
- REGION-FREE
Description: Long before they became big-time Hollywood players with DORM DAZE, GOLAN THE INSATIABLE and the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG movies, 20-year-old producer/co-writer/director Josh Miller and producer/co-writer/star Pat Casey spent the summer of 2000 with $500, a MiniDV cam and a group of friends in Bloomington, MN creating what remains the most insanely accomplished and long-out-of-print comedy/horror hit of the SOV era. It's a deranged suburban saga of hole diggers, serial killers, nympho girlfriends, clothes-stealing monsters and lawn mower murders that Film Threat calls "goofy and funny with charm to spare, filled with ideas both creative and bizarre." Intervision is proud to present this justifiable cult favorite now lovingly remastered in HD with all-new reunion featurettes, audio commentaries, short films and much more.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY REMASTERED
- Introduction By Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller And Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey
- Audio Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller, Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey And Actor Andy Kriss
- Still Stabbing After All These Years Cast And Crew Reunion
- The State Of Stabbing Mike The Unmaking Of THE STATE OF BEING MIKE And The Making Of HEY, STOP STABBING ME!
- Alternate Endings
- Bonus Feature: SLEDGEHAMMERS AT DAWN (83 mins)
- Introduction By Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller And Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey
- Audio Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller, Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey And Actor Drew Ailes (2022)
- Party Commentary With Director/Co-Writer "Worm" Miller, Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey, Actor Sean Hall And Anyone Else At The Party Who Wanted To Talk (2005)
- Short Films
- MAGMA HEAD (A Film Best Viewed Drunk)
- Introduction By Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller And Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey
- Audio Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Josh Miller, Co-Writer/Actor Pat Casey And Actor Craig Sherman
- BIG HIT LITTLE FISH
- FREE CHAIR
- SPECIAL STUDIES FILM II
- Trailers
- Optional English SDH subtitles
