Vinegar Syndrome Reveals New Partner Label Releases
Posted March 2, 2022 07:06 PM by Webmaster
Vinegar Syndrome has announced and detailed eleven new partner label releases. They are: Slashdance (1989), Ode To Nothing (2018), The Long Walk (2019), The Other French New Wave Vol. 1 (1964-1966), Hellaware (2013), Project Space 13 (2021), Pathogen (2006), Scream, Queen! (2019), Stop-Zemlia (2021), Sibyl (2019), and Backwoods Marcy (1998). All releases will be available for purchase on March 29.
Description: Beautiful dancers are being brutally murdered at the Van Slake theatre. Is it the weird brothers who run the theatre? The perverted stage manager? A vengeful ghost? Bombshell Detective Tori Raines must go undercover as a dancer to find the killer... or become his next victim!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Full-length commentary with Director James Shyman
Full-length commentary by "Hack The Movies" podcast
Interview with Actor J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner
Interview with Producer Andrew Maisner
"3 Minute Flashdance" by Future Schlock of Everything Is Terrible!
Culture Shock Releasing trailers
BONUS FEATURE FILM: Hollywood's New Blood
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
FROM PARTNER LABEL CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES:
Description: Three trailblazing classics from the dawn of Quebec's cinematic revolution.
THE CAT IN THE BAG - On the cusp of adulthood, Claude loses faith in society and commits to a state of revolt, which strains his relationship with Barbara and leads him on a path to isolation. Featuring an original score by jazz legend John Coltrane, Gilles Groulx's experiment in "spontaneous cinema" is a timeless exploration of youthful disillusionment that brought new audacity to Quebec cinema.
THE MERRY WORLD OF LEOPOLD Z - On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo (Once Upon a Hunt's Guy L'Ecuyer) races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Gilles Carle, The Merry World of Leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant conclusion.
YUL 871 - During a weekend visit to Montreal, a Parisian engineer (The Bride Wore Black's Charles Denner) has a romantic fling, befriends a young girl, and rethinks his war-fractured past while navigating an unfamiliar new world. An early breakthrough for prolific auteur Jacques Godbout (The Mob), YUL 871 is an artfully directed, deceptively breezy convergence of cultures.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATIONS FROM 35MM INTERPOSITIVES
The Rink (1962, 10 min.)
The Big Swim (1964, 9 min.)
Percé on the Rocks (1964, 10 min.)
Alternate English audio tracks for Leopold Z and YUL 871
Alternate English opening and closing credits for Leopold Z
Theatrical trailers
Bonus shorts: Very Nice, Very Nice (1961, 7 min.), Christmas Cracker (1963, 9 min.), and 23 Skidoo (1964, 8 min.)
Description: An elderly man who has the power to time travel, thanks to a mysterious companion whose death he witnessed, decides to trespass into his own past and set in motion a plan to prevent his mother's suffering and appease his soul.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Introduction by Mattie Do
Audio Commentary from cast & crew
Audio Commentary from David Lawson & Robert Cargill
Description: Sonya (Marietta Subong a.k.a. Pokwang) is a living ghost, struggling to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Lonely and thoroughly alienated by an insistent bailiff, she wanders inside her own house, leaning heavily on her favorite Chinese song, recorded on a broken cassette tape, to get through the hours and days… Until an unexpected corpse lands, rather illicitly, at her doorstep. Developing a unique relationship with the unclaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver's absorbing mystique.
Dwein Ruedas Baltazar's ODE TO NOTHING (following 2012's MAMAY UMENG and 2018's I LIKE YOU WITH ALL MY HYPOTHALAMUS) is a powerful meditation on our universal longing for connection, in increasingly precarious, uncertain and isolated times. The ineluctability and omnipresence of death is given form, here, in an uncanny cohabitation with desuetude itself – in what amounts to one of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the Philippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay award winner at Quezon City's influential QCinema Festival highlighting new Filipino cinema, ODE TO NOTHING unfolds in a languid and hypnotic manner – every careful shot oozing with the palpable texture of rot, humidity and crushing loneliness.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interview with director Dwein Baltazar (2022, 19 min).
An illustrated booklet featuring writings by director of photography Neil Daza, production designer Maolen Fadul, and new essay by Elmo Gonzaga
Description: HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate (Keith Poulson) embarks on a quest for a more authentic brand of contemporary art. When a coked-up YouTube search leads to a music video from Delawarean Goth rappers Young Torture Killers, an Insane Clown Posse knock-off, Nate knows he's found his subjects. He soon drags his friend-with-benefits Bernadette (Sophia Takal) to rural Delaware to shoot the group playing in their parents' basement. To "immerse himself" in the group's culture and add an extra layer of realism to his work, Nate befriends the rappers and makes return trips to get to know them. But as his relationship with group develops, he becomes increasingly aware that, while you can take the boy out of the art world, you can't take the art world out of the boy.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Deleted and extended scenes
Behind the scenes of Hellaware
Commentary with Michael M. Bilandic, Keith Poulson and Sean Price Williams
Trailer
Music video for "I'll Cut Yo Dick Off"
24-page booklet with a forward by Abel Ferrara, essays by Nick Pinkerton, Michael Chaiken, Sean Price Williams and Michael M. Bilandic
Description: An emerging performance artist finally gets a coveted show at a Manhattan gallery BUT right as he begins his durational, provcative piece, the entire city shuts down for COVID-19. Unswayed, he locks himself in a white cube space to continue his performance for an audience of none.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Original Trailer
Opening Weekend Q&A's from Roxy Cinema with Cast/Crew moderated by Ilyse Singer and Alex Ross Perry
Description: Conceived when filmmaker Emily Hagins was 12 and released when she was 15, PATHOGEN is one of the most accomplished horror movies ever made by a person before they could legally drive a car. A mysterious technology has transformed the residents of Austin, TX into flesh-craving zombies. Armed with a knife, an axe, and many pairs of flip-flops, middleschooler Dannie and her pee-wee zombie squad take to the streets to battle undead parents, teens, and even a toddler. With an impressive devotion to editing and storytelling, PATHOGEN delivers eyeball gouging, decapitations, and knife fights, along with an endearing perspective that could only originate from a teenager. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are overjoyed to give PATHOGEN its first-ever wide release, complete with ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE—a feature-length documentary about the making of the movie.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Preserved from the original digital video master
Commentary with director Emily Hagins & Bleeding Skull's Annie Choi
Cast and crew Q&A from the 2006 theatrical premiere
Short: PARTY KILLER (2007), directed by Emily Hagins
Bonus movie: ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE (2009), a feature-length documentary on the making of PATHOGEN, directed by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and Erik Mauck
Description: Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street sets the records straight about the controversial sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended Mark Patton's acting career, just as it was about to begin. Scream Queen follows Patton as he travels to horror conventions across the U.S.
Each new city unwraps a chapter from his life that is met with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail, as he attempts to make peace with his past and embrace his legacy as cinema's first male "scream queen." Scream Queen also finds Patton confronting Freddy's Revenge cast and crew for the first time, including co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager, as well as Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Original Trailers
Skeleton Head 'Split Second' Music Video
Mark Patton, Roman Chimienti and Tyler Jensen Audio Commentary
The Psychic (Alt Opening)
The Monster is Queer: A Look at Horror Genre Studies with Dr. Andrew Scahill
Bedtime Story with Mark Patton (a tribute to Wes Craven)
Extended Fireside Chat with Cast of Freddy's Revenge
Description: Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone. In her debut, the Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental.
Description: A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet, SIBYL follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration--until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped up in a dramatic affair with her costar, Igor (Gaspard Ulliel), who happens to be married to the film's director (Sandra Hüller). Becoming further enmeshed in Margot's life, Sibyl starts to blur past and present, fiction with reality, and the personal with the professional as she begins to use Margot's life as source material for her novel.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Feature Audio Commentary by Film Critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Interviews with director Justine Triet, and actors Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Niels Schneider and Paul Hamy.
Photo Gallery
Theatrical trailer and teasers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Description: A wrong turn during a business trip leads an unsuspecting yuppie down a perilous road of terror after he foolishly runs afoul of Marcy; a psychotic, redneck, homeless woman who dwells deep in the ominous swamplands of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. After capturing him and caging him like an animal, the depraved Marcy methodically tortures and rapes her helpless male captive. Upon his escape, a savage fight to the death ensues where only the most cunning of the two will survive!
One of the few shot on video movies in history to be helmed by a woman, Backwoods Marcy was written, produced, scored, and directed by actress turned filmmaker Dawn Murphy, who also turns in a tour de force acting performance in a dual role that earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 1999 B-Movie Awards. Co-starring Dave Castiglione (Love is a Stranger), Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), and W.A.V.E. founder Gary Whitson (Dead North), Saturn's Core is proud to present this long sought after, strangely feminist, '90s era SOV horror epic, newly uncovered and restored from the vaults of the infamous South Jersey based studio Sharkey Video. As an added bonus, Backwoods Marcy now comes paired with another Sharkey Video curio; writer / director Dave Castiglione's 1995 brain-melting, holiday themed, SOV comedy An Ex-Hooker's Christmas Carol, which arrives newly restored and accompanied by a wealth of extras of its own!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio commentary with actor / co-producer Dave Castiglione moderated by Ross Snyder from Saturn's Core
"A Sharkey Tale" -an interview with actor / filmmaker Dave Castiglione
"Behind the Backwoods" -making-of & blooper reel featurette with commentary by producers Dawn Murphy and Dave Castiglione
Archival original 1999 VHS cut (SD)
Sharkey Video trailer vault
Bonus Movie: AN EX-HOOKER'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (1995) -writer / director Dave Castiglione's brain-melting
SOV Christmas comedy starring Laura Giglio and Deana Demko (73 minutes)
Optional audio commentary featuring writer / director Dave Castiglione moderated by Ross Snyder from Saturn's Core
"Milly's Wonderful Life" -actress Laura Giglio on An Ex-Hooker's Christmas Carol