Severin Announces October Releases
HomeSeverin Announces October Releases
Posted August 15, 2022 05:53 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films has officially announced that it will add five new titles to its catalog. They are: The Changeling (1980), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), The Plague Zombie Trilogy, Tales to Keep You Awake, and My Grandpa is a Vampire (1992). All releases will be available for purchase on October 25.
The Changeling 4K Blu-ray
Description: Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family when a car accident kills his wife and daughter. Distraught with grief, Russell leaves his home in New York City for a giant, secluded house near Seattle. Soon Russell starts to feel the presence of a ghost, a boy who drowned in the bathtub there. Russell seeks the assistance of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who led him to the house initially, in uncovering the secrets of the boy's death.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Al Lewis – beloved for his role as Grandpa in THE MUNSTERS television series – delivers "a particularly demented performance" (Scary Minds) as Vernon Cooger, frail old man by day and fanged flyer of the undead at night. But when his visiting grandson discovers Vernon's dark secret, can they team up to take down a stake-making slimeball? Justin Gocke (GODZILLA 1985) and Noel Appleby ('Everard Proudfoot' in THE LORD OF THE RINGS) co-star in this "engagingly silly and anti-authority kids' movie" (The Hollywood Reporter) – also known as MOONRISE and GRAMPIRE – directed by New Zealand horror pioneer David Blyth (DEATH WARMED UP) and written by Michael Heath (NEXT OF KIN), now scanned in 2K from the original negative under the director's supervision and loaded with new & vintage Special Features.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: For their ultimate schlock-horror epic, director Al Adamson and producer Sam Sherman brought together hippies, bikers, carnies, mad doctors, ax murders, acid trips, Oscar® nominees J. Carrol Naish and Russ Tamblyn, FREAKS star Angelo Rossitto, 'Freak-Out Girl' Regina Carrol, Famous Monsters editor Forrest J Ackerman, Lon Chaney Jr. in his final film appearance, Zandor Vorkov (aka Roger Engel) as Dracula, lab gizmos from the original FRANKENSTEIN, and a climactic battle between the titular icons that remains unlike anything the screen has ever seen. As a Bonus, Grant Williams (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN), Kent Taylor (BRIDES OF BLOOD) and much of the DvF cast star in Adamson & Sherman's 1971 mega-lurid brain-transplant masterpiece BRAIN OF BLOOD.
Dracula vs Frankenstein Special Features:
Description: In 1997, 17-year-old suburban Buenos Aires filmmakers Pablo Parés and Hernan Sáez pooled $450 to co-write/produce/direct and star in a shot-on-VHS zombie epic of such flesh-ripping, gore-spewing greatness that it instantly drew global cult acclaim and redefined the possibilities of extreme DIY horror. Over the next 20 years, Parés, Sáez and their friends would create two increasingly ambitious – and equally brilliant – viscera-soaked sequels (and several short films) that made them "Argentinian George Romeros who've built a small empire of gore flicks" (Fangoria). The complete PLAGA ZOMBIE TRILOGY is now presented together for the first time ever, remastered and upscaled to HD by the directors with an all-new documentary and more that celebrates "the pioneers in contemporary Argentinian horror whose passion continues to influence others in Latin America and around the world" (Dread Central).
Special Features:
Description: Though he made two feature films – the legendary WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? and THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED – the ultimate legacy of writer/director Narciso 'Chicho' Ibáñez Serrador remains his groundbreaking 1966-1968 Televisión Española series HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR. Serrador wrote, directed and introduced every episode, adapting stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch and his own material under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel, shocking Franco-era audiences with black humor, macabre themes and sharp social commentary while inspiring generations of Spain's greatest genre filmmakers as well as a 2021 reboot. This definitive 2-disc collection includes Serrador's complete classic series, 1974 special, 1982 mini-series and more that celebrates the Lifetime Achievement Goya Award winner Nerdist calls "one of the great Euro-Horror directors of all time."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Changeling 4K Blu-ray
Description: Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family when a car accident kills his wife and daughter. Distraught with grief, Russell leaves his home in New York City for a giant, secluded house near Seattle. Soon Russell starts to feel the presence of a ghost, a boy who drowned in the bathtub there. Russell seeks the assistance of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who led him to the house initially, in uncovering the secrets of the boy's death.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- COMPLETE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK ON CD DISC
- Audio Commentary With Director Peter Medak And Producer Joel B. Michaels Moderated By Severin Films' David Gregory
- Interview With Peter Medak By Filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano At Mórbido Fest 2018
- Exile On Curzon St. — Peter Medak On His Early Years In Swinging London
- The House On Cheesman Park — The Haunting True Story Of THE CHANGELING
- The Music Of THE CHANGELING — Interview With Music Arranger Kenneth Wannberg
- Building The House Of Horror — Interview With Art Director Reuben Freed
- The Psychotronic Tourist — THE CHANGELING
- Master Of Horror Mick Garris On THE CHANGELING
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Description: Al Lewis – beloved for his role as Grandpa in THE MUNSTERS television series – delivers "a particularly demented performance" (Scary Minds) as Vernon Cooger, frail old man by day and fanged flyer of the undead at night. But when his visiting grandson discovers Vernon's dark secret, can they team up to take down a stake-making slimeball? Justin Gocke (GODZILLA 1985) and Noel Appleby ('Everard Proudfoot' in THE LORD OF THE RINGS) co-star in this "engagingly silly and anti-authority kids' movie" (The Hollywood Reporter) – also known as MOONRISE and GRAMPIRE – directed by New Zealand horror pioneer David Blyth (DEATH WARMED UP) and written by Michael Heath (NEXT OF KIN), now scanned in 2K from the original negative under the director's supervision and loaded with new & vintage Special Features.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM SUPERVISED BY SUPERVISED BY DIRECTOR DAVID BLYTH
- Audio Commentary With Director David Blyth And Screenwriter Michael Heath
- Grandpa Remembers Grandpa — Interview With Actor Daniel Roebuck
- My Husband Was A Vampire — Interview With Karen Lewis
- Moonrise — Original Five-Episode Radio Play
- Trailer
- MOONRISE Booklet
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Description: For their ultimate schlock-horror epic, director Al Adamson and producer Sam Sherman brought together hippies, bikers, carnies, mad doctors, ax murders, acid trips, Oscar® nominees J. Carrol Naish and Russ Tamblyn, FREAKS star Angelo Rossitto, 'Freak-Out Girl' Regina Carrol, Famous Monsters editor Forrest J Ackerman, Lon Chaney Jr. in his final film appearance, Zandor Vorkov (aka Roger Engel) as Dracula, lab gizmos from the original FRANKENSTEIN, and a climactic battle between the titular icons that remains unlike anything the screen has ever seen. As a Bonus, Grant Williams (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN), Kent Taylor (BRIDES OF BLOOD) and much of the DvF cast star in Adamson & Sherman's 1971 mega-lurid brain-transplant masterpiece BRAIN OF BLOOD.
Dracula vs Frankenstein Special Features:
- Zandor And Friends — Interviews With Stars Zandor Vorkov & John Bloom, Producer Samuel M. Sherman, Director of Photography Gary Graver & Son, Sean Graver
- Archival Audio Commentary With Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
- Feed Your Head! Lose Your Head! — An Appreciation By Cult Film Historian Howard S. Berger
- Monster Protest
- Home Movie Footage
- Sam Sherman Interviews Forry Ackerman
- Outtakes
- Trailer
- TV Spot
- Radio Spots
- Reversible Artwork
- Partial Archival Audio Commentary With Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
- Memories Of Blood — Interviews With Director Al Adamson, Producer Samuel M. Sherman, Actor Zandor Vorkov And More
- Trailer
- Radio Spots
- Disc 2: CD Soundtrack
- REGION-A "LOCKED"
Description: In 1997, 17-year-old suburban Buenos Aires filmmakers Pablo Parés and Hernan Sáez pooled $450 to co-write/produce/direct and star in a shot-on-VHS zombie epic of such flesh-ripping, gore-spewing greatness that it instantly drew global cult acclaim and redefined the possibilities of extreme DIY horror. Over the next 20 years, Parés, Sáez and their friends would create two increasingly ambitious – and equally brilliant – viscera-soaked sequels (and several short films) that made them "Argentinian George Romeros who've built a small empire of gore flicks" (Fangoria). The complete PLAGA ZOMBIE TRILOGY is now presented together for the first time ever, remastered and upscaled to HD by the directors with an all-new documentary and more that celebrates "the pioneers in contemporary Argentinian horror whose passion continues to influence others in Latin America and around the world" (Dread Central).
Special Features:
- A Million Zombies — The Story Of PLAGA ZOMBIE
- PLAGA ZOMBIE: THE ANIMATED MINIFEARIES
- Eight Short Films
- PLAGA ZOMBIE Trailer
- PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE Teaser
- PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE Trailer
- PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE: REVOLUCIÓN TÓXICA Trailer
- Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
- REGION-FREE
Description: Though he made two feature films – the legendary WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? and THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED – the ultimate legacy of writer/director Narciso 'Chicho' Ibáñez Serrador remains his groundbreaking 1966-1968 Televisión Española series HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR. Serrador wrote, directed and introduced every episode, adapting stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch and his own material under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel, shocking Franco-era audiences with black humor, macabre themes and sharp social commentary while inspiring generations of Spain's greatest genre filmmakers as well as a 2021 reboot. This definitive 2-disc collection includes Serrador's complete classic series, 1974 special, 1982 mini-series and more that celebrates the Lifetime Achievement Goya Award winner Nerdist calls "one of the great Euro-Horror directors of all time."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Tales From The Spanish Twilight Zone — The Chicho Ibáñez Serrador Story
- Select Episode Introductions By Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
- Press Conference Promoting El Televisor (The TV)
- Original Spanish audio with English subtitles
- REGION-FREE
