Description: Jerry Kaminski is a normal guy with normal desires, but he gets into more than the normal amount of trouble. After keeping his date Christy out too late one night, her parents send her off to Catholic school! Jerry isn't one to shy away from a challenge, so he impersonates a priest to get into Virgin High and back into Christy's good graces (and maybe more)! Then, when a hypnosis scheme goes awry, Jerry finds that he's not the only one Hot Under the Collar at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin. In a nun disguise, Jerry chases his hypnotized honey to save her from a life of celibacy, but first he has to deal with a crime syndicate's missing jewels.
After directing his popular shot-on-video Assault of the Party Nerds, Richard Gabai returned to sex comedies with the backing of the legendary Menahem Golan, this time on film! These charming, sexy romps feature cult favorites Linnea Quigley (Nightmare Sisters, Thrust), Melinda Clarke ("The O.C.", Return of the Living Dead 3), Burt Ward ("Batman"), Michelle Bauer (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, The Flesh Merchant), Daniel Friedman (Slashdance), and more. You're going to need an extra trip to the confessional after watching these!
Culture Shock Releasing is proud to present Richard Gabai's Virgin High and Hot Under the Collar, lovingly restored from new 2K transfers of the 35mm prints.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION OF BOTH FILMS FROM 35MM PRINTS
Introduction to the films by Richard Gabai
Full-length commentary on Virgin High with Richard Gabai
Virgin High remastered trailer
Virgin High production still gallery
Full-length commentary on Hot Under the Collar with Richard Gabai and Melinda Clarke
Hot Under the Collar reconstructed trailer
Hot Under the Collar production still gallery
Uncut version of "Pray and Mediate" with introduction by Richard Gabai
2.5 hours of Hot Under the Collar behind the scenes footage
Description: In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague, caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled with Qabbalistic magic, occult rituals, giant Golems, clockwork automatons and satanic visitors.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New video interview with Czech film critic and screenwriter Tereza Brdečková on her father, Jiří Brdečka (co-director and co-writer of PRAGUE NIGHTS), covering his famed career as a filmmaker, animator & screenwriter (approx. 45 minutes, in English)
New audio commentary by Tereza Brdečková and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company
Two superb and haunting Jiří Brdečka animated short films: "Pomsta" (Revenge) (1968, 14 min.), and "Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden" (There Was A Miller On A River) (1971, 11 min.) - Both in Czech with English subtitles
New essay by Tereza Brdečková on the making of PRAGUE NIGHTS, translated by Jonathan Owen
Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
Description: A stranger, Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness, Jindabyne) limps into an outback town on a crippled motorcycle. Trapped while she waits for repairs, Asta stays at the garage of Tim Curtis (Tony Barry, Australia).The outsider soon discovers that Tim's young daughter Lizzie (Simone Buchanan, My Brilliant Career) is the latest victim of the local sport: gang rape. Some women are intimidated, others make excuses and the law looks the other way – but nothing ever changes.Attacked herself, Asta is drawn in to the struggle of the town's women for safety and dignity. Emboldened by her, Lizzie lays charges and all hell breaks loose.The women rise up, but resistance is never that easy or that simple...
Special Features and Technical Specs:
FULLY RESTORED BY UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT
ALL NEW INTERVIEW WITH STEVE JODRELL (DIRECTOR), MICHAEL BRINDLEY (CO-WRITER), BEVERLEY BLANKENSHIP (CO-WRITER), SIMONE BUCHANAN (LIZZIE), & PAUL BARRON (PRODUCER)
AUDIO COMMENTARY with Steve Jodrell (Director), Simone Buchanan (Lizzie) & Michael Brindley (Co-writer)
EXCERPT OF ORAL HISTORY WITH FILM BUFF PAUL HARRIS AND STEVE JODRELL
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE FROM THE PREMIERE FOR 'SHAME'
ABC TV – ARTSPACE Interview with Deborra-Lee Furness – 25 min
Original archival theatrical trailer
Booklet with an essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Description: During a trip from Warsaw to Paris an actress reflects on the last few years of her life during the German occupation while hiding a fellow actor wanted for murder. Based on a novel by Kazimierz Brandys and told in a series of vignettes, Wojciech Has's psychological tragedy marks the end of the Polish Film School and an important transition in the Polish director's career.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Introduction Notes on How to be Loved by Annette Insdorf, Film Professor at Columbia University, and author of books including "Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has"
Post Screening Notes on How to be Loved by Annette Insdorf.
Discussion on How to be Loved with Sebastian Smoliński, Film Critic
Description: On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five-year-old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary with Director Orson Oblowitz and Lead Actress Rosemary Hochschild
Outtakes of Readings by Legendary Author and Tattoo Artist Jonathan Shaw
Description: When a drug deal goes awry, best friends Stephen and Ian find themselves at odds with a rival crime outfit. Soon after, their lives are turned upside down when they spend a lust filled night with two beautiful women who turn out to be bloodthirsty angelic vampires. Once the vampiric transformation takes hold, Stephen and Ian use their newfound bloodlust and immortality to enact a gore soaked revenge on their backstabbing adversaries. But when Stephen makes a pact with a demon to hunt down and exterminate the angels that spawned him, the former friends must battle to the death as the ultimate fate of mankind hangs in the balance.
In what is perhaps the ultimate mashup of '90s genre film tropes, At Dawn They Sleep from Massachusetts based video auteur Brain Paulin (Bone Sickness, Fetus, Blood Pigs) seamlessly fused the vampire mystique, Hong Kong style gunplay, practical splatter FX, and salacious eroticism into a post-Tarantino crime caper. Always notoriously innovative, Paulin packed his micro-budget production with car stunts, miniatures, body burns, full frontal female nudity, somber autumn vibes, and his trademark show stopping practical gore and creature FX; not to mention a blistering black metal soundtrack featuring Dawn, Usurper, War, & Arckanum. Saturn's Core is proud to present At Dawn They Sleep in its first ever, director approved Blu-Ray edition, newly paired with Paulin's scarce debut SOV gore epic Reap of Evil (1994) which arrives accompanied by a wealth of extras of its own!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New 2023 audio commentary with writer / director Brian Paulin & actor / producer Rich George
Archival 2004 commentary with writer / director Brian Paulin & actor / producer Rich George
"Outbreak of Evil: The Making of At Dawn They Sleep" -new 2023 featurette with writer / director Brian Paulin & actor / producer Rich George
Archival making-of featurette
Outtakes
"Scenes That Hurt" -archival blooper reel
Photo gallery
Morbid Visions Films trailer vault
Reversible cover art featuring newly commissioned artwork by Eerie Crypts
English SDH & Spanish subtitles
BONUS MOVIE: REAP OF EVIL (94 min.) -director Brian Paulin's debut 1994 SOV gore epic (SD) with optional audio commentary featuring director Brian Paulin & actor Rich George
Description: In the god-forsaken satellite city of Tuen Mun, 13-year-old Cookie suspects she's pregnant. Lately things have not been going her way. Her mother left; her father ignores her; her best friend is in reform school; and her boyfriend is off selling bootleg VCDs in bustling Mong Kok. Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, Sissy, and Bean-curd, she journeys into town to find an abortionist.
Director Lawrence Lau updates his 1988 debut Gangs – a shocking account of underage Triads – with an all-girlscast surviving on the lowest rungs of gang-life after the bosses have long gone legit. Swimming in turn-of-century malaise, this Category III youth drama offers a slice of urban grime as our quartet, who can only rely on themselves, navigate drug abuse, bad boyfriends and library books way past their due dates. Produced by Johnnie To (Election) and written by Lo Chi-leung (Viva Erotica), Spacked Out unfolds not unlike Hong Kong's answer to Uli Edel's Christiane F. or Larry Clark's Kids: a slice of 90s urban grime (replete with all the shiny stylings from the era).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL 35MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
Interview with director Lawrence Lau and assistant director Tse Loh Sze, moderated by Shu Kei
Interview with actor Angela Au
Booklet with new writing by Margaret Barton-Fumo and archival photographs
Description: From the director of The Last Movie Star, Detroit Rock City, and The Dark Backward...
In 1975 a young Adam Rifkin commandeered his father's super 8 camera and gradually turned his home in a quiet Chicago suburb into his own private backlot. His penchant for the gleefully irreverent was present long before he carved his own idiosyncratic path through the film industry, and this woozy, unblinking gaze at the American dream.
These anarchic, never-before released shorts chart the director's growth from his very first film at the age of 8, to the final short right before his very first Hollywood feature at the tender age of 21.
Dekanolog is proud to present these early works of an American original, remastered from the only surviving elements and available for the first time ever in this ultra-exclusive limited edition.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Lady Giant
Monster BBQ
The Demon Dog
Lyclops
Canned Rabbi and Other Shorts
Untitled Atomic Bomb Frankenstein Film
War is a 4 Letter Word
The Burglar From Out of the Dishwasher
The Paperboy Crimes
You Are About to Witness a Crime
Murder Can Kill You
Cheep Remake of Alien
Armageddon
Oh My
Pork and Beans and Other Shorts
A Cartoon That I Made That's Almost Totally Blurry
Untitled Film Ephemera Montage
Untitled Man Goes To Work
Cornstawker
A Pseudo-Intellectual Film
Shuffle Shuffle Step Step
Pervis Proves His Worth
INTERVIEWS:
Adam Rifkin (Filmmaker)
Lauren Hartman (Sister)
Greg Anderson (Actor)
Adam Bitterman (Actor)
Tom Hodges (Actor)
Miles Dougal (Actor)
Oral History by Scout Tafoya
Artwork by Bob Fingerman
REIGON-A "LOCKED"
FROM PARTNER LABEL AMERICAN GENR FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA):
Description: Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, EFFECTS is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers—including Tom "DAWN OF THE DEAD" Savini, Joe "DAY OF THE DEAD" Pilato, and John "TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE" Harrison—gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher called DUPED: THE SNUFF MOVIE. As filming begins and "accidents" happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. A gritty melting pot of De Palma-like shocks and Carpenter-esque tension, EFFECTS is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and chilling movie on its own. AGFA is honored to present the worldwide UHD debut of EFFECTS, newly restored in 4K from its original, long-lost 16mm camera negative.
DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY:
4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL 16MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
Archival commentary with producer and star John Harrison, director Dusty Nelson, and editor Pasquale Buba
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
DISC TWO - BLU-RAY:
4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL 16MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
Archival commentary with producer and star John Harrison, director Dusty Nelson, and editor Pasquale Buba
4K "grindhouse" preservation from the only 35mm print in existence
Zoom Q&A with John Harrison, Dusty Nelson, and the AGFA team
Description: The next edition of Altered Innocence's collection of short films is finally here with nearly four hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films in two separately curated programs! Our 'Altered' program is a wild blast of strange and transgressive visions with films about virtual love dolls on a revenge tear, twinks eager to be annihilated, and a lesbian director obsessed with big boobs. The 'Innocence' program is a more tender and subtle program of loveliness with tales about brotherly love, modern transgender life, intergenerational relationships, and boys testing the limits of traditional masculinity.
Altered Program:
Young Diego - Directed by Osama Chami & Enrique Gimeno
Yandere - Directed by William Laboury
Amphi - Directed by Mathias Broe
The Demons of Dorothy - Directed by Alexis Langlois
Trade Center - Directed by Adam Baran
Chaperone - Directed by Sam Max
Innocence Program:
Awakening - Directed by Christian Tafdrup
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here - Directed by Érica Sarmet
Shower Boys - Directed by Christian Zetterberg
Dustin - Directed by Naďla Guiguet
Kiem Holijanda - Directed by Sarah Veltmeyer
Description: Marnie is 23 and "wandering the earth," perhaps in search of romance, or employment - or perhaps just avoiding both. Mostly she's just trying to keep her sense of humor as a constellation of friends and would-be lovers engage in their own post-collegiate flailing around her. Rarely have the loose, shaggy rambles of young adulthood felt so alive and uncanny onscreen. Shot on 16mm and originally released in 2002, Funny Ha Ha is a simple film, straightforwardly composed, but its peculiar rhythms and unexpected cross-currents will always reward repeat viewings.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM (2023)
Conversations with Andrew Bujalski and Kit Zauhar
Short Film - Puppy Time
Creature Feature intro with Andrew Bujalski and Alex Karpovsky
Experimental Title Sequence
28-page booklet with essays by Chuck Klosterman, Tao Lin and notes by Andrew Bujalski
Description: The story follows Patsy, a shy, dreamy nurse who, after being bitten by a zombie, becomes a flesh-eating sex-kitten. With her newfound powers, she tries to win back her old flame, the suave and handsome Dr. Dox, from Goodie, a bitchy young nurse. As the film progresses, Patsy must also learn to deal with her new affliction and to live her life, no longer in her romantic dream world, but in a harsher yet ultimately more satisfying reality.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary with Elza Kephart, Patricia Gomez Zlatar and producer Andrea Stark
Booklet featuring behind-the-scenes photos, text by Fangoria editor Mike Gingold, text by Director Elza Kephart and Producer Patricia Gomez Zlatar