Vinegar Syndrome Reveals New Partner Label Releases
Posted May 1, 2024 09:55 PM by Webmaster
Vinegar Syndrome has revealed eleven new partner label releases. They are: Vacation! (2011), Streetwise (2021), Brooklyn 45 (2023), Houseboat Horror (1989), L'important c'est d'aimer a.k.a. The Most Important Thing: Love (1975), Samurai Wolf 1 & 2 (1966-1967), The Old Ones (2024), Slope's Game Room: Cult Movies, Shows and Classic Comics (2024), Game of Pleasure (1998), Ultramegalopolis (1996), and Without Name (2016).
Vacation! is an existential beach party movie about life, death, sex and drugs. When four college friends reunite for a girls' week at the beach, it's all bikinis, piña coladas and dance parties at first. But the fun soon fades away… After procuring a psychotropic drug from a sketchy surfer dude, the girls take a very strange trip into the abyss.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A bracingly bleak neo-noir soaked in sinister atmosphere, Na's feature debut focuses on Dong Zi (Li Jiuxiao), a 21-year-old debt collector making a dishonest living in the bustling criminal economy in the Sichuan Province city of Zhenwu, all while aspiring to a better life than that which his ailing, ex-gangster father (an excellent Qi Zhi) has lived. Boasting a crack ensemble cast, brooding nocturnal cinematography courtesy of DP Li Jianeng, and an insider's understanding of small-town claustrophobia, Na's sleek neo-noir established him as one of Mainland China's undeniable emerging talents during its lauded festival run.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interview with filmmaker Jiazuo Na
Theatrical Trailer
Booklet essay by Panos Kotzathanasis of Asian Movie Pulse
Booklet interview with filmmaker Jiazuo Na and actress Miyi Huang
Called "one of the best streaming services in the world" by RogerEbert.com and described by Thrillist as "pretty much everything a horror fan could want," Shudder is a premium streaming service offering the best selection of horror, thriller and supernatural movies, series and specials.
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together in a Brooklyn brownstone several months after the end of World War II, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Feature length audio commentary by writer/director Ted Geoghegan
Ghosts of the Past: The Making of Brooklyn 45 - A 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, featuring director and cast
The full, feature length film professionally recolored in glorious black-and-white
Detailed production notes chronicling the film from concept to release
Before Tommy Wiseau entered THE ROOM and James Nguyen took flight with BIRDEMIC, Ollie Martin welcomed audiences aboard HOUSEBOAT HORROR. Shot on video, banned in Queensland and distributed with the world's first 'Gratuitous Violence & Blood Gush Guarantee', HOUSEBOAT HORROR is pure homegrown hilarity and quite possibly the most quotable film in (SOV) cinematic history!
Starring a veritable who's who of 80s Australian talent including Alan Dale (NEIGHBOURS), Christine Jeston (THE YOUNG DOCTORS), Gavin Wood (COUNTDOWN), Des 'Animal' Mckenna (HEY HEY, IT'S SATURDAY) and John Michael 'Hollywood' Howsen, HOUSEBOAT HORROR also features a slew of knockout song hits by THE UNCANNY X-MEN's Brian Mannix!
When a music video shoot on the seemingly tranquil Lake Infinity turns into smorgasbord of horror, death and blood-gushing mayhem, it can only mean one thing... ACID HEAD, a horribly scarred axe-wielding maniac with a grudge against interlopers, is loose!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p master upscaled and color corrected from producer Ollie Martin's original archival materials
Booklet with new essay by Dan Budnik
Audio Commentary with comedian Tony Martin and film historian Jarret Gahan
30th Anniversary Monster Fest Q&A with Clayton Jacobson (editor), Brian Mannix (score), Don Bridges (cast), Stephen Whittaker (cast), Craig Alexander (cast), Christopher Young (cast), Warren Master (production) & Boyd Martin
You'll Bar Up - Interview with actor Gavin Wood
A Hell Of A Lot Of Grunting - Interview with actor Zlatko Kasumovic
You Should Be Getting Some Of This On Film - Interview with actor Craig Alexander
You Don't Have To Hate The Film People Forever - Interview with actress Louise Siversen
They Were Film People - Interview with actor Don Bridges
52 Pick Up - Interview with editor/second unit director Clayton Jacobson
The First Girl - Interview with actress Alisa Meadow
A Fatal Vision - Interview with film critic and journalist Michael Helms
KILLER ZOMBIES [SD] - Short Film directed By Zlatko 'Acid Head' Kasumovic starring Ollie Martin & 'Film Buff ' Paul Harris
THE MAD DAREDEVILS DOWNUNDER [SD] - Feature-length documentary on Australian Stunt Men directed by Ollie Martin and featuring HOUSEBOAT HORROR segment with Billy 'Super' Smith
Digital Remaster Comparison
'Undiscovered Masterpieces of the Cinema' - Sketch from THE LATE SHOW
Romy Schneider delivers a César Award-winning performance as a down-on-her-luck actress in L'important c'est d'aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), Andrzej Żuławski's "passionate portrait of the dignity – and the indignities – of an actor's work" (Film Comment).
Forced to earn a living by accepting demeaning roles negotiated by her erratic husband, Nadine Chevalier (Schneider) encounters tabloid photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) on the set of her latest film. Desperate to win her affections, Servais secretly uses money borrowed from a shady associate to bankroll her next project, a production of Richard III with Nadine starring opposite the maniacal German thespian Karl-Heinz Zimmer (Klaus Kinski).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interview with Andrzej Zulawski
Original Trailer
Booklet with a new essay by film critic Kat Ellinger
Legendary genre auteur Hideo Gosha's gleefully anarchic, spaghetti western-informed samurai adventures are finally available to North American audiences in one complete set.
SAMURAI WOLF: Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that's more than meets the eye. After dispatching a pair of highway criminals seen robbing a courier wagon, Kiba agrees to assist a beautiful blind woman who runs the local shipping company. Double- and triple-crosses ensue, illustrated with savage but economical violence courtesy of famed director Hideo Gosha's (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, VIOLENT STREETS) striking black and white filmmaking. The result is a lean and mean triumph of samurai cinema, cementing Gosha's status as a master of the genre.
SAMURAI WOLF 2: HELL CUT: Charismatic ronin Kiba (Isao Natsuyagi) returns, once again entangled in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master. Master filmmaker Hideo Gosha brings his trademark tight pacing and stylish action to this brisk morality play, inevitably punctuated by the explosions of violent swordplay beloved by fans of the genre.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Outlaw Director: Hideo Gosha featurette with Tomoe Gosha
Audio commentary by Chris Poggiali, co-author of These Fists Break Bricks
20-page booklet with a new essay by Robin Gatto, author of Hideo Gosha, cinéaste sans maître
In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Cult Movies, Shows & Classic Comics brings together 10 documentaries based on 10 iconic movies, TV shows and comic franchises. Taking a deep dive into these popular IP's before finding every single video game based upon them.
Not every licensed video game is terrible… although, most of them are!
Originally created on the YouTube channel Slope's Game Room, these popular short films look at how classic horror franchises such as Friday the 13th™, SAW™ and The Evil Dead™ began their gruesome journeys. We look at the creation of classic comics such as The Mask™, Howard The Duck™ and Scott Pilgrim™. Ever wondered how Robocop vs Terminator™ and Alien vs Predator™ began their timelines? What about the creation of classic cartoons shows such as Beavis & Butthead™ and Ren & Stimpy™?
We take a look at all of them. And, we dig deep searching for every video game too, some of which have never been officially released. It's all here and it's cut into 10 separate episodes for your enjoyment, bringing the total run time to just under 5 hours (plus an extra 3 hours of bonus features and easter eggs too).
This Blu-ray also includes the world's 1st Blu-ray 3D Maze Game. A throwback to the classic 1980's maze games of old where you will need to find your way through the maze searching for characters based on the classic franchises featured on this disc. Can you make your way out of the maze and discover what reward lies at the end?
Episodes included:
Friday the 13th™ Timed exclusively for this release
SAW™
The Evil Dead™
The Mask™ Re-Recorded exclusively for this release
Howard The Duck™ Re-Recorded exclusively for this release
Scott Pilgrim vs The World™
Robocop vs Terminator™
Alien vs Predator™
Beavis & Butthead™ Re-Recorded and extended exclusively for this release
Ren & Stimpy™ Re-Recorded exclusively for this release
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
Special Features Runtime - 2 hours and 55 minutes
SLOPE'S MAZE GAME - The world's 1st blu ray 3D MAZE GAME
The largest computer gaming firm in the country has just completed its latest and possibly greatest virtual reality game, "Pleasure". But the erotic program has a deadly computer virus that meshes the realms of reality and fantasy when its host, Vixen (Tammy Parks, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds), takes the player into a journey through the senses. Play at your own risk!
Game of Pleasure perfectly blends horror, sci-fi and erotica in a late 90s virtual reality infused melting pot that is impossible not to enjoy. VHSHITFEST could not be happier to bring this to blu ray for the first time with hours of extras and a new transfer!
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
Audio commentary with director Dale Frantz and producer/writer Kevin Summerfield
New interview with Dale Frantz
New interview with Kevin Summerfield
New interview with special effects artist Doug Ulrich
Ultramegalopolis presents a 2 and a half hour psychogeographic tour through the vast, post-riot, urban sprawl of Los Angeles, California circa the early '90s. Explore the war zone from within its graffiti-covered walls as director Larry Wessel trains his camcorder lens on a dizzying display of the city's most peculiar niches and residents including disabled street performers, junkies, sidewalk religious zealots, ex-cons, celebrity impersonators, and living mannequins. Visit the site of the infamous McMartin pre-school, hear the confessions of Charles Manson's former cellmate, and experience the subterranean boxing gyms, wrestling rings, graffiti yards, and bullfighting arenas of America's smog infested City of Angels.
Like an analog Frederick Wiseman, legendary cinéma vérité documentarian Larry Wessel has tackled a wide array of eccentric subjects and captured some of underground cinema's most striking and unforgettable visuals; equipped solely with his camcorder and a nearly non-existent budget. An aesthetic terrorist of the highest order, Wessel's simplistic, fly on the wall approach has allowed his subjects to reveal their stories and actions in the most candid and uninhibited means conceivable. Saturn's Core is proud to present Ultramegalopolis in its superlative, director approved Blu-Ray edition, accompanied by a bounty of new supplements compiled and curated under the supervision of director Larry Wessel.
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
Audio commentary with director Larry Wessel
Larry Wessel: The Walkertown Report -a career spanning interview with director Larry Wessel conducted by Dwayne Walker
"King of the Underground" -director Larry Wessel reads an excerpt from his upcoming memoir
"Boy Scout" -Paul Roessler music video directed by Larry Wessel
Larry Wessel short films:
Lust for Knife (Super 8mm / 1980)
Santeria! (2012)
The Sugar Weasel Story (2013)
Summer (2013)
Let's Talk About Chemtrails (2012)
Trigger Happy (2012)
Have a Nice Day! (2012)
Oil! (2012)
"Larry's Little Wonders": a collection of animated shorts
Larry Wessel trailer vault
English SDH subtitles
Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Rebekah Porter
Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.
Special Features and Techncial Specs:
Introduction by Director Lorcan Finnegan
Three Story Board to Scenes Featurette
Six Deleted Scenes
Behind the Scenes Slideshow
Commentary with Director Lorcan Finnegan, Writer Garret Shanley and Actor Alan McKenna
Devoy's Notebook Read by Eric
Lorcan Finnegan's Short Film FOXES
Behind the Scene Footage: Eric is Hiding in the Water Stream
Trailer
Essay by Laura Kern: writer, editor, and horror programmer