Scarlet Warning 666 Blu-ray
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Posted January 2, 2026 07:39 PM by Webmaster
Grindhouse Releasing will bring to Blu-ray Palmer Rockey's Scarlet Warning 666 a.k.a. It Happened One Night (1974). The release, a three-disc Limited Edition set (2 Blu-rays/CD) is scheduled to arrive on the market on February 17.
Description: Palmer Rockey boasted of playing 7 different roles on screen and 47 different roles behind the scenes in what is reputed to be the worst movie ever made. Rockey expected Academy Award recognition for his efforts.
SCARLET WARNING 666 stars Rockey as twin brothers in a story of Satanic skullduggery, bizarre occult rituals and "demonic assassination" on a country estate. The execution of this premise was so bewildering, insane, and incompetent that the film was laughed off the screen at its Dallas premiere.
After audiences mocked his naive ineptitude, Rockey said, "You know what I think the meaning of this whole thing - the movie - is? Don't give anybody the right to make you unhappy, because, man, they will. People can laugh at what I do, but they can't laugh at me. I mean, man, I'm satisfied. I'm smiling inside."
Rockey spent decades obsessively laboring over his magnum opus, shooting new scenes and piling layer upon layer of cringe in a doomed effort to explain the incomprehensible plot. He distributed the movie himself, four-walling theaters to show his epic in various incarnations as IT HAPPENED ON SUNDAY, SCARLET LOVE, ROCKEY'S STYLE, LOVE IS DEEP INSIDE, and SCARLET WARNING 666.
In 1980 he released the film as SCARLET LOVE, with an original soundtrack album featuring his own vocal stylings. When this too met with audience mockery, Rockey attempted to frame the unintended laughs as "keen satire." Rockey was still restitching his Frankenstein's monster of a movie with new material at the time of his death in 1996.
"It seems to me that the real story is in the mental and to some extent moral decline of Palmer Rockey which is exhibited in the final version of the film," said Dr. Ron DiSalvo, who played opposite Rockey in scenes filmed decades apart.
Doug Smith, a.k.a. the Reverend Ivan Stang, co-founder of the Church of the SubGenius, saw the movie as SCARLET LOVE during its 1980 theatrical run in Dallas. Stang couldn't believe the insane display of incompetence on the screen, and evangelized for years about the film to fellow bad-movie enthusiasts.
The Rockey legend grew when Jello Biafra wrote about the SCARLET LOVE "movie album"in the popular RE/Search book series INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC. The ultra-rare LP became an obsession for record collectors, leading to a sold-out 2013 reissue in the UK. Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) covered one of Rockey's songs from the film. "Longing for You" is an attempt to revive a somewhat corny song by an enigmatic and shifty movie entrepreneur named Palmer Rockey. Rockey's unfinished film has disappeared, but the remaining soundtrack is a rare cult classic of oddball music."' (Broadway World)
Although he never nabbed his Oscar, Rockey ended up Oscar-adjacent: his final cut of SCARLET WARNING 666 was found in the Academy vault and restored by Academy Award-winning film editor Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing.
To release SCARLET WARNING 666, Grindhouse Releasing partnered with Rockey's long-suffering widow Cookie (Mary Ann) Rockey, who financed Rockey's misbegotten dream project by working double shifts at the U.S. Post Office. Cookie's memoir THE ROCK: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF PALMER ROCKEY is a must-read account of her surreal experiences on the outermost fringes of independent filmmaking.
Grindhouse Releasing has painstakingly restored SCARLET WARNING 666 from the original camera negative, going beyond the limits of sanity to preserve every agonizing frame of Palmer Rockey's cinematic tribulation and to document the bizarre story behind it.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Palmer Rockey boasted of playing 7 different roles on screen and 47 different roles behind the scenes in what is reputed to be the worst movie ever made. Rockey expected Academy Award recognition for his efforts.
SCARLET WARNING 666 stars Rockey as twin brothers in a story of Satanic skullduggery, bizarre occult rituals and "demonic assassination" on a country estate. The execution of this premise was so bewildering, insane, and incompetent that the film was laughed off the screen at its Dallas premiere.
After audiences mocked his naive ineptitude, Rockey said, "You know what I think the meaning of this whole thing - the movie - is? Don't give anybody the right to make you unhappy, because, man, they will. People can laugh at what I do, but they can't laugh at me. I mean, man, I'm satisfied. I'm smiling inside."
Rockey spent decades obsessively laboring over his magnum opus, shooting new scenes and piling layer upon layer of cringe in a doomed effort to explain the incomprehensible plot. He distributed the movie himself, four-walling theaters to show his epic in various incarnations as IT HAPPENED ON SUNDAY, SCARLET LOVE, ROCKEY'S STYLE, LOVE IS DEEP INSIDE, and SCARLET WARNING 666.
In 1980 he released the film as SCARLET LOVE, with an original soundtrack album featuring his own vocal stylings. When this too met with audience mockery, Rockey attempted to frame the unintended laughs as "keen satire." Rockey was still restitching his Frankenstein's monster of a movie with new material at the time of his death in 1996.
"It seems to me that the real story is in the mental and to some extent moral decline of Palmer Rockey which is exhibited in the final version of the film," said Dr. Ron DiSalvo, who played opposite Rockey in scenes filmed decades apart.
Doug Smith, a.k.a. the Reverend Ivan Stang, co-founder of the Church of the SubGenius, saw the movie as SCARLET LOVE during its 1980 theatrical run in Dallas. Stang couldn't believe the insane display of incompetence on the screen, and evangelized for years about the film to fellow bad-movie enthusiasts.
The Rockey legend grew when Jello Biafra wrote about the SCARLET LOVE "movie album"in the popular RE/Search book series INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC. The ultra-rare LP became an obsession for record collectors, leading to a sold-out 2013 reissue in the UK. Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) covered one of Rockey's songs from the film. "Longing for You" is an attempt to revive a somewhat corny song by an enigmatic and shifty movie entrepreneur named Palmer Rockey. Rockey's unfinished film has disappeared, but the remaining soundtrack is a rare cult classic of oddball music."' (Broadway World)
Although he never nabbed his Oscar, Rockey ended up Oscar-adjacent: his final cut of SCARLET WARNING 666 was found in the Academy vault and restored by Academy Award-winning film editor Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing.
To release SCARLET WARNING 666, Grindhouse Releasing partnered with Rockey's long-suffering widow Cookie (Mary Ann) Rockey, who financed Rockey's misbegotten dream project by working double shifts at the U.S. Post Office. Cookie's memoir THE ROCK: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF PALMER ROCKEY is a must-read account of her surreal experiences on the outermost fringes of independent filmmaking.
Grindhouse Releasing has painstakingly restored SCARLET WARNING 666 from the original camera negative, going beyond the limits of sanity to preserve every agonizing frame of Palmer Rockey's cinematic tribulation and to document the bizarre story behind it.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY GRINDHOUSE RELEASING
- Provocative, in-depth interviews with producer Cookie Rockey, and co-star Dr. Ron DiSalvo
- Additional interviews with punk rock icon Jello Biafra and legendary rare record connoisseurs Paul Major and Jonny Trunk
- Audio commentary by Reverend Ivan Stang, of the Church of the SubGenius
- Original theatrical trailer and extensive still galleries
- Glossy illustrated booklet with liner notes by exploitation historian Chris Poggiali
- Beautiful embossed slipcover with new art by esteemed painter Jerry Martinez
- Blu-ray cover painting by cult artist Dave Lebow
- Still galleries, trailers
- BONUS CD - SCARLET LOVE MOVIE ALBUM by Palmer Rockey, newly remastered in stunning 24-bit/192Khz sound
- AND OTHER SURPRISES!
- REGION-FREE
