Severin Films is preparing a box set with three Italian discosploitation classics called Disco Italiana, which is scheduled to arrive on the market this summer.
Also this summer, Severin Films will release on Blu-ray Ian Sharp's The Music Machine (1979), starring Gerry Sundquist, Patti Boulaye, David Easter, Michael Feast, Ferdy Mayne, and Clarke Peters.
AMERICAN FEVER
Directed by Claudio Giorgi, American Fever follows a talented young dance hall king with aspirations of becoming a movie star. His generous nature and ambitions are exploited by those around him, a common theme in this Saturday Night Fever-inspired copycat.
JOHN TRAVOLTO: THE FACE WITH TWO LEFT FEET
A nerdy hotel cook poses as a Hollywood star to get his friends into a nightclub. They enter a dance contest and steal the competition from under their rude competitors. Directed by Neri Parenti and starring Angelo Infanti, Gloria Piedimonte, Franco Agostini, Claudio Bigagli, and Adriana Russo.
THE MUSIC MACHINE
Join FrightFest and Trieste Science+Fiction Festival head honcho Alan Jones to celebrate the publication of his epic book on disco films Discomania, plus a screening of THE MUSIC MACHINE, Britain's 1979 answer to Saturday Night Fever.
Showing in a new 4K restoration by Severin Films, THE MUSIC MACHINE is a fascinating look at life in North London in the late 1970s featuring future stars Clarke Peters, Brenda Fricker, Patti Boulaye and a groovy four-to-the-floor soundtrack.
An ultimate dance odyssey, Alan Jones' 450-page Discomania (Fab Press) reviews 100+ Disco movies from 1974-2024, reveals why they are musically important and what uncensored memories they spark of his life as a pioneering horror film critic,
As well as embracing Disco's strobe-lit glamour and glitz, Alan Jones was also one of the original Punks, working for British designer icon Vivienne Westwood's boutique SEX, a DJ for the Sex Pistols at their formative gigs, and appeared in their controversial biopic THE GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL SWINDLE. Not to mention his landmark, front-page 'Naked Cowboy' T-shirt arrest, his role in the infamous 'God Save the Queen' Jubilee Boat Party and his close friendship with neighbor Sid Vicious.
Alan Jones will be live on stage for an introduction before the screening, and for book signing after the screening, so why not follow the call of the mirror ball for a Disco Inferno of fun, funk and Punk as the multi-award-winning guru of gore - and much more - unveils fantastic beats and where to find them. (Description courtesy of Rio Cinema).