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It's finally time to share the details on our big sale title! BLOOD FOR DRACULA will be a 3-disc set with slip case. The first disc is a UHD with the film in 4K HDR. The second disc is a blu-ray with a 1080P presentation of the film, along with bonus features. The third disc is a newly mastered, extended version of the CD soundtrack. Check out the full disc specs below.

Special Features for Blood For Dracula:

*Trans-Human Flesh And Blood – Interview With Director Paul Morrissey
*Rubinia's Homecoming – Interview & Location Visit With Actress Stefania Casini
*Blood For Udo – Interview With Actor Udo Kier
*Little Big Joe – Interview With Actor Joe Dallesandro
*Conversation With A Vampire – Audio Interview With Actress Milena Vukotic
*Bloodthirsty – Interview With Assistant Director Paolo Pietrangeli
*Black Cherry – Interview With Art Director Gianni Giovagnoni
*The Blood Of These Whores... – Interview With "Murderous Passions"
Author Stephen Thrower
*Sad, Romantic Dracula – Interview With Soundtrack Composer Claudio Gizzi
*The Roman Connection – Interview With Producer Andrew Braunsberg
*Trailers
*CD Soundtrack - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Composed,
Orchestrated, And Conducted By Claudio Gizzi

Feature Specs for Blood For Dracula:

*Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
*Audio: English Mono
*Closed Captions: English SDH
*Region: All

black&huge wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:32 pm Just a reminder for all us folks on the west coast the sale starts tomorrow (thursday) at 9 pm PT. Those Blood for Dracula specs are mighty fine sounding

dwk wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:37 am Severin's site often crashes during the sale, so I wouldn't expect to be able to buy anything at 9/12.

Looking at the image of the mystery title they posted on facebook and I'm almost 100% sure it is Beyond Darkness

black&huge wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:32 pm Just a reminder for all us folks on the west coast the sale starts tomorrow (thursday) at 9 pm PT. Those Blood for Dracula specs are mighty fine sounding

What was once called “fiendish” (Orlando Sentinel), “an obnoxious boil” (Washington Post) and “easily one of the worst films I’ve ever seen” (Gene Siskel) is today hailed as “genius” (Junkee), “a feminist masterpiece” (Purple Revolver) and “an unapologetically weird classic” (NME): With her adult life falling apart, a distraught woman (Phoebe Cates) accidentally unleashes her imaginary childhood friend Drop Dead Fred – the late great Rik Mayall of THE YOUNG ONES in his sole U.S. comedy feature – to wreak booger-flicking, poo-smearing vengeance on those who’ve wronged her. Marsha Mason (THE GOODBYE GIRL), Tim Matheson (NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE) and Carrie Fisher co-star in this “untouchable post punk classic” (Den Of Geek) from the executive producer of HIGH FIDELITY and THE BIG LEBOWSKI, now scanned in 2K with all-new Special Features for the first time ever in America.

Special Features:

• Booklet With New Text Interview With Actress Phoebe Cates
• Audio Commentary With Director Ate De Jong
• A Conversation With Director Ate De Jong And Producer Paul Webster
• Imaginary Friends: Interviews With Co-Writers / Executive Producers Anthony Fingleton & Carlos Davis
• Mischief Makers: Interviews With Visual FX Artists Doug Beswick, Peter Kuran, Kevin Kutchaver, Paul Gentry And Makeup FX Artist Christopher Johnson
• Memories Of Snot Face: Interview With Actress Ashley Peldon
• Deleted Scenes And Outtakes
• Trailer

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English Stereo
• Closed Caps
• Region A

[*]In this rarely-seen but always-surprising giallo – made between A QUIET PLACE TO KILL and KNIFE OF ICE – Golden Globe® winning/Academy Award® nominated Hollywood exile Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL, SOMETHING WILD) stars as the new bride of a wealthy British playboy (Oscar® nominee Michael Craig of THE ANGRY SILENCE and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND) whose three previous wives met with suspiciously accidental deaths. Marina Malfatti (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) co-stars in this 1971 Italian/Spanish co-production directed by Eugenio Martín (HORROR EXPRESS) and co-written by Santiago Moncada (HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON) with a score by Piero Umiliani (FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON) – also known as DEATH AT THE DEEP END OF THE SWIMMING POOL and THE LAST MRS. ANDERSON – now scanned in 2K from the original negative.

Special Features:

• Eugenio Martín, Auteur: Interview With Eugenio Martín Biographer Carlos Aguilar
• Deleted Scene
• Trailer

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
• Closed Caps
• Region A

A decade after co-writing NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, writer/director John Russo gathered members of George Romero’s Pittsburgh crews to film a new shocker fueled by equal parts grisly grindhouse jolts and ‘80s satanic panic: Fleeing her pervy alcoholic stepfather (Lawrence Tierney of RESERVOIR DOGS infamy), a hitchhiking teen (Melanie Verlin) is abducted by a family of crazed homicidal rednecks for an ordeal of graphic butchery, shag carpet and devil worship. John Amplas (MARTIN) co-stars in this “greasy, grimy guilty pleasure” (DVD Talk) featuring gore effects by Tom Savini and executive produced by Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) – released in some US markets as BACKWOODS MASSACRE and seized in the UK as a DPP 39 ‘Video Nasty’ – now scanned in 4K from the negative of the long-rumored uncut version with all-new Special Features.

Special Features:

• Interview with Writer / Director John Russo
• Interview with Producer Samuel M. Sherman
• Interview with Actor John Amplas
• Interview with SFX Artist Tom Savini
• Trailer
• More TBC

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Audio: English 5.1 Surround / English 2.0 Stereo
• Closed Caps
• Region Free

From Earl Owensby Studios – the South’s biggest producer/distributor of ‘70s/’80s regional horror and exploitation hits – comes what may be the most obscure and bizarre slasher movie of the entire godless genre: In a 1930s small town rife with lust, corruption and sin, a mysterious figure wielding a scythe arrives to cut an unholy swath of murder, madness and moralizing that may lead straight to Hell. William T. Hicks (DEATH SCREAMS), Brownlee Davis (WOLFMAN), Jerry Rushing (FINAL EXAM) and Harris Bloodworth star in this “early ‘80s oddity worth seeing as something very different” (The Slasher Report) produced by Earl Owensby (TALES OF THE THIRD DIMENSION) and Worth Keeter (L.A. BOUNTY), now scanned in 2K from the IP for the first time ever.

Special Features:

• The Atheist’s Sins: Interview With Author Of NIGHTMARE USA Stephen Thrower
• Tales Of Judgment: Interview With Filmmaker Worth Keeter And Writer Thom McIntyre

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English mono
• Closed Caps
• Region Free

Blutarsky wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:27 pm The Blood for Dracula UHD is shaping up to be one of my favorite releases this year. Excellent presentation, great bonus features, and overall amazing packaging. I have never been a massive fan of Morrissey’s work, but this release really makes me love the movie for all of its campy, trashy glory.

fdm wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 4:16 am Mine shipped, big old corner dent. Now just waiting to see if/when Severin responds to my pictures (for it and Santa Sangre too)... just can't win here in my cardboard hell.

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