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pianocrash wrote: Wed Nov 02, 2022 6:38 am

beamish14 wrote: Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:55 am “Star studded sleaze” that is “decades” old can’t be anything other than Caligula…can it? It’s certainly a bloodbath as well

I can't imagine VS would tease Caligula MMXX instead of outright saying it'll happen (i.e. Thriller: A Cruel Picture), but last I heard it's still slated for 2023 with a theatrical run (!?!) and a coffee table book, which has been years in the making. Also, the MMXX crew just handing the keys over to VS seems a little haphazard, though not entirely improbable - just not exactly what I'd expect from a Black Friday surprise pre-order.

pianocrash wrote: Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:11 am Bigger news: the three Wakefield Poole DVD titles (Bijou, Boys In The Sand, & Take One/Moving!) on the VS site have been added to the Going Out Of Print page, so pick those up! The stock was fluctuating for a while, but I hope this means that there's a blu-ray set on the horizon (I need to pick up a copy of Dirty Poole, now that I mention it)

What A Disgrace wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 4:16 pm My copy of Robinson's Garden seems to have come with a replacement disc, but I can't find any information on what was wrong with the original.

swo17 wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:23 am Can someone remind me the best strategy for going into the Black Friday sale? Don't you want to have something already pre-ordered so you can add to that shipment and not have to pay extra for shipping?

The free shipping threshold going into the sale is $100. If I place a pre-order now for less than $100 and add enough to it during the sale, would that order then qualify for free shipping? If so, it seems like maybe the only way this could work is by pre-ordering Road House (which ships after Black Friday) since all the Partner Label titles say they ship mid-November

Dracula Sucks
Televised Terror
Summer Camp Girls
Dark Tower
Pandemonium
Savage Dawn
Tammy And The T-Rex
Lust in the Dust
Dominique
Cutting Class

domino harvey wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:44 am Evil Laugh (Dominick Brascia 1987) Self-aware proto-Scream with the nerdy loser telling all of his fellow med students over and over that the house rental they're hanging out in is hosting a mass murderer. "This is how it always happens in horror movies," he whines at them, and he's mostly right of course. There's a few good gags to this effect, and the film has a surprising lightness of touch for a film in which all of our protagonists unknowingly eat one of their fellow victims. As you'll see if you scroll down, while I hit a milestone in my slasher viewings this round, Evil Laugh still proved that even after this many slasher films, I can still be taken aback by one of the strangest things I've ever seen in any movie, slasher, 80s, or otherwise. There's a few other memorably weird bits present too, such as the conceited stud uttering the line, "They call me Young Doctor Kildare" while fake-flirting with a male realtor, or a bizarre sex scene in which an extra hand appears in the midst of the lovemaking and starts grabbing the hunk's butt, to which he replies, "Wow, how did you know I was into butt stuff?"

In January, we'll be delving back into Category III horror, with a box set featuring a trio of gruesome shockers, in addition to the UHD debut of an iconic 80s gore-fest, a whacked out regional creature film, and one of the best exploitation-horror hybrids to come out of the wilds of Mexican genre cinema (it's been the talk of the VS office and the film we're most excited for).

Then in February, we've got another blood soaked delight from Hong Kong along with a melty treat of American folk horror, in addition to a psychotic - yet beautiful - slice of Eastern Euro sci-fi!

March is shaping up to offer a box set celebrating one of Mexico's most acclaimed genre film directors, including new 4K restorations of some of his most iconic works, along with UHDs of a late 90s indie shocker and an 80s Italian-American gore-fest.

The rest of the year will bring disc (including several BD & UHD) debuts of plentiful Slasher rarities, some of which have never (legally) made it off tape, plus more 70s and 80s Exploitation and Horror (from the US and Europe), more regional weirdness, more Hong Kong action and horror, and of course more Gialli! Plus, in honor of our 10th anniversary, we're working on an epic box set that will speak both to the origins and history of VS and champion the type of way-out, forgotten films we were founded on releasing. We guarantee this set will defy expectations.

agnamaracs wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:44 pm Fun fact: the director Matthew Bright also co-wrote and co-starred in Forbidden Zone

domino harvey wrote:Yes, and if you haven't seen it, that's actually an accurate description