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1987’s ‘Retribution’ Among Horror Titles Due on Disc Feb. 24 From Severin and MVD

The horror titles The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3, 1963’s The Ghost and 1987’s Retribution are being released on disc Feb. 24 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

Also available Feb. 24 from MVD and Severin is a Matt LeBlanc drama from the director of Retribution.

The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3 is a seven-disc collection with six films in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray. The collection includes 16 hours of special features and a new 142-page book. The teensploitation classic Beat Girl, available in the original theatrical and extended U.K. cuts, stars Lee as the wolfish operator of a Soho strip club. He portrays a sleazy blackmailer in The Hands of Orlac, presented in separate French and U.K. versions. Directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lee as a disfigured madman, the worldwide UHD/Blu-ray premiere of The Virgin of Nuremberg is a two-disc collection that sets new standards in Italian Gothic cruelty. Arabian Adventure is director Kevin Connor’s all-star family adventure showcasing Lee as a dastardly Caliph. Lee is a menacing teacher at an exclusive boys boarding school in A Feast at Midnight, directed by Justin Hardy. With recollections by family, friends and Lee himself, the documentary The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee reveals the screen legend like never before.

Retribution (1987) is making its worldwide 4K UHD premiere. The two-disc collection includes the theatrical and unrated versions scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with more than three hours of special features. In 2021, Severin Films resurrected the forgotten classic from co-writer/director Guy Magar on Blu-ray. But in 2025, the search of a Los Angeles lab vault led to the discovery of the unclaimed negative for the thought-lost unrated version just days prior to its destruction. Magar’s neon and viscera-soaked saga of possession, vengeance and carnage stars Dennis Lipscomb (Eyes of Fire), Leslie Wing (The Frighteners), Suzanne Snyder (Weird Science) and Hoyt Axton (Gremlins).

Seven years after unleashing Retribution, filmmaker Guy Magar rolled the dice to write, produce and direct the low-budget mob drama Lookin’ Italian, which introduced an unknown Matt LeBlanc only months before landing his breakout role in “Friends.” In the film, having survived a New York City shootout gone horrifically wrong, a former mafioso (Jay Acovone of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Stargate SG-1”) is now living a quiet life working in a Los Angeles used bookstore. But when his reckless nephew (LeBlanc) gets involved with local gang culture, they’re both dragged into an unforgiving urban jungle where fear is weakness, vengeance is destiny and family bonds can never be broken. Three-time Grammy-winning soul legend Lou Rawls co-stars — with Denise Richards in one of her earliest film roles — in the film now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with two hours of special features that include a long-unseen 1993 on-set interview with LeBlanc.

The Ghost is available on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Disc, including four hours of special features. Direct from its 2025 premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, the 1963 film, set in turn-of-the-century Scotland, follows a young wife (Barbara Steele) who conspires with her lover to murder her wealthy paralyzed husband. But when the dead spouse’s spirit returns, it unlocks a nightmare of spectral terror, sudden violence and depraved vengeance. Peter Baldwin (The Weekend Murders) and Harriet Medin (The Whip and the Body) co-star in the Italian horror classic co-written by Freda and Oreste Biancoli (Bicycle Thieves), newly scanned in 4K from the thought-lost original camera negative and restored by Severin Films with four hours of special features.

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Horror Flick ‘House on the Edge of the Park’ Among Titles Available on Disc Jan. 27 From MVD and Severin

The horror films House on the Edge of the Park and Wild Beasts, the Italian film compilation Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain, and the martial arts flick Fearless Dragons are being released on disc Jan. 27 from MVD Entertainment Group and Severin Films.

For his follow-up to Cannibal Holocaust, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy, House on the Edge of the Park (1980). More than 40 years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time and is available on 4K UHD disc for the first time ever in North America. David Hess of The Last House on the Left infamy stars as a charismatic psychopath who — with his equally unhinged sidekick (Giovanni Lombardo Radice of City of the Living Dead) — turns a get-together of chic New Yorkers into an ordeal of class warfare and sexual violence. Annie Belle (Absurd), Christian Borromeo (Tenebrae) and Lorraine De Selle (Wild Beasts) co-star in this classic from the screenwriters of The New York Ripper, now scanned uncut in 4K from the original camera negative with more than three hours of bonus materials. Extras include audio commentary by Bruce Holecheck (Cinema Arcana) and Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent); “The Man Who Loved Women,” an interview with director Ruggero Deodato; “Lights On,” an interview with cinematographer Sergio D’Offizi; “Like a Prairie Dog,” an interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice; “External Beauty & Internal Ugliness,” an archival interview with David Hess; “House Sweet House,” an interview with set designer Antonello Geleng; a photo gallery; and the film’s trailer.

For his final work, “Godfather of Mondo” Franco E. Prosperi (writer/director of Mondo Cane, Africa: Blood and Guts and Goodbye Uncle Tom) took on the “nature strikes back” genre with Wild Beasts, available on 4K UHD disc for the first time ever. In the film, when PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts — including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats — go berserk and rampage through the streets of Frankfurt. What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the-top ’80s Italian gore. Lorraine De Selle (Cannibal Ferox, House on the Edge of the Park) and Ugo Bologna (Nightmare City) star in the film, newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative. bonus materials include “Altered Beasts,” an interview with Director Franco E. Prosperi; “Wild Tony,” an interview with actor Tony Di Leo; “Cut After Cut,” an interview with editor/Mondo filmmaker Mario Morra; “The Circus Is in Town,” an interview with animal wrangler Roberto Tiberti’s Son, Carlo Tiberti; “House of Wild Beasts,” a  visit to the home of Franco E. Prosperi; and the film’s trailer.

Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain, a 19-film collection on 10 Blu-ray discs, includes the Severin Films documentary Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S” as well as a 168-page book of essays, stills and posters and more than 21 hours of special features. Under the Franco dictatorship, Spain’s rigid censorship laws controlled all national entertainment. But following Franco’s death in 1975, certain films began to embody a period in Spanish history when cinematic expression became political freedom. Spanish audiences considered these films — featuring graphic explorations of sex, violence and horror — to be a cultural “exorcismo.” These 18 films, including landmark features directed by Eloy de la Iglesia, León Klimovsky, Javier Aguirre and Eugenio Martín, range from those that dared to actively subvert the oppressive regime to productions made during the post-Franco era of ’70s and ’80s exploitation excess. In addition to the doc Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S” — narrated by Iggy Pop, in which writer/producer/director Alberto Sedano explores the history behind the notorious rating that rocked Spanish culture, changed the face of genre films and left its mark on global cinema forever — films in the collection include Far from the Trees, The Bell from Hell, Creation of the Damned, The Devil’s Exorcist, After… Part One: Can’t You Be Left Alone?, The People Who Own the Dark, Battered Flesh, The Priest, Sins of a Nympho, Dimorfo, Bloody Sex, Morbus, Faces, Triangle of Lust, That House in the Outskirts, Supernatural, Poppers, After… Part Two: Tied Up and Tied Up Well. The majority of the titles in the collection are worldwide Blu-ray premieres scanned in 4K from original camera negatives.

From iconic ’70s Hong Kong studio Goldig Films Ltd. (The Dragon Lives Again, Duel of the 7 Tigers) comes one of the favorite action comedies in the history of the genre, Fearless Dragons, available on Blu-ray Disc in North America for the first time. In the film, when two wily con men — martial arts movie legends Phillip Ko (The Dragon the Hero, The Invincible Armour) and Bryan Leung (Legend of a Fighter, Lightning Kung Fu) — are framed for hijacking a trunkful of charity funds, they join forces to find the real bandits in a wild series of adventures that lead to a final battle ranked among the most exciting two-on-one fight scenes ever. Johnny Wang Lung-Wei (Five Deadly Venoms), Lau Chan (Kung Fu Zombie) and Chin-Lai Sung (The Black Dragon’s Revenge) co-star in this old-school kung fu classic — also known as Two on the Road and The Fearless Jackal — directed by Lee Chiu (Shaolin Avengers), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative. Bonus materials include audio commentary with Frank Djeng and Michael Worth, co-producers of Enter the Clones of Bruce; “Know a Hero, Respect a Hero,” an interview with director Lee Chiu; “Real Kung Fu,” in which actor Phillip Ko remembers Fearless Dragons; and the trailer.

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Horror Film ‘Kill List,’ Erotic ‘Emmanuelle’ Due on Disc Dec. 9 From MVD and Severin

The horror flick Kill List, the 1974 erotic film Emmanuelle and an “Emmanuelle” collection are being released on disc Dec. 9 from MVD Entertainment Group and Severin Films.

Kill List, the 2011 breakthrough film from writer-director Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, In the Earth), is being released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc for the first time ever. In the film, when an on-edge family man and unemployed contract killer (Neil Maskell of Hijack and Bull) accepts a new assignment of three separate targets, the list will drag him to the edge of madness and plunge him into the depths of Hell. Michael Smiley (The Lobster, Censor) and MyAnna Buring (The Descent) co-star in the horror flick, scanned in 4K from the 35mm digital intermediate negative with more than six hours of new and archival special features. Special features include audio commentary with Wheatley and Severin Films’ Mike Hewitt; archival commentary Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump; archival commentary with actors Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Michael Smiley; “The Hitmen Return,” an interview with Maskell and Smiley; “The Gift of Sound And Vision,” an interview with director of photography Laurie Rose and sound recordist Rob Entwistle; “Unsettling Soundscapes,” an interview with sound designer Martin Pavey; “Cunning Stunts in the Editing Room,” an interview with editor Robin Hill; an archival making-of featurette; archival interviews with Wheatley, producers Claire Jones and Andrew Starke, and actors Maskell and Buring; Assault on Sun Hill, Wheatley’s John Carpenter homage filmed for FrightFest 2011 featuring Maskell and Buring; and the trailer.

Emmanuelle, the erotic film that launched the iconic careers of director Just Jaeckin and star Sylvia Kristel, redefined cultural perceptions of “adult entertainment” and transformed female sexuality on screen forever, is being released on Blu-ray Disc and 4K Ultra HD disc, as well as in an 11-disc collection on 4K Ultra HD disc. Based on the bestselling memoir by Emmanuelle Arsan, the film follows a diplomat’s wife (Kristel) who unlocks her deepest carnal desires in the bedrooms and back rooms of Bangkok. The three-disc 4K Ultra HD presentation includes the original theatrical version and director’s cut — which removes the one sequence filmed without Jaeckin’s permission — both scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal and approved by camera operator Robert Fraisse, with more than six hours of special features that include a revealing new featurette on Arsan, the U.S. Premiere of the 2000 documentary A Hard Look directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man) and much more.

In addition to the 1974 original film in both cuts, the collection includes Kristel returning in 1975’s Emmanuelle 2, featuring a soundtrack by Academy Award winner Francis Lai; 1977’s Goodbye Emmanuelle, again starring Kristel; and the rarely seen and darkly provocative 1969 Italian production I, Emmanuelle, inspired by the then-newly published memoir by Emmanuelle Arsan. All four films in this limited edition collection are now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives, with more than 15 combined hours of new and archival special features, two bonus soundtrack CDs, a 128-page booklet of essays, Sylvia Kristel artwork and more.

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Horror Flicks ‘Baskin,’ ‘Ferat Vampire’ and ‘Asylum’ Due on Disc Oct. 14 From Severin and MVD

Three horror films — Baskin, Ferat Vampire and Asylum — are being released on disc Oct. 14 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

Baskin (2015), the debut feature from Turkish writer/director Can Evrenol, is presented on 4K UHD for the first time as well as on Blu-ray. In the film, when a five-man police squad is lured into a realm where torment, depravity and damnation are the only law, they’ll become prisoners of an abyss from which there may be no mortal escape. The release includes more than three hours of special features that include audio commentary with director Can Evrenol, a behind-the-scenes documentary, a 10-years-later retrospective, Evrenol’s original short film, and more.

In 1972, director Roy Ward Baker (Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde, The Vampire Lovers), screenwriter Robert Bloch (Psycho), and a cast that includes Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland (The Wicker Man), Herbert Lom (Mark of the Devil), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), Robert Powell (The Survivor), and Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) linked for the classic Asylum, available on 4K UHD for the first time ever. Inside the gates of Dunsmoor Asylum for The Incurably Insane, viewers discover four disturbing tales of voodoo vengeance, murderous mannequins, psychotic ingénues, demonic dolls and one killer twist of an ending. Barry Morse (Space: 1999), Barbara Parkins (Valley of the Dolls) and James Villiers (Repulsion) co-star in the titles scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with more than two and a half hours of special features that include a new interview with Robert Powell. Special features also include audio commentary with director Roy Ward Baker and camera operator Neil Binneya; “Two’s a Company,” a 1972 BBC on-set report featuring interviews with producer Milton Subotsky, director Roy Ward Baker, actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers and Megs Jenkins, art director Tony Curtis, and production manager Teresa Bolland; author David J. Schow on Robert Bloch; Fiona Subotsky remembers her husband Milton Subotsky; “Inside the Fear Factory,” interviews with directors Roy Ward Baker and Freddie Francis and producer Max J. Rosenberg; theatrical trailers; and TV spots.

From Juraj Herz — the award-winning writer/director of Morgiana, The Ninth Heart, The Cremator and the subversive genius of the Czech New Wave — comes the disturbing shocker Ferat Vampire (1982), driven by cultural provocation, political paranoia and a supercharged take on the vampire mythos, now on Blu-ray Disc for the first time ever in America. In the film, when Ferat Motors introduces a new high-performance sports car, a trauma doctor investigates a bizarre theory that the vehicle is a biological machine fueled by human blood. Jirí Menzel (director of the Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains), Dagmar Havlová (former First Lady of the Czech Republic) and the iconic Škoda 110 Super Sport star in this film, restored from the best existing 35mm elements by Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films with more than five hours of new and archival special features curated exclusively for the release.

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‘Danza Macabra Volume Four: The Italian Gothic Collection’ Due on 4K and Blu-ray Disc Sept. 30 From MVD and Severin

The multiple-disc horror compilation “Danza Macabra Volume Four: The Italian Gothic Collection” is available Sept. 30 on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Disc from MVD Entertainment Group and Severin Films.

Italian gothic takes some very unexpected turns down cobwebbed corridors with this quartet of classics, now restored in UHD for the first time ever. Queen of Italian horror Barbara Steele stars in Massimo Pupillo’s grisly Terror-Creatures From the Grave, presented in both its U.S. and Italian versions on three discs. Director Filippo Walter Ratti melds classic gothic tropes with explicit ’70s sexuality in Night of the Damned. Mark Damon and Rosalba Neri consummate the ultimate Satanic mayhem in The Devil’s Wedding Night from director Luigi Batzella and cinematographer/second unit director Joe D’Amato. And Hollywood legend Carroll Baker stars in Corrado Farina’s pop art erotic shocker Baba Yaga, a four-disc set that includes the first-ever release of a Piero Umiliani soundtrack compilation.

All four films have been scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives with more than 12 hours of new and archival special features curated exclusively for the collection.

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‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Among Titles Available on Blu-ray Aug. 26 From MVD and Severin

The 2018 documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers, the 1968 drama Negatives, the 1978 comedy The Odd Job and the horror collection High Tension: Four Films by Lamberto Bava are available on Blu-ray Disc Aug. 26 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

In 1973, Peter Sellers — then at the peak of his box-office power and comedic genius — invited Peter Medak, whose recent smash The Ruling Class, had been nominated for the Palme d’Or and an Oscar, to direct a 17th century pirate epic called Ghost in the Noonday Sun. But with soon-to-be-discovered nightmares that included an unfinished script (re-written by co-star and fellow comedy legend Spike Milligan), rough seas, sinking ships and Sellers’ own wildly erratic behavior, the production became an unprecedented catastrophe. The barely completed film was dumped into very limited release, and the director’s career and spirit were nearly destroyed by the experience. Over four decades later in The Ghost of Peter Sellers, Medak revisits this personal and professional fiasco to search for answers — and possibly redemption. Special features include an audio interview with director Peter Medak; “The Ghosts Inside the Scrapbook — Peter Medak Presents His Production Albums From The Ruling Glass Through Zorro, The Gay Blade“; “Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak’s Cinema of Pretenders,” a video essay by filmmaker Daniel Kremer; and the trailer.

With his feature film directorial debut Negatives, Hungarian émigré Peter Medak (The Ruling Class, Romeo Is Bleeding) created a provocative U.K. classic and launched one of the most unique careers in cinema history. In the film, when a young couple (Peter McEnery of Entertaining Mr. Sloane and two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson in her film debut) grows bored with their kinky role-play games, they invite an uninhibited photographer (Academy Award nominee Diane Cilento of Tom Jones and The Wicker Man) to come between them. Maurice Denham (Sunday Bloody Sunday) co-stars in the film, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by The British Film Institute. Also included is a bonus disc of the 1963 comedy Sparrows Can’t Sing — starring James Booth (Zulu) and Barbara Windsor (the “Carry On” series) and directed by Joan Littlewood (Oh! What a Lovely War) and assistant directed by Medak — scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal. Special features on Negatives include an audio interview with director Peter Medak by film historian Lee Gambin; commentary with Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas; an interview with actor Peter McEnery; “Glenda Jackson: Working Class Wonderland,” a video essay by Lee Gambin; “Peter Medak Presents His Production Albums”; and an interview with Dr. Clare Smith, historic collection curator of The Metropolitan Police Museum, on Dr. Crippen. Special features on Sparrows Can’t Sing include commentary with filmmaker Daniel Kremer, with contributions from assistant director Peter Medak; an interview with Joan Littlewood biographer Peter Rankin; a BFI Q&A with actors Barbara Windsor and Murray Melvin; an interview with Murray Melvin; a locations featurette with film historian Richard Dacre; and the trailer.

In the 1978 black comedy The Odd Job from director Peter Medak, Graham Chapman — just prior to Life of Brian — stars as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly leaves him. Unable to complete the task himself, he asks a strange handyman (BAFTA Award winner Sir David Jason of Only Fools and Horses, in a role once intended for Keith Moon) to kill him instead. But when Arthur’s wife comes back, he discovers that his homicidal hire has every intention of finishing the job. Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited), Carolyn Seymour (The Ruling Class), Simon Williams (Jabberwocky), Bill Paterson (“Fleabag”) and Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) co-star in this comedy, now scanned in 2K from Peter Medak’s personal 35mm print. Special features include an introduction by director Peter Medak; an audio interview with Peter Medak; “The Odd Job Men,” a  Zoom reunion between star Sir David Jason and Peter Medak; “The Unusual Work,” an interview with writer Bernard McKenna; “Producer, an Odd Job,” an interview with co-producer Mark Forstater; “The Odd Batch,” an interview with actor Richard O’Brien; “The Naughty Neighbor,” an interview with actress Carolyn Seymour; and “Most Peculiar Craft,” an interview with actor Simon Williams.

In the late ’80s, Lamberto Bava agreed to direct a four-part anthology series for Italian TV under the title “High Tension.” But when executives saw the completed features’ extreme themes and graphic violence, their broadcast was blocked for nearly a decade and they have only existed as grey market bootlegs since. Severin Films now presents their official worldwide Blu-ray premiere in High Tension: Four Films by Lamberto Bava. In the series, Tomas Arana stars as a horror director stalked by evil forces in The Prince of Terror, written by Dardano Sacchetti and featuring grisly FX by Sergio Stivaletti. In The Man Who Wouldn’t Die, adapted from a short story by poliziotteschi novelist Giorgio Scerbanenco, the survivor of a home invasion seeks vengeance. Daria Nicolodi stars in School of Fear, about a student academy with a dark secret. And in the giallo shocker Eye Witness, Barbara Cupisti stars as a blind woman who “sees” a murder. All four films are scanned in 2K from the original camera negatives with Italian and first-time-ever English tracks, plus more than five hours of special features and a soundtrack CD curated by Simon Boswell featuring music from High Tension, The Mask of Satan, Demons 2, Delirium and more.

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‘Bloody Legend: The Complete Cliff Twemlow Collection’ Due on Blu-ray (Plus CD) July 29

Bloody Legend: The Complete Cliff Twemlow Collection will be released on Blu-ray Disc (plus CD) July 29 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

Cliff Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, composer, novelist, actor, filmmaker and unsung ’80s U.K. legend. For more than a decade, the unstoppable Manchester native — along with a devoted team of local doormen, martial artists, variety performers, models, girlfriends, gym friends, family members and ‘B’-listers — created his own low-budget shot-on-video empire via an oeuvre of gangster films, horror movies, spy thrillers, sci-fi epics and beyond. This first-ever Intervision Picture Corp. box set brings together every film (11 feature films on nine Blu-rays) by “The Orson Welles of Eccles” — including his infamous Section 3 “video nasty” G.B.H./Grievous Bodily Harm — sourced from their original tape masters. The collection also includes 2023’s documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, directed by Jake West, plus unfinished projects, more than 13 hours of special features, and a CD featuring Twemlow’s music from placements that include Dawn of the Dead more.

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1950s Horror Classic ‘Jack the Ripper’ Available on 4K Ultra HD From MVD and Severin

The 1950s horror classic Jack the Ripper is available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray from MVD Entertainment Group and Severin Films.

In 1958, legendary showman Joseph E. Levine unleashed this grisly U.K. thriller on American moviegoers. But when audiences were horrified by the film’s startling violence, graphic nudity and bloody Technicolor climax, it became one of Levine’s most infamous failures. Today — in its notorious European version and the re-scored American cut — it remains among the more provocative shockers of its time. Eddie Byrne (The Mummy) and Lee Patterson (TV’s “Surfside 6”) star in the film, produced/directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman (Blood of the Vampire) and written by Hammer Films’ legendary Jimmy Sangster (The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula). Both versions are now scanned uncut in 4K from a newly discovered internegative and fine grain protection print for the first time ever.

Special features include audio commentary with co-director/co-producer/co-cinematographer Robert S. Baker, screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and assistant director Peter Manley, moderated by British horror historian Marcus Hearn; “The Reel Jack The Ripper,” an interview with Denis Meikle, author of Jack the Ripper: The Murders and the Movies; “Gentleman Jack — The Whitechapel Murders Revisited”; “Choice Cuts: The Two Faces of Jack the Ripper,” an interview with Alain Petit, Ripperologist extraordinaire; a poster and still gallery; and the trailer.

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Three Cannibal Classics — ‘Last Cannibal World,’ ‘Slave of the Cannibal God’ and ‘Eaten Alive’ — Due on Disc June 24 From Severin and MVD

Three cannibal classics — Last Cannibal World, Slave of the Cannibal God and Eaten Alive — are being released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc June 24 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

For Last Cannibal World (1977), or the first film in his unofficial “Cannibal Trilogy,” director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) delivers a depraved adventure presented in UHD for the first time ever. In a jungle hell that has no pity for man, the survivors of a plane crash are hunted by a primitive tribe with a taste for torment. Massimo Foschi (Nine Guests for a Crime), Ivan Rassimov (Sacrifice!) and Me Me Lai (Eaten Alive) star in this ultra-graphic gut-muncher — also known as Jungle Holocaust, The Last Survivor and Cannibal — now scanned in 4K from the original negative with more than two and a half hours of special features. Special features include audio commentary with director Ruggero Deodato, moderated by Freak-O-Rama’s Federico Caddeo; “Jungle Fever,” an interview with assistant director Lamberto Bava; “The Queen of the Cannibals,” an interview with actress Me Me Lai; “Man Eat Man,” an interview with actor Massimo Foschi; an archival interview with actor Ivan Rassimov; a trailer; and a TV spot. The 4K Ultra HD edition also includes an exclusive booklet by Claire Donner of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. The film is also available on Blu-ray.

In Slave of the Cannibal God, after creating some of the best gialli of the ’70s, director Sergio Martino (All the Colors of the Dark) entered the cannibal cycle with this 1978 film presented in UHD for the first time ever. When a British scientist disappears in the jungles of New Guinea, his wife (Ursula Andress) hires an American anthropologist (Stacy Keach) to lead her deep into a green inferno of graphic violence, steamy nudity and several of the most notorious scenes in the entire genre. Claudio Cassinelli (The Great Alligator) co-stars in the film, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with more than three hours of special features that include a new interview with Martino. Special features also include audio commentary with Claire Donner of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies; “Unabated,” an interview with camera operator Claudio Morabito; “Adventure of a Lifetime,” an interview with production designer Antonello Geleng; “Brothers in Arms,” an interview with Antonello Geleng and special effects artist Paolo Ricci; “Dangerous Liaison,” an archival interview with actor Stacy Keach; and the trailer. The film is also available on Blu-ray.

After launching the genre with Man From Deep River, writer-director Umberto Lenzi made 1980’s Eaten Alive, now in UHD for the first time ever. In the film, a desperate rescue expedition to the jungles of New Guinea unleashes bizarre primitive rituals, over-the-top violence, gratuitous nudity, recycled footage, a maniacal cult leader and an all-you-can-eat buffet of flesh-chomping carnage. Robert Kerman (Cannibal Holocaust), Janet Agren (City of the Living Dead), Ivan Rassimov (All the Colors of the Dark), Paola Senatore (Emanuelle in America), Me Me Lai (Last Cannibal World) and Mel Ferrer (The Great Alligator) star in this classic scanned in 4K from the CRI with more than four hours of special features that include a newly discovered discussion of cannibal films between Umberto Lenzi and Ruggero Deodato. Special features also include audio commentary with Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth, author of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi; “Welcome to the Jungle,” an interview with director Umberto Lenzi; “Me Me Lai Bites Back,” a feature documentary on the Queen of Cannibal Movies; “The Sect of the Purification,” an interview with production designer Antonello Geleng; archival interviews with actors Ivan Rassimov and Robert Kerman; a 2013 Q&A with Umberto Lenzi from The Festival of Fantastic Films; newly discovered alternate footage; and the trailer.

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‘Hell of the Living Dead’ Among Titles Due on Disc May 27 From Severin and MVD

The horror films Hell of the Living Dead (1980), Rats: Night of Terror (1984), House of Psychotic Women (1972) and In My Skin (2002), and the comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) are available on disc May 27 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

Hell of the Living Dead will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray. What began as the epic global zombie apocalypse screenplay Virus by Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi (Shocking Dark, Robowar) became — with director Bruno Mattei (Cruel Jaws, Rats: Night of Terror) and a fraction of the original budget — Hell of the Living Dead, now in UHD for the first time in America. In the film, when a top-secret biomedical project accidentally unleashes a catastrophic plague, a four-man commando team and a female reporter head into the jungle for an experience in gratuitous nudity, grisly stock footage and ravenous hordes of flesh-eating zombies. Margie Newton (The Adventures of Hercules), Franco Garofalo (The Other Hell) and a soundtrack “borrowed” from Goblin star in this film also known as Virus, Night of the Zombies and Zombie Creeping Flesh, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative. Special features include “Go to Hell,” an interview with director Bruno Mattei; “The Beauty and the Zombies,” an interview with actress Margie Newton; “My Big Chance,” an interview with actor Franco Garofalo; “Lt. Mike London Is Back!,” an interview with actor José Gras; “I Will Never Be a Zombie,” an interview with actor Bernard Seray; “My Son Is a Zombie,” an interview with actor Pep Ballester; “Producing the Apocalypse,” an interview with producer José María Cunillés; “Papua New Guinea in Barcelona,” a locations tour with José Gras; “Peter and the Test Tube Babies’ Zombie Creeping Flesh,” an interview with punk singer Peter Bywaters; and the trailer.

Having depicted the zombie apocalypse in Hell of the Living Dead, director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi took on a new kind of cataclysm in Rats: Night of Terror, available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray. In the film, in the year 225 A.B. (after the bomb), a gang of scavengers discovers a seemingly abandoned city — including sets originally built for Once Upon a Time in America — only to become prey for millions of flesh-hungry rats. Ottaviano Dell’Acqua (Zombie 3), Massimo Vanni (Robowar), Gianni Franco (The Wax Mask) and Geretta Geretta (Demons) star in the film, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever, with three hours of new and archival special features. Extras include “Mad Rats: The Making of a Cult,” featuring co-writer/uncredited co-director Claudio Fragasso, actors Ottaviano Dell’Acqua, Massimo Vanni, Ann-Gisel Glass and Jean-Christophe Brétignière, composer Luigi Ceccarelli, and still photographer Gianni Leacche; “Of Rats and Men,” an interview with director Bruno Mattei; “Richard and the Rats,” an interview with actor Ottaviano Dell’Acqua; “Chocolate and Rats,” an interview with actress Geretta Geretta; “Last Rat Standing,” an interview with actor Gianni Franco; “Rats Dance,” an interview with composer Luigi Ceccarelli; “Bruno and Claudio, I Knew Them Well,” an interview with executive producer Roberto Di Girolamo; “Bonded by Blood,” a retrospective making-of doc for Hell of the Living Dead and Rats: Night of Terror, featuring co-writer/uncredited co-director Claudio Fragasso and actors Ottaviano Dell’Acqua, Franco Garofalo, Margie Newton and Massimo Vanni; the trailer; and “Under The Black Sky” by Pornographie, an exclusive Severin-produced music video with Geretta Geretta.

House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection Vol. 2 will be available on Blu-ray Disc. In this second collection inspired by her book, producer/curator Kier-La Janisse presents a new quartet of international classics — along with nearly 11 combined hours of special features — that explores startling depictions of female neurosis on screen. Amanda Plummer plays a disturbed drifter on a cross-country killing spree in Butterfly Kiss, the breakthrough debut from director Michael Winterbottom. Legendary Czech actress Iva Janžurová portrays a pair of rival sisters in Juraj Herz’s gothic melodrama Morgiana. In Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers and Joseph Strick’s dramatized documentary The Savage Eye, Barbara Baxley stars as a bitter divorcee adrift in Los Angeles’ dark underbelly. And with the landmark Spanish thriller The Glass Ceiling, starring Carmen Sevilla, writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia crafts an unsettling story of paranoia, madness and murder. All four films have been scanned from their original camera negatives and are presented on Blu-ray for the first time ever in North America.

The debut film by writer/director/star Marina de Van, In My Skin will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc. In the film, after a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman (de Van) develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own. Laurent Lucas (Calvaire) and Léa Drucker (Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer) co-star in the film, scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever, with seven hours of special features curated exclusively for this edition.

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The film version of playwright Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane is available on Blu-ray Disc. In the film when voracious middle-aged Kath (Beryl Reid of The Killing of Sister George) invites a strapping young stranger named Sloane (Peter McEnery of Negatives) to move in, the arrival of her upper-crust brother Ed (Harry Andrews of The Ruling Class) will lead to a most unexpected triangle of lust, murder and pickled onions. Alan Webb (Women in Love) co-stars in this film adapted by BAFTA nominee Clive Exton (Jeeves & Wooster) and directed by Douglas Hickox (Zulu Dawn, Theatre of Blood), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative with more than four hours of new and archival special features.

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