Severin Films

[Rob4]

Fabulous year for Severin.

Now where am I going to find another £75 + postage

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

ORDERED!
I do love my Euro gothic horror.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Grizzly' (1976)

Release date: April 27

"Less than a year after the release of Steven Spielberg’s shark blockbuster, director William Girdler (DAY OF THE ANIMALS) and infamous distributor Film Ventures International (GREAT WHITE) brazenly unleashed their own ‘JAWS with claws’ sensation that would become one of the most successful independent horror films in history. Christopher George (PIECES), Andrew Prine (BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD) and Richard Jaeckel (THE DARK) star in this “bloody, sexy and immortal trash classic” (Mondo Digital) about an 18-foot-tall ursus arctos horribilis on a carnivorous rampage through a state park full of campers, and the ranger, chopper pilot and naturalist who must stop it. GRIZZLY now roars with a 2k scan from the internegative plus Special Features produced exclusively for this edition."

Special Features and Specs:

• Audio Commentary with Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson and Film Writer Troy Howarth
• The Grizzly Details – Interview with Producer David Sheldon and Actress Joan McCall
• Towering Fury – Interview with Actor Tom Arcuragi
• “NIGHTMARE USA” Author Stephen Thrower On William Girdler
• Movie Making in the Wilderness – Vintage Behind-the-Scenes Making Of
• Jaws with Claws – Archival Making Of GRIZZLY Featurette
• Radio Spots
• Trailers
• Reversible Wrap
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Audio: English mono with Closed Captions
• Region Free

Full special features
* Nightmare USA Author Stephen Thrower on the Career of William Girdler
* Making Movies with Girdler – Audio Interview with business partner & friend J. Patrick Kelly III accompanied by his personal collection of stills, posters and newly scanned 8mm home movies
* The Towering Fury – Interview with Actor Tom Arcuragi
* The Grizzly Details – Interview with Producer David Sheldon and Actress Joan McCall
* Audio Commentary with Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson and Film Writer Troy Howarth
* Audio Commentary with Producer David Sheldon And Actress Joan McCall
* Movie Making in the Wilderness – Vintage Making Of
* Jaws with Claws – Archival Featurette
* Radio Spots
* Trailer

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'Day Of The Animals' (1977)

Release date: April 27

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wilderness, director William Girdler and producer Ed Montoro sought to top their surprise blockbuster GRIZZLY with a bigger budget, larger cast, and even more nature-gone-berserk carnage: When a hole in the Earth’s ozone layer triggers bloodthirsty madness throughout the animal kingdom, all mankind – particularly a group of tourists on an overnight hike – will become their prey. Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara, Andrew Stevens and Leslie Nielsen – in his now-legendary pre-AIRPLANE! performance that “is worth the price of admission alone” (DVD Talk) – star in “one of the most outrageous offerings the drive-in has ever known” (Pop Matters), now featuring a 2k scan from the internegative and howling with Special Features produced exclusively for this edition."

Special Features and Specs:

• Audio Commentary with Film Critic Lee Gambin, Author of “Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film”
• Animal Boy – Interview with Actor Bobby Porter
• Against Nature – Interview with Actor Andrew Stevens
• Unleashed – Interview with Stunt Coordinator Monty Cox
• Something Was Out There: Day of the Animals 30 Years Later – Interviews with Actors John Cedar, Paul Mantee and Actress/Animal Trainer Susan Backlinie
• Still Gallery
• TV Spot
• Trailers
• Reversible Wrap
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Audio: English mono with Closed Captions
• Region Free

Full special features:
* Nightmare USA Author Stephen Thrower on the Career of Distributor Edward L. Montoro
* Nature Boy – Interview with Actor Bobby Porter
* Against Nature – Interview with Actor Andrew Stevens
* Monty Cox Unleashed – Interview with Animal Wrangler Monty Cox
* Linda and the Animals – Interview with Actress Linda Day George
* Something Was Out There: Day of the Animals 30 Years Later – Archival Making Of DAY OF THE ANIMALS Featurette
* Audio Commentary with Lee Gambin, Author of Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film
* Audio Commentary with Actors Lynda Day George and Jon Cedar, Moderated by EVIL DEAD II Co-Writer Scott Spiegel
* Alternate Opening Title Sequence SOMETHING IS OUT THERE
* Radio Spot
* TV Spots
* Trailer

[Susan Foreman]

'Strike Commando' (1987) - Blu-Ray pre-order from Severin Films direct - $28:00

Release date: June 22

"Two years before the deranged genius of ROBOWAR and SHOCKING DARK, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, MISSING IN ACTION and more to create their own mind-blowing ‘Namsploitation masterpiece: Reb Brown (UNCOMMON VALOR) stars as Sgt. Mike Ransom, a one-man war machine on a screaming-for-vengeance mission against brutal Vietcong, merciless Russians, double-crossing U.S. officers and acres of bullet-blasted Philippines jungle. Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS), Luciano Pigozzi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) and Jim Gaines (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this exploding bamboo gun-tower of “Mattei magic at its finest” (Good Efficient Butchery), now mastered in 2K from the original negative for the first time."

Special features and specs:

• Includes both Theatrical and Extended Cuts
• War Machine – Interview with Co-Director Claduio Fragasso
• All Quiet on the Philippine Front – Interview with Screenwriter Rossella Drudi
• STRIKE COMMANDO In-Production Promo
• Trailer
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English Mono and Italian with English for Extended Scenes (Extended Cut) / English Mono and Italian Mono (Theatrical Cut)
• English SDH for both English & Italian
• Region A

[Susan Foreman]

'Strike Commando 2' (1988) - Blu-Ray pre-order from Severin Films direct - $28:00

Release date: June 22

"Director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi return to the Philippine jungles with a higher budget, bigger action and Richard Harris (yes, that Richard Harris) for a crowd-pleaser that shamelessly borrows from APOCALYPSE NOW, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, RAMBO and beyond. This time, Sgt Mike Ransom (Brent Huff of GWENDOLINE fame) battles the KGB, rogue CIA agents, an army of ninjas, a tough bar owner (Miss World 1977 Mary Stavin) and “all the stuntman craziness and explosions you can cram into 90 minutes” (DTV Connoisseur). Mel Davidson (ROBOWAR) and Vic Diaz (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) co-star in this slow-motion machine-gun of Mattei mayhem that’s “just as insane as its predecessor” (Good Efficient Butchery), now featuring a 2K scan from the original negative for the first time ever."

Special features and specs:

• Includes Both Theatrical and Extended Cuts
• Guerrilla Zone – Interview with Co-Director Claduio Fragasso
• Michael Ransom Strikes Back – Interview with Actor Brent Huff
• Trailer
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English Mono and Italian with English for Extended Scenes (Extended Cut) / English Mono and Italian Mono (Theatrical Cut)
• English SDH for both English & Italian
• Region A

[Susan Foreman]

'Invaders Of The Lost Gold' (1982) - Blu-Ray with Exclusive Slipcover pre-order from Severin Films direct - $32:00

Release date: June 22

"From producer Dick Randall – whose international trashterpieces include ESCAPE FROM WOMEN’S PRISON, THE WILD WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD and PIECES – comes perhaps the most notorious all-star Philippine productions of the ‘80s: In the last days of WWII, a Japanese platoon is attacked by headhunters while attempting to hide millions in gold. 36 years later, a grizzled guide (onetime Academy Award® nominee Stuart Whitman) is hired to lead an expedition – including Woody Strode (SPARTACUS), Harold ‘Oddjob’ Sakata and Laura ‘Emanuelle’ Gemser – into a jungle inferno of greed, violence, nudity and murder. Edmund Purdom (ABSURD) and Glynis Barber (DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE) co-star in this “delicious piece of atrocity cake” (Funxton) directed by Alan Birkenshaw (KILLER’S MOON) – also known as HORROR SAFARI – now scanned in 2K for the first time ever."

Special features and specs:

• Rumble In The Jungle – Interview with Director Alan Birkinshaw
• SITE EXCLUSIVE SLIPCOVER
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English Mono with Closed Caps
• Region Free

[nicholasrope]

Strike Commando is quite a bonkers film, to say there is overacting is being kind. Could have done without the cockfight scene near the end.

Wish labels like Severin, Kino Lorber and Vinegar Syndrome could strike a deal with a UK distributer as there are some really good titles that could do with being released over hear.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by nicholasrope

Strike Commando is quite a bonkers film, to say there is overacting is being kind. Could have done without the cockfight scene near the end.

Wish labels like Severin, Kino Lorber and Vinegar Syndrome could strike a deal with a UK distributer as there are some really good titles that could do with being released over hear.

88 fish in the same waters but I think we have to accept it's a smaller market over here so I guess they have to be more careful as to their title selection. VS in particular release quite obscure stuff. To be certain, for some titles, it's going to be a crap shoot as to whether they get released over here so if you want it I'd get it from them as when it goes OOP it could be gone forever.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

'The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection' [9-Disc Blu-ray/CD Box Set] - Pre-order available from Severin Films direct - $105:00

Release date: May 25

"He remains one of the most beloved horror/fantasy icons in US/UK pop culture history, but Christopher Lee delivered several of the most compelling, acclaimed and bizarre performances of his entire career in 1960s Europe. THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE brings together five of these Lee classics – the 1964 gothic shocker CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE; the 1964 cult hit CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD co-starring an unknown Donald Sutherland; 1962’s celebrated SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DEADLY NECKLACE; 1967’s lurid favorite THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM and the rarely-seen 1963 oddity CHALLENGE THE DEVIL – with the 24 surviving episodes of the 1971 Film Polski anthology series THEATRE MACABRE hosted by Lee, all remastered from original negative materials with over 10 hours of trailers, rare promos, audio commentaries & vintage interviews, plus the CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD soundtrack and an all-new 88-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby"