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[brokehorrorfan]

Seeds will be released on DVD and VOD on January 31 via Vipco and BayView Entertainment. Written and directed by friend of the site Skip Shea, the folk horror tale won the Rondo Award for Best Independent Film in 2020.

Genre favorites Barbara Magnolfi (Suspiria) and Kip Weeks (The Strangers) star alongside Emma MacKenzie, Patrick Bracken, Rick Johnston, Nicole Watson, Aurora Grabill, Bella Medeiros, Demetri Kasperson, and Skip Shea.

No special features are listed. Check out the trailer and synopsis below.

A grieving mother holds onto her Catholic faith as her husband leaves to study and learn the secrets of an old New England cult. Secrets that the Catholic Church wants for their own use. Meanwhile the cult has deadly plans of their own.

Pre-order Seeds.

[cultfaction]

VIPCO and BayView Entertainment release DOORWAYS on Digital Platforms

VIPCO & BayView Entertainment have released the action drama Doorways, which is now available on Digital Platforms worldwide including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video. Doorways will arrive on AVOD Digital Platforms worldwide on 24th September 2024. Director-Writer-Actor Steven Murphy raised the budget for this debut film by selling his taxi and cage fighting. With no prior knowledge or film…

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Award-Winning Indie Horror Film, DEATH METAL Debuts On Blu-ray This May!

Bayview Entertaiment / VIPCO have announced the Blu-ray release of the new horror movie, DEATH METAL! The award-winning film is set for release onto disc beginning on May 30th. Keep reading further for more details about the film below. From The Press Release DEATH METAL, award winning horror film from director Michael Kuciak comes to Blu-ray on May 30th, 2023 from Bayview Entertainment /…

[fourstarvideocoop]

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The Boogeyman Christmas Bloody Christmas The Crown Season 5 The Dead Mother (Blu Ray only) The Doom Generation (Director's Cut Blu Ray) Friday The 13th: 8 Film Collection Haunted Samurai (Blu Ray only) Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday/ Jason X double feature Jules The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas Strays Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts VHS Godfather: The Vipco Story Yellowjackets Season 2

[itshouseofwarpeddesire]

#VIPCO #VHS

[jefelen-presents]

“My Cherry Pie”

Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 (13:31) JEFELEN was delighted to serve as Associate Producer for Black Forest Films™ (in association with Mad Alice Productions™) on Addison Heath and Jasmine Jakupi's co-directed true-blue Giallo-style ripper, "My Cherry Pie", which has finally been released to the consumer public!

In a somewhat ironic twist of commercial fate, this distinctly Aussie horror-whodunit is being distributed by the recently resurgent Video Instant Picture Company™ (or VIPCO™, as they are contemporarily branded), in conjunction with BayView Entertainment™ (through affiliated Mutiny Pictures™), with region A blu-ray discs now retailing to US and UK markets through Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C29QJ7ZH

Three larrikin criminals on the run find themselves in a bad situation when their getaway car inconveniently breaks down.  They accept an offer from an incidental stranger to take them to meet Cherry, who in turn invites them to stay the night at Pleasant Creek.  Unfortunately for the felonious trio, Pleasant Creek is revealed to be a notorious old mental hospital which is now the hunting ground of a masked killer, Crowface, a deranged plague doctor who sinisterly remains on the prowl after all these years...

In conjunction with the physical release, the corroborative distributors have also seen to making this content available to rent or purchase through the following streaming platforms:

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/.../detail/0G8W28GAV9PP8D88YI5LP6HYRJ

Prime Video™: http://www.primevideo.com/.../0G8W28GAV9PP8D88YI5LP6HYRJ

Vudu™: http://www.vudu.com/.../movies/details/My-Cherry-Pie/2390034

With more to follow.  No word has been issued regarding the prospect of an all-important AUSTRALIAN release as of yet, but I'll be sure to keep you all duly notified of future developments.

#BlackForest  #MyCherryPie  #AllYouNeedIsOneSlice  #AvailableNOW

BREAK!!**

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/17/2020: SPOOKIES

What do we watch, when we watch movies? This question was sparked by my SOV experience with the very different, and differently interesting BLOODY MUSCLE BODYBUILDER FROM HELL and HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 5. Within the Shot On Video category, one can find inventive homemade features that are driven entirely by blood, sweat, and the creators' feeling of personal satisfaction. The results are sometimes fascinating, in their total alienation from the conventions and techniques of mainstream filmmaking, and after all, one rarely sees anything whose primary motivation is passion, here in the late stages of capitalism. But, all this talk about what goes on behind the camera points to a discrepancy in how we consume different kinds of production. The typical mode of consumption is internal to the movie: What happens in it? Do you relate to the characters? Are you able to suspend your disbelief, to experience the story on a vicarious level? One hardly needs to come up with examples of films that invite this style of viewing. Alternatively, we can experience the movie as a record of a time and place in which real people defied conventions and sometimes broke laws in order to produce a work of art. SOV production is usually viewed through this lens, where the primary interest is not the illusory content, but the filmmakers' sheer determination to create. We find some overlap in movies like EVIL DEAD, which simultaneously presents a terrifying narrative, and evidence of what a truly driven team can create without the aid of a studio, or any real money to speak of. See also, Larry Cohen's New York City-based horror films, in which a compelling drama with great acting can exist side by side with phony but beautiful effects, and exciting stories of stolen footage that would be dangerous or impossible to attempt today. I'm thinking about these different modes of consumption now because I just watched SPOOKIES, a legitimately cursed-seeming film whose harrowing production history has superseded whatever people think about what it shows on the screen. The lovingly composed blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome includes a feature-length documentary that attempts to explain the making of the film--which is accompanied by its own feature length commentary track by documentarists Michael Gingold and Glen Baisley. The very existence of this artifact suggests a lot about the nature of this movie, in and of itself. The truth behind its existence is as funny as it is tragic.

I'm not going to do a whole breakdown of the tortured origins of SPOOKIES, which is much better told by the aforementioned documentary. To summarize: Once upon a time in the mid 1980s, filmmakers Brendan Faulkner, Thomas Doran and Frank Farel conspired to make a fun, flamboyant rubber monsterpiece called TWISTED SOULS. It was wild, ridiculous, and transparently fake-looking, but it was loved by its hard-working creators; as a viewer, that soulful sense of joy can rescue many a "bad" movie from its various foibles. Then, inevitably, sleazoid producer Michael Lee stepped in--a man who thought you could cut random frames out of the middle of scenes to improve a movie's pace--and ruined it with extreme prejudice. Carefully crafted special effects sequences were cut, relatively functional scenes were re-edited into oblivion, and the seeds of hatred were sown between the filmmakers and the producer. Ultimately, everyone who once cared for TWISTED SOULS was forced to abandon ship, and first time director Eugenie Joseph stepped in to help mutilate the picture beyond all recognition. Thus SPOOKIES was born, a mangled, unloved mutation that would curse many of its original parents to unemployability. For the audience, it is intriguingly insane, often insulting, and hard to tear your eyes off of--but in spite of whatever actually wound up on the screen, it's impossible to forget its horrifying origin story as it unspools.

As far as what's on the screen goes: A group of "friends", including a middle-aged businessman and his wife, a vinyl-clad punk rock bully and his moll, two new wave-y in-betweeners, and...a guy with a hand puppet are somehow all leaving the same party, and all ready to break into a vacant funeral home for their afterparty. Well, this happens after a 13 year old runaway inexplicably wanders in to a "birthday party" in there, that looks like it was thrown for him by Pennywise, and he has the nerve to act surprised when he is attacked by a severed head and a piratey-looking cat-man who straight up purrs and meows throughout the picture. Anyway, separately of that, which is unrelated to anything, the island of misfit friends finds a nearly unrecognizable "ouija board" in the old dark house. Actually this thing is kind of fun-looking, having been made by one of the fun-havers on the production before the day that fun died, and I wonder if anyone has considered trying to make a real board game out of it...but I digress. Naturally, the board unleashes evil forces, including a zombie uprising in the cemetery outside, a plague of Ghoulie-like ankle-biters, an evil asian spider-lady (accompanied by kyoto flutes), muck-men that fart prodigiously until they melt in a puddle of wine (?), and uh...I know I'm forgetting stuff. One of the reasons I'm forgetting is because of this whole side story about a tuxedo-wearing vampire in the basement (or somewhere?) who has entrapped a beautiful young bride by cursing her with immortality. That part is a little confusing, not only because it doesn't intersect with the rest of the movie, but because sometimes it seems contemporary--as the bride struggles to survive the zombie plague--and sometimes it seems like a flashback, as our heroes find what looks like the mummified corpse of the dracula guy, complete with his signet ring. So, I don't know what to tell you really. Those are just some of the things that happen in the movie.

Some people like this a lot, and have supported its ascendance to cult status, which is a huge relief when you know what everyone went through to make this movie, only to have it ripped away from them and used against them. I found SPOOKIES a little hard to take, for all the reasons that the cast and crew express in the documentary. It holds a certain amount of visual fascination, whatever you think of it; something of its original creativity remains evident in the movie's colorful, exaggerated look, and its steady parade of unconvincing but inventive creature effects. But then, you have to deal with the farting muck-men. What was once a scene of terror starring REGULAR muck-men, that sounded incredibly laborious to pull off, became a scene of confusing "comedy" when producer Michael Lee insisted that the creatures be accompanied by a barrage of scatalogical noises. Apparently this was Lee's dream come true, as a guy who insisted everyone pull his finger all the time, and who once tried to call the movie "BOWEL ERUPTOR". But, of all the deformations SPOOKIES endured, the fart sounds dealt a mortal injury to the filmmakers' feelings, and even without knowing that, it's hard to enjoy yourself while that's happening.

Actually, all the farts forced me to ask myself: Is this...a comedy? Like for real, as its main thing? As the movie slogged on, I had to decide that it wasn't, but I was distracted by the notion for around 40 minutes. I was only released from this nagging suspicion when the bride makes her long marathon run through throngs of slavering zombies who swarm her, grope her, and tear off her clothes, before she narrowly escapes to an even worse fate. The lengthy scene is strangely gripping, and sleazy for a movie that sometimes feels like low rent children's entertainment. Part of the sequence’s success lies in its simplicity; it is unburdened by the convoluted complications of the rest of the movie, whose esoteric parts never fall together, so it seems to take on a sustained, intensifying focus. The action itself is unnerving, as the delicate and frankly gorgeous Maria Pechuka is molested and stripped nearly-bare by her undead bachelors, running from one drooling mob to another as the horde nearly engulfs her time and again. Actually, it feels a lot like a certain genre of SOV production in which, for the right price, any old creepy nerd can pay a small crew-for-hire to tape a version of his private fantasy, whether it's women being consumed by slime, or women being consumed by quicksand, or...generally, women being consumed by something. I wish I could describe this form of production in more specific or official terms, because I genuinely think it's wonderful that people do this. Anyway, Pechuka's interminable zombie run feels a little like that, and a little like a grim italian gutmuncher, and a little like an actual nightmare. Perhaps it only stands out against its dubious surroundings, but I kind of love it--and I'm happy to love it, because apparently the late Ms. Pechuka truly loved making SPOOKIES, and wanted other people to love it, too.

Which brings me to the uncomfortable place where I land with this movie. On the one hand...I think it's bad. It's so incoherent, and so insists on its impoverished form of comedy, that it's hard to be as charmed by it as I am by plenty of FX-heavy, no-budget oddities. Perhaps the lingering odor of misery drowns out the sweet joy that the crew once felt in the early days of creation--which is still evident, somehow, in its zany special effects, created by the likes of Gabe Bartalos and other folks whose work you definitely already know and love. But I feel ambivalent, about all of this. On the one hand, I can be a snob, and shit on people for failing to make a movie that meets conventional standards of success. On the other hand, I can be a DIFFERENT kind of snob--a more voyeuristic or even sadistic one--and celebrate the painful failures that produced a movie that is most interesting for its tormented history and its amusing ineptitude. I'm not really sure where I would prefer to settle with SPOOKIES, and movies like it. (As if anything is really "like" SPOOKIES) With all that said, I was left with one soothing thought by castmember Anthony Valbiro in the documentary. At some point, he tells us how ROSEMARY'S BABY is his personal cinematic comfort food; he can put it on at night, after an exhausting day, and drift to sleep, enveloped in its warm, glowing aura. He then says that he hopes there are people out there for whom his movie serves that same purpose, that some of us can have our "milk and cookies moment" with SPOOKIES. Honestly, I choke up just thinking about that.

[diabolikdiabolik]

Nightbeast (1982)

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Blu-ray Review: 101 Films Gives Cult Horror SPOOKIES A Phenomenal Release Package

Blu-ray Review: 101 Films Gives Cult Horror SPOOKIES A Phenomenal Release Package

  Film:  Blu-ray:  Spookies is a horror film which has attained cult status over the years for all the wrong reasons. After arguments with producer and funder Michael Lee, writer/directors Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran and co-writer and producer Frank M. Farel were fired from the film during production and replaced by Eugenie Joseph. When the cast refused to return for additional photography…

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Spookies will be released on Blu-ray on February 25. Vinegar Syndrome previously made the film available Black Friday, but it quickly sold out. This version appears to be identical without a limited edition slipcover.

The 1986 independent horror oddity is co-directed by Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner, and Eugenie Joseph. Peter Dain, Nick Gionta, Joan Ellen Delaney, Peter Iasillo, Charlotte Alexandra, Anthony Valbiro, Kim Merrill, Lisa Friede, Soo Paek, Maria Pechukas, and Felix Ward star.

Spookies has been newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative. It features a reversible cover with new art by Gary Pullin. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Twisted Tale - The Unmaking of Spookies - Feature-length making-of documentary, including a commentary track with documentary co-directors Michael Gingold & Glen Baisley and extensive deleted scenes (new)

VIPCO - The Untold Story - Feature-length documentary on the notorious UK home video label, including extended interview footage with founder Michael Lee and a trailer (new)

2015 Alamo Drafthouse screening introductions by director Thomas Doran and co-writer/producer Frank M. Farel

2015 Hudson Horror Show screening Q&A with actors Peter Iasillo and Anthony Valbiro and production assistant Tom Sciacca

Archival locations featurette with actor Peter Iasillo

Pinreel outtakes and bloopers

Behind-the-scenes still gallery

Theatrical trailer

After their car breaks down, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a remote part of New England.  After taking shelter in a spooky old mansion, complete with a graveyard, they discover a ouija board and decide to spend the night attempting to summon some spirits. But the group soon learns that playing with the forces of black magic isn't fun and games, and it's not long before they're head-to-head with all sorts of demonic creatures, shape shifters, and other forms of evil, all of whom are more than happy to pick them off in the most gruesome of ways.

[cultfaction]

Night of the Insolent Vermin is out now!

VIPCO & Bay View Entertainment have now released the horror comedy film Night Of The Insolent Vermin to Blu-ray (Region FREE) in the USA and on worldwide streaming! It was written and Directed by Gary DeJidas and stars Kayla Strada, Jaydelise Volquez and Anna Faith. A diverse group of girlfriends, and a Dominican drifter they snatched from a couple of creeps, decide to hunker down together to…

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Italian Horror Movie IT'S NOT A WOLF Out Now On Blu-Ray!

VIPCO & Bayview Entertainment have released the Italian horror film, IT’S NOT A WOLF onto Blu-Ray! The film is by director Nicolò Tagliabue. You can check out the trailer and get more info about the film down below. From The Press Release Italian horror film, IT’S NOT A WOLF from director Nicolò Tagliabue is available now on Blu-ray from VIPCO & Bayview Entertainment.  Stars Thomas Francesconi,…

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#spookies #bluray #horror #80s #twistedsouls #vipco #cult #vinegarsyndrome (at Horror Pain Gore Death Productions HQ) https://www.instagram.com/p/B66ccQHp1fo/?igshid=2fy8g1utu0ku

[trashvideofinland]

Driller Killer, The / Driller Killer, The (1979) Vipco "The blood runs in rivers... and the drill keeps tearing through flesh and bone As the screaming drill closes on its victim you don't really believe what you are seeing... until blood starts pouring and another tearing scream joins the drill. A steel stomach is required to watch the final scenes of mayhem."

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Vipco's VHS catalogue...