VINEGAR SYNDROME ANNOUNCES MARCH RELEASES
Vinegar Syndrome has announced its latest crop of 4K Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray releases for the month of March, among them, Reform School Girls, Talons of the Eagle, a 2-disc set of Hard Rock Zombies/Slaughterhouse Rock, and a 3-disc X-Ray/Schizoid set.
The films are available for pre-order at Vinegar Syndrome, and the complete March 2022 Package is currently available for pre-order for $127.99 USD.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Reform School Girls
Description: The Pridemore Juvenile Detention Facility isn't just a place for troubled teenage girls to serve their time. Instead, it's a living hell filled with sexual depravity and violence. Jenny, a fresh inmate, becomes the de facto protector of Lisa, an innocent young girl forced to be a plaything to anyone after her body. Then there's Charlie, a hardened teenaged lesbian who torments her fellow prisoners through brutal acts of sexual sadism. But no one instills more fear in even the toughest girls than the sadistic Edna who, with a blind eye turned by money-hungry Warden Sutter, delights in terrorizing her beautiful prisoners. However, the girls have had enough and things are about to change at Pridemore…
From acclaimed cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone (The Concrete Jungle), REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS is a sublimely trashy and over-the-top women in prison/juvenile delinquent classic, reframed for the grimy punk sensibilities of the 1980s. Starring punk rock superstar Wendy O. Williams (Candy Goes to Hollywood), cult film legend Sybil Danning (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times), and featuring a career performance from former Warhol Superstar Pat Ast (Paul Morrissey's Heat), Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS to Blu-ray, featuring a brand new 2K scan along with hours of exclusive extras detailing the fascinating story of how this B-movie masterpiece came to be, that's every bit as wild as the film itself!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE
"So Young, So Bad, So What" - an extended making-of documentary featuring brand new interviews with it's cast and crew
"Pat Ast Superstar" - an interview with theatrical producer Alan Eichler
"Ode to Wendy" - an interview with author and critic Breanna Whipple on the life and career of actress Wendy O. Williams
Archival commentary track with writer/director Tom DeSimone
Commentary track with Queer Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell
Video footage from the play "Women Behind Bars"
Original trailers
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
STREET DATE: MARCH 29.
Talons of the Eagle
Description: DEA agent and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson (Billy Blanks) is sent on assignment to Toronto where he is tasked with trying to stop an influx of narcotics into the states. Once in Toronto, Wilson is partnered with Detective Michael Reed (Jalal Merhi) and the two undergo rigorous martial arts training in the hopes of entering a local fighting tournament and getting closer to a well-known drug dealer named Mr. Li (James Hong). After saving Li's life, Wilson and Reed go undercover in Li's gang in order to find the evidence they need to put Li away. However, their martial arts training will be put to the test when Wilson and Reed try to take down Li's syndicate and the two are forced to fight for their lives.
With explosive action sequences and well-choreographed fight scenes, TALONS OF THE EAGLE remains one of the best from action producer Jalal Merhi. Featuring high-octane martial arts performances from Billy Blanks (TC-2000) and Jalal Merhi (Expect No Mercy), as well as solid performances from Priscilla Barnes (Three's Company) and the always enjoyable James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China), Vinegar Syndrome Archive is proud to present TALONS OF THE EAGLE for the first time on Blu-ray, scanned in 4k from the original camera negative.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
Commentary track with producer/actor Jalal Merhi
"Blood, Blades and Blanks" - a making-of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew
Original trailer
Double-sided poster
Limited edition of 5,000
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
STREET DATE: MARCH 29.
X-Ray/Schizoid 4K Blu-ray
Description: Before becoming known for their over-the-top action spectacles, Cannon Films dabbled in the early 80s slasher craze, producing a handful of original slice n' dice classics, two of which are presented here on 4K Blu-ray for the first time, from Vinegar Syndrome!
Pieter Fales is a renowned psychiatrist who is unable to reconcile his relationship with his teenage daughter, Alison. Julie, one of Pieter's patients, is a successful advice columnist in the midst of a messy divorce, who has also started receiving threatening letters. When a black clad, scissors wielding killer begins murdering people in Julie's life, she begins to suspect that her unknown writer and this mystery assailant might be one and the same…
Taking strong stylistic cues from the giallo genre, director David Paulsen's (Savage Weekend) SCHIZOID, is a delirious whodunit headlined by cult film superstar, Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre), alongside Donna Wilkes (Angel), Marianna Hill (Messiah of Evil), and an early appearance from Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), all amplified with a throbbing electronic score by Craig Huxley and presented here from a stunning new 4K restoration!
When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she's come to the hospital for a routine medical examination. But when her x-rays seem to show something unusual, Susan finds herself trapped in a bizarre medical nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying 'romantic' obsession…
With its exceptionally colorful cinematography by Nicholas Josef von Sternberg (Slaughterhouse Rock) and otherworldly sense of surrealism, trailblazing Israeli filmmaker Boaz Davidson's (The Last American Virgin) sole foray into horror cinema, X-RAY (aka Hospital Massacre) is a slasher like no other and has been freshly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative, allowing its one-of-a-kind weirdness to be experienced as never before.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
THREE-DISC SET: TWO 4K BLU-RAY DISCS AND ONE BLU-RAY DISC
NEW 4K RESTORATIONS OF BOTH FILMS FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES
HDR PRESENTATIONS OF BOTH FILMS
"Shooting by March" - a brand new interview with Schizoid writer/director David Paulsen
"Hide the Scissors" - a brand new interview with Schizoid actress Donna Wilkes
"Blood in the Jacuzzi" - a brand new interview with Schizoid makeup artist Erica Ueland
"A Wellesley Graduate" - a brand new interview with Schizoid actress Flo Lawrence
"Ultra Violet Vengeance: The Talent & Technicians of X-Ray" - a brand new making-of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew of X-Ray
"Bad Medicine" - an archival interview with X-Ray director Boaz Davidson
Original theatrical trailer for Schizoid
Inside cover artwork
English SDH subtitles
4K BLU-RAY: REGION-FREE
BLU-RAY: REGION-A "LOCKED"
STREET DATE: MARCH 29.
Hard Rock Zombies/Slaughterhouse Rock
Description: With the explosion of heavy metal and new wave music in the mid 1980s, it was inevitable that horror filmmakers would seize the opportunity to combine these popular musical stylings with blood and mayhem. While numerous such tie-ins were produced, none were as freaked out and gore-soaked as this foot stomping duo, presented fully uncensored and newly restored on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!
A heavy metal band has been invited to appear in a conservative small town. What they don't know is that their hosts are in fact a family of horrific and murderous mutants, whose patriarch is none other than Hitler! After being swiftly murdered, Cassie, the only non-violent member of this depraved clan, wills the band back to life. Soon the stuffy townspeople are faced with an unwelcome reckoning as the zombified musicians thrash and maim their way through the community, in the name of grisly revenge…and love!
Without a doubt one of the most original zombie films in the history of the genre, Krishna Shah's HARD ROCK ZOMBIES is a dazzling blend of horror film and musical, filtered through experimental and arthouse cinema sensibilities. Jam-packed with outrageous song and dance sequences juxtaposed with over-the-top violence and ludicrous plot twists, HARD ROCK ZOMBIES comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever, in its completely uncut composite version, sourced from the only known 35mm film elements with video inserts.
Alex, a college student, is being plagued by strange dreams in which a grotesque man commits heinous acts of torture and murder. With the help of his friends, Alex discovers that he has an unexplained telepathic link to a notorious killer who once lived on Alcatraz Island and whose bloodlust extends beyond the grave. When his supernatural experiences begin taking on real life manifestations, Alex and his friends sneak into the abandoned prison to put an end to their reign of terror, only to unwittingly walk into a bloodbath…
Dispensing with any sense of narrative logic, Dimitri Logothetis' SLAUGHTERHOUSE ROCK gleefully combines tracks from new wave musical sensations, DEVO, with plentiful gut-busting gore, and touches of humor, all set in the spooky, fog filled environs of the infamous Alcatraz Prison. This thrill-filled neon-nightmare hits Blu-ray from a brand new 4K restoration of its original 35mm camera negative, with its oft censored gore fully restored.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
HARD ROCK ZOMBIES
NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM ARCHIVAL ELEMENTS
"Never Say Die" - a making-of documentary featuring interviews with the following actors: EJ Curse, Sam Mann, Geno Andrews, Mick McMains, Ted Wells, Richard Vidan and David O'Hara
"Popcorn Farts and Low Budget Cheese" - a featurette with special effects artists Chris Biggs and Everett Burrell
"From Bit Player to Band Leader" - an interview with actress Susette Boggs
"The Bible of Holy Moses: Watching Hard Rock Zombies Through a Fanatic's Eye" - an interview with author Lucy Hall
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Reversible cover artwork
SLAUGHTERHOUSE ROCK
NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
"Low-key Horror" - an interview with cinematographer Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
"The Girl That Lives" - an interview with actress Tammy Hyler
"Wearing the Right Clothes" - an interview with actor Nicholas Celozzi
"Lunch Break with Claws" - an interview with actor Al Fleming
Original trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Reversible cover artwork
STREET DATE: MARCH 29.
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