Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution provided
by MVD Entertainment Group, has something very, very special planned for Oct.
25 — just in time for Halloween!
This would be a 17-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (nine Blu-ray
discs and eight DVDs) showcasing 14 blood-drenched films — newly restored —
from horror impresario, Herschell Gordon Lewis. The collection is titled appropriately
enough, The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast.
What better place to begin — when describing what a
marvelous collection Arrow Video has assemble here — than with his summer of 1963
micro-budget masterpiece, Blood Feast, which literally kicked
off a brand new sub-genre of horror films … SPLATTER!
Each of the Blu-ray and DVD discs in the collection are
presented as double-features. As an
example, Blood Feast is teamed with the lurid teen-sexploitation/blackmail
film, Scum of the Earth. And, Lewis provides newly-filmed introductions
to all of the movies in the collection.
As to bonus goodies for Blood Feast, there is commentary
featuring Lewis and long-time producer/partner David F. Friedman, outtakes, the
featurette titled “Blood Perceptions” and archival video sessions with Lewis. Friedman provides commentary on Scum
of the Earth, plus there is a short film titled “Carving Magic.”
Other double-bills in this must-owned collection are: Two
Thousand Maniacs! and Moonshine Mountain (both from 1964);
Color
Me Blood Red (1965) and Something Weird (1967); The
Gruesome Twosome (1967) is teamed with A Taste of Blood (both
were released in 1967); She-Devils
on Wheels is with Just for the Hell of It (both are
from 1968); How to Make a Doll (1968) and The Wizard of Gore (1970);
and lastly, This Stuff’ll Kill Ya! (1971) is joined by The Gore Gore Girls (1972).
There are numerous featurettes and video sessions, plus
nearly all of the film in this collection feature commentary options.
For greater detail on each film in the collection please
visit: MVD Link.
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