Vinegar Syndrome announced its October release package this
past week. The street date selected for
a quartet of Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offerings — plus the next DVD Storefront
Theatre Collection — will be Oct. 25.
There are some really cool films in the mix, which are all
in the “Halloween” spirit of things. So
let’s get right to it!
Leading the way is a new 2K restoration (from the original
35mm camera negative) of director Rick Sloane’s 1988 “creature feature,” Hobgoblins. It will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Pack.
With the success of Joe Dante’s Gremlins in 1984 you knew
in your heart of hearts that there would be other entries into the “little”
creature horror mix. Sure enough, the
summer of 1988 brought us the ACM theatrical release and a quick to market VHS
edition of Hobgoblins. By any
standard it was, is and will always be cheesy … and that’s the beauty of it.
As to bonus goodies, there’s a vintage commentary track
featuring writer/director Rick Sloane (a true master of cheesy films — Vice
Academy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), the 2009 cast reunion
documentary from Sloane titled Hobgoblins: The Making of a DisasterPiece,
a newly-prepared featurette titled “Hobgoblins Revisited,” a newly minted video
session with Kenneth J. Hall, the Hobgoblin “creature fabricator” and a vintage
featurette “Hobgoblins Invade Comic-Con.”
Next up is a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation (a new 2K
restoration from the original 35mm camera negative) of director Mark Pirro’s
1988 Crown International Pictures release of Deathrow Gameshow, a
black comedy homage to Schwarzenegger’s
1987 hit film, The Running Man.
Bonus features include commentary featuring director Mark
Pirro, who is joined by actors John McCafferty (he played the game show host, Chuck
Toedan) and Robyn Blythe (she plays Toedan’s nemesis, “Gloria Sternvirgin”),
the 2013 documentary from Pirro titled, Revisiting Deathrow Gameshow, and
two short films from filmmaker Mark Pirro — Buns (1978) and The
Spy Who Did it Better (1979).
Rounding out the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentations on
Oct. 25 is a two SKU Linnea Quigley “Scream Queen” promotion — three films in
all.
For genre fans the name Linnea Quigley is synonymous with
horror and, as she puts it in 1995 book, “skin” flicks. She is an honor Scream Queen, having
appeared in such delights as The Return of the Living Dead, Creepozoids,
Night
of the Demons and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream
Master (among others).
Vinegar Syndrome has a new 2K restoration (yes, from the
original 35mm camera negative) of director David DeCoteau’s 1987 TWE theatrical release of Nightmare Sisters, which teams
Quigley with fellow Scream Queen legends Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer.
There
are two versions of the film — the theatrical cut and a toned-down for TV
edition — commentary featuring filmmaker David DeCoteau and Linnea Quigley (they have often worked
together, in addition to the aforementioned Creepozoids, they also
did the classic, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, which also
featured Brinke Stevens
and Michelle Bauer), there is a blooper reel and a video session with
writer/producer Kenneth J. Hall.
The
other Linnea Quigley Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack in the mix is the double-feature
presentation of two of director David DeCoteau’s 1989 direct-to-video thrillers, Murder
Weapon (Quigley co-stars with Karen Russell) and Deadly Embrace (she’s
opposite Jan-Michael Vincent).
Bonus
goodies for this Linnea Quigley double-bill include commentary with her and
DeCoteau for both films and DeCoteau provides newly prepared introductions to
both films … which are new 2K restorations.
Rounding
out the Oct. 25 release package from Vinegar Syndrome is the second installment
in the company’s Storefront Theatre Collection. This three-disc set is packed with a dozen
“adult-themed” films that includes the likes of Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde
(1971, with Suzanne Fields), Hotter Than Hell (also from 1971 and
featuring “Jane Fondler” and “Elizabeth Tail”) and The Rites of Uranus
(1975, with Vivian Parks).
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