Vinegar Syndrome
unleashed a whirlwind of horror film restorations announcements this past week
that will be in place for genre fans to savor one week before the witching hour
of Halloween. Five Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs
will be ready at retail on Oct. 24 … so let’s get to it.
Leading the way is a 2K
restoration — from the film’s 35mm camera negative — of writer/director Charles
Philip Moore’s 1990 film release of Demon Wind.
In a violent prologue the
fate of Cory’s (Eric Larson) grandparents is revealed … a demon
infestation! Now skip ahead some 60
years and he, his girlfriend, Elaine (Francine Lapensée), and a group of their
friends are back at the scene of the slaughter after Cory’s father has killed
himself and the farm is now his.
You can understand how
someone might want to get to the bottom of what happened so many years ago, but
shouldn’t there be a nagging little suspicion that if your grandparents were
murdered and dear old dad killed himself that maybe, just maybe, something is
amiss at the old family homestead.
The victim pool, that
would be Cory, Elaine and their friends are soon going to discover what is
afoot … and it ain’t pretty, especially when the root of all evil just might be
a family member!
Bonus goodies for Demon
Wind include a trio of video sessions featuring actress Sherry Bendorf
(as Bonnie, one of Cory’s friends), executive producer Sandy Horowitz and cinematographer
Thomas L. Callaway.
Next up is
writer/director Fabrice A. Zaphiratos’ 1986 slasher flick — with a supernatural
twist — Blood Beat!
This indie
direct-to-video release gets a new 2K restoration from Vinegar Syndrome — from
the 35mm original camera negative — and for anyone not holding an old VHS copy
of Blood
Beat this could be for all intents and purposes the film’s coming out
party.
As to bonus goodies,
there is a commentary track from filmmaker Fabrice A. Zaphiratos — who appears
to have dropped off the radar after directing Blood Beat — plus there
are video sessions with Zaphiratos and cinematographer Vladimir Van Maule … and
Vinegar Syndrome hints that there might be additional bonus features by street
date.
Next up is director Ted
V. Mikels’ 1972 tribute to canned cat food insanity, The Corpse Grinders. Vinegar Syndrome has a
new 2K restoration planned.
This film is so much fun
… you have grave robbers and a cat food canning operation in cahoots. That’s delicious! Suppose one of your love ones was recently
buried out at the Farewell Acres Cemetery, where, as fast as Caleb (Warren Ball)
buries them, he turns around and digs them and sells the corpses (in bulk) to
Landau (Sanford Mitchell) over at the Lotus Cat Food Company.
There is just one little
problem with this “arrangement.” Caleb
is getting “stiffed” by Laudau (pun intended) and he threatens to cut him
off. To make matters worse, Laudau is
also holding out on his partner Maltby (J. Byron Foster) … who has a little
fetish, which we won’t talk about.
Meanwhile, at a local
clinic, Dr. Glass (Sean Kenney) and his nurse, Angie (Monika Kelly) — who are
lovers as well — begin to take notice of the strange behavior of the local
cats. And there is a mysterious figure
that is also lurking about who has taken an interest in Lotus.
Will they figure out what
is going on at the cannery … will Maltby get an unconscious Angie on the
conveyor belt so that he can have his way with her. Will cats turn on everyone!!!
As to bonus nuggets,
there in a commentary track featuring American Grindhouse’s Elijah Drenner
with a mix of vintage comments from filmmaker Ted V. Mikels and a vintage video
session with Mikels titled “Ted Talks.”
Rounding out the Oct. 24
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack selections are the double feature presentation of director
Roberta Findlay’s Prime Evil (1988) and Lurkers (also from 1988), both
starring Christine Moore — Findlay provides commentary on Prime Evil — and Findlay’s
earlier adult-themed horror film A Woman’s Torment (1977), which
features both the X-rated and the trimmed down R-rated cuts of the film
(Findlay also provides commentary).
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