AGFA Has Director Pat Bishow’s Lost Zombie Masterpiece • Soultangler • Ready For A DVD Debut On Mar. 13

The film magic happened in a basement on Long Island in 1987 and then it was gone; lost.

AGFA (aka: American Genre Film Archive), with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Mar. 13 for the domestic DVD debut, heck, make that the domestic home entertainment debut (including VHS … the release in Brazil and possible South Korea on VHS aside) of director Pat Bishow’s lost zombie masterpiece, Soultangler.

Rumors abound, but we have a pretty good source — although unconfirmed — that during the destruction of an old warehouse in New Jersey a stash of film masters dating back to this period were found sealed up in a wall.   Among them, both the rough cut and the director’s unreleased cut of Soultangler were rescued.   On a more disturbing note, reports also indicate that human remains were found in the rubble (DNA tests were inconclusive and New Jersey officials report that the bodies have never been identified).

AGFA, we are told, was able to gain access to the materials and now the world — and genre fans in particular — await the arrival of filmmaker Pat Bishow’s lost zombie gorefest on DVD (VHS bootlegs can now be tossed) … Mar. 13 can’t come soon enough!!

As this horror tale unfolds, we are introduced to Dr. Anton Lupesky (played by Pierre Devaux … he seems to have mysteriously vanished after the film was completed), who has developed a drug called Anphorium, which unleashes visions of deep-seated fears in human subjects (think: hallucinations).   As mad scientists often find, their experiments go horribly wrong … Dr. Lupesky is no exception.

A go-getter reporter by the name of Kim Castle (played by Jane or possible Jamie Kinser, who also vanished after the film was completed) gets wind of Lupesky’s bizarre experiments and starts an investigation.   Soon, however, corpses are up and running on Anphorium and we all know that when the dead are animated you have a zombie outbreak ... can Kim warn the world before it is too late?

Bonus features include commentary by filmmaker Pat Bishow (the producer and director of the recent webisode series, We Might Be Superheroes, starring Alex Covington and Rica de Ocampo), behind the scenes footage and two viewing options — the VHS cut and the unseen director’s cut.   There is also the Hypnolovewheel music video titled “Wow.”