Cleopatra Entertainment To Release DVD And Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Editions Of Room 37: The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders On May 24

On Apr. 23, 1991, John Anthony Genzale died in New Orleans of mysterious causes.   The local authorities chalked it up to just another drug-related death and closed the case … they moved on.

That could have been the end of it, but Genzale’s stage name was Johnny Thunders, guitarist, songwriter and singer who came to fame with The New York Dolls in the 1970s and then with The Heartbreakers in 1980s.

When a music legend dies of causes that are never fully explained, the life and death of said legend only grows.   John Thunders’ life and death has been the subject of documentary filmmaker Lech Kowalski’s 1999 film, Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie, and Danny Garcia’s 2014 documentary, Looking For Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders.   

There have been no less than 15 albums released after his death … and now comes word that filmmakers Fernando Cordero Caballero and Vicente Cordero’s  — aka: The Cordero Brothers — Room 37: The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders, will be heading home as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with bonus CD) product offerings on May 24 courtesy of Cleopatra Entertainment.   MVD Entertainment Group will be providing sales and distribution support for the film’s home entertainment packaged media launch.

The Cordero Brothers have created a stunning dramatic recreation of the events surrounding Johnny Thunders final days in New Orleans.  Leo Ramsey (Blue Line Station) stars as Johnny Thunders, who checked into Room 37 at the St. Peter House in the French Quarter with a supply of methadone and goal of getting straight.   Only there a short time, he reported that his room had been broken into and that he had been robbed … soon thereafter he was found dead.

Of note, for the past 18-years Room 37 at the St. Peter House in New Orleans has been in constant demand by fans of Johnny Thunders.

The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack includes a CD of the soundtrack of the Room 37: The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders, which features “Born to Lose,” “Stranded in the Jungle” and “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory,” plus nine other cuts, including New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain’s “There’s Something Wrong.”