Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that you
are crazy. Such is the case with Warren
(played by Oscar-nominated John Hawkes — Three
Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,
plus such films as Everest, Winter's Bone, The Sessions),
the star of writer/director Daniel Erickson’s 1991 horror tale, Scary
Movie.
AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), with sales and
distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced this past
week that a new 2K restoration from the original 16mm camera negative of
Erickson’s long-lost indie film production will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack edition on Oct. 15. If
you’ve seen a bootleg copy on VHS from back in the day, toss it … it’s crap,
this is the real deal.
As near as can be sketched together, Scary
Movie was filmed in and around Austin, Texas,
using a lot of local talent, and then premiered at the WorldFest Houston
International Independent Film Festival in April of 1991. Around Halloween of the same year it had a
screening in Austin and then more or less disappeared.
Thanks to the efforts of the American Genre Film
Archive, genre fans will have an opportunity to enjoy this little gem for the
first time on Blu-ray.
The story revolves around a young man by the name of
Warren, who is barely hanging on emotionally.
Call him fragile. In any case,
he agrees to go with his buddy Brad (Jason Russel Waller), Brad’s girlfriend,
Shelley (Virginia Pratt), and their friend, Barbara (Suzanne Aldrich), to the
opening of the local Halloween Haunted House.
Warren hears that a mental patient has escaped
during a routine transfer from one nut house to another and begins to worry
that the Haunted House will be a good place for him to hide. This fear is only reinforced when the
gathering crowd begins to the spread the same news … killer on the loose and
heading this way!!!
A paranoid young man, a crazed killer on the loose
and a Halloween Haunted House ... what could possibly go wrong!!
Bonus goodies include commentary from filmmaker
Daniel Erickson, who is joined by AGFA’s Joseph A. Ziemba and there are two
short films from Erickson, Mr. Pumpkin and Little
Hero.
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