Vinegar Syndrome Announces Its August 2019 Film Restoration Slate

In a post-apocalyptic future there are beautiful fertile women, mutant frog creatures and one man who can repopulate the human race, Sam Hell.

That news alone will inspire oohs and aaahs from genre fans as Vinegar Syndrome has put a new 4K restoration (from the film’s 35mm interpositive) of director Donald. G. Jackson’s Hell Comes to Frogtown in the front-runner position of its Aug. 27 slate of new film restorations destined for release as Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offerings. 

Sex-slaves held by human-sized mutant frogs, the very thought of it makes the skin crawl.   But that’s exactly what has happened and all attempts to retrieve the breeding stock, oops, I mean the helpless women hostages, has failed.   

That’s the set-up for this wacky sci-fi romp starring the late WWE legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper (They Live, Terminal Rush, etc.) as Sam Hell, a super-fertile man — who has left an easy-to-follow trail of pregnant women during his travels — and those kind acts of just being helpful in re-populating the planet has made him the target of a group of “nurses” (tongue firmly planted in cheek) who want to use his love-making talents for their own purposes.

In no time, Spangle (Sandahl Bergman — Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian), the head “nurse,” has him outfitted with an explosive chastity device and given the task of rescuing the breeding stock — damn it, did it again, I meant helpless women hostages.  

If the truth be known, the “nurses” have collected enough samples from Sam Hell that whether he succeeds in his mission or not is beside the point.   Saving the “helpless women” would be just be a bonus!!

Bonus goodies include a vintage commentary option from filmmaker Donald G. Jackson (Roller Blade, Twisted Fate, Rollergator, etc.) and writer/producer Randall Frakes, an extended scene and four featurettes — “Mean and Green,” “Grappling with Green Gargantuans,” “Amphibian Armageddon” and “Creature Feature Creator.”

Joining the Aug. 27 film restoration parade are three additional films that are just a bit off of center.   Take for example Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano’s 1976 experiment adult film, Let My Puppets Come (a 2K restoration from 35mm archival elements), which is best described as (drum roll please) … puppet porn!   Yes, puppets having sex with puppets and … well, let your imagination fill in the rest.

Bonus features include commentary from film historians Heather Drain and Samm Deighan, a video session with puppeteer James Racioppi and more.

Rounding out the quartet of new film restorations from Vinegar Syndrome on Aug. 27 are the German underground film from 1984, director Muscha’s Decoder (a fast food restaurant employee discovers that he can manipulate the behavior of the customers by changing the background music) and adult filmmaker Jimmy Boy L.’s (aka: Abel Ferrara — more famous for mainstream films like The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant) 1976 vignette-film romp through New York City titled 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy.