Vinegar Syndrome will open the New Year with a
five-strong slate of new film restorations that will be available for film fans
to savor on Jan. 28.
Topping the list — and certainly that is always a
subjective evaluation — is director James Martin’s 1988 direct-to-video
suburbia chomp-fest, Flesh-Eating Mother. A viral infection turns philandering
housewives into cannibals … so lock up your children, it could get ugly!!
This new 2K film restoration features commentary
from filmmaker James Martin (I was a Teenage Zombie),
who is joined by film historian and author Michael Gingold (former editor of Fangoria Magazine), plus there are a
pair of featurettes — “Blood and Laughs” and “Hungry to Make Movies.”
Also getting a new 2K film restoration — from the
original 35mm camera negative — is John N. Carter’s haunted house thriller
(without a house), Zombie Island Massacre. You go on vacation in the Caribbean, take a
side tour to a remote island, and presto, you’re stuck in the jungle and picked
off one by one … by one! No zombies,
but maybe that’s just the name of the island and not a massacre on an island by
zombies (it does have a twist).
Rounding out the selection of new Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Packs from Vinegar Syndrome on Jan. 28 are three classic adult selections, two
of which are double-features. Adult
filmmaker Bob Chinn gets 2K restorations for his Hard
Soap, Hard Soap (1977) and Disco
Lady (1978), which features the film debut of Rhonda
Jo Petty.
The other adult double-bill is director Edwin
Brown’s (aka: Stephen Lucas; aka: Edwin Durell) A
Thousand and One Erotic Nights
(1982) and the 1986 follow-up, A Thousand and One Erotic Nights,
Part II. Both were shot on 35mm film.
And last, but certainly not least (also shot on 35mm
with a new 2K restoration), is the adorable Hillary Summers (Silky,
Hot Dallas Nights, Urban Cowgirls)
starring in director Roberta Findlay’s 1980 film release of Justine
(aka: Justine: A Matter of Innocence). Bonus features here include a newly-prepared
commentary with filmmaker Roberta Findlay (Glitter, Liquid
A$$ets, Teenage Milkmaid).
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