Dark Force Entertainment, with sales and
distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K scan —
from the original camera negative — of director Brett Leonard’s 1989 debut
film, The Dead Pit, which
has been set for a first-time Blu-ray release on Aug. 25.
This unique spin on the undead begins with a
prologue featuring Dr. Colin Ramzi (Danny Gochnauer), who works at a state-run
nut house (if it looks familiar, this is where One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed) and has a secret
basement torture chamber (aka: research lab).
One night, Ramzi’s murderous experiments are
discovered by Dr. Gerald Swan (played by Jeremy Slate — The Sons
of Katie Elder, The Born Losers, Hell's Angels '69,
etc.), who promptly kills his crazed colleague … and then calls the police,
right? That would be no. Instead, he seals up Dr. Ramzi in his
basement lair, with all of his victims, and moves on (exactly what kind of a
nut house are we running here?).
We now come to modern times — 20 years later — and
Dr. Swan continues to soldier on, although the once sprawling “mental health
facility” has been downsized (you know, budget cuts, etc.).
Enter “Jane Doe” (played by Cheryl Lawson — The
Vineyard, Reckoning … but who has spent the bulk of
her career as a stunt woman in such films as Poseidon,
Ocean’s Eleven, The Scorpion King and
more), who is found wandering the streets having lost her memory. She is taken to “State Hospital,” which is
Swan’s nut house.
You are thinking about this time, why would you take
an amnesiac to a mental hospital, well that’s the exactly the question that our
“Jane Doe” asks … which means she hasn’t seen Catch-22. Swan assures her that he can cure her and
get her repressed memory back (all things considered our “Jane Doe” would
rather wander the streets without her memory).
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Bonus goodies include video sessions with actors Cheryl
Lawson and Jeremy Slate, director Brett Leonard (The
Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous) and
writer/producer Gimel Everett.
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