Wild Eye Releasing will be launching a new genre label, Visual Vengeance, in July that will be devoted to vintage, overlooked, underground and lost films from the 1980s and beyond. MVD Entertainment Group will be providing sales and distribution support.
You just have to sit up and take notice when the newly-formed Visual Vengeance label has a Blu-ray edition of director Matt Jaissle’s 1997 direct-to-video zombie/horror classic, The Necro Files, as one of its first product offerings. Arriving on July 19, this certainly bodes well for the label’s future.
There is absolutely nothing subtle about Jaissle’s gore shocker — if the MPAA had gotten a gander of this, an X/NC-17 rating would have been slammed on it for sure. That would not have deterred genre fans one iota, you might even call it a good thing. But it went straight to VHS in the final days of the format and bypassed the ratings process.
The film opens with serial killer/rapist, Logan (Isaac Cooper — Midnight Movie Madness), stalking, raping and killing his latest victim. We can quickly guess that this lunatic has seen way too many horror films as he incorporates Jason, Michael Myers and even a nod to Charlie Manson into his rapist/serial killer persona.
Logan certainly has it down to a science, having done away with something like 200 (or more) victims, but today it is the end of the line for him as Detective Martin Manners (Steve Sheppard) and his partner (played by Gary Browning) arrive on the scene — sadly too late to prevent another killing — but Manners unloads his service revolver into Logan (call it a case of lead-poisoning) and that’s the end of his crime spree.
Peace at last. Nine months have passed and nary a rape or a killing in Manners’ domain. That’s about to change as we pick up the action at some sort of graveyard ritual involving the offspring of one of Logan’s victims — we won’t even get into what takes place as it is beyond good taste; simply too crass to describe. Not in a negative way, of course.
The net result is that Logan has risen from the dead, a zombie, and he’s once again off to the races. Killing, raping and looking like the rotting dead while he is about his grisly business.
But wait, there is a twist coming, and this twist will up the gore count, get the dead baby involved in the action and bring Detective Manners and his partner back into the chase … and make The Necro Files one of the sickest (in a good sense) indie gore-fest horror films ever made.
For those who haven’t seen The Necro Files, we won’t give away filmmaker Matt Jaissle’s twist (or is it twists?) to this tale. For those who know the story, you can now toss out your coveted VHS copy (or bootleg DVD edition … DVDLady put one out in 2019, which appears to be a rip from an Italian knockoff) and get ready for Wild Eye Releasing’s Blu-ray launch on the Visual Vengeance label this coming July 19. You will not be disappointed.
Bonus goodies include two commentary options. One with director Matt Jaissle and a second featuring Horror Boobs’ Matt Desiderio, who is joined by the Druid Underground Film Festival’s Billy Burgess.
Other bonus nuggets include a video session with Jaissle, a selection of his Super 8 short films, the documentary titled Dong of the Dead: The Making of The Necro Files and as a super bonus for this collector’s edition Blu-ray release, the 2017 sequel, Necro Files 3000.
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