Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed June 27 as the street date for a new 4K film restoration (from the original camera negative) of director Antonio Margheriti’s 1989 sci-fi film, Alien from the Abyss (aka: Alien from the Deep).
Sure, there have been both DVD and VHS editions knocking around as early as 1990, but the source material (likely an Italian video transfer) has always been a little suspect.
Once DVD kicked in and Margheriti’s films got the exposure they deserved — Battle of the Worlds, Castle of Blood, War of the Planets, and especially Cannibal Apocalypse (aka: Cannibals in the Streets) — it was only a matter of time before genre fans would dig deeper and discover Alien from the Abyss, his 1989 film shot in the Philippines. Distribution in the domestic market was sketchy at best.
Severin Films has taken care of that with this new 4K transfer for this special edition Blu-ray release on June 27.
The film itself is a cousin of the Japanese kaiju creature features. Nuclear waste or green slime or something is being dumped into a live volcano by E Chem (jeeze, what could possibly go wrong with that) and a Greenpeace team, Jane (Marina Giulia Cavalli) and her cameraman, Lee (Robert Marius), are onto them. They are discovered and two quick things take place, Lee is able to stash the evidence and Jane is pursued into the nearby jungle by E Chem security.
She is “rescued” by a snake venom specialist by the name of Bob (Daniel Bosch). She now has to find a way to sneak back into E Chem and get the evidence, but before she can all hell breaks loose as the slime juice has created a creature that is more or less a killing machine! And don’t forget, that is a live volcano!!
Alien from the Abyss is great fun, and now having this new Blu-ray special edition from Severin Films makes it all the more so. A beauty to behold.
Bonus goodies include his son’s (Edoardo Margheriti) 2013 feature-length documentary titled The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti, a vintage featurette titled “From the Center of the Earth” and the additional featurette titled “Son of the Outsider.”
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