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Vinegar Syndrome‘s October releases embrace The Tenant, Corpse Mania, and Shanks on 4K Extremely HD + Blu-ray together with The Ghost Dance, Thoughts Benders, Dial D for Demons, and Forgotten Gialli: Quantity 7 on Blu-ray.

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From maverick director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Child) comes probably the most uncommon and unsettling studio thrillers of the Nineteen Seventies: The Tenant. Tailored from Roland Topor’s cult novel, Polanski casts himself within the lead, providing a uniquely demented and outrageously humorous efficiency, and is supported by Melvyn Douglas (The Changeling), Shelly Winters (Evening of the Hunter, Lolita), and Isabelle Adjani (Possession).

That includes cinematography by two-time Oscar winner Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers) together with an unique rating by acclaimed composer Philippe Sarde (La Grande Bouffe), Vinegar Syndrome presents the 4K UHD debut of The Tenant, newly and solely restored in 4K from its unique digital camera unfavorable and that includes a wide selection of latest and archival extras together with an expanded interview with Polanski himself.

Trelkovsky, freshly arrived in Paris, is in determined want of a spot to stay. After inquiring at a big house advanced run by the brooding Monsieur Zy, he’s provided the room of Simone Choule, a resident who just lately tried suicide by throwing herself out of the window. Undeterred by this macabre occasion, Trelkovsky is joyful to maneuver in. Shortly thereafter, he meets Stella, Simone’s pal, and does his greatest to consolation and befriend her. Shortly integrating into Stella’s bohemian social scene, Trelkovsky hopes that his life is lastly turning a nook; that’s, till his new neighbors start appearing surprisingly, making wild accusations in opposition to him, and displaying more and more sinister and violent behaviors. Because the weeks go on, Trelkovsky begins to suspect that one thing may be very flawed within the stuffy previous constructing and that Simone’s deadly plunge may not have been her personal doing…

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Directed by horror maestro Chih-Hung Kwei (Hex, The Boxer’s Omen), Corpse Mania masterfully fuses Shaw Brothers’ well-regarded dramatic interval items with the construction and elegance of the Italian giallo, providing foggy streets, gelled lighting, and grisly murders perpetrated by a black-clad killer.

Transferring from twist to twist and certain to go away viewers squirming in horror all the best way to the top, Vinegar Syndrome presents this important Hong Kong horror on UHD, newly restored in 4k from its unique digital camera unfavorable, filled with extras, and that includes all of the maggot-covered corpses one may ask for.

After a defiled corpse is found in an deserted constructing, Inspector Zhang acknowledges the scene as being just like different mutilated our bodies which have been turning up within the space. Realizing that there’s a deranged serial killer at massive, Zhang’s investigation quickly leads him to a neighborhood brothel run by the headstrong Madame Lan, which seems to be the killer’s searching floor. Whereas public suspicion quickly falls on a just lately released-from-prison necrophile, Zhang is unconvinced, believing that the killer and their motive are hiding in plain sight.

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• 2-disc Set: 4K Extremely HD / Area A Blu-ray
• 4K UHD offered in Excessive-Dynamic-Vary
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable
• Commentary with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei and filmmaker Alan Chu
• Commentary with movie historian Samm Deighan
• “Statistics with the Producer” – an interview with producer Lawrence Wong
• Video interview with Lee San Yip, cinematographer on Corpse Mania
• Video interview with Ming Beaver Kwei, son of director Chih-Hung Kwei
• “Chih-Hung Kwei: Shaw Brothers’ Grasp of Horror” – a video essay by movie historian and writer Grady Hendrix
• Reversible sleeve art work
• Newly translated English subtitles
• Spot gloss slipcover (designed by Chris Barnes), restricted to six,000 models

The ultimate movie from gimmick-prone, American style movie icon William Fortress (The Tingler, The Home on Haunted Hill), Shanks is a decidedly surrealist amalgamation of quirky fantasy and mid-70s character-driven horror, anchored by a tasty twin efficiency from celebrated French actor Marcel Marcau.

With potently eerie digital camera work by 13 Ghosts cinematographer Joseph F. Biroc and an atmospheric rating by legendary composer Alex North (Spartacus, The Dangerous Seed), Cinématographe presents William Fortress’s typically ignored slice of mid- 70s alienation in its 4K UHD debut from a model new restoration from its unique unfavorable.

Malcolm Shanks (Marcel Marceau, Barbarella) is a deaf, mute, reclusive puppeteer who lives together with his overbearing sister (Tsilla Chelton, Peppermint Soda) and her lush of a husband, Mr. Barton (Philippe Clay, French Cancan). The one supply of pleasure in his harsh world is his puppets, which is observed by a beguiling inventor named Dr. Baker (additionally performed by Marceau), who promptly provides him a job as his assistant. Upon Dr. Baker’s sudden demise, Shanks discovers that he can, with assistance from electrodes, reanimate the lifeless, bringing a brand new actuality to their experiments.

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• 2-Disc Set: 4K Extremely HD + Area A Blu-ray
• New audio commentary with movie historians Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
• New interview with producer Steven North
• No Phrases for the Lifeless: Reanimating William Fortress, Visible Language and The Path to Shanks – a brand new video essay by Daniel Kremer
• Marcel Marceau on Shanks – an archival interview with the actor
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• New textual content essays by tradition author Heather Drain, movie critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and movie professor Murray Leeder, editor of ReFocus: The Movies of William Fortress
• English SDH subtitles
• J-card MediaBook slipcase (designed by Adam Maida), restricted to 4,000 models

Arriving in 1982 simply because the slasher growth was waning, director Peter F. Buffa’s The Ghost Dance provided a novel spin on the already then-tired slice-and-dice system by weaving American Indian folklore into its story while nonetheless providing up all of the requisite hacking and slashing dictated by the style.

Criminally underseen and hitherto languishing in a notoriously murky VHS switch, Vinegar Syndrome has in the end summoned up The Ghost Dance for its Blu-ray world premiere, newly restored in 4K from unique 35mm movie parts – which lastly affords viewers the possibility to correctly savor Fred Murphy’s (Stir of Echoes, The Mothman Prophecies) luxurious desert images – and provided up with a treasure trove of illuminating newly-produced particular options.

When an excavation workforce led by Dr. Kay Foster reveals a burial website on an American Indian reservation, the tribal elders warning them that they’re bringing about nice hazard – for they’ve disturbed the resting place of Nahalla, who, legend has it, was a sadistic and feared cult chief. Ignoring these warnings, nonetheless, the workforce transports the physique again to the museum in hopes of figuring out it. Certain sufficient, the grim predictions quickly come to cross when a younger couple are discovered gruesomely slaughtered after a late-night lovemaking session on the museum. Unbeknownst to Dr. Kay and her workforce, a neighborhood drugs man has managed to summon Nahalla. Now, possessed by his evil spirit, he’s stalking the shadows, intent on meting out bloody vengeance to those that have disturbed his slumber.

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• Area Free Blu-ray
• Scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm internegative
• Commentary observe with style critic and writer J.A. Kerswell and movie and TV historian and writer Amanda Reyes
• “Wanting into the Previous” (25 min) – an interview with co-writer/director Peter Buffa
• “This Is Nice Stuff!” (22 min) – an interview with co-writer/producer Robert M. Sutton
• “Dances with Ghosts” (17 min) – an interview with stunt coordinator Don Shanks
• Reversible sleeve art work
• English SDH subtitles
• Spot gloss slipcover (designed by Wes Benscoter), restricted to six,000 models

An over-the-top and zany sci-fi comedy oozing with mid-80s aesthetics, actress-turned-director Eugenie Joseph’s (ending director of Spookies) crackpot Canadian cult basic, Thoughts Benders stars Skip Lackey (As soon as Bitten), Lee Tergesen (TV’s Oz, Bizarre Science) in his first on-screen function, together with veteran character actor Roy Thinnes (Airport, Rush Week).

Produced by infamous New York exploitation filmmaker Jack Bravman (Snuff), Vinegar Syndrome Archive presents the worldwide Blu-ray debut of Thoughts Benders, newly scanned and restored from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable and that includes the first-ever on-camera interview with director Eugenie Joseph!

Frankie and Crash run the most well-liked highschool radio present on the town, holding the scholars buzzing with rock ‘n’ roll music and rebellious influences. However when Principal Borden decides the great occasions are rolling too freely, he brings within the mysterious Dr. Gunbow to implement a brand new Behavioral Modification Program. Virtually instantly, the college’s radio station is commandeered by brokers of this system, and shortly thereafter, the scholars begin displaying more and more disturbing and zombie-like habits whereas creating a newfound style for violence in opposition to anybody who gained’t conform. Realizing that no matter is occurring is forcibly altering their mates, Frankie and Crash take it upon themselves to search out out what Dr. Gunbow is as much as and the last word purpose of his mind-bending conspiracy.

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• Area Free Blu-ray
• Scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable
• Commentary observe with director Genie Joseph and author/actor Skip Lackey
• Commentary observe with James Branscome and Nick Vance of the Cinematic Void Podcast
• “Excessive Pressure Excessive: The Making Of Thoughts Benders” (37 min) – a making-of documentary that includes interviews with producer Jack Bravman, director Genie Joseph, author/lead actor Skip Lackey, and actors David Kener and Invoice Curry
• Reversible sleeve art work
• English SDH subtitles
• Slipcase (designed by Robert Sammelin), restricted to 4,000 models

Directed by infamous CAT III director Billy Tang (Dr. Lamb), Dial D for Demons sees Tang commerce in his standard intercourse and violence for fashion and pressure, leading to a extra atmosphere-driven ghost story.

Starring a forged of younger and up-and-coming Hong Kong actors equivalent to Jordan Chan (Bio-Zombie), Terence Yin (New Police Story), and Winnie Leung (The Lethal Camp), Vinegar Syndrome Archive presents this rarely-seen supernatural story on Blu-ray for the primary time in america, newly and solely restored for this launch.

Needing a break from their busy lives, a bunch of younger professionals residing in Hong Kong resolve to take a number of days off and spend a while stress-free on a quiet and secluded island. After arriving at their rental property, one of many mates (who has the power to see ghosts) begins having terrifying visions of people that have taken their very own lives by inhaling burning charcoal. To make issues worse, the group of mates begins to obtain cryptic messages on their pagers. Quickly, the horror of the property begins to disclose itself and the group has no alternative however to attempt to survive the night time earlier than falling sufferer to the evil that awaits them.

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Political intrigue, covert operations, and spies aren’t the conventional substances present in a giallo, however veteran director Carlo Vanzina (Nothing Beneath) concocts a delightfully distinctive homicide thriller with Mystère (AKA Dagger Eyes). With twist after twist, this pulpy thriller stars Bond-girl Carole Bouquet (For Your Eyes Solely) together with extra acquainted faces like John Steiner (Tenebre) and Gabriele Tinti (Love Camp).

Taking ample benefit of the wonder and treachery of Rome with long-time Fellini collaborator Giuseppe Maccari’s colourful images whereas providing a throbbing rating by Armando Trovajoli (Unusual Shadows in an Empty Room), Vinegar Syndrome brings the quick-paced and extremely entertaining Mystère to Blu-ray for the primary time, newly restored in 4K from its unique unfavorable and providing an array of name new interviews.

Mystère is one among Rome’s prime call-girls whose purchasers vary from political elites to enterprise executives. Her pal Pamela, one other prostitute, steals an costly lighter from a current shopper, solely to be mysteriously murdered shortly thereafter. When Mystère discovers that not solely has Pamela been killed but additionally the shopper from whom she stole the lighter, she realizes that her personal life is perhaps at risk, a concern shortly validated when she narrowly survives an assassination try. Determined to determine why she and Pamela had been focused, she finds an ally in Inspector Colt, who has been tasked with fixing the crimes. However as their investigation deepens, it turns into clear that the seemingly atypical lighter holds a probably lethal secret.

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• Area Free Blu-ray
• Scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable
• Offered in its unique English language soundtrack in addition to its Italian language dub soundtrack (untranslated)
• Commentary observe with movie historians Eugenio Ercolani, Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth
• “Two Brothers for a Mystère” (25 min) – an interview with author Enrico Vanzina
• “An American in Rome” (20 min) – an interview with actor Greg Snegoff
• “The Home of Mystère” (20 min) – an interview with manufacturing designer Paola Comencini
• Alternate Italian titles and credit
• Inside sleeve art work
• English SDH subtitles

Obsession: A Style for Concern

Whereas the aesthetics of music movies had taken a agency maintain on Italy’s style movie panorama, its stylistic grip on late ’80s gialli is not any extra obvious and higher utilized than in Piccio Raffanini’s hypnotic Obsession: A Style for Concern (AKA Pathos).

Starring Australian mannequin Virginia Hey (Mad Max: The Street Warrior) and that includes a cameo look from musician Child Creole, this continuous visible feast provides mind-bending scope images by Romano Albani (Phenomena) and a soundtrack comprised of worldwide pop hits. By no means legally out there on disc and lengthy topic to badly-cropped video variations that betrayed its hanging manufacturing design, Vinegar Syndrome ultimately presents this completely distinctive 80s pop culture-infused giallo on Blu-ray, exquisitely restored in 4K from its unique unfavorable and providing a plethora of newly-produced bonus options.

Set in a semi-futuristic, technology-infused world, Diane is a prime photographer for erotic and vogue magazines whose sexually liberated way of life carries over to her work. Nevertheless, when Diane’s latest mannequin, the statuesque Teagan, is discovered murdered on her set, suspicion falls not solely on Diane however her complete manufacturing crew and different fashions. Whereas Inspector Arnold initially assumes the killer is a nerdy technician, a second homicide, which is captured on video, reveals the assailant to be an attractive girl…

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• Area Free Blu-ray
• Scanned and restored in 4K from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable
• Offered in its unique English language soundtrack in addition to its Italian language dub soundtrack (untranslated)
• Commentary observe with movie historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nathaniel Thompson
• “This Used to Be the Future” (29 min) – an interview with author/director Piccio Raffanini
• “Supervising the Obsession” (16 min) – an interview with manufacturing supervisor Luciano Lucchi
• “A Style for Synths” (14 min) – an interview with composer Gabriele Ducros
• “Cinema Killed the Video Star” (19 min) – a video essay by Rachael Nisbet
• Alternate Italian titles and credit
• Inside sleeve art work
• English SDH subtitles

Sweets from a Stranger

A surprisingly socially-conscious giallo that earnestly displays on the state of prostitution in Italy, prolific author Franco Ferrini’s (Nothing Beneath, Rings of Concern) sole directorial effort, Sweets from a Stranger, provides a particular hybrid of razor murders and considerate commentary heightened by nuanced and plausible characters.

That includes a catchy rating and title music by Umberto Smaila in addition to a supporting efficiency from Italian style legend Laura Betti (A Bay of Blood, Salò), this one-of-a-kind giallo makes its worldwide disc debut, newly restored in 2K from its unique unfavorable and together with an abundance of latest interviews full of perception into this uncommon manufacturing.

A bicycle-riding, razor-wielding killer is stalking and slashing Rome’s women of the night time. Stella, who has risen above the extent of streetwalker and now works as a high-class escort, is shocked when she learns {that a} pricey pal has change into the maniac’s newest sufferer. Disgusted by the failure of the police to both discover the killer and even shield different girls, she hatches her personal plan to assist fellow prostitutes manage and be taught self-defense within the hopes that their very own actions will result in the offender’s unmasking.

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• Area Free Blu-ray
• Scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm unique digital camera unfavorable
• Offered in its unique Italian language soundtrack with newly translated English subtitles
• Commentary observe with movie historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• “Cruising for Sweets” (13 min) – an interview with author/director Franco Ferrini
• “Sweets Maker” (18 min) – an interview with producer Claudio Bonivento
• “Kill Me with Your Smaila” (35 min) – an interview with composer Umberto Smaila
• Inside sleeve art work
• Newly translated English subtitles