Screenbound is delighted to announce the launch of two brand new Euro cult film labels, Maison Rouge will specialise in Euro Sleaze and Black House Films will focus on Euro Horror. Below we have all the information alongside the covers for the releases.
Maison Rouge kicks off with three classic titles, the first is from master of Euro Sleaze Jess Franco – Female Vampire (aka Bare Breasted Countess) – which arrives on DVD on 6 March 2017, followed by two Patrice Rhomm classics Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg on DVD 13 March 2017 and Elsa Fraulein SS set for release on 17 April 2017.
BARE BREASTED COUNTESS (a.k.a. FEMALE VAMPIRE)
A family of vampires from distant Bohemia quenches thirst for the living forces given forth by human bodies during the act of love. Irina, the beautiful last descendant, meets an Austrian writer, Rathony. And Irina’s gluttonous lips devour the living forces of her lover who surrenders to her his body and soul!
Erotikill (Horror Version)
Destiny In Soft Focus
Words For Lina
Trailers for Female Vampires, Helga She Wolf Of Stilberg, Elsa Fraulein SS
HELGA, SHE WOLF OF STILBERG
Thriller directed by Patrice Rhomm starring Patrizia Gori, Malisa Longo and Richard Allan. Stilberg is a brutal penitentiary for female political prisoners. It is managed by the cruel warden Helga (Longo), who unleashes her vicious nature and grotesque lust upon new inmate Elisabeth Vogel (Gori).
Special Features:
Alternative Clothed Scenes
Trailers for Bare Breasted Countess, Helga She Wolf Of Stilberg, Elsa Fraulein SS
ELSA FRAULEIN SS
A train full of beautiful young women have been ordered to service the men aboard; men being taken to help fight for the Nazis. Elsa, the leader, specialises in torturing those whose loyalty to the Nazi party comes into question. A group of brave Frenchman are planning to derail the train, while planning an attack that will strike back at the Third Reich.
Special Features:
Trailers for Bare Breasted Countess, Helga She Wolf Of Stilberg, Elsa Fraulein SS
The first release from Black House Films will be zombie classic Zombie Lake from French horror maestro Jean Rollin, set for DVD on 20 March 2017 and Juan Fortuny’s Crimson on 17 April 2017 also released the same day is Jess Franco’s Oasis Of The Living Dead.
ZOMBIE LAKE
French horror maestro, Jean Rollin directs this zombie classic where young, nubile women are disappearing without trace in a small lakeside town. The superstitious locals blame The Lake of Ghosts , but the town’s mayor (Howard Vernon) is unwilling to investigate. When another woman is found dead with her throat ripped out, a reporter discovers that the lake harbours a terrible secret dating back to World War II. Now the locals must become resistance fighters once again – and take on the returning Nazi zombie Stormtroopers who are back from the dead!
Special Features:
Trailers for Zombie Lake, Oasis Of The Living Dead, Crimson
CRIMSON
When a robbery goes horribly wrong and their leader, Jack is shot in the head, a group of criminals go to extreme measures to save their friends life. With the help of a local doctor the gang devise a uniquely plan – to kill their worst enemy, throw his body in front of a train and use the brain from the severed head as a transplant! The operation is a success, all seems well…that is until the brains former owner starts living out his murderous past.
Special Features:
Trailers for Zombie Lake, Oasis Of The Living Dead, Crimson
OASIS OF THE LIVING DEAD
Robert, a student at an English university, receives word of his father’s unexpected death and returns home to Africa. While reading his father’s dairies, Robert learns of the obsession that led to his death: $6,000,000 in Nazi gold that remains buried at an oasis in the Sahara desert, protected by the restless, rotting souls who died protecting it. Using his inheritance, Robert bands together with three fellow students to wrest the unclaimed fortune from the dunes of the dead!
Special Features:
None announced yet.
Looks like both labels will be ones to keep your eyes on if this opening line up of releases are this strong. Be sure to pre-order your copies at the links next to each title.
Screenbound’s managing director Alan Byron said:
‘When Screenbound started as Odeon Entertainment 13 years ago with several music productions, our first step into film sales was representing Nigel Wingrove’s Jean Rollin and Jess Franco Euro-shock and sleaze titles for Salvation Films. In a sense, we have now come full circle by launching our own new cult labels – Maison Rouge and Black House Films – which will showcase the best and basest of Euro Exploitation over the next three years. Maison Rouge will focus on sexploitation and once established will bring in new as well as retro cult features. Its sister label, Black House Films, takes its inspiration from the Church of Satan and will release dark, Gothic horrors from the 1960s to 1980s.’
Both imprints are being released on DVD with each having multiple poster art cards inside for collectors. Most releases will have special features included and a selection of titles will be released on limited edition Blu-ray with O Cards.
Alan Byron continued:
‘Plans are already in place to pick up another 20 films for these labels which already have a distinctive design appeal that is being appreciated by the fan base’.