Severin Films locks and loads with ’80s jungle mayhem this June

On 22nd June 2021, Severin Films is brandishing a machete and hacking through the thick brush of exploitation cinema history to retrieve a trio of hidden treasures – STRIKE COMMANDO, STRIKE COMMANDO 2 and INVADERS OF THE LOST GOLD – all featuring new Special Features and presented on Blu-Ray for the first time ever.

STRIKE COMMANDO

Two years before the deranged genius of ROBOWAR and SHOCKING DARK, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, MISSING IN ACTION and more to create their own mind-blowing ‘Namsploitation masterpiece: Reb Brown (UNCOMMON VALOR) stars as Sgt. Mike Ransom, a one-man war machine on a screaming-for-vengeance mission against brutal Vietcong, merciless Russians, double-crossing U.S. officers and acres of bullet-blasted Philippines jungle. Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS), Luciano Pigozzi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) and Jim Gaines (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this exploding bamboo gun-tower of “Mattei magic at its finest” (Good Efficient Butchery), now mastered in 2K from the original negative for the first time.

Blu-ray Special Features:

Includes both Theatrical and Extended Cuts
War Machine – Interview with Co-Director Claduio Fragasso
All Quiet on the Philippine Front – Interview with Screenwriter Rossella Drudi
STRIKE COMMANDO In-Production Promo
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono and Italian with English for Extended Scenes (Extended Cut) / English Mono and Italian Mono (Theatrical Cut)
English SDH for both English & Italian
Region A

https://severin-films.com/shop/strike-commando-blu/

DVD Special Features:

Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono and Italian Mono
English SDH for both English & Italian
Region 1

https://severin-films.com/shop/strike-commando-dvd/

STRIKE COMMANDO 2

Director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi return to the Philippine jungles with a higher budget, bigger action and Richard Harris (yes, that Richard Harris) for a crowd-pleaser that shamelessly borrows from APOCALYPSE NOW, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, RAMBO and beyond. This time, Sgt Mike Ransom (Brent Huff of GWENDOLINE fame) battles the KGB, rogue CIA agents, an army of ninjas, a tough bar owner (Miss World 1977 Mary Stavin) and “all the stuntman craziness and explosions you can cram into 90 minutes” (DTV Connoisseur). Mel Davidson (ROBOWAR) and Vic Diaz (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) co-star in this slow-motion machine-gun of Mattei mayhem that’s “just as insane as its predecessor” (Good Efficient Butchery), now featuring a 2K scan from the original negative for the first time ever.

Blu-Ray Special Features:

Includes Both Theatrical and Extended Cuts
Guerrilla Zone – Interview with Co-Director Claduio Fragasso
Michael Ransom Strikes Back – Interview with Actor Brent Huff
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono and Italian with English for Extended Scenes (Extended Cut) / English Mono and Italian Mono (Theatrical Cut)
English SDH for both English & Italian
Region A

https://severin-films.com/shop/strike-commando-2-blu/

DVD Special Features:

Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono and Italian Mono
English SDH for both English & Italian
Region 1

https://severin-films.com/shop/strike-commando-2-dvd/

INVADERS OF THE LOST GOLD

From producer Dick Randall – whose international trashterpieces include ESCAPE FROM WOMEN’S PRISON, THE WILD WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD and PIECES – comes perhaps the most notorious all-star Philippine productions of the ‘80s: In the last days of WWII, a Japanese platoon is attacked by headhunters while attempting to hide millions in gold. 36 years later, a grizzled guide (onetime Academy Award® nominee Stuart Whitman) is hired to lead an expedition – including Woody Strode (SPARTACUS), Harold ‘Oddjob’ Sakata and Laura ‘Emanuelle’ Gemser – into a jungle inferno of greed, violence, nudity and murder. Edmund Purdom (ABSURD) and Glynis Barber (DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE) co-star in this “delicious piece of atrocity cake” (Funxton) directed by Alan Birkenshaw (KILLER’S MOON) – also known as HORROR SAFARI – now scanned in 2K for the first time ever.

Blu-Ray Special Features: