PRINCE OF DARKNESS **** USA 1987 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Considered the middle part of an “apocalypse” trilogy bracketed by THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, this was Carpenter’s return to low budget filmmaking after several years of working for Hollywood studios. A mature and unfashionable 80’s…
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Severin Films will be dishing out only treats this Halloween as in their treat bag they have Eurosleaze BYLETH: THE DEMON OF INCEST, howl at the moon with the release of WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS’ DORMITORY and not forgetting spandex classical music terror PAGANINI HORROR. All titles are expected to…
From the minds of Luigi Cozzi (CONTAMINATION) and Daria Nicolodi (SUSPIRIA) comes PAGANINI HORROR a slash-tastic piece of cheesy Euro-horror that could only have been made in the 80s! 88 Films are proud to present this bonkers slice of Italian cult cinema, a camp classic in the making, ripe for…
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK ***** USA 1981 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Carpenter’s hugely influential dystopian sci-fi movie indulged his adoration of antiheroes and life-long disdain for authority, while taking the crime-ridden, pre-Giuliani state of New York City (already the subject of various vigilante movies) to its natural extreme. The…
Severin Films next release will be the classic 1977 anthology horror THE UNCANNY, starring Peter Cushing & Ray Milland. In 1977, legendary Amicus co-founder Milton Subotsky (ASYLUM, AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS) teamed with Canadian producer Claude Héroux (SCANNERS, VIDEODROME) for the anthology shocker CelluloidDiaries.com calls “highly entertaining…the best killer…