No Bad Movie

"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." -Roger Ebert

Vinegar Syndrome: May 2025

Christopher Haskell
28–43 minutes

The Golden Child

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ULTRA ⍟

| VSU-012 BOX |

Paramount | 1986 | 93 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, James Hong

This special limited edition deluxe magnet box + slipcover set (designed by JJ Harrison), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 8,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Nestled in the mountains of Tibet, an oracle known as “The Golden Child” has been born. Although guarded by the monks who raised him, villainous Sardo Numspa is determined to use the child’s mystical powers for evil purposes and hires bandits to kidnap him. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, crafty self-styled detective Chandler Jarrell is approached by Kee Nang, a young woman the monks have sent to aid in their quest to recover the child. Informing Chandler that he is the “chosen one,” the duo embark on an increasingly strange and dangerous adventure into the supernatural underworld, facing strange creatures, magical charms, and the threat of death around every corner as Sardo does everything in his power to prevent them from uncovering where he has hidden the child.

Effortlessly merging the insanity of an 80s exploitation film with the spectacle of a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster, director Michael Ritchie’s (Prime Cut, The Bad News Bears) THE GOLDEN CHILD stars groundbreaking comedian and actor Eddie Murphy (48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop) in one of his wildest performances along with Charles Dance (Last Action Hero), Charlotte Lewis (Men of War, Pirates), and cult film superstar James Hong (The Vineyard, Big Trouble in Little China). Offering incredible production design and memorable stop motion effects, as well as plenty of weird and unexpected touches of sleaze, THE GOLDEN CHILD makes its 4K UHD debut from Vinegar Syndrome Ultra, restored in 4K from its camera negative and presented with a heaping host of interviews and extras, both new and archival.

  • 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
  • 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Commentary track with author/screenwriter Kelly Goodner and film historian Jim Hemphill
  • “Throwing Elbows” (19 min) – writer / co-producer Dennis Feldman on writing, selling, and making it to Hollywood
  • “Lover of Realism” (13 min) – an interview with matte painter Caroleen “Jett” Green
  • “FX Man” (13 min) – an interview with Academy® Scientific and Engineering Award winner Mark Noel
  • “The Demon I Wanted to Make” (12 min) – designer and sculptor Randal Dutra on creating Sardo Numspa’s demon form
  • “Master of a Lost Art” (15 min) – go-motion supervisor Harry Walton on animating The Golden Child’s go-motion sequences
  • “The Chosen Ones” (7 min) – an archival making-of featurette
  • “Daggers, Design, and Demons” (7 min) – an archival making-of featurette
  • Archival interview with Harry Walton from Berton Pierce’s Sense of Scale (5 min)
  • Trailer
  • Image gallery
  • 40-page perfect bound book with essays by Walter Chaw, Chris Shields, and M.D. Rodrigues (Limited Edition Only)
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

Jade

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

| VS-502 CASE |

Paramount | 1995 | 107 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Directed by William Friedkin
Starring: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Biehn, Richard Crenna, Donna Murphy

This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Adam Maida), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 8,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

When prominent businessman Kyle Medford is found murdered and horribly mutilated at his massive estate, Assistant District Attorney David Corelli is brought in to investigate. After discovering that Medford had photos featuring the governor and a high-class prostitute, Corelli begins to uncover a complicated web of blackmail and perversion connecting the business and political elite, and all leading back to illicit encounters they shared with a mysterious call girl known only as “Jade.” The deeper Corelli delves into the twisted details surrounding Murphy’s lifestyle, the closer he comes to unmasking a sophisticated killer who will do anything to hide the truth, including perpetrating additional acts of violence…

Long one of the most difficult to find films from acclaimed and Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection), JADE is an ultra-stylish erotic thriller with an outrageously clever screenplay from genre master Joe Eszterhas (Showgirls, Sliver). Starring David Caruso (TV’s CSI: Miami), Linda Fiorentino (Vision Quest, After Hours), Michael Biehn (The Terminator), and Richard Crenna (First Blood), and featuring a legendary car chase through the streets of San Francisco, as well as a score by multi-Academy Award winner James Horner (Aliens), this over-the-top and steamy whodunit at last makes its way to 4K UHD and Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, newly restored from its 35mm camera negative for this release and presented in both its extended director’s cut as well as its original theatrical version, in addition to featuring an extensive array of interviews with cast and crew.

  • 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD (High Bitrate UHD100) + Region A Blu-ray
  • 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Both the 95-minute Theatrical Cut and the 107-minute Director’s Cut are presented on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray
  • Commentary track with Jennifer Moorman (theatrical cut)
  • “Eszterhas, Friedkin and Jade” (7 min) – an interview with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas
  • “Hysterical Blindness: William Friedkin at Paramount” (22 min) – a featurette with editor Augie Hess and assistant editor Darrin Navarro
  • “An Interview with Director William Friedkin” (13 min) – interviewed by television personality Charlie Rose
  • Original trailer
  • 40-page perfect bound book with essays by Marya E. Gates, Charles Bramesco, Juan Barquin, and Justin LaLiberty (Limited Edition Only)
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

Dirty Work

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

| VS-504 CASE |

MGM | 1998 | 83 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Directed by Bob Saget
Starring: Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Chris Farley, Chevy Chase, Don Rickles, Jack Warden, Traylor Howard, Christopher McDonald, Adam Sandler

This special limited edition 3-disc 4K UHD/2 x Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Brianna Miller), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 8,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

After losing his job, girlfriend, and apartment, lifelong prankster Mitch moves in with his childhood best friend Sam, and Sam’s cantankerous father, Pops. When Pops has a heart attack, his surgeon, Dr. Farthing, delivers grim news: Pops needs a new heart, which Farthing will gladly secure in exchange for $50,000 to pay off his gambling debts. Desperate for a lot of cash quickly, Sam and Mitch realize that their joint love of causing mischief could be the perfect means of raising funds, thus opening a revenge-for-hire business named “Dirty Work.” With creative solutions to spiteful problems and chaotically doled-out retribution, clients are lining up. But when an evil local politician hires them to pull off an especially malicious prank, Mitch is forced to reckon with the consequences of his actions.

Pushing the boundaries of crass gags and raunchy dialogue, acclaimed comedian Bob Saget’s (TV’s Full House) sole theatrical feature directing effort, DIRTY WORK stars and was co-written by the legendary Norm Macdonald (TV’s Saturday Night Live). Featuring supporting performances from some of the biggest names in comedy history, including Artie Lange (TV’s Mad TV), Chevy Chase (National Lampoon’s Vacation), Don Rickles (Beach Blanket Bingo), and Chris Farley (Tommy Boy), plus two-time Academy Award® nominee Jack Warden as Pops, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present the 4K UHD debut of DIRTY WORK, newly restored from its original camera negative and presented both in its theatrical version as well as its long lost “Dirtier Cut,” which is being presented to the general public for the first time ever!

  • 3-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD (High Bitrate UHD100) + 2 Region A Blu-rays
  • 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
  • Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
  • Both the 82-minute Theatrical Cut and the 83-minute Dirtier Cut are presented on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray
  • Commentary track with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and Mike Hunchback (Theatrical Cut)
  • Commentary track with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and co-writer/actor Fred Wolf (Dirtier Cut)
  • “Note to Self: Doing Dirty Work” (63 min) – a newly produced making-of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew
  • “Hey Jim, It’s Norm” (19 min) – an interview with actor Jim Downey and co-writer Frank Sebastiano
  • “The Last Word” (16 min) – an interview with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and co-writer/actor Fred Wolf
  • Front Row” (9 min) – an interview with assistant director Alan Goluboff
  • “Cutting Dirty Work” (6 min) – an interview with first assistant editor Ryan Folsey
  • “Excuse Me” (8 min) – an interview with co-writer/actor Fred Wolf
  • “Revenge for Hire” (9 min) – an interview with co-writer Frank Sebastiano
  • “Face First” (7 min) – an interview with Norm’s stunt double Brian Jagersky
  • “Fully Loaded” (8 min) – an interview with actor David Koechner
  • “Nose Biter” (5 min) – an interview with actress Uni Park
  • “Quicksand” (8 min) – an interview with actor Kevin Farley
  • “Two Dollars” (11 min) – an interview with actor Jim Downey
  • 2-hour Assembly Cut of Dirty Work (sourced from video)
  • Alternate extended ending
  • Original trailer
  • 40-page perfect bound book with essays by Dan Ozzi, John Dieringer, and Oscar Becher (Limited Edition Only)
  • Reversible sleeve artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

Swimming to Cambodia

⍟ Cinématographe ⍟

| CIN-018 CASE |

MGM | 1987 | 85 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Starring: Spalding Gray

Taking its name from the Lumière Brothers invention of the same name, Cinématographe is a new sub-label from Vinegar Syndrome that seeks to fill gaps in the canon of American cinema. Offering a mix of auteur driven studio films produced during the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and 70s all the way through the indie boom of the 1980s and 90s, Cinématographe will explore the wide breadth of American moviemaking, spanning numerous genres and scales of production. Curated and produced by Vinegar Syndrome’s Justin LaLiberty, each limited edition release will be housed in a specially designed, cloth-bound, media book with embossed foil titles and custom molded disc trays accompanied by a slipcase featuring newly commissioned art and an individually numbered J-card.

This special limited edition J-card MediaBook slipcase (designed by Adam Maida) is limited to 3,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Noted playwright, novelist and monologuist Spalding Gray spent eight weeks in Asia as an actor in Roland Joffé’s Academy Award Winning historical drama The Killing Fields, chronicling the history of the Khmer Rouge regime. In his famed one man show, Swimming to Cambodia, Gray laid bare his experiences on set and contextualizes his anecdotes with the stark history of the region.

Directed for the screen by Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense), rendering Gray’s heartfelt, often very funny, monologue cinematic with the help of collaborators like cinematographer John Bailey (Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters), editor Carol Littleton (Beloved), and multidisciplinary artist Laurie Anderson, who is responsible for the film’s evocative score. Cinématographe is proud to bring one of the great performance films, and an oft-overlooked entry in Jonathan Demme’s career, to blu-ray for the first time in the world in a 2K new restoration from its original camera negative.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • New audio commentary with film critic Scout Tafoya
  • Lifting Up the Carpet – a new video interview with Roland Joffé, director of The Killing Fields
  • A Good Story is a Good Story – a new video interview with executive producer Ira Deutchman
  • The Great Sensorium of the World – a new video interview with producer Edward Saxon
  • Archival video interview with Jonathan Demme from 2013
  • Two episodes of the Pure Nonfiction podcast: Jonathan Demme’s Real Life Characters, recorded in 2016, featuring Demme discussing Swimming to Cambodia; and Jonathan Demme & Renée Shafransky on Spalding Gray, recorded in 2017
  • New text essays by film critics Marya E. Gates, Chris Shields, Keith Uhlich and David M. Stewart, author of There’s No Going Back: The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
  • English SDH subtitles

A Life In Dirty Movies

⍟ Film Movement ⍟

| FM-015 SLIP |

2013 | 80 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Wiktor Ericsson
Starring: Joe Sarno, Peggy Sarno

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Steak Mtn) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

A Life in Dirty Movies is a love story about legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno, “the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street,” and his loyal wife and collaborator Peggy. The film follows the Sarnos for a year, as 88-year old Joe struggles to get a new film project off the ground – a female-centric softcore film that harkens back to the style of his heyday as a filmmaker in the 1960s. As audiences tag along for the eventful and often hilarious journey between wintery Manhattan and the couple’s summer retreat in Sweden, the film’s intimate perspective reveals a filmmaker on the verge of being rediscovered in his golden years. Intercut is a look back to the evolution of softcore films seen as racy in their day into unmistakable hardcore porn that all but put Sarno and his artform out of business. The film chronicles Sarno’s significant place in film history as an erotic “auteur,” whose ambitions as a filmmaker often surpassed the needs of the genre he helped define. A Life in Dirty Movies is a clever and sincere portrait of a unique couple who follow their passion in life – onscreen and off.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • New Audio Commentary with Wiktor Ericsson and Rickard Gramfors
  • Fäbodjäntan segment
  • Young Playthings segment
  • Tod Moore Interview
  • Katinka Interview
  • Sarah Denby Interview
  • Annie Sprinkle Interview
  • Jamie Gillis Interview
  • Essay by film historian Dan Erdman
  • English subtitles

Action: The October Crisis of 1970

⍟ CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES ⍟

| CIP-035 SLIP |

1973 | 87 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Robin Spry
Starring: Robin Spry, Pierre Trudeau, René Lévesque, Robert Lemieux, Jean Drapeau, Robert Bourassa, John Diefenbaker

From arthouse to Canuxploitation, Canadian International Pictures (CIP) is devoted to resurrecting vital, distinctive, and overlooked triumphs of Canadian cinema. This label is focused on the country’s original cinematic boom years – spanning the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s – occasionally venturing past that period (and the country’s borders) to highlight the films of Canada’s most inspired actors and filmmakers. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing CIP’s brand new line of home video releases!

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Dylan Haley) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

A gripping account of the crisis that shocked Canada.

In October 1970, the long-brewing tension between French and English Canada explodes onto the world stage after a group of Québécois nationalists violently kidnap two prominent political figures, holding them ransom and issuing a now-famous manifesto. With a nation on the brink, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau responds by invoking the controversial War Measure Act, suspending civil liberties in Québec, jailing hundreds without trial, and unleashing the Canadian Armed Forces on the streets of Montréal. As tensions mount, local and federal leaders are forced to reckon in real time with shocking acts of political violence and unprecedented abuses of government power.

A masterclass in urgent historical filmmaking by National Film Board veteran Robin Spry (One Man), Action: The October Crisis of 1970 is a bracing portrait, expertly synthesizing a dizzying, watershed moment through archival material, news reports, and first-hand, on-the-ground footage. In league with the great political documentaries of the ‘60s and ‘70s – and complemented here by its companion film, Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis – Action remains a riveting account of the upheaval that shook Canada to its very core.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Scanned and restored in 2K from the 16mm interpositive by the National Film Board of Canada
  • Audio commentary featuring writer and film programmer Justine Smith
  • Audio commentary assembled from archival interviews with director Robin Spry
  • Tensions and Contradictions (2025, 16 min.) – New interview with professor Zoë Druick
  • Making Action (2025, 15 min.) – New interview with NFB curator Marc St-Pierre
  • Alternate French language audio track
  • Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis (1973, 58 min.) – Spry documentary exploring a sampling of English-speaking Québec’s perspective on the October Crisis
  • Booklet featuring a new essay by film critic/professor Tom McSorley and an essay by film journalist A. Ibrányi-Kiss
  • Reversible cover artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

Batang West Side

⍟ kani ⍟

| KANI-026 SLIP |

2001 | 301 min (combined) | 1.85:1 | Tagalog, English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Lav Diaz
Starring: Yul Servo, Joel Torre, Gloria Diaz, Priscilla Almeda, Art Acuña

Named after Yasujiro Ozu’s custom-made, tatami-level, crab-like tripod, Kani is a new home video label dedicated to leveling the gaze and furthering the understanding of Asian cinema in North America. Focused on genre-defying films, Kani aims to expand the canon, bolster up-and-coming filmmakers and reintroduce repertory classics in context. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo), shot dead one winter night on West Side Ave, police detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs of Jersey city who trade in shabu – crystal meth. Talking to the boy’s mother, remarried to an American; to his grandfather, an ex-soldier as well as to his American-born girlfriend, bigger questions emerge: what dark history has pushed so many Filipinos to migrate this wintry land? Why are these the conditions of their children? Out of what past does this detective emerge?

Shot on 16mm under duress at the freezing turn of the millennium by a young, fearless Lav Diaz (Norte, The End of History), Batang West Side remains a timeless epic about Filipino immigration over generations. Diaz’s sole film shot in the United States, and the longest film to be made by a Southeast Asia director at the time, Diaz does not shy away from the power of cumulative answers, revealed intricately over the course of the kind epic runtime and Dostoyevskian themes that would become hallmarks in the oeuvre of the Filipino master.

  • 2-disc Region A Blu-ray
  • 2K Restoration
  • Interview with director Lav Diaz (13mins, 2024)
  • Interview with actor Joel Torre (20mins, 2024)
  • Interview with actor Gloria Diaz (10mins, 2024)
  • Interview with actor Art Acuña (15mins, 2024)
  • Interview with actor Priscilla Viduya (8mins, 2024)
  • Booklet with archival writing by critic Alexis Tioseco and writer Gil Quito with archival photographs by Cesar Hernando
  • New art by Tom Estrera III
  • English subtitles

Blood Quantum

⍟ SHUDDER ⍟

| SHU-014 SLIP |

2019 | 98 min | 2.39:1 | English, Micmac DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Jeff Barnaby
Starring: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck

Called “one of the best streaming services in the world” by RogerEbert.com and described by Thrillist as “pretty much everything a horror fan could want,” Shudder is a premium streaming service offering the best selection of horror, thriller and supernatural movies, series and specials.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Steak Mtn) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

The dead are coming back to life outside. But in the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, the indigenous inhabitants are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees and reserve riffraff from the hordes of walking white corpses.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • New commentary with film critic Scout Tafoya
  • Behind the Scenes Footage
  • File Under Miscellaneous – short film by Jeff Barnaby
  • Stills Gallery
  • Booklet with new writing by film critic Mo Moshaty
  • English SDH subtitles

Consumed

⍟ BRAINSTORM MEDIA ⍟

| BST-004 SLIP |

2024 | 89 min | 2.35:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Mitchell Altieri
Starring: Devon Sawa, Mark Famiglietti, Courtney Halverson

Since Brainstorm Media’s inception in 1995, the company has had a forward-thinking approach to a growing indie marketplace. With an ethos of adaptability, Brainstorm continues to expand its network of partners and explore unique models of distribution. Brainstorm’s mission is to realize focused and creative distribution strategies for its content partners.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Black Coffiend) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Trapped between a madman and a skin-stealing monster, a married couple must fight to make it out of the woods alive.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Commentary with Director Mitchell Altieri and Writer David Calbert
  • Video Interview with Jim Ojala, creator of the creature effects in the film
  • Behind the Scenes footage (40 minutes)
  • SFX footage (30 minutes)
  • SFX still gallery 
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Booklet with new essay by film critic Don Lewis
  • English SDH subtitles

Crass: The Sound of Free Speech –
The Story of Reality Asylum

⍟ Factory 25 ⍟

| FTF-155 SLIP |

2023 | 95 min | 1.78:1 | English Dolby Digital 2.0
Directed by Brandon Spivey
Starring: Penny Rimbaud, Steve Ignorant, Gee Vaucher, Mike Duffield, Annie Bandez, Ben Ponton, Tom Rattigan and Andy T

Factory 25, a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution company was founded in 2009 by Matt Grady. F25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. Its mission is to deliver specialized film and music titles in an aesthetically captivating way while exposing the indie world to under-the-radar films, music, and other curiosities in various ways and formats — theatrically, digitally, on TV, VOD, via subscription, limited edition DVDs, Blu-ray’s, books and vinyl. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Crass: The Sound of Free Speech – The Story of Reality Asylum dives into 1970s Britain; the birth of punk and the formation of Crass, with an in-depth look at their art, music and ethos.

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Deleted Scenes including extended interviews with Crass members and director Brandon Spivey
  • 28 page booklet with an interview with director Brandon Spivey, lyrics and info from Reality Asylum
  • English subtitles

The Monopoly of Violence + A German Youth

⍟ BIG WORLD PICTURES ⍟

| BWP-011 SLIP |

2015—2020 | 191 min (combined) | 1.78:1, 1.85:1 | French & German DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by David Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Périot
Starring: Gwendal Leroy, Patrice Philippe, Alain Damasio, Fabien Jobard, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Horst Mahler, Gudrun Ensslin

Founded in 2013, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. Previous releases include films by Radu Jude, Tamer El Said, Maya Vitkova, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Julia Murat, Tsai Ming-liang and Eric Rohmer. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Steak Mtn) is limited to 500 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.

In the 1960s, the young democracy of West Germany was embarrassed by its Nazi past, yet confirmed in its role as imperialist and capitalist society. The postwar generation, in direct conflict with their fathers, was trying to find its place. The student movement exploded in 1966. As the situation deteriorated, it radicalized those involved in a gradual escalation of violence and reprisals. A GERMAN YOUTH chronicles this radicalization, which gave birth to the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German revolutionary terrorist group founded notably by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. The film aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • The Monopoly of Violence trailer A German Youth trailer
  • Bonus short films by Jean-Gabriel Périot:
    • The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon (2009)
    • The Devil (2012)
  • Booklet with new writing by film critic Filipe Furtado English subtitles

Red Island

⍟ Film Movement ⍟

| FM-014 SLIP |

2023 | 117 min | 1.37:1 | English, Malagasy DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Robin Campillo
Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle, Amely Rakotoarimalala, Sophie Guillemin, Hugues Delamarlière

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Brandon Schaefer) is limited to 500 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family’s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering the hidden and tangled political and sexual lives of the colonizers and the colonized. As relocation looms, Thomas questions whether the memories he has made are ones he should remember fondly.

Simultaneously a sensual evocation of discovering the adult world and a sober reflection of what it represents, Robin Campillo’s anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 120 BPM weaves together the personal and political in a “visually spectacular [and] masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child’s eyes” (The Upcoming).

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Commentary with director Robin Campillo
  • Essay by film critic Sam Cohen
  • English subtitles

Satan Wants You

⍟ ETR MEDIA ⍟

| ETRM035 SLIP |

2023 | 90 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams
Starring: Sarah Marshall, Charyl Proby-Austman, Charles Ennis, Debbie Nathan, Ken Lanning, Elizabeth Loftus, Blanche Barton, Jeffrey S. Victor

ETR Media is the brand new film distribution arm of Enjoy the Ride Records, a Long Island based record label, specializing in cult following reissues through a variety of genres. ETR Media releases will adhere to the same quality standards as fans have come to associate with their lavish LP reissues. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this new and unique home video line!

This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Satan Wants You tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by “Michelle Remembers”, a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists. Amplified by law enforcement and America’s Daytime TV boom, satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake. This film digs deep into the roots of moral panics and cult conspiracies, showing how these events still affect and distort our reality today.

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Booklet featuring a new essay by Heather Drain
  • Trailer
  • English SDH subtitles

The Scare Film Archives Volume 2: Danger Stories

⍟ american genre film archive ⍟

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1951-1982 | 88 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Various
Starring: Various

The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) represents the world’s largest theatrical catalog of exploitation cinema. Their home video line presents a diverse selection of movies, ranging from new preservations of classics from the vast library of Something Weird to the wildest in shot-on-video (SOV) titles. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Prepare to learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about sentient flames, rebellious bicycles, and workplace dismemberment. THE SCARE FILM ARCHIVES VOLUME 2: DANGER STORIES collects the best-of-the-best educational safety-scare films from the twentieth century. Lovingly curated from Something Weird’s vaults and beyond, these surrealist visions have been preserved from original 16mm prints that were inflicted upon children in classrooms across America.

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Thirteen shorts preserved from original 16mm elements:
    • LIVE AND LEARN (1951)
    • WHY TAKE CHANCES (1952)
    • FARM PETROLEUM SAFETY (1954)
    • THE TIME OF OUR LIVES (1950s)
    • THE DAY THE BICYCLES DISAPPEARED (1967)
    • THE DANGEROUS STRANGER (1971)
    • THE GREAT BETRAYAL (1974)
    • SAFETY HARM HIDES AT HOME (1974)
    • HAVE A GOOD DAY, DEAR (1977)
    • MR. FLAME (1970s)
    • SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER (1980)
    • THE ATTITUDE FACTOR (1981)
    • ACCIDENT REPORT (1982)
  • MR. FLAME: Commentary with AGFA’s Bret Berg, Tiernan O’Rourke, & Joe Ziemba
  • SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER: Commentary with songwriter Jim Stringer, A/V Geeks’s Skip Elsheimer, & Tiernan O’Rourke
  • DANGER STORIES: A WORD SALAD SYMPHONY, an exclusive feature length mixtape from Bret Berg
  • English SDH subtitles

Sleeping Beauty

⍟ IFC FILMS ⍟

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2011 | 101 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Bridgette Barrett

Established in 2000 and based in New York City, IFC Films is a leading U.S. distributor of independent film. Its unique distribution model makes independent films available to a national audience by releasing them in theaters as well as on VOD. Partnered with OCN Distribution, IFC will release new titles on home video and revisit past favorites in brand new editions, with many making their HD physical media debuts. 

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Stephanie Monohan) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Jane Campion presents SLEEPING BEAUTY, the bold and provocative directorial debut of Julia Leigh, an official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Chicago film festivals. Featuring a phenomenal breakthrough performance by Emily Browning, this coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth poses its heroine as a rarified sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality with bravado and precision.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • New audio commentary by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • Booklet with new writing by film critic Esther Rosenfield
  • English SDH subtitles

The Soultangler

⍟ BLEEDING SKULL ⍟

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1987 | 90 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Pat Bishow
Starring: Various

Since 2004, Bleeding Skull has explored otherworldly cinema through reviews, books, and home video releases. We shine a light on independent genre films that have flown under the radar but deserve to be seen by all. Fangoria has called Bleeding Skull “The go-to encyclopedia for trash, bizarre, and shot-on-video cinema,” while Vice referred to it as “like a fever dream glimpse into parallel worlds”. Visit us at BLEEDINGSKULL.COM.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Welcome to Long Island’s answer to RE-ANIMATOR. THE SOULTANGLER tells the story of Dr. Anton Lupesky, a rabid genius who develops a drug that allows users to inhabit corpses . . . and embark on gore-soaked murder-sprees. Shot on 16mm in basements and garages by director Pat Bishow on Long Island, this is body horror bliss that’s filled with dreamlike imagery, wanton dismemberment, and an earnest devotion to storytelling in the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft.

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Preserved from the 1″ tape master, as the 16mm film elements are lost
  • Commentary with director Pat Bishow
  • Director’s Cut (62 mins)
  • Behind-the-scenes footage
  • Q&A from 2018
  • Photo gallery
  • Original trailer
  • Trailer: THE DEAD OF NIGHT TOWN (1984)
  • Music video: “Wow” by Hypnolovewheel
  • Bonus movie: IT’S A HAUNTED HAPPENIN’ (2002, 74 mins), a previously unreleased film from Pat Bishow
  • IT’S A HAUNTED HAPPENIN’: Commentary with Bishow & co-writer Jon Sanborne
  • English SDH subtitles

Time to Die

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT CLASSICS ⍟

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1966 | 89 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Starring: Marga Lopez, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Enrique Rocha, Alfredo Leal

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Tony Stella) is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Fresh from serving eighteen years in jail for shooting a man in self-defense, Juan Sayago (Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, The Magnificent Seven) comes back to his hometown to start life anew and reunite with old flame Mariana (Marga Lopez, Bunuel’s Nazarin). But the two sons of the man he killed, consumed by an overwhelming thirst for revenge, have been anxiously awaiting his return. From an original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), and featuring dialogue by Mexican novelist/essayist Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo), this stunning directorial debut by a then-21-year-old Arturo Ripstein provides insight into the genius who would go on to create Deep Crimson and Hell Without Limits.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Video introduction by director Alex Cox (Repo Man)
  • Commentary by director Arturo Ripstein and actor Enrique Rocha
  • Essays by Carlos A. Gutierrez, co-founder of Cinema Tropical and film critic Erica Shultz
  • English subtitles

The Wait

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT ⍟

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2023 | 99 min | 1.85:1 | Spanish DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez
Starring: Víctor Clavijo, Ruth Díaz, Luis Callejo

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Black Coffiend) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Deep in the Andalusian countryside, Eladio (Victor Clavijo) works as the groundskeeper of a hunting estate owned by the powerful Don Francisco. After taking a bribe from a veteran hunter, Eladio’s normal life falls apart, plunging him into the depths of guilt, hatred and revenge.

From director F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall), THE WAIT is a folk horror thriller that “takes viewers along on a macabre descent into hell” (Screen Zealots). With “haunting visuals” (AWFJ.org) and a “gripping performance” (Horror Fuel) from Victor Clavijo, THE WAIT offers a terrifying vision of loss.

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • Commentary with director F. Javier Gutiérrez
  • The Wait VFX Reel
  • Essay by film critic Rob Hunter
  • English subtitles

You Are Alone

⍟ SATURN’S CORE ⍟

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2005 | 84 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Gorman Bechard
Starring: Jessica Bohl, Richard Brundage, Keith Herron, Eric Deskin, Tate Ellington

Saturn’s Core Audio & Video is a New Jersey based home video label devoted to releasing underground oddities and shot on video cinema on VHS, and now, blu-ray discs! In partnership with OCN Distribution, Saturn’s Core will exhume forgotten or under-seen genre cinema from the 80s and 90s, with an emphasis on SOV horror features. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Elizabeth Yoo) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

You Are Alone presents a haunting exploration into just how far a man and woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne (Jessica Bohl), a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort advertising her services online. In a fateful bit of happenstance, her next door neighbor Buddy (Richard Brundage) discovers her as the “entertainment” at his nephew’s bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with Buddy alone in a hotel room. Initially confrontational, Daphne and Buddy slowly begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex. But behind this teenager’s jaded fantasies hides the very essence of heartbreak, acceptance, need, and desire; ironically paralleled by a broken man’s desperate attempts to test the limits of her advertised promise to to do anything and everything.

After a decade long sabbatical writing novels, legendary Connecticut based cult director Gorman Bechard (Psychos in Love, Disconnected, Galactic Giglio) returned to filmmaking with You Are Alone; a stripped down, micro-budget MiniDV lensed knockout that utilized an insular cast and a single filming location (New Haven’s storied Duncan Hotel). Lauded by critics as a “Last Tango in New Haven” and featuring a staggering, award-winning performance by lead actress Jessica Bohl (which took the Best Actress award at both the Brooklyn International Film Festival and Indiefest Chicago in 2005), You Are Alone remains a stunning testament to the possibilities of uncompromised, micro-budget video filmmaking as well as an essential cinematic puzzle piece in the oeuvre of one of the nations most captivating and original regional auteurs.

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • New 2025 audio commentary with writer / director Gorman Bechard moderated by Faith Marek
  • Archival 2006 audio commentary with writer / director Gorman Bechard
  • Original 97 minute rough cut
  • “Color Me Depressed” -a new 2025 career spanning interview with writer / director Gorman Bechard
  • Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary with writer / director Gorman Bechard
  • Behind the scenes footage
  • Gorman Bechard short films:
    • The Only Take (1983)
    • The Pretty Girl (2000)
    • In Her Eyes (2000)
    • This Used to Be My Home (2001)
    • Black Dog Can’t Jump (2001)
    • Live Nude Bears (2002)
    • Objects in the Mirror Are Further Than They Appear (2003)
  • Trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Elizabeth Yoo
  • “Cars and History” – Strays Don’t Sleep music video
  • English SDH subtitles

Naked Came The Stranger

⍟ Mélusine ⍟

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1975 | 84 min | 1.66:1 | English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Radley Metzger
Starring: Darby Lloyd Rains, Levi Richards, Mary Stuart, Kevin Andre, Marc Stevens, Gerald Grant, Alan Marlow, Helen Madigan

This special limited edition gold foil magnet clasp slipcase + slipcover set (designed by Robert Sammelin) is limited to 4,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Billy and Gilly host New York’s most provocative and successful morning talk show. But their lascivious on-the-air personas are masking a far less than voracious home-sex life. Everything comes to a head when Gilly discovers that her seemingly faithful husband is carrying on with his “Love Bunny” Phyllis. At first hurt be his infidelity, Gilly quickly decides that she too ought too expand her sexual horizons and, with that in mind, begins an over-the-top game of seduction as she beds each of her and Billy’s high society friends.

Erotic auteur Radley Metzger (Therese & Isabelle’s) second feature directed under the pseudonym “Henry Paris,” NAKED CAME THE STRANGER was itself adapted from the best selling novel of the same name, which was secretly penned by the staff of Newsday. With a cast of 70s hardcore greats, led by Darby Lloyd Rains (The Virgin & the Lover), Mary Stuart (The Passions of Carol), Levi Richards (The Intrusion), Alan Marlow (That Lady From Rio), Helen Madigan (Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak), and Gerald Grant (Both Ways), this elegant and sophisticated comedy embodies the mid 70s “couples film” and at last comes to 4K UHD from Mélusine, newly restored from its 35mm negative, and presented in both its commonly seen hardcore version as well as its extremely rare alternate softcore cut, which includes numerous additional and extended dialogue sequences.

  • 2-Disc Set: 4K Ultra HD + Region Free Blu-ray
  • Feature length audio commentary with director Radley Metzger moderated by Ashley West of The Rialto Report
  • Alternate softcore version of Naked Came The Stranger
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Original radio spots
  • Locations featurette
  • Archival image gallery
  • A liner note booklet with essay by film historian Ashley West of The Rialto Report
  • Reversible cover artwork
  • English SDH subtitles

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