Office Killer

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

[ VS-529 CASE ]

Paramount | 1997 | 83 min | 1.66:1 | English 2.0 Stereo
Directed by Cindy Sherman
Starring: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Eric Bogosian, Barbara Sukowa, Mike Hodge

This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Jillian Adel), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 7,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Dorine, a timid and put-upon proofreader and tech expert long employed by a fashion magazine, is informed that due to budget cuts, she will be forced to work from home. Unfortunately, her home life is dominated by caring for her cruel, elderly mother, and it lacks the vitality of the office environment and its myriad personalities. But after she unintentionally electrocutes a coworker, Dorine discovers a tidy new method to fight her boredom and loneliness: murder. Secretly transporting the body of her colleague to her suburban basement, Dorine sets about looking to add new “friends” to this growing social group amid her company’s unfortunate downsizing. Pragmatically dispatching an ever-increasing number of both fellow employees and unlucky random people, Dorine maintains a convivial life with her rapidly decomposing corpses, while she’s not on the clock, of course.

The only feature film directed by internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographer Cindy Sherman, OFFICE KILLER is a delectably bloody, tightly-paced contemporary slasher that offers a grimly humorous take on the serial killer thriller and a wry look at the corporate environment of the 1990s. With its bleak, lyrical photography and a score by Lounge Lizards co-founder Evan Lurie, it features Emmy®-winner Carol Kane (When a Stranger Calls) as Dorine, along with Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, TV’s Big Love), and a guest appearance from Eric Bogosian (The Stuff). Vinegar Syndrome is overjoyed to at last offer the 4K UHD and Blu-ray debut of this criminally underseen horror gem, newly restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative and packed with extras, including all-new interviews with its cast and crew.

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/journalist/programmer Heidi Honeycutt
“Return to Office” (17 min) – director Cindy Sherman and actress Molly Ringwald look back at Office Killer 30 years later
“A Pure Creative Experience” (22 min) – a new interview with actress Jeanne Tripplehorn
“High Art / Low Budget” (17 min) – a new interview with cinematographer Russell Lee Fine
“Another Kind of Monster” (13 min) – a new interview with author Dahlia Schweitzer
Behind-the-scenes footage (6 min) – courtesy of Jeanne Tripplehorn
Still gallery
Reversible sleeve artwork
English SDH subtitles

Intensive Care

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome LABS ⍟

[ VSL-022 SLIP ]

Cineventura | 1991 | 76 min | 1.85:1 | English 5.1 Surround + 2.0 Stereo
Directed by Dorna X. van Rouveroy
Starring: George Kennedy, Nada van Nie, Koen Wauters, Dolf de Vries, Jules Croiset, Dick van den Toorn

Welcome Vinegar Syndrome Labs (VSL) to the VS Sub-Label family! As with each of our sub-labels we are hoping to expand and defy expectations with the diversity of films we restore and release. As the name implies, VSL will serve as a kind of testing area for releasing genres and eras of film that one might not immediately expect to come from VS. The ultimate objective of VSL will be to see if these types of films will find an audience, and if so, pursue and release more of them…and even if not, still serve as a means of restoring more of the weird, rare, and unusual movies you might not expect from Vinegar Syndrome.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Steak Mtn.) 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.

Before the reckless, short-tempered surgeon Dr. Bruckner was able to continue his controversial neurological experiments, wherein he applied shock therapy on comatose patients, he wound up in a fiery head-on collision with a gasoline truck. Brought back to his own hospital, gravely wounded, he lies in a coma for seven years, until one New Year’s Eve, when he suddenly awakens, ready to exact bloody vengeance fueled by his years’ worth of pent-up rage. After massacring several hospital staff, Bruckner sets his sights on a young orderly named Peter, tracking him to a quiet suburban neighborhood. Blinded by cold bloodlust, anyone and everyone who crosses Bruckner’s path soon meets a grisly demise, as Peter, his neighbor and her kid brother, must figure out how to survive the wrath of this deformed and demented doctor.

The feature-film debut of multi-talented Dutch director Dorna X. van Rouveroy (An Amsterdam Tale), INTENSIVE CARE is the first and only Dutch horror film directed by a woman to date. Inspired heavily by the style and structure of 80s horror, and specifically created for the export market, it would remain virtually unreleased in the English world despite becoming a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium, in part due to its casting of two Dutch teen idols, actor/TV presenter Nada van Nie and pop star Koen Wauters. Packed with dramatic, gory kills and classic slasher ambience, it features prolific veteran actor George Kennedy (Demonwarp) as Bruckner, as well as supporting roles played by Dolf de Vries (The 4th Man), Jules Croiset (Amsterdamned), and Dick van den Toorn (Pastorale 1943). Vinegar Syndrome Labs is eager to revive this rollicking Euro-chiller in a new, director-supervised restoration of its English-language Director’s Cut.

Region A Blu-ray
Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative and a 35mm print
Commentary track with film historians Yfke van Berckelaer and Bram Roza
“35 Years Later” (23 min) – an in-depth conversation with director Dorna X. van Rouveroy
Behind-the-scenes footage (9 min)
International trailer
Reversible sleeve artwork
English SDH subtitles

Unmasked Part 25

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

[ VS-295 VARIANT-SLIP ]

Strange Cinema | 1988 | 88 min | 1.66:1
Directed by Anders Palm
Starring: Gregory Cox, Fiona Evans, Edward Brayshaw, Debbie Lee London

This special limited edition spot gloss variant slipcover (designed by Robert Sammelin) 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. The original limited edition slipcover (designed by Chris Garofalo) was limited to 2,000 units and is sold out.

Jackson (Gregory Cox) is your run-of-the-mill, hockey mask wearing psychotic killer. Hideously deformed, he spends his time stalking and brutally murdering over-sexed young people, in a variety of nasty methods. But then he meets Shelly (Fiona Evans), a young blind woman who appreciates him as a person (it helps that she can’t see the carnage he leaves at every turn). Finding himself falling in love for the first time, Jackson decides that it might be time to finally hang up his cutlery and settle into a happy life of domestic bliss. But can he really overcome his bloodthirsty impulses?

A biting horror-comedy from director Anders Palm and producer Mark Cutforth, UNMASKED PT. 25 (aka HANDS OF DEATH) cleverly plays off of every 80s horror cliche (along with satirizing a number of indie film tropes, for good measure), while reveling in some of the most gruesome gore effects which can be found in a post-nasties British made film. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to rescue this under-seen cult classic and bring it to Blu-ray for the first time.

Region Free Blu-ray/DVD combo
Newly scanned & restored in 2k from its 35mm internegative
Audio commentary with director Anders Palm
Audio commentary with producer Mark Cutforth, moderated by Peter Kuplowsky and Justin Decloux of Laser Blast Film Society
Stills gallery
Original trailer
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles

Forgotten Gialli: Volume Nine

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

[ VS-531 BOX ]

1991-1993 | 90/92/89 min | 1.66:1 | English Mono, Italian Mono
Directed by Bruno Mattei, Pierfrancesco Campanella, & Alfonso Brescia
Starring: Monica Carpanese, Emy Valentino, Fausto Lombardi, Gabriele Gori, Monica Carpanese, Tomas Arana, Gioia Scola, Natasha Hovey, Alida Valli, Barbara Scoppa, David Hess, Florence Guérin, Rik Battaglia, Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Sonia Topazio

The 1990s proved to be a curious and complicated era for the giallo, with many films made for export markets and direct-to-video, while the form itself was tested with directors attempting new ideas and folding modern trends into their plots. Nevertheless, around the rise of the erotic thriller and despite the contraction of the Italian genre film market overall, the true spirit of the genre soldiered on, still alive and vibrant in the three rare gialli assembled here, all seeing their Blu-ray debuts.

This limited edition box set (designed by Robert Sammelin) is limited to 6,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

MADNESS

Giovanna is a successful comic artist, and her brutal Doctor Dark comic has made her rich and somewhat notorious. While she and the comic are both under fire for possibly inciting readers to violence, a real-life murderer suddenly begins carving out the eyes of their victims only to deliver them to Giovanna. Under continuing pressure from her manager and the public, she flees to the country, eager to clear her head and distance herself from the fact that someone is making gruesome reality out of her fiction. Not only does the terror follow her, but now someone is calling Giovanna to menace her under the guise of Doctor Dark. Will the police find the killer before they reach Giovanna, or will all this nervous exhaustion do her in first?

An unusually sincere effort from the prolific genre workhorse Bruno Mattei, MADNESS (Occhi senza volto aka Eyes Without a Face) plays with several giallo motifs and a few contemporary thriller elements, while delivering plentiful gore and dramatic slayings. Shot by cinematographer Luigi Ciccarese (Ænigma), it features a slew of Mattei on-screen regulars, including Emy Valentino (Phantom of Death), Fausto Lombardi (Terror Express), Gabriele Gori (Convent of Sinners), and an intense lead performance by Monica Carpanese (Anthropophagus II). Vinegar Syndrome is eager to deliver to you this rarely seen late giallo entry, newly restored from its original negative.

BUGIE ROSSE

Television journalist Marco knows the importance of a good story, a terrific scoop, and he’s willing to do the deep research to secure his reputation. When investigating murders in his city’s gay underground, he doggedly sticks to posing as a man lurking in the park for night-time tricks who may give him a lead, in spite of his own marked aversion to same sex contact. Although he gets arrested after each murder, and even if he’s increasingly suspicious to the police, Marco stays on the story. His connections with the paper and a local prosecutor can only keep him safe for so long, and things look dire amid increasing tension with his wife and the psychic weight of the job. But he’s just come across an attractive male hustler who may provide him with the clues he needs. That is, provided Marco can uncover the deep secrets that the killer will stop at nothing to protect.

The giallo loyalist Pierfrancesco Campanella (Bad Inclination) wrote and directed BUGIE ROSSE (Red Lies aka The Final Scoop) while still in his twenties, blending the psychosexual traditions of the style with modern technology such as IRC message boards. Portraying the weight of closeted life and sexual anxiety with stylized scenes of swingers bars and dark alleys as shot by veteran Mario Vulpiani (Watch Me When I Kill), the film also features a rare score from prolific soundtrack conductor Natale Massara (conductor of Blow Out and Body Double), and a cast including Tomas Arana (The Church), Gioia Scola (Too Beautiful to Die), Natasha Hovey (Demons), and Alida Valli (Suspiria). Vinegar Syndrome ardently presents this inspired giallo rarity newly scanned from its original camera negative.

MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT

Top model Starlet works for some of the highest-priced ad campaigns in New York, even if part of the job is occasionally fighting off a grabby client. But she regularly drops out of her high-fashion life to secretly turn tricks as Sherry, a dominatrix and role player for men looking to play out their oddest kinks with her. She doesn’t need the money; instead, she’s hunting for a certain man. Meanwhile, a rash of stabbing murders keeps occurring around her. Grizzled, sarcastic NYPD sergeant Flanagan is the only one who can keep Starlet out of harm’s way, though she refuses to level with him, and instead plays detective herself. When Flanagan keeps coming up with nothing, despite constantly rousting local prostitutes, he decides to apply pressure elsewhere. With creeps from both the high and low elements of New York life, and a serial murderer about, how much longer can Starlet push her luck?

A film rooted in the sleazy New York trends of Italian cinema from a decade prior, MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT showcases the ability of veteran writer/director Alfonso Brescia (Naked Girl Murdered in the Park) to jump into any required genre. Featuring a good deal of actual New York City street scenes, including Times Square, it leans into the sleaze with a twisty backstory and hints of a police procedural through its US star, David Hess (Last House on the Left). Also featuring Florence Guérin (Faceless) as Starlet, Rik Battaglia (Nightmare Castle), and Riccardo Parisio Perrotti (The Psychic), Vinegar Syndrome presents this obscure late entry in the “amateur detective” giallo newly restored from its original camera negative.

MADNESS

Region Free Blu-ray
Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative
Commentary track with The Hysteria Continues!
Through the Eyes of Madness (13 min) – an interview with actress Monica Carpanese
Seeing Madness (20 min) – an interview with producer Gianni Paolucci
Reversible sleeve artwork
English SDH subtitles

BUGIE ROSSE

Region Free Blu-ray
Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative
Red Heat (29 min) – an interview with director / screenwriter Pierfrancesco Campanella
Naked Lies (12 min) – an interview with actress and co-producer Gioia Scola
The Last Temptation (14 min) – an interview with actor Tomas Arana
Lady in Red (14 min) – an interview with actress Barbara Scoppa
Red Eros (18 min) – an interview with composer Natale Massara
Reversible sleeve artwork
Newly translated English subtitles

MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT

Region Free Blu-ray
Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative
Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolanoi and Troy Howarth
Alternate home video cut of MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT (95 min, sourced from standard definition video)
Florence, Ma Chérie! (22 min) – an interview with actress Florence Guérin
Blue Light Topaz (31 min)- an interview with actress Sonia Topazio
The Highly Dependable Mister Bradley (25 min) – an interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani
Reversible sleeve artwork
Newly translated English subtitles

Massacre

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome ⍟

[ VS-530 SLIP ]

Cine Duck | 1989 | 92 min | 1.33:1 | Italian Mono
Directed by Andrea Bianchi
Starring: Gino Concari, Patrizia Falcone, Silvia Conti, Pier Maria Cecchini, Robert Egon, Danny Degli Espositi, Marcello Furgiele

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Robert Sammelin) is limited to 5,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Concerned that their latest production isn’t scary enough for modern audiences, the makers of a trashy horror movie titled Dirty Blood call in a spirit medium to host a seance for the cast and crew, hoping this will add a little authenticity to the proceedings. However, the producers get a little more than they bargained for when the medium inadvertently summons the spirit of the notorious Victorian-era serial killer Jack the Ripper. As filming presses on, the real horror commences when various members of the production start winding up brutally murdered. Could this be the ongoing work of a sadistic maniac who’s been preying on prostitutes in the area, or could something much more terrifying – and supernatural – be afoot?

One in a series of films made under the “Lucio Fulci presents” banner (originally developed under the title I maestri del thriller), which sought to capitalize on the name of Italy’s Godfather of Gore, MASSACRE is one of the standout entries in the cycle and a pleasingly lurid slasher effort helmed by Burial Ground director Andrea Bianchi. Far sleazier than many of its late 80s horror competitors and packed full of bare skin, lesbian intrigue and hack-and-slash action (not to mention a lively score from Luigi Ceccarelli, who virtually rehashed his music from Rats: Night of Terror), Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to unfurl MASSACRE in its UHD premiere, newly restored in 4K from its original 16mm camera negative and loaded with new special features.

2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region Free Blu-ray
4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 16mm original camera negative
Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
“Dr. White or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Massacre” (22 min) – an interview with actor Pier Maria Cecchini
“The Sleepless Composer” (18 min) – an interview with composer Luigi Ceccarelli
“Family Run Horror” (19 min) – an interview with soundman Davide Magara
“The Remains of the Genre” (11 min) – an archival interview with assistant director Michele De Angelis
“When Lucio Sold Off His Name” (27 min) – an interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani
Reversible sleeve artwork
Newly translated English subtitles

Cuddly Toys

⍟ Vinegar Syndrome PICTURES ⍟

[ VSP-010 SLIP ]

2022 | 103 min | 1.66:1 | English 2.0 Stereo
Directed by Kansas Bowling
Starring: Kansas Bowling, Parker Love Bowling, Cynda McElvana, Brissa Monique, Angel O’Connor Owens, Marion Moseley, Nina Ljeti

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Suspiria Vilchez) 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.

Professor Kansas Bowling invites you to come with her and explore all of the serious, everyday problems facing teenage girls; that is, abuse, rape, molestation, and murder. Leaving no stone unturned, she introduces a series of interwoven case studies illustrating how otherwise innocent young ladies are corrupted and led astray into the treacherous and violent world of lecherous older men, crazed teenage psychopaths, deviants, perverts, and maybe one or two seemingly “nice” guys…or are they? Is any teenage girl safe from such diabolical temptation?

A grimy, modern-day twist on “Schoolgirl Report” films by way of Faces of Death, CUDDLY TOYS was a years in the making passion project from underground auteur Kansas Bowling (B.C. Butcher), which features an electrifying soundtrack including hits by The Monkees and Scott Walker. Photographed entirely on Super 16mm film and featuring a cast of nearly 100 deranged, damaged, and distraught young women, along with the demented men who prey on them, Vinegar Syndrome Pictures proudly presents the Blu-ray debut of this highly controversial and truly unsettling soon-to-be cult film sensation, which harkens back to the weirdest and most unpredictable exploitation efforts of decades past, and featuring an abundance of extras including a revealing director’s commentary.

Region Free Blu-ray
Shot entirely on motion picture film and finished in 2K
Commentary track with director Kansas Bowling, moderated by film author and critic Heidi Honeycutt
BTS material: “Kansas Bowling: Guerrilla”
BTS material: “Kansas Films Her Trailer”
Music videos directed by Kansas Bowling:
- “The Resort Beyond the Last Resort”
- “Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield”
- “Morbid Symptoms”
- “Modern World”
- “You Already Know”
Trailer
Reversible sleeve artwork
English SDH subtitles

Badge 373

⍟ Cinématographe ⍟

[ CIN-031 CASE ]

Paramount | 1973 | 116 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Howard W. Koch
Starring: Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan

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 Tom Ralston) 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.

Following the death of his partner, brash NYPD cop Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall, The Godfather) swears vengeance, going on a violent quest through the streets of 1970s New York City to find his assailants. His methods prove so hostile, and racist, that he is forced to resign from the police, rendering him a vigilante hellbent on justice. Ryan’s pursuit of take-no-prisoners fury puts him in the crosshairs of drug kingpins and revolutionaries, not to mention the very department that he was once a part of.

Inspired by real life NYPD detective Eddie Egan, who was also the inspiration for William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) and its non-fiction source, Badge 373 is a much more raw portrayal of inner city violence and New York at a point of transition going into the mid-1970s. Long living in the shadow of Friedkin’s film, as well as other more popular New York City set cop films of the era (including the same year’s Serpico, by Sidney Lumet), Badge 373 is a vital time capsule of old New York, anchored by a fiery performance from Robert Duvall and energetic direction from noted New Hollywood producer Howard W. Koch (A New Leaf). Cinématographe is proud to present this long underseen entry in 70s crime cinema in a brand new 4K restoration from its original camera negative.

Region A Blu-ray
New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative with original mono theatrical soundtrack
New audio commentary by film historian Steve Mitchell
A Kernel of Truth – a new video interview with retired NYPD detective Randy Jurgensen, friend of Eddie Egan and technical advisor on the film
Police Film Protection – a new video conversation between Jason Bailey, author of Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It, and Cinématographe’s Justin LaLiberty
Craftsman Kingmaker: Howard W. Koch and the Art of Getting It Done – a new video essay by Daniel Kremer
New text essays by Mark Asch, author of New York Movies; film critics Paul Corupe and A.S. Hamrah; and Cinématographe’s Justin LaLiberty
English SDH subtitles

Reviver 2

⍟ REVIVER ⍟

[ RVVR-002 SLIP ]

1965 | 160 min (combined) | 1.37:1 | 22222222 Mono
Directed by ????????
Starring: ????????

The Reviver sub-label releases lost films and missing movies found within the Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive. Each release is a “mystery box” of archival curios scanned from their best-surviving film elements and programmed by VS archivist & vault manager Oscar Becher. In the spirit of the hunt for lost films, each limited edition also includes a 1 in 10 chance of featuring holographic variant sleeve artwork. Purchases of Reviver releases directly fund archival expenses and day-to-day maintenance of the film archive.

This special “mystery box” limited edition spot gloss slipcover is limited to 3,000 units and is only available on our website and at Vinegar Syndrome retail stores and conventions. A standard edition will be made available in the future on our website and at select retailers.

Films wind up going missing from every corner of the globe. Following Reviver’s premiere release of US-American regional film oddities and celluloid anomalies, we’re proud to bring you what we at Vinegar Syndrome believe to be our greatest lost film discovery from the continent of 2222.

Both shot in 2222222222222222 by the mysterious 22222222222222222222, during the country’s last years of independence prior to a dictatorship that would forever reshape it, 2222222222222222 and 222222222222222222222222 showcase 22222222222222’ seldom-seen independent era through the skilled lens of unsung genre auteur 2222222222222 (222222222222).

Starring American actor 2222222222222 (222222222222222) and 22222222 legend 222222222222222 (222222222222222222222) in lead roles, the casts for this duo of horrors also includes familiar faces from both the 222 and 22222222 film industries. With subversive character-driven narratives, high production value and breathtaking 35mm black-and-white cinematography, these two terrifying features never saw the light of day, and were long believed to be unfinished, destroyed, lost, or simply never having existed.

The profits from each Reviver release go directly to fund the operations and upkeep of the Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive. That means, by purchasing this Blu-ray, you are directly helping us pay for archival film cans, colder and drier (read: safer) film storage and expanding our archive’s ability to continue the hunt for lost films. Thank you for your support.

Region Free Blu-ray
Region-free Blu-ray 2222222222222222 (84 min) and 222222222222222222 (76 min) are newly restored in 4K from their 35mm original 35mm camera negatives
222222222222222: An interview with film historian Christopher Koenig (12 min)
222222222222222222: A Cinematic Tour with film collector Marco Joachim (7 min)
“Winding Through: 2222222222222 / 2222222222222222” (13 min)
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles

American Sweatshop

⍟ BRAINSTORM MEDIA ⍟

[ BST-014 SLIP ]

2025 | 93 min | 2.39:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Uta Briesewitz
Starring: Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester, with Christiane Paul, and Joel Fry

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 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.

A content moderator (Lili Reinhart) is tasked with purging offensive media from the internet. When she witnesses a crime in a video, she is lured away from the safety of her keyboard as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

Region A Blu-ray
Trailer
Behind the Scenes
Discussion with Director and Producer
Deleted Scenes
English SDH subtitles

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

⍟ ETR MEDIA ⍟

[ ETRM045 ]

2025 | 100 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Molly Bernstein, Philip Dolin
Starring: Art Spiegelman, Françouise Mouly, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Bill Griffith, Emil Ferris, Charles Burns, Chris Ware, Peter Kuper, R. Sikoryak, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Molly Crabapple, J. Hoberman, Ken Jacobs, Najda Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman, Ivan Brunetti, Jerry Craft, Hillary Chute

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 listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

This insightful documentary delves into the life and work of Art Spiegelman, the Queens-raised artist who revolutionized comics by exploring dark, complex themes. Shaped by his Holocaust-survivor parents and inspired by MAD magazine’s irreverent satire, Spiegelman’s most famous work, MAUS, is a poignant Holocaust narrative that redefined the medium. The film showcases his resistance to fascism and features rich illustrations from his comics, highlighting his significant impact as an artist and cultural critic.

2-Disc Region Free Blu-ray
Trailer
Deleted Scenes
Art Reads “”As the Mind Reels”” about watching Dick Van Dyke with his parents
Bill Griffith discusses the art of making Woodcuts
Cartoonists As Reporters
Hillary Chute on Academic Impact of Art’s work
Françoise Mouly explains Color Separation
Françoise talks about having a Printing Press in their apartment and what she made
Art talks about MAD Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman and the war comics he published for EC Comics
Art tells the story of being censored by Marvel Comics
Art works with artist Si Lewen
Bill Griffith describes how he and Art came up with Wacky Packages ideas
The Spiegelmans and the Crumbs at the table
Extended Interviews, speeches, and Outtakes: Françoise Mouly on first Coming to New York
Art Spiegelman’s Skidmore College Talk
Michael Chabon, Hillary Chute present Art with the MacDowell medal – speeches
Art speaks at the NY High School of Art and Design
Art, Françoise Mouly and Chris Ware on a panel at Comic Arts Brooklyn
Art gives a history of comics talk in Reston VA
Art Spiegelman on Forbidden Images Now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Hillary Chute
Art accepts the National Book Awards Lifetime Achievement award
Hillary Chute Extended interview
Marlborough Gallery Tour of Art Spiegelman show (with Art)
Art makes a lithograph at a studio in Brooklyn
Drawing Sequence of artists in the film making con sketches
English SDH subtitles

Carnival in the Night

⍟ KANI ⍟

[ KANI-037 SLIP ]

1981 | 115 min | 1.33:1 | Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Masashi Yamamoto
Starring: Kumiko Ota, Nobutaka Kuwabara, Akemi Edo, Michiro Endo, Shigeru Muroi, Eiichi Uchida, Shinichiro Yagi, Makiko Tsunoda, Megumi Asako, Hitoshi Okumura

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.

Of a pair with his 8mm debut Saint Terrorism — in which wayward youths and sex workers navigate attraction and murderous intent — Masashi Yamamoto’s jishu-eiga (self-produced) breakthrough Carnival in the Night unfurls with a palpable sense of rage and abandon, capturing images of Shinjuku’s underground and transforming its DIY scene into a purgatorial and claustrophobic realm. Aspiring punk rocker and single mother Kumi (Kumiko Ota) drops off her child with her ex-husband and the world is bled of colour, beginning a phantasmagorical journey of self-discovery and self-destruction; a pitch black look at the margins of society contrasted by a backhanded, yet no less poignant, reflection on responsibility and motherhood.

Yamamoto’s film — shot in an hypnotizing vérité style — propels Kumi forward as she crosses paths with a variety of addicts, squatters and bomb-makers, her march ‘till dawn marked by senseless acts of violence. Anticipating the squatter’s eden depicted in Robinson’s Garden as well as the anti-capitalist global antics of What’s Up Connection, Carnival in the Night also prefigures Japanese punk cinema classics such as Sogo Ishii’s Burst City (1982) and Shinya Tsukamoto’s Bullet Ballet (1998). Saint Terrorism and Carnival in the Night, presented here restored from their original 8mm and 16mm elements, showcase Masashi Yamamoto at his most anarchic and transgressive.

“These are Yamamoto’s politics: to squat, to squander, and to soil reality. Whether anyone takes notice is beyond him; his unceasing state of resistance exists beyond society and blooms by virtue of its separation from its norms.” — Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Screen Slate

Region A Blu-ray
4K restoration of Carnival in the Night from the 16mm negatives
2K restoration of Saint Terrorism (1981, 127min) from Single 8mm elements
DUDE (2025, 39 minutes) a newly commissioned short film directed by Masashi Yamamoto, exclusive to this release
Booklet with a new essay by James Balmont
English, English SDH subtitles

Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps

⍟ MUSCLE ⍟

[ MD-001 ]

2024 | 275 min (combined) | 2.39:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Louise Weard
Starring: Louise Weard, Aoife Josie Clements, Noah Baker, Jasmine Provins, Vera Drew, Alice Maio Mackay, Cricket Arrison, Avalon Fast, Henri Gillespi

Muscle is a new film distribution company with a heavy repertory slant from historian, programmer, and filmmaker Elizabeth Purchell. Borne out of an understanding of the role that accessibility plays in shaping cultural histories, Muscle is dedicated to complicating and expanding the canon by shining a light on works that either never received their proper due or that have unjustly faded into obscurity, and championing new works by some of today’s most exciting underground filmmakers. Muscle loves scrappy, misfit films that don’t fit into any particular box.

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

“Why would you do this on purpose?”

Castration Movie is a labyrinthine postmodern epic about gender. Anthology i. Traps includes two chapters.

In Chapter i. Incel Superman, a production assistant named Turner Stewart (Noah Baker) sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves. In Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess, a trans sex worker named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (Louise Weard) finds her relationships becoming increasingly strained as she decides to pursue motherhood.

Written and directed by Louise Weard, Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps features a cast headlined by Louise Weard (Computer Hearts), Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), Alice Maio Mackay (The Serpent’s Skin), Cricket Arrison (By Design), Avalon Fast (Camp), John Paizs (Crime Wave), Lea Rose Sebastianis (In a Violent Nature), and Nate Wilson (The All Golden) and an original soundtrack by Ravine Angel, Lex Walton, Magda Baker, and Salem Ahedonia.

2-Disc Region A Blu-ray
Commentary with filmmaker Louise Weard and producers Aoife Josie Clements, Dakota Blais, and Mark Wilmot
Commentary with filmmaker Louise Weard and producers William Morris and Elizabeth Purchell
The Making of Castration Movie Anthology i.
Froggyworm: Live at Buddhas
Filmmaker Q&As
Trailers
Booklet with essays by author Gretchen Felker-Martin and star Aoife Josie Clements
English SDH subtitles

City Wide Fever

⍟ factory 25 ⍟

[ FTF-175 ]

2025 | 74 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Josh Heaps
Starring: Diletta Guglielmi, Angelica Kim, Nancy Kimball, Hugo Alexander-Rose, Rutanya Alda, Onur Tukel, Ian Fidance, Carolyn Farina, Larry Fessenden, Douglas Buck, Stan Oh, Michael M. Bilandic

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 listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

Sam, a young film student, discovers a hard drive detailing the life and career of forgotten Giallo Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.

Region Free Blu-ray
Deleted scenes
Director’s commentary
28 Page Booklet with writing by Guy Maddin, Paul Schrader, Michael M. Bilandic, Laura Kern, Gina Telaroli and Josh Heaps
English subtitles

Eight Postcards from Utopia + The Exit of the Trains

⍟ big world pictures ⍟

[ BWP-13 SLIP ]

2020, 2024 | 253 min (combined) | 1.78:1 | Romanian DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Christian Ferencz-Flatz & Radu Jude / Adrian Cioflâncā & Radu Jude
Starring: Various

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 Elizabeth Yoo) 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.

Eight Postcards from Utopia is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. Drawing from the debris of Romania’s long transition period, the film speaks about love and death, the human body and its frailty, the natural and the supernatural and of course, socialism and capitalism. Bouncing between found poetry and an outdated encyclopedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae, EIGHT POSTCARDS sees Radu Jude teaming up with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz to make another hilarious and unforgiving take down of meta capitalist mythology.

The Exit of the Trains is a documentary essay composed entirely of archival photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: In the city of Iași, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10,000 Jews were killed–first by bullets, than by asphyxiation in freight trains.

The film, which is an attempt to use the montage of archive materials in order to offer a deep and special view of history, has two parts:

The first part of the film could be titled “the encyclopedia of the dead”: photographs of the people who were eventually killed by the Romanian army and by civilians are accompanied by voices who recite the documents related to their fate in the massacre: witness accounts, testimonies from the post-war trials, interviews with survivors, private diaries etc.

The second part–shorter–represents a montage of the remaining photographs of the actual massacre (taken mostly by the German soldiers who were in town).

Region A Blu-ray
Video intro by the filmmaker
English subtitles

Fear Has 1,000 Eyes

⍟ klubb super 8 ⍟

[ KS8-005 SLIP ]

1978 | 98 min | 1.66:1 | Swedish DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Torgny Wickman
Starring: Solveig Andersson, Anita Sanders, Hans Wahlgren, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Gösta Prüzelius, Bertil Norström

Klubb Super 8 is a Swedish independent research outfit/film archive/film club/film distribution company dedicated to Swedish exploitation Cinema that has been operational for almost 25 years, releasing films on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. Klubb Super 8 also owns the subsidiary Cultpix.com, a global streaming platform focused on vintage exploitation/genre/cult movies from around the world.

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

A Study in Horror, Sex and Magic!

The priest Sven (Hans Wahlgren) and his pregnant wife Anna (Anita Sanders) live in the vicarage of a small village in Northern Sweden. Anna’s friend Hedvig (Solveig Andersson) comes to visit. But Hedvig has an evil mind and causes hauntings and mysterious deaths. The Devil’s voodoo priestess puts a spell on Anna and Sven and has an orgy with them.

Region Free Blu-ray
Hebenon in My Ear: Interviews with producer Inge Ivarson and Klinga Wickman
Solveig Andersson- Sinner or Saint? Video Essay by Rickard Gramfors
Solveig Andersson Screen Test with Torgny Wickman
Theatrical trailer
Audio Commentary with Patrick von Sychowski and Rickard Gramfors (Klubb Super 8)
Poster and Image Gallery
Behind the Scenes Gallery
Gallery: The Torgny Wickman Files
English, Swedish subtitles

Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic: The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT CLASSICS ⍟

[ FMC_058b SLIP ]

1959 | 203 min | 1.37:1 | German DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer

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 listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Dylan Haley) was limited to 1,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, master filmmaker Fritz Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct this lavish two-part adventure tale from a story he co-authored almost forty years earlier. Called to India by the Maharajah of Eschnapur, architect Harald Berger (Paul Hubschmid) falls in love with beautiful temple dancer Seetha (Debra Paget), who is promised to the Maharajah. Their betrayal ignites the ruler’s wrath, and the lovers are forced to flee into the desert for a series of spectacular adventures. Featuring breathtaking location photography and nail-biting suspense, this epic is highlighted by Paget’s erotic temple dance, a battle to the death with a man-eating tiger, sandstorms, a cave of lepers, and a bloody palace rebellion. Together these films provide a cinematic link between classic silent serials and the modern action thrills of Indiana Jones and The Mummy. Previously available in America as “Journey to the Lost City,” a radically condensed 90-minute version, these exotic masterpieces are presented in this 2-disc boxed set newly restored to their original splendor.

2-Disc Region A Blu-ray
Commentary by film historian David Kalat
The Indian Epic documentary
Debra Paget, For Example – video essay by Mark Rappaport
Essay by Tom Gunning
English subtitles

The G

⍟ DARK SKY ⍟

[ DSKY-002 SLIP ]

2023 | 106 min | 2.35:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Karl H. Hearne
Starring: Dale Dickey, Romane Denis, Bruce Ramsey, Roc Lafortune, Christian Jadah

Dark Sky Films is an independent genre film production and distribution company, and a wholly owned subsidiary of MPI Media Group. The company is home to some of the world’s most influential genre films and is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and producing both new and classic horror, sci-fi, and cult films from around the globe.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Haunt Love) 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.

Ann and her husband retired 10 years ago to be near their family. But one day they are snatched from their home by a corrupt legal guardian who believes they have hidden wealth. Their home and assets are stripped from them and they are put in a prison-like “eldercare facility.” Trapped in a corrupt system, Ann begins to show her true mettle as she and her loyal granddaughter fight to get revenge.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary with writer/producer/director Karl R. Hearne
English SDH subtitles

The Ghost Galleon

⍟ BIZARRO ⍟

[ BZR-002 SLIP ]

1974 | 90 min | 1.85:1 | Spanish, English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Amando De Ossorio
Starring: Maria Perschi, Jack Taylor, Barbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Manuel de Blas, Blanca Estrada

Bizarro is dedicated to unearthing the boldest, most original visions in Spanish cinema—films that are as daring, provocative, and offbeat as they are artistically distinctive. Whether restoring lost cult treasures or bringing overlooked gems to new audiences, Bizarro offers a curated selection for cinephiles craving the unexpected. In Spanish, “Bizarro” means both strange and brave, a name that reflects our commitment to cinema at its most unconventional. Proudly partnering with OCN Distribution, we invite viewers to discover the fearless and extraordinary from Spain’s cinematic underground—restored and celebrated for a new generation.

This listing is for the standard edition 4k UDH/Blu-ray Combo. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Haunt Love) was limited to 2,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

A publicity stunt gone horribly wrong strands two bikini-clad models in fog-shrouded waters where they encounter a ghostly galleon—the floating tomb of the undead Knights Templar, the Blind Dead. When the models vanish without a trace, a desperate rescue party boards the eerie ship only to find themselves trapped in a supernatural nightmare entwined with satanic cult rituals. Haunted by the sound-hunting, eyeless Templar corpses, the survivors must confront ancient curses and a relentless, otherworldly evil that blurs the boundaries between life and death.

Featuring a captivating cast including Jack Taylor (Pieces, Count Dracula), Maria Perschy (The People Who Own the Dark), and Bárbara Rey (The Night of the Sorcerers), The Ghost Galleon (1974) is the third chilling chapter in the cult Blind Dead saga. Written and directed by visionary Amando de Ossorio, it melds atmospheric Gothic horror with a surreal, dream-like quality and unforgettable undead mythology. Acclaimed by genre devotees for its eerie mood, and widely regarded as the most surprising film in the saga, this 4K restoration from the original camera negative brings the legendary Templar knights back to life—fully uncut and loaded with brand new and archival extras, making it essential viewing for fans of Euro-horror and supernatural terror.

2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
Scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
Presented in both its original Spanish language soundtrack with newly translated subtitles and the English dub track
A Childhood Discovery: A new appreciation by Diego López-Fernández, creator of El buque maldito fanzine
A New Mythology in Spanish Horror: A new interview with Sitges Film Festival director Ángel Sala on Amando de Ossorio’s horror career
Unmasking the Templars: A new interview with FX artist and film historian Antonio Garcinuño
Amando de Ossorio: The Last Templar — An archival documentary featuring Amando de Ossorio, Lone Fleming, Paul Naschy, and Jack Taylor, among other key figures of Spanish horror cinema
Alternate English-language titles
English subtitles

Grafted

⍟ SHUDDER ⍟

[ SHU-029 SLIP ]

2025 | 96 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Sasha Rainbow
Starring: Jess Hong, Mark Mitchinson, Jared Turner

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 Brianna Miller) 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.

When a brilliant but disfigured student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a prestigious university, she achieves the popularity she needs by putting her studies to a terrifying new use.

Region A Blu-ray
Making-Of Featurette
Behind the Scenes Footage
EPK
Galleries of Stills, Storyboards and Concept Art
English SDH subtitles

Great Absence

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT ⍟

[ FM-036 SLIP ]

2023 | 133 min | 1.78:1 | Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Kei Chikaura
Starring: Mirai Moriyama, Tatsuya Fuji, Yoko Maki, Hideko Hara

When working actor Takashi receives a jarring call from the police, he is forced to reconnect with his estranged father of 20 years, Yohji — an esteemed academic slipping rapidly into dementia. As Takashi attempts to piece together the mystery of Yohji’s missing wife and the fractured life his father now inhabits, their reunion uncovers long-buried tensions and unspoken grief, forcing Takashi to trace the past of his father that he has long refused to accept.

Unfolding as a meditation on loss — of time, identity, and familial closeness never fully grasped — Great Absence is a “delicately devastating” (Variety) award-winning drama from rising star director Kei Chikaura that navigates the fragile terrain of memory, estrangement, and the quiet devastations of aging.

Region A Blu-ray
Interview with director Kei Chikaura
Behind-the-scenes footage
16-page booklet with essay by film critic Brian Tallerico
English subtitles

Hayride to Hell + A Halloween Feast

⍟ DARK STAR ⍟

[ DS-033 SLIP ]

2025 | 195 min (combined) | 2.35:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Dan Lantz, Guile Branco
Starring: Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Graham Wolfe, Cedric Casimiro, Shelby Hightower, Lynn Lowry, Julia Coulter, Guile Branco, Lou D’Amato, Asia Lynn Pitts

Dark Star Pictures is a new-age North American distribution company, focused on bringing unique and targeted content to audiences across the country and is committed to releasing auteur-driven, original cinema in the theatrical, digital and home video space. In partnership with OCN Distribution, new Dark Star titles – along with celebrated features in their back catalog – will receive features packed blu-ray editions that will maintain the OCN standard of quality and Dark Star’s deft curation.

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Trevor Henderson) was limited to 500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

HAYRIDE: Set on the Coxe Family Farm in rural Willis County, Farmer Sam exacts his bloody revenge on unscrupulous local townsfolk, including Sheriff Jubel, who menace him and attempt to steal the farm that has been in his family for 200 years.

HALLOWEEN FEAST: Former ballerina Angela descends into madness as her family tries to cope. After an infamous dinner, their lives spiral into unexpected chaos. All skeletons come out at a Halloween party.

Region A Blu-ray
English SDH subtitles

HAYRIDE

Outtakes
Official Trailer

HALLOWEEN FEAST

Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
Official Trailer

Humane

⍟ SHUDDER ⍟

[ SHU-028 SLIP ]

2023 | 90 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Caitlin Cronenberg
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Peter Gallagher

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Olivia Jackson) 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 global environmental collapse forces world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce earth’s population.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary Track with Director Caitlin Cronenberg and Writer/Producer Michael Sparaga
Three Deleted Scenes
Complete Musical Score
Behind the Scenes Photos
“The Endings” short film
Booklet with new writing by Nadine Whitney
English SDH, French subtitles

Ju Dou

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT CLASSICS ⍟

[ FMC-018 SLIP ]

1990 | 95 min | 1.37:1 | Mandarin DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang
Starring: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Wei Li, Zhang Yi

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Adam Maida) 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 film that put director Zhang Yimou and star Gong Li on the international cinema map follows beautiful young Ju Dou as she is married off to an egregiously cruel, and also impotent, owner of a dye mill in the Chinese countryside in the early 20th century. When the boss’ nephew arrives on the scene they fall for each other with lustful abandon. Their impassioned affair soon leads to a son. After the clandestine couple convinces the despotic husband that he is the father, the boy is raised as his long-awaited heir. However the myriad complications of infidelity lead to a visceral and psychological melee between the lovers and their ruler with explosively dramatic turns. With its stunning mise en scène and sumptuous use of color, Ju Dou was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards® and has earned a reputation as one of the greatest Chinese films ever made.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary by film critics James Marsh and Pierce Conran
Video essay by USC Professor Kin Tak Raymond Tsang
Contemporary Chinese Voices on Ju Dou video discussion
English subtitles

King Baby

⍟ CIRCLE COLLECTIVE ⍟

[ CC-012 SLIP ]

2024 | 91 min | 2.00:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing
Starring: Graham Dickson, Neil Chinneck, Jasmine Albuquerque, Ryan Spencer

Circle Collective formed in June 2019 in order to provide a new avenue for and community around creative distribution as an artist-forward, feature film marketing and distribution consulting agency. In partnership with OCN, Circle Collective will begin to release contemporary indie cinema across a variety of genres and origins onto physical media, maintaining the same artist-forward perspective as in their theatrical campaigns. 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 Johnny Ryan) 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.

Far away from the modern world, in the ruins of a remote castle, a self-styled ‘King’ and his loyal ‘Servant’ perform an absurd daily cycle of pomp, ceremony, and escalating cruelty. Their isolated kingdom is thrown into chaos when the King dreams of a Queen and orders the Servant to build her from the wood of a fallen tree. With the introduction of the ‘Queen’, devotion and paranoia collide: the Servant falls hopelessly in love, while the King grows increasingly cruel and unstable. What follows is a darkly comic spiral of rivalry, liberation, and megalomania, as two clashing visions of masculinity battle for control over a kingdom built of nothing.

Region A Blu-ray
Trailer
Image Gallery
- Stills
- Behind The Scenes
Director’s Commentary
‘We Absolutely Can’t Cut That’ and Other Deleted Scenes
- with director’s commentary
Distinctly Dirty: The Final Days of Shooting King Baby
English SDH subtitles

Lilly Lives Alone

⍟ DARK SKY ⍟

[ DSKY-003 SLIP ]

2024 | 100 min | 2.39:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Martin Melnick
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Shannon Beeby, Ryan Jonze, Erin Way

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Time Tomorrow) 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.

After the death of her child, Lilly runs away to hide in a lonely corner of her small town. Living alone, she struggles to cope with the traumatic memories of her own upbringing. Ten years after her daughter’s death, the fabric of Lilly’s world is tearing apart. The ghosts of her past are waking up and tonight she must face the depths of her manic madness and a haunting she won’t soon forget.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary with Writer/Director Martin Melnick and Actors Shannon Beeby and Ryan Jonze
“The Sound of Alone: Crafting the Audio of Lilly Lives Alone” Featurette
“Cell Division” A behind the scenes look at the practical effects of Lilly Lives Alone
Official Trailer
Script-To-Screen and Previz Highlight reel
English SDH subtitles

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

⍟ DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO ⍟

[ DHV-003 SLIP ]

1977 | 89 min | 1.85:1 | English, Spanish DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Jess Franco
Starring: Susan Hemmingway, Herbert Fux, William Berger, Ana Zanatti

From the creative team behind DELIRIUM magazine comes DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO, a brand new label designed to bring some of the silver screen’s strangest and sexiest cinema to your ever-expanding collection. Carefully curated by DELIRIUM’s own editor-in-chief, DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO’s unique library will explore both hard and softcore erotica, bizarre and bloody European exploitation fare, operatic international horror, obscure dark fantasy and much, much more, with each title presented in stunning HD and packed with all-new special features. Get ready for a wild ride!

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Suspiria Vilchez) 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.

BEWARE THE KISS OF THE DEVIL! Maverick exploitation film director Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich’s notorious “nunsploitation” classic LOVE LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN comes to Blu-ray for the very first time in North America, totally uncut and remastered in HD from the original camera negative! 16-year-old Maria (the lovely Susan Hemingway) is taken by force into the dreaded Serra D’Aires convent, a sect secretly run by diabolical Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior (Ana Zanatti) and the not so pious pair almost immediately subject Maria to unspeakable tortures, forcing her into sex with men, women, and even the Devil himself. Gaslit into believing this supernatural debauchery is all a dream, she writes a letter to God begging for salvation, but the powers that be have other hideous plans in store for her…

Shocking, salacious and also stunningly shot and expertly performed by an international cast, LOVE LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN is among the best blasphemous European horror films of the 1970s and a high mark in Franco and Dietrich’s respective oeuvres.

Region A Blu-ray
COMMENTARY BY AUTHOR AND FILM HISTORIAN TROY HOWARTH
MEMOIRS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN
ERWIN C. DIETRICH TRAILERS
JESS FRANCO AND LINA ROMAY IN MUNICH
TRAILER
PHOTO GALLERY
English SDH subtitles

The Novice

⍟ IFC FILMS ⍟

[ IFC-025 SLIP ]

2021 | 94 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Lauren Hadaway
Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Kate Drummond

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 Jilian Adel) 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.

An obsessive college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary with Director Lauren Hadaway and Actress Isabelle Fuhrman
Interview with Director Lauren Hadaway
Interview with Actress Isabelle Fuhrman
Two Deleted Scenes
Booklet with new writing by Fiona Underhill
English SDH subtitles

Plan 75

⍟ KIMSTIM ⍟

[ KIM-006 SLIP ]

2022 | 113 min | 1.85:1 | Japanese DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Chie Hayakawa
Starring: Chieko Baisho

KimStim is a Brooklyn based, full-service distribution company dedicated to the release of exceptional independent, foreign, and documentary film. Founded in 2000 by Mika Kimoto and Ian Stimler, KimStim brings to US and North American audiences selected films from around the world gleaned from the most prestigious film festivals and include top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, and Tribeca.

This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Benoit Tardif) 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.

In a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa’s remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable. Legendary Japanese actress Chieko Baishō stars as a 78-year-old Michi who considers signing up for the program after losing her meager but fulfilling hotel job and the means to live independently. A young Plan 75 salesman Himoru (Hayato Isomura), initially believes in the program’s benefits and serves as the human face of the program. And Maria (Stephanie Arianne), a Filipino care worker living overseas, reluctantly accepts a position with PLAN 75 to send money home to her ailing daughter. On the surface, the plan and its hawkers exude a kindness that serves as the film’s chilling vision of bureaucratic indifference and our increasing loss of interconnectedness. However, Hayakawa’s view is far from grim, as these characters soon learn to fully reckon with their own lives and what it truly means to live.

Region Free Blu-ray
Filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s first short film: Niagara (2013)
Asian Movie Pulse Interview with Filmmaker Chie Hayakawa
Booklet essay by critic Hayley Scanlon
English subtitles

The Roost

⍟ GLASS EYE PIX ⍟

[ GEP-005 SLIP ]

2005 | 80 min | 1.66:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0
Directed by Ti West
Starring: Tom Noonan, Wil Horneff, Vanessa Horneff, Karl Jacob, Sean Read, John Speredakos, Larry Fessenden, Barbara Wilheid, Richard Little

Glass Eye Pix (“one of the indie scene’s most productive and longest-running companies” —Filmmaker Magazine) is the fierce independent NYC-based production outfit headed by art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden (BLACKOUT, DEPRAVED, BENEATH, ABC’s of DEATH 2, NBC’s Fear Itself episode “SKIN AND BONES,” THE LAST WINTER, WENDIGO, HABIT, NO TELLING). Glass Eye Pix is responsible for narrative films, documentaries, books, comics, audio plays, and other unique work designed to inspire and contrast with corporate media. Fessenden (winner of the Someone to Watch Spirit Award) has operated the company since 1985, with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Wes Benscoter) 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.

Following a near-death car accident, four friends on their way to a Halloween wedding venture to a secluded farm for help. Little do they know, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them!

Region A Blu-ray
TWO NEW AUDIO COMMENTARIES
- Director Ti West and Producer Larry Fessenden
- Sound Designer Graham Reznick and Associate Producer Peter Phok
RADIO CLIPS FROM THE ROOST by Graham Reznick
BAT ANIMATION TEST (2005) Featuring Fessenden with Animation by Brahm Revel
KIDS MAKING MOVIES A LOOK INSIDE THE ROOST (2005)
TRAILER
BAT’S YOUR LEATHERY FRIENDS featuring Merlin Tuttle
English SDH subtitles

Snowy Bing Bongs

⍟ DEKANALOG ⍟

[ DKA033 SLIP ]

2017 | 40 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Rachel Wolther, Alex H Fischer
Starring: Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel, Eleanore Pienta, Bob Armstrong, Drew Beattie, Kate Berlant, Joe Pera, Keith Poulson, Bob Walles, Reggie Watts

Dekanalog is a film and soundtrack distribution company dedicated to the release of the most unique filmmaking voices and musical scores from around the world. 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 500 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Welcome to the special edition Blu-ray of… SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE. This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team – Sunita Mani (GLOW, MR. ROBOT), Tallie Medel (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE), and Eleanore Pienta (A DIFFERENT MAN) – is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs lounge about, fight beachballs, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe. Produced by the Academy Award-winning Daniels (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE). Featuring Kate Berlant (WOULD IT KILL YOU TO LAUGH?), Joe Pera (JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU), Keith Poulson (I BLAME SOCIETY), and Reggie Watts (COMEDY BANG BANG). Written and Directed by Rachel Wolther (THE FRENCH ITALIAN), and Alex H Fischer (SAVE YOURSELVES!).

Region A Blu-ray
Two hours of Bonus Features! Including:
Audio Commentary by Sunita Mani, Eleanore Pienta, Tallie Medel, Rachel Wolther & Alex H Fischer
4 Deleted and Extended Scenes
Cocoon Central Dance Team Shorts
Select Cocoon Central Dance Team Live Performances
Best Of Cocoon Central Dance Team Rehearsal Series
Booklet including: Exclusive Interview with John Early (2025), Vulture Piece by Emily Yoshida (2017), and Behind The Scenes Photos
English SDH subtitles

Somersault

⍟ FILM MOVEMENT CLASSICS ⍟

[ FMC-019 SLIP ]

2004 | 106 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Cate Shortland
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Jilian Adel) was limited to 500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

After making a misjudged advance towards her mother’s boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne. Entranced by the startling beauty o.f the wintry landscapes and falling snow, she begins to create a new life for herself. With little money or practical experience, she accepts a job at a petrol station and finds lodging with Irene (Lynette Curran). When she falls for Joe (Sam Worthington), the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies re-surface, and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down. An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young girl’s sexual awakening, SOMERSAULT is a breakthrough debut for both its director and its star.

Region A Blu-ray
Commentary with director Cate Shortland, producer Antony Anderson and production designer Melinda Doring
Short film Flowergirl
Making of
Cinematographer featurette
Deleted scenes with commentary
English subtitles

The Stupefying Siren Tales of Pamela Sutch

⍟ SATURN’S CORE ⍟

[ SC-057 SLIP ]

2000-2008 | 295 min (combined) | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Pamela Sutch
Starring: Pamela Sutch, Rebecca Anderson, Stephen McKay, Tina Krause, Debbie D., Leigh Jacobs, Partrick O’Connor

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 Nate Higley) 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.

Experience the mesmerizing works of one of underground cinema’s most eccentric and unique female video auteurs. Writer, director, and martial arts black belt Pamela Sutch began her career as an actress for New Jersey’s W.A.V.E. Productions; starring in dozens of their seminal ‘90s classics (Psycho Sisters, Sorority Slaughter, Rana: Queen of the Amazon) and becoming an internationally recognized indie scream queen. In the early 2000s, Pam obtained a camera of her own and launched Siren Tales Productions; heroically directing a bewildering array of distinctive video features that meet somewhere at the aesthetic crossroads of Gary Whitson, Doris Wishman, & Neil Breen.

Saturn’s Core is proud to present this new collection which compiles six of Pamela Sutch’s genre hopping video features from the 2000s including a sexy, modern homage to the railroad track-tying Perils of Pauline serials of the 1910s (The Gosh Darned Mortgage) co-starting her W.A.V.E. cohorts Tina Krause & Debbie D., a pair of baffling vine-assaulting, custom Sci-Fi epics (Operation Storm Cloud & Project Gamma Ray), a duo of body-swapping / gender transformation fetish yarns (Transformed & Genetics), and a familial murder mystery (Catastrophy) with a non-human cast comprised solely of real feline kitty cats (and one bird)!

Region Free Blu-ray
Audio commentary on The Gosh Darned Mortgage with director Pamela Sutch moderated by Heidi Honeycutt, author of I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Audio commentary on Catastrophy with Ross Snyder of Saturn’s Core, co-director of the documentary Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Productions
Audio commentary on Operation Storm Cloud with Mike Connelly & Tara Connelly of the Underground Espionage podcast
Audio commentary on Genetics featuring director Pamela Sutch in conversation on the Gruesome & Gilling Podcast
“Answering the Siren Call” – Extended interview with actress / filmmaker Pamela Sutch from the documentary Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Productions
“Strange Tapes Strange Show: Episode 30” – Scott Miller from Strange Tapes in conversation with filmmaker Pamela Sutch
Outtakes from the Pamela Sutch Strange Tapes Strange Show episode
“The Making of Catastrophy” – archival featurette
Archival outtakes and bloopers from The Gosh-Darned Mortgage
Archival outtakes and bloopers from Project Gamma Ray
Archival outtakes and bloopers from Operation Storm Cloud
Siren Tales Productions trailer vault
English SDH subtitles

The Temple Woods Gang

⍟ SEVERAL FUTURES ⍟

[ SF-004 SLIP ]

2023 | 113 min | 1.85:1 | French DTS-HD MA 5.1
Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Starring: Régis Laroche, Philippe Petit, Marie Loustalot, Mohamed Aroussi, Kenji Meunier, Kamel Mezdour, Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche, Nassim Zazoui, Lucius Barre, Lina El Arabi

Several Futures is an independent film distributor with a focus on auteurist and anti-imperialist work. The label was founded in 2022 by filmmaker and programmer Graham L. Carter in the hopes of bringing films to North America that might otherwise not be released. “My loyalty is always with the oppressed.” – Heiny Srour.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover 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.

A gang of small-time criminals in a working-class French suburb stage a daring heist against a mysterious Saudi Prince.

Region A Blu-ray
Q&A with director Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche from the CINEMATEK – Royal Film Archive of Belgium
New Essay by Film Critic Filipe Furtado
New Artwork by Tyler Rubenfeld
English subtitles

Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory

⍟ ART LABEL ⍟

[ AL009 SLIP ]

2025 | 91 min | 1.78:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Brewce Longo
Starring: Erin Caywood, Nicole Elyse, Gaby Bogdanoff, Tina Krause, Hugh Gallagher, Kasper Meltedhair

Art Label is the new outlet for envelope-pushing arthouse and experimental cinema. Growing from previous work under the Verboden Video and Culture Shock Releasing banners, Art Label is focusing on films that challenge traditional rules of form and content. Art Label is broadening its roots in horror and exploitation, reaching into other dimensions of expression to give new kicks to a well-versed audience of cinematic thrill seekers. Even the most hardened moviegoers will find stimulation in Art Label’s releases.

This special limited edition slipcover 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.

Vick and Tarstar are shooting their latest horror movie trash epic, “Scarecrowed,” with a cast and crew of punks, drug addicts, fetish models, and dumpster divers. Set back by extra hairy relationship drama, homelessness, lack of funding, and their crew members quitting, Vick and Tarstar just want to tell their story. With the right bucket, you too can buy your own hair cutting scarecrow made by the animatronic Goo Guys at the Scarecrow Factory.

Region Free Blu-ray
Commentary with director Brewce Longo, director of photography and composer Michael DiFrancesco, and star Erin Caywood
Behind the scenes
Making-of featurette
Q&A from the premiere
Bastard Cross “Crossripper” music video
Blood Sick Productions trailers
English SDH subtitles

Vinyl

⍟ CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES ⍟

[ CIP-041 SLIP ]

2000 | 110 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Directed by Alan Zweig
Starring: Alan Zweig, Bruce LaBruce, Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, Harvey Pekar, Geoff Pevere

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 Tom Ralston) 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.

25th anniversary special edition

Often discussed, but rarely understood, collectors are driven by an obsessiveness that mainstream society struggles to understand. Through conversations with dozens of devoted record collectors, Vinyl offers an unblinking and amusing look at this phenomenon, exploring the personal struggles that lead to collecting, the negative ways it impacts some, and the essential joy it brings to others, helping them achieve a sense of meaning, purpose, and comfort.

The first feature-length documentary from one-of-a-kind filmmaker Alan Zweig, Vinyl introduced his trademark idiosyncrasies and confessional approach fully formed. Resisting traditional notions of likability, he reveals as much about himself as he does about his subjects, which include a mix of everyday vinyl devotees alongside cultural figures like Bruce LaBruce, Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, and Harvey Pekar. But even as Zweig reckons with the debilitating side of collecting, he reveals his own deep commitment to the subject with an honesty that will resonate with collectors and non-collectors alike.

Region A Blu-ray
Transferred from the best surviving tape master
New extended mirror introduction by director Alan Zweig
New audio commentary featuring Zweig moderated by filmmaker/podcaster Jay Cheel
New audio commentary featuring Zweig in conversation with editor Christopher Donaldson and producer Greg Klymkiw
New audio commentary featuring Zweig in conversation with critic/author Geoff Pevere and Vinyl superfan August Dorney
New audio commentary featuring Zweig in conversation with composer Scott Cramer (Drysdale)
Vinyl: The Alternate Take (2011, 96 min.) – Feature-length companion film comprised entirely of footage cut from Vinyl
New audio commentary on Vinyl: The Alternate Take featuring Zweig and Cheel
Extended interviews with Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, and Harvey Pekar
Additional outtakes
Booklet featuring an essay on Vinyl by filmmaker and executive producer Bruce McDonald
Double-sided poster
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles

Wildwood, NJ

⍟ AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE ⍟

[ AGFA-075 SLIP ]

1994 | 59 min | 1.33:1 | English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Ruth Leitman, Carol Weaks Cassidy
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.

Everyone needs more Wildwood, NJ in their lives. Shot on dreamy Super 8 film by directors Ruth Leitman and Carol Weaks Cassidy with an all-women crew, this documentary shines a light on the lives of women from Wildwood, New Jersey—the last great American carnival town. From go-go dancers to girls who work as vampires in the boardwalk haunted house, the film moves beyond big hair and press-on nails to look into the souls of women raised on the boardwalk’s rides, neon lights, and beaches. It’s easy to see why Lana Del Rey included footage from the movie in her “Diet Mountain Dew” music video. Plus: this release also includes found media sensation Girls at the Carnival and cinéma vérité wonder Mall City—two films that feel like spiritual cousins to our friends in Wildwood.

Region Free Blu-ray
Preserved from the original DigiBeta tape master
Commentary with co-director Ruth Leitman, moderated by Lauren Servideo
GIRLS AT THE CARNIVAL (1998, 23 mins.), a found VHS tape that was filmed in Ohio
GIRLS AT THE CARNIVAL: Commentary with Derek Erdman, who found the tape, and Phil Hootman, who appears in the video
MALL CITY (1983, dir. Hugh Kinniburgh, 48 mins.), a document of 1980s mall culture that was filmed at Long Island’s Roosevelt Field Mall
English SDH subtitles

Anytime Anyplace

⍟ VCX ⍟

[ VCX-003 SLIP ]

1981 | 91 min | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Kirdy Stevens
Starring: Seka, Lee Carol, Mike Ranger, Jesse Adams, Billy Dee, Tara Flynn, Bill Margold

Founded in 1979, VCX has been one of the premier names in erotic films on home video for close to 50 years. With a vast catalog of genre classics, featuring star making performances and top quality direction, these meticulously restored Blu-ray editions will present the VCX library as never before seen.

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Robert Sammelin) 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.

Lynn, Skinner, and Chickie prefer to enjoy the finer things in life, so long as they’re stealing them from the undeserving filthy rich. But this gang of carefree career criminals risk being torn apart when recently paroled Chickie faces a return to the slammer unless he can come up with some cash to pay off a sinister insurance outfit. Taking advantage of their charm and good looks, the trio begin ripping off the highest of high society, while frequently finding themselves witness to – if not embroiled in – the carnal dalliances of their victims, along with increasing romantic entanglements with each other.

From the acclaimed creative team behind the Taboo franchise, director Kirdy Stevens and writer-producer Helene Terrie, comes a carnal caper with an all star cast: ANYTIME ANYPLACE! Featuring the statuesque Seka (Dracula Sucks, Heavenly Desire) in one of her most revealing starring roles, alongside Lee Carroll (Mascara, The Seductress), and Mike Ranger (Taboo, Taxi Girls), this big budget romantic comedy breaks and enters its way onto Blu-ray from VCX, featuring a brand new 4K restoration of its 35mm original camera negative!

Region Free Blu-ray
4k scan and restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
Original theatrical trailers
Double sided artwork
11×17 replica one-sheet
English SDH subtitles

Nasty Nurses + Let’s Talk Sex

⍟ PEEKARAMA ⍟

[ PEEK-034 SLIP ]

1983 | 166 min (combined) | 1.85:1 | English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Directed by Paul Vitelli
Starring: Kay Parker, Becky Savage, Paul Thomas, Janey Robins, Bridgette Monet, Mike Horner, Julia Parton, Pat Manning

PEEKARAMA presents the wildest, rarest, and most scandalous theatrical hardcore double features. Taking its name from one of the earliest “all action” sex theatre chains, each PEEKARAMA release presents two themed, full length feature films, both meticulously restored, thus giving you the opportunity to enjoy an old fashioned dirty movie double feature at home!

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Rich Long) 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.

Director Paul Vatelli was one of the most prolific filmmakers working on hardcore films in the early 1980s, known for his extraordinarily glossy approach to filmmaking, light and breezy scripts, plus an uncanny ability to get consistently erotically-charged performances from his always first rate casts. This double feature offers a pair of his lesser-seen works, both produced by the legendary Caribbean Films, and presented on Blu-ray restored from their original camera negatives. The doctors and nurses at a neighborhood hospital find out that the facility is at risk of closure in NASTY NURSES. Deciding that it’s best to go out with a bang, they offer their patients and fellow physicians the sort of carnal cures you don’t learn at medical school. Stars include Kay Parker (Taboo), John Holmes (California Gigolo), Becky Savage (Intimate Lessons), Paul Thomas (A Formal Faucett), and Janey Robbins (Summer Camp Girls) in her debut feature.

In LET’S TALK SEX, the sensual stewards of the racy phone service Dial-A-Fantasy help their clients relieve pent up tension while offering counseling on everyday erotic problems. No desire is too hot to handle for this crew, which includes Bridgette Monet (Stiff Competition), Julia Parton (Vice Academy 3 & 4), Mike Horner (Body Girls), Pat Manning (The Young Like It Hot), and the legendary Kitten Natividad (Russ Meyer’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens).

Region Free Blu-ray
Newly scanned & restored in 2k from their 35mm original camera negatives
Original theatrical trailers for both films
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles

Vinegar Syndrome: March 2026

Office Killer

Intensive Care

Unmasked Part 25

Forgotten Gialli: Volume Nine

Massacre

Cuddly Toys

Badge 373

Reviver 2

American Sweatshop

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Carnival in the Night

Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps

City Wide Fever

Eight Postcards from Utopia + The Exit of the Trains

Fear Has 1,000 Eyes

Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic: The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb

The G

The Ghost Galleon

Grafted

Great Absence

Hayride to Hell + A Halloween Feast

Humane

Ju Dou

King Baby

Lilly Lives Alone

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

The Novice

Plan 75

The Roost

Snowy Bing Bongs

Somersault

The Stupefying Siren Tales of Pamela Sutch

The Temple Woods Gang

Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory

Vinyl

Wildwood, NJ

Anytime Anyplace

Nasty Nurses + Let’s Talk Sex

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