Grindhouse Releasing has officially announced that the long-lost, made-in-Dallas masterpiece of outsider cinema, Scarlet Warning 666, will be available to own on limited collector’s edition Blu-Ray soon. Preorders are currently set to ship out on February 14, 2026. The release is limited to 3,000 numbered copies. Palmer Rockey wrote, directed, and produced the film and boasted of playing 7 different roles on screen and 47 different roles behind the scenes in what is reputed to be the worst movie ever made.
Never released on home video and not seen in 40 years, SCARLET WARNING 666 is coming to Blu-ray in a limited collector’s edition, newly restored from the original 35mm negative and available for preorder at GrindhouseReleasing.com. The deluxe 3-disc (2 Blu-rays + CD) release includes Palmer Rockey’s SCARLET LOVE ‘Movie Album’ in a new CD remaster with bonus tracks from the original 1980 ROCKEY’S STYLE pressing of the rare cult classic LP. Get more details below!
Synopsis: SCARLET WARNING 666 stars Rockey as twin brothers in a story of Satanic skullduggery, bizarre occult rituals and “demonic assassination” on a country estate. The execution of this premise was so bewildering, insane, and incompetent that the film was laughed off the screen at its Dallas premiere in 1974.
After audiences mocked his naive ineptitude, Rockey said, “You know what I think the meaning of this whole thing – the movie – is? Don’t give anybody the right to make you unhappy, because, man, they will. People can laugh at what I do, but they can’t laugh at me. I mean, man, I’m satisfied. I’m smiling inside.”
Rockey spent decades obsessively laboring over his magnum opus, shooting new scenes and piling layer upon layer of cringe in a doomed effort to explain the incomprehensible plot. He distributed the movie himself, four-walling theaters to show his epic in various incarnations as IT HAPPENED ON SUNDAY, SCARLET LOVE, ROCKEY’S STYLE, LOVE IS DEEP INSIDE, and SCARLET WARNING 666.
In 1980 he released the film as SCARLET LOVE, with an original soundtrack album featuring his own vocal stylings. When this too met with audience mockery, Rockey attempted to frame the unintended laughs as “keen satire.” Rockey was still restitching his Frankenstein’s monster of a movie with new material at the time of his death in 1996.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Beautiful new master, lovingly restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative
- Provocative, in-depth interviews with producer Cookie Rockey and co-star Dr. Ron DiSalvo
- Additional interviews with punk rock icon Jello Biafra and legendary rare record connoisseurs Paul Major and Jonny Trunk
- Audio commentary by Reverend Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius)
- Original theatrical trailer and extensive still galleries
- Glossy illustrated booklet with liner notes by exploitation historian Chris Poggiali
- Beautiful embossed slipcover with new art by esteemed painter Jerry Martinez
- Blu-ray cover painting by cult artist Dave Lebow
- BONUS CD – SCARLET LOVE MOVIE ALBUM by Palmer Rockey newly remastered in stunning 24-bit/192Khz sound
- AND OTHER SURPRISES!
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