Severin Films has announced four new titles to head to 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in April and May: Deep Blood (1990), Santa Sangre (1989), Day of the Animals (1977) and Grizzly (1976). These represent two cult favorites from William Girdler, an Italian sharksploitation entry, and an Alejandro Jodorowsky avant-garde classic. Details on these films can be found below:
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Deep Blood
Street Date: April 27, 2021
Synopsis: In a career that forever raised the bar for everything from hookers, cannibals and necrophiles to Ator, Emanuelle and Caligula, this long-unseen chum bucket from producer/director/EuroSleaze master Joe D’Amato may be his most bizarrely entertaining anomaly ever. Shot on location in Florida surf and Rome swimming pools, D’Amato combines ’80s teen movie cliches and Native American mysticism with stupefying dialogue, over-the-top performances and shark footage that Bruno Mattei would later swipe for CRUEL JAWS to create what Oh, The Horror! calls “a weird, demented experience that begs to be discovered and embraced.” A cast of local unknowns – along with, inexplicably, the ’60s comedy team of Charlie Brill & Mitzi McCall – star in this last word in Italian Sharksploitation, now scanned in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever.
BONUS MATERIALS
- Trailer
Santa Sangre (4K UHD + Blu-Ray + CD & Blu-Ray)
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: It has been hailed as “extraordinary” (The Guardian), “visionary and haunting” (Rolling Stone) and “a grand work of art, full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language to something primal and original” (AV Club). Now forget everything you have ever seen as the modern masterpiece from director Alejandro Jodorowsky returns like never before, with 8+ hours of archival & all-new Special Features. Severin Films is proud to present this 4-Disc Deluxe Edition of Jodorowsky’s epic odyssey through ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness – and the surreal genius behind it all – now featuring a 4K scan from the original negative supervised by the director himself.
BONUS MATERIALS
- FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN: The World of Santa Sangre — Feature length documentary with Co-Writer / Director Alejandro Jodorowsky, Actors Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky, Elenka Tapia, Teo Tapia,
- New Blood – Alejandro Jodorowsky on the restoration of SANTA SANGRE
- Like A Phoenix – Interview with Producer Claudio Argento
- Holy Blood – Interview with Cinematographer Danielle Nannuzzi
- Mexican Magic – Interview with Executive Producer Angelo Iacono
- The Language of Editing – Interview with Editor Mauro Bonanni
- Innocence in Horror – Interview with Screenwriter Roberto Leoni
- Santa Sangre 30th Anniversary Celebration at Morbido Festival, Mexico City
- Audio Commentary with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Journalist Alan Jones
- Goyo Cárdenas Spree Killer – Documentary on the Real Life Inspiration for SANTA SANGRE
- Jodorowsky 2003 Interview
- Jodorowsky on Stage Q & A
- Deleted Scenes with Director Commentary
- ECHECK – Adan Jodorowsky Short Film
- Simon Boswell Interviews Jodorowsky
- ‘Close Your Eyes’ Simon Boswell Music Video
- BLINK JODOROWSKY – Short by Simon Boswell
- Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wilderness, director William Girdler and producer Ed Montoro sought to top their surprise blockbuster GRIZZLY with a bigger budget, larger cast, and even more nature-gone-berserk carnage: When a hole in the Earth’s ozone layer triggers bloodthirsty madness throughout the animal kingdom, all mankind – particularly a group of tourists on an overnight hike – will become their prey. Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara, Andrew Stevens and Leslie Nielsen – in his now-legendary pre-AIRPLANE! performance that “is worth the price of admission alone” (DVD Talk) – star in “one of the most outrageous offerings the drive-in has ever known” (Pop Matters), now featuring a 2K scan from the internegative and howling with Special Features produced exclusively for this edition.
BONUS MATERIALS
- Audio Commentary with Lee Gambin, Author of ‘Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film’
- Nature Boy – Interview with Actor Bobby Porter
- Against Nature – Interview with Actor Andrew Stevens
- Monty Cox Unleashed – Interview with Animal Wrangler Monty Cox
- Something Was Out There: Day of the Animals 30 Years Later – Archival Making Of DAY OF THE ANIMALS Featurette
- Alternate Opening Title Sequence SOMETHING IS OUT THERE
- TV Spot
- Trailers
- Radio Spot
- Audio Commentary with Actors Lynda Day George and Jon Cedar, Moderated by EVIL DEAD II Co-Writer Scott Spiegel
- ‘Nightmare USA’ Author Stephen Thrower on the Career of Distributor Edward L. Montoro
Grizzly
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: Less than a year after the release of Steven Spielberg’s shark blockbuster, director William Girdler (DAY OF THE ANIMALS) and infamous distributor Film Ventures International (GREAT WHITE) brazenly unleashed their own ‘JAWS with claws’ sensation that would become one of the most successful independent horror films in history. Christopher George (PIECES), Andrew Prine (BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD) and Richard Jaeckel (THE DARK) star in this “bloody, sexy and immortal trash classic” (Mondo Digital) about an 18-foot-tall ursus arctos horribilis on a carnivorous rampage through a state park full of campers, and the ranger, chopper pilot and naturalist who must stop it. GRIZZLY now roars with a 2k scan from the internegative plus Special Features produced exclusively for this edition.
BONUS MATERIALS
- Audio Commentary with Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson and Film Writer Troy Howarth
- The Grizzly Details – Interview with Producer David Sheldon and Actress Joan McCall
- The Towering Fury – Interview with Actor Tom Arcuragi
- ‘Nightmare USA’ Author Stephen Thrower on the Career of William Girdler
- Movie Making in the Wilderness – Vintage Behind-the-Scenes Making Of
- Jaws with Claws – Archival Making Of GRIZZLY Featurette
- Radio Spots
- Trailers
- Audio Commentary with Producer David Sheldon and Actress Joan McCall
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