Terror Vision Brings Lost Slasher SILENT DEATH To Beyond Fest!

Looks as if Terror Vision still has plenty of treats on the way.

SAVANNAH, GA – After nearly half a century in obscurity, a lost slasher rockets straight to Beyond Fest.

Following years of searching and relentless detective work, Terror Vision is proud to unearth a long-lost gem of horror cinema: the 1981 slasher SILENT DEATH!

Premiering quietly in 1981 at a Newark, NJ theater, Silent Death had a very brief life on the big screen. After a couple of local showings and a stint at a 42nd Street grindhouse in New York, director Vaughn Christion struck a handful of VHS copies in hopes of securing distribution for his debut feature. The effort fell short, and the film never saw release in any home video format—vanishing into obscurity and becoming somewhat of a myth.

For decades, only a few people had ever witnessed Silent Death, and many dismissed the film as non-existent. But Terror Vision refused to let the story end there. Though they secured the rights and even located the original negative, they faced one huge problem: the sound was missing. After years of digging, Terror Vision finally uncovered one of the elusive VHS copies containing the film’s original audio, allowing them to restore Silent Death at last.

Now, more than forty years later, this long-buried slasher can be experienced the way it was meant to be. Beautifully scanned and fully restored from its original 35mm camera negative, Silent Death will make its triumphant 4K return to the big screen—beginning with its (re)premiere at Beyond Fest! Silent Death will screen at the Los Feliz 3 Theatre, Saturday, October 4th at 10pm PST.

Tickets go on sale HERE September 11 at 10am PST.

Silent Death, starring David Arts, Freddy James, Natalie Carter, and Doyle Ray Taylor, is believed to be the very first slasher film helmed by a Black director—predating Axe ’Em (The Weekend It Lives) by more than a decade. Horror history has just been rewritten, and Terror Vision is extremely proud to give this film the attention it deserves!

A Field Guide to TERROR VISION for the Uninitiated

Terror Vision is the rare home video haven for physical media connoisseurs that releases dotingly transferred obscure horror films not just on the now-essential 4K/Blu-ray formats, but on unkillable VHS too; as well as deep cut soundtracks on vinyl and cassette (Look out for a first-of-its-kind cassette-exclusive subscription coming soon).

Terror Vision has amassed a hive of devotees for its super-limited runs of low-budget fare like Gator Bait (perhaps the apotheosis of its kind), but this more Punk-at-Heart Criterion Collection is ramping up with a slew of A-List studio horror titles, coming soon.

Terror Vision has a permanent brick & mortar in Savannah, GA with a pop-up shop next door to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago through November, full of new/used vinyl, boutique home video gems, and a wall of ‘Hey-I-remember-that-cover’ VHS tapes from the personal collection of filmmaker Joe ‘Mumblecore’ Swanberg (the pop-up’s co-founder).