Terror Vision Went Giallo For Week 3 of 13 Weeks of Halloween

Anther week, another exciting haul. Horror fans rejoice once more.

Terror Vision continues its 10-Year Anniversary celebration with a special 3^rd week pre-order for their 13 Weeks of Halloween announcement frenzy. Details were just spilled to Ryan Verrill of Disc-Connected on the weekly Terror Vision live stream on YouTube, continuing every Friday.

Put on your black hat and gloves and sharpen your fetishized blade, because August 22 debuts a line of Giallo titles under the new mantle Death Nerve Video! Spine #1 will be the strikingly beautiful 2011 French neo-Giallo THE LAST SCREENING (Dernière séance) on Blu-ray, restored from the original 35mm negative. This is the very first release of this film in the US. Fans of the genre can look forward to several more titles that lurk boldly in the shadows of Bava and Argento under this bright red banner in the future.  As if this wasn’t exciting enough, Death Nerve will be pressing classic Giallo soundtrack releases as well!

All films under the Death Nerve sub-label will be packaged in the same new sleeve design modeled after the original bright yellow paperbacks that inspired the genre (Giallo = Yellow); with each bearing a unique identifier boasting that particular film’s murder weapon!  See details about this first release below.

As always, physical media completists will find Bundle options for select 13 Weeks pre-orders, with themed, collectible bonus items. Those in the know stay tuned to @ _terror_vision_ for hints and clues throughout the week then pounce on Terror-Vision.com first thing every Friday to grab these limited releases before their availability is killed off.

Last week included a low-priced Secret Title that will only be available for a limited time, as well as HIDE AND GO SHRIEK in 4K and the metal score to JIMMY AND STIGGS from Eli Roth’s The Horror Section. Week 1 saw the kick-off of ‘13 Weeks’ with its trio of scholastic slasher fare: STUDENT BODIES (1981), DEATH BY DIALOGUE (1988), and the synth score to CHEERLEADER CAMP (1988). These are still available for pre-order while supplies last (some collectors’ bundles are limited to only 100 copies and almost gone).

Terror Vision is one of the many iconoclastic brainchildren of musician and filmmaker Ryan Graveface, also the founder of both Graveface Records and The Graveface Museum (perhaps Savannah’s most macabre destination).

THE LAST SCREENING (Dernière séance) (2011)

Like Amer and Berberian Sound Studio, THE LAST SCREENING is a modern import that lovingly keeps the style and sacred tropes of the golden age of Giallo alive and blood-soaked. Director Laurent Achard gives us the requisite shockingly red blood and vintage film grain, and star Pascal Cervo brings serious acting cred to his role as the film bro and Maniac-esque mama’s boy who just can’t leave the violence where it belongs: on-screen at the cinema where he works (and squats in a basement). Nominated for the 2011 Golden Leopard Award, fans of Peeping Tom and other intelligent horror films should check this one out. Extras include an archival interview with Cervo and a commentary with Terror Vision’s own Brad Henderson. And if you want to wax philosophical about this being a metaphor for the death of the cinema, go right ahead.

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, with a pop-up shop popped up 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).