Severin Films

[beamish14]

Definitely purchasing, but I wish it had more of Jeunet and Caro’s shorts. I really wonder what led to the end of their partnership

[Finch]

Nice to see it confirmed. I hadn't bought the Studio Canal 4K yet so I might get Severin's instead. It has the film on a BD too which I think the UK version did not.

[Yakushima]

Severin has started to announce their upcoming Black Friday slate. First title: Delicatessen (1991)

***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY TITLE REVEAL #1***
DELICATESSEN
THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERE 3 DISC COLLECTION WITH 6 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

Studio Canal 4K disc had some very noticeable DNR/compression issues. I wonder if Severin will be able to improve on it. I will be buying it regardless, for the extras.

[dwk]

***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY TITLE REVEAL #2***

EATEN ALIVE

THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE

After launching the genre with MAN FROM DEEP RIVER, writer/director Umberto Lenzi “ups the ante and then some” (Dread Central) with “the most entertaining cannibal adventure of them all” (Daily Dead), now in UHD for the first time ever: A desperate rescue expedition to the jungles of New Guinea will unleash bizarre primitive rituals, over-the-top violence, gratuitous nudity, recycled footage, a maniacal cult leader and an all-you-can-eat buffet of flesh-chomping carnage. Robert Kerman (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST), Janet Agren (CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), Ivan Rassimov (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK), Paola Senatore (EMANUELLE IN AMERICA), Me Me Lai (LAST CANNIBAL WORLD) and Mel Ferrer (THE GREAT ALLIGATOR) star in this “grisly greatest hits package” (Mondo Digital) scanned in 4K from the CRI with over 4 hours of Special Features that include a newly discovered discussion of cannibal films between Umberto Lenzi and Ruggero Deodato.

Special Features for EATEN ALIVE:
UHD:
• Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema Of Umberto Lenzi
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:
• Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema Of Umberto Lenzi
• Welcome To The Jungle – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
• Deodato Meats Lenzi – An Exclusive Discussion Of Their Cannibal Films
• Me Me Lai Bites Back – Feature Documentary On The Queen Of Cannibal Movies
• The Sect Of The Purification – Interview With Production Designer Antonello Geleng
• Archival Interviews With Actors Ivan Rassimov And Robert Kerman
• 2013 Q&A With Umberto Lenzi From The Festival Of Fantastic Films
• Newly Discovered Alternate Footage
• Trailer

*Exclusive Booklet By Claire Donner Of The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies

Feature Specs for EATEN ALIVE:
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Runtime: 93 mins
• Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono
• Closed Captions: English SDH, Subtitles: English
• Region: UHD: A/B/C, Blu-ray: A
• Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
• Booklet
• Reversible Wrap

 

[colinr0380]

Me Me Lai of course later turns up in Lars von Trier's debut feature The Element of Crime - her last on screen role - as the enigmatic femme fatale figure who gets "fucked back to the stone age" by Michael Elphick, in a line presumably alluding back to her cannibal films. She doesn't fare that much better in Eaten Alive!

[Peacock]

Me Me Lai appears in a few key cannibal films, including the best movie of the genre - the intense survival movie Last Cannibal World aka Jungle Holocaust. There’s a movie I wouldn’t find seeing in UHD! And Me Me Lai stands out (literally) as a kindly, silicone pumped cannibal tribeswoman.

Eaten Alive! I would place squarely somewhere in the middle of my rankings of this sub genre, it’s really more of an Ivan Rassimov/hippy-cult leader-in-a-jungle movie with the cannibal elements more of a secondary threat. Not a great film on its own but quite unique within the genre.

[dwk]

***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY TITLE REVEAL #3***
RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR
THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERE
Having depicted the zombie apocalypse in HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi took on a new kind of cataclysm to create “a grotesque, funny and thrilling magnum opus” (Daily Dead) that still must be seen to be believed, now in UHD: In the year 225 A.B. (After The Bomb), a gang of scavengers discovers a seemingly abandoned city – including sets originally built for ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – only to become prey for millions of flesh-hungry rats. Ottaviano Dell’Acqua (ZOMBIE 3), Massimo Vanni (ROBOWAR), Gianni Franco (THE WAX MASK) and Geretta Geretta (DEMONS) star – with a classic ‘80s Italian horror score by Luigi Ceccarelli (NOSFERATU IN VENICE) – in “Bruno Mattei’s masterpiece” (Senseless Cinema), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever, with 3 hours of new & archival Special Features and a Bonus CD of the recently discovered/remastered soundtrack.

Special Features for RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR:
UHD:
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:
• Mad Rats: The Making Of A Cult – Featuring Co-Writer/Uncredited Co-Director Claudio Fragasso; Actors Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni, Ann-Gisel Glass And Jean-Christophe Brétignière; Composer Luigi Ceccarelli; And Still Photographer Gianni Leacche
• Of Rats And Men – Interview With Director Bruno Mattei
• Richard And The Rats – Interview With Actor Ottaviano Dell’Acqua
• Chocolate And Rats – Interview With Actress Geretta Geretta
• Last Rat Standing – Interview With Actor Gianni Franco
• Rats Dance – Interview With Composer Luigi Ceccarelli
• Bruno And Claudio, I Knew Them Well – Interview With Executive Producer Roberto Di Girolamo
• Bonded By Blood – Retrospective Making-Of For HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD And RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR Featuring Co-Writer/Uncredited Co-Director Claudio Fragasso And Actors Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Franco Garofalo, Margie Newton And Massimo Vanni
• Trailer
• "Under The Black Sky" Severin Produced Music Video With Geretta Geretta

*Bonus Disc: Soundtrack CD

Feature Specs for RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR:
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Runtime: 97 mins
• Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono
• Closed Captions: English SDH, Subtitles: English
• Region: UHD: A/B/C, Blu-ray: A
• Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
• Reversible Wrap
• Soundtrack CD

[dwk]

Me Me Lai appears in a few key cannibal films, including the best movie of the genre - the intense survival movie Last Cannibal World aka Jungle Holocaust. There’s a movie I wouldn’t find seeing in UHD! And Me Me Lai stands out (literally) as a kindly, silicone pumped cannibal tribeswoman.

Not announced yet, and it may not be a Black Friday title, but that one is also getting a UHD.