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American Horror Project Vol 1 is a set consisting of:

• Carnival of Blood
• The Witch Who Came from the Sea
• The Premonition

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2016 Arrow Video (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon released on 22nd February 2016

There is also a US release.

Reviews

• See review from cine-vue.com : " The strongest of the films is Matt Cimber's The Witch Who Came from the Sea "
• See review from frontrowreviews.co.uk : " This three disc set has films that on initial release were either left to the side or languished in obscurity "

Carnival of Blood is a 1970 USA horror by Leonard Kirtman.
Starring Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick and Martin Barolsky.

There are no censorship issues with this film.

The Witch who Came from the Sea is a 1976 US horror by Matt Cimber.
With Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman and Vanessa Brown.

Always uncut but briefly banned as a video nasty in 1984. Passed 18 uncut for 2006 DVD. Uncut and R rated in the US.

The Premonition is a 1992 Sweden / Denmark thriller by Rumle Hammerich.
Starring Tova Magnusson-Norling, Figge Norling and Björn Kjellman.

There are no censorship issues with this film.

Promotional Material

Everyone knows the classic American horror titles: Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, to name but a few. But we want to tell you a different story a story of the unsung heroes of American terror... Whether it s a film that has languished in obscurity, or a movie that s at risk of being lost due to lack of source materials, American Horror Project is here to ensure that these unique slices of the American Nightmare are brought back into the public consciousness and preserved for all to enjoy.

Volume I of this series presents three tales of violence and madness from the 1970s. Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973) sees a family arrive at a creepy, dilapidated fairground in search of their missing daughter, only to find themselves at the mercy of cannibalistic ghouls lurking beneath the park. Meanwhile, The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), stars Mollie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank) as a young woman whose bizarre and violent fantasies start to bleed into reality literally. Lastly, every parent s worst nightmare comes true in The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976), a tale of psychic terror in which five-year-old Janie is snatched away by a strange woman claiming to be her long-lost mother.

Newly remastered from the best surviving elements and contextualised with brand new supplementary material, with American Horror Project we can re-evaluate an alternative history of American horror and film heritage.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restorations of the three features

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard DVD presentations

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil

American Horror Project Journal Volume I - Limited Edition 60-page booklet featuring new articles on the films from Kim Newman (Nightmare Movies), Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women) and Brian Albright (Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990)

MALATESTA S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new interview with director Christopher Speeth

Brand new interview with writer Werner Liepolt

Draft Script (BD/DVD-ROM content)

Production stills gallery

THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Audio commentary with director Matt Cimber, actress Millie Perkins and director of photography Dean Cundey

Brand new interview with director Matt Cimber

Brand new interview with Dean Cundey

Brand new interview with actor John Goff

THE PREMONITION - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Audio commentary with director-producer Robert Allen Schnitzer

Brand new interview with composer Henry Mollicone

Interview with actor Richard Lynch

Three Robert Allen Schnitzer short films: Vernal Equinox , Terminal Point and A Rumbling in the Land

4 Peace Spots

Trailers and TV Spots

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!

Evilspeak is a 1981 USA horror by Eric Weston.
With Clint Howard, RG Armstrong and Joe Cortese.

UK: The uncut composite version was passed 18 uncut for strong gory violence for:

• 2016 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 25th January 2016

UK: The shortened version was passed 18 uncut for strong gory violence for:

• 2016 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 25th January 2016

This is presumably the shortened version most recently released by Anchor Bay. It includes all the violent material but has been shortened in plot scenes for reason of pave

Censorship History

Originally uncut for pre-cert VHS but this was replaced by the butchered R rated version. Either way these both got banned as a video nasty. Then butchered by the BBFC for 1987 VHS. The end result was very similar to the cut R rated version. BBFC cuts were waived for 2004 DVD but the best available print had been shortened for dialogue. The uncut version was composed by restoring the missing dialogue but from lower quality sources. Anchor Bay included both options on its 2004 DVD.

Promotional Material

Banned as a video nasty during the horror film purge of the early 1980s, EVILSPEAK returns to UK shelves remastered and uncut for BluRay! Starring genre legend Clint Howard (CARNOSAUR/ THE WRAITH) as a bullied military academy student who manages to tap into an ancient satanic ritual and unleash everything from flesh-hungry pigs to heart-tearing demonic forces, EVILSPEAK is a garish, gruesome rollercoaster romp that rarely pauses for breath. Also featuring a starring turn from veteran actor R.G. Armstrong (PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID), EVILSPEAK is first class genre cinema, from the golden era of VHS splatter, 88 Films is proud to present this colourful bout of carnage in HD!

Extras:

• Audio Commentary with Producer / Director Eric Weston
• Interview with Cast Members Joseph Cortese, Clint Howard, Haywood Nelson, Claude Earl Jones, Richard Moll and Don Stark
• Theatrical Trailer
• Intro by Eric Weston
• Stills Gallery
• Newly Commissioned Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• Reversible incorporating original artwork

Evilspeak is a 1981 USA horror by Eric Weston.
With Clint Howard, RG Armstrong and Joe Cortese.

UK: The uncut composite version was passed 18 uncut for strong gory violence for:

• 2016 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 25th January 2016

UK: The shortened version was passed 18 uncut for strong gory violence for:

• 2016 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 25th January 2016

This is presumably the shortened version most recently released by Anchor Bay. It includes all the violent material but has been shortened in plot scenes for reason of pave

Censorship History

Originally uncut for pre-cert VHS but this was replaced by the butchered R rated version. Either way these both got banned as a video nasty. Then butchered by the BBFC for 1987 VHS. The end result was very similar to the cut R rated version. BBFC cuts were waived for 2004 DVD but the best available print had been shortened for dialogue. The uncut version was composed by restoring the missing dialogue but from lower quality sources. Anchor Bay included both options on its 2004 DVD.

Promotional Material

Banned as a video nasty during the horror film purge of the early 1980s, EVILSPEAK returns to UK shelves remastered and uncut for BluRay! Starring genre legend Clint Howard (CARNOSAUR/ THE WRAITH) as a bullied military academy student who manages to tap into an ancient satanic ritual and unleash everything from flesh-hungry pigs to heart-tearing demonic forces, EVILSPEAK is a garish, gruesome rollercoaster romp that rarely pauses for breath. Also featuring a starring turn from veteran actor R.G. Armstrong (PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID), EVILSPEAK is first class genre cinema, from the golden era of VHS splatter, 88 Films is proud to present this colourful bout of carnage in HD!

Extras:

• Audio Commentary with Producer / Director Eric Weston
• Interview with Cast Members Joseph Cortese, Clint Howard, Haywood Nelson, Claude Earl Jones, Richard Moll and Don Stark
• Theatrical Trailer
• Intro by Eric Weston
• Stills Gallery
• Newly Commissioned Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• Reversible incorporating original artwork

Night Train Murders is a 1975 Italian horror by Aldo Lado.
With Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril and Gianfranco De Grassi.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2016 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 11th January 2016

Video Nasty

Banned by the BBFC for 1976 cinema release. Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Unbanned for 2008 DVD. Uncut and R rated in the US.

Promotional Material

Originally banned in the UK as a video nasty , under its VHS-era title of DON T RIDE ON LATE NIGHT TRAINS, this tense thriller is a malevolent mix of hair-raising Hitchcockian suspense and contemporary splatter movie shocks. Released in 1975 to a suitably disorientated audience, NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS tells of two young female travellers, including Irene Miracle from INFERNO, who are kidnapped and tormented by a gang of thugs (led by an older matriarch with murderous desires).

Indeed, the horror and humiliation which takes place during their journey is the stuff of nightmares... but a final twist leads the criminals into the hands of one girl s pistol-packing parents! Also inspired by Wes Craven s legendary masterpiece, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, and directed by giallo expert Aldo Lado (THE SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS), this gritty and garish stomach-churner - which includes an iconic Ennio Morricone soundtrack - is finally unleashed in the UK in all of its fully uncut HD gory glory!

Extras:
• Available to watch in either English Language or Italian Language with English Subtitles
• Strangers On A (Late Night) Train - An interview with Irene Miracle
• Further Adventures In Italy - Irene Miracle tells a Hair-raising story
• Collectable Poster Artcard
• English Language Trailer
• Italian Language Trailer
• Reversible Sleeve with original UK Video Nasty Art

Axe/Kidnapped Coed is a double bill by Frederick R Friedel.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Severin Films [Axe + Kidnapped Co-ed] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 15th December 2015
• 2015 Severin Films [Axe + Kidnapped Co-ed] R0 DVD at US Amazon released on 15th December 2015

Axe is a 1977 US horror by Frederick R Friedel.
With Leslie Lee, Jack Canon and Ray Green.

Cut by the BBFC for 1982 cinema release and 1999 VHS. Banned as a video nasty in 1984. The BBFC waived their cuts for 2005 DVD. Uncut in the US

Date with a Kidnapper is a 1976 USA crime romance by Frederick R Friedel.
Starring Jack Canon, Leslie Rivers and Gladys Lavitan.

There are no censorship issues with this release

Summary Notes

A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.

Promotional Material

In the mid-1970s, writer/producer/director/actor Frederick R. Friedel went to North Carolina to film a pair of enigmatic yet startling low-budget thrillers AXE and KIDNAPPED CO-ED only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage and drive-in oblivion.

In AXE, depraved killers on the run hold a young woman and her invalid grandfather hostage in an isolated farmhouse. In KIDNAPPED CO-ED, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family forms a perverse relationship with her abductor.

Once thought doomed to drive-in obscurity, fans and grindhouse historians have begun to compare Freidel's films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick , and now the complete story behind this strange journey can finally be told. Severin Films is proud to present both features restored from their original negatives, plus BLOODY BROTHERS , Friedel's recut of the two features as one twisted crime epic called BLOODY BROTHERS , and loaded with exclusive Bonus Features that reveal the startling saga behind the casts, crews, disastrous fate and surprising rediscovery of these nearly forgotten grindhouse/arthouse classics the ultimate look at one of the most fascinating sagas in indie exploitation history!

Special Features:

• AXE & KIDNAPPED COED- Audio Commentaries with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Philip Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter
• BLOOD BROTHERS Feature
• Audio Commentary with Nightmare USA Author Stephen Thrower
• At Last... Total Terror! - The Amazing True Story of the Making of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (61 minutes)
• Moose Magic - The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (33 minutes)
• Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED
• Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots
• BONUS CD: AXE & KIDNAPPED COED Original Motion Picture Soundtracks Plus Bonus Tracks By George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is a 1981 USA/Italy horror by Romano Scavolini.
Starring Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith and CJ Cooke.

UK: Uncut for November 2015 release but was lacking BBFC paperwork so was quickly withdrawn for:

• 2015 88 Films R0 Blu-ray
• 2015 88 Films R0 DVD at UK Amazon released on 30th November

Jon broke the news on Friday saying:

88 Films' UK Blu-Ray release of NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN has had to be completely withdrawn from sale across the UK this afternoon, as it contained material not legally acceptable for sale .

I had the info from a friend of mine who works at a local HMV, where all remaining copies had to be immediately withdrawn from their shelves and sent back to their supplier. Amazon has withdrawn the item too, as has 88 Films' official website.

Update:

Coincidently at more or less the same time as the DVD was being withdrawn, An uncut 18 rating (with previous waived) was published on the BBFC website. This clearly did the trick as the DVD went back on sale on Saturday on Amazon UK. However there is no sign of the Blu-ray on Amazon and all foreign import versions of the film remain de-listed.

Reviews

• See article from realmofhorror-blog.blogspot.co.uk : " The cleaned up picture is certainly a massive improvement over the old US DVD "

Censorship History

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1982 cinema release. Famously banned as a video nasty with the distributor being jailed. A cut US R rated version was released in the UK for an 18 rated 2002 DVD.

In the US the Unrated 2011 Code Red version is slightly shortened in uncontroversial scenes but is the best US release available.

An uncut version, or as near as dammit, was released in the UK in November 2015 but was soon withdrawn presumably for a lack of BBFC paperwork. However the BBFC certificate was published shortly after and the DVD went back on sale.

The Code Red DVD and BD on which this release is based is uncut for gore but has been truncated the scene where a young boy finds a dead girls body in an abandoned house and is subsequently grabbed from behind by the killer. Instead it cuts just as you see the shadow moving behind then you hear him scream off camera.

Thanks to Braintree. Some of those missing seconds have been restored by 88 Films, but not quite all of them.

This scene is on the old Dutch VHS, but that version misses some dialogue out from elsewhere. So, a truly complete version of the uncut print is difficult to find.

US: The best available US version is MPAA unrated for:

• 2011 Code Red 30th Anniversary Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon titled Nightmare

See further details at Melon Farmers Film Cuts: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

Promotional Material

Few slasher classics have proven to be more controversial than Romano Scavolini's sicko slice 'em up epic NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN!

Finally unleashed in the UK, uncut and uncensored, for the first time since VHS (back when the distributor of this bloodthirsty HALLOWEEN cash-in was imprisoned for 18 months just for daring to unleash it!), NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN depicts the slow mental burn down of an escaped psychopath as he hacks his way through New York's 42nd Street, horny teenagers and random suburban housewives! But there is more to his rampage than meets the eye, as a shocking final twist reveals!

Featuring enough Freudian-fermentation to appease genre academics, and packing in more plasma splashed set pieces than any of its rivals, NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN is advised only for the strongest of stomachs! One thing is for sure though - this is the Slasher Classic you have all been craving for, remastered and restored from the original in-camera elements!

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Terror in Times Square - A Guide to Nightmare's Grindhouse Kingdom
• Audio Commentary with The Hysteria Continues
• Audio Commentary by Bill Paul
• Interview with Tom Ward, CEO of 21st Century Films
• Trailer
• TV Spots
• More TBC

TECHNICAL SPECS

• Region Code: Free
• Picture Format: HD 1.78:1
• Audio Format: LPCM Mono
• Language: English
• Certification: 18
• Running Time: 99 Mins Approx

Bloody Moon is a 1981 Spanish/German slasher by Jess Franco.
With Olivia Pascal, Christoph Moosbrugger and Nadja Gerganoff.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2015 Severin Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 7th December 2015

Video Nasty

Cut by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release. The same version was released on pre-cert video along with the uncut version. These were then banned as video nasties. Later cut by the BBFC for 1993 VHS. The BBFC cuts were waived for 2008 DVD. Uncut in the US.

See further details at Melon Farmers Film Cuts: Bloody Moon

Promotional Material

Controversial slasher horror. Shortly after being released from a mental asylum, where he was incarcerated for murder, Miguel (Alexander Waechter) goes on a brutal killing spree during the Spanish Festival of the Moon. Released into his sister Manuela (Nadja Gerganoff)'s custody, Miguel targets the young women staying at his sister's Youth Club Boarding School for Languages in the Costa Del Sol.

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is a 1981 USA/Italy horror by Romano Scavolini.
Starring Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith and CJ Cooke.

UK: 88 Films say that the film will be released uncut for:

• 2015 88 Films R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 30th November 2015
• 2015 88 Films R0 DVD at UK Amazon released on 30th November 2015

Censorship History

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1982 cinema release. Famously banned as a video nasty with the distributor being jailed. A cut US R rated version was released in the UK for an 18 rated 2002 DVD. In the US the Unrated version is uncut.

See further details at Melon Farmers Film Cuts: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

The promotional material for this release has been updated to note that the forthcoming release will be the uncut 99 minute version. But saying that, this version has not yet appeared in the BBFC database.

The Code Red DVD and BD on which this release is based is uncut for gore but has been truncated the scene where a young boy finds a dead girls body in an abandoned house and is subsequently grabbed from behind by the killer. Instead it cuts just as you see the shadow moving behind then you hear him scream off camera.

Thanks to Braintree. Some of those missing seconds have been restored by 88 Films, but not quite all of them.

This scene is on the old Dutch VHS, but that version misses some dialogue out from elsewhere. So, a truly complete version of the uncut print is difficult to find.

Promotional Material

Few slasher classics have proven to be more controversial than Romano Scavolini's sicko slice 'em up epic NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN!

Finally unleashed in the UK, uncut and uncensored, for the first time since VHS (back when the distributor of this bloodthirsty HALLOWEEN cash-in was imprisoned for 18 months just for daring to unleash it!), NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN depicts the slow mental burn down of an escaped psychopath as he hacks his way through New York's 42nd Street, horny teenagers and random suburban housewives! But there is more to his rampage than meets the eye, as a shocking final twist reveals!

Featuring enough Freudian-fermentation to appease genre academics, and packing in more plasma splashed set pieces than any of its rivals, NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN is advised only for the strongest of stomachs! One thing is for sure though - this is the Slasher Classic you have all been craving for, remastered and restored from the original in-camera elements!

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Terror in Times Square - A Guide to Nightmare's Grindhouse Kingdom
• Audio Commentary with The Hysteria Continues
• Audio Commentary by Bill Paul
• Interview with Tom Ward, CEO of 21st Century Films
• Trailer
• TV Spots
• More TBC

TECHNICAL SPECS

• Region Code: Free
• Picture Format: HD 1.78:1
• Audio Format: LPCM Mono
• Language: English
• Certification: 18
• Running Time: 99 Mins Approx

American Horror Project Vol 1 is a set consisting of:

• Carnival of Blood
• The Witch Who Came from the Sea
• The Premonition

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2016 Arrow Video (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon released on 22nd February 2016

Carnival of Blood is a 1970 USA horror by Leonard Kirtman.
Starring Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick and Martin Barolsky.

There are no censorship issues with this film.

The Witch who Came from the Sea is a 1976 US horror by Matt Cimber.
With Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman and Vanessa Brown.

Always uncut but briefly banned as a video nasty in 1984. Passed 18 uncut for 2006 DVD. Uncut and R rated in the US.

The Premonition is a 1992 Sweden / Denmark thriller by Rumle Hammerich.
Starring Tova Magnusson-Norling, Figge Norling and Björn Kjellman.

There are no censorship issues with this film.

Promotional Material

Everyone knows the classic American horror titles: Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, to name but a few. But we want to tell you a different story a story of the unsung heroes of American terror... Whether it s a film that has languished in obscurity, or a movie that s at risk of being lost due to lack of source materials, American Horror Project is here to ensure that these unique slices of the American Nightmare are brought back into the public consciousness and preserved for all to enjoy.

Volume I of this series presents three tales of violence and madness from the 1970s. Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973) sees a family arrive at a creepy, dilapidated fairground in search of their missing daughter, only to find themselves at the mercy of cannibalistic ghouls lurking beneath the park. Meanwhile, The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), stars Mollie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank) as a young woman whose bizarre and violent fantasies start to bleed into reality literally. Lastly, every parent s worst nightmare comes true in The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976), a tale of psychic terror in which five-year-old Janie is snatched away by a strange woman claiming to be her long-lost mother.

Newly remastered from the best surviving elements and contextualised with brand new supplementary material, with American Horror Project we can re-evaluate an alternative history of American horror and film heritage.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restorations of the three features

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard DVD presentations

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil

American Horror Project Journal Volume I - Limited Edition 60-page booklet featuring new articles on the films from Kim Newman (Nightmare Movies), Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women) and Brian Albright (Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990)

MALATESTA S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new interview with director Christopher Speeth

Brand new interview with writer Werner Liepolt

Draft Script (BD/DVD-ROM content)

Production stills gallery

THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Audio commentary with director Matt Cimber, actress Millie Perkins and director of photography Dean Cundey

Brand new interview with director Matt Cimber

Brand new interview with Dean Cundey

Brand new interview with actor John Goff

THE PREMONITION - SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Audio commentary with director-producer Robert Allen Schnitzer

Brand new interview with composer Henry Mollicone

Interview with actor Richard Lynch

Three Robert Allen Schnitzer short films: Vernal Equinox , Terminal Point and A Rumbling in the Land

4 Peace Spots

Trailers and TV Spots

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!

SS Experiment Camp is a 1976 Italy war horror by Sergio Garrone.
Starring Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi and Giorgio Cerioni.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2015 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 19th October 2015
• 2015 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 19th October 2015

UK Censorship History

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Released uncut on 18 rated 2006 DVD. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

The BBFC had few qualms in passing it uncut for sale in the UK in 2005 with the following justification (reproduced from one of the newsgroups) :

The content of the film is in fact very mild and poorly executed. If anything, it was the title of the film and its original packaging that led to difficulties, rather than the content. The idea of the film may, of course, be offensive to some but that is not a good enough reason to cut or reject it. We would only cut or reject a film for adults if the content was illegal or harmful. SS Experiment Camp is neither illegal or harmful, just tasteless.

See further details at Melon Farmers Film Cuts: SS Experiment Camp

Promotional Material

SS EXPERIMENT CAMP has arrived back to UK shelves uncut, uncensored and ready to scandalise a new generation of gore-hungry viewers! With this said, the flick that kicked off the entire 'video nasty' scandal is not afraid to show both the horrors of fascism and the struggles of heroism in the shadow of World War 2's vilest violence. Add to this mix a subtle tongue-in-cheek splat-stick mentality (after all the best way to get your own back at Nazis is to laugh at them!), and the sort of palpable

Postwar Italian guilt that highlighted the entire Rome-based boom in Third Reich exploitation romps, and you have a curious schlock-totem.

SS EXPERIMENT CAMP may have upset the censors back in 1976, but today it stands tall as a must-see example of bad taste VHS-era bloodshed... suitable for steel-stomachs and scholars of the rental shop era!

Extras:

• BRAND NEW HD Master
• Uncompressed LPCM English Soundtrack
• Uncompressed LPCM Italian Soundtrack with English Subtitles
• Reversible Sleeve with alternative art
• Includes a Collectible 300gsm Original Poster Post Card
• Booklet Notes by Calum Waddell

The Bogey Man is a 1980 US horror by Ulli Lommel
With Suzanna Love, John Carradine and Ron James.

UK: An extended version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2015 88 Films R0 DVD at UK Amazon released on 28th September 2015

UK Censorship History

Passed X (18) uncut for 1980 cinema release. The 1981 VHS release was banned as a video nasty. Cut by the BBFC for 1982 VHS. Uncut for 2000 DVD and an extended version released on DVD in 2004. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summery Review: One of the better nasties

Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.

I was surprised that this movie got such a low rating, to me it's one of the better horror films I've seen in some time. Ulli Lommel allows the horror in this story to gradually build until it erupts in very frightening and disturbing and occasionally blackly comic ways.

The boogeyman's appearances in the film are effectively kept very brief, he doesn't become a silly charactor of the Freddy/Jason mould. Ulli lommel keeps the location barren and banal and uses them in inventive ways. The scenes in which the disturbed deaf brother paints over every mirror in the house is brilliant and foreshadows a lot of scenes in clean-shaven.