Grindhouse Releasing Returns After 2 Year Hiatus With Several Cult Titles
Last year saw the unfortunate passing of one of Grindhouse Releasing’s original founders: Sage Stallone. It was a huge loss for fans of exploitation and cult cinema as Sage was an advocate of uncovering lost films from the 70’s and 80’s and restoring them for new audiences to discover. Sage worked alongside Bob Murawski, a frequent collaborator with Sam Raimi and co-founder of Grindhouse Releasing. Thanks to their hard work and dedication genre fans were treated to releases of Cannibal Holocaust, Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, and the entertaining and gory slasher Pieces. These are just a few of the many titles the duo resurrected that Destroy the Brain’s monthly program Late Nite Grindhouse were able to show in 35mm over the years. After a two year hiatus which included Bob Murawski working on Raimi’s recent Oz film, Grindhouse Releasing will return with two new titles later this year as well as a number of films scheduled for 2014! It brings me great joy to see this fine company continue on in the tradition that Sage would have wanted.
The psychedelic nightmare An American Hippie in Israel will see a theatrical run followed by a DVD/Blu-ray release on September 10. Also receiving a DVD/Blu-ray release that same day will be the 1968 film starring Peter Cushing as a mad scientist – Corruption (also known as Carnage). I haven’t seen either but I’ve heard An American Hippie in Isreal is so astoundingly bad (but entertaining) that it may well end up being a part of the next midnight movie craze. Corruption will also be seeing a theatrical release as well.
Four additional titles will follow in late 2013 and 2014: Sergio Sollima’s The Big Gundown, The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster, Duke Mitchell’s Gone with the Pope, and S.F. Brownrigg’s Scum of the Earth (a.k.a. Poor White Trash Part 2). According to Murawski, the company’s entire back catalog will also appear in new Blu-ray editions soon thereafter. The thing I’m most excited about here is clearly THE BIG GUNDOWN!
To give you a taste of these upcoming titles, I have included their poster and trailers below. I think we all should give Grindhouse Releasing a warm “welcome back!”
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Michael Haffner
Somewhere between growing up on a steady diet of Saturday morning trips to the local comic-book shop, collecting an unhealthy amount of action figures, and frequent viewings of Ray Harryhausen and Hammer Horror films, came forth a nerdy boy that was torn between journalism and the arts. In high school, Michael found himself writing a movie column for the school newspaper. Yet, he went on to get a BFA in Studio Art at Webster University. When not writing about films, you can still find him discussing classic horror, collecting action figures, and reading Batman. Clearly, not much has changed.
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