Arrow Video USA unveils the AMERICAN HORROR PROJECT (review)

Arrow Video and NIGHTMARE U.S.A. author Stephen Thrower give a second life to three undeservedly obscure horror films of the seventies in the ambitious boxed set AMERICAN HORROR PROJECT.  In THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA, Millie Perkins (THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK) is a Santa Monica Pier barmaid whose repressed childhood memories drive her to seduce and kill men who remind her of her father.  In THE PREMONITION, a woman's nightmares may be the only way of finding her adopted daughter who has been taken by the girl's unstable mother and killer clown boyfriend.  Sharon Farrell and Richard Lynch star.  In MALATESTA'S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD, an amusement park on its last legs hides a cannibalistic cult who pray on the pockets and then the flesh of unsuspecting investors.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region ALL Blu-ray/DVD combo (DVD Drive-in)

AMERICAN HORROR PROJECT VOLUME ONE Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976):
• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD: 
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Optional Introduction by co-curator Stephen Thrower
• Audio Commentary by diretor Matt Cimber, director of photography Dean Cundey, and actress Millie Perkins
• "Tides and Nightmares" featurette with director Matt Cimber, director of photography Dean Cundey, and actors Millie Perkins and John Goff
• "A Maiden's Voyage" archival featurette featuring interviews with director Matt Cimber, director of photography Dean Cundey, and actress Millie Perkins
• "Lost at Sea" interview with director Matt Cimber
• The Premonition (1976):
• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Optional Introduction by co-curator Stephen Thrower
• Audio Commentary by director Robert Allen Schnitzer
• Isolated Music Score
• "Pictures with a Premonition" featurette with director Robert Allen Schnitzer, composer Henry Mollicone, and cinematographer Victor Milt
• Archival Interviews with director Robert Allen Schnitzer and Richard Lynch
• Robert Allen Schnitzer Short Films "Terminal Point", "Vernal Equinox", and "A Rumbling in the Land"
• Peace Spots
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spots
• Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973):
• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles 
• Optional Introduction by co-curator Stephen Thrower
• Audio Commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith
• "The Secrets of Malatesta" interview with director Christopher Speeth
• "Crimson Speak" interview with writer Werner Liepolt
• "Malatesta's Underground" interview with art directors Richard Stange and Alan Johnson
• Outtakes
• Gallery
• BD-ROM AND DVD-ROM: Screenplay (.pdf)
• DVDs of all three films and extras
• 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)