Intervision flies in on WINGS OF DISASTER: THE BIRDEMIC TRILOGY (review)

DIY filmmaker James Nguyen struck gold with the cult hit BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR and followed it up with two sequels full of jaw-dropping romantic thrills, CGI birdy kills, and odes to Hitchcock and Billy Wilder.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

WINGS OF DISASTER: THE BIRDEMIC TRILOGY Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Birdemic - Shock and Terror:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary by director James Nguyen 
• Audio Commentary by stars Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore 
• Deleted Scenes 
• "Birdemic Experience Tour" 
• "James Nyugen on Movie Close Up" 
• "MOVIEHEAD: The James Nguyen Story" Teaser 
• Trailers: 
• "Birdemic Experience" 
• Teaser Trailer 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Electronic Press Kit 
• Severin Trailers
• Disc Two - Birdemic 2 - The Resurrection:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by director James Nguyen 
• Audio Commentary by producer Jeff Gross and actors Alan Bagh and Thomas Favaloro 
• Audio Commentary by cinematographer Bobby Hacker and actress Whitney Moore 
• Cast and Crew Interviews 
• Behind The Scenes 
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - Birdemic 3 - Sea Eagle:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.00:1 Widescreen 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by director James Nguyen 
• Audio Commentary by cast members Ryan Lord, Julia Culbert, and Alan Bagh 
• Audio Commentary by "Birdemic 2: The Resurrection" background actor/four-time "Jeopardy" champion Andy Wood and his neighbor Tony 
• Introduction by director James Nguyen 
• Festival Highlights 
• Theatrical Trailer
  

Intervision gets pulverzied by MASKED MUTILATOR (review)

A group home for troubled youths run by an ex-wrestler who killed an opponent in the ring is suddenly beset by a series of brutal murders.  Shot in 1994 but unfinished until 2018.

REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

MASKED MUTILATOR Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary by writer Dale Schneck, and actors Tom Taylor, Paul Sutt, Steve Mittman, and Jim “The Tank” Dorsey
• "You See Me Sweatin’?" interview with actor Tom Taylor
• "Slice the Pretty Boy" interview with actor/FX artist Paul Sutt
• "Scissors, Tape & Paste" interview with co-writer/co-executive producer Ed Polgardy
• "Don’t Believe That, Folks" interview with co-writer/executive producer Dale Schneck
• Audition Tapes
• Mean Gene Okerlund interviews Tom Taylor

Intervision Picture Corp. ventures BEYOND THE SEVENTH DOOR (review)

When an ex-con convinces his girlfriend to help him rob her boss' castle of a legendary treasure, they find themselves having to solve a series of puzzles to escape from six room rigged with death traps in order to find out what lies beyond the seventh door in this Canadian eighties obscurity.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

BEYOND THE SEVENTH DOOR DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director BD Benedikt and actor Lazar Rockwood moderated by Canuxploitation's Paul Corupe
• Interview with director BD Benedikt, actor Lazar Rockwood, and Paul Corupe
• "The King of Cayenne" tribute to Toronto eccentric Ben Kerr

Intervision Picture Corp. and SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (review)

A drama school project throws an entire nation into a moral panic in SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN, but that's the behind the scenes story as Meg Shanks Drama School child drama students conceive a film about a mute orphan who shows up on the doorstep of a children's home and sets off telekinetic and devil-worshiping weirdness.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• "School of Shock" interview with director Alan Briggs
• Interview with Nasty era fanzine critic John Martin
• Trailer

Intervision Picture Corp. must FEED THE LIGHT (review)

This Swedish experimental feature is a very singular take on an H.P. Lovecraft story as Sara tracks down her estranged husband and stolen child Jenny to a mysterious warehouse where the door to another dimension lies in the building's lighting system.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

FEED THE LIGHT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• Swedish LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Making-of
• "The Lovecraft Influence" interview with director Henrik Moller
• Trailer

Intervision has a MURDERLUST for PROJECT NIGHTMARE (Review)

In this double bill from filmmakers Don Jones and James C. Lane, MURDERLUST anticipates the gritty serial killer films along the lines of HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER as it details the dead-end life of the Mojave Murderer: respectable Sunday School Teacher by day and prostitute strangler by night.  In PROJECT NIGHTMARE, two campers find themselves on the run from an alien force in the middle of the woods.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

MURDERLUST/PROJECT NIGHTMARE DVD specs:

• Murderlust (1986):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by co-writer James C. Lane
• Project Nightmare (1979):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Partial Audio Commentary by writer James C. Lane

Intervision reaps a DARK HARVEST with ESCAPES (review)

Intervision brings another shot-on-video double bill back from the rental store grave to DVD.  In DARK HARVEST, a group of campers get stranded in a desert and stumble across an ancient burial ground guarded by killer scarecrows.  In ESCAPES, Vincent Price hosts six weird tales of monsters and retribution.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

DARK HARVEST/ESCAPES DVD specs:

• Dark Harvest (1992):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Interviews with actress Patti Negri and actor Dan Weiss
• Escapes (1986):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Producer Tom Naygrow on director David Steensland

Intervision dreams up DREAM STALKER for DEATH BY LOVE (review)

In this pair of nineties SOV shockers, a Sacramento model believes her dead boyfriend is killing people she loves and people she hates through her dreams.  In the Dallas-lensed DEATH BY LOVE, a sculptor believes his Satan-worshiping childhood friend is murdering his girlfriends.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

DREAM STALKER/DEATH BY LOVE DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Star Mark Dias remembers DREAM STALKER
• Executive Producer Tom Naygrow on DREAM STALKER
• Alan Grant on DEATH BY LOVE
• Yvonne Aric and Brad Bishop remember DEATH BY LOVE via Skype

Intervision exposes CHRISTINA (review)

Jewel Shepard fully embodies Christina Van Bell, jet-setting heroine of over fifty Berkeley/Playboy paperbacks in the seventies and eighties, in the softcore CHRISTINA.  Zipping around the globe in search of fast cars and hot men, Christina is abducted and held for ransom by two different groups who are just as interested in her body as they are in her money.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

CHRISTINA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 mono

Intervision and Severin sentanced to THE JAIL: THE WOMEN'S HELL (review)

Jennifer, Carol, and Lisa are the newest inmates at "The House of Lost Souls" a jungle prison where the outside world no longer exists.  Forced to submit to the indignities of the warden, the staff, and their fellow inmates, they plan a daring escape and soon find themselves as "the most dangerous game" in a brutal womanhunt.  From director Bruno Mattei.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

THE JAIL: THE WOMEN'S HELL DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Interview with actress Yvette Yzon and actor Alvin Anson
• Interview with screenwriter Antonio Tentori and producer Giovanni Paolucci
• Trailer

Intervision presents Bruno Mattei's ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD and ZOMBIES: THE BEGINNING (review)

Bruno Mattei is back in this pair of individual DVD releases from Intervision.  A group of boneheaded treasure hunters land on the ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD and face off against ghosts, zombie monks, and flesh-eating corpses.  In ZOMBIES: THE BEGINNING, a rescue team is dispatched to an island where experiments with zombie test subjects have gone horribly wrong  Wholesale rip-offs of Fulci, Romero, and even Mattei himself along with James Cameron's ALIENS and John Carpenter's THE FOG and stock footage galore abound in two of Mattei's final films.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Pictures Corp. (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD/ZOMBIES: THE BEGINNING DVD specs:

• Island of the Living Dead:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Interview with producer Giovanni Paolucci and screenwriter Antonio Tentori
• Theatrical Trailer
• International Sales Promo
• Zombies: The Beginning:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Interview with screenwriter Antonio Tentori
• Theatrical Trailer

Intervision Picture Corp. goes MONDO IN THE LAND OF THE CANNIBALS (review)

In this back-to-back CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST rip-off duo from the late, great Bruno Mattei, a team of sensationalist news reporters head to the Amazon in search of cannibal tribes.  When they can't find news, they make it, angering the vengeful tribes that lurk in the jungle of MONDO CANNIBAL.  A rescue squad of soldiers of fortune parachute into the jungle in search of a senator's missing daughter IN THE LAND OF THE CANNIBALS.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

MONDO CANNIBAL DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Trailer

IN THE LAND OF THE CANNIBALS DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Trailer

Intervision Pictures frees the DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS SPECIAL SECTION (review)

THE DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS SPECIAL SECTION stage a great escape from the tortures of a detainment camp couched in a gothic castle with a medieval dungeon in this Nazisploitation entry from Rino Di Silvestro (WEREWOLF WOMAN) starring an over-the-top John Steiner (SALON KITTY).

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS SPECIAL SECTION DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Interview with film historian Marcus Stiglegger
• Interview with director Rino di Silvestro
• Interview with actor John Steiner

Intervision Pictures attends the GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY (review)

In this notorious Italian Nazisploitation film, female prisoners are trained to service the most depraved desires of the Third Reich at a brothel training camp in preparation for the GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY.  Directed by Cesare Canevari (THE NUDE PRINCESS) and starring Daniella Poggi and Marc Loud.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp./Severin Films (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Interview with film historian Marcus Stiglegger
• Theatrical Trailer

Intervision under a BURNING MOON (review)

A drug-addicted German punk reluctantly stays home to babysit his little sister.  He shoots up and decides to tell her some "deadtime" stories involving multiple mutilations, burnings, slashings, decapitations, zombies, and visions of hell itself in Olaf Ittenbach's banned shot-on-video 1997 gorefest THE BURNING MOON, on special edition DVD from Intervision Picture Corp.



REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (USA) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)


THE BURNING MOON DVD specs:

• 4:3 fullscreen 1.33:1 original aspect ratio
• German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• The Making of BURNING MOON
• Trailer
• Intervision Trailers

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Intervision's THE ABCs OF LOVE AND SEX: AUSTRALIA STYLE (review)

Dr. Leonard B. Lovitt conducts a class in sexual education by screening a film of an A-Z glossary of the sexual vocabulary explicitly demonstrated by photogenic and uninhibited models (the ones from the Swedish second unit are even more uninhibited).  Directed by John D. Lamond of AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK, FELICITY, and NIGHTMARES!

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

THE ABCs OF LOVE AND SEX DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director John D. Lamond, moderated by NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD's Mark Hartley

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Intervision's AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK (review)

John Lamond (FELICITY) goes behind the glitz and glamor of Australia's night clubs and strip clubs to explore AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK.  See white witches, black magic, body painting, UFO sightings, boozers, gentlemen's clubs, bikini culture, boozing, and more in Lamond's contreversial debut film.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director John D. Lamond, moderated by NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD's Mark Hartley

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Intervision exposes AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK (review)

John Lamond (FELICITY) goes behind the glitz and glamor of Australia's night clubs and strip clubs to explore AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK.  See white witches, black magic, body painting, UFO sightings, boozers, gentlemen's clubs, bikini culture, boozing, and more in Lamond's contreversial debut film.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director John D. Lamond, moderated by NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD's Mark Hartley

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Intervision learns THE ABCs OF LOVE AND SEX: AUSTRALIA STYLE! (review)

Dr. Leonard B. Lovitt conducts a class in sexual education by screening a film of an A-Z glossary of the sexual vocabulary explicitly demonstrated by photogenic and uninhibited models (the ones from the Swedish second unit are even more uninhibited).  Directed by John D. Lamond of AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK, FELICITY, and NIGHTMARES!

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE ABCs OF LOVE AND SEX DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director John D. Lamond, moderated by NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD's Mark Hartley

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Intervision Courts Controversy: JEFFREY DAHMER - THE SECRET LIFE (review)

Out today, Intervision's DVD of the 1993 film THE SECRET LIFE: JEFFREY DAHMER. Carl Crew (URBAN LEGENDS), who also scripted, stars as the infamous serial killer in the controversial first film after the killer's arrest (and before his death).  Publicly reviled and critically lauded, the film is reportedly truer to the material than the higher-budget 2002 film.

REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (USA) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE SECRET LIFE: JEFFREY DAHMER DVD specs:

• 1.33:1 fullscreen transfer
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio
• Audio Commentary with director David Bowen and actor/writer Carl Crew
• Trailer
• Trailers for THINGS, SLEDGEHAMMER, and A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER