El Roig

Beats,

Rhymes

& Life

|Stupid Cowboy, from El Roig.

The Abominable Snowman

Film Skool

| In 1957, Peter Cushing went to the Himalayas to find the Yeti and came back with one of Hammer's most underrated films.

Today, The Abominable Snowman arrives in a stunning new 4K restoration, drawn from elements never used in any previous restoration.

This is the definitive version of a film that has deserved one for decades. Peter Cushing at his most quietly compelling, a Yeti you almost never see, and a script by the legendary writer of Quatermass, Nigel Kneale, that asks harder questions than most horror films dare to.

Two versions of the film. Three commentaries. Six new documentaries. A 120-page book.

Elevator Boys

Beats,

Rhymes

& Life

|Love Me Better, from Elevator Boys.

Paradise People

Beats,

Rhymes

& Life

| Rewind to 1997 with Free, Gay & Happy, music + visual from Paradise People, featuring Kym Mazelle.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered?

Mass in Motion

Night School

Film Skool

| In Boston, a young female teacher’s aide is found decapitated in a playground, her head discarded in a nearby bucket. Bearing striking similarities to a murder that took place the week before, Harvard-educated Lieutenant Judd Austin is brought onto the case, who quickly establishes that the latest victim had been enrolled in evening classes at Wendell College, a local girls' school. As suspicions fall on anthropology professor Vincent Millett — whose extra-curricular liaisons with his students are well-known — the black motorcycle helmet-wearing, Gurkha blade-wielding killer strikes again and again, each time decapitating a young woman connected with the school and disposing of the head in water. Can Lieutenant Austin unmask the maniac before the entire female student body loses their heads?

A superlative slasher hailing from the golden age of the slice-and-dice boom, 1981’s Night School was the final film from celebrated English director Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and the feature debut of Golden Globe-nominated actress Rachel Ward (The Final Terror, Fortress). Boasting cinematography from David Cronenberg regular Mark Irwin (Videodrome, The Fly) and a score by Brad Fiedel (The Terminator), Night School was branded a “video nasty” in the UK and censored due to its scenes of shocking violence. Now newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative and loaded with brand new bonus features, Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to unveil this slasher classic on UHD for the first time ever in an edition that goes straight to the top of the class!

Body Snatchers

Film Skool

| Environmental Protection Agency officer Steve Malone (Terry Kinney, The Firm) travels to a US Army base in rural Alabama to investigate potentially toxic materials which have been causing curious symptoms amongst soldiers. His family — teenage daughter Marti (Gabrielle Anwar, Press Gang), young son Andy (Reilly Murphy, Dangerous Game), and wife Carol (Meg Tilly, Psycho II) — go along for the ride and begin interacting with, and being threatened by, locals who are visibly unwell. As events unfold on and around the Army base, it becomes eerily apparent that increasing numbers of people are being replaced by alien replicants while they sleep.

The third feature film adaptation of Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, following films by Don Siegel in 1956 and Philip Kaufman in 1978, 1993’s succinctly-titled Body Snatchers served as the major studio debut for noted indie stalwart and provocateur Abel Ferrara. Featuring a crew assembled of Ferrara regulars — screenwriter Nicholas St. John (King of New York, Ms. 45), editor Anthony Redman (Dangerous Game), cinematographer Bojan Bazelli (China Girl), and composer Joe Delia (The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant) — alongside a game ensemble cast that also includes R. Lee Ermy (Full Metal Jacket) and Forest Whitaker (Platoon), Body Snatchers is a bold adaptation of an iconic story devised for a Gen-X audience.

Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Abel Ferrara’s oft-overlooked sci-fi thriller in a new 4K restoration accompanied by new interviews with the crew, including Ferrara himself.

Lady in White

Film Skool

| 1962. Nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti enjoys a homespun childhood in a rustic Western New York town. The entire community gets into the spirit of Halloween, but then two bullies prank Frankie by locking him in his school cloakroom, leaving him trapped for the night. Alone and afraid, his slumber is interrupted when the ghost of a little girl appears, and Frankie witnesses the specter of her murder by an unseen assailant. Later, while recovering at home, the girl's ghost appears to him again. With help from his older brother, Frankie begins investigating the circumstances of her death. He soon discovers that her murder was one of several unsolved crimes connected to a local child-killer. As the town's bucolic veneer fades and long-buried secrets and tensions bubble to the surface, all of the clues to the mystery seem to point towards a huge mansion inhabited by a reclusive woman known as "The Lady in White."

A nostalgia-driven ghost story wrapped within an intricate murder mystery and coming-of-age drama, writer-director-composer Frank LaLoggia's passion project Lady in White remains one of the most beautiful and original American horror films of the 1980s. Featuring acclaimed actors Alex Rocco (The Godfather), Len Cariou (Executive Decision), and Sydney Lassick (Carrie), it boasts the first starring role by Lukas Haas (Inception) as well as breathtaking photography by Academy Award® winner Russell Carpenter (True Lies). Vinegar Syndrome brings this genre masterpiece to 4K UHD, newly restored from its original 35mm camera negative and presented in three versions: its pre-release director's cut, its extended home-video version, and its original theatrical version, along with an abundance of both new and archival extras.

Sohel

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& Life

|Boyfriend, from Sohel x Pepe Gámez.

Soylent Green

Film Skool

| IT'S THE YEAR 2022... PEOPLE ARE STILL THE SAME. THEY'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT THEY NEED. AND THEY NEED SOYLENT GREEN.

Across a forty year career, Richard Fleischer directed classic movies in almost every decade he was working: from the epic swashbuckling of The Vikings, to the psychological chills of 10 Rillington Place... and, of course, Soylent Green: a dystopian science-fiction thriller with a venomous sting in its tail.

In a frighteningly prescient world of overpopulation and ecological collapse, resources are scarce. While the elite live in spacious, walled-off communities eating natural food and drinking clean water, the masses live in squalor, collecting water from communal taps and eating highly processed food wafers made by the Soylent Corporation. Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are a staple, but now there's a tastier and more nutritious option: Soylent Green. When a member of the Soylent Corporation's board is murdered, Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is called in to investigate. His search for answers will lead to a shocking discovery.

The final entry in a trilogy of dystopian sci-fi classics starring Charlton Heston - following Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man - Soylent Green is a devastating vision of humanity on the brink, once seen, never forgotten.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

- Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films

- Archive audio commentary with director Richard Fleischer and star Leigh Taylor-Young

- Brand new audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains

- Charlton Heston at the BFI, an archive on-stage interview with the star of Soylent Green

- Richard Fleisher at the BFl, an archive onstage interview with the director of Soylent Green

- A Look at the World of Soylent Green, a vintage featurette

- MGM's Tribute to Edward G. Robinson's 101st Film, a vintage featurette

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh

- Collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Frank Collins and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas