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Theatrical Distribution For 17 H.G. Lewis Films Now Available Through AGFA
AGFA, the American Genre Film Archive, is resurrecting the films of H.G. Lewis in theatrical form.
The genre archive is opening up 17 of the Godfather of Gore’s films for distribution through DCP, which is a Digital Cinema Package. Don’t know what that is? Simple.
A DCP is essentially the digital version of a 35 mm print – an easy way to get the movies of old that we hold so dearly distributed and played in theaters years after analog media has been removed from most cinemas.
Read the press release below, and if interested, you can find out more about DCP and how to get a hold of one after the release.
From AGFA:
“American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is honored to announce the theatrical distribution of the filmography of Herschell Gordon Lewis — the “Godfather of Gore.”
In 1963, H.G. Lewis and partner David F. Friedman pulled a cow’s tongue out of an actress’s mouth on-camera, forever changing the horror landscape with BLOOD FEAST, the world’s first gore movie.
The versatile and prolific Lewis was most known for blood-and-guts epics (TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!, THE WIZARD OF GORE), but there’s more to his work than splatter. From smut photographers (SCUM OF THE EARTH) to sex robots (HOW TO MAKE A DOLL), from biker girl-gangs (SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS) to youths run amok (JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT), from psychic witches (SOMETHING WEIRD) to liquor-loving hillbillies (MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN), Lewis’ films are a wish list of movie madness.
AGFA will distribute restorations of Lewis’s work to theaters beginning October 1. This is AGFA’s latest theatrical collaboration following distribution partnerships with Don Coscarelli (PHANTASM), Celestial Pictures (THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN), Arrow Films (DEEP RED), Severin Films (SANTA SANGRE), and Vinegar Syndrome (DOLEMITE).
For the first time ever, all 17 of the following H.G. Lewis titles are available on DCP starting October 1:
- BLOOD FEAST (1963)
SCUM OF THE EARTH (1963)
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! (1964)
MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN (1964)
COLOR ME BLOOD RED (1965)
A TASTE OF BLOOD (1967)
THE GRUESOME TWOSOME (1967)
SOMETHING WEIRD (1967)
HOW TO MAKE A DOLL (1968)
JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT (1968)
SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS (1968)
ECSTASIES OF WOMEN (1969)
LINDA & ABILENE (1969)
THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970)
BLACK LOVE (1971)
THIS STUFF’LL KILL YA! (1971)
THE GORE GORE GIRLS (1972)
To book the films of H.G. Lewis on DCP at your theater, contact us here. “
For more info on what DCP is, follow this link.
Interested in getting one of these classic pieces of gore screened? The link is in the press release, but once again, Contact AGFA here.
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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
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Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
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