Severin Films Announces "The Amicus Collection"

Severin Films recently send the horror chamber over information for the upcoming blu-ray set "The Amicus" Collection". The films on this box set includes "Asylum", And Now the Screaming Starts" and "The Beast Must Die". The set will also include the bonus disc.

Special features includes Disc 1 - Asylum: Two's A Company: 1972 On-set report from BBC featuring Interviews With Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland, David J. Schow on Robert Bloch - Featurette, Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky - Featurette, Inside The Fear Factory Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg, Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney and Theatrical Trailer.

Disc 2 - And Now the Screaming Starts: The Haunting Of Oakley Court - Featurette with Allan Bryce, Author of "Amicus: The Friendly Face Of Fear", and David Flint, Author of "Ten Years Of Terror", visit the classic horror film location, Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Actress Stephanie Beacham, Audio Commentary with Star Ian Ogilvy, Archive Audio Interview with Actor Peter Cushing By Denis Meikle, Horror Journalist Denis Meikle Recalls And Now The Screaming Starts - Featurette, Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spot.

Disc 3 - The Beast Must Die: And Then There Were Werewolves - Audio Essay by Horror Historian Troy Howarth, Audio Commentary with Director Paul Annett Directing the Beast: Featurette with Director Paul Annett and Theatrical Trailer.

Disc 4 - The Vault of Amicus: Audio Commentary With British Horror Film Writers Kim Newman & David Flint, Phil Nutman Audio Interview with Milton Subotsky - Audio Interview With Accompanying Stills / Posters, Jonathan Sothcott Audio Interview with Max Rosenberg - Audio Interview With Accompanying Stills / Posters and Bonus Amicus TV spots.

"The Amicus Collection" hits retail on December 5th. "Asylum" and "And Now the Screaming Starts" also is released separately on this date.

Press Release:

Just in time to offer horror fans hope of a spooky future beyond the Halloween season, Severin Films is proud to announce the December 5th release of The Amicus Collection: a terrorizing triple feature of ghastly tales from the twisted side of the Thames, newly remastered and packed to the brim with special features.

Known as 'The Studio That Dripped Blood', the British film company Amicus Productions - founded by American writer/producers Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky - built a legacy of horror anthologies and twisted thrillers that remains among the very best genre movies of the '70s. In this trio of Amicus classics - featuring stars that include Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Britt Ekland, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Calvin Lockhart, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling - you'll discover the studio's legendary portmanteau ASYLUM, their insane gothic shocker AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, and - exclusive to this set - the infamous werewolf whodunit THE BEAST MUST DIE, as well as a Bonus Disc of Amicus trailers, TV commercials, rare interviews and more - all in this 4 disc box set.

The Amicus Collection is a limited, numbered edition release of only 3500 units.

Severin Film Presents "Axe"/"Kidnapped Coed" Double Feature on DVD & Blu-Ray

Severin Films recently send information that they will be releasing "Axe and "Kidnapped Coed" double feature on DVD and Blu-Ray. The films are directed by Frederick R. Friedel, who filmed both of these films in the mid 70's

Special features on the DVD & Blu-Ray includes AXE & KIDNAPPED COED- Audio Commentaries with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Philip Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter, At Last... Total Terror! - The Amazing True Story of the Making of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED, Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED, Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots.

Special features exclusive to the Blu-Ray includes BLOOD BROTHERS feature, Audio Commentary with Nightmare USA Author Stephen Thrower, Moose Magic - The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story and BONUS CD: AXE & KIDNAPPED COED Original Motion Picture Soundtracks Plus Bonus Tracks By George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm

"Axe & Kidnapped Coed Combo pack hits retail on December 8th.

Press Release:

In the mid-1970s, writer/producer/director/actor Frederick R. Friedel went to North Carolina to film a pair of enigmatic yet startling low-budget thrillers - AXE and KIDNAPPED CO-ED - only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage and drive-in oblivion.

In AXE, depraved killers on the run hold a young woman and her invalid grandfather hostage in an isolated farmhouse.

In KIDNAPPED CO-ED, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family forms a perverse relationship with her abductor. Once thought doomed to drive-in obscurity, fans and grindhouse historians have begun to compare Freidel's films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick, and now the complete story behind this strange journey can finally be told.

Severin Films is proud to present both features restored from their original negatives, plus BLOODY BROTHERS, Friedel's recut of the two features as one twisted crime epic called BLOODY BROTHERS, and loaded with exclusive Bonus Features that reveal the startling saga behind the casts, crews, disastrous fate and surprising rediscovery of these nearly forgotten grindhouse/arthouse classics - the ultimate look at one of the most fascinating sagas in indie exploitation history!