I used to get Mausoleum and One Dark Night confused. I prefer the latter although I'm lucky enough to live in Bridgeport CT where Vinegar Syndrome is located but unfortunately they don't have any copies of Mausoleum left. Every paycheck I set aside some cash for my weekly trip to The Archive and sometimes I'll pick a Vinegar Syndrome title at random. I have yet to be disappointed. So far Body Melt is my favorite hands down.
Vinegar Syndrome have such a broad catalog that recommendations like this really help, going to pickup The Children, Mausoleum and There's Nothing Out There, recently got Spookies and Blood Games which were both enjoyable and rewatchable, have the Amityville Box set to get through this month too. Thanks and subbed!
Thanks so much for subscribing! Yeah their catalog is extremely varied interesting. I’m planning some episode of my Just the Discs podcast that will cover Vinegar Syndrome more heavily in November (leading up to their Black Friday sale) - including a few interviews with people I know who work there. Such a great label doing amazing work right now.
I love The Children! My mom took me to see it at the drive-in when it first came out when I was 8. For Halloween that same year I had her make me up so I could go trick or treating as one of "the children". There's Nothing Out There! is a very fun flick. I got to attend the premiere of this one. Fun flick. I'm a big fan of Rolfe's work.
I'd watch Marjoe Gortner in anything. Partly because no one else has a look or presence like him, but also because he just has this air of "sure, I'm game" about just about anything.
@@JustTheDiscs I think so. I'd even say he was born to be watched. In that doc about his preaching days, he looks so natural. Makes me believe in the concept of having a calling.
@@watchingclassicmovies Absolutely! He is a natural performer for sure. This is made all the more interesting when he's given creepy roles like this or like he is in EARTHQUAKE....
Great video; gotta say though, I was really effected by THE PASSING (1983) recently. I am sure you've seen it, but it's amazing that VS have given it the restoration it deserves for such an obscure film. I would genuinely place it amongst the very best American independent films ever made (and I know there's a lot of hyperbole online, but I can't stress it enough). Keep up the good work with your recommendations!
@@JustTheDiscs You know after you watch a film and you seek any reviews afterward? Well, it turns out this film has almost no following; which I can't understand! The directors' Wikipedia is literally "...is an American filmmaker." That's it. This film deserves so so much more. Please let me know if you like it; I'd love to hear what you think either way :)
@@VIDEOSTOREREVIEW Wow, that's so interesting when there's like nothing on a film - and that's so rare these days. I'm all the more intrigued. Grabbing it out of my stack and putting on the To Watch Pile proper.
Great video with a couple recommendations that were useful to me. I saw a double feature of There's Nothing Out There with Scream at the Alamo Drafthouse last year, with Rolfe Kanefsky and actor Craig Peck in attendance. Both guys were very nice. Rolfe brought free posters and was giving out DVDs for some of his more recent films. They also showed a couple of trailers of Kanefsky's more recent films before There's Nothing... Tara Reid was in a couple of thses films. (Kanefsky's father was an editor on Ganja and Hess.) I look forward to another review of Vinegar Syndrome titles. Please include at least one Rudy Ray Moore film. Two suggestions for future vids: 1) Favorite Twilight Time titles that are still available from Screen Archives. 2) Favorite Kino Lorber titles that are in the current "While Supplies Last" sale.
That double feature at the Drafthouse sounds fantastic! Not sure If the Rudy films would quite make a favorites list for me, but I do enjoy them and have all of them on Blu. Faves are DOLEMITE, HUMAN TORNADO and PETEY WHEATSTRAW. I'll do my best on the Twilight Time titles, but a lot of my favorites are near selling out or gone at this point. For you I looked back at the most recent Low Quantity and sale price email that Screen Archives put out and these stood out as some of my favorites from that bunch - BEAT THE DEVIL, BEDAZZLED, THE BIG FIX, CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, CRIMSON KIMONO, EUREKA, THE HOT ROCK, INSERTS, MELVIN AND HOWARD, NEW CENTURIONS, NO DOWN PAYMENT, OUR MAN IN HAVANA, PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, PRETTY POISON, TALK RADIO, TWO FOR THE ROAD, THE WHOLE TOWNS TALKING and 10 RILLINGTON PLACE. Hope that helps!
One of my favorite Vinegar Syndrome releases is the sadly out of print DISCONNECTED. A pretty solid regional indie sorta-stalker thriller, BUT the real reason the disc rules is it contains the short film 20 QUESTIONS (from the same director), which is an amazing look at America in the 80s, and not available anywhere else.
For me, they also indulge in my basest guilty pleasures like the kamikaze Tammy and the T-Rex. I love the latex cornucopia that is Spookies and the biker vigilante movie Savage Dawn.
I got Mausoleum during that exact sale... lol The last time I saw it the print was horrible. I thought about The Incubus. Saw it when it came out. The movie could have easily gone down a more exploitive path and gone to town with nudity and sex scenes. Instead it's more of a traditional horror film. Thank you for making these.
Well, I haven't seen any of these (though some were in my watchlist at Letterboxd). In fact, I found a list of Vinegar Syndrome titles on Letterboxd and did a quick check--I have seen two of 200-plus they have released, those being TAMMY AND THE T-REX, which I really didn't enjoy very much, and the upcoming DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS, which I did quite like. Still, I enjoyed the video and your enthusiasm for the titles. I will have to check some out, and this is an especially good month for many of those titles, I think.
Cassavetes contributed to the writing of Incubus? He therefore set up a game called: Have a shot every time I say "semen". VS are the best label going, in my humble opinion.
Mausoleum with slipcover, you lucky Dog you! Slipcover is long sold out. Awesome artwork.
I used to get Mausoleum and One Dark Night confused. I prefer the latter although I'm lucky enough to live in Bridgeport CT where Vinegar Syndrome is located but unfortunately they don't have any copies of Mausoleum left. Every paycheck I set aside some cash for my weekly trip to The Archive and sometimes I'll pick a Vinegar Syndrome title at random. I have yet to be disappointed. So far Body Melt is my favorite hands down.
Masoleum is truly something special
Vinegar Syndrome have such a broad catalog that recommendations like this really help, going to pickup The Children, Mausoleum and There's Nothing Out There, recently got Spookies and Blood Games which were both enjoyable and rewatchable, have the Amityville Box set to get through this month too. Thanks and subbed!
Thanks so much for subscribing! Yeah their catalog is extremely varied interesting. I’m planning some episode of my Just the Discs podcast that will cover Vinegar Syndrome more heavily in November (leading up to their Black Friday sale) - including a few interviews with people I know who work there. Such a great label doing amazing work right now.
I enjoyed Mausoleum quite a bit. The atmosphere, man. The atmosphere. Some fun moments for sure.
It’s a blast yeah - I kinda wanna rewatch it right now!
I love The Children! My mom took me to see it at the drive-in when it first came out when I was 8. For Halloween that same year I had her make me up so I could go trick or treating as one of "the children". There's Nothing Out There! is a very fun flick. I got to attend the premiere of this one. Fun flick. I'm a big fan of Rolfe's work.
Wow that sounds like the best possible way to have seen THE CHILDREN! Love it! And a killer Halloween costume too!
I'd watch Marjoe Gortner in anything. Partly because no one else has a look or presence like him, but also because he just has this air of "sure, I'm game" about just about anything.
He really is game for anything and as you say truly there is nobody else with that presence. Must come from his early preaching days?
@@JustTheDiscs I think so. I'd even say he was born to be watched. In that doc about his preaching days, he looks so natural. Makes me believe in the concept of having a calling.
@@watchingclassicmovies Absolutely! He is a natural performer for sure. This is made all the more interesting when he's given creepy roles like this or like he is in EARTHQUAKE....
Great video; gotta say though, I was really effected by THE PASSING (1983) recently. I am sure you've seen it, but it's amazing that VS have given it the restoration it deserves for such an obscure film. I would genuinely place it amongst the very best American independent films ever made (and I know there's a lot of hyperbole online, but I can't stress it enough). Keep up the good work with your recommendations!
Thanks so much! You know what? I haven’t seen THE PASSING yet but I have the Blu. Moving to the top of my watchlist - thank you!
@@JustTheDiscs You know after you watch a film and you seek any reviews afterward? Well, it turns out this film has almost no following; which I can't understand! The directors' Wikipedia is literally "...is an American filmmaker." That's it. This film deserves so so much more. Please let me know if you like it; I'd love to hear what you think either way :)
@@VIDEOSTOREREVIEW Wow, that's so interesting when there's like nothing on a film - and that's so rare these days. I'm all the more intrigued. Grabbing it out of my stack and putting on the To Watch Pile proper.
Great video with a couple recommendations that were useful to me. I saw a double feature of There's Nothing Out There with Scream at the Alamo Drafthouse last year, with Rolfe Kanefsky and actor Craig Peck in attendance. Both guys were very nice. Rolfe brought free posters and was giving out DVDs for some of his more recent films. They also showed a couple of trailers of Kanefsky's more recent films before There's Nothing... Tara Reid was in a couple of thses films. (Kanefsky's father was an editor on Ganja and Hess.)
I look forward to another review of Vinegar Syndrome titles. Please include at least one Rudy Ray Moore film.
Two suggestions for future vids: 1) Favorite Twilight Time titles that are still available from Screen Archives. 2) Favorite Kino Lorber titles that are in the current "While Supplies Last" sale.
That double feature at the Drafthouse sounds fantastic! Not sure If the Rudy films would quite make a favorites list for me, but I do enjoy them and have all of them on Blu. Faves are DOLEMITE, HUMAN TORNADO and PETEY WHEATSTRAW.
I'll do my best on the Twilight Time titles, but a lot of my favorites are near selling out or gone at this point. For you I looked back at the most recent Low Quantity and sale price email that Screen Archives put out and these stood out as some of my favorites from that bunch - BEAT THE DEVIL, BEDAZZLED, THE BIG FIX, CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, CRIMSON KIMONO, EUREKA, THE HOT ROCK, INSERTS, MELVIN AND HOWARD, NEW CENTURIONS, NO DOWN PAYMENT, OUR MAN IN HAVANA, PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, PRETTY POISON, TALK RADIO, TWO FOR THE ROAD, THE WHOLE TOWNS TALKING and 10 RILLINGTON PLACE. Hope that helps!
One of my favorite Vinegar Syndrome releases is the sadly out of print DISCONNECTED. A pretty solid regional indie sorta-stalker thriller, BUT the real reason the disc rules is it contains the short film 20 QUESTIONS (from the same director), which is an amazing look at America in the 80s, and not available anywhere else.
I’m a big DISCONNECTED fan too, might bring that up in another video...
I think a singer on the soundtrack of Mausoleum is the same one singing the song sung over the end credits to Death Game(1977).
Haha! that's awesome!
For me, they also indulge in my basest guilty pleasures like the kamikaze Tammy and the T-Rex. I love the latex cornucopia that is Spookies and the biker vigilante movie Savage Dawn.
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So much interesting stuff coming from them on disc! Cannot wait for the Black Friday package!
Lust in the Dust has been one of my faves from Vinegar Syndrome.
Great choice! I know the editor who cut that movie & several other films for Paul Bartel - really great guy.
I got Mausoleum during that exact sale... lol The last time I saw it the print was horrible. I thought about The Incubus. Saw it when it came out. The movie could have easily gone down a more exploitive path and gone to town with nudity and sex scenes. Instead it's more of a traditional horror film. Thank you for making these.
Well, I haven't seen any of these (though some were in my watchlist at Letterboxd). In fact, I found a list of Vinegar Syndrome titles on Letterboxd and did a quick check--I have seen two of 200-plus they have released, those being TAMMY AND THE T-REX, which I really didn't enjoy very much, and the upcoming DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS, which I did quite like. Still, I enjoyed the video and your enthusiasm for the titles. I will have to check some out, and this is an especially good month for many of those titles, I think.
What's your letterboxd? Will follow you there.
@@JustTheDiscs I am at Cinemaniac1978
Cassavetes contributed to the writing of Incubus? He therefore set up a game called: Have a shot every time I say "semen".
VS are the best label going, in my humble opinion.
They are doing great work for sure
Those scary kids make me think of Meg's crazy eyes. Shout out to PeeWee! Haha
Haha! They do have crazy eyes!
Great stuff. Vinegar Syndrome is the best :)
Thx man! They are having a killer year
Vinegar Syndrome sold me when I found out they 4k'ed RAD ; ]
@@veganbadass SO glad I was able to get a copy before it sold out! RAD is a childhood fave.