Trailer: Severin’s Flesh-Comping September Slate Includes CRUEL JAWS, PRIMITIVES, & MASSACRE IN DINOSAUR VALLEY
On September 29th, Severin is chumming the waters with a bucket of Italian and Indonesian offal: Bruno Mattei’s deep-sea dive Cruel Jaws, Sisworo Gautama Putra’s Indonesian jungle bloodbath Primates, and Italian gut-gorger Massacre in Dinosaur Valley.
These titles are available for pre-order NOW from the newly upgraded Severin website with exclusive limited slip-cases. Cruel Jaws also boasts unfathomable merch items such as an original, full-length and jaws-droppingly sleazy novelization and a Very Limited Slipcover displaying the utterly unpromotable and short-lived Japanese release title, available for one week only or until all 1500 units are gone, whichever comes first.
Cruel Jaws:
He defied all laws of good taste and international copyright with Shocking Dark and Robowar. He reset the bar for batsh*t crazy ItaloHorror with Rats: Night of Terror and Hell of the Living Dead. And in 1995, legendary director Bruno Mattei – here as ‘William Snyder’ – stunned the civilized world with this ultimate sharksploitation saga that liberally borrows characters, plot and footage from Joe D’Amato’s Deep Blood and Enzo G. Castellari’s The Last Shark (and that’s just the tip of a very litigious fin). Filmed in South Florida with a cast of now-ashamed unknowns that includes a Hulk Hogan lookalike, experience “the epitome of outrageous thievery cinema” (All Movie) – actually released in some countries as Jaws 5 – now remastered uncut in HD for the first time ever and presented in two versions: The Mattei Cut AND The Snyder Cut.
Special Features for Cruel Jaws:
- 2 Cuts of the Film: The Home Video Version & The Snyder Cut
- The Great White Way – A Study in Sharksploitation with Rebekah McKendry
- These Things Got Made! – Interview with Actor Jay Colligan
- Trailer
Disc Specs for Cruel Jaws
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audio: English Mono with Optional English Closed Captions
Exclusive Merch for Cruel Jaws
- Cruel Jaws Novelization by Brad Carter
- Limited Edition Slip Case inspired by Japanese release
- Toilet Decal
- Squirt Gun
- Sharkmania Head Scarf
Primitives:
Four years before they rocked Asia with Satan’s Slave, director Sisworo Gautama Putra, screenwriter Imam Tantowi and producer Gope T. Samtani made their collaborative debut with Indonesia’s first – and still only – Italian-style cannibal shocker: When three naïve anthropology students go in search of a lost primitive tribe, they’ll instead discover a nightmare of bloody rituals, depraved torture, jaw-dropping music cues and flesh-chomping brutality. Indonesian martial arts legend Barry Prima (The Warrior) stars in this “peculiarly local, sometimes psychedelic and virtually unseen” (Mondo Digital) chunk of graphic jungle carnage – released in the UK as Savage Terror and classified as a Section 3 ‘Video Nasty’ – now scanned in HD from the Jakarta vault negative for the first time ever.
Special Features for Primitives:
- Producing PRIMITIVES – Interview with Producer Gope T. Samtani
- Way Down in the Jungle Deep – Interview with Screenwriter Imam Tantowi
- Trailer
- Alternate UK Opening and Closing Titles
Disc Specs for Primitives:
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Audio: Indonesian Mono with English subtitles and English Mono with optional closed captions
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley:
It’s been called “top-notch entertainment” (Rock! Shock! Pop!), “a rip-roaring riot of Italian exploitation” (DVD Beaver) and “a weird cross between Romancing the Stone and Cannibal Ferox” (The Video Graveyard). Now experience the wildest ‘80s cannibal movie you’ve never seen scanned uncut in 4k from the original negative: Michael Sopkiw (Blastfighter, Killer Fish) stars as a cocky paleontologist who crash-lands into a jungle hell chockfull of fashion models, graphic violence, rampant nudity, and tasty gobs of flesh-chomping mayhem. Marta Anderson (Bare Behind Bars) co-stars in this “fromaggio gem from another era” (Bloody Good Horror) – also released as Amazonas and Cannibal Ferox II – co-written by the legendary Dardano Sacchetti (The Beyond, Demons) that B&S About Movies says “delivers on everything it promises, except dinosaurs.”
Special Features for Massacre in Dinosaur Valley:
- Valley Boy – Interview with Actor Michael Sopkiw
- Lost in Brazil – Interview with Co-Writer Dardano Sacchetti
- Deleted and Extended Scenes Reel
- Trailer / Italian credits
Disc Specs for Massacre in Dinosaur Valley:
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audio: Italian Mono with English subtitles and English Mono with optional closed captions
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