Vinegar Syndrome ports and upgrades another Troma release, the grim 1972 proto-slasher Pigs.
Blu Review: Vinegar Syndrome’s Pigs – Marc Lawrence
04 Monday Apr 2016
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in04 Monday Apr 2016
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inVinegar Syndrome ports and upgrades another Troma release, the grim 1972 proto-slasher Pigs.
25 Sunday Oct 2015
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inAnother Blu upgrade of a previously released Troma offering, Frightmare (aka the Horror Star) is a Norman Thaddeus Vane affair primarily known as an early vehicle for Stuart Gordon and Full Moon Pictures standby Jeffrey Combs.
22 Tuesday Sep 2015
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inYou might think that yet another Troma acquisition, marked by intermittently recurring haze, light flicker and grain issues might get something of a bemused dismissal, particularly in light of the usual crispness and quality Vinegar Syndrome gives to their hardcore obscurities.
But you’d then need to have been unfamiliar with this selfsame film’s prior DVD iteration.
14 Friday Nov 2014
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inI can’t vouch for other folks, but once I got out of my early to mid teens, I just could no longer stomach all those crappy Rankin Bass puppet-fests, maudlin Frank Capra and Dickens “sentimental favorites” and all that bullsh*t about how wonderful it is to get the family together. Please.
19 Friday Sep 2014
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Christopher George, Linnea Quigley, Michael Pataki, third eye cinema podcast, Troma, Vanna White, vinegar syndrome
Vinegar Syndrome picks up yet another old Troma release (like the earlier Sugar Cookies and Night Train to Terror) with their release of 1981’s Graduation Day to Blu-ray.
14 Saturday Jun 2014
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Jennifer Welles, Lynn Lowry, Mary Woronov, ondine, third eye cinema podcast, Troma, vinegar syndrome
I recall seeing some portion of Sugar Cookies a few years back on a VHS dupe, pan and scan Troma release, and being wholly unimpressed. I found it dull, pointless and decidedly undersexed – opinions that certainly retain some measure of validity even now. But whether due to (greatly) improved visual clarity and color or a more unedited print this time around, I can finally see some merit to the film’s longstanding cult status.
In fact, I downright enjoyed it.
06 Sunday Apr 2014
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Eric Louzil, Lloyd Kaufman, Michelle Bauer, Michelle McLellan, third eye cinema podcast, Troma, vinegar syndrome
Vinegar Syndrome digs up a somewhat obscure piece of my own misspent youth with their restoration and release of Eric Louzil’s Lust for Freedom.
12 Saturday Oct 2013
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Cameron Mitchell, Gretta, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Night Train to Terror, Philip Marshak, Richard Moll, third eye cinema podcast, Troma, vinegar syndrome
“Everybody’s got something to do, everybody but you!”
…which explains why you’re wasting an hour and a half watching the cheesy public domain staple Night Train to Terror.