Happy Holidays

What a year! 2005 is almost over, and on behalf of Panik House, I'd like to wish you all the very best this holiday season. With all the support we've been getting from fans and professionals, we've managed to top a few year-end Best of.. lists. BeardyFreak, DVD DriveIn, DVD Maniacs, Film Fanaddict, Monsters At Play and The Orlando Sentinel have all singled out The Pinky Violence Collection as among the year's best releases, and new articles are submitted to us daily. With 70% of the entire manufactured run already sold, I wouldn't be surprised it the rest are all gone by New Year's Eve. Which reminds me that next year is already shaping up to be better than this year!
How?

For starters, I've decided to move the Panik House offices from Hollywood, California to Chicago, Illinois -which will put me in closer proximity to my warehouse and support staff, allowing me more time to focus all of my attention on each individual release to insure that they are the absolute best they can be. How else?

Starting in February, we'll be switching from bimonthly to a monthly release schedule, which means more titles and less wait. We just wrapped production on our February 28th release, TOKYO PSYCHO, and it may be our most deluxe package yet. This one has a puzzle cover! Never seen one of those before? That's because we're the first! That's not all though: it has a slew of extra features exclusive to this release. In addition to the Making of... featurette and Film Premiere footage, it's got three trailers, two true crime essays (did I forget to mention that this film is based on actual events?), filmmaker bios, and a great set of still galleries. It also has bilingual menu navigation, but this time we included two different commentary tracks -in English and Spanish! Another Panik House first!

Keep your eyes on the website, too. In 2006 we'll be adding a Coming Soon section and we'll provide links to special off-site web pages for select titles. We'll even be producing a Panik House Podcast in the near future and we've got plans to run a few Panik House films theatrically!

The bottom line is that Panik House is going to work even harder to bring you the best in Asian Cinema, and we hope that you continue to come along for the ride.

Cheers!