August 07, 2006

CHAINED HEAT!

I don't know how else to say this so I'm just going to come right out and say it: Panik House will be releasing the mother of all women-in-prison films: Chained Heat! This is the first time this title has been released on DVD in the USA, but we have restored all the material that has ever been cut, making our version the global definitive edition. It's longer than any other version previously seen. It has extended nude scenes and crazy girl-on-girl action that nobody -and I mean NOBODY- has ever laid eyes on! Finally we can all throw away those parallel imports and low quality bootlegs, because this one is going to rock! We're also releasing a deluxe edition of the follow-up Red Heat, another WIP gem -also starring Linda Blair (this time with Emmanuelle's Sylvia Kristel). But wait! There's more! We've got yet another new-to-DVD title, Jungle Warriors; an escape-from-jungle-hell film with Sybil Danning, Woody Strode and a cast of naked, kidknapped models. The version we'll be releasing has a ton of nudity that I certainly don't remember seeing on the old big-box VHS from my salad days as a video store clerk in the 80s. All are brand new transfers. All will be 16x9. All will kick major ass! But that's not all the news that's fit to print: Phil Nutman, author of the Bram Stoker Award nominated Wet Work, has launched a new weblication called Up Against the Wall, and hes dedicated a feature to Pinky Violence in the inaugural issue -on the front page, no less! Check it out at: www.upagainstthewallmag.com/ISSUE01/PinkyViolence.html This is the first in a series of articles on the genre, and future updates will include info about our upcoming Teruo Ishii films, a groundbreaking collaboration to be announced later, and oh yeah- an interview with yours truly! To tie in with the web launch, we've posted a new Pinky Violence Collection trailer on the MySpace video page, so check it out, and tell a friend if you like what you see. I also received in the mail today two fantastic French film periodicals: Mad Movies (No.184) and Mad Asia (No.2). The first is an ultra slick magazine in the tradition of Premiere by way of Starlog, and features three pages dedicated to Panik House releases. The second is the same publisher's Asian specialty publication, also super slick, and it features no less than six full pages on our Pinky Violence films. If you've seen the last two issues of Rue Mourge, you've seen editorials on The Uninvited and reviews of our new Mexican classics line, CasaNegra. Screem has been very kind to us, too, with coverage on the Pang Brothers' films Bangkok Haunted and Omen. I've also been seeing a lot of praise in fanzines (like Liquid Cheese) across America during my convention tour, so it seems we've become the critics' darlings of sorts. Which is awesome, but I'd be doing this even if they hated me for it. I have more HUGE news, but I'm going to hold off until Monday to give everybody a chance to digest what I've just announced, so stay tuned! Believe me when I say you will be stunned and elated all at once...