Back in August we told you about Before The Evil Dead: The Super-8 Short Films, a DVD set put together by Scott Spiegel (writer of Evil Dead 2, director of Intruder) and Bill Ward that contains eleven short films from the ’60s and ’70s that were made by the Michigan friends who went on to make horror history with The Evil Dead.
We also debuted 1974’s Curse of the Werewolf, a short film starring a young Bruce Campbell that had, at the time, never been seen by anyone outside that group of friends.
Today brings the exciting news that Spiegel and Ward’s second DVD set, Super-8 Shorts DVD Box Set 2, has just been completed and made available to order!
This second DVD set contains eleven new shorts directed or co-directed by Scotty, along with some of Bruce Campbell’s early TV commercials, intercut with vintage 60’s, 70’s & 80’s intros, credits, idents, trailers, adverts & promos from Scotty’s own extensive film collection. It’s only available as a ‘Standard’ option, no signed ‘Deluxe’ version this time.
Here is a complete list of everything you will get in the set:
- Two dual layer DVDs containing the eleven shorts, each with an optional commentary track from Scotty, motion menus, and full color printed disc artwork.
- A black standard DVD case with color glossy DVD sleeve.
- A four page handmade vintage style booklet, with notes on each short from Scott.
- A random selection of four, from a total of twelve 6″ x 4″ replica photos.
The list of ‘featured’ items play in chronological order, and run at 142m 29s alone, but 227m 28s including all the vintage adverts, trailers, promos and such. All the shorts have an optional commentary track by Scotty, as does some (but not all) of the additional material. You can see the list of the ‘featured’ items, with dates & running times below:
- 1. Half-Wits-Holiday (1974) (10m 58s)
- 2. All The Worlds A Stooge (1974) (6m 01s)
- 3. No Dough Boys (1974) (11m 17s)
- 4. The Singing Nutzs (1974) (7m 45s)
- 5. I’ll Never Heil Again (1975) (19m 41s)
- 6. The James Hoffa Story (1975) (12m 52s)
- 7. James Bombed In ‘Here Today… Gun Tomorrow’ (1976) (17m 57s)
- 8. The Ghoul – Ch.62 Show Segments (1978-1979) (11m 29s)
- 9. Attack Of The Helping Hand! (1979) (4m 58s)
- 10. Compilation Of Shorts Clips (1974-1979) (6m 57s)
- 11. The Blind Waiter (1980) (15m 29s)
- 12. Torro, Torro, Torro! – Scotty’s Edit (1981) (3m 28s)
- 13. Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter – The Producer’s Cut (1982) (9m 09s)
- 14. WHYT Radio Bruce Campbell Snake Commercial (1984) (0m 29s)
- 15. WHYT Radio Bruce Campbell Puppies Commercial (1984) (0m 30s)
- 16. Breakdancing Stooges (1984) (2m 50s)
- 17. WNIC Naturally Funny Bruce Campbell Commercial (1985) (0m 31s)
Most of the items above have not been publicly seen, although a couple have been officially released, and others as bootlegs. The Attack Of The Helping Hand! transfer here is uncropped, brighter & better quality than featured on the semi-bootleg 2002 German Dragon Films Entertainment Intruder R2 SE PAL DVD, as is Torro, Torro, Torro!, which is also edited differently. Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter is a different edit to Josh Becker’s official release, but The Blind Waiter is largely the same, also less cropped.
Grab your copy over on Super8Shorts.com!
