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[Video] Step Inside ‘The Severin Cellar’ with Richard Stanley
Severin Films, one of, if not the leader, in home video releases for genre fans is launching a new series today called The Severin Cellar. Severin will be inviting kings of cult cinema down into “the hitherto off-limits, dark, dark recesses of the remote company shack to select and wax rhapsodic about their most treasured psychotronic transmissions from the Severin Films archives.”
Think Criterion Closet, but sleazy…just the way we like it.
Director Richard Stanley, fresh off the heels of the release of Color Out of Space, steps inside the Cellar on the inaugural episode. There could not be a more perfect guest than Stanley. Not only is he super charming with his South African accent, but he loves genre films and has an interesting story to go with each film he selects. Like the time his copy of Baskin burst into flames.
Stanley also makes for a fitting first entrant given his long history with the company. Severin President David Gregory directed Lost Soul – The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s The Island of Dr. Moreu and served as a co-producer on Color Out of Space. Severin also distributed Stanley’s wild documentary The Otherworld and the now out-of-print limited edition Blu-ray of Hardware.
Be sure to subscribe to the Severin YouTube channel to see more episodes of The Severin Cellar on a semi-regular basis. As for me, I’ll be eagerly checking my mailbox awaiting my invite.
Get ready for double the fun, protagonists, and body count when Ready or Not 2: Here I Come explodes on streaming next week.
Just in time for the fireworks, the sequel makes its streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+ on July 2.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are back, along with Samara Weaving, for more hide and slay mayhem.
Picking up moments after the all-out attack from the Le Domas family in the first Ready or Not movie, Grace (Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
That means a higher body count and even more explosive carnage. Just how much? A whopping 325 gallons worth, the directors previously told BD.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, and Daniel Beirne also star.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “More is more in Ready or Not 2. Bigger stakes, larger playing field, a higher (and more gruesome) body count, and even double the protagonists. It’s all designed to deliver maximum crowd-pleasing fun.”
The horror-comedy sequel is written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy.
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