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.