Tag Archives: Vinegar Syndrome

Establishing themselves as one of the premiere restoration and distribution companies of the last decade, Vinegar Syndrome has taken films lost to the fans, collectors and filmmakers from a bygone era and unleashed them into a digital world for a ...

Pioneering exploitation filmmaker Roberta Findlay was prolific in the male dominated pornographic and horror Grindhouse genres of the 1970s, commanding the shifting roles of cinematographer, actor, director, writer, and distributor on over forty sexploitation and horror films. The anarchic blend ...

From the early silent film serial of the ‘10s and ‘20s, the exoticism of Asian cultures—in particular, Asian women—has played a relatively prominent role in action films, thrillers, and even fantasies. Films like Louis Feulliade’s Tih Minh (1918), Daughter of ...

There’s a certain cache, a type of thrill if you will, when you’re a monster kid edging firmly into your awkward teen years. Running on the rocket fuel of exhiliratingly frightening hormones, you still have held on to your love ...

“Baby, this is going to be the shortest phone call in Bell Telephone’s history.” Earlier this year, I wrote about Vinegar Syndrome’s fabulous Blu-ray release of Dolemite (1975), the first film from comedian and all-around greatest-ever-human, Rudy Ray Moore. While ...

Comedian Rudy Ray Moore’s notorious first film, Dolemite (1975), which he produced, wrote, and starred in, has recently been given the treatment it so richly deserves by cult label Vinegar Syndrome. While I’ve primarily associated the company with obscure sexploitation ...

The first time I came across Luther the Geek, I was around 15 years old. In an attempt to further my budding knowledge of genre cinema, I had just purchased Fangoria’s 101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen and I ...

Gothic Horror is, especially around the pages of our Magazine and website, something of utmost sincerity. It has a rich history full of lavish, complicated characters and the prolific actors who have portrayed them, lush set design and cinematography, and brilliantly dark ...

Back in the good old days cover art was everything and one VHS box that always stood out at the local video store was for the “killer in the woods” epic Madman.  Kind of forgotten by all but the most ...

The word auteur is thrown around rather loosely. But what does it mean, who can it be applied to? Is it reserved only for those best directors working in the industry, the directors that have a vision that is deliberately ...