SAVANNAH, GA – This week’s 13 Weeks of Halloween pre-order announcement is the early 90’s slasher HAPPY HELL NIGHT on 4K and Blu-ray. A psycho hell priest escapes his chains 25 years after slaughtering intrusive frat boys (including a young Sam Rockwell), only to wreak havoc once again -ice pick style!- on a group of coeds meddling in occult hazing. Restored from the original 35mm negative, this slipcover edition featuring ghoulish art by Earl Kessler is limited to only 2000 units. See below for more details.

As always, physical media completists can save money with subscriptions in order to secure most titles (Happy Hell Night is included for subscribers), and will find bundle options for select 13 Weeks pre-orders, with themed, collectible bonus items. Those in the know stay tuned to @ _terror_vision_ for hints and clues throughout the week then pounce on Terror-Vision.com first thing every Friday to grab these limited releases before their availability is killed off (another incentive to secure a subscription). 

The last few weeks brought us the Japanese art house horror tone poem New Religion, and several new sub-labels: Häxan for contemporary horror fare (The Conjuring: Last Rites on vinyl and cassette), Cellar Dweller, for Cosmic Slop (The Jar and its ilk), and Death Nerve Video (home to all things Giallo, debuting The Last Screening). Prior weeks saw the feminist Frankenstein Patchwork, a low-priced Secret Title only available for a limited time, Hide and Go Shriek, the metal score to Jimmy And Stiggs from Eli Roth’s The Horror Section, Student Bodies, Death By Dialogue,and the synth score to Cheerleader Camp. These are still available for pre-order while supplies last (some collectors’ bundles are limited to only 100 copies and almost gone).

Terror Vision is one of the many iconoclastic brainchildren of musician and filmmaker Ryan Graveface, also the founder of both Graveface Records and The Graveface Museum (perhaps Savannah’s most macabre destination). Ryan is available for interviews to have his own brain picked regarding his vision and his decade-long adventure in the curation and preservation of rare, unique, and transgressive cinema and music. It’s an intriguing rabbit hole worth one’s going-down time.

Syllabus For the Releases

HAPPY HELL NIGHT (1991) dir. Brian Owens 

This early 90’s slasher runs on a lot of fuel still burning from the 80’s, full of cheesy one-liners, ice-pick kills, and familiar faces: a young Sam Rockwell (already a spitball of fun energy here), an old Darren McGavin (A Christmas Story, Kolchak: The Night Stalker); and our demonic ghoul priest is played by the torture expert from True Lies (Charles Cragin), looking here like a pinless Pinhead. Filmed in both Canada and Yugoslavia, Happy Hell Night takes elements of both classic slasher and Euro horror, and the result is too weird to be missed. A great pairing with Owen’s follow-up, Brainscan.

EXTRAS

Special Features and Info:

• Scanned & Restored in 4K from its Original 35mm Camera Negative
• 2-Disc Set (UHD/BD) Both Region Free
• 4K UHD w/ Dolby Vision – HDR
• Commentary w/ Amanda Reyes and Dan Budnik
• Interview w/ Elvis Restaino
• Interview w/ Gabe Bartalos
• Interview w/ Michael Negrin
• Full 2K Master Presentation from the Code Red Blu-ray
• Original Trailer
• Newly Created Subtitles