Blackenstein

Severin Films, ​in association with Xenon Pictures ​and Vinegar Syndrome​, ​invites you to experience Mary Shelly's horror classic through a Vietnam-shattered, micro-budget, entrail-smothered lens. Or as BleedingSkull.Com put it: Not just a horror picture, not just Blaxploitation, something greasier! After years of lifeless home video presentations, Severin is proud to re-animate this lumbering monster​ with an immaculate transfer of the rarely seen original theatrical cut AND ​a new assembly of the home video release version, Frankensteined together from the best existing elements!*You may have heard of this infamous Blaxploitation/Horror hybrid, but the real story is even more bizarre: In 1973, criminal-lawyer-turned-wannabe-monster-movie-mogul Frank R. Saletri wrote and produced this grindhouse hit about a Black soldier mortally wounded in Vietnam transformed into a rampaging monster by an L.A. mad scientist. Almost a decade later, Saletri himself would be murdered gangland-style in a crime that remains debated - and unsolved - to this day. John Hart (TV's The Lone Ranger ), '40s Hollywood starlet Andrea King (THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS) and even former mob moll/stripper Liz Renay (DESPERATE LIVING) star in this jaw-dropper directed by William A. Levey (THE HAPPY HOOKER GOES TO WASHINGTON), now with all-new Special Features that spotlight the entire twisted saga!Theatrical Release Version (78 Mins.) and Video Release Version (87 Mins.)Monster Kid: Interview with Writer/Producer Frank R. Saletri's Sister, June KirkArchive News Broadcast On The Murder Of Writer/Producer Frank R. SaletriProducers/Directors/Actors Ken Osborne And Robert Dix Remember Writer/Producer Frank R. SaletriBill Created Blackenstein: Interview With Creature Designer Bill MunnsTheatrical Trailer