The Telephone Book
Blu-ray + DVD Combo
Label: Vinegar Syndrome
Pre-book: 4/9/2013 Streets: 5/7/2013 SRP: 24.98
UPC#:855011004062 Cat#: VS-007 Total Run Time: 87 Minutes Original Language: English
B&W with color sequence Widescreen 1.85:1 Dolby Digital Mono
Region 0 Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy / Exploitation / Arthouse
Production year: 1971
Director: Nelson Lyon
Stars: Sarah Kennedy, Norman Rose, Jill Clayburgh
A major, though forgotten, work from New York’s underground film scene of the late 60s and early 70s, Nelson Lyon’s The Telephone Book tells the story of a sex-obsessed hippie who falls in love with the world’s greatest obscene phone caller and embarks on a quest to find him. Her journey introduces to her to an avant-garde stag filmmaker, a manipulative psychiatrist, a bored lesbian housewife, and more. Photographed in high-contrast black-and-white, and punctuated with a remarkable, surreal animated sequence, The Telephone Book is one of the greatest cult films you’ve probably never heard of.
Bonus Features: Commentary track with Producer Merv Bloch/Original Music Soundtrack/Photo Still Gallery/Theatrical Trailers
The Dungeon of Harrow + Death By Invitation
1 DVD
Label: Vinegar Syndrome
Pre-book: 4/9/2013 Streets: 5/7/2013 SRP: 14.98
UPC#:855011004079 Cat#: VS-008 Total Run Time: 168 Minutes
Original Language: English
Color Widescreen 1.85:1 Dolby Digital Mono
Region 0 Rating: NR
Genre: Horror / Cult / Thiller
Production year: 1962/1971
Directors: Pat Boyette / Ken Friedman
Stars: Russ Harvey, Helen Hogan, William McNulty, Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips, Norman Paige
THE DUNGEON OF HARROW (1962): This lurid Texas shot gem, in the vein of Corman’s THE TERROR, follows two survivors of a shipwreck as they find themselves trapped on a remote island, run by a mad baron keen on torture. DEATH BY INVITATION (1971): One of producer Leonard Kirtman’s odd ventures into horror filmmaking, ‘Death’ is an effectively gritty tale of 20th century witchery topped off with a pleasant touch of psychedelia.
Bonus Features: One commentary track by The Hysteria Continues
