Bleeding Skull and Vinegar Syndrome Bring Forth a Cannibal Orgy!
Bleeding Skull is a label that has been overlooked until now by Severed Cinema. The folks behind it deserve gorily splattered flowers for unleashing some true atrocities over the years. Random stuff such as Blonde Death, Treasure of the Ninja, Ninja Zombie, and so many more forgotten low budget street and back alley shot flicks from names hardly mentioned. Personally, I’m building a nice little collection of their Blu-rays which are made with care and love for the punters. Hell, I’ll do a bigger article on ‘em soon, trust me, because there are such sights to behold in their catalogue.
Anyhow, in association with Vinegar Syndrome, the Cannibal Orgy Blu-ray is available for pre-order. This release will include a load of shorts by film maker John Henry Timmis IV. This guy was pure punk DIY when it comes to movie making. What’s Cannibal Orgy about then? Well, to quote Night Flight Plus, “Banned in 20 countries! This outrageous “midnight show” film follows a cult of devil worshiping killers as they go on their rampage of hair raising terror through Chicago.“
The Bleeding Skull write up is brilliant:
Shot on Super 8 film and edited on decaying VHS tapes in Chicago, the experimental horror movies of late musician and filmmaker J.T. IV (aka John Henry Timmis IV) feel like an unholy alliance between David Bowie and Charles Manson. Cannibal Orgy and the Films of J.T. IV is an historical archive that collects Timmis’s collage-like films for the first time on home video. This includes Cannibal Orgy — a Satanic panic ode to Blood Feast, Lucio Fulci, and stoned glam rock. It does not include The Cure for Insomnia, Timmis’s 85-hour movie that holds the Guinness World Record for the longest film ever made. Although he mainly identified as straight, J.T. IV was refreshingly open about his same-sex relationships in his autobiography From the Inside, making these works exciting discoveries in the realm of alternative and underground cinema.
Cannibal Orgy and the Films of J.T. IV Additional Info:
- Region Free Blu-ray
- Preserved from the only VHS masters in existence, as the Super 8 film elements are lost
- Cannibal Orgy (1985)
- Cannibal Orgy: Commentary on the R-rated version with J.T. IV historian Robert Cole Manis, moderated by Bleeding Skull’s Joseph A. Ziemba
- Nightmare City (1984)
- Short: The Cure for Insomnia (Excerpt)
- Short: Destructo Rock
- Short: In the Can
- Short: Every Dream Home a Heartache
- Short: Sunday Morning
- Short: Song for Suzanne
- Short: Destructo Rock (Live)
- Short: Killer Shredding
- Short: I Love You
- Short: Reel to Reel Rootage
- English SDH subtitles
Directed by: J.T. IV (aka John Henry Timmis IV)
1977-1985 / 268 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0
Here’s a trailer for Cannibal Orgy and the Films of J.T. IV:
Plus the link to Bleeding Skull’s website: bleedingskull.com/cannibal-orgy-1985
