![]() As I got older, apparently, I found I could tolerate (to a degree) horror films in the late morning, and I have some great memory movies I saw during then. Waiting to go out to the bus stop all I could emotionally handle that early were cartoons. ![]() I loved soda but couldn’t drink it in the morning, especially that early. It was like drinking soda in the morning. I could never watch a horror flick that early. When I was in school, getting up at, like, 6 or 7 in the morning there would sometimes be the final horror movie of the night wrapping up on cable. There’s a very weird feeling you get watching a horror movie late morning. What’s a “morning movie?” Back then the latest I hit the hay was 1:30 in the morning, any movie coming after that I set the VCR’s timer for, and once I woke (generally late morning) I scooted out to the living room (where we had cable), retrieved the tape, scooted back into my bedroom and watched the movie. All I know, or think I know, is I saw this back in the day on cable, and it may have been a “morning movie.” Another feeling I have about it. You have to remember back in 1987 it was not uncommon for independent horror flicks like this to actually score a theatrical release, one of the many things I miss about the 80s, so I may have caught a trailer of it on TV. It’s also conceivable I may have caught a TV spot back in the day. Fangoria did a retrospective on it in issue #273 (see below), but that’s from 2008. It did, however, briefly touch upon Retribution, so it’s entirely conceivable I got introduced to it through that article alone. I combed my Fangoria index to see in what issues it was covered in: a single page in issue #69 (I don’t currently have that issue) and a interview with director Guy Magar in issue #111, but that issue mainly covered Stepfather III (1992). I can’t even remember (precisely) when I heard about the movie. However, there are some horror movies, especially those made strictly for home video that never reached cable in my area, but I don’t think this was one of them. Its release year is 1987, the year I graduated from high school, and given what I know of how long (generally speaking) it took for new movies to reach cable back then, I’m going to simply guess I may have seen it in either 1988 or 1989. ![]() It there is one, it’s buried too deep for any kind of recall, but not so deep I can’t feel notions, vibes, hints that I had seen it back in the day. Lawrence Crowley and William F.Retribution is another one of those rare memory movies I have that just doesn’t have a concrete memory. The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio / A Clockwork BlueĮrotic Adventures of Candy / Candy Goes to Hollywood Hanson and George Meadows / Bobby O'Donald ![]() Sergei Goncharoff and Ron Nicholas / Al Viola / Marty RackumĮvil Come, Evil Go / Oh! You Beautiful "Doll" / Widow Blue!Ībduction of an American Playgirl / Winter Heatĭavid W. The Blue Hour / One Naked Night / Three in a Towel Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, and Gregg C. The Dungeon of Harrow / Death by Invitation Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Limited edition release with a slipcover and numbers ending in "LENT" denote a limited edition release DVD and Blu-ray releases LegendĪ DVD, Blu-ray, or 4K Ultra HD release that has been announced but has not yet been released.Ĭategory numbers ending in "LTD" denote a limited edition release numbers ending in "SLIP" denote a Vinegar Syndrome has been favorably compared to the Criterion Collection, another film restoration and distribution company, and has received praise for the selection and quality of their catalog. They have also released vinyl records of film soundtracks. Their catalog includes cult and exploitation films in a number of different genres, including pornographic films, horror films, and action films. Since 2013, Vinegar Syndrome has released more than 300 films on DVD and Blu-ray. Founded in 2012 in Bridgeport, Connecticut by Joe Rubin and Ryan Emerson, the company's first home video release-first made available in 2013-was The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, a DVD and Blu-ray release containing three films directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, each of which were previously thought to be lost. Vinegar Syndrome is a film restoration and distribution company that specializes in "protecting and preserving genre films" by licensing and releasing them on home video.
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