The Severin Films Podcast

Prepare yourself for a podcast of intimate, hypnotic and bloody abundance, in which David, Andrew, Amy and Special Guest Producer Gillian Horvat discuss the 7-disc wonders of SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER, the most exceptional Hammer Films collection ever released in North America. If you love THE WICKER MAN, you'll want to hear the startling backstory of Dominic and Justin Hardy's award-winning documentary CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN. Then Joe Yanick of partner label Yellow Veil Pictures unveils THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ, the 4 Disc set featuring a quartet of classic films by one of the world's most transgressive filmmakers. Finally, David, Amy, and Gillian reveal – and nobly defend – their own Top Hammer Titles of All Time. Be sure to stick around for Rendezvous After Hours as DJ Alfonso unleashes a sonic bacchanal inspired by this month's announcements. TIME STAMPS: 11:00 - HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN 41:20 - LUST FOR A VAMPIRE 1:02:00 - FEAR IN THE NIGHT 1:18:30 - CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN 1:26:00 - Interview with Joe Yanick from Yellow Veil about the LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ SET 1:40:35 - Hammer Films top 10 2:57:45 - Rendezvous After Hours

Starting 2026 and Severin's 20th anniversary off with a BANG... figuratively and literally! Join the Sev Team as we delve deep into the gutter to reveal some lost films by Andy Milligan and reveal what was really in the Ark of the Covenant... Turns out it was three Indiana Jones rip-off films by the Italian master Antonio Margheriti. We're also joined by co-directors of THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN Josh Johnson and Grayson Johnson, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last year. Available for the first time on home video with 4 lost films from Andy Milligan all making their disc debut. The savages at Severin are coming for your wallet and the soundtrack is provided by DJ Alfonso with a new episode of Rendezvous After Hours! TIME STAMPS: 4:00 - THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN 12:45 - Interview with directors Josh Johnson and Grayson Johnson 34:40 - "GUTTER AUTEUR" THE LOST LEGACY OF ANDY MILLIGAN 57:00 - ANTONIO MARGHERITI & THE JUNGLES OF DOOM 59:50 - HUNTERS OF THE GOLDEN COBRA 1:08:20 - ARK OF THE SUN GOD 1:16:00 - JUNGLE RAIDERS 1:28:10 - Rendezvous After Hours

Our biggest and best Black Friday Sale yet warrants an equally epic podcast! Join the Sev Team as biblical liberties are taken, Mario Bava is exalted, partial arts are praised, vampire hitwomen are unleashed, Tadashi Yamashita is renamed, Eddie The Flying Gimp returns, Barbara Steele is restored, and UHD Upgrade Sunday delivers 4K greatness. We're also joined by author and Severin producer Kier-La Janisse to discuss the German juvenile delinquent classic NORTH SEA IS DEAD SEA as well as the landmark radical sci-fi of THE FINAL PROGRAMME, and filmmaker/film obsessive Nicholas McCarthy (THE PACT) to delve into the mind-roasting vanity project WTF*ckery that is STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL. As if all this weren't enough cranberry sauce for your soul, DJ Alfonso spins the sonic orgy that is Rendezvous After Hours! TIME STAMPS: 2:00 - NORTH SEA IS DEATH SEA 15:00 - THE FINAL PROGRAMME 27:30 - THE DEVILS RAIN 32:30 - A BAY OF BLOOD 50:50 - THE CRIPPLED MASTERS 1:02:00 - BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION / ZA KARATE TRILOGY 1:10:00 - THE IDIOT BOX 1:18:30 - STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL 1:36:50 - THE GHOST 1:55:45 - ADAM AND EVE 2:06:00 - RAZOR BLADE SMILE 2:12:00 - RETRIBUTION / LOOKIN' ITALIAN 2:27:00 - SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY / VAMPYROS LESBOS 2:47:10 - Rendezvous After Hours

Join the Severin crew as they discuss the newest box set EXORCISMO: DEFYING A DICTATOR & RAISING HELL IN POST-FRANCO SPAIN with the producer Alberto Sedano! Under the Franco dictatorship, Spain's rigid censorship laws controlled all national entertainment. But following Franco's death in 1975, certain films began to embody a period in Spanish history when cinematic expression became political freedom. 19 FEATURE FILMS ON 10 DISCS Including the award-winning documentary EXORCISMO: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada "S"! And as always stay tuned for another episode of Rendezvous After Hours where DJ Alfonso created a list by this months insane announcement! TIME STAMPS: 1:44 - D1 - EXORCISMO / FAR FROM THE TREES 17:10 - D2 - BELL FROM HELL / CREATION OF THE DAMNED 32:55 - D3 - THE DEVIL'S EXORCIST / AFTER... PART ONE 47:35 - D4 - THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK 56:28 - D5 - BATTERED FLESH / THE PRIEST 1:11:00 - D6 - SINS OF A NYMPHO / DIMORFO 1:24:00 - D7- BLOODY SEX / MORBUS 1:34:55 - D8 - FACES / TRIANGLE OF LUST 1:45:20 - D9 - THE HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS / SUPERNATURAL 1:54:38 - D10 - POPPERS / AFTER... PART TWO 2:06:00 - Rendezvous After Hours

That's not a cool breeze whafting over you and giving you goosebumps... it's the SEVERIN SUMMER SALE!!! Join the Severin crew as they break down this 10-release line up along with some special guests. As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop! Timecodes for the Episode: 6:26 - FERAT VAMPIRE w/Kier-La Janisse 22:04 - BASKIN w/director Can Evrenol 40:40 - DEAD SLEEP 51:10 - NIGHT OF THE SHARKS 1:02:03 - THE SHARK HUNTER 1:10:43 - MONSTER SHARK 1:22:09 - SISTERS w/director Douglas Buck 1:45:22 - FEARLESS DRAGONS 1:53:25 - SKINHEADS 2:01:33 - KILL LIST 2:11:00 - UHD UPGRADE SUNDAY 2:24:17 - Rendezvous After Hours

MAY-HEM ensues with this set of releases on and off screen! The Severin Team are abroad this month at the Cannes Film Festival but that won't stop them from spreading the good word. In fact, a lot of deals for our releases are struck at Cannes each year! Listen as we break down the three titles hitting shelves this may including three under-appreciated titles from auteur Peter Medak, including his debut film NEGATIVES, THE ODD JOB, and THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS. Also coming out this month is a 4-film series from Lamberto Bava made for TV but only aired once due to the extreme violence and shocking subject matter... The HIGH TENSION series was deemed TOO HOT FOR TV and shelved until now! Gear up for a fun episode with special guests along the way who we ran into on the Croisette. As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop! Timecodes for the Episode: 3:20 - THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS 23:14 - NEGATIVES 32:17 - SPARROWS CAN'T SING (Bonus feature with NEGATIVES) 38:20 - THE ODD JOB 48:50 - HIGH TENSION - FOUR FILMS BY LAMBERTO BAVA 1:09:50 - Interview with composer Simon Boswell 1:27:50 - Rendezvous After Hours

UHD releases so good you'll have to EXTERMINATE all your previous editions!!! Join us as we break down all four of the March titles. Taking a step back in time with Peter Cushing as the good Doctor in DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS and DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150AD making their US UHD Debut! Also coming to UHD is a Severin staple, JACK THE RIPPER, which has been sourced from newly discovered elements. Lastly, a sci-fi film ghost written by the great Dalton Trubmo, the iconic writer who was blacklisted from the industry AND STILL won Oscars... UNKNOWN WORLD! As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop! Hope you're ready for this! TIME STAMPS: 11:20 - DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS and overall DR. WHO discussion 25:20 - DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150 AD 32:20 - JACK THE RIPPER 52:50 - UNKNOWN WORLD 1:01:15 - Rendezvous After Hours w/DJ Alfonso

TRUSTS, BUSTS, and THRUSTS! Ring in the New Year with Russ Meyer's favorite thing... A GOOD PAIR (of UHD debuts!) Listen as we break down the three titles hitting shelves this January including two more titles from the Russ Meyer catalogue, MOTORPSYCHO! and UP making thier UHD debuts. While we're on the subject of making the impossible a reality, we celebrate the iconic exploitation director Lee Frost's roughie, THE PICK-UP being remastered from the thought-to-be-lost original camera negative. As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop! Hope you're ready for this! Timecodes for the Episode: 00:41 - Ode to David Lynch 9:43 - MOTORPSYCHO! 18:25 - UP! 31:24 - THE PICK-UP 38:35 - MAU MAU SEX SEX 44:00 - Interview with Something Weird Video's Lisa Petrucci 1:08:00 - Rendezvous After Hours

Your best buds covered in blood are BACK... and we're HUNGRY. Join the full crew, with special guest Claire Donner, in breaking down all ten titles available starting Black Friday plus exclusive merch as well as a few other surprises in this power packed episode. Listen in as we discuss the full slate including our impressive slate of cannibal films, LAST CANNIBAL WORLD, EATEN ALIVE!, SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD, all making their UHD debut. Also included this gut munching month of movies on UHD, DELICATESSEN, ANTIVIRAL, HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, RATS NIGHT OF TERROR, and NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS! Bringing up the rear are two Severin icons, Jess Franco with THONG GIRLS and Lamberto Bava with a remake of his father's masterpiece THE MASK OF SATAN making their home video debuts. As always, DJ Alfonso curated a special playlist to celebrate! Timecodes below: 2:35 - HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD 19:00 - RATS NIGHT OF TERROR 33:50 - Interview with author Brad Carter 48:00 - DELICATESSEN 1:01:00 - SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD 1:16:00 - EATEN ALIVE! 1:30:30 - LAST CANNIBAL WORLD 1:55:00 - ANTIVIRAL 2:12:55 - THONG GIRLS 2:26:00 - NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS 2:39:00 - THE MASK OF SATAN 2:55:00 - Rendezvous After Hours

Gather 'round the fire in the woods for this nearly 5-hour journey into the heart of ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 with box set producer / curator Kier-La Janisse taking Andrew, Amy and David through every graphic detail of this impossibly massive undertaking. Understand why Andrew declares this session "a catharsis," while David calls the set, "a masterclass in curation and execution unlike any other in physical media and which should hopefully help to retire the woefully dated phrase 'Criterion-level'," as Amy cries, "this box set is the apotheosis of everything everyone has been working towards." Also discover which film Kier-La says is one of the scariest she's ever seen. Then let DJ Alfonso lead you further down the dark path with a special feature length Rendezvous After Hours. Timecodes below for each disc in the podcast: 0:00 Preamble 8:50 - D1 - TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST / PSYCHOMANIA 23:50 - D2 - THE ENCHANTED / WHO FEARS THE DEVIL 47:00 - D3 - THE WHITE REINDEER / EDGE OF THE KNIFE 57:58 - D4 - BORN OF FIRE 1:09:35 - D5 - IO ISLAND / SCALES 1:19:50 - D6 - BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT / NANG NAK 1:30:05 - D7 - SUNDELBOLONG / SUZZANNA: QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC 1:42:25 - D8 - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / THE NINTH HEART 1:49:20 - D9 - NOVEMBER / DEMON 2:00:00 - D10 - LITAN / BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING 2:08:10 - D11 - NAZARENO CRUZ AND THE WOLF / AKELARRE 2:22:05 - D12 - FROM THE OLD EARTH 2:34:45 - D13 - THE CITY OF THE DEAD / THE RITES OF MAY 2:50:15 - Book Breakdown 2:57:20 - Merch Breakdown 3:02:56 - Rendezvous After Hours with DJ Alfonso Hope you enjoy the releases and don't forget to rate the show and leave a comment if it helped you at all!

Join us as we break down our June 2024 releases! The Severin Films gang welcomes special guest Kat Ellinger to talk about DANZA MACABRA Vol. 3: The Spanish Gothic Collection (Necrophagous / Cake of Blood / Cross of the Devil / The Night of the Walking Dead). As always, DJ Alfonso is here to treat your ears to a playlist inspired by this months announcement.

The smut assasin's at Severin are coming at with a slate of UHD upgrades that are guaranteed to make you sweat. Join us as we break down all four of the March titles. Two Severin Films Hall of Famers get the red carpet treatment as they make their UHD debut, CATHY'S CURSE and THE DEVIL'S HONEY. Making its Severin Films AND UHD debut is the Sergio Martino entry in the Jawsploitation genre, THE GREAT ALLIGATOR! Lastly, a film that needs no introduction, BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER! The Video Nasty that will make your mother shout "OH MY!" Making it's UHD debut with a boat-load of new extras. As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop! Hope you're ready for this!