The floors were sticky. The patrons were dodgy. Its legacy is extraordinary. Severin Films announced the North American Disc Premiere of the award-winning documentary SCALA!!! OR, THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD’S WILDEST CINEMA AND HOW IT INFLUENCED A MIXED-UP GENERATION OF WEIRDOS AND MISFITS in an unprecedented 3-disc collection with hours of Special Features curated exclusively for this release.
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Between the politically volatile years of 1978 and 1993, London’s most infamous repertory movie theater/pleasure dome screened over 4000 mind-warping films that influenced a generation of remarkable writers, musicians, filmmakers, actors, artists, and activists. Co-directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall now reveal the incredible true story of The Scala Cinema, featuring rare archival footage, dozens of film clips from Scala favorites, and interviews with former Scala audience members, guests, and staff that include John Waters, Ben Wheatley, Jah Wobble, Cathi Unsworth, Mary Harron, Kim Newman, Nick Kent, Isaac Julien, Matt Johnson and more.
Two additional discs include the new documentary SPLATTERFEST EXHUMED directed by Jasper Sharp (THE CREEPING GARDEN) about the notorious 1990 all-night horror festival featuring interviews with attendees John McNaughton, Brian Yuzna, Scott Spiegel and more, plus 12 specially curated Scala-screened short films, hours of additional material that include audio commentaries, an archive of Scala schedules, extended interviews, outtakes and animation, plus a replica Scala membership card and much more.
In addition, Severin will be releasing first-time-ever standalone Blu-ray discs of two Scala-screened favorites: Ray Dennis Steckler’s immortal 1964 monster musical THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES and the classic Al Adamson biker double-feature of SATAN’S SADISTS and ANGELS’ WILD WOMEN.
Scala!!! is available now from Severin Films.
