This limited edition and painstakingly crafted box set (designed by Robert Sammelin) is limited to 6,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.
Home Grown Horrors is back with another trio of tantalizing treats from the outer reaches of 80s American horror cinema!
HAUNTEDWEEN
One Halloween night, a little girl visiting the Burber family’s “House of Horrors” attraction is brutally hacked to pieces by their young son, Eddie. Having fled the scene, Eddie is taken away by his mother to live in solitude at a remote cabin. Twenty years later, Tophill State College’s Sigma Phi fraternity are desperately trying to raise some cash, so they decide to throw a raucous fundraiser party for their peers. In the midst of the festivities, a mysterious figure arrives at the door, offering them the key to the old abandoned Burber house and suggesting that they turn it into a haunted house. Seizing the opportunity, the youngsters quickly set about transforming the property into an elaborate - and potentially lucrative - Halloween attraction. Little do they realize that Eddie Burber has returned home and intends to have some All Hallow’s Eve fun of his own - setting up his own “Kill Room”, where the line between fantasy and reality quickly becomes blurred…
A passion project through and through from late director Doug Robertson, HAUNTEDWEEN stands as one of the more entertaining and imaginative efforts to hail from the latter years of the slasher golden age. Filmed primarily in Robertson’s hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, HAUNTEDWEEN is a decidedly ambitious regional horror effort packed with fun gore set-pieces, including victims being chainsawed, necks twisted, heads being taken clean off by baseball bats, as well as a handful of wild fire stunts. Now restored in 4K from its original 16mm camera negative and presented alongside a host of newly-produced and archival bonus features, Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to celebrate Eddie Burber’s long-awaited return in the world Blu-ray premiere of HAUNTEDWEEN!
directed by: Doug Robertson
starring: Brien Blakely, Blake Pickett, Brad Hanks, Leslee Lacey, Ethan Adler
1991 / 87 min / 1.37:1 / English 2.0 Stereo
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REVENGE
In a small college town, a recent spate of grisly slayings dubbed the “sorority house murders” has led to rumors of a so-called “blood cult” at large, composed of a number of prominent local citizens. Despite the main perpetrator having apparently jumped to their death, the gruesome murders continue unabated, with each victim bearing the signature of the cult - a golden amulet depicting a dog’s head left at the scene. Returning to his hometown following the murder of his brother, Michael begins to suspect that the blood cult may have had something to do with his sibling’s grim demise. Finding the authorities ineffectual, Michael teams up with his elderly childhood neighbor Gracie Moore - whose husband has recently fallen prey to the cult - and together the pair hatch a plan to put an end to the gruesome goings-on.
The sequel to the Tulsa, Oklahoma-lensed shot-on-video favorite Blood Cult (1985), often touted as the first film made specifically for the home video market, REVENGE - the third and final horror feature from husband and wife directing/producing duo Christopher and Linda Lewis - picks up immediately after the events of its predecessor, upping the ante by throwing supernatural elements into the mix and enhancing production values by switching to 16mm film and pulling in star power in the form of Patrick Wayne (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger) and John Carradine (Buried Alive), appearing in one of his final screen roles. Culminating in a wild, fiery climax featuring a show-stopping turn from Carradine, 1986’s REVENGE is at last summoned up in its world Blu-ray premiere by the celluloid cultists at Vinegar Syndrome, painstakingly restored from its original 16mm camera negative and loaded with an array of new and archival extras.
directed by: Christopher Lewis
starring: Patrick Wayne, John Carradine, Andrea DeLesDernier, Bennie Lee McGowan, Peter Hart
1986 / 100 min / 1.37:1 / English 2.0 Stereo
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DEADLY LOVE
Young Annie and biker boyfriend Buddy are hopelessly in love and planning to run away from her cruel and overbearing father, who keeps an eye on her every move. Their plans are cut tragically short, however, when the family’s unhinged caretaker Clint shoots Buddy dead as he arrives on the property under the cover of night. Years later, Annie, now an old reclusive, continues to pine after her lost love, even practicing magic rituals in an attempt to bring him back. Eventually, one day after suffering ridicule and harassment from some local teens, she decides to end her own life. Coming to the farm in the wake of her aunt’s passing, Annie’s niece Hillie soon learns from reading her diary that Annie actually believed she’d been able to resurrect Buddy. Sure enough, when some of the youths responsible for driving her aunt to take her own life show up looking to cause trouble, a mysterious figure in biker gear appears and begins picking them off one by one. Has Buddy risen from the dead to avenge his dearly departed?
The debut feature film from director/writer Michael O’Rourke, who would go on to helm camper-stamping slasher favorite Moonstalker using the same Nevada locations and much of the same crew, 1987’s DEADLY LOVE is an unjustly overlooked and under-seen entry in the annals of 80s genre fare, infusing stalk-and-slash tropes with a decidedly 1970s-flavored regional horror ambiance. Criminally absent on home video since its original VHS release, DEADLY LOVE is at last resurrected by Vinegar Syndrome for its Blu-ray world premiere, lovingly restored in 4K from a recently unearthed film elements and accompanied by a host of newly-produced bonus features shedding light on this obscure slasher gem.
directed by: Michael O’Rourke
starring: Jim Alves, Cassie Brown, Eileen Hart, Kelly O'Rourke,
1987 / 83 min / 1.37:1 / English Mono
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Overall rating: 4.6730037 / 5 from 263 reviews.
Home Grown Horrors: Volume Three is a limited edition box set featuring three 80s American horror films. Customers praise the high-quality restoration, fantastic film collection, and great packaging. The box set is highly recommended for horror enthusiasts.
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"I love that Vinegar Syndrome keeps highlighting low-budget regional horror films, especially since I’m out here making films like that myself. Wish there was a booklet or something in these sets, but the films don’t disappoint. I hope there’s a Vol. 4 coming soon!"
"I started getting these sets after vol. 1 was already sold out, but I do think this set is better than vol. 2. With vol. 2 I really liked Moonstalker, but didn’t care for the other two. With this set, however, I enjoyed all three to varying degrees. I’d say HauntedWeen was my favorite, followed by Deadly Love and then Revenge. While Revenge was my least favorite, I still found it to be an extremely impressive followup to Blood Cult, that upped the filmmaking quality by a huge amount, and makes the two movies into a sort of slasher epic (I kinda wonder why they weren’t released together in their own set. ) Deadly Love is a fun one involving a dead boyfriend supposedly coming back from the grave. The ending is weird, but aside from that I enjoyed it. HauntedWeen is great. I’m always down for college/fraternity-set slashers, and it’s one of the better ones I’ve seen. I love how the villain kills his victims in a haunted house, leading to people thinking it’s part of the attraction. It has great music too. Overall, this is a very solid set with a ton of great special features. If you were planning to get either vol. 2 or 3, but not both, I’d recommend going with this one."
"This is probably the best version you could pissibly find for the movies in the set, but unforunatley the titles arent as good as the previous Honegrown Horror sets. Deadly Love might actually be the worst movie Ive ever seen. But Hauntedween and Revenge were pretty decent. Excwllwnt reproduction but i would say go for the other sets"
"Recently purchased Home Grown Horrors volume 3 and have enjoyed digging into the movies and extra features included. Quite the treasure trove of underseen flicks from the heyday of cheap horror. The packaging is lovely, with reversible covers and a sturdy collectors box and well worth the money. Thanks VS!"
"Beautifully done release and VS put in extra effort for the limited editions. Just wish I got Volume 1 limited edition before it sold out. Fun series and the artwork on the custom slip covers is beautiful"
"The quality of the films varies. You'll like Revenge if you dug Lewis' earlier SOV film Blood Cult, though here there's more of a visual sheen (thanks to being shot on film). Hauntedween is my favorite of this set, spooky fun (as it plays out in a haunted house) with dashings of gore. Deadly Love was OK. The quality of the set and the treatment it got from VS is undoubtedly great. A treat for fans!"
"Okay, gonna be straight with you here: pretty much every movie in this set stinks. HAUNTEDWEEN is pretty good, but even that takes a while to get going; the rest are pretty much nonsense. That said, a lot of the fun of these VS releases can actually be seeing these movies in insanely elevated quality and with some nice supplements. The stories behind these are almost ALWAYS more interesting than the movies themselves, and all of them score points in the special features department: great commentary on REVENGE, great interviews on DEADLY LOVE, great whole package on HAUNTEDWEEN. All the films look great, too, and this is clearly a labor of love on the part of VS. None of these are gonna knock your socks off (far from it), but if you have that particular sickness that keeps drawing you back to the shoddiest low-budget horror, you will probably still get a kick out of this."
"All 3 movies are cool but I especially liked Hauntedween which was a great funhouse slasher."
"Very glad to finally get my hands on this set after very much enjoying the first two volumes. And it’s a similarly enjoyable experience. It features one pretty strong movie in Hauntedween, one solid movie in Revenge and one sorta lackluster movie with Deadly Love. But if you enjoyed the first volumes you will probably enjoy this one as well. Especially if you are a slasher fan. Here is hoping for HGH Volume 4 one of these days!"
"Bought this set for Hauntedween, loved them all."
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