Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await
Red Spirit Lake / We Await

Saturn's Core

Red Spirit Lake / We Await

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This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.

Saturn's Core Audio & Video is a New Jersey based home video label devoted to releasing underground oddities and shot on video cinema on VHS, and now, blu-ray discs! In partnership with OCN Distribution, Saturn's Core will exhume forgotten or under-seen genre cinema from the 80s and 90s, with an emphasis on SOV horror features. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

One of the most visionary artists to arise from the pre-digital, shot on video underground, director Charles Pinion's awe-inspiring features fearlessly blurred the lines between punk rock, Cinema of Transgression, avant-garde surrealism, pornography and backyard splatter films. Saturn's Core is proud to present two of Pinion's most daring works with newly reconstructed, director approved restorations from the original analog master tapes.

Red Spirit Lake (1993)

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harnass the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate. A meditation on The Old Dark House replete with UFO abductions, castration, frank nudity, witchcraft, fatal fistings, and slughterous saunas; Red Spirit Lake is a cacophony of subversive hyper violence, psychotic surrealism, salacious sexual choas, and picturesque winter vistas featuring acting performances by a cavalcade of legendary Cinema of Transgression era artists and filmmakers including Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tommy Turner as well as an insurgent soundtrack featuring music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.

We Await (1996)

A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third third floor apartment of horrors. Featuring a man who willfully chooses to be a dog, sexual stimulation via blowtorch, and a corpulent, nude and blood soaked Godzilla-sized Jesus; We Await is a shot on video, urban riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that slowly descends into a psycho sexual, drug-fueled, analog aurora borealis nightmare like no other. Starring director Pinion, adult filmmaker David Aaron Clark, visual artist Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and boasting a blistering soundtrack featuring music by Crash Worship, Neurosis, and Unsane.

directed by: Charles Pinion
starring: Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Charles Pinion, Amanda Collins, Alyssa Taylor Wendt, David Aaron Clark, Kembra Pfahler
1993-1996 / 124 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English Stereo

Additional info:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Brand new restoration of both features from the original master tapes supervised by director Charles Pinion
  • Two audio commentaries with director Charles Pinion moderated by Mike Hunchback of Seminal Psychosis
  • "Red Reason to Live" - an interview with director Charles Pinion on Red Spirit Lake
  • "Psychic Powerful" - an interview with director Charles Pinion on We Await
  • "Dissection of a Shot" & "Disembowelment of a Shot" - raw footage featurettes
  • "Spirit Drive" - original excerpt from We Await
  • "Sprit Drive Document" - making of featurette
  • "Madball" (1988) - a 16mm short by Charles Pinion
  • "Making of Madball" - behind the scenes featurette
  • "Try Again" (2015) - a short film by Charles Pinion
  • Video Pharmacy exclusive deleted scenes and outtakes
  • Music video and other rare footage from the Pinion vault
  • Charles Pinion trailer reel
  • "Blood Video: Charles Pinion Edition" - 28 page booklet designed by Matt Desiderio of Horror Boobs featuring a career spanning interview with Charles Pinion conducted by Mike Hunchback
  • Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Corinne Halbert
  • English subtitles

RED SPIRIT LAKE extended NSFW trailer from Charles Pinion on Vimeo.

 

Overall rating: 4.6404495 / 5 from 89 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

This Blu-ray release from Saturn's Core Audio & Video offers a brand new restoration of Charles Pinion's classic horror films, Red Spirit Lake and We Await. Customers praise the outstanding quality, intense and unique film experience, and the plethora of extras. The release is considered one of the best SOV horror releases available.

Summary topics

  • Product Quality: 8%
  • Film Experience: 18%
  • Horror Quality: 9%
  • Release Quality: 11%
  • Extra Features: 16%

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Review highlights

  • "For what it is, the release looks great and has some good extras." — Dan H.
  • "Having now watched both features my mind is absolutely blown!" — Mark S.
  • "Two great films from one of the great SOV directors and tons of special features!" — Rhi S.

Reviews

RED SPIRIT LAKE.

"Oddity, words can hardly describe the horror therein"

— Richard M. (4/5)

Not for me, but definitely very much for someone

"Red Spirit Lake: Almost gave this a 2. 5 because it has so much of what I like (witchy women taking supernatural revenge on assorted scumbags) but kind of gets in own way at times. The last 20 minutes it picks up, and the music at the end and during the credits is pretty banger. Sort of feels like an American take on a Jean Rollin vampire movie. We Await: The strangest Texas Chainsaw, goth girl, Jesus kaiju movie I’ve seen! I probably would have enjoyed this a bit more if I too had some green medical assistance."

— Michael G. (3/5)

Hidden gem SOV double feature

"Really great double feature release from SOV royalty Charles Pinion, the man who brought you Twisted Issues. Has some nice interviews with Mr Pinion included as well as a short film, all of which round this out into an essential package for folks wanting to explore more of his work and world."

— Jon B. (5/5)

Decent SOV Films

"I really loved Blonde Death and started to find my next SOV fix. This didn't quite do it for me. Loved the themes but the execution was just ok."

— Eric B. (3/5)

Amazing

"Red spirit lake quickly became one of the best sov movies ive ever seen. Great score, beautiful cinematography with interesting plot and characters. We await did not 100% compare but had the same charm as red."

— Sean T. (5/5)

Great SOV set

"once again Charles Pinion blew my anti-SOV tendencies (which are now basically obsolete I guess) out of the water with 2 more acid-psychedelic gutter sex'n'violence transgressive mind-melters that are as challenging as they are punk rock entertaining; I haven't checked his filmography but I hope there's more out there to release. I know VS worked with Scooter McCrae to make a film (BLACK EYED SUSAN); I wonder if they could get Pinion as well? Anyway, RED SPIRIT is the one that forces this release to the Melusine site only, as the (minimal) XXX material is just part of a kitchen-sink approach toward witchcraft, angels, demons, UFOs, and combos of all of the above, all set in a Cabin in the Woods to give it an EVIL DEAD Goes Cinema of Transgression vibe. WE AWAIT is straight up REPO MAN meets TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with a bit of pre-John Michael McCarthy. Be prepared for both movies to have incredible soundtracks, a rather apparent (and welcome) breast obsession (although it's all equal-opportunity nudity, so the boobs tend to channel more feminine energy than anything else), and a spirit of anarchy and offensiveness (I mean, I was offended by the portrayal of Jesus in the 2nd movie, but I understand how the warped version of Christian Thought that is mostly on display by it's adherents in earlier scenes leads to this sort of reaction, so I welcome it as a point of discussion) that make them great to watch and then talk about later. The extras look amazing as well; I would highly recommend this release and also TWISTED ISSUES."

— David H. (5/5)

Gore the Merrier!

"SOV cinematography at its finest, it's hard to quantify the amount of 'WTF' moments in this collection of madness"

— William Z. (5/5)

Interesting Double Feature

"Interesting double feature, shot on video with a limited budget, these movies are of their time (early to mid 1990s). Decent plot and acting, they are worth talking a look at and adding to your collection."

— Craig K. (4/5)

Excellent sov sleaze

"Glad to grab this in the sale."

— Robert P. (5/5)

Saturn's Core releases are always

"Saturn's Core releases are always amazing. So many extras, and beautiful packaging."

— Eric P. (5/5)

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