Sweet Sixteen

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This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Vlad Rodriguez), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 6,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

In the small Texas town of Sun Valley, all the boys are going crazy for the new girl Melissa. Beautiful, confident, and no stranger to smoking a joint or indulging in underage drinking, Melissa — still a few days shy of her sixteenth birthday — has caught the eye of men and boys alike. But things take a sinister turn when the boys she gets involved with start winding up dead, viciously stabbed in a series of seemingly frenzied knife attacks. It falls to Sheriff Dan Burke to investigate this perplexing rash of killings, aided in part by his eager, mystery-loving daughter Marci. Faced with mounting pressure from the townspeople, who are eager to point the finger at the local Native American population, can Sheriff Burke figure out why all the boys are quite literally dying to be with Melissa, before even more blood is shed?

A superlative slasher emerging from the tail end of the subgenre’s golden age, 1983’s SWEET SIXTEEN pulls together an astonishingly high-profile cast including Bo Hopkins (Mutant), Patrick Macnee (The Howling) and Susan Strasberg (The Manitou), alongside turns from genre regulars Don Stroud (Death Weekend) and Don Shanks (Michael Myers in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers), as well as Friday the 13th Part III’s Dana Kimmell. Helmed by director Jim Sotos (Forced Entry, Hot Moves), Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to unveil the UHD world premiere of SWEET SIXTEEN, newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative, presented in both its original theatrical and international versions, and loaded with an exhaustive array of new and archival extras.

directed by: Jim Sotos
starring: Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg, Patrick Macnee, Don Stroud, Dana Kimmell, Don Shanks, Aleisa Shirley
1983 / 88 min / 1.85:1 / English Mono

Additional info:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• The International and Theatrical cuts are presented on both disc formats
• Archival commentary track with director Jim Sotos over the International cut
• Commentary track with genre critic and author J.A. Kerswell and film and TV historian and author Amanda Reyes over the International cut
• "Sweet First Movie" (26 min) - an interview with actress Aleisa Shirley-McKim
• "Wild Man from Hawaii" (16 min) - an interview with actor Don Stroud
• "The Acting Detective" (20 min) - an interview with actor Logan Clarke
• "Sweet Picture Lock" (34 min) - an interview with editor Drake Silliman
• "Human Barbie Dolls" (15 min) - an interview with costume designer Jill M. Ohanneson
• "Music by Joel Wertman" (14 min) - an interview with music producer and supervisor Joel Wertman
• Archival interview with actors Bo Hopkins and Aleisa Shirley-Mckim and director Jim Sotos (20 min)
• Archival introduction with actress Aleisa Shirley-Mckim and filmmaker Scott Spiegel (2 min)
• 40-page perfect bound book (limited edition only) with essays by film historians: Alexandra West, Sam Cohen, and Stephen Thrower
• Trailer
• Still gallery
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles