This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.
Art Label is the new outlet for envelope-pushing arthouse and experimental cinema. Growing from previous work under the Verboden Video and Culture Shock Releasing banners, Art Label is focusing on films that challenge traditional rules of form and content. Art Label is broadening its roots in horror and exploitation, reaching into other dimensions of expression to give new kicks to a well-versed audience of cinematic thrill seekers. Even the most hardened moviegoers will find stimulation in Art Label's releases.
The New York underground performance art scene in the late 80's was teeming with unique talents. Enter Robert Prichard and Jennifer Babtist (both of Class of Nuke 'Em High), who decided that the madness happening nightly needed to be preserved on videotape, under the moniker of Surf Reality. At the same time, genre favorite Matt Mitler (The Mutilator, Deadtime Stories) was challenged to improvise a feature film in a single day. Prichard and Mitler, who were friends since high school, joined forces to shoot a series of one-day features on video, and so the Movie of the Month Club was born!
This definitive collection features all of the tantalizing and gonzo Movie of the Month Club videos: Kid Scarface, Manic A Go Go, Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die, I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ, Thrill Kill Video Club, Alien Sex Phone Psycho, Les Enfants Miserables, as well as the previously unfinished Turf of Savage Homicides, and the home video version of Matt Mitler's popular play, Macbeth, King of Scoutland, which wittily (and often irreverently) transplants Shakespeare's tragedy from Scotland to a scout camp.
Art Label is thrilled to bring the Movie of the Month features to disc for the first time, from the best surviving videotape elements of these ultra-rare pieces of alternative moviemaking.
directed by: Matt Mitler, Robert Prichard, Jennifer Babtist, Bennett Theissen, Todd Alcott
starring: Matt Mitler, Kevin Brown, Jeff Eyres, Kiki Flynn, Frank Senger, Carolyn McDermott
1991, 1992 / 485 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English Stereo
Additional info:
Surf Reality Blu-ray trailer from Warren Chan on Vimeo.
Overall rating: 4.4 / 5 from 85 reviews.
This limited edition slipcover collection from Art Label features unique and interesting films by New York-based filmmakers. Customers appreciate the collection and the release, finding the films to be creative and bizarre. The set includes rare and experimental cinema, including the newly completed Turf of Savage Homicides and the home video adaptation of Macbeth, King of Scoutland.
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"Another collection of craziness I haven’t even touched yet. There are 8 films on here are you kidding me? Lol. I got this with the slipcover for Jess than $10 what a bargain! As far as the music, presentation and time capsule I cannot answer for these were all made in the early 1990’s I do believe. One of the directors is Matt Mitler of “Battle For The Lost Planet” and “Mutant War” fame, and part of the reason I bought this as well."
"Love the slipcover and art on this one, the movies themselves are super interesting and varied SOV that is perfect for any fan of obscure and independent cinema."
"I couldn´t resist it, knowing it would be a mixed bag and SOV qualtiy, but the ideas and the visions. A wild collection of underground filmmaking. Buy or Die"
"Great collection and very cool music"
"I really wanted to like this but it’s honestly not that good at least for my taste. I’m halfway through the movies and I just have better stuff to watch."
"A nice little condensation of friends clearly having fun making movies under a set of restrictions, and the sheer madness that ensues. Beautiful packaging + slip to pair with some unhinged performances - worth bingeing in an afternoon if you love strange movies."
"Interesting for anyone who's curious about 90s NY underground,"
"Unique Collection of strange films"
"Really interesting-I learned a lot."
"This was a very diverse and weird set of films. Definitely right up my ally. The slipcover is nice and transfers are good for the type of films they are."
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