Flesh Freaks

This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,000 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!

Worm-like parasites infest the dead, returning them to gruesome half-life as rotting, bloodthirsty zombies. Freed from their jungle hell by a secret research expedition, the creatures soon find their way to modern civilization where they begin their deadly mission to transform the human race into an unstoppable army of the undead. Will they succeed in their gory quest? Will the human race be completely wiped out? Can anyone survive the blood-soaked onslaught of the Flesh Freaks!?

In 1998, a teenage film fanatic named Conall Pendergast followed his parents to Belize to document their participation in a real-life Mayan archeological dig. Stranded in a remote animal and insect filled jungle, the aspiring filmmaker realized he had a great location on his hands to stage a DIY, MiniDV zombie epic. The end result became Flesh Freaks, a micro-budget wonder shot in Central America and Toronto that’s part Evil Dead, part mumblecore, and part tropical travelogue. A youthful and rudimentary eruption of slime, rubber monster masks, and geysers of fake blood, Flesh Freaks combines the madcap antics of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste, the exotic locales of Bruno Mattei's Hell of the Living Dead, and gnarly, putrefied zombie mayhem of Andrea Bianchi’s Burial Ground; all filtered through the vision of a high-spirited and hyperactive high schooler. But that’s not all! Flesh Freaks comes paired with the director’s sophomore SOV feature Kill Them and Eat Them; Pendergast’s 2003 gore-soaked, mutant melee which comes newly restored and accompanied by a wealth of extras of its own!

directed by: Conall Pendergast
starring: Eshe Mercer-James, Etan Muskat, Conall Pendergast, Erica Danya Goldblatt, Clayton Hayes
2000 / 79 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Audio commentary with writer / director Conall Pendergast moderated by Justin Decloux of Gold Ninja Video
  
• Archival commentary with writer / director Conall Pendergast
• “Kill and Eat the Flesh Freaks” -an interview with writer / director Conall Pendergast moderated by Justin Decloux
• Outtakes
• Still gallery
• Trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Kristy Eruhow
• BONUS MOVIE: KILL THEM AND EAT THEM (2023)
• Audio commentary with writer / director Conall Pendergast and actor Michael Wood moderated by Justin Decloux of Gold Ninja Video
• “Monsters from the Cutting Room Floor” featurette
• Deleted scenes
• Conall Pendergast short films:
  • Flicker (2001)
  • Satan’s Psycho Ghoul (2001)
  • Guts of the Gods (2006)
  • Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers (2007)
  • The Cyclops Diet (2000)
  • Self Actualization of the Werewolf Woman (2021)
  • The Noonday Demon (2023)
• English SDH subtitles