The VHS Archives: Miguel Iglesias Bonns' NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST (1975)

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NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST

Miguel Iglesias Bonns' La maldicion de la beastia (1975)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV04

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1984

Runtime: 86:46

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Miguel Iglesias Bonns

Year of Release: 1975

Country of Origin: Spain

Stars: Paul Naschy, Grace Mills, Silvia Solar, Gil Vidal, Luis Induni

AKAs: The Werewolf and the Yeti, Hall of the Mountain King, In the Claws of the Werewolf, The Curse of the Beast

Verbatim Box Synopsis

A scientific mission goes to Tibet in search of the Abominable Snowman. One man is bitten by two sensuous female cannibals and becomes a werewolf. He thinks he will die, but instead lives on becoming more beast-like with each passing day and longing for blood. The expedition loses some of its members to a cruel war-like native leader. This man is dying from an incurable disease and is being treated with human flesh from live victims. 

The werewolf and the native chief have a fight to the death and the chief is killed. The members of the expedition are still trapped by a cruel female leader and are thrown in her torture dungeon. In a wanton orgy of blood a rescue is attempted and eventually the werewolf has the curse lifted from him.

U.S. Super Video Inc. printed clamshell!

U.S. Super Video Inc. sales sheet, 
courtesy of VHShitfest's Dan Kinem!

U.S. Majestic Home Video slipcase, courtesy of 
Don Cunningham from the Latarnia Forums!

 U.K. Video Programme Distributors Limited sleeve!
(One of the original "Video Nasties"!)

French Super Video Productions sleeve,
originally scanned by "Kobal" at Nanarland! 

Dutch Sunrise Tapes sleeve, originally scanned by "Videohunter"! 

Netherlands Sunrise Tapes sleeve!

Original trailer, uploaded by BoPaulMedia!

Looking for Night of the Howling Beast on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. Now how 'bout we get a nice DVD?!

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Carlos Puerto's DON'T PANIC (1978)

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DON'T PANIC

Carlos Puerto's Escalofrio (1978)
 
The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.
Catalog: MOG1039
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1987
Runtime: 79:31
Print: 1.44:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None
 

About the Film

Director: Carlos Puerto
Year of Release: 1978
Country of Origin: Spain
Stars: Angel Aranda, Sandra Alberti, Marianna Karr, Jose Maria Guillen, Luis Barboo
AKAs: Satan's Blood

 

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Don't PANIC ... a terrifying journey into a forbidden world.

And for two young people it is a journey that will twist and scar their minds forever.

The powers of darkness gather, and nothing can stop the orgy of devastation they will unleash.

Evil satanic rites. Human sacrifice. The ancient secrets of the occult.

And as their fear reaches its shattering climax, the horrifying final blow is delivered.

Don't PANIC ... pure evil.

 

 U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve!

 

For alternate VHS covers, check out our Satans Blood listing!

 

(Above cover courtesy of VHS Wasteland.)

In one of their more outrageous bait and switch jobs, Mogul appropriated their entire ad campaign from Ruben Galindo, Jr's ouija board possession slasher Don't Panic (1987)!  I imagine they must've thought they had a deal set for the film, promoted and solicited it, and then run into a snag on the home stretch.  Rather than cancel the title, they simply dusted off their Satan's Blood master and video-burned a new title card.  Viola!  New product!  The real version of Don't Panic can be found on BCI Eclipse's great Mexploitation set, Crypt of Terror: Horror from South of the Border, Vol. 1. 

While not readily available on VHS, Puerto's Don't Panic has been issued on DVD twice as Satan's Blood, once by Mondo Macabro and later by Scorpion Releasing. Both use the same master, but the Mondo Macabro release has more supplements.

 
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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Carlos Puerto's SATANS BLOOD (1978)

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SATANS BLOOD 
Carlos Puerto's Escalofrio (1978)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: All American Video
Catalog: AAV104
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 79:33
Print: 1.44:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Carlos Puerto
Year of Release: 1978
Country of Origin: Spain
Stars: Angel Aranda, Sandra Alberti, Marianna Karr, Jose Maria Guillen, Luis Barboo
AKAs: Satan's Blood, Don't Panic, Shivers

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Anna and Andres, a young innocent married couple are lured into the forbidden world of the occult ... without realizing it Anna and Andres find themselves participating in evil satanic rites.

The final terror awaits them just when they think they are safe.

U.S All American Video sleeve!

U.S. All American Video sales sheet, courtesy of Critical Condition!

For info on this release, check out our Don't Panic listing!

Spanish-language U.S. MGS Films, Inc. slip cover, courtesy of Mike Schack!  Be sure and check out his eBay auctions as GalleryOfTerror!

German Super Video sleeve, originally scanned by "Operazione Bianchi"!

Spanish Exclusiva 79 sleeve, originally scanned by "Tom Savini"!

Spanish RF Video sleeve (with key art cribbed from Vittorio Rambaldi's Primal Rage)!  (Does anyone have a better quality scan of this?)

French Sodisci sleeve!

Figuring no one on this side of the Atlantic would ever know, Mogul recycled the Satans Blood artwork from their 1984 UK pre-cert release of L. Scott Castillo Jr.'s Satan's Blade (1984)!  While Prism Entertainment adopted different (and pretty awful) artwork for their domestic VHS of the film, North American labels Trend and Galaxy appropriated this design, simply masking out Mogul's information and pasting in their own!  This led a lot of people to assume the companies were somehow related, but I'm pretty sure it was a simple case of theft.

While not readily available on VHS, Satan's Blood has been issued on DVD twice, once by Mondo Macabro and later by Scorpion Releasing.  Both use the same master, but the Mondo Macabro release has more supplements.

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

It's Name that Movie Monday! Challenge #28!

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Welcome back to Name that Movie Monday!

It's time for Challenge #28 here at the ol' Arcana! Can you identify this week's mystery photo, scanned direct from The Holecheck Archives? If you think you recognize it, post a comment below. As the week goes on, if no one guesses correctly I'll begin adding some pretty useless hints. Easy, right?

Here ya' go -- good luck!

Solved! Update coming soon!

For a look at the still unsolved Challenge #27, click here.  Ditto for Challenge #24!  We also have quite a few unidentified Grab Bag photos, if you really want to show your stuff. And don't forget, our Upcoming Releases List (the best on the 'net) is updated, um... not as often as it should be the last few weeks, but stop by and preorder some cool stuff anyway!

© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: German Lorente's INSANITY! (1976)

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INSANITY!

German Lorente's Striptease (1976)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.
Catalog: MOG1004
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 107:33
Print: 1.55:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Germain Lorente
Year of Release: 1976
Country of Origin: Spain
Stars: Terence Stamp, Corinne Clery, Pilar Velazquez, Fernando Rey, Veronica Miriel, George Rigaud
AKAs: Striptease

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Film director Alain (TERENCE STAMP) having tasted huge success with his first film is tortured by the pressures of a follow up.  He is fascinated by the beauty of Anna (CORINNE CLEARY), and her life story gives him inspiration for a new film.  His attraction for her turns to love, and from love to obsession -- an obsession that can only end in tragedy.

U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve!

U.S. Mogul Communications sales sheet, courtesy of Bill Knight! Check out his rare VHS auctions!

U.K. VTC sleeve, courtesy of Nucleus Films' Marc Morris!

Looking for Insanity! on VHS? It's available on Amazon here.

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Jose Maria Elorrieta's FEAST FOR THE DEVIL (1971)

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FEAST FOR THE DEVIL

Jose Maria Elorrieta's Las amantes del diablo (1971)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.
Catalog: MOG1032
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1987

Runtime: 88:47

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Jose Maria Elorrieta
Year of Release: 1971
Country of Origin: Spain / Italy
Stars: Krista Nell, Teresa Gimpera, Espartaco Santoni, Veronica Lujan, Ennio Girolami, Julio Pena, Carla Conti

AKAs: Feast of Satan, The Devil's Lovers

Verbatim Box Synopsis

A terrifying story of black magic, sorcery, devil worship, and the practise of evil satanic rites in a small coastal fishing village.

Maria, a nurse goes missing while on vacation and her sister Hilda sets out to unravel the strange mystery of her disappearance.

Hilda meets a strange character called Dr Nescu and falls in love -- Nescu always surrounds himself with beautiful young women and they all appear to be under the influence of a spell -- a strange and eerie cult force.

What evil lurks behind the huge castle gates?  -- the home of strange Dr Nescu ... A movie that will shock you as it races to its deathly, demonic climax.

 U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve!

U.S. Mogul Communications sales sheet, courtesy of Bill Knight! Check out his rare VHS auctions!

Greek Video Cronos sleeve, originally scanned by "Cinehound"!  Be sure to visit his Cinehound Forums! 

 Italian Cinevideo Sleeve!

Argentinean Condor Video Home slipcover, courtesy of Marito Almada!

Never ones to let good art go to waste, Mogul used the same design for their 1987 U.K. release of Lamberto Bava's Macabre (1980). Thanks to Diary of a Genre Addict's Andrew Hawnt for the scan!

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Pedro Luis Ramirez' SCHOOL OF DEATH (1975)

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SCHOOL OF DEATH

Pedro Luis Ramirez' El colegio de la muerte (1975)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: All American Video
Catalog: AAV109
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 89:37

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Pedro Luis Ramirez
Year of Release: 1975
Country of Origin: Spain
Stars: Dean Selmier, Sandra Mazarowsky, Norma Kastel, Carlos Mendy, Victoria Vera

AKAs: ?

Verbatim Box Synopsis

'School of Death'...

A spine tingling tale of horror.

Leonor and her boyfriend discover a series of horrifying events involving many victims at an orphanage.

Then Leonor, too, was chosen as the next victim of terror.

U.S. All American sleeve! 

All American combo VHS sales sheet, courtesy of Fred Adelman's Critical Condition! 

Spanish Video Future sleeve! 

 Spanish Select Video sleeve!

Looking for School of Death on VHS? It's not readily available, but there is a Sinister Cinema DVD-R here.

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Javier Seto's MACABRE (1969)

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MACABRE

Javier Seto's Viaje al vacio (1969)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.

Catalog: MOG1003

Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 85:13
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Javier Seto
Year of Release: 1969
Country of Origin: Spain / Italy
Stars: Larry Ward, Teresa Gimpera, Silvana Venturelli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
AKAs: Shadow of Death, Invisible Assassin, The Emptiness All Around 

Verbatim Box Synopsis

The beautiful and cunning Denise hates her husband and wants him dead...

She falls in love with her husband's twin brother and together they plot the fiendish, chilling murder.

A story of lust, evil and hate!

U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve! 

U.S. Mogul Communications sales sheet, courtesy of Bill Knight! Check out his rare VHS auctions!

Italian Cinehollywood sleeve, originally scanned by "jungle killer"!

Dutch Sunrise Tapes sleeve, courtesy of Daniel Liljefors!

Bonus fan trailer, put together by our pals at Exhumed 'Zine!

Looking for Macabre on VHS?  It's available on Amazon here.

Investigate more titles with Project: MOGUL!

For a look at other labels, check out The VHS Archives!

© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.