It appears as though Synapse Films will be re-releasing the following OOP titles much earlier than expected.  Expect to see the following titles hit DVD shelves this Tuesday, September 29th.  The Curse Of The Crying Woman will be the only title still scheduled to reappear on November 24th!  No official reason was given for the change, but this is certainly even better news for those wanting to acquire these DVDs!

The following titles will be re-released, along with their previous special features:

Bangkok Haunted

• Behind-The-Scenes featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Pang Brothers Bio and Essay by Art Black
• Special Insert Card and Sticker
• Cast/Crew Info.

Premise:

Three women converge on an eerie Bangkok pub to share tales of sex, drugs and the supernatural. Drinks flow, secrets are revealed and a trio of stories illuminates what looms on The Other Side...most of the time.

In Legend of the Drum, an antiques dealer comes across an ancient instrument that may open a gateway to another plane of existence - while also revealing shocking secrets about the dealer herself. Black Magic Woman presents the cautionary tale of an aphrodisiac whose pull turns out to be all too powerful. Revenge follows a police cadet who is haunted by the suicide of a beautiful young girl and seeks to uncover the truth of her demise - only to learn more than he could have ever been prepared to handle.

A horror anthology like no other, Bangkok Haunted unites acclaimed filmmakers Oxide Pang (Revenge) and Pisuth Praesang-Iam (Legend of the Drum, Black Magic Woman) in an atmosphere of total creative freedom and limitless storytelling possibilities. Angular, unsettling, and abundantly stylish. PANIK HOUSE is proud to present Bangkok Haunted in its restored original aspect ratio as overseen by the film's producers for the first time ever! Digitally re-mastered, uncut and uncensored.

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The Black Pit Of Dr. M

• Original Uncut Version
• Completely Re-Mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored Vault Elements
• Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
• Photo Essay: Mexican Monsters Invade the U.S.
• Exclusive Black Pit of Dr. M Rock Video composed by 21st Century Art
• Biography on Director Fernando Mendez By Film Historian David Wilt
• Audio Commentary by IVTV founder Frank Coleman
• Exclusive CasaNegra Loteria Game Card
• Cast Biographies
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Poster and Stills Gallery

Premise:

A.k.a Misterios de Ultratumba. By day, Dr. Mazali (Rafael Bertrand) runs an insane asylum. By night, he lashes out at the veil between this life and the next, desperate to contact his former partner, Dr. Harrison Aldeman (Jacinto Aldama), who was executed for a crime he did not commit. What follows is madness, tragedy, agonizing violence and the unrelenting horror of infinite damnation.

The Black Pit of Dr. M is a masterpiece of gothic filmmaking punctuated by shocking jolts and beautiful imagery that render it years ahead of its time. It is also a major accomplishment in chilling tone, unsettling atmosphere and wildly inventive storytelling.

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Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf

• Behind-The-Scenes: The Making of Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf documentary featurette
• Audio Commentaries in English & Spanish
• Bilingual Menus with Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Trailers
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Production Notes
• Filmmaker and Star Bios
• Special Numbered Insert Cards featuring the personal stamp of Little Frankie aka The Killer Dwarf, now deceased
• Sticker

Premise:

When prolific Japanese Cult Director Teruo Ishii passed away in 2005, Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf became his epitaph. This film stands as the culmination of his life's work and includes the bizarre and shocking excesses that one can come to expect from the director of Female Yakuza Tale: naked Japanese girls and lots of blood! Throw into the mix the deranged, depraved and deformed and you're starting to get the picture. Borne of a lifelong obsession with the writings of Edogawa Rampo, Teruo Ishii 's swan song is a veritable circus of the insane.

Panik House is proud to present Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf in the director's final, approved edition -sparing none of its macabre sex or over-the-top violence!

The Brainiac

• Original Uncut Version
• Completely Re-Mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored Vault Elements
• Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
• Essay: Keep Repeating, It’s only the Most Bizzare Horror Film Ever Made. By Casamiro Buenavista
• The Official Brainiac “Interactive” Press Kit
• Audio Commentary by Kirb Pheeler, Creator of the Brainiac Interactive Press Kit
• Original 1969 U.S. Theatrical Release Radio Spot
• Exclusive CasaNegra Loteria Card Game
• Cast & Crew Biographies
• Poster & Stills Gallery

Premise:

The year is 1661. Baron Vitelius (Abel Salazar) stands accused of consorting with the devil. The penalty: death. Cursing his inquisitors as they burn him at the stake, the Baron's revenge comes 300 years later, in the form of a horrifying fork-tongued incarnation of the Baron, hellbent on devouring the brains of the descendents of those who killed him. As bodies pile up, the police become mystified. Who is draining the skulls of local call-girls and well-to-do banquet-goers alike? And, more importantly, how many flamethrowers will it take to stop him?

Brainiac is the supernatural cult classic that has been beloved for decades by fans of spook-show matinees and late-night monster movie marathons. CasaNegra is proud to present this milestone of Mexican cinema digitally remastered and uncut for the first time on DVD.

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The Living Coffin

• Photo Essay, Cowboys & Monsters: The Mexican Horror-Western
• Cast Biographies
• Poster & Stills Gallery

Premise:

In this eerie atmospheric reinvention of a timeless Mexican legend and Edgar Allen Poe's classic The Premature Burial, a Cowboy (Gastón Santos) and his sidekick, Crazy Wolf (Pedro de Aguillón), stop at an eerie ranch to learn more of about a stone figure they've unearthed that depicts a crying woman. The ranch's odd, off-kilter residents tell them that the statue, and another just like it, was created by the now-dead Clotilde (Carolina Barrett), whose ghost has been sighted by local villagers...crying. Cowboy and Crazy Wolf are then pulled into an action-packed, spine-tingling web of supernatural spookery and desperados out to unearth a secret vein of gold. Along the way, the cross Skeleton Swamp and bodies pile up while, somewhere, coffins keep disappearing.

CasaNegra is proud to present this Mexican horror classic uncut and in never-before-available pristine quality. So crack open the lid to The Living Coffin and settle back for a blast of vintage thrills.

The Man And The Monster

• Classic Mexican Horror Movie Poster Slideshow
• Cast Biographies
• Original U.S. Theatrical Release Radio Spot
• Poster and Stills Gallery

Premise:

Gothic horror, fun special effects and an inventive re-thinking of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde converge in The Man And The Monster, one of the most chilling and exciting classics in the annals of Mexico's supernatural thrillers. Enrique Rambal portrays Samuel, a pianist so ambitious that he sells his soul to Satan in exchange for musical greatness. Every time Samuel plays the composition that wins him fame, fortune and adulation, he turns into a hideous beast with a lust for murder. To avoid transforming into a ferocious killer, all Samuel needs to do is refuse to play his signature song. But is he willing to sacrifice his own status as the world's most acclaimed pianist?

The Man And The Monster is a one-of-a-kind blend of mature psychological terror and lively '50s creature-feature trappings. CasaNegra is proud to unveil this lost masterpiece in the finest presentation ever available... anywhere!

Omen

• The D2B Story: a biography of Thailand’s all time best selling pop group
• D2B Band Member Profiles: supervised by the D2B*4Eva International fan club with pictures and personal information for each member, Dan, Beam and Big.
• Poster and Still Galleries including Production stills, Promotional Art, and Behind-The-Scenes stills
• Production Notes
• Special Insert Card and Sticker
• Theatrical Trailers
• A Tribute To Big: a collection of photos and letters from D2B fans and a detailed account of the accident that befell D2B member Big, shortly after Omen was released.
• Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Separate Bilingual Menus in English and Spanish
• And More! Play around with the menu navigation to see if you can unlock even deeper secrets to OMEN!

Premise:

Three young entrepreneurs in Bangkok - played by real-life Thai pop sensations D2B encounter a spooky old woman who makes grim predictions for their futures. Each friend is soon confronted by eerie occurrences which range from special images, to unholy affections to dark forces beyond this world! Are these mere coincidences, or harbingers of inevitable doom? What actions will each pursue to unseal the fates of the Omen?

Directed by Thammarak Kamuttmanoch and written by Oxide and Danny Pang (The Eye, Bangkok Dangerous). Omen is a wild thrill-ride that blends time and space, blasts apart viewers' expectations and reinvents the possibilities of the supernatural thriller - all leading up to a climax that Asian Cult Cinema has described as "one of the weirdest and most inventive twist endings in years!"

Panik House is proud to present Omen in its restored original aspect ratio as overseen by the film's producers for the first time ever! Digitally re-mastered, uncut and uncensored.

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Screwed

• Bilingual Menus with Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Trailers
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Production Notes
• Filmmaker and Star Bios
• Special Bonus Comic Book with text in English & Spanish
• Special Red Foil Package for the initial print run of 7500
• Sticker

Premise:

What do you get when you bring together the King of Cult Movie Directors, the King of Underground Comic Books and the King of Independent Cinema? You get Screwed!

Long considered the primary force in the cinema of transgression, Director Teruo Ishii serves up a fever dream of psychedelic sexuality and hyperbolic insanity that could only come from the mind of Japanese Manga God Yoshiharu Tsuge. Tadanobu Asano (Ichi The Killer) stars in this sexy, bizarre, and hypnotic adaptation of Neji-shiki (Wind-Up Type) that helped establish his position in the firmament of Asian and global cinema.

Panik House is proud to present Screwed in a newly restored edition of the unedited director's cut. You have been warned!

Tokyo Psycho

• Behind-The-Scenes: The Making of Tokyo Psycho documentary featurette
• Premiere Footage # The Otaku Murders -- a True Crime Essay
• Trailers
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Production notes
• Special Insert Card and Sticker
• Filmmaker and Star bios
• Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentaries in English & Spanish
• Separate Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish

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Welcome to megalopolis in chaos! Based On The True Story!

Director (Ataru Oikawa) from Tomie, a big hit horror movie in Japan, will make you realize what the scariest thing is in the world!

One day, a letter arrives and says, "I know you were born to marry me!" Who could have written such a thing... To return reality form these unnerving happenings, Yumiko attended her school reunion. Then she received an anonymous letter: Inside was her school picture covered in blood. Eventually, she began to flit across her mind. And the loathsome groom is coming...

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The Uninvited

• Behind-The-Scenes: The Making of The Uninvited documentary featurette
• Reminiscence: an interview with Ji-hyun Jun and Shin-yang Park
• Abridged: The Uninvited Condensed
• English & Spanish Audio Commentaries
• Trailer
• Poster & Still Galleries
• Production Notes & Bios
• Korean Horror: an essay by Art Black
• Special Insert Card and Collectible Sticker
• ...And More Surprises!

Premise:

Jung-won (Shin-yang Park) is a young interior designer whose recurrent hallucinations of murdered children threaten his work, his engagement and his sanity. Yun (Ji-hyun Jun of My Sassy Girl) is a woman so burdened by psychic visions that she teeters on the brink of madness. Together they must face the enigmatic terror of The Uninvited

This internationally acclaimed thriller is a character driven throwback to the groundbreaking horror films of the 1970s. This modern horror masterpiece shares as much in common with The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby as with The Ring or The Grudge. Riveting performances from the two leads provide a powerful, unforgettable plunge into the deepest fathoms of psychological terror. Once you see what lies beyond the veil of reality, there is no escaping its apocalyptic curse.

Panik House is proud to present The Uninvited in an all new, world definitive edition. Digitally re-mastered, uncut and uncensored.

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The Vampire Collection

Comes with the following films: The Vampire and The Vampire's Coffin

• Audio commentary by Robert Cotter
• Spanish & English Menus
• Photo Essay: "Fear A La Mexicana! Mexican Horror Cinema, 1953-1965"
• Radio Spots
• CasaNegra Loteria Card
• Stills Galleries
• More...

Premise:

Masterfully crafted, brilliantly atmospheric and as powerfully chilling as the day they were released, these Gothic tales of undead, bloodthirsty Count Karol de Lavud (Germán Robles) upped the impact of Hollywood horror and set the template for countless fright-films for years to come - made both in Mexico and the world over.

Described as Dracula on a hacienda," The Vampire chronicles the journey of young Marta (Ariadna Welter) who learns that her family is under the demonic control of Count Lavud (Germán Robles). As he feeds on the blood of the locals and aims to raise his brother from the dead, Marta and the mysterious Dr. Enrique (Abel Salazar) threaten the Count.

You can't keep a wicked bloodsucker down, as proven in The Vampire's Coffin, the follow-up to The Vampire. Marta (Ariadna Welter) and Dr. Enrique (Abel Salazar) battle Count Lavud (Germán Robles) anew, after he has turned the grave-robbers who accidentally resurrected him into zombie servants. Bent on vengeance and clamoring for the blood of beautiful women, Count Lavud proves to be one of horror's most indelible villains, and The Vampire's Coffin is a spooky, thrilling classic every bit on par with its renowned predecessor.

The Witch's Mirror

• Completely Re-mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored 35 MM Vault Elements
• Original Un-cut Spanish Language Version
• Optional English Subtitles
• Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
• Audio Commentary by IVTV founder Frank Coleman
• Essay: Chanovision: The Films of Cult Filmmaker Chano Urueta.
• Six Newly Designed Loteria Cards from CasaNegra’s Exclusive Mexican Horror Film Set
• Cast & Crew Biographies
• Poster and Stills Gallery

Premise:

A.k.a El Espejo De La Bruja. A Masterpiece of the Mexican Horror Movement! A poetic tale of madness and horror from director Chano Urueta. The Witch's Mirror is one of the landmark films of the Mexi-horror genre. A benevolent witch (Isabela Corona) enchants a magic mirror to protect her adopted daughter Elena (Dina de Marco) from her cruel husband (Armando Calvo). When the incantation fails and the girl is murdered, the witch vows revenge using every unholy principle of the supernatural that she can conjure.