Happy New Year from Severin Films!

This is just a fun discussion of our top 5 favorite releases from 2025 as we get ready to welcome 2026, our 20th anniversary!

Our biggest and best Black Friday Sale yet warrants an equally epic podcast! Join the Sev Team as biblical liberties are taken, Mario Bava is exalted, partial arts are praised, vampire hitwomen are unleashed, Tadashi Yamashita is renamed, Eddie The Flying Gimp returns, Barbara Steele is restored, and UHD Upgrade Sunday delivers 4K greatness.

We're also joined by author and Severin producer Kier-La Janisse to discuss the German juvenile delinquent classic NORTH SEA IS DEAD SEA as well as the landmark radical sci-fi of THE FINAL PROGRAMME, and filmmaker/film obsessive Nicholas McCarthy (THE PACT) to delve into the mind-roasting vanity project WTF*ckery that is STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL. As if all this weren't enough cranberry sauce for your soul, DJ Alfonso spins the sonic orgy that is Rendezvous After Hours!

TIME STAMPS:

2:00 - NORTH SEA IS DEATH SEA

15:00 - THE FINAL PROGRAMME

27:30 - THE DEVILS RAIN

32:30 - A BAY OF BLOOD

50:50 - THE CRIPPLED MASTERS

1:02:00 - BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION / ZA KARATE TRILOGY

1:10:00 - THE IDIOT BOX

1:18:30 - STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL

1:36:50 - THE GHOST

1:55:45 - ADAM AND EVE

2:06:00 - RAZOR BLADE SMILE

2:12:00 - RETRIBUTION / LOOKIN' ITALIAN

2:27:00 - SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY / VAMPYROS LESBOS

2:47:10 - Rendezvous After Hours

HO-HUM AND HOWDOYADO?? The Eurocrypt is back with a brand new volume and a massive amount of Christopher Lee oddities from his time in Europe. See Lee fight, foil, fright, and... run a private boys school?! While the most eclectic of the sets it truely shows how diverse his talents were on screen in the Severin teams favorite edition of the Eurocrypt yet.

Join the team as they break down all 6 discs including multiple debuts as well as the absolutely essential LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE. As always stay tuned afterwards for DJ Alfonso in Rendezvous After Hours!

TIME STAMPS:

10:45 - BEAT GIRL

24:40 - HANDS OF ORLAC

34:00 - THE VIRGIN OF NUREMBERG

40:00 - ARABIAN ADVENTURE

52:00 - A FEAST AT MIDNIGHT

1:04:25 - LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE

1:13:32 - Rendezvous After Hours

Join the Severin along with special guest, Producer, Gillian Wallace Horvat discuss the film series that's still as hot today as it was when it was burning up the silver screen... Sylvia Kristel's EMMANUELLE! We go disc-by-disc through this 4-film box set and give in to temptations of each film and all the wonderous bonus features that await us. The Sylvia Kristel trilogy has never seen extras quite like these, including archival making-of featurettes that haven't seen the public eye since they originally broadcast. Not to mention the ever illusive I, EMMANUELLE making it's disc debut! While this isn't starring Sylvia Kristel, it's very much deserving of the Emmanuelle name while also being a perfect example of a Severin release ripe for discovery.

As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop!

Timecodes for the Episode:

7:45 - EMMANUELLE

32:29 - EMMANUELLE II

46:44 - GOODBYE EMMANUELLE

57:55 - I, EMMANUELLE

1:13:23 - Rendezvous After Hours

That's not a cool breeze whafting over you and giving you goosebumps... it's the SEVERIN SUMMER SALE!!! Join the Severin crew as they break down this 10-release line up along with some special guests.

As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop!

Timecodes for the Episode:

6:26 - FERAT VAMPIRE w/Kier-La Janisse

22:04 - BASKIN w/director Can Evrenol

40:40 - DEAD SLEEP

51:10 - NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

1:02:03 - THE SHARK HUNTER

1:10:43 - MONSTER SHARK

1:22:09 - SISTERS w/director Douglas Buck

1:45:22 - FEARLESS DRAGONS

1:53:25 - SKINHEADS

2:01:33 - KILL LIST

2:11:00 - UHD UPGRADE SUNDAY

2:24:17 - Rendezvous After Hours

Talk about "June Gloom!"

Join the Severin crew break down volume 4 of the Italian Gothic series DANZA MACABRA with special guest, Kat Ellinger! We go disc-by-disc through this 11-disc box set including some of the best examples of Gothic Horror that has gone under the radar for some fans. Barbara Steele thrives in TERROR-CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE. The disc premiere of the fully un-cut NIGHT OF THE DAMNED. THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT starring the Italian horror queen herself, Rosalba Neri. Lastly, a very well deserved upgrade to a film starring unforgettable icons Carroll Baker and George Eastman... BABA YAGA!

As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop!

Timecodes for the Episode:

5:40 - TERROR-CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE

17:40 - NIGHT OF THE DAMNED

25:35 - THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT

39:20 - BABA YAGA

52:59 - Rendezvous After Hours

MAY-HEM ensues with this set of releases on and off screen!

The Severin Team are abroad this month at the Cannes Film Festival but that won't stop them from spreading the good word. In fact, a lot of deals for our releases are struck at Cannes each year!

Listen as we break down the three titles hitting shelves this may including three under-appreciated titles from auteur Peter Medak, including his debut film NEGATIVES, THE ODD JOB, and THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS. Also coming out this month is a 4-film series from Lamberto Bava made for TV but only aired once due to the extreme violence and shocking subject matter... The HIGH TENSION series was deemed TOO HOT FOR TV and shelved until now! Gear up for a fun episode with special guests along the way who we ran into on the Croisette.

As always, DJ Alfonso provides a playlist of songs inspired by this months drop!

Timecodes for the Episode:

3:20 - THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS

23:14 - NEGATIVES

32:17 - SPARROWS CAN'T SING (Bonus feature with NEGATIVES)

38:20 - THE ODD JOB

48:50 - HIGH TENSION - FOUR FILMS BY LAMBERTO BAVA

1:09:50 - Interview with composer Simon Boswell

1:27:50 - Rendezvous After Hours