This first week of 2023 is a celebration of all things Vinegar Syndrome! The festivities are going on right now through Saturday, January 7th at 11:59 PM EST. This is the only time this year fans will be able to become Vinegar Syndrome subscribers. What’s a subscription do? It gives you 50% off all of the coming year’s VS branded releases, plus exclusive discounts on all Vinegar Syndrome-related sub-labels and partner labels. Oh yeah, and you’ll also get “a fresh batch of lovingly restored and beautifully packaged exploitation, horror, and sleaze cinema delivered to your door every month.”
New products are being added daily all week at exactly 12:01 PM EST, with ten select items discounted to $10 every day at the same time. These releases will span from the 1940s to early 2000s, with a variety of “celebratory releases” coming down the pipeline later this year, including a major ten-film box set and the addition of three new distribution sub-labels. They’re kicking it all off a set containing Demon’s Baby, Erotic Nightmare, and The Deadly Camp, the UHD debut of Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond and lots more. If you’re not already well acquainted with Vinegar Syndrome (we know many of you are very well acquainted), here’s some more on what they’re all about:
Vinegar Syndrome releases are focused in part on generating awareness of and interest in the film preservation process, and is one of the only independent film distribution companies which also oversees a large film archive. They are the only independent film distribution company to operate its own film restoration lab, and have rescued, restored, and released numerous film collections that were in danger of destruction.
While initially focused solely on American films, Vinegar Syndrome’s catalog has expanded over the past decade to include films made all over the world and in increasingly diverse areas of genre cinema. They have developed several signature lines, including Forgotten Gialli, to showcase rare and overlooked gialli, Home Grown Horrors, which focuses on American regional and independent horror features. Beginning in 2023, they will be introducing a new line focused on Asian genre films, particularly those from Hong Kong.
Check out their tenth-anniversary celebration by visiting their website.
