Severin Films Releases The Manson Family!
Jim VanBebber’s Controversial Masterpiece Gets Blu-Ray Treatment, Theatrical Dates & New Poster
Special Edition of Underground Epic Will Include HD Transfer, VanBebber’s New Gator Green Short & Other Exclusive Extras!
Features Music by Phil Anselmo, Superjoint Ritual, Download, and More!
Severin Films today announced the May 7th Blu-ray debut of Jim VanBebber’s legendary, award-winning indie The Manson Family on the 10th anniversary of its original release. US theatrical dates in 20 major cities are scheduled through March and April and new poster artwork has been created by artist Stephen Romano for the occasion. VanBebber’s highly anticipated new short Gator Green will accompany many of the screenings and will also be included in the extras-packed Special Edition Blu-Ray release.
The Manson Family, now re-mastered in stunning HD for the first time ever in America, delivers an uncompromising, brutal vision of the collapse of the “Love Generation:” on a ranch outside of LA, the hippie dream perverted into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips became ground zero for a madman’s paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the “Family,” became engulfed in a delusional world where torment and slaughter was considered the path to righteousness. The Manson Family is a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group and ~ at the direction of their leader ~ ends in a brutal spree that 
leaves seven people dead in 48 hours. Extras include an all-new Director’s commentary, the brand new short Gator Green, the uncut version of the previously censored, feature length documentary The Vanbebber Family on the film’s near-mythic production, and much more.
The movie features music by Phil Anselmo, Superjoint Ritual, Necrophagia, Download, and Southern Isolation. VanBebber has directed music videos for Pantera, Down, Skinny Puppy, Necrophagia, and others.
Severin Films was formed in 2006 with offices in Los Angeles and London. The company produced the acclaimed 2012 horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre and their previous releases include Richard Stanley’s restored Hardware, the all-star War classic The Wild Geese, the unrated Director’s Cut of Just Jaeckin’s Gwendoline, Enzo Castellari’s original action classic Inglorious Bastards, Oscar®-nominee Patrice Leconte’s The Hairdresser’s Husband, the midnight movie sensation Birdemic – Shock & Terror, Eugenio Martin’s restored Horror Express, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s incomparable masterpiece Santa Sangre.
The Manson Family 2013 Theatrical Screenings
March 22 & 23 ~ Landmark’s Clay Theatre, San Francisco
March 22 & 23 ~ Landmark’s Esquire Theatre, Denver
March 27 ~ Boston Underground Film Festival – Brattle Theatre, Cambridge MA
March 29 & 30 ~ Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema, New York City
March 29 & 30 ~ Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Houston
March 29 ~ Plaza Theatre, Atlanta
April 3 ~ Granoff Center for the Arts, Providence RI
April 5 ~ Landmark’s Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia
April 5 & 6 ~ Landmark’s Egyptian Theatre, Seattle
April 12 ~ Logan Theatre, Chicago
April 12 & 13 ~ Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
April 13 – Cedar Lee Theatre, Cleveland
April 19 & 20 ~ Landmark’s E Street Theatre, Washington DC
April 19 & 20 ~ Landmark’s Inwood Theatre, Dallas
April 19 & 20 ~ Landmark’s Uptown Theatre, Minneapolis
April 21 – Screenland Crossroads, Kansas City MO
April 23 ~ New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles
October 2013 ~ Housecore Horror Film Festival, Austin TX
…more engagements announced soon!
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