My collectable DVDs - part 1

Compared to a lot of people who collect limited edition DVDs my selection is tiny.It mostly down to money,these things cost it and i don't have it.In this post i will share a couple of the ones i have and then do a few more in other posts as time gose on.I am not doing a review of each film but this first one is not exactly well known so i thought it would be fun to have a go at writing one.

PIG

Directed by Nico B and created in the tortured mind of the late Rozz Williams (lead singer of Christian Death),this is a surreal assault on the senses that's not for the squeamish.The story is simple,a guy in a pig mask picks up a hitchhiker,takes him to an isolated shack where he proceeds to inflict a series of S&M type tortures on him.

Some of these include an eye watering bit involving the guys penis,nipple piercing and the torture "highlight" the victim has the word "pig" carved into his chest with a razor blade.All this is done in unflinching close up and to make it even harder to stomach there are no special effects involved here,everything you see is done for real in front of the camera.

Pig is only 23 mins long and was filmed on 16mm in B/W and with no dialogue and therefore wont be to everyone's taste,it is however worth a look if you are a fan or surreal,arthouse cinema and can actually find a copy of the DVD,it had a very limited release of only 1334 and if you do come across a copy it wont be cheap,at the time of typing this the last couple i saw were priced at $189 and $222.It was released on the Cult Epics label.

The amount of special features on the dvd are remarkable to say the least.You get a commentary from Nico B, behind the scenes images, outtakes with optional commentary, a photo gallery with an unreleased music track by Rozz Williams, the original super-8 test footage of Pig with commentary, excerpts of the last interview with Rozz Williams, Biographies and to top it all off the DVD comes with a wonderful 40 page booklet which is a re-production of "why god permits evil" that was created by Rozz Williams.

As said this is pretty graphic,intense and strange and sure as hell wont appeal to the casual film fan or those that cannot handle the darker side of cinema.If however you want something a bit different then this is worth hunting down.

Limited edition number 428 / 1334

This next one is a limited edition hard box of the wonderfully sick Island Of Death by Nico Mastorakis.Once one of the most infamous of all the "video nasties" here in the UK back in the early 80s. Times sure have changed as its now on DVD in a fully uncut version.This hard box was a limited number of 1000 and i have No 336.

The following is a limited edition metal tin of the graphic and ultra violent Cannibal Ferox.One of the main titles in the video nasties panic back in the early 80s here in the UK there will never be an uncut version released here today (the early 80s pre-cert tape from Reply was uncut) due to the excessive animal cruelty that is in this movie.This was a limited edition of 3333 and i have No 99.

I will do a part two to this at a later date.