From Subversive's site:

a little hint of the future

They're obvously not trying to keep it particularly secret and possibly I'm a viral marketing enabler, but the movie looks like it's worth seeing. When is another matter.

I have an old UK PreCert of this and picked up a dimestore copy on DVD hoping it might be longer. Never got to watch the disc and it's many years since I watched it but do all prints start with an explosion that's near subliminal? I guess it's a mastering error. The tape had it and I'm presuming the dvd is a rip of the old tape.

I don't recall the film being up to much. Any Mobian input might spur me on to look at this again.

Victor

Wonderful news! Thanks, Terry. Hopefully we can find out whatever did happen to star Derrel Maury...

I saw this at the Museum of Modern Art many years ago with an audience that was predisposed to like a film like this. Well, we didn't. And I have no interest in going back to see if it's gotten any better over the years. This was definitely not Rainbeaux Smith's finest hour. (For her finest hours, you have to check out SLUMBER PARTY '57 and REVENGE OF THE CHEERLEADERS, but that's another story and one that I think I've told on this board already.)

Woot! A high quality, uncut transfer of Massacre at Central High (hopefully with extras); I'll be all over this. But what makes you so sure the film they're describing is MaCH? Those quotes are pretty open...

O ye of little faith:

MACH - shock cinema

MACH - channel4

MACH - filmfanatics.org


Seriously, they did everything except slap the name up in neon.

MASSACRE turned up on HBO/Max around the time it appeared in one of Danny Peary's invaluable CULT MOVIES books (maybe for the last time, at that). The chapter really helped me appreciate it and I'm looking forward to seeing it again, perhaps on a double bill with OVER THE EDGE.

Yay!

The only DVD I would be happier to see would be a proper release of CUTTER'S WAY.

What's wrong with the current release?

I like MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH and admire the manner in which director Rene Daalder seized the opportunity to do something loftier with the trashy scenario he was assigned.

CUTTER'S WAY is my all-time favorite movie, and I would like to see a DVD with all of the bells & whistles.

I'll third that request. Specifically, I'd love to have the option to play the film with its original titles, when it was entitled Cutter and Bone.

. . . Danny Peary made me aware of this little movie, and I am glad I finally caught up with it - if only on an old VHS tape . . . this is exceptional exploitation cinema; as the TIME OUT FILM GUIDE puts it, "This teen exploiter goes for nothing less than an entire allegory on society, power structures, and the failure of revolution" . . . now, this might seem an overstatement, or a lot to swallow, but I found it to be a pretty accurate representation of Renee Daalder's attempt, and, in my opinion, to a very large degree, his success . . . very good news there will finally be a proper DVD presentation from a company that will no doubt do it justice . . . by the way, regarding CUTTER'S WAY (1981) - has anyone else ever looked at THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) as Jeff Bridges' "The Dude" being an older version of his Bone character once again getting swept up into the (perhaps) twisted life of the rich in Los Angeles - well, it works for me . . .

Ah, I see. Yes, having Bridges/Eichhorn/Heard/Passer in for interview/commentary would likely be very interesting. Very good film.

Terry....Such great news you've brought us! I'm dying to see this again since I've only seen the horrifying Italian version with inserted semi-hardcore footage featuring ''actresses'' wearing bad Loni O'Grady and Rainbeaux wigs. I really hope there will be a commentary featuring beautiful Kimberly Beck.

I hope that there will be an interview with Derrell Maury (who made at least one other film).