Criminally Insane/ Satan's Black Wedding USED

In the annals of 1970s regional filmmaking, Nick Millard carved out a niche with his extremely low-budget, highly artistic horror cheapies. Predominately filmed in San Francisco, with weird, offbeat vibes and a cultish feel, just as they originally screened in drive-ins and grindhouses across America.

CRIMINALLY INSANE has just been reissued to feverish appreciation. The tale of an unwell and sudden-released back-door murderess Ethel Janowski, who believes she’s being starved by her controlling grandmother, is as darkly disturbing as it is bleakly funny. After dispatching her guardian, Ethel begins her reign of terror, killing anyone who gets in the way of her gluttonous lifestyle and spending the rest of her time hoarding TV dinners. She’s a chunky lady with a cleaver, and she’s not afraid to use it. With a soundtrack featuring vintage electronic library cues and an unusually grimy, claustrophobic setting, CRIMINALLY INSANE remains one of the most fascinating and gruesome entries of the era.

SATAN’S BLACK WEDDING is the film Millard made next. This time, he’s concerned with suicide. Searching for answers, he travels to the small California town where his brother had resided, only to discover vampirism and deeply cultic rituals. With eerie lighting, haunted-house atmospheres, bloodletting scenes and occult-tinged eroticism, this is one of the trippier regional entries, which makes a perfectly unholy double bill with CRIMINALLY INSANE.

Both CRIMINALLY INSANE and SATAN’S BLACK WEDDING have been newly scanned and restored in 4K from their long-lost 16mm camera negatives, bringing their madness back to the world like never before!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Region Free Blu-ray disc

Newly scanned & restored in 4K from their 16mm original camera negatives

Presented in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratios

Archival audio commentary with director Nick Millard and actress Priscilla Alden on CRIMINALLY INSANE

Archival audio interview with writer/director Nick Millard on SATAN’S BLACK WEDDING

Original trailers for both films

Reversible sleeve artwork

English SDH subtitles