PR: Zombie Lake & Oasis of the Zombies on Blu-ray Feb 26

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Two films by masters of horror: Zombie Lake, directed by Jean Rollin, and Jess Franco's Oasis of the Zombies. Both of these cult horror classics come to Blu-ray and DVD mastered in HD from the archival negatives.

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Kino Lorber and Redemption Announce the
Blu-ray and DVD releases of
Jean Rollin's Zombie Lake, and Jess Franco's Oasis of the Zombies

Newly mastered in HD from the archival negatives

Street date: February 26th
Blu-ray SRP: $24.95 (each)
DVD SRP: $19.95 (each)

New York, NY - February 22, 2013 - Kino Lorber and Redemption are proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD releases of two films by masters of horror: Zombie Lake, directed by Jean Rollin, and Jess Franco's Oasis of the Zombies. Both of these cult horror classics come to Blu-ray and DVD mastered in HD from the archival negatives.



Each disc comes with an individual SRP of $24.95 for the Blu-ray and $19.95 for the DVD, and both street on February 26th, packed with special features:

Zombie Lake includes an English dubbed version, alternate (less explicit) versions of two sequences, an alternate English title sequence, original theatrical trailers, and original trailers of other Jean Rollin films available from Redemption.

Oasis of the Zombies includes an English dubbed version, the original theatrical trailer, and original trailers of other Jess Franco films available from Redemption.

Zombie Lake: Remastered Edition
Directed by Jean Rollin

One of the most bizarre films in the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Zombie Lake feasts without restraint upon the carcasses of a variety of cinematic genres: the WWII picture, the sexploitation film, gore horror, and even the romantic melodrama.

Conceived by one master of erotic horror (Jess Franco) and pseudonymously directed by another (Jean Rollin), Zombie Lake weaves the tale of a contemporary French village haunted by water-logged Nazis slain by the Resistance. With little regard for narrative subtlety, the film veers from the shamelessly exploitive (as when a women's volleyball team skinny-dips in zombie-infested waters) to the tearfully sentimental (depicting a young orphan girl's psychic connection to one of the walking dead). Beneath its garish surface, however, Zombie Lake embraces several themes that run throughout Rollin's body of work, showing that this eclectic artist could not help investing even a playful film such as this with his personal sensibilities.

France / 1980 / Color / 86 min. / 1.66:1 / In French with optional English subtitles

Blu-ray Features

* Newly mastered in HD from the archival negatives
* English dubbed version
* Alternate (less explicit) versions of two sequences
* Alternate English title sequence
* Original theatrical trailers
* Original trailers of other Jean Rollin films available from Redemption

DVD Features

* Newly mastered in HD from the archival negatives
* English dubbed version
* Alternate (less explicit) versions of two sequences
* Alternate English title sequence
* Original theatrical trailers
* Original trailers of other Jean Rollin films available from Redemption

Oasis of the Zombies: Remastered Edition
Directed by Jess Franco



Once established as a master of the Euro-erotic horror film, Jess Franco continued to explore more traditional modes of filmmaking, setting familiar genres on their ears with his singular brand of reckless creativity. Made during the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Oasis of the Zombies: Remastered Edition is one of only a handful of motion pictures to explore a most peculiar subgenre of the movement: the Nazi zombie film.

In telling the story of a cache of German gold--lost in the desert, sought by a group of teenagers, protected by the walking dead--Franco demonstrated his characteristic lack of restraint, shamelessly inserting stock footage from a bigger-budget war picture, allowing his camera to dwell on the worm-eaten orifices of the shriveled undead and, of course, lacing the action with his trademark style of lyrical eroticism. The resulting film is a decadent exercise in grindhouse filmmaking that is more audacious than frightening, illuminating one of the more peculiar facets of Jess Franco's uniquely warped cinema.

France / 1982 / Color / 85 min. / 1.66:1 / in French with optional English subtitles

Blu-ray Features

* Newly mastered in HD from the archival negatives
* English dubbed version
* Original theatrical trailer
* Original trailers of other Jess Franco films available from Redemption

DVD Features

* Newly mastered in HD from the archival negatives
* English dubbed version
* Original theatrical trailer
* Original trailers of other Jess Franco films available from Redemption

Zombie Lake
Director: Jean Rollin
Starring: Anouchka, Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou
Genre: Horror
Blu-ray SRP: $24.94
DVD SRP: $19.95
Street date: February 26, 2013

Oasis of the Zombies
Director: Jess Franco
Starring: France Lomay, Jeff Montgomery, Manuel Gelin, Myriam Landson
Genre: Horror
Blu-ray SRP: $24.94
DVD SRP: $19.95
Street date: February 26, 2013

Established in 1992 and rebooted by Kino Lorber in 2012, Redemption Films is dedicated to resurrecting classics of the European cult and horror film -- both the celebrated and the undiscovered -- in deluxe Blu-ray and DVD editions, remastered from the original 35mm elements.

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