American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is honored to announce screenings of Arrow Films’ 4K restoration of John Landis’ SCHLOCK for Art House Theater Day on September 23, 2018. A love stranger than KING KONG! From writer/director John Landis (ANIMAL HOUSE, THE BLUES BROTHERS, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN… Read more »
American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, and Something Weird are excited to announce a November 13, 2018 release date for the TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE Blu-ray/DVD combo. After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015, AGFA purchased a film scanner to create new digital transfers of titles… Read more »
American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is honored to announce the theatrical distribution of the filmography of Herschell Gordon Lewis — the “Godfather of Gore.” In 1963, H.G. Lewis and partner David F. Friedman pulled a cow’s tongue out of an actress’s mouth on-camera, forever changing the horror… Read more »
American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is excited to announce a theatrical partnership with genre icon Don Coscarelli. AGFA will distribute restorations of Don Coscarelli’s PHANTASM, PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD, PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION, and BUBBA HO-TEP to theaters beginning October 1. This is AGFA’s latest theatrical… Read more »
American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is excited to announce a theatrical partnership with Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studio. AGFA will distribute thirty new restorations from the Shaw vaults to theaters in 2018. This is AGFA’s latest collaboration following their distribution partnerships with genre home video labels Arrow… Read more »
We are incredibly honored to welcome genre film superhero Kier-La Janisse to the AGFA advisory board. If we wrote 52,000 words about the importance of Kier-La Janisse’s influence, it still wouldn’t be enough. From her tireless work as a film programmer to her current projects with Spectacular Optical and the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies,… Read more »
PRE-ORDER BAT PUSSY ON BLU-RAY NOW! AGFA and Something Weird are excited to announce an November 14, 2017 release date for the BAT PUSSY Blu-ray. BAT PUSSY is the second release of dozens in this partnership, following THE ZODIAC KILLER. Fans of trash cinema will be able to snatch up a copy of BAT PUSSY… Read more »
We are beyond honored to welcome Frank Henenlotter — the seminal filmmaker behind BASKET CASE, FRANKENHOOKER, BRAIN DAMAGE, and many more — to the AGFA advisory board. Frank Henenlotter is a national treasure. His movies are unsettling, hilarious, and jam-packed with bad taste gags that would probably cause John Waters to reassess his worth as… Read more »
We are extremely honored to welcome exploitation film savior Lisa Petrucci to the AGFA advisory board. It has been said that you should never meet your heroes, because they might turn out to be jerks. Whoever said that has never met Lisa Petrucci. As half of Something Weird Video, Petrucci is responsible for saving an… Read more »
We are incredibly honored to welcome genre film superheroes Zack Carlson and Lars Nilsen to the AGFA advisory board. It’s not easy to rescue film prints from dumpsters, rat nests, and the Pacific ocean. So when Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League founded AGFA in 2009, he turned to then-Alamo programmers Carlson and Nilsen for help…. Read more »