One of discosploitation’s most pedigreed titles was this gritty 1979 UK favorite directed by Ian Sharp (THE FINAL OPTION) and written by James Kenelm Clarke (HOUSE ON STRAW HILL) with cinematography by Phil Meheux (CASINO ROYALE), [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/kmv1MK-PwbM

The only experiences as formative as the movies that made us are the cinemas we saw them in. Severin Films welcomes you to MY FLEAPIT, MY PALACE, an international exploration with friends, colleagues and icons through the movie theaters and moviegoing adventures of their youth.

In the annals of Italian Knock-Off Cinema, this is without question its white-suited pinnacle: [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/pdwsLKpPBhE

Are you ready to rock? Monty Ray Garrison sure is! [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/fVQ0ooBhiTk

Our friend Alan Jones is a legendary genre journalist, punk rock pioneer and unapologetic disco fan. All of this and then some comes together in his knockout new book Discomania: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them from Fab Press.

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Orrerea says it’s “SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, Italian style!” With a screenplay by George Eastman/Luigi Montefiori – around the same period he wrote THE GREAT ALLIGATOR, TERROR EXPRESS and ANTHROPOPHAGOUS – [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/caB-XunJ4rk

On Sunday January 13th, 1985, THREADS premiered on superstation TBS complete with an on-screen introduction by network founder/owner Ted Turner (1938-2026). It became the most-watched broadcast in basic cable history. [LINK] youtu.be/ZgNsD8iCFvA?...

Radio. Flying machines. Pizza. Jacuzzis. To this list of world-changing inventions from Italy, we can now proudly add Discosploitation.

“There are sections of THE WAR GAME that are certainly the most horrifying ever put on film,” wrote Roger Ebert in 1967. [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/vR3ySErpgBQ

***NEW SEVERIN PODCAST EPISODE ALERT*** APRIL 2026 - THREADS / THE WAR GAME / DISCO ITALIANA / THE MUSIC MACHINE The Severin Films Podcast goes scorched earth, catches disco fever and meditates on a monolith. [EPISODE LINK] severin-films-podcast.libsyn.com/april-2026-t...

The 1984 BBC drama THREADS depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, where hundreds of local men, women and children had volunteered to be extras. [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/4U5Zb0fqimA

“THREADS is hard to watch, but impossible to forget, says Esquire Magazine, “a film that burns itself into the mind like molten metal on skin. It remains the most harrowing depiction of nuclear fallout ever made.” [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/4v0lMqJlkBQ

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Raise a glass to the most infamous icon in Italian Discosploitation history!

What is ostensibly a detailed rundown of the Top 100 Disco Movies Of All Time is also a glorious autobiographical celebration of disco, punk and a trail-blazing career in the genre arena.

If there’s a single iconic image that represents the horror of THREADS, it’s that of the Traffic Warden whose grisly visage appeared on the cover of the Radio Times (the UK equivalent of TV Guide) the week of the film’s September ‘84 broadcast.

CANADA - Matt and Joe are all set up at Shock Stock in London, Ontario at the Ramada with Sergio Stivaletti and Lamberto Bava. Swing on by the booth and pick up some discs.

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“Haunting and unnerving” (FilmHounds). “A true triumph of imagination” (Little White Lies). “Dusted with magic — and more than a little malevolence” (Empire Magazine). [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/0QSrjqdf180

The third feature and English-language debut by Lucile Hadzihalilovic is a Kafkaesque fable – adapted from the novel by Brian Catling (The Vorrh) – of fatherhood, isolation and teeth made of ice. [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/De-L8NicYxg

The mind-blowing second feature by Lucile Hadžihalilović — "a good bet for the most underrated director on the planet” (The Guardian) — [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/91XL45Kv3uM

Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s haunting debut feature stars Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard stars in a mesmerizing parable about the lost paradise of girlhood that Reeling Reviews describes as “PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK as directed by David Lynch." [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/dZ0ys-vraDo

From Jimmy Sangster’s memoir DO YOU WANT IT GOOD OR TUESDAY? FROM HAMMER FILMS TO HOLLYWOOD: “We cast FEAR IN THE NIGHT pretty strongly with Ralph Bates in the lead.

From Jimmy Sangster’s memoir DO YOU WANT IT GOOD OR TUESDAY? FROM HAMMER FILMS TO HOLLYWOOD: “Terry Fisher had been hired to do LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, but he took sick and really wasn’t up to it.

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From Jimmy Sangster’s memoir DO YOU WANT IT GOOD OR TUESDAY? FROM HAMMER FILMS TO HOLLYWOOD: “I have to admit here that I have never had such an enjoyable time as I did during the six weeks were shooting HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN. I loved every minute of it.

The only experiences as formative as the movies that made us are the cinemas we saw them in. Severin Films welcomes you to MY FLEAPIT, MY PALACE, an international exploration with friends, colleagues and icons through the movie theaters and moviegoing adventures of their youth.

“If any film has been squeezed dry by previous making-ofs, retrospectives, reissues, disc extras and general merch,” says Kim Newman, “it’s the blessed WICKER MAN. Trailer Link: youtu.be/qYbj4sl5uDQ

The third and final feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is a sly nod to DIABOLIQUE, a deft reworking of his earlier Hammer script for SCREAM OF FEAR and masterfully influenced by the burgeoning giallo genre: Trailer Link: youtu.be/aVWmMsjSNiA

The second feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is also the second film in Hammer’s unofficial ‘Karnstein Trilogy’, which introduced an overt sapphic dimension to the traditional vampire mythos. Trailer Link: youtu.be/TulzCKUCvUM

The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film says, “Before Warhol/Morrissey’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN and Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, there was Hammer’s HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN.” Trailer Link: youtu.be/wfQ1u4McjP4

Deemed ’too salacious' by British censors, the original LUST FOR A VAMPIRE pre-production art by legendary poster artist Tom Chantrell has remained unseen for 55 years…until now.

In this first-ever in-depth documentary on Ralph Bates, discover the surprising life, brilliant career and untimely death of one of Hammer Films’ greatest stars.

It’s the period Dame Joan Collins would rather forget…and the films that resurrected her pre-DYNASTY career:

In this new hour-long documentary written and directed by Hammer historian Marcus Hearn,

***NEW MERCH ALERT*** LUST FOR A VAMPIRE NOVELIZATION This 248-page book is a recreation of the novelization by William Hughes published in 1971.

What’s in the 312 pages of the all-new book included in our epic SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER Collection? A revelatory introduction by Severin Co-Founder/President David Gregory.