America’s Deadliest Home Video Getting DVD, Digital, and Collector’s Edition VHS Release in May
Debi Moore
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When you talk about the “original” found footage films, Man Bites Dog and The Blair Witch Project get most of the love, but there was also 1993’s America’s Deadliest Home Video, a shot-on-video shocker written and directed by Jack Perez (Some Guy Who Kills People), produced by co-star Mick Wynhoff, and starring “The Partridge Family’s” Danny Bonaduce.
Never heard of it? You’ll be able to check it out on DVD, Digital, or Limited Edition VHS in May! Read on for the details.
A co-release from Camp Motion Pictures and Lunchmeat Magazine, this is the first time America’s Deadliest Home Video will be available on DVD and Digital formats. A new collector’s limited edition VHS will also be available, exclusively through AlternativeCinema.com and LunchmeatVHS.com. The three formats and configurations are:
- DVD with director’s commentary, making-of featurette, liner notes booklet by Josh Schafer of Lunchmeat (pre-order from Amazon)
- Standard definition feature film Digital release
- Collector’s Limited Edition VHS, 250-copy run with new bottom load sleeve, bumper sticker, custom key chain, and available to pre-order only; *limited to 30 copies*; original poster and VHS sleeve autographed by Jack Perez, Gretchen Bonaduce, and Mick Wynhoff
Synopsis:
America’s Deadliest Home Video is the story of Doug (Danny Bonaduce), a home video enthusiast who hits the road with his video camera after catching his wife having an affair. While making a video journal of his travels, he inadvertently records the Clint Dryer gang – three felons on the lam – pushing their getaway car over a cliff. The gang abducts him and forces him to videotape their crime spree as they rob and murder their way from town to town. The gang’s leader, Clint (Mick Wynhoff), becomes more daring and sadistic for the camera, and a dangerous relationship forms between his girlfriend, Gloria (Melora Walters), and Doug.
Seen entirely through the eyes of Doug’s video camera, America’s Deadliest Home Video draws the viewer into a dark world of violence and terror.
Lunchmeat founder and editor-in-chief Josh Schafer said of the upcoming release: “I’m absolutely thrilled to work with Camp Motion Pictures to bring ADHV back to life and offer it to a broad new audience. The essence of Lunchmeat is to appreciate and celebrate the forgotten gems of the video era, and shot-on-video films were such an integral part of that movement. What’s special about ADHV is that it’s an incredibly obscure, yet utterly essential addition to the growing list of cinematic history attached to SOV filmmaking. Its execution demonstrates just how powerful a shot-on-video film can be. ADHV’s method of using the home video camera as a device to insert you directly into the film and put you in step with the characters was so incredibly innovative and unique for the time, but its obscured existence prevented it from being fully recognized by a wide range of film fans and critics alike. This re-animation is going to change all that. I’m just really glad a whole new host of eyes are finally going to be able to experience ADHV’s ingenious application of the shot-on-video method and see something decidedly different, interesting, and retrospectively innovative from the immense SOV output of the 80s and 90s. I’m excited to see what people think.”
America’s Deadliest Home Video also has a few theatrical screenings and events happening on the East Coast:
May 10, 2016 – Philadelphia’s Viva Video – 7:00 pm*
Screening hosted by Josh Schafer of Lunchmeat Magazine! Promotional & raffle items courtesy of Camp Motion Pictures! *exact time to be confirmed
May 12, 2016 – NYC’s Forbidden Planet – 7:00-9:00 pm
Get your copy of America’s Deadliest Home Video autographed courtesy of director Jack Perez and producer/star Mick Wynhoff! Promotional & raffle items courtesy of Camp Motion Pictures.
May 13 & 14, 2016 – Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema – 12:00 midnight
Director Jack Perez and producer/star Mick Wynhoff will be on hand for an ADHV quiz and Q&A! Bring your copy for a free autograph.
May 15, 2016 – Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers – 9:30 pm
America’s Deadliest Home Video screening.
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