This is the box art I have for the VHS of the film Severed Ties.  Apparently I’ve stumbled upon something extremely rare in my home video collection.  Up next is a look at the German film poster.

I’ve never seen that German poster before and thought I would share it with you all, it’s a completely misguided take on the film itself for no other reason that the whole look of the background.  Not once do I remember seeing anything resembling that shot in the whole movie.  So any way about the film.

During my heyday in my first few years at college and my discovery of Premier Video’s 5 nights, 5 movies $5 dollar promotion I stumbled across this title.  It has a couple of things going for it.  The VHS box art was pretty cool, it was presented by Fangoria and it stared genre workhorse and Hammer films actor Oliver Reed.  Released straight to home video in 1992 there doesn’t appear to be a wealth of information about this movie out there, at all.  Which in all honesty is surprising.  It’s a nifty little film that was shot up there in Wisconsin.

In it we have a money obsessed mother and her son who’s scientist father was killed work in his lab trying to discover away to help people who’ve last limbs in accidents (for all my comic book buddies think Dr. Connor).  Harrison decides to pick up where his dad’s research left off and then all hell breaks loose.  I don’t want to give away too much of the movie just in case you can actually track down a copy of this winner.  It’s got tons of great moments and line after line of quotes for any B-Movie film buff.

Harrison escapes to save the girl that he loves and in the meantime meets up with Stripes the street wise hustler that helps Harrison find his way in the underbelly of homeless freaks and geeks inhabiting this world.  If you like Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive or Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator than you are going to love Severed Ties.  With healthy doses of black humor, gore and straight up blasphemy this film is a ton of fun.

For about 8 years now I’ve been bugging Tony Timponeat Fangoria to release this to DVD, and every year he tells me to expect an announcement shortly.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed to finally see this on DVD!

Also I know I have a habit of throwing trailers up here but this one doesn’t have one on YouTube so we are just out of luck this time around!

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