PiFan Commemorates Teruo Ishii with Film Retrospective

Korea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will kick off its 10th edition this year on July 13th and includes a retrospective spotlighting recently deceased Japanese cult director Teruo Ishii. Other such honorees include Fritz Lang, Jacques Tati and Audrey Hepburn, so the Pinky Violence Godfather is obviously held in high esteem. The timing is impeccable, with the Panik House releases of Screwed and Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf scheduled less than two weeks later on July 25th. Female Yakuza Tale will be available again at this time giving audiences a healthy sampling of the many aspects of this legendary director's career.
Stateside, there will be a few private screenings of Ishii's (and other Panik House) films at the 15th Annual Anime Expo in Anaheim, California July 1 - 4 and then in the film program at both Gen Con Indy (in Indianapolis) August 10 - 13 and Gen Con So Cal (in Anaheim) November 16 - 19.
It's shaping up to be a Pink summer, people!
Stay Tuned!

A SNEAK PEEK AT THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE!

Well, we have wrapped up the super deluxe DVD of THE UNINVITED, which will be in stores on May 30th. I’ll be giving you the skinny on that when I get the finished product early next month. The packaging is quite possibly the best we’ve done yet, but I’ll speak more about that later. I want to give everybody a sneak peek of our two upcoming July titles, both from the chaotic camera of the late, great (and wonderfully deranged) Teruo Ishii. The first is SCREWED, an insane adaptation of cult manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge’s Neji-shiki (aka Wind-up Type). Tadanobu Asano (of Ichi The Killer) stars in the director’s final 35mm film.
The companion release for July 25th will be the director’s swan song:
BLIND BEAST Vs. KILLER DWARF
What’s in a name you ask? Well let me run down the checklist:
Naked Japanese Girls
Dwarves
Lots Of Blood

This release will sport exclusive artwork created specifically for Panik House by underground New York artist GEA* (currently on exhibit at the prestigious V-Gallery in Switzerland).

Edogawa Rampo would be proud!

SEX IS ZERO CHARTS HIGH AT AMAZON!

This weekend we received word that SEX IS ZERO had broken into the top 1000 titles on Amazon.com, and at one point had been close to breaking into the top 900! Not bad for a foreign comedy with no marquee names. It just goes to show that people like a good laugh every once in a while, and this film delivers on that. The trailer is up on the Panik House MySpace page, and we encourage you to be a Panik House friend. Sign on and check out the comments that people are leaving us, and be sure to leave your own. In other MySapce news, Jane, the reigning Miss Pinky Violence has her own MySpace page, and will soon have her own dedicated website, so check back here for the official launch next week.


www.myspace.com/panikhouse
www.myspace.com/misspinkyviolence

Are You Ready for Spring Break...Panik House style?

SEX IS ZERO hits stores today! This hilarious teen sex comedy was the all time box office champ in it's native Korea, and it's easy to see why. It's hysterically funny. This title took a lot of effort to bring to the US as foreign censors attempted to prevent it's export, so fight censorship by running out and buying one! It's now available for purchase online and in most major retail chains and also available for rent at Hollywood Video.

This disc is absolutely bursting with special features –I've never seen so many on a single disc release! The cast interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternative takes are over an hour and a half long, and there are two entirely different commentary tracks for English and Spanish speaking fans. Mike McPadden and Mr. Skin of the Howard Stern Show handle an informative and hilarious track that features a few interjections from a certain DVD company president who shall remain nameless. So scoop these babies up! They're worthwhile for the booklet alone! Screen it at your next Fraternity or Sorority party!

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll never eat a fried egg sandwich again!

A Full-On Media Frenzy, I Tell You

On Friday I received an anonymous link to some fan trailers of various Panik House titles. There were trailers for Sex Is Zero, The Uninvited, and a long form music video entitled This Is Pinky Violence, which gathered footage from all of our Japanese 70s sexploitation releases thus far. They were posted on YouTube and were really kick-ass, so I sent the link to a handful of friends.