“MANIAC” RE-RELEASED WITH ALL NEW POSTER BY STEPHEN ROMANO

How far would you go . . . to be safe?

Grindhouse releasing has announced it’s theatrical re-release of Bill Lustig’s sleazebucket horror classic MANIAC, and Stephen Romano has created the disturbing new poster art which will haunt theatre lobbies. “It’s a real honor to pay homage to the film this way, and to the late, great Joe Spinell. When I saw Bill Lustig's MANIAC for the first time, I literally got sick to my stomach,” says Romano. “It was back in the heyday of the slasher film, you know, back in the early eighties, but this wasn’t really a typical slasher film at all. It had all the gore and everything and effects by Tom Savini—he even blew his own head off with a shotgun. I was ripe for all that mayhem . . . but the film really sneaks up on you in this terrible, cruel, nasty way because it’s a film about the KILLER and not about the VICTIMS.

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After thirty years, ROGER CORMAN’S CULT CLASSICS series presents the definitive video release of Luigi’s Cozzi’s notorious Italian STAR WARS/BARBARELLA mash-up, the one-and-only holy grail of “high class” exploitation films, STARCRASH! Stephen Romano is the co-producer of this lavish TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION, featuring an all new high definition digital transfer of the film from the vaulted negative and a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack to rock your home speakers, re-mastered from the film’s original 4-track Dolby Stereo sound masters. Romano is a known authority on STARCRASH, having written the definitive “making of” book about the film (which was ultimately never published due to legal problems)...

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AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL

Fresh off the success of his collaboration with Grindhouse Releasing on their promo campaign for GONE WITH THE POPE, Stephen Romano now unveils his latest creation: the ambitious one-sheet poster for the new release of the obscure 1970s exploitation classic AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL. “I’ve been working with Grindhouse on and off for well over ten years now,” Romano says. “That company basically amounts to Bob Murawski and Sage Stallone (yeah, THAT Sage Stallone) sitting in a room together and hatching crazy schemes to take over the world. They’re both pretty major players in Hollywood, but they’re completely insane. They spend all their money on releasing sleaze classics and old obscure horror films and stuff. The first thing I did for them was the CANNIBAL FEROX soundtrack...

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