Cauldron Films Releasing House Of Doom Boxed Set

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Just announced...

"Join us Next Thursday, February 29th for The Houses of Doom pre-order launch!

The Houses of Doom 6 disc box (4 Blu-rays, 2 CDs) includes 4 Italian horror films (The House of Clocks & The Sweet House of Horrors directed by Lucio Fulci and The House of Lost Souls & The House of Witchcraft directed by Umberto Lenzi) plus 2 never before released CD soundtracks, and more!

More details will be revealed next Thursday, February 29th when the pre-order launches at Cauldron-films.com and DiabolikDVD.com. See you there and thanks for your support!

J&B

Cauldron Films"

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Pre-order page is up, this set is pretty stacked.

https://diabolikdvd.com/product/le-k...gion-preorder/

Enter The Houses of Doom …. a 4 film horror series that was made for Italian television in 1989, but things didn’t quite turn out “safe for TV” when producers enlisted cinematic madmen Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi to direct! Far too gory and violent for television and essentially shelved until home video many years later, Cauldron Films is proud to release all 4 films (The House of Clocks & The Sweet House of Horrors directed by Lucio Fulci and The House of Lost Souls & The House of Witchcraft directed by Umberto Lenzi), collected on Blu-ray for the first time in a 6 disc set (4 Blu-rays / 2 CD soundtracks) fully uncut and restored from 2K scans of the film negatives, housed in a rigid outer box with 4 folded posters!

Disc 1 (Blu-ray):

The House of Clocks

1989 / Italy / 1.66:1 / 83 minutes / Horror / Director – Lucio Fulci

Three young thieves looking for a big score set their sights on the most lavish house they can find. Little do they know that this house and its inhabitants have murderous impulses of their own. Will they make it out alive? Only time will tell…

This bloody and violent tale of time and revenge is directed by Lucio Fulci (Zombie) and stars Keith Van Hoven (Black Demons), Karina Huff (The Black Cat), Paolo Paoloni (Cannibal Holocaust), Carla Cassola (The Sect), Bettine Milne (The Avengers TV series) and Al Cliver (The Beyond) with soundtrack by Vince Tempera (The Psychic)

Details

2K restoration from the negative / 1080p presentation
English audio
Optional English SDH subtitles
Italian audio w/ English subtitles
All Region

Extras
Lighting the House of Time: An interview with cinematographer Nino Celeste
Time and Music: An interview with composer Vince Tempera
Working with a Master: An interview with 1st AD Michele De Angelis
Time with Fulci: An interview with FX artist Elio Terribili
Archival interviews
Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani, Nathaniel Thompson, and Troy Howarth
Poster (folded) featuring artwork by Matthew Therrien with title treatments by Eric Lee

Disc 2 (CD):

The House of Clocks (original soundtrack by Vince Tempera)
Soundtrack artwork by Alexandros Pyromallis

Disc 3 (Blu-ray):

The Sweet House of Horrors

1989 / 1.66:1 / Italy / 83 minutes / Horror / Director – Lucio Fulci

A wealthy couple in a mansion are brutally murdered, leaving their two young children in the care of their aunt and uncle. The distraught kids seek to communicate with the ghosts of their parents, but they aren’t the only spirits in the building. Chaos ensues as the confused aunt and uncle try to sell the property, prompting the dead to clearly make their desires known.

Sitting somewhere between a ghostly episode of Goosebumps and your tried-and-true gory Italian horror film, The Sweet House of Horrors is directed by Lucio Fulci (The Beyond) and stars Cinzia Monreale (Beyond the Darkness), Jean-Christophe Brétignière (Rats: Night of Terror), Lino Salemme (Demons), Franco Diogene (Midnight Express), Vernon Dobtcheff (Day of the Jackal), Ilary Blasi, and Giuliano Gensini with soundtrack by Vince Tempera (The Paganini Horror)

Details

2K scan of the negative / 1080p presentation
English audio
Optional English SDH subtitles
Italian audio w/ English subtitles
All Region

Extras:
Fulci House of Horrors: Interview with set designer Massimo Antonello Geleng
Sweet Muse of Horrors: Interview with actress Cinzia Monreale
Editing for the masters: Interview with editor Alberto Moriani
Archival interviews
Poster (folded) featuring artwork by Matthew Therrien with title treatments by Eric Lee
Commentary TBD

Disc 4 (CD):

The Sweet House of Horrors (original soundtrack by Vince Tempera)
Soundtrack artwork by Alexandros Pyromallis

Disc 5 (Blu-ray):

The House of Witchcraft

1989 / Italy / 89 minutes / Horror / Director – Umberto Lenzi

An over-worked journalist recovering from a breakdown has been suffering from nightmares. To help ease his struggles, his wife takes him to an idyllic country home for the weekend. Nightmares soon turn to reality as the dark truth about the house threatens to undo all who dare stay the night.

Featuring haunting imagery, ghosts, twisted mysteries, and a knife wielding witch, The House of Witchcraft is directed by Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare City) and stars Andy J. Forest (Lambada), Sonia Petrovna (Indian Summer), Marina Giulia Cavalli (Alien from the Deep), Maria Stella Musy, Maria Stella Musy (Frivolous Lola), Maria Cumani Quasimodo (Five Women for the Killer), and Maria Cumani Quasimodo (The Commander) with soundtrack by Claudio Simonetti (Goblin)

Details
2K scan of the negative / 1080p presentation
English audio
Optional English SDH subtitles
Italian audio w/ English subtitles
All Region

Extras:
Artisan of Mayhem: Interview with FX artist Elio Terribili
The House of Professionals: Interview with cinematographer Nino Celeste
Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani, Nathaniel Thompson, and Troy Howarth
Poster (folded) featuring artwork by Matthew Therrien with title treatments by Eric Lee

Disc 6 (Blu-ray):

The House of Lost Souls

1989 / 1.66:1 / Italy / 87 minutes / Horror / Director – Umberto Lenzi

A group of young geologists get stranded in a dilapidated old hotel when their path home is washed out by the rain. This proves to be a wrong turn as the hotel comes alive with the vengeful spirits of the dead, hell-bent on taking their head chopping revenge upon the living. No one is safe in The House of Lost souls!

Directed by Umberto Lenzi, this bloody haunted house of horrors is full of atmosphere, skeletons, tarantulas, fire, slashers, killer washing machines, demonic forces, decapitations and more! Stars Joseph Alan Johnson (Iced), Stefania Orsola Garello (King Arthur), Matteo Gazzolo (Body Puzzle), Laurentina Guidotti (Spectres), Hal Yamanouchi (Off Balance), and Charles Borromel (Absurd) with soundtrack by Claudio Simonetti (Goblin)

Details

2K scan of the negative / 1080p presentation
English audio
Optional English SDH subtitles
Italian audio w/ English subtitles
All Region

Extras:

Working with Umberto: Interview with FX artist Elio Terribili
The House of Rock: Interview with composer Claudio Simonetti
The Criminal Cinema of Umberto Lenzi: Career spanning interview from 2001
Commentary TBD
Poster (folded) featuring artwork by Matthew Therrien with title treatments by Eric Lee

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[f.ramses Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close f.ramses]

I was really looking forward to this but $95 seems like an awful lot of money for this thing...

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

I was really looking forward to this but $95 seems like an awful lot of money for this thing...

I don't know, around $24 per film seems reasonable to me. Plus you get two CD soundtracks.

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Sometimes things just seem overpriced and this is one of those times for me; I know I've paid more for less and thought less about it. Maybe it's a subconscious thing because these are TV movies...

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Keychain though.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

I see Lenzi and Fulci and I'm like "hell yeah!" But then I just can't get past "made for TV". I need to look through my collection to see how many late 80's Italian horror films I actually enjoyed. I feel like most of them were kinda meh (Nightmare Beach, Beyond the Door III, The Church, Witchery) and nothing was a "must see".

[f.ramses Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close f.ramses]

The Lenzi titles are the big draw for me, they’re nothing amazing but I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of those DVDs and they’re titles I specifically wanted to upgrade. The Fulci titles I kind of look forward to revisiting in HD but really have my doubts about after falling asleep trying to revisit House of Clocks recently and not remembering my single viewing of The Sweet House of Horrors at all.

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

I see Lenzi and Fulci and I'm like "hell yeah!" But then I just can't get past "made for TV". I need to look through my collection to see how many late 80's Italian horror films I actually enjoyed. I feel like most of them were kinda meh (Nightmare Beach, Beyond the Door III, The Church, Witchery) and nothing was a "must see".

Soavi's tv crime drama limited series Uno Bianca is really good. I'm sure there are some gems in Italian TV but some brave soul will have to dive in to find the gems.