'SARCOPHILOUS FILMS' is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Michael J. Murphy's original double-bill of horror, INVITATION TO HELL and THE LAST NIGHT, for the first time ever on official DVD release and for the first time ever in FULLY UNCUT form! To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the double-bill’s first official release back in 1983, we have teamed up with the director Michael JMuprhy to celebrate this quarter-century by putting together an impressive package that will have collectors of cult films, obscurities, curios and oddities salivating! Not only that, but we have worked alongside Michael Murphy to ensure that his double-bill not only be given a deserved clean-up but that they be given due respect with a slew of bonus features that allow cult film fans insight into the production but also allow the director to have his long overdue voice. Originally released in December 2008 retailing at $19.99. Here is your chance to own a LIMITED Edition (Only 1000 DVD's Made!) copy for the meagre price of $10 INCLUDING SHIPPING! Add this peice of British Cult horror history to your Collection today and save over $7 on the usual DVD Store Retail Price!! Payments via Paypal or Credit/Debit Card. Worldwide Shipping is included in the $10 price. Shipped from Canada. 7-10 business day delivery. Low Bulk discount rates available for 50+ Units. Limited Edition DVD's Once Sold. Not to be repressed. INVITATION TO HELL - Pitchforking, throat-stabbing, heart-ripping, head-squashing Fun! Jacky is invited to a fancy-dress party at the farm manor home of her friend Laura. Soon finding herself enravelled in a sinsiter plot to sacrifice her virginity to help banish a supreme evil presence from the area, she is drugged and finds herself the centrepiece of a dark ritual... The next morning, with claw-like scratch marks on her hips and hazy about what happened the night before, her attempts to separate reality from sleeping nightmare lead her to confront her friend in order to figure out what exactly has happened. The revelations shock Jacky to the core and she decides to leave as soon as possible to save herself from certain death. But she is blocked at every turn by the evil’s allencompassing force, violently murdered bodies turning up whichever way she turns... THE LAST NIGHT - Impaling, strangulation, hanging, stabbing, & implied necrophilia! Two psychos escape from the maximum security wing of Broadmoor Prison and sneak in the backdoor of a theatre to hide away while a performance of a stage play titled “Murder in the Dark” stages its final night. As the play unfolds to a riveted audience the two dangerous degenerates set about intimidating, torturing, sexually assaulting and murdering their way through the theatre troupe... The murderous activity of the duo is intercut with the stage performance, providing a juxtaposition of real life murder taking place with the staged killing unravelling in the play before an absorbed audience. This concept will become even more apparent and connected to the play as the film progresses, eventually blurring the line between what is real and what is “staged”! Digital Retribution User Comment All i can say is that its a beauty and the anamorphic picture looks really good for a really low budget 80's movie. Sarcophilous Films is looking to be a kick ass movie distributor and i hope they release more rare movies. Cult-Labs.com User Comment I've just watched the double bill, and it was nice revisiting Invitation To Hell... and it's great to finally watch it on a legit DVD release. It was nice to see the heart ripping footage. It was also weird seeing it in widescreen but that was a good thing and helped its surrealness. The extras were good, I thought the interview with Michael J. Murphy was very interesting. I'm happy with what I've got here, keep them coming! Cultmovieforums.com User comment Michael J. Murphy has always been a director I've been curious to check out, the problem was how obscure his work was. I like a good hunt but finding his films took the piss! Anyway thanks to Sarcophilous that frustration looks to soon be a thing of the past. I look forward to more of their releases. Cultmovieforums.com User comment I'm really happy with it, the quality was a bit better than previous releases, it was uncut (at last!) and it looked so bizarre in widescreen but in a good way. I bought mine so soon though so I could see The Last Night and it was really enjoyable. I think with that and the very interesting special features it's an essential purchase. Payments via Paypal or Credit/Debit Card. Worldwide Shipping is included in the $10 price. Shipped from Canada. 7-10 business day delivery. Low Bulk discount rates available for 50+ Units. Limited Edition DVD's Once Sold. Not to be repressed. In 1982, armed with 16mm film equipment, a meager budget and a ton of enthusiasm, Michael J. Murphy began shooting his first out-and-out horror film, his 16th directorial project. Produced on a shoe-string budget, the director set about fashioning a double-bill of Satanic splatter and gritty psycho exploitation, their titles INVITATION TO HELL and THE LAST NIGHT respectively. Shot on North Devon and Dorset locations (INVITATION TO HELL) as well as a week's shooting in the Southsea area of the director's hometown of Portsmouth (THE LAST NIGHT), the two 16mm productions stretched their respective £900+ budgets to absolute breaking point, the latter requiring some crazy touches to ensure it got completed. As the director recalls: I filmed both these to release as a double-bill on the blossoming video market in 1982. Both were shot on 16mm, but I shot 'LAST NIGHT' at non standard filming speed (16 and two thirds instead of 25/24 frames per second). This caused a lot of problems including the bad sound and sync. This was done to save money. I imagine their real claim to fame at that time (before the introduction of higher quality home video) was they are the cheapest films ever to have (admittedly small scale, yet still quite far reaching) been released on the world including US & Canada. They both cost a fraction under a thousand pounds each to make which, considering they were shot on 16mm, is ridiculously cheap. They were each shot in approximately 5 days! The reason I ended up dubbing 'THE LAST NIGHT' was because the 'Heath Robinson' adapted Bolex camera I shot 'INVITATION TO HELL' on was capable of sync sound but was so noisy I made a very large sound-reducing blimp which was lined with lead and weighed a ton!" Made for the rapidly growing home-entertainment market during the infancy of Betamax and VHS, the films were destined to capitalise on the insatiable appetite the public had for the video format and edgy material, except for the impending crackdown that was waiting in the wings in the form of the UK Government and media witch-hunt that was the 'Video Nasties' scandal, a rampaging juggernaut of hysteria that nearly brought the video industry to its knees for years afterwards. Suffering the banning of its original poster and sleeve design by its own distributor, in fear of attracting unwanted attention from the law, the release found brief cuts imposed upon it also. Long believed to be uncut due to its pre-certificate nature, the original 'Scorpio Video' release was actually incomplete. A graphic Fulci-esque sequence of a heart being ripped from a bloody cavity in one tortured victim’s chest was removed completely. No doubt doing average business based on the worrying times and sitting on the shelves amongst more high-profile offerings, the release became an obscurity in the years to come, the film sinking into an abyss and the release becoming highly collectable. In 1986, as the storm was settling in the aftermath of the 'Video Nasties' hysteria and video classification was becoming the norm, a smalltime outfit by the name of 'Senator' re-released INVITATION TO HELL on the surviving VHS format. Cut by a further 39 seconds at the insistence of the BBFC when officially submitted for certification (and sans the original double-bill companion film THE LAST NIGHT), the release was even more obscure than 'Scorpio Video''s video premiere. Worst still for the director, his lack of returns from the original pre-cert video release were confounded by the 'Senator' release being illegally licensed from an individual claiming to own the rights, something that perplexed director and rights owners Michael Murphy! Not a penny would be forthcoming from this release either and Britain's most neglected and important independent filmmaker of the past few decades would have to look to the U.S. and Canadian video markets for some meager profit on these cursed productions. Sold to and released in the U.S. on the 'Mogul' label and in Canada on 'Videoline', the films once again saw the director screwed out of any potential profits. More recently an illegal DVD release from bootleg outfit 'Miracle Pictures' sprang up in 2004 ignoring copyright and international laws, resulting in yet further profits being made on his work while he remained out of the money-loop. The dreadful quality cut print, lambasted by all who were unfortunate to purchase the shoddy bootleg release, thankfully sank into obscurity. As Michael Murphy is keen to point out: "I have never received any money/returns for these films (and many others I've made)". - A very sad fact of an industry that is always ready to screw over a filmmaker for a quick buck... But all that is about to change. The film's cursed legacy has been broken with the arrival of 'Sarcophilous Films' and the fully endorsed and officially licensed DVD Special Edition that obscure-horror lovers, cult film fans and British exploitation aficionados had believed they would never see... 'SARCOPHILOUS FILMS' is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Michael J. Murphy's original double-bill of horror, INVITATION TO HELL and THE LAST NIGHT, for the first time ever on official DVD release and for the first time ever in FULLY UNCUT form! To celebrate the 25th anniversary of this ultra-rare and obscure Brit-Horror's release, 'SARCOPHILOUS FILMS' has teamed up with the talented filmmaker to uncover materials to master the best possible looking versions of these films. Not only that, but we have worked alongside Michael Murphy to ensure that his double-bill not only be given a deserved clean-up but that they be given due respect with a slew of bonus features that allow cult film fans insight into the production but also allow the director to have his long overdue voice. The always humble director has this to say about his career: "When one considers 'Plan Nine from Outer Space' cost something like 50 thousand dollars in the 1950's and although a lot of the so called 'video nasty' productions of the late 70's/80's were cheap budget, none were as cheap as mine! Nothing to be proud of but an interesting point? Crap film maker but the cheapest crap film maker! I think I'll have that on my tombstone! " Payments via Paypal or Credit/Debit Card. Worldwide Shipping is included in the $10 price. Shipped from Canada. 7-10 business day delivery. Low Bulk discount rates available for 50+ Units. Limited Edition DVD's Once Sold. Not to be repressed.