Arrow video is releasing a very limited edition Schramm Blu-Ray in the UK on July 29th, 2019. Jörg Buttgereit’s disturbing horror movie is being presented on home video with a whole stack of special features, including the complete soundtrack on CD and 60-page booklet. You can check out the special bonus features and cover artwork below, including a direct link to pre-order the film RIGHT HERE!
Controversial German filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2) takes you into the twisted mind of a deranged sex killer in the last of his feature films to date, 1993’s deeply disturbing Schramm.
Synopsis: “Lothar Schramm, the so-called Lipstick Killer, lies dying in a pool of blood and paint. As he expires, fragments of his life flash before his eyes his uneasy friendship with the prostitute that lives next door (Nekromantik 2‘s Monika M); the brutal slaughter of a pair of doorstep evangelists whose bodies he poses in obscene fashion; his unhealthy pastime of hammering nails into his own manhood.”
Told in an entirely non-linear fashion, Jörg Buttgereit’s Schramm with its nightmarish hallucinatory sequences involving severed limbs and gaping, sharp-toothed female genitalia comes about as close as a film can get to transporting you directly into the world of a sick, disordered mind.
2-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- HD transfer overseen by the filmmakers
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Stereo 2.0 audio
- Optional English subtitles
- Limited edition digipak packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx
- Limited edition certificate
- Set of 5 exclusive Schramm “polaroid” postcards
- Soundtrack CD
- Limited edition 60-page book
DISC 1 [BLU-RAY]:
- Archival audio commentary with director/co-writer Jörg Buttgereit and co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen
- Archival audio commentary with actors Florian Von Gustorf and Monika M
- Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt: Scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm (2019) brand new animated short film sequel to Schramm made by award-winning filmmaker and stop-motion artist Robert Morgan, produced exclusively for this release
- Take My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll writer Kier-La Janisse on how she came to be the owner of a particularly interesting piece of Schramm memorabilia
- Jörg Buttgereit in conversation with Arrow Video s Ewan Cant at the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival
- The Making of Schramm archival behind-the-scenes documentary
- Mein Papi Jörg Buttgereit short film available in HD for the first time ever and with optional director audio commentary
- Jesus Der Film (1995) short film segment directed by Jörg Buttgereit
- Two short films by Schramm producer Manfred Jelinski: Orpheus in der Oberwelt (1970) and Ein Ku’ze’ Film übe’ Hambu’g (1990)
- Extensive image gallery
- Jörg Buttgereit Trailer Gallery
DISC 2 [CD] – ‘SCHRAMM’ SOUNDTRACK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE:
- CD featuring the complete Schramm score
60-PAGE BOOK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE:
- Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing from Virginie Selavy and Graham Rae, all illustrated with new artwork and original archival stills
You can pre-order a copy of the limited edition Schramm Blu-Ray from Amazon.co.uk.
