Darkness: The Vampire Version
(Standard Edition)
A film by Leif Jonker

“Ferocious splatter! An easy 10+ on the gore score!”
– Chas. Balun, editor Deep Red

Depicting the takeover of a small town by an army of vampires, Darkness was partially financed by its makers selling their blood at the local plasma bank. Since it was so micro-budgeted, Leif Jonker was uncertain his grassroots horror movie would ever be seen publicly, hoping at the very least to produce the film equivalent of a good garage band’s “demo tape” to display his potential as a director. Instead, the gore-drenched film went on to become one of the premiere titles in the underground horror wave of the early 90s, gaining a worldwide cult fan base through multiple video releases (all of which were culled from inferior source materials created by recording the projected image off a homemade screen) and screenings at the Fantafestival in Italy, Night of the Bloody Tapes in Germany, and as a “Centerpiece Selection” at the Nevermore Film Fest in the United States. Now, Barrel is proud to present this underground classic with its first ever professional film-to-video transfer struck directly from the original camera elements, featuring digitally restored picture and sound in a new, never before seen edit – Darkness: The Vampire Version, the official, definitive, director’s cut!

Special Features include:

• New digital film-to-tape transfer of the newly created director’s cut mastered directly from the original elements under the supervision of director Leif Jonker
• 16X9 widescreen enhanced presentation
• Three feature length audio commentary tracks featuring the director, special FX artist, composer, and cast & crew
• Vampire Bootcamp – New half-hour documentary featurette with cast & crew interviews
• Behind-the-scenes footage of the climactic meltdown sequence
• Extended rough-cut of the climactic meltdown sequence
• Photo gallery
• Remastering demonstration
• World of Sin, a new music video from Apostasy
• Original theatrical trailers
• Alternate audio track over the entire BONUS MATERIALS featuring alternate music and sound as well as commentary from Leif Jonker and others

“Has some of the most impressive gross-out special effects since the original Evil Dead! Check it out!”
– Joe Bob Briggs

Street Date: 05/30/06