Yesterday, we shared the complete lineup for the 2025 version of Past Fest, the very best attended style pageant in the US – and one of many entries on the 90-feature slate was the world premiere of the 4K restoration of a 1981 movie referred to as Silent Dying. If the itemizing received you questioning what Silent Dying is, effectively, the reply is that it’s a slasher film that was misplaced for greater than 40 years, however has now been rescued by the oldsters at Blu-ray and VHS distributor Terror Imaginative and prescient!
Terror Imaginative and prescient took to social media to provide us the knowledge on this one: After practically half a century in obscurity, a misplaced slasher rockets straight to Past Fest. Following years of looking and relentless detective work, Terror Imaginative and prescient is proud to unearth a long-lost gem of horror cinema: the 1981 slasher Silent Dying!
Premiering quietly in 1981 at a Newark, NJ theater, Silent Dying had a really transient life on the large display. After a few native showings and a stint at a forty second Avenue grindhouse in NY, director Vaughn Christion struck a handful of VHS copies in hope of securing distribution for his debut function. The hassle fell quick, and the movie by no means noticed launch in any dwelling video format—vanishing into obscurity and turning into considerably of a fable.
For many years, only some folks had ever witnessed Silent Dying, and plenty of dismissed the movie as non-existent. However Terror Imaginative and prescient refused to let the story finish there. Although they secured the rights and even situated the unique damaging, they confronted one enormous drawback: the sound was lacking. After years of digging, Terror Imaginative and prescient lastly uncovered one of many elusive VHS copies containing the movie’s unique audio, permitting them to revive Silent Dying finally. Now, greater than forty years later, this long-buried slasher will be skilled the way in which it was meant to be. Fantastically scanned and absolutely restored from its unique 35mm digicam damaging, Silent Dying will make its triumphant return to the large display—starting with its (re)premiere at Past Fest! Silent Dying will display on the Los Feliz 3 Theatre on Saturday, October 4th at 10pm PST.
Tickets to the Past Fest screening will be bought at THIS LINK. In line with the pageant, Silent Dying has a working time of 71 minutes. Terror Imaginative and prescient didn’t share any additional launch data but, however they’ll most likely be bringing the film to Blu-ray and possibly even VHS earlier than lengthy.
Terror Imaginative and prescient added that Silent Dying, starring David Arts, Freddy James, Natalie Carter, and Doyle Ray Taylor, is believed to be the very first slasher movie helmed by a Black director—predating Axe ’Em (The Weekend It Lives) by greater than a decade. Horror historical past has simply been rewritten, and Terror Imaginative and prescient is extraordinarily proud to provide this movie the eye it deserves!
I like watching Nineteen Eighties slashers and have been working low on ’80s slasher films that I haven’t seen but, so I’m glad to see that one other has been unearthed. I’m wanting ahead to watching Silent Dying when Terror Imaginative and prescient sends it out into the world.
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