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Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.

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Just about three hours in to our pop up and it's been such a great experience. Selling discs was the point, but getting to meet so many folks who loves these films has been tremendous. I'm already looking forward to doing this again!

You still have a few hours left to stop by! taken in Giant Robot Store by @deafcrocodile

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TODAY ONLY!

Pop up shop at @giantroboteric
2017 Sawtelle Blvd

Exclusive Artist's Edition Frankenstein slipcover and more! by @deafcrocodile

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Saturday October 17 is VIDEO STORE DAY! For this year's #VSD, 12 titles from several boutiques will be sold in participating stores, incl. our repress of Plympton's THE TUNE with a VSD-exclusive slipcover (!) & the 4K of DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL*.

(* PLEASE NOTE: the VSD-exclusive copy of DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL is identical to the version in our webstore.)

If one of these stores is your local movie haunt, they'll have ltd. quantities of our titles in stock! Head out, say hi, and tell 'em Deaf Croc sent ya!

* OrbitDVD [Ashville] @orbitdvd
* Eyesore Cinema [Toronto] @eyesore_cinema
* Wall to Wall Sound & Video [Franklinville, NJ] @walltowallsoundandvideo
* Yellow Dog Discs [Wilmington] @yellowdogdiscs
* Blue Rose Video & More [North Chesterfield, VA] @blueroserva
* Grindhouse Video [Knoxville] @grindhousevideo
* Boomstick Video [Kokomo, IN] @boomstickvideo
* Rough Cut Video [Calgary]: @roughcutvideo
* Bay Street Video [Toronto: @bay_street_video
* Stash Records [Longview, WA] @stashrecordsnw
* The VHS Store [Virginia Beach] @thevhsstorevb
* Bucket 'o Blood [Chicago] @bucketoblood
* Odyssey Records & Cinema [London, Ontario] @odyssey.records
* Eyesore Cinema [Toronto] @eyesore_cinema
* Occult83 [Dearborn Heights, MI] @occult83
* Night Owl Video [Brooklyn] @nightowlvid
* Good Shit Video [Milwaukee] @gsvmke
* Alive Again [Grand Rapids, MI] @aliveagaingr
* Four Star Video Rental [Madison, WI] @4starvideo
* Music Millennium [Portland, OR] @musicmillennium
* Tomb of Treasure [Seattle] @tomboftreasure
* Danger Zone Video [Mt. Juliet, TN] @dangerzonevideo
* Hi-Voltage Video [North Miami, FL] @hivoltagevideo
* Opera House Video [Belfast, ME] @operahousevideo
* Video West [Abilene, TX] @videowestabilene
* Horror Haven [Canonsberg, PA] @horror_haven_shop
* Press Play Video [Nashville] @pressplayvideo
* Videodrome [Atlanta] @videodrome_atl
* Razzle Dazzle [Cedar Rapids] @razzledazzlecr
* Sleepover Trading Co. [Catskill, NY] @sleepovertrading
* Third Eye Music & Video [Annapolis, MD] @thirdeyemusicandvideo
* Zia Records [Phoenix] @ziarecords

Also, Viper Video in Tampa couldn't get the exclusives but they're selling all in-stock DC for 10% off! @vipervideotampa by @deafcrocodile

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One more reminder that tonight and tomorrow (Friday/Saturday October 16/17), The Laemmle North Hollywood is screening LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE for two shows only! Get your tickets and experience the thrill of budaixi on the big screen! Puppet Wuxia insanity guaranteed!

#deafcrocodile #laemmle #pili #legendofthesacredstone #budaixi #wuxia #martialarts #glovepuppets #localcinema by @deafcrocodile

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Just about to drop a big ol' VSD post, but I first wanted to remind you all again that this Sunday, Giant Robot in Los Angeles is having a one-day Deaf Crocodile Pop-Up Shop, where we'll be selling (in-store only) copies of FRANKENSTEIN: LEGEND OF TERROR with a limited-to-250 exclusive slipcover, featuring RIchard Cox's excellent work in its Universal-tastic Black & White form!

Giant Robot Gallery - 2017 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles. Craig will be there to talk movies with you and sling discs!!

#deafcrocodile #popupshop #frankensteinlegendofterror #toeianimation #anime #limitededitionbluray #bluray #physicalmedia by @deafcrocodile

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✨✨PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT! Link in bio.✨✨

Our partners, Deaf Crocodile, a boutique Blu-ray label, just announced the release of Murderers Among Us: Anti-Fascist Films of DEFA Studios, a highly anticipated five-film box set. Pre-orders officially open today, ahead of a retail release in November.

Spanning the years 1946 to 1963, the collection explores how filmmakers working under Soviet influence and the strict ideological controls of East Germany confronted the rise and dark history of fascism in Germany.

The box set, released in a deluxe limited and standard edition, includes the following films:

THE MURDERERS ARE AMONG US (1946, dir. Wolfgang Staudte)
THE AXE OF WANDSBEK (1951, dir. Falk Harnack)
THE GLEIWITZ CASE (1961, dir. Gerhard Klein)
NAKED AMONG WOLVES (1963, dir. Frank Beyer)
DEATH CAMP SACHSENHAUSEN (1946, dir. Richard Brandt, doc)

In addition, the box offers extensive bonus materials: an exclusive interview with actor Armin Mueller-Stahl; audio commentaries by Elizabeth Ward, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Anne Golden, Bernado Rondeau and Mike White; a 48-page booklet with essays bey Stephen Brockmann, Danny Pinto, Jim Morton, among others; and more. The striking slipcover, cover art, and menu design were created by Anthony Gerace and Beth Morris.

✨✨Thank you to the Deaf Crocodile team for this release!✨✨ by @deafcrocodile

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Trailer for our upcoming release of THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE - pre-orders open now, ships late November.

#deafcrocodile #bluray #physicalmedia #scifimovies #danishfilm #themanwhothoughtlife #cultmovies #blurays by @deafcrocodile

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Here's trailer for MURDERERS AMONG US: Anti-Fascism Films from DEFA Studios box set.

#deafcrocodile #bluray #physicalmedia #defa #antifascism #antifascist #germancinema #cultmovies #blurayboxset by @deafcrocodile

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Overwhelmed by all the DEFA / Jens Ravn pre-order info we threw at you this morning? Want to know more about individual films in the DEFA Anti-Fascism box set? Join the Deaf Croc Pod Squad with special guests Will Dodson of Someone's Favorite Productions and Erica Schultz of Unsung Horrors and "The Sweetest Taboo," who will break it all down for you! We dig into the themes, imagery, emotional reactions, and reasons for creating an Anti-Fascism film set in 2026 (guessing you don't need all three guesses), the special feature that made everyone cry, and why you really gotta watch out for those B&W Deaf Crocodile films - they're extra weird!

Available wherever you pod.

#deafcrocodile #someonesfavoriteproductions #unsunghorrors #defa #antifascist #bluray #cultmovies #physicalmedia @wdodson52 @hexmassacre by @deafcrocodile

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***PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT***

We've been telling you about this set all week, but pre-orders are now open for what must certainly be Deaf Crocodile's heaviest and most important title yet...

Murderers Among Us: Anti-Fascism Films from East Germany’s DEFA Studios

https://deafcrocodile.com/products/murders-among-us-4-disc-deluxe-limited-edition-blu-ray-pre-order

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote English novelist L.P. Hartley in 1953. And yet, perhaps not so differently. Fascism and right-wing ideologies are on the rise worldwide these days, including here in America. It’s a good time to take a look at a remarkable group of films made by East Germany’s DEFA Studios in the post-WWII period which addressed the rise and rot of fascism in Germany since 1933 – even more remarkable given that they were made under strict Soviet and GDR control. All of filmmakers and actors had been directly or indirectly impacted by the war: director Falk Harnack (THE AXE OF WANDSBEK) had fought with the White Rose resistance group and lost his brother to the Nazis, while author Bruno Apitz (NAKED AMONG WOLVES) and WANDSBEK’s lead actor Erwin Geschonneck had survived the Nazi concentration camps. Other film artists had worked at the UFA studio under Nazi authorities, even producing anti-Semitic propaganda films. Fascism and WWII had marked all of them. To quote (East) German film historian Christianne Mückenberger, “Here were films made by directors of their own free will. Nobody needed to commission them. These were ‘confessional films’ ….” Shot primarily in stark black-and-white, these films – a selection of many anti-fascist films made by the DEFA Studios from 1946 to 1992 -- are pathologically obsessed with guilt, fear, and retribution, haunted by the terrors of the recent past and relentlessly asking, “How could this happen to us, to everyday people?”

Our enormous thanks to the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for collaborating with us on this release.

[individual title info continued in comments] by @deafcrocodile

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***PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT***

For our first of two pre-orders for today, travel with us to 1969 for a tale of unnerving psychic warfare in glorious B&W...

THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE (MANDEN DER TÆNKTE TING) – 1969, Danish Film Inst., 97 min. A long-overlooked gem of late 1960s Sci-Fi, Danish director Jens Ravn’s eerie, hypnotic thriller opens on a respected doctor, Max Holst (Preben Neergaard) who is brought in to examine an enigmatic, arrogant man, Steinmetz (John Price). Steinmetz can miraculously make objects materialize by focusing his mind (including an expensive cigar, in the film’s recurring leitmotif). When he attempts to blackmail Dr. Holst into performing surgery to expand this sinister brainpower, Holst refuses – and Steinmetz calls to “life” a mirror image that sets out to destroy the doctor’s willpower.

Brilliantly shot in B&W Scope by cinematographer Witold Leszczyński, with a disturbing minimalist score by Per Nørgaard (BABETTE’S FEAST), the film has the angular 60s Mod/Sci-Fi vibe of films like THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR and TIME OF ROSES (both Deaf Crocodile releases) and British TV shows like “The Prisoner” and “The Avengers,” with labyrinthine corridors, banks of geometric lights and nurses whizzing past on electric scooters. “I will open the depths of existence to you, and will make all your ideas collapse violently," Steinmetz both promises and threatens Holst – and as we descend down the rabbit-hole of Ravn’s gripping, Stanley Kubrick-meets-Kiyoshi Kurosawa cerebral horror, we too begin to lose our grip on reality, until it may be too late. Deaf Crocodile is thrilled to present this first-ever U.S. Blu-ray release of the film, in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute. In Danish with English subtitles.

Limited Edition Slipcover of 1250 units, featuring new artwork by @ryanquackenbush

[special features in comments] by @deafcrocodile

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MURDERERS AMONG US: Anti-Fascism Films from East Germany's DEFA Studios, Title reveal #5:

DEATH CAMP SACHSENHAUSEN (TODESLAGER SACHSENHAUSEN) – 1946, 40 min., dir. Richard Brandt. Not only one of the first DEFA documentaries ever made, this was also the first German film dealing with the machinery and terror of the Nazi extermination system. The film was commissioned by the Soviet military administration in Berlin while preparations for the Sachsenhausen trial were underway.

Shot at the infamous Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin shortly after it was liberated, this is a harrowing, unforgettable testament to systematized murder: a stack of passports of dead inmates from Bolivia, Germany, Poland and Russia. Graphic footage and B&W photos of camp inmates, some surviving and many dead. The wooden posts in the gallows where prisoners were executed are marked for each victim. The film also includes audio commentary by a former camp official as he was being interrogated by Soviet officers. Newly restored by the DEFA Foundation for this release. by @deafcrocodile

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