Video: Richard Stanley recommends movies from the Severin Cellar

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

For several years, the home video distribution company Criterion has been posting videos in which actors and filmmakers are allowed access to the "Criterion Closet", which is packed the company's releases. The subject of the video then proceeds to pick out movies they're interested in or would like to recommend. Now another distributor, Severin Films, is getting in on this sort of action by producing their own take on the "Criterion Closet" concept: the "Severin Cellar".

Severin is inviting beloved giants from the world of cult cinema down into the hitherto off-limits dank, dark recesses of the remote company shack to select and wax rhapsodic about their most treasured psychotronic transmissions from the Severin Films archives.

The first guest to enter the Severin Cellar is director Richard Stanley, who caught attention in the early '90s with his films HARDWARE and DUST DEVIL, had a famously disastrous experience trying to make the 1996 version of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU for New Line Cinema (he was replaced by John Frankenheimer; this is covered in the documentary LOST SOUL), and has now made his triumphant comeback with the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation COLOR OUT OF SPACE, starring Nicolas Cage.

You can watch Stanley go through the disc selection in the Severin Cellar in the video embedded below. Along the way he picks up copies of films like BASKIN, SANTA SANGRE, BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, and more. To see his full selection and hear what he has to say about the movies he grabs off the shelves, give the video a look: