After losing his job and wife, Gordon crashes into purgatory, and is recruited by freedom fighters to battle an evil ruler named The Despiser.

After losing his job and his wife, Gordon crashes his car and lands in purgatory, where he's attacked by fanatics and enslaved souls. He's soon saved by a quirky band of freedom fighters from different historical eras, all of whom died in noble sacrifice. Reluctantly joining their cause, Gordon embarks on a wild adventure through surreal, hellish landscapes to battle the Despiser, the malevolent ruler of the realm. Facing shifting realities, monstrous creatures, and intense car chases over lava oceans, their journey leads to the ultimate showdown to save all of humanity.

Philip Cook's eccentric, non-stop menagerie of machine gun battles, early CGI masterwork and endless array of monsters make it one of the most unique direct to video features of the VHS and early DVD era. Cook painstakingly crafts a green screen netherworld steeped in brutal violence, religious mythology and action movie tropes, all filtered through a dream-like, hallucinogenic lens that never once takes its foot off the gas.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Producer-supervised SD master from original tape source
• Limited Edition Slipcase by Andrei Bouzikov - FIRST PRESSING ONLY
• Commentary with director Philip J. Cook and stars Mark Redfield and Gage Sheridan
• New 2023 Interview with director Philip J. Cook and star Mark Hyde
• Commentary with Sam Panico of B&S About Movies and Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum
• The Making of Despiser
• Deleted Scenes
• Blooper Reel
• Outtakes Reel
• Despiser: Storyboard To Animation
• Original DVD Menu Animated Intro
• Behind The Scenes Gallery
• Image and Art Gallery
• Despiser Trailers
• Visual Vengeance Trailer
• Outerworld Trailer
• Invader Trailer
• Optional French audio soundtrack
• Optional English Subtitles
• Folded mini-poster
• 'Stick your own' VHS sticker sheet
• 2-Sided Insert
• Reversible Sleeve With Original VHS Art

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•        Mark Redfield as Gordon
•       Doug Brown as Carl Nimbus
•        Gage Sheridan as Maggie Hauge
•       Frank Smith as Fumie Tomasawa
•       Mark Hyde as Last Shadowman

Director: Philip J. Cook

Additional Details

Label: Visual Vengeance

Genre: Horror

Language: English

Run Time: 105 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/22/24

UPC: 760137167518