THE RAVAGER / THE BUSHWHACKER BLU-RAY

Mondo Macabro + Something Weird Present THE RAVAGER / THE BUSHWHACKER in 2K! 

THE BUSHWHACKER (1968) and THE RAVAGER (1970) represent the last hurrah for rough and tumble 60s style sexploitation. Exploitation films in this era leaned on violence to give the audience the sick thrills they were looking for. These two films are basically the last gasp, the final push on the envelope towards more extreme, horror-oriented fare, and in this they were perhaps too extreme for the raincoat brigade. After their brief theatrical runs, both disappeared for decades until unearthed by SWV in the 2000s.

THE BUSHWHACKER was made by long-time exploitation maven BYRON MABE who directed the classic SHE FREAK. After their plane goes down somewhere in the deserts of the American southwest, a party of one alpha male and three lusty ladies are pursued through the wilds by an insane, coonskin-cap-wearing killer with an insatiable taste for female flesh.

THE RAVAGER was the brainchild of Belgian cinematic weirdo CHARLES NIZET, whose life was as bizarre as any film he made. But this is perhaps his craziest movie, and stars PIERRE AGOSTINO, a regular in the films of Ray Dennis Steckler from the same period, as a PTSD stricken Vietnam vet with a peculiar kink for peeking on couples and then blowing them to smithereens with homemade bombs.

Both films occupy a strange space between the Roughies of the 1960s and the slasher films of the late 1970s and early 80s. Which probably explains why they were MIA for so many years.

Special Features:

• Region Free
• 1080p presentation of both films taken from 2K scans or rare 35mm prints
• Missing gore scene (in SD) from The Bushwhacker included, making this the most complete version of this film ever presented on home video
• Theatrical Trailers from both films
• Original Trailers from the Something Weird Vault