Grindhouse Releasing’s ‘Scum of the Earth’ Restoration to Premiere in Boston & Toronto Next Month
A city girl’s romantic weekend at a lakeside cabin in bayou country becomes a nightmare of squalor, depravity, and slaughter with a bloodthirsty maniac on the loose in Scum of the Earth. Grindhouse Releasing‘s long-awaited restoration of the drive-in favorite will premiere at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Cambridge, MA on July 18 and July […]
A city girl’s romantic weekend at a lakeside cabin in bayou country becomes a nightmare of squalor, depravity, and slaughter with a bloodthirsty maniac on the loose in Scum of the Earth.
Grindhouse Releasing‘s long-awaited restoration of the drive-in favorite will premiere at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Cambridge, MA on July 18 and July 19.
It will also screen at the Revue Cinema in Toronto, Canada on July 18 as a double feature with Matt Enos‘ new film The Death Molester’s Barn of Blood.
Also known as Poor White Trash Part II, the 1974 exploitation proto-slasher was director S.F. Brownrigg‘s follow-up to Don’t Look in the Basement.
Decades in the making, the new restoration was produced by Grindhouse’s Bob Murawski (editor of Army of Darkness and Spider-Man) and David Szulkin. Award-winning colorist Alastor Arnold (Anora) revived the picture from its rotting film elements.
When her husband is brutally axe-murdered, Helen flees for her life into the swamps where she runs into Odie Pickett, the mean, moonshine-swilling patriarch to a wretched brood: his pregnant child bride Emmy, rebellious daughter Sara, and slow-witted son Bo.
Taking refuge at the family’s isolated shack, Helen soon finds out how they live below Tobacco Road – and how they die, as the lurking, unseen killer strikes again and again.
Norma Moore, Gene Ross, Ann Stafford, Camilla Carr, and Charlie Dell star. Mary Davis penned the script.
