Feeling relieved and vindicated

[Alex]

And a newsflash: the 35mm print I found has now been transferred to 2K, restored and released 

https://severinfilms.com/products/shadowed-mind-blu

The blurb mentions "now scanned uncut from the director's own 35mm print" so that is the one I located when no one else could. *

* At least I hope it is. 

Nice one mate. 

[Newt]

 You know it is.   

   

[Rev. Powell]

And a newsflash: the 35mm print I found has now been transferred to 2K, restored and released 

https://severinfilms.com/products/shadowed-mind-blu

The blurb mentions "now scanned uncut from the director's own 35mm print" so that is the one I located when no one else could. *

* At least I hope it is. 

Very cool! 

[Trevor]

You know it is.   

   

Oy, me not sure 

[chainsaw midget]

And a newsflash: the 35mm print I found has now been transferred to 2K, restored and released 

https://severinfilms.com/products/shadowed-mind-blu

The blurb mentions "now scanned uncut from the director's own 35mm print" so that is the one I located when no one else could. *

* At least I hope it is. 

You da' man!  

I've never heard of this movie though.  is it worth watching?  

Thanks: I carry failure and hurt around for a long time, right from my being thrown away as an unwanted infant so it started there and continues 53 years later. 

I want you to know that you're always wanted here.  
Well, maybe not always.  Most of the time though.  

[Trevor]

I want you to know that you're always wanted here.  
Well, maybe not always.  Most of the time though.  

This movie is directed by Cedric Sundstrom, the director of American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt and American Ninja 4: The Annihilation and this was his pet project for a while, filmed at a deserted railway siding and abandoned building in Pretoria central.

Unfortunately the film was banned outright by the apartheid censors and remained unseen for many years due to its' full frontal male and female nudity (not mine, thankfully  ) and its' extreme violence. The print we have was restored, scanned and digitized so hopefully it will be appreciated and yes, it is well worth watching. 

My thoughts on it:

The best way to describe this film – a truly frightening tale of an insane asylum for the super deviant / super rich and the psycho killer in their midst – is possibly Jannie Totsiens on acid, as it takes what Jans Rautenbach could do no more than suggest then and shows it and then some. A woman is admitted to a strange asylum with even stranger inmates – her arrival almost coincides with two major problems for the asylum: one, its' director is looking for possible funding and some of the inmates are getting themselves brutally slaughtered. Visually striking with a prowling camera, a nerve jangling sound effects track and long banned under the old, repressive Publications Control Board's film destroying culture criteria, the film is certainly director Cedric Sundstrom's best to date. Starring Adrienne Pearce, Rufus Swart and Towje Kleiner.