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Heartland Of Darkness [Collector’s Edition]
(Nick Baldasare, Linnea Quigley, Dino Tripodis, Shanna Thomas, Sharon Klopfenstein, et al / Blu-ray / R / (1992) 2022 / Visual Vengeance - MVD Visual)

Overview: Single father Paul Henson purchases a newspaper in the small town of Copperton, Ohio and moves there with his teenage daughter Christina. The two soon come to realize the townsfolk, led by the evil Reverend Donovan, are actually Satanists!

Blu-ray Verdict: In the small town of Copperton, Ohio, Paul Henson, a former big-city journalist, buys a small local newspaper. He quickly falls into a wide-reaching conspiracy of ritualistic murder and cult mind control when he discovers that the entire town may be under the spell of a Satanic reverend and his flock.

As the clues and corpses pile up, Henson and his family are thrust into a life-or-death struggle to expose the truth and stop the demonic cabal’s reign of evil.

Often cited as the lost Linnea Quigley movie, Heartland of Darkness (sometimes also referred to as Blood Church) was shot in 1989 by director Eric Swelstad on 16mm film and lost in obscurity and distribution false starts for over 30 years.

This never-before-seen Satanic Panic epic finally arrives on home video for the very first time in any format here today on crystalline blu-ray via Visual Vengeance/MVD Visual and is packed with bonus features that spotlight the original creators and document the film’s long history and final completion.

As for the film itself, well, personally, I loved every second of it! Sure it’s not going to win over many new fans of the genre, but what it should do is give a little something more to the feeding trough that we fans look to satiate ourselves with each month.

For the most part, the footage is raw, often dark and grainy, but the film itself, the story line, the acting, the dialogue and scenery are all top notch.

Dealing with satanic sacrifices, it features a murderous priest at the fore who enjoys sacrificing virgins on his altar of blood, all whilst his Church of Devilish Disciples eagerly watch on!

The always-sexy horror queen Linnea Quigley appears in three scenes and, as you would fully expect, she is partially nude in two of them.

Apparently, the 35 minute print of the originally-named Blood Church was made to send around to potential investors in order to gather additional funding for the film, but it never received it and thus the film, the way it was always intended, was never finished.

Regardless of that, what you get for your Quigley money here are two scenes that are well worth the price of admission: a cemetery sex scene between Quigley and Nick Baldasare and Quigley sleazy death scene!

This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

All region Blu-ray
New director-supervised SD master from original tape and film elements
Deeper Into the Darkness: New 40-minute BTS documentary
Commentary with director Eric Swelstad, star Nick Baldasare, cinematographer Scott Spears and composer Jay Woelfel
Commentary with Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop magazine
Linnea Quigley Remembers: new interview
Archival Linnea Quigley Close Up TV interview
Original TV spots, trailers and behind-the-scenes footage
Complete original Fallen Angels 1990 workprint
Fallen Angels 1990 workprint commentary track with director Eric Swelstad
The Making of Fallen Angels - vintage cast & crew newscast interviews
Blood Church - original distributor promotional video
Behind-the-scenes image gallery
Six-page liner notes
Fantasm Magazine excerpt - Director spotlight
Collectible Linnea Quigley folded mini-poster
Stick your own VHS sticker set
Reversible sleeve featuring original Blood Church promotional art
Visual Vengeance trailers
Optional English subtitles
+ FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Limited Edition Heartland of Darkness Prayer Cloth
+ FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Limited Edition slipcase

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