Raiders of the Living Dead Blu-ray Signing!

March 13, 2024 Matt Desiderio Events, Movies and TV 0

Forbidden Planet is once again teaming up with our good friends at Severin Films to celebrate the blu-ray release of must see cult genre melting pot masterpiece Raiders of the Living Dead! Join us on Saturday March 30th from 5-7PM to meet a bevy of cast and crew including three lead actors Bob Deveau, Donna Asali, Robert Sacchetti, editor John Donaldson, composer George Ott and multi hyphenated mad man of many hats Tim Ferrante! So mark your calendar, lay out your best zombie resistant outfit, and prepare to get your copy of Raiders of the Living Dead autographed by a slew of stars!

More about ROTLD and the Severin blu-ray release: In the early ’80s, Independent-International co-founder/president Samuel M. Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) took an unfinished zombie movie by Brett Piper (QUEEN CRAB) and began tinkering. He shot additional scenes featuring nuclear terrorists, a mad doctor, a kid (former child star Scott Schwartz of A CHRISTMAS STORY and THE TOY fame) who converts a LaserDisc player into a ray gun, 1930’s cowboy star Bob Allen, a roasted hamster, The Three Stooges and retired octogenarian Zita Johann (THE MUMMY), then added an unstoppable earworm of an opening credits song to create a drive-in epic unlike any ever experienced before or since. RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD is now scanned in 2K from the negative of the final release version, with over 4 hours of new & archival Special Features – including two previous cuts in their entirety – that reveal the full insane saga.

Can’t make it to our Raiders of the Living Dead release party on March 30th but still wanna get your hands on an autographed copy? Just place your order on our website and we will get your copy signed by all attending guests before we ship it straight to your door.

Raiders of the Living Dead cast and crew signing at Forbidden Planet NYC

What: Raiders of the Living Dead Blu Ray Signing

Who: Bob Deveau (Actor), Donna Asali (Actress), Robert Sacchetti (Actor), Tim Ferrante (Music Coordinator, Unit Publicist, BTS photographer), George Ott (Composer/Performer, Main Title song/main theme), John Donaldson (Film Editor)

When: Saturday March 30th 5-7PM

Where: Forbidden Planet 832 Broadway NY, NY 10003

Signed Pre-order link: https://rb.gy/2w1uus

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/914792357057077

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Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick. E-mail him at Mattdfpnyc@gmail.com Follow him on various social media at @horrorboobs