NEON EAGLE VIDEO MAKES DEBUT WITH DELUXE BLU-RAY EDITION OFTHE TAIWANESE EXPLOITATION MOVIE ‘KILL BUTTERFLY KILL’

Cauldron Films’ Jesse Nelson and Brian Izzi, in collaboration with Mondo Macabro’s Jared Auner are

proud to announce the formation of a new home video boutique imprint, Neon Eagle Video (NEV), that

will focus on the trashier side of Asian cinema, highlighting exploitation, action, horror, and other CULT

films that have been neglected in the High Definition era.

Each disc will be lovingly curated and produced by Jared Auner, with restoration, authoring,

manufacturing, and distribution handled by Cauldron Films. Each release will be sold through the

Cauldron Films site and DiabolikDVD.com.

“Our goal is pretty simple”, says Auner, “And that’s to issue deluxe collector’s edition Blu-rays of films

which we love that have not gotten the kind of attention we feel they deserve. Films from all over Asia,

with a focus on the grubbier, grittier, more low budget side ofthings”.

To that end, NEV is working closely with the legendary IFD Films in HongKong. “The crazy trash aesthetic

that IFD perfected in the 1980s, with the films they both distributed and produced, is exactly the kind of

thing we love and want to celebrate with this newlabel”, Auner says further.

Putting their money where their mouth is, NEV will debut with a deep cut from the IFD catalog, the wild

Taiwanese exploitation marvel KILLBUTTERFLY KILL, in a ridiculously elaborate double Blu-ray limited

edition release. This setwill have not only IFD’s 1983 English language dub version of the film and its

later 1987 variant AMERICANCOMMANDO 6: KILL BUTTERFLY KILL in glorious 1080p taken from brand

new 4K restorations, butwill also feature a standard definition print of the original Taiwanese cut of the

film, UNDERGROUND WIFE, along with an SD trailer compilation fromthe IFD vaults, highlighting

Taiwanese exploitation and crime films as well as the complete AMERICAN COMMANDO series.

UNDERGROUND WIFE was part of the ‘Taiwan Black Movie’ wave that originated in the late 70s and

early 80s combining a concern for serious social issues with gutter exploitation, ridiculous action, and

sometimes even outright horror.“UNDERGROUND WIFEis a pretty tough revenge film that fans of MS.

45, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE will definitely appreciate”, says Jared Auner,

who made the deal for the filmand is producing this release.“It has a gritty grindhouse feel to it and will

also appeal to fans of Japanese Pinky Violence and later Category III films from Hong Kong. The violence

is so outrageous and cartoonish that it mostly reminds me of the cheap and wild Turkish genre films of

the 70s and 80s. What more could youwant?”

IFD Films distributed this picture to foreign markets in the mid-80swith a slightly re-edited and English

dubbed version they called KILL BUTTERFLY KILL, and this is the version ofthe film that is highlighted in

this release. “It’s actually superior to the Mandarin language version. IFD did an amazing job re-jigging

the film for an international trash audience”, Auner concludes.

The film got another lease on life in the late 1980s when it got the patented IFD ‘cut and paste’

treatment and was issued as part of the ongoing AMERICAN COMMANDO series. This version edits out

some scenes in favor of newly-produced footage featuring actors like Mike Abbot and Mark Miller, and

makes it a more straight-forward action film, albeit a truly crazy one. “Although one thing I’d like to

correct about this version”, Auner says, “no matter what the IMDb says, Godfrey Ho did not direct it!”

The director of this version is Charles Lee Chiu, although likely the rumor that Ho made itwill live on.

KILL BUTTERFLY KILL will go up for pre-order in November alongside a much-anticipated Euro-horror

release from Cauldron Films.

Future releases will include more from IFD including some honest-to-God(fryHo) cut and paste cult

classics, aswell as a bona-fide pinky violence gem from Toei Studios in Japan, and possibly even some

insane action/exploitation from Indonesia!

Keep an eye on this site for more info!