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Despiser Blu-ray plunges viewers into a nightmarish purgatory where despair, faith, and violence collide in one of the most unhinged direct-to-video visions of the VHS and early DVD era. After losing his job and his wife, Gordon’s life spirals into tragedy when a car crash lands him in a hellish in-between realm ruled by fanaticism and enslaved souls. Hunted and broken, he is rescued by a ragtag resistance of warriors pulled from different points in history, each having died in acts of noble sacrifice.
 
Reluctantly joining their cause, Gordon is thrust into a relentless odyssey through surreal netherworlds, battling monstrous entities, enduring high-speed car chases across oceans of lava, and confronting the shifting realities controlled by the Despiser, the malevolent ruler threatening all of humanity. What follows is a fever-dream assault of nonstop action, early CGI excess, and apocalyptic imagery that never lets up.
 
Directed by Philip J. Cook, Despiser stands as a singular DIY achievement, blending brutal violence, religious mythology, and action-movie spectacle into a hallucinatory green-screen cosmos. Its machine-gun pacing, outrageous creature designs, and fearless ambition have cemented it as a cult artifact of outsider cinema, now finally unleashed in a definitive collector’s edition.
 
directed by: Philip J. Cook
starring: Mark Redfield, Doug Brown, Gage Sheridan, Frank Smith, Mark Hyde
2003 / 105 min / English

Despiser [Visual Vengeance Collector's Edition] [Blu-ray] w/slip

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  • BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
    • region free Blu-ray presentation
    • producer-supervised SD master from original tape source
    • audio commentary with director Philip J. Cook and stars Mark Redfield and Gage Sheridan
    • audio commentary with Sam Panico of B&S About Movies and Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum
    • new 2023 interview with director Philip J. Cook and star Mark Hyde
    • The Making of Despiser
    • deleted scenes
    • blooper reel
    • outtakes reel
    • Despiser: Storyboard to Animation
    • original DVD menu animated intro
    • behind the scenes gallery
    • image and art gallery
    • Despiser trailers
    • Visual Vengeance trailer
    • Outerworld trailer
    • Invader trailer
    • optional French audio soundtrack
    • optional English subtitles

     

    Packaging
    • Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition
    • limited edition slipcover designed by Andrei Bouzikov
    • first pressing only extras included

     

    Additional details
    Label: Visual Vengeance
    Edition: collector’s edition
    Number of discs: 1
    Aspect ratio: varies
    Region: region free
    Audio: English stereo

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