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

$24.99

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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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