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KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES APRIL 2

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​​​​​​​Roy del Espacio (Roy from Space) premiered on March 3, 1983 in twelve cinemas from Mexico City. However, the film was of very poor quality, so much so that it was pulled from ten of those twelve theaters, only two days after its premiere. The other two played the film for one more week. After this short-lived screening time, no other exhibition attempts were heard of. There were no home video releases nor TV broadcasts. The film remained inaccessible for more than 40 years, until November 17, 2025, when the boutique Blu-ray label Deaf Crocodile announced they are working on a restoration of the film to be released in 2026.

New limited edition and standard edition designs by Beth Morris.

Deluxe Limited Edition shipping in late June.

PRE-ORDER NOWTOOMORROW, 1970, Screenbound Int’l, 94 min. 21 year-old Olivia Newton-John stars, pre-GREASE fame, in this utterly bonkers Mod-Pop / Sci-Fi musical about a multi-racial group of London art college musicians whose songs are the cure to the computer sterility suffered by the alien Alphoids, circling Earth in their crystal spacecraft. "It's the only thing Planet Earth can teach us: the vibrations of Youth," as the androgynous Alphoids, led by veteran British actor Roy Dotrice, tell Olivia & band. A jaw dropping, must-be-seen-to-be-believed combination of “Josie & The Pussycats” and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, the film is filled with super-groovy Sunshine Pop tunes, student protests and carefree sexual hijinks -- plus aliens. (The Alphoids’ glimmering ship is like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude on ecstasy, one of the film’s highlights.) Directed & written by the great British filmmaker Val Guest (the first two QUATERMASS films, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE) in his most Pop-friendly, CASINO ROYALE-style, TOOMORROW was produced by James Bond 007 co-producer Harry Saltzman and veteran American music impresario Don Kirshner, who were intent on creating another The Archies/The Monkees style sensation. The other band members include guitarist/vocalist Benny Thomas, fringe jacket-wearing drummer Karl Chambers (who played with Philly-area groups like MFSB and Archie Bell & The Drells), and keyboardist Vic Cooper – but it’s clearly Newton-John with her irresistible smile, blonde locks and dollybird clothes that’s the superstar of the group. (Her slang dialogue of “Not you, you drongo!” is a great throwaway nod to her Aussie roots.) Released for barely a week on its original 1970 run and unseen for decades, TOOMORROW has been restored by the British Film Institute and Deaf Crocodile from the original 35mm negative for the first time.

“Sure, I dig it. We’re too much. We’re Toomorrow.”



Special Features:

• Archival video interview with director/writer Val Guest, conducted by The Guardian newspaper (1998, 60 min.)
  
• “The Nose Has It” (1942, 8 min.) – delightful WWII propaganda short about the danger of spreading germs, directed by a young Val Guest and starring comedian Arthur Askey
  
• “If I Could Turn You On” (1969, 13 mins, dir. Bernard Coyne) – stark experimental film documenting an avant-garde performance at the Camden Roundhouse, one of the locations used in TOOMORROW
  
• New audio commentary by author & music historian Andrew Sandoval.
  
• “Toomorrow: Musical Humanism Through the Stars” – new visual essay by film critic Celeste de la Cabra (12 min.)
  
• New visual essay by Someone’s Favorite Productions featuring a 1988 audio interview for the British Entertainment History Project with director Val Guest discussing his work on TOOMORROW, moderated by Roy Fowler (10 min.)
  
• Blu-ray authoring by Vital Passenger
  
• New art by Beth Morris
  

Deluxe Edition Bonus Content:

• Hard slipcase featuring new artwork by Beth Morris
  
• 60-page illustrated booklet
  
• Transcript of 2002 Q&A with Val Guest at the American Cinematheque, conducted by Dennis Bartok
  
• New essay on Val Guest & Yolande Donlan by Deaf Crocodile’s Dennis Bartok
  
• New essay by film critic Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central)
  
• Limited to 1250 units
  

HERE’S WHAT’S COMING…

Jan S. Kolár Czech Silents:

THE ARRIVAL FROM THE DARKNESS (1921) - Much wilder-than-you-think-it-will-be occult story about a book collector who uses an ancient manuscript to revive his long-dormant 16th century ancestor – who then tries to steal the collector’s wife, thinking she’s his long-lost love Alena.

ST. WENCESLAS (1929) - Kolár’s sweeping medieval epic set in 10th century Bohemia about the struggle between paganism and Christianity, centered around the prince (and later saint) Wenceslas.







The Cat City Collection:

CAT CITY (1986) - Unflappable mouse secret agent Nick Grabovsky goes up against the criminal cat gang run by sinister, metal-pawed Mr. Teufel

CATCHER: CAT CITY 2 (2007) - It’s 20 years after the epochal battle between cats, rats and mice in the beloved original CAT CITY. Planet X is now run by rodents, and former secret agent Nick Grabovsky has an organic spinach farm – until an African explorer discovers the last untamed tribe of cats, who call up the ancient feline demon Moloch to reclaim their place atop the food chain.







DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS (2022) - Twenty years after directing the epic LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE (also released by Deaf Crocodile) and building on the long-running “PILI” TV show in Taiwan, director Chris Huang returned with this amazing fusion of traditional budaixi glove puppetry, and wuxia martial arts storytelling. (This will be a chonky box release to match the previous release of LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE.)







HAYOP KA! (2020) - Inspired by the beloved telenovela genre of romance melodramas. Nimfa is a perfume saleswoman kitty in Manila, who receives a prediction from a fortune teller that she’ll fall in love with two men (er, dogs) simultaneously.







SCARLET SAILS (1961) - An often-overlooked gem from Soviet fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, RUSLAN & LUDMILA), SCARLET SAILS is a lovely paean to dreamers and the world of dreams, to outsiders and outcasts, rebels and sailors and storytellers – to those who live differently than the rest of us, no

matter who tries to stop them.







ROY FROM SPACE (1983) - Completely lost for over 40 years and only the 3rd animated feature ever produced in Mexico, ROY FROM SPACE has finally returned, newly scanned from the original 35mm negative and lovingly restored by

Deaf Crocodile! The only feature made by noted titles and commercials animator Héctor López Carmona, ROY is a wildly entertaining work of Outsider / Sci-Fi Animation, loosely inspired (ahem) by the classic 1930s Flash Gordon serials.





(Image not representative of final restoration. For reference only.)



FRANKENSTEIN, LEGEND OF TERROR (1981) - Toei Animation adaptation from Marvel Comics’ The Monster of Frankenstein comics. This rarely-seen Japanese anime feature is surprisingly adult. Newly restored in 4K for this release by Deaf Crocodile and Toei Animation!







SODA POP JOE (AKA LEMONADE JOE) (1964) - A decade before BLAZING SADDLES, there was … SODA POP JOE! In 1885, Stetson City is a lawless, booze-soaked town where musical “artiste” Tornado Lou belts out Marlene Dietrich-like tearjerkers: “As the barroom smoke grows thicker / I sit over my liquor / And dream that he will come…” ; Her dream appears in the form of spotlessly clean Lone Ranger-lookalike Soda Pop Joe, who can shoot flies from mid-air – and turns out to be a traveling sales rep for Kolaloka Soda (an entertaining pun meaning “a sip of Cola”), which he relentlessly hawks in the film’s very barbed satire of Western capitalism and consumerism.







THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE (1969) - A rare, overlooked gem of late 1960s Sci-Fi, Danish director Jens Ravn’s eerie, hypnotic thriller opens on a respected doctor, Max Holst who is brought in to examine an enigmatic, arrogant man, Steinmetz. Steinmetz can miraculously make objects materialize by focusing his mind (including an expensive cigar, in the film’s recurring leitmotif). When he attempts to blackmail Dr. Holst into performing surgery to expand this sinister brainpower, Holst refuses – and Steinmetz calls to “life” a mirror image that sets out to destroy the doctor’s willpower.







MURDERS AMONG US: ANTI-FASCIST FILMS OF DEFA STUDIOS (1946-1963) - “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote English novelist L.P. Hartley in 1953. And yet, perhaps not so differently. Fascism and right-wing ideologies are on the rise worldwide, including here in America. It’s a good time to take a look at a remarkable group of films made by East Germany’s DEFA Studios in the post-WWII period which addressed the rise and rot of fascism in Germany since 1933. The set will contain numerous essays (written and visual) putting the films in context for the time they were made as well as their importance and relevance today. (This will be a chonky box release and include an expanded 80pg book.)







(Image not representative of final restoration. For reference only.)



TREASURES OF SOVIET ANIMATION VOL. 4: THE ADVENTURES OF MOWGLI (1967-1971) - The 4th installment in our ongoing series of newly restored Soviet animated gems from Soyuzmultfilm features one of the most visually stunning animated films ever made in Russia (or anywhere). Director Roman Davydov’s utterly glorious adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book was originally released as 5 separate short films between 1967 – 1971 and then combined into a single feature -- and frankly puts the better-known Disney version to shame with its phenomenal colors and highly stylized design. (This will be a chonky box release to match the previous volumes.)







PASSAGE (1997) - An incredible rediscovery from Czech / Slovak master

filmmaker Juraj Herz (THE CREMATOR, MORGIANA, THE BEAUTY & THE BEAST),

PASSAGE is one of the most obscure and rarely-seen works in his filmography – until now. Comparisons abound, to Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS, Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL, Shakhnazarov’s ZEROGRAD – all labyrinthine narratives about worlds that follow their own twisted, impenetrable logic – but PASSAGE stands on its own as one of Herz’s finest undiscovered gems.

We saved one more huge announcement for the grand finale! It's finally here, the first Lipský / Brdečka film in their collaborative "trilogy." Before MYSTERIOUS CASTLE, before ADELA, there was...SODA POP JOE!

SODA POP JOE (LIMONÁDOVÝ JOE ANEB KOŇSKÁ OPERA) – 1964, NFA, 100 min.
A decade before BLAZING SADDLES, there was…SODA POP JOE! Originally released here as LEMONADE JOE, the film opens in Stetson City, 1885, a lawless, booze-soaked town where musical “artiste” Tornado Lou (Květa Fialová) belts out Marlene Dietrich-like tearjerkers: "As the barroom smoke grows thicker/I sit over my liquor/And dream that he will come..." Her dream appears in the form of spotlessly clean Lone Ranger-lookalike Soda Pop Joe (Karel Fiala), who can shoot flies from mid-air and turns out to be a traveling sales rep for Kolaloka Soda, which he relentlessly hawks in the film’s very barbed satire of Western capitalism and consumerism.

Czech director Oldřich Lipský’s delightful spoof of all things Western (including Karl May’s stories, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN and more) and the dominance of corporate brands like Coca-Cola was the first and best-loved of three comedies he made with writer Jiří Brdečka, followed by ADELA HAS NOT HAD SUPPER YET and THE MYSTERIOUS CASTLE IN THE CARPATHIANS (also released by Deaf Crocodile and Comeback Company). Co-starring Lipský’s frequent collaborators Olga Schoberová (WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE?) as a pure-hearted crusader for teetotaling and Miloš Kopecký (from ADELA and MYSTERIOUS CASTLE) as elegant, trickster villain Hogo Fogo, the film features color-tinted B&W cinematography by Vladimír Novotný and music by the team of Jan Rychlík and Vlastimil Hála.

Filled with nonstop visual puns and sight gags and an almost Karel Zeman-like Gothic/fantastic touch, the film has been gorgeously restored in 4K by the Národni filmový archiv, Prague.

In Czech with English subtitles.