Two more titles have been announced from the gang at Visual Vengeance, Wild Eye Releasing’s amazing sister label focusing on SOV and indie cinema made during the 80s to early 2000s.

First, we have 1987’s Cyclops, the directorial debut of J-horror auteur Joji “George” Iida.

A secret team of scientists has crossed the line between medicine and madness, implanting embryos into human hosts in a series of hideous experiments designed to create a new form of life. But when their latest subject takes her own life before giving birth, the operation spirals into desperation. Accompanied by a malformed cyclops mutant as muscle, the researchers descend into the city in search of a new victim–dragging an unsuspecting young woman into a nightmare of medical horror that degenerates into a frenzy of deformed flesh, slimy transformations and mutant showdowns.

Special Features include the following:

• New 2K transfer from original 16mm film elements
• Commentary with Justin Decloux of The important Cinema Club and Patrick Macias, author of Tokyoscope: the Japanese Cult Film Companion
• No Compliance: New Interview with director Joji “George” Iida
• Not In The Way Your Expect: The Films of Joji “George” Iida – Video Essay
• All the Monsters Are Here: The Japanese DTV Market of the Mid-80s – Video Essay
• Image gallery
• Koji Yamamura Sketch Gallery
• Visual Vengeance trailers
• Folded mini-poster featuring original pressbook art
• Reversible sleeve featuring original Japanese VHS art
• Optional English Subtitles
• Japanese language or English subs options
• ‘Stick Your Own’ VHS stickers (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)
• The Creation of Cyclops – 16-page liner notes booklet (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)
• A (Short) Horror Trip – 8-page liner notes booklet (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)
• Limited Edition slipcase art by The Dude (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)

Next, we have Reanimator Academy, the 1992 SOV film produced by David DeCouteau and directed by Bret McCormick!

The fraternity brothers at Delta Epsilon Delta are your typical red-blooded American party animals, that is except for Edgar Allen Lovecraft. He’s locked up in his room trying to cure death and finds a serum that works on the severed head of a recently deceased comedian. When a mafia hood steals the serum to use on his murdered squeeze, her reanimated corpse goes on a campus killing spree – let the corny puns and one-punch decapitations fly!

Special Features:

• Transfer from existing SD tape masters
• Commentary from Sam Panico of B&S About Movies and Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum
• Talking Heads: director Bret McCormick Interview
• Back To School: Reanimator Academy Location Tour
• Brainwaves: Scoring Reanimator Academy
• Interview with actor Tom Fegan
• Fred The Head interview
• Reanimator Academy: 2023 director’s alternate soundtrack cut
• Bonus film: Bret McCormick’s Children of Dracula (1994)
• Bret McCormick interview: Children of Dracula
• Bret McCormick Reanimator Academy Q&A – Nitehawk Cinema
• Visual Vengeance trailers
• Optional English Subtitles
• Folded mini-poster
• Reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art
• ‘Stick Your Own’ VHS stickers (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)
• Limited Edition slipcase art by Giorgio Credaro (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)
• Limited Edition Video Store Card (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)

You can pre-order your Blu-Rays at DiabolikDVD.com as both titles are set for release on August 25, 2026!

And don’t forget to check out some of the previous and more upcoming titles from Visual Vengeance!