Last Slate Video unveils three new collector-focused releases for 2026

Last Slate Video kicks off its autumn slate with the Limited Edition Blu-ray release of Semolina Pilchard, an independent British crime comedy written and directed by Mike Clarke.

Clara has spent the past ten years living away from Liverpool in another part of the UK, working as a waitress and keeping her distance from the family and the life she left behind. When she learns that her father, Gerry, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, she reluctantly returns home, reopening old wounds and bringing long-buried family tensions back to the surface.

Her sister Danika, however, has plans of her own. Tired of Clara's presence and determined to remove her from the picture, she turns to Rosie, an assassin with a reputation for getting results.

Meanwhile, Max and his gang of animal-mask-wearing criminals are attempting to pull off their own plans, setting in motion a chain of events that brings the film's collection of colourful characters crashing together.

Set and filmed in Liverpool, Semolina Pilchard combines crime, family dysfunction and dark comedy with an ensemble cast including Sarah-Louise Chadwick, Sophia Leanne Kelly, Alina Allison, Macaulay Cooper, Joe McGann, Louis Emerick, Gabriella Tavini and Jack Ryder, with appearances from Ricky Tomlinson and Tina Malone.

Music plays a major part in the film, with its soundtrack celebrating Merseyside talent and featuring music from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Black, Amsterdam, Ian McNabb, Dean Johnson and Alan Triggs, among others.

Last Slate Video's Limited Edition Blu-ray presents the film in 1080p Full HD on a BD50 disc, with 5.1 and 2.0 audio, English, French, German and Spanish subtitles and region-free playback.

One of the most acclaimed found-footage horror films of the modern era is finally coming to Blu-ray in the UK as Last Slate Video presents Stephen Cognetti's Hell House LLC in a feature-packed Limited Edition.

In 2009, tragedy struck during the opening night of Hell House, a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. Fifteen guests and staff lost their lives in what authorities dismissed as a catastrophic malfunction. The true events of that night have remained a mystery ever since.

Years later, an investigative documentary team uncovers long-lost footage captured by the Hell House crew in the days leading up to the disaster. As they piece together the final preparations for the attraction, a series of increasingly disturbing incidents begins to emerge. Strange figures appear where they shouldn't, props seem to move on their own, and an overwhelming sense of dread settles over the hotel.

Written and directed by Stephen Cognetti, Hell House LLC has grown into a modern cult favourite, earning an international following through its slow-burning atmosphere, carefully constructed scares and the mythology surrounding the Abaddon Hotel.

Last Slate Video now brings the film to UK Blu-ray for the first time in a region-free Limited Edition featuring both the film and its Director's Cut.

The release arrives in an O-card featuring newly commissioned artwork by Joaquin Gonzalez, accompanied by a reversible sleeve, reversible poster and four collectible postcards.

The early 1980s were the golden age of the slasher film, and among the masked killers, summer camps and blood-soaked holidays emerged one of the era's most stylish and enduring cult favourites, The House on Sorority Row.

Seven sorority sisters are preparing to celebrate graduation with one final party at their sorority house. But when their domineering house mother, Mrs Slater, threatens to ruin the festivities, the girls decide to teach her a lesson with an elaborate prank. When the joke goes horribly wrong, they make the fateful decision to hide what they have done and carry on with the party.

But someone knows their secret.

As night falls and the celebrations begin, an unseen killer starts stalking the house, turning graduation night into a deadly game of revenge. Armed with Mrs Slater's distinctive walking cane, the mysterious assailant begins picking off the sisters one by one.

Written and directed by Mark Rosman and starring Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson and Harley Jane Kozak, The House on Sorority Row combines atmospheric cinematography, inventive kills and mounting suspense with a memorable Richard Band score performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

More than four decades after its original release, the film has developed a devoted cult following and remains an essential slice of 1980s slasher cinema.

Now Last Slate Video is proud to present The House on Sorority Row on 4K Ultra HD for the first time anywhere in the world.

The Collector's Edition pairs the film's worldwide UHD premiere with an exclusive 60-page collector's book, original and newly commissioned artwork, a reversible poster, four postcards and a substantial collection of newly produced and archive bonus material.

AN ORIGINAL VISION – 44 YEARS LATER

The newly commissioned alternative artwork by Bayarmagnai Avirmed has a unique connection to the history of The House on Sorority Row.

The artwork is based upon writer/director Mark Rosman's original poster concept from 1982. Rosman's idea was ultimately nixed by the studio and was never realised as the film's theatrical poster.

Now, 44 years later, Last Slate Video has commissioned Avirmed to finally bring Rosman's original concept to life, with the resulting artwork appearing on the reversible sleeve of this new Collector's Edition.