EMBALMER (1996)

When the pain goes away… you’re DEAD!

An urban legend-based slasher from acclaimed filmmaker S. Torriano Berry, EMBALMER is one of the few 1990s independent horror movies that was made for Black audiences. The story follows Chiffon, a troubled teenager with a dark past, as she and her friends run afoul of Undertaker Zach—a mortician who killed his family and turned his funeral home into an H.H. Holmes-style murder castle. Shot on 16mm film with a small budget in Washington, D.C., EMBALMER utilizes a hip-hop soundtrack, sly humor, and slasher mechanics to tell a deeper story of abuse, trauma, and the never-ending cycle of coping with pain. AGFA is honored to bring this powerful chapter of overlooked '90s horror to Blu-ray for the first time ever.

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Preserved from the original 1” tape master
• Video introduction by director S. Torriano Berry
• Q&A with Berry
• Archival behind the scenes featurette
• Original trailers
• EMBALMER: EARLY CUT, a previously unreleased version
• Short films from Berry:
  • IN THE HOLE (1984)
  • DAY OF THE CROW'S CALL (1986)
  • EUPHRATES AWAKENING (1992)
• Bonus movie: THE BLACK BEYOND (1985-92), Berry's previously unreleased shot-on-video sci-fi/horror anthology
• THE BLACK BEYOND news segment
• English SDH subtitles