Vinegar Syndrome Labs, in the wake of
Deaf Crocodile Films’ departure from the boutique label empire and striking a
new deal with Diabolikdvd’s webstore, have take it upon themselves to procure
and publish distinctly Polish titles ranging from Piotr Szulkin’s Apocalypse Tetralogy to Ryszard Bugajski’s Interrogation. While not as extensive just yet as the Deaf
Crocodile catalog, Vinegar Syndrome Labs’ efforts have ushered in Eastern
European movies as well and among their best acquisitions comes in the form of
Juliusz Machulski’s 1984 dystopian feminist satire Sexmission. Working from a studio master supplied to
Vinegar Syndrome and released with plentiful extras including an interview with
actor Olgierd Łukaszewicz, an interview with film historian Tomasz Kolankiewicz
and video essay by Andrew Nette on male versus female dynamics, Sexmission comes
to North American filmgoers on blu-ray disc for the very first time.
--Andrew Kotwicki