Shout! Factory continues their history of unearthing some of pop culture’s strangest buried treasures with the newly announced DVD debut of "The Strange Case of Alice Cooper" scheduled for a May 22 release.
Previously
released on VHS (remember those?), "The Strange Case of Alice
Cooper" has been unavailable and unseen for more than 30 years.
The release captures a unique period of Alice Cooper history,
specifically, the 1979 "Madhouse Rock" tour which found Alice
taking stock of his personal issues with the ‘From The Inside’
album.
"From
The Inside" has become a cult fan favorite in the Alice Cooper
catalog and the San Diego, California show that was lensed for this film
draws from Cooper’s experiences during a New York sanitarium stay.
The
legendary Vincent Price welcomes the crowd to an evening of devilish
doctors and transvestite nurses who cross paths with dancing bottles
of alcohol (usually you have to drink a lot before that starts
happening) as Alice performs songs from ‘Inside’ in addition to
many of his familiar hits.
As
a bonus, Cooper himself provides an audio commentary track for the
proceedings, offering further insight into the history behind one of
the more twisted releases ever to emerge from the original king of
shock rock.
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