After losing his job and his wife, Gordon crashes his car and lands in purgatory, where he’s attacked by fanatics and enslaved souls. He’s soon saved by a quirky band of freedom fighters from different historical eras, all of whom died in noble sacrifice. Reluctantly joining their cause, Gordon embarks on a wild adventure through surreal, hellish landscapes to battle the Despiser, the malevolent ruler of the realm. Facing shifting realities, monstrous creatures, and intense car chases over lava oceans, their journey leads to the ultimate showdown to save all of humanity. Phillips Cook’s quirky, non-stop menagerie of machine gun battles, early CGI masterwork and endless array of monsters make it one of the most unique direct to video features of the VHS and early DVD era. Cook painstakingly crafts a green screen netherworld steeped in brutal violence, religious mythology and action movie tropes, all filtered through a dream-like, hallucinogenic lens that never once takes its foot off the gas.

Bonus Materials

Region Free Blu-ray

Producer-supervised SD master from original tape source

Commentary with director Philip J. Cook and stars Mark Redfield and Gage Sheridan

New 2023 Interview with director Philip J. Cook and star Mark Hyde

Commentary with Sam Panico of B&S About Movies and Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum

The Making of Despiser

Deleted Scenes

Blooper Reel

Outtakes Reel

Despiser: Storyboard To Animation

Original DVD Menu Animated Intro

Behind The Scenes Gallery

Image and Art Gallery

Despiser Trailers

Visual Vengeance Trailer

Outerworld Trailer

Invader Trailer

Optional French audio soundtrack

Optional English Subtitles

Folded mini-poster

‘Stick your own’ VHS sticker sheet

2-Sided Insert

Reversible Sleeve With Original VHS Art