Palmer Rockey's SCARLET WARNING 666 Deluxe 3 Disc Blu-ray : LIMITED-TIME “MARK OF THE BEAST” 666 OFFER

LIMITED-TIME 'MARK OF THE BEAST' 666 OFFER

For a limited time only, we're offering a Satanic pact to our loyal pre-order customers at GrindhouseReleasing.com!

Get the limited-edition SCARLET WARNING 666 Blu-ray with the preorder exclusive 'SCARLET WARNING 666' T-shirt, and VULTURE MAN HORROR, the 87-page original feature film script that Palmer Rockey brought to Shepperton Studios in 1965 as a movie for Boris Karloff -- all for the devil's bargain price of $66.66!

Each order is individually stamped with the Mark of the Beast!

This special package deal is available exclusively to our customers for exactly six days, six hours and six minutes, starting January 1 at 7:47 PM (EST) and ending January 8, 2026 at 1:53 AM (EST). 

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FIRST TIME EVER ON HOME VIDEO!
LIMITED EDITION 3-DISC DELUXE BLU-RAY

Grindhouse Releasing proudly presents
Palmer Rockey’s SCARLET WARNING 666

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Beware: You have never seen anything like SCARLET WARNING 666, the long-lost, made-in-Dallas masterpiece of outsider cinema written, produced, directed by, and starring cult music legend PALMER ROCKEY!

Never released on home video and not seen in 40 years, SCARLET WARNING 666 comes to Blu-ray newly restored from the original 35mm negative by Grindhouse Releasing.

The deluxe 3-disc (2 Blu-rays + CD) release includes Palmer Rockey's SCARLET LOVE 'Movie Album' in a new CD remaster with bonus tracks from the original 1980 ROCKEY'S STYLE pressing of the rare cult classic LP.

Palmer Rockey boasted of playing 7 different roles on screen and 47 different roles behind the scenes in what is reputed to be the worst movie ever made. Rockey expected Academy Award recognition for his efforts. 

SCARLET WARNING 666 stars Rockey as twin brothers in a story of Satanic skullduggery, bizarre occult rituals and “demonic assassination” on a country estate. The execution of this premise was so bewildering, insane, and incompetent that the film was laughed off the screen at its Dallas premiere. 

After audiences mocked his naive ineptitude, Rockey said, "You know what I think the meaning of this whole thing - the movie - is? Don't give anybody the right to make you unhappy, because, man, they will. People can laugh at what I do, but they can't laugh at me. I mean, man, I'm satisfied. I'm smiling inside."

Rockey spent decades obsessively laboring over his magnum opus, shooting new scenes and piling layer upon layer of cringe in a doomed effort to explain the incomprehensible plot. He distributed the movie himself, four-walling theaters to show his epic in various incarnations as IT HAPPENED ON SUNDAY, SCARLET LOVE, ROCKEY’S STYLE, LOVE IS DEEP INSIDE, and SCARLET WARNING 666.

In 1980 he released the film as SCARLET LOVE, with an original soundtrack album featuring his own vocal stylings. When this too met with audience mockery, Rockey attempted to frame the unintended laughs as “keen satire.” Rockey was still restitching his Frankenstein’s monster of a movie with new material at the time of his death in 1996.

"It seems to me that the real story is in the mental and to some extent moral decline of Palmer Rockey which is exhibited in the final version of the film," said Dr. Ron DiSalvo, who played opposite Rockey in scenes filmed decades apart.

Doug Smith, a.k.a. the Reverend Ivan Stang, co-founder of the Church of the SubGenius, saw the movie as SCARLET LOVE during its 1980 theatrical run in Dallas. Stang couldn’t believe the insane display of incompetence on the screen, and evangelized for years about the film to fellow bad-movie enthusiasts.

The Rockey legend grew when Jello Biafra wrote about the SCARLET LOVE “movie album”in the popular RE/Search book series INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC. The ultra-rare LP became an obsession for record collectors, leading to a sold-out 2013 reissue in the UK. Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) covered one of Rockey’s songs from the film. "Longing for You" is an attempt to revive a somewhat corny song by an enigmatic and shifty movie entrepreneur named Palmer Rockey. Rockey's unfinished film has disappeared, but the remaining soundtrack is a rare cult classic of oddball music.”’ (Broadway World)

Although he never nabbed his Oscar, Rockey ended up Oscar-adjacent: his final cut of SCARLET WARNING 666 was found in the Academy vault and restored by Academy Award-winning film editor Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing.

To release SCARLET WARNING 666, Grindhouse Releasing partnered with Rockey's long-suffering widow Cookie (Mary Ann) Rockey, who financed Rockey's misbegotten dream project by working double shifts at the U.S. Post Office. Cookie’s memoir THE ROCK: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF PALMER ROCKEY is a must-read account of her surreal experiences on the outermost fringes of independent filmmaking. 

SPECIAL FEATURES

- Beautiful new master, lovingly restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative

- Provocative, in-depth interviews with producer Cookie Rockey, and co-star Dr. Ron DiSalvo

- Additional interviews with punk rock icon Jello Biafra and legendary rare record connoisseurs Paul Major and Jonny Trunk

- Audio commentary by Reverend Ivan Stang, of the Church of the SubGenius

- Original theatrical trailer and extensive still galleries

- Glossy illustrated booklet with liner notes by exploitation historian Chris Poggiali

- Beautiful embossed slipcover with new art by esteemed painter Jerry Martinez

- Blu-ray cover painting by cult artist Dave Lebow

- Still galleries, trailers

- BONUS CD - SCARLET LOVE MOVIE ALBUM by Palmer Rockey
newly remastered in stunning 24-bit/192Khz sound

- AND OTHER SURPRISES!

REVIEWS

“Mr. Rockey extracted a promise from us to not review the film, which was no great sacrifice, since it is, in some essential way, beyond judgment.”

- C.W. Smith, Dallas Times Herald

“One of the most fascinating underground characters ever”

- Forced Exposure

“Palmer Rockey makes Ed Wood and Tommy Wiseau look like Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.”

- Rev. Ivan Stang, Church of the SubGenius

"As exploitation holy grails go, few are more coveted than the lost outrage SCARLET WARNING 666 (AKA Love Is Deep Inside, Scarlet Love, AKA It Happened One Sunday, etc). You thought Doris Wishman could dislocate your senses? Gird your loins. You are about to experience one long, crazy trip inside the gassy, quizzical mind of director/star/singer/conman/egomaniac Palmer Rockey. "I do as I please," declares Rockey, and what that mostly seems to entail for this pale, pompadoured middle-aged auteur is wiggling in shorts and black socks to limp rockabilly numbers of his own creation or pawing the hapless women he conned into participating in this threadbare, decades-in-the-making wonder. Which is to say nothing of Platinum Body, the Hollywood jacket or the wondrous Wheel of Justice...there is also plenty of yellow. This is Palmer Rockey's song poem, and the ghosts of Rodd Keith and Fletcher Hanks howl in the bones of his face. Proceed at your own risk, America. And rock, rock, ROCK!"

-Jimmy McDonough, author of BIG BOSOMS AND SQUARE JAWS and THE GHASTLY ONE