The Flowers on the Razorwire DVD series seeks to push the synergy of comic book property and short film, in much the same way that HBO's successful translation of the 1950s EC comic book Tales From The Crypt revolutionized cable television horror programming.

In the 1990s, Hart D. Fisher published a series of anthology comic books that featured Flower, a sadistic dominatrix who hunted her prey through the sleazy, Los Angeles sex trades. The premise was simple; instead of a rotting old corpse introducing the edgy tales, Flower was hotter than hell and any man would want her--at any price.

The price, however, was that once Flower had her prey where she wanted, things went bad for the unwitting victim, and fast. Flower wasn't just pleased by the domination of her playmates, she demanded something more than just their adulation and groveling. She wanted a story, a *scary* story. And it had better be suitably frightening to get her aroused because if not, the penalty was a horrifying end to the storyteller's life tale.

So began the Flowers on the Razorwire film series. The first half hour episode was shot for Japanese publisher/producers DK Publishing in tandem with Bunkasha Publishing and has now been released in North America and Europe. The half hour first installment tells the story of true crime author Douglas Shanks (cameo appearance by author Joseph M. Monks), who is penning a serial killer screenplay for a large, Hollywood studio. Shanks is a Hollywood bad-boy now, and in his private life, he likes to be treated like one. When his ad in the L.A. Weekly seeking a partner who can really "handle the scary stuff," is answered by the series figurehead, however, Shanks discovers that his screenplays about true crime are nothing compared to the real deal.

Tied to a table in elaborate rope bondage and with needles driven into his flesh, Shanks gets his choice--tell a story that satisfies his torturer, or die very, very slowly. Shanks responds by telling the tale of Yuko, an Asian woman living alone in a Los Angeles apartment building who becomes trapped on an elevator with a boiler repair man who may not be what he seems. In fact, he just may be the city's most notorious serial killer in decades, surpassing Manson and Ramirez and all the rest. Yuko is suspicious, but things begin to intensify the more the repair man discusses the serial killer's prowess. Is he impressed by it? Or is he really bragging about it...

The first DVD of Flowers on the Razorwire comes with a 16 page mini comic book, which tells two more grisly stories to fill out the packaging. A music video, director's reel and Making of... featurette round out the video content.

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