Box has been cut and mounted in a white, hard plastic clamshell keepcase. There are some stickers on the cover (see photo). Cassette is clean, top label has a large dry sticker stain and there is a store branded foil security label on the right endcap assuring you of first generation quality.

Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats making this a rare title. Pre-viewed for quality and there is a line at 35 1/2 minutes and then just before the credits roll at 1 hour 33 minutes it goes blank screen for a full 45 seconds which is the biggest hiccup. The movie is pretty much over though. 

As Dr. Calvin Crosse (Philip Michael Thomas) tries to define and contain the remote island-community epidemic, he is forced to probe the village's most intimate and covert interactions, fostering growing resentment and hatred. Crosse's suspicions that beautiful blonde D.D. (Josie Johnson) is the cause of the community infection sparks the ire of her nominal beau Bill Waco (Harlan Carey Poe) and father Sheriff Whitehead (Peter Clune), even as the contagion--and desperate need to keep the source under wraps--spirals into hysteria and inevitable violence.

The movie raises moral questions as to sex, the law and cover-ups. A pair of obligatory show stopper "lectures". Real slides shown of advanced syphillis victims with collapsed noses and horrible chancre sores will leave you a little queasy. Best of all is a giddy, disturbing core sequence in which Crosse examines the sickly lighthouse keeper, an emaciated old codger ravaged by the advanced stages of VD who laughs incessantly as Crosse diagnoses his symptons, including hideously swollen joints and stigmatized flesh.

For an old tape on an obscure label, Vista's STIGMA holds up surprisingly well today. The colors are bold, the image is reasonably crisp and the standard framing forfeits nothing; the picture was likely matted to 1.66:1 in theatres, which doesn't qualify as widescreen. The mono sound is also strong, making this a worthwhile purchase for those lucky enough to buy it. From the director of another epidemic movie, 'I Drink Your Blood' (rabies).