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Two New Titles from Mondo Macabro for February 2018

The Blood Splattered Bride
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Mondo Macabro

Prebook: 1/19/18 Street: 2/13/18
MSRP: $29.95
UPC: 843276017996
Catalog #: MDO179
Color, 102 minutes in English and Spanish
All regions. Widescreen 1.85:1
PCM Mono
Production year: 1972 in Spain
Director: Vicente Aranda
Cast: Simon Andreu, Maribel Martin, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier, Angel Lombarte, Montserrat Julio, Rosa Rodriguez

Susan, a young bride, travels with her husband to his family’s ancient manor house in the far north of Spain. Susan is a virgin and is very hesitant about her husband’s sexual demands. She is also disturbed by her unfamiliar surroundings and wonders if she will ever come to terms with her new married life. She is shocked to discover that all the old portraits of female members of her husband’s family have been locked away in the basement. When she finds them, she discovers that one of the portraits shows a woman holding a strange dagger. The woman’s face has been cut out of the painting. Her name is Mircala Karstein.

This atmospheric, gothic horror story is widely regarded as one of the very best vampire films ever made. Controversial in its day for sexual content and for extreme scenes of violence and gore, it was widely cut on original release. This brand new version restores the film to its intended length and includes alternate scenes that have never been made available before. This is the first Blu-ray release of an acknowledged classic, one of Quentin Tarantino’s favourite films and an influence on his own Kill Bill.

SPECIAL FEATURES Brand new 4k transfer from film negative English/Spanish audio choice Newly created English subtitles Audio commentary by Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger Interview with cinematographer Fernando Arribas Two part interview with actor Simon Andreu Interview with Euro Gothic author Jonathan Rigby Original trailers and radio spots Deleted and alternate scenes Mondo Macabro previews.

Lovers Beyond Time
1 DVD disc
Label: Mondo Macabro

Prebook: 1/19/18 Street: 2/13/18
MSRP: $24.95
UPC: 843276018290
Catalog #: MDO182
Color, 80 minutes in Greek w/English subtitles
All regions. Widescreen 1.85:1
PCM Mono
Production year: 1990 in Greece
Director: Dimitris Panayiotatos
Cast: Benoit Roussel, Christine Skaza, Takis Moschos, Aryo Apartian, Nantia Deliyanni

THE GREEK FANTASTIQUE

Dimitris Panayiotatos is the only Greek film maker to have specialised in film noir, fantasy and sci-fi. He has produced and directed documentaries, TV series and feature films and has created a consistent and compelling body of work over more than thirty years.

This DVD brings together his 1990 feature film Lovers Beyond Time, as well as an episode of the “Twilight Zone” style TV series Tales of Love and Terror. The disc also includes his 2009 feature length documentary on the history of Greek genre cinema and an interview with the director where he discusses his own career and the difficulties of working in genre cinema in Greece, a country where such productions have always been marginalised.

The disc includes:

LOVERS BEYOND TIME – 1990, Feature film, 80 minutes

Sylvia and Angelos have an intense relationship. Too intense for Sylvia, who breaks it off. Three years later, with Angelos dead, Sylvia lives with a doctor and works for a record company. Her new life is suddenly invaded by a succession of bizarre events: strange deaths occur around her and she experiences a series of involuntary orgasms, as though a man she can feel but not see is making love to her – in the street, at work, in her car. All of this seems connected in some way with a mysterious musician she is trying to track down, a man who constantly evades her; until one night her phone rings… With influences ranging from early Cronenberg to Italian erotic thrillers of the 1970s, the film is a journey into the dangerous world of the irrational, where time contracts and expands and where people are at the mercy of natural laws that change suddenly, violently and without warning.

STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND – 2009, documentary, 90 minutes

This ground-breaking and important documentary reveals the hitherto untold story of Greek genre cinema over the last 50 years, dealing with Film Noir, Thrillers, Fantasy films and Sci-Fi. It includes a wealth of interviews with directors, writers and critics and clips from more than 50 films. Very little of the information included here has been available before outside Greece and it will be essential viewing to anyone interested in the wider world of genre cinema.

THE EROTIC, THE FANTASTIC – 2017, interview, 25 minutes

An interview with director Dimitris Panayiotatos where he talks about his own career, studying film in Paris in the 1970s, writing and publishing books and magazines on sci-fi and fantasy cinema and the difficulties of working in the fantastic genres in a country where comedy is king.

THE LAST MEAL – 1988, TV episode, 25 minutes

An episode from a Greek “Twilight Zone” style TV series called Tales of Love and Terror.

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