Upcoming Mondo Macabro Blu-ray Releases Detailed
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Posted May 12, 2017 06:20 PM by Webmaster
U.S. label Mondo Macabro has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray releases of José María Forqué's In the Eye of the Hurricane a.k.a. The Fox With A Velvet Tail (1971) and Vasili Maas' Spider (1991). The two releases will arrive on the market this summer.
The Fox with a Velvet Tail
Synopsis: This 1971 Italian/Spanish giallo is a hugely enjoyable and very stylish murder mystery set on the luxurious Côte d'Azur. Spanish director José María Forqué - who later made the controversial Beyond Erotica -brings together a talented and good looking cast, one of the best cinematographers of the day (Alejandro Ulloa), and a fantastic, lounge style score from Maestro Piccioni to create a twisty, and twisted, tale of deception and revenge. The director's long career at the more prestigious end of the Spanish Cinema and the presence of award winning scripter Rafael Azcona - who worked with many top European directors - gives the film an edge of sophistication alongside it's enjoyably devious narrative.
The film is like the smooth blue waters of the Mediterranean where it's set. It looks inviting and seductive, the sun glistening off the gentle waves; but beneath the surface sharks are swimming, and they're hungry for prey ...
Special Features:
Spider
Synopsis: Vita, a beautiful teenage girl, is asked by a controversial artist to pose as the Virgin Mary for a painting. She visits his studio and finds herself swept up into the bizarre world of the artist and his bohemian friends. She seems to see his paintings come to life and is pursued by strange shadow figures. Later she has nightmarish visions of the artist visiting her at night in the form of a huge spider. The next morning she finds marks on her body that look like the bites of a giant insect.
Vita's mother becomes worried about her and sends the girl off to stay with relatives in the countryside, believing the change in environment will help her to recover. However, it seems the dark forces that threatened Vita in the city have followed her and an ancient evil is being re-awakened that feeds off Vita's burgeoning sexuality.
This Latvian shot, Russian language film was produced in the post Glasnost years of the former Soviet Union, when the barriers were down and previously unacceptable material was being explored for the first time. This is one of the very few sex-horror films to come out of that period and still stands today as a daring and unique production, packed with elaborate and astonishing visual sequences of morbid eroticism.
Special Features and Specs:
Reversible cover art
The Fox with a Velvet Tail
Synopsis: This 1971 Italian/Spanish giallo is a hugely enjoyable and very stylish murder mystery set on the luxurious Côte d'Azur. Spanish director José María Forqué - who later made the controversial Beyond Erotica -brings together a talented and good looking cast, one of the best cinematographers of the day (Alejandro Ulloa), and a fantastic, lounge style score from Maestro Piccioni to create a twisty, and twisted, tale of deception and revenge. The director's long career at the more prestigious end of the Spanish Cinema and the presence of award winning scripter Rafael Azcona - who worked with many top European directors - gives the film an edge of sophistication alongside it's enjoyably devious narrative.
The film is like the smooth blue waters of the Mediterranean where it's set. It looks inviting and seductive, the sun glistening off the gentle waves; but beneath the surface sharks are swimming, and they're hungry for prey ...
Special Features:
- NEW 4K remaster (sourced from a new scan of the original negative)
- English/Italian/Spanish language choices, with newly created optional English subtitles
- Exclusive audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films "
- So Sweet, So Perverse", Eurotika! documentary on the ladies of Eurocult cinema
- Mondo Macabro Previews
- Region-A "locked"
Spider
Synopsis: Vita, a beautiful teenage girl, is asked by a controversial artist to pose as the Virgin Mary for a painting. She visits his studio and finds herself swept up into the bizarre world of the artist and his bohemian friends. She seems to see his paintings come to life and is pursued by strange shadow figures. Later she has nightmarish visions of the artist visiting her at night in the form of a huge spider. The next morning she finds marks on her body that look like the bites of a giant insect.
Vita's mother becomes worried about her and sends the girl off to stay with relatives in the countryside, believing the change in environment will help her to recover. However, it seems the dark forces that threatened Vita in the city have followed her and an ancient evil is being re-awakened that feeds off Vita's burgeoning sexuality.
This Latvian shot, Russian language film was produced in the post Glasnost years of the former Soviet Union, when the barriers were down and previously unacceptable material was being explored for the first time. This is one of the very few sex-horror films to come out of that period and still stands today as a daring and unique production, packed with elaborate and astonishing visual sequences of morbid eroticism.
Special Features and Specs:
- NEW 4K restoration (sourced from a new scan of archival 35mm elements)
- Release produced in conjunction with Obskura.co.uk
- Russian language with newly translated, optional English subtitles
- In-depth interview with director Vasili Mass
- Archival footage from the set of the film
- Mondo Macabro previews
- Brand new cover art by Gilles Vranckx
- REGION-FREE
Reversible cover art