Severin: First Look at The Mondo Weirdo Collection

Severin Films has provided a brand new promotional trailer for its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Mondo Freudo/Mondo Bizarro (1966) and Ecco/The Forbidden (1963-1966). The two double-feature releases will be available for purchase on January 29.

Ecco/The Forbidden

Synopsis: Let George Sanders guide you through "a world Beyond Yur Dreaming" in Ecco which means "Look, Witness, Observe and Behold" such sights as... The final performance of the Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris...A modern-day Black Mass performed outside London...A Human Pincushion who rams a rapier through his waist and a needle into his throat...And a young lady who castrates reindeer the old-fashioned way - with her teeth! Plus French Lesbians; the incredible Japanese ritual of Saidachi; a muscleman show for bored housewives; and a Parisian contest for "the Most Beautiful Butt." All served with a lush score Official Mondo Composer Riz Ortolani!

Plus: A "Mermaid" Stripper! A Nazi Stripper! "Authentic Virgin Strippers"! A School for Strippers A Swiss Lesbian Club! A Portable Topless Bar! "One of the most fantastic Murder-for-Love cases in French history"! And a violent Nudie-Movie that's actually a Karate-School Commercial! They're just some of The Forbidden scenes on display in this deranged mondo skinflick from the men who made Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEWLY REMASTERED IN 4K
• The Bandit - Producer David Goldstein remembers Bob Cresse
• I Want More - Short Film
• Ecco Trailer
• REGION-FREE

Mondo Freudo/Mondo Bizarro

Synopsis: Armed with hidden cameras, infra-red film and plenty of naked women, the guys who made House on Bare Mountain go sociologically insane with Mondo Bizarro and Mondo Freudo, two hilariously sex-crazed shockumentaries from the Swinging Sixties that run the gamut from the real to the unreal to the downright surreal! Witness the orgiastic excesses of a Voodoo ritual "held every Thursday night" in the Bahamas, and Puerto Rican black mass performed "just 17 blocks off Times Square!" Gawk as beautiful Asian strippers are whipped and clawed for the amusement of a blasé audience at a Japanese nightclub "dedicated to sadism!" Cringe as a creepy guy named Jack Schwartz proves he can't bleed by lying on a bed of rusty carpentry nails, then gleefully jamming one through his mouth! Marvel at the wild underworld of underwear with a peek at Frederick's of Hollywood naughty mail-order lingerie and big-breasted gals trying on brassieres in a Chicago department store!

Plus: Lesbian prostitutes in London, male hustlers in L.A., topless bars in Tijuana, and even an "Arab slave auction" held right in front of Robot Monster's Bronson Canyon cave! They're all here and more in Mondo Bizarro and Mondo Freudo, the mutant mondo double feature that asks the question: "How do you know what is beyond the Beyond? For that matter, do you even know what is behind the Beyond?"

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEWLY REMASTERED IN 4K
• Audio Commentary with Johnny Legend and Eric Caidin
• The Cadaver Is Infinity - Bob Cresse, Lee Frost and the Birth of American Mondo - Interview With Chris Poggiali
• Mondo Bizarro Trailer
• Mondo Freudo Trailer
• REGION-FREE

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Also included with this announcement are promotional trailers for Severin's All the Colors of Giallo and Sergio Martino's cult thriller All the Colors of the Dark (1972) Blu-ray releases, which will be available for purchase on January 29.

Studio description: All the Colors of Giallo features a black-gloved barrage of trailers, featurettes, music and more! There is even a disc devoted to Krimi films, the German cousin to the Giallo. PLUS! Exclusively as part of our Black Friday sale you can pick up a limited edition dual slip case so you can house ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and ALL THE COLORS OF GIALLO together.

CONTENT

DISC ONE:

• OVER FOUR HOURS OF GIALLO TRAILERS
• NEW All the Colors of Giallo - Newly produced feature length documentary by Federico Caddeo
• The Giallo Frames - Interview with John Martin, editor of 'The Giallo Pages
• Audio Commentary on every trailer with Kat Ellinger, author of All The Colors of Sergio Martino

DISC TWO:

• Kriminal! - 90 Minute Krimi Trailer Compilation
• The Case of the Krimi - Interview with film historian Marcus Stiglegger

DISC THREE:

• The Strange Sounds of The Bloodstained Films - Bonus CD of Giallo themes compiled by Alfonso Carrillo of Rendezvous. From the archives of BEAT Records Company. Remastered by Claudio Fuiano.
• REGION-FREE RELEASE

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Synopsis: A desperate and psychotic criminal targets Jane, a young woman who stands to inherit a fortune. Slashed and scarred. Jane tries to believe it's only a nightmare but everywhere she turns - in the subway, on the street the man with the knife is there. A mysterious woman offers to cure her by means of black magic, but the satanic rituals only aggravate her condition, catapulting her into a kaleidoscope of psychedelic horror! Starring Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, and George Rigaud.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
• COMPLETE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK PLACED ON A SEPARATE CD
• They're Coming To Get You - Alternate US Cut
• Color My Nightmare - Interview with Director Sergio Martino
• Last of the Mohicans - Interview with Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
• Giallo is the Color - Interviews with Actor George Hilton & Italian Horror Expert Antonio Tentori
• Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, Author of All The Colors of Sergio Martino
• Trailers