Mondo Macabro has detailed two upcoming Blu-ray releases: Paul Naschy's
Howl of the Devil (1988) and Jorge Grau's
Hunting Ground (1983). The two releases will arrive on the market later this year.
Hunting Ground
Synopsis: Adele, a female lawyer, played brilliantly by Assumpta Serna, passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance and that criminality is more often than not bred by deprivation. In the courtroom a pair of local hoods see her in action and decide to follow her. They steal her car, find the keys to her country villa and decide to rob the place. Unfortunately Adele's family turn up at the villa mid-robbery, and her husband is killed. But that is only the beginning of the nightmare …
Directed by Jorge Grau who make the horror classics BLOOD CEREMONY and LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE, HUNTING GROUND is an intense, gripping crime story that takes a savagely realistic look at the social dived between the rich and the poor in the big city. The climax of the film is unrelenting in its depiction of sexual violence and revenge and includes one of the most shocking sequences ever seen in a mainstream film.
Mondo Macabro is proud to present this underseen Eurotrash classic in its first ever English friendly home video release and for the first time ever in HD.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Archival interview with director Jorge Grau
- Spanish Language with optional English subtitles
- REGION-FREE
Limited Edition Features
- 1200 numbered copies in the famous red case
- Reversible sleeve with brand new art by Justin Coffee on the A side and original Mexican VHS art on the B side
- 20-page booklet with brand new writing on the film by Spanish film expert Ismael Fernandez
Howl of the Devil
Synopsis: Spanish horror star Paul Naschy plays a multitude of roles in a tour-de-force performance in one of his best and most personal films, which he also wrote and directed.
Naschy plays Hector Doriani a stage and screen actor who feel himself living in the shadow of his dead twin brother, Alex Doriani, a famous star of horror movies. Alex's young son, Adrian, now lives with Hector in an isolated mansion in the countryside. To keep his father's memory alive, the boy imagines himself visited by the spirit of the dead man, incarnated in a series of classic horror character from the past: Mr. Hyde, the Frankenstein Monster, the Phantom of the Opera etc. Also making an appearance in the young child's fantasies is Waldemar Daninsky, the werewolf character made famous by Naschy himself.
Eric, Alex Doriani's former butler, now also works for Hector. His main role is to locate and bring to the mansion a series of women who are paid large sums of money by Hector to take part in various
sadistic sex games. To complicate matters even further, the games always seem to end with the women getting slaughtered in various gruesome ways by a black gloved, masked killer. Also on hand is horror diva Caroline Munro, as Hector's housekeeper and cook, who is being pursued by a local priest with whom she once had a much-regretted affair. The whole bubbling caldron of mayhem and misbehavior really boils over when Eric the butler mounts a séance to bring back the body of his dead master. But it is not Alex who appears… and all
hell literally breaks loose.
One of the last films to be directed by Paul Naschy, HOW OF THE DEVIL was, for many years, impossible to see in anything like its intended form. This first HD presentation of the film shows it at
last in its true glory. One of Naschy's most savage and most heartfelt films, its reappearance is an event worth celebrating.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- NEW audio commentary by Rod Barnett and Troy Guinn of the Naschycast
- Spanish Language with optional English subtitles
- Debut of previously unreleased archival "making of" documentary
- REGION-FREE
Limited Edition Features
- 1500 numbered copies in the famous red case
- Reversible sleeve with brand new art by Rick Melton on the A side (censored here but will be uncensored on the product itself) and original poster art by Jano on the B side
- Full color booklet with brand new writing on the film by Naschy expert Shane M. Dallmann