Mondo Macabro Reveals New Releases
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Posted March 15, 2024 08:57 PM by Webmaster
Mondo Macabro will add two new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. They are: Vicente Aranda's Fata Morgana (1966) and Carlos Aured and Sergio Bergonzelli's Sex Apocalypse (1982). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market this April.
Fata Morgana
Label description: A man rehearses a lecture he is planning to give, analyzing serial killers. He claims that a woman is soon to be murdered in the city. It is inevitable, he explains, as some people are born victims while others are born to kill. He plans to identify the future victim through a series of photographs of violent acts. Fashion model Gim, played by iconic Spanish actress Teresa Gimpera, finds herself alone in a Barcelona that seems almost deserted. She seeks out her lover, Alvaro, for help. On her way to meet him she is harassed by a series of men and followed by a huge and menacing silver truck with blacked out windows. Through a loud speaker on the truck a mechanical voice orders all persons to leave the city immediately. Gim finds that Alvaro's former girlfriend, Miriam, is staying in his house having just returned from London where a terrible but unexplained event occurred. In Alvaro's "art chamber", an obviously disturbed Miriam finds a large knife disguised as a metallic silver fish. Meanwhile, a group of teenage boys cut out a picture of Gim from a huge advertising billboard. They carry it through the empty city streets in a silent procession.
Directed in 1965 by Vicente Aranda, FATA MORGANA is a hallucinogenic mixture of chase thriller, science fiction, art film and comic-book inspired puzzle. Filled with garishly colored visuals and with a hypnotic jazzy soundtrack, the film is a unique and highly entertaining first feature from one of world cinema's most renowned creators.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: A kinky gang of free-loving criminals, three women and two men, come into possession of the keys to a large and luxurious villa belonging to a man travelling abroad for an extended period of time. Taking advantage of the extra space and security of their new home, they decide to try a shot at the big-time and kidnap a rich man's daughter, intending to hold her for a million-dollar ransom. Discovering that the girl has enjoyed a privileged and sheltered upbringing and is also a virgin, two of the female members of the gang decide to induct the hostage into their own sexually liberated ways. But they find out that she may be a lot wiser than they thought. And soon a dangerous power struggle is set in motion, a struggle that ends in a deadly and shocking "apocalypse" of sex and violence.
In Spain from the late 1970s, after the law was liberalized, there was an explosion of sex films on the country's screens. These films were classified by the censor as "S", meaning that they might offend the sensibilities of the viewer. Carlos Aured - director of four films starring horror icon Paul Naschy - made SEX APOCALYPSE, one of the most notorious of all the "S" movies. The film was released in two versions, the "S" rated softcore original and a hardcore version for distribution in Italy. This two-disc limited edition Blu-ray includes both versions of the film and should not be watched by the easily offended.
NOTE ABOUT THE VERSIONS OF THE FILM IN THIS RELEASE:
SEX APOCALYPSE was originally produced as a strong soft-core movie, to be released in Spain within the "S" film classification. That's the version you can see on disc one of this package. Towards the end of production, the film was sold to an Italian company who asked for some hardcore sequences to be created for a version that would only be distributed in Italy. This was done after an agreement with the female cast. For the parts requiring male involvement a specialist actor was hired who spent a day providing the necessary inserts (pun unavoidable).
The version on disc two is a composite of the original "S" rated film with these added hardcore shots. This material was taken from four different VHS sources as we were unable to locate the negative of these additional shots. We believe that the extended version on this disc incorporates all the extra material that was shot on that busy day in Spain back in 1982.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Fata Morgana
Label description: A man rehearses a lecture he is planning to give, analyzing serial killers. He claims that a woman is soon to be murdered in the city. It is inevitable, he explains, as some people are born victims while others are born to kill. He plans to identify the future victim through a series of photographs of violent acts. Fashion model Gim, played by iconic Spanish actress Teresa Gimpera, finds herself alone in a Barcelona that seems almost deserted. She seeks out her lover, Alvaro, for help. On her way to meet him she is harassed by a series of men and followed by a huge and menacing silver truck with blacked out windows. Through a loud speaker on the truck a mechanical voice orders all persons to leave the city immediately. Gim finds that Alvaro's former girlfriend, Miriam, is staying in his house having just returned from London where a terrible but unexplained event occurred. In Alvaro's "art chamber", an obviously disturbed Miriam finds a large knife disguised as a metallic silver fish. Meanwhile, a group of teenage boys cut out a picture of Gim from a huge advertising billboard. They carry it through the empty city streets in a silent procession.
Directed in 1965 by Vicente Aranda, FATA MORGANA is a hallucinogenic mixture of chase thriller, science fiction, art film and comic-book inspired puzzle. Filled with garishly colored visuals and with a hypnotic jazzy soundtrack, the film is a unique and highly entertaining first feature from one of world cinema's most renowned creators.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Spanish audio with optional English subtitles
- Interview with actress Teresa Gimpera
- Interview with Angel Sala, director of the Sitges Film Festival
- Audio commentary by Eurocult expert Rachael Nisbet
- Alternative opening sequence
- REGION-FREE
Description: A kinky gang of free-loving criminals, three women and two men, come into possession of the keys to a large and luxurious villa belonging to a man travelling abroad for an extended period of time. Taking advantage of the extra space and security of their new home, they decide to try a shot at the big-time and kidnap a rich man's daughter, intending to hold her for a million-dollar ransom. Discovering that the girl has enjoyed a privileged and sheltered upbringing and is also a virgin, two of the female members of the gang decide to induct the hostage into their own sexually liberated ways. But they find out that she may be a lot wiser than they thought. And soon a dangerous power struggle is set in motion, a struggle that ends in a deadly and shocking "apocalypse" of sex and violence.
In Spain from the late 1970s, after the law was liberalized, there was an explosion of sex films on the country's screens. These films were classified by the censor as "S", meaning that they might offend the sensibilities of the viewer. Carlos Aured - director of four films starring horror icon Paul Naschy - made SEX APOCALYPSE, one of the most notorious of all the "S" movies. The film was released in two versions, the "S" rated softcore original and a hardcore version for distribution in Italy. This two-disc limited edition Blu-ray includes both versions of the film and should not be watched by the easily offended.
NOTE ABOUT THE VERSIONS OF THE FILM IN THIS RELEASE:
SEX APOCALYPSE was originally produced as a strong soft-core movie, to be released in Spain within the "S" film classification. That's the version you can see on disc one of this package. Towards the end of production, the film was sold to an Italian company who asked for some hardcore sequences to be created for a version that would only be distributed in Italy. This was done after an agreement with the female cast. For the parts requiring male involvement a specialist actor was hired who spent a day providing the necessary inserts (pun unavoidable).
The version on disc two is a composite of the original "S" rated film with these added hardcore shots. This material was taken from four different VHS sources as we were unable to locate the negative of these additional shots. We believe that the extended version on this disc incorporates all the extra material that was shot on that busy day in Spain back in 1982.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION of the 'S' rated version of the film from the original negative
- Spanish language with optional English subtitles
- Interview with Carlos Aured biographer Miguel Angel Plana
- Interview with Spanish writer and director Ricard Reguant on the history of 'S' films
- Audio commentary by Eurocult experts Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
- REGION-FREE
