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Shout Factory will release on Blu-ray The Mario Bava Collection. The twelve-disc box set will be available for purchase exclusively at the label's website on July 31.
BOX SET CONTENT:
DISC ONE
BLACK SUNDAY - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 87 min.)
In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss, Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim: Princess Katia, her own doppelganger descendant!
In 1960, Mario Bava made his directorial feature debut with La maschera del demonio (The Mask Of Satan), a film that achieved worldwide commercial and critical success under its better-known title ... Black Sunday.
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THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 86 min.)
Nora Davis (Letícia Román) jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old family friend. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies – and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna. Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries, Nora can't get anyone to believe her story, but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi (John Saxon), she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot – 10 years earlier – when an unfortunate woman fell victim to the "Alphabet Murderer."
Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo, 1963) is more than a stylish homage to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. It was the first movie to show the influence of a distinctly Italian breed of thriller known as the "giallo" – named after a series of mystery pulps with yellow ("giallo") jackets published in Italy and renowned for their lurid cover art and attention to violent detail.
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BLACK SABBATH - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 92 min.)
Boris Karloff is your host for Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror! Michčle Mercier stars in "The Telephone" as a woman haunted by menacing phone calls. In "The Wurdalak," Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in "The Drop Of Water," Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium.
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KILL, BABY... KILL! (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 83 min.)
Set in modern day Transylvania, this creeping terror of a film follows an evil curse that has befallen a village plagued by bizarre murders. A doctor, investigating a young woman's apparent suicide, discovers the locals believe that the ghost of a baron's daughter is responsible. The victims in the small village are found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts. Director Mario Bava's chiller stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. This moody and stylish film, filled with disturbing sequences, is one of Bava's best.
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KNIVES OF THE AVENGER (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
With her husband the King missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen, a general of the King's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men – with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik (Cameron Mitchell) is allowed to stay, and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts of survival. In time, he recognizes Karin as the woman he seduced years ago on her wedding night in retaliation for Hagen's murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend – and another to avenge – as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place!
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FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 81 min.)
George Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula. Farrell doesn't care to discuss business, but the businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money – in the millions. Each of them angers the others with secret bids and back-alley deals, spawning an atmosphere of distrust, further exacerbated by the sexual intrigue in the air between the men and their various wives and mistresses. Suspicions turn into alarm when the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one!
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ROY COLT & WINCHESTER JACK (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 85 min.)
Mario Bava tries something new with this zany satire of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy. Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) are two roguish cowboys whose gang isn't very successful at earning a dishonest dollar. Fed up with starving, the two friends decide to go their separate ways, with Roy vowing to find an honest job. But he changes his mind after arriving in Carson City, where he is made sheriff and entrusted with the replica of a stolen treasure map leading to a fortune in buried gold! Who will reach the gold first? Will it be Roy? The Reverend (Teodoro Corrŕ), a Russian outlaw with a fistful of dynamite? Jack and his gang? The desperado (Mauro Bosco)? Or perhaps Manila (Marilů Tolo), the mercenary Native American seductress desired by the Old West's most wanted? The answer may surprise you as the maestro of Italian horror takes them all on a date with a skull and an open grave in an ancient Indian burial ground!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 83 min.)
What happened last night in Tina's apartment? Did she and Gianni have a sexual encounter? And what was that other couple doing in the apartment with them? Tina (Daniela Giordano), Gianni (Brett Halsey), Tina's mother, and Tina's peeping tom concierge all have differing opinions in this sex farce from horror maestro Mario Bava! Don't pass on this spicy Italian variation on the multi-perspective storyline of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. Special Features and Technical Specs:
A BAY OF BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
Countess Federica, the elderly owner of a coveted piece of bayside property, is slain by her husband, Filippo Donati — who is himself then killed by a mysterious third person at the murder scene! Who is the killer? Could it be the real estate developer Frank Ventura? Or Paolo Fosatti, an entomologist neighbor who wants to preserve the natural insect life thriving around the bay? The Countess' illegitimate son, in a bid to claim a name for himself? Or could it be Alberto, the weak-willed husband of Donati's ambitious daughter, Renata?
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BARON BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 98 min.)
American student Peter Kleist travels to Austria on summer holiday to learn more about his family roots. By reciting an incantation on a piece of ancient parchment, he succeeds in scaring up a genuine ancestor – Baron Otto von Kleist (Joseph Cotten), a 16th-century sadistic nobleman whose appetite for cruelty earned him the nickname "Baron." Before Peter can reverse the incantation, the parchment burns! How many innocents will die before Peter learns how to send the evil Baron back to the hell from whence he came?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
LISA AND THE DEVIL (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 95 min.) / THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 91 min.)
While visiting Toledo, Spain, American tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) experiences a feeling of déjŕ vu when she sees an ancient mural of the Devil carrying away the dead. Becoming hopelessly lost as night falls, Lisa begs a ride from a passing car, which breaks down outside a mansion where a young man (Alessio Orano) lives with his blind mother (Alida Valli) and a charming butler (Telly Savalas) who just happens to resemble the Devil from the mural! After a night of murder and horrific revelations, Lisa comes face-to-face with the secrets of her past identity and her connection to the bizarre rituals she has witnessed.
Producer Alfredo Leone (who was credited with the pseudonym Mickey Lion) restructured the film and shot additional scenes after the commercial success of 1973's The Exorcist. Taking the original story of Lisa And The Devil in entirely new directions, The House Of Exorcism adds the horror of diabolical possession to an already potent mixture.
Tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) encounters the Devil himself (Telly Savalas) while vacationing in Toledo, Spain. Recognizing in her the soul of a damned spirit that escaped him, the Devil possesses Lisa, who is sent to a local hospital. Father Michael (Robert Alda), an American priest, accompanies her and tries to exorcise the evil and blasphemous spirit from her soul.
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KIDNAPPED (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 95 min.)
After a botched payroll heist, a trio of vicious criminals take hostages in a desperate getaway that explodes with cruelty, degradation, and shocking violence.
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BOX SET CONTENT:
DISC ONE
BLACK SUNDAY - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 87 min.)
In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss, Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim: Princess Katia, her own doppelganger descendant!
In 1960, Mario Bava made his directorial feature debut with La maschera del demonio (The Mask Of Satan), a film that achieved worldwide commercial and critical success under its better-known title ... Black Sunday.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE FILM
- NEW Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King
- NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Larry Cohen
- International Trailer
- US Trailer
- Poster Gallery
- TV Spot
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio English With English SDH Subtitles
THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 86 min.)
Nora Davis (Letícia Román) jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old family friend. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies – and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna. Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries, Nora can't get anyone to believe her story, but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi (John Saxon), she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot – 10 years earlier – when an unfortunate woman fell victim to the "Alphabet Murderer."
Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo, 1963) is more than a stylish homage to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. It was the first movie to show the influence of a distinctly Italian breed of thriller known as the "giallo" – named after a series of mystery pulps with yellow ("giallo") jackets published in Italy and renowned for their lurid cover art and attention to violent detail.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria
- US Trailer
- Poster And Still Gallery
- Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- Trailer
BLACK SABBATH - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 92 min.)
Boris Karloff is your host for Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror! Michčle Mercier stars in "The Telephone" as a woman haunted by menacing phone calls. In "The Wurdalak," Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in "The Drop Of Water," Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: Italian DTS-Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper
- NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria
- Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Mick Garris
- Trailers
- TV Spot
- Still Gallery
KILL, BABY... KILL! (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 83 min.)
Set in modern day Transylvania, this creeping terror of a film follows an evil curse that has befallen a village plagued by bizarre murders. A doctor, investigating a young woman's apparent suicide, discovers the locals believe that the ghost of a baron's daughter is responsible. The victims in the small village are found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts. Director Mario Bava's chiller stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. This moody and stylish film, filled with disturbing sequences, is one of Bava's best.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- NEW Audio Commentary With Journalist Scott Neumyer
- Image Gallery
- International Trailer
- TV Spots
KNIVES OF THE AVENGER (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
With her husband the King missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen, a general of the King's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men – with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik (Cameron Mitchell) is allowed to stay, and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts of survival. In time, he recognizes Karin as the woman he seduced years ago on her wedding night in retaliation for Hagen's murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend – and another to avenge – as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- Trailer
- Still Gallery
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 81 min.)
George Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula. Farrell doesn't care to discuss business, but the businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money – in the millions. Each of them angers the others with secret bids and back-alley deals, spawning an atmosphere of distrust, further exacerbated by the sexual intrigue in the air between the men and their various wives and mistresses. Suspicions turn into alarm when the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
- NEW Audio Commentary With Actor And Writer Tracy Letts
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin
- Trailer
- Still Gallery
ROY COLT & WINCHESTER JACK (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 85 min.)
Mario Bava tries something new with this zany satire of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy. Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) are two roguish cowboys whose gang isn't very successful at earning a dishonest dollar. Fed up with starving, the two friends decide to go their separate ways, with Roy vowing to find an honest job. But he changes his mind after arriving in Carson City, where he is made sheriff and entrusted with the replica of a stolen treasure map leading to a fortune in buried gold! Who will reach the gold first? Will it be Roy? The Reverend (Teodoro Corrŕ), a Russian outlaw with a fistful of dynamite? Jack and his gang? The desperado (Mauro Bosco)? Or perhaps Manila (Marilů Tolo), the mercenary Native American seductress desired by the Old West's most wanted? The answer may surprise you as the maestro of Italian horror takes them all on a date with a skull and an open grave in an ancient Indian burial ground!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
- Still Gallery
- Trailer
FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 83 min.)
What happened last night in Tina's apartment? Did she and Gianni have a sexual encounter? And what was that other couple doing in the apartment with them? Tina (Daniela Giordano), Gianni (Brett Halsey), Tina's mother, and Tina's peeping tom concierge all have differing opinions in this sex farce from horror maestro Mario Bava! Don't pass on this spicy Italian variation on the multi-perspective storyline of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
- Trailer
- Still Gallery
A BAY OF BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
Countess Federica, the elderly owner of a coveted piece of bayside property, is slain by her husband, Filippo Donati — who is himself then killed by a mysterious third person at the murder scene! Who is the killer? Could it be the real estate developer Frank Ventura? Or Paolo Fosatti, an entomologist neighbor who wants to preserve the natural insect life thriving around the bay? The Countess' illegitimate son, in a bid to claim a name for himself? Or could it be Alberto, the weak-willed husband of Donati's ambitious daughter, Renata?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes
- NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollzow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin
- Still Gallery
- Alternate Title Trailers
- Radio Spots
BARON BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 98 min.)
American student Peter Kleist travels to Austria on summer holiday to learn more about his family roots. By reciting an incantation on a piece of ancient parchment, he succeeds in scaring up a genuine ancestor – Baron Otto von Kleist (Joseph Cotten), a 16th-century sadistic nobleman whose appetite for cruelty earned him the nickname "Baron." Before Peter can reverse the incantation, the parchment burns! How many innocents will die before Peter learns how to send the evil Baron back to the hell from whence he came?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- Trailer
- Radio Spots
- Still Gallery
LISA AND THE DEVIL (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 95 min.) / THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 91 min.)
While visiting Toledo, Spain, American tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) experiences a feeling of déjŕ vu when she sees an ancient mural of the Devil carrying away the dead. Becoming hopelessly lost as night falls, Lisa begs a ride from a passing car, which breaks down outside a mansion where a young man (Alessio Orano) lives with his blind mother (Alida Valli) and a charming butler (Telly Savalas) who just happens to resemble the Devil from the mural! After a night of murder and horrific revelations, Lisa comes face-to-face with the secrets of her past identity and her connection to the bizarre rituals she has witnessed.
Producer Alfredo Leone (who was credited with the pseudonym Mickey Lion) restructured the film and shot additional scenes after the commercial success of 1973's The Exorcist. Taking the original story of Lisa And The Devil in entirely new directions, The House Of Exorcism adds the horror of diabolical possession to an already potent mixture.
Tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) encounters the Devil himself (Telly Savalas) while vacationing in Toledo, Spain. Recognizing in her the soul of a damned spirit that escaped him, the Devil possesses Lisa, who is sent to a local hospital. Father Michael (Robert Alda), an American priest, accompanies her and tries to exorcise the evil and blasphemous spirit from her soul.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes
- NEW Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King
- NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
- Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Joe Dante
- Lisa And The Devil Trailer
- Still Gallery
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
- Still Gallery
- Trailers
KIDNAPPED (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 95 min.)
After a botched payroll heist, a trio of vicious criminals take hostages in a desperate getaway that explodes with cruelty, degradation, and shocking violence.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
- NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
- Image Gallery
- Trailer
