Original title: Strange Voyage / Exorcism’s Daughter / The Dracula Saga / The Turn of the Screw
Year: 1964 - 1985
Country: Spain
Region code: A/B/C
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 760137210290
Image: 1.66:1, 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
English - Mono
Spanish - Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Horror
Cast: Tina Sainz, Narciso Ibañez Menta, Tony Isbert, Cristina Suriani
Director: Leon Klimovsky, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Rafael Moreno Alba, Eloy de la Iglesia
Synopsis:
For Volume Five of this “essential series of Euro-Gothic tastiness” (Mondo Digital), Severin Films returns to the cemeteries, catacombs and cobwebbed castles of Spanish cinema for an all-new exploration of Gothic Horror excellence: In the North American Disc Premiere of 1964’s STRANGE VOYAGE, director Fernando Fernán Gómez crafts a macabre true-crime shocker featuring a poignant performance by none other than Jess Franco. The disturbing 1971 drama EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER is presented in its complete U.S. Version – now featuring the infamous orgy sequence – as well as the original Spanish Version LAS MELANCÓLICAS, both on disc for the first time ever. THE DRACULA SAGA is 1973’s grisly reinvention of vampiric damnation from the legendary León Klimovsky, uncut in North America for the first time ever. And in 1985’s acclaimed THE TURN OF THE SCREW adapts Henry James’ classic novella with a startling psychosexual twist. Each film in this collection has been scanned from original camera negatives or archival 35mm prints, with 10+ combined hours of new audio commentaries, video essays, interview featurettes and more.
Extras:
Disc 1: STRANGE VOYAGE (1964)
In 1964, renowned novelist, playwright and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez directed his most controversial film, “a truly remarkable” (Cinemagavia) gothic horror black comedy based on a shocking true crime, condemned by government censors upon its release and featuring a surprisingly poignant performance by none other than Jess Franco: In an old dark house on the outskirts of a rural village, a matriarch cruelly bullies her two childlike adult siblings. But when dread leads to murder, will repression and deceit bring about the most depraved acts of all? Carlos Larrañaga (THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION), Tota Alba (STRANGE LOVE OF THE VAMPIRES), Lina Canalejas (BLOOD HUNT) and María Luisa Ponte (EUGENIE) co-star in this “masterpiece of artistic subversion” (The Postmodern Pelican), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative with over 2 hours of new Special Features.
Special Features:
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 92 mins
Audio: Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Discs 2 – 3: EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER (1971)
What was deceptively marketed in North America as an EXORCIST rip-off is in fact one of Spain’s most unsettling genre films of the ‘70s: Driven to madness by a horrific childhood trauma, a young woman (Analía Gadé of IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE) is committed to a brutal insane asylum from which there may be no escape. Francisco Rabal (SORCERER, DAGON), Espartaco Santoni (THE FEAST OF SATAN) and Helga Liné (THE VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY) co-star in this “disturbing” (Mondo Digital) gothic drama written and directed by Rafael Moreno Alba (DREAM KISS), presented in its original Spanish Version LAS MELANCÓLICAS scanned in 4K from the original camera negative plus the complete U.S. Version (also known as THE HOUSE OF INSANE WOMEN) with additional footage – including the infamous inmate orgy sequence – now sourced from an archival 35mm print, with over 2 hours of new Special Features.
Disc 2: Spanish Version + Special Feature
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 111 mins
Audio: Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Disc 3: U.S. Version + Special Features
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 96 mins
Audio: English Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Disc 4: THE DRACULA SAGA (1973)
From famed director León Klimovsky (THE NIGHT OF THE WALKING DEAD, THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK) comes the daring gothic shocker hailed as “one of the most original vampire films in Spanish horror cinema” (Cine Maldito): When Dracula’s pregnant granddaughter (Tina Sáinz) and her upstanding husband (Tony Isbert of TRAGIC CEREMONY) arrive at the Count’s castle, it will birth a nightmare of profane seduction, ancestral damnation and inconceivable vampiric carnage. Helga Liné (THE LORELEY’S GRASP), María Kosty (NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS) and Narciso Ibáñez Menta (THE BEAST MUST DIE) co-star in this “bizarre Spanish gem” (Bloody Pit of Horror) co-written by Emilio Martínez Lázaro (CAKE OF BLOOD) and Juan Tébar (THE LEGEND OF BLOOD CASTLE), now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative with over 2 hours of new Special Features.
Special Features:
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 92 mins
Audio: English Mono, Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Disc 5: THE TURN OF THE SCREW (1985)
From Eloy de la Iglesia – writer/director of such controversial classics as CANNIBAL MAN, THE GLASS CEILING, NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM, NAVAJEROS and EL PICO – comes the startling 1985 adaptation of Henry James’ classic novella of gothic horror: After dropping out of seminary, a spiritually conflicted young man (Pedro Mari Sánchez of CREATION OF THE DAMNED) is hired to teach a pair of wealthy orphans in their remote seaside mansion. But when he begins to believe that the estate is haunted by the ghost of the previous cruel caretaker, it will unlock an ordeal of lost innocence, forbidden desire and immoral terror. Queta Claver (THE PRIEST) co-stars in this provocative shocker – “a thoughtful drama with shades of SALÒ” (Beyond Boundaries) – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over 3 hours of new Special Features.
Special Features:
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 118 mins
Audio: Spanish/Basque Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
