Jess Franco's "Night Has a Thousand Desires" Makes It Your Desire on Blu-Ray

Mondo Mcarbro recently released information for the upcoming blu-ray release of Jess Franco's "Night Has a Thousand Desires" The 1984 cult horror film stars Lina Romay, Daniel Katz, Carmen Carrion, Albino Graziani, Jose Llamas and Alicia Principle.

Special features on the Blu-Ray includes Brand new HD transfer from original negative, Interview with writer Stephen Thrower, Eurotika! A documentary on Jess Franco, Newly created optional subtitles and Mondo Macabro previews.

"Nights Has a Thousand Desires" hits retail on November 8th.

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In this surreal and sensuous mystery/noir, Lina Romay (The Female Vampire, Lorna the Exorcist) plays Irina, a partner in a male-female mind reading act. At night she experiences vivid and sexually charged dreams which end in murder. It seems that the people whose minds she reads are being killed off one by one.

In the 1980s, after the death of the Spanish dictator, Jess Franco returned to his native country and made a series of films in which he was given almost total freedom, so long as they featured a number of erotic sequences. Night Has a Thousand Desires is one of the most artistically successful of these films. It's filled with familiar Franco touches - artful cinematography, atmospheric locations, naked women, an avant garde soundtrack - and it features one of Lina Romay's most committed performances.

Jose Ramon Larraz's Psychological Chiller "Symptoms Makes its Blu-Ray Debut

Mondo Macabro recently send us over information for the upcoming Blu-Ray of Jose Ramon Larraz's(Vampyres) "Symptoms". The 1974 chiller stars Angela Pleasence, Lorna Heilbron and Peter Vaughan.

Special features on the Blu-Ray includes On Vampyres and Other Symptoms - documentary about Jose Larraz directed by Celia Novis, From Barcelona to Tunbridge Wells - TV profile of Jose Larraz, Interview with editor Brian Smedley-Aston, Interview with Angela Pleasence, Interview with Lorna Heilbron and Specially commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.

"Symptoms" hits retail on May 10th.

Plot Synopsis:

A dark and haunting study in psychological horror, Symptoms takes us deep into the twisted mind of a damaged girl.

Helen, who lives alone, invites her new friend Anne to stay with her in a lonely house, lost in the English countryside. The house, the woods that surround it and the figures fleetingly glimpsed through its windows, all seem imbued with a deep sense of mystery. Helen appears to be hiding a secret and the more Anne tries to uncover it, the deeper she is pulled into its dark heart.

Symptoms was the official UK entry to the Cannes film festival in 1974 and was highly praised at the time. Subsequently the film sank into obscurity and was recently listed as one of the UK's top 75 'lost films'. This release, taken from the original negative and fully restored, brings this quiet masterpiece back into view, where it can now be appreciated as one of the most under rated films of the 1970s.

Lucio Fulci's "Woman in Lizard Skin" Makes U.S. Blu-Ray Debut

Mondo Macabro recently send us over information for the upcoming blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci's "Lizard in a Woman's Skin". The 1971 shocker stars Stanley Baker, Florinda Bolkan, Jean Sorel and Anita Strindberg.

Special features on the Blu-Ray includes Shedding the Skin - documentary, Dr Lucio Fulci's Day for Night - directed by Antonietta De Lillo - interview with Lucio Fulci, Interview with writer Stephen Thrower, Interview with actor Tony Adams, Audio commentary with Kris Gavin, Two original trailers, Radio spots and Italian/English Language/subtitle choices.

"Lizard in a Woman's Skin" hits retail on February 9th. 


Plot Synopsis:

Mondo Macabro is very proud to present A Lizard In A Women's Skin, released in HD on Blu-ray for the very first time in North America. Carol Hammond, the frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbor, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol's dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. This frightening discovery is just the beginning of a labyrinthine psycho sexual shocker which takes the viewer on a wild ride through a series of frequently breathtaking set pieces that set new standards for the Italian thriller.

This first US Blu-ray release of the film, taken from the original negative, is the longest, uncut version currently available and comes with a host of exclusive extras. Directed by controversial film maker Lucio Fulci (The New York Ripper, House by the Cemetery, Zombie), Lizard in a Woman's Skin is considered by many critics to be his finest achievement.