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A close-up on a woman's screaming face as we zoom in on her mouth.
Another woman's face spins around. She looks very concerned.
A face with it's mouth open and a chewing on a finger.
A caption reads: The nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe...
A women's face appears and focuses on the eyes.
A women clutches the side of her head with her hands as the image spins.
A captions reads: The terrors of Bram Stoker...
A woman's distorted face. Her eyes look up and her tongue lolls out of her mouth.
A woman appears dead. She looks up and a line of saliva has dribbled from her mouth across her jaw.
A captions reads: The monsters of Mary Shelley...
A syringe needle.
The soles of a pair of shoes.
A woman's hand hangs onto a round grip.
A captions reads: The suspence of Alfred Hitchcock...
A needle pokes into skin.
A person's exposed neck.
A captions reads: The crimes of Edgar Wallace...
Two hands on top of each other.
A woman frantically runs down a shadowy staircase.
A captions reads: The thrill of Robert Louis Stevenson...
The woman stops running and turns around. She gives out a pained cry. The staircase begins to spin and she falls backwards.
The outside of an ominous looking castle at night in the rain.
A captions reads: And the horror of The Blancheville Monster
A hand reaches out to grab iron bars covering a window. Rain pours outside.
A group around a dining table all look concerned as they hear strange noises and the rumble of thunder.
The Blancheville Monster. The dead reach out to the living in desperation.
A hooded figure walks towards us.
A birthday cake is dropped on the floor. The woman who was carrying it screams as she sees a young woman lying in bed.
In a sinister, unreal birthday celebration, only the flashes of madness pierce the darkness of the castle in The Blancheville Monster.
A group sit around a dining table.
Miss Eleonore, the housekeeper approaches Doctor LaRouche.
- You need to find a way to get rid of them. If you can. - That's enough!
Roderic speaks in front of the assembled house guests, all finely dressed.
It says that our lineage will die out with the tenth generation, when the last female descendant turns twenty-one.
Emilie puts on a nightgown and picks up a candalabra. As she does so, she knocks a ceramic figure which smashes on the ground.
The door slams shut as thunder rumbles. Emilie turns around in fright as the candles go out.
Miss Eleonore holds a syringe and stands over a distressed man with marks on his face.
Mysterious cries, fatal omens, nefarious vices, chilling presences.
We see a close-up of the man's eyes with strange marks on his face.
Doctor LaRouche in a cloak is running but stops suddenly and sees Roderic.
-What are you doing here? - I should be asking you that.
John stands in a forest and slowly moves towards a body lying in the undergrowth with their face exposed, eyes wide open.
A dark path where the specter of death rides.
John and Roderic stand in the dining room speaking with Doctor LaRouche.
- You still haven't explained to us, Doctor, how Emilie, so young and carefree, was transformed in a matter of hours into a weak, frightened creature. With no will to live. - That's right. With no will to live.
Roderic stands over a woman in bed and throws a small dagger across the room.
The dagger lands in the door which Doctor LaRouche stands next to who retaliates by firing a gun.
Alistair, the butler, stands talking with Alice and Doctor LaRouche.
The doctor can give you all the answers you want, even about what happens at night around the castle.
Emilie walks outside at night around the castle dressed in a nightgown.
A woman caught in the snare of a monstrous fatal spell. The spell of The Blancheville Monster.
John is in a bedroom with Emilie.
- I don't like anyone in this place. From the owner to the humblest servant. - Shh!
Doctor LaRouche stands outside with Lucy.
- This is life. I love you, you love him and he, in turn, loves another. - Another?
Another life. Another destiny. Another death.
A large rock is thrown from the top of the castle and lands near a group of people, one of whom screams.
The Blancheville Monster.
Does that coffin contain a creature snatched from life by a curse?
We see a blonde woman's face as she lies dead in a coffin.
The pallbearers carry her and she is followed by an entourage dressed in black mourning attire.
Will anyone be able to unravel the mysteries of The Blancheville Monster?
And the wicked deeds of the children of darkness subvert the words of God.
A hooded figure attacks Roderic from behind with a large crucifix as Emilie beside him looks on in shock then screams.
A satanic storm of terrors, nightmares and sadistic violence.
Emilie runs in fright outside the castle.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
A caption reads: con Gerard Tichy
A caption reads: Leo Anchoriz
A caption reads: Joan Hills
A caption reads: Helga Line
A caption reads: Iran Eory
A caption reads: Richard Davis
A caption reads: A Film Columbus/ Llama Films Production
Emilie chokes as a noose is wrapped around her head.
A caption reads: Directed by Martin Herbert
A caption reads: Coming Soon. A Titanus Production
Arrow Films
While groundbreaking director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath) remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy's ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere.
Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo's Lady Morgan's Vengeance - a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural - as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride (Barbara Nelli, Double Face) with help from his sinister maid (Erika Blanc, Kill, Baby... Kill!). Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino's The Blancheville Monster - a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville (Ombretta Colli, Gladiator of Rome) returns home to her brother Roderic (Gérard Tichy, Hatchet for the Honeymoon) and discovers her own family may be out for her blood. Mino Guerinni's The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock, layered with a whiff of necrophilia. Finally, Damiano Damiani's The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian (Richard Johnson, Zombie Flesh Eaters) is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter (Rosanna Schiaffino, The Killer Reserved Nine Seats).
Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy's peak Gothic period, now fully restored in 2K from their original camera negatives for the first time and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras.
Product Features
- Brand new 2K restorations from the original camera negatives of all four films
- High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentations of each film
- Original Italian and English front and end titles on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
- Original lossless mono Italian soundtracks on all four films
- Original lossless mono English soundtracks on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
- Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
- Brand new video introductions to each film by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth
- Image galleries
- Limited edition 80-page book featuring new writing on the films by Roberto Curti, Rob Talbot, Jerome Reuter, Rod Barnett and Kimberly Lindbergs
- Fold-out double-sided poster
- Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
DISC ONE: LADY MORGAN'S VENGEANCE
- Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and producer Kat Ellinger
- Brand new video interview with actress Erika Blanc
- Newly edited video interview with actor Paul Muller
- Newly edited audio interview with director Massimo Pupillo
- The complete original cineromanzo, published in Suspense in April 1971
- Trailer
DISC TWO: THE BLANCHEVILLE MONSTER
- Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson
- Brand new video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison
- Brand new video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
- Opening credits for the US release of the film
- Trailer
DISC THREE: THE THIRD EYE
- Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Rachael Nisbet
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam
- Newly edited video interview with actress Erika Blanc
DISC FOUR: THE WITCH
- Brand new audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and academic Miranda Corcoran
- Brand new video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
- Arrow Video
- 371 mins approx
- 15
- 1.85:1
- Italian
- 4
- Arrow Video
- Massimo Pupillo
- Alberto De Martino
- Mino Guerrini
- Damiano Damiani
- English
- Gordon Mitchell
- Erika Blanc
- Gérard Tichy
- Ombretta Colli
- Franco Nero
- Gioia Pascal
- Richard Johnson
- Rosanna Schiaffino
- English / English SDH
- 1963
- B
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A close-up on a woman's screaming face as we zoom in on her mouth.
Another woman's face spins around. She looks very concerned.
A face with it's mouth open and a chewing on a finger.
A caption reads: The nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe...
A women's face appears and focuses on the eyes.
A women clutches the side of her head with her hands as the image spins.
A captions reads: The terrors of Bram Stoker...
A woman's distorted face. Her eyes look up and her tongue lolls out of her mouth.
A woman appears dead. She looks up and a line of saliva has dribbled from her mouth across her jaw.
A captions reads: The monsters of Mary Shelley...
A syringe needle.
The soles of a pair of shoes.
A woman's hand hangs onto a round grip.
A captions reads: The suspence of Alfred Hitchcock...
A needle pokes into skin.
A person's exposed neck.
A captions reads: The crimes of Edgar Wallace...
Two hands on top of each other.
A woman frantically runs down a shadowy staircase.
A captions reads: The thrill of Robert Louis Stevenson...
The woman stops running and turns around. She gives out a pained cry. The staircase begins to spin and she falls backwards.
The outside of an ominous looking castle at night in the rain.
A captions reads: And the horror of The Blancheville Monster
A hand reaches out to grab iron bars covering a window. Rain pours outside.
A group around a dining table all look concerned as they hear strange noises and the rumble of thunder.
The Blancheville Monster. The dead reach out to the living in desperation.
A hooded figure walks towards us.
A birthday cake is dropped on the floor. The woman who was carrying it screams as she sees a young woman lying in bed.
In a sinister, unreal birthday celebration, only the flashes of madness pierce the darkness of the castle in The Blancheville Monster.
A group sit around a dining table.
Miss Eleonore, the housekeeper approaches Doctor LaRouche.
- You need to find a way to get rid of them. If you can. - That's enough!
Roderic speaks in front of the assembled house guests, all finely dressed.
It says that our lineage will die out with the tenth generation, when the last female descendant turns twenty-one.
Emilie puts on a nightgown and picks up a candalabra. As she does so, she knocks a ceramic figure which smashes on the ground.
The door slams shut as thunder rumbles. Emilie turns around in fright as the candles go out.
Miss Eleonore holds a syringe and stands over a distressed man with marks on his face.
Mysterious cries, fatal omens, nefarious vices, chilling presences.
We see a close-up of the man's eyes with strange marks on his face.
Doctor LaRouche in a cloak is running but stops suddenly and sees Roderic.
-What are you doing here? - I should be asking you that.
John stands in a forest and slowly moves towards a body lying in the undergrowth with their face exposed, eyes wide open.
A dark path where the specter of death rides.
John and Roderic stand in the dining room speaking with Doctor LaRouche.
- You still haven't explained to us, Doctor, how Emilie, so young and carefree, was transformed in a matter of hours into a weak, frightened creature. With no will to live. - That's right. With no will to live.
Roderic stands over a woman in bed and throws a small dagger across the room.
The dagger lands in the door which Doctor LaRouche stands next to who retaliates by firing a gun.
Alistair, the butler, stands talking with Alice and Doctor LaRouche.
The doctor can give you all the answers you want, even about what happens at night around the castle.
Emilie walks outside at night around the castle dressed in a nightgown.
A woman caught in the snare of a monstrous fatal spell. The spell of The Blancheville Monster.
John is in a bedroom with Emilie.
- I don't like anyone in this place. From the owner to the humblest servant. - Shh!
Doctor LaRouche stands outside with Lucy.
- This is life. I love you, you love him and he, in turn, loves another. - Another?
Another life. Another destiny. Another death.
A large rock is thrown from the top of the castle and lands near a group of people, one of whom screams.
The Blancheville Monster.
Does that coffin contain a creature snatched from life by a curse?
We see a blonde woman's face as she lies dead in a coffin.
The pallbearers carry her and she is followed by an entourage dressed in black mourning attire.
Will anyone be able to unravel the mysteries of The Blancheville Monster?
And the wicked deeds of the children of darkness subvert the words of God.
A hooded figure attacks Roderic from behind with a large crucifix as Emilie beside him looks on in shock then screams.
A satanic storm of terrors, nightmares and sadistic violence.
Emilie runs in fright outside the castle.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
The Blancheville Monster.
A caption reads: con Gerard Tichy
A caption reads: Leo Anchoriz
A caption reads: Joan Hills
A caption reads: Helga Line
A caption reads: Iran Eory
A caption reads: Richard Davis
A caption reads: A Film Columbus/ Llama Films Production
Emilie chokes as a noose is wrapped around her head.
A caption reads: Directed by Martin Herbert
A caption reads: Coming Soon. A Titanus Production
Arrow Films
While groundbreaking director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath) remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy's ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere.
Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo's Lady Morgan's Vengeance - a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural - as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride (Barbara Nelli, Double Face) with help from his sinister maid (Erika Blanc, Kill, Baby... Kill!). Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino's The Blancheville Monster - a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville (Ombretta Colli, Gladiator of Rome) returns home to her brother Roderic (Gérard Tichy, Hatchet for the Honeymoon) and discovers her own family may be out for her blood. Mino Guerinni's The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock, layered with a whiff of necrophilia. Finally, Damiano Damiani's The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian (Richard Johnson, Zombie Flesh Eaters) is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter (Rosanna Schiaffino, The Killer Reserved Nine Seats).
Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy's peak Gothic period, now fully restored in 2K from their original camera negatives for the first time and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras.
Product Features
- Brand new 2K restorations from the original camera negatives of all four films
- High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentations of each film
- Original Italian and English front and end titles on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
- Original lossless mono Italian soundtracks on all four films
- Original lossless mono English soundtracks on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch
- Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
- Brand new video introductions to each film by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth
- Image galleries
- Limited edition 80-page book featuring new writing on the films by Roberto Curti, Rob Talbot, Jerome Reuter, Rod Barnett and Kimberly Lindbergs
- Fold-out double-sided poster
- Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
DISC ONE: LADY MORGAN'S VENGEANCE
- Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and producer Kat Ellinger
- Brand new video interview with actress Erika Blanc
- Newly edited video interview with actor Paul Muller
- Newly edited audio interview with director Massimo Pupillo
- The complete original cineromanzo, published in Suspense in April 1971
- Trailer
DISC TWO: THE BLANCHEVILLE MONSTER
- Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson
- Brand new video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison
- Brand new video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
- Opening credits for the US release of the film
- Trailer
DISC THREE: THE THIRD EYE
- Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Rachael Nisbet
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam
- Newly edited video interview with actress Erika Blanc
DISC FOUR: THE WITCH
- Brand new audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger
- Brand new video essay on the film by author and academic Miranda Corcoran
- Brand new video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori
- Arrow Video
- 371 mins approx
- 15
- 1.85:1
- Italian
- 4
- Arrow Video
- Massimo Pupillo
- Alberto De Martino
- Mino Guerrini
- Damiano Damiani
- English
- Gordon Mitchell
- Erika Blanc
- Gérard Tichy
- Ombretta Colli
- Franco Nero
- Gioia Pascal
- Richard Johnson
- Rosanna Schiaffino
- English / English SDH
- 1963
- B
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