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[VHS tape flicker and static.]
[A newsreader, Jaime Blanch, appears on screen. He's sitting at his desk, with his hands folded. in the background there's a video of a crime scene playing. A caption reads, "JQK Television".]
Blanch [in Spanish]: At five o'clock this morning, the President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Matias Pons, was found murdered in strange circumstances.
This may have been an attempt to kidnap him. Police sources believe the criminals to be the terrorist gang Mutant Action.
[The "Mutant Action" logo appears in the background, superimposed on the video of the crime scene.]
[VHS tape flicker and static.]
[The Arrow logo is superimposed on a close-up of a leopard growling at a woman.]
[The dark-haired woman, Perdita Durango, wearing sunglasses is looking up, having previously had her head buried in her hands.]
[A group of party guests wearing colorful outfits is witnessing something that frightens them. They are trying to move backwards, with shock written on their faces.]
[The camera cuts to a man, Hump, a member of Mutant Action, climbing out of a giant cake. As he loads his machine gun, it becomes clear what the party guests were frightened of.]
[Cut to a black man, Adolfo, wearing a black top hat who has a rifle in his hands. He addresses a long-haired man wearing sunglasses. His name is Romeo.] Adolfo: What's the plan, Romeo?
[A flashing red caption reads, "ARROW VIDEO WELCOMES YOU".]
[José María, a self-described Satanist and heavy metal fan, Father Ángel, a Basque priest and professor of theology, and Cavan, an occult TV show host, gather in a living room. They are looking at a goat-like creature that gets up on its hind legs and reveals itself to be the Devil.] Ángel [in Spanish]: I must sell my soul to the Devil.
[Ángel looks the goat-like Devil straight in the eyes. The Devil has an evil grin on his face.]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "TO THE DELIRIOUS".]
[A woman, Rosario, who is José María's mother, pushes Ángel through a window. She holds on to him as he's dangling from the window, screaming.]
[Ángel, wearing a beret, hits Cavan, who is looking at a gadget in his hands.]
[M.A., from Mutant Action and wearing a tuxedo, a bow tie and sunglasses, fires two enormous guns with both hands. The bullets hit two life-size figures of men wearing sunglasses and ties. The heads of the figures shatter.]
[Romeo, with long-hair and a moustache, stands at a bar, his arm around the shoulders of a man wearing a cowboy hat.] Man: Who the hell are you people?
[Perdita, sitting in a car, laughs.]
[A red caption reads, "DIABOLICAL".]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "AND DEMENTED".]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "WORLD OF ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA".]
[José Maria Orujo, an older man wearing a military uniform holds a grenade in his hand.] Orujo [in Spanish]: Prepare to die!
[The caption "ACCIÓN MUTANTE" is superimposed on a shot of Alex and Juan Abadie, Siamese twins, also part of the Mutant Action gang. They appear to be falling down from a great height until they hit the ground.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "A MUST-SEE FILM FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA's CAREER - EMILIE BLACK, CINEMA CRAZED".]
[The caption "Perdita Durango" is superimposed on a shot of Perdita dancing lasciviously with a gun in her hand.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "SWELTERING, QUIRKY, AND ALLURINGLY DARK TALE OF CRIME AND PASSION - ALMAR HAFLIDASON, BBC]
[The caption "THE DAY OF THE BEAST" is superimposed on a shot of José María, a self-described Satanist and heavy metal fan, Ángel and Cavan, who are looking around, appearing bewildered.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "A LOT OF HEART THANKS TO ANGULO'STREMULOUS, SYMPATHETIC PERFORMANCE - KIM NEWMAN, EMPIRE".]
[Ramón Yarritu, the leader of Mutant Action, wears a mask over the right side of his face blocks a door by standing with his back to it. Quimicefa, another member of Mutant Action, looks at him through the window.]
[The Siamese twins, who were asleep, wake up. They look startled.]
[Ramón looks to his right. Quimicefa disappears behind him.]
Cavan being interviewed on TV [in Spanish]: The Antichrist will be born tonight.
Producer looking at a TV screen [in Spanish]: What?
[Luis Maria de Ostolaza, a blond man wearing a colorful outfit is tapped on the shoulder. As he turns around, Ramón hits him. Luis Maria collapses and falls on the body of a man with blood on his face.]
[Ángel, José María and Cavan stand on the ledge of a tall building. José María, in the middle, is laughing.]
[An explosion.]
[A man is running away from the fire, carrying a woman on his shoulder.]
[José María is loading a rifle and shooting into the air. There's a crowd of people who are panicking and running away.]
[Perdita runs down a corridor carrying a rifle.]
[The devilish goat is walking across the living room. There are papers strewn all over the floor.]
[Close-up on Cavan looking frightened with blood streaming down his face.]
[Romeo is shouting maniacally, with a group of people behind him. There is blood on his arm.]
[The Siamese twins fire a machine gun. Another man, García, is firing back from behind a counter.]
[A caption reading "LOVE, DEATH & APOCLAYPSE: THREE FILMS BY ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA" is superimposed on a drawing of a leopard's head.]
[Perdita holds up a playing card.] Perdita: Bad luck! [Perdita hits the man opposite her in the face with a rifle.]
[A colorful caption reads, "ON 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY. IN THE UK, SEPTEMBER 23".]
Arrow Video
Outrageous, absurdist, grotesque! Often hilarious, always stylish, and utterly unpredictable, the films of Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia are an exhilarating shock to the cinematic system.
Produced by legendary provocateur Pedro Almodóvar, de la Iglesia's debut feature Acción Mutante is a violent sci-fi black comedy set in a post-apocalyptic world where attractive people hold all the power and a terrorist group, who see themselves as mutants, take arms to rid the world of their superficial oppressors. With his second feature, The Day of the Beast (El día de la bestia) de la Iglesia delivered one of the greatest horror comedies of all time as a Catholic priest joins forces with a heavy metal fan, and the host of a popular occult TV show to kill the Antichrist on Christmas Eve. A critical and commercial success around the world, The Day of the Beast paved the way for gonzo action-crime-horror Perdita Durango, (aka Dance with the Devil) a Spanish-US-Mexican co-production based on a novel by Barry Gifford (author of Wild at Heart). Starring Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing), a then little known Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Perdita Durango is a twisted tale of love, guns, drugs, voodoo ceremonies, and refrigerated foetuses...
Packed with a wealth of new and archival extras, Arrow Video welcomes you to the delirious, diabolical and demented world of Álex de la Iglesia. Not for the faint of heart!
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all three films
- Original lossless Spanish stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options for Acción Mutante
- Original lossless Spanish and English stereo 2.0, and Spanish 5.1 audio options for The Day of the Beast
- Original lossless English stereo 2.0, and English and Spanish 5.1 audio options for Perdita Durango
- Optional English subtitles for all three films
- Double-sided fold-out posters for all three films
- 9 postcard-sized reproduction art cards
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics Kat Ellinger, Xavier Aldana Reyes and Valeria Villegas Lindvall
- Limited Edition Deluxe packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Heather Vaughan
DISC ONE: ACCIÓN MUTANTE
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholars Xavier Aldana Reyes and Kat Ellinger
- Archive audio commentary with director Álex de la Iglesia, writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría, producer Esther García, and production designers José Luis Arrizabalaga and Biaffra
- Brand new appreciation of director Álex de la Iglesia by film scholar José Arroyo
- Well-Done Baloney, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Bad Blood Costumbrism, an archive interview with writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría
- The F*cking Boss, an archive interview with actor Antonio Resines
- Some Crazy Sh*t, an archive interview with production designers José Luis Arrizabalaga and Biaffra
- Litres of Blood... Wonderful!, an archive interview with special effects artist Raúl Romanillos
- Archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Vintage "Making Of" featurette
- Behind the scenes
- Storyboards
- Music video
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC TWO: THE DAY OF THE BEAST
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Shelagh Rowan-Legg
- Clean Up Madrid, a brand new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Heirs of the Beast, an archive feature-length documentary
- Antichrist Superstar, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- The Man Who Saved the World, an archive interview with actor Armando De Razza
- Beauty and the Beast, an archive interview with actor Maria Grazia Cucinotta
- Shooting the Beast, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Mirindas Asesinas, a 1990 short film by Álex de la Iglesia
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC THREE: PERDITA DURANGO
- Brand new audio commentary by film critic Valeria Villegas Lindvall
- On the Border, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Writing Perdita Durango, an archive interview with writer Barry Gifford
- Dancing with the Devil, an archive appraisal by film scholar Dr Rebekah McKendry
- Narcosatanicos: Perdita Durango and the Matamoros Cult, an archive interview with Abraham Castillo Flores and Cauldron of Blood author Jim Schutze
- Canciones de Amor Maldito: The Music of Perdita Durango, an archive interview with composer Simon Boswell
- Shooting Perdita Durango, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
- 93 / 103 / 129 Mins Approx
- Álex de la Iglesia
- 18
- Antonio Resines
- Frédérique Feder
- Álex Angulo
- Terele Pávez
- Rosie Perez
- Javier Bardem
English / English SDH
- 2.39:1 / 1.85:1 / 2.35:1
- 1993
- 1995
- 1997
- Spanish / English
- 3
- B
- Arrow Video
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[VHS tape flicker and static.]
[A newsreader, Jaime Blanch, appears on screen. He's sitting at his desk, with his hands folded. in the background there's a video of a crime scene playing. A caption reads, "JQK Television".]
Blanch [in Spanish]: At five o'clock this morning, the President of the Bodybuilding Federation, Matias Pons, was found murdered in strange circumstances.
This may have been an attempt to kidnap him. Police sources believe the criminals to be the terrorist gang Mutant Action.
[The "Mutant Action" logo appears in the background, superimposed on the video of the crime scene.]
[VHS tape flicker and static.]
[The Arrow logo is superimposed on a close-up of a leopard growling at a woman.]
[The dark-haired woman, Perdita Durango, wearing sunglasses is looking up, having previously had her head buried in her hands.]
[A group of party guests wearing colorful outfits is witnessing something that frightens them. They are trying to move backwards, with shock written on their faces.]
[The camera cuts to a man, Hump, a member of Mutant Action, climbing out of a giant cake. As he loads his machine gun, it becomes clear what the party guests were frightened of.]
[Cut to a black man, Adolfo, wearing a black top hat who has a rifle in his hands. He addresses a long-haired man wearing sunglasses. His name is Romeo.] Adolfo: What's the plan, Romeo?
[A flashing red caption reads, "ARROW VIDEO WELCOMES YOU".]
[José María, a self-described Satanist and heavy metal fan, Father Ángel, a Basque priest and professor of theology, and Cavan, an occult TV show host, gather in a living room. They are looking at a goat-like creature that gets up on its hind legs and reveals itself to be the Devil.] Ángel [in Spanish]: I must sell my soul to the Devil.
[Ángel looks the goat-like Devil straight in the eyes. The Devil has an evil grin on his face.]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "TO THE DELIRIOUS".]
[A woman, Rosario, who is José María's mother, pushes Ángel through a window. She holds on to him as he's dangling from the window, screaming.]
[Ángel, wearing a beret, hits Cavan, who is looking at a gadget in his hands.]
[M.A., from Mutant Action and wearing a tuxedo, a bow tie and sunglasses, fires two enormous guns with both hands. The bullets hit two life-size figures of men wearing sunglasses and ties. The heads of the figures shatter.]
[Romeo, with long-hair and a moustache, stands at a bar, his arm around the shoulders of a man wearing a cowboy hat.] Man: Who the hell are you people?
[Perdita, sitting in a car, laughs.]
[A red caption reads, "DIABOLICAL".]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "AND DEMENTED".]
[A colorful flashing caption reads, "WORLD OF ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA".]
[José Maria Orujo, an older man wearing a military uniform holds a grenade in his hand.] Orujo [in Spanish]: Prepare to die!
[The caption "ACCIÓN MUTANTE" is superimposed on a shot of Alex and Juan Abadie, Siamese twins, also part of the Mutant Action gang. They appear to be falling down from a great height until they hit the ground.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "A MUST-SEE FILM FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA's CAREER - EMILIE BLACK, CINEMA CRAZED".]
[The caption "Perdita Durango" is superimposed on a shot of Perdita dancing lasciviously with a gun in her hand.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "SWELTERING, QUIRKY, AND ALLURINGLY DARK TALE OF CRIME AND PASSION - ALMAR HAFLIDASON, BBC]
[The caption "THE DAY OF THE BEAST" is superimposed on a shot of José María, a self-described Satanist and heavy metal fan, Ángel and Cavan, who are looking around, appearing bewildered.]
[A yellow and white caption on a magenta background reads, "A LOT OF HEART THANKS TO ANGULO'STREMULOUS, SYMPATHETIC PERFORMANCE - KIM NEWMAN, EMPIRE".]
[Ramón Yarritu, the leader of Mutant Action, wears a mask over the right side of his face blocks a door by standing with his back to it. Quimicefa, another member of Mutant Action, looks at him through the window.]
[The Siamese twins, who were asleep, wake up. They look startled.]
[Ramón looks to his right. Quimicefa disappears behind him.]
Cavan being interviewed on TV [in Spanish]: The Antichrist will be born tonight.
Producer looking at a TV screen [in Spanish]: What?
[Luis Maria de Ostolaza, a blond man wearing a colorful outfit is tapped on the shoulder. As he turns around, Ramón hits him. Luis Maria collapses and falls on the body of a man with blood on his face.]
[Ángel, José María and Cavan stand on the ledge of a tall building. José María, in the middle, is laughing.]
[An explosion.]
[A man is running away from the fire, carrying a woman on his shoulder.]
[José María is loading a rifle and shooting into the air. There's a crowd of people who are panicking and running away.]
[Perdita runs down a corridor carrying a rifle.]
[The devilish goat is walking across the living room. There are papers strewn all over the floor.]
[Close-up on Cavan looking frightened with blood streaming down his face.]
[Romeo is shouting maniacally, with a group of people behind him. There is blood on his arm.]
[The Siamese twins fire a machine gun. Another man, García, is firing back from behind a counter.]
[A caption reading "LOVE, DEATH & APOCLAYPSE: THREE FILMS BY ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA" is superimposed on a drawing of a leopard's head.]
[Perdita holds up a playing card.] Perdita: Bad luck! [Perdita hits the man opposite her in the face with a rifle.]
[A colorful caption reads, "ON 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY. IN THE UK, SEPTEMBER 23".]
Arrow Video
Outrageous, absurdist, grotesque! Often hilarious, always stylish, and utterly unpredictable, the films of Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia are an exhilarating shock to the cinematic system.
Produced by legendary provocateur Pedro Almodóvar, de la Iglesia's debut feature Acción Mutante is a violent sci-fi black comedy set in a post-apocalyptic world where attractive people hold all the power and a terrorist group, who see themselves as mutants, take arms to rid the world of their superficial oppressors. With his second feature, The Day of the Beast (El día de la bestia) de la Iglesia delivered one of the greatest horror comedies of all time as a Catholic priest joins forces with a heavy metal fan, and the host of a popular occult TV show to kill the Antichrist on Christmas Eve. A critical and commercial success around the world, The Day of the Beast paved the way for gonzo action-crime-horror Perdita Durango, (aka Dance with the Devil) a Spanish-US-Mexican co-production based on a novel by Barry Gifford (author of Wild at Heart). Starring Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing), a then little known Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Perdita Durango is a twisted tale of love, guns, drugs, voodoo ceremonies, and refrigerated foetuses...
Packed with a wealth of new and archival extras, Arrow Video welcomes you to the delirious, diabolical and demented world of Álex de la Iglesia. Not for the faint of heart!
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all three films
- Original lossless Spanish stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options for Acción Mutante
- Original lossless Spanish and English stereo 2.0, and Spanish 5.1 audio options for The Day of the Beast
- Original lossless English stereo 2.0, and English and Spanish 5.1 audio options for Perdita Durango
- Optional English subtitles for all three films
- Double-sided fold-out posters for all three films
- 9 postcard-sized reproduction art cards
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics Kat Ellinger, Xavier Aldana Reyes and Valeria Villegas Lindvall
- Limited Edition Deluxe packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Heather Vaughan
DISC ONE: ACCIÓN MUTANTE
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholars Xavier Aldana Reyes and Kat Ellinger
- Archive audio commentary with director Álex de la Iglesia, writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría, producer Esther García, and production designers José Luis Arrizabalaga and Biaffra
- Brand new appreciation of director Álex de la Iglesia by film scholar José Arroyo
- Well-Done Baloney, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Bad Blood Costumbrism, an archive interview with writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría
- The F*cking Boss, an archive interview with actor Antonio Resines
- Some Crazy Sh*t, an archive interview with production designers José Luis Arrizabalaga and Biaffra
- Litres of Blood... Wonderful!, an archive interview with special effects artist Raúl Romanillos
- Archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Vintage "Making Of" featurette
- Behind the scenes
- Storyboards
- Music video
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC TWO: THE DAY OF THE BEAST
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Shelagh Rowan-Legg
- Clean Up Madrid, a brand new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Heirs of the Beast, an archive feature-length documentary
- Antichrist Superstar, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- The Man Who Saved the World, an archive interview with actor Armando De Razza
- Beauty and the Beast, an archive interview with actor Maria Grazia Cucinotta
- Shooting the Beast, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Mirindas Asesinas, a 1990 short film by Álex de la Iglesia
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
DISC THREE: PERDITA DURANGO
- Brand new audio commentary by film critic Valeria Villegas Lindvall
- On the Border, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- Writing Perdita Durango, an archive interview with writer Barry Gifford
- Dancing with the Devil, an archive appraisal by film scholar Dr Rebekah McKendry
- Narcosatanicos: Perdita Durango and the Matamoros Cult, an archive interview with Abraham Castillo Flores and Cauldron of Blood author Jim Schutze
- Canciones de Amor Maldito: The Music of Perdita Durango, an archive interview with composer Simon Boswell
- Shooting Perdita Durango, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
- 93 / 103 / 129 Mins Approx
- Álex de la Iglesia
- 18
- Antonio Resines
- Frédérique Feder
- Álex Angulo
- Terele Pávez
- Rosie Perez
- Javier Bardem
English / English SDH
- 2.39:1 / 1.85:1 / 2.35:1
- 1993
- 1995
- 1997
- Spanish / English
- 3
- B
- Arrow Video
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So much fun
Great cover art, great extras, great limited release, super fun movies. Worth picking up, for sure!
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Excellent box set
An excellent box set set of 3 brilliant Alex De La Iglesias films. I’ve still got the region free US dvd of Perdita Durango and the UK dvd of Accion Mutante but never seen The Day Of The Beast until now. Perdita Durango is my favourite of the three but Arrow have done a great service with the releases with great transfers and the extras. Well done Arrow!
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