Baron Blood

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Baron Blood

#1 Post by DarkImbecile » Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:29 pm

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HE SOUGHT THE ULTIMATE IN HUMAN AGONY...

One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later.

This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices.

Jospeh Cotten (Citizen Kane, The Third Man) has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer (Lisa and the Devil), who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava's modst memorably atmospheric set-pieces.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of three versions of the film: Bava's original version Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga with Italian audio, the European Export Version of Baron Blood with English audio, and, on home video for the first time, the re-edited and re-dubbed AIP Version of Baron Blood with alternate score by Les Baxter
  • Three audio versions: Optional Italian, European English and AIP English re-dub and re-score
  • English SDH subtitles for both English versions and a new English subtitle translation of the Italian audio
  • Audio commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas
  • Introduction to Baron Blood by author and critic Alan Jones
  • Delirium Italian Style - Ruggero Deodata on Maria Bava and the golden age of Italian genre films
  • Mario Bava at Work - a photo gallery of Bava behind the scenese on his films
  • Trailers and Radio Spots
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

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