Jose Larraz's SYMPTOMS Limited Edition Blu-ray Is Up For Pre-Order Now
Cult film specialists, Mondo Macabro, have opened up pre-orders for their upcoming release of Jose Ramon Larraz's Symptoms. The film is a rare project from Larraz that has been unseen for decades, and Mondo Macabro has teamed up with the British Film Institute (BFI) to restore the film and brings it back into the public consciousness. The resulting standard home video releases from Mondo Macabro and BFI are too be mostly identical, apart from packaging and an additional DVD copy from BFI.
However, as has become a welcome habit from Mondo Macabro, there will be an exclusive red box edition in the US packed with extra materials. Check out the specs below, with the exclusive limited edition content bolded for emphasis
- The 2011 documentary on Jose Larraz, ON VAMPYRES AND OTHER SYMPTOMS, a film by Celia Novis
- FROM BARCELONA TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS, a 1999 TV documentary on Larraz, part of the EUROTIKA! series
- New interviews with stars Angela Pleasence and Lorna Heilbron and editor Brian Smedley-Aston
- Newly commissioned cover art by Gilles Vranckx
- Larraz on Larraz! Bonus DVD featuring a two-hour long archival interview with Jose Ramon Larraz! - Conducted in the late 90s and used as the basis for the Larraz episode of UK TV show Eurotika! (included as an extra on the main disc), the majority of this career-spanning interview has never been seen before.
- Exclusive booklet featuring a brand new essay from Writer/Critic Samm Deighan! – Samm is the editor of the Satanic Pandemonium blog, co-host of the Daughters of Darkness podcast, and the assistant web editor for excellent horror magazine Diabolique. She has contributed to Fangoria, Paracinema, and the book Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, and is currently writing a book about WWII and cult cinema.
The bonus DVD containing the two-hour interview with Larraz is quite a perk, but I'm also a sucker for booklets (if you've read my reviews in the past, you would have noticed this). The red case is neat and matches my other Mondo Macabro DVDs, but content is king, and this set adds a ton of content to analready impressive package.
I'm a frequent and satisfied customer of Mondo Macabro's online store, and we should all buy directly as often as possible, it's the best way to ensure that our money keeps these companies alive and kicking. Symptoms is on sale now at the Mondo Macabro store, click the link below to get your order in before it's too late!
