May 2016 New Release
Symptoms
Blu-ray
Label: Mondo Macabro
Pre-book: 04/12/2016 Streets: 05/10/2016
SRP: $29.95 UPC: 843276016593 Cat: MDO165 Run Time: 91 minutes
In English Color Widescreen 1.66:1
PCM Mono Region: All Production year: 1974 Genre: Horror
Director: Jose Ramon Larraz
Cast: Angela Pleasence, Lorna Heilbron, Peter Vaughan
Blu-ray
Label: Mondo Macabro
Pre-book: 04/12/2016 Streets: 05/10/2016
SRP: $29.95 UPC: 843276016593 Cat: MDO165 Run Time: 91 minutes
In English Color Widescreen 1.66:1
PCM Mono Region: All Production year: 1974 Genre: Horror
Director: Jose Ramon Larraz
Cast: Angela Pleasence, Lorna Heilbron, Peter Vaughan
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.
Special Features:
- 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
- Specially commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
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