Rasputin: The Mad Monk - BLU-RAY

The Phantom of the Monastery(US Standard Edition) Director Fernando de Fuentes Cast Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel, Carlos Villatoro, Paco Martínez, Victorio Blanco Made in the wake of La Llorona’s success and directed with flair by Fernando de Fuentes (regarded as one of the masters of early Mexican cinema), The Phantom of the Monastery (El fantasma del convento) tells the macabre tale of a troupe of hikers who become lost in a forest and take refuge in a haunted monastery. There, they encounter shape-shifting shadows, ominous sealed doorways, and a cellar crowded with coffins... An expressionistic Gothic triumph which has tragically languished in obscurity outside of Mexico, The Phantom of the Monastery has now been lovingly restored and is presented on Blu-ray at long last in a world debut edition, with a selection of illuminating extras. INDICATOR BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES New 4K restoration from the original negative by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in collaboration with the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project Original mono audio Audio commentary with genre-film experts, critics and authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2022) The Devil in the Detail(2022, 18 mins) Abraham Castillo Flores, head programmer of Mexico’s Mórbido Film Fest, considers the impact of this early horror classic Optional English translation subtitles Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Accepting a night's lodging from an old crone, a novitiate monk (Leonid Kuravlyov) found himself attacked by his host... and after his self-defense proved mortal, she transformed into a beautiful young woman (Natalya Varley) in death. Fleeing, he thought the horrors were behind him-but as he found himself ordered to preside over his victim's wake for three nights, they'd only just begun, in this seminal Soviet scarefest adapted from the Gogol novella. 77 min. Standard; Soundtrack Russian Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles English; bonus short films; featurettes; theatrical trailer. In Russian with English subtitles.

You may have heard of this infamous Blaxploitation / Horror hyrid, but the real story is even more bizarre In 1973, criminal-lawyer- turned wannabe-monster-move-mogul Frank R. Saletri wrote and produced this grindhouse hit about a Black soldier mortally wounded in Vietnam transformed into a rampaging monster by an L.A. mad scientist.