The late Spanish
filmmaker, José Ramón Larraz, whose cult-status was secured way back in the
1970s, gets the “special edition” treatment on Mar. 26 when Arrow Video, with
domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group,
brings the three-film/three Blu-ray disc collection titled (appropriately
enough) Blood Hunger: The Films of Jose Larraz.
All three films in the
collection from Arrow Video are newly-minted 2K restorations from the original
film elements.
Included in the mix is his
classic 1975 lesbian vampire treasure Vampyres, starring Marianne Morris and
Anulka Dziubinska as the seductive “Fran” and “Miriam,” who use sex, seduction
and ultimately violence to lure men (and women) to their feeding trough. Gothic, vampires and lesbians, Larraz knew
exactly what cinematic “buttons” to push!
Bonus features include a
new commentary track by Diabolique
Magazine’s Kat Ellinger, newly prepared video sessions with producer Brian
Smedley-Aston and “vampire” seductresses Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska,
plus co-stars Brian Deacon and Sally Faulkner … and makeup artist Colin Arthur
and composer James Kenelm Clarke.
Additionally, Arrow Video has the new featurette titled “Reimagining
Vampyres,” the archival video session with José Larraz and the Jose Larraz and
Marianne Morris Q&A at 1997 Eurofest.
The other two films
included in this genre-fan collection are his out-and-out sexploitation films Whirlpool
(1970) and The Coming of Sin (1978).
Bonus features for Whirlpool
feature commentary from film critic Tim Lucas and a trio of featurettes — “Obsessive
Recurrence: The Early Films of José Larraz,” “A Curious Casting” and “Deviations
of Whirlpool” — and vintage video session with filmmaker José Larraz.
Bonus features for The
Coming of Sin include both the Spanish and English-language versions of the
film, commentary from Diabolique Magazine’s
Kat Ellinger, Simon Birrell’s 2005 short film, His Last Request, and a pair
of featurettes — “Variations of Vice: The Alternate Versions of The Coming of
Sin” and “Remembering Larraz.”
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