Arrow Video's 2K Restoration Of Director José Ramón Larraz’s Deadly Manor Ready For Blu-ray On Feb. 28

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be serving up prolific Spanish filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s 1990 direct-to-video haunted house thriller, Deadly Manor, on Feb. 28 as a new 2K film restoration (from the original film elements) on Blu-ray for the first time.

Take those coveted VHS copies and toss them (or, perhaps, a formal and very fitting burial should take place in the backyard) and set your sets on this loopy victim pool/haunted house horror tale on Blu-ray (packed with goodies) … and we mean loopy in a good way, of course.   

What makes Deadly Manor so much fun as a genre film is the set-up before we ever get to the “haunted house” part of the story.   We have the usual meet-and-greet with our classic victim pool of teenagers, who are heading off for a “camping” adventure, but they decide to stop and pick up the shadiest of hitchhikers (does he have a chainsaw? … No, OK … let’s stop).   

His name is Jack (Clark Tufts — Voodoo) and he is of little help in getting them to their destination as they soon become lost and end up at a super creepy place in the woods, of course.   Lost, with a sketchy hitchhiker … and we are just getting started!!

Any reasonable person would just keep on going if they came across a car on blocks, in a weeded front yard of an abandoned old house, and inside the car they happen to find a creepy old photo (are those blood stains … don’t look too close).   Doesn’t that serve as a warning that maybe it’s best to push on, even if you are lost?   

But no, the kids are lost, Jack’s no help and it is starting to rain so why not skip the lake and spend the night — with a complete stranger — in an abandoned house.   Before entering, one of their members, the lovely Helen (Claudia Franjul), spots someone in one of the windows, gets spooked and runs off into the woods … first victim.

Loopy, we said.   No one, not even Tony (Greg Rhodes — Final Exam), Helen’s boyfriend, bothers to go look for her, instead they go inside the house and start to explore.  In short order, they find coffins in the basement, more photos of the woman from the car, pictures of dead people and trophies in a jar (don’t ask).   Leave, hell no … die one by one they will.

Deadly Manor is a wonderful slasher flick that has at least one red herring (is Jack the killer?), a real haunted house (well, maybe it’s really a death trap) and a mysterious woman (Jennifer Delora — Frankenhooker, Bad Girls Dormitory) who wanders about the place (naked at that).   And, this is the best part, there is actually a “final girl” and it is not who you would have your money on … sweet!!

Bonus goodies include commentary from Diabolique Magazine’s Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan, a newly-prepared video session with our mysterious woman, Jennifer Delora, a second video session with producer Brian Smedley-Aston (Squirm, Performance, Blue Sunshine, etc.) and an archival video session with filmmaker José Ramón Larraz.