Blue Underground Will Be Sending Home On Mar. 26 A 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack Edition Of Director Jess Franco's Night Of The Blood Monster

You may know it — or even have it in your collection — as The Bloody Judge.  

That’s great, call it what you will, but you are definitely going to want to see what Blue Underground, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has in store for you on Mar. 26.

They have a new 4K film restoration — from various “European” vault elements — of cult filmmaker Jess Franco’s 1970 (1972, dubbed theatrical for domestic consumption) tale of depravity, Night of the Blood Monster (aka: The Bloodly Judge).  Starring legendary horror icon Christopher Lee as the infamous George Jeffrey, a judge in service to King James II, who dealt out harsh punishment to traitors, but came into the public eye for his particularly cruel treatment of Alice Lisle.

What Franco did (along with co-writers Enrico Colombo, Michael Haller) was to take an historical figure, an event — changing the name to Alice Gray (played by Margaret Lee — Venus in Furs, Psycho-Circus, Dorian Gray, etc.) — and then let the blood flow in an over-the-top treatment of the subject.

By the time the film arrived in the United States in May of 1972 it had lost some of the excesses (to put it mildly), but was still quite the horror show.   Blue Underground has restored Franco’s film to its original gory glory!!

Bonus goodies include three — count’em, three — commentary options.   Take your choice of film historians as Troy Howarth and Nathanial Thompson, Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw and David Flint and Adrian Smith each team for one each.   

There are also deleted and alternate scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Bloody Jess,” “Judgement Day” and “In the Shadows.”