Bakterion

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This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Wes Benscoter) is limited to 6,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

In the small English town of Newton, a pharmaceutical company’s experiments with a new vaccine take a disastrous turn when a laboratory accident triggers an outbreak of a deadly virus. With head scientist Dr. Adams missing, and the authorities eager to keep the incident under wraps, Captain Kirk is drafted in to try to get the situation under control. When horrifically mutilated bodies start turning up, drained of all their blood and bearing strange radiation burns, the awful truth soon becomes clear - Dr. Adams has been transformed into a blood-drinking mutant and is on the rampage! With the area under quarantine, the pressure is on Captain Kirk to track down and eliminate Dr. Adams before the authorities take drastic action.

An Italian/Spanish co-production helmed by director Tonino Ricci (Cave of the Sharks, Rush), appearing under his regular pseudonym Anthony Richmond, BAKTERION (aka Panic) is a good old-fashioned monster-on-the-loose romp starring Euro horror regular David Warbeck (The Black Cat, The Beyond) and Swedish starlet Janet Ågren (City of the Living Dead, Eaten Alive!). Featuring plentiful scenes of monster mayhem, including the creature running amok in a movie theater and terrorizing a group of choir boys in a church, the celluloid scientists at Vinegar Syndrome are thrilled to unleash BAKTERION from the laboratory in its world UHD premiere, restored in 4K from the original camera negative and accompanied by a host of new bonus features.

directed by: Tonino Ricci
starring: David Warbeck, Janet Ågren, Roberto Ricci, José Lifante, Miguel Herrera, Eugenio Benito
1982 / 94 min / 1.66:1 / Italian, English Mono

Additional info:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region Free Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 16mm original camera negative
• Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• "The Core of the Monster" (24 min) - an interview with FX artist and actor Roberto Ricci
• "Latex Memories" (18 min) - an interview with make-up artist Adriano Carboni
• "Monster Kids: The Heritage of Tonino Ricci and Rino Carboni" (25 min) - featurette with Roberto Ricci and Adriano Carboni
• Alternate English titles
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• Newly translated English subtitles