Macabre

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This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Wes Benscoter & Shea Hardacre), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and 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.

Jane Baker is finding life difficult to cope with following the death of her lover. Seeking seclusion, she takes a room in a large, gothic mansion, whose elderly owner is blind. But Jane is also keeping a horrifying secret; a remnant of her love which she cannot let go but must keep hidden. As her fragile mental state further deteriorates, visitors to the spooky old house come too close to uncovering the shocking truth, when Jane snaps and unleashes a wrath of increasingly bloody terror…

The first feature film directed entirely by Italian horror legend Lamberto Bava (A Blade in the Dark, Demons), the giallo-tinged, true-crime-inspired MACABRE (Macabro) offers a tense and grisly study of budding madness. Starring Bernice Stegers (Fellini’s City of Women, Xtro) in a riveting performance utilizing the haunting beauty of New Orleans, and featuring a screenplay co-authored by Bava along with the great Pupi and Antonio Avati (The House With Laughing Windows, Zeder), this unnerving thriller at last hits 4K UHD from Vinegar Syndrome in a brand new, absolutely gorgeous restoration of its totally uncensored original camera negative, along with a heaping assortment of fresh interviews and critical appraisals.

directed by: Lamberto Bava
starring: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse, Ferdinando Orlandi, Fernando Pannullo, Elisa Kadigia Bove
1980 / 90 min / 1.85:1 / 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 35mm original camera negative
• Three presentations of the film (UHD and BD): 
  • Italian theatrical version
  • International theatrical version
  • US theatrical version
• Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth, and Nathaniel Thompson
• "The Bloody Beginning" - an interview with director Lamberto Bava
• "New Orleans Gothic" - an interview with writer Pupi Avati
• "A Head for Producing" - an interview with producer Antonio Avati
• "Jazzing for a Murder" - an interview with film music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis
• "Macabre Love" - an interview with Macabre expert Mark Thompson Ashworth
• Macabre Q&A with Lamberto Bava
• Original theatrical trailer
• International theatrical trailer
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• Newly translated English subtitles