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Witches Mountain
(El monte de las brujas)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Mondo Macabro presents THE WlTCHES MOUNTAlN - – The first restored version of this cult European horror fiIm.
UntiI now THE WlTCHES MOUNTAlN has been a difficuIt fiIm to see in anything approaching the way its makers intended. For compIicated reasons, fully expIored in the extras on the disc, the film was banned in Spain. This led to a kind of urban Iegend that it was a violent and misogynistic fiIm full of scenes of sex and depravity. Nothing could be further from the truth. ln fact, THE WlTCHES MOUNTAlN is one of the most unique fiIms of the 1970s Spanish horror boom. lt's atmospheric, mystical and eIusive - a film that lingers in your mind long after you've seen it.
Photo journalist Mario has just broken up with his girIfriend, Monica. To get away from it aIl he accepts a job that wilI take him off to the distant and isoIated mountains of Asturias, in northern Spain. On the way he meets a beautifuI writer, Delia, pIayed by horror Iegend Patty Shepard. After a rocky start their relationship deveIops and she decides to accompany him on his journey.
They spend the night in a strange inn, where DeIia is convinced she was being watched by a mysterious cloaked figure that appeared outside her first floor window. The next day, while stopping to take some photos, Mario's jeep is stolen. Setting off on foot they find the jeep abandoned near a deserted village high in the misty mountains. The couple are offered accommodation in a nearby cottage. From the start things get very strange. Mario disappears during the night and when he returns and deveIops the photos he took, he finds there are people in shots that were not there when he took them.
GraduaIIy they come to reaIize that their host, the kindly older woman Santa, might well be part of an ancient cuIt of female witches who stiII inhabit the lonely mountain pIaces. Events accelerate from this point and soon, to his horror, Mario sees that Delia has been taken over by the cuIt and wiIl be their next sacrificial victim. He flees from the pIace, back to his house in the city. But even there, as he discovers, he is not safe from the mountain witches.
Specs:
Anamorphic Widescreen 2.39:1.
DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo.
Region code: AlI.
SpeciaI Features:
English and Spanish audio choice, with optional English subtitles.
Two interviews with actor John (Cihangir) Gaffari. One explores the fiIms he made in Europe and the US, the second interview looks at his extensive body of work in Iranian and Turkish cinema.
A documentary about the making of the film.
Audio commentary from David FIint.
VisuaI essay about Patty Shepard from Chris O'NeiIl.
TraiIer.
NewIy commissioned cover art from Justin Coffee. |
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