Mondo Macabro August Sale
Thursday, August 29th at 9 AM Pacific / 12 noon Eastern at mondomacabro.bigcartel.com
Mondo Macabro is releasing three “Limited Edition” Blu-rays for its August sale, each containing an illustrated booklet and packaged in their signature red cases.
Gothic for Radicals: The Horror Films of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking
Between 1969 and 1971 director Gordon Hessler and writer Christopher Wicking collaborated on four unique and challenging horror movies for independent production company American International Pictures:
These four works from Hessler and Wicking have been undervalued and little explored by most film critics and historians. Yet, they represent artistic extensions of, and in some cases reactions against, the traditions of gothic cinema that had become prevalent in the previous decade.
Book available for purchase at Amazon.ca / Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk
Upcoming disc releases
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Behind the Mask (1932)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Black Moon (1934)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Air Hawks (1935)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
The Oblong Box (1969)
Oct 21 - BFI -
El vampiro (1957)
Oct 22 - Indicator -
The Vampire’s Coffin (1958)
Oct 22 - Indicator -
Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)
Oct 22 - Film Masters -
Fright (1971)
Oct 22 - Kino -
Web of the Spider (1971)
Oct 22 - Film Masters -
Hussy (1980)
Oct 22 - Kino -
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! (2022)
Oct 22 - MVD -
I vampiri (1957)
Oct 28 - Radiance -
The Walking Dead (1936)
Oct 29 - Warner -
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Oct 29 - Warner -
Circus of Horrors (1960)
Oct 29 - Kino -
Shocker (1989)
Oct 29 - Scream Factory -
Superstition (1982)
Oct 30 - Imprint -
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Nov 12 - Arrow -
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Nov 18 - Radiance -
Virgin Witch (1972)
Nov 25 - 88 Films
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Behind the Mask (1932)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Black Moon (1934)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Air Hawks (1935)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Oct 21 - Indicator -
El vampiro (1957)
Oct 22 - Indicator -
The Vampire’s Coffin (1958)
Oct 22 - Indicator
Recently released discs
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I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Criterion • 4K UHD -
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Criterion • 4K UHD -
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
101 Films • 4K UHD -
The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
88 Films • Blu-ray -
Doomwatch (1972)
88 Films • Blu-ray -
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Anolis • Blu-ray -
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (2018)
Anolis • Blu-ray -
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
Blue Underground • 4K UHD -
Redneck Miller (1976)
Film Masters • Blu-ray -
Village of the Damned (1995)
Scream Factory • 4K UHD -
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Kino • Blu-ray
Recently added discs
- Class of 1984 (1982) DVD · Anchor Bay
- Class of 1984 (1982) Blu-ray · 101 Films
- Class of 1984 (1982) Blu-ray · Scream Factory
- Frankenstein Unbound (1990) DVD · Anchor Bay
- Young Frankenstein (1974) DVD · 20th Century Fox
- Young Frankenstein (1974) Blu-ray · 20th Century Fox
- Nosferatu (1922) DVD · Kino
- Nosferatu (1922) DVD · Kino
- Nosferatu (1922) DVD · Image
- Nosferatu (1922) DVD · Image
- Nosferatu (1922) Blu-ray · BFI
- Nosferatu (1922) Blu-ray · Eureka
- Nosferatu (1922) Blu-ray · Reel Vault
- Nosferatu (1922) Blu-ray · Kino
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) DVD · Columbia
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) DVD · Columbia
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Blu-ray · Sony
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Blu-ray · Sony
Recently updated discs
- The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Blu-ray · Anolis
- The Trollenberg Terror (1958) DVD · Image
- The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Blu-ray · Warner
- The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) DVD-R · Warner
- Amityville 3-D (1983) Blu-ray · Scream Factory
- Amityville 3-D (1983) DVD · Sanctuary
- Amityville 3-D (1983) DVD · MGM
- Frankenstein Unbound (1990) DVD · 20th Century Fox
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) 4K UHD · Arrow
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) Blu-ray · Arrow
- Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (2018) Blu-ray · Anolis
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Blu-ray · Anolis
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Blu-ray · Warner
- Tartuffe (1925) DVD · Kino
- Amityville II: The Possession (1982) DVD · MGM
- Amityville II: The Possession (1982) Blu-ray · Scream Factory
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) 4K UHD · Sony
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) 4K UHD · Sony
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