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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.

Blu-ray box art for Tokugawa Sex Ban — Tokugawa Sex Ban (1972)

Blu-ray box art for The Killer is Not Alone — The Killer is Not Alone (1975)

Blu-ray box art for The Hungry Snake Woman — The Hungry Snake Woman (1986)

Book cover for Gothic for Radicals: The Horror Films of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking

By Dr. Steve Haberman

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:

Poster of The Oblong Box — The Oblong Box (1969)

Poster of Scream and Scream Again — Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Poster of Cry of the Banshee — Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Poster of Murders in the Rue Morgue — Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

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