Mario Bava's Baron Blood Arrow Dual Format

[Rik]

Mario Bava's Baron Blood Arrow Dual Format



One of horror giant Mario Bava’s biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch’s curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years earlier.

This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria’s legendarily murderous ‘Baron Blood’, whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices.

Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane, The Third Man) has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer (Lisa and the Devil), who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava’s most memorably atmospheric set-pieces.

Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of three versions of the film: Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga with Italian opening and closing titles and Baron Blood with English opening and closing titles and the European English export version audio, and for the first time on home video, the AIP version with alternate score by Les Baxter
- Three audio versions: Optional Italian, European English and AIP English re-dub and re-score
- English SDH subtitles and a new English subtitle translation of the Italian audio
- Audio Commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas
- Introduction to Baron Blood by author and critic Alan Jones
- Trailers for Baron Blood
- Baron Blood Radio Spots
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Oliver James, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

Region B/2

Released 29/04/2013

[Steel76]

Super happy about this: "AIP English re-dub and re-score "
as this is the version I saw on VHS when I grew up

Call me crazy, but I was extremely disappointed when that re-scored soundtrack was not avalible when I got the DVD. This is one of the few rare occations when I don´t prefer the original track.

[the blob]

Funny thing is this and BLACK SABBATH seem to have taken a back seat in the new announcements as they were already known but I'm still looking forward to these two most by far.

[Rik]

This is one of the few Bava films I haven't seen so I'm really looking forward to this

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

It doesn't seem to have much in the way of extras.

[Gojirosan]

An under-rated Bava for me. I am very fond of this one.

[Buboven]

Is Four Times That Night not included anymore?

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

It doesn't seem to have much in the way of extras.

Yeah it's pretty much the same as the disc in the Anchor Bay Bava boxset.

I enjoyed the film, especially the bonus of Joseph Cotton cropping up . . .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

Yeah it's pretty much the same as the disc in the Anchor Bay Bava boxset.

I enjoyed the film, especially the bonus of Joseph Cotton cropping up . . .

You never can tell with Arrow. He may be cropped for good.

[Slippery Jack]

If they seamless branch Cotton out of the picture there'll be hell to pay . . .