Danza Macabra Volume One: The Italian Gothic Collection

In a genre known for it's castles, crypts and candelabras, Italian Gothic also embraced themes of violence, madness and sexual deviance. With these 4 films, those impulses dare to go even deeper: In 1964's THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA, director Renato Polselli and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi craft a surreal erotic shocker set within a contemporary dance troupe. Perhaps the genre's rarest film, the berserk supernatural narrative of 1965's THE SEVENTH GRAVE also makes it among the strangest. For 1970's SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER, director José Luis Merino gathers classic traditions, then strips them naked and ties them to a torture rack. And 1971's LADY FRANKENSTEIN delivers iconic EuroCult talent on both sides of the camera for one of the most luridly entertaining shockers of the decade. The films in this collection are now fully restored from their original negatives, with 12+ collective hours of Special Features.

THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA

Commentary With Kat Ellinger

Interview With Ernesto Gastaldi

Interview With Mark Thompson-Ashworth

Archival Audio Interview With Renato Polselli

THE SEVENTH GRAVE

Commentary With Rachael Nisbet

Interview With Fabio Melelli

Video Essay By Rachel Knightley

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER

Commentary With Rod Barnett & Robert Monell

Interview With Erna Schurer

Video Essay By Stephen Thrower

LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Commentary With Kat Ellinger & Annie Rose Malamet

Commentary With Alan Jones & Kim Newman

Featurette With Rosalba Neri & Fabio Melelli

Piecing Together LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Documentary Short On Mel Welles

German TV Documentary

Clothed Insert Shots

Video Short Illustrating BBFC Censorship Cuts

Italian Opening Credits

Italian LADY FRANKENSTEIN Photo Novel

And More!