Curse of the Vampires [Blu-ray] Paolo Heusch Audio: DTS-HD MA 5

Audio: DTS-HD MA 5

THE MAN FROM HONG KONG

As the 'body-count' genre stabbed its way into audiences' hearts in the early '80s

depraved disaster

and stars Edwige Fenech & George Hilton made their collaborative giallo debut with this “incredible piece of cinema” (Flickering Myth) that is “every bit as thrilling as Argento’s best” (Goomba Stomp): Fenech “at her most luminous” (Digitally Obsessed) stars as an unfaithful diplomat’s wife who finds herself hunted by a razor-wielding sex maniac while simultaneously haunted by her own depraved desires

Curse of the Vampires [Blu-ray] Paolo Heusch Audio: DTS-HD MA 5In this pseudo sequel to his masterpiece THE BLOOD DRINKERS, director Gerry de Leon (TERROR IS A MAN, BRIDES OF BLOOD) delves even deeper into themes of lust, guilt, faith and redemption within an aristocratic family cursed by vampirism. But this time, he adds rich gothic dollops of torture, incest, carnal depravity and blackface that oozes sexual menace, brims with potent cultural metaphors and makes for unusually hypnotic viewing (Senses Of Cinema).