The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 2

NB: 3 av diskene er låst til sone A, og krever sonefri Blu-ray-spillerTo celebrate the centennial ofSir Christopher Lee,Eurocrypt Collection 2presents five of the most unexpected, underrated and underseen films of the iconic actor’s European career. Immediately following HORROR OF DRACULA, Lee reprised the role in the quirky 1959 Italian comedyUNCLE WAS A VAMPIRE. Lee speaks fluent German oppositeKlaus Kinskifor the crazed 1962 krimiSECRET OF THE RED ORCHID. In the 1974 UK psycho-thrillerDARK PLACES, Lee toplines a cast that includesJoan Collins,Herbert LomandJane Birkin. Lee’s final performance as The Count in the 1976 French comedyDRACULA AND SONcan at last be seen in its superiorDirector’s Cut, while the ultra-rare 1988 Dutch dramaMURDER STORYbrings Lee into the sex shoppes of Amsterdam. Each film has beenremastered from original negative materialswithover 15 total hours of trailers, commentaries, alternate cuts, vintage interviews and new featurettes, plus theDRACULA AND SONsoundtrackand an all-new 100-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby.Disc 1: Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)Region FreeShortly after HORROR OF DRACULA,Christopher Leeaccepted an offer from producerMario Cecchi Gori– whose 200+ films would include Argento’s OPERA and Oscar®nominee IL POSTINO – to make his first Italian film and reprise his star-making role:His Carpathian domicile bought by developers, Baron Roderico(Lee in full Hammer/Dracula mode) flees to the ancestral castle owned by his impoverished nephew (diminutive ’50s comedy starRenato Rascel). But when the nephew sells this castle to luxury hoteliers, Uncle Prince of Darkness must withstand obnoxious tourists, bikini beauties and his own bloodsucking bellhop relative.Sylva Koscina(HERCULES) andSusanne Loret(ATOM AGE VAMPIRE) co-star in this sexy spoof directed bySteno(famed for his films with Italian comicTotò), featuring theUncut Theatrical Version scanned in 2K from the dupe negativeandAlternate TV Version sourced from the broadcast tape master.Disc 2: The Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)Region AChristopher Leestars – speaking fluent German – in this off-the-wall 1962 krimi filmed in Hamburg and based on the Edgar Wallace novelWhen The Gangs Came To London.Asrival Chicago mobsters – led byKlaus Kinskias ‘Pretty Boy Steve’ – unleash a spree of extortion, machine gun mayhem and murder across England, Scotland Yard summons a cunning FBI agent (Lee) to end the escalating gang war.Adrian Hoven(MARK OF THE DEVIL, CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH), andMarisa Mell(DANGER: DIABOLIK) co-star in this “entertaining riff on the classic gangster genre” (Krimi Film),now scanned in 2K from the dupe negative and presented with its English and German-language tracks for the first time ever in America.Disc 3: Dark Places (1974)Region FreeChristopher Leetoplines a cast that includesJoan Collins, Herbert LomandJane Birkinin the 1974 UK production – directed byDon Sharpof RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONK and PSYCHOMANIA fame – that’s equal parts ‘old dark house’ supernatural shocker and Amicus-style all-star fun: When the former administrator of an asylum (Robert Hardy,aka ‘Cornelius Fudge’ of the HARRY POTTER films) inherits the crumbling estate of an elderly inmate, he’ll unlock a nightmare of lust, larceny, insanity and several murders grisly enough to warrant an ‘X’ certification from the BBFC.Jean Marsh(THE CHANGELING, RETURN TO OZ) co-stars in this “overlooked entry amid the ‘70s Anglo-horror cycle” (Moria Reviews),now scanned uncut in 4K from an internegative recently discovered in a London lab vault.Disc 4 & 5: Dracula and Son – Director’s Cut (1976) and U.S. Version (1979)Region AFor his tenth and final scree