Mondo Macabro presents FATA MORGANA – First U.S. Blu-ray launch for this 1960’s psychedelic Euro-thriller.
Mondo Macabro and CAV current FATA MORGANA – First U.S. Blu-ray launch for this 1960’s psychedelic Euro-thriller.
Fata Morgana
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Mondo Macabro
Preorder: 6/11/24 Launch: 7/9/24
MSRP: $29.95
UPC: 843276029791
Catalogue #: MDO297
Style: Horror
Coloration
87 minutes in Spanish, with English subtitles
MPAA Ranking: NR
Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
PCM Stereo
Area code: All
Manufacturing 12 months: 1966 in Spain
Director: Vicente Aranda
Solid: Teresa Gimpera, Marianne Benet, Marcos Martí, Antonio Ferrandis
A person rehearses a lecture he’s planning to present, analysing serial killers. He claims {that a} lady is quickly to be murdered within the metropolis. It’s inevitable, he explains, as some individuals are born victims whereas others are born to kill. He plans to establish the long run sufferer via a collection of images of violent acts.
Vogue mannequin Gim, performed by iconic Spanish actress Teresa Gimpera, finds herself alone in a Barcelona that appears virtually abandoned. She seeks out her lover, Alvaro, for assist. On her approach to meet him she is harassed by a collection of males and adopted by an enormous and menacing silver truck with blacked out home windows. By a loud-speaker on the truck a mechanical voice orders all individuals to go away the town instantly.
Gim finds that Alvaro’s former girlfriend, Miriam, is staying in his home having simply returned from London the place a horrible however unexplained occasion occurred. In Alvaro’s “artwork chamber”, an clearly disturbed Miriam finds a big knife disguised as a metallic silver fish.
In the meantime, a bunch of teenage boys minimize out an image of Gim from an enormous promoting billboard. They carry it via the empty metropolis streets in a silent procession.
Directed in 1965 by Vicente Aranda (THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE) FATA MORGANA is a hallucinogenic combination of chase thriller, science fiction, artwork movie and comic-book impressed puzzle. Stuffed with garishly colored visuals and with a hypnotic jazzy soundtrack, the movie is a novel and extremely entertaining first characteristic from one in every of world cinema’s most famous creators.
Particular Options:
New 2k scan from authentic unfavorable, totally restored and uncut.
Interview with actress Teresa Gimpera.
Interview with Angel Sala director of the Sitges Movie Competition.
Audio commentary from critic Rachael Nisbet.
Alternate opening sequence.
Optionally available English subtitles.
