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101 Films presents gruesome exploitation shocker Mansion of the Doomed (1976), available in the UK for the very first time. This limited-edition release includes a brand-new documentary on producer Charles Band’s Full Moon Features, an Interview with editor Harry Keramidas, artwork from the original UK Video nasty release and a booklet featuring brand new essays on the film by Chris Alexander and Andy Marshall-Roberts.
Title 035 on the 101 Films Black Label, this limited-edition release includes a brand-new documentary produced exclusively for this release on Charles Band’s Full Moon Features. Enclosed in a limited-edition slipcase featuring the original artwork from the confiscated Video Nasty release of the 80s. This release also features a limited-edition booklet with brand new writing on the film ‘On Mansion of the Doomed’ by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and ‘The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed’ by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts.
Richard Basehart (Being There, TV’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) stars as the maniacal Dr. Leonard Chaney, a brilliant surgeon who compulsively kidnaps people and rips out their eyeballs, dumping their bleeding bodies into a filthy basement cage. His masterplan? To transplant these ill-gotten orbs into the skull of his daughter, who herself was blinded in a tragic accident years before.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- The Charles Band Empire - A new documentary on the career of horror legend Charles Band.
- Cutting Teeth - Editor Harry Keramidas on ‘Mansion of the Doomed’.
- Limited edition booklet: Includes ‘On Mansion of the Doomed’ by filmmaker and critic Chris Alexander and ‘The Eye is blind if the mind is absent: The legacy of ocular violence & video nasties within Mansion of the Doomed’ by writer Andy Marshall-Roberts.
This is a UK Import. The Blu-ray disc is region B and will require a multi-regional capable player.