Ferat Vampire (1982) coming from Severin

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FERAT VAMPIRE

THE NORTH AMERICAN HOME VIDEO PREMIERE WITH 5+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

From Juraj Herz – the award-winning writer/director of MORGIANA, THE NINTH HEART, THE CREMATOR and subversive genius of the Czech New Wave – comes the disturbing shocker driven by cultural provocation, political paranoia and a supercharged take on the vampire mythos, now on disc for the first time ever in America: When Ferat Motors introduces a new high-performance sports car, a trauma doctor investigates a bizarre theory that the vehicle is a biological machine fueled by human blood. Jirí Menzel (director of the Oscar®-winning CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS), Dagmar Havlová (former First Lady of the Czech Republic) and the iconic Škoda 110 Super Sport star in this “deeply weird horror thriller with sci-fi overtones and a touch of Cronenberg” (House of Self Indulgence), restored by Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films with over 5 hours of new & archival Special Features curated exclusively for this release.

Special Features for FERAT VAMPIRE:
• Audio Commentary With Film Historian Michael Brooke
• Archival Audio Commentary With Film Critic Lars Dreyer-Winkelmann (Revised/Re-Recorded In English)
• A Person Undergoing A Strange Sequence Of Events – Actress Jana Brezková Remembers FERAT VAMPIRE
• Vampires Ltd. – Screenwriter Jan Fleischer On Adapting FERAT VAMPIRE
• Eat Up The Road: UPĺR Z FERATU And The Legend Of The Blood Car – Video Essay By Filmmaker Stephen Broomer
• Archival interviews With Director Juraj Herz And Actors Jana Brezková And Vít Olmer
• The Iron Vampire – Archival Interview With Auto/Prototype Engineer Stanislav Cinkl
• Ferat Vampire: Close-Up – A Look At The Škoda Prototype That Was Used For The Ferat In The Film
• STRANGE AIRLINES (59 mins) – 1992 Czech TV Movie Based On Vampire Ltd. Author Josef Nesvadba's 1966 Short Story Mordair, Starring Czech Actress Jana Brejchová
• Booklet Featuring The Original Short Story Vampire Ltd. By Josef Nesvadba And A New Introduction By Czech Science Fiction Historian Ivan Adamovič

Feature Specs for FERAT VAMPIRE:
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Runtime: 94 mins
• Audio: Czech Mono
• Subtitles: English
• Region: A/B/C

Severin Trailer:

FERAT VAMPIRE (1982) TRAILER - YouTube

TV Promo:

UpÃ*r z Feratu (8.7.2021 v 22:00 na CS FILM) - YouTube

Cinema Terror Review:

The Czech Vampire Car Movie Ferat Vampire (1982) - YouTube

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This should be the last of the Juraj Herz movies that Severin restored in 4K:

As part of their ongoing mission to rescue the greatest underseen films from around the world, Severin Films has also created brand new 4K restorations of four extraordinary dark fantasy works from the great Slovak filmmaker Juraj Herz (THE CREMATOR), one of the most unique and subversive voices to come out of the Czech New Wave. These four films - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, MORGIANA, THE NINTH HEART and FERAT VAMPIRE - will also be playing at the festival this year.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Czech Republic, 1978): A merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast. For this perverse re-telling of the original fairy tale Juraj Herz puts his own gothic stamp on Beauty and the Beast.

MORGIANA (Czech Republic, 1972): A deliciously dark tale about female revenge and sibling rivalry, packed full of gaslighting, uncanny doubles, black cats, and sly humour. Adding a psychedelic Gothic twist to his filmic adaptation of Alexander Grin’s novel, Herz proves why he was the Czechslovakian master of dark fantasy and horror.

THE NINTH HEART (Czech Republic, 1978): A student must rescue a princess from the castle of an evil magician who's preparing an elixir from the stolen hearts of nine children. Laced with aspects of folk horror, vampirism, and surreal fairy tales, this film’s dark fantasy components are further enhanced by quirky contraptions and gorgeous set-pieces crafted by the director’s long-time friends and collaborators, the married couple director Jan Svankmajer and surrealist artist Eva Svankmajer.

FERAT VAMPIRE (Czech Republic, 1981): A mysterious car runs on blood instead of fuel in this satire on consumerism, a potent piece of anti-automobile propaganda, and perhaps the purest horror exercise that Herz produced.

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Morgiana was released as part of the House Of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection Volume 2 box set:
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Beauty And The Beast and The Ninth Heart were released as part of the All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Volume 2 box set:
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