The Mario Bava Collection (Shout! Factory Store Exclusive)

[MifuneFan]

Shout! Factory has just announced a new 13-Film Mario Bava Blu-ray Collection, limited to 2,500 copies, and sold exclusively through their online store. The first 1,000 copies get a 52 Page booklet, and a rolled 18"x24" poster as well. It releases on July 31st.

Update: The first 1,000 with booklet and poster have now sold out. Shout are currently selling the remaining 1,500 copies.

https://shoutfactory.com/products/th...deluxe-edition

Bonus Features for Blu-ray

DISC ONE:

BLACK SUNDAY (INTERNATIONAL VERSION – 1.66:1, 87 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio English With English SDH Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King
• NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Larry Cohen
• International Trailer
• US Trailer
• Poster Gallery
• TV Spot

DISC TWO:

THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1.66:1, 86 MINUTES):

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria
• US Trailer
• Poster And Still Gallery

THE EVIL EYE (1.78:1, 92 Minutes):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer

DISC THREE:

BLACK SABBATH (INTERNATIONAL VERSION – 1.85:1, 92 MINUTES):

• Audio: Italian DTS-Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper
• NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Mick Garris
• Trailers
• TV Spot
• Still Gallery

DISC FOUR:

KILL, BABY... KILL! (1.85:1, 83 MINUTES):

• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
• NEW Audio Commentary With Journalist Scott Neumyer
• Image Gallery
• International Trailer
• TV Spots

DISC FIVE:

KNIVES OF THE AVENGER (2.35:1, 84 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

DISC SIX:

FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (1.85:1, 81 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Actor And Writer Tracy Letts
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

DISC SEVEN:

ROY COLT & WINCHESTER JACK (1.85:1, 85 MINUTES):

• Audio: Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Still Gallery
• Trailer

DISC EIGHT:

FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT (1.85:1, 83 MINUTES):

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

DISC NINE:

A BAY OF BLOOD (1.85:1, 84 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes
• NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollzow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin
• Still Gallery
• Alternate Title Trailers
• Radio Spots

DISC TEN:

BARON BLOOD (1.78:1, 98 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer
• Radio Spots
• Still Gallery

DISC ELEVEN:

LISA AND THE DEVIL (1.78:1, 95 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes
• NEW Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King
• NEW Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Joe Dante
• Lisa And The Devil Trailer
• Still Gallery

THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM (1.78:1, 91 MINUTES):

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Still Gallery
• Trailers

DISC TWELVE:

KIDNAPPED (1.85:1, 95 MINUTES):

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• NEW Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro
• Image Gallery
• Trailer

This ShoutFactory.com exclusive offer contains the following items:

• The Mario Bava Collection [Limited Deluxe Edition] 12-disc Blu-ray box set, packaged in a rigid slipcase with twelve clear Blu-ray cases (this release is limited to 2,500 units and exclusive to ShoutFactory.com)
• An exclusive 24" x 18" rolled poster featuring new artwork by the CRP Group (limited to the first 1,000 orders)
• An exclusive 52 page softcover booklet filled with behind-the-scenes info, illuminating insights, and cinematic commentary by journalist Staci Layne Wilson covering all of the films in this set (5.25" x 6.5" / Cover designed by Anthony Masi / Assembled by Beyond Killer Games).

BLACK SUNDAY - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 87 min.)
In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss, Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim: Princess Katia, her own doppelganger descendant!

In 1960, Mario Bava made his directorial feature debut with La maschera del demonio (The Mask Of Satan), a film that achieved worldwide commercial and critical success under its better-known title ... Black Sunday.

THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.66:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 86 min.) / THE EVIL EYE (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 92 min.)
Nora Davis (Letícia Román) jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old family friend. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies – and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna. Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries, Nora can't get anyone to believe her story, but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi (John Saxon), she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot – 10 years earlier – when an unfortunate woman fell victim to the "Alphabet Murderer."

Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo, 1963) is more than a stylish homage to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. It was the first movie to show the influence of a distinctly Italian breed of thriller known as the "giallo" – named after a series of mystery pulps with yellow ("giallo") jackets published in Italy and renowned for their lurid cover art and attention to violent detail.

BLACK SABBATH - INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 92 min.)
Boris Karloff is your host for Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror!

Michèle Mercier stars in "The Telephone" as a woman haunted by menacing phone calls. In "The Wurdalak," Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in "The Drop Of Water," Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium.

KILL, BABY... KILL! (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 83 min.)
Set in modern day Transylvania, this creeping terror of a film follows an evil curse that has befallen a village plagued by bizarre murders. A doctor, investigating a young woman's apparent suicide, discovers the locals believe that the ghost of a baron's daughter is responsible. The victims in the small village are found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts. Director Mario Bava's chiller stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. This moody and stylish film, filled with disturbing sequences, is one of Bava's best.

KNIVES OF THE AVENGER (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
With her husband the King missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen, a general of the King's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men – with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik (Cameron Mitchell) is allowed to stay, and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts of survival. In time, he recognizes Karin as the woman he seduced years ago on her wedding night in retaliation for Hagen's murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend – and another to avenge – as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place!

FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 81 min.)
George Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula. Farrell doesn't care to discuss business, but the businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money – in the millions. Each of them angers the others with secret bids and back-alley deals, spawning an atmosphere of distrust, further exacerbated by the sexual intrigue in the air between the men and their various wives and mistresses. Suspicions turn into alarm when the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one!

ROY COLT & WINCHESTER JACK (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 85 min.)
Mario Bava tries something new with this zany satire of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy. Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) are two roguish cowboys whose gang isn't very successful at earning a dishonest dollar. Fed up with starving, the two friends decide to go their separate ways, with Roy vowing to find an honest job. But he changes his mind after arriving in Carson City, where he is made sheriff and entrusted with the replica of a stolen treasure map leading to a fortune in buried gold! Who will reach the gold first? Will it be Roy? The Reverend (Teodoro Corrà), a Russian outlaw with a fistful of dynamite? Jack and his gang? The desperado (Mauro Bosco)? Or perhaps Manila (Marilù Tolo), the mercenary Native American seductress desired by the Old West's most wanted? The answer may surprise you as the maestro of Italian horror takes them all on a date with a skull and an open grave in an ancient Indian burial ground!

FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 83 min.)
What happened last night in Tina's apartment? Did she and Gianni have a sexual encounter? And what was that other couple doing in the apartment with them? Tina (Daniela Giordano), Gianni (Brett Halsey), Tina's mother, and Tina's peeping tom concierge all have differing opinions in this sex farce from horror maestro Mario Bava! Don't pass on this spicy Italian variation on the multi-perspective storyline of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.

A BAY OF BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 84 min.)
Countess Federica, the elderly owner of a coveted piece of bayside property, is slain by her husband, Filippo Donati — who is himself then killed by a mysterious third person at the murder scene! Who is the killer? Could it be the real estate developer Frank Ventura? Or Paolo Fosatti, an entomologist neighbor who wants to preserve the natural insect life thriving around the bay? The Countess' illegitimate son, in a bid to claim a name for himself? Or could it be Alberto, the weak-willed husband of Donati's ambitious daughter, Renata?

Brace yourself, because no one's a suspect for very long in Mario Bava's black comedy of human greed — which boasts 13 characters and 13 of the most shocking murders ever filmed!

BARON BLOOD (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 98 min.)
American student Peter Kleist travels to Austria on summer holiday to learn more about his family roots. By reciting an incantation on a piece of ancient parchment, he succeeds in scaring up a genuine ancestor – Baron Otto von Kleist (Joseph Cotten), a 16th-century sadistic nobleman whose appetite for cruelty earned him the nickname "Baron." Before Peter can reverse the incantation, the parchment burns! How many innocents will die before Peter learns how to send the evil Baron back to the hell from whence he came?

LISA AND THE DEVIL (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 95 min.) / THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles / 91 min.)
While visiting Toledo, Spain, American tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) experiences a feeling of déjà vu when she sees an ancient mural of the Devil carrying away the dead. Becoming hopelessly lost as night falls, Lisa begs a ride from a passing car, which breaks down outside a mansion where a young man (Alessio Orano) lives with his blind mother (Alida Valli) and a charming butler (Telly Savalas) who just happens to resemble the Devil from the mural! After a night of murder and horrific revelations, Lisa comes face-to-face with the secrets of her past identity and her connection to the bizarre rituals she has witnessed.

Producer Alfredo Leone (who was credited with the pseudonym Mickey Lion) restructured the film and shot additional scenes after the commercial success of 1973's The Exorcist. Taking the original story of Lisa And The Devil in entirely new directions, The House Of Exorcism adds the horror of diabolical possession to an already potent mixture.

Tourist Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) encounters the Devil himself (Telly Savalas) while vacationing in Toledo, Spain. Recognizing in her the soul of a damned spirit that escaped him, the Devil possesses Lisa, who is sent to a local hospital. Father Michael (Robert Alda), an American priest, accompanies her and tries to exorcise the evil and blasphemous spirit from her soul.

KIDNAPPED (1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.85:1) / Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles / 95 min.)
After a botched payroll heist, a trio of vicious criminals take hostages in a desperate getaway that explodes with cruelty, degradation, and shocking violence.

Credit to starsteam for the heads-up

[Driver78]

Exciting but why no 4K?

[LawnFurniture]

Pretty cool set. However, I own most of these on blu-ray already and don't appear to have new transfers or anything..

[BarnDoor]

Strange. Sorry to say, but it kind of feels like a cash grab, with 4Ks coming further down the line.

[NuXiaolin]

Poor BAY OF BLOOD, no HD transfer of the superior Italian cut AGAIN.

Sorry, went all FatboySlim there for a moment...

[dallywhitty]

Lol.

[exzachary]

None of these are 4K? Not even a new transfer for any of the blu-rays? C'mon!

[DukeTogo84]

Interesting. It's weird how some releases don't have the Italian audio when the previous releases had them, and some add the Italian audio. Also some remove the English audio? Seems slightly strange?

Only one I really want is FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON as it adds the Italian audio that the Kino did not have.

Either way, a pass for now.

[Nailwraps]

Goes to show you; Shout!'s always full of surprises.

Guess maybe the AIP cut of Black Sunday's exclusion is because MGM still has it (re)sublicensed to Kino...

[GasmaskAvenger]

yeah this is gonna be a pass from me.

[Jaymole]

Hard pass for me

[MoonlightMask]

It has more films than the Arrow, which I foolishly slept on, but seems scaled back on features otherwise. Are there 4K releases/new restorations coming, or is this it?

[Matt89]

Old masters, webstore only, doesn't include the reconstructed original cut of Rabid Dogs, missing the Italian cut of Bay of Blood, way less extras than the Arrow releases.

Lol what is the point?

HARD pass.

[Alexcap]

and severin are releasing a lamberto bave boxset.

[Slasherfilm]

Trying to steal Severin's thunder - I like the look of the set I dont have any of these on Blu but in the UK so maybe there will be some coming somewhere else with new transfers ?

[RFK]

Bava is one of my top 5 directors, so I already have all of these in multiple versions. We need proper 4K transfers on UHD. So far only Black Sunday has made it to UHD. Pass.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

Strange. Sorry to say, but it kind of feels like a cash grab, with 4Ks coming further down the line.

I don't imagine they'll come from SF at least. The deal they made with Alfredo Leone's production company seemed to only grant them the same old masters/rights that Kino had access to. I don't believe they were provided any negatives, or elements where they could actually do new restorations, etc..

https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/...yager_35799205

[MoonlightMask]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I don't imagine they'll come from SF at least. The deal they made with Alfredo Leone's production company seemed to only grant them the same old masters/rights that Kino had access to. I don't believe they were provided any negatives, or elements where they could actually do new restorations, etc..

https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/...yager_35799205

I'd heard that they got worldwide distribution rights, and the licensing went up so much that nobody could afford it. I hope you're right, and that new masters eventually show up, but this is still tempting for someone like me who missed out on the Arrow set.

[MagellanvsHimself]

I don't get it - we're missing versions that have been available elsewhere, they aren't new transfers, and they aren't 4Ks. What is the draw?

[DukeTogo84]

Man, I really just want FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON. Hoping someone ends up selling these solo on eBay, cause I'm not spending $180 for one movie.