Planet of the Vampires [4K UHD + Blu-ray Box Set]

Mario Bava - Planet of the Vampires [4K UHD + Blu-ray Limited Edition Box Set]

Mario Bava's 1965 space-horror classic makes its worldwide 4K UHD debut in a lavish limited edition from Radiance Films. When the crew of the Galliott lands on the fog-shrouded planet Aura to answer a distress call, they turn on each other one by one, and something on the surface wants their bodies. Bava's eerie colors, inventive miniatures, and ruined-spaceship imagery went on to shape Alien and a generation of sci-fi horror that followed.

Limited to 5,000 copies.

What's included

• New 4K restoration from the original negative, supervised by Lamberto Bava, in HDR / Dolby Vision
• Both the Italian (90 min) and English (88 min) versions on 4K UHD and Blu-ray
• Uncompressed mono audio
• Archival commentary by Bava biographer Tim Lucas
• New feature-length documentary on the film, Bava, and the link between gothic horror and science fiction
• Archival interview with Lamberto Bava
• Reconstructed 17-minute Super 8 version
• Trailer commentaries by Joe Dante and Josh Olson, plus trailers and an image gallery
• 80-page book of new and archival writing
• 20-page booklet with a new translation of Renato Pestriniero's original short story
• Six postcards and a reversible sleeve with original and new artwork
• Rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip

Details: 1965, dir. Mario Bava. Starring Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Angel Aranda, Evi Marandi, Ivan Rassimov. 89 min, 2 discs, Region 0 (plays worldwide), English, mono.