Villages of the damned : three horrors from Spain.
El bosque del lobo: "Benito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that h...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Spanish English |
| Language Notes: | El bosque del lobo and Beatriz: In Spanish with English subtitles. Las flores del vicio: In English. |
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[United States] :
Vinegar Syndrome,
[2023]
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| Summary: | El bosque del lobo: "Benito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that he is possessed by a demonic spirit. And it will be precisely the stories that people are telling about him what start to make him go crazy"--IMDb. Las flores del vicio: "Hopeless American expatriates inhabit a small Spanish village where residents are mysteriously dying after the arrival of a religious cult"--IMDb. Beatriz: "A friar seeks refuge in Beatriz's farmhouse, a girl everyone calls remarkable. Suddenly, Beatriz feels a being inside her, and everyone blames the friar"--IMDb. |
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| Item Description: | El bosque del lobo: based on the novel "El bosque de Aneines" by Carlos Martinez-Barbeito. Beatriz: based on the stories of Ramón del Valle-Inclan. Originally released as separate motion pictures in 1970 (El bosque del lobo), 1975 (Las flores del vicio), and 1976 (Beatriz). Title from container. Special features: "Lobishome" and interview with El bosque del lobo director Pedro Olea, by Diego Lopez-Fernandez; Introduction to El bosque del lobo with film historians Angel Sala, Carlos Benitez and Xavi-Sanchez-Pons; Interview with Ivonne Sentis, actress in Las flores del vicio; interview with Jóse Lifante, actor in Beatriz; newly translated English subtitles. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (approximately 269 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray; aspect ratio, 1.66:1 and 1.85:1; requires Blu-ray player. |