Throughout the ‘70s, Italian filmmakers fired a canon of blasphemy to launch what remains the most controversial genre of all. Partake of its unholy sacrament with these four uncut/uncensored Nunsploitation classics: In Sergio Bergonzelli’s CRISTIANA DEVIL NUN – here in two extreme versions – a born-again nymphomaniac finds pleasures of the flesh in a convent of the damned. Suzy Kendall and Eleonora Giorgi star in Domenico Paolella’s historically accurate and wholly amoral STORY OF A CLOISTERED NUN. Sleaze maestro Joe D’Amato combines Sapphic lust, Satanic panic and pure filth for IMAGES IN A CONVENT. And with THE TRUE STORY OF THE NUN OF MONZA, director Bruno Mattei fulfills ungodly vows of graphic sacrilege. Severin Films proudly presents this superfluity of depravity, each mastered with all-new Special Features produced exclusively for this collection.

Special Features:

CRISTIANA DEVIL NUN

• Extended Italian Cut Of The Film With Optional Partial English Audio
• Sisters Of Vice And Virtue: The Marquis de Sade And Nunsploitation – Video Essay By Lindsay Hallam

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Audio: English mono (X-Rated Version) / Italian mono with Partial English audio (Extended Italian Cut)
• Closed Captions
• Region Free

STORY OF A CLOISTERED NUN

• Down The Well: Interview With Actress Martine Brochard
• A Nun’s Story: Interview With Actress Eleonora Giorgi
• Within A Cloister: Interview With Camera Operator Daniele Nannuzzi
• Trailer

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: English mono / Italian mono
• English Subtitles / Closed Captions
• Region A

IMAGES IN A CONVENT

• Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness
• 25 Minutes Of Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Kat Ellinger

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: Italian mono
• English Subtitles
• Region A

THE TRUE STORY OF THE NUN OF MONZA

• The Cross And The Sin: Interview With Screenwriter Claudio Fragasso
• Sister Zora: Interview With Actress Zora Kerova

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: Italian mono
• English Subtitles
• Region A

THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE

Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin and horror/fantasy icon Christopher Lee star in the long-unseen 1983 action-comedy from the director of THE BEAST WITHIN and HOWLING II, with songs by Richard O’Brien (THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW), and co-written by the screenwriter of DIE HARD and 48 HOURS that New Times calls “one of the best superhero movies ever made (really)”: When archcriminal Mr. Midnight (Lee) plots to take over the world, the world’s only hope is World War II’s formerly indestructible ‘Legend In Leotards’ (Arkin) who is now a burnt-out drunk. Kate Fitzpatrick, Michael Pate (MAD DOG MORGAN) and Franklin D. Roosevelt co-star in this “pioneering left-of-center superhero flick” (The Guardian), now presented on 3 discs featuring the Theatrical Version, Director’s Cut and soundtrack CD with 2+ hours of Special Features.

Special Features:

Disc 1: Theatrical Cut

• The Invincible Producer — Interview With Producer Andrew Gaty
• An Eye For Ozploitation — Interview With Cinematographer Mike Molloy
• Side Saddle Superhero Sidekick — Interview With Actress Kate Fitzpatrick
• A Brit Playing A Frenchman In Australia — Interview With Actor Chris Haywood
• Christopher Lee Performs “Name Your Poison” On German TV
• Alternate Opening Title Sequence: LEGEND IN LEOTARDS
• Trailer

Disc 2: Director’s Cut

• Audio Commentary With Director Philippe Mora And NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD Director Mark Hartley
• Creating Captain Invincible — Conversation Between Philippe Mora And Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza
• The Return Of THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE — Conversation Between Philippe MoraAnd Beat The Geeks‘ Marc Edward Heuck

Bonus Disc: CD Soundtrack

Additional Special Feature: Reversible Wrap

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Audio: English 5.1 Surround, English Stereo
• Closed Captions
• Region Free
• Run time: Theatrical Cut 91 Minutes, Director’s Cut 101 Minutes

THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE COLLECTION 2

To celebrate the centennial of Sir Christopher Lee, Eurocrypt Collection 2 presents five of the most unexpected, underrated and underseen films of the iconic actor’s European career. Immediately following HORROR OF DRACULA, Lee reprised the role in the quirky 1959 Italian comedy UNCLE WAS A VAMPIRE. Lee speaks fluent German opposite Klaus Kinski for the crazed 1962 krimi SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID. In the 1974 UK psycho-thriller DARK PLACES, Lee toplines a cast that includes Joan Collins, Herbert Lom and Jane Birkin. Lee’s final performance as The Count in the 1976 French comedy DRACULA AND SON can at last be seen in its superior Director’s Cut, while the ultra-rare 1988 Dutch drama MURDER STORY brings Lee into the sex shoppes of Amsterdam. Each film has been remastered from original negative materials with over 15 total hours of trailers, commentaries, alternate cuts, vintage interviews and new featurettes, plus the DRACULA AND SON soundtrack and an all-new 100-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby.

Disc 1: Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)

Shortly after HORROR OF DRACULA, Christopher Lee accepted an offer from producer Mario Cecchi Gori – whose 200+ films would include Argento’s OPERA and Oscar® nominee IL POSTINO – to make his first Italian film and reprise his star-making role: His Carpathian domicile bought by developers, Baron Roderico(Lee in full Hammer/Dracula mode) flees to the ancestral castle owned by his impoverished nephew (diminutive ’50s comedy star Renato Rascel). But when the nephew sells this castle to luxury hoteliers, Uncle Prince of Darkness must withstand obnoxious tourists, bikini beauties and his own bloodsucking bellhop relative. Sylva Koscina (HERCULES) and Susanne Loret (ATOM AGE VAMPIRE) co-star in this sexy spoof directed by Steno (famed for his films with Italian comicTotò), featuring the Uncut Theatrical Version scanned in 2K from the dupe negative and Alternate TV Version sourced from the broadcast tape master.

Disc Specs:

• Runtime: 101 mins
• Audio: Italian Mono / Optional English Subtitles, Optional Partial English Mono Audio
• Region Free
• Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Special Features:

• Commedia Dracula All’Italiana — Interview With European Film Scholar Dr. Pasquale Iannone
• Alternate Cut From Italian Broadcast Master
• Alternate Cut Audio Commentary With Christopher Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby And Hammer Historian Kevin Lyons

Disc 2: The Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)

Christopher Lee stars – speaking fluent German – in this off-the-wall 1962 krimi filmed in Hamburg and based on the Edgar Wallace novel When The Gangs Came To London. Asrival Chicago mobsters – led by Klaus Kinski as ‘Pretty Boy Steve’ – unleash a spree of extortion, machine gun mayhem and murder across England, Scotland Yard summons a cunning FBI agent (Lee) to end the escalating gang war. Adrian Hoven (MARK OF THE DEVIL, CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH), and Marisa Mell(DANGER: DIABOLIK) co-star in this “entertaining riff on the classic gangster genre” (Krimi Film), now scanned in 2K from the dupe negative and presented with its English and German-language tracks for the first time ever in America.

Disc Specs:

• Runtime: 84 mins
• Audio: German Mono / Optional English Subtitles, English Mono / Closed Captions
• Region A
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of So Deadly, So Perverse
• Audio Commentary With Film Scholars Kim Newman, Author Of Anno Dracula,And Barry Forshaw, Author Of Euro Noir
• Trailer

Disc 3: Dark Places (1974)

Christopher Lee toplines a cast that includes Joan Collins, Herbert Lom and Jane Birkin in the 1974 UK production – directed by Don Sharp of RASPUTIN: THE MAD MONK and PSYCHOMANIA fame – that’s equal parts ‘old dark house’ supernatural shocker and Amicus-style all-star fun: When the former administrator of an asylum (Robert Hardy, aka ‘Cornelius Fudge’ of the HARRY POTTER films) inherits the crumbling estate of an elderly inmate, he’ll unlock a nightmare of lust, larceny, insanity and several murders grisly enough to warrant an ‘X’ certification from the BBFC. Jean Marsh (THE CHANGELING, RETURN TO OZ) co-stars in this “overlooked entry amid the ‘70s Anglo-horror cycle” (Moria Reviews), now scanned uncut in 4K from an internegative recently discovered in a London lab vault.

Disc Specs:

• Runtime: 91 mins
• Audio: English Mono / Closed Captions, French Mono / Optional English Subtitles
• Region Free
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of So Deadly, So Perverse
• The Cadogan Conversations — Interview With Jonathan Rigby, Author Of Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History
• U.S. Teaser Trailer
• Brazilian TV Spot

Disc 4 & 5: Dracula and Son – Director’s Cut (1976) and U.S. Version (1979)

For his tenth and final screen appearance as Dracula, Christopher Lee starred – speaking fluent French – in this slyly ingenious 1976 horror comedy based on a novel by Claude Klotz (THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND) and directed by Academy Award® nominee Édouard Molinaro (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES). But when the U.S. distributor re-cut and dubbed the film into a broad parody, it was deservedly met with universal disdain. Molinaro’s Director’s Cut can now be experienced for the first time ever in America, lovingly restored in 4K from the original negative with both French & English audio tracks. Bernard Menez (DAY FOR NIGHT), Marie-Hélène Breillat (LAST TANGO IN PARIS) and future writer/director Catherine Breillat (ANATOMY OF HELL) co-star in this “charming satire” (The Christopher Lee Filmography) featuring a sumptuous score by Vladimir Cosma (DIVA) and loaded with vintage & new Special Features.

Disc Specs:

• Runtime: 99 mins (Director’s Cut), 79 mins (U.S. Version)
• Audio: English Mono / Closed Captions, French Mono / Optional English Subtitles
• Region A
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary With Christopher Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby And Hammer Historian Kevin Lyons
• Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness
• Let The Son Shine In — Interview With Actor Bernard Menez
• Archival French TV Interview With Christopher Lee
• The Molinaro Tapes — Archival Audio Interview With Director Édouard Molinaro
• Who Was Claude Klotz? — Filmmaker Patrice Leconte On His Three-Time Co-Writer And Author Of The Novel Paris Vampire
• Archival Interview With Claude Klotz At A 1976 Presentation Of DRACULA AND SON In Marseille
• German Credit Sequences
• Trailer
• TV Spot

Disc 6: Dracula and Son Soundtrack

Disc 7: Murder Story (1989)

In the lone feature film written & directed by ‘80s music video hitmakers Eddie Arno & Markus Innocenti, Christopher Lee delivers a sly performance as a famous mystery novelist whose mentoring of an aspiring young writer (Alexis Denisof of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER/ANGEL) will lead them both into an Amsterdam-based web of pornography, arson and a global conspiracy of cold-blooded murder. Bruce Boa (THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, FULL METAL JACKET) co-stars in this 1989 Dutch/British thriller produced by Tom Reeve (DOG SOLDIERS), now scanned in 4K from the original negative. As a bonus, Rod Taylor, Valerie Perrine and Leestar in the ultra-rare 1989 Swedish/Canadian giallo MASK OF MURDER, sourced from the best existing master.

Disc Specs:

• Runtime: 90 mins
• Audio: English Mono / Closed Captions
• Region Free
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary With Co-Writers/Co-Directors Eddie Arno And Markus Innocenti
• A British Producer In Holland — Interview With Producer Tom Reeve
• MASK OF MURDER (1988) — Swedish/Canadian Film Co-Starring Christopher Lee
• Trailer​