Jean-François Laguionie’s

Gwen and the Book of Sand

coming to 4K Dolby Vision HDR and Blu-ray

GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (GWEN ET LE LIVRE DE SABLE) – 1985, La Traverse Films, 64 min. "Why search the sand for answers? It has told us everything,” whispers Roseline (voiced by Michel Robin), the 173-year old desert nomad narrator of French director Jean-François Laguionie’s hauntingly poetic animated feature of life after the apocalypse, where the few hardy survivors walk on stilts from well to well, scorpions glow like lanterns, and the enigmatic Makou drops giant mysterious objects – forks, eyeglasses, bathtubs – from the skies. Into this desolate science-fiction landscape, part-DUNE, part-FURY ROAD, emerges the story’s teenage heroine, Gwen (voiced by Lorella Di Cicco), who refuses to stay silent and hide in the shadows – and whose love for teenage boy Nokmoon, kidnapped by the Makou and its followers, will drive her and Roseline on an epic journey across the endless sands, “the still silence of chaos and oblivion." A sublime and breathtaking masterpiece of world animation, GWEN… is on par with René Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET, Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND and Mamoru Oshii’s ANGEL’S EGG as a visually stunning and truly otherworldly experience, interwoven with surreal and dreamlike moments: a pillow fight in the desert; phantom projections of red UFOs in the night sky; a mystery cult who worship an ancient product catalog and sing gorgeous hymns to fireworks and a watering can made of galvanized steel. In French with English subtitles.

Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision – restoring director George Stevens’s original version of the film
English Mono DTS-HD MA
Special Features:
NEW: Commentary with Author Marilyn Ann Moss
Talking About "Talk of the Town" Featurette

THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL NOT SHIP UNTIL DECEMBER!!!

THIS AIN'T NO FAIRY TALE!

An ancient evil is inadvertently unleashed on modern day Los Angeles in this shocker from the creators of Leprechaun. In a mysterious antique shop, a young mother whose police officer husband was recently killed in the line of duty comes across an unusually carved “wishing stone” that she cannot resist. But little does she realize that her one casual wish to see her husband one last time will free the demonic Rumpelstiltskin trapped inside the rock for over 500 years. Now armed with nothing more than a fairy-tale legend, a young mother must fight to defend what she holds most dear against an evil that will stop at nothing to steal her infant son’s soul!

Terror Vision is incredibly proud to bring this video store staple to home video in HD for the very first time in the world! Not only in HD but a UHD with a HDR color grade approved from the director Mark Jones and FINALLY in its original aspect ratio.

This Limited Edition Includes:

Rigid Box with art by Ghoulish Gary Pullin

Slipcover by Chloe Manon

UHD and BD of Rumpelstiltskin

Perfectly Bound Booklet w/ writing from Writer/Director Mark Jones, Composer Charles Bernstein, Dr. Jack Zipes (Professor Emeritus University of Minnesota), Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Erica Shultz, Yasmina Ketita, Graham Skipper, Ryan Verrill, and an Archival Written Interview w/ Mark Jones from John Campopiano from Fangoria.com.

CD of the Rumpelstiltskin Score

11x17 Poster

4x6 Postcard

Special Features:

Commentary w/ Writer & Director Mark Jones and Producer Michael Prescott

Making of w/ Mark Jones, Max Grodenchik, Kim Ulrich, Tommy Blaze, Michael Prescott (Producer), Charles Bernstein (Composer), Ivo Cristane (Production Designer), and Lisa Buono (Key Makeup Artist) (30min)

Remembering Rumple (27min)

Never Before Seen BTS Raw Home Movie Footage (Shot on VHS) from the set on Rumpelstiltskin (1h28m)

Baking w/ Kaci Hansen, The Homicidal Homemaker: Rumpelstiltskin Edition

Still Gallery (17min)

Trailer

Newly Created Subtitles