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I was lucky enough to see the new 4K restoration at Fantasia this July, and you've never seen Perdita Durango like this, prepare to have your mind completely blown!Īlso on the docket is fan favorite, The Day of the Beast ( El Dia de la Bestia), de la Iglesia's 1995 horror comedy about a priest attempting to prevent the birth of the Antichrist on Christmas Day. Severin has secured an interview with Barry Gifford regarding his books and his own screenplay adaptation thereof. The full length version, previously only available overseas, reshapes the film into a psychdelic odyssey of sex, drugs, and violence that is, in the words of Fantasia programmer Mitch Davis, not unlike a "126 minute trigger warning".īased on Barry Gifford's Sailor and Lula book series, the same books that inspired Lynch's Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango takes a deep dive into the wild transnational drug and flesh trade at the US/Mexico border. The compromised American version is a decent, if confusing, trippy film starring Javier Bardem (in what could've been a breakout role) and Rosie Perez. Severin will be releasing the film in it's full and uncut form with a brand new 4K scan from the original negative elements in Madrid. Perdita Durango, De la Iglesia's first English language feature from 1997, was chopped to pieces in it's initial US release under the title Dance With the Devil. We were able to get a little bit more solid info on the upcoming Blu-ray releases of 1995's Day of the Beast and 1997's Perdita Durango from Gregory and we are excited to share the first details with you. It was revealed yesterday in an interview conducted by with Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson director David Gregory, that Gregory's company Severin Films would be releasing a pair of Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia's '90s classics in the coming year.
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