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“IT REMAINS IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN… Communist reality merges with horror reality in the spookiest film to emerge from the former Soviet bloc.” Blu-ray.com THE NORTH AMERICAN HOME VIDEO PREMIERE WITH 5+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES From Juraj Herz – the award-winning writer/director of MORGIANA, THE NINTH HEART, THE CREMATOR and subversive genius of the Czech New Wave – comes the disturbing shocker driven by cultural provocation, political paranoia and a supercharged take on the vampire mythos, now on disc for the first time ever in America: When Ferat Motors introduces a new high-performance sports car, a trauma doctor investigates a bizarre theory that the vehicle is a biological machine fueled by human blood. Jirí Menzel (director of the Oscar®-winning CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS), Dagmar Havlová (former First Lady of the Czech Republic) and the iconic Škoda 110 Super Sport star in this “deeply weird horror thriller with sci-fi overtones and a touch of Cronenberg” (House of Self Indulgence), restored from the best existing 35mm elements by Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films with over 5 hours of new & archival Special Features curated exclusively for this release. Disc 1: Blu-ray (Film + Special Features) Audio Commentary With Film Historian Michael Brooke Archival Audio Commentary With Film Critic Lars Dreyer-Winkelmann (Revised/Re-Recorded In English) A Person Undergoing A Strange Sequence Of Events – Actress Jana Brezková Remembers FERAT VAMPIRE Vampires Ltd. – Screenwriter Jan Fleischer On Adapting FERAT VAMPIRE Eat Up The Road: UPĺR Z FERATU And The Legend Of The Blood Car – Video Essay By Filmmaker Stephen Broomer Archival interviews With Director Juraj Herz And Actors Jana Brezková And Vít Olmer The Iron Vampire – Archival Interview With Auto/Prototype Engineer Stanislav Cinkl Ferat Vampire: Close-Up – A Look At The Škoda Prototype That Was Used For The Ferat In The Film STRANGE AIRLINES (59 mins) – 1992 Czech TV Movie Based On Vampire Ltd. Author Josef Nesvadba's 1966 Short Story Mordair, Starring Czech Actress Jana Brejchová Booklet Featuring The Original Short Story Vampire Ltd. By Josef Nesvadba With A New Introduction By Czech Science Fiction Historian Ivan Adamovič And Illustrations By Drazen Kozjan Disc Specs: Runtime: 94 mins Audio: Czech Mono English Subtitles Region Free Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 *All foreign-language featurettes are subtitled in English. Limited Edition Slipcase FERAT VAMPIRE restored by the Národní Film Archive, Prague with support from the Czech Audiovisual Fund
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Ferat Vampire (1982)
93 min
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?