Scream Factory’s ‘Mario Bava Collection’ Collects 12 of the Italian Horror Maestro’s Films in Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set

Scream Factory has announced The Mario Bava Collection featuring 12 of the influential Italian director’s films on Blu-ray.

Available exclusively from Shout Factory, the deluxe box set is limited to 2,500 and costs $179.98. The first 1,000 orders receive a 24×18 poster featuring the new artwork by the CRP Group.

Each film is packaged in its own clear Blu-ray case, housed inside a rigid slipcase alongside a 52-page booklet with behind-the-scenes information and commentary by journalist Staci Layne Wilson.

Disc 1 features the 1960 gothic horror film Black Sunday (also known as The Mask of Satan) in its international version.

In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss, Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim: Princess Katia, her own doppelganger descendant!

Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio English With English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King (new)
• Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new)
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Larry Cohen
• International Trailer
• US Trailer
• Poster Gallery
• TV Spot

Disc 2 features the 1963 pioneering giallo The Girl Who Knew Too Much and its alternate US cut, The Evil Eye.

Nora Davis jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old family friend. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies – and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna. Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries, Nora can’t get anyone to believe her story, but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi, she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot – 10 years earlier – when an unfortunate woman fell victim to the “Alphabet Murderer.”

The Girl Who Knew Too Much Special Features:

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria
• US Trailer
• Poster And Still Gallery

The Evil Eye Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer

Disc 3 features the 1963 horror anthology Black Sabbath in its international version.

Michèle Mercier stars in “The Telephone” as a woman haunted by menacing phone calls. In “The Wurdalak,” Boris Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in “The Drop Of Water,” Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium.

Special Features:

• Audio: Italian DTS-Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Brian Keiper (new)
• Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Bill Bria (new)
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Mick Garris
• Trailers
• TV Spot
• Still Gallery

Disc 4 features the 1966 Gothic horror film Kill, Baby… Kill!

Set in modern day Transylvania, this creeping terror of a film follows an evil curse that has befallen a village plagued by bizarre murders. A doctor, investigating a young woman’s apparent suicide, discovers the locals believe that the ghost of a baron’s daughter is responsible. The victims in the small village are found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new)
• Audio Commentary With Journalist Scott Neumyer (new)
• Image Gallery
• International Trailer
• TV Spots

Disc 5 features the 1966 adventure film Knives of the Avenger.

With her husband the King missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen, a general of the King’s army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men – with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik is allowed to stay, and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts of survival. In time, he recognizes Karin as the woman he seduced years ago on her wedding night in retaliation for Hagen’s murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend – and another to avenge – as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place!

Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

Disc 6 features the 1970 giallo Five Dolls for an August Moon.

George Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula. Farrell doesn’t care to discuss business, but the businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money – in the millions. Each of them angers the others with secret bids and back-alley deals, spawning an atmosphere of distrust, further exacerbated by the sexual intrigue in the air between the men and their various wives and mistresses. Suspicions turn into alarm when the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one!

Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Actor And Writer Tracy Letts (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin (new)
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

Disc 7 features the Spaghetti Western satire Roy Colt & Winchester Jack.

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack are two roguish cowboys whose gang isn’t very successful at earning a dishonest dollar. Fed up with starving, the two friends decide to go their separate ways, with Roy vowing to find an honest job. But he changes his mind after arriving in Carson City, where he is made sheriff and entrusted with the replica of a stolen treasure map leading to a fortune in buried gold! Who will reach the gold first?

Special Features:

• Audio: Italian (With Occasional English) DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Still Gallery
• Trailer

Disc 8 features the 1971 sex comedy Four Times That Night.

What happened last night in Tina’s apartment? Did she and Gianni have a sexual encounter? And what was that other couple doing in the apartment with them? Tina, Gianni, Tina’s mother, and Tina’s peeping tom concierge all have differing opinions in this sex farce.

Special Features:

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Trailer
• Still Gallery

Disc 9 features the 1971 proto-slasher A Bay of Blood (also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve).

Countess Federica, the elderly owner of a coveted piece of bayside property, is slain by her husband, Filippo Donati — who is himself then killed by a mysterious third person at the murder scene! Who is the killer? Brace yourself, because no one’s a suspect for very long.

Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes (new)
• Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollzow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith (new)
• Audio Commentary With Film Critics Bill Bria And Ashley Coffin (new)
• Still Gallery
• Alternate Title Trailers
• Radio Spots

Disc 10 features the 1972 Gothic horror film Baron Blood.

American student Peter Kleist travels to Austria on summer holiday to learn more about his family roots. By reciting an incantation on a piece of ancient parchment, he succeeds in scaring up a genuine ancestor – Baron Otto von Kleist, a 16th-century sadistic nobleman whose appetite for cruelty earned him the nickname “Baron.” Before Peter can reverse the incantation, the parchment burns! How many innocents will die before Peter learns how to send the evil Baron back to the hell from whence he came?

Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer
• Radio Spots
• Still Gallery

Disc 11 features the 1973 supernatural horror film Lisa and the Devil and its alternate US cut, The House of Exorcism.

While visiting Toledo, Spain, American tourist Lisa Reiner experiences a feeling of déjà vu when she sees an ancient mural of the Devil carrying away the dead. Becoming hopelessly lost as night falls, Lisa begs a ride from a passing car, which breaks down outside a mansion where a young man lives with his blind mother and a charming butler who just happens to resemble the Devil from the mural! After a night of murder and horrific revelations, Lisa comes face-to-face with the secrets of her past identity and her connection to the bizarre rituals she has witnessed.

Lisa and the Devil Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Film Critics Richard Newby And Reyna Cervantes (new)
• Audio Commentary With Writer Dr. Rebekah King (new)
• Audio Commentary With Dr. Karen Stollznow, Matt Baxter, And Blake Smith (new)
• Trailers From Hell – Interview With Filmmaker Joe Dante
• Lisa And The Devil Trailer
• Still Gallery

The House of Exorcism Special Features:

• Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English SDH Subtitles
• Still Gallery
• Trailers

Disc 12 features the 1973 crime thriller Kidnapped (also known as Rabid Dogs).

After a botched payroll heist, a trio of vicious criminals take hostages in a desperate getaway that explodes with cruelty, degradation, and shocking violence.

Special Features:

• Audio: Italian DTS-HD Master Audio Mono With English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new)
• Image Gallery
• Trailer

The Mario Bava Collection is due out on July 31.

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