{"id":256680,"date":"2025-11-02T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256680\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:33:10","slug":"the-eurocrypt-of-christopher-lee-collection-3-box-set-announced-by-severin-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256680\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3’ Box Set Announced by Severin Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3 will be released on February 24 via Severin Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The seven-disc box set collects six more of the iconic actor\u2019s films \u2014 Beat Girl, The Hands of Orlac, The Virgin of Nuremberg, Arabian Adventure, and A Feast at Midnight \u2014 plus the documentary The Lifes and Death of Christopher Lee.<\/p>\n

A 142-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby, Christopher Lee: Eight Decades of a Dark Horse, is also included.<\/p>\n

Disc 1 \u2013 Beat Girl (Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

Both the original theatrical and extended UK cuts of Beat Girl (also known as Wild for Kicks) have been scanned in 4K by The British Film Institute.<\/p>\n

In the 1960 teensploitation film, an impetuous teenage girl becomes involved with Soho\u2019s beatnik and striptease scenes to spite her staid architect father and her French ex-stripper stepmother.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Christopher Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby And Barry Forshaw, Author Of Brit Noir (Extended Cut)
\nInterview With Actress Gillian Hills
\nLondon After Dark: The Sinful Soho Of The Sixties \u2013 An Exploration By David Flint, Author Of Babylon Blue: An Illustrated History Of Adult Cinema
\nTrailer<\/p>\n

Disc 2 \u2013 The Hands of Orlac (Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

The UK cut of The Hands of Orlac has been scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by The British Film Institute and restored by Severin Films, while the extended French cut was supplied by Rene Chateau Productions.<\/p>\n

In the 1960 horror film, a pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash receives the transplanted hands of an executed criminal but his new hands have the murderous tendencies of their previous owner.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Christopher Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby And Hammer Historian Kevin Lyons (French Cut)
\nHand Scare: A Portrait Of French Writer Maurice Renard \u2013 Interview With Merveilleux-Scientifique Specialist Fleur Hopkins-Lof\u00e9ron
\nLocations of Orlac
\nTrailer<\/p>\n

Disc 3 & 4 \u2013 The Virgin of Nuremberg (4K UHD & Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

The Virgin of Nuremberg (also known as Horror Castle) has been scanned in 4K from the uncut original camera negative.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a01963 horror film, women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital\u2018s Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of So Deadly, So Perverse
\nMargheriti\u2019s Horror Castle \u2013 Interview With Director Antonio Margheriti
\nIn The Iron Maiden \u2013 Interview With Film Historian Fabio Melelli And Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi With Audio Excerpts From Antonio Margheriti
\nTrailer<\/p>\n

Disc 5 \u2013 Arabian Adventure (Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

Arabian Adventure has been scanned in 2k from the original camera negative.<\/p>\n

In the 1979 fantasy adventure, a peasant boy and a prince join forces to stop an evil magician who seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Director Kevin Connor Moderated By Severin Films\u2019 David Gregory
\nThe Princess Adventure \u2013 Interview With Actress Emma Samms
\nArabian Adventurer \u2013 Interview With Actor Puneet Sira
\nArabian Zoom \u2013 Virtual Reunion Between Kevin Connor, Emma Samms And Puneet Sira
\nThe Many Faces of Christopher Lee \u2013 1996 Documentary
\n2 Trailers<\/p>\n

Disc 6 \u2013 A Feast at Midnight (Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

Feast at Midnight has been scanned in 4K from the original camera negative.<\/p>\n

In the 1994 comedy, a new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Co-Writer\/Director Justin Hardy And Co-Writer\/Producer Yoshi Nishio
\nTrailer<\/p>\n

Disc 7 \u2013 The Lifes and Death of Christopher Lee (Blu-ray):<\/p>\n

Narrated by Peter Serafinowicz, 2023 documentary The Lifes and Death of Christopher Lee features Peter Jackson, Joe Dante, John Landis, Caroline Munro, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rigby, Paul Maslansky, and more.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/p>\n

Audio Commentary With Director Jon Spira And Producer Hank Starrs
\nBFI Q&A With Jon Spira, Hank Starrs And Christopher Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby
\nExtended Interviews With Juan Aneiros, Gary Curtis, Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, John Landis, Paul Maslansky And Harriet Walter
\nTrailer<\/p>\n

In celebration of The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3, the previous two volumes as well as Cushing Curiosities are 50% off in the Severin webstore<\/a> through November 10.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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