{"title":"Mondo Macabro","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bo-ba-bu-blu-ray","title":"Bo Ba Bu [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman and two men, set in the deserts of Central Asia – an often disturbing, virtually wordless wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening shot is mysterious - a face covered by a mask made out of raw canvas, with two slits for the eyes… a windblown desert… the scorching sun. It is hard to tell whether this is prehistoric time or the future after an apocalypse. Then the on-screen caption, \"11,000 kilometers from New York\" and the sound of a supersonic jet somewhere in the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pale skinned blonde woman appears in the desert. Confused, disoriented and covered in bandages and blood, she is discovered by a wandering shepherd who takes her back to the farm where he lives with his son. The man is called Bo and his son is Bu. They call the woman Ba. And a kind of savage, wordless fairy tale is enacted between them. A classic ménage à trois but set in a timeless, eternal landscape of sand and stars where the sudden appearance of a jeep shocks us into realizing this is the late 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAli Khamraev is an Uzbek film director and producer. He is best known for his works in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the “eastern-western,” THE SEVENTH BULLET. He has made over 30 documentaries and more than 20 feature films. He currently lives in Italy. BO BA BU was a controversial film and has never been released theatrically. This is its world premiere on disc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eSpecs\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh Definition 1080p 1.85:1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolby Digital Mono.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mondo Macabro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50830381482054,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/71_eryAovxL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793131790"},{"product_id":"lust-in-the-swamps-secrets-of-sinful-athens-blu-ray","title":"Lust in the Swamps \/ Secrets of Sinful Athens [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMondo Macabro presents LUST IN THE SWAMPS \/ SECRETS OF SINFUL ATHENS - You have never seen anything as daring as this Zeta Apostolou double bill!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eLUST IN THE SWAMPS\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stunning Zeta Apostolou plays Marianna in this raw and uncompromising Greek thriller set in an alien landscape of deserted backroads and perilous swamplands. She and her partner, Petros, have left the city with a haul of jewels and cash and are now driving at stop speed towards… neither of them really knows what, just that this unknown future has to be better than the past they are now escaping from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianna tricks Petros into taking a rest while she drives. When she is certain he is asleep, she stops the car and quietly makes off with a large steel box that was in the car's trunk. She hides it in the swamp but gets lost trying to find her way back. She collapses from exhaustion but is rescued by a local hunter who carries her to the isolated farm where he lives with his brother and stepsister. Marianna's arrival upsets the fragile equilibrium of this strange household and soon the brothers are at war with each other, both trying to claim Marianna as their own. Meanwhile, Petros is looking for Marianna - and he has a gun!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eX-rated when it played in London's grindhouse cinemas in the 1960s, LUST IN THE SWAMPS has been more or less forgotten since. But this powerful, violent and sex driven drama still packs a punch and is a showcase for Zeta Apostolou's performance as the tough and fiercely independent Marianna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eSECRET OF SINFUL ATHENS\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostas, a handsome, suave and ambitious country boy comes to sinful Athens and starts working in a nightclub owned by the ruthless gangster known only as \"One-Arm\". Kostas soon rises to the top and becomes a valued member of One-Arm's crew. He also becomes the lover of Suzy, the club's platinum blonde nightclub singer\/stripper and occasional freelance sex worker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostas is a hero in the small town where he was born and he likes to turn up there in a white sports car with the scantily clad Suzy as his passenger. His aim is always to impress - and if possible work some side hustles as he does so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne-Arm sets Kostas the task of seducing an older woman whose husband is a hugely successful business magnate. The seduction is successful and the gang takes some red hot snap shots of the action, blackmailing the woman to buy the photos or have them sent to her husband. Unfortunately Kostas has overstretched himself this time and the scam falls apart. Seeing this as their chance to get rid of him, One-Arm's gang and Suzy decide to teach Kostas a lesson he won't forget. But things very soon spiral out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eSpecs\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh Definition 1080p 1.37:1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolby Digital Mono.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mondo Macabro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50830812119110,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/81TEripBKTL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793133020"},{"product_id":"memoria-blu-ray","title":"Memoria [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMondo Macabro presents MEMORIA - A rare Spanish science fiction film set in the far-off future of… 2000 AD!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Ulop wants to find a way to transfer a person's memory from one body to another. His experiments have worked on animals but not on humans, because \"animals don't look in the mirror\", but a human subject looking at his reflection and seeing a different face would have a psychotic breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlop tries to get official approval for an experiment where he would place new memories into the mind of \"Patient 93,\" a man whose brain is damaged so he has no memories of his own. But the Institute's official Council rejects the proposal because it involves the use of hallucinogenic drugs which are outlawed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate to prove his theory, Ulop and his assistant smuggle the patient out of the clinic and start the transfer of new memories into his brain. But it all goes hideously wrong, as the experiment spins madly out of control into a wild, psychedelic nightmare of lust, murder and mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe film only had a brief theatrical release in 1976 and this is its world premiere on disc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eSpecs\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh Definition 1080p 1.66:1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolby Digital Mono.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mondo Macabro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50831053094982,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/81cmf4Ix7EL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793133266"},{"product_id":"the-satin-spider-blu-ray","title":"The Satin Spider [Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMondo Macabro presents THE SATIN SPIDER - Who should the weird police inspector protect the young student from… the psychic gym teacher, the voyeuristic principal or the other girls?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story takes place in 1921, in an exclusive girls' school on the outskirts of Paris run by the eccentric Madame de Challens. Sexual perversion, morphine addiction, and murderous madness are on the curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the pupils, Lucienne, has gone missing. At the same time Madame de Challens awaits the return of Solange, the school's eccentric dance teacher. Solange has only recently been released from the psychiatric clinic where she was being treated for drug addiction, and kleptomania related to her obsession with stealing silk from department stores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lucienne returns to the school, Solange becomes fascinated by her and takes the girl off to an abandoned property on an island in the Seine. Father Pioch, the school's sinister chaplain, is convinced that he has to save the girls from the influence of Madame de Challens and Solange. He decides to arrange an exorcism to purge the evil from the school. Tragic events ensue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe film was based on a banned 1921 \"grand guignol\" play and was adapted for the screen and directed by Jacques Baratier, one of France's most original and adventurous film makers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eSpecs\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh Definition 1080p 1.37:1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolby Digital Mono.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mondo Macabro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50831186100294,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/81422uh5afL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793133499"}],"url":"https:\/\/peakbooks.co\/collections\/mondo-macabro.oembed","provider":"Peak Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}