FERAT VAMPIRE (1982)

Upír z Feratu

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 by Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films with over 5 hours of new & archival Special Features curated exclusively for this release.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• RESTORED BY Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films
• 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 And A New Introduction By Czech Science Fiction Historian Ivan Adamovič