Danza Macabra Volume Three: The Spanish Gothic Collection Blu-ray brings together four restorations from the height of Spain’s shadowy Gothic tradition, a genre shaped under censorship yet bursting with erotic charge, occult dread and startling visual imagination. Necrophagous unveils writer-director Miguel Madrid’s debut, where a fractured family in a decaying castle hides a festering secret beneath its stone floors. Cake of Blood, long unavailable outside Spain, presents four supernatural shorts from rising filmmakers experimenting with ghosts, witchcraft and surreal horror. Cross of the Devil sees Hammer veteran John Gilling transpose his atmospheric style into a Spanish tale of medieval curses and modern obsession. The Night of the Walking Dead, directed by León Klimovsky, blends vampiric mythology with a mournful tale of illness, seduction and immortality. Restored from original negatives and accompanied by over eight hours of featurettes, interviews and scholarly commentary, this set offers the most definitive exploration yet of Spain’s bold, transgressive Gothic cinema.
directed by: Miguel Madrid, Various
starring: Marisa Paredes, José Lifante, Juan José Porto, Emma Cohen
1964–1975 / Multiple runtimes / Various aspect ratios / Spanish mono with subtitles
Danza Macabra Volume Three: The Spanish Gothic Collection [Blu-ray]
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio commentary for Necrophagous with Andy Marshall-Roberts
• Necrophagous appreciation by Ángel Sala
• Remembrance by Maria Pilar Rafáles on the origins of the Sitges Film Festival
• Trailers: The Butcher of Binbrook, Graveyard of Horror
• Commentary for Cake of Blood with Rod Barnett and Dr. Adrian Smith
• Interviews with Marisa Paredes, Jaime Chávarri and José Lifante
• Cake of Blood appreciation by Ángel Sala
• Commentary for Cross of the Devil with Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
• Interview with screenwriter Juan José Porto
• Cross of the Devil appreciation by Ángel Sala
• Fantasy and Imagination: The Legacy of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – video essay by Xavier Aldana Reyes
• Commentary for The Night of the Walking Dead with Kat Ellinger
• Appreciation by Ángel Sala
• Interviews with Juan José Porto and José Lifante
• Spain’s Cinematic Vampires – video essay by Xavier Aldana Reyes
• Alternate Spanish credit sequence for The Night of the Walking Dead

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