Ferat Vampire Blu-ray marks the North American home video premiere of Juraj Herz’s audacious 1982 shocker, a singular fusion of horror, science fiction, and political paranoia from one of the great subversive voices of the Czech New Wave. Equal parts provocation and allegory, the film twists vampire mythology into a cold, mechanized nightmare that feels uncannily modern.

When Ferat Motors unveils a sleek, high-performance sports car, a trauma doctor begins to suspect the impossible: the vehicle is a living organism powered by human blood. As accidents mount and the truth edges closer to exposure, Herz constructs a chilling vision of state control, technological obsession, and bodily exploitation. Anchored by performances from Jiří Menzel and Dagmar Havlová, the film moves with clinical dread toward a conclusion as disturbing as it is prophetic.

Restored from the best surviving 35mm elements by Národní Filmový Archiv and Severin Films, Ferat Vampire arrives with over five hours of newly curated and archival supplements. Long unavailable in the U.S., this release finally positions Herz’s film alongside cult classics like Rabid and The Cremator as a defining work of late-Cold War genre cinema.

directed by: juraj herz
starring: jiří menzel, dagmar havlová, jana brezková, vít olmer
1982 / 94 min

Ferat Vampire [Blu-ray]

Name: Ferat Vampire [Blu-ray]
Brand: Severin Films

$33.99

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BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• New restoration from 35mm film elements
• Audio commentary by film historian Michael Brooke
• Archival audio commentary by film critic Lars Dreyer-Winkelmann (revised and re-recorded in English)
• A Person Undergoing a Strange Sequence of Events, interview with actress Jana Brezková
• Vampires Ltd., interview with screenwriter Jan Fleischer
• Eat Up the Road, 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 prototype engineer Stanislav Cinkl
• Ferat Vampire: Close-Up, featurette on the Škoda prototype used in the film
• Strange Airlines (1992), Czech TV movie based on Josef Nesvadba’s short story Mordair
• Booklet featuring the original short story Vampire Ltd. by Josef Nesvadba with a new introduction by Ivan Adamovič

Additional details
Format: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Language: Czech
Audio: Stereo
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 94 minutes
Discs: 1
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