PLEASE NOTE: This item is a PRE-ORDER with an official WIDE street date of 11/28/2023. We hope to begin shipping all Webstore orders of this item before that date, sometime around mid-late October.

THE LEE EN ESPAÑA BUNDLE includes:

• Count Dracula [4-Disc 4K UHD w/Slipcover] 
  
• Vampir Cuadecuc/Umbracle [Blu-ray]
  

Count Dracula [4-Disc 4K UHD w/Slipcover] 

In early 2023, a Madrid film archivist made a startling discovery: the uncut camera negative of COUNT DRACULA, in pristine condition and untouched for over 50 years. This gothic masterpiece from writer/director Jess Franco can now be experienced like never before, from its brilliant performances by Christopher Lee as the Count, Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, Soledad Miranda as Lucy, Maria Rohm as Mina and Klaus Kinski as Renfield to its sumptuously unnerving cinematography and eerie Bruno Nicolai score. COUNT DRACULA is newly scanned in 4K with over five total hours of Special Features, including the U.S. Premiere of Carles Prats’ 2017 documentary DRÁCULA BARCELONA, which chronicles the simultaneous filming of CUADECUC VAMPIR by Pere Portabella and Franco’s horror classic.

Special Features:

Disc 1: 4K UHD (Feature + Special Features)

• Audio Commentary With Horror Historian David Del Valle And Actress Maria Rohm
• Trailer

Disc 2: Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features)

• Audio Commentary With Horror Historian David Del Valle And Actress Maria Rohm
• Illustrated 1973 Christopher Lee Audio Interview With Filmmaker Donald Glut
• Beloved Count – Interview With Director Jess Franco
• Handsome Harker – Interview With Actor Fred Williams
• An Interview With Actor Jack Taylor
• Stake Holders – An Appreciation By Filmmaker Christophe Gans
• Trailer

Disc 3: Blu-ray (Special Features)

• DRÁCULA BARCELONA – 2017 Documentary (90 mins)
• Jess Franco's BRAM STOKER’S COUNT DRACULA – Stephen Thrower On COUNT DRACULA
• In The Land Of Franco Bonus Sequence With Alain Petit And Stephen Thrower
• Alternate Title Sequences

Disc 4: Soundtrack CD

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
• Audio: English Mono, Spanish Mono (TBC)
• 4K Video: HDR10
• Closed Captions
  
• 4K UHD: Region Free
• Blu-ray: Region Free
• Run time: 97 mins

Vampir Cuadecuc/Umbracle [Blu-ray]

Pere Portabella has been a pioneering movie producer and celebrated Spanish statesman, denounced by both the Franco dictatorship and The Vatican. But it’s his subversive work as a director that has rewritten the rules of genre narrative. Or as The Museum of Modern Art says, “The films of Portabella expand the expressive potential of cinema”: In 1970, Portabella was invited by Jess Franco to make a behind-the-scenes documentary on the filming of COUNT DRACULA. Instead, VAMPIR CUADECUC became a dreamlike deconstruction of myths, monsters and moviemaking featuring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and Soledad Miranda as you’ve never seen them before. Christopher Lee also stars in Portabella’s companion piece UMBRACLE, an unsettling journey through dread, violence and discontinuity with Lee at his most candid. Both films are now scanned in HD from Portabella’s own vault elements for the first time ever in America.

Special Features:

Disc 1: Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features)

• A Cinema Of Vampires: Pere Portabella, Jess Franco And The School Of Barcelona – Interview With Spanish Film Scholar Dr. Álex Mendíbil
• Trailer
• Booklet Featuring Text By Pere Portabella And Film Critics Jonathan Rosenbaum And Federico Karstulovich

Disc Specs:

• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Audio: VAMPIR CUADECUC: English Mono | UMBRACLE: Spanish Mono
• Closed Captions: VAMPIR CUADECUC: Closed Captions | UMBRACLE: English Subtitles
• Blu-ray: Region Free
• Run time: VAMPIR CUADECUC: 69 mins | UMBRACLE: 88 mins