BLOOD FOR DRACULA / THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE / MARK OF THE DEVIL

ABOUT THE EVENT:

5:10pm | BLOOD FOR DRACULA

7:05pm | THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE

8:45pm | MARK OF THE DEVIL

Start times are approximate. There will be brief (approximately 5-10 minute) intermissions between films. Ticket includes entry to all films in the marathon.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

BLOOD FOR DRACULA, 1974, Dir. Paul Morrissey, 106 Mins, AGFA, Italy/France

Immediately after completing FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, filmmaker Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created BLOOD FOR DRACULA, a sumptuously depraved Euroshocker that tows the line between art and bad taste. Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula (Kier) journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey’s FLESH, TRASH and HEAT). Stefania Casini (SUSPIRIA) and BICYCLE THIEVES director Vittorio De Sica co-star in one of the most unique and outrageous vampire films in history, now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.

FORMAT: DCP

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, 1981, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 92 Mins, AGFA, France/West Germany

In French with English subtitles.

It’s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, SUSPIRIA) and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowcyzk (THE BEAST) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches.

FORMAT: DCP

MARK OF THE DEVIL, 1970, Dir. Michael Armstrong, 90 Mins, AGFA, West Germany

In English and German with English subtitles.

One of the most notorious horror movies of the drive-in era, MARK OF THE DEVIL is a brutal and bloody critique of religious corruption. Count Christian von Meruh (Udo Kier, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN) is a witch hunter apprentice whose faith becomes tested. The Count slowly begins to realize that witch trials are a cover for the church to rob people of their land, money . . . and more. Written and directed by Michael Armstrong, this wild shocker plays out like a degenerate version of Roger Corman’s mid-1960s Poe adaptations. There’s a reason why barf bags were handed out during original theatrical screenings.

FORMAT: DCP