Description
Juraj Herz's evocative fairy-tale-turned-horror story
From Juraj Herz, director of The Cremator and Morgiana, come this singular adaption of the classic tale - an altogether darker interpretation than we're used to. Light years from Disney, Herz's Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story - innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor - but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz’s macabre re-imagining.
Aided by wonderful set and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale-turned-horror story from Czechoslovak cinema’s most wryly subversive artist.
Product details
| SKU | 5060114151703 |
| Alphabetical Title | Beauty and the Beast |
| BFICID | 150260282 |
| Blu-Ray Region | A, B, C |
| Brand / Publisher | BFI |
| Catalogue Number | SECONDRUNBD042 |
| Certificate | 15 |
| Colour | Colour |
| Countries | Czechoslovakia |
| Director | Juraj Herz |
| Extras | <ul style |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Language(s) | Czech |
| Product contents | 1 disc |
| Running time | 92 mins |
| Subtitles | English |
| Year | 1978 |
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