The first volume in The Weird Tale Collection contains some excellent adaptations of horror author Robert W. Chambers' work including Aaron Vanek's award winning short feature film inspired by the short story "The Yellow Sign" in the book The King in Yellow.
In the movie, a young art gallery owner, Tess Reardon (played by Little Giants star Shawna Waldron), is looking for new talent to spark life into her failing business. Haunted by nightmares, she discovers that an artist she dreamt about, Aubrey Scott, actually exists, and she seeks him out. The eccentric painter agrees to a showing of his art, but only if Tess will model for his new work. She grudgingly agrees and begins to regress into a past life from a parallel world, and that everything is not at all as it seems.
The volume also includes David Leroy's stunning Tupilak (transferred from a 35mm print), and Emiliano Guarneri & David Fragale's mysterious Italian short, The King in Yellow. Bonus materials include a short documentary called Chambers in Paris, by Chambers' expert, Christophe Thill, plus production stills, outtakes, deleted scenes, audio commentary, and much more. Subtitles in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Finnish, and Portuguese.
The Weird Tale Collection Volume 1: The Yellow Sign DVD includes:
• "The Yellow Sign" short starring Shawna Waldron from "The American President" and "Little Giants". This film is in English with subtitles in: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Portuguese.
• David Leroy's short film "Tupilak". Winner of Best Short at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. During a polar expedition, Kelvin and Max leave their wounded Inuit guide behind them. Two years later, on the very same date, they meet by accident in a deserted museum. The past comes back, and the evil shadow of the Tupilak is not far away. This film is in French with subtitles in English and French.
• "The King in Yellow" by filmmakers Emiliano Guarneri & David Fragale. A girl goes to an antique shop to buy a book for her friend who was admitted to a hospital; but on the way to see her, falls down into a nightmare world where she will meet the King in Yellow. But who is, or a better question to ask, what is the King in Yellow? This film is in Italian with subtitles in English.
• "Chambers in Paris", a documentary on Robert Chambers by expert Christophe Thill. Robert W. Chambers (1865—1933) is probably best remembered for The King in Yellow, an odd collection of supernatural weird tale, and tales of the artist’s life in Paris. First published in 1895, "The Yellow Sign" is one of Chambers’ very best stories taken from The King in Yellow, his second (and best) book.
• Slide shows, deleted scenes, audition footage, and more.
- NTSC All Region
- Short documentary called Chambers in Paris, by Chambers' expert, Christophe Thill
- Production stills, outtakes, deleted scenes
- Audio commentary, and much more
- Subtitles in French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Finnish
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