| BOLLYWOOD HORROR COLLECTION – VOLUME 1 is a two disc package containing the films :
BANDH DARWAZA (1990)
PURANA MANDIR (1984)
Both are directed by Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay. The Ramsay family, which consists of five other brothers and their father, F.U. Ramsay, the producer, are India’s most famous makers of horror movies. In Bollywood they are seen as rivals to Hammer Films in both the quantity and quality of their productions.
BANDH DARWAZA is the Indian version of Dracula. A childless women visits the lair of an evil magician in order that she may conceive. When she gives birth to a baby girl, the magician demands that she hand her over. She refuses and has the magician killed. Years later he is revived as a fully fledged member of the undead. He comes looking for the now teenage girl, intending to make her his slave.
PURANA MANDIR tells of the ancient curse visited on an Indian king 200 years ago. All female members of his family will turn into hideous monsters and die in childbirth. The daughter of one of his descendents decides to put an end to this curse and travels to the ancient temple where it all began 200 years before. What awaits her and her friends there is terror beyond their wildest nightmares. A classic of Indian horror that shocked a nation.
Six hours of scary fun on two discs. Hot Indian horror from the land of gods and monsters.
- NTSC Region 1
- Double Disc
- Hindi with English Subtitles
This is a double disc release with four main extra features:
1) A documentary on south Asian action, horror and mythological films, covering India and Pakistan with lots of clips, interviews and background info on this hugely important but little known (at least in the west) area of cinema
2) Freddie, Jason… and Saamri. A more detailed look at the two main features in this double disc set. Shows how, with Purana Mandir, Bollywood horror movies created their first series character to rival Freddie Kruger, Jason Vorhees etc etc
3) Extensive background text on the rise and fall of the Bollwyood horror movie and the history of the Ramsay Brothers horror factory
4) The much loved and now extended Mondo Macabro preview reel. |
