Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death | Blu-ray (Mondo Macabro)
RELEASE DATE: October 8, 2019
On October 8th, 2019, Mondo Macabro, the U.S.-based company responsible for last year’s release of the Korean horror classic Suddenly in the Dark (read our review), is releasing the Blu-ray for Woman Chasing a Killer Butterfly (aka The Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo or The Killer Butterfly), a 1978 film directed by Kim Ki-young.
Check out Mondo Macabro’s announcement below:
Over the years we’ve released some pretty strange movies here at Mondo Macabro. But this might very well be the strangest yet. Directed by Kim Ki-young, director of the original version of The Housemaid, often called “the best Korean film of all time”, Butterfly is a horror-tinged psychotropic melodrama freak-out about nothing less than death itself and the will to keep living.
After a young man survives being poisoned by a girl at a picnic he falls into a deep, suicidal depression. But standing in the way of his desire to kill himself is a Nietzschean bookseller who refuses to die even though he’s killed several times, an ancient mummy who is revived in the form of a beautiful woman who happens to be a cannibal, and an insane anthropologist who wants to keep his daughter alive by getting her laid. And also, of course, butterflies.
Killer Butterfly is the most eccentric work in the filmography of the very eccentric Kim Ki-young, made at time of crisis in the Korean film industry when he was running out of hit movies but not bizarre ideas.
Mondo Macabro is incredibly excited to bring this amazing film to the U.S. for the first time ever in a world-premiere Blu-ray release sporting a new 2K restoration from the original negative and loaded with tons of exclusive extras:
- Brand New 2K Restoration from the original negative
- New! audio commentary by Kenneth Brorsson and Paul Quinn of the What’s Korean Cinema podcast
- New! Interview with actress Lee Hwa-si
- New! Interview with producer Jung Jin-woo
- New! Interview with cinematographer Koo Joong-mo
- New! Interview with Korean cinema expert Darcy Paquet on the career of Kim Ki-young
- Korean language track with newly translated optional English subs
- Region-free
Pre-order Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death from Amazon.com today!
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