Severin Films Releasing Mondo Balordo & The Wild, Wild World Of Jayne Mansfield

[Ian Jane]

A few more SWV titles getting upgraded to Blu-ray via Severin - available to order on Black Friday.

[Nabonga]

I guess more niche weirdness is good but these are pretty shit. That said, I might get the Mansfield one haha.

[Ian Jane]

Standard editions coming in July...





Mondo Balordo
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Severin Films
Preorder: 6/30/20 Street: 7/28/20
MSRP: $29.98
UPC: 663390003510
Catalog #: SEV93510
MPAA Rating: NR
Genre: Documentary
Color, 87 minutes in English
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.66:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Region: All
Production year: 1964
Directors: Roberto Bianchi Montero, Albert T. Viola
Cast: Boris Karloff, Federico Boido, Franz Drago


In one of the most infamous Mondo movies of all, host Boris Karloff guides you through a world “throbbing and pulsing with love, from the jungle orgies of primitive tribes to sin-filled evenings of the London sophisticate.” Along the way, you’ll also experience Bedouin pimps, amorous dwarves, Spanish transvestites, German lesbians, Indian exorcists, Neapolitan cigarette smugglers, and Chinese bondage models, now scanned in 4k from the original negative.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• The Orientals - 1960 Italian Mondo, scanned from 35mm print from the Something Weird archives.

Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/429363127/443f8db9fe

[Ian Jane]

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Severin Films
Preorder: 6/30/20 Street: 7/28/20
MSRP: $29.98
UPC: 663390003503
Catalog #: SEV93503
MPAA Rating: NR
Genre: Documentary
Color, 90 minutes in English
Widescreen 1.85:1
Dolby Digital Mono
Region: All
Production year: 1968
Directors: Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt, Arthur Knight
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Robert Jason, Rocky Roberts, and The Airdales


From producer Dick Randall (ESCAPE FROM WOMEN’S PRISON, PIECES) comes the notorious Mondo mash-up in which a Jayne Mansfield sound-alike narrates footage of Jayne being chased by paparazzi in Rome, wearing bikinis in Cannes and partying with drag queens in Paris, before suddenly veering into graphic photos of her horrific accident and a posthumous tour of her Hollywood mansion. Mickey Hargitay co-stars in this “deranged kaleidoscope of titillating insanity” (Film Threat), scanned from the 35mm Something Weird archival print.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• SD Video Master Version of Feature.
• The Devil & Jayne - Interview with Anton LaVey Biographer Blanche Barton.
• Wild, Weird, Wonderful Italians - 1966 Italian Mondo, scanned from 35mm print from the Something Weird archives.
• Trailer.

Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/429364072/19dfeb64fa

[Jobla]

WILD, WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD would make a perfect companion piece to the documentary about Jayne and her flirtation with Anton LaVey. The latter documentary was titled something like MANSFIELD 66/67.