On his official page Facebook, TetroVideo has published photos of the original coils of Opera Mortem (UK - 1973), the cursed film that has emerged into the light after four decades. Acquired by TetroVideo a few weeks ago, the film will be released in Italy soon.
Opera Mortem was shot on Super 8mm and VHS over a ten-year period by the insane British painter David Fleas. This is a satanic horror film that had a single screening back in 1973 at Nottingham's Odeon Film Theatre (where some people tragically died soon after the premiere), then vanished into thin air soon after.
After 40 years of oblivion, Opera Mortem resurfaced in 2015 thanks to an Italian collector (more info here).
Presented as an "extreme surrealist/dadaist/experimental film" and called "a kind of metaphorical transposition of a black magic ritual" by an occultist, Opera Mortem incorporates gruesome content, gore, explicit pornography, crude images, and literary quotations with references to suicide in which the death visions of a suicidal girl merge with those of a necrophilic serial killer.
Photos of the original coils:
