Sold out in a few days the first stock of 300 copies of Opera Mortem (UK - 1973), the satanic film shot on Super 8mm and VHS over ten years by the mad British painter David Fleas. Also sold out in a few hours were both the 35 cards with frames of the original Super 8mm film and the much sought-after copy #666 with certificate of authenticity, which fetched a price of 180 euros at auction.
The next TetroVideo copies will be available in January 2020.
We remember you that Opera Mortem will never again be reissued on DVD and will therefore be released in a collectors' Bookbox edition (only 666 pieces), a format never before seen in Italy.
Opera Mortem had only one screening back in 1973 at Nottingham's Odeon Film Theatre (where some people tragically died immediately after the premiere), and then vanished into thin air.
After 40 years of oblivion, the film emerged into the light in 2015 thanks to an Italian collector.
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 deals with 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.
For more info: the introduction of Opera Mortem.
