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Release: October 10, 2023

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Product Description “LA MADRE MUERTA” Ismael (Karra Elejalde, Timecrimes) breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can't delay forever... A gothic thriller with pitch-black humour that recalls the Coen brothers, Juanma Bajo Ulloa's sophomore feature won a host of prestigious international awards and was a precursor to the Spanish genre explosion. BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: 4K restoration of the film supervised and approved by director Juanma Bajo Ulloa Uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio Audio commentary by Bajo Ulloa The Story of La Madre Muerta - a documentary on the making of the film featuring behind-the-scenes images and interviews with the cast and crew Victor's Kingdom [El reino de Victor] (1989, 38 mins) Goya Award-winning short film by Ulloa, restored in 4K Gallery of behind-the-scenes and promotional imagery Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow Limited Edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by Xavier Aldana Reyes, author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation, and newly translated archival writing by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, co-writer Eduardo Bajo Ulloa and an appreciation by Nacho Vigalond. Limited Edition Soundtrack CD featuring Bingen Mendizábal's sumptuous score Limited Edition (only 3000 copies), presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of markings Review Bajo Ulloa is a master story teller and clearly on top of his game here. 'La Madre Muerta' is a true gem of a film, one that shocks and compels and remains every bit as vital a piece of work today as it must have been the day it was released. --Todd Brown, Screen Anarchy Sumptuously shot in ravishing painterly hues of crimson blood red, earth brown and twilight blue, this film sets up and explores a compelling set of relationships between its protagonists and achieves a series of riveting suspense set pieces. --Jeremy Clarke, What’s on in London A sick but haunting Spanish thriller. --Anne Billson, Sunday Telegraph Top Similar From the Brand Reviews The Dead Mother

Release: January 27, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s. Héctor (Karra Elejalde) lives with his wife Clara (Candela Fernández) in the peaceful Spanish countryside. One day, while relaxing in their backyard, Héctor spies a woman removing her clothes in a nearby forest via his binoculars. Once alone, he travels to her location to find the woman naked and presumably dead. He is attacked by an unknown, bandaged man, causing him to run further into the forest, where he stumbles upon a top-secret research facility, which happens to be home to a time machine. Upon meeting El Joven (played by director Nacho Vigalondo), a scientist in control of the facility and its machine, Héctor travels back in time one hour. Operating against El Joven’s wishes, Héctor leaves the facility, setting off a series of events with increasingly dark consequences. The feature film debut of writer/director Nacho Vigalondo (Colossal, Open Windows), TIMECRIMES is an audacious mash-up of science fiction, horror, and murder mystery. Shot entirely on Super 16mm film by Spanish cinematographer Flavio Martínez Labiano (The Day of the Beast), a frequent collaborator of Álex de la Iglesia, and featuring almost entirely analog effects, TIMECRIMES is a lovingly old-fashioned throwback to the sci-fi films of the 60s and 70s while retaining much of the expected excesses of the genre films of the 2000s. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Nacho Vigalondo’s impeccably crafted, often very nasty, journey through time in a brand new 4K restoration of its 35mm DI negative for its world UHD premiere. Bonus Features: 1. 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray 2. 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range 3. Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative 4. Brand new commentary track with writer/director/actor Nacho Vigalondo, moderated by Justin Laliberty 5. Brand new commentary track with writer and podcaster Alexandra West 6. Archival commentary track with Nacho Vigalondo 7. "Bigger than Me" (18 min) - a brand new interview with Nacho Vigalondo 8. "Rewind. Repeat. Revisit." (13 min) - a brand new video essay by film scholar Dr. Valeria Villegas Lindvall and EmeErre 9. Alternate chronological edit of Timecrimes (69 min) 10. "The Making of Timecrimes" (44 min) - an archival documentary from 2008 11. "The Makeup of Timecrimes" (6 min) - an archival featurette from 2008 12. Archival cast & crew interviews (10 min) 13. Footage from the Timecrimes promotional internet game (33 min) 14. "7:35 de la mañana" (8 min) - an Oscar® Nominated short film from 2003, directed by Nacho Vigalondo 15. Spanish trailer 16. English trailer 17. Reversible sleeve artwork 18. Newly translated English subtitles

Release: January 27, 2026

$6.99

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Vinegar Syndrome specializes in the masterful restoration and distribution of cult, horror, and erotic films from the 1960s-90s. Héctor (Karra Elejalde) lives with his wife Clara (Candela Fernández) in the peaceful Spanish countryside. One day, while relaxing in their backyard, Héctor spies a woman removing her clothes in a nearby forest via his binoculars. Once alone, he travels to her location to find the woman naked and presumably dead. He is attacked by an unknown, bandaged man, causing him to run further into the forest, where he stumbles upon a top-secret research facility, which happens to be home to a time machine. Upon meeting El Joven (played by director Nacho Vigalondo), a scientist in control of the facility and its machine, Héctor travels back in time one hour. Operating against El Joven’s wishes, Héctor leaves the facility, setting off a series of events with increasingly dark consequences. The feature film debut of writer/director Nacho Vigalondo (Colossal, Open Windows), TIMECRIMES is an audacious mash-up of science fiction, horror, and murder mystery. Shot entirely on Super 16mm film by Spanish cinematographer Flavio Martínez Labiano (The Day of the Beast), a frequent collaborator of Álex de la Iglesia, and featuring almost entirely analog effects, TIMECRIMES is a lovingly old-fashioned throwback to the sci-fi films of the 60s and 70s while retaining much of the expected excesses of the genre films of the 2000s. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Nacho Vigalondo’s impeccably crafted, often very nasty, journey through time in a brand new 4K restoration of its 35mm DI negative for its world UHD premiere.