VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY (1981)
Label: Deaf Crocodile
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 88 Minutes 54 Seconds
Audio: Croation LPCM 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Dusan Vukotic
Cast: Zarko Potocnjak, Lucie Zulová, Ksenia Prohaska
Imagine if Troma Films had been hired to make a Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kids' show, and you have some idea of the unspeakable strangeness of VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY, a truly gonzo Croatian sci-fi / fantasy / comedy about a struggling writer, Robert (Zarko Potocnjak), who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo and Ulu from a distant planet. Incredibly, his fictional alien creations become reality, causing chaos in his relationship with his girlfriend Biba (Lucie Zulová) and threatening his small seaside village. The alluring lead robot Andra (Ksenia Prohaska) looks like H.R. Giger re-designed the Maschinenmensch from Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS; watch for the scene where she pours hot coffee and cream out of her fingertips. But for sheer jawdropping insanity, nothing rivals the Mumu Monster -- created for the film by legendary Czech animator Jan Švankmajer --, a rubber-suited, multi-tentacled creation that destroys a wedding party, ripping off heads and spouting plumes of toxic green smoke while a blind accordion player blithely plays his squeezebox. VISITORS was a rare live-action feature from animator Dusan Vukotic (1927-1998), best known for his stunning UPA-style cartoon shorts including "Cow On The Moon" (1959) and the Oscar-winning "The Substitute" (1961). This long-unavailable genre treat has been newly restored in 4K by Deaf Crocodile and Zagreb Film. In Croatian with English subtitles.
Special Features:
- New scan of VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY with restoration by Craig Rogers for Deaf Crocodile
- New commentary track by film historian Samm Deighan
- 16-Page Illustrated Booklet with New essay by film historian and professor Jennifer Lynde Barker
- 5 rare short films by director Dusan Vukotic including his Oscar-winning Surogat (The Substitute) (1961, 9:48), plus Krava na mjeseco (Cow in the Moon) (1959, 10:40), Piccolo (1959, 9:30), 1001 Crtez (1001 Drawings) (1980, 14:24), Ars Gratia Artis (1969, 8:55)
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.
Sales Points
- Global-best restoration by Deaf Crocodile Films
- For fans of sci-fi comedies like EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY and THE TOXIC AVENGER.
Press Quotes
[Visitors] has so many extravagant, daring, mad and surreal moments that it has to be seen —Psychovision
No descriptions can quite capture what we see here. Amusingly unsentimental, Visitors offers an absurd Philip K Dickian sensibility... fun with ideas familiar from Close Encounters —Glenn Erickson, CineSavant
Screenshots from the Deaf Crocodile Blu-ray:
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