From Juraj Herz, director of The Cremator and Morgiana, come this singular adaption of the classic tale - an altogether darker interpretation than we're used to. Light years from Disney, Herz's Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story - innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor - but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz’s macabre re\-imagining. Aided by wonderful set and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale-turned-horror story from Czechoslovak cinema’s most wryly subversive artist. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Beauty and the Beast (Panna a netvor, 1978) presented complete and uncut from a new HD transfer from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive. A newly-recorded Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger. Frantiaek Hrubn (1964): a short film on the Czech writer and poet, and co\-screenwriter of Beauty and the Beast. 20-page booklet with new writing on the film by author Jonathan Owen. New and improved English subtitle translation. Region free Blu\-ray (A\/B\/C). MORE TBC