Indicator Releasing The Bat Woman

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Coming in April...

https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/co...at-woman-le-us

(René Cardona, 1968)
Release date: 26 March 2024
Limited Edition Blu-ray

Wrestlers, mad doctors, and human-fish hybrids abound in The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago), a colourful showcase for the talents of Italian Mexican sex symbol Maura Monti.

When Acapulco’s wrestlers start being murdered and their pineal glands mysteriously extracted, the wealthy luchadora Gloria (Monti) adopts her crime-fighting persona of the Bat Woman. Donning her disguise of shiny blue mask, cape, and micro-bikini, she teams up with agent Mario (Héctor Godoy) to foil the evil Dr Williams (Roberto Cañedo) in his dastardly plan to create an army of amphibious ‘fish-men’.

Produced by Guillermo Calderón (Santo vs. the Riders of Terror) and directed by René Cardona (The Panther Women), The Bat Woman is an eye-popping, high-camp blend of lucha libre and superhero action.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES


4K restoration from the original negative
Original Spanish mono audio
Audio commentary with film historian and Mexican cinema specialist David Wilt (2024)
Adventures in Mexicolour (2024): journalist, writer and indie editor of Belcebú, and formerly DC Comics, Mauricio Matamoros Durán examines the position of The Bat Woman within the Mexican and international pop and comic-book culture of the time
Fantastique Creatures (2024): José Luis Ortega Torres, film critic, teacher, and author of the book Mostrología del cine mexicano, explores the representation of monsters in early Mexican genre cinema
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
New and improved English translation subtitles
Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Dolores Tierney, archival essays by Doyle Greene and Andrew Coe, archival interviews with Maura Monti, and full film credits
UK premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 8,000 individually numbered units Blu-rays for the UK and US

All extras subject to change

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[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

Way back in the early 00's I had a review and some posters of this movie up on my website. While the traffiic to my other pages wasn't bad for such a small site, this movie had over 100,000 hits. Geocities actually told me to close my site because there was too much traffic. (It was also at the top of google search back then).

Anyway, fun movie and I'm glad to see it get a top flight release.

[Marshall Crist Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Marshall Crist]

Did you cave to Geocities?

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Saved from VCI... just after I bought the fucking thing. At least it was cheap.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

Did you cave to Geocities?

Eventually. My health got really bad and I couldn't handle keeping it going. Several people offered to write articles for it which was really thoughtful, but I decided to let it just die.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

I've never seen this before. Had to get it for the cover alone. Glad to hear that its a fun film.