Press Release - Larva Mental and Maleficia coming to Home Video via TetroVideo on August 3rd


TetroVideo is proud to present the horror extreme film Larva Mental (Spain - 2020) by Mikel Balerdi and the French ultra-gore film Maleficia (France - 1998) by Antoine Pellissier.

This one is the second title of Tetro Underground, a line dedicated to all the underground films produced until 1999. Both titles are available for pre-order starting August 3rd.

Larva Mental is coming to Blu-ray in a Standard Edition, in a Limited Numbered Golden Edition (Mediabook + Blu-ray + Slipcase + Booklet), and in an Ultra-limited Numbered Golden Edition (Mediabook + Blu-ray + Slipcase + Booklet + Metal Panel 15x20cm with a Mikel Balerdi artwork).

Maleficia is available in a Standard Edition (vintage looking Slipcase + Amaray + DVD) and in a Silver Limited Plus Numbered Edition with a special Cordenons Stardream Silver paper slipcase with transparent box and a card inside.


LARVA MENTAL by Mikel Balerdi

Considered one of the most brutal and disturbing movies of all time, Larva Mental (2020) is an extreme horror film written, directed, and performed by Mikel Balerdi (Vore Gore, segment "Mouth"), here in his directorial debut.

With an artistic touch, the tattooist, painter, extreme body art performer, and director Mikel Balerdi explores the perverse human impulses, the extreme, the profane, and the taboo. Larva Mental is a combination of real and practical effects and deals with a lot of strong subject matters including suicide, self-harm, depression, necrophilia, and drug abuse.

The plot centers around a girl (Dairi Gaona) who commits suicide after finding depraved videos of his father. After discovering the body, suffering pushes him to the point of madness.

Mikel Balerdi and Dairi Gaona star.
The practical effects are by Mikel Balerdi and Dairi Gaona.


MALEFICIA by Antoine Pellissier

Produced, written, and directed by the "master of trash" Antoine Pellissier, Maleficia (1998) is a masterpiece in the ultra-gore genre, an extreme gore film in which over 200 actors and extras were cast. It was filmed in over 2 years and the production used over 200 gallons of real blood and 1000 lb of real bones.

Full of atrocities (dismemberment, beheadings, stabbings, eye-gouging, tongue-ripping...), Maleficia begins with gruesome rituals and ends with a gory bloodbath.

SYNOPSIS:
A family of nobles travels in a forest in which, in the same moment, a satanic cult completes human sacrifices made up of young girls. The group begins to torture and mutilate the chained sacrificial victims until death to summon the dead which arises to terrorize people and wreak more havoc.

Nelly Astaud, Brigitte Garrigue, Guy Cicorelli, Claude Gatumel and Nicolas Pellissier star.

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