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The first volume in The Weird Tale Collection contains some excellent adaptations of horror author Robert W. Chambers' work including Aaron Vanek's award winning short feature film inspired by the short story "The Yellow Sign" in the book The King in Yellow.
In the movie, a young art gallery owner, Tess Reardon (played by Little Giants star Shawna Waldron), is looking for new talent to spark life into her failing business. Haunted by nightmares, she discovers that an artist she dreamt about, Aubrey Scott, actually exists, and she seeks him out. The eccentric painter agrees to a showing of his art, but only if Tess will model for his new work. She grudgingly agrees and begins to regress into a past life from a parallel world, and that everything is not at all as it seems.
Contains adaptations of horror author Robert W. Chambers' work including Aaron Vanek's film The Yellow Sign. An art gallery owner (Little Giants star Shawna Waldron) is looking for new talent to spark life into her failing business. Haunted by nightmares, she discovers that an artist she dreamt about exists, and seeks him out. The eccentric painter agrees to a gallery showing, but only if Tess will model for him. She grudgingly agrees and begins to regress into a past life where everything is not at all as it seems.
The volume also includes the short films Tupilak, The King in Yellow, the documentary Chambers in Paris, production stills, outtakes, deleted scenes, two audio commentaries, and subtitles in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Finnish, and Portuguese.
| Catalog Number: MC-875 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Horror / Bizarre |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 100 minutes |
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DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 0892586002208 |
| Label: Lurker Films, Inc. |
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