Mondo Macabro has announced a Blu-ray edition of Marquis, the underground film directed by Henri Xhonneux. The release packages a new 2K restoration with the original French audio and optional English subtitles, and will be available to preorder ahead of its street date.
Disc details
- Label: Mondo Macabro
- Format: 1 Blu-ray disc, region free
- Preorder: 9/8/26
- Release date: 10/13/26
- MSRP: $29.99
- UPC: 843276035495
- Catalogue #: MDO354
- Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.66:1
- Audio: Dolby Digital Mono (French) with optional English subtitles
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Region code: All
Special features
- New 2K restoration from the original negative
- Audio commentary with cast and crew
- Making-of featurette – The Creation of Marquis: Faces Beneath the Masks
- Trailer, image gallery and storyboards
- Telecat video and advertisement
Marquis is a visually unconventional film loosely inspired by the life of the Marquis de Sade. Its cast is credited as playing animal characters—portrayed by actors wearing oversized, life-sized animal heads—while the narrative follows the imprisoned Marquis inside the Bastille as he escapes into provocative daydreams and schemed plans with fellow inmates. The film also features an infamous on-screen device in the form of a large talking penis that converses with the protagonist.
Production credits listed for the release include director Henri Xhonneux and a cast that includes Philippe Bizot, Bien de Moor and Gabrielle van Damme. The release notes the film’s production year as 1989 in France and classifies the title in the horror genre.
For collectors and fans of offbeat European cinema, the disc consolidates the film’s archival presentation and supplemental materials into a single, region-free Blu-ray offering.
Source: Horror Society