Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet 08/31/24
Adéla jêstê neveĉeřela. One of the most accomplished Czech fantasies comes to Blu-ray — nostalgic pulp fiction set in 1900 Prague. Yankee detective Nick Carter finds himself in a life & death struggle against his old arch-nemesis ‘The Gardener,’ the seductive femme fatale Irma, and a monstrous carnivorous plant with the fearsome name Adéla. Cartoonish inventions and weird animation compete for attention with the 8-foot people-eater, that chows down only when its appetite is aroused by a classical lullabye. Among the actors is Prague’s answer to Brigitte Bardot, Olga Schoberová, who Hammer fans know as Olinka Berova. It’s a key collaboration between filmmakers Oldrich Lipský and Jiří Brdečka; the beautifully-remastered disc also carries four of Brdečka’s impressive animated short subjects. On Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile.
08/31/24