Details

Adapted from the novel by Jean Ray and featuring legendary filmmaker Orson Welles in a towering late-career performance, Malpertuis is released on Blu-ray 13th October 2025 from Radiance Films.

Harry Kümel's Malpertuis centres on Jean-Jacques Griffon (Mathieu Carriere), a disillusioned young man who returns to his ancestral home after his father's death, only to find the sprawling mansion has become a cryptic maze filled with strange inhabitants.

His dying father has trapped several relatives and mysterious figures inside Malpertuis, an ancient, decaying mansion rumoured to be a prison for old gods disguised as humans. As Jean-Jacques unravels disturbing secrets about his family's cursed legacy, he discovers supernatural forces at play.

Newly restored and overseen by Kümel, it is released on Limited Edition Blu-ray for the first time in the world.

Special Features

  • New 4K restoration of the film overseen by director Harry Kümel
  • Audio commentary by Harry Kümel and assistant director Françoise Levie (2005)
  • New interview with Harry Kümel (2025)
  • interview with author and gothic horror expert Jonathan Rigby (2025)
  • Malpertuis Archive - an archival documentary on the making of the film featuring Kümel, actor Mathieu Carrière and director of photography Gerry Fisher among others (2005)
  • Orson Welles Uncut - a featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor (2005)
  • Susan Hampshire: one actress, three parts - an archival interview with the actress, including screen tests and contributions from cast and crew (2005)
  • Archival interview with Michel Bouquet and Harry Kümel from Belgian television (1971)
  • Jean Ray, John Flanders 1887 - 1964 - an archival interview with the source novelist and co-writer of Malpertuis (2005)
  • Malpertuis Revisited - Harry Kümel revisits locations from the film (2005, 4 mins)
  • Malpertuis: The Cannes cut - the rejected version of the film which premiered in Cannes, viewable in French or English (100 mins, SD)
  • The Warden of the Tomb - Kümel's early film based on Franz Kafka's play (1965, 37 mins)
  • Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
  • Limited edition 80-page perfect bound booklet featuring new writing by Lucas Balbo, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, David Flint, Willow Catelyn Maclay, Jonathan Owen
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in rigid box and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Watch the trailer