MANY PEOPLE VISIT ...
NO ONE EVER LEAVES.
Helmed by legendary
producer/director Ovidio Assonitis, the man behind such cult favourites as
The Visitor and Piranha II: The Spawning, Madhouse is a
crimson-soaked tale of sibling rivalry taken to a terrifying and bloody
extreme.
Julia has spent her
entire adult life trying to forget the torment she suffered at the hands of
her twisted twin Mary... but Mary hasn't forgotten. Escaping hospital,
where she's recently been admitted with a horrific, disfiguring illness,
Julia's sadistic sister vows to exact a particularly cruel revenge on her
sibling this year - promising a birthday surprise that she'll never forget.
An Italian production
shot entirely in Savannah, Georgia, Madhouse (aka And When She Was Bad
and There Was a
Little Girl) fuses slasher elements with the over-the-top
excess of '80s Italian terror - resulting in a cinematic bloodbath so
gut-wrenching that the British authorities saw fit to outlaw it as a
"video nasty".
FEATURES
- Brand new 2K
restoration from the original camera negative
- High Definition
Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations
- Original Stereo
Audio (Uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English
subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio
commentary with The Hysteria Continues
- Brand new
interviews with cast and crew
- Alternate opening
titles
- Theatrical Trailer,
newly transferred in HD
- Reversible sleeve
featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach
FIRST PRESSING ONLY:
Booklet featuring new writing on the film
SPECS
SKU: AV094
UPC: 760137022282
Street Date: 06/13/17
PreBook Date:
05/09/17
Label: Arrow Video »
Genre: Horror
Run Time: 92 mins
Number of Discs: 2
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production:
1981
Director: Ovidio
Assonitis
Actors: Trish Everly,
Michael MacRae, Dennis Robertson
Territory: US
Language: English
SRP: $39.95
Product details and
hi res cover art, can be found HERE
In 1970, young
first-time director Dario Argento (Deep
Red, Suspiria)
made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and
catapulted him to international stardom.
Sam Dalmas (Tony
Musante, We Own the
Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently
witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in
a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed
with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key
to identifying the maniac terrorizing Rome, he launches his own
investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to
both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo).
A staggeringly
assured debut, The
Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits
that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a
flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous
cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse
Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio
Morricone (Once Upon a
Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or
sounded better in this new, 4K-restored limited edition.
FEATURES
- Brand new 4K restoration of the film
from the camera negative in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, produced by
Arrow Video exclusively for this release
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and
Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original mono Italian and English
soundtracks (lossless on the Blu-ray Disc)
- English subtitles for the Italian
soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the
deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Troy
Howarth, author of So
Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- The
Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario
Argento by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil's Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical
Study
- New analysis of the film by critic
Kat Ellinger
- New interview with writer/director
Dario Argento
- New interview with actor Gildo Di
Marco (Garullo the pimp)
- Reversible sleeve featuring original
and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- 6 Lobby Card reproductions
- Limited edition 60-page booklet
illustrated by Matthew Griffin, featuring an appreciation of the film by
Michael Mackenzie, and new writing by Howard Hughes and Jack Seabrook
SPECS
SKU: AV095
UPC: 760137022381
Street Date: 06/20/17
PreBook Date: 05/16/17
Label: Arrow Video »
Genre: Horror
Run Time: 98 mins
Number of Discs: 2
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production: 1970
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall,
Eva Renzi
Territory: US
Language: Italian
SRP: $49.95
Product details and hi res cover art,
can be found HERE
Released just as the popularity of
yakuza movies was waning in Japan, and as the country's film industry was
undergoing some fundamental shifts, Doberman
Cop is a unique entry in the career of director Kinji
Fukasaku (Battles
Without Honor and Humanity, Cops
vs Thugs), and reunited him with star Shinichi
"Sonny" Chiba (The
Street Fighter,
Wolf Guy) in an American-style crime movie that mixes gunplay
and pulp fiction with martial arts and lowbrow comedy to create one of
their most entertaining films.
Based on a popular manga by
"Buronson" (creator of Fist
of the North Star), Doberman Cop follows the fish-out-of-water
adventures of Joji Kano (Chiba), a tough-as-nails police officer from
Okinawa who arrives in Tokyo's Kabuki-cho nightlife district to investigate
the savage murder and mutilation of an island girl who had been working as
a prostitute. Initially dismissed as a country bumpkin (complete with straw
hat and live pig in tow!), Kano soon proves himself a more savvy detective
than the local cops, and a tougher customer than anyone expected. As he
probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency
corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth about the
girl, her connection to a yakuza-turned-music manager (Hiroki Matsukata),
and a savage serial killer who is burning women alive.
Made to appeal both to the youth
market with its biker gangs and popular music, as well as to old-time
yakuza movie fans, Doberman
Cop is an surprising oddity in Fukasaku's career, his sole
film adapted directly from a manga and never before released on video
outside of Japan. Featuring Chiba at his charismatic best -- channeling a
Japanese Dirty Harry while doing all his own stunts -- and Fukasaku at his
most fun, deftly showcasing the combined talents of his "Piranha
Army" stock company of actors and other regular players -- Doberman Cop
is a classic action comedy and a missing link in 1970's Japanese cinema
deserving of rediscovery.
FEATURES
- High Definition digital transfer
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and
Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- New optional English subtitle
translation
- Beyond
the Film: Doberman Cop, a new video appreciation by Fukasaku
biographer Sadao Yamane
- New video interview with actor
Shinichi 'Sonny' Chiba
- New video interview with
screenwriter Koji Takada
- Reversible sleeve featuring original
and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's book
featuring new writing on the films by Patrick Macias and Tom Mes.
SPECS
SKU: AV096
UPC: 760137022480
Street Date: 06/27/17
PreBook Date: 05/23/17
Label: Arrow Video »
Genre: Action/Adventure
Run Time: 90 mins
Number of Discs: 2
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production: 1977
Director: Kinji Fukusaku
Actors: Sonny Chiba
Territory: US
Language: Japanese
SRP: $39.95
Product details and hi res cover art,
can be found HERE
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