SAVAGE STREETS, PERVERT!, And OBSESSION Coming Soon From Arrow Video!
First, The Bird With Crystal Plumage on Blu-ray
A stunning portrait in psycho-terror!Argento's Tenebrae on Blu-ray
Dario Argento nails the Giallo blueprint in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a brutal thriller that packs a gory brace of terrifying murders alongside it's genre defining mix of red herrings, leather gloved slashers and stylish decor.
When Sam, an American writer in Rome, witnesses an attempted slaying in an art gallery, he unwittingly sets the killers sights on himself and his beautiful model girlfriend. But soon, things start to unravel as it becomes clear that the identity of the unknown slayer is very much open to question. Somebody's killing everyone, who is the evil fiend? Could it be Sam himself?
Argento's groundbreaking shocker combines eye-popping visuals with a seamy vein of sadomasochism and a lust for violence to create a genre defining movie classic.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Brand new High Definition restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Director of Photography, Vittorio Storaro's original 2:1 Univisium aspect ratio
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Two-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by Alan Jones, author of 'Profondo Argento'
- Brand new HD restoration of the film presented in 1080p
- A Crystal Classic: Luigi Cozzi Remembers Dario's Bloody Bird (1080p)
- Sergio Martino: The Genesis of the Giallo (1080p)
- The Italian Hitchcock: Dario Argento Remembers The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1080p)
Blu-ray only
Optional Original English and Italian LPCM mono audio
Running time 96 mins
Region ABC
Original art by Rick Melton
Release Date 2nd May 2011
Terror Beyond Belief!Brian De Palma's Obsession on Blu-ray
A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.
A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn't the obsessive killer's only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer's slashing blade...
Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy's master of horror.
THIS AMAZING EDITION CONTAINS:
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned art work
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on Tenebrae by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento
- Brand new HD restoration of the film
- Optional original mono English and Italian audio
- Audio Commentary with Argento experts, journalists and writers Kim Newman and Alan Jones
- Audio Commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock
- Introduction by Daria Nicolodi
- Screaming Queen! Daria Nicolodi remembers Tenebrae
- The Unsane World of Tenebrae: An interview with Dario Argento
- A Composition for Carnage: Claudio Simonetti on Tenebrae
- Goblin: Tenebrae and Phenomena Live from the Glasgow Arches
- Original Trailer
Original art by Rick Melton
In original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with mono Italian and English (LPCM on the Blu-ray, Dolby Digital on the DVD) audio with optional English subtitles for English and Italian audio
Blu-ray running time 101 mins
DVD running time 97 mins
Blu-ray Region ABC
DVD Region 0 PAL
DVD RRP £19.99
Blu-ray RRP £27.99
Released 23rd May 2011
THE LOVE STORY THAT WILL SCARE THE LIFE OUT OF YOUSavage Streets on DVD!
Obsession. Def: A Compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion
High melodrama, creeping insanity and barely contained delirium abound in this dizzying tribute to the high tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock from director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface, Dressed to Kill)
Michael Courtland is a Southern gentleman who seems to have everything - A successful business, a beautiful wife and an adoring young daughter - until a botched kidnapping tears his world apart leaving him widowed, bereaved and bereft. Years later on a trip to Italy, he meets a woman with an uncanny resemblance to his late wife but all is not how it appears as a twisted conspiracy threatens to unhinge his mental shackles, sending him to the knife edge of MADNESS!
A master class in mounting unease and clammy palmed claustrophobia, Obsession is a classic 70s thriller with an evil twist that will leave you speechless.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Brand new High Definition transfer of the film (1080p)
- Original LPCM Mono Audio and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio audio options
- 4 panel reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Two sided fold out poster
- Exclusive collector's booklet featuring an essay on the film by critic and author Brad Stevens
- Available for the first time! Paul Schrader's original screenplay of the film in a perfect bound booklet. With the original title Déjà vu, Schrader's original script includes unfilmed sequences and sees the tripartite structure deal with the past, present and future of Michael Courtland.
- Obsession Revisited: Interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold and more!
- Early Brian De Palma short films: Woton's Wake (1962) and The Responsive Eye (1966)
- Original Trailer
Original art by Tom 'The Dude Designs' Hodge
Blu-ray Only
Running time 98 mins
Region ABC
RRP £24.99
Release date 27th June 2011
Brenda's got a switchblade and she knows how to use it...Pervert! on DVD!
See Linda Blair (The Exorcist) take bloody revenge on a gang of low down dirty street punks in Savage Streets, a brutal journey into rape, violence, switchblades and bear traps.
When Brenda (Blair) and her all-girl gang of tough talking chicks, The Satins, refuse to party with a car full of local drug pushers called The Scars, the girls think nothing of it, but they didn't reckon on the bruised ego of Jake and his feral pack of no good thugs. Targeting Brenda's deaf sister, they invade the school and savage her, leaving her on the critical list.
Now Brenda must scour the streets in search of crossbow vengeance in a dangerous B-movie classic that's the perfect antidote to 80s high school flicks.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Collector's booklet featuring new writing on Savage Streets by Kier-la Janisse, author of 'A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi' and 'House of Psychotic Women'
- Brand new transfer of the film presented in original 1.85:1 anamorphic aspect ratio
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with stars Sal Landi, Robert Dryer and Director of Photography Stephen Posey
- Audio commentary with director Danny Steinmann
- Audio commentary with producer John Strong and stars Robert Dryer and Johnny Venocur
- Confessions of a Teenage Vigilante: An interview with Linda Blair
- Heather Speaks! An interview with Linnea Quigley
- Getting the Job: Producer John Strong on Savage Streets
- Video interviews with Johnny Venocur and Robert Dryer on their characters
- Original Trailer
1.85:1 Anamorphic
Mono Audio
Region 0 PAL
Running time 93 mins
Original art by Tom 'The Dude Designs' Hodge
RRP £15.99
Released 20th June
Lust in the Dust!The new Argentos have custom cover art from Rick Melton, while poster artist extraordinaire Tom Hodge, AKA The Dude, contributes original art to Savage Streets, Pervert! and Obsession. Check out the links below for pre-orders and more info!
Pneumatic girls, crazed old men and a spate of bizarre murders are the order of the day in Pervert, a degenerate tale of sex, meat sculpture and chainsaw wielding good time girls that picks up were Russ Meyer left off!
James has come out to his father's dusty ranch in an obscure corner of the desert only to find that his dad has lost his mind. With cast members dropping like flies and flies unzipping at every opportunity, James has to work out whether his father is icing the locals while trying to keep a procession of local girls satisfied.
There more to the murders than meets the eye but will he be able to keep it in his trousers long enough to work it all out? Find out in this colourful tribute to the classic skin-flicks of the 1970s.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Reversible cover with newly commissioned and original artwork
- Collector's booklet illustrated with original artwork and stills featuring new writing on the film and a new interview with director Jonathan Yudis by artist and publisher Robin Bougie, creator of Cinema Sewer magazine, a periodical guide to the sickest and sexiest movies ever made!
- Extended Lesbian Scenes!
- Beyond the Chasm of the Hypervixens
- The Making of Pervert!
- Deleted Scenes
- Bloopers
- Trailers
- Photo Gallery
- Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original artwork
1.78:1 Anamorphic
Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo Audio
Region 0 PAL
Running time 80 mins
Original art by Tom 'The Dude Designs' Hodge
RRP £15.99
Released 13th June 2011
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