Arrow Video have released their schedule for September 2019 and we have details on the DVD, Blu-ray and dual format releases. Below you will find the September 2019 release schedule for U.K., U.S.A. and Canada releases. If you missed what Arrow Video released in August 2019 you can find…
Browsing: Giallo
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS (a.k.a. What Are Those Strange Drops of Blood Doing On Jennifer’s Body?) **** Italy 1972 Dir: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carnimeo) 94 mins This hugely enjoyable giallo opens with one possible inspiration for the elevator murder in De Palma’s DRESSED TO KILL: a cool blonde…
THE NEW YORK RIPPER **** Italy 1982 Directed by Lucio Fulci. 93 mins Fulci’s return to giallo territory after his Gothic / zombie detour is a mean-spirited urban thriller that divided his fanbase and retains some notoriety three decades on (the UK version is still cut) even if its leeringly…
OPERA (a.k.a. Terror at the Opera) **** Italy 1987 Dir: Dario Argento. 100 mins In Argento’s return to non-supernatural giallo, young, rising opera singer Cristina Marsillach gets the plum role of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s cursed operatic MACBETH, shortly after the original leading lady is struck by a car. Soon…
SPASMO **** Italy 1974 Dir: Umberto Lenzi 94 mins One of Lenzi’s most disciplined and classy movies, this opens in an eerie low key, as a couple’s make-out session is disturbed by a hanging dummy – establishing the film’s fixation on unnervingly life-like female mannequins, and accompanied by one of…