The Arrow Thread

[WowBobWow]

Barring Candyman, as I already have the limited edition on order, I’m in for every title. Their best month for quite some time as far as I’m concerned.

[Rob4]

good month but i thought Deadbeat at Dawn would have got the full LE treatment.

i guess the fact CotLD is announced as a standalone means Arrow hasn't got all of the Fulci gates of hell trilogy, as i would have expected a box set otherwise?

it's amazing the FB page - the major feedback is why wasn't Elvira released, sheesh!

[Dave Boy]

I gotta have that CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
That looks bloody awesome!

The advertising quote
WOE BE UNTO HIM WHO OPENS ONE OF THE SEVEN GATEWAYS TO HELL, BECAUSE THROUGH THAT GATEWAY, EVIL WILL INVADE THE WORLD! is from The Beyond and not COTLD.

[Inspector Abberline]

Very happy .....

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[Crimson Blade]

Well, at least i won't have to import Scorpion's City of The Living Dead now.

And maybe they intend releasing all of the Gates of Hell trilogy in standalone editions. There were rumours a while ago that they were going to do them again.

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

"NEW US/CA TITLE: Torso (Blu-ray)

Copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!

Release date: 30 October

A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) has lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but it is undoubtedly his giallo thrillers from the early 70s for which he is best known. Among the most highly acclaimed of these, 1973’s Torso revels in the genre’s time-honored traditions while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the modern slasher movie.

A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university town’s female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa – only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they’ve brought it with them!

Also known as Carnal Violence, Torso was released in Italy towards the end of the giallo boom before enjoying a second life on the American grindhouse circuit. Co-starring Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and Luc Merenda (The Violent Professionals), the film finds its director at the top of his game, delivering copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
• Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by Arrow Films
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of both versions of the film: the 94-minute Italian and 90-minute English cuts
• Original lossless Italian and English mono soundtracks*
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colours of Sergio Martino
• New video interview with co-writer/director Sergio Martino
• New video interview with actor Luc Merenda
• New video interview with co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi
• New video interview with filmmaker Federica Martino, daughter of Sergio Martino
• New video interview with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
• 2017 Abertoir International Horror Festival Q&A with Sergio Martino
• Italian and English theatrical trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Adrian Smith and Howard Hughes

* The English audio track on the original, longer cut has some portions of English audio missing. English audio for these sections was either never recorded or has been lost. As such, these sequences are presented with Italian audio, subtitled in English."

I'm pleased about this one. So presumably the rights that Shameless held to this title have since expired?

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by Crimson Blade

Well, at least i won't have to import Scorpion's City of The Living Dead now.

And maybe they intend releasing all of the Gates of Hell trilogy in standalone editions. There were rumours a while ago that they were going to do them again.

The Blue Underground release will do for me. I also have a new and sealed copy of the Arrow blu-ray release that I have no use for.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by g053584398

I'm pleased about this one. So presumably the rights that Shameless held to this title have since expired?

It’s a North America release, no UK.

[WowBobWow]

Definitely going to import Torso, love that film.

[Buboven]

As much as a release of any Fulci film is good news, especially a fantastic one as COTLD is, I would much rather like to see films like The Psychic or the Four of the Apocalypse getting Arrow releases instead.

Definitely pleased about Candyman though.