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Vinegar Syndrome will release Murderock and The Nesting on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 27.

Murderock (also known as Murder Rock: Dancing Death) has been newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision Hdr.

Italian master of horror Lucio Fulci directs from a script he co-wrote with Gianfranco Clerici (Cannibal Holocaust), Vincenzo Mannino (The New York Ripper), and Roberto Gianviti (Don’t Torture a Duckling).

Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli, Cosimo Cinieri, and Giuseppe Mannajuolo star in the 1984 giallo.

Special Features:

Scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision Hdr Original English theatrical stereo soundtrack plus Italian dub with newly translated English subtitles Audio commentary with film historian Troy Howarth Interview with actor Robert Gligorov Interview with actress Silvia Collatina Interview with actor Al Cliver Interview with cinematographer Giuseppe Pinori Interview with co-writer Gianfranco Clerici Interview with film historian...

From Italian master of horror Lucio Fulci, Don’t Torture a Duckling will be released on 4K Ultra HD on March 25 via Arrow Video.

The 1972 Italian giallo film has been newly restored in 4K from the original 2-perf Techniscope camera negative with newly restored original lossless mono Italian (with English subtitles) and English soundtracks.

Fulci co-wrote the script with Gianfranco Clerici (Cannibal Holocaust) and Roberto Gianviti (The Psychic). Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian, Barbara Bouchet, Irene Papas, Marc Porel, and Georges Wilson star.

Special Features:

Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films Lucio Fulci Remembers – 1988 audio interview with the filmmaker Who Killed Donald Duck – Interview with actress Barbara Bouchet Those Days with Lucio – Interview with actress Florinda Bolkan The Dp’s Eye – Interview with cinematographer Sergio D’Offizi From the Cutting Table – Interview with editor Bruno Micheli Endless Torture – Interview with makeup artist Maurizio...

Yesterday we shared the news of the three-disc special edition 4K release Severin Films is planning for the 1981 film Nightmare, a.k.a. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain. Now we have another awesome Severin Films release to let you know about, as they will be giving legendary director Lucio Fulci‘s 1977 film The Psychic a four-disc special edition 4K release!

Described as Fulci’s “ultimate giallo masterpiece”, The Psychic was scripted by Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, and Dardano Sacchetti, and is also known as Seven Notes in Black or Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes. Apparently Quentin Tarantino entertained the idea of remaking the film with Bridget Fonda in the lead role back in the ’90s. Fulci’s film stars Jennifer O’Neill (Scanners) as a woman tormented by violent visions of past slayings. Or are they premonitions of murders still to come?

O’Neill is joined in the cast...

The strangest Italian portmanteau picture of the sixties features glorious Silvana Mangano in dozens of costume changes, directed by big names (Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini) and paired with a woefully miscast Clint Eastwood. The other major attraction is a delightful music score by Piero Piccioni, with an assist from Ennio Morricone.

The Witches

Special Edition Blu-ray

Arrow Academy

1967 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 120 (?) 111 105 min. / Le streghe / Street Date January 30, 2018 / 34.95

Starring: Silvana Mangano, Clint Eastwood, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Véronique Vendell, Elsa Albani, Clara Calamai, Marilù Tolo, Nora Ricci, Dino Mele Dino Mele, Helmut Berger, Bruno Filippini, Leslie French, Alberto Sordi, Totò, Ciancicato Miao, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Luigi Leoni, Valentino Macchi, Corinne Fontaine, Armando Bottin, Gianni Gori, Paolo Gozlino, Franco Moruzzi, Angelo Santi, Pietro Torrisi.

Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno

Film Editors: Nino Baragli, Adriana Novelli, Mario Serandrei, Giorgio Serrallonga

Original Music: Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni

Written by Mauro Bolognini, Fabio Carpi,...

Arrow Video resurrects one of Italian horror maestro Luci Fulci’s (the Godfather of Gore) best but most obscure titles, the enigmatically titled Don’t Torture a Duckling, a creation with usual collaborator of the period, writer Roberto Gianviti (fresh off their 1971 A Lizard in Woman’s Skin).

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Don’t Torture a Duckling

Blu-ray

Arrow Films

1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / Street Date October 2, 2017

Starring Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas

Cinematography by Sergio D’Offizi

Written by Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Gianfranco Clerici

Film Edited by Ornella Micheli

Produced by Renato Jaboni

Music by Riz Ortolani

Directed by Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci’s most consistent trait might have been his instability. In fact it may have been the Italian director’s defining quality; lingering throughout his films is the inescapable notion that, no matter how stylish or finely-tuned his mise en scene, he will surely find a way to fly off the rails and take everyone with him. He’s the crazy ex-girlfriend of filmmakers.

Fulci made his rep in the late 70’s and early 80’s with a series of crassly exploitative horror films, high on gore and low on logic. Nevertheless he began his career on...

Lucio Fulci is known to most horror fans for his work in the fantastical, through his late career success with Zombie (1979), City of The Living Dead (1980), and The Beyond (1981). Certainly these are his most widely seen and cherished films, and for good reason – they blast through the screen in a feast of color, magic, and grue; short on logic, sure, but long on imagination and dread. But before he untethered his heart in a quest for purity, he engaged in his homeland’s horror sub-genre of giallo, including Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972), incredible, subversive proof that he could create something just as effective and decidedly much more earth bound.

Released late September back home in his native Italy, Duckling never received its due (or much attention at all, truthfully) on these shores until Fulci’s death in 1996 offered a re-evaluation of his body of work. Thanks to the internet,...