"Director: Dario Argento"

• Four Flies On Grey Velvet | Blu Ray | (30/01/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story involves a rock drummer who accidentally kills a man and is drawn into a web of murder by a masked assassin who appears to have a vendetta against him.The first ever Blu-ray release of this cult giallo from Italy's Master of the Macabre, Dario Argento.

• The Mother Of Tears | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mother Of Tears is the finale to the saga that began with the international blockbuster Suspiria and continued with the classic Inferno from Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. In the heart of modern Rome an urn is found and brought to a young archeologist Sarah Mandy. But what Sarah doesn't know is that the urn belongs to the world's most powerful witch the Mother of Tears. She unwittingly unleashes a demonic power intent on destroying the city and everything in its path. When the Mother's minions and henchman brutally murder Sarah's co-worker and come after her she takes refuge with an old priest and discovers her legacy - that her own mother was murdered years before by the Mother of Tears and that only Sarah has the power to end the destruction. She must find and stop the Mother before it is too late.

• Inferno | Blu Ray | (09/12/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DTS 5.1 ), English ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), Italian ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Italian ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Posters, Scene Access, Trailer(s), Uncut, SYNOPSIS: A combination of alchemy, architecture, and horror, director Dario Argento's Inferno is a pulsing thriller filled with murder and supernatural mayhem. The peculiar proceedings are set into motion in both New York and Rome when two young women, Sara (Eleonora Giorgi) and Rose (Irene Miracle), find a book called The Three Mothers, a tome of alchemy written by an architect named Varelli. According to the book, Varelli built a trio of resting places for the Three Mothers, an evil trio whose identities remain at the core of the film's mystery. Rose's brother and Sara's boyfriend is Mark (Leigh McCloskey), a music student in Rome who jets to New York after Sara is murdered and Rose disappears. He follows up Rose's research on The Three Mothers and, with the help of his sister's neighbor, Elise (Daria Nicolodi), comes to the realization that the building they are in is one of Varelli's. Along the way, Mark encounters a variety of quirky characters including Elise's butler (Leopoldo Mastelloni), the building's maid (Alida Valli), a cat-hating bookseller named Kazanian (Sacha Pitoeff), and the infirm Professor Arnold (Feodor Chaliapin) and his nurse (Veronica Lazar). After a series of murders and a revelation that the butler and the maid have been plotting to steal Elise's jewels, Mark discovers a secret series of passages within the building. They lead him to its core where he finds the wheelchair-bound Professor Arnold, who explains that he is really the architect Varelli. After...Inferno (1980) ( Dario Argento's Inferno ) (Blu-Ray)

• Suspiria | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £21.34   |  Saving you £-2.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) is an American ballet student travelling to Germany to study at an exclusive dance academy in the Black Forest. After one of the students and her friend are hideously murdered in the first of Argento's breath-catching set-piece killings Suzy discovers that the academy has a bizarre history and as the body count rises she gets involved in a hideous labyrinth of murder black magic and madness.

• Tenebrae | Blu Ray | (24/07/2017) from £10.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Terror Beyond Belief! 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.

• Suspiria - Dual Format Special Edition | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £22.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Considered the most famous Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw-dropping bloodshed, now, to celebrate SUSPIRIA's Fortieth Anniversary, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking horror masterpiece. Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome and supernatural happenings. Soon students begin to die in horrific circumstances is Suzy next, and can she uncover the academy's sinister secret before it's too late? Argento carved a Baroque Expressionist nightmare, saturated with expressionist colours and punctuated by shocking violence. His monumental, epoch-making cinema-redefining visual and aural assault on the senses has become the reference by which all horror genre is measured and its creator, director Dario Argento can now truly be seen as one of the important artists of the 20th century.. Now finally presented for the 1st time ever according to the director's original vision: the 4K scan was restored painstakingly by the applauded TLE Films (who did the Clint Eastwood Dollar Trilogy among others) with that crucially distinct colour palette reinstated in accordance with Argento's original specification. Extras: Special Dual Edition: DVD and Bluray + Embossed Slipcase New Extra: long interview of Dario Argento discussing his Suspiria New Extra: Exclusive Dario Argento Introduction of this new 4k restoration Audio Commentary by critics Kim Newman and Alan Jones Fear at 400 Degrees: interview with Argento and Claudio Simonetti Interview with Claudio Simonetti, Norman J Warren and Patricia McComack (Blu only) New Extra: The 4K Restoration Process utterly fascinating

• Opera 2K | Blu Ray | (05/04/2021) from £16.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cult Films is proud to bring you this gore-soaked terror classic in a stunning new 2K restoration, with colour regrading carried out under instruction from the maestro himself and in reference to his own, preferred, original cinema print. Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) returns to Cult Films with this breath-taking new restoration of his visionary horror masterpiece OPERA. Splattered with stylistic bloodshed and soaring cinematography, OPERA shows Italy's master of horror at the very height of his game. When young understudy Betty takes the lead role in a new operatic production of Verdi's Macbeth, she soon attracts the attention of a knife-wielding psycho who forces her to watch - with eyes pinned open - as he brutally despatches her friends and colleagues with sadistic delight. Can Betty free herself from this unending nightmare or does a more terrifying fate await? OPERA is a ravishing return to the giallo style Argento made his name with, awash with black-gloved killers, lavish bloodletting and the director's expressionistic Grand Guignol excess. Special Features ˜Aria of Fear' a brand new candid interview with director Dario Argento, revisiting his work from a fresh viewpoint ˜Opera Backstage' a unique behind the scenes documentary about Dario Argento directing Opera Restoration featurette from raw scan to the regarded, restored, and reframed final frame New improved English subtitles for the Italian audio

• Suspiria (4K Restored) | Blu Ray | (28/12/2020) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Considered the most famous Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jawdropping bloodshed, now, to celebrate SUSPIRIA's Fortieth Anniversary, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking horror masterpiece. Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome and supernatural happenings. Soon students begin to die in horrific circumstances is Suzy next, and can she uncover the academy's sinister secret before it's too late? Argento carved a Baroque Expressionist nightmare, saturated with expressionist colours and punctuated by shocking violence. His monumental, epochmaking cinemaredefining visual and aural assault on the senses has become the reference by which all horror genre is measured and its creator, director Dario Argento can now truly be seen as one of the important artists of the 20th century.. Now finally presented for the 1st time ever according to the director's original vision: the 4K scan was restored painstakingly by the applauded TLE Films (who did the Clint Eastwood Dollar Trilogy among others) with that crucially distinct colour palette reinstated in accordance with Argento's original specification. Features Dario Argento Suspiria 40th Anniversary interview Dario Argento Introduces his 4K restored Suspiria Audio Commentary by critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman Fear at 400 Degrees: Cine Excess interviews Dario Argento, Claudio Simonetti et al. Suspiria Perspectives: Cine Excess Critical Comments on a Cult Classic The 4K Restoration Process by TLE Films

• The Cat O' Nine Tails | Blu Ray | (02/07/2018) from £17.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the success of his debut feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, distributor Titanus tasked writer / director Dario Argento with delivering a follow-up in short order. The resulting film, granted a greatly enhanced budget and heralded in its US marketing campaign as nine times more suspenseful than its predecessor, was The Cat O Nine Tails. When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One-Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth. And worse still, Lori (Cinzia De Carolis, Cannibal Apocalypse), Franco s young niece, may also be in the killer s sights... This second entry in the so-called Animal Trilogy found Argento further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as the master of the giallo thriller. Co-starring Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso) and Rada Rassimov (Baron Blood), and featuring another nerve-jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), The Cat O Nine Tails remains one of Argento s most suspenseful and underrated films. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original mono Italian and English soundtracks Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman New interviews with co-writer/director Dario Argento, co-writer Dardano Sacchetti, actress Cinzia De Carolis and production manager Angelo Iacono Script pages for the lost original ending, translated into English for the first time Original Italian and international theatrical trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

• The Bird With The Crystal Plumage | Blu Ray | (12/02/2018) from £13.14   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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 terrorising 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 edition from Arrow Video! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release Standard Definition DVD presentation Original mono Italian and English soundtrack 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 Alexanda 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) Eva's Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri) Original Italian and international theatrical trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

• Dario Argento's Dracula | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thomas Kretschmann and Rutger Hauer star in Dario Argento's take on the famous vampire story. When Tania (Asia Argento), a young woman, is attacked and killed by a mysterious dark shadow in the woods on her way home from meeting her lover, she emerges days later having been turned into a vampire. As she tries to seduce and bite anyone who gets in her way, vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hauer) traces her every move, plotting a way to kill her once and for all.

• Deep Red Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (02/05/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE REALLY SCARED!!!? From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red arguably the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento-collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso and The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.

• Two Evil Eyes (DUAL FORMAT Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (15/10/2018) from £15.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It was the team-up of the century in 1990 when the Italian auteur of excess Dario Argento made this double-feature compendium creeper with DAWN OF THE DEAD helmer George Romero! The result brings together the very best of the United States independent sector with the kingpin of things giallo - giving us the much-loved splatter shocker TWO EVIL EYES! The latest in 88 Films Italian line, Romero's outstanding opening salvo offers us an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , highlighting the sublime Scream Queen Adrienne Barbeau (THE FOG/ SWAMP THING) as a scheming widow seeking to exploit the estate of her terminally ill husband. Little does she know, however, that her husband is already ahead of the curve... and planning a little ghoulish vengeance of his own! For Dario Argento's Poe adaptation The Black Cat , Harvey Keitel (RESERVOIR DOGS/ TAXI DRIVER) essays an eccentric photographer obsessed with death and dismay... although eventually his livelihood encourages him to embark on the ultimate crime. However, there is a super-sick sting in the tale that will leave the hapless camera-man literally hollowed-out from head to toe! We dare you to endure the gruesome and gruelling special effects of Tom Savini (DAY OF THE DEAD) and the provocative, spine-tingling soundtrack of Pino Donaggio (BODY DOUBLE) in this awe-inspiring frightener that is finally available to UK horror buffs in hair-raising HD...!!!

• Opera (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dario Argento (Suspiria) returns to CultFilms with this breath-taking new restoration which finally does justice to the Maestro's groundbreaking visionary horror masterpiece OPERA. With reality-defying soaring cinematography splattered with expressionistic Grand Guignol excess, Dario Argento turns up the fear to new heights, cementing him as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th Century. When young understudy Betty (Cristina Marsillach) takes the lead role in a new operatic production of Verdi's Macbeth, she soon attracts the attention of a knife-wielding psycho who forces her to watch - with eyes pinned open - as he brutally despatches her friends and colleagues with sadistic delight. Can Betty free herself from this unending nightmare or does a more terrifying fate await? Take your seats for Argento's Terror at the Opera! CultFilms is proud to bring you this virtuoso terror classic in a stunning new 2K restoration, with colour regrading carried out under instruction from the maestro himself and in reference to his own, preferred, original cinema print - finally doing justice to Argento's original operatic vision and sound. Special Features: Dual edition with slipcase New 2k scan, restored and re-graded in consultation with director Dario Argento New, improved English subtitles for the separate optional Italian audio Extras: Aria of Fear : A brand new candid interview with director Dario Argento Opera Backstage : A detailed, period documentary showing Argento making Opera (40 minutes) Restoration featurette on the process from raw to scan to the re-graded, restored final vision

• Suspiria - Special Edition | Blu Ray | (25/03/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Considered the most famous Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw-dropping bloodshed, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking horror masterpiece. Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome and supernatural happenings. Soon students begin to die in horrific circumstances - is Suzy next, and can she uncover the academy's sinister secret before it's too late? Argento carved a Baroque Expressionist nightmare, saturated with expressionist colours and punctuated by shocking violence. His monumental, epoch-making cinema-redefining visual and aural assault on the senses has become the reference by which all horror genre is measured and its creator, director Dario Argento can now truly be seen as one of the important artists of the 20th century. Now finally presented for the first time ever according to the director's original vision: the 4K scan was restored painstakingly by the applauded TLE Films (who did the Clint Eastwood Dollar Trilogy among others) with that crucially distinct colour palette reinstated in accordance with Argento's original specification. Extras: Special Exclusive O card New Extra: long interview of Dario Argento discussing his Suspiria New Extra: Exclusive Dario Argento Introduction of this new 4k restoration Audio Commentary by critics Kim Newman and Alan Jones Fear at 400 Degrees: interview with Argento and Claudio Simonetti Interview with Claudio Simonetti, Norman J Warren and Patricia McComack (Blu only) New Extra: The 4K Restoration Process utterly fascinating

• Phenomena UHD | Blu Ray | (28/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From master of horror Dario Argento (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) comes Phenomena one of his most eccentric and unique thrillers, featuring telepathic insects, maggots galore, and even a razorwielding chimp! Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth), daughter of a worldrenowned movie star, arrives in the socalled Swiss Transylvania to attend an exclusive girls' school. However, a vicious killer is targeting the pupils, and sleepwalker Jennifer finds herself in the assassin's headlights when her nocturnal wanderings cause her to witness the death of a fellow pupil. Aided by paraplegic entomologist John McGregor (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) and her own uncanny ability to communicate telepathically with insects, Jennifer sets out to track down the killer before she herself becomes the latest victim Released in 1985, towards the end of Argento's decadelong golden age as a director, Phenomena costars Dalila Di Lazarro (The Pyjama Girl Case), Patrick Bauchau (Clear and Present Danger) and Daria Nicolodi (Tenebrae), and features lush cinematography by Romano Albani (Inferno) and a pounding prog rock score by Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria). Presenting all three versions of the film including the radically different Creepers cut released in the US in a sumptuous new 4K restoration, this is the definitive release of Argento's creepy classic. Limited Edition Contents: New 4K restoration of the original 116minute Italian version, the 110minute international English version and the 83minute US Creepers version from the original camera negative by Arrow films 4K (2160p) UHD Bluray™ presentations of all three versions in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Obviously Creative Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Mikel J. Koven, Rachael Nisbet and Leonard Jacobs Foldout doublesided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Obviously Creative Six doublesided, postcardsized lobby card reproduction artcards Disc 1 - Italian Version: Lossless Italian DTSHD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks, derived from the original 4channel Dolby Stereo elements Lossless hybrid English/Italian DTSHD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack* English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the hybrid soundtrack Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento Of Flies and Maggots, a featurelength 2017 documentary produced for Arrow Films, including interviews with cowriter/producer/director Dario Argento, actors Fiore Argento, Davide Marotta, Daria Nicolodi and Fiorenza Tessari, cowriter Franco Ferrini, cinematographer Romano Albani, production manager Angelo Iacono, special optical effects artist Luigi Cozzi, special makeup effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, makeup artist Pier Antonio Mecacci, underwater camera operator Gianlorenzo Battaglia, and composers Claudio Simonetti and Simon Boswell Original Italian and international theatrical trailers Jennifer music video, directed by Dario Argento Japanese pressbook gallery Disc Two: Lossless English DTSHD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks on the international version, derived from the original 4channel Dolby Stereo elements Lossless English PCM soundtracks on Creepers, mastered from the original 3 track DME magnetic mix and presented in two variants: 1.0 mono and an alternate 2.0 mix with stereo music. Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary on the international version by Argento scholar and author Derek Botelho and film historian, journalist and radio/television commentator David Del Valle The Three Sarcophagi, a visual essay by Arrow producer Michael Mackenzie comparing the different cuts of Phenomena Rare alternate 2.0 stereo mix on the international version, featuring different sound effects and music cues US theatrical trailer US radio spots * The 116minute Italian cut features approximately six minutes of footage for which English audio does not exist. In these instances, the hybrid track reverts to Italian audio with English subtitles.

• Deep Red | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso and The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer. Special Edition Contents New 4K restoration of both the original 127-minute Italian version and the 105-minute export version from the original negative by Arrow Films 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations of both versions in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring originally and newly commissioned artwork by Obviously Creative Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Alan Jones and Mikel J. Koven, and a new essay by Rachael Nisbet Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Obviously Creative Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproduction artcards Disc 1 (4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray) Deep Red: Original Version Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks* Optional lossless 5.1 Italian soundtrack English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson Archival audio commentary by Argento expert Thomas Rostock Almost three hours of new interviews with members of the cast and crew, including co-writer/director Dario Argento, actors Macha Méril, Gabriele Lavia, Jacopo Mariani and Lino Capolicchio (Argento's original choice for the role of Marcus Daly), production manager Angelo Iacono, composer Claudio Simonetti, and archival footage of actress Daria Nicolodi Italian trailer Arrow Video 2018 trailer Image galleries Disc 2 (4k Ultra-hd Blu-ray) Deep Red: Export Version: Restored original lossless mono English soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Archival introduction to the film by Claudio Simonetti of Goblin Profondo Giallo an archival visual essay by Michael Mackenzie featuring an in-depth appreciation of Deep Red, its themes and its legacy Archival interviews with Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Claudio Simonetti and long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi US theatrical trailer *The English audio track on this original cut has some portions of English audio missing. English audio for these sections was never recorded for these scenes. As such, they are presented with Italian audio, subtitled in English.

• Suspiria | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. The convoluted plot follows an American dancer (Jessica Harper) from her arrival at a European ballet school to her discovery that it's actually a witches coven; but, really, don't worry about that too much. Argento makes narrative subservient to technique, preferring instead to assault the senses and nervous system with mood, atmosphere, illusory gore, garish set production, a menacing camera, and perhaps the creepiest score ever created for a movie. It's essentially a series of effectively unsettling set pieces--a raging storm that Harper should have taken for an omen, and a blind man attacked by his own dog are just two examples--strung together on a skeleton structure. But once you've seen it, you'll never forget it. --Dave McCoy

• Phenomena | Blu Ray | (15/01/2018) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From master of horror Dario Argento (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) comes Phenomena one of his most eccentric and unique thrillers, featuring telepathic insects, maggots galore, and even a razor-wielding chimp! Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth), daughter of a world-renowned movie star, arrives in the so-called Swiss Transylvania to attend an exclusive girls' school. However, a vicious killer is targeting the pupils, and sleepwalker Jennifer finds herself in the assassin's headlights when her nocturnal wanderings cause her to witness the death of a fellow pupil. Aided by paraplegic entomologist John McGregor (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) and her own uncanny ability to communicate telepathically with insects, Jennifer sets out to track down the killer before she herself becomes the latest victim Released in 1985, towards the end of Argento's decade-long golden age as a director, Phenomena co-stars Dalila Di Lazarro (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein), Patrick Bauchau (Clear and Present Danger) and Daria Nicolodi (Tenebrae), and features lush cinematography by Romano Albani (Inferno) and a pounding prog rock score by Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria). Presented here in a sumptuous new 4K restoration of the film and with a newly created hybrid English/Italian audio track, this is the definitive release of Argento's creepy classic. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative ¢ High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the full-length 116-minute Italian cut of the film ¢ New 5.1 surround mix of the Italian soundtrack in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio, derived from the original 4-channel Dolby Stereo elements ¢ New hybrid English/Italian soundtrack in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo* ¢ Italian soundtrack in lossless PCM 2.0 stereo ¢ 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 ¢ Of Flies and Maggots, a new feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, actors Fiore Argento, Davide Marotta, Daria Nicolodi and Fiorenza Tessari, co-writer Franco Ferrini, cinematographer Romano Albani, production manager Angelo Jacono, special optical effects artist Luigi Cozzi, special makeup effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, makeup artist Pier Antonio Mecacci, underwater camera operator Gianlorenzo Battaglia, and composers Claudio Simonetti and Simon Boswell ¢ Original Italian and English theatrical trailers ¢ Jennifer music video, directed by Dario Argento ¢ Rare Japanese vintage pressbook ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp * The 116-minute Italian cut features approximately six minutes of footage for which English audio does not exist. In these instances, the hybrid track reverts to Italian audio with English subtitles.

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  Italian horror maestro Dario Argento made his name by turning homicide into modern art with a cinematic flourish, but with Phenomena he takes his stylish mayhem in new directions. The film opens with the dreamy grace of a fairy tale: a young girl wandering the green meadows of Switzerland and discovering a gingerbread house, wherein lives a monster more modern than mythic, a psychopathic maniac who plunges the picture into a lush nightmare. Jennifer (Jennifer Connelly in her first starring role), a gifted young girl at a Swiss school, has a psychic link to the insect world and develops a connection with the killer through midnight sleepwalks. With the help of a lonely, wheelchair-bound entomologist (genre stalwart Donald Pleasence, who inflects his sonorous tenor with a gentle Scottish burr) she turns telekinetic detective, which only draws her closer to the killer's lair. The densely plotted story becomes muddled at times (this is the busiest film in Argento's oeuvre) but the lyrical cinematography and gorgeous nocturnal imagery--dreamy sleepwalks, nightmarish murders, hideous horrors that emerge in the dark of night--take on a poetic elegance not seen in his previous work, providing the tale with a kind of dream logic. This is a slasher film reborn as an exquisitely grim fantasy: Jennifer in Argentoland. --Sean Axmaker