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Giallo Essentials Red Blu-Ray Box Set (UK Import)
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Original title: The Possessed / The Fifth Cord / The Pajama Girl Case
Year: 1965 - 1977
Country: Italy
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5027035025919
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
English - Mono 1.0
Italian - Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English, English SDH
Age rating: 18
Genre: Horror
Cast: Peter Baldwin, Franco Nero
Director: Luigi Bazzoni, Flavio Mogherini, Franco Rossellini
Synopsis:
The Possessed (1965) masterfully combines noir, mystery and giallo tropes in a proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes. It tells the story of a depressed novelist (Peter Baldwin) in search of his old flame (Virna Lisi) who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation that finds him plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder. The Fifth Cord (1971) boasts a complex, Agatha Christie-esque plot of investigation into a series of brutal assaults. As the body count rises, whiskey swilling journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) finds himself under suspicion, making it all the more imperative he crack the case. The Pajama Girl Case (1978), inspired by a real-life case that baffles to this day, takes us to Australia, where former Inspector Timpson comes out of retirement to crack the case of a young woman, found on the beach, shot in the head, burned to hide her identity and dressed in distinctive yellow pajamas...
Extras:
- 2K restorations from the original camera negatives for The Possessed, The Fifth Cord and The Pyajama Girl Case
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each film
- Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks
- English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks
- Slipcase packaging with newly designed artwork by Adam Rabalais
DISC ONE: THE POSSESSED
- Audio commentary by writer and critic Tim Lucas
- Richard Dyer on The Possessed, a video appreciation by the cultural critic and academic
- Cat's Eyes, an interview with the film's makeup artist Giannetto De Rossi
- Two Days a Week, an interview with the film's award-winning assistant art director Dante Ferretti
- The Legacy of the Bazzoni Brothers, an interview with actor/director Francesco Barilli, a close friend of Luigi and Camillo Bazzoni
- Original trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips
DISC TWO: THE FIFTH CORD
- Audio commentary by critic Travis Crawford
- Lines and Shadows, a video essay on the film's use of architecture and space by critic Rachael Nisbet
- Giallore Whiskey, a video interview with author and critic Michael Mackenzie
- Black Day for Nero, a video interview with actor Franco Nero
- The Rhythm Section, a video interview with film editor Eugenio Alabiso
- Rare deleted sequence, restored from the original negative
- Original Italian and English theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love
DISC THREE: THE PYJAMA GIRL CASE
- Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- Video interview with author and critic Michael Mackenzie on the internationalism of the giallo
- Video interview with actor Howard Ross
- Video interview with editor Alberto Tagliavia
- Archival interview with composer Riz Ortolani
- Image gallery
- Italian theatrical trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon
