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Original title: Giallo Essentials Black: Smile Before Death / The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive / The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
Year: 1972-1974
Country: Italy
Region Code: A/B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5027035024202
Image: 2.35:1 / 1.85:1 2K (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
Smile Before Death
Italian: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive
Italian: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
Italian: LPCM Mono
English: LPCM Mono
Subtítulos:
Smile Before Death
English, English SDH
The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive
English
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
English, English SDH
Rating: 18
Genre: Horror
Cast: Eva Czemerys, Renzo Montagnani, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Bedy Moratti
Director: Silvio Amadio, Giuseppe Bennati, Francesco Mazzei
Synopsis:
While the release of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage gave rise to a glut of imitators, there was more to the giallo than just shameless copycats setting out to ape a rigid formula. This volume of Giallo Essentials celebrates the range and breadth of the genre with three lesser-seen films from its early 1970s heyday.
In Silvio Amadio's Smile Before Death, familicide with a sprinkling of Oedipal love is the order of the day when teenager Nancy (Jenny Tamburi, The Suspicious Death of a Minor) returns home to discover the apparent suicide of her mother, and quickly comes to suspect that her stepfather (Silvano Tranquilli, The Bloodstained Butterfly) and his mistress (Rosalba Neri, The French Sex Murders) are to blame.
Next, Horny priests and self-flagellating nuns abound in Francesco Mazzei's The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, as police commissioner Franco Boito (Renzo Montagnani, Massacre in Rome) investigates the brutal murder of a young clergyman, only to enter into an affair with the dead man's lover (Bedy Moratti, Calling All Police Cars). Finally, in Giuseppe Bennati's The Killer Reserved Nine Seats, an assortment of wealthy degenerates - including Italian cult mainstays Andrea Scotti (Django, Prepare a Coffin) and Howard Ross (The Pyjama Girl Case) - answer the summons of an eccentric nobleman (Chris Avram, A Bay of Blood) and assemble in the theatre attached to his ancestral home, only to find themselves trapped in the decaying building while a savage killer picks them off Agatha Christie-style!
With gory murders, wanton debauchery and left-field plot twists a-plenty, all three of these oft-overlooked gialli are restored in 2K from their original camera negatives - including brand-new, Arrow-exclusive restorations of Smile Before Death and The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive - alongside a range of in-depth bonus features.
Extras:
Disc One: Smile Before Death
Disc Two: The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive
Disc Three: The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
