2015 is shaping up to be a pretty good year, blu-ray-wise: Mario Bavas BLOOD AND BLACK LACE is finally getting the release it deserves from Arrow in the UK, Lucio Fulcis DONT TORTURE A DUCKLING is coming out in Germany (fingers crossed that it will be English-friendly!), Synapse has Dario Argentos TENEBRAE, PHENOMENA and SUSPIRIA in the pipeline (though truth be told, I am very pleased with the most recent Arrow release of TENEBRAE; if they make it look even better, however, Im so there!), Raro has Luciano Ercolis KILLER COP in the pipeline, Kino has Roger Cormans X THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES and THE ST. VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE and Severin is doing Jess Francos VAMPYROS LESBOS and SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY, Shout! is tackling John Carpenters ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK... and those are just for starters. What would be some of the films Im most wanting to see released on blu? For starters.... THE TENANT (Roman Polanski) KILL, BABY... KILL! (Mario Bava) THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (Harald Reinl) VENUS IN FURS (Jess Franco) BEATRICE CENCI (Lucio Fulci) THE TERROR OF DR. HICHCOCK (Riccardo Freda) THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey) FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (Terence Fisher) JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (Federico Fellini) TODO MODO (Elio Petri) THE GREAT SILENCE (Sergio Corbucci; I am not counting the abominable Japanese release) MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN (Giorgio Ferroni) COUNT DRACULAS GREAT LOVE (Javier Aguirre) HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (Carlos Aured) THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang) THE HILL (Sidney Lumet) THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (Sergio Martino) HYENA IN THE SAFE (Cesare Canevari) THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer) FACCIA A FACCIA (Sergio Sollima) BLOOD AND ROSES (Roger Vadim) Heres hoping that at least one or two of these crop up somewhere in the world in 2015....
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:21:45 +0000