Murder Obsession

Michael Stanford (Stefano Patrizi, The Tough Ones) is on a break from shooting his latest horror film with his friends, visiting his mother (Anita Strindberg, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) at their family estate. A series of heinous murders follow and Michael is the main suspect due to his revelation that he murdered his father as a child. Is Michael’s past coming back to haunt him or is there another explanation? Italian genre legend Riccardo Freda’s (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock) final film is a deliriously extravagant late-period giallo with the director’s signature gothic flourishes, featuring a great supporting cast including Laura Gemser (Black Emmanuelle), John Richardson (Black Sunday) and Martine Brochard (Eyeball).

LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:

• High Definition digital transfer from the original camera negative presented in two versions: the original uncut Italian edit with the original score and, for the first time on digital formats, the shorter re-edited English version and electronic score
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Interview with make-up effects artist Sergio Stivaletti
• Interview with composer Claudio Simonetti
• Appreciation by filmmaker Gabriele Albanesi
• Deleted scene
• Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
• New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
• Limited edition booklet with new writing by Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo
• Limited edition of 3000 copies

Year: 1981
Cert: 18
Format: Blu-ray
Region: ABC
Cat No: RARO003BDLE
EAN: 5060974689880
Release date: 18/12/23