On October 26th, Queen of Horror Barbara Steele's final Italian gothic chiller AN ANGEL FOR SATAN hits home video for the first time ever in an English language version and Jess Franco hushes nay-sayers with a double feature of early career noir thrillers: DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES & RIFIFI IN THE CITY.
AN ANGEL FOR SATAN
In the final film of her Italian Gothic period, the legendary Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY) stars in one of the most startling erotic shockers of her entire career: When a cursed statue is recovered from a villa’s lake, a young heiress (Steele) will inflict a torrent of depraved seduction and homicidal madness on the local village. Anthony Steffen (THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE), Claudio Gora (DANGER: DIABOLIK) and Marina Berti (NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS) co-star in “a EuroHorror classic featuring Steele in all her mid-‘60s glory” (DVD Drive-In), co-written and directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE) and scanned in 2K from the original negative – with both the Italian and thought-lost English tracks – recently discovered in a Rome vault.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Actress Barbara Steele And Horror Film Historian David Del Valle
- Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author Of "Daughters Of Darkness"
- The Devil Statue — Interview With Actor Vassili Karis
- Barbara & Her Furs — 1967 Short Film By Pierre Andro Based On “Venus In Furs” Starring Barbara Steele With Optional Partial Commentary By Steele
- Trailer
- Extended Trailer
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono with English Subtitles
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: A
FRANCO NOIR
Following his international breakthrough with THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF, director Jess Franco next delivered a startling pair of crime-thrillers that pistol-whipped European notions of film noir while lighting the fuse on Uncle Jess’ own insane aesthetic. Set in New Orleans and based on a novel by the authors of VERTIGO, DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal, violence and revenge featuring smoky jazz compositions by Franco himself. Jean Servais of RIFIFI fame stars in RIFIFI IN THE CITY, a nihilistic trip through a pulp underworld of thugs, snitches, nightclub dames and black-gloved giallo-style murders. Both films – which led an impressed Orson Welles to hire Franco as his assistant on CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT – now feature HD scans from the original negatives for the first time ever.
Special Features:
- Franco Noir — Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of “Murderous Passions: - The Delirious Cinema Of Jesús Franco” (67 mins)
Specs:
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English
Closed Captions: English SDH
Region: All
