Nothing Underneath

I received earlier this week a review copy of Another World Entertainment's dvd of Nothing Underneath. Movie itself is decent giallo with excellent cinematography and Pino Donaggio's score. Exploitation focuses more on the scantily clad models than violence.

The dvd has English soundtrack, and subtitles include Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. The film is also viewable without subtitles. Credits are in Italian. Picture is anamorphic (ratio approx. 1,78:1), and quality is ok. The film looks grainy, and the source print has some speckles. Some compression artifacts are visible especially during the opening credits. Extras are minimal: some filmographies and the disc contains trailers of other movies. All in all, disc worth getting if the movie interests. At the moment this is the only dvd release of Nothing Underneath. The screen capture is somewhat compressed, but gives you the idea of the picture quality.

The Devil Has 7 Faces

Minor update again. Some time a go Simple Movie released The Devil Has 7 Faces in Germany. It's a clear improvement compared to the earlier unauthorized release from Alpha Video in US. This German release has also english audio and it's presented in widescreen format (anamorphic 2.35:1) with much better picture quality. There are five different covers available and also two limited edition (150 pieces each) covers.

Simple Movie release features also French and US opening credits as an extra. The actual movie has German title text in french opening credits. The Alpha Video has used logically the US opening credits in their release.

Fulci's The Psychic and other releases added

I did little updating on the list. Several releases were added, but mostly to titles already having a (superior) release. One thing I have completely missed even though I've been aware of the release. And that was Severin's release of Lucio Fulci's Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes aka Sette note in nero aka The Psychic.

Soon we'll also have another contributor to this blog page which hopefully results in much more active blogging than what I've been able to do.

Paranoia

I apologize the mistake in my previous post. I claimed that Italian dvd of Orgasmo aka Paranoia would have English dub without doublechecking. Unfortunately, there's only Italian language option. The list is not yet updated but I'll update that next weekend.

Big update

Thanks to fellow elitists (especially Dremez) at www.elitisti.net a big update to giallo list: German uncut Bloodstained Butterfly. Of course the upcoming legitimate R1 release of Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet. Copkiller from BCI Eclipse. Italian releases of Deadly Inheritance, Lenzi's Orgasmo, So Sweet... So Perverse, Nine Guests for a Crime, Foxy Lady, The Girl from Cortina, Killer Wore Yellow Shoes and The Strange Story of Olga O. All those are dvd debuts, but none seem to have English options. Damn, just the title So Sweet... So Perverse sounds enticing.

Bluray disc of The Stendhal Syndrome will be released next week. As a happy new owner of PS3 I guess I have to order this.

And I have to say I'm pretty pleased to win the auction of this nice Belgian poster of What Have They Done to Solange?

Minor updates

I've been lazy, I know. I just updated giallo list a bit. I added the upcoming Blue Underground blu-rays, and several Stendhal Syndrome discs in general.

I should receive Nothing Underneath review disc once it'll be released, so you can expect the report as soon as I'll get my hands onto it, and have time to view the disc.

Apologies

Apologies for not updating giallo database for a while. I spent my summer elsewhere than behind the keyboard. During the summer I watched one giallo however. Or at least it's listed in Blood and Black Lace book which has been the qualification to make it on the list. The movie was Gabriele Lavia's Sensi aka Evil Senses. Yes, it's a thriller and it's italian but I wouldn't call it giallo. Erotic thriller perhaps, and indeed plentiful sex and occasional violence keep it mildly entertaining. It still lacks things I consider essential for a giallo. It has mystery element, but still there's no crime for antagonist to solve as in most (all?) of classic giallos. It's hard to come up with definition of a giallo. It's just the feeling you are having than something you can easily point your finger at, and that "something" was missing in Evil Senses. Perhaps it's worth mentioning that Mimsy Farmer who starred in Armando Crispino's Autopsy has mentionable role in Evil Senses.

It also looks like that release of Nothing Underneath has been postponed until October.

Giallo trailer collection

Not exactly news about giallo DVD release but close.

Another blog, Prevues of Coming Attractions have released a DVD collection of giallo trailers. I am not sure how legal this actually is, but since we are only speaking about trailers at least to me it seems ok. Youtube is full of these anyway. So head to Prevues of Coming Attractions and start downloading the files. Eventually you'll have a DVD ready to be burned or you can watch the trailers directly on your PC. Very nice job indeed!

Giallo DVD premieres in August

It looks like August will be a good month for giallo fans as we will see two DVD premieres.

Scandinavian label Another World Entertainment will release 80s giallo Nothing Underneath. The cover has been published in various discussion forums. In general AWE's new and upcoming releases are interesting for euro cult fans even though almost all of them have been available on DVD before. Check out the website: www.anotherworldent.com

And Severin in USA will release around the same time Sergio Bergonzelli's In the Folds of the Flesh. The official website does not mention it yet though. www.severin-films.com

Shamess details and two Scandinavian releases

I added some details about Shameless releases. Whether they are anamorphic or not, I'm not sure. Everyday nowadays is, but I want to be sure before I claim so. Also Deep Red aka Profondo Rosso will see another release in June. This time in Scandinavia, or at least in Norway and Denmark. The release will be 2-disc and contain two versions of the film and some extras. Almost in every Scandinavian country we will see also Another World Entertainment's version of Stagefright.

Blu-ray Underground

It didn't take much to be an oracle. Blue Underground will be releasing at least two giallos by Dario Argento on Blu-ray: The Stendhal Syndrome and The Bird With The Crystal Plumage.

New releases from Shameless

Three future releases by Shameless were added. Who Saw Her Die? by Aldo Lado has previously been released by Anchor Bay and then Blue Underground in US. Most of us probably already own it, as we do Andrea Bianchi's Strip Nude For Your Killer. That sleazy piece of giallo has been released as well by Blue Underground but also in Germany. Better news are Maurizio Lucidi's The Designated Victim. There has been two releases before. Italian release lacked English options. German release by X-rated probably had English audio track (I haven't found confirmation about its technical details) but this UK release will probably be at least easier to find from online shops.

Shameless web site mentions two of them but Strip Nude For Your Killer information was picked up from cultmovieforums.com.

Shameless releases and re-releases from Blue Underground

Giallo list is eternally in the making.... However, couple of new additions. Blue Underground re-releases of titles originally released by Anchor Bay in Giallo Collection were included. It would be great to see some new titles instead of these.

Also UK publisher Shameless has released or will release few titles which have been available before. My Dear Killer is the other one, What Have They Done To Your Daughters being the another. I wasn't able to google the technical details but once I'm aware of those I will update the list. Maybe it'd be time for me to upgrade my own Daughters from Salvation edition. Or perhaps I'll wait for Bluray version. We haven't seen the first Bluray (and never did see HD-DVD) giallo but it's just matter of time. My guess is that Blue Underground will be the first one with a re-release of some Argento title.

Ok, little edit: Shameless has previously released also Torso, Killer Nun and New York Ripper which I added to the list. Details of the releases are still lacking.

Giallo list finally released

At last, the list was finally "officially" released. I already have some updates to the main list. The additional titles (titles not included in the Blood and Black Lace book) do not yet have DVD information and probably there are some titles as well which could be added to the list.

First post

Giallo films on dvd list has been a year in the making. What a lazy guy I am. Hopefully I will get it published next week. See you then!