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• Beyond The Door | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary filmmaker Ovidio G. Assonitis, whose Tentacles and Piranha II sought to cash in on the killer fish craze spawned by Jaws, first hit pay dirt in 1974 with Beyond the Door − a gloriously bonkers riff on The Exorcist featuring Emmy Award-winning actress Juliet Mills and distinguished British actor Richard Johnson. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco, Beyond the Door stars Mills as Jessica Barrett, a young mother who starts to develop strange behaviours whilst pregnant with her third child. Before you can say split pea soup, Jessica is displaying signs of full-blown demonic possession − complete with projectile vomiting and fully-rotating head! Could it be that she's carrying the child of the Antichrist himself? Described as disgusting, scary trash and maddeningly inappropriate by film critic Roger Ebert and subject to a lawsuit by Warner Bros. (who claimed copyright infringement against a certain William Friedkin film), the devilish denizens at Arrow Video have summoned up this wickedly entertaining popcorn spiller fit for Satan himself! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS 2K restoration of the Uncut English Export Version, released as The Devil Within Her High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Archival audio commentary with director/producer Ovidio G. Assonitis and Euro-horror historian Nathaniel Thompson, moderated by Lee Christian Archival audio commentary with star Juliet Mills and filmmaker Scott Spiegel, moderated by film scholar Darren Gross and Lee Christian Archival introduction with Juliet Mills and Lee Christian The Devil and Me an interview with director/producer Ovidio G. Assonitis Barrett's Hell an interview with writer/ cinematographer Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli Beyond the Music an interview with composer Franco Micalizzi The Devil's Face an interview with camera operator Maurizio Maggi Motels and Devils an audio interview with actor Gabriele Lavia Beyond the Door: 35 Years Later archival featurette including interviews with Ovidio G. Assonitis, Juliet Mills, star Richard Johnson and writer Alex Rebar Richard Johnson: An Englishman in Italy archival featurette Alternate opening titles Trailers, TV and Radio Spots Image Gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach

• Deep Red | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Flesh ripped clean from the bone… And the blood runs red…The bloody kills and red herrings come thick and fast as Dario Argento weaves a twisted web of sadistic intrigue in this classic Giallo from the genres golden era.A black gloved killer hacks a psychic to death but there was a witness… Marcus Daly, an English pianist, rushes to the scene but he’s too late to save her. He sets out to solve the murder but at every turn the mysterious slayer strikes, cutting off each line of enquiry with acts of grisly violence, each more shocking than the last! A surreal masterpiece from Dario Argento with a pounding score from cult prog rockers Goblin, Deep Red will leave you battered and breathless! Special Feature:Includes a tour of the Profondo Ross shop with long time Argento Collaborator Luigi Cozzi and a bookelt by Argento biographer Alan Jones!

• Deep Red | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE REALLY SCARED!!!? From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red arguably the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator... or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems... Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento-collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rossoand The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.

• Dario Argento Collection | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Six of Dario Argento's greatest films brought to you in one complete box set. Profondo Rosso: An English jazz pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of a renowned psychic and is drawn into the savage crime. With the help of a tenacious female reporter the pair tracks a twisted trail of deranged clues and relentless violence towards a shocking climax that has ripped screams from the throats of audiences for more than 25 years! Cat O'Nine Tails: The Story begins when a blind puzzle maker overhears a conversation shortly before a robbery is committed at a genetics institute. He teams up with a journalist intent on solving the crime and they uncover a trail of murders linked to the institute. Demons: Several people are invited to join the opening of a new movie theatre. As the horror film shown to the guests gets more and more violent the people start to transform one by one into bloodthirsty demons. The remaining guests begin the desperate battle for their lives. Demons 2: The story of Demons continues as a birthday party in a high-security apartment building is interrupted when the birthday girl is transformed by a horror movie on TV into a demon. All hell breaks loose as the residents unable to escape the building are forced to battle the zombie-demon neighbours. Phenomena: Can a schizophrenic sleepwalker use her telepathic power to unmask a hideous assassin? Packed with the outrageous grisly gore suspiria director Dario Argento has become world famous for including a pit of maggot infested slimy human remains and a mad monkey climax that has to be believed. Bird With The Crystal Plumage: Sam an American writer in Rome witnesses a murder attempt but is powerless to do anything as he gets trapped between a double set of glass doors. When the Police fail to make any progress with the case Sam decides to investigate on his own turning up clues that point in the direction of just one possible suspect - assuming that he really knows who he's looking for.

• Giallo | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A triple bill of stylish 'Giallo' thrillers from Italian maestro Dario Argento: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970) The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Phenomena (1984). The Bird With The Crystal Plumage : An American writer (Tony Musante - Toma TV series) travelling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has witnessed and the police's inability to make any progress he launches his own personal investigation - and nearly loses his life in the process. While this modern day Jack-the-Ripper type is slithering through the dark byways of Rome slicing up pretty girls director Dario Argento is carving up the emotions of terrified viewers. Dark deeds are mixed with black comedy worthy of Hitchcock in a film of almost unbearable tension and nail-biting suspense. Cat O'Nine Tales: The second movie directed by Dario Argento. With the screenplay by Dardano Sachetti and score by Ennio Morricone Cat O'Nine Tails is a haunting and suspensful thriller in the classic giallo tradition. The story begins when a blind puzzle maker (Karl Malden) overhears a conversation shortly before a robbery is committed at a genetics institute. When he teams up with a journalist (Franciscus) intent on solving the crime they uncover a trail off murders linked to the institute. Can they discover the murderer's identity before it is too late? Phenomena: Young Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) is sent to study at an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. A psychopathic killer is at large and has already murdered one of the academy's students. Jennifer sleepwalks and has a strange empathic relationship with insects. One day she befriends local entomologist Dr. McGregor (Donald Pleasance) who has been helping the police in their murder investigation with his knowledge of insects. McGregor encourages her to use her gift to track down the killer bu this places her in mortal danger...

• Evil Senses | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A professional killer makes a mistake which could cost him his life - he steals his victim's brief case which contains hot documents and blackmail details. Seeking shelter in a brothel he encounters the enchanting Vittoria...

• Sleepless | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dario Argento's 2001 feature Sleepless didn't receive a cinematic release in the UK, and it's not hard to see why. The movie often feels like Argento on auto-pilot, rehashing images and ideas and camera angles from his more inspired films like Suspiria or Tenebrae. The dialogue is leaden, the plot is a plodding whodunnit (and most of the time it's hard to care who) and the acting, with the exception of the veteran Max von Sydow, is mostly atrocious and crudely dubbed. But then again, no one ever came to an Argento movie for the plot or the dialogue, and least of all for the acting. The key to his mastery has always been the atmosphere of a nightmare that he conjures up, with all its jagged imagery and complete absence of narrative logic. The less sense it makes, the scarier it gets. Sleepless never attains anywhere near a level of nightmarish intensity, but it has its moments--especially the least rational ones. Although the plot involves no elements of the supernatural, and everything is finally (if cumbersomely) explained, it's episodes like the first killing (where the murderer traps his victim on a speeding train he couldn't possibly have boarded) that strike most effectively home. The action involves a retired police inspector (von Sydow) lured back to investigate a series of killings in Turin that replicate murders he was assigned to 17 years earlier. As always with Argento, knives figure prominently, as do prowling steadicam tracking shots, old dark houses and females butchered in any number of gory and far-fetched ways. The film looks unfailingly good, courtesy of its rich dark palate of colours, Ronnie Taylor's sinuous camera, and Argento's favourite group Goblin contribute an edgy, insidious score. On the DVD: Sleepless on DVD comes with a clear, sharp transfer that's a pleasure to watch, with no loss of detail even in the many underlit scenes. Picture is matched for clarity by the terrific 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. This, unlike the truncated US and German DVD releases, is the full 117-minute original, shown in 1.85:1 widescreen. The two-disc set includes a generous helping of extras: stills gallery, the theatrical trailer (in Italian only, though), a 15-minute "making of" featurette, plus an informative one-hour documentary, Dario Argento--An Eye for Horror, narrated by Mark Kermode and previously shown on Channel Four at Christmas 2001.--Philip Kemp