A passion for solving difficult cases makes Franco Soneri the best investigator in Ferrara Italy – but it also makes him a hard man to manage. He’s brusque and irascible but he and his team manage to uncover what others might prefer to keep hidden. Cases from season two include two senior citizens found in their car at the bottom of the River Po a body of a woman washed up onto its banks a hit-and-run fatality the brutal killing of a prostitute a murdered teenage girl and a high-profile attorney found dead in his apartment. Filmed on location in the atmospheric countryside of northern Italy these mysteries are based on the characters from the bestselling crime novels by Valerio Varesi.
Shameless proudly presents the 1st ever Cinema-of-Death anthology of Ruggero Deodato, Mr Cannibal himself, the director of possibly the nastiest Video Nasties which have since become cult must-see and now subject of top academic research, public debates and high-brow critical acclaim. Cannibal HolocaustCannibal Holocaust on its 1st release, director Deodato was charged with killing his own cast - and jailed! In UK, it incarnated THE Video Nasty. Banned and then cut by several minutes, it took a full 30 years for the censors to relax their grip! We present two versions of this, the most controversial film ever made: A unique Director's re-edit (shown 1st in London's West-End) which tones down the animal cruelty (to fit better with 21st Century sensibilities) without shortening the film. The other is the full strength 80s dish! Very strong stuff - especially because of its unsurpassed, documentary-like, extremely realistic depiction of gory violence. With this landmark film Deodato single-handedly invented the 'found-footage' genre (imitated by Blair Witch et al). Often imitated, this is The Original and unequaled best. House On The Edge Of The ParkThe House On The Edge Of The Park also a Video Nasty, this claustrophobic staging of a vicious home-invasion scenario explodes into slasher torture hell, with star David Hess giving one of the strongest performances of his career and Deodato a master-class in directing, proving again that under the blood and guts there is a brilliant film maker formed by Neo-realism. Special Features: Deodato and star Giovanni Lombardo Radice in a public debate with senior BBFC examiner. In-depth interview with the late David Hess. The Phantom of DeathIn The Phantom of Death Deodato's unwavering directing meets a barnstorming performance from Michael York (Cabaret, Austin Powers) as the pianist virtuoso who suddenly starts aging at alarming speed - progeria, a devastating real-life affliction. With death closing in fast, the pianist loses his mind in a murderous frenzy of brutal hackings... Edwige Fenech and Donald Pleasence co-star.
Fog & Crimes S3
Cannibal Holocaust is extremely well executed and is a powerful and thought-provoking as well as provocative piece of filmmaking, finally reassessed in this Shameless edition and given the fitting “Ultimate Cult Film” accolade it deserves.. A crew of four documentary filmmakers disappears while filming primitive cannibal tribes deep in the Amazonian rain forest; the horrific footage they shot is then found by a second expedition who will discover the horrific real reason for the demise of the four filmmakers.. Special Features:Introduction to the film by director Ruggero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato on the Animal Edit; long version of the film (only 14 secs cut which has been seamless replaced by reaction shots), and, for the first time ever, the director’s own edit of the film reducing the on-screen violence to animals whilst preserving the jaw-dropping, gut-wrenching impact of the film. Interview of Ruggero Deodato & Karl York & Francesca Cirdi; specially commissioned documentary by Cine Excess and critical analysis featuring critics such as Kim Newman etc.; Easter Egg & Shameless Trailer Park
Inspired by the four famous novels by Valerio Varesi each episode follows an investigation by Soneri Ferrara Police Chief. He works with a faithful squad on a series of crimes each hiding a disturbing mystery with the startling and grotesque undertones of the apparently calm world of the wealthy countryside.
Cannibal Holocaust is extremely well executed and is a powerful and thought-provoking as well as provocative piece of filmmaking, finally reassessed in this Shameless edition and given the fitting “Ultimate Cult Film” accolade it deserves.. A crew of four documentary filmmakers disappears while filming primitive cannibal tribes deep in the Amazonian rain forest; the horrific footage they shot is then found by a second expedition who will discover the horrific real reason for the demise of the four filmmakers.. Special Features:Introduction to the film by director Ruggero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato on the Animal Edit; long version of the film (only 14 secs cut which has been seamless replaced by reaction shots), and, for the first time ever, the director’s own edit of the film reducing the on-screen violence to animals whilst preserving the jaw-dropping, gut-wrenching impact of the film. Interview of Ruggero Deodato & Karl York & Francesca Cirdi; specially commissioned documentary by Cine Excess and critical analysis featuring critics such as Kim Newman etc.; Easter Egg & Shameless Trailer Park
Inspiration for 'The Blair Witch Project' this infamous mock-documentary banned in the UK since 1983 replays the recovered footage of a trio of film makers who disappear in the South American jungle while searching for a lost tribe of cannibals...
In 1979 four documentary film makers disappeared in the jungles of South America while shooting a film about cannibalism... Six months later the New York University along with the Pan American Broadcasting Corporation sent a search team in looking for the film makers. They could never have been prepared for what they found. Owing to the harrowing and graphic nature of the film Cannibal Holocaust has been banned in over 50 countries and has achieved a notoriety surpassed by no ot
Banned and heavily censored throughout the world here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the found footage of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. This footage is so intense so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of Cannibal Holocaust were arrested upon its original release and the film seized. Widely acknowledged as the uncredited inspiration for The Blair Witch Project Cannibal Holocaust has been both praised and vilified for its portrait of savagery. Ruggero Deodato's nihilistic masterwork critiques the implications of Mondo-style filmmaking even as it explores the most disturbing extremes of cruelty and exploitation. Not for the weak of stomach the film's horrifying power cannot be denied.
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