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• Ludwig | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £23.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A string of masterpieces behind him including Ossessione, Senso, The Leopard and Death in Venice the great Italian director Luchino Visconti turned his attentions to the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1972, resulting in an epic of 19th-century decadence. Dominated by Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Bloodstained Butterfly) in the title role, Ludwig nevertheless manages to find room for an impressive cast list: Romy Schneider (reprising her Elisabeth of Austria characterisation from the Sissi trilogy), Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice), Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger), John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) and Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter) as Richard Wagner. As opulent as any of Visconti's epics Piero Tosi's costume design was nominated for an Academy Award Ludwig is presented here in its complete form in accordance with the director's wishes. Special Features 2K restoration from the original film negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Two viewing options: the full-length theatrical cut or as five individual parts Original Italian soundtrack with optional English subtitles Original English soundtrack with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Interview with actor Helmut Berger Interview with producer Dieter Geissler Luchino Visconti, an hour-long documentary portrait of the director by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, Requiescant) containing interviews with Burt Lancaster, Vittorio Gassman, Francesco Rosi, Claudia Cardinale and others Speaking with Suso Cecchi d'Amico, an interview with the screenwriter Silvana Mangano: The Scent of a Primrose, a half-hour portrait of the actress Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of original poster artwork

• House Of Witchcraft | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT is one of the two films Umberto Lenzi made for VIPCOS four part Houses of Doom Lucio Fulci helming the others. A young man dreams a recurring nightmare in which he is running away from someone before he's reaching an old house where an ugly old woman boils his own head in a big kettle! His girlfriend thinks it's good for him to take a few days off and they drive to an old house that belongs to her family. The house is the one the young man always enters in his

• House of Witchcraft (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT is part of a four-part movie series made for Italian television under the umbrella title House of Doom. Legendary Italian horror maestros Umberto Lenzi and Lucio Fulci each contributed two films for the series: Lenzi made HOUSE OF LOST SOULS and HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT while Fulci offered HOUSE OF CLOCKS and SWEET HOUSE OF HORRORS. Lenzi's second contribution to the series centres on a young man with a recurring nightmare in which he is running away from a pursuer and reaches the shelter of an old house only to have an ugly old woman boil his head in a big kettle. Sensing his underlying stress and anxiety his girlfriend suggests he take a relaxing holiday and the two drive to an old estate that belongs to her family. The nightmarish chills become reality when the young man reaches the house and realizes it's the same one from his dream...Lenzi refrains from his usual gore and splatter style and instead delivers an almost old-fashioned story bathed in chilling atmosphere and classic Freudian fears of witchcraft and haunted houses.