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Friday, August 6, 2021

New on Blu-ray: THE SERGIO MARTINO COLLECTION (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, and The Suspicious Death of a Minor)

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Product Description: One of Italian cinema's most celebrated and prolific filmmakers, Sergio Martino worked across a range of genres, but is arguably best known for his giallo thrillers. This collection brings together three of his finest.

In The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, recently widowed Lisa Baumer is summoned to Athens to collect her husband's generous life insurance policy, but soon discovers others are willing to kill to get their hands on it. In the Edgar Allan Poe-inspired Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, abrasive drunk Oliviero amuses himself by holding drunken orgies and abusing his long-suffering wife… but when a series of grisly murders shakes the local community, Oliviero finds himself in the frame. Finally, The Suspicious Death of a Minor combines giallo and crime thriller tropes as undercover cop Paolo pursues the Milanese criminal outfit responsible for the brutal murder of an underage prostitute, but finds himself up against a killer-for-hire who's bumping off witnesses before they have a chance to talk.

Featuring sensational casts of genre stalwarts, including Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Anita Strindberg and Luigi Pistilli, with scripts by giallo master Ernesto Gastaldi and sensuous scores by maestro Bruno Nicolai, this is an essential collection for any Italian cult cinema fan.

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Director: Sergio Martino

Starring: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Mel Ferrer, Anita Strindberg

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 291 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Arrow

Home Video Release Date: August 3, 2021




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  • Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  • Resolution: 1080p
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1, 1.85:1
  • Region: Region A/1

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Dubbed:
  • Blu-ray: English, Italian

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  • Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, LPCM Mono


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Blu-ray: English SDH



SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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  • SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
    • Three films from Sergio Martino: The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, and The Suspicious Death of a Minor, restored in 2K from the original camera negative
    • Original uncompressed mono Italian and English audio tracks
    • Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio
    • Newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach
  • THE CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TAIL:
    • Audio commentary with writer Ernesto Gastaldi, moderated by filmmaker Federico Caddeo (in Italian with English subtitles)
    • Under the Sign of the Scorpion – an interview with star George Hilton
    • The Scorpion Tales – an interview with director Sergio Martino
    • Jet Set Giallo – an analysis Sergio Martino's films by Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
    • The Case of the Screenwriter Auteur – a video essay by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
    • Theatrical trailer
    • Image gallery
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon
  • YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY:
    • Through the Keyhole – an interview with director Sergio Martino
    • Unveiling the Vice – making-of retrospective featuring interviews with Martino, star Edwige Fenech and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
    • Dolls of Flesh and Blood: The Gialli of Sergio Martino – a visual essay by Michael Mackenzie exploring the director's unique contributions to the giallo genre
    • The Strange Vices of Ms. Fenech – film historian Justin Harries on the Your Vice actress' prolific career
    • Eli Roth on Your Vice and the genius of Martino
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
  • THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR:
    • Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
    • Violent Milan – an interview with co-writer/director Sergio Martino
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon


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