DVDs E through H
"E"
Embalmer, The (1965)
Director: Dino Tavella
Composer: Marcello Gigante
Label: Retromedia
Part Number: RET2323
NTSC Widescreen
Packaging Description:
One of the last horror films from Italy shot in black-and-white, THE MONSTER OF VINICE (American title: THE EMBALMER) reveals itself as both a commentary on and a participant in that country’s genre cinema shift from Gothic horrors to giallo shockers. At issue was the struggle between decaying Gothicism and encroaching modernism, the latter represented by the jazz and rock music that filers down to the subterranean monastic world of the Emblamer. The film owes much of it inspiration to Germany’s popular Edgar Wallace “krimi” films, which were in full swing by 1964, the year THE MONSTER OF VENICE was helmed. Not surprising that a similarly titled film was made that year, THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY, was a German Krimi.
Evil Eye (1963)
Director: Mario Bava
Composer: Roberto Nicolosi
Label: Starz
Part Number: DV148543
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
Bava’s fourth film as credited director was his first contemporary
narrative, a slyly Hitchcockian thriller that scholars cite as the
first true giallo. Leticia Roman stars as an American tourist in Rome
who witnesses a serial killer’s latest killing and convinces a young
doctor (John Saxon) to help her investigate the city’s “Alphabet Murders.”
Co-written by Bava and his final feature shot in black & white,
its inventive camerawork, masterful compositions and wily humor combine
to create one of the most surprising and satisfying films of Il Maestro's
career.
For the first time anywhere, this presentation includes Bava's original
uncut Italisn-language International Version LA RAGAZZA CHE SAPEVA
TROPPO/THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH.
Eyeball (1975)
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Composer: Bruno Nicolai
Label: Marketing Film
Part Number: 350020
PAL Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
Eine junge Frau ist auf dem Weg nach New York, um sich endgültig von
ihrem Mann scheiden zu lassen. Doch sie entschließt sich spontan,
eine Busreise zu machen. Unter den gut gelaunten Touristen kommt es
zu einem grausamen Zwischenfall, ein unerklärlicher Mord erschüttert
die Reisenden. Geschockt von dem schrecklichen Ereignis müssen die
jungen Leute feststellen, dass die Morde weitergehen. Während alle
rätseln wer der mysteriöse Killer sein könnte, fürchtet jeder, er
könnte das nächste Opfer sein. Der Mörder hat jedoch ein weiteres
Geheimnis, er stiehlt immer den Augapfel seiner Opfer.
Umberto Lenzi, der italienische Meisterregisseur des Grauens, schuf
mit LABYRINTH DES SCHRECKENS den Urvater des modermen Slasher-Horrors,
der bis heute mit Filmen wie SCREAM und DÜSTERE LEGENDEN viele Menschen
fasziniert.
Eyes Of Crystal (2004)
Director: Eros Puglielli
Composer: Francesc Gener
Label: Revolver Entertainment
Part Number: ?
PAL Widescreen 16:9
Description:
A brilliant detective with a tragic past; a beautiful girl hounded by a maniac; a ferocious serial killer whose hobby is mutilating victims; and a race against time to stop him...these are the ingredients of EYES OF CRYSTAL, a tense, heart stopping thriller, somewhere between SEVEN and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
"F"
Fatal Frames (1996)
Director: Al Festa
Composer: Al Festa
Label: Synapse
Part Number: SFD0012
NTSC Widescreen
Packaging Description:
Alex Ritt (Rick Gianasi), a prominent New York music video director,
comes to Italy to direct a new video from international pop sensation,
Stefania Stella. He encounters a mysterious, machete-wielding killer
in a dark cloak and hat who videotapes his victims for the police.
As the gory murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly thrust into the
killer’s mad games and soon becomes a target of the police. The “videokiller”
is at large and Ritt must uncover the truth before it is too late!
FATAL FRAMES is considered by many to be a triumph for Al Festa and star/producer Stefania Stella. Winner of the “Lucio Fulci Award” at the 1996 FantaFest in Rome, FATAL FRAMES has played many film festivals and is highly acclaimed for its unusual cinematography, sound design, and music.
Fifth Cord, The (1971)
Director: Luigi Bazzoni
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Label: Blue Underground
Part Number: BU1065DVD
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
"I am going to commit murder," intones the faceless killer. "I can
imagine the thrill and pleasure I will experience as I stalk my victim.
There must be no mistakes!" But when four trendy socialites are brutally
murdered, an alcoholic reporter (a terrific performance by Franco
Nero) begins to unravel a twisted trail of clues. Can this desperate
journalist stop a depraved psychopath before he himself becomes the
fifth victim?
THE FIFTH CORD has it all: kinky sex, shocking violence, stunning cinematography by Oscar(r) winner Vittorio Storaro (BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, APOCALYPSE NOW), a classic score by Ennio Morricone, and much more. Pamela Tiffin (THE PLEASURE SEEKERS), Silvia Monti (LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN), Edmund Purdom (PIECES), Agostina Belli (REVOLVER) and Ira von Furstenberg (5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON) co-star in this superior giallo directed by Luigi Bazzoni now transferred from the original camera negative in High Definition and available in America for the first time ever.
Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970)
Director: Mario Bava
Composer: Piero Umiliani
Label: Starz
Part Number: DV13294
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
Bava’s ultra-mod 1970 murder mystery remains one of the most critically
divisive and little-seen films of his career. Yet despite being a
last-minute work-for-hire project, Bava imbues the derivative script
with a sly streak of black humor and a steady stream of eye-popping
visuals, including a va-va-voom performance by giallo goddess Edwige
Fenech. Never released theatrically in America, it has since become
a favorite of Bava fans worldwide.
Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
Director: Luciano Ercoli
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Label: Blue Underground
Part Number: BU1068DVD
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
International beauty Dagmar Lassander (HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON,
HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY) stars as a repressed young wife whose traumatic
sexual assault triggers a depraved obsession with her attacker. But
when pornography and perversion lead to blackmail and murder, passion
suddenly takes a very deadly turn. For a woman enflamed by her own
violent desires, is any crime too extreme?
Susan Scott (PENETRATION, EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS) and Simon Andreu (THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE) co-star in this daringly kinky giallo directed by Luciano Ercoli (DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT), co-written by Ernesto Gastaldi (ALMOST HUMAN, TORSO), and featuring a seductive score by Ennio Morricone.
Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971)
Director: Dario Argento
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Label: MYA
Part Number: MYA010
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
Roberto (Michael Brandon) is a young handsome drummer playing in a
rock band. For the last week he has been stalked by a mysterious guy
with dark sunglasses. Roberto decides to put an end to this and follows
his stalker in a deserted theatre. He confronts the man and accidentally
kills him. At the same time, another mysterious stalker, with a weird
mask, appears and takes pictures of the accidental murder. For Roberto
and his girlfriend Mina (Mimsy Farmer) it's the beginning of a nightmare,
and more murders will ensue soon.
FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET is the last film of Dario Argento’s so called “Animal Trilogy” besides being a true classic of the Giallo genre, this is by far the rarest of Argento’s movies, since it had never been officially released before, in any form anywhere.
Now FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET finally returns, fully uncut and with an astounding picture and sound quality. A long and accurate restoration work was made directly on the original negative elements, which had remained untouched for more than 30 years.
"G"
Gently Before She Dies (1972)
Director: Sergio Martino
Composer: Bruno Nicolai
Label: No Shame
Part Number: NS0001DVD
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
Director Sergio Martino and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi are at it
again with YOUR VICE IS A CLOSED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY, a gore-soaked
psycho-thriller in the severed vein of their classic gialli STRANGE
VICE OF MRS. WARDH, THE CASE OF THE SCORIPION’S TALE, TORSO and ALL
THE COLORS OF THE DARK.
Luigi Pistilli (THE GREAT SILENCE, BAY OF BLOOD) is a burned out novelist haunted by the memory of his dead mother and making life miserable for wife Anita Strindberg (THE CASE OF THE SCORPION’S TAIL, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN). When the failed writer’s mistress is found slashed to death, the crime initiates a series of bloody slayings that drive the protagonists to the brink of insanity… and murder.
Edwige Fenech (STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, SECRETS OF A CALL GIRL) and Ivan Rassimov (DEEP RIVER SAVAGES, EATEN ALIVE) co-star in this atypical country-set giallo, which owes more than a passing debt to Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Black Cat" and anticipates the hyper-stylized madness of Dario Argento’s PROFONDO ROSSO and Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING.
Photographed in lush widescreen by Giancarlo Ferrando and blessed with a trippy score from Ennio Morricone conductor Bruno Nicolai, YOUR VICE IS A CLOSED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY is rife with essential 70s cinema elements: substance abuse, gratuitous sex, infidelity, incest, hippie love communes, dirtbike racing… and homicidal murder, Italian-style.
Throw away those grainy, incomplete bootlegs and substandard import DVDs. NoShame Films presents YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED DOOR AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY uncut in a pristine, widescreen, 16x9 presentation re-mastered from the original negative for the first time in America.
"H"
Hatchet For A Honeymoon (1970)
Director: Mario Bava
Composer: Sante Maria Romitelli
Label: Image
Part Number: ID7307EUDVD
NTSC Widescreen
Packaging Description:
John Harrington and his wife, Mildred, run an exclusive Paris fashion
salon devoted to wedding apparel for women. John has secretly embarked
on a spree of homicides, killing young brides on their wedding nights
because, with each murder, his memory comes closer to revealing the
traumatic event that branded him a dangerous psychotic. Fed up with
his wife (who's no newlywed), John gets rid of her the only way he
can -- by presiding over her murder while wearing a wedding veil himself!
But Mildred's ghost has no intention of letting him forget his vow:
Til Death Do Us Part!
Hitcher in the Dark (1989)
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Composer: Carlo M. Cordio
Label: Shriek Show
Part Number: SSDVD0311
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
The suspense classic by Umberto Lenzi is finally here. A young man
traveling the Virginia Beach coastline picks up hitchhiking women
in his camper. He forces them to take on the role of his dead mother,
and if they cannot, he tortures and rapes them
Hitch-Hike (1977)
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Label: Anchor Bay
Part Number: DV12025
NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Packaging Description:
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar
Franco Nero of DJANGO) and his beautiful wife (the stunning Corinne
Clery of THE STORY OF O, MOONRAKER) pick up a stranded motorist (the
one and only David Hess of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy). But when
this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip
takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked
in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.
Barely released theatrically in America, HITCH-HIKE has been called "one of the greatest exploitation films no one has ever seen." Co-writer/director Pasquale Festa Campanile (director of WHEN WOMEN HAD TAILS and an Oscar® nominee for writing THE FOUR DAYS OF NAPLES) packs this outstanding sleaze epic with wild performances, extreme violence and some very nasty surprises, all set to a remarkable score by Ennio Morricone and presented totally uncut and uncensored.