The United Kingdom’s Arrow
Video, with sales and distribution support provided by the MVD Entertainment
Group, will be entering the Blu-ray release arena in a big way with a trio of
newly-restored Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs beginning on Mar. 17.
Industry veteran Eric D.
Wilkinson has been appointed Director of Home Video Sales and Acquisitions at
MVD Entertainment Group and is responsible for Arrow Films arrival — and its
extensive library of film productions — in the domestic market place.
Streeting on Mar. 17 will
be a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition of a director-approved presentation (from
the original film elements — clocking in at 96 minutes and not the cut-down 87
minute version) of writer/director Michael Armstrong’s 1970 horror shocker, Mark
of the Devil. Viewing options
will be both the original German-language version (with newly-translated
English subtitles) and the English-dubbed theatrical release.
Bonus nuggets include
commentary by Michael Armstrong, the feature-length documentary titled Mark
of the Times, outtakes, the featurette titled “Hallmark of the Devil”
and interviews featuring composer Michael Holm and actors Udo Kier, Herbert
Fux, Gaby Fuchs, Ingeborg Schoner and Herbert Lom.
The following week, Mar.
24, a new hi-def transfer of Japanese filmmaker Teruo Ishii’s 1970 Yakuza
thriller, Blind Woman's Curse, will be available for genre fans to savor
as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
This stylish cult gem
features commentary from Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp — author of
“Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema” and
co-author of “The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film.”
The month of March
concludes with the 1967 Spaghetti Western
from director Tonino Valerii, Day of Anger, starring screen legend
Lee Van Cleef along with Giuliano Gemma (aka: Montgomery Wood).
Fully restored from the
original Technicolor film negatives, Arrow Video will be delivering this
Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack with two distinct viewing options. Fans can enjoy either the original Italian-language
version, complete with newly prepared English subtitles, or the 1969
English-dubbed domestic theatrical presentation.
Bonus features here
include a newly-prepared video interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (Torso,
The
Grand Duel, The Battle of El Alamein and many more), plus a vintage
interview with director Tonino Valerii and newly-prepared video insights with
Valerii biography Roberto Curti (author of “Italian Crime Filmography,
1968-1980”).
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