Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be serving up a new 2K restoration of
Italian film maestro Lucio Fulci’s 1981 (1984 for its domestic theatrical
release) neo-gothic chiller, The Black Cat, on Apr. 5 as a
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
Stage actor-turned-screen-character-actor Patrick Magee (A
Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, And Now the Screaming Starts!, etc.)
stars as retired professor Robert Miles, a man who has turned to the occult and
firmly believes that he can now channel the dead. His only companion is a black cat with a
nasty temper (apparently no treat for this kitty).
Into his quiet hamlet wanders an American tourist named Jill
(Mimsy Farmer — Hot Rods to Hell, The Wild Racers, Four Flies on Grey Velvet
and more), who will so become involved in a “cat and mouse” game of death. The bodies pile up as one gruesome murder
follows another … the police are helpless.
All evidence points to that poor kitty with the very nasty
temper, but how is that possible?
Arrow Video will give fans two viewing options — the
original Italian-language version (with new English subtitles) and the English-dubbed
theatrical version — plus there is a newly prepared commentary track by former Fangoria editor, composer and filmmaker
Chris Alexander.
Additionally, there are two featurettes — “From Poe into
Fulci: The Spirit of Perverseness” and “In the Paw-Prints of The Black Cat” — a
newly prepared video session with actress Dagmar Lassander (who was Prof. Miles
former love interest … and who dies a horrible death at the hands, or is that
paws, of our mysterious killer) and a vintage video session with actor David
Warbeck (who played Inspector Gorley (yup, dead too by film’s end).
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