Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Aug. 23 as the street date
for a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack 4K restoration (from the film’s original camera
negative) of director Duccio Tessari’s 1971 quasi-giallo whodunit, The Bloodstained Butterfly.
Françoise (Carole André — Death in Venice, Dirty
Weekend, etc.), a beautiful young woman, is brutally murdered in a park
in the film’s opening sequence. There
are witnesses.
The police, specifically Inspector Berardi (Silvano
Tranquilli), follow the clues and they lead straight to Alessandro (Giancarlo
Sbragia — Death Rage, Nest of Vipers), a sports broadcaster who just so
happens to be having an affair with Françoise, a student friend of his
daughter, Sarah [Wendy D’Olive — Catch-22, The Dead are Alive).
The evidence is overwhelming … and there were witnesses in
the park that day!
His defense attorney, Gulilio (Günther Stoll), begins to
pick apart the prosecution’s case — and we discover in the process that he is
having an affair with Alessandro’s wife, Maria (Evelyn Stewart, aka: Ida Galli
— Maniac
Mansion, The Psychic, etc.) — but when two more young women are murdered
in the same park in similar fashion, the case unravels.
In the meantime, Sarah, has taken up with Giorgio (Helmut
Berger — Ludwig, The Damned, etc.), whose connection
to Françoise, coupled with his ever-increasing bizarre behavior — including
some rough sex — leads Sarah (and us) to suspect that Inspector Berardi might
be chasing the wrong killer.
Oh, if only it was that simple! The Bloodstained Butterfly could
easily have been titled “The Bloodstained Red-Herring” … it will keep you
guessing right up until the end.
As to bonus goodies, Arrow Video has both the original
Italian-language track and the English-dubbed audio track, with newly
translated English subtitles for the Italian version. Film critics Alan Jones (author of such
books as: “Dario Argento: the Man, the Myths, the Magic” and “The Rough Guide
to Horror Movies”) and Kim Newman provide commentary, the featurette titled,
“Murder in B-Flat Minor,” and a retrospective on the work of director Duccio
Tessari.
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