Arrow Video Preps A 4K Restoration For Meg Foster's The Wind For Blu-ray Release On Apr. 14

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has yet another Blu-ray debut lined up for genre fans to savor, enjoy and watch again and again, if not for the storyline, but for the 4K scan (from the original camera negative) of the always lovely Meg Foster.

This particular Meg Foster film is writer/director Nico Mastorakis’ 1986 film, The Wind (aka: Edge of Terror), which will be available on Apr. 14.

Since 1986 it has run the gauntlet of format releases, including VHS (at least twice) and DVD (also at least twice … although we’ve always suspected that the Simitar release on DVD in June of 1999 lacked “legitimacy,” but what do we know) and has been out of print since 2003.

Meg Foster stars as Sian Anderson, a mystery writer, who has hit something of a writer’s block and so she kisses her boyfriend, John (David McCallum, who literally “phones-in” his performance … he is used as something of a red herring) and heads off to islet of Monemvasia in Greece to write her next mystery novel.   

It is here that we meet her landlord, Elias (Robert Morley), who also has a handyman by the name of Phil (Wings Hauser).   Elias warns her to stay indoors at night as the peculiar nature of the place creates nightly winds that can be quite fierce. 

There’s your set-up, a remote place, creepy winds and Phil, who in short order murders Elias.   Sian spots our homicidal maniac burying “something” (perhaps a stray cat), which seems very suspicious … remote place, creepy winds and Phil, you get the picture.

In any case, she can’t find Elias, so she gets in contact with his wife (Dina Giannakou), a local, who Phil proceeds to butcher when she shows up to look for her husband.   Two down and now it is time to torment Sian!!  

Meanwhile, John, gets worried and contacts the local police (Mihalis Giannatos), who says he will check it out, but sends his buddy instead, Kesner, (played by none other than Steve Railsback — Helter Skelter), who doesn’t find anything out of the ordinary and thinks that Sian, as a mystery writer, might be letting her imagination run wild.

The Wind is part thriller, part slasher film and loaded with atmospherics (wind, shutters banging, dark and spooky), but most of all it has Meg Foster, and with the new 4K restoration from Arrow Video, those blue eyes will certainly be the focus of attention.

Bonus goodies feature the newly minted video session with writer/director Nico Mastorakis titled “Blowing The Wind” and “The Sound of The Wind,” an isolated soundtrack of the film, which was composed by Hans Zimmer and Stanley Myers.