Blue Underground, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of the 1990 collaboration of horror filmmaking icons, George A. Romero and Dario Argento, Two Evil Eyes.
This Edgar Allan Poe collaboration arrives as a 4K Ultra HD edition on Aug. 24, and includes a bonus Blu-ray disc packed with extras (more on that in a bit).
This wasn’t the first time that Argento and Romero had worked together, 12 years earlier they collaborated on Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, with Argento taking on editing duties for an “international” cut of the film, which was titled Zombie (not to be confused with Fulci’s film of the same name … also available from Blue Underground).
With Two Evil Eyes, each filmmaker adapted an Edgar Allan Poe, with Romero directing an adaptation of Poe’s 1845 short story, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” featuring Bingo O’Malley (local Pittsburgh talent who appeared in Romero’s Knightriders and Creepshow) as the dying Ernest Valdemar, Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Escape from New York, Swamp Thing) as his scheming wife and Rama Zada as her partner in crime. It does not end well for all involved.
Argento did an adaptation of Poe’s 1843 classic short story, “The Black Cat,” with Harvey Keitel as Usher and Madeleine Potter (Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns) as Annabel.
The entire production was filmed in Pittsburgh, with Giuseppe “Beppe” Maccari as the cinematographer for “The Black Cat” and Peter Reniers doing similar duties for Romero’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” … with make-up and f/x whiz Tom Savini (Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, etc.) leading the make-up team.
As to bonus features, the 4K Ultra HD disc features commentary from writer Troy Howarth (“Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento,” “The Haunted World of Mario Bava,” “So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films,” etc.).
The companion Blu-ray disc is packed with bonus features. Counted among these are no less than eleven featurettes, including “Two Masters’ Eyes,” “At Home with Tom Savini,” “Adrienne Barbeau on George Romero” and “Before I Wake.”
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