Arrow Video's New 2K Film Restoration Of Mario Bava's Shock Arrives On Blu-ray On Jan. 18

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K film restoration (from the original 35mm camera negative) of iconic horror filmmaker Mario Bava’s 1977 (1979 domestic) haunted house thriller, Shock, lined up for release as a new Blu-ray product offering on Jan. 18.

Fans will have the choice of the original Italian language track or the 1979 dubbed English theatrical release track as viewing options.

Dora (played by the late Daria Nicolodi — Deep Red, Phenomena) is both attractive and nuttier than a loon.   This gives Mario Bava free reign to toy with her imagination, which has been worked on by modern medicine with drugs and electroshock “therapy.”

A widow, with a seven-year-old son by the name of Marco (David Colin Jr.), she has remarried and lives in her previous home with her new husband, Bruno (John Steiner — Tenebrae, Caligula, Julia and Julia), who is an airline pilot and is gone from time to time.   It is during these absences that Dora becomes convinced that the place is haunted by her dead husband.

Where Bava excels with this haunted house tale is that there is a perfectly logical explanation for everything that takes place.   But, when you are dealing with someone whose brain has been scramble, logic or not, it’s still crazy.

Bonus features include a newly-minted commentary with author Tim Lucas (“Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark), and five new production featurettes — “A Ghost in the House,” “Via Dell’Orologio 33,” “The Devil Pulls the Strings,” “Shock! Horror!” and “The Most Atrocious Tortur(e).”