Severin Films, with sale and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has captured the domestic distribution rights to writer/director Ruggero Deodato’s 2016 film festival horror entry, Ballad in Blood. Both DVD and Blu-ray editions will be making their debut on Mar. 29.
Deodato, noted for his genre-fan classics, Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and House on the Edge of the Park (1983), all but dropped out the feature-film directing game in the early 1990s and turned his attention instead to mini-series and episodic television productions … and then suddenly in 2016 he’s back with a film festival entry.
The excitement grew, Deodato is back!! However, Ballad in Blood suddenly disappeared from sight in late 2016 and the much-hoped-for arrival in the domestic market never materialized, until now.
Deodato says that his inspiration was the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, which resulted in the infamous Amada Knox murder trial. Guilty, whoops, not guilty, wrong person … a rush to judgement sort of thing. In the end, after a series of show trials, Knox was vindicated by forensic evidence and the real killer was brought to justice.
To say the least, it was a confused mess. Deodato seized upon this and has fashioned a murder mystery that is “bathed in blood” (and a whole lot more). At the core, and we will try not to give too much, a trio of party-hardy “friends,” Lenka (Carlotta Morelli) and Jacopo (Gabriele Rossi), along with their drug-dealing “buddy,” Duke (Edward Williams), try to put the pieces together following a wild Halloween party.
It seems that Lenka’s roommate, Elizabeth (Noemi Smorra), has been brutally murdered … there she is dead — it is definitely not a drug overdose — and the trio can’t remember how it happened.
Solve the crime, turn on each other, suspect each other … lots and lots of options. And then there is the sex, the drugs, the “other stuff” … so many pieces to a very nasty puzzle!!
Bonus features include seven featurettes — “Behind the Scenes of Ballad in Blood,” “The Day After,” “Midnight Mass Hysteria,” “Times Bestseller the Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox,” “It happened in Perugia,” “Things to do in Perugia When You’re Dead” and “A Maestro at Work.”
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