Celluloid Dreams Launches On June 25 With A 4K Ultra HD Edition Of Italian Filmmaker Giuliano Carnimeo's The Case Of The Bloody Iris

Update ... to get it right, everything (restoration, extras, etc.) took longer than expected.   Celluloid Dreams first title, the 4K Ultra HD release of The Case of the Bloody Iris, will now be available on June 25

 

 

With a long lead — all the way out in April of next year — comes news this past week that a new boutique film specialist will be opening up shop on Apr. 9 with a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition of Italian filmmaker Giuliano Carnimeo’s 1972 giallo treasure, The Case of the Bloody Iris.

The new entrant in the realm of physical media will be Celluloid Dreams.

It’s an interesting choice as Carnimeo was not the obvious choice for a giallo mystery.  His film career was built around Spaghetti Westerns — I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Sartana’s Here … Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, Light the Fuse … Sartana is Coming, etc. — but he had Edwige Fenech as the lead, which means that this film (for the European market) was highly bankable.   

The rest is history, The Case of the Bloody Iris (with all of its various release titles) has become a “keeper;” a “classic,” complete with plenty of red herrings, sexual tension, gruesome murders, a surprise twist and, best of all, Edwige Fenech.

Versions have been out there before, but Celluloid Dreams is launching with a new 4K Ultra HD restoration from the original camera negative … and they are including viewing options for both the original Italian language track and the English-dubbed export version.

As to bonus goodies, industry veteran and film critic Guido Henkel will be supplying a newly-minted commentary track, there are outtakes and three new featurettes — “Drops of Giallo,” “Flowers of Blood” and “Marylin.”