6.7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A woman is tormented by strange dreams of astronauts on the moon. She visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her even though she does not know them.
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Lila Kedrova, Nicoletta ElmiMystery | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English, English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 5.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Note: This film is available on Blu-ray as part of House of Psychotic Women Rarities Collection.
Kier-la Janisse has been on the busy side for Severin Films lately, what with any number of supplemental productions as well as both this latest
collection and the earlier, in some ways more grandiose,
All the Haunts Be Ours: A
Compendium of Folk Horror. In that regard, it's kind of ironic in a way that at least some "folk horror" outings tend to feature women who
are perceived to be psychotic, or perhaps if not afflicted to that level, emotionally troubled, in plot devices that see "innocents" confronted
with some otherworldly horror that no one else believes is real. The "psychoses" in this set are probably more overtly manifest, in that they
seem to be objective (mis?)behaviors rather than how others are interpreting those (mis?)behaviors, but one way or the other this is
another rather remarkable collection of films curated by Janisse that should attract some niche attention. This set is kind of a companion piece to the
eponymous tome Janisse published around a decade ago, which she termed "an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and
exploitation films", and which is being republished in tandem with this set in an expanded version (Severin is offering a deluxe bundle featuring the
book).
Footprints is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.85:1. The back cover of this release states "now scanned in 4K from the original camera negatives". The first ten screenshots are from the U.S. Cut, while the second ten are from the Italian cut, and as can perhaps be gleaned from some individual shots I've captured shared between the versions, the common footage showed no discernable differences to my eyes. The additional content in the Italian version is relatively brief and tends to "add up" in a bunch of smaller snippets here and there, but once again I noticed no sudden quality fluctuations in the Italian version. Vittorio Storaro's cinematography is a real highlight of the film, and this transfer offers some really beautifully suffused sequences in some of the outdoor moments in particular, but also a really nicely distinct set of black and white interstitials courtesy of the film Alice may or may not be remembering. Because of the quasi-hallucinatory way the story begins unfolding, detail levels can be subject to stylistic flourishes, and some scenes are intentionally soft and dreamlike. Grain can look a bit gritty in both presentations, but never really falls prey to compression problems. My score is 4.25.
Footprints offers DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono options in either Italian or English (for both cuts of the film). Once again, I really didn't notice any huge differences in amplitude or mixes between the tracks, and both offer secure accountings of the film's cool organ drenched score by Nicola Piovani (Percy Faith would have had a field day covering the theme). Dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout, though both versions suffer from that oft mentioned "loose synch". Optional English subtitles are available.
Disc One - U.S. Cut
Kind of hilariously, a recent move my wife and I made forced me to go through piles of, um, stuff we've been hauling around for decades, and in one of innumerable piles of paper I found an old pressbook for The Third Day I must have gotten somewhere along the way. I was kind of delighted to see a huge two page spread in the pressbook devoted to the place I was born and raised, Salt Lake City, as that venerable state capital evidently was the epicenter of The Third Day's marketing campaign, for some inexplicable reason (even one of the versions of the Faith penned ballad in the film touted in the pressbook is from a Utah based singer, as I discovered in doing some Googling). My hunch is Footprints probably wouldn't have saw fit to debut in Utah, but joking aside, this film has a number of curious tethers to a glut of other amnesia based outings, but it also kind of has a bit of the underlying "folk horror" dawning awareness that suffuses such legendary films as The Wicker Man, albeit in a totally different way than that film does. Technical merits are secure and the supplemental package very well done. Recommended.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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