Severin: Rififi in the City, Death Whistles the Blues, and An Angel for Satan Prepped for Blu-ray
HomeSeverin: Rififi in the City, Death Whistles the Blues, and An Angel for Satan Prepped for Blu-ray
Posted August 18, 2021 04:21 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films has announced that it will three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. They are: Jess Franco's Rififí in the City (1963), and Death Whistles the Blues (1964), and Camillo Mastrocinque's An Angel for Satan (1966). The releases will be available for purchase this October.
Franco Noir
Label description: Following his international breakthrough with THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF, director Jess Franco next delivered a startling pair of crime-thrillers that pistol-whipped European notions of film noir while lighting the fuse on Uncle Jess' own insane aesthetic. Set in New Orleans and based on a novel by the authors of VERTIGO, DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal, violence and revenge featuring smoky jazz compositions by Franco himself. Jean Servais of RIFIFI fame stars in RIFIFI IN THE CITY, a nihilistic trip through a pulp underworld of thugs, snitches, nightclub dames and black-gloved giallo-style murders. Both films – which led an impressed Orson Welles to hire Franco as his assistant on CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT – now feature HD scans from the original negatives for the first time ever.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
An Angel for Satan
Label description: In the final film of her Italian Gothic period, the legendary Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY) stars in one of the most startling erotic shockers of her entire career: When a cursed statue is recovered from a villa's lake, a young heiress (Steele) will inflict a torrent of depraved seduction and homicidal madness on the local village. Anthony Steffen (THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE), Claudio Gora (DANGER: DIABOLIK) and Marina Berti (NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS) co-star in "a EuroHorror classic featuring Steele in all her mid-'60s glory" (DVD Drive-In), co-written and directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE) and scanned in 2K from the original negative – with both the Italian and thought-lost English tracks – recently discovered in a Rome vault.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Franco Noir
Label description: Following his international breakthrough with THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF, director Jess Franco next delivered a startling pair of crime-thrillers that pistol-whipped European notions of film noir while lighting the fuse on Uncle Jess' own insane aesthetic. Set in New Orleans and based on a novel by the authors of VERTIGO, DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal, violence and revenge featuring smoky jazz compositions by Franco himself. Jean Servais of RIFIFI fame stars in RIFIFI IN THE CITY, a nihilistic trip through a pulp underworld of thugs, snitches, nightclub dames and black-gloved giallo-style murders. Both films – which led an impressed Orson Welles to hire Franco as his assistant on CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT – now feature HD scans from the original negatives for the first time ever.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW RESTORATIONS OF BOTH FILMS FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES
- Franco Noir — Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of "Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema Of Jesús Franco"
- Spanish Audio with English subtitles
- REGION-FREE
An Angel for Satan
Label description: In the final film of her Italian Gothic period, the legendary Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY) stars in one of the most startling erotic shockers of her entire career: When a cursed statue is recovered from a villa's lake, a young heiress (Steele) will inflict a torrent of depraved seduction and homicidal madness on the local village. Anthony Steffen (THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE), Claudio Gora (DANGER: DIABOLIK) and Marina Berti (NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS) co-star in "a EuroHorror classic featuring Steele in all her mid-'60s glory" (DVD Drive-In), co-written and directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE) and scanned in 2K from the original negative – with both the Italian and thought-lost English tracks – recently discovered in a Rome vault.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Audio Commentary With Actress Barbara Steele And Horror Film Historian David Del Valle
- Audio Commentary With Kat Ellinger, Author Of "Daughters Of Darkness"
- The Devil Statue: Interview With Actor Vassili Karis
- Barbara & Her Furs: 1967 Short Film By Pierre Andro Based On "Venus In Furs" Starring Barbara Steele With Optional Partial Commentary By Steele
- Trailer
- Extended Trailer
- English and Italian audio, with English subtitles
- REGION-FREE
