Cauldron Films: Standard Editions of Contraband and Murder in a Blue World Coming Soon
Posted August 23, 2022 11:33 PM by Webmaster
Cauldron Films is preparing standard Blu-ray editions of Lucio Fulci's Contraband a.k.a. Luca il contrabbandiere (1980) and Eloy de la Iglesia's Murder in a Blue World a.k.a. Clockwork Terror (1973). Currently, the two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on November 22.
Label description: Naples, Italy: An idealistic cigarette smuggler, Luca, runs into problems when a sadistic drug dealing gangster from France decides to muscle his way into operations. As he tries to wipe out the competition, all hell breaks loose and the bodies start piling up! Luca joins forces with rival smugglers and the local mafia to counteract the power play, which only increases the body count until the explosive gun powder and gut bursting conclusion!
Directed by Lucio Fulci (The Beyond), Contraband stars Fabio Testi (The Big Racket), Marcel Bozzuffi (The French Connection), Ivana Monti (Five Days in Milan), and Saverio Marconi (Padre Padrone). Featuring gruesome practical special effects by Germano Natali (Deep Red) and Roberto Pace (Body Count), with music by legendary composter Fabio Frizzi, Contraband is a hard hitting mafia story filmed through the eye of an unrelenting horror master - you have been warned! Contraband makes it's worldwide Blu-ray debut via Cauldron Films, restored from a 4K scan of the negative.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
NEW Interview with writer Giorgio Mariuzzo
NEW Interview with actress Ivana Monti
NEW Interview with actor Saverio Marconi
NEW Audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth, Nathaniel Thompson and Bruce Holecheck
Archival Interview with actor Fabrizio Jovine
Archival Interview with actor Venantino Venantini
Archival Interview with cinematographer Sergio Salvati
Label description: In a violent, dystopian consumer-fed future, David (Chris Mitchum - Summertime Killer) blackmails nurse Ana (Sue Lyon - Stanley Kubrick's Lolita) after witnessing her commit a murder. When Ana and Victor (Jean Sorel - Perversion Story) discover David is a known gang member with an extensive criminal past, they make a plan to turn the tables and use him for their own clandestine purposes.
In 1971 Stanley Kubrick changed dystopian cinema forever with A Clockwork Orange. Two years later, transgressive Spanish genre director Eloy de la Iglesia unleashed this thought provoking and beautifully shot future-world that was also known as A Clockwork Terror. Now Available For the first time on Blu-ray, Cauldron Films presents a new, eye popping 2K restoration of the Spanish producer's cut.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION of the Spanish Producer's cut from the negative
NEW Newly edited Archival interview with Chris Mitchum
NEW Audio commentary by critic Kat Ellinger
NEWDubbing in a Blue World - video essay by film scholar Dr. Xavier Aldana Reyes