British label Shameless Entertainment has revealed that it is preparing 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Pupi Avati's The House with Laughing Windows (1976), starring Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani, and Bob Tonelli. The two releases are expected to arrive on the market later this year.
Description: Often mentioned yet rarely seen, director Pupi Avati's legendary cult horror masterpiece finally gets the release it deserves: restored and remastered under the director's supervision, it is presented with new audio, new improved subtitles plus a new exclusive interview with Avati - making this the definitive release of this exquisite masterpiece.
Stefano, a young artist, arrives in a tranquil Italian village to restore the local church's fresco of the St. Sebastian martyr - depicting the saint's bloody body slashed by arrows - painted some years earlier by a deranged local artist who, the villagers hint, created snuff paintings by torturing his models who were in the throes of dying when he painted them!
Gradually Stefano discovers the rumors about the painter might be true, as the village's gruesome and taboo secret unravels into a seething web of madness, gory deaths and unspeakable horror culminating in a final diabolical twist and jaw-dropping conclusion.