Indicator/Powerhouse Films Announce October Releases
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Posted July 24, 2025 08:05 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Indicator/Powerhouse Films have announced their October batch of releases. They are: Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike (1977) and Paolo Cavara's Plot of Fear (1976).
Hitch-Hike 4K Blu-ray
Description: Franco Nero (Django, Force 10 from Navarone), Corinne Cléry (Plot of Fear), and David Hess (The Last House on the Left) star in Hitch-Hike (Autostop rosso sangue), a shocking tale of kidnapping and greed.
En route to Los Angeles, Walter (Nero) and Eve (Cléry) pick up a hitchhiker, Konitz (Hess). However, it soon emerges that Konitz is an escaped psychopath, who forces the couple to head to Mexico, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake...
An excursion into the thriller genre by commedia all'italiana specialist Pasquale Festa Campanile (The Libertine), scored by the great Ennio Morricone (The Big Gundown, Wolf), Hitch-Hike is a tense and twisting tale, shot through with jet-black humour.
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Hitch-Hike
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Plot of Fear 4K Blu-ray
Description: Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).
Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children's book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful...
Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento's Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.
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Plot of Fear
Description: Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).
Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children's book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful...
Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento's Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Hitch-Hike 4K Blu-ray
Description: Franco Nero (Django, Force 10 from Navarone), Corinne Cléry (Plot of Fear), and David Hess (The Last House on the Left) star in Hitch-Hike (Autostop rosso sangue), a shocking tale of kidnapping and greed.
En route to Los Angeles, Walter (Nero) and Eve (Cléry) pick up a hitchhiker, Konitz (Hess). However, it soon emerges that Konitz is an escaped psychopath, who forces the couple to head to Mexico, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake...
An excursion into the thriller genre by commedia all'italiana specialist Pasquale Festa Campanile (The Libertine), scored by the great Ennio Morricone (The Big Gundown, Wolf), Hitch-Hike is a tense and twisting tale, shot through with jet-black humour.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY POWERHOUSE FILMS
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- TWO VERSIONS OF THE FILM: Hitch-Hike, the English-language version; and Autostop rosso sangue, the Italian-language version
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with Italian genre film experts Eugenio Ercolani and Marcus Stiglegger
- Interview with first assistant director Neri Parenti (2025)
- Road to Ruin (2025) newly updated documentary by filmmaker Federico Caddeo delving into the production, release, and reception of Hitch-Hike, featuring cast and crew interviews
- In-depth documentary by Ercolani exploring the sub-genre of Italian rape and revenge films (2025)
- Exhaustive profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile by Ercolani (2025)
- Original trailers
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with new essay by Mikel J Koven, an archival profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile, extracts from archival interviews with screenwriter Ottavio Jemma, composer Ennio Morricone, actors Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, and David Hess, and film credits
Hitch-Hike
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY POWERHOUSE FILMS
- TWO VERSIONS OF THE FILM: Hitch-Hike, the English-language version; and Autostop rosso sangue, the Italian-language version
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with Italian genre film experts Eugenio Ercolani and Marcus Stiglegger
- Interview with first assistant director Neri Parenti (2025)
- Road to Ruin (2025) newly updated documentary by filmmaker Federico Caddeo delving into the production, release, and reception of Hitch-Hike, featuring cast and crew interviews
- In-depth documentary by Ercolani exploring the sub-genre of Italian rape and revenge films (2025)
- Exhaustive profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile by Ercolani (2025)
- Original trailers
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with new essay by Mikel J Koven, an archival profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile, extracts from archival interviews with screenwriter Ottavio Jemma, composer Ennio Morricone, actors Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, and David Hess, and film credits
Plot of Fear 4K Blu-ray
Description: Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).
Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children's book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful...
Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento's Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY POWERHOUSE FILMS
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Original Italian and English mono soundtracks
- Audio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth (2025)
- Interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini (2025)
- New presentation of a 2013 interview with actor Corinne Cléry (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with screenwriter Enrico Oldoni (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Michele Placido (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with director Paolo Cavara's son, Pietro Cavara (2025)
- Video essay by Ercolani looking at the cast of Plot of Fear (2025)
- Original trailers
- New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Adrian J Smith, archival writing on the work of director Paolo Cavara, an archival career-spanning interview with screenwriter Bernadino Zapponi, an archival profile of animator Gibba, and film credits
Plot of Fear
Description: Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).
Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children's book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful...
Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento's Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY POWERHOUSE FILMS
- Original Italian and English mono soundtracks
- Audio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth (2025)
- Interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini (2025)
- New presentation of a 2013 interview with actor Corinne Cléry (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with screenwriter Enrico Oldoni (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Michele Placido (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with director Paolo Cavara's son, Pietro Cavara (2025)
- Video essay by Ercolani looking at the cast of Plot of Fear (2025)
- Original trailers
- New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Adrian J Smith, archival writing on the work of director Paolo Cavara, an archival career-spanning interview with screenwriter Bernadino Zapponi, an archival profile of animator Gibba, and film credits