Radiance Announces October Releases
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Posted July 8, 2026 06:19 PM by Webmaster
Radiance has announced its October batch of releases. They are: The Monster a.k.a. The Fiend (1977), Visitor Q (2001), Planet of the Vampires (1965), La marge a.k.a. The Margin (1976), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), and Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema (1930-1996).
The Monster a.k.a. The Fiend
Description: Valerio is a struggling reporter with a failed marriage and withdrawn son. He is angry at the world and strives for more. In the newspaper's mail he receives the opportunity he's been waiting for, a serial killer announces and later carries out a series of grisly murders. Valerio remorselessly uses this opportunity to improve his position and standing but will he draw himself too close to the killer? From veteran director Luigi Zampa, The Monster is a satirical giallo with deeper commentary on the nature of the press in society. Written by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West, Slap the Monster on Page One) and featuring a catchy Ennio Morricone score, it is presented on home video for the first time outside Italy.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
Visitor Q
A struggling news reporter (Kenicho Endo, The Raid 2) keeps pushing boundaries to impress his superiors, finally winding up in a motel room with his estranged daughter. Back home, his bullied son takes his violent rages out on his mother, who turns to heroin to cope but must prostitute herself to afford the habit. Into this scene of severe family dysfunction steps Q, a mysterious stranger with a knack for knowing just what each member needs most, whether it's a rock to the head, a sexual reawakening, or a bout of murder. From the mind of Takashi Miike comes his most transgressive film yet: unflinching yet darkly humorous, Visitor Q pushes the limits of filmic representation as far as they will go. Equal parts Pasolini, Ozu and John Waters, this may well be Miike's finest film.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
Planet of the Vampires 4K Blu-ray
In the outer reaches of deep space, the spaceship Galliott answers a distress signal from Aura, an unexplored planet. As the ship attempts to land, members of the crew inexplicably begin to attack one another. This is the start of a terrifying expedition into the unknown, one plagued by paranoia, possession and violent mayhem wrought upon the unsuspecting explorers by the planet's mysterious inhabitants. A sci-fi horror hybrid from genre master Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace), Planet of the Vampires is widely regarded as one of the most influential genre films ever made, with a clear influence on films such as Alien and Pitch Black. With a uniquely chilly atmosphere and fantastic production design that belies its low budget origins, Planet of the Vampires is a true genre classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
La marge a.k.a. The Margin 4K Blu-ray
Sigismond (Warhol star Joe Dallesandro) enjoys a romantic, sexually fulfilling relationship with his wife, Sergine (Mireille Audibert). In the idyllic countryside, the happy couple raise their young son with the help of their maid, Féline (Louise Chevalier, La Femme infidèle). On a business trip to Paris, Sigismond casually picks up a sex worker (Sylvia Kristel, Emmanuelle). But in the noisy, modern city, their bond soon deepens into a passionate affair, while Sigismond puts off reading a letter from Féline… Starring two major sex symbols, Walerian Borowczyk's exquisite adaptation of André Pieyre de Mandiargues' novel balances art and erotica in an embodied meditation on pleasure, love and transactional relationships, soundtracked by 1970s synth rock acts including Elton John, 10cc and Pink Floyd.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Who Can Kill a Child? 4K Blu-ray
Tom and Evelyn (Lewis Fiander and Prunella Ransome), a young couple from England, plan an idyllic getaway to a remote Spanish island, in anticipation of the birth of their third child. When they arrive, they find their destination almost entirely deserted, with the exception of a number of children, all of whom are acting strangely. When the couple begin to find evidence of a number of atrocities on the island, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a terrifying battle for survival, as well as being forced to confront a previously unthinkable question…
Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (El televisor, The House That Screamed), the legendary master of horror dubbed the 'Spanish Hitchcock', Who Can Kill A Child? is his undisputed masterpiece, an extreme and unbearably tense work that remains deeply shocking in its disregard for societal taboos. With a cult reputation that has continued to grow among genre aficionados since its release in 1976, Who Can Kill A Child? is now considered not just as a landmark work of Euro-horror, but as one of the greatest horror films ever made (Slant Magazine).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema
Though rarely thought of as a home for genre filmmaking, France has fostered a long lineage of films at the border between realism and fantasy. Broadly gathered under the term of Cinéma Fantastique, these works often find the magical and the surreal lurking in the ordinary. Uncanny dreams, fleeting visions, or eerie apparitions lift their protagonists out of the everyday, transporting viewers into atmospheric worlds where the usual rules structuring our reality do not always hold. Formally striking and thematically stimulating, these phantasmagorical films blur the boundary between horror and wonder as they place the mysterious and the unexplained centre-stage.
Dans la nuit (Charles Vanel, 1930) moves from joy to terror as a disfigured miner starts to wear a strange mask. In Marcel L'Herbier's La nuit fantastique (1942), a student follows a woman in his dreams. In Edmond T. Greville's Le diable souffle (1947), stormy weather and feverish longing threaten to drive everyone mad. A man lives the life of another in Jean Kerchbron's The Golem (1967), In Juan Luis Bunuel's The Woman in Red Boots (1974) Catherine Deneuve appears to control people with her mind and finally in Raul Ruiz's Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) Marcello Mastroianni stars in four bizarre, intertwining stories.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
The Monster a.k.a. The Fiend
Description: Valerio is a struggling reporter with a failed marriage and withdrawn son. He is angry at the world and strives for more. In the newspaper's mail he receives the opportunity he's been waiting for, a serial killer announces and later carries out a series of grisly murders. Valerio remorselessly uses this opportunity to improve his position and standing but will he draw himself too close to the killer? From veteran director Luigi Zampa, The Monster is a satirical giallo with deeper commentary on the nature of the press in society. Written by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West, Slap the Monster on Page One) and featuring a catchy Ennio Morricone score, it is presented on home video for the first time outside Italy.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION from the original negative by Radiance Films
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio commentary by giallo experts Rachael Nisbet and Peter Jilmstad (2026)
- Interviews with stars Sydne Rome, Renato Scarpa, Enzo Santaniello and makeup artist Pierantonio Mecacci (45 mins)
- Interview with Italian cinema expert Richard Dyer (2026)
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti, author of Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History, and archival interviews with Luigi Zampa and Johnny Dorelli
- Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- REGION-FREE
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
Visitor Q
A struggling news reporter (Kenicho Endo, The Raid 2) keeps pushing boundaries to impress his superiors, finally winding up in a motel room with his estranged daughter. Back home, his bullied son takes his violent rages out on his mother, who turns to heroin to cope but must prostitute herself to afford the habit. Into this scene of severe family dysfunction steps Q, a mysterious stranger with a knack for knowing just what each member needs most, whether it's a rock to the head, a sexual reawakening, or a bout of murder. From the mind of Takashi Miike comes his most transgressive film yet: unflinching yet darkly humorous, Visitor Q pushes the limits of filmic representation as far as they will go. Equal parts Pasolini, Ozu and John Waters, this may well be Miike's finest film.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW TRANSFER from the original master beta tape
- Audio commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes (2026)
- Newly filmed interviews with director Takashi Miike, stars Kenichi Endo and Showko Nakahara (2026)
- Mother's Milk: Visitor Q and the Feminine Principle - new visual essay by Kat Ellinger (2026)
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Ana Došen
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- REGION-FREE
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
Planet of the Vampires 4K Blu-ray
In the outer reaches of deep space, the spaceship Galliott answers a distress signal from Aura, an unexplored planet. As the ship attempts to land, members of the crew inexplicably begin to attack one another. This is the start of a terrifying expedition into the unknown, one plagued by paranoia, possession and violent mayhem wrought upon the unsuspecting explorers by the planet's mysterious inhabitants. A sci-fi horror hybrid from genre master Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace), Planet of the Vampires is widely regarded as one of the most influential genre films ever made, with a clear influence on films such as Alien and Pitch Black. With a uniquely chilly atmosphere and fantastic production design that belies its low budget origins, Planet of the Vampires is a true genre classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K restoration of the film from the original negative under the supervision of Lamberto Bava and carried out at Fotocinema in Rome in collaboration with CSC Cineteca Nazionale, presented in HDR/Dolby Vision
- 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray presentation of the Italian (90 mins) and English (88 mins) versions of the film
- Uncompressed mono audio
- Archival audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark (2014)
- A documentary feature which explores Planet of the Vampires, Mario Bava and the connection between gothic and science fiction. Co-directed by Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger; featuring interviews with Guy Adams, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Alexandra Benedict, Johnny Mains and John Llewellyn Probert (2024)
- Archival interview with Lamberto Bava
- Super 8 Version - a reconstruction of the cut-down version distributed as Planet der Vampire (17 mins)
- Joe Dante and Josh Olsen trailer commentaries - the filmmakers provide a short overview of the film (2013)
- Trailers
- Press and image gallery from the Tim Lucas / Alan Y. Upchurch collection
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition 80-page book featuring new writing by Kyle Anderson, Martyn Conterio, Barry Forshaw, George Daniel Lea and Jerome Reuter plus archival materials
- A collection of six exclusive postcards featuring promotional material
- Limited Edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
La marge a.k.a. The Margin 4K Blu-ray
Sigismond (Warhol star Joe Dallesandro) enjoys a romantic, sexually fulfilling relationship with his wife, Sergine (Mireille Audibert). In the idyllic countryside, the happy couple raise their young son with the help of their maid, Féline (Louise Chevalier, La Femme infidèle). On a business trip to Paris, Sigismond casually picks up a sex worker (Sylvia Kristel, Emmanuelle). But in the noisy, modern city, their bond soon deepens into a passionate affair, while Sigismond puts off reading a letter from Féline… Starring two major sex symbols, Walerian Borowczyk's exquisite adaptation of André Pieyre de Mandiargues' novel balances art and erotica in an embodied meditation on pleasure, love and transactional relationships, soundtracked by 1970s synth rock acts including Elton John, 10cc and Pink Floyd.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- TWO-DISC (4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY) COMBO PACK RELEASE
- 4K RESTORATION BY STUDIOCANAL
- SDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Director's cut (Blu-ray only, exclusive to this edition)
- New visual essay by critic and author Samm Deighan (2026)
- New appreciation by director and cinematographer Sean Price Williams
- Brief von Paris – commissioned by German broadcaster ZDF, this 16mm short film by Borowczyk was shot in the French capital during the release of La marge (1976, 40 mins)
- Diana from Amsterdam - this behind-the-scenes footage on the set of La marge, shot on 8mm by camera operator Noël Véry, is narrated by star Sylvia Kristel (6 mins)
- Interview with La marge camera operator Noël Véry and assistant director André Heinrich (2007, 4 mins)
- Interview with film critic and Borowczyk collaborator Noël Simsolo (2014, 8 mins)
- Alternate scenes from the UK version 'The Streetwalker'
- Image gallery
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
- Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original promotional materials
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by film critic David Jenkins
- Limited Edition of 5,000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Who Can Kill a Child? 4K Blu-ray
Tom and Evelyn (Lewis Fiander and Prunella Ransome), a young couple from England, plan an idyllic getaway to a remote Spanish island, in anticipation of the birth of their third child. When they arrive, they find their destination almost entirely deserted, with the exception of a number of children, all of whom are acting strangely. When the couple begin to find evidence of a number of atrocities on the island, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a terrifying battle for survival, as well as being forced to confront a previously unthinkable question…
Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (El televisor, The House That Screamed), the legendary master of horror dubbed the 'Spanish Hitchcock', Who Can Kill A Child? is his undisputed masterpiece, an extreme and unbearably tense work that remains deeply shocking in its disregard for societal taboos. With a cult reputation that has continued to grow among genre aficionados since its release in 1976, Who Can Kill A Child? is now considered not just as a landmark work of Euro-horror, but as one of the greatest horror films ever made (Slant Magazine).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION from original 35mm camera negative
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Island of Death: option to watch US theatrical cut of the film which removes the controversial prologue
- Option to view with English audio, Spanish audio, and alternate English dub
- New audio commentary with Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons
- New visual essay by Spanish horror expert Alex Mendibil
- Archival Spanish interviews and programmes
- Archival interview with Kim Newman on 'killer kids' in movies
- Trailer
- Radio spots
- New subtitle translation and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Original uncompressed mono audio
- Pull-out poster and six lobby-card style postcards
- Limited edition 40-page perfect bound book featuring new writing from Kelli Weston and Anton Bitel, plus rare archive material
- Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in rigid box and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
- More to be announced!
Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema
Though rarely thought of as a home for genre filmmaking, France has fostered a long lineage of films at the border between realism and fantasy. Broadly gathered under the term of Cinéma Fantastique, these works often find the magical and the surreal lurking in the ordinary. Uncanny dreams, fleeting visions, or eerie apparitions lift their protagonists out of the everyday, transporting viewers into atmospheric worlds where the usual rules structuring our reality do not always hold. Formally striking and thematically stimulating, these phantasmagorical films blur the boundary between horror and wonder as they place the mysterious and the unexplained centre-stage.
Dans la nuit (Charles Vanel, 1930) moves from joy to terror as a disfigured miner starts to wear a strange mask. In Marcel L'Herbier's La nuit fantastique (1942), a student follows a woman in his dreams. In Edmond T. Greville's Le diable souffle (1947), stormy weather and feverish longing threaten to drive everyone mad. A man lives the life of another in Jean Kerchbron's The Golem (1967), In Juan Luis Bunuel's The Woman in Red Boots (1974) Catherine Deneuve appears to control people with her mind and finally in Raul Ruiz's Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) Marcello Mastroianni stars in four bizarre, intertwining stories.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 2K RESTORATIONS of Dans la nuit, La nuit fantastique, Le Diable souffle, The Golem, The Woman with Red Boots and 2K restoration of Three Lives and Only One Death presented on six discs
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film
- New introduction to Dans la nuit by Institut Lumière director Thierry Frémaux
- New commentary on Dans la nuit by film historian Pamela Hutchinson
- New interview with French cinema expert Ginette Vincendeau on La Nuit fantastique and French cinema under the Occupation
- Archival TV interview with director Marcel L'Herbier on La Nuit fantastique
- New commentary for Le Diable souffle by film critics Elena and Manuela Lazic
- New interview on Le Diable souffle and director Edmond T. Gréville with film critic David Thompson
- New interview with Kim Newman on The Golem and Gustav Meyrink's novel
- Archival TV introduction to The Golem by journalist and writer Louis Pauwels
- The Golem photo gallery
- French, Italian, and English audio options for The Woman with Red Boots
- New interview with fashion expert Matteo Augello on The Woman with Red Boots
- New visual essay on The Woman with Red Boots by critic and author Samm Deighan
- Archival interview with Catherine Deneuve on The Woman with Red Boots
- New commentary on Three Lives and Only One Death by Adrian Martin
- Archival TV interview with Marcello and Chiara Mastroianni on Three Lives and Only One Death
- New documentary on the French cinéma fantastique then and now, featuring directors Lucile Hadžihalilović, Bertrand Mandico, Yann Gonzalez, and more to be confirmed
- Newly improved English subtitle translation for each film
- Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
- Limited edition 120-page book featuring new writing by Virgine Sélavy and David Cairns, as well as archival writing by Tzetan Todorov, André Bazin, Henri Alekan and more
- Limited Edition of 5,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
UK STREET DATE: OCTOBER 19.
