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Evil Ed / Spotlight on a Murderer BLU RAY UNBOXING/Review - Arrow

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Channel: TheBluRayCritic · 2017 · Entertainment

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Unboxing and reviewing Evil Ed and Spotlight on a Murderer on Blu-ray, released by Arrow Video and Arrow Academy.

Available on Amazon: Evil Ed - http://amzn.to/2qUxhDg

Spotlight on a Murderer - http://amzn.to/2qV6lD9

These editions also includes the DVD, booklet and reversible artwork.

Evil Ed Blu-ray Limited Edition (1995) Arrow Video

A blood-soaked love letter to the splatter films of the ’80s, video rental favourite Evil Ed returns in a brand-new Special EDition featuring an extended cut of the feature and hours of stomach-churning bonus features!

Mild-mannered film technician Edward enjoys his job. That is, until he finds himself transferred from his regular post to the “Splatter and Gore department”, where he’s forced to edit hours upon hours of grisly video nasty footage. Traumatized by the onscreen violence, Ed starts to lose his grip on reality – with ghastly (and bloody) consequences…

Owing a debt to films such as The Evil Dead, Re-animator and the early splatter classics of Peter Jackson, Evil Ed is a veritable smorgasbord of flying limbs, exploding heads, busty babes and creepy creatures!

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 3-DISC LIMITED ED-ITION CONTENTS

Two versions of the film
Original Stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD MA Audio Options
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
Collector’s Booklet featuring new writing on the film by horror journalist Michael Gingold

SPECIAL ED-ITION CUT and FEATURES:

Special ED-ition cut [99 mins]
Introduction by writer/director Anders Jacobsson and editor Doc
You Keep ‘Em Heads Rollin’ – extensive making-of documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
Before Ed – featurette looking at the early filmmaking endeavours of the Evil Ed crew
Beyond Ed – the filmmakers discuss their careers following Evil Ed
Deleted Scenes Featurette
Reconstructing Edward – featurette looking at the preparation of the Special ED-ition cut
Lost in Brainland – never-before-seen extended three-hour making-of documentary
New Scenes Featurette – a closer look at the scenes that were added to the Special ED-ition cut
Trailers and Teasers
Image Gallery
    
Spotlight on a Murderer Blu-ray (1961) Arrow Academy - Plein feux sur l'assassin

When the terminally ill Count Hervé de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur, Goto, Isle of Love) vanishes without trace, his heirs are told that they have to wait five years before he can be declared legally dead, forcing them to devise ways of paying for the upkeep of the vast family château in the meantime.  While they set about transforming the place into an elaborate son et lumière tourist attraction, they are beset by a series of tragic accidents – if that’s really what they are…

The little-known third feature by the great French maverick Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Judex) is a delightfully playful romp through Agatha Christie territory, whose script (written by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac of Les Diaboliques and Vertigo fame) is mischievously aware of the hoariest old murder-mystery clichés and gleefully exploits as many of them as possible.

They’re equally aware of the detective story’s antecedents in the Gothic novel, a connection that Franju is only too happy to emphasise visually at every opportunity thanks to his magnificent main location.  A young Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist, Amour) is amongst the Kerloquen heirs.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations of the feature, restored by Gaumont

Uncompressed French Mono 1.0 PCM Audio

Optional English subtitles

Vintage production featurette from 1960, shot on location and including interviews with Georges Franju and actors Pascale Audret, Pierre Brasseur, Marianne Koch, Dany Saval and Jean-Louis Trintignant

Original theatrical trailer

Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara

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