Two giallo-tinged adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story "The Black Cat" get the HD overhaul on Arrow Video's Blu-ray set. In Lucio Fulci's "The Black Cat" (1981), a photographer in an English village becomes involved in the investigation of a series of freak deaths she comes to believe are the work of a black cat belonging to a medium conducting experiments with the dead. David Warbeck, Mimsy Farmer, and Patrick Magee star. In Sergio Martino's "Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key" (1972), a series of murders in a small Padua village have a drunken author and his mentally fragile wife believing his is responsible. Luigi Pistilli, Anita Strindberg, and Edwige Fenech star.
REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region A/B Blu-ray/Region 1/2 DVD combo (DVD Drive-in)
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BLACK CATS Blu-ray/DVD combo:
- The Black Cat (1981):
- Blu-ray:
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
- English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
- DVD:
- 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
- English and Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the English track and English subtitles for the Italian audio
- Audio Commentary by Fangoria's Chris Alexander
- "Poe Into Fulci" featurette with Stephen Thrower
- "In the Paw-Prints of the Black Cat" visit to the locations
- "Frightened Dagmar" inteview with actress Dagmar Lassander
- "At Home with David Warbeck" 70 minute interview from 1995
- Theatrical Trailer
- Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972):
- Blu-ray:
- 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
- English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
- DVD:
- 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
- English and Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the English track and English subtitles for the Italian track
- "Through the Keyhole" an interview with Sergio Martino
- "Unveiling the Vice" featurette with Sergio Martino, actress Edwige Fenech, and writer Ernesto Gastaldi
- "Dolls of Flesh and Blood" video essay by Michael Mackenzie on Martino's giallo films
- "The Strange Vice of Ms Fenech" tribute to actress Edwige Fenech
- "Eli Roth on YOUR VICE" featurette on the filmmaker
- Limited Edition with eighty-page booklet
- Reversible Covers