CultFilms presents Dario Argento’s horror masterpiece OPERA on UK Dual-Format Blu-ray & DVD and VOD 19 November Restored in 2K with reference to Argento’s own personal print Dario Argento (Suspiria) returns to CultFilms with this breath-taking new restoration of his visionary horror masterpiece Opera. Splattered with stylistic bloodshed and soaring cinematography, Opera shows Italy’s master of horror at the …
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Dario Argento’s OPERA Due for Blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing
Arguably the last great movie made by Italian horror film maestro director Dario Argento, Opera, made in 1987, is another glaring omission from the current list of horror films available on Blu-ray. This will all change soon as Scorpion Releasing has announced that they are currently working on a high definition master for the film. The possible specs for this …
Read More »Film Review: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – Review #2
SYNOPSIS: During a production of Faust, an opera singer named Carlotta, who is portraying the character of Marguerite, is approached by a strange gentleman who forces her to give the role to her understudy, Christine Daae, a woman whom he is in love with. When it comes to light that the man is horribly disfigured, a series of unfortunate events …
Read More »Film Review: The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What’s his goal? What’s his secret?” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: This week I’m extremely pleased …
Read More »The Art of Ocular Violence – Eye Violence in Horror
Hello there and welcome to my little corner of the video store. Don’t mind all of the strange looks the other customers are giving you. I know what you are here for and today is your lucky day. I have some suggestions for you to keep your EYE out for. You might want to listen up because you SEE today I’m going to show …
Read More »Film Review: Opera (1987)
SYNOPSIS: When the leading diva of Verdi’s “Macbeth” is run over by a car, her understudy, Betty (Cristina Marsillach), takes over the role. Things go from bad to worse when the madman begins to kill other members of the cast — and forces Betty to watch. The finale in this exercise in baroque horror from the mind of frightmeister Dario …
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