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Suspiria (R2/UK BD) in January
18-11-2009 16:39 | 3003 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
Nouveaux Pictures and Cine-Excess have announced the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Suspiria on 18th January 2010. Dario Argento’s horror classic arrives on DVD and for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray Disc with a brand new high definition transfer. Both formats also offer a host of newly commissioned extras including a brand new documentary featuring director Dario Argento and composer Claudio Simonetti and a feature length audio commentary by Argento experts Alan Jones and Kim Newman.
Features include:
Features include:
- "Fear At 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess Of Suspiria" documentary featuring director Dario Agento and composer Claudio Simonetti
- Audio commentary by leading Dario Argento experts Alan Jones and Kim Newman
- "Suspiria Perspectives" featuring Claudio Simonetti, Norman J. Warren and Patricia McCormack
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Earl - I was thinking exactly the same thing!
There's rarely been a horror film so close to art.
Apart from the disappointing ending of course.
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That`s as terrible a cover as you`re ever likely to see.
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Frankly, my dear, I don`t give a damn!
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And, yes, that cover art is ghastly.
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Maybe a purchase but i own the US 3 disc version which is pretty good gonna have to see what the reviews say
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Originally posted by fatdragon
I dont have a problem with the cover its quite good,i was hoping this was gonna be the extended version of the film that i have heard about but no luck :(
There's no extended version of SUSPIRIA.
As for this new release, I second (or is that third or fourth?) the comments about the cover, particularly the deplorable "taking trash seriously" tagline, but I'm so excited about the new extras (and the potential of a new master having been used, although I'm not entirely convinced) that I'm going to grin and bear it.
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Dear Mr Mendik
Having just seen the artwork for the upcoming Suspiria Blu-Ray I find myself speechless (though not in a good way). The Cine Excess logo (in particular the Taking Trash Seriously line) is horrendous...for one it looks like it belongs on a cheap US diner & Suspiria can hardly be considered as trash now can it?...it's one of the greatest Art-House horror films...I urge you to please reconsider this packaging...you have the opportunity to deliver the best Suspiria release to date yet tarnish it with such terrible packaging...I do hope this release will also contain the Italian language audio track with English subs (please please!!). Either way I'm looking forward to the release & wish you & Cine Excess well with it
He had the good grace to afford me a reply:
Thanks for your frank but interesting comments.
"I am sure you will understand the logo and tagline represent the wide range of films in the series as a whole, not just Suspiria. Also theoretical debates in this area also use the idea of cinematic 'trash' as being a subversive medium.
I hope this clarifies things for you".
Well yeah it does actually...your going for the horrendous cover/label tagline & trying to ponce it up by talking about subversive theoretical debate!!...it still makes it SHITTY
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Originally posted by Michael Mackenzie
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Originally posted by fatdragonI dont have a problem with the cover its quite good,i was hoping this was gonna be the extended version of the film that i have heard about but no luck :(There's no extended version of SUSPIRIA.
Indeed not, though there was a pervasive rumour for years that there was a scene with the manservant getting cut in half by a sheet of falling glass, his intestines spilling out all over the place. But Argento denied this point blank when asked directly about it, laughed and said "Sounds good - perhaps we should put it in!"
Incidentally, am I the only person who really doesn't give two hoots about DVD/BD covers? I rarely look at the things even when I'm actually getting the discs out, and they spend 99.999% of their time invisibly sandwiched between other DVDs on a shelf.
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Originally posted by Michael Brooke
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Incidentally, am I the only person who really doesn't give two hoots about DVD/BD covers? I rarely look at the things even when I'm actually getting the discs out, and they spend 99.999% of their time invisibly sandwiched between other DVDs on a shelf.
I like packages as a whole, nice artwork and fancy packaging makes the product feel more worthwhile purchasing and owning. One of the reasons I opt to buy physical discs rather than pay for downloads.
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Originally posted by Michael Brooke
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Incidentally, am I the only person who really doesn't give two hoots about DVD/BD covers? I rarely look at the things even when I'm actually getting the discs out, and they spend 99.999% of their time invisibly sandwiched between other DVDs on a shelf.
The issue for me is not so much the cover art - it's not great, but I can live with it - but rather the "Taking Trash Seriously" tagline, which I simply find insulting. I own plenty of films that many would consider trash and have no problem with them being described as such, but SUSPIRIA is not one of them. Even the best horror films have a hard enough time being taken seriously by a sizeable portion of filmgoers as it is, and the last thing a bona fide classic like this needs is to be "officially" labelled as trash.
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The extras are genuinely intelligent and analytical as opposed to slavishly fanboy-oriented, and while I have a few editorial quibbles, chiefly about the same points/stories being repeated across multiple extras (often via the same interviews), there's far more substance here than on most horror DVDs. I'm less happy about the lack of a booklet - I generally prefer in-depth critical analysis delivered in printed form, and a MoC/BFI/Second Run-style written primer would have been most welcome. The main documentary has a nice wide range of contributors, from Dario Argento and composer Claudio Simonetti to Norman J. Warren (who "borrowed" quite a few ideas for his 1978 film Terror) to critics Kim Newman and Patricia McCormack.
I was only given the DVD to review (a final production copy), and haven't had a chance to watch the actual film yet - but the transfer looked pretty good from what I sampled. The only language option is English, but I'm not bothered about that - that's how I've seen the vast majority of screenings, so it's the soundtrack I'm used to. (I have an Italian VHS somewhere, but I'm not convinced it's an improvement - and as the documentary argues, this Bavaria-set multicultural production isn't notably 'Italian' to begin with, certainly not when compared with Argento's previous work).