From Italian grasp of horror Lucio Fulci (The Past, Zombie), Don’t Torture a Duckling can be launched on 4K Extremely HD on March 25 by way of Arrow Video.
The 1972 Italian giallo movie has been newly restored in 4K from the unique 2-perf Techniscope digital camera unfavourable with newly restored authentic lossless mono Italian (with English subtitles) and English soundtracks.
Fulci co-wrote the script with Gianfranco Clerici (Cannibal Holocaust) and Roberto Gianviti (The Psychic). Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian, Barbara Bouchet, Irene Papas, Marc Porel, and Georges Wilson star.
Particular Options:
- Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, creator of So Lethal, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Movies
- Lucio Fulci Remembers – 1988 audio interview with the filmmaker
- Who Killed Donald Duck – Interview with actress Barbara Bouchet
- These Days with Lucio – Interview with actress Florinda Bolkan
- The DP’s Eye – Interview with cinematographer Sergio D’Offizi
- From the Reducing Desk – Interview with editor Bruno Micheli
- Countless Torture – Interview with make-up artist Maurizio Trani
- Giallo a la Campagna – Interview with Mikel J. Koven, creator of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Movie
- Hell is Already in Us – Video essay by critic Kat Ellinger
- Theatrical trailer
- Illustrated booklet with writing on the movie by Barry Forshaw and Howard Hughes
Arrow’s restricted version set incorporates a slipcover and a reversible sleeve with new paintings by Ilan Sheady and the unique key artwork that includes the Italian title, Non si sevizia un paperino.
Within the film, “When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a collection of murders of younger boys, the superstitious locals are fast to apportion blame, with the suspects together with the native ‘witch,’ Maciara (Florinda Bolkan).
“With the our bodies piling up and the neighborhood gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders – metropolis journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian) and spoiled wealthy woman Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet) – crew as much as crack the case. However earlier than the thriller is solved, extra blood may have been spilled, and never all of it belonging to innocents…”
Don’t Torture a Duckling is important in Fulci’s profession for being his first foray into excessive gore results, ultimately incomes the filmmaker the nickname The Godfather of Gore.
