Coming Soon from RaroVideo U.S.

Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian Film Boutique RaroVideo announces an exciting slate of February & March 2012 DVD releases. First off, from the Oscar® winning director Alfredo Giannetti, starring the icon of Italian Cinema Anna Magnani (who Alt Film Guide calls “one of the greatest actresses of the 20th century”) and music from cult composer Ennio Morricone comes THE AUTOMOBILE. In one of his last works, with an all-star international cast, Italian cinema maestro, Luchino Visoconti assembles an unlikely crew of characters (including Burt Lancaster and Helmut Berger) all under one Roman palazzo roof for CONVERSATION PIECE. From one of the masters of Italian cinema Antonio Pietrangeli, director of Adua and her Friends (Available now from RaroVideo) comes the rare gem THE VISITOR. Finally, written by Fernando di Leo, the maestro of mafia mahem, the 1976 Euro-crime exploitation film YOUNG, VIOLENT, DANGEROUS examines how three privileged youth from northern Italy loose all sense of right and wrong and set off to kill with reckless abandon.

THE AUTOMOBILE (1971) From the 1962 Oscar winner writer of Divorce Italian Style and available for the first time on DVD, The Automobile, an episode from the TV mini-series The Three Women, featuring Italian movie icon Anna Magnani with music composed by the genius Ennio Morricone, comes this classic 70s Italian story of Anna, an experienced prostitute who has become an institution in the Roman nightlife. In reality she is lonely and aimless, and decides to buy a car in order to satisfy her need to feel like a normal woman. On an outing to the beach to celebrate her new sense of freedom she meets two men who convince her to let them drive her new car, and things deteriorate from there. RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 28, 2012

THE AUTOMOBILE
Price: $29.98 (DVD)
Street Date: February 28, 2012
Running time: 98 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles

THE AUTOMOBILE – SPECIAL FEATURES
Original trailer
Fully illustrated booklet
New English subtitles
Newly digitally restored

CONVERSATION PIECE (1974) (Luchino Visconti’s award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions – her lover, her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend – he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes entangled in his tenants’ machinations. In the midst of this chaos each of the new neighbors’ lives – including that of the professor himself – takes an unexpected but inevitable turn. Visconti’s penultimate film, CONVERSATION PIECE marks the culmination of his career as a master of Italian cinema. RELEASE DATE: MARCH 13, 2012

CONVERSATION PIECE
Price: $29.98 (DVD)
Street Date: March 13, 2012
Running time: 131 minutes
Language: English

CONVERSATION PIECE – SPECIAL FEATURES:
Original Trailer
Interview with film critic and screenwriter Alessandro Bencivenni English language Fully illustrated booklet Newly digitally restored

THE VISITOR (1963) Thirty-something stunning beauty Pina (Sandra Milo) takes out an ad in the personal column hoping to find a man to take her away from the tiny Italian village where she lives. For months now she has been trying to find the right one – a man with a solid career, a family in mind, and plenty of stamina. Adolfo (Francois Perier) lives in Rome running a profitable business. Looking to share his life with that special person and willing to raise a family Adolfo replies to Pina’s ad. The two arrange to meet in the village where Pina lives. Incorporating flashbacks that highlight Pina’s and Adolfo’s lives, the complexity of the characters are slowly revelaed and when the two finally meet Pina quickly concludes that Adolfo is the one. He appears noble, cultured, and ready for a serious commitment – Pina can hardly believe her luck! RELEASE DATE: MARCH 13, 2012

THE VISITOR
Price: $29.98 (DVD)
Street Date: March 13, 2012
Running time: 115 minutes
Language: Italian with optional English subtitles

THE VISITOR – SPECIAL FEATURES
New HD transfer
Video interview with Ettore Scola (Director and author of the screenplay) Video interview with Armando Trovajoli (Composer of the music) Video interview with Paolo Pietrangeli (Director) New transfer from original 35mm negative print Digitally restored fully illustrated digital booklet containing critical analysis of the film New and improved English subtitles Director biography and filmography

YOUNG VIOLENT DANGEROUS (1976) Paul, Joe and Louie, three young men from good families, who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. They later rob a bank and a grocery store where Paul kills more people. It isn’t long before the entire police force is looking for the 3 criminals, who pick up the girl and proceed to hightail it to the Swiss border killing everyone in their path. RELEASE DATE: MARCH 13, 2012

YOUNG, VIOLENT, DANGEROUS
Price: $19.98 (DVD)
Street Date: March 13, 2012
Running time: 96 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles

YOUNG, VIOLENT, DANGEROUS- SPECIAL FEATURES:
Documentary Ragazzi Fuori
Director filmography and biography
New transfer from original 35mm negative print Digitally restored Fully illustrated digital booklet

Other future releases include.

DVD

May 22nd, 2012
Plot of Fear

June 5th, 2012
Asylum Erotica (Slaughter Hotel)
Madness (Vacation Massacre)

Blu-Ray

April 10th, 2012
Conversation Piece
Murder Obsession

Antonioni’s The Vanquished, Fellini’s The Clowns, Pasolini’s The Anger, Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man, Body Puzzle, Come Have Coffee With Us, The Overcoat, Murder Obsession, The Secret of Dorian Gray, Crime of Love, To Be Twenty, The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show and The Fernando di Leo Crime Collection are all available now from RaroVideo U.S.

Coming soon from Impulse Pictures.

Synopsis: Our series of films from NIKKATSU PRODUCTIONS continues with one of the most unusual and controversial “women in prison” films of all-time!

A group of young women is thrown into a horrible juvenile hall, due to their illegal acts. They soon wish they were back on the outside, as a gang of inmates subjects this “fresh meat” to the horrors of being locked up. Mayumi, a new inmate with a mysterious past, stands up for herself and fights back! NO ONE is going to push her around, and she hatches an escape plan to seek revenge on the person who had her incarcerated.

TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL: SEX HELL is a sleazy, sexually graphic and surprisingly violent entry in the “women in prison” genre. The opening uniform changing, nude medical examination sessions, communal scrubbings in the bathhouse, nimble-fingered lesbians and vicious catfights are all here… and more!

Director: Koyu Ohara
Starring: Kozue Hitomi, Seri Kaori, Hiromi Maya

Run Time: 72 minutes
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: Japanese
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Format: DVD
Region: Region 1 NTSC

Features
Newly Translated, Removable English Subtitles
Liner Notes from Japanese Film Expert, Jasper Sharp

Synopsis: Celebrating 100 years of NIKKATSU PRODUCTIONS, Impulse Pictures is proud to present THE NIKKATSU EROTIC FILMS COLLECTION, a continuing series of critically acclaimed, classic “eroductions” designed to shock and titillate fans of erotic cinema.

The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and sick depravity she is subjected to, by her clients, is much more than she bargained for. Bondage, beads and whips are only the beginning! Can she escape this secret life she has chosen, or will it destroy her forever?

Director: Hidehiro Ito
Starring: Ryoko Watanabe, Serina Nishikawa, Mizuho Nakagawa

Run Time: 70 minutes
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: Japanese
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Format: DVD
Region: Region 1 NTSC

Features
Newly Translated, Removable English Subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer
Liner Notes by Japanese Film Expert, Jasper Sharp

UNCUT! UNCENSORED! UNHOLY!

Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg (LA DOLCE VITA) stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder. Joe Dallesandro (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN), Lou Castel (A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL), Alida Valli (SUSPIRIA) and the luscious Paola Morra (BEHIND CONVENT WALLS) co-star in this notorious ‘Nunsploitation’ based on actual events that took place in a Central European country not many years ago!

Branded as obscene around the world and banned outright in Britain, KILLER NUN has been newly remastered from the original negative and is now presented with all its blasphemous sex and violence fully restored in sleazy High Definition!

Extras:
•    From the Secret Files of the Vatican – Interview with Co-Writer/Director Giulio Berruti
•    Theatrical Trailer

Video Specs: 1.85:1 1080p
Running Times: 88 minutes
Audio Specs: DTS-HD Mono
Languages: English, Italian
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, English for Italian Version
Region Code: All

Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: April 24th, 2012

SYNAPSE FILMS PRESENTS JOSH BECKER’S EXPLOITATION CLASSIC THOU SHALT NOT KILL… EXCEPT

STARRING SAM RAIMI AS A MANSON-LIKE HIPPIE CULT LEADER!

WHEN VIOLENCE DEMANDS REVENGE…

THE EXPLOITATION ACTION CLASSIC FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE EVIL DEAD AND EVIL DEAD 2!

Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning.  Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg.
Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (played by THE EVIL DEAD and SPIDER-MAN trilogy director, Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with his marine buddies to form an assassination squad to annihilate the gang of crazed killers.

Synapse Films proudly presents THOU SHALT NOT KILL… EXCEPT in an all-new 2K high-definition transfer from the original negative.  Directed by Josh Becker, this “must see” (Detroit Free Press) cult classic features many of the creative personnel responsible for THE EVIL DEAD, including co-writer Bruce Campbell, writer/producer Scott Spiegel (INTRUDER), composer Joseph LoDuca, and actor Ted Raimi.

Special Features:
• All-New High-Definition 2K Digital     Restoration from the Original Negative
• The Original Super 8mm Short film, STRYKER’S WAR, starring Bruce Campbell!
• Made in Michigan: The Making of THOU SHALT NOT KILL… EXCEPT – Featurette
• Two Audio Commentaries featuring Director Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, and Star Brian Schulz
• All-New Video Interview with Actor/Writer Bruce Campbell
• Deleted Scene with Optional Director’s Commentary
• Alternate Title Sequence
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Alternate Cover Artwork

Disc Info:
Run Time: 83 minutes
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.66:1
Format: DVD/Blu-ray combo
Region: All regions
Price: $29.95

Coming soon from Blue Underground

“Enough Sleaze And Nudity To Enchant Even The Most Dedicated Giallo Fan!” – 10k Bullets

The stunning Edwige Fenech (THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS, THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH) stars in this infamous shocker that packs more grisly violence and sexual depravity into each frame than most any other film in the entire giallo genre. There’s succulent flesh aplenty as a mysterious killer dressed in black leather and wearing a motorcycle helmet begins butchering beautiful young fashion models with no mercy and one deranged request: STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER!

Nino Castelnuovo (THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG) and Femi Benussi (HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON) co-star in this sleazy ‘70s classic directed by Andrea Bianchi (BURIAL GROUND, MALABIMBA), now presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original uncut and uncensored camera negative!

Extras:
• Strip Nude For Your Giallo – Interviews with Actress Solvi Stubing and Co-Writer Massimo Felisatti
• International Trailer
• Italian Trailer

Video Specs: 2.35:1 1080p
Running Times: 98 minutes
Audio Specs: DTS-HD Mono
Languages: English, Italian
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, English for Italian Version
Region Code: All

Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: March 27th, 2012

The Psychedelic Shocker Based On The Erotic Comics Of Guido Crepax…

Legendary sex symbol Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL, THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS) stars as a mysterious sorceress with an undying hunger for sensual ecstasy and unspeakable torture. But when she casts a spell over a beautiful young fashion photographer (the gorgeous Isabelle De Funès), Milan’s most luscious models are sucked into a nightmare world of lesbian seduction and shocking sadism. Are these carnal crimes the result of one woman’s forbidden fantasies or is this the depraved curse of the devil witch known as BABA YAGA?

George Eastman (THE GRIM REAPER, HORRIBLE) co-stars in this provocative EuroShocker (also known as DEVIL WITCH and KISS ME KILL ME) written and directed by Corrado Farina and based on the notorious S&M comic Valentina by Guido Crepax. Blue Underground is now proud to present BABA YAGA newly transferred from pristine vault materials and presented in kinky High Definition!

Extras:
• Farina & Valentina – Interview with Co-Writer/Director Corrado Farina
• Freud in Color – Guido Crepax Documentary
• Deleted and Censored Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comic Book-to-Film Comparison

Video Specs: 1.85:1 1080p
Running Times: 83 minutes
Audio Specs: DTS-HD Mono
Languages: English, Italian
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, English for Italian Version
Region Code: All

Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: February 28th, 2012