Four Flies On Grey Velvet

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Certificate: 18
Running Time: 99mins
Retail Price: £24.99
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Going about his everyday life of band rehearsals and socialising with his wife, Nina (Farmer), and their hip friends, rock drummer Roberto Tobias (Brandon) notices he is constantly being followed by a strange man dressed in black. He decides to turn the tables on his stalker and follows him into an abandoned theatre, where a confrontation between the two ends with Roberto accidentally stabbing the man, who falls into the orchestra, apparently dead. Suddenly, a flash of light alerts Roberto to a figure in the upper wings of the theatre, where a mysterious person wearing a bizarre puppet mask and brandishing a camera has been taking photos of the fatal struggle. Roberto flees the scene, but the next day receives the dead man's ID card in the post. Naturally assuming it has been sent by the unknown witness, he becomes immediately concerned by the lack of any blackmail demands and is haunted by the question of what it is the masked figure wants from him. Roberto's fear and paranoia increase, and the mystery deepens, when his and Nina's housemaid is found murdered in a local park and it becomes apparent that an intruder has had access to their apartment.

Special Features:
- Introduction to the film by Luigi Cozzi.
- New, exclusive and extensive recent interview on the making of Four Flies On Grey Velvet with writer and assistant director Luigi Cozzi.
- Shameless re-build edit of the complete version of the film including four inserts of previously missing footage known amongst Argento fans as the legendary "missing forty seconds" (the inserts are in Standard-Definition quality). The Blu-ray will allow for seamless branching of the four inserts giving viewers two versions of the film: one all HD without the re-inserted scenes and one longer version including the inserts.
- Restoration of all individual damaged frames, most notably with respect to the removal of the black diagonal frame line (caused by the film jumping the high speed camera gate) in the final car crash sequence.
- Alternate English opening and closing credits.
- Shameless Trailer Park (Blu-ray only)
-English & Italian Trailers

Audio Tracks:
English and Italian Dolby 2.1 DTS HD
Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Dario Argento

Written By:



Starring:
Michael Brandon
Mimsy Farmer
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Bud Spencer
Francine Racette

Soundtrack By:
Ennio Morricone

Director of Photography:
Franco DiGiacomo

Editor:
Franco Fraticelli

Producer:
Salvatore Argento

Distributor:
Shameless

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