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Madhouse
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MANY PEOPLE VISIT … NO ONE EVER LEAVES.
Helmed by legendary producer/director Ovidio Assonitis, the man behind such cult favourites as The Visitor and Piranha II: The Spawning, Madhouse is a crimson-soaked tale of sibling rivalry taken to a terrifying and bloody extreme.
Julia has spent her entire adult life trying to forget the torment she suffered at the hands of her twisted twin Mary… but Mary hasn’t forgotten. Escaping hospital, where she’s recently been admitted with a horrific, disfiguring illness, Julia’s sadistic sister vows to exact a particularly cruel revenge on her sibling this year – promising a birthday surprise that she’ll never forget.
An Italian production shot entirely in Savannah, Georgia, Madhouse (aka And When She Was Bad and There Was a Little Girl) fuses slasher elements with the over-the-top excess of ‘80s Italian terror – resulting in a cinematic bloodbath so gut-wrenching that the British authorities saw fit to outlaw it as a “video nasty”.
- Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations
- Original Stereo Audio (Uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary with The Hysteria Continues
- Brand new interviews with cast and crew
- Alternate Opening Titles
- Theatrical Trailer, newly transferred in HD
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the film
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.12 Ounces
- Media Format : Dolby, NTSC, Anamorphic, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 32 minutes
- Release date : June 13, 2017
- Actors : Trish Everly, Dennis Robertson
- Studio : Arrow Video
- ASIN : B00S8071YM
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #41,418 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,784 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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Riz Ortolani, one of the great Italian composers ever, does the music here. Even though the incidental music resembles very much his recent work for Ruggero Deodato, he comes up with the creepiest version of rock-a-bye-baby ever made, from which the movie benefits a lot. The atmosphere created with just a couple of settings, mostly what was supposed to be a rundown, hunted funeral parlor where Fulci shot some of The Gates of Hell, works pretty well. D'Ettore Piazzoli's, whose work in the underrated Curse II: The Bite and Beyond the Door I was already familiar with, color coordinates and does a soft focused, textured, multi-angled and panoramic job that provides the film with much style and quality. Assonitis, creator of Beyond the Door which, as most of his gigs as a producer had no other reason to exist but to rip successful American films off, is a truly frightening experience that this hard, cold fact doesn't ruin for me in the least. It may well be the best Exorcist rip off ever made, which is no easy feat whatsoever. In spite of the several loose ends, Madhouse succeeds at doing what it sets out to do: being scary and disturbing. The lack of logic in his hands works, again, in favor of the film. In fact, the outlandish human element resembles Tobe Hooper's first two works and adds to the viewer's sense of not having anything to grasp on and the jump scare quotient. Also, never have I been so frightened of a dog in a movie! Assonitis knows his movie language well, much better than the average director for hire, even though he clearly sees himself as a businessman more than anything else, as is clear in the sequence where Sacha plays Frisbee in the park or Amantha's chase, which I thought were original and accomplished, even.
A movie that being such a big fan of horror, I had never heard of before. Modest, but quite effective and even stylish shocker. Somebody mentioned in the interviews that Georgia was the third major movie state in the Union. I remember Antonio Margheriti's Cannibal Apocalypse was shot there, too. The scenery, as in this one, helped a lot there. By the way, that's one of the most wildly outrageous, no-prisoner-taken, and well- remembered (and dismembered) Italo- horror flicks ever made. Why hasn't anybody put it out on blu-ray yet?
Julia (Trish Everly) and her emotionally abuse identical twin, Helen, haven't seen each other for years. But Julie agrees to a hospital visit when Father James (Dennis Robertson) insists that her sister is disfigured and close to death. Only a day later, Helen escapes from the facility and people start dying by means of a trained Rottweiler, the very same breed Helen doted on as a child. Julia, fearing for her own life, is even more shocked when one of her students at a school for deaf children winds up being the next victim.
Just what did Helen do to Julia as a child? And is her live-in doctor boyfriend, Sam (TV regular Michael MacRae) somehow involved? What about Father James who seems a little too personally involved? As we're treated to a mysterious montage of POV shots, the real killer racks up a body count that's part of a big birthday celebration...and boy won't Julia be surprised!
Assonitis’ direction is more than adept, making Madhouse look about as slick as a De Palma film on a quarter of the budget. Only the acting, which reaches a ridiculous fever pitch as the film comes to a close, betrays the exploitation origins with a pair of “gotcha” moments lifted right from the Carrie playbook. Trish Everly, who apparently never made another film, has a great '70s holdover look and plays a convincingly befuddled heroine. But in an era of strong final girls, her passive demeanor - an advanced age for a slasher target - isn't very endearing. The rest of the cast is allowed to run wild, spouting inane nursery rhymes and improvising evil with impunity.
A bit of a kitchen sink giallo, Madhouse's most famous scene is likely the same one that got it added to the list of Video Nasties in the UK, generating more interest and publicity than it ever would have otherwise. Without ruining the surprise, the fact that it involved an animal - although obviously a puppet - makes the gore more disturbing than usual...and truth be told, it's a real showstopper! Madhouse slips between so many mental cracks that its plot is hard to justify in any real narrative sense. But Assonitis know what buttons to push and like true Pavlovian dogs, horror fans likely won't be able to resist.
Arrow Video's Blu-ray / DVD combo features a stunning 2K transfer from the original camera negative along with an audio commentary from regular group contributors The Hysteria Continues. But you'll probably get more out of the new sit-down interviews with Assonitis, cinematographer Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli and actress Edith Ivey, a local from Savannah, Georgia, where the film was shot. Other perks includes trailers, alternate opening titles and a collectible booklet.






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