Shameless Releasing Torso On Blu-ray

[killer must kill again Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close killer must kill again]

I'm talking about this sack of shit

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relax. it's from the same guy who did all those ghanaian movie posters in the mid-1980s

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

According to a post at the Criterion Forum, Arrow's Sergio Martino book has a discography that says they will be releasing Torso in the US.

[Tom Clark Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom Clark]

https://www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/...44681222232528

NEW US/CA TITLE: Torso (Blu-ray)

Copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!

Pre-order in the US via DiabolikDVD: http://bit.ly/2K63Jaw
Release date: 30 October

A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) has lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but it is undoubtedly his giallo thrillers from the early 70s for which he is best known. Among the most highly acclaimed of these, 1973's Torso revels in the genre's time-honored traditions while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the modern slasher movie.

A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university town's female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa - only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they've brought it with them!

Also known as Carnal Violence, Torso was released in Italy towards the end of the giallo boom before enjoying a second life on the American grindhouse circuit. Co-starring Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and Luc Merenda (The Violent Professionals), the film finds its director at the top of his game, delivering copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
• Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by Arrow Films
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of both versions of the film: the 94-minute Italian and 90-minute English cuts
• Original lossless Italian and English mono soundtracks*
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colours of Sergio Martino
• New video interview with co-writer/director Sergio Martino
• New video interview with actor Luc Merenda
• New video interview with co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi
• New video interview with filmmaker Federica Martino, daughter of Sergio Martino
• New video interview with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
• 2017 Abertoir International Horror Festival Q&A with Sergio Martino
• Italian and English theatrical trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Adrian Smith and Howard Hughes

* The English audio track on the original, longer cut has some portions of English audio missing. English audio for these sections was either never recorded or has been lost. As such, these sequences are presented with Italian audio, subtitled in English.

[Keeth Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Keeth]

I'm not sure I've seen Torso. If I have, I don't remember a thing about it and man, what's with the art? I think every poster I've ever seen for the movie has the saw in it, which, I assume is in the movie. Or is it? Maybe the orig. posters were all misleading and Arrow is accurate (but still awul)

[Lorne Marshall Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lorne Marshall]

Keeth, there is a memorable scene involving a saw. It's made especially memorable by the subdued use of sound and the lead actress's reaction to what transpires. I saw this film for the first time at an Air Force base theater back in the early 80's, and this sequence was really all I recalled until I rented it on VHS years later.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Torso is a pretty good Giallo and acts more like a proto-slasher than the usual Gialli.