88 Films Releasing Night Train Murders

[Ian Jane]

Coming in April from 88 Films!

Originally banned in 1976 by the BBFC and a few years later becoming one of the original casualties of the infamous Video Nasties hysteria, Night Train Murders AKA Last Stop on the Night Train is still a forceful and challenging picture. It focuses on two young girls who experience a journey of unimaginable terror at the hands of deranged psychos as they journey between Germany and Italy. Violent and thanks to its hugely controversial content, the movie is still highly regarded as an exploitation classic. Using the dark terror of the young girls’ torment it juxtaposes it with the season of goodwill which makes the situation even more unbearable. Visually raw and uncompromising, this is one ride you’ll never forget.

EXTRAS:

BRAND NEW 4K REMASTER FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES PRESENTED IN ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION (2160P) IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
PRESENTED IN DOLBY VISION HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR10 COMPATIBLE)
HIGH DEFINITION (1080P) BLU-RAY(TM) IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO ALSO INCLUDED
ENGLISH 2.0 LPCM MONO WITH OPTIONAL SDH SUBTITLES
ITALIAN 2.0 LPCM MONO WITH NEWLY TRANSLATED ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Audio Commentary with Italian Cinema Experts Eugenio Ercolani and Dr. Marcus Stiglegger
Class and Carriage Violence - An interview with director Aldo Lado
A Lady Above Suspicion - An Interview with actress Macha Méril
All About Lado - A Career Retrospective
The Most Heinous of Crimes - A Brief Introduction to the Italian Rape and Revenge Film - Featuring Ruggero Deodato, Zora Kerova and Corinne Cléry
A Train of Thought - A Video Essay by Mike Foster
On the Brink of Anarchy - The Coalescence of Sex and Power in Night Train Murders Late Night Train Murders - Interview with Expert Stephen Thrower
Strangers on a [Late Night] Train - An interview with actress Irene Miracle
Further Adventures in Italy with Irene Miracle
Last Stop on the Night Train Trailer English Trailer
Stills Gallery

ORIGINAL AND NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY GRAHAM HUMPHREYS
FEATURES RIGID SLIP CASE WITH NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY GRAHAM HUMPHREYS AND J-CARD
FEATURES PERFECT BOUND BOOK WITH NEW ESSAYS AND STILLS
FEATURES FOLD OUT POSTER

[Randy G]

An amazing, actually well made film. Even so, not sure about double dipping when there are so many unseen films out there for me to catch up on.

[Lorne Marshall]

First saw this on a super-obscure VHS under the title TORTURE TRAIN, released on the JEF Films label.

[f.ramses]

Don't remember being that into this one when I picked up the DVD but I don't really remember it. Based on the Christmas comments I've seen here and elsewhere I'll probably give the old DVD another spin next month though!

[Gary Banks]

I'm probably the only one here who saw this at the Drive In in the late 70's (cause I'm so damn old). Had no idea of what to expect and afterwards felt it was a better film than LHOTL, but that isn't saying much as I hated Last House. Not sure it is something that I would want to sit through again. Who knows?

[Driver78]

Nice drop. Might do the Just the Discs bundle depending on the final reveal, even though I'm not a Franco fan. Willing to overlook that one.

[BW Haggar]

I can't help pointing out that 88 seem to have created that pic by putting the inlay from their old blu-ray edition of the film in a 4K case... but then want to throw myself in front of an actual Late Night Train for even noticing / caring about such nonsense.

Excellent, soul-witheringly depressing movie however - one of the rare examples I think of a blatant rip-off which is actually better than the original hit which inspired it, and further proof that Lado was a top notch filmmaker.

[Ian Jane]

Probably not coincidently, 88 Films just announced a UHD edition is coming soon.

[agent999]

I genuinely watch this every Christmas.

[Ian Jane]

***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY TITLE REVEAL #8***

NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS

THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE

For far too long, this 1974 shocker directed by Aldo Lado (WHO SAW HER DIE?) has been dismissed as a LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT knockoff. Now it can be experienced as a classic “more intense and disturbing than the film that inspired it” (DVD Talk) in UHD for the first time ever: When two young girls taking a train home for the holidays encounter a pair of sadistic thugs, it will trigger a nightmare of sexual brutality and parental revenge. Flavio Bucci (SUSPIRIA), Irene Miracle (INFERNO), Macha Méril (DEEP RED) and Enrico Maria Salerno (THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) star – with a powerful soundtrack by Ennio Morricone – in this “damn fine film that stands on its own merits” (Screen Anarchy) – also known as LAST STOP ON THE NIGHT TRAIN, THE NEW HOUSE ON THE LEFT, SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT, DON’T RIDE ON LATE NIGHT TRAINS, LAST HOUSE PART II and XMAS MASSACRE – scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over 5 hours of Special Features.

Special Features for NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS:

UHD:

• Audio Commentary With Director Aldo Lado, Moderated By Freak-O-Rama's Federico Caddeo
• Audio Commentary With Ultra Violent Magazine's Art Ettinger And Cinema Arcana's Bruce Holecheck
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:

• Audio Commentary With Director Aldo Lado, Moderated By Freak-O-Rama's Federico Caddeo
• Audio Commentary With Ultra Violent Magazine's Art Ettinger And Cinema Arcana's Bruce Holecheck
• Hear My Train A-Comin' – Interview With Director Aldo Lado
• The Veiled Lady – Interview With Actress Macha Méril
• Back On The Train – Interview With Actor Gianfranco De Grassi
• Train In Vain – Interview With Actress Irene Miracle
• NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS And Sadean Women: Power, Pleasure And The Subversion Of Morality – Video Essay By Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness
• Trailer

*Bonus Disc: Soundtrack CD

Feature Specs for NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS:

• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Runtime: 94 mins
• Audio: English Mono, Italian Mono
• Closed Captions: English SDH
• Subtitles: English
• Region: UHD: A/B/C, Blu-ray: A
• Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
• Reversible Wrap
• Soundtrack CD

[Paul L]

It would be nice if this release includes the film's Italian dub and English subtitles for it.

Ha! So it does! I bought mine today for £8-99 in HMV.

[Horace Cordier]

I hope it gets some new extras. I love this mean spirited little film. As much as I love LAST HOUSE, this one hangs together as a film much more coherently.

[Paul L]

I'm not really a fan of any of those artworks. To be honest I've never see the film but I'm sure cover C is not representative of what goes on in the film. It really does make it look like a Blind Dead film.

In the context of the US poster, where the image from, it's just a mash-up of the iconography of other films. The title is from that US release, THE NEW HOUSE ON THE LEFT. The poster makes it look like the train compartment is a living room with a window overlooking the NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS.



It would be nice if this release includes the film's Italian dub and English subtitles for it.

[Lalala76]

I'm not really a fan of any of those artworks. To be honest I've never see the film but I'm sure cover C is not representative of what goes on in the film. It really does make it look like a Blind Dead film. As for Shameless, then I think they have been slow on the uptake to expand into blu-ray proper. Maybe they decided that they weren't going for blu-ray rights. I'm not sure how that works.

[judex85]

Am I being daft, don't Shameless have a UK version of this out and in-print? How can 88 be releasing this as well? Unless they have some kind of blu-ray only deal?