New on Blu-ray: THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT / L'ISTRUTTORIA E CHIUSA: DIMENTICHI (1971) Starring Franco Nero and Riccardo Cucciolla

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Product Description: Franco Nero (Django) stars as an architect thrown in jail for a misdemeanor in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, faced with corrupt guards and a prison yard ruled by the mafia. Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl) continues his exploration of mafia stories with this gritty prison drama. Nero gives a sympathetic performance as the honest man, while support is given by noted character actors including Riccardo Cucciola (Rabid Dogs) as another innocent and John Steiner (Tenebrae) as a psychotic killer. Alongside Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Damiani's own Confessions of a Police Captain, this exploration of authority and corruption was as critical as the era's finest work and ranks alongside the best Italian genre films of the 1970s.

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New on Blu-ray: WAVES OF LUST / ONDATA DI PIACERE (1975) - Starring Silvia Dionisio, Al Cliver, John Steiner & Elizabeth Turner

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Product Description: Presented in a 4K restoration, Waves of Lust is a superb erotic thriller from director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust). Two carefree youngsters, Irem and Barbara (Al Cliver and Silvia Dionisio), are invited for a weekend cruise on a yacht owned by Giorgio (John Steiner, Caligula), a ruthless and cynical industrialist. He is married to Silvia (Elizabeth Turner), a disturbed woman who allows herself to be physically and mentally terrorized by him. But then she falls into a ménage à trois with Irem and Barbara, who all conspire against Giorgio, whose misogyny and paranoia push him over the edge into madness.

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New on Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD: THE ARK OF THE SUN GOD / I SOPRAVVISSUTI DELLA CITTA MORTA (1984)

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Product Description: For his follow-up to THE HUNTERS OF THE GOLDEN COBRA, director Antonio Margheriti puts a Bondian spin on Indiana Jonesploitation for an Italian/Turkish co-production of "undeniably great fun" (The EOFFTV Review), now on Blu-ray for the first time ever in North America: David Warbeck (THE BEYOND) stars as a master burglar recruited by a wealthy collector (John Steiner of TENEBRE) to raid a mountaintop temple and steal the mythical Scepter of Gilgamesh. But first, this suave safecracker will have to survive car chases, kidnappings, elaborate traps and an ancient curse that promises to destroy anyone who dares to breach the golden tomb. Luciano Pigozzi (ALIEN FROM THE DEEP) co-stars in this "cult fanatics' lost treasure" (Blood Brothers Films) co-written by Giovanni Simonelli (JUNGLE RAIDERS) and Giovanni Paolucci (SHOCKING DARK), newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with an hour of new and archival Special Features.

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New on Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD: THE HUNTERS OF THE GOLDEN COBRA / I CACCIATORI DEL COBRA D'ORO (1982)

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Product Description: For the first film in his Indiana Jonesploitation Trilogy, Italian maestro Antonio Margheriti (CASTLE OF BLOOD, THE VIRGIN OF NUREMBERG) delivers "full-throttle action" (The Gentlemen's Blog to Midnite Cinema) starring David Warbeck (THE BEYOND) and John Steiner (NIGHT OF THE SHARKS) as a cocky pair of WWII adventurers blasting their way through deadly traps, double-crosses and daring escapes in search of a supernatural relic known as The Golden Cobra. Almanta Suska (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) and Luciano Pigozzi (STRIKE COMMANDO) co-star in this "fun and entertaining knock-off" (The Grindhouse Cinema Database) from producer Gianfranco Couyoumdjian (ZOMBIE, ALIEN FROM THE DEEP) and screenwriter Tito Carpi (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS, THE SHARK HUNTER), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over an hour of new & archival Special Features.

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THE .44 SPECIALIST aka MARK STRIKES AGAIN / MARK COLPISCE ANCORA (1976) - New on Blu-ray

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Product Description: The .44 Specialist (aka Mark Strikes Again) is a high-octane cop thriller from director Stelvio Massi (Magnum Cop). Inspector Mark Patti (Franco Gasparri) is assigned to infiltrate a group of radicals, working in concert with shady US agent Altman (John Saxon, Enter the Dragon, A Nightmare on Elm Street). Mark is brought into the terrorist circle of Paul (John Steiner, Tenebrae) and Olga (Marcella Michelangeli, The Big Racket), and chaos erupts. The undercover cop discovers uncomfortable truths as he gets embroiled in their acts of political violence.

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New on Blu-ray: SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE / SBATTI IL MOSTRO IN PRIMA PAGINA (1972) - Limited Edition

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Product Description: Days before a general election a young girl is raped and murdered. Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), the editor of a right-wing newspaper uses the story to help the conservative candidate his paper supports. The tumultuous time of Italy's 'Years of Lead' are captured in Marco Bellocchio's powerful political drama which directly addressed topics of its day and even prefigured the creation of the right-wing paper Il giornale, which came into being two years after this film. In an age of media manipulation Slap the Monster on Page One has never been more relevant and stands proudly alongside such Italian activist classics as We Still Kill the Old Way and The Mattei Affair.

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New on Blu-ray: GOODBYE & AMEN (1977) Starring Tony Musante & Claudia Cardinale

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Product Description: John Dannahay (Tony Musante, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is planning to overthrow an African government. But his plan goes wrong when a corrupt colleague starts shooting people from the roof of a hotel, taking an innocent couple hostage. Director Damiano Damiani (How to Kill a Judge) wields expert tension in this gripping espionage thriller, twisting and turning its tight plot to its sensational finale. Featuring a fantastic supporting cast including Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl), John Steiner (The Case is Closed: Forget It) and Wolfango Soldati (The Heroin Busters), Goodbye & Amen is one of the great 1970s Italian action thrill rides, set to a haunting score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis (Torso, Keoma).

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New on Blu-ray: Mario Bava's SHOCK (1977) - Special Edition

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Product Description: In a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Best remembered for his gothic horror movies, for his final feature, Shock, he eschewed the grand guignol excesses of Black Sabbath or Blood and Black Lace for a more intimate portrait of mental breakdown in which true horror comes from within.

Dora (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red) moves back into her old family home with her husband, Bruno (John Steiner, Tenebrae), and Marco (David Colin Jr., Beyond the Door), her young son from her previous marriage. But domestic bliss proves elusive as numerous strange and disturbing occurrences transpire, while Dora is haunted by a series of nightmares and hallucinations, many of them involving her dead former husband. Is the house itself possessed? Or does Dora’s increasingly fragile grip on reality originate from somewhere far closer to home?

Released in the United States as a sequel to Ovidio G. Assonitis’s Beyond the Door, Shock more than lives up to its name, proving that, even at this late stage in his career, Bava hadn’t lost his touch for terror. Now restored in high definition for the first time, the Maestro of the Macabre’s chilling swansong disturbs like never before in this feature-laden release from Arrow Video.

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