Title: FRIGHTENED WOMAN restored and uncut
Description: The BBFC leave it alone this time..
Description: The BBFC leave it alone this time..
Anthony Thorne - March 20, 2008 10:53 PM (GMT)
Via the LoveLockandLoad forum, Shameless UK have put out a press release announcing a newly restored, uncut version of FEMINA RIDENS / THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN. Piero Schivazappa gives his approval.
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| Shameless Screen Entertainment is proud to announce that their 14th April DVD release of The Frightened Woman (aka Femina Ridens) has been approved by Piero Schivazappa, the director of the film. Witness the ultimate subjugation of a woman to serve the most twisted desires of man in the achingly hip 'n' horny Femina Ridens, where the kinkiest urges are played to a deadly conclusion? The beautifully sensuous Dagmar Lassander stars as Maria, the living sex toy of Dr Sayer (Philippe Leroy) who delights in killing women at the point of orgasm. Sayer's prolonged campaign of degradation pushes Maria right to the edge of death but the spell she casts on him will lead to the most extraordinary climax of a lifetime! Stylish, imaginative and deliciously twisted, this kitschy 60s pop art erotica-fest boasts gorgeous set design, an even more alluring leading lady and a heady desire to please the viewer with increasingly bizarre and dangerous sex games. Rebuilding The Frightened Woman has been a labour of love but thanks to the work of genre expert Marc Morris the Shameless version of The Frightened Woman runs at 86m 03secs compared to the 83m 25 secs run time supplied by the licensor. What became clear as Shameless compared all the known versions of The Frightened Woman was that various moments had been lost at different points in all of them. Some were merely shaved seconds; others changed the nuance of a scene or missed out important footage. These have been more than enough to prompt fans on the web to start cataloguing the differences with a prime example being this thread on the respected DVD Maniacs forum: http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/forums/showthrea...rightened+woman In order to create this new Shameless version they have used a wide variety of source materials that widely vary in quality but they believe that the end result shows off the film in the complete form it has long deserved to be celebrated in including the correct colour palette. Shameless have kept director Piero Schivazappa informed throughout the process and asked him to watch through it for them and see if he could give it his seal of approval. He kindly sat through it, with script in hand and felt that, "it is as faithful as it can be to the original script", and was very happy to see the film brought back to life in this Shameless version declaring, "This IS the version of my film to watch." Shameless Screen Entertainment will release The Frightened Woman on DVD at £12.99 on 14th April, 2008. The Shameless director approved cut will run at 86m 03secs and is being released uncut by the BBFC for the first time in the UK. Presentation of the film is in restored 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with a restored 2.0 mono soundtrack. The DVD includes an original theatrical trailer. A new DVD sleeve celebrating elements of original artwork has been created but as is now a regular feature of Shameless releases, purists can enjoy reverse artwork using an unadulterated Italian poster bearing the Femina Ridens title. |
Michael Blanton - March 21, 2008 06:32 PM (GMT)
Great news.
I watched the first five minutes via the Netflix website of the old R1 NTSC Euroshock version and it was almost impossible to watch.
I'll defintely be picking this copy up!
I watched the first five minutes via the Netflix website of the old R1 NTSC Euroshock version and it was almost impossible to watch.
I'll defintely be picking this copy up!
Jeff Billington - March 21, 2008 08:16 PM (GMT)
Where's her head? Is that deliberate?
I have the mid-price Salvation release, which I believe was 'accidentaly' released uncut, but I really like this film, I think I will probably pick this up to.
I have the mid-price Salvation release, which I believe was 'accidentaly' released uncut, but I really like this film, I think I will probably pick this up to.
Michael Blanton - March 21, 2008 08:42 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Jeff Billington @ Mar 21 2008, 02:16 PM) |
| Where's her head? Is that deliberate? |
Yeah. ...It's the "cut" version! :lol:
Richard Waddel - March 30, 2008 12:10 AM (GMT)
One of the more, how you say, SHAGADELIC films of its type.
James Cheney - March 30, 2008 06:43 PM (GMT)
I'm curious to see this. I have the 'fumetto' version of FEMINA RIDENS (in French, but derived from an Italian sister publication), and have 'read' the kinky tale many times, and enjoyed the gamut of Philippe Le Roy's neurotic expressions...but never seen the film itself.
The title FRIGHTENED WOMAN is a real misnomer, however. LAUGHING WOMAN described in a clinical Latin phrase, suggestive of 'vagina dentata', is much more to the point, but perhaps was considered too much a spoiler-ish giveaway (?)
The title FRIGHTENED WOMAN is a real misnomer, however. LAUGHING WOMAN described in a clinical Latin phrase, suggestive of 'vagina dentata', is much more to the point, but perhaps was considered too much a spoiler-ish giveaway (?)
Michael Blanton - March 31, 2008 04:50 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (James Cheney @ Mar 30 2008, 12:43 PM) |
| LAUGHING WOMAN described in a clinical Latin phrase, suggestive of 'vagina dentata', is much more to the point, but perhaps was considered too much a spoiler-ish giveaway (?) |
Thanks a lot, James! :blink: ;)
James Cheney - March 31, 2008 09:00 AM (GMT)
I've told you nothing the dvd release copy doesn't already say, just more clinically, maybe :rolleyes:
Michael Blanton - March 31, 2008 07:11 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (James Cheney @ Mar 31 2008, 03:00 AM) |
| I've told you nothing the dvd release copy doesn't already say, just more clinically, maybe :rolleyes: |
Thank you Doctor! <_<
Michael Blanton - April 13, 2008 08:50 PM (GMT)
Just a heads up for anyone waiting for the R2 PAL Shameless disc. They're in stock at Xploited. My copy shipped Saturday.
Michael Blanton - April 18, 2008 11:45 PM (GMT)
Great job Shameless! :)
My disc arrived last night and Shameless has done a wonderful job with the transfer. Their DVD, PAL R2 is truly a revelation compared to the NTSC R1 Euroshock Image disc. You can watch the Image disc online if you subsribe to Netflix. Stelvio Cipriani's score is great too! The music during Dagmar's striptease "Sophisticated Shake" is too much.
Groovy fun for all! ^_^
My disc arrived last night and Shameless has done a wonderful job with the transfer. Their DVD, PAL R2 is truly a revelation compared to the NTSC R1 Euroshock Image disc. You can watch the Image disc online if you subsribe to Netflix. Stelvio Cipriani's score is great too! The music during Dagmar's striptease "Sophisticated Shake" is too much.
Groovy fun for all! ^_^
Jeff McKay - April 19, 2008 01:31 AM (GMT)
As far as I know, the region 1 DVD version was released by First Run Features. I don't quite understand the continuous slander against the old 'Euroshock' Image label. Maybe I'm wrong?
Michael Blanton - April 19, 2008 02:58 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Jeff McKay @ Apr 18 2008, 07:31 PM) |
| As far as I know, the region 1 DVD version was released by First Run Features. I don't quite understand the continuous slander against the old 'Euroshock' Image label. Maybe I'm wrong? |
You're right that the disc if It is First Run Features, not Euroshock. My bad! :(
Except for my incorrectly identifying FEMINA RIDENS as a Euroshock disc and the fact that their ZEDER disc is awful, I'm rather fond of the Eurosock discs and own, or have owned, quite a few of 'em. (see bolded titles below)
Aenigma 09/04/2001 DVD
Asylum (1972) 06/20/2000 DVD
Awful Dr. Orlof 07/04/2000 DVD
Beast Must Die 04/10/2001 DVD
Blood Beast Terror 09/26/2000 DVD
Cannibal Apocalypse (Special Edition) 03/19/2002 DVD
Cat In The Brain 07/30/2002 DVD
Cave Of The Living Dead 08/08/2000 DVD
Crimson
Die Screaming Marianne 02/20/2001 DVD
Doomwatch 08/21/2001 DVD
Dr. Orloff's Monster 01/22/2002 DVD
Female Vampire 08/08/2000 DVD
Flesh And The Fiends: Double Feature 08/14/2001 DVD
Frightmare (1974) 02/20/2001 DVD
Graveyard Of Horror 07/09/2002 DVD
Horror Express (Image) 03/21/2000 DVD
House Of Whipcord 10/05/1999 DVD
House With Laughing Windows
Oasis Of The Zombies 04/10/2001 DVD
Orloff And The Invisible Man 04/10/2001 DVD
Playgirls And The Vampire 08/24/1999 DVD
Psychomania 06/20/2000 DVD
Revenge In The House Of Usher 10/16/2001 DVD
Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 10/30/2001 DVD
Schizo 10/02/2001 DVD
Tomb Of Torture 08/08/2000 DVD
Virgin Among the Living Dead
Voices From Beyond 12/04/2001 DVD
Wax Mask 09/05/2000 DVD
Zeder
Zombie Lake 03/27/2001 DVD
John Black - April 19, 2008 06:37 AM (GMT)
Wasn't PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE from Something Weird Video? I recall that it had poor quality sound.
Eric Cotenas - April 19, 2008 07:45 AM (GMT)
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| Wasn't PLAYGIRLS AND THE VAMPIRE from Something Weird Video? I recall that it had poor quality sound. |
PLAYGIRLS was one of Image's early Euroshock titles and had improved sound. It was sourced from the version released by Richard Gordon's company rather than an Italian negative (was Gordon in charge of the English dub?).
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| Cat In The Brain 07/30/2002 DVD |
CAT never got released.
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| and the fact that their ZEDER disc is awful |
The Italian disc is much better. It has English mono, Italian 5.1 and mono and English subtitles (actually dubtitles but they're workable).
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| Stelvio Cipriani's score is great too! The music during Dagmar's striptease "Sophisticated Shake" is too much. |
The score was just released on Digitmovies CD.
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| Except for my incorrectly identifying FEMINA RIDENS as a Euroshock disc |
Image did release DVDs of several of Metzger's Audubon Collection titles which had been distributed on tape by First Run. By the time FRIGHTENED WOMAN got released on DVD First Run was releasing their own DVDs (they also reissued the Metzger titles).
Michael Blanton - April 19, 2008 09:29 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Eric Cotenas @ Apr 19 2008, 01:45 AM) |
| The Italian disc is much better. It has English mono, Italian 5.1 and mono and English subtitles (actually dubtitles but they're workable). The score was just released on Digitmovies CD. |
Yes I replaced my Euroshock collection version with the Italian version of ZEDER through Tony at Xploited a while back, and currently have a copy of the FEMINA RIDENS Soundtrack waiting to ship.
Anyone who wants to can sample the CD at Movie Grooves or Screen Archives. It's groovy! B)