Torso Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD
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A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands – and blade – of the lecherous maniac. Torso Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD
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) lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but is undoubtedly best known for his giallo thrillers from the early 70s. 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. Torso Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD
A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting the picturesque university town’s female students. Alarmed at the 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!
4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the 94-minute Italian and 90-minute English-language export versions of the film
- Restored original lossless Italian and English mono soundtracks*
- Original Italian and English front and end titles and insert shots
- Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colours of Sergio Martino
- All the Colors of Terror – interview with co-writer/director Sergio Martino
- The Discreet Charm of the Genre – interview with actor Luc Merenda
- Dial S for Suspense – interview with co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi
- Women in Blood – interview with filmmaker Federica Martino, daughter of Sergio Martino
- Saturating the Screen – 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
- Alternate opening and closing credits from the US release
- Italian and English theatrical trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais
- Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring 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.
Additional information
| MPAA rating : | R (Restricted) |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions : | 6.73 x 5.31 x 0.51 inches; 4.32 ounces |
| Director : | Sergio Martino |
| Media Format : | 4K |
| Run time : | 1 hour and 34 minutes |
| Release date : | September 17, 2024 |
| Actors : | Angela Covello, Carla Brait, Carlo Alighiero, Conchita Airoldi |
| Subtitles: : | English |
| Studio : | Arrow Video |
| ASIN : | B0D8JW2KLZ |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #644 in Horror (Movies & TV) |
| Customer Reviews: | (344) |
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Stanley Runk –
The Saw Before SAW
Sergio Martino takes a…ahem…stab at a giallo flick. And why not? Like most Italian directors, he’s directed films in practically every genre anyway. It’s not his only genre offering, but probably his best, and definitely his most well known.A string of murders occurs on a college campus by a masked killer, and a group of female art students decide to escape the madness by taking off to a remote villa. Guess who follows?The Italians really had this slasher thing down well before Friday the 13th came along. The murders are bloody and violent(for the time it was rather extreme, but not so much now for the typical horror fan), and there is a great deal of female flesh on display, including a lesbian scene! Whoopee!! Of course, this makes it easy to predict who will get slaughtered by the killer, as pretty much all the victims are shown nude at some point except Kendall, who naturally doesn’t appear nude. The killer’s identity is rather easy to figure out, but it’s all about the journey, not the destination, right? In the giallo tradition, there is a heavy attempt to make a particular character seem the most likely candidate for the killer, but it’s so obvious that he isn’t the killer because of how disturbed and messed up they make him. And the fact that all the evidence points to him too! The last act with Kendall and the killer playing a game of cat and mouse in the villa is actually rather suspenseful at times. Like many giallos, it’s stylish, and looks great.The film’s title more than likely refers to the fact that the killer likes to cop a feel on his victims after he murders them. Tasteful.It may not quite be Argento, but Torso is required reading for the giallo fan.
8 people found this helpful
Amazon Customer –
subtitles
it said English but it was English subtitles
craig –
another home run by arrow!
by far the best this movie has ever looked
Jason Dixon –
One only complaint, no English audio option!
One only complaint, no English audio option!
Mr K. –
Must own 4k movie
This was a great throwback movie It felt soo organic
frankenberry –
EXCELLENT DVD – Euro Trash at it’s BEST
Anchor Bay’s DVD of TORSO is incredible – the image is crisp, sharp, colorful and there is no artifacting whatsoever. The print is also UNCUT! For years the film was seen in the US only in an edited version with most of the gore and sex cut out. It’s great to finally see the entire uncut film with it’s original opening and the extra sex and gore bits….I love the head crushing scene (albeit kind of fake) plus there’s extra shots of the killer sawing up the bodies into little pieces. What more do you want? There’s the cool looking hooded killer plus lots of stylistic giallo touches…this movie is better than ever especially in this impeccable presentation. It’s letterboxed and includes the fun US trailer-“Tor—so!” as well as the original euro-trailer. A few shots in the film are in italian with english-subtitles because either the english track was never recorded or it had been lost…but it’s not annoying at all and you just can’t help loving this disc…especially if you are into euro-sleaze! One of Anchor Bay’s best!
49 people found this helpful
VtHikerguy4083 –
A Slasher movie before there were slasher movies!
Saw this little gem and I really enjoyed it! A good horror/ thriller/ slasher movie from 1973, an Italian Giallo film that is definitely worth checking out, cannot help but think this is the blue print for future horror teen slasher genre that would hit the late 70s and 80s, have to hand it to Italian horror cinema! Then again every horror movie/ gore movie owes its roots to Hershel Gordon Lewis who started showing violence in the 60s, kind of grindhouse feel, and then came Romero with Night of the Living Dead, seeing such violence back in the 60s was unheard of!But this movie I liked the camera work, the music, looks fantastic on DVD, not to mention the beautiful women in the film and the T&A, always a staple of slasher flicks!The plot: A killer is on the loose on a University Campus, 5 voluptuous college girls retreat to the country side while the killer is at large, then each one is picked off one by one, classic slasher film technique, the killer wearing a ski mask, uses a scalpel to slice his victims then a hacksaw to cut them up!If you like horror, gorgeous women, T&A, quick scares, check this one out.
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Allen Garfield’s #1 fan. –
Both Giallo and proto-slasher. Arrow bluray. (Worth upgrade from Blue Underground.)
The average Sergio Martino afficianado would consider this his best. (This viewer agrees.)Definitely worth an upgrade from the Blue Underground release. The sound and picture are fantastic. Lots of extras and great (as always) packaging from Arrow.Fantastic film! Might be Sergio Martino’s best. A hyper-sexual sadist (right out of Psycopathia Sexualis) is on the loose in one of the best films of its kind. The extreme misogyny doesn’t only apply to the killer; every male in the film is a borderline rape-o. Martino did the right choice, in that he doesn’t pay hypocritical lip service to female “empowerment” – the thrills might take a psychic toll on some of the viewers (voyeurs?) amongst us.As to the voyeurism: lots of it. Surreptitious peeling or blatant leering from every male in the cast – on the street, through wondows, crowded rooms and all-girl slumber parties, indoors and out. And some great POV. The camera – and by extension – the audience, is complicit. Lots of fetishistic upskirt shots. Lots of leg shots befitting an issue of “Leg Show.” (Not to mention down blouses.)In case I wasn’t clear:More than enough sex and nudity for three movies. And the grisly sex murders.Lots of sexually charged (is there any other kind) violence towards women, natch.Excellent as a mystery/suspense-thriller. Or as exploitation/slasher. Or Infantile(wink wink) Horror – it depends on the viewer’s sensibilities.Very high production values, as good as any mid-budget 70s H’wood flick. The camerawork if terrific; above beyond the beyond the conventional cinematography of the era. Shockingly (even today) b!unt, crude and sexually regressive dialogue aimed at our hapless heroines.The entire female cast are wildly attractive. Suzy Kendall a dead ringer for Julie Christie. Tina Dumont and the rest equally foxy. The cast is filled with familiar genre faves.Arrow did an amazing job here. One of their best releases/restorations. The bonus interviews are great and the entertaining/insightful audio commentary by scribe (and Martino authority) Kat Ellinger is wonderful, as always.
21 people found this helpful
SwissFox –
One of Quentin Tarantino’s favourites
One of the most prominent “Giallo” movies (and a favourite of Quentin Tarantino), “Torso” has everything: Beautiful women, a great setting, wonderful scenery (Perugia, Tagliacozzo) and a convincing “whodunnit?” plot. It also acts a window to the 1970ies fashion and looks. The Arrow Video transfer is perfect, very crisp. Extras are plentiful, with various interviews, among them with director Sergio Martino, co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi and actor Luc Merenda. Highly recommended.