Last week, Meagan Navarro profiled Romano Scavolini’s Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (aka Nightmare) as part of her weekly Butcher Block series, and wouldn’t ya know it, we’ve just learned this week that Massacre Video is currently working on a restoration for an upcoming Blu-ray release of the infamous “Video Nasty”!
The company teased on Facebook…
“BRAND NEW 2K scan/restoration with exclusive color correction sourced from a recently discovered internegative plus a few other surprises that will be sure to cause a damaged brain. Coming sooner than you think, promise.”
The Blu-ray will be part of Massacre Video’s Limited Edition series, notes Cinema Arcana. They add, “Previous disc releases have utilized a worn 35mm release print or an uncorrected answer print, but thanks to some hard work and determination, an original internegative has recently been uncovered, and Massacre are using this preferable element as the source for their 2K restoration. This should easily be the best NIGHTMARE has ever looked.”
Cinema Arcana continues, “While extras are currently being worked on, one supplement guaranteed to tempt even those who don’t generally double-dip is the inclusion of Scavolini’s directorial follow-up, the gritty ‘Namsploitation outing DOG TAGS (1987)! Unreleased on disc previously and never officially issued on home video in the U.S.”
In the 1981 film, a mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.
