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Giallo-Inspired ‘Amer’ gets HD Release
Amer, the 2009 Belgian homage to Italian giallo horror films is planned for Blu-ray this October, reports high Def Digest. In an early announcement to retailers, Olive Films has revealed ‘Amer’ will be available on Blu-ray on October 4.
“Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana’s life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her?”
The film has already won numerous awards including The Blade at the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, Best Director (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema, and has even been hailed by Quentin Tarantino as one of his 20 favorite films of 2010.
The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include five short movies by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani and introductory notes from the filmmakers.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.