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Forgotten Gialli: Volume Nine Blu-ray continues Vinegar Syndrome’s excavation of rare and overlooked entries from the later years of Italy’s most stylish murder-mystery tradition. Focusing on the turbulent 1990s—an era of shrinking budgets, export-driven productions, and genre experimentation—this three-film collection proves that the giallo’s lurid spirit never truly died.
 
Across comic-book-fuelled paranoia, investigative obsession, and sleazy New York-set intrigue, these films channel psychosexual tension, stylized violence, and melodramatic intensity through the shifting aesthetics of a new decade. Each feature has been newly scanned and restored from its original camera negative, making their long-awaited Blu-ray debuts in definitive presentations.
 
Included in this set:
 
MADNESS (1993)
directed by: Bruno Mattei
starring: Monica Carpanese, Emy Valentino, Fausto Lombardi, Gabriele Gori
90 min / 1.66:1 / English mono
 
BUGIE ROSSE (1993)
directed by: Pierfrancesco Campanella
starring: Tomas Arana, Gioia Scola, Natasha Hovey, Alida Valli, Barbara Scoppa
92 min / 1.66:1 / Italian mono
 
MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT (1991)
directed by: Alfonso Brescia
starring: David Hess, Florence Guérin, Rik Battaglia, Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Sonia Topazio
89 min / 1.66:1 / Italian mono
1991–1993 / Region Free / Italian & English

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  • BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

    MADNESS
    • Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative
    • Commentary track with The Hysteria Continues!
    • Through the Eyes of Madness (13 min) – interview with Monica Carpanese
    • Seeing Madness (20 min) – interview with producer Gianni Paolucci
    • Reversible sleeve artwork
    • English SDH subtitles

     

    BUGIE ROSSE
    • Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative
    • Red Heat (29 min) – interview with director Pierfrancesco Campanella
    • Naked Lies (12 min) – interview with Gioia Scola
    • The Last Temptation (14 min) – interview with Tomas Arana
    • Lady in Red (14 min) – interview with Barbara Scoppa
    • Red Eros (18 min) – interview with composer Natale Massara
    • Reversible sleeve artwork
    • Newly translated English subtitles

     

    MURDER IN BLUE LIGHT
    • Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original camera negative
    • Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
    • Alternate home video cut (95 min, SD source)
    • Florence, Ma Chérie! (22 min) – interview with Florence Guérin
    • Blue Light Topaz (31 min) – interview with Sonia Topazio
    • The Highly Dependable Mister Bradley (25 min) – interview with Eugenio Ercolani
    • Reversible sleeve artwork
    • Newly translated English subtitles

     

    • Limited edition box set (6,000 units) designed by Robert Sammelin
    • Region Free Blu-rays

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