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

Forgotten Gialli: Volume Nine [Blu-ray]

Name: Forgotten Gialli: Volume Nine [Blu-ray]
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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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