International Press Release Arrow Video Press Release: Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

THEY WILL RISE TO SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE LIVING!

From the sleazy video nasty vaults comes a movie so stained with controversy and moral indignation that the very mention of its name sends shudders down the spines of the weak-stomached and censorious - Zombie Flesh Eaters. A gut-munching, shark-wrestling, eye-gouging orgy of mud-caked undead terror and Italian splatter from the dark imagination of horror genius Lucio Fulci (The House by the Cemetery, City of the Living Dead).

An abandoned boat in New York Harbour unleashes a dead flesh-crazed Zombie cargo... A young American woman and a journalist investigate a tropical island where a deadly disease is making the dead walk... Soon, thoughts of getting to the bottom of the murderous curse will be forgotten, as Fulci's walking corpses overwhelm the living and reports come in that the Big Apple is swarming with the living dead...

After over 45 years, Zombie Flesh Eaters still has the power to shock and offend the unwilling. Check out this classic 'sadist video' and revel in a wonderfully tasteless movie that once helped usher in a moral panic!

Product Features​

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original English and Italian front and end titles
• Restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio
• Optional remixed lossless English Dolby Atmos audio
• Optional remixed lossless Italian DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Brand new audio commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• Audio commentary by screenwriter Elisa Briganti, moderated by Calum Waddell
• Audio commentary by Fulci biographer Stephen Thrower and horror expert Alan Jones
• Sound and Fury: Listening to Zombie Flesh Eaters, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Repellent: Memories of Zombie Flesh Eaters, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Chris Alexander
• Archival introduction by actor Ian McCulloch
• From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Film, a 2012 documentary featuring screenwriters Dardano Sacchetti and Antonio Tentori, critic Kim Newman and filmmakers Luigi Cozzi, Ruggero Deodato and Russ Streiner
• Aliens, Cannibals and Zombies: A Trilogy of Italian Terror, an archival interview with McCulloch
• The Meat-Munching Movies of Gino de Rossi, an archival interview with the celebrated special effects artist
• Zombie Flesh Eaters: From Script to Screen, an archival featurette featuring Dardano Sacchetti showing key pages from his original "Island of the Living Dead" screenplay
• Music for a Flesh-Feast, a 2012 Q&A with composer Fabio Frizzi at the Glasgow Film Theatre
• Original English language "Nightmare Island" screenplay
• Theatrical trailers and TV spots
• Easter eggs
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
• Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Willow Maclay, Jack Sargeant, Heather Wixson and Matt Rogerson
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
• Six double-sided collector's postcards

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[titch]

The Blue Underground 4K UHD from 2020 looks stunning, so the only reason to buy the UK Arrow release are the plethora of supplements Arrow has collected. Darn it.

 

[tenia]

I seem to recall reports that the BU English mono track was actually a downmix of the revisionist Atmos and 5.1 tracks, so there'd be room for improvements here.
(This and not having the DV flickering)

 

[titch]

I seem to recall reports that the BU English mono track was actually a downmix of the revisionist Atmos and 5.1 tracks, so there'd be room for improvements here.
(This and not having the DV flickering)

No Dolby Vision problems for me with projection. I didn't have any problem with either the mono track or the Atmos tracks either. Compared to what I experienced, the first time I saw this on VHS back in the video nasty heyday, it was quite surreal. But I'm getting the Arrow for the supplements.

 

[tenia]

Compared to what I experienced, the first time I saw this on VHS back in the video nasty heyday, it was quite surreal.

I can only imagine the upgrade (I'm from 1987, so of course this isn't how I discovered the movie) !
Still, if a release advertises a track as "restored original mono" and it turns out to be a downmix of a remix with modern foley, that's IMO an issue. When the remix is mostly for spatialisation, it's kinda fine, but when the original mono track is the only way to not get stuck with added sounds, that's a problem.

 

[titch]

I can only imagine the upgrade (I'm from 1987, so of course this isn't how I discovered the movie) !
Still, if a release advertises a track as "restored original mono" and it turns out to be a downmix of a remix with modern foley, that's IMO an issue. When the remix is mostly for spatialisation, it's kinda fine, but when the original mono track is the only way to not get stuck with added sounds, that's a problem.

Sure - but the dubbing is terrible anyway. Par for the course for just about any Italian movie - horror or arthouse - until the 1990s. The acting is as bad as the dubbing too.

 

[Worth]

Sure - but the dubbing is terrible anyway. Par for the course for just about any Italian movie - horror or arthouse - until the 1990s. The acting is as bad as the dubbing too.

All of those Italian genre movies play better for me in Italian with English subtitles. I probably don’t notice the sync issues as much because I’m looking at the subtitles and the voice performances seem better to me than their English counterparts.

 

[Alex...]

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