ARROW VIDEO'S BULK OF CULT - MARCH 2017

Arrow Video, Arrow Films, and Arrow Academy don't only release Horror films. They are also a purveyor of numerous Cult films. Though, he Horror Parlor is devoted mainly to Horror films, it receives a lot of cult films to review as well. Below are the Cult releases for March 2017.

Story of Sin - 3-28-17

The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders... The only feature Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne) made in his native Poland, Story of Sin transforms Stefan Zeromski's classic melodrama into a deliriously surrealistic meditation on l'amour fou.

Bonus Features

• 2K restoration from the original film negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• New subtitle translation
• New 2K restorations from the original negatives of Borowczyk’s ground-breaking Polish shorts: Once Upon a Time (co-directed by Jan Lenica), Dom (co-directed by Lenica) and The School
• New introduction by poster designer Andrzej Klimowski
• New interview with Story of Sin lead actor Grazyna Dlugolecka
• New interview featurette on Borowczyk's career in Poland by Daniel Bird (co-founder Friends of Walerian Borowczyk)
• New interview featurette on Borowczyk’s innovate use of classical music in his films by writer and filmmaker David Thompson
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Andrzej Klimowski
• FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new and archival writing, including an exclusive interview with the producer of S
  tory of Sin, director Stanislaw Rozewicz; a text by art historian and one-time Borowczyk collaborator,

Property Is No Longer Theft - 3-28-17

Having tackled the corrupting nature of power with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and taken an angry, impassioned look at labour relations with The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Italian master Elio Petri next turned his attentions to capitalism for the darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft. A young bank clerk (Flavio Bucci, the blind pianist in Dario Argento's Suspiria), denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge the local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi, La Grande bouffe) who is not only a nasty, violent, greedy piece of work but also one of the bank's star customers. Quitting his job, the clerk devotes all of his time tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one-by-one, including his mistress (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red). Told in an off-kilter fashion by Petri, abetted by the woozy sound design and another outstanding score by Ennio Morricone, Property is No Longer a Theft presents a caustic, blackly comic look at a corrupt society.

Bonus Features

• 4K restoration from the original film negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• New subtitle translation
• Brand-new interview with actor Flavio Bucci
• Brand-new interview with producer Claudio Mancini
• Brand-new interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh
• FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet containing new writing on the film by Camilla Zamboni