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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: Blu-ray EAN: 0827058700894 Format: Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen Label: Blue Underground Manufacturer: Blue Underground Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Blue Underground Release Date: November 18, 2008 Running Time: 119 minutes Studio: Blue Underground Theatrical Release Date: 1996 Sales Rank: 38644 MPN: 7008 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: DARIO ARGENTO'S Masterpiece Of Terror - Completely Uncut And Uncensored! When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art. Trapped in this twilight realm, Anna plunges deeper and deeper into sexual psychosis, until she comes to know the killer's madness more intimately than she ever imagined. Horror maestro Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, OPERA) reaches new heights of florid fantasy and Grand Guignol with this warped work of art starring Maxim Magazine's "Sexiest Woman in the World" Asia Argento (LAND OF THE DEAD, XXX), Thomas Kretschmann (KING KONG, BLADE II) and Marco Leonardi (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 3). Previously edited outside of Italy, THE STENDHAL SYNDROME is now presented here in stunning High Definition, transferred under the supervision of cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (ALL THAT JAZZ, AMARCORD) from the original Italian 35mm interpositive, and loaded with exclusive Extras. EXTRAS: "Director: Dario Argento" "Inspiration: Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini" "Special Effects: Sergio Stivaletti" "Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi" "Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng" Theatrical Trailer Discount Shopping: The first half of Dario Argento's heady psycho-thriller is a mesmerizing merging of dream and reality. A beautiful young Italian detective (Asia Argento, who does little to convince us she's a tough, seasoned cop) investigating a serial rapist is suddenly overwhelmed when the paintings in an art museum erupt with life. According to the film, this is "the Stendhal Syndrome," an intense and overwhelming response to art that turns the viewer mad. As Anna steps in and out of fantasy worlds like Alice through the looking glass, she's kidnapped by her quarry, who repeatedly rapes and tortures her in a dark, dank underground cave. The delirious nightmare of shattered reality becomes a sadistic, mean-spirited spectacle of murder and degradation--perpetrated on, of all people, the director's own bound and beaten daughter!--and the thriller disintegrates into a paranoid mystery of amnesia, split psyches, and shadowy phantoms. At its best this is a mesmerizing vision of madness: paintings melt into the real world while objectivity disintegrates before our eyes. But before the unexpectedly sensitive conclusion, Argento puts the viewer through a bravura but brutal series of gory murders (a slow-motion bullet passes through both cheeks of a helpless victim, and another shooting is viewed from inside the body) and unsavory violence. The poetic beauty of Phenomenon and the craftsmanship of Suspiria and Deep Red are sorely missed. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - very bad quality!!!!!This blu ray is horrible!!! The quality video is terrible!! is better an old whs!!! Rating:  - Watch out for poor image qualityI've had this title for quite a while on DVD and although Blu-ray obviously makes everything sharper for high-def tvs, the middle 40% of the screen throughout the movie looks like it was delicately buffed with a belt sander, it's a kind of shimmering water effect. I wish they could have done a better transfer . . . Rating:  - Repulsion and Then SomeFete of Death "The Stendhal Syndrome" is a dark, brilliant, unnerving, and beautiful excursion into the mind of a policewoman who is brutally assaulted. Clearly, this is one of Dario Argento's masterworks, aided by a haunting score by the talented Ennio Morricone. Asia Argento, who plays the heroine, becomes unhinged by her violation. She was not a well woman to begin with, suffering fom a syndrome named after the writer Stendhal that causes her to faint when she views certain ... Read More Rating: - Contemporary thriller from Dario Argento.This was a mediocre film from Argento, while not really a bad film I just didn't like it that much. I used to have the previous edition from Troma which in my honest opinion was terrible and I suggest that people avoid that edition and just get this brilliant two disc special-edition from Blue Underground, this two disc BU release is a vast improvement and has a gorgeous transfer of the extended cut with no grain evident and the colors are clean and stunning. The extras on the second disc definitely ... Read More Rating:  - unpleasant, but a pleasant supriseOn watching the first half of this film you'd be forgiven for thinking it's one of those grisly 'rape n' murder' horrors we get all the time nowadays - except for the occasional dream sequence thrown in (sometimes done well but there is some pointless cgi here) I was shocked by some of the films content as I'm more used to his earlier work (daft slashers with great art direction) and hadn't seen anything by Argento post-'terror at the opera'. However, It was worth sitting through ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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