Enzo G. Castellari's "Cold Eyes of Fear" 4K UHD - Giovanna Ralli @indicatorseries
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Enzo G. Castellari's "Cold Eyes of Fear" 4K UHD - Giovanna Ralli @indicatorseries
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Directed by Italian genre-film stalwart Enzo G Castellari (Inglorious Bastards), Cold Eyes of Fear (Gli occhi freddi della paura) is a tense and brutal thriller which features an all-star line-up, including Gianni Garko (If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death), Fernando Rey (The French Connection), Giovanna Ralli (What Have They Done to Your Daughters?), and Frank Wolff (Once Upon a Time in the West).
When wealthy playboy Peter Flower picks up the beautiful Anna and takes her back to his uncle’s house, he and his guest find that their plans for the evening are cut short by the shocking discovery of a corpse and the surprise appearance of a pair of violent criminals.
With its vibrant London locations and discordant jazz score – composed by the great Ennio Morricone and performed by the legendary free-improvisation collective, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – this stylish home-invasion thriller is presented in an all-new 4K restoration from the original negative.
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Enzo G. Castellari's Giallo-esque-thriller "Cold Eyes of Fear" has some wonderful touches including unique cinematography by Antonio L. Ballesteros (Sergio Leone's The Colossus of Rhodes) and fast-cut, creative, editing by Vincenzo Tomassi (The Beyond.) It is evocative of other 'home-invasion' films like The Dark Past, The Night Holds Terror and William Wyler's The Desperate Hours which it is said to have borrowed from (the US TV title was also, coincidentally, renamed as "Desperate Moments".) For those anticipating a clandestine 'black glove killer', this is not that type of Giallo (or a Giallo at all, although the Scotch in the film is Justerini & Brooks - J&B!) Castellari was versatile and made pasta Westerns, poliziotteschi, The Last Shark (akin to Jaws), 1990: The Bronx Warriors (echoing Escape from New York) and even Sinbad of the Seven Seas with Lou Ferrigno! "Cold Eyes of Fear" is a well-crafted thriller that looks rich and appealing in 4K UHD and the package has a host of new supplements from an edifying commentary to interviews to an 80-page booklet. Certainly strongly recommended to the genre devotees. I'm keeping it.
