Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) - Blu-Ray Special Edition

From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (The Psychic, The Beyond), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece Don't Torture a Duckling. When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch, Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin). With the bodies piling up and the community gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders—city journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian, The Four of the Apocalypse) and spoilt rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times)—team up to crack the case. But before the mystery is solved, more blood will have been spilled, and not all of it belonging to innocents...

Release Information:

• Original Release Year: 1972
• Studio/Distributor: Arrow Video

Feature Presentation:

• Genre: Giallo, Thriller, Crime
• Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack, Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack

Special Features:

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• Original mono Italian and English soundtracks (lossless on the Blu-ray Disc)
• New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• Giallo a la Campagne, a new video discussion with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
• Every (Wo)man Their Own Hell, a new video essay by critic Kat Ellinger
• Interviews with co-writer

Technical Specifications:

• Format: Blu-ray, DVD
• Region: FREE (Blu-ray), Region 2 (DVD)
• Video Quality: 1080p Full HD, Standard Definition