NEWS – Win Argento’s The Card Player on DVD from Arrow

Published on: 7th March, 2010

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Fans of Euro horror have been spoilt rotten over the last few years, thanks to long overdue releases from such cult labels as Blue Underground, Shameless and Arrow. The latter have already given us excellent editions of Lamberto Bava’s Macabro/Macabre, Lucio Fulci’s Quella villa accanto al cimitero/The House by the Cemetery and Dario Argento’s Non ho Sonno/Sleepless. Their latest release will see them once again return to modern Argento territory with his 2004 cyber thriller Il cartaio/The Card Player.

Having already been released by Arrow Films and Fremantle Home Entertainment several years ago, the company now plan to give the movie a special makeover to fit in with their current titles. Detective Anna Mari (Stefania Rocca) is determined to track a serial killer who is abducting his victims and then forcing the police to play card games with them over the internet, killing the girls online if they lose.

When a British girl becomes the next victim, Irish inspector John Brennan (Liam Cunningham) is sent over to assist. But when the commissioner’s own daughter, Lucia Marini (Fiore Argento), is kidnapped, Anna has no choice but to seek the help of a professional card player, a cocky young kid called Remo (Silvio Muccino).

The DVD is scheduled for release on the 22nd of this month and will be priced at £15.99 (R.R.P.). The special features will include a double sided sleeve featuring new artwork (as shown on this page) and an exclusive collector’s booklet, as well as the extras that were included in the original release (a making of and The Card Player Promo). Arrow are currently running a competition on their official forum for a lucky fan to win a copy of the DVD. For more information click here!

Argento’s The Stendhal Syndrome will also be available from the same day…

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