Requiescant

[MichaelB]

Release Date: 21st September 2015
Format: Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD
Starring: Lucio Battistrada, Andrew Baxter
Directed by: Carlo Lizzani

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KILL AND PRAY!

Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, The Hills Run Red) and with a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger, Cannibal Holocaust), Requiescant – Latin for ‘Rest in Peace’ – ranks among the finest Spaghetti Westerns. Alex Cox named it the “one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely Sergio Leone’s”.

Lou Castel (Fists in the Pocket, A Bullet for the General) plays a young man who was raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher after Confederates massacred his family. But when his step-sister runs away, the pursuit reveals a natural talent as a sharp-shooter as well as a bloody and unexpected confrontation with his past.

Joining Castel are an impressive array of performers, including Mark Damon (Black Sabbath, The Fall of the House of Usher) as the sadistic aristocratic villain, Franco Citti (Accattone, The Godfather) as his henchman, and the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò) in a rare acting role as a revolutionary priest.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

• Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• Optional English and Italian soundtracks in uncompressed PCM mono audio
• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• An all-new interview with Lou Castel, recorded exclusively for this release
• Archive interview with director Carlo Lizzani
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
• Illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing on the film by Pasquale Iannone

DETAILS:

Region: A+B/1+2
Rating: TBC
Cat No: FCD1148
Duration: 106 mins
Language: Italian/English
Subtitles: English/English SDH
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 1.0
Discs: 2
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[Drucker]

Day of Anger was fantastic, keep the Spaghetti Westerns coming!

[colinr0380]

And here's the early 90s Moviedrome introduction to Requiescant.

[Finch]

Very excited about this and Cemetery without Crosses. Here's hoping the westerns do well for Arrow so we get more European westerns and Fox titles like The Ox-Bow Incident.

[tenia]

Blu-ray.com review

It seems Svet ended up not testing the replacement disc with a proper sync between the Italian track and its subs. More surprisingly, he also didn't write that replacement discs are available from Arrow.

[MichaelB]

He normally does check these things with the label - in fact, he's one of the few reviewers who does - so this is unusual for him.

Anyway, I'm very happy to confirm that the subtitle issue has been corrected. If you inadvertently get an old disc (they should all have been taken out of circulation, but it's impossible to police these things once they're out in the wild), get in touch with Arrow for a replacement.

[jindianajonz]

What should we be looking for to tell if we have the old version?

[tenia]

What should we be looking for to tell if we have the old version?

Weirdly, I never found any difference on the discs artwork.

However, on the readable side of the discs, in the center, the numbers are different :
- old : A0102560107-B911
- new : A0102586597-B911

Also, the new disc has a volume label (which can be read when you insert the disc is a computer) called "REQUIESCANT V2" while the old one is simply "REQUIESCANT".