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Here's a list of recent and upcoming releases from Camera Obscura.

To paraphrase Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Who are these guys?

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If you like this "social media" stuff, they are on facebook now, too: http://www.facebook.com/CameraObscuraFilmdistribution" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(And although at the moment the posts are in German a switch to English will be no problem for them, I think...)

Yang chi / Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen / Virgins of the Seven Seas (1974)

Release date August 16th.

Any updates on their Argento titles?

Some screenshots from Inferno, coming soon.

Extras (all English friendly):

- Commento audio dei due critici tedeschi Christian Keßler and Marcus Stiglegger
- Documentario: "Of Darkness and Fire" (97 min) con Romano Albani (direttore della fotografia), Fabio Traversari (effetti speciali), Pierantonio Mecacci (make-up), Luigi Cozzi e la partecipazione speciale di Lamberto Bava
- Featurette "L’Inferno delle Tre Madri" (23 min) con Dario Argento, Claudio Argento, Eleonora Giorgi e Leopoldo Mastelloni
- Featurette "Critics on Fire" (20 min) con i critici Antonio Bruschini e Antonio Tentori
- Q&A con Keith Emerson e Irene Miracle moderato da Tim Lucas (31 min)
- Location tour (4 min)
- Introduzione del direttore della fotografia Romano Albani (che garantisce sul master)
- Trailer inglese, spagnolo e il rarissimo trailer tedesco
- Galleria fotografia
- Booklet

On January 31st Bruno Mattei's Sexual aberration - sesso perverso will be released as Libidomania - Alle Abarten dieser Welt

Here are the specs:

*Audio commentary with Christian Keßler and Ingo Strecker (German with optional English subtitles)
*Featurette "Mondo Fragasso" with Claudio Fragasso (German/English subtitles)
*Alternate scenes from the Italian Cut (German/English subtitles)
*Picture galery
*Booklet from Marcus Stiglegger (German/English)

Hi Camera Obscura,

Do you have any further details as to when your Inferno blu will be released?

Last Friday they announced their next release. Mondo Candido (1975).

(btw, despite my user name, I'm not affiliated with Camera Obscura, although very impressed by the quality of their releases. Their laugh-out-loud slice of kungfu nonsense Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen looked absolutely spectacular).

Front cover for Mondo Candido

Mondo Candido is now available, by the way.

Latest release from the company is Wild beasts - Belve feroci (Franco Prosperi, 1984)

Rock! Shock! Pop! review

Mondo Digital review

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Theirs next release (IGCC #12) will be Andrea Bianchi's poliziesco Quelli che contano (Cry of a Prostitute).

Review for Top Sensation (1969) @ Mondo Digital.

Giallo rarity Nine Guests for a Crime (1977) reviewed @ Mondo Digital.

Interest here for this label seems to have dried up just a few months before they released their first Blu-ray. All of their transfers are apparently very impressive, come from new scans and are extensively restored in house. They're basically Germany's answer to Synapse and Arrow. So far they have released (click for Mondo Digital review):

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone) ~ Giuseppe Bennati
Like Rabid Dogs (Come cani arrabbiati) ~ Mario Imperoli
Spirits of Death (Un Bianco Vestito per Mariale) ~ Romano Scavolini
San Babila-8 P.M. (San Babila ore 20: un delitto inutile) ~ Carlo Lizzani

And coming very shortly, Aldo Lado's Short Night of Glass Dolls AKA Malastrana (La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro).

Despite all of these being limited to a scarily low 1000 copies, they still appear to be available, though retail price is very high and they can only be picked up for around £25-£35 each. DiabolikDVD seem best for US customers, whilst http://shop.dtm.at/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; are cheapest for UK and EU customers (Amazon UK Marketplace sellers are almost as good for UK buyers also)

Release date for Malastrana is October 5.
Extras:
- Featurette "Czech Mate" with director/writer Aldo Lado and actor Jean Sorel
- Featurette "Once Italian and back" with co-producer Dieter Geissler
- Featurette "The Need to Sing" with singer Edda Dell'Orso
- Featurette "Cutting Glass Dolls" with editor Mario Morra
- Audio commentary by film scholars Christian Kessler and Marcus Stiglegger
- Audio Commentary by actor/singer Jürgen Drews
- Audio Commentary by Aldo Lado on selected scenes
- Italian Trailer
- English Trailer
- Photogallery
- Booklet with liner notes by Kai Naumann in both English and German

What? Still the first page?

Anyway, they will release Deadly Games (3615 code Père Noël, 1989) on Christmas 2017.

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L.A. wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 5:33 pmMy conclusion of your and soundchaser’s opinion: the former is the one to go . Have completely forgotten about Camera Obscura, have they put out anything cool recently?

Good choice
Seems the whole forum has. After a couple of other giallo's (Amuck & The Bloodstained Butterfly), they took a break from Italy for a bit, having done really nice editions of films like River's Edge & the French horror film Night of Death. But earlier this year, they released Stelvio Massi's Poliziotto Sprint - I can't comment as my copy's living at Diabolik DVD until they start shipping internationally again...

Cheers.

I remember seeing Vase de Noces and Orozco the Embalmer from the company’s output, probably no desire to revisit these anymore. Spirits of Death sounds great but probably OOP.

Regarding Scavolini, isn’t Massacre Video releasing Nightmare in a Damaged Brain paired with Dog Tags?

FB:
"The time has finally come! After YEARS of trying to get the rights to this masterpiece, we can finally announce our "hottest" title to date! It's an absolute personal all-time favorite and the ultimate fun time at the movies. This year we will release GWENDOLINE on DVD, Blu-ray and UHD! No film has ever combined eroticism, adventure, martial arts and humor more perfectly than Just Jaeckin's loose adaptation of John Willie's cult comic classic, in which the EMMANUELLE director sexed up the back then highly popular Indiana Jones tropes with S/M phantasies. We're loving it! We are very sorry to say, however, that GWENDOLINE will only be available in German and French language options."

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It won’t even have English subs either.