Three years since the original Death Laid an Egg Blu-ray release, Cult Epics has announced it has reached a deal with UK-based Nucleus Films to utilize their 2K masters and have now produced a dual-layered Blu-ray with two new versions of the film and new bonus features, which will be presented as a Special Edition release this October!
The Special Edition Blu-ray includes the Director’s Cut, alongside the alternate International giallo “Plucked” version, both in fully restored 2K HD transfers, with completely new bonus features and limited edition slipcase printed with fluorescent inks to emulate the original theatrical poster.
Special Features Include:
2K HD Transfer (from original 35mm negative) of Director’s cut version in English and Italian language (105 mins)
Director’s Cut Audio Commentary by Troy Howarth (Author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films vol. 1, 2, 3) and Nathaniel Thompson (Author of DVD Delirium and founder of Mondo Digital)
2K HD Transfer (from original 35mm negative) of alternate International giallo “Plucked” version in English and Italian language (91 mins)
Review by Italian critic Antonio Bruschini HD
Giulio Questi: The Outsider – the last interview HD 2010 (13 mins)
Doctor Schizo and Mister Phrenic (2002) Short film by Giulio Questi (15 mins)
English & Italian language Trailers HD
Lossless LPCM 2.0 Mono audio tracks
Optional English subtitles for Italian language versions and trailer
Dual-layered disc
Reversible Sleeve with original Italian poster art & Slipcase printed with fluorescent inks, both limited to first 2000 copies
Directed by auteur filmmaker Giulio Questi (Django Kill!, Arcana) and starring legendary leading man Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) as a married man and suspected serial killer, Gina Lollobrigida (Beat the Devil) as his delectable yet overly domineering careerist wife, and Swedish blonde bombshell Ewa Aulin (Candy) as his murderous double-crossing mistress in this mystery thriller.
Death Laid an Egg is an avant-garde giallo that is more pertinent today than when it was first released in terms of its quite modern depiction of the battle of the sexes and the perils of technology.
Death Laid an Egg comes to Special Edition Blu-ray on October 13th, 2020. The first 100 pre-orders from the Cult Epics website will receive a set of eight lobbycard postcards.
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