Arrow Video's February lineup includes star-studded cyber chiller .com for Murder from Niko Mastorakis, deluxe box set Giallo Essentials White Edition, the UHD release of a Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, and Jacques Audiard's outstanding western The Sisters Brothers on 4k UHD and Blu-ray.

.COM FOR MURDER (USA 2002) | Blu-ray | 6 February 2022 | £24.99

In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Nightmare at Noon) showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (including rock stars Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis) one has come to expect from the cult director.

Nastassja Kinski (Cat People) stars as Sondra Brummel, a young woman confined to a wheelchair following a skiing accident, who decides to have a bit of fun on an internet dating site with her friend Misty (Nicollette Sheridan, The Sure Thing) while her architect boyfriend Ben (Roger Daltrey, The Legacy) leaves her alone for the weekend in the high-tech intelligent mansion he has built for them. Online anonymity works both ways, however, as they discover when they invoke the ire of a young man going by the handle of "Werther" and find the virtual world violently intruding upon the real, knife in hand…

Nico Mastorakis takes us to the dark side of the web in an audacious and vivacious retooling of classic Hitchcockian thrillers – think Rear Window 2000 meets Dial M for Mastorakis!

SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS:

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and lossless stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• The Making of .com for Murder, a featurette on the making of the film
• .com for Murder: The Unknown Story, a new featurette in which producer-director Nico Mastorakis revisits the production
• Archive interviews with Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis
• Original trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
• First pressing only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Flint

THIS FILM CONTAINS SEQUENCES OF FLASHING LIGHTS WHICH MAY AFFECT CUSTOMERS WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY

GIALLO ESSENTIAL WHITE EDITION | Limited Edition Blu-ray | £59.99

At the height of the Italian giallo boom of the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid murder-mysteries. This volume of Giallo Essentials presents three distinctly different but equally thrilling examples of genre, featuring some of European cult cinema's most recognizable faces.

In The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971), director Emilio P. Miraglia (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) melds the giallo's trademark twisty whodunit storytelling with gothic chills, as troubled aristocrat Alan Cunningham (Anthony Steffen, Django the Bastard) is haunted by the specter of his dead wife Evelyn, and the gruesome and untimely deaths of several members of his family.

Next, Riccardo Freda's (Double Face) The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971) finds tough ex-cop John Norton (Luigi Pistilli, A Bay of Blood) drafted in to catch the acid-throwing, razor-wielding maniac who's terrorizing the streets of Dublin.

Finally, Sergio Martino's (Torso) The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) melds giallo trappings with elements of the then flourishing poliziotteschi crime thrillers, as undercover cop Paolo Germi (Claudio Cassinelli, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?) hunts a Milanese criminal outfit following the brutal murder of a teenage prostitute.

Brutal violence, globe-trotting intrigue and abundant sleaze collide in these three quintessential gialli, each one fully restored from its original camera negative and presented alongside an array of incisive bonus features.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• 2K restorations from the original camera negative for all three films 
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each film 
• Original Italian and English front and end titles
• Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks 
• Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks 
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks 
• Rigid box packaging with original poster artwork in a windowed Giallo Essentials Collection slipcover 
• Reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx, Graham Humphreys and Chris Malbon

DISC ONE: THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE:

• Audio commentary by Troy Howarth 
• Exclusive introduction by Erika Blanc 
• The Night Erika Came Out of the Grave – exclusive interview with Erika Blanc
• The Whip and the Body – archival interview with Erika Blanc
• Still Rising from the Grave – archival interview with production designer Lorenzo Baraldi 
• Original Italian theatrical trailer

DISC TWO: THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE:

• Audio commentary by giallo connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint 
• Of Chameleons and Iguanas – video appreciation by the cultural critic and academic Richard Dyer
• Considering Cipriani – appreciation of the composer Stelvio Cipriani and his score to The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire by DJ and soundtrack collector Lovely Jon 
• The Cutting Game – interview with the film's assistant editor Bruno Micheli 
• The Red Queen of Hearts – career-spanning interview with the actress Dagmar Lassander 
• Original Italian and international theatrical trailers 
• Image gallery

DISC THREE: THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR:

• Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• Violent Milan – interview with director Sergio Martino 
• Original Italian theatrical trailer

THE LAST EMPEROR (China / Italy / UK / France 1987)
Limited Edition UHD & Blu-ray | 13 February 2022 | £34.99 (UHD), £29.99 (Blu-ray)

Director of The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist, and Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greats of Italian cinema. In 1987 his acclaimed epic The Last Emperor – made with British producer Jeremy Thomas (Naked Lunch, Crash) – swept the 60th Academy Awards winning nine Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

Following the life of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his birth in 1908 through his childhood in the fortress-like Forbidden City and his later misguided collaboration with the Japanese in World War II, The Last Emperor tells the history of China through the eyes of the man brought up to believe he was the country's divine ruler.

Filmed on location in China, Bertolucci and Thomas were the first western filmmakers to be allowed access to previously forbidden locations. Together with a cast including John Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole, and director of photography Vittorio Storaro's lushly evocative cinematography, they created a classic film of sweeping scope and delicate intimacy that stunned critics and audiences alike. The Last Emperor arrives on UHD in a brand new 4K restoration that will take your breath away.

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• New 4K restoration of the original theatrical version
• Original and extended versions of the film presented in their original aspect ratio of 2.39:1
• Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio, plus 5.1 audio option for theatrical version
• Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork options
• Eight double-sided postcard sized lobby card reproduction artcards
• Fold-out double-sided poster featuring two artwork options
• Illustrated collectors book featuring new writing by film critics Kat Ellinger and Philip Kemp, plus select archival material

DISC 1 - THEATRICAL VERSION (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY):

• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) 
• Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 and 5.1 audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• First to Last: The Road to the Forbidden City, a new visual essay by film critic David Cairns exploring Bernardo Bertolucci's career prior to The Last Emperor
• Open the Door, a new visual essay by film critics David Cairns & Fiona Watson in which they follow Bertolucci into the Forbidden City to explore in-depth The Last Emperor and the truth on which it is based
• Archive interview with director Bernardo Bertolucci 
• Archive interview with star John Lone
• Archive interview with star Joan Chen
• Postcard from China, video footage shot by Bernardo Bertolucci while location scouting in China
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery

DISC 2 - EXTENDED VERSION (BLU-RAY):

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation 
• Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

The Limited Edition Blu-ray release will contain all of the above special features, but the theatrical cut will be presented in High Definition (1080p).

THE SISTERS BROTHERS (France / Spain / Romania / Belgium / USA 2018)
Limited Edition UHD & Blu-ray | 27 February 2022 | £29.99 (UHD). £24.99 (Blu-ray)

After redefining the prison drama with the multi-award winning A Prophet and earning a Palme D'Or for Dheepan, French visionary director Jacques Audiard turned his eye to the American Western, adapting Patrick DeWitt's acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.

Joaquin Phoenix (We Own the Night) and John C. Reilly (Boogie Nights) star as Charlie and Eli Sisters, a pair of Old West bounty hunters preceded by their reputation for ruthlessness. They're tasked by their boss, a trade magnate and crime lord known only as The Commodore, with a seemingly simple mission: track down and kill a man by the name of Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed, The Sound of Metal), with the help of John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie Darko), a private detective who's approached Warm under false pretences. As the Sisters Brothers embark on the arduous journey from Oregon to California, their allegiance is questioned and their humanity challenged when they discover their actual target: a secret formula of Warm's invention, that when poured into a river, can help detect gold.

Superbly shot by regular Audiard collaborator Benoît Debie and featuring mesmerising performances from its lead cast, The Sisters Brothers reinterprets the classic Western formula to craft a compelling and darkly comedic tale of betrayal, redemption and brotherhood.

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:

• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound 
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by authors and critics C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
• Barry Forshaw on The Sisters Brothers, a brand new video essay by film critic Barry Forshaw on The Sisters Brothers and the psychological Western genre
• His Own Private Wild West, archival hour-long making-of documentary featuring interviews with many cast and crew members including director Jacques Audiard, actor John C. Reilly, cinematographer Benoît Debie, Production designer Michel Barthélémy, sound designer Brigitte Taillandier and Patrick DeWitt, author of the novel The Sisters Brothers
• Animated reviews
• Trailers
• Short promotional featurettes
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
• Double-sided fold-out "Wanted" poster 
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by film critic Howard Hughes, academic and Audiard expert Gemma King and original production notes

The Blu-ray edition will feature all of the above special features but the film itself will be a High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation.