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Film Details
119 min / Blu-Ray: 1.85:1 // DVD 1.66:1 / ["Color"] / Region Free
Cast and Creators
Dario Argento
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About the Film
When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre 'Stendhal Syndrome' - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art.
STENDHAL SYNDROME is now presented here in all its grotesque glory, remastered in HD from the original Italian 35mm interpositive, and loaded with exclusive new Extras in this 2-Disc Special Edition.
SYNOPSIS
DARIO ARGENTO’S Masterpiece Of Terror – For The First Time Uncut And Uncensored!
Horror maestro Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, OPERA) reaches new heights of florid fantasy and Grand Guignol with this warped work of art starring Maxim Magazines Sexiest Woman in the World Asia Argento (LAND OF THE DEAD, XXX), Thomas Kretschmann (KING KONG, BLADE II) and Marco Leonardi (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 3). Previously edited outside of Italy, THE STENDHAL SYNDROME is now presented here in all its grotesque glory, remastered in High Definition under the supervision of cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (ALL THAT JAZZ, AMARCORD) from the original Italian 35mm interpositive, and loaded with exclusive new Extras in this 2-Disc Special Edition.
DVD EXTRAS
Disc 1:
- Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2:
- Director: Dario Argento
- Inspiration: Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini
- Special Effects: Sergio Stivaletti
- Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi
- Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng
TECHNICAL SPECS
- English: 6.1 DTS-ES; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Dolby Surround 2.0
- Italian: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Dolby Surround 2.0
- Subtitles: English
BLU RAY EXTRAS (2 DISCS)
Disc 1 Extras:
- Audio Commentary with Troy Howarth, author of “So Deadly, So Perverse”
- Three Shades Of Asia – Interview with Star Asia Argento
- Prisoner Of Art – Interview with Co-Writer Franco Ferrini
- Sharp As A Razor – Interview with Special Makeup Artist Franco Casagni
- Theatrical Trailer
- Poster & Still Gallery
Disc 2 Extras:
- Director: Dario Argento
- Inspiration: Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini
- Special Effects: Sergio Stivaletti
- Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi
- Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng
TECHNICAL SPECS
- Color
- Italian, English: 7.1 DTS-HD; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; 2.0 DTS-HD
- Subtitles: English for Italian Audio, English SDH, French, Spanish
NOTES & REVIEWS
“Taking Its Rightful Place Alongside The Italian Maestro’s Best Films, THE STENDHAL SYNDROME Captures The True Meaning Of Terror In Virtually Every Frame!”
– Blu-ray.com
“A CLASSIC AND A MASTERPIECE… An Engaging Piece Of Filmmaking That Alternates Between The Harrowing And The Beautiful!”
– DVD Times
“A Somber, Brutal, And Nightmarish Film That Begs To Be Considered As A Serious Work Of Art!”
– Mondo Digital
“Nasty, Brutal Stuff… Unlike Anything Else Out There!”
– The Austin Chronicle
“Argento’s Most Disturbing Work To Date!” – Eccentric Cinema
Blue Underground
About the Director
Dario Argento (b. 1940) started as a film critic and screenwriter — he co-wrote the story for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West — before turning director with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), a giallo thriller that became an immediate international hit and helped shape the genre's visual grammar: black-gloved killers, elaborate murder set pieces, and camera work that implicates the viewer as a voyeur.
Argento's peak run through the 1970s and early '80s — Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre — pushed giallo toward something closer to horror opera, pairing baroque violence with progressive rock scores (many by the band Goblin) and production design that focused on mood and color over realism. Suspiria in particular, with its saturated primary-color lighting and dance-academy-as-haunted-house premise, has become one of the most visually influential horror films ever made, still referenced constantly in cinematography and fashion decades later.
Argento's later career has been more uneven, but his influence on horror aesthetics — internationally, not just within Italian genre cinema — is difficult to overstate. Collectors drawn to giallo, or to horror as a visual medium rather than a purely narrative one, will find Argento's catalog to be essential, era-defining material.
