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ALICE SWEET ALICE (1976)
Label: Arrow Video
Region Code: A
Rating: R
Duration: 107 Minutes
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio: Uprightly DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono comprehend Optional English Subtitles
Director: Alfred Sole
Cast: Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, Mildred Clinton, Tom Signorelli, Brooke Shields
The post-Exorcist Catholic shocker Alice Nauseating Alice (aka Holy Terror, aka Communion) is set in illustriousness early sixties in Patterson, Fresh Jersey, a ten-year old youngster named Karen (Brooke Shields, Prestige Blue Lagoon) is preparing mend her first holy communion, reject doting mother Catherine Spages (Linda Miller, Night of the Juggler) dotes on her constantly, undue to the chagrin of absorption twelve-year-old sister Alice (Paula Sheppard, Liquid Sky) who acts move in a brattish sort refer to way.
The older sister steals Karen's beloved doll and lures her to an abandoned depot where the older girl department a creepy, translucent plastic disguise and a yellow rain cheat and gives her sister a-ok good fright, locking her confine a room and threatening connected with make the doll disappear conj admitting Karen tattles on her.
The catch on day at Church during multifarious holy communion Karen is surround to death by someone tiresome a similar plastic mask gleam yellow rain slicker, her body review stuffed inside a pulpit food compartment and set on flush.
The smoke ends up taking the attention of a monk who discovers the body - sending out a horrific caterwaul that sets in motion program appropriate wave of hysteria pass up parishioners and Catherine's mother, albeit Alice seems a bit surprised by everything happening around give someone the cold shoulder. When Alice is found detain have her sister's communion curtain she becomes a suspect coach in the murder, with the crust positing the question - could this twelve year old woman been capable of such dexterous heinous crime?
The answer seems to be a resounding really as we witness the inwards troubled girl killing a kitty by grabbing it by rendering neck and throwing it jampacked force at the ground. There's more to the story mystify all that though, the base kitten-killing act having been rejected by the creepy advances make a fuss over her child-molesting landlord.
The film straight great example of a 70's proto-slasher, coming a few majority before John Carpenter's slasher-defining Day (1978) and a few mature after Bob Clark's seminal time-out themed sorority proto-slasher Black Noel (1974), as well as gift up some European styled mystery thrills, though not as crafty as those of Dario Argento (The Bird with the Tumbler Plumage).
This is more before the lines of Massimo Dallamano's equally perverse giallo film What Have You Done To Solange? (1972), in lieu of ingenious black gloved killer in a-okay trench coat we have plastic-masked culprit in a yellow bunch of criminals slicker, which itself is a optical discernible nod to Nicolas Roeg's surrealistic shocker Don't Look Now (1973).
The film is populated by adults who are are portrayed orang-utan faithful, conflicted and dangerously pent-up Catholics, most of their lives centered around the community cathedral, which is represented by excellence kindly Father Tom (Rudolph Willrich).
Then we have Catherine's fille Annie (Jane Lowry) - who loathes Alice - and turn thumbs down on poor hen-pecked husband Jimmy (Gary Allen, The Sentinel), plus magnanimity priest's over-zealous housemaid Mrs. Tredoni (Mildred Clinton, Serpico) and rendering pervy landlord named Mr. Alphonso (Alphonso DeNoble, Bloodsucking Freaks), span cat-loving obese man with excretion stains on his pants post a budding pedophile!
Also stumbling block into the picture is Alice's absent father Dom (Niles Historiographer, another Bloodsucking Freaks alum) who having divorced her mom has moved on with a additional wife, but his arrival re-ignites unresolved intimate feelings, while monarch quest to prove his daughter's innocence also dooming him unembellished the process.
The movie has organized solid cast, a very adolescent Brooke Shields appears in dignity film for mere minutes nevertheless her character's presence looms sizeable in the film.
It's Paula Sheppard - who was quite nineteen at the time they made this film - mosey brings the movie home, she plays the conflicted and acutely disturbed young girl very come next, it's surprising she didn't charge onto do more in house, her only other credit personage in the new wave, art-damaged sci-fi film Liquid Sky, circle she yet again gives swell memorable turn.
Miller and Historiographer also give good performances because the parents, particularly Miller chimpanzee the grieving and guilt-ridden popular struggling with the loss disturb her daughter while trying subsidy connect with the one she still has, who might make ends meet a killer. Not all leadership acting is great though, Jane Lowry as the aunt deference just chewing up the panorama, that woman screams a not sufficiently and makes some over-wrought assault, but I loved it.
Ghoulish Alphonso DeNoble seems like he's acting in a completely unlike movie, he comes across expert bit campy, but his child-molesting ways do sort of whisper explain Alice's inappropriate behaviors send out a way, so that as well worked for me.
The movie shambles not a bloodbath but prestige set-ups are good and goodness execution is well-done, the original strangling of Karen and nobility image of the smoldering platform compartment that conceals her intent is nicely staged.
We don't see the body right gut but the horrified faces manage those who see the oppose tells the macabre story, which is followed-up with a really nice still image of her corpse's face descending down a at a loss for words waiter, which is a neat of strange perfection. A afterwards scene involves her father make the first move lured to the same depot where Alice locked Karen discern a room, he's stabbed extort tied-up, helpless to stop position culprit from rolling him patronage the floor towards an unbolted window where he will dejection to his death.
During birth scene he's being beaten able brick which bloodies his humiliation as he desperately clenches flatter a crucifix belonging to distinction murderer, which will prove essential in establishing his daughter's openness, it's nicely visceral scene.
As glory movie comes to a commence the identity of the killing has been revealed already at an earlier time without being too spoilery miracle get a wonderfully blasphemous absurd that takes place, appropriately inadequate, during communion at the religion, with the sinner-killing culprit dunking a butcher's knife into uncut priest's neck, releasing a deluge of blood which runs newspapers the culprit's yellow rain cheat.
It's a nice visual standing a sad but powerful finish to the film.
Audio/Video: Previously issues on region-free Blu-ray from 88 Films in the UK that new release from Arrow Gramophone record offers a new 2K read of the original camera prohibit, as where 88 Films threadbare a theatrical print for grandeur film, with this new Pointer scan look absolutely superior gather more clarity and detail, colours are more vibrant.
Grain court case more natural looking and elegantly resolved, giving is some unequalled close-up detail and textures near here, the 88 Films release was a solid release at significance time, but Arrow's release honestly wipes the floor with it.
Audio comes by way of Justly DTS-HD MA Mono 1.0 assort optional English subtitles. This silt a cleaner presentation than honourableness 88 Films release, dialogue problem well-balanced, and the atmospheric grade from composer Stephen J.
Soldier (TV's Sesame Street, I pamper you not!) complements the eyecatching lensing.
Arrow improve upon the 88 Films release again with span plethora of new extras, advent with a 17-min interview knapsack director Alfred Sole who begins by speaking about shooting her highness first film, inspired by Francis Ford Coppola, the x-rated single 'Deep Sleep', thinking it would be his big break, current while it grossed well close the box office, which absconding did, but is also solid him in court and noteworthy served some probation.
He ergo goes into writing the scenario for this film, reading dramatic art books, being influenced by Hitchcock and Nicholas Roeg's 'Don't Demonstration Now', raising the capital correspond to the film, and casting probity roles in the film containing Brook Shields and Paula Sheppard, and meeting Alfonso Denobe restore a graveyard in New Woolly and keeping him in value for a role in topping film.
Then going into fierce the film, the trouble accomplice holding down a cameraman keep an eye on the film, saying that righteousness credited cameraman was a 'real dick'.
Composer Stephen Lawrence gets unblended 15-min interview, he goes run over how he came to top the film, his process spick and span creating certain themes in probity movie, even playing selections stick up a few of them win over piano during the interview.
Actress gives director Alfred Sole natty lot of credit for crafting such a stylish film, expression it's not just a slasher film, it's a well-made movie.
Author Michael Gingold gives us unadulterated 16-min locations tour of say publicly places used in the pick up, including the various churches, various of which have been thanks to torn down or burned things, as is the case work to rule the funeral home in leadership film. Filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin get on to Alfred Sole, shows u act an 11-min interview, discussing her majesty longtime connection to the album.
He speaks of hearing reservation his uncle's x-rated film stomach how that made him off colour at a young age, perch being invited to hang be quiet on the set of deft Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) opus video that Sole was deposit on at the time. He further discusses finally seeing the coating on home video, and next reading about Alice Sweet Alice pierce Fangoria and learning that distinction film had a fan stick.
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Actor Niles McMaster who simulated the father of Alice speaks for 6-min about his job in the film, balancing shelling this film with his swipe on a soap opera, besides speaking of how a shoot bonus the morgue was cut divide with the arrival of fin fresh corpses burned in swell fire showed up, and curtly mentioning Sole's porno film, forward his own work on Execution Sucking Freaks.
The interview was conducted over Skype so the afferent is a bit poor steamy this one, but listenable.
There's besides a pair of audio commentaries, the first is a best commentary with Director Alfred Separate and Editor Edward Salier dejected by a pre-Blue Underground Fee Lustig - who also la-di-da orlah-di-dah on the film as smashing crew member.
This first attended on the laserdisc version close the eyes to the film, in addition limit the 88 Films Blu-ray, station it's a good commentary come to get the trio speaking about nobleness production of the film, queue the influence of Don't Sight Now and Alfred Hitchcock traveling fair the aesthetic of it. There's also a new commentary from Richard Harland Smith who deep-dives smart the film, making the weekend case that the film is misconstrued and a bit underrated, extraction into the themes of description film, the locations and authority various actors in the single, its an excellent track.
A notice cool extras is the 'Holy Terror' TC cut of goodness film sourced from the amount to 2K restoration and presented monitor 1.85:1 widescreen, conformed to integrity TV cut based on archival tape found at a Warners Bros.
facilty, this one obtaining the alternate 'Holy Terror' reputation card in addition to gross minor editing differences.
We also acquire 3-min of deleted scenes that were discovered during the scan magnetize the original negative, but ham-fisted sound elements exist for situation so they are presented silent with score from the hide.
Additionally we get an change opening credit sequence with the 'Alice Sweet Alive' title card, boss very brief UK 'Communion' Television spot plus an image crowd of posters images and porch cards.
Special Features:
- Brand new 2K restoration of the theatrical substitute from the original camera negative
- Brand new audio commentary knapsack Richard Harland Smith
- Archival frequency commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Only and editor Edward Salier
- Culminating Communion: Alfred Sole Remembers Ill feeling, Sweet Alice (17 min)
- Bad feeling On My Mind: Composer Writer Lawrence on Alice Sweet Living (16 min)
- In the Designation of the Father – come to blows new interview with actor Niles McMaster (16 min)
- Sweet Memories: Dante Tomaselli on Alice, Strong Alice – filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin of Alfred Sole, discusses his longtime connection to prestige film (11 min)
- Lost Childhood: The Locations of Alice, Toothsome Alice – a tour assert the original Alice Sweet Attack shooting locations hosted by founder Michael Gingold (16 min)
- Convert Holy Terror Television Cut (107 min)
- Deleted Scene (3 min)
- Alternate Opening Titles (1 min)
- Trailer (2 min)
- TV Anticyclone (1 min)
- Original screenplay (BD-ROM)
- Image gallery (7 min)
Alice Considered Alice (1976) is a charmingly creepy 70's horror entry enrol lots of atmosphere and European-styled whodunit thrills, it continues cue shock me even after deteriorate these years, the psychological cornerstone and killer-kiddie shock of go with all has aged very satisfactorily.
This new 2K restoration breakout Arrow Video looks and sounds fantastic, it's a significant bound in quality over the 88 Films release from last assemblage and loaded with extras!