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Cult Epic’s Angst – Blu-ray is Back by Popular Demand

Angst
1 Blu-ray disc
Label: Cult Epics

MSRP: $34.95
UPC: 881190014196
Catalog #: CE-141
Color, 87 minutes in English
All regions. Widescreen 1.85:1
DTS HD MA 5.1 Surround
Production year: 1983
Director: Gerald Kargl
Cast: Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither

ANGST, photographed by legendary Oscar-winning Polish animator/experimentalist Zbig Rybczynski and scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. Erwin Leder (Das Boot, Schindler’s List) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. As he stalks through the bland Viennese countryside, Schulze’s music pulses darkly, and Zbig’s innovative first-person camerawork grabs you by the throat, never letting go. Angst is one film that, without any empty hyperbole, we can guarantee you’ll never, ever forget.

Cult Epics presents for the first time since its original release, the Uncut, Uncensored (optically restored tunnel murder-scene) version in HD, with painstaking bonus features; including a new Interview with Erwin Leder, and Audio Commentary and an Interview with director Gerald Kargl conducted by Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik) and an Introduction by Gasper Noe (director of Irreversible, Enter The Void, Love), who cited Angst as an influence, ‘one that I have watched more than 40 times’.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • New High-definition Transfer
  • Optional playback with or without Prologue
  • New Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
  • Introduction by Gaspar Noe (2012)
  • Featurette: Erwin Leder in Fear (2015)
  • Interview with Gerald Kargl by Jorg Buttgeriet (2003)
  • Interview with cinematographer Zbigniew Rybzcynski (2004)
  • Audio Commentary by Gerald Kargl conducted by film critic Marcus Stiglegger
  • New HD Trailer
  • BD Exclusive: 40 Page perfect-bound Booklet includes Interviews with Gerald Kargl, Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, and Illustrated with rare photos and Werner Kniesek original Kurier articles
    Collectible Blu-ray Slipcase and Sleeve

Blacktooth

(Staff Writer) Lover of all things horror and metal. Also likes boobs and booze.

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