Shameless Video Releases Argento’s ‘Four Flies on Grey Velvet’ to Blu-ray
by Marc Patterson
Exciting news for fans of Dario Argento. His long lost film from 1971, Four Flies on Grey Velvet will be getting a Blu-ray release this December from Shameless Video. What makes this especially noteworthy is that if fans remember correctly – this film saw a release to DVD in 2008 by Mya Communications. Here’s the thing – that’s the first time it was released anywhere – EVER. The disc itself was welcome, but came grossly underarmed with extras – extras that fans would want to delve into being that this film hadn’t been seen. This will be solved with Shameless Video’s upcoming release.
While Four Flies on Grey Velvet isn’t Argento’s goriest, or best giallo, it certainly was a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed it multiple times. The acid jazz intro itself is worth re-watching several times. Just light a big fatty and loop it. I digress. Here’s the details for this landmark release:
To mark the Fortieth Anniversary of its production, and twenty years after the film disappeared from the public eye, Shameless Screen Entertainment are aiming to release the first ever worldwide Blu-ray of Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet – remastered in HD from the original negative by the original lab.
It’s all a-buzz at Shameless! After two years of behind the scene negotiations via their “Italian connection”, Shameless Screen Entrainment is proud to announce that they will soon release the missing Argento opus: Four Flies on Grey Velvet – or, fact fans, what more accurately should be called Four Flies of Grey Velvet – as per the literal translation of Quattro Mosche Di Velluto Grigio.
It doesn’t stop there, Shameless have put their investigative caps on and – pending the availability of the original filmmaking team – they intend to discover for their fans what really happened to Dario Argento’s “lost” film…
Four Flies on Grey Velvet will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment on 5 December 2011.
