Actually this is one of the better Bava flicks with a good, familiar cast. Music is also fine, but I'm still curious how it would've been with the intended Carl Orff music. Some gory scenes, though not overly gory. Some great tense scenes and a nice enough plot including the obligatory plotholes With Tomas Arana (La Chiesa/ The Church) and ofcourse Giovanni Lombardo Radice! (aka. John Morghen) Recommended to any Euro enthousiast! I have the Dutch DVD which is fine (OAR and DTS) but could do with an upgrade, so I'll probably pick up the Raro US DVD soon. Not much talk on the 'net about this one, so I though I'd start a thread http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101493/ An older review: http://www.mondo-digital.com/bodypuzzle.html I like it
I've run across two versions of the film on DVD but was unable to find out what the original aspect ratio was,could you please tell me ? I've wanted to see this for some time but wanted to be sure I screened it properly.
Thanks ! Some source books say the film was made for TV,others don't so I was never really sure.At least one DVD I saw of it was full frame.
1.66:1 is very common in Europe. This might in fact be originally shot open matte. I think it was made for TV, but I don't know for sure. It's not a kiddie show, that's for sure.
I just got the new Raro DVD from Amazon and here are my thoughts so far... the Amazon page says Italian language with English subtitles and the box says Italian language with English subtitles, so why is there only an English audio track and no subs? Hell, the box even says "New and improved English subtitles"! Well done... ...and it's not just not on the menus, VLC only shows an English audio track and no subtitle tracks. Edit: I just noticed the scan of the back of the box on Amazon is different than mine, it still mentions the "New and improved English subtitles" but then just says English language and doesn't mention any subtitles where mine says Italian with English subs. The details listed on the Amazon page itself, and on other retailer sites, still say Italian with English subs though. A review I just read mentions this also and doesn't make a big deal about it so maybe that was the plan all along? Pretty disappointing whatever the case...
Heard back from Raro regarding this and as expected the disc is only supposed to have the English language track. :/ That's disappointing about Murder Obsession as well, I've asked if the BD will be the same but I get the feeling I already know the answer, unfortunately. I have never seen and can't find an Italian Raro release of Body Puzzle but if it's out there I'll pick it up, got a link?
Ah, too bad. I was fairly sure that Raro didn't do an Italian release of Body Puzzle but I was hoping you'd prove me wrong! On a side note the Italian Murder Obsession disc has both Italian and English audio but I don't think there are subs of any kind, unfortunately. Edit: There's no mention on the box but the Raro Italy disc has subs. Maybe I'll get the BD after all...
