Quattro dell'apocalisse, I/BluRay
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Known BluRay disc releases of Four of the Apocalypse.
USA / UK / Canada
- Label: Arrow Video
- Release date: December 11, 2023
- Savage Guns: Four Classic Westerns Vol 3 | Limited Edition 4-disc BluRay box with El Puro, I want him dead, Wrath of the Wind and Four of the Apocalypse.
- Region code: A / B
- Video: 1.85:1 / 2.35:1 1080p; 2K restorations (all four) from original 35mm camera negatives. El Puro newly restored by Arrow Films for this release; Italian and English front and end titles (all four).
- Audio: Restored original lossless mono Italian; English (all four)
- Subtitles: English for the Italian soundtracks; optional English HoH for the English soundtracks
- DISC 1 - I WANT HIM DEAD. Extras: new introduction by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli; new audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint; The Man Who Hated Violence - new interview with director Paolo Bianchini; Cut and Shot - new interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso; Nico Unchained - archival interview with composer Nico Fidenco; English theatrical trailer; Image gallery;
- DISC 2 - EL PURO: Two versions of the film: the 98min cut in Italian and English, and the longer, 108min version, assembled from the original camera negative and an archival print in both Italian and a newly created hybrid English/Italian mix (for some scenes and dialogue lines in the long version the Italian audio is lost or was never produced, these are in Spanish with English subtitles). Extras: new introduction by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli; new audio commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson; new interview with actor Robert Woods; new, in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composer, Alessandro Alessandroni, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- DISC 3 - WRATH OF THE WIND: 97min version plus alternate 106min Spanish-language version of the film, featuring additional and extended scenes not found in the Italian or English versions. Extras: new introduction by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli; new audio commentary by author and critic Howard Hughes; The Days of Wrath - new interview with camera operator Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli; They Call It... Red Cemetery! - a short film from 2022 by filmmaker Francisco Lacerda, serving as a love letter to the spaghetti western genre; Alternate "Revenge of Trinity" opening titles, newly restored for this release; Image gallery
- DISC 4 - FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE. Extras: new introduction by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli; new audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger; It Takes Four - previously unreleased interview with production manager Roberto Sbarigia; new, in-depth appreciation of the film by author, critic and Lucio Fulci scholar Stephen Thrower; new, in-depth appreciation of the soundtrack and its composers, Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera, by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon; Newly restored theatrical trailer; Image gallery
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by author and critic Howard Hughes; Fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx; Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
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France
- Label: Studiocanal
- Release date: February 22, 2023
- Double feature: Four of the Apocalypse and Kill them all and come back alone
- DVD/BluRay combo Digipak with booklet
- No56 of the "Make my day" collection, signed by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
- Runtime Four of the Apocalypse BluRay: 104min (1.85:1 1080p HD), DVD: 100mins PAL
- Runtime Kill them all and come back alone BluRay: 100min (2.35:1 1080p HD), DVD: 96mins PAL
- Subtitles: French
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Germany
- 2-for-1 includes Dollaro bucato, Un and Quattro dell'apocalisse, I
- Release date: September 29, 2020
- Label: Sedna Medien & Distribution (re-release)
- SWDb fact check: This is nothing but a plastic wrap around the previous VZ single disc release of Four of the Apocalypse and the VZ/Silvafilm release of One Silver Dollar. The "cover" pictured here is the paper that is stuck to the back.
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- Release date: January 28, 2020
- Single disc re-release
- Label: VZ-Handelsgesellschaft / X-Rated
- Audio: Italian, English, German DTS-HD MA 2.0
- Subtitles: German (forced on English or Italian track)
- Extras: audio commentary with Oliver Noeding and Pelle Felsch; Music of the Apocalypse; English and German trailer; textless opening and end; advertisting materials; Pelle Felsch about Lucio Fulci; Tenebrarum - Maciaras Ende; Tenebrarum - Lucio Fulcis journey to splatter icon; Tenebrarum - Fulci the tender man for the rough; German opening credits.
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- Limited re-release
- Label: X-Rated
- Retro VHS package, low double-digit number of copies available
- Label: VZM
- Release date: June 19, 2018
- Re-release (2-Disc Complete Edition)
- Specs identical with previous releases
- forced German subs on English and Italian audio
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- Label: X-Rated
- Release date: January 28, 2018
- Re-release as "big hardbox", several cover options
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- Verdammt zu leben, verdammt zu sterben (Four of the Apocalypse)
- Label: X-Rated / VZ Handel / LFG
- Eurocult collection #34
- Release date: August 31, 2017
- Region B
- Video: 1.85:1 widescreen 1080p
- Cover A limited to 444 copies, cover B to 444 copies and cover C to 222 copies
- Audio: German (theatrical dub), Italian, English
- Subtitles: German, English (not listed, but confirmed)
- 16 page booklet; audio commentary with Pelle Felsch and Christian Kessler; interview with Fabio Frizzi; "tenebrarum" films in HD by Martin Beine about Fulci; trailers
- Also includes DVD version of the film
- Buy now: From Amazon.de (cover b / cover c) | From Amazon.nl
UK
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Canada
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USA
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