Following a car accident that leaves her husband dead, expectant mother Sarah (Alysson Paradis – The Childhood of Icarus) is left to prepare for her impending birth alone while grieving her terrible loss. But when a stranger (Béatrice Dalle – Betty Blue, Night on Earth) turns up at her house on Christmas Eve, things take a terrifying, unimaginably twisted turn… as the deranged intruder will stop at nothing to take her unborn baby.

The Inside Limited Edition Blu-ray Box set is presented in a stunning rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal and includes a 70-page book with new essays. The special features include: new audio commentaries by Anna Bogutskaya and Elena Lazic, brand new interviews with the writer/directors Maury and Bustillo, and many more.

There is also a Standard Edition Blu-ray out now that includes the special features.

Go deep Inside this welcome new addition to the family collection.

Special Features:

• New audio commentary by Anna Bogutskaya
• New audio commentary by Elena Lazic
• First Born: a new interview with co-writer/directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
• Labour Pains: a new interview with actor Alysson Paradis

• A New Extreme: a new interview with producer Franck Ribière
• Womb Raider: a new interview with cinematographer Laurent Barès
• Reel Action: a new interview with stunt coordinator Emmanuel Lanzi
• The Birth of a Mother: Jenn Adams on Inside

Limited Edition Contents:

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal
• 70-page book with new essays by Chad Collins, Kat Ellinger, Annie Rose Malamet and Hannah Strong
• 6 collectors’ art cards

Inside Limited Edition Blu-ray Box set 

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Inside Standard Edition Blu-ray

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Prepare for some pulse-racing, heart-pounding High Tension. The fantastic French horror from Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D) gets a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release from masters in the field Second Sight Films.

A new entry to the French extremity movement on its release in 2003, this fearsomely violent slasher stars Cécile de France (The French Dispatch, Around the World in 80 Days) and Maïwenn (One Deadly Summer, The Fifth Element), as two best friends whose sleepover goes shockingly awry. This brutally violent, fear-fuelled cult classic arrives in the Limited Edition and Standard Edition 4K and Blu-ray versions, on 22nd January 2024.

Alex (Maïwenn) and Marie’s (Cécile de France) study-weekend takes a savage turn, when a murderous maniac (Philippe Nahon – Irreversible), turns up on their doorstep. As Alex’s family is gruesomely picked off one-by-one, and one of them is taken hostage, a white-knuckle pursuit ensues… as Marie desperately battles to save them both from becoming his next victims.

Brimming with bloody violence and with a wicked twist in its tail, High Tension is one tense, terrifying terror ride you won’t be able to take your eyes off…

The brand-new box set is presented in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal with both discs featuring the film and bonus features. It comes with a 70-page book featuring new essays and the UHD is presented in HDR10+ and is the only approved HDR version of the film by the director. There’s also a host of brand-new interviews along with archive content. Please see full details below.

Special Features:

● Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
● UHD presented in HDR10+ approved by director Alexandre Aja
● New audio commentary by Dr Lindsay Hallam
● An Experiment in Suspense: a new interview with Alexandre Aja
● The Man in the Shadows: a new interview with Writer Grégory Levasseur
● The Darker The Better: an interview with Cinematographer Maxime Alexandre
● The Great French Massacre: an interview with Special Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi
● Only the Brave: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on High Tension
● Archive ‘Making of’ featurette
● Archive Interview with Cécile De France
● Archive Interview with Maïwenn
● Archive Interview with Philippe Nahon

Limited Edition Contents:

● Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal
● 70-page book with new essays by Anna Bogutskaya, Prince Jackson, Stacie Ponder and Zoë Rose
Smith
● Six collectors’ art cards

High Tension Limited Edition 4K UHD/ Blu-ray Box set

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            Region: 4K/UHD region free / Blu-ray region B

High Tension Standard Edition 4K UHD

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            Region: Free

High Tension Standard Edition Blu-ray

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            Region: B

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Jean Rollin was one of the later to become Eurocult cinema’s most misunderstood personalities. These creators imbue their personalities in their work, unlike mainstream directors. Mainstream will say they create unique stories or camera angles with the full knowledge that it all comes down to one from a studio. ​The Diabolique films team of Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger who Directed, Wrote & Produced this roughly two-hour documentary has done a solid job without being academically dry.

Orchestrator of Storms (2022) features lips and interviews with key people in Rollin’s past. The fact that he was raised among French intellectual elites, thanks to his mother Denise’s friendship with figures such as Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Jean Cocteau, and others who would go on in the world of theatre, film and art. Interestingly the aspect of the more worldly palatable French New Wave film movement is put in perspective as an opposition to the surrealist element that was going at the same time plus pepper in the social upheavals such as the 1968 student strike that evolved into something more. The atmosphere was ripe with new ideas to be formed and Jean Rollin was in the middle of this,

The film works well blending interviews with Jean’s family, including son Serge, and close family friend Véronique D-Travers. Rollin had to constantly fight for funding over the dominant French New wave which itself had to battle for money. Later Jean Rollin fell into ill health and was forced to take jobs beneath one yet for the money as in the case of working in the more, new permissive world of legalized Porn.

Jean Rollin was also a writer of books as well in the grand tradition of French literature and subversive tales. These and other factors plus interviews with stars like Brigitte Lahaie and others bring together the forgotten lonely world that Rollin worked. The drive to be recognized even within his own country was strong and now Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (2022) brings it to perspective.

Rollins’s various vampire films along with what was known La Morte Vivante (1982) or the English: The Living Dead Girl which at the time were done in the genre world dominated by Hammer studios were in their decline. The symbolism, the eroticism that was only hinted at by Hammer due to censorship is shown in its full glory of evil, blood and sex. The Vampire becomes not unlike the sensual work of another French sensualist, the subversive figure Roger Vadim who produced a print anthology and the films Spirits of the Dead (1968) and Blood and Roses (1960).

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (2022) is a brisk tour of the work of Jean Rollin and the people who fell within his orbit. Not to be missed at all for the sumptuous detail in visuals, and interviews with some genuine potent moments of the human side of an artist who was misunderstood. A very different and refreshing look is brought out in this film that will pull you into its narrative of the singular world of Jean Rollin.

Review by Terry Sherwood

ARROW have released Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin, to its subscription-based platform available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.

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