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PLOT OF FEAR
(Paolo Cavara, 1976, 95 mins)
Release date: 20 October 2025
Limited Edition 4K UHD (World premiere)

Pre-order the 4K UHD here and the standard Blu-ray here.
(They're UK-only releases, but region-free.)

Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).

Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children’s book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful...

Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento’s Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
• 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) [4K UHD only]
• Original Italian and English mono soundtracks
• Audio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth (2025)
• Interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini (2025)
• New presentation of a 2013 interview with actor Corinne Cléry (2025)
• Newly edited archival interview with screenwriter Enrico Oldoni (2025)
• Newly edited archival interview with actor Michele Placido (2025)
• Newly edited archival interview with director Paolo Cavara’s son, Pietro Cavara (2025)
• Video essay by Ercolani looking at the cast of Plot of Fear (2025)
• Original trailers
• New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Adrian J Smith, archival writing on the work of director Paolo Cavara, an archival career-spanning interview with screenwriter Bernadino Zapponi, an archival profile of animator Gibba, and film credits
• World premiere on 4K UHD
• Limited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UK
• All features subject to change

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BBFC cert: 18 TBC
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697925050

Finally in 2025, Indicator added the film to its sterling roster of Raro title upgrades with separate UHD and Blu-ray editions in the U.K. featuring a tremendously upgraded new scan from the original negative. Here you get much more detail, healthier colors (especially with the HDR10-compatible Dolby Vision on the UHD), and a substantial extra amount of image info on all four sides. The English and Italian tracks are here in LPCM 1.0 mono, both sounding solid, with optional and improved English-translated or SDH subtitle options.