481 Hitch-Hike
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:41 am
HITCH-HIKE
(Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977, 104 mins)
Release date: 20 October 2025
Limited Edition 4K UHD (World premiere)
Pre-order the 4K UHD here and the Blu-ray here.
(UK-only releases, but both are region-free.)
Franco Nero (Django, Force 10 from Navarone), Corinne Cléry (Plot of Fear), and David Hess (The Last House on the Left) star in Hitch-Hike (Autostop rosso sangue), a shocking tale of kidnapping and greed.
En route to Los Angeles, Walter (Nero) and Eve (Cléry) pick up a hitchhiker, Konitz (Hess). However, it soon emerges that Konitz is an escaped psychopath, who forces the couple to head to Mexico, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake...
An excursion into the thriller genre by commedia all’italiana specialist Pasquale Festa Campanile (The Libertine), scored by the great Ennio Morricone (The Big Gundown, Wolf), Hitch-Hike is a tense and twisting tale, shot through with jet-black humour.
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 release only]
• Two presentations of the film: Hitch-Hike, the English-language version; and Autostop rosso sangue, the Italian-language version
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with Italian genre film experts Eugenio Ercolani and Marcus Stiglegger
• Interview with first assistant director Neri Parenti (2025)
• Road to Ruin (2025) newly updated documentary by filmmaker Federico Caddeo delving into the production, release, and reception of Hitch-Hike, featuring cast and crew interviews
• In-depth documentary by Ercolani exploring the sub-genre of Italian rape and revenge films (2025)
• Exhaustive profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile by Ercolani (2025)
• Original trailers
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
• 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 new essay by Mikel J Koven, an archival profile of director Pasquale Festa Campanile, extracts from archival interviews with screenwriter Ottavio Jemma, composer Ennio Morricone, actors Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, and David Hess, 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
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697925074
