SYMPTOMS coming from BFI and another surprise!

[rob4]

Rejoice a long lost Brit horror is coming to DVD/Blu ray. From the website:

'Last but not least is a title which has been rescued from the BFI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list (the record of important British feature films that are considered lost) after the recent discovery of the original negative: José Ramón Larraz’s dark and disturbing Symptoms (1974). Britain’s official Palme d’Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, the film was given the briefest of theatrical releases, but aside from a screening on British television in the early 80s it disappeared into obscurity. The BFI’s Flipside release presents the film in a stunning new restoration along with a wealth of essential extra features, including new interviews with its stars Angela Pleasence and Lorna Heilbron, and is being produced in collaboration with the great US label Mondo Macabro.'

Also from BFI:

'...released in standalone Blu-ray and DVD editions will be Allan Clarke’s extraordinary adaptation of David Rudkin’s remarkable Penda’s Fen. Never before released on any home video format...'

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[bluetomb]

Classy stuff as I recall. Autumnal and eerie. Angela Pleasance very good. Although apparently its a bit of a rip off of Repulsion, which to my great discredit I've not actually seen.

Hopefully Larraz's Deviation may follow. The print of Symptoms that's circulated over the years is pretty reasonable but Deviation hasn't been seen in good shape probably since its first release.

[Jojo Lapin X]

It has very little (nothing, I would say) to do with REPULSION. It is a great film in its own right.

[bluetomb]

I had another read of the review of Symptoms that claims this. It's here thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/symptoms-1973.html. To me, the points made sound like pretty well entrenched psychological horror tropes that may have appeared earlier in Repulsion but don't seem like swipes unless the camera moves/shot compositions etc. are the same. I read the review some time ago and I guess I just remembered the comparison as more substantial than it was.