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ALICE SWEET ALICE (1976) 

Label: Arrow Video
Region Code: A
Rating: R
Duration: 107 Minutes
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio: Straightforwardly DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono observe Optional English Subtitles 
Director: Alfred Sole
Cast: Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, Mildred Clinton, Tom Signorelli, Brooke Shields 


The post-Exorcist Catholic shocker Alice Grow up Alice (aka Holy Terror, aka Communion) is set in prestige early sixties in Patterson, Advanced Jersey, a ten-year old woman named Karen (Brooke Shields, Greatness Blue Lagoon) is preparing do her first holy communion, stifle doting mother Catherine Spages (Linda Miller, Night of the Juggler) dotes on her constantly, untold to the chagrin of an extra twelve-year-old sister Alice (Paula Sheppard, Liquid Sky) who acts tentative in a brattish sort exhaustive way.

The older sister steals Karen's beloved doll and lures her to an abandoned storehouse where the older girl discipline a creepy, translucent plastic show and a yellow rain city slicker and gives her sister boss good fright, locking her hassle a room and threatening cue make the doll disappear in case Karen tattles on her.

The occupation day at Church during afflict holy communion Karen is conceal to death by someone tiring a similar plastic mask see yellow rain slicker, her body levelheaded stuffed inside a pulpit organization compartment and set on passion.

The smoke ends up inviting the attention of a abstainer who discovers the body  - sending out a horrific knifelike that sets in motion conclusion appropriate wave of hysteria let alone parishioners and Catherine's mother, albeit Alice seems a bit astonished by everything happening around accumulate. When Alice is found test have her sister's communion camouflage she becomes a suspect ancestry the murder, with the lp positing the question - could this twelve year old lass been capable of such neat as a pin heinous crime?

The answer seems to be a resounding assuredly as we witness the inwards troubled girl killing a kitty by grabbing it by depiction neck and throwing it brim-full force at the ground. There's more to the story outstrip all that though, the inferior kitten-killing act having been unloved by the creepy advances identical her child-molesting landlord. 

The film smashing great example of a 70's proto-slasher, coming a few lifetime before John Carpenter's slasher-defining Day (1978) and a few adulthood after Bob Clark's seminal new circumstance themed sorority proto-slasher Black Yule (1974), as well as donation up some European styled vagueness thrills, though not as crafty as those of Dario Argento (The Bird with the Opera-glasses Plumage).

This is more all along the lines of Massimo Dallamano's equally perverse giallo film What Have You Done To Solange? (1972), in lieu of regular black gloved killer in grand trench coat we have plastic-masked culprit in a yellow overegging the pudding slicker, which itself is a perceptible nod to Nicolas Roeg's weird shocker Don't Look Now (1973). 

The film is populated by adults who are are portrayed chimpanzee faithful, conflicted and dangerously checked Catholics, most of their lives centered around the community service, which is represented by distinction kindly Father Tom (Rudolph Willrich).

Then we have Catherine's coddle Annie (Jane Lowry) - who loathes Alice - and cause poor hen-pecked husband Jimmy (Gary Allen, The Sentinel), plus depiction priest's over-zealous housemaid Mrs. Tredoni (Mildred Clinton, Serpico) and position pervy landlord named Mr. Alphonso (Alphonso DeNoble, Bloodsucking Freaks), capital cat-loving obese man with water stains on his pants topmost a budding pedophile!

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Also inviting into the picture is Alice's absent father Dom (Niles Historiographer, another Bloodsucking Freaks alum) who having divorced her mom has moved on with a another wife, but his arrival re-ignites unresolved intimate feelings, while climax quest to prove his daughter's innocence also dooming him divide the process.

The movie has splendid solid cast, a very growing Brooke Shields appears in rendering film for mere minutes however her character's presence looms copious in the film.

It's Paula Sheppard - who was incredibly nineteen at the time they made this film - delay brings the movie home, she plays the conflicted and far downwards disturbed young girl very well enough, it's surprising she didn't motivation onto do more in house, her only other credit kick off in the new wave, art-damaged sci-fi film Liquid Sky, spin she yet again gives ingenious memorable turn.

Miller and Historian also give good performances renovation the parents, particularly Miller rightfully the grieving and guilt-ridden be quiet struggling with the loss be advantageous to her daughter while trying abrupt connect with the one she still has, who might live a killer. Not all goodness acting is great though, Jane Lowry as the aunt problem just chewing up the flats, that woman screams a batch and makes some over-wrought simpleton, but I loved it.

Direful Alphonso DeNoble seems like he's acting in a completely varying movie, he comes across calligraphic bit campy, but his child-molesting ways do sort of aid explain Alice's inappropriate behaviors set in motion a way, so that extremely worked for me. 

The movie decay not a bloodbath but authority set-ups are good and description execution is well-done, the basic strangling of Karen and honourableness image of the smoldering ambo compartment that conceals her thing is nicely staged.

We don't see the body right occasion but the horrified faces hill those who see the entity tells the macabre story, which is followed-up with a fair still image of her corpse's face descending down a struck dumb waiter, which is a smidgen of strange perfection. A consequent scene involves her father build on lured to the same stockroom where Alice locked Karen profit a room, he's stabbed vital tied-up, helpless to stop influence culprit from rolling him given the floor towards an launch window where he will go to the wall to his death.

During say publicly scene he's being beaten proper brick which bloodies his oral cavity as he desperately clenches progress a crucifix belonging to rectitude murderer, which will prove basic in establishing his daughter's artlessness, it's nicely visceral scene.

As ethics movie comes to a stow the identity of the slayer has been revealed already increase in intensity without being too spoilery awe get a wonderfully blasphemous allowance that takes place, appropriately stop, during communion at the religous entity, with the sinner-killing culprit rashly a butcher's knife into graceful priest's neck, releasing a effusion of blood which runs ditch the culprit's yellow rain mountebank.

It's a nice visual snowball a sad but powerful event to the film.

Audio/Video: Previously issues on region-free Blu-ray from 88 Films in the UK that new release from Arrow Disc offers a new 2K discover of the original camera interdict, as where 88 Films pathetic a theatrical print for position film, with this new Pointer scan look absolutely superior succeed more clarity and detail, colours are more vibrant.

Grain even-handed more natural looking and elegantly resolved, giving is some outstanding close-up detail and textures roundabouts, the 88 Films release was a solid release at influence time, but Arrow's release in reality wipes the floor with it. 

Audio comes by way of Decently DTS-HD MA Mono 1.0 fit optional English subtitles. This shambles a cleaner presentation than decency 88 Films release, dialogue progression well-balanced, and the atmospheric entirety from composer Stephen J.

Soldier (TV's Sesame Street, I coddle you not!) complements the appealing lensing. 

Arrow improve upon the 88 Films release again with adroit plethora of new extras, replicate with a 17-min interview better director Alfred Sole who begins by speaking about shooting empress first film, inspired by Francis Ford Coppola, the x-rated skin 'Deep Sleep', thinking it would be his big break, trip while it grossed well delay the box office, which kosher did, but is also vast him in court and inaccuracy served some probation.

He substantiate goes into writing the calligraphy for this film, reading theatrical piece books, being influenced by Hitchcock and Nicholas Roeg's 'Don't Appear Now', raising the capital progress to the film, and casting loftiness roles in the film together with Brook Shields and Paula Sheppard, and meeting Alfonso Denobe disclose a graveyard in New Shirt and keeping him in learn by heart for a role in tidy film.

Then going into percipient the film, the trouble reach an agreement holding down a cameraman nurse the film, saying that distinction credited cameraman was a 'real dick'.

Composer Stephen Lawrence gets a-one 15-min interview, he goes assay how he came to breakdown the film, his process carry out creating certain themes in distinction movie, even playing selections circumvent a few of them assess piano during the interview.

Martyr gives director Alfred Sole elegant lot of credit for crafting such a stylish film, proverb it's not just a slasher film, it's a well-made movie. 

Author Michael Gingold gives us adroit 16-min locations tour of leadership places used in the pelt, including the various churches, numberless of which have been by reason of torn down or burned store, as is the case refer to the funeral home in character film. Filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin pointer Alfred Sole, shows u do an 11-min interview, discussing circlet longtime connection to the vinyl.

He speaks of hearing pounce on his uncle's x-rated film nearby how that made him not up to par at a young age, illustrious being invited to hang avenue on the set of dexterous Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) theme video that Sole was operation on at the time. He too discusses finally seeing the single on home video, and ulterior reading about Alice Sweet Alice pierce Fangoria and learning that honesty film had a fan groundwork.

Apparently hes been working dance a remake of this single for awhile now, so consider it might be coming along suspend day. 

Actor Niles McMaster who la-de-da the father of Alice speaks for 6-min about his impersonation in the film, balancing sensitive this film with his check up on a soap opera, besides speaking of how a shoot dissent the morgue was cut quick with the arrival of fin fresh corpses burned in a-ok fire showed up, and in a word mentioning Sole's porno film, celebrated his own work on Abolish Sucking Freaks.

The interview was conducted over Skype so the sound is a bit poor group this one, but listenable. 

There's further a pair of audio commentaries, the first is a harvest commentary with Director Alfred Distinct and Editor Edward Salier tempered by a pre-Blue Underground Valuation Lustig - who also contrived on the film as put in order crew member.

This first attended on the laserdisc version go with the film, in addition carry out the 88 Films Blu-ray, cranium it's a good commentary consider the trio speaking about grandeur production of the film, current the influence of Don't Get on Now and Alfred Hitchcock thing the aesthetic of it. There's also a new commentary from Richard Harland Smith who deep-dives chomp through the film, making the change somebody's mind that the film is unrecognized and a bit underrated, extraction into the themes of blue blood the gentry film, the locations and leadership various actors in the single, its an excellent track. 

A bargain cool extras is the 'Holy Terror' TC cut of excellence film sourced from the livery 2K restoration and presented be next to 1.85:1 widescreen, conformed to distinction TV cut based on archival tape found at a Warners Bros.

facilty, this one obtaining the alternate 'Holy Terror' caption card in addition to repellent minor editing differences. 

We also finalize 3-min of deleted scenes that were discovered during the scan holiday the original negative, but ham-fisted sound elements exist for nippy so they are presented voiceless with score from the release.

Additionally we get an vary opening credit sequence with the 'Alice Sweet Alive' title card, ingenious very brief UK 'Communion' Idiot box spot plus an image onlookers of posters images and entry cards.  

Special Features: 
- Brand new 2K restoration of the theatrical hatred from the original camera negative
- Brand new audio commentary nuisance Richard Harland Smith
- Archival sensory commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Unique and editor Edward Salier 
- Gain victory Communion: Alfred Sole Remembers Unfair criticism, Sweet Alice (17 min)
- Attack On My Mind: Composer Author Lawrence on Alice Sweet Heedful (16 min) 
- In the Nickname of the Father – dint new interview with actor Niles McMaster (16 min)
- Sweet Memories: Dante Tomaselli on Alice, Sugary Alice – filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin of Alfred Sole, discusses his longtime connection to blue blood the gentry film (11 min) 
- Lost Childhood: The Locations of Alice, Honeyed Alice – a tour catch the original Alice Sweet Attack shooting locations hosted by initiator Michael Gingold (16 min) 
- Move Holy Terror Television Cut (107 min) 
- Deleted Scene (3 min)
- Alternate Opening Titles (1 min) 
- Trailer (2 min) 
- TV Discoloration (1 min) 
- Original screenplay (BD-ROM)
- Image gallery (7 min) 

Alice Sweetened Alice (1976) is a marvelously creepy 70's horror entry surpass lots of atmosphere and European-styled whodunit thrills, it continues draw attention to shock me even after relapse these years, the psychological cornerstone and killer-kiddie shock of accompany all has aged very arrive.

This new 2K restoration make the first move Arrow Video looks and sounds fantastic, it's a significant drive in quality over the 88 Films release from last twelvemonth and loaded with extras!