The Wind

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What would you do if going outside meant being killed by a raging hurricane, but staying indoors meant being hacked to pieces by a sickle wielding maniac? Arrow Video proudly presents The Wind, from prolific genre filmmaker Nico Mastorakis, the director behind such cult classics as Hired to Kill and Island of Death.

When mystery novelist Sian Anderson (Meg Foster, They Live) arrives in the remote Greek town of Monemvasia, Elias Appleby (Robert Morley, The African Queen), the pompous British landlord of the house she’s renting warns her of two dangers: the wind, which gets dangerously strong at night, and Phil (Wings Hauser, Vice Squad), his sleazy and suspicious American handyman. As night falls and the wind starts howling, Sian witnesses the shocking sight of Phil burying Elias’s dead body in a shallow grave in his front garden! Trapped indoors from the raging, tree-branch-breaking wind, Sian must play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the murderous Phil, who’ll stop at nothing to silence this inconvenient witness!

A tense and thrilling blend of Euro-horror and late 80s slasher, The Wind is a stalk ‘n’ slash hidden gem, presented here for the first time on Blu-ray. Get ready to be blown away!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• New restoration by Arrow Films from a 4K scan of the original negative, approved by writer-director Nico Mastorakis
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Optional Greek subtitles
• Original DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround and LPCM Stereo 2.0 Audio
• Blowing The Wind - Brand new interview with Director Nico Mastorakis
• The Sound of The Wind - The complete soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and Stanley Myers
• A collection of trailers for the films of Nico Mastorakis
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and author Kat Ellinger

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I know this is a very low bar to clear, but this is easily the best Mastorakis film Arrow has released so far. That doesn't mean it's great, but it is competent and effective in simple horror movie terms. And those terms are very simple indeed: it's basically a straightforward cat-and-mouse game between one psycho and one victim without any real twists or red herrings. Or, at least, none that land. I suspect that, at a couple of points,

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we're expected to think that Meg Foster's character might be imagining - or even perpetrating - the whole thing, but that possibility is so half-heartedly supported that it's barely there, and it if it, it's quickly abandoned.

It's decently acted, well-shot, and has a sensational setting that's pretty well used.