Blu-ray Release: What Have They Done To Your Daughters?

Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 14, 2018
Price: Blu-ray $25.19
Studio: Arrow/MVD

Arrow is drawing back the bow and preparing to fire on its latest giallo: 1972’s What Have They Done To Your Daughters? from filmmaker director Massimo Dallamano (Dorian Gray), who had broken new ground in the giallo genre a couple of years earlier with his harrowing What Have You Done to Solange?.

In this even darker semi-sequel to the original crime thriller, a teenage girl is found hanging from the rafters of a privately rented attic, pregnant and violated. Hot-headed Inspector Silvestri (Claudio Cassinelli, The Suspicious Death of a Minor) and rookie Assistant District Attorney Vittoria Stori (Giovanna Ralli, Cold Eyes of Fear) are assigned to the case, the scope of which grows substantially when they discover that the dead girl was part of a ring of underage prostitutes whose abusers occupy the highest echelons of Italian society. Meanwhile, a cleaver-wielding, motorcycle-riding killer roars through the streets of Brescia, determined to ensure that those involved take their secret to the grave.

Also starring Mario Adorf (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and Farley Granger (They Live By Night) and featuring an strangely catchy score by Stelvio Cipriani (Death Walks on High Heels), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? is considered to be one of the more fast-paced and brutal giallo entries.

Arrow’s Blu-ray edition of the film includes the following:

• 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original lossless Italian and English mono soundtracks
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
• Masters and Slaves: Power, Corruption & Decadence in the Cinema of Massimo Dallamano, a new video essay by Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine
• Eternal Melody, an interview with composer Stelvio Cipriani
• Dallamano’s Touch, an interview with editor Antonio Siciliano
• Unused hardcore footage shot for the film by Massimo Dallamano
• Italian theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais
• FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Mackenzie