dir. Antonio Margheriti
Margheriti's most-distributed adventure film and the hardest to see in clean form. US video was heavily cropped, UK and German releases were significantly censored, and what's been streaming for years sits in the wrong aspect ratio. The new scan restores the scope framing and the toy-car train chase that Bruno Mattei famously recycled in 1988's Cop Game.
Severin Films · Antonio Margheriti & The Jungles of Doom: His '80s Adventure Films
88 Films released a UHD in 2023 that already looked good. Severin's 2026 release uses the same 4K scan with color timing tweaks. The distinctive red lighting pops more in the new grade, and the slight pink push of the 2023 UK disc is gone. Severin is the better grade between the two. Extras add a second-unit interview, a writer interview, and a brief Margheriti archival.
Severin gives Margheriti's 1982 jungle pulp its first proper transfer after forty years of cropped, color-drained Vestron VHS bootlegs. The new scan from the original camera negative restores the 2.35 framing, and Margheriti's brief bursts of saturated jungle lighting finally come through. Extras span an archival Warbeck Q&A, behind-the-scenes interviews with assistant director Edoardo Margheriti, and a soundtrack CD shared with The Ark of the Sun God in the boxset packaging.
