1972 on 4K UHD

dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Part of the Hitchcock Classics Collection Volume 3 alongside Rope, Torn Curtain, Topaz, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Collectors consistently call Frenzy underrated and say the set is worth it for Rope and Frenzy alone. Hitchcock's most violent film, with a London serial killer plot that feels more like a 70s thriller than his usual style.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Bernardo Bertolucci

S-Tier Vinegar Syndrome 4K. Bertolucci's controversial 1972 film with Brando. VS picked this up, and the slipcover sold out fast with an alternate version available through Melusine. The behind-the-scenes story is widely known and comes up every time this film is mentioned. Whether VS should have released it is debated, but it's been in print on physical media for decades.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jean Rollin

Part of Indicator's expanding Jean Rollin 4K run, announced alongside The Escapees. The boutique crowd is happy Indicator keeps going deeper into Rollin's catalog. Grapes of Death and Iron Rose are the two most requested titles next. Niche even by boutique standards, but the people who want it really want it.

Indicator · Limited Editon

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Lucio Fulci

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Fulci's giallo. Arrow's Italian horror catalog keeps expanding.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Douglas Trumbull

Arrow's limited edition steelbook sold out quickly on Zavvi. The Zavvi deluxe version had impressive packaging, and the standard edition is the more accessible option. Collectors who already had the Blu-ray still upgraded because early 70s sci-fi photographed on film tends to benefit enormously from the resolution jump. A quiet, beloved film with a dedicated following.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Peter H. Hunt

Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.

dir. Michael Ritchie

A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.

dir. Werner Herzog

A-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Werner Herzog dragging a cast through the Amazon jungle, now in HDR. The behind-the-scenes stories are almost as famous as the film itself.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. Sidney Gilliat

A-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Agatha Christie adaptation with Hayley Mills.

StudioCanal · 4K Box Set (Agatha Christie: La Collection)

dir. Jimmy Sangster

StudioCanal's Hammer horror 4K rollout continues with this Jimmy Sangster-directed psychological thriller. Peter Cushing carries the film and the boarding school setting gives it a different atmosphere from the usual gothic Hammer catalog.

StudioCanal · Collector's Edition

dir. Lo Wei

A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Bruce Lee in the Shanghai setting. Arrow's martial arts catalog has been solid.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Luis Buñuel

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Bruce Lee

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Bob Clark

Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.

dir. Barry Shear

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

dir. Roy Ward Baker

A-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Agatha Christie adaptation with Hayley Mills.

Second Sight Films · Pre-Order

dir. Artie Mitchell, Jim Mitchell

Gloria is kidnapped and taken to a theater where she is told that she will have "the most exquisite moment of her life." She shares many sexual and intimate experiences on a stage in front of a small masked audience that grows increasingly aroused as the performance progresses.

dir. Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk's 1972 Eurotrash Bluebeard gets a 4K from Kino Lorber sourced from a new StudioCanal SDR master. The SDR detail is unusual since most 4K UHD pressings ship with HDR10 or Dolby Vision. The film itself is a notorious late-career Burton vehicle with Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Sybil Danning, and an Ennio Morricone score that's never had a transfer this clean.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Martin Scorsese

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.

dir. Gary Sherman

When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.

dir. Peter Sykes

One of the lesser-known Hammer films from the early '70s when the studio was experimenting beyond gothic horror. StudioCanal's Collector's Edition 4K is the first time this has been treated as anything more than a catalogue filler.

StudioCanal · Collector's Edition

dir. León Klimovsky

Waldemar Daninsky comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately, he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the fleshpots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul...

dir. Werner Herzog

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

dir. Kenji Misumi

Well Go USA brings the second Lone Wolf and Cub film to 4K, continuing the series rollout. Kenji Misumi's action choreography is among the most kinetic in 1970s Japanese cinema, and the practical blood effects benefit from HDR in ways that digital gore never could.

Well Go USA · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.

dir. Umberto Lenzi

A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.

dir. Jack Starrett

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.

dir. Eloy de la Iglesia

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

dir. Giuliano Carnimeo

A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.

dir. Michael Winner

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.

dir. Michael Winner

Brando's prequel to The Innocents is one of Michael Winner's stranger detours, and StudioCanal giving it a standalone 4K release is unexpected. The film leans harder into the psychosexual tension that Clayton's version only implied.

StudioCanal · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Waris Hussein

An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.

dir. Robert Young

After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.

Imprint · Limited Edition Hardbox