Release Date: October 22, 2025
Format: 4K UHD and Blu-ray (UK)
Distributor: Indicator
Plot of Fear (1976) arrives on 4K UHD and Blu-ray in the UK from Indicator on October 22. Directed by Paolo Cavara, the film stars Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido, Tom Skerritt, and Eli Wallach in a dark and twisted thriller.
Inspector Lomenzo investigates a string of bizarre murders, each linked by a page from the German children’s book Shock-Headed Peter left at the crime scenes. Guided by a fashion model and a surveillance expert, Lomenzo is led into a decadent underworld frequented by the elite.
Co-written by Bernadino Zapponi, a long-time collaborator of Federico Fellini, the film also features a unique erotic animation sequence by Francesco Maurizio Guido, also known as Gibba.
Plot of Fear is a disturbing and gripping giallo, and it is currently available for pre-order.
Indicator also revealed that Hitch-Hike (1977) will be coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD in October.
Plot of Fear (1976) 4K UHD & Blu-ray Special Features
- New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
- 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original Italian and English mono soundtracks
- Audio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth (2025)
- Interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini (2025)
- New presentation of a 2013 interview with actor Corinne Cléry (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with screenwriter Enrico Oldoni (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with actor Michele Placido (2025)
- Newly edited archival interview with director Paolo Cavara’s son, Pietro Cavara (2025)
- Video essay by Ercolani looking at the cast of Plot of Fear (2025)
- Original trailers
- New and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Adrian J Smith, archival writing on the work of director Paolo Cavara, an archival career-spanning interview with screenwriter Bernadino Zapponi, an archival profile of animator Gibba, and film credits
- World premiere on 4K UHD
- Limited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UK
