Plot Of Fear

(Paolo Cavara, 1976, 95 mins)

Release date: 20 October 2025
Limited Edition Blu-ray

Corinne Cléry (Hitch-Hike), Michele Placido (The Pyjama Girl Case), Tom Skerritt (Alien), and Eli Wallach (The Lineup) star in Plot of Fear (E tanta paura), a dark and perverse thriller from director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane, The Black Belly of the Tarantula).

Inspector Lomenzo (Placido) investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children’s book Shock-Headed Peter have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model (Cléry) and a surveillance expert (Wallach) to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful…

Co-written by long-time Federico Fellini collaborator Bernadino Zapponi (who also co-wrote Dario Argento’s Deep Red), and incorporating a specially produced erotic animation by Francesco Maurizio Guido aka Gibba (best-known for his comic cartoon King Dick), Plot of Fear is a disturbing and engrossing giallo.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
• 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
• Limited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UK