Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) aka Communion (Uncut Arrow 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0) Alfred Sole Linda Miller Mildred Clinton Paula Sheppard Brooke Shields Jane Lowry Alphonso DeNoble Louisa Horton Antonino Rocca Lillian Roth hq

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Alice, Sweet Alice

Horror Mystery Thriller

Alice is a withdrawn 12 year old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn towards Alice. But could a twelve year old girl really be capable of such savagery?

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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) aka Communion, directed by Alfred Sole, Arrow remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical mono, two commentary tracks, and English SDH subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076150/

Video encoded in two-pass 12.5 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : Here's a gem that I think should be more widely seen. It's ostensibly a sort of psychological slasher, but it's also been called the most giallo American film ever made. The influence from Don't Look Now is evident, most obviously in the mysterious raincoat-clad killer, but the religious themes, weirdo characters, and sadistic violence are extremely giallo-like. There's also an abundance of interesting camera work, several solid performances, including from Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula Sheppard, Jane Lowry, a very young Brooke Shields in her feature debut, and Alphonso DeNoble, playing an extremely repulsive pedophile. As a curiosity, exploitation king William Lustig worked as an SFX makeup artist on this, and appears on one of the commentary tracks. If you like psychological slashers, giallo inspired films with religious themes, or morbidly obese men with shit-smeared sweatpants, this is the film for you.

In early 1960s New Jersey, divorced mother Catherine Spages' life is disrupted when one of her daughters, Karen, is murdered in church on the day of her first communion, and suspicion falls on the older sister, Alice. Catherine's ex-husband Dom starts his own informal investigation parallel with the official one lead by Detective Spina. Catherine's sister Annie moves in to help, but doesn't get along with Alice, and soon after Alice is nearly sexually molested by their perverted landlord Mr. Alphonso, Annie is attacked and stabbed by a masked figure in a raincoat. Annie blames Alice, who's sent to a psychiatric institution for evaluation, but while she's there, Dom is lured to an abandoned building and murdered, and the killer seems to have religious motives, so how does the friendly local priest fit into everything?

This remaster is quite nice, though a bit overly grainy in some sequences, but color and contrast are nice, and there's no film damage or dirt to speak of. Mono track is fine, commentary tracks quite interesting.

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General : Matroska / 9.73 GiB / 1 h 47 min / 13.0 Mb/s

Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 12.5 Mb/s / 1 920 x 1 036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 244 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 127 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by writer/director Alfred Sole, editor Edward Salier, and make-up FX artist Bill Lustig / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 132 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith / English

Text #1 : VobSub / 8 537 b/s / English SDH

Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Start
00:08:26.256 : Where You Going
00:16:32.700 : A Funeral
00:33:05.358 : Mr. Alphonso
00:42:03.021 : Is She All Right?
00:52:10.669 : The Rectory
01:02:03.345 : Could Be Angela
01:08:42.118 : The Meeting
01:16:08.981 : A Confession
01:25:16.486 : Strange Discovery
01:38:12.595 : Communion
01:45:31.617 : End Credits


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