7.6 U.S. Release Date For Raffaele Picchio’s 'MORITURIS':

Press Release: Raffaele Picchio’s Banned in Italy 'MORITURIS' Comes to the U.S. on DVD & Blu-Ray from Synapse Films This September!

Morit-bluOne of the most talked-about films of the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival, Raffaele Picchio’s MORITURIS quickly became con­tro­ver­sial for its scenes of extreme hor­ror, which got the film banned in in its home coun­try of Italy.

But over the years its rep­u­ta­tion has grown into that of a new Italian hor­ror clas­sic, rem­i­nis­cent of the works of Lamberto Bava (DEMONS) and Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE). Now, American audi­ences can see it for them­selves in eye-popping High Definition from Synapse Films!

Story: Two lovely Romanian girls take a trip with three Italian men to a rumored mid­night rave in the mid­dle of a dark for­est. As the gang pro­ceeds on foot to their final des­ti­na­tion, a mys­te­ri­ous grave­yard is dis­cov­ered, a shock­ingly vile plot twist is revealed and blood­thirsty undead Roman glad­i­a­tors rise from the dead to tor­ture and muti­late their vic­tims! For the two women, an already ter­ri­fy­ing night is about to get much, much worse, as the zomb­i­fied war­riors hunt down the group to tear their heads off! Will any­one sur­vive the night?

An inter­est­ing mix of old school 1980s Italian hor­ror, with a touch of the bru­tal­ity of Wes Craven’s THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, MORITURIS is an unflinch­ing, strong, cruel and extremely vio­lent film fea­tur­ing grue­some effects from Italian SPFX mae­stro, Sergio Stivaletti (DEMONS, DEMONS 2, DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, Dario Argento’s OPERA).

SPECIAL FEATURES (DVD and BLU):

* Original Theatrical Trailer
* Reversible Cover Art

NOT RATED / 2011 / 86 MINS. / COLOR / 5.1 SURROUND / 1.85:1/ BLU PRICE: $24.95/ DVD PRICE: $19.95/DVD CATALOG # SFD0157/BLU CATALOG # SFD0156/ BLU UPC: 654930317990/DVD UPC: 654930318096