Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet returns with renewed visual menace and psychological unease this month, as Shameless Films brings the giallo classic to 4K Uhd and Blu-ray on 28 April. Often overshadowed by its more widely celebrated successors, this final entry in Argento’s early ‘Animal Trilogy’ now gets the restoration it has long deserved, complete with Dolby Vision Hdr and a host of newly unearthed special features.

Originally released in 1971, Four Flies on Grey Velvet finds celebrated rock drummer Roberto Tobias, played by Michael Brandon, drawn into a surreal spiral of paranoia and death. After accidentally killing a stalker, Roberto becomes the unwilling target of a mysterious figure who seems to be toying with him. As the bodies pile up and reality starts to fracture, the only clue lies in an image reportedly captured on the retina of a dying victim. Equal parts murder mystery, psychological fever dream,...