The Card Player

In The Card Player, Dario Argento, the undisputed Master of Horror, reinvents the giallo for the digital age, channelling the anxieties of a newly networked world into the taut framework of a macabre police procedural. Argento's career-long obsession with sight, surveillance, and the camera as an instrument of violation finds a startling new form: the webcam as a murder weapon and the screen as a crime scene. It is an unflinching reckoning with horror in an age where anyone can watch anything - and anyone can be watched. When a sadistic, faceless killer begins abducting young women across Rome, he issues a monstrous challenge to the police: play high-stakes poker online via webcam. Win, and the victim is released. Lose, and her execution is streamed in real-time. Inspector Anna (Stefania Rocca - Nirvana, One Way) and Irish Interpol Agent John Brennan (Liam Cunningham - Game of Thrones) must hunt a "ghost in the machine" predator who treats murder like a spectator sport. Part of the "Evolutionary Argentos" - a quartet of fiercely inventive films straddling the millennium - this overlooked relentlessly tense horrific thriller reveals the Master at his most contemporary, confronting our rapidly changing world.

Special Features

Booklet, Commentary: Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson, Documentaries: 'On the Set of 'The Card Player'', Interviews: Dario Argento (writer/director/producer); Stefania Rocca (actor); Fiore Argento (actor); Walter Fasano (editor); Franco Ferrini (writer); Antonello Geleng (art director/production designer); Elisabetta Rocchetti (actor), Two-sided artcard; Original poster

Actors: Mia Benedetta, Vera Gemma, Claudio Santamaria, Pier Maria Cecchini, Cosimo Fusco, Fiore Argento, Antonio Cantafora, Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham

Audio Languages: English, Italian

Duration: 104 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English, English

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