Contraband

Fabio Testi (REVOLVER) stars as Luca Di Angelo, an idealistic family man and cigarette smuggler in the treacherous Naples underworld. But when a rival gang massacres his brother and abducts his wife, Luca triggers a psychotic mob war that goes far beyond mere revenge.Get ready for a crime saga unlike anything you've ever seen before as director Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE) unleashes the most gut-splattering, brain-blasting, flesh-frying scenes of cruelty and carnage imaginable. This is CONTRABAND!

Marcel Bozzufi (THE FRENCH CONNECTION) co-stars in this depraved shocker (also known as THE NAPLES CONNECTION and THE SMUGGLER) that most Fulci fans have only seen in censored versions. Blue Underground is now proud to present CONTRABAND fully restored from the original negative for the first time ever in America!

EXTRAS

Theatrical Trailer
Talent Bios

Tech Specs

Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English
1.85:1 / 16x9
1980
97 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0

Lucio Fulci's CONTRABAND is a wild ride through the trials of a Naples smuggling ring
run by "Capo's". Things are going splendidly, until a dandified Frenchman moves into the area and begins wasting people in the ring in order to take over the distribution side of their organization for the new product he is bringing in. The dope. Needless to say, this irks our hero and his friends NO END, and they decide to go after the bastard as opposed to accepting his offer to join forces and let bygones be bygones. There are some really cool gore effects in this movie, but hey its a Fulci, so you knew that already. Fabio Testi has become one of my favorite actors, and he does a wonderful job as Luca, one of the Capo's. Things get out of hand for Luca, and at a rather cool twist ending, all the retired capo's (who we never see through out the film, save watching their TV sets) come out for one last show down, with this French upstart. Very cool. The younger generation was all killed, so the old guys put the remotes down and load the shotguns and set a brilliant ambush of the bad guys. Very cool movie, lots of action, some really cool shoot outs, and enough comedy to keep you smiling between the murders and mob killings.

Once again, Ive opted to let my room-mate get his 2 cents in ont hsi movie review, and well, i guess for an english teacher he just isnt very serious, but never the less, here is what he had to say...


Luca, an upstanding Capo and family man, uh, hmm, he, um, fuh, follows the footsteps
of Don Corleone in not wanting to deal in the drug trade. Despite the fact that his wife uh, yeah, gets a little roughed up, he refuses to buckle under pressure. Amidst all this chaos, his hair and shirts and sweater jackets are flawless, for this reason we can say that he made the right decision. Chock full of uh, ah, macabre and campy shootouts, CONTRABAND is a blood and guts melange, well suited for the connoisseur of, uh, of German broads getting their face burnt. Excellent pick.


Thanks BU for another one from the vaults!