NEW RESTORATION!
An absolute jewel of mid-1980s Fulci, MURDEROCK may have less weird gore, but boy it amply makes up for it in pristine dream-horror vibes and sweaty dance numbers galore, with hypnotic ear-worm dance tracks by prog god Keith Emerson! Take your fave giallo and mix with Heavenly Bodies or Stayin’ Alive and you’re cooking. Everything you want for an October night at the movies. The new restoration from Vinegar Syndrome from the 35mm camera negative is a thing of beauty! (David Bertrand)
Candice Norman operates the hottest dance academy in town, with hoards of hopefuls dying to be admitted… maybe literally. Shortly after a trio of new students are accepted into Candice’s tutelage, a young female pupil is found murdered on campus, stabbed through the heart with a long pin. With the backbiting staff and students alike all rendered possible suspects, Candice is also plagued by haunting dreams involving a sinister man as the bodycount piles up. Who is this handsome stranger of her dreams? Could a bloodthirsty maniac from outside the school be preying upon the dancers? Or has the intense competition between dancers and staff turned one of them into a depraved killer???
Director Lucio Fulci’s (City of the Living Dead, The Beyond) final giallo and also his final film set in New York City, MURDEROCK (aka Murder-Rock: Dancing Death aka Murderock - Uccide a passo di danza), is amongst the maestro's last truly lavish productions, boasting stylized dance numbers (scored by legendary musician Keith Emerson) and surreal dream sequences between its labyrinthine mystery and gruesome killings. Starring Olga Karlatos (Zombie), Ray Lovelock (Autopsy), Claudio Cassinelli (Slave of the Cannibal God), Cosimo Cinieri (The New York Ripper), and Silvia Collatina (The House by the Cemetery). (Vinegar Syndrome)