Kino Lorber Releases Jess Franco’s Death Packs A Suitcase Blu-ray This October
Kino Lorber is releasing Death Packs A Suitcase (1972) on Blu-ray this October under their Kino Cult line.
Death Packs A Suitcase is spine #38 in the Kino Cult Line. It features German audio with optional English subtitles and comes with a NEW audio Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson.
It will release on October 14, 2025 and is currently available for pre-order from kinolorber.com.
Synopsis
A black-gloved killer stalks London, packing the suitcases of their victims before murdering them with an exotic dagger. Surrounded by potential suspects but lacking hard evidence, a smooth-talking Inspector (Fred Williams, The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse) seeks the help of famous crime-novelist Charles Barton (Horst Tappert, German TV’s Derrick). Euro-horror filmmaker Jess Franco took a break from his decadent sex thrillers (Vampyros Lesbos) to demonstrate his versatility with this whodunit. Working carefully within the genre of the German “Krimi” film, Franco nevertheless managed to infuse the film with personal touches: dynamic camerawork, seductive women, comic flourishes, all set to a jazz soundtrack by Rolf Kühn. Also released as Der Todesrächer von Soho (The Avenger of Soho), Death Packs a Suitcase was adapted from a story by Bryan Edgar Wallace, who carried on the literary tradition of his father, legendary mystery-writer Edgar Wallace (The Dark Eyes of London).
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