PRESS RELEASE BLACK RAINBOW (15) RELEASE DATE Fast sell: On Blu-ray 6th July, 2020 Mike Hodges (Flash Gordon, Get Carter) wrote and directed this supernatural chiller as a meditation on the Running time 103 mins human race’s ability to destroy the world, a gothic tale of suspense and the occult, guaranteed to send shivers down Price £24.99 your spine. Cat No FCD2023 Synopsis: Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette, Pulp Fiction, Crash) is a KEY TALENT INFORMATION travelling clairvoyant on the road with her sceptic father (Jason Robards, Once Upon a Time in the West, Magnolia). Director During a séance Martha communicates a message from • Mike Hodges a dead man to his wife in the audience. Shocked, the wife insists her husband is still alive. Later that evening Stars the husband is killed by a ruthless assassin. As Martha • Rosanna Arquette foresees more and more tragic events journalist Gary • Jason Robards Wallace (Tom Hulce, Amadeus, Animal House) follows the • Tom Hulce pair in pursuit of a hot story… with catastrophically eerie results. We like it because: CONTACT/ORDER MEDIA Sent direct-to-video by its struggling distributor on initial [email protected] release, Black Rainbow unfairly never got the exposure it deserved, newly restored from the original negative audiences can now discover the darkness at the end of the rainbow, as never before. Special Features: DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: - Brand new restoration from the original negative approved by writer-director Mike Hodges - Original stereo 2.0 PCM uncompressed audio and 5.1 2 John Street, London, WC1N 2ES Tel: 0203 405 4312 Web: fetch.fm DTS-HD Master Audio Surround Sound options - Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing - New audio commentary by fi lm historians Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan - Archival audio commentary by Mike Hodges - Message in a Bottle: Archival ‘Making of’ documentary - Archival interviews with Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Rosanna Arquette - Archival featurettes ‘8 Minutes’; ‘Disasters’; ‘Seeing the Future’; ‘Behind the Rainbow’ featuring interviews with Hodges, Arquette, Robards, producer John Quested including behind-the-scenes imagery - Trailer - Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the fi lm by author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Mike Hodges and more illustrated with stills Editor’s Notes: Genre: Horror Language: English Subtitles: English SDH Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audio: 5.1/2.0 Colour Discs: 1.