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From their "Hammer's House of Horror" screenings to their 21-movie Mario Bava spotlight and extensive Jean Rollin retrospective, New York's Quad Cinema has been an essential source for celebrating the horror genre's past, and they will continue to do so later this month with "Perversion Stories: A Fistful of Giallo Restorations."

Taking place November 23rd–29th at New York's Quad Cinema, "Perversion Stories: A Fistful of Giallo Restorations" will showcase digital restorations of Italian titles both beloved and lesser-known, including Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, Sergio Martino's Torso, Joe D’Amato's Death Smiles on a Murderer, and more.

Read on for more details on the giallo restoration screenings, and be sure to visit Quad Cinema's official website for additional information!

"Perversion Stories:

A Fistful of Giallo Restorations

November 23 – 29

The Quad offers up a selection of salacious and sinister Italian pulp—all screening in new digital restorations!

Review by Roger Carpenter

Before Joe D’Amato became Joe D’Amato, he was Aristide Massaccesi, a respected cinematographer and camera operator. As such, he was largely responsible for the look of films ranging from low-budget spaghetti westerns to gialli such as Umberto Lenzi’s A Quite Place to Kill and, most famously, Massimo Dallamano’s What Have You Done to Solange. Massaccesi first co-directed several small films before directing the war film Heroes in Hell as well as the giallo Death Smiles on a Murderer, both in 1973.

But D’Amato, who would use his famous pseudonym for the first time in 1975, would become (in)famous for his extreme horror titles and adult films beginning in the late 70’s and continuing until his death in 1999. He is perhaps most famous for his string of over-the-top gorefests like Beyond the Darkness (Aka Buio Omega), Anthropophagus, and Absurd as well as his...

As we get closer to the Memorial Day holiday here in the States, we have a new batch of home media releases this week for those of you looking to spend some quality time on your couches getting caught up with some fantastic films over the upcoming long weekend. Arrow Video has put together a special edition of Joe D’Amato’s Death Smiles on a Murderer, and Scream Factory is keeping busy with their Blu-rays for both Of Unknown Origin and The Vampire and the Ballerina, and for those of you looking to upgrade your Jurassic Park films, there’s a new 4K 25th Anniversary Collection featuring every film in the franchise that should scratch that itch.

Other notable releases for May 22nd include The Matrix in 4K, I Kill Giants, Soft Matter, Daphne & Velma, and Devil’s Weekend.

Death Smiles on a Murderer: Special Edition

A haunting and dreamlike gothic horror/giallo hybrid,...

Death Smiles On A Murderer starring Klaus Kinski and Ewa Aulin will be available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video on May 22nd

A haunting and dreamlike gothic horror/giallo hybrid, Death Smiles on a Murderer is a compelling early work from the legendary sleaze and horror film director Joe D Amato, here billed under his real name Aristide Massaccesi.

Set in Austria in the early 1900s, Death Smiles on a Murderer stars Ewa Aulin, as Greta, a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her illicit lover, the aristocrat Dr. von Ravensbrück. Bereft with grief, Franz reanimates his dead sister using a formula engraved on an ancient Incan medallion. Greta then returns as an undead avenging angel, reaping revenge on the Ravensbrück family and her manically possessive brother.

Presented here in a stunning 2K restoration, D Amato s film is a stately...