The House on the Edge of the Park (1980) aka La casa sperduta nel parco, directed by Ruggero Deodato, Severin 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical mono, English mono dub, commentary track, and English and Italian subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080503/

Video encoded in two-pass 11.5 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.

Text subtitles converted to SRT. Image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : In a series of exploitative Italian Last House on the Left ripoffs, this is perhaps the most exploitative of them all. How do you get there? Well, you just straight up hire David Hess, who was the main villain in the original, as your main villain, then get none other than Ruggero Deodato, fresh off making Cannibal Holocaust, to direct, and squeeze is as much nudity and semi-consensual sex as you absolutely can. The result is sleazy as all fuck, although there's a few interesting things going on, and in the end I'm mostly just stuck with how enjoyable an actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice was to watch, almost no matter what he was in.

In New York City, Alex follows a young woman to a park and rapes and strangles her, taking her locket as a trophy. Days later, at the garage where he works with his none too bright friend Ricky, a young couple pulls in just before closing, needing help with their car. Ricky helps them, despite Alex' protestations, and the yuppies invite the two to a party in New Jersey. Alex brings along his trusty straight-edge razor. At the party, the group of bored rich people get Ricky drunk and humiliate him before Alex steps in. One of the women teases Alex sexually, and a fight breaks out where Alex beats up the host and declares he runs the party now. A series of rapes and semi-consensual sexual encounters follow, punctuated by violence, but the hosts might not be so innocent, and indeed have plans of their own.

This is a pretty good looking remaster, with nice color and contrast, not overly sharp, but a pleasant viewing experience. Both mono tracks sound good (this film is Italian, but was shot in English), and the commentary track is pretty interesting.

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