NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Arrow Blu-ray (June 2023): Arrow have transferred Lewis Teague's Fighting Back to Blu-ray. It looks fairly consistent in 1080P showing some of the less-resilient 80's stock issues of funky textures. It's on a dual-layered disc with a very high bitrate and the image is clean, with instances of depth and I doubt it could look much better in this format.

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On their Blu-ray, Arrow use a linear PCM 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. Fighting Back has plenty of violence; gunshots, brawls etc. and it comes through with surprising depth. There is a score by Piero Piccioni (Two Mules For Alex, Illustrious Corpses, Fox With a Velvet Tail, Three Brothers, Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, The 10th Victim, Adua and Her Friends, Hands Over the City,  L'assassino, The Moment of Truth) sounding very supportive of the film's action sequences via the lossless transfer. Arrow offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Arrow Blu-ray offers a new (2022), exclusive, 1/2 interview with director Lewis Teague who talks about filming Fighting Back as well as his experiences with Roger Corman, Dino De Laurentiis and more. It's entitled Enough is Enough! Also included is 22-minutes of Danny-Cam - an exclusive interview with camera operator Daniele Nannuzzi about his time working on Fighting Back. There is a UK trailer (with the title Death Vengeance,) a US TV Spot and an image gallery. The package includes a double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Insect, a reversible sleeve (original and newly commissioned artwork) and an illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critics Rob Skvarla and Walter Chaw, and a career-spanning interview with director Lewis Teague.

Lewis Teague's Fighting Back is more polished than your garden-variety vigilante themed action thriller. Teague (Cujo, Dirty O’Neil, The Jewel of the Nile) realizes the film well - perhaps overly ambitious - and Skerritt slides into the protagonist roll showing frustration, resolve and anger. Hurdles arise (political, spousal, a cop buddy as well as the black leader of a similar vigilante movement) and he overcomes - leading the citizens to regain their community park - not without some intense violence. I dunno, is it wrong to find satisfaction in these films? No, I guess it's not. There is also some gritty 80's nostalgia here and, luckily, the film gets an Arrow Blu-ray release - as they always do a wonderful job (a/v, extras, packaging etc.) I enjoyed this one and will be keeping it. Recommended!

Gary Tooze