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

ADDITION: Mondo Macabro Blu-ray (August 2023): Mondo Macabro have transferred Kostas Manoussakis's The Fear (O fovos) to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "brand new 2K restoration from the original negative". Close-ups in 108)P can look strong but the image may have had some black level boosting. Aside from, what appears to be, compression issues - the image is very appealing. It's on a dual-layered disc with a max'ed out bitrate and exports the subtitles of shadows extremely well. Textures are prominent but the image has little depth. Taking a marginalized source into account - I would say this is somewhat of a triumph in terms of rendering this to a less-remarkable, but pleasing, HD presentation.     

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On their Blu-ray, Mondo Macabro use a 2.0 channel DTS-HD Master track (16-bit) in the original Greek language. The Fear (O fovos) certainly has aggressive sequences - that come through surprisingly effectively in the lossless audio transfer. The score was by Giannis Markopoulos (who died two months ago - June 2023 - at age 84), sounding clean and augmenting the film's suspense. This was decent and effective support for the film. Mondo Macabro offer optional English subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

The Mondo Macabro Blu-ray offers a a 50-minute documentary about the film and director Kostas Manoussakis ("Kostas Manoussakis: The Exiled Filmmaker") and a short video; Remembering Elena Nathanail about the actress who played 'Anna Kanali' in The Fear (O fovos). There is also a gallery of stills and artwork and the package has a full color booklet with brand new writing on the film by Jacques Spohr.

The Fear (O fovos) was the third, and final, film made by Kostas Manoussakis and is somewhat of a masterwork of Greek cinema. Impulsive low-intelligence and voyeuristic farmhand Anestis, played by Anestis Vlahos, toils in the beautiful Greek countryside for his parents; a drinking father (Alexis Damianos), and his disapproving second wife (Mari Chronopoulou.) Anestis's criminal foray into carnal indulgence goes horribly awry - sexually assaulting the family's deaf-mute maid, and Manoussakis' dramatic fast-cuts exemplify the tragedy. We are left with a brave, remorseless piece of 60's psychosexual, international, cinema. The Fear (O fovos) has been forgotten - out of the conversation - when it desperately deserves to be involved with with forgotten stars; Elena Nathanail, Elli Fotiou, Mairi Hronopoulou etc. I'm so very pleased to have seen, and own, the Mondo Macabro Blu-ray. A very high recommendation!

Gary Tooze