The Card Player (4K Ultra HD)

The Card Player4K Ultra HDGenre: World CinemaLabel: ShamelessDescription: In The Card Player Dario Argento the undisputed Master of Horror reinvents the giallo for the digital age channelling the anxieties of a newly networked world into the taut framework of a macabre police procedural. Argento's career-long obsession with sight surveillance and the camera as an instrument of violation finds a startling new form: the webcam as a murder weapon and the screen as a crime scene. It is an unflinching reckoning with horror in an age where anyone can watch anything - and anyone can be watched. When a sadistic faceless killer begins abducting young women across Rome he issues a monstrous challenge to the police: play high-stakes poker online via webcam. Win and the victim is released. Lose and her execution is streamed in real-time. Inspector Anna (Stefania Rocca - Nirvana One Way) and Irish Interpol Agent John Brennan (Liam Cunningham - Game of Thrones) must hunt a ghost in the machine predator who treats murder like a spectator sport. Part of the Evolutionary Argentos - a quartet of fiercely inventive films straddling the millennium - this overlooked relentlessly tense horrific thriller reveals the Master at his most contemporary confronting our rapidly changing world.