Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets Starring Boris Karloff Getting A BFI Blu-ray Release
The BFI are set to give Peter Bogdanovich‘s Targets it’s first UK Blu-ray release later this month. A film which is a thrilling crime drama that launched the filmmakers career starring the legendary horror icon Boris Karloff.
Both a comment on the terrors of contemporary America and homage to the horror films of Roger Corman. It was also rightly hailed as one of the most powerful films of the late 1960s.
Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is a retiring horror-star bidding farewell to the limelight. Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) is an unassuming but disturbed Vietnam veteran who suddenly embarks on a murderous shooting rampage. As Byron makes one final public appearance, their worlds collide as Bobby brings carnage to a suburban Los Angeles drive-in cinema.
The Blu-ray will come with a raft of extras including an audio commentary by the director from 2003, a new audio commentary by Peter Tonguette, a filmed interview with Boris Karloff’s daughter Sara Karloff, a filmed interview with Stephen Jacobs, author of Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster and more.
Special features
- New restoration supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich
- Audio commentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2003)
- New audio commentary by author and film critic Peter Tonguette
- Targets: An Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich (2003, 14 mins)
- Hitting Targets: Sara Karloff on Her Father, Boris (2022, 40 mins): Boris Karloff’s daughter looks back on the life, career and legend of her famous father
- On Target: Boris Karloff in the 1960s (2023, 17 mins): Stephen Jacobs, author of Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, considers the great man’s final decade
- Gentleman of Horror (2023, 8 mins): a video essay on Boris Karloff by the BFI’s Vic Pratt
- The Guardian Interview: Peter Bogdanovich (1972, 42 mins): the director of Targets recounts tales of films and filmmaking at the National Film Theatre
- The Guardian Interview: Roger Corman (1970, 64 mins): the filmmaking legend who gave Peter Bogdanovich the opportunity to make Targets discusses his work
- Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Targets (2013, 3 mins): filmmaker Joe Dante provides his personal take on Targets
- Image gallery
- Newly commissioned sleeve art by Matt Needle
- ***First pressing only*** illustrated booklet with an introduction by Sara Karloff, essays by Jason Wood, Stephen Jacobs and Ellen Cheshire, credits and notes on the special features
USA / 1968 / colour / 90 minutes / English language with optional descriptive subtitles / original aspect ratio 1.85:1 BD50: 1080p, 24fps, LPCM 1.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit)
Targets will be released on Blu-ray by the BFI on 25th September. You can pre-order and buy your copy here.
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