Product Description Der reiche texanische Barbesitzer Marty heuert den schmierigen Privatdetektiv Visser an, weil er sich sicher ist, daß ihn seine Frau mit einem Barkeeper betrügt. Der Detektiv soll die beiden ertappen und dann ermorden. Doch der Plan erweist sich als Eigentor- und schon bald müssen sich Ehefrau und Liebhaber mit der vermeindlichen Leiche Martys herumschlagen. Mit dem knallharten Thriller bewiesen die Coen-Brüder gleich mit ihrem Debütfilm ihr geniales Händchen für böse, clever konstruierte Plots voll pechschwarzem Humor und räumten den Großen Preis der Jury beim Sundance Film Festival 1985 ab. Das restaurierte Filmmaterial wurde von Ethan und Joel Coen persönlich abgenommen und freigegeben! Die Special Edition enthält den Director‘s Cut von 1999 mit neu produzierten Extras. From Amazon.co.uk The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance) and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

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