reputation as Spain's bad boy of counterculture filmmaking 
in the first half of the '80s with shaggy, episodic delights like What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Dark Habits, Labyrinth of Passion, and his much more obscure debut film, Pepi, Luci, and Bom, future two-time Oscar recipient Pedro Almodóvar shifted gears radically with his fifth film. One of his rare features that falls into the horror genre (along with the much later The Skin I Live In), this one is still deliberately provocative and trades in outrage -- after all, it notoriously opens with one of the main characters gratifying himself to Blood and Black Lace and Bloody Moon on TV -- but it upped the ante considerably in terms of visual artistry and storytelling craft. From here there was no turning back, setting the stage for his superb melodrama The Law of Desire and his major international breakthrough, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
later confesses to multiple 
murders at a police station-- with the bodies discovered on the grounds of the school. Enter Ángel's lawyer, Maria (Serna), who engages in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Diego that ultimately proves they have a great deal in common. 
release someday. 
Verge hit it big, Matador has been fairly easy to see ever since including a laserdisc from Image Entertainment and multiple Spanish options including non-subtitled DVDs and Blu-rays from Divisa. In the U.S. it only hit DVD from Sony in 2007 as part of a Viva Pedro! set, likely because the NC-17 it got slapped with at the time (as did Law of Desire, both understandably) made them dicey for a major studio to market on their own at the time. An HD version was made available for streaming though, albeit with burned-in English subtitles and not looking so hot after a few years. 
improved, newly-translated optional English subtitles. The limited edition featuring a booklet with a new essay by Guy Lodge and an archival interview with the director sold out directly from the label very quickly, though straggler copies can still be found around online; 
standard version will be presumably forthcoming very soon. The two video extras begin with a new interview with Almodóvar expert José Arroyo (29m37s) about the importance of this film as the director edged into the mainstream, became more autonomous with his brother as producer, and the balance between the early films and the later you can find here with a critique of Spain's most controversial entertainment spectacle and views on masculinity. Then you get a 1991 episode of Jonathan Ross Presents For One Week Only (53m27s) featuring interviews with the director, producer Agustín Almodóvar, Banderas and Maura, and coverage of the debut of his latest film at the time, the controversial Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! with admirers like John Waters and Liza Minnelli on hand.Radiance (UHD)
Divisa (Blu-ray)
