The Murder Secret (Alternate Slipcover)

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2026 Subscribers: This Alternate Slipcover is included in your subscription package (slipcover only).

Note to 2026 Subscribers: Since you will automatically be receiving THE MURDER SECRET + both slipcover variants, this full product listing (4k / UHD Disc + Alternate Slipcover) will not be eligible for your special 50% SRP pricing. 

This special limited edition spot gloss alternate slipcover (designed by Josh Freydkis) is limited to 3,333 units (~2,200 of which will be reserved for 2026 Subscribers, with the remainder being distributed across our retail channels, including: VS website, OCN, and our retail stores/conventions). It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

After receiving a mysterious invitation from his Aunt Marta, whom he hasn’t seen in thirty years, Richard Hamilton is on his way to his estranged relative's countryside home with his wife and two children in tow. However, upon arrival, the family is bewildered to find not Aunt Marta, but the property's caretaker, Thomas, who informs them that Marta has regrettably been held up and will join them the following morning. When she again fails to appear the next day, her return apparently delayed further, a sense of creeping unease starts to mount. Sure enough, as an unseen assailant sets about dispatching the family members in various gruesome ways, Aunt Marta’s dreadful secret gradually begins to reveal itself…

Helmed by Mario Bianchi, director of genre favorites Creeping Death and Satan’s Baby Doll, and also a prolific maker of 1990s Italian sex films, 1988’s THE MURDER SECRET (aka Don’t Be Afraid of Aunt Martha) was one in a series of horror features released on home video under the banner of “Lucio Fulci presents”. Featuring prolific genre actors Gabriele Tinti (Lisa and the Devil, Black Emanuelle) and Maurice Poli (Rabid Dogs), and boasting some of the series' most outrageous gore set pieces alongside a healthy dose of gratuitous skin-baring, Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to unveil THE MURDER SECRET in its world UHD premiere, newly restored in 4K from its original 16mm camera negative and accompanied by a host of new, revelatory bonus features.

directed by: Mario Bianchi
starring: Adriana Russo, Gabriele Tinti, Anna Maria Placido, Luciana Ottaviani, Maurice Poli, Massimiliano Massimi, Edoardo Massimi, Sacha Darwin
1988 / 89 min / 1.33:1 / Italian, English Mono

Additional info:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• Commentary track with film historians Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
• "Don't Be Afraid of Aunt Adriana" (26 min) - an interview with actress Adriana Russo
• "Horror in B Minor" (17 min) - an interview with uncredited co-writer Francesco Valitutti
• "Bread, Butter and Gore" (12 min) - an interview with teamster Roberto Stiffi
• "Three Whites in Red Light" (26 min) - an interview with film historian Franco Grattarola
• "Four Murders, Zero Secrets" (30 min) - an interview with film historian Stephen Thrower
• Alternate English title sequence & ending
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• Newly translated English subtitles