Take a brutal serial killer, a detective inspector in a leather jacket and sunglasses bursting with 80s clichés and garnish the whole thing with a good dose of blood and action – and you’ve got one of them most successful Dutch films at all. Damn Amsterdam combines a classic thriller story with horror and action elements, as well as a chase driven by director Dick Maas (Elevator of Horrors, Flodder) brought cult status.
Cursed Amsterdam is now available in a strictly limited Blu-ray edition. We summarize for you what you get for your money and why the film is still worth a look today.
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What do the limited edition media books of Cursed Amsterdam offer?
Cursed Amsterdam will be released in late July 2023 as a limited media book in three different cover variants. You can do all three strictly limited versions Pre-order at Amazon – delivery is free for Prime customers on the day of publication.
Apart from the different covers, all three media books on Amazon currently cost 48.27 euros and offer the following content:
What is Cursed Amsterdam about?
Tourists on a sightseeing tour through the canals of Amsterdam will not soon forget this excursion: the brutally mauled corpse of a prostitute hangs upside down from a bridge – the beginning of a terrible series of murders.
Inspector Eric Visser (Huub Stapel), a classic 1980s hero and single father, goes on a hunt for the killer with two colleagues. After three more murders, it quickly becomes clear: the perpetrator must come from the diving milieu. The trail eventually leads investigators to a boathouse, but the killer escapes in a speedboat. A spectacular chase unfolds with an uncertain outcome…
Why should you see Cursed Amsterdam?
Even if the reviews of Cursed Amsterdam turned out to be rather mixed and critics attested the film to be quite lengthy, among other things, the thriller is still remembered today because of various action highlights.
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especially the Chase with express motor messengerswhich culminated in a 67-meter jump over two bridges, was record-breaking, in the truest sense of the word: stuntman Nick Gillard immortalized himself with it in the Guinness Book of Records surpassing his own previous record from James Bond 007 – Live and Let Die (1973).
However, the chase remained, at least for the main actor Huub Stapel not without consequences: The latter drove into a wall, whereupon he was injured so badly that the filming of Cursed Amsterdam suspended for several weeks had to be.
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