Richard Streeb is a brooding artist whose work dwells on grisly depictions of death and dismemberment. Shortly after the unveiling of his most recent exhibition, Streeb’s preoccupation with the macabre bleeds horrifyingly into real life when the artist is attacked in his own home by a black-clad, knife-wielding figure. After being stabbed multiple times before the eyes of his helpless wife, Streeb is dragged off into the night by his assailant. With the authorities proving ineffectual, and the mysterious killer striking again and again - targeting victims all tied to the artist - it falls to Streeb’s brother Bill to mount his own investigation in an attempt to unravel the meaning behind these slayings. 

A loving homage to the films of Dario Argento and Mario Bava, director Joseph F. Parda’s micro-budget 5 DEAD ON THE CRIMSON CANVAS (1996) - produced by and starring B-movie stalwart Joe Zaso (Nikos the Impaler) - may well lay claim to being the only shot on Super-8 giallo to emerge from Long Island, NY. Featuring a black-gloved killer right out of the likes of Blood and Black Lace and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and offering up plentiful bare skin and grisly deaths - including gouged eyes and faces stripped bare by piranhas - Degausser Video is thrilled to unveil 5 DEAD ON THE CRIMSON CANVAS on Blu-ray, newly restored from the best existing tape master and loaded with a host of new and archival extras.

directed by: Joseph F. Parda
starring: Joe Zaso, Liz Haverty, Simeon Mony Damevski, Rick Poli
1996 / 96 min / 1.33:1 / English Stereo