The Honeymoon Killers - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight, and lonely. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a degenerate con artist. Based on a shocking true story and shot in documentary-style black and white by the confident and inspired Leonard Kastle, in what would be his only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.

• English
• 107 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.85:1
• United States
• Spine #200
• 1969

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with writer-director Leonard Kastle from 2003
- Love Letters, a new interview program by Robert Fischer, featuring actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris and editor Stan Warnow
- “Dear Martha . . . ,” a new video essay by writer Scott Christianson, author of Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins

*Cover by Aesthetic Apparatus