The Hot Spot Blu-Ray

Harry, a slacker (Don Johnson, Miami Vice) rolls into town and talks his way into a job at a car dealership, where he finds himself caught between two beautiful women: his boss's conspiratorial wife Dolly (Virginia Madsen, Candyman) and Gloria (Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream), a naive young accountant whose life is complicated by blackmail. When Harry plans to rob the local bank, he becomes entangled in a deadly web of lust, greed, and blackmail, with murder as the only way out. The Hot Spot is a dusty, sweaty, modern noir film adapted from Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, updating the pulp formula with twists and turns and an intensity that matches director Dennis Hopper's earlier film roles. Hopper (Easy Rider, Out of the Blue) has directed the film with bravura, and the fantastic cast is supported by William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables), and Jack Nance (Eraserhead), along with a brilliant soundtrack featuring Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, and original music by Jack Nitzsche.

2K restoration by Kino Lorber, supervised and approved by cinematographer Ueli Steiger

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

Archival interview with Dennis Hopper discussing The Hot Spot, featuring footage of John Lee Hooker and images from the filming of (1991)

Interviews with stars Virginia Madsen (2021, 7 min) and William Sadler (2021, 7 min)

Nick Dawson on Dennis Hopper and The Hot Spot, an interview with the editor of Dennis Hopper: Interviews (2023)

Duane Swierczynski on Charles Williams' novel, the crime writer and expert looks at the adaptation and provides background on the author (2023)

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing