Exploitation director Nico Mastorakis made his wild feature film debut under Greece's "King of Porn" with DEATH HAS BLUE EYES, on Blu-ray from Arrow Video.

British-born American Vietnam vet Bob Kowalski (Peter Winter) arrives in Athens to reunite with best buddy Ches Gilford (Hristos Nomikos, INTIMATE RELATIONS), a racecar-driving, karate expert turned gigolo shacked up in a rich woman's villa with hippie chick Maria who also takes Bob into their bed. Although things seem bad enough when Ches' sugar mama comes home and tosses them all out with only the scant clothes on their back, Bob and Ches have already courted trouble when they were caught out stealing another man's identity to use his hired car and run up a bill at a luxury hotel by mysterious Geraldine Steinwetz (Jessica Dublin, DEATH STEPS IN THE DARK) and her daughter Christina (Greek TV personality Maria Aliferi) who has psychic powers. Geraldine hires the two adventurous guys to protect Christina who is being pursued by mysterious men after witnessing a political assassination in Poland, but the men have also Bob's and Ches' real identities and pursue the younger trio by bike and helicopter across the Greek countryside. When Christina reveals that she also has telekinetic powers which she uses to vanquish some of their assailants, Bob and Ches start to wonder if Christina is being pursued for reasons other than being a witness to murder.

The directorial debut of Nico Mastorakis (THE WIND), DEATH HAS BLUE EYES has a thrown together feel that the director would better refine with his eighties independent Hollywood productions. Fun-loving bros Winter and Nomikos are pretty much Mastorakis stand-ins, and Aliferi his muse with supporting actresses providing the nudity and mild softcore sex scenes – among them a race car driver who picks up Bob when Ches and Christina ditch him for no apparent reason in the middle of being stalked by assassins – with Dublin giving the only thing approaching a performance. Although packed with incident and action, the rather short film feels drawn out despite never really settling down, and is of more interest in the context of Mastorakis' filmography, looking and sounding – with a soundtrack featuring original songs by Nikos Lavranos – only stylistically like a dry run for Mastorakis' more grueling, more commercial ISLAND OF DEATH made the same year.

Unreleased theatrically in the United States, DEATH HAS BLUE EYES came to VHS tape as a dupe of the UK tape release under the title PARA PSYCHICS. Unavailable on DVD, DEATH HAS BLUE EYES makes its digital debut on 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC Blu-ray from a new restoration of the original camera negative in both open-matte pillarboxed 1.33:1 fullscreen – as it would have been screened theatrically in Greece – and in a 1.85:1 matted version. Although the widescreen framing does not throw off the compositions, the fullscreen version may be preferable, especially for all of the distorted wide angle and fish-eye shots. The colors are vibrant and the image quite sharp apart from some of the rough and ready chase shots and some of the night exteriors which are not day for night. The sole audio option is an LPCM 1.0 English track, although it is dubbed just like the Greek version, and English SDH subtitles transcribe all of the dialogue and endeavor to transcribe the song lyrics but sometimes gives up.

Extras are a bit sparse compared to some of the other Mastorakis titles, partially because of the pandemic and partially because this one was not one of the title Mastorakis revisited for remastering during the DVD age. First up is an interview with actress Aliferi (17:49) who was hosting Greece's version of HOLLYWOOD SQUARES at the time and had misgivings about working for the "King of Porn" Grigoris Dimitropoulos but trusted Mastorakis and was assured that she was not participating in the erotic content. The press, on the other hand, ran with the story that Aliferi was doing soft porn so she put out a statement to the press to quell the rumors. She recalls a genial atmosphere on the set, particularly with co-star Dublin – in retrospect, she is glad to have kept her distance from love interest Winter since he had an affair with a crew member and got her pregnant – with the most difficult part of the shot being the shots at the end running along a freezing beach at dawn in a flowing dress.