Sign up for nothing. Hey, hey, and welcome to Thursday. It
is the first of the month. We don't get to do this on the
actual first very often, but because it's the first of the month, that
means Will is here. Will is going through a lot of sickness in the
house tonight, So bear with the voice. At some point, probably either
way, Will thank you for doing this, even though you feel like absolute
death. I'm feeling a little bit better, but I'm still death adjacent.
You know. I've always been the kind of fellow that pushes through when you
get get the ailments, but this one put me on my ass for several
days. And now of course it's working its way through the rest of the
family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, among my many regrets. Paul just
posted realized last week. I have a book of Will Dodson's on my shelves
and about years ago, secondhand, all about cult film and it comes with
some nice heartguards. I know that book that's so that movie. It's called
cult Films, and it was a I was a what do you call it,
a hired hand, hired gun to write that short history of cult films
for this British company that described it as like the kind of book that high
schoolers and intro to film people would read. And they insisted that it would
be sold at like petrol stations, like next to the Maxim magazines and stuff,
and that was it was around the time that that was Maxim time.
You know, this is like twenty six seven o eight, and I wrote
three books for this company. I wrote one on Hollywood musicals in which the
editor inserted a typo that turned Tin pan Alley into tim pan Alley. So
I'm still pissed about that, and said Tim Allen, it could have been
worried. And then the third one I wrote on Westerns, they never paid
me for. They still owe me like three grand, but they went bankrupt
and then some accountant did an audit and was like, well, they only
owe you three grand. That's not enough for us to for us to uh
pursue legal matters. So yikes, forget about it, and I'm like three
grand, that's well. But anyway, the Cult Films one, I think
was the best seller. So that's that's really cool that that somebody's got it.
Oh, Josephine hit Now, I'm sorry he took commandeer of the microphone.
But Josephine de Marco hit on the most important news of the week.
Happy birthday, Ryan, Thank you, thank you, thank you. How
old are you? How old? I am super old compared to you.
I'm a ripe old age of thirty seven now in a row in a row.
That's the only reason you wanted me to say that. And I put
it right up on the tee and I wanted it to be knocked out of
the park. That remains, to this day, the only Kevin Smith joke
that has ever made me laugh. I don't get that either way. I
should highlight. Dustin says, Happy birthday week, Ryan, and big and
rats on the tear Vision news. So excited for you. Yes, we're
gonna talk about that later tonight. Thank you so much, Dustin for that
little donation. Appreciate everybody. Since we're talking about birthday stuff. I've not
told Will about this. I kind of wanted this to be a surprise.
I'm gonna see if I can make this show up better on screen. My
most prized gift, because my wife is incredibly thoughtful, is going up on
the wall behind us soon, but I wanted to show it here. She
bought I was a metal sign for someone's favorite Productions. Oh it's misspelled though,
Yeah it's not anyway. I'm stoked on that and it'll be up on
the wall behind us soon. That is awesome. We had Craig pointed out
that carries off the wall. Yes, swapped that out right before we went
live tonight for the coaster. But the big thing, the room has been
kind of cleaned. I had my first in person interview this week, and
I had to scram to make this so much easier for somebody to come in
here. I had a genuine like upper B list celebrity in my movie room
this week. Uh, interview for that will be going up in just a
couple of weeks. So yeah, see that. Then Ventor of Concrete,
Uh yeah, it was. It was a very heavy time. It was
interesting. Let's get some pickups. I showed the sign what else you got
coming in this week? Pickups? Well, my big Vinegar Syndrome box came
in, so the subscription and the subscription and stuff from the sale. Oh.
I have to respond to Stan Geezi who just downloaded the essay the de
mythologizing of the Texas chainsaw massacre. I want to highlight that I didn't write
that essay. That essay was written by my late mentor, Jeff Jeski,
and I did write the introduction to it. He passed away and we that
essay had been unpublished and we got it published in the Monstrom Journal of Horror
Studies. And it's a great essay about the Chainsaw remake and what it kind
of meant in context with the original. Jeff Jessky was a great guy.
So stand thanks for downloaded, and I hope you enjoyed the essay. Until
like my collection, I uh so, I've been so one thing. Well,
I got a bunch more Warner archive stuff to highlight. Big fan of
Clarence Brown's Anna Christie. Wait didn't I share that last time? Maybe?
Shit? Well, now I'm confused. Along the same lines of artistic quality,
our old friend Bruce Campbell and Sean ESAs pretty fun movie Fritz Lane's You
and Me. I'm pretty excited about due a little upgrade. I have the
old twilight time of Robert Wise's Audrey Rose and now now I have the arrow
version, which pretty cute. And then this just came in on everybody who's
Anybody's a big fan of Dorothy Arsner, so I got her Christopher Strong,
which is one of the first starring roles for Audrey Hepburn. And I've been
on a Karen Kusama kick lately, and this was kind of inexplicably out of
print, but I got a kind of cheap copy of the eBay of Destroyer
Nicole Kidman. Now now that I've done that, I'll go ahead and say
you're welcome, because I'm sure four k will be announced minutes before you share
the next one. We got a fun question. Josephine wants to know,
do we know of any celebrities, actors, anybody famous that shares our birthdays?
I know one that I share. I don't know. Go ahead and
al Pacino nice, I've got we got the awls, I've got Alan Alda.
I also, I always laughed when I was, you know, like
fifteen sixteen because I had boy bands were all celebrating on the same day.
I had Nick Carter and Joey Fatone on my birthday. Oh rest in peace
to his brother, Oh other Carter. Oh I'm in Joey. She's still
I thought he Nope, still very much alive. Okay, So the so
the comment was both wrong and tasteless. Yeah, kind of shoot. John
Stump says he's got Kurt Russell. That's a good one. Oh hell yeah,
that's a good one. Jennifer Connelly with Dustin, Brian Depalmer and Moby
for Craig nice Man, paulm was a pretty good one. Steve Perry from
Journey and DJ Chazy, Chad oh Man, and then of course John's got
Pamela Anderson loved that other pickups. I got a trade in. I traded
for that new Keno Cult four K of Clyde Barker's Underworld I got. Let
me know what you think of it, because you know, I saw that
on DVD and it's it's like a BBC mini series, so it's not like
super a budget or anything. And I was told that it's awful, and
that's why I traded for it. I did not want to pay full price
for it. I mean, it's it's in freasonably entertaining. I just can't
understand, like it's like making a four K out of bloodsucking freaks. You
know, it's like it doesn't look good already. Blood sucking brings looks pretty
good in four K though, that's the funny thing. I haven't watched it
yeah, but I got it. Next up is a disc that I worked
on last year, thin from Stephen King. This is the Screen Factory release.
There's not a lot of information about this out there. Shout did not
really advertise a new scan. They didn't advertise the special features as good as
they should have. So I will say, if you have the previous Olive
release, this is a massive step up. That previous Olive release looked pretty
poor, and this looks really good. I know that there was some questions
about the color timing previously because there's a couple scenes, like there's a scene
in a dark study and a guy shines a light in his face to reveal
the cursed face, and it's supposed to be this dramatic thing, but they've
always colored it so bright that it's just like, let's shine a little bit
brighter of a light on somebody that you could already see for the rest of
the scene, So it's not dramatic at all. They didn't fix any of
that, which I didn't expect them to. It's not like they've they've got
somebody sitting here to regrade it. That was from the original, you know,
the way that they looked at it at least either way did want to
say, this looks genuinely great. This should have been a four K.
When we were working on this, it sounded like it was going to be
a four K. No idea why it's not. It looks good enough,
it probably should have been. And then the extras they got a new audio
commentary on this with Lee Gambon, who is the producer out of Australia that
I've worked with a few times, and Aaron Dryes is with him. Really
great commentary. And then the interviews. I'm a little biased, but they're
really great interviews. We got Tom Holland in there, who is he was
just celebrating his eightieth birthday. He muses on that for a little while.
We've got Lucida Jenny, who is the wife, of course of Bill Moseley,
and she talks about going to cons with him and bringing a piece of
the Thinner Pie just as a little prop to share with everybody. And then
one that I always love is a special effects artist, and Vince Guastini is
in this, and he was still fairly new when he did Thinner. But
for those that have seen this before, this movie has some pretty great effects
for its time. This could have looked way worse, and the fact that
he was just kind of brought up through other people supporting him. It's a
really fun story, really interesting interview. Hope you check it out. It
is a little expensive at screen Factory. It'll be pricey for a while,
wait to get it out of sale unless you're die hard about the slips.
But it's a good disc I promised. I feel like they missed a great
marketing opportunity or merch opportunity. Put it in le thin case. Well,
I was going the opposite direction I would have put you remember when tennis shoes
had the pump it up, Yeah, so you can like this got a
little plastic layer that should pump up and then it deflates. Well, speaking
of deflating, what Screen Factory did is they deflated and gave us the cheap
o Eco cases, unfortunately on a premium collector's edition like Thinder so thinner.
Yeah, no idea why that happened, but they must be thinning out the
budget. Pardon the fun there. And then they got some good announcements this
week, as we'll say, so I don't well go ahead. Then the
last thing Infra review from Imprint is one that this like already might be close
to one of the most important box sets of the year for those that have
not thought about getting this Sydney Limit Volume one. The stuff in this I
mean Pawnbroker, The Group, The Deadly Fair, Child's Play, The Offense,
Cirpaco, great discs, lots of special features in there, and then
of course it's imprint, so when you take that off, they've got a
single case for everything. There's lots of love applied to all of these.
You got original art years on everything. If you don't mind losing the shelf
space, these are some of the best in the game. I do admit
it does kind of stink to put one of these on the shelf when it's
six discs and it takes up the space of nine films. But yeah,
this is this is a legendary release and you should absolutely absolutely keep your eye
out for it. Yeah, that's a pretty good pickup. You got a
bunch of other stuff to share first, I'm gonna tee you up for one.
There is a link for a trailer in the description below. Open that
up in a new tab and after the show go watch that trailer. Will
what's that trailer for? Mad, a new documentary from Disney about One Look.
I won't go too far into my My sister is the editor. It
is premiering on the first night of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and I've
talked about it before on the channel. It'll be coming to Disney's streaming soon.
Oh yeah, stands Met Georgia. Yeah, my sister is a great
editor. I say that completely unbiased. In fact, we'll probably mention some
of her other editing work at some point in the near future. But the
movie is great. It's a really impressive film. You know, to call
it a documentary really doesn't do it justice because it really pushes the form in
interesting ways. And the story is really really compelling about a young Nigerian boy
whose video YouTube video goes viral of her Facebook video something some kind of social
media video goes viral of him ballet dancing in the streets, and he eventually
wins a scholarship to a British ballet school, and so it kind of follows
his life and his family's life. So classic Dods and nipotism. So I
hope it will go the other way. Actually, she's in Hollywood, California.
She's the one with the coattails. I'm sitting in a rental. Oh
man, a rental that you have to work in the shed. Yeah,
I'm probably gonna have to pay for putting up that painting. All right.
What else is going on? Hmm, you've got other stuff you wanted to
share? Oh man, I got some stories to tell you. You know,
last time we were sharing our favorite things that happened in the year.
Yeah, and so one of the things I talked about was meeting this Starbucks
woman in the airport who recognized my full Moon hoodie and started talking to me
about like deeper cut full Moon films. Well, don't you know, I'm
not a Starbucks person, you know, But don't you know I'm about to
go home one day. I've had a long day teaching, kind of wiped
out. Need a little jolt before I hit the hit the interstate. So
I pull through a Starbucks drive drive through order my uh my large coffee,
and I get to pay, and of course I'm wearing my full Moon hood
hoodie because that's like the only clothes I have. And the guy hands me
in my coffee. He's like, oh, full moon man. Cool.
I'm like, oh yeah, this is happening again, and he goes,
uh, he goes, Richard Band is amazing. I was like, how
many times does that happen? Somebody's gonna come at you and be like,
you know what I really like about Full Moon movies? The composing music,
you know, and music is great. Richard Ben's a great composer. You
know, I did a reanimator all this other great stuff. And so that's
two times in a row. I'll run into a Starbucks person who's been like
a Full Moon super fan and that's been really nice. I don't know if
it's part of stars the new employee training to watch Full Moon movies. So
that's uh, that's that's a story. The saga continues with Starbucks and Full
Moon. Then yeah, that's great. So we've we've been working on a
ton of stuff. Uh, there's a lot that we would love to share.
Some stuff we're gonna talk about tonight. We're gonna give a little more
details on one of the releases that got announced tonight. It has been a
busy couple of weeks and uh, there's a lot that is coming out in
the next couple of months. And we've been saying for months like hey,
We've worked on this many releases and everybody's like Spider Labyrinth. That's the only
one that's been out since uh, you know, full of December. Speaking
of Spider Labyrinth, O, there's a funny story for you. Uh anyways
from you got it just a second, just a second. From September to
like November, we did a bunch of stuff and they're all about to get
announced. Anyways, go ahead, Will no, Yeah, Spider Laven story
for you. I h I U saw on Amazon? Or the first review
on amazon dot com of the Spider eleventh four K was posted have you seen
it? No? Even though it has not been released yet on Amazon.
That's the best one. It's a five star review, goes into you know,
all the detail. Clearly the person ordered it from Severn Direct because they
they had the knowledge. Five star review talks about the audio video visual presentation,
talks about all the great interviews, and then at the end it says
the audio commentary track is adequate. Adequate, That's what I'm hoping for.
All right, what a wonderful, lengthy review. Man. All right,
Will, what's next up on your docket? What do you mean, don't
you You've got like nineteen things you want to talk about tonight? Oh,
I thought they'd come organically in the conversation. Oh. I did have something
funny happen on social media, which, as you know, I'm still new
to you remember that old Saturnate Live sketch with Phil Hartman Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
It's kind of but uh, you know, I don't. I don't.
I have a goal of like posting one thing a day on Twitter and Instagram,
and I've failed miserably. But I I did post maybe a couple of
weeks ago, when what's the new movie fun City is putting out? Uh?
Handgun, Handgun? Yeah, And I'm really excited about it because Erica
Schultz's and Chris O'Neil to a commentary and it's a movie I've been wanting to
see for a long time. So I did a little post like, oh,
it's so great, you know. I tagged fun City, I tagged
Erica and Chris. And I don't get many likes. People. Some people
see my tweets like if it says like one hundred people saw the tweet,
I'm like, wow, I've never had more than like ten or fifteen likes.
This one gets like thirty some likes. I'm like, wow, I'm
really helping fun Cities sell units. And then I look at who just how
of curiousity? I'm like, well, who's liking? It's probably some people
from the disconnected community. It's all Japanese porn stars, and I don't know
how that happened. Are they real? I think? Are are Japanese porn
stars? Like now I really want to see a handgun? Or is it
bots? Or or like is this film gonna be like the best selling fun
City in in the Japanese porn star circles. It's all an algorithm. I
just really want to know what you were searching for before that. Well,
I want to know what they were searching for. I think, in fact,
I think some of their coworkers might wonder what they're searching for as well.
David lash just did to hear something about Japanese porn stars. What did
I miss? Everything? All Right, enough of our prelude. As we've
been here for twenty five minutes. We got a lot of stuff to talk
about tonight. Are we ready? Are we supposed to talk about recent watches?
Fuck? There's so much to go over. God, yeah, nobody
cares what I care? Because we were talking about seven. I watched that
Cemetery Man four K this week, first time I've seen the movie ever,
never got to see it before. I'd seen a couple of clips. Uh,
it's it's pretty great. It's a fun movie. The humor really landed
with me. Everything's shitty, that's not shy, sleep Eli Cortez says,
why Shout Studio selling a four K digital Downloadtle Labyrinth? Are they going to
release it soon to disc? Not necessarily. They put out a press release
recently saying that they got the rights to this and to I think Dark Crystal
and like three or four other things. Uh does not guarantee that they're putting
them on disc or anything, but uh, they've got the digital rights.
When when reason watches? What else you want to talk about recent one?
I have a you know, you mentioned how big the imprint box sets are,
and it reminded me of a dilemma that I have. I was very
excited a few weeks back when here and announce the four K of I Am
Cuba. Oh, yeah, that epic documentary. But I have a DVD
edition of I Am Cuba that comes in a cigar box right. Oh wow,
that is freaking m h it's freaking cool. Right yeah, I'm like,
okay, well this, you know, I can part with it,
maybe make some money on eBay because it's it's you know, it's shaped real
weird and it's hard to hard to do. But and the and the Criterion
has all the same extras except Disc three, a film about Mikhail Klotov,
the director, this two hour documentary that's really great about his whole career.
And so what am I gonna do? I gotta keep. I gotta keep
the damn cigar box. Can you can you fit the digipack from Criterion in
the cigar box? Though I do not disrupt the integrity of displays, I
get it. Any other recent watches for you? Yeah, I watched a
lot. Actually you didn't even mention one. Uh so here's all the stuff
I watched recently. I'll just pick a few. I'll just pick a few.
I'll pick a few. So I saw Lady Whirlwind Angela mal Nice,
which is fun, not not a great film, but fun. Great extras,
the interviews with Angela mal and her son, three commentaries. You have
to get to the third commentary before you even get to Sam Deagan. Holy
cow. Well, here's a movie that I hadn't seen a long time,
and I watched just to see if it held up. And my gosh,
it does the Towering Inferno against all you know, all logic works on every
level, Like you care about the characters even though they're completely one dimensional,
You buy the special effects even though they're totally old, and you sit through
a three hour movie without getting bored. Once it's it's amazing. So I
was pretty excited about that one. Then I saw a couple of movies that
were boring. Unfortunately, maybe I'll skip those. I'll give a If you
haven't seen Deaf Crocodiles Pie Piper, which somehow I got Obviously I got it
late because there's no slip right. I got it late off the OCN website
before I started buying from Death Crocodile Direct, which is what I do now.
But I hadn't seen it yet. Those just on a watch pile.
I haven't watched it yet. This ship's a work of staggering, staggering and
monumental genius. I want I want listeners to know that, even though it
sounds like I'm slurring, I'm doing dry January. I started late this and
my commemorative Joe Bob Briggs last is water. Yeah, pot Piper was amazing.
Also saw keeping the Deaf Crocodile thing going. I saw the tzarrow the
tail of our saltan, which is really cool, really cool. I must
say one more, one more maybe as you want, my friend. Oh,
here's a cool one john Ford movie from Eureka two Road together Richard Widmark.
And this is the first Jimmy Stewart appearance in john Ford and he plays
an as soul. Will are you seeing this? Dustin says, I have
an extra slip of the Pied Piper. I can send it to you if
you want. Well, I ain't gonna I'm not gonna say no. That's
cool things wood he Strode. I always, even if what he Strode's in
a movie for only a second, I always want to see it. So
that one was a lot of fun. Not so fun. But I'm glad
I saw it. I didn't I never realized, you know, when I
worked in the video store in the nineties, I had to put this particular
movie away all the time, and I never watched it. Palmetto Yeah,
Elizabeth Shu, Willie Harrelson. I had never realized that Volker Schlndorf directed it,
so I was like, oh, I went on saying anything. So
I picked it up, and it's not very good. It's okay, I
think it. I think it UH suffers from the fate that a lot of
the Neo nors UH suffer from, which is, you know, part of
what makes the original noir films so interesting and compelling is the restrictions the production
code. They couldn't show or say anything and had to get around it and
with implication and ambiguities. But the Neon wors just show everything, and and
Palmetta just yeah, it just didn't work great for me. It was okay,
I'm glad I saw it. I'll stop. Thanks. Sandro As a
question, Hello all, any news on the Coffin Joe set. Do we
know if they fixed the air and mailed them out to retailers if retailer still
has a copy, will Errow send out the fixed fixed discs? They have
not sent out fixed That's hard to say back to back. Four times they've
not sent out fixed discs to retailers, and they will not send them to
retailers until they've repackaged everything if if you do get it from a retailer now
you can you can try to get that fixed disc by going and plying through
their random Placement disc program that they have right now, which I still need
to sign up for. I keep forgetting. I just ordered the Coffin Joe
set, so it's gonna be off messed up. One of the movies is
not gonna have special features after the thirty third minute. It's not gonna have
special features after that special features. Captions, Sorry, captions. I have
special features on the brain like most of my life. I need I need
this, I need the captions. How well, Yes, as Chris says,
the Coffin Joe said is down to seventy bucks on Amazon right now,
and yes they are selling with the faulty disc if they even have them in
stock. I mean, it's Amazon. They could just not send you out
anything until they get a fixed one, or they cancel your order, because
that does happen. Huh. Now are we ready for some announcements? Do
you see anything? Did I see anything? I watched what I already talked
about? Oh? You already talked about recent watching. I thought you did
pickups. No, I talked about cemetery. Man. Oh that was it,
and then I was it. I don't get time to watch everything because
I am doing a lot. Let's talk about some announcements of things that I
want to buy and won't be able to watch. First up, April twenty
third, Arrow is releasing on Blu Ray, The Scarface Mob from nineteen fifty
nine, starting a month of a lot of oldies for Arrow. Like usually
they have at least one or two big mainstream things coming out there, but
this month is is really heavily focused on some older films. This was coming
in the US and Canada, and this was originally conceived as a two part
TV pilot. This is a gritty and thrilling dramatization of Elliot Nessa's account of
his hunt for ruthless gangster al Capone. And this is going to have a
few things. We got a new visual essay on the film and the career
of director film Carlson by David Cairns. We've got a brand new video essay
on the career of Elliot ness and his depictions on film, including this film
by Philip Kemp. We've got a gallery of original posters, some reversible sleeves,
postcards, all that good old Aero stuff that they always send out.
How do you feel about this one, sir? You know they only indicted
al Capone once? Oh really, it's a line in a Trump speech talk
about how he's been indicted three times Capone once. Wow. Yeah, I'm
not familiar with this. Looks interesting. I've never heard of it. Next
title, April thirtieth in the US and Canada is one that will is going
to wax poetic on the ten Star from nineteen fifty seven from Anthony Mann.
This one is going to have a new audio commentary by Toby Rohane and Knew,
a pre sation of the film by Neil Signard, new interview with Peter
Bernstein, the son of Elmer Bernstein, on his father's timeless musical mastery,
and then all the standard arrow postcards and posters and all that fun stuff.
Ten Star love this movie, Anthony Man. You've got Henry Fonda kind of
breaking in, Anthony Perkins as a as a young sheriff, and so there's
all this, you know, it's an Anthony Mann movie. So it's all
this masculinity stuff, you know, and it's it's great, you know,
especially anytime Anthony Perkins is in a movie. He's always kind of playing at
the margins of masculine identities already, and in this particular film I think really
deserves to be better known. You know, it's it's it's one of the
more I wouldn't say that's an obscure Western, but when you think of Anthony
Mann, ten stars and the one that like leaps to mind. So this
is really exciting. Yeah, this was one that you definitely wanted. The
moment it got announced, we were already talking about it. So yeah,
I'm glad you're here to share about it. Henry Fond, Anthony Perkins.
Yeah, not one I've seen, but one with that cast and with that
director. This is on the must list for me. Robert Altman film That
Cold Day in the Park from nineteen sixty nine is coming on April eighth on
Blu Ray in the UK only from Arrow. This is going to be a
little bit of an interesting one. This is a two disc limited edition,
and this is one of those rare times with Arrow where if you don't get
the limited edition, you do not get the whole package. So for this
one you'll get two discs, but if you get the standard later you will
not get that second disc, which is the newly extended one hundred and fourteen
minute version of the film, which is reintegrating previously deleted material from a surviving
pre release print, which, of course is gonna be a big selling point
of this if you are if you're into Altman, and if you're wanting this
release, you probably want to get the limited. Yeah, kind of is
this one you've seen before? No, there was a previous Blu Ray edition.
I can't remember whether it was Olive or Twilight Time or maybe not even
so when this was announced, I immediately deleted it from a wish list and
I guess I'm going to go for the limited. Yeah, they're kind of
upon you with that disc being foisted. Speaking of being hoisted on Blu Ray
in the UK, we are getting behind convent walls from nineteen seventy eight,
And man, did this drum up some really funny comments when I posted,
Oh jeez, yeah, so this is gonna have a new audio commentary by
Justine Smith uh Antarctic Nuns and the Artistry of Desired New Appreciation by film scholar
ever Gene Selliby a short film by the director and then illustrate a collector's booklet
with new writing by Kat Ellinger and original press notes. This is a good,
cool release. Yeah, I'm finally gonna be able to retire my DVD.
Love Boord Chick, great animator, great visual stylist, and also a
PERV. So so right up your alley. Huh, right up my alley.
Uh. And then Simner's coming in hot with the puns. Hey,
that's the next that's his that's his worst habit. Oh that was pretty good.
Uh. Now for the biggest mainstream title that they're putting out, which
is hilarious to say about a film like Case. April twenty ninth in the
UK and then April thirtieth in the US and Canada, we are getting basket
Case from Frank Cannon Lauder in nineteen eighty two on four K Man. This
is one of those that I read this announcement and I start thinking, like,
you know, the stop motion at the end, how's that gonna looking?
Four K? How do you feel about this? Some things aren't meant
to be seen for right, I just don't know, you know. Obviously,
anytime Frank Henon later gets some attention, I'm happy, Although I wish
somebody would put on physical media his latest film, Boiled Angels. But I
don't know, I don't know. Does did you say there's not any new
features? Right? No, this is a rehashing of their previous release.
Nothing crazy. Well, we'll say, we'll say, I yeah, I
again. I love this movie. I love Hitt and Lodd. This movie
is a lot of fun. But it's also grimy. It's supposed to be
grimy, and this will be very grainy, no doubt, nothing wrong with
that. But man, again, I've talked on here before. I want
all of the films in the highest quality possible, but highest quality that they
need and should have. This one almost feels like it possibly a step too
far. I'm not against you putting it out necessarily, but man, I'm
really curious to see how this looks. You'll get anything off for KU,
but you won't get that, all right, mister loaf Onto the next one.
They are doing an Aerostore exclusive, which I mean, I kind of
like their other art. This is this is some wild art. Yeah.
Anyways, then we got have released details from Keno Lber that they are releasing
North Dallas forty on four K and standalone Blu Ray, both on March twenty
sixth. This is pouring over all of the stuff that was on the Imprint
release. So if you never picked that up, this is a great release.
Got a lot of really great extras. Daniel Kramer was involved in quite
a few of those getting them together, primarily, you know, he was
on the audio commentary with Daniel Waters and then Ted Katscheff, the director,
was on there with both of them. Yeah, this is this is a
solid release. The Imprint disc looked pretty good in four K from Keno.
I'm sure this will look even better. You know, I hate football and
I think it should be banned, but I got a thing for football movies.
I like him. And you think the football should be banned. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah because of the concussions are what, Yeah, and
the culture of like toxic violence and exploitation of you know, various populations.
And of course because Taylor Swift is a democratic plant designed to designed to de
masculinize the sport. But the point is, I love football movies and this
is one of the better ones. That was a weird tirade. I love
to hear that right around Super Bowl's time of the year. Two. I
hate football, I hate it. I've always hated it. I've always hated
it. I enjoyed Taylor Swift next one, I don't like either. I
don't like her music. I don't think it's good. You don't like good
things, that's all right. Coming on March nineteenth on Blu Ray from Keno
is The Soldier's Tale from nineteen eighty four. This is an Emmy winning animated
classic by the renowned New Yorker illustrator R. O. Blackman and Man.
This came out of nowhere. We got an audio commentary on this by the
director, by an animator and an associate producer. There's a short film by
the director as well, and then a collection of animated shorts and commercials.
This looks like a really fun release. Kind of surprise they're putting it on
the Kino Classics line. But yeah, this looks fun. What do you
think of this? Well, if you buy one animated film today, get
the tune from Death Crocodile Bill Plump. But if you get two, this
might be all right. Just love it, Ronnie. I understand that,
you know, people like Taylor Swift's music. I just don't. I don't
get the music. I don't understand it doesn't. It just sounds like everything
else to me. I don't I don't know anyways. Next up, Keno
is releasing Submarine Command from nineteen fifty one. Someday we got a twenty twenty
HD master by Paramount in this from a four K scan William Holden Nancy Olsen
film. I've I've never been a submarine movie person. How about you?
You know the submarine movies I like are are the ones that were made before
they could realistically do submarine movies, and so this one will be right up
my alley. I'm pretty excited about it. Oh shit, that's right,
I got it. There's another animated movie from to talk about, but that's
later. You know, John farroh MEA's dad. Not a bad director.
I've not seen Submarine Command, but with that cast and knowing John Farrow's work,
I'm definitely gonna see it, all right. And you don't really get
movies? Is it because of the claustrophobia? I don't know. I mean,
I'm tall, it doesn't it doesn't work for me. Submarine's yeah,
that wouldn't be on it. Next up, this is one that we talked
about recently, but now we got some details. Stop making sense from A
twenty four is coming on four four K and Blu Ray. This isn't shipping
until May. You can pre order this now. You got bonus songs on
this, including Cities, Big Business, Zebra, twenty five minute making of
Doc twenty twenty three, Dolby Atmos in nineteen eighty four, original stereo mixes.
The only real problem with this release. Did you ever go click and
see about buying it from A twenty four? Nope? Well, I guess
that's the other question. Have you bought anything directly from A twenty four ever?
No, never bought anything direct from them. Yeah. I can't think
of what you may have wanted to buy from them, because this stuff you
like is not really A twenty four? So this what do they do?
Like midsummer and talk to me and modern stuff? Anyways, if you go
to buy this on four K right now, it comes out to before shipping
and taxes and all that, fifty eight dollars. Fifty eight dollars for some
garish. It's so this is a standard release. It's going to be about
this all does at least come with lobby cards? I don't think this one
does. Wow. Yeah, So this thing is fifty eight dollars plus tax
and shipping, and so I think for most people it was between seventy and
seventy three dollars shipped for a four K release of Stop Making Sense, which
is a brilliant, brilliant release. Nothing against the release itself, the film.
If you've never seen it, you'll probably love it. Most people do.
It's incredible. But seventy three dollars shift, Yeah, definitely my favorite.
Jonathan Demi for sure. Seventy two dollars. That's a lot for our
movies. Seventy three dollars yeah, uh, Ragnar says, speaking of waiting
for things, Mando, we're still waiting for a Halloween order. Yes,
it is shipping starting in three and a half days. I think we can.
We can wait three and a half more days, Ragnar. Next up,
h Qina Lover announced No Way Out is coming on four K soon thisteen
eighty seventh film with Kevin Kostner and Gene Hackman and Will Patten and all them.
A bunch of people just bought this on Blu Ray from the UK and
now Kino of course releasing this on four K. You're gonna get taken off
YouTube for having that nipple. Thankfully, it's a male presenting nipple, so
I'm allowed to show that and only that and just stare at it on stream
for the next six hours and they will not stop me. Isn't that weird?
Serious niphair? Kevin Costner's got right, and yet I had I had
to censor a cover today. That amount of nip hary feel like she's about
to cough at a cough up the airball. Oh man, Kevin Kafner,
I've never uh, I've never seen this movie, so I have nothing else
to say. Is this the first time Kevin Costra's nipples but on the cover
of a Blue ray? I'm not sure. Given the air I'm surprised as
ass isn't on it. Next up, Shout Factory had some announcements in the
first April ninth on Blu Ray is the nineteen ninety eight. I don't even
know what to call this thing Lost in Space. I was gonna say an
underseen film, But man, do you like lauson Space? I don't want
to shoot all over it. If you've seen this and love it, it's
not good. No, this is not a good movie. I don't think
i've ever met anybody who thought it was good. I don't get it.
And not to mention, I'm really kind of weirded out about this that this
is a There were a bunch of this is a Screen Factory released, that's
a that's one thing. Well seeah, it's not that. But there there
was a in the late nineties, there was like a deluge of television adaptation
movies that were just lazy and shitty and I can't remember why. There must
have been one good one that started at all, but not this one.
The two K scan of the interpositive for this two K scan of a film
from nineteen ninety eight and coming on Blu ray audio commentary, a couple of
audio commentaries, which, wow, you've got new interviews with the director producer
Steven Hopkins in the right. It's also kind of odd that this is a
collector's edition of Underscreen Factory to like, anyways, this is this is odd,
super odd. Yeah, it doesn't seem like the right sub label for
it, but yeah, this this came out around the same time as like
the Avengers movie, or like the British TV show Avengers movie and The Wild
Wild West and Bewitched and things like that. And Bewitched was like a decade
later. It was already past the weird Oh wait, that wasn't a remake
of the TV show, wasn't that was a remake of the movie Bewitched?
Well either way, weird weird time anyways, Next up, oh god.
April ninth, Shout is releasing on Blu Ray Winnie the Pooh, Blood and
Honey and a standard release that it's the exact same disc that was already in
their steel book that they put out last year from Walmart. Uh. That
never announced. That's the funny part. They never even announced they were releasing
that steel book. It's been out for months, and now they released this,
which this has already been out on four K for multiple other labels.
What I just realized Mission Impossible nineteen ninety six. It must have been one
of the ones that you started it off. Anyway, Okay, Winning the
Pooh, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you're dying to see this. I
have not seen it. I'm not particularly interested in seeing it. I like
the I love the concept. That's funny, but I just I doubt they
pulled it off. Dude, did you see that? I've not seen it.
I'm kind of eager to see it. I'm into the cheap slasher sometimes,
but something about just off. I wouldn't be against seeing it, but
I'm not gonna blind by it. No, not for a screen factory price.
Oh the Saint. I saw that in the theater. Yeah, yeah,
shit, everything gotten? Oh hey, I want to see this.
This is exciting. April sixteenth on Blu Ray. Finally getting a Shout factor,
well not finally Shout, but finally getting a good release, hopefully of
Affliction from Paul Schrader. This is coming as part of the Shout select line.
This is the nineteen ninety seven film with the really odd cover art.
I gotta say that is strange because I remember the box art on VHS was
like Coburn's face just big on the box, you know, and I thought
that was a good cover. This is like, what is that? That's
beyond that? No new features except bonus features for the Blu Ray, a
new two K scan from original film elements. Again, that's not a bonus
feature. Yeah, I mean you want to have that, but that should
be that should just be the feature, right, So if you've never seen
it, Nick Nulty, James Kober, and Sissy spasic, Willem Dafoe,
Paul Schrader back in you know, nineteen ninety seven, Paul Schrader. Uh,
this is a This is a big one. A lot of people have
been after this. Yes, it's been afflicted. Humboldt Horse says, came
in late. I'm not a SWIFTI or a submarine person. Still like you
guys though, Oh great? Well yeah we uh man two K scan from
the IP Equals bonus feature and Craig is smiling. Yeah, that's perfect.
Anyways, that's Strader. Next up is they partnered with g Kids again for
a release of Blue Giant, coming on April sixteenth. This is gonna have
a Q and A with Heromi on this and then a trailer never seen it
again, not super into anime, don't know lot about it. Then,
probably the one that got people most excited, They are releasing Rolling Thunder on
four K under Shout Select. This is coming on April twenty third, and
this one different than the last film that we just looked at. Does say
extras in progress and will be announced at a later date. However, that
doesn't mean they're actually going to add anything. It could just be the same
old thing. That was on the last Blu ray they did, and they're
just not letting us know for some reason. Rolling Thunder, what do you
think of this one? I like Rolling Thunder. Schrader kind of just owned
it because they made him put like a pseudo happy ending on there, and
he wanted to go out more taxi drivers. Don't know that I need to
upgrade, but I'm not against it, depending on how different the picture is
gonna look. But I really enjoy it. Great lines. Hamy Lee Jones
is awesome in this movie, as is William Devang. So if you've never
seen it or or don't own it, this is probably the way to go.
I would assume, I would hope so. And I guess that's it
for Shout Factory. I did want to say there was a leak that they
were supposed to do the Faculty in four K in April. Nothing has shown
up for that. That was showing up with some retailers, but either the
release was pulled or it's been delayed another month or something. But it's not
up on their website, not up anywhere else other than the retailers that it
had leaked at. Not sure what's coming, Just a heads up. If
you were about to buy a release of the Faculty, you might want to
wait a couple months. We'll see, We'll see what happens there. Chris
says, I don't want to sound like a jerk, but this is the
most underwhelming month, underwhelming month ever from shout Scream. How do you feel
about that? Yeah? It's funny because I just said, like an hour
or two ago, that's a pretty good month. That was a pretty good
month. And then when you actually showed the announcements, I was like,
wow, I guess I was really excited about affliction. Yeah, this is
this is not a huge not a huge month for them. Yeah, we'll
see what happens. Earlier this week, I put up an interview with writer
and director Joe Lynch, who just released Suitable Flesh, which is essentially a
love letter to Stuart Gordon and everything Lovecraft. It is a wonderful movie.
Everybody should check it out. But while you're out it, check out the
interview. It's a really fun one. Joe Lynch went to some really vulnerable
places that he doesn't go to in a lot of interviews and really really surprised
me that he was able to speak so candidly. Oh, this guy's great.
He made hands down the best Wrong Turn movie, Yes, which is
the second one with Henry Rollins as the host of a survivalist game show.
To Turn is awesome. Yeah, he's got he's got a decent philmography.
I mean, Mayhem was pretty fun. Everlee and everything that he's done acting
wise as well, he's he's always pretty great. First Row was a trauma
movie. It was in terror firmer I think, yeah, I believe so.
Yeah. April ninth, rlj E and Shutter are releasing It's a Wonderful
Knife, which is a It's a Wonderful Life but mixed with scream essentially.
I didn't check this one out last year, but I've heard it's decent for
people that are into like cheesy horror holiday films. I wanted to watch this.
I always have like ten Christmas horror movies I want to watch, and
then December passes and I'm like, well, I can't watch it now,
but that's not true. I need to watch it, but I didn't.
Yeah. You can pre order now already up on Amazon next March eleventh,
on Blu Ray in the UK from Studio Canal is Room at the Top from
nineteen fifty nine. I kind of wanted to point out gorgeous cover art on
this compared to some of the other releases that we've talked about tonight. All
it takes is just a little bit of attention to detail and finding the right
artist and you can make something much more appealing. This really sells this Lawrence
Harvey film. We've got new special features on this Dealena Kidd on Room at
the Top, and then a bunch of old stuff, including two audio commentaries.
I, however, have not seen this one. Is this one that
you're familiar with only about title, So I'm excited about this. You know,
it's always listed with the you know, new British cinema, the kitchen
sink films, you know, working class stuff. So I'm into it.
I'm glad. Yeah, a lot of people seem excited about this one too.
Uh. Next up Donnie Yen in Polar Rescue from Well Go USA,
coming in March twenty sixth, and I tend to laugh at a lot of
the ones when well goes announcing these, But everything I've read is that this
movie's actually really rad and the trailer looks pretty damn good. It's Donnie Yen
in snow. I mean, that's that's pretty exciting right there. Already that
is cool, But I have to say this cover art, Oh, it's
awful. This looks one hundred percent like an early two thousand mi Norski movie.
Yep, sorry, i'd be it really does. Oh yeah, this
one is just the worst photoshop. That's cool, though. I mean I'm
a sucker for snow movies too. You know told you last month I saw
what was it? Whnd River and it wasn't very good, but it was
very snowy. I love snow movies. I'm even gonna check that that one
Snow movie with the Lady from Underworld in it, even though all the reviews
say it's bad. Which one is that white out? Okay? Yeah?
Simer says this looks like that one background actor that got lost on the way
to the Fast eight set looks like slice Cliffhanger with snow. Roddy says Donnie
Okay there, oh man a cover. Liam Neesen was bored to be photo
shop on Oh I'm gotta watch one of his the ice Truck movie. Uh
more, Well go. March twelfth, they are releasing one percent Warrior from
last year. And this is another one supposed to be really great. Actually,
this one says a legendary aging action film star is drawn into the real
world of violence when feuding yakuza gain infiltrate the set of his latest feature.
Caught in the middle of a chaotic battle and increasing body count, will his
martial arts training be enough to save him? This is supposed to be good.
Looks pretty fun again. This cover looks awful, so it's good.
Elements of JCVD, but without the psychologizing. That's good. I like man.
Next up, a company that we don't hear from a whole lot with
one of the most interesting sounding releases in quite some time. April sixteenth,
Flicker Alley is releasing Against the Storm Herbert Klein in a darkened Europe. This
is a double feature. We got two films in here. The first one
is Crisis, a film of the Nazi way, and this one says Herbert
Klein made his breath breakthrough documentaries The storm Clouds of Impending War gathered over Europe
in nineteen thirty eight. Narrated by illustrious Marrior actor Leif Eriksson, the film,
which captures with evocative camera work and ominous clarity. The lead up to
the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia was shot at great risk to Kline and his crew.
Klein, a Jew born in Chicago raised in Iowa, was in his
late twenties when he began filming in the Sudettan region bordering Germany and took on
the task of not only passing as a Nazi sympathizer in order to complete the
project, but also smuggling the footage out of the Prague airport pased Gestapa guards.
The result is one of the first anti Hitler documentaries ever made. Wow,
harrowing. I mean, that's a really, really great release. Yeah.
Man, I always feel like I'm you know, when I'm confronted with
actual heroes. I have reminded what a coward I owe. This will be
great to to check out for sure. What's crazy? That wasn't enough for
him. The second one on this is called Lights Out in Europe, and
this says in nineteen forty, just one year after filming the invasion of Czechoslovakia
by Hitler's forces, Herbert Klein's team traveled to Warsaw and England to pursue and
document the feared Nazi invasion of Poland, narrated by actor Frederick Marsh. The
surviving recordings of these events would serve as evidence of the outbreak of the Second
World War, bringing about one of the first completed and distributed documentaries on one
of the most destructive international conflicts in history. We've got a commentary on both
of these films. We've also got a short film. We've got a newsreel,
We've got an image gallery souvenir booklet with the new essay detailing the film's
production and distribution by Thomas Daherty. Yeah, this looks like a must must
have release for sure. I do want to warn people Flicker Alley can be
a little expensive, but they're really worth it. Their quality is top notch.
For example, they put out The Man Who Laughs a couple of years
ago and it was just an astonishing release from them. Definitely suggest checking it
out. Every so often these go on cell but they're on sale. Price
is usually like twenty eight dollars, so even then it's a little on the
pricey side, but these are good people worth supporting, and with the release
like this, this is an important one. Next up March twenty sixth k
Flight and MPI are teaming up in the US to release a four K media
book of the roundup No Way Out from twenty twenty three. This is the
Don Lee film. And what's interesting this has already had a Blu Ray release
in the States, and this is now just a four K upgrade of a
film from twenty twenty three that already had a media book, already had a
Blu Ray, and now it's a four K media book in the US and
they still have not put this out in the UK at all. So,
yeah, Don Lee's a cool dude though. He's fun. Oh yeah,
he owned Find of Bussan, that's for sure. He was incredible in that.
Yeah. Next up April ninth, Neon and Dekal are working together to
put out Origin from twenty twenty three. This is the newest Ava Duvernet film.
For anybody that's not seen it, highly recommend this movie. It seems
to be slightly divisive. It's a pretty great movie, I thought. I
think are Doelis Taylor was great in this. John Berenthal was pretty good in
this. Not a lot of let's see, not a lot of time to
develop some chemistry between the couple. Unfortunately, but this is this is a
really great movie. I really hope people check this out and for some reason
did not get marketed all too well. Hmm, yeah, I've been Uh
I've got a couple of dates on my calendar circle because it's coming to a
theater nearby and playing like five or six showings, so I'll probably pick it
up as well. Uh. The signer says, keep decal away from this
And for those that don't don't know, some of the decal stuff has been
pretty iffy lately, not great with encoding and all that. So uh yeah,
decal can be a little bit rough. And yes, yes, mom,
we did watch this one together. The first trailer was terrible, says
Simator. They should have started the second trailer. Well, not only that,
like there's there's just no marketing. They're not they're not really sharing that.
Uh the film is out there pushing it at at all. Yeah,
it's a great movie though. Check it out. Coming on February twenty seventh
on Blu Ray from Lionsgate in what is most likely a DVD case. The
Night They Came Home, the film that is a Western with the most ever
photoshop Danny Trejo you will ever see with a hollow with James holmost right,
this is so awkward, so awkward, And again, what is with Lionsgate
and DVD plus Blu ray case. Well, yeah, I imagine the target
audience for this is the kind of people who would get history books written by
Bill O'Reilly. This is a movie for that guy. This is a movie
for somebody who sees, uh that top line there is like, oh man,
Brian Austin Green, my favorite rapper and the first rapper to date Megan
Fox to marry Megan Fox. Oh man, I remember when I found out
Megan Fox had a thing for white rappers and I began rapping, but I
gave up pretty quickly. Oh man, Let's see Brian Austin Green easily the
the edgiest part of Beverly Hills nine O two one O. Like if you
if you're watching Beverly Hills nine two one O and you're like, which one
of these guys is from the street brings that gravitas? Let's let's put him
in a western, all right. Next is this is a different sort of
announcement to go over The tear Vision home video podcast is back. This head
been on hiatus for quite some time. I think the last episode was in
October and that was really only to cover the announcements that they did in October.
And the reason this is on here to talk about it is because I'm
now producing the podcast. I'm the one that's gonna be hosting this with Brad
all the time. We're gonna be putting, you know, as much as
we can into sharing details on the titles coming out, the process of putting
these out, all the extras on the discs, any questions that people have
lots going into the podcast, and then further the other side of that is
the bottom half of this is that I am actually working with tear Vision as
a producer now. I'm for the last couple of months, I've been helping
produce some of their discs, interviewing talent, tracking people down, helping you
know, check on copy and artwork and all that fun stuff. It's it's
been a really interesting time. But I really got to say there is there
is a lot of some crazy stuff coming from Terorvision this year, and I
cannot wait for you guys to uh to hear about it because it's gonna blow
some minds. People have some very very specific feelings about Tearror Vision as a
whole, because a lot of their first year was just uh, you know,
s OV low budget horror. It's not gonna be the case for much
longer. There's some there's some really interesting titles coming from Terorvision that are gonna
surprise a lot of people. Yeah, congratulations, man, thank you.
This is uh, you're on the cusp of something, something big, and
I tell you you're gonna have some stories when it comes to behind the scenes
ship. I'll tell you what. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's
a lot. Yeah, I love that. Somehow we've been kind of able
to this under wraps for a couple of months just to make sure that it
was gonna work out and be okay for everybody. But it's been decent.
Like during our busiest time so far producing extras, I was doing a lot
of shit for tear Vision at the same time, and we were all kind
of stressed out. But somehow most of it has come together. It's been
uh, it's been really interesting and and some of these, some of these
next round of announcements is gonna gonna make some people pretty happy. I think
I remember when you told me the news that this was happening. I was
in the middle of teaching a class. I knew, but you knew that
I was teaching a class, so I was like, this must be an
emergency. So I'm like, yeah, hear kids watch a video and I
step out because I thought it was about something that we were working on in
some kind of like heart attack, deadline issue or right or something like hey,
I need to talk to you a SAP. And then you're like,
my dream has come true, and I'm like, that is not how it
went. First off, let's let's share that it was asking you for permission.
You weren't asking me permission. You were talking like a little girl.
You go, my dreams have come true, Prince Charming. I really hope
Brad is watching this right now. No, it was great, man.
I was so happy for you. And then I went back and taught the
fucking class. Well to drop you know a little more. You know,
I know people were excited to have that episode come out. Literally just came
out yesterday. We're already gearing up for the next episode, so it's not
going to be some long hiatus. We are recording very soon and I'm going
to do my best to time the release every single time. Right when we
announced stuff, we're gonna be putting out podcast, video and audio podcast same
day. I want people to have that kind of context and really want people
to hear, you know, what's going into these releases, because as you
if you've watched this channel for the last couple of years, that's what I
love. That's what I want to hear. I want to hear what makes
these labels make their choices, why releases four K versus Blu Ray, the
cost that goes into some of these things. I'm gonna price some of that
information out a brad as much as I can, some of the logistics behind
the scenes, why things are delayed. We're gonna do our best, So
just chill to the next episode coming soon, promise. Yeah, well Snoopy
Dog there uh Grindhouse video. They were gone for a little bit of time.
I think it was almost a full month. They shut down their physical
store and revamped the way that they were doing things for inventory and everything.
They are back open. It's been back open for a few days. They've
got a different sale going on, a clearance sale, so their by two
Get when Free sale is currently discontinued, but it'll be back eventually. They're
shipping policies been changed ever so slightly. They're announcing an event called Counting to
Ten soon, so watch out for that. And then if you go look
real closely through their site a lot of stuff that was out of print,
you should be able to find at least a couple of releases in there that
were uh, you know, available and not exactly retail but definitely not eBay
second hand prices either. You can get it for about the middle of those
two numbers. Happy to see him, but I was happy to see their
their weekly live stream comeback too. What's the Guy's Mike Mike Samer? I
love his live stream because every time the first ten minutes is how like every
single thing's got screwed up, what he had to go through to fix it.
First, you know, the inventory was deleted, or a truck crashed
into a lake and sank, or you know, it's always such a saga.
He seems like he seems like a cool guy. Spaghetti says, I
think the open conversation on that podcast really brings good flavoring to everything, creates
some good buye in for the titles. With the casual conversation. Vall exactly
what we were aiming for. Yeahactly, Yeah, next up. I haven't
watched it yet, I've I've been busy. Shelf Shock Rewind voting ended last
night, and so this is the this is the moment to really hammer home
that live on February eighteenth on this channel and on the Shelf Shock Rewind YouTube
channel, on Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, everywhere. We are gonna be
doing everything we can to get as many eyes on this because twenty twenty three
was a wild year for releases. I don't have the full list of winners
yet, but I peaked at a couple, and there's a couple that are
genuinely surprising for me. Even so, I'm very curiou to see what everybody
thinks about these. We're gonna do our absolute best to get a a lot
of people, you know, accepting awards, having people from the labels come
on and talk about the release, even just for a couple of minutes,
really try to get people uh involved by in, do some giveaways during the
stream and everything. It's gonna be a great time hosted by me and Celeste
le Cabra, and get as many people as we all love just involved.
That's the big thing. Get the community behind something really great. And I
will say we almost doubled our vote count from last year, which is really
exciting. We we ended up just shy of doubling it, but man,
we got we got really close. Okay, I was gonna ask, and
then part of me was like, well, what if it didn't go?
Well, it went pretty great. I'm not, you know, not not
disappointed in the least bit. Last year was a really good first run.
But yeah, this year, we definitely have more people showing up and I'm
just excited to see everybody celebrating the good year that we had together. Well,
this is gonna be on my my kid's seventeenth birthday, so I don't
know, I might wait. I can wait, they can wait till the
next day. Next up is O c N announcements here. You got a
lot of stuff to talk about. Is this almost done? Uh? I
kind of. There's a lot of stuff. First up, one that we
knew they announced this at the beginning of January. We are getting phase four
on four K big Ants outer box and then inner slip art looks like this
classic art on that other side of the slip there. This is gonna have
a three disc set. We got a four K and two Blu rays.
The two Blu rays are region locked. You've got HDR in that four K,
newly scanned restored in four K from the O eighty four minute theatrical version
is available on both the UHD and Blu ray discs. The eighty nine minute
preview version with multiple soundtracks options. That's only on a Blu ray disc.
You got a commentary track for the theatrical version with Matthew Aspery Gear. You've
got a brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner, featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass,
co star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, arkivist Sean Savage, and design
historian and Saul Bass biographer Pat Kirkham. I guarantee that's gonna be great.
Elijah's great at what he does. We got a new featurette with the composer
Brian Gascoden on here and electronic music artist David Vorhaus. We got some deleted
shots, raw footage, a bunch of fun stuff. Yeah, this is
this is a pretty solid release for a kind of legendary film. A lot
of people love this one. Yeah, A lot of people excited on in
the chat what do you think about Phase four. I'm sure you've seen this
before. I've not, You've not had an earlier edition in a wish list.
And then when this was announced, well it was kind of hinted a
few months before that, so I was like, oh, I can hold
off, and yeah, now I'm gonna get to see it for the first
time on this fine addition, Yeah, this is this is gonna be a
great release. Next up is The Playgirls and the Vampire from nineteen sixty.
This is a pretty old, unique release in the VS line. This says
a troop of five showgirls along with their manager, are traveling through a remote
stretch of countryside when their minibus gets stuck after a rainstorm, finding refuge at
the castle home in the mysterious Count Gabor Carnessy. Probably not how you say
that the women make. The women make the best of the situation by continuing
to practice their burlesque routines. But little do they know that the strange Count
is harboring a fiendish secret and is intent on subjecting the lovely ladies to his
vampiric desires. Newly scanned, restored and from the thirty five mili Fine Grain
Master presented in the original Italian language mono soundtrack with new English subs and an
English dub mono soundtrack. We got some conversations on here, alternate opening title
sequence, different opening title, French title sequence, Steel Gallery. And also
with this, they put out one of those Oscar Bescher videos about the restoration
on their YouTube that I strongly suggest checking out. It's a fun one.
He's always hilarious. Yeah, very pleased about this one. This is a
title that really could have gone some I mean, like it would have been
at home on so many labels, like Yeah, when it was announced,
I was like, oh, I would have thought Mando Micabre would have gotten
that or Severn. But yeah, this it fits Vinegar Centrum too. So
I love the artwork. And this is a movie that I've been wanting to
see for a long time, so I was kind of surprised this was not
a VSA. Oh, but I understand it does sort of fit on the
vs line as well, so makes sense. I'm just yeah, I'm glad
it comes with the subscription. All these damn sub labels. Then from Vinegar
Syndrome is the one that I'm excited for, Spanish Bloodbath and this has Night
of the Skull a Jess Franco title. Yes, it does, Violent blood
Bath and The Fish with the Eyes of Gold. Now of the Skull will
why don't you tell us what you're excited about for that? Well, I
have two different DVD editions where there you go, So this one is a
German DVD, and then then here's one that Image put out. And this
is not a super well known Franco movie, and it's kind of, I
don't want to say, it's almost like a conventional film. It's this old
dark house hunted house deal with some Scooby dude level like Bananigan's you know,
running, you know, hiding in rooms and guys with the mask and everything,
and it's, uh, it's great. It's a lot of fun.
And then the other two films I'm not familiar with, always interested in getting
some more horae grause. So this is uh, this was the announcement even
more than Phase four, where I was like, oh goodie, you know
yeah. Uh So, like I said, we've got Night of the Skull,
Violent Bloodbath, and The Fish with the Eyes of Gold. This is
gonna be a three disc region free blu ray set. There are so many
interviews here. I couldn't even pack them all onto the announcement page. So
I'm gonna read those out from the VS site real quick, just so that
we have a little record of them here. This is we got an interview
with actor Antonio Mayans for Night of the School, interview with the Citrus Festival
director Angel Sala, and that is on all three of the films that We've
got a different interview on all three. Interview with Carlos Grause, son of
director Jorge Grau for Violent Bloodbath. We've got an interview with actor Jose Lafonte
for a Violent Bloodbath. Five Spanish Yallo recommendations by Angel Sala. There's just
I mean, there's a lot. They didn't have to put that much in
here, considering it's three films, and they did. They put a lot
of great stuff in here. So stoked on it. Yeah, could not
be more pleased. Stan says, are there well known Franco movies? I
mean, next to Dario Argento, I think Jess Franco's profile has benefited the
most from the invention of home video. Oh absolutely that. I'm saying Franco
is on our Gento's level in terms of that particular kind of artistry. Franco's
art is a much more syncopated kind of thing, meandering and strange. But
I think there will be pretty well known Franklin. Of course, the most
well known Frankoin movies still haven't made the leap, you know, Succubus,
Venus, and Furs. So I'm looking at en Franco collection now that we're
working on some releases and all that other fun stuff, I have to really
give a caveat here. We do not know anything. I'm not saying that
something is going to happen. But one thing that we've seen labels do in
the past is when you allude to somebody's work that they've done prior. If
you have the rights for something else that you're gonna be putting out, generally
you'll stick to something like that to say, hey, they're also in this
and get that and you know, get people excited for it. Keno Lober
does that a lot with vinegar Syndrome. On their reading of the copy for
this, this says one of only a handful of traditional jolly directed by Jess
Franco, and then in parentheses Venus and First. Now, I'm not saying
that they have Venus in Furst. But wouldn't that be just perfect to come
from them? I heard there was an elements issue, but if if somebody
is resolved, and I'll be pretty freaking happy. We definitely need it,
definitely definitely need it. Anyways. Next up, Vinegar Syndrome has announced that
they are releasing A Man called Hero by Andrew Lao. This is from nineteen
ninety nine and this is coming to their VSA line. This is going to
a region a locked blu ray, newly restored from an existing studio master,
presented in the original Cantonese language surround soundtrack with newly translated English subs and an
English language dub on this. We got a new commentary track on here with
Frank Jang, which is awesome. And then Hong Kong Cinema's action movie Landscape
is placing a blood sword in the road a man called Hero's place in that
genre a video essay by Justin de Clue of the Important Cinema Club, which
is pretty cool. I'm glad that he's getting into more of these. Yeah,
I mean, this looks like a pretty fun VSA. Big fan of
Frank Jang's work, In fact, I was gonna write a Chuck Berry style
tribute called my Jang Lang. I just wow. That came out of nowhere,
out of nowhere. Next up from the VSL line is a really big
deal. Vinegar Syndrome is releasing five card stud from nineteen sixty eight. This
has Dean Martin and Robert Mitcham and some people that really knew the art for
this kind of called that this was coming out when they put up the banner
last month. This is a region A locked release, newly scanned in four
K from the thirty five millimeter OCN. Commentary track with author and film historian
Brian Hannon, film critic Walter Chaw on the films of Henry Hathaway, Lizzie
Frank on screenwriter Marguerite Roberts legacy, and that's I mean, that's it.
This is a solid VSL release, very good movie. I had it on
an out of print DVD, so excited to see it restored. Henry Hathaway
coming to the Vinegar Syndrome family. That's great. Let's mention Dean Martin and
Robert Yeah, they're so good at this. This is this movie should come
with a cloth to soak up all the alcohol. That is oozing from the
pores of its stars. Yes, Terry says, Dean Martin and vinegar cinem
are two things that I thought would never be in the same sentence, this
is awesome. I feel like I feel like somebody at Vendor Syndrome was singing
Baby, it's cold outside to Dean Martin the image of Dean Martin while they
were restoring this, oh Man. Next up from the Degausser video line,
we are getting Harencia di Obilika and this is from nineteen ninety three and billed
as the Mexican Child's play. The trailer for this, well, first off,
have you seen this? The trailer for this is bonkers. If you
have not. If you have not seen this trailer yet, go watch it.
You are probably gonna want this immediately. It looks wild. This movie
looks really fun. This says. When Tony, a successful businessman, receives
a call informing him that he has inherited his late aunt's vast estate, he
uproots himself and his wife Annie from New York to Mexico City. While adjusting
to and exploring a new gothic home, Tony and Annie come upon a mysterious
clown doll. Although merely unnerved by the doll's strange appearance at first, Annie
soon becomes concerned as it begins turning up out of nowhere in every corner of
the house. When a series of fatal accidents occur on or near the couple's
property, with the doll always at the scene, Tony and Annie come to
the terrifying realization that a sinister force has possessed it and began a race against
time to figure out how to bring the carnage to an end. Yeah,
well, do that on a double feature with Dolly Dearest or like one of
like nine other movies. Bleeding Skull covered it. Ronnie says that trailer's wild,
the trailer's really fun, like this is one that a lot of times,
the trailers don't sell me more than the synopsis already? Did this one?
Really? Did? It? Looks great? We had a commentary track
with Hugo Laura on this, and then an interview with actor Roberto gwinar newly
translated English subs again de Gosser, And of course, because it's a Degasar
title, you've also got one of those fancy led VHS releases if you want
one of those, even that picture. That's a wild picture. I'm sorry,
are you? I was about to say, are you into this?
Yeah? Cover art got me. It seemed like we were especially excited.
But what's wrong? Thing? Bye bye? By? This was that accurate?
Yeah? I like clowns. That makes sense. It is a really
creepy top of the slipcover here. Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed,
the clown Are you sure? Yeah? Big? I like big clowns.
I cannot learn you're a clown man? Oh gosh. Anyways, Vinegar
Sentrum also announced some new merch of course. First up is their bloody Valentine
zippered hoodie. Here's what it looks like. Unfortunately, it's mighty expensive if
you are anything over a medium, it jumps up pretty quickly to from forty
five to fifty five dollars. They are also doing this your Syndrome Telephone Love
shirt, which is very akin to like old school adult adult theater advertising.
Why these companies make these t shirts that I find amusing and attractive but I
could never wear I can't. There's nowhere in my life where I can wear
that shirt? Why not? Will who? Next up, they are doing
a Tammy and the t Rex split Fountain variate shirt and then the big ones
for a lot of people that were excited from the earlier release. This crazy
arrow led sign, which I gotta admit a little more appealing than the other
one they did. This is this is pretty nice. And then they're also
doing a vinegar syndrome logo mini led desktop sign. This is about eight inches
tall and it's fifty bucks bucks. Yeah. I don't think I'm I'm not
gonna get those things, but I like that they exist. Anyways, Time
to get into these partner labels. First up is from VHS hit Fest or
VH shit Fest, whatever they want to be called. This time Blind Faith
from nineteen eighty eight, which I have heard for many people, is like
a top top ten or twenty s ov if you're gonna rank them. Why
is that funny? Will just I appreciate us. So I love that you're
finding this hilarious. Yeah. This So this says Ted Partridge is a mass
murdering serial killer going around killing unsuspected woman brutally torturing them beyond imagination. It
is up to detective William Lindsay and psychologist Richard Stroud to try to stop this
killer before more innocent people meet their maker, supposedly based on a true story
of Philadelphia serial killer Gary Heidnick just has an audio go ahead, when's somebody
gonna make an s OV movie about like a group of thirty somethings who are
trying to find themselves? Yeah, where's my s OV? Big chill?
It's always serial killers ripping? I'm sure it exists. SOV is just a
format, not a genre. That's what I'm saying. Where are the SolV
dramas? Although when we have one that's half a musical that we'll be talking
about a little bit. This is true, all right. Continue with the
synopsis. Silent Mandible says, what's SOV? Shot on video Region free Blu
Ray audio commentary with the director Dean Wilson, An interview with Dean Wilson,
interview with an actor David Winnick, interview with Michael Hines. We also got
a bonus movie on this called My Father's Gun from nineteen seventy six, and
then some other gosh a bunch of stuff, shorts and stuff that's seventy three
forty four minutes long, all kinds of stuff on here. This is a
big disc I like that My Father's Gun is followed up by a bullet from
my father. Yeah, Brendan says, you guys could buy a mini DV
and just film yourselves. Kirgan says, I'm in Will's camp. I want
coming into your own as a human SOV representation. Early digital video movies go
right along with s SOOV no doubt there, and Mumble says mumblecore that that's
your that's your SOV. Probably oh man, that's hilarious. Next up is
Deaf Crocodile I've heard of them before, putting out bubble Bath and uh,
great looking slipcover. As always, this is from nineteen seventy nine. Reminder
that you can buy this on the Deaf Crocodile website as I did today,
rather than buying it from Vinegar Syndrome. Yeah, you buy. If you
buy one animated movie this month, it should be bubble Bath unless you really
want to say the tune and then I still highly recommend it. But you
should have already bought the tune. You should have already bought that. If
you haven't bought the tune, get the tune and then get bubble back.
We got a Hungarian film here that has a lot of stuff. We got
a new commentary with Sam Deagan, of course, new essay by Film the
Story and a professor Jennifer Lynd Barker. We've got an interview with the Bubble
Bath composer. We got a video on the restoration of Bubble Bath, and
then five rare short films by the director, which are I mean, decent
looking, great length, and a lot of stuff on here. Again,
not just because he's in the chat. Deaf Crocodile discs are always so comprehensive.
Yeah, that makes it such an easy purchase. Hell, listen,
if Deaf Crocodile sucked, we'd say it right to Craig's face. I definitely
would. These are all amazing, almost to a fault. They put every
they put it, they put others to shame, honestly, and it's every
month. So it's like, well, great, here goes another thirty bucks.
Craig says, we do try to cram as much on the disc as
possible, and I mean mission mission succeeded here. I mean, yeah,
don't put anybody on the disc though, that's the one thing that you might
ding them on. It's like they'll just get any old schmuck off the side
of the highway to do a official essay, So did not go into this
very much. But if you were even only like partially excited about this,
man, does this sound amazing? First off, a bunch of people said
that this was like best best announcement of the day. People were really excited
to get this. Lots of great comments on this one, but just the
way they described this, So listen to this. A truly insane and surprisingly
sexy mashup of styles from nineteen twenties art deco to nineteen sixties psychedelia to late
nineteen seventies loose roxy music decadence. Bubble Bath is incredibly restless and creative,
the bohemian love child of Bill Plimpton's off kilter individualism and Ralph Bakshi's wonderfully warped
rubbery visual style. In other words, it's not quite like any animated film
you've ever seen. I mean, that's that's decent coffee. Yeah, you
know what, it was just the right amount of adjectives and it was good
adjectives. Rubbery. I like that. I like rubbery animation. Do you
see what Craig says? He says, speaking of which, we got more
work for you guys, Oh boy, here we go. The animation is
wild, says Craig gorgeous cover. Yeah, this is a must for me.
And then to little to no fanfare. OCN got another new partner label
today which brings us to what was it forty six, forty seven, something
like that. This one, this one is called Memory. Did not know
anything about this coming. The note on the page says Memory is an independent,
artist driven motion picture company specializing and producing, curating, and distributing innovative,
thought provoking works that pushed the formal boundaries of their medium. Focused on
discovering and mentoring new, diverse voices. Memory creates and showcases these new compositions
on and offline. And the first release they're going with is about the carpet
Capital of the World, Dalton, Georgia. This says we find the unsung
creators behind the psychedelic carpets lining casinos, offices and hotel hallways. Yeah.
When I first saw this, I thought of that documentary Cocaine Cowboys, and
then when I read the description, I was like, oh, there's probably
cocaine in here too, Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, this looks
I don't know, Yeah, okay, a documentary about weird carpet, psychedelic
carpet. Okay, Uh, this canna be region A locked. We've got
a trailer, deleted scenes, Q and A with the directors. There are
multiple directors on this and uh that's that's it for the first release from memory.
Mm hmm, don't forget. I have to admit stand there are there
are a lot of carpet related jokes I want to make at this point,
but I'm holding back. All right, Yeah, they're in Dallas. Makes
the joke. There we go, good one, Dallas. Oh man,
get it started, all right? Ronnie had a question. Anyone know what
Altered Innocences release schedule will be like? Will be like now that they left
VS? Still a new one every month? Not sure on that, but
I have a feeling we will be hearing something from them pretty soon. They
are not going anywhere from everything that I've been told. Next up from the
VS website is Enjoy the Ride Records, putting out everything to entertain you.
The Story of Video Headquarters. This is a story about a place called Video
Headquarters, which was a very well established and long running store in New Hampshire
that existed for thirty two years, finally closed down in twenty fifteen. That
was directed by Brantley Palmer, who was an employee from what I could gather
at this video store. And Brantley is putting out the documentary. There's an
audio commentary by Brandley extended never before seen interviews, radio interview about the film
making of documentary, some featurettes, and then an interview with Justin The Liberty
is on this from Vinegar Syndrome and then out of nowhere. Brantley the director
himself says, thank you to anyone who supports the doc I'm very honored to
be featured on the Disconnected page. It must have been following following the page
before it was announced. That's great. Yeah, you know, those kinds
of stories are always cool. You know, you're glad, You're glad when
such, you know, quirky, niche stories get preserved like the I'd definitely
like to see this. Craig says, where New Hampshire. I grew up
there it is in Keen, Keen, New Hampshire. What's going on?
Brian says, just got back from Argyle. It was great, fun watched
with, watched with sensory seats. Nice. What's that? I have a
feeling it's one of those seats that rumbles with the movie and everything. Oh,
I went to a movie that said it was like, uh, sensory
abled and they just turned the lights up. Interesting, it was like for
people. They explained that some people don't like to be in the dark or
something. Yeah, so I guess it was a different kind of sensory thing.
Pissed me off. I Uh, what is that one called d Box?
I think I just talked about this last week or the week before.
I watched Cavin in the Woods in d Box. That was the only film
I've ever been able to do that, and d Box does the rumble.
But also, you don't need to shoot on every newer movie will just because
it's a newer movie. Cavin the Woods is a crap movie. They should
d Box should pass out burf bags for that shit. Okay, anyways,
I've told the story, so I'll just keep going. No, I do
value your experience. No, it's okay, My experiences don't matter. Next
up, I couldn't even say without oh Man, Connie is putting out Man
on the Brink from nineteen eighty one. This is a big deal. A
lot of people were excited about this in Hong Kong Cinema Appreciation Society today.
This is a title that people have wanted for quite some time. This is
Alex Chunk's Man on the Brink and it is from nineteen eighty one, following
up Cops and Robbers. On this, we've got an interview with the director,
commentary with the director and the ad, and then a Q and a
post screening talk from twenty nineteen that's seventy two minutes long, and then multiple
eight millimeters shorts on this, not not a ton of running time, but
four different shorts. I mean, that's still really cool from the director.
And then a booklet with new writing by John Charles with some archival photos.
One thing that uh not not to stir up controversy or anything, here we
go, don't do it. Frank Jing posted that he recorded a commentary for
Connie and it's not on the disc and they confirmed with him that it is
not on the disc, and damn it. I want by Frank Jing.
He's great at what he does. It sucks that he recorded something for this
and now it's not on here. This movie is Janglus. It's jan There's
it's Jingles. That doesn't work. Yeah, us this janglus. Yeah,
it's uh, it's it sucks, especially when work that you put a lot
into and Frank Man, Frank puts a lot into his commentaries, like Frank
told me just this week. I think he's recording five commentaries like Frank,
you gotta slowed down a little bit. Yeah. Well, next up,
Dark Star Pictures is putting out Night Siren from twenty twenty two. This one
sounds pretty interesting. Don't know much about it. We got a region a
blu ray with some trailers and some stills gallery action on this. I will
say it's a really interesting sounding story, at least it says. In a
remote mountain village, two sisters grow up at the mercy of their abusive mother.
A terrible accident happens when the eldest, Sarlota, escapes into the woods,
followed by her sister, Tamra. Attila, a Roman woman living on
the outskirts of town, is blamed for the girl's disappearance and accused of witchcraft.
Twenty years later, Sarlota unexpectedly shows up in the village. As she
digs into her past, the locals grow suspicious. Only a young and eccentric
herbalist, Mirah is willing to befriend her. When the animals in the village
start to fall ill, the locals accused Sarlota of entering Otila's spirit. That
sounds great. Those special features that I should have called up Frank Jane and
then just left it on the disc. H man. You know what somebody
should do is I bet this would be possible a collection. Maybe it could
be like a podcast or a CD or something of of unused commentaries. Lucas
has quite a few. Yeah, and of course Amanda Ayas that's all those
Columbos. Yeah. God, the Columbo thing still still makes me pissed off.
Yeah, anyways, you can call it disc in terries box of go
to The next movie Next is one that we have known was coming for quite
some time. It was announced on this show. But very excited that we
are getting this. From nineteen seventy three, Canadian International is giving us the
third in the trilogy that they started with Dirty Money and Gina. We are
getting Rejeon Patavani. This is from nineteen seventy three and is a fiftieth anniversary
special edition. And this one sounds fantastic. I've got the first two gotta
go and complete the triptich here for sure. That's so great that they're putting
out so many of his early words. He just came out with a film
last year. Still making movies now, Wow, Yeah, great, great,
this is a definite. Yeah, this is a big one for me
for sure. We got new interviews with the director on here. We've got
an audio commentary with Anthony Kinnick. We've got new audio interviews with multiple cast
members. Pretty pretty great. They've got trailers for the other releases, and
then booklet featuring a new interview with author Peter Edwards, who did the Encyclopedia
of Canadian Organized Crime. I mean again. Solid release Canadian International one of
easily the most consistent partner labels from Ocian up there with def Crocodile for me,
up there with Utopia, up there with a handful of them. This
is this is pretty great. Yeah, here we go. Oh man,
my childhood just hit me. Two thousand and eights. The rock afire explosion
is coming from AGFA. And before we get too deep into this, wanted
to remind everybody this is a strictly limited title. There will not be a
standard addition for this, so if you want it, you gotta get it
and gotta get it as soon as possible. This is uh, this is
a nightmare fuel for many people that grew up in the Midwest. This is
the true story behind one of the strangest pop culture phenomenons of the eighties,
before being mysteriously replaced by Chuck E. Cheese, The Showbiz Pizza Chain,
and It's the animatronic rock band The Rock a Fire Explosion took the US by
storm and eventually inspired the game Five Nights at Freddy's. This documentary chronicles the
rise and fall of Showbiz Pizza, the Rock a Fire Explosion, and the
obsessive fans who have kept the dream alive. I mean, what the hell
does that mean? Right? What are they still dreaming about a defunct pizza
chain? But I am, did you go to this? I never did
go to this because I was a California dude, and these I don't think
made it out to California. We had one in North Well, yeah,
somewhere in North Carolina. I went five or six times as a kid,
and uh, oh man, the band is crazy. And then and so
I'm glad it's confirmed because Chuck E. Cheese is like, I didn't know
where show biz Like, I'm actually gonna get this documentary because I want to
know what the hell happened? Where did Chuck E Cheese come from? How
did this inspire five Nights at Freddy's, which it clearly did, and uh
and what is this dream that's being kept alive? Pizza was terrible. It
was the worst cardboard ship you ever did eat. But the atmosphere it had
the deep red and black decor that characterized some of the classier pizza hunts.
Crisiecos those people have bought complete Rock of Fire sets and programmed them and their
pull barns and stuff. WHOA, that's cool man H Craig as he had
never heard of him. Again, he grew up in New England, Stan
says. In California here we wouldn't let them cross the border. Oh that's
hilarious. Yeah, this again wild, wild looking, but I absolutely wanted
to check this one out. We've got some vintage promos, news broadcast skits,
lots of stuff like that. We got a commentary with the filmmakers on
this, behind the scenes photo gallery and video trailer. AGFA with another really
interesting release, that's for sure. So they are still a partner label everybody
calmed down, and of course the show based Pizza Bear featured in the infamous
Dick the Birthday Boy photo from Rich Evans. Red Letter Media says John Stump.
Yeah, that's a big, big, big one for Red Later Media
for sure. What's that another YouTube channel that dives into some of these lower
budget movies and shits all over them all the time? Yeah? I am
not familiar. They covered like three quarters of the Vinegar Syndrome films before Vinegar
Syndrome released them. Oh rand or did they know something? No, it's
just randomly. They just chose like old VHS films and covered them. IFC
is putting out Simon Killer this month, this is from twenty twelve. This
one sounds just amazing. The trailer for this looked really great too. We
had a newly recorded audio commentary with the co writer and director Antonio Compos with
co writer star Brady Corbett. We had a video conversation with the two of
them as well. Interview with Antonio compos on the aesthetics of Simon Killer two
thousand and seven short film from the director, some more interviews, lots of
that stuff. But then on top of all of that, booklet with new
writing by Alexandra Heller Nicholas. Her first appearance tonight, and I don't think
it's her last. Funny enough, Silent Mandibles says, I want the Jar
from Terror Vision. Despite the reception he got from Red Letter Media. The
fact that Tarrorvision went through the trouble to put out two different versions of the
film, a high contrast and low contrast. I think that shows a lot
about how they're dedicated to making it look right for everybody. I just went
and looked at the They look like the impractical jokesters. That was the Red
Letter I just went and looked at her. Ah got it. I don't
that that doesn't look like it's for me. Sam is here? What's going
on? Sam says, Simon Killer's decent. Eureka put it out years ago
and it's been out of print for a bit. Oh okay, interesting.
Chris says, last time I went to Chuck E Cheese, the workers didn't
want to be there. The salad on the buffet was brown, the ice
machine was out of ice, and one of the workers was listening to rap
music with swears. I think Chuck E Cheese is going right with them.
Yeah, most I mean most likely. Next up is art Label putting out
Stice's Satiricon. This is a continuation of what art Label is doing so far,
bringing out some really just random, off the wall things. They say.
This is jaw dropping piece of contemporary video art from two of the most
fiercely unique and prolific artists working today. We've got a feature length commentary with
the director and composer, some isolated map interstitials, and twenty two different music
videos on this or sorry twenty three plus a livestice performance and a live a
cappella performance. It's got acapella. Yeah, acappella. I went and looked
up the stills for this. I don't know. It doesn't look that great
to me. Looks like a really I assumed that it was very very intimidating
to take this on, but yeah, it just does not look like it
would be for me as a curio piece. It probably is very interesting.
Well, who who wrote this copy? Because so Tyrcan is not the oldest
known work of literature by several thousand years, Disan Gilgamesh over here. I
don't know. I mean the concept looks interesting. Shot on a built in
laptop camera, then chopped up and collaged into gorgeous hypnotizing oblivion. Right,
that might be a little many adjectives for me, but I definitely want to
look at this Humboldt horror. Honey says no new title from mail you Scene.
Reminder that it's February, which means there is an adult film sale that's
gonna be on the mail you Scene site with two new titles up over there
next week, and you can check that out then for sure. Yeah,
the slip on this is pretty nice, lots of art, lots of detail.
It is art label, so all right, stands challenging me first.
Stan says that Red Leave of Meato is actually cool guys, which I'm sure
they are, And now it's saying Petronius may have been Sibner says Dison Gilgamesh
would be the best early two thousand album. While you look that up,
go on to the next one from the Umbrella Entertainment Partner label, which again
is still fairly new to the OCEN game, but releasing some interesting things.
They're putting out a double feature of Stranded and Cosmic Psychos. Yeah, yeah,
I really thought this was going to be a WILL release for sure.
Absolutely, you know. Nick Cave said the Saints and then in Punk Rock
and Nick Cave is usually right. Yes, we got interviews on here,
some recent interviews too. It looks like a good release again, double feature.
Oh yeah, Saints are awesome, dude. Everybody should be listening to
the Saints. That's the real stuff. Looks fun. Next up is Totally
Wired, three films by Nathan Silver. This is coming from Factory twenty five
this month, with the three films being Exit, Elena, Soft in the
Head, and Stinking Heaven. The copy that they have on all three of
these films they sound super similar. Like I get that you're grouping them together,
but they sound like they could almost be the same movies. It's weird.
Uh. We got a short film on this by Nathan Silver and an
interview by Ricky d'ambrose, and then a booklet essay with essays by Jonathan A.
Letham, author of the Fortress of Solitude and Motherless, Brooklyn and Rick
Alberson, and Cindy Silver. Yeah. Actory twenty five pretty good stuff.
Have you gotten much from them yet? Yeah? I got some of their
stuff. What's a good one? Didn't they do that one of those music
documentaries? Yes, they've done one or two about the hold on great television
right when Will walks away? Uh oh, the Upset. Yeah. I
liked that. The Leader documentary was really good. They've done a few of
them. Yeah. They did the Fake It So Real. That was one
that a lot of people love. The Material issue documentary. They did Skateboard
recently, and then the big one. They just did that sex and broadcasting
the w f m U. Right, I'm definitely gonna check that one out.
Yeah. Yeah, and then they do they do some of those mumbo
core thing that's that's cool, that needs to happen. Uh. Next up
is Where the Devil Roams from Yellow Veil Pictures. Uh. Interesting looking release
here. This one says follows a family of traveling sideshow performers as they traverse
the harsh conditions of Depression era America on a bloody search for eternal life.
This one says it will be a region a lock disc Devil in Detail,
behind the scene documentary on the making of this, a short film by the
Adams family called Ever a transcription of prologue poem of Where the Devil Rooms,
and then an essay by Alexandra Heller Nicholas, would you look at that Yellow
veil. They always do great stuff and they are somebody that I've been chasing
for years to have on the channel, and uh guess what I got them.
Uh, they'll be on in an interview coming out next Monday on the
Channel. Really really awesome and a stoke to finally be able to talk to
them. Hopeful you guys check out their stuff because they're they're just put in
a lot of hard work and so much hard work that they're literally just hard
to have a conversation with because they are always busy. Wow. Yeah,
I didn't even know that. That's cool man, nice surprise. It's a
it's a fun one. I'm hoping. I'm really hoping to finally nail down
all the partner labels, but they also keep adding like four more every four.
I can't track them all down. Let's get these memory people on to
talk about carpet swatches. I was gonna seek him out that I forgot.
Next up is Saturn's Cores putting out the Zombie Army from nineteen ninety one.
Here is the slip cover. This one says the Pentagon has purchased an abandoned
insane asylum as a training ground for the lethal Ladies, an elite experimental female
combat unit. Unfortunately, two former psychotic inmates were left behind in the asylum's
deserted fallout shelter. One is a shock therapy obsessed lunatic who fancies himself as
a psychiatrist. The other an unhinged nympho maniac hell bent on lethal seduction.
Together they wreak havoc by capturing soldiers and torturing them into mindless zombies by means
of electricity. Trapped within the subterranean catacombs of the old Asylum, the Lethal
Ladies must rally their troops and do battle with the flesh ripping hordes of the
living dead. This is good what I'm talking about? You know? That's
that's what a movie. Uh, this one says. It was directed by
local high school drama coach Betty Stapleford and features an amateur cast of hundreds firing
uh live ammunition rounds. The Zombie Army is an outrageous eruption of exploding heads,
melting faces, eyeball gouging acid showers, gut munching gore, and surprising
nudity. I love that there's so many adjectives for everything else. And then
surprising nudity. Right. Oh well, it's Betty says, go ahead.
I just imagined in like the set with the live Betty'd be like, okay,
you over there, the high school drama teacher directing to live ammo.
It just blow everybody to hell there. Oh man, that's hilarious, let's
see. Directed by a woman and featuring an oddly empowering feminist slant, the
Zombie Army would go on to become a nineties rental store and fanzine favorite.
I gotta say this, I say not, that's not true. Just haven
oddly empowering in the slant. Oh friends. Uh and we're saying so much
because again Uh. The release here commentary with Richard mag author of Analog Nightmares,
The Shot on Video Horror Films of eighty two to ninety five and then
Incubators of Death, the Asylum, and Horror cinema visual essay by you and
me of someone's favorite productions. How about that? Uh? Hey, this
was this was first off a long time ago. I feel like this was
another lifetime ago. That was the first one we did, right, first
first visual essay. Yes, we we had. By the time we did
this, we had done like four or five commentaries. But so I gotta
tell you, guys, I didn't really understand the form. And and that
will be clear if you see several of the visual essays that we've made,
and this one actually turned out to be probably more like a traditional visual essay
than anything else we've done, but it's still kind of different. It is
certainly not more traditional than everything else we've done. This one is uh,
this one is very interesting and I think that people will enjoy it. And
as I've said before, one of the things that we're really trying to do
is kind of be innovative and push some boundaries of visual essays and commentaries,
bring things into these that are not in many others. And uh, and
that's why there's some surprising nudity I mean in a couple of them. Yeah,
actually, that's that's true. I can't wait until we can announced that
when I just talk about everything to be fun, all right. So anyways,
this visual essay is really fun. Yes, as we've alluded to,
the movie itself not the greatest sov film ever, it is pretty fun.
It is very fun. And as I alluded to, there is an extended
music video number that is I think fantastic. I'm also I'm excited about the
Richard maug commentary. But anyway, Yeah, this is a fun visual essay
that compares a lot of really interesting depictions of the asylum and actually takes the
listener on a journey to an asylum yourself and I you can hear me screaming
shit. I'm very excited to see what people think of this one, because
man, this this was really fun to create and I'm eager to watch this
one on the big screen in a living room for sure. This is one
that was pretty cinematic and how we made it. So anyways, check out
the Zombie Army after our visual essay. This also has analog Outlaw Jr.
Bookwalter himself comes on and discusses the zombie Army and then something really cool.
We have three episodes of the vintage cable access show called The Video Makers on
this It's a TV show hosted by writer and producer John Kowallanowski and I mean
that just sounds fascinating. They have an archival contest video on this which the
contest video is funny as hell. I got to see that while we were
working on the essay and it's it's funny. It's weird to get to see
that. Nope, that's all behind the scenes stuff. You're in front of
the scenes. Wow. Wow, mister producer, Sorry you don't you didn't
have the card. I mean, what can I say? Zombie Army recommend
picking it up. It's a fun release. The movie itself is definitely fun.
Visual essays amazing. Twelve out of ten shut up. Saturn's cores were
great. I mean, that was and that's such a That release is chock
full. It is and I really want to reiterate, there are good people
in so many of these labels. If I had all the money in the
world, I would buy every single release. Ross at Saturn's Corps is one
of those people that I just undoubtedly he would be really fun to be close
friends with. All the random shit that he loves, the stuff that he's
passionate about, the scouring across the country to find people behind these films that
he's known forever, and he's one of like fifteen people in the world that
have a VHS of it. Ross's just tops. He's a great dude.
That's it. Prosy in going on from there. April nineteenth, Warner Brothers
is releasing Doom Patrol season four, and if you have not been picking up
all four as they come out, you can just buy a complete series set
that is releasing the same day. It's got for four seasons. They're really
touting we have over sixty minutes of behind the scenes featurettes and unaired scenes,
sixty minutes over four seasons, sixty amazing. Next up, Dread Presents and
Epic Pictures are releasing Double Blind from twenty twenty three with Pollyann and Macintosh,
who was in The Woman You Might Know Her From. It says when an
experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, even young test subjects, after being kept
sorry seven young test subjects, after being kept awake for days, must face
the terrifying side effect of the drug. If you fall asleep, you die.
Trapped in an isolated medical facility, they desperately try to find a way
to reverse the side effect of the trial, as one by one they succumb
to sleep and death. Panic quickly takes hold and they turn on each other.
It's left up to Claire, the group's n likely leaders, keep them
together, find a way to escape, and somehow manage to stay awake.
Good Luck, I hope they're still in their twenties. Man, I love
this. Mikey says, twelve out of ten. I bet if the Zombie
Army took place in the Tokyo Dome and get twenty five out of ten and
you're right, absolutely right. McIntosh was on The Walking Dead really interesting,
probably right? I mean, do you have the Walking down at a lot
of characters. Dustin says that you remind him of his grandma when you put
those glasses on. Will your grandma reminds me of my grandma? Film Trash
Film Trash Film Trash Productions is doing a fundraiser for their new movie Fur and
this one looks really fun. Josh Graves is the guy that runs Film Trash
Productions. He's done a bunch of stuff, including The House that Eats Flesh
Late checkout Chum Kill Cast. A couple of those are coming out from SRS
Cinema later this year. This one looks really fun. You can get a
limited edition Blu ray and all that stuff if you're interested in donating. The
link is there. It is one of those people that does just really fun,
low budget stuff. You know who likes fur carpet cowboys? Oh you
couldn't hold back. Okay, speaking of not holding back, I don't I
even put this in my post, but I don't normally cover Masker video,
but I wanted people to make sure that they saw this. Masker Videos releasing
Horrible High Heels and you can pre order this now and it's shipping supposedly in
March. This is a grim story of a shoe factory owners to sent into
madness as he is driven by perverse desires and begins a horrifying spree of brutally
murdering and skinning women to create high heels. This is a notorious Cat three
film, and it sucks that Masker got it. I really wish somebody else
had it. But yeah, people should know about this. It's uncut completely.
And then the next one that really wanted people to see is Hunt Her,
Kill Her. This one is supposed to be great. To have not
seen this, but you can also pre order this now. Ryan's like,
you know, I normally don't do this, but because these particular movies are
so brutal in their treatment of women, I think it's my duty genuinely genuinely
spread the word. No, Horrible High Hills is actually pretty good and I
think people would would appreciate it. Hunter Killer I've heard good things about.
But then it's just regular Master stuff. After that, Dosk coma brutal duel,
and then Ostra montag which this one, that one is uh here,
I'll get it off the screen. But that one's supposed to be what's the
best one to show? Okay, that last one, it's supposed to be
this big, you know, brutal thing, but it's not even not even
that that that crazy supposedly anyways, and of course because we're we're Americans,
we can show those covers the people's guts ripped out. We can chill the
guts, but the not the utter guts. It's a really funny moment as
I posted this and literally typed out, I don't normally cover Master mascre video.
I go and post that on Twitter, and Massacre Video retweeted my post
that said I don't normally cover massacre video. Oh Man, Humboldt Horror says,
what is that white thing? I believe it is a rat? Actually?
Yes? Anyways, Next up some release details for Monk season five.
Following everything that we just looked at, who Boy. March twenty sixth,
we will get the fifth season from Keno. You get all sixteen of the
episodes and then those are all restored in four K, and then a whole
bunch of random things, even including an audio commentary for Mister Monk and the
Leper that is archival, and then some extra featurettes. And they've done really
great for these releases. I think they missed out on an opportunity in casting
for doone because to me, you'd want to get Shai Shaloub oh will And
finally, tonight last announcement April twenty second, in the UK, they are
getting a four K release of The Holdovers, one of the best movies from
twenty twenty three that we only got a Blu Ray release in the States,
And because of this, I'm willing to bet, especially after Divine wins that
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, we will likely get a four K here in
the States eventually. Yeah, you can pre order this now from the UK
if you are after it. Great great movie. Strongly recommend it's it's incredible.
You haven't seen this one yet, have you? No? I didn't
think you would care at all, but honestly, it is actually a movie
that I think you would like a lot, which doesn't happen all that often.
That's not true. I like so much stuff. That's that's what I
heard. I like. I love. My whole life is devoted to cinema.
Yes, speaking of wait, was that the last announcement? That was
the last announcement. However, next week, just in case you forgot,
McCabe and Missus Miller in four K coming from Criterion, Funeral Home from Screen
Factory, The Kingdom Trilogy from movie that's the larsvon Treer TV Kingdom Trilogy,
Terminal Man from Scream Factory, Uh, Witness for the Prosecution from Keena Lober,
The Big Country from Keno, The Sting of Death from Radiance, Voodoo
Passion that's one that Will's a big fan of. From Full Moon. What
was that? I mean, I have ordered it? Did you say no
and then say you've ordered it? No? I said, yeah, okay,
I thought you said no, I have ordered it, and I'll have
you know. I love a lot of the movies that are on this list.
Continue Amazing, The Road to Shame from Kena Lober, Burt Offerings,
which is incredible from Keno, Waitress the musical that is supposed to be pretty
decent oss one one seven from Keno Keino releases so much The Thomas Crown Affair
Candyland, which I want to check this out. Supposedly this is like a
borderline trashy film and it's supposed to be pretty order. Live, yes,
live, Why is it? Why is it not borderline just because they show
a butt? Not just because of that anyway, it's a butt with a
is that a syringe or across? It's a syringe, and then there's a
cross, and then there's a truck. There's a truck and short shorts.
It's a it's it's not it's not borderline. It is and let's celebrate that.
You don't know that you literally teach exploitation. I want it to be
trashy anyways. Uh, you you have a request, Ronnie says, Will
can you talk about Voodoo Passion? That's pretty cool? You mean like the
I mean it's a full moon release, so it's not gonna have any What
do you like about it? What's the movie? But I mean, oh,
show Man's see a Long Time? It is dreamy. What happens on
it? Oh? I remember? So hold I'll get let me get my
let me get the DVD that I have it sucking fresh my memory. Let's
see, Mike, he says. Masker video is something I do want to
get. Those last two. I've been lucky that I haven't run into trouble
with them, but had friends who dealt with some bs. Masker for you,
so full moment actually did this. This is really cool. They put
out a DVD set of Jess Franco and let's see if you can see this
on the camera. You put the spines together and you can. We don't
get enough of that anymore. Yeah, so Voodoo Passion is the last of
the set. Now, I believe you can show this. I very much
like like this box art, and this is why I wanted to get it,
because I knew I had a funny description, more coherent than many of
Franco's dreams state erotic horror films. Voodoo Passion also stars frequent collaborator Green Gambier
and features a groovy score by Walter Bomgardner. I just I love the more
coherent line. So yeah, it is, it's very dream like. It's
it's you know, a lot of bathing scenes and preparations for rituals and rights
and h and Jack Taylor's in it. That's it. We had a question
for you from Craig. Did you ever see sideways Alexander Peene sideways with gm
shit in the theater? Oh my god, let me tell you what.
Virginia Madsene's not reading that guy's novel. Okay, that would never happen.
Virgin I don't care how sad she is. I don't care how emotionally vulnerable
she is. There is no way that guy is getting her to read his
five hundred page unpublished crap novel. I will say this. I will say
this. I enjoyed the performance of Randall TeX's Cobb Rest in Peace and the
part where Giamatti throws a fit about the idea of drinking Merleau. That was
funny. But the rest of that shit, Oh my god, Oh those
people made me so mad, he says. FYI, Dennis and I will
be guesting on what will likely be Ryan's favorite episode of the Incinerator podcast,
as we'll be burning Clint Eastwood films That is coming out on February fifteenth,
And if you've heard Dennis talk another podcast, you know he'll have some killer
Eastwood stories. That sounds awesome. Way awesomer than sideways. I just you
know what it's stories about. It's just there's a there's a social strata of
people that I do not mesh with, and definitely they don't like me either,
and unfortunately they're all in charge of my university. Wonder boy, is
that the one with Michael Douglas. Have you good night, Brandon? Thanks
for hanging out tonight. I haven't seen that now that we are done with
announcements, nor we don't have too much of a discussion topic because there's so
much for us to cover for everything else, anything else, for ongoing projects
or stuff getting announced soon that you want to tease about any visual essays or
commentaries, I gotta talk about something, you know what do I'm a man
of my word, making sure I'm not forget anything. So a couple months
ago I did a issued a challenge or I was issued a challenge, and
I issued a challenge in response, which is that I would watch Mandy again
as many times as someone showed a proof of purchase for the documentary invaluable from
our friends at SINNEPS Films, and on the one hand didn't move too many
units for sent out. Sorry guys, I put. On the other hand,
thank God Almighty, I only had to watch Mandy again once. So
I'm here having now watched Mandy three times. I've seen it. The one
person that watched it for will to have to do it is Spaghetti. Here
highlighting highlighting, Spaghetti definitely highlights. Spaghetti good good guy. Spaghetti's a good
guy. So I watched Mandy again and I will now give my review.
Oh that movie is two hours long and the entirety of it is in slow
motion, and just couldn't stand. I do not understand. I mean,
every movie is someone's favorite movie, and it seems like Mandy is a lot
of people's favorite movie in here. And I respect it, but but I've
given it a go. I've watched it three times. That's six hours I
have watched. I could have watched show up the amount of time so here.
So it's like, all right, a movie tells you what it wants
to be and then it even needs to be that and it's good, or
if it doesn't do what it says it's going to do, I don't like
it. And I I found emotion to be really hard to deal with.
I mean, the scene where the freaking cult drives by what's her name,
Nick Cage's lady Lady friend. It takes like a full minute. It's not
necessary. And I know that the scorer is by this legendary, legendary Scandinavian
composer, and it was like one of the last things he did before he
passed away. So I hate to speak ill of the deb I just don't
feel like the score matches. And you know, I looked up some of
the making of and everything and found that the movie was directed by George Cosmodos's
son Painous. I got all that. You gotta say, it's an app
it's an apt appellation. Oh wow, heinous Cosmotos just didn't work for me.
The the you know, the concept is fine, you know, Lumberjack
versus Cult, but that's a seventy eight minute movie, man, So you
know, it had some interesting imagery and clearly the they were they were artists.
But I just said the writing wasn't solid to me, and I tried.
I went through it, like I know that you all think I hate
everything, and Craig just said he's afraid that I'm gonna hate deaf crocodile movies
and all this suff I don't hate everything that's come out in the last twenty
five years. You know. I was just saying the other day, you
know what, one of my favorite Christmas movies is For Christmases with Reese Witherspoon
and and Vince Vaughn. I think that movie is great. I'm not I'm
not a snob. I like I don't know. I like all kinds of
stuff, but I don't like Mandy. Folks says, you gotta drop acid
before you watch it. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. Last
time I dropped acid, I made an MTV Cribs video of the apartment I
was living in at the time. It was like nineteen ninety nine maybe,
and I'm glad that video disappeared. I hope it never shows back up.
It was pretty funny though. Yeah. So I watched Mandy, and I'm
not going to do it again. I'll tell you that one I did.
I did my time. What'd you want to talk about? Fourth time?
The charm? Oh? What did you want to talk about? Special features?
I just is there anything, uh, you know, not not that
we can say any titles, but anything that we've been working on that we,
you know, want to want to talk about. You know, hype
up some of these visual essays or commentaries because there's a lot about the thoughts
about to get announced. I'll tell you what some of these things. Some
of these things have been so hard to complete. I'm like, am I
working on a Synapse release right now? It's gonna get delayed and delayed.
We're not We're not working on SETPS release right now. But I would do
a commentary. I don't think Payinis would care for it. Spaghetti says,
what do I have to do for a Sideways rewatch or an invested buy in
for an entire season of football? I'll watch Sideways again before I watch a
football game, It's for sure. I just don't get, like, what
do you What is it entertaining about watching people kind of hurt each other?
I don't at least wrestling is pretend. I don't really like. Yeah,
I just continue the football. But yeah, Sideways I didn't care for.
I care for a lot of movies from the last twenty five years, though
like I liked I'm sure I liked something, Oh, I liked it Follows
that was good. I liked most of the Mad Max for like that.
We're gonna go movies from the last every movie over the last twenty five years
that you liked, Well, it's been hard. I haven't gotten to I
haven't gotten to watch a lot of movies from the past twenty five years because
of my children. So a lot of what I watched is kids movies and
stuff I like. I have liked a lot of movies that that haven't been
popular. Like I liked The Great and Powerful Oz, the Sam Raino movie.
I thought that was actually really good. I don't even know what to
say to that. You know, I am, It's I mean, it's
not great. Folks wants to know if you like the film GMO? Did
I see that? Is that the one that Bernon Herdzog is in the spaghetti
bathtub? Yeah? That's cool. So now everybody's saying, I am characters
from Alexander Payne movies. Is that right? None of them are saying,
George, Oh thank you, Mary. That's incredibly kind to you. At
least, well, at least I hope I'm not about Schmidt. That's Mary
said happy birthday and gave fifty bucks. That's incredible. Oh, that's cool,
that's fair. Nice. Yeah. Producing these special features has been crazy
because we we had I'll say I think it's sim to say we we had
a backlog of overlapping deadlines that just did not work, so so that necessitated
some some finessing. But things are hopefully gonna calm down after the next couple
of days. Do I like guy, Man? Yeah? Oh I think
that. What's the saddest music in the world. I love that movie?
Yeah, for sure. Oh god man. Actually, you know what,
I'll tell you why I saw Downsizing because I was working on an essay about
Todd Browning's The Devil Doll, which was an adaptation of burn Witch Burned by
the great sci fi writer Abraham Merritt. And I tell you, man,
somebody on the Downsizing team. I'm not saying it was Alexander Payne. I'm
not saying it was any particular writer, but somebody ripped that shit off The
Devil Doll. That whole movie is from a subplot of The Devil Doll.
And and you know, I didn't like it. It just didn't go anywhere
for me. I don't know. It was beautiful, beautiful shop. Uh.
Jake wants to know. Have you guys peeped the trailer for Harmony,
Karen's upcoming movie. It's something I liked. Uh. I actually did like
that spring Breakers movie. I thought that was actually pretty good. Have you
heard about the rollout for this new one? Though? It's premiering at a
strip club or something. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so it can
be authentic or whatever. Yeah. Okay, mister Hollywood, Chris is going
all in to try to get you to be grumpy, says I need to
have you on to do a watch along a Mandy. Well, it will
be almost as long as this. And the kind of strip club though,
I mean, like, is it gonna be like one of those Christal and
Champagne room strip clubs or it's gonna be like this. Let me tell you
there's harmony. There's no way that it's something like that. Well, I'll
tell you, man, where they should do it. There used to be
this strip club up in Bluefield and it was buying the long John Silvers lady.
It was like a double wide trailer, the stripper polishly holding up the
damn roof and it's alone Johnson you know the stinch. Oh man, Uh
yeah, they should have it at Lady Goodna's wonder if that place is still
there. It's a good question. Any thoughts on the Coen Brothers news.
Did you read about that they're reuniting for a bloody horror movie supposedly? Oh
okay, well you know right's right and never the Twains shall meet amazing.
Yeah, I mean, I'm cool with the Coen Brothers. Coen Brothers are
amazing. Yeah. So we can't really say anything except to say that we
hope we have some really big news that we can share soon, Like there's
some there's a lot of like smaller projects going on, and then there's some
really freaking big projects and uh until they happen on like the Anti attack.
So stay tuned, faithful listeners. It's been an odd time because, you
know, the whole public announcement of someone's favorite happened in September, and since
that moment, we've been working on at least one thing, literally since since
before it was announced publicly. It's been crazy and literally none of this we've
not really had to seek out anything yet. It's mostly people asking us if
we'd be interested, checking out what we've done, and then saying yeah,
let's do something. And so far it's it's been a lot of really cool
projects and not really anything that I've you know, not been stoked to work
on. And the people that we've been doing stuff with is great, Like
they've already been announced and they'll be shipping soon. Terror Vision releases of Game
of Killers. We got Sean from Foo for Thought on there and he wrote
a brilliant visual essay that is just an incredible piece on Barry Chan, somebody
that is very undersung in the whole martial art genre that's still working to bring
you know, education and just a community aspect to it. And it's an
incredible educational piece on somebody that has never gotten any love like that. But
what's really funny we wrote that visual essay not knowing that he's only ever been
called Barry Chan in the States. He didn't even know that he was called
Barry Chan here. He had no idea. Yeah, hilarious, that's cool.
Yeah, So I don't know, we've been able to announce what there
or four things so far. We've got the Swiss Conspiracy coming out this month,
and Spider Labyrinth has come out, and now the Zombie Army Conspiracy shipping.
Now by the way, Orbit got that in today, some other places
have got that in. So yeah, check out that one. That's great.
It's been really it's been really cool to, you know, bring in
some people from the academic world, people from journalism, you know, critics,
independent critics, and just kind of get all these voices jumbled together.
Yeah, I'm hopeful for a productive year. We'll see, we'll see.
There are definitely some stories that I want to tell, but I can't until
we can say what it's about. So are some good stories that we just
can't say it with surprising nudity. Stan wants to know what is the retail
on Zombie Army, and it is twenty seven for the Slipless and thirty forty
nine with a slip unless you are a subscriber. I feel like we need
a Danz a parody song called Slipless. I kind of wish i'd ended the
broadcast as you did. That last note. Did not work out any other
questions before we before we call it a night. Any any other anecdote you
wanted to bring up their will? Oh? Sure, I got a few.
I think this has been a nice shambling two hours and forty minutes.
That's that's actually be short for us, right, it's pretty brief for us.
That's why I feel like we're trying to buy time a little bit.
You know, why been drinking water? All right? I haven't gone off
on some meandering tail. That's okay. You know, health is important.
I want to beat this thing. Oh gosh, Chris says, when will
we get another Battle of Dodson and Long The whole uh in depends of the
genre thing has kind of had to be put on hold considering how busy everything
has gotten. Yeah, I'd like to do a like what do you call
those things where all the restlers are in the ring at the same time.
Yeah, rumb will bring in uh Rount and somebody else. Who was that
guy from Chasing Labels Step Yeah Lard is blowing everything that he can into some
of those action titles and then getting nothing at the end of it. Uh.
Oh man, he's the best dude. I love that guy. Yeah,
Jeremy long Man, you know he's good people. I love that everybody's
waiting for the punch luck just like one of his jokes. Oh. On
that note, we will call it a night. Thanks everybody for hanging out
and thanks for watching. It's been a really incredible time for us and for
physical media, and uh can't wait to do it again. So from all
of us to you, let's uh, let's call it a night, have
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