WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:06.679 Man, I love that poster. Yeah it's Barbara. Barbara signed it at 2 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.759 the top, and she spelt my name wrong, like how you can spell 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.759 David wrong. I was gonna say, how do you spell David or Gregory 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:19.239 wrong? Yeah, she went to spell it. She said d V and 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:25.359 she's like, oh, I fucked up your poster. That's all right, 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.000 Barbara. So she kind of corrempted it, so it's not too bad. 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:35.520 But I have one autograph that has someone who did a carrot like to fix 8 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.679 my spelling of my name because they spelled it nice. Yeah, it's got 9 00:00:39.679 --> 00:01:10.120 an amendment. It just makes it more unique. Yes, I am here 10 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:15.400 with Andrew Furtado and the David Gregory from Seven Films. Gentlemen, Thank you 11 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:19.680 for coming on. Thank you for having us. Of course I have had 12 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.000 people literally begging me to have Andrew back on because his first time was so 13 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:29.239 much fun, but also to bring on David because David is just so frickin' 14 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.640 magnetic whenever he's speaking about anything. Thanks for agreeing. This might be an 15 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.079 odd way to start an interview about seven Films, but I have to say 16 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.519 this is one of my favorite releases of the last year, and I gotta 17 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.159 be honest, I don't really love the movie, but David segment on here 18 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:51.319 is so damn perfect because he is just gushing about video Nasties and it makes 19 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:56.239 your personality shine so much. I've sold people on that disc primarily for that 20 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:00.359 featurette so to dive in. First of all, for the people that don't 21 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.040 know, what do you love about Video Nasties? Because actually before that, 22 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.920 is that the Vinegar Syndrome or is it it is in sight? Well, 23 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:10.520 the funny thing, I have both because I wanted to see if there's any 24 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.840 differences. But well, I'll tell you exactly what the differences are. The 25 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:22.879 Second Site edition has the actual correct, finished version of that feature at whereas 26 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:27.840 Vinegar Syndrome put on a fucking rough cut and so come on, amount of 27 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:31.800 time there are, this is what we're printing. Doesn't matter that it's not 28 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:36.960 finished. It's going on Jesus fucking Christ. You know. Well, there 29 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.080 you go buy from Second Site because they know how to wait until the finished 30 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:46.599 product is I wasn't saying that Vinego Syndrome are definitely definitely our friends. I'm 31 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.280 just saying, do you want to see that? If you want to see 32 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.159 the proper feature at you need to watch the second site edition. Absolutely. 33 00:02:53.240 --> 00:03:00.840 So the big question why why video nasties? Because I grew up in the 34 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:06.840 I was in How old was I when we first got a VC I was 35 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.879 I think ten when we got a VCR and when we joined the video so 36 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:14.960 that was in nineteen eighty two, So the video nasties weren't a thing at 37 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:19.439 that point. It was just this new world of the video shop where you 38 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.719 could get all these glorious films that I'd never even heard of, that hadn't 39 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.560 even been covered in you know, the horror magazines and books of the day, 40 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:32.639 and so it was a whole new Aladdin's Cave of joy that me and 41 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:38.080 my best friend at the time, Carl Daft, from school. We were 42 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:43.319 the only kids in school who were really into these kinds of movies. The 43 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.599 goloria the better. And then all of a sudden it started popping up on 44 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:51.719 the television that they were dangerous and that they were should be banned, and 45 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.080 this little old lady called Mary white House was all over the papers and all 46 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.759 over the television about how this filth is entering our homes and needs to be 47 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.240 banned. And then the politicians jumped on the bandwagon, and then all of 48 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:09.000 a sudden it became law that these films, and and police started raiding the 49 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.479 video stores up and down the country. So this, this this beautiful brief 50 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:18.000 period was very quickly over, and the video stores got scared and started taking 51 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.639 stuff off their shells voluntarily before the police showed up. So all of a 52 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:29.959 sudden it was actually quite get these, you know, European and American horror 53 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.439 movies that had had been all over the shells before that. So all of 54 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.319 a sudden they became the forbidden fruit, right they were they were They were 55 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:41.399 made illegal, as as most films were then made illegal because it became law 56 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:43.839 that you had to have a rating, whereas before that you didn't have a 57 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.079 rating on video, only at the cinema. And so all of a sudden, 58 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.279 people like me up and down the country, in the UK, in 59 00:04:50.600 --> 00:05:01.680 in Britain were collecting these forbidden films and so and so, I guess Severin 60 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.519 is kind of an extension that I started the company with that same friend Carl, 61 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:11.800 who is still the partner in the business. And essentially now we just 62 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.040 buy the rights to the movies instead of actually just buying the tapes. Although 63 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.360 I still buy the tapes. I've got an office downstairs that the wall is 64 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.000 covered in them. Yeah, I was surprised that you, when you were 65 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.560 on the call, you didn't hop in there and run down to that room. 66 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.319 I would have done, but the internet's playing silly buggers at the moment 67 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.480 in the office and was freezing up. So I've now come upstairs where it's 68 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.800 slightly better. A lot of stuff that of David's childhood and history can be 69 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:43.720 found in both the documentary two part series that we put out on DVD and 70 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.839 in the Steckler Box. On disc four Mondo Psychatronic, David talks about one 71 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:54.800 of his well he doesn't talk about he talks to one of his big influences. 72 00:05:55.319 --> 00:06:00.000 Yes, Balcroche was the ran the psychotronic store in Camden Town in London 73 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:03.600 them which was a very dingy basement shop but had a back room where he 74 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:09.800 would where he would sell the illegal tapes of you know, things like Blood 75 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:14.360 Feast and Zombie and you know stuff that is laughable that it's that it was 76 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.040 illegal, but it was very much illegal. And but that's where people like 77 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.920 me would would would go and get our dodgy bootlegs of Handsome John tells a 78 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.199 story about when he was Lovely John back. Lovely John. He is handsome, 79 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.759 but very lovely He he talks about how he got locked in the back 80 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.160 room because the cops came and they didn't know about the back room, and 81 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:40.120 there was another dude just they were just sitting there quietly in the dark, 82 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.560 flicking through tapes trying to see what they were going to find. And yeah, 83 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.759 no, it's it's it's a right. Well, the police came in 84 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:47.000 the front, right, the police were in the front, so I actually 85 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.839 locked them in the back room and he was not in there with some very 86 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:55.800 dodgy geezer who was also flicking through the tapes and just drooling from the mouth 87 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.720 and there, and that's kind of the perfect you exposition for people that are 88 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.800 into this sort of thing today, to see the difference between a literal like 89 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.800 police sweeping across a niche and to try to pull these off the shelf and 90 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.879 now we're buying them on sill on Black Friday from Severn, and just the 91 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.160 difference in what a couple of decades can make. Uh. First of all, 92 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.639 I want to say, how lovely it is to follow your journey through 93 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.439 some of these tapes on the Severn podcasts when you announced that you've got one 94 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.600 on eBay for eleven hundred dollars or something. Yeah, yeah, you see. 95 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.480 The thing was when they were first banned and we were still in high 96 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.720 school, Carl and I would go round to all the video shops at Nottingham 97 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.680 and ask the owners, you know, do you have anything sort of in 98 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.959 the back room or back home that you had to withdraw from the shelves, 99 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.079 And more often than not they did, and there was nothing they could do 100 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.800 with these tapes and they were taking up space. And the only thing that's 101 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:50.879 slightly questionable is why they would then sell them to people who were, you 102 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:56.160 know, like fourteen years old. But still they did, and they didn't 103 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.199 care. We had money was as good as anybody else's. So that's how 104 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.639 the collections began. Was basically going through you know, old garages of the 105 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.240 of the local corner video store. That's forums we were trying to find some 106 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.920 video nasties, uh as research and trying to track down where some of these 107 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.800 films were dubbed in English or or if they were dubbed anywhere else, like 108 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:24.639 some Spanish stuff, and there were like forums dedicated to I gave my tape 109 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:26.480 to Mitch, and Mitch gave that tape to this person and then he traded 110 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.360 to this part. It's fucking crazy. Yeah, I know. In some 111 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.799 of the ones that I bought recently, they have actually the ownership the list 112 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:35.559 of ownership kind of like you get on in a in a library book, 113 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:41.679 you know, like somebody's like, where's George Ben Yeah, no, nothing 114 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.320 like that, but yeah, it's like it was owned by this guy who 115 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:46.320 sold it to this guy, who sold it to this guy, and now 116 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.039 it's it's great. I mean it's it's literal history, absolutely, except a 117 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:58.240 lot sweatier. But the library. Almost every tape has been owned by Zach 118 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:05.879 Carlson from for at one point. That's what I learned. So the big 119 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.360 question, how did we get from young David loving video nasties to finding several 120 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.759 and making it the powerhouse that it is today. Okay, the short version, 121 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.240 No, we dived deep. Come on right, all right? Well, 122 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.759 got to spare a couple of days, Yeah, no, I so 123 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:31.000 I went to I I ended up getting a job with a small budget distributor 124 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.000 in Nottingham, where I'm from and I got that job because, like I 125 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.799 did with all the video shops, I went to anyone who stopped videos, 126 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.639 and I went into this place, and the owner really enjoyed my passion for 127 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.120 movies, and so he offered me, you know, a weekend job while 128 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.000 I was in high school, and then it became my summer job. And 129 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.320 then I went away to college, came back to Nottingham and went to work 130 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.120 for him again. But by then he bought a bunch of video equipment, 131 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:01.759 so I started making documentaries for him. And at the same time, he 132 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:03.840 was the one who kind of taught me about buying rights, could he because 133 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:09.480 he'd kind of bought a bunch of when when the video When the video Nasties 134 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.080 were banned, a lot of the companies that put them out went out of 135 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:16.399 business, and so the masters master tapes for all their catalog were just floating 136 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.519 around and being sold onto other people who repackaged them, retitled them, gave 137 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.200 them you know, ridiculous. Oh my god, I might even have a 138 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.080 visual aid. Here, are you actually going to show the video? Yes? 139 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:35.480 On this, just just one second. There's there's an amazing called Extraterrestrial 140 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.799 Nasties it's it says et n when the When the Nasties came out, and 141 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.720 it's got the coolest cover in the world. But you you put in the 142 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.759 tape and it's like a nineteen fifty sci fi movie. It was such a 143 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.919 bummer. I saw that tape downstairs and I was like, oh my god. 144 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.559 It was like, you don't want to watch it? Mate? Well, 145 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.799 with what movie was extra nasty? I was covering the goddamn planet exactly, 146 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:09.759 so that this here is an example. This movie is called Hearsay and 147 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.919 it has a guy who looks like Alexander O'Neill, who released like an R 148 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.480 and B album called Hearsay in the in the nineties. This is actually the 149 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:26.200 movie Sea China and Die, directed by Larry Cohen. But my boss was 150 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.759 loved this fucking Alexander O'Neill album and was like, oh, let's just paint 151 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.679 a picture of him and put a woman with a gun beside it and a 152 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.600 dead dude underneath it. Will actually name it after the album and trick people 153 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.320 into thinking somehow Alexander O'Neil is in is in this movie. Yeah, So 154 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.320 anyway, things like that were happening. So I was like, well, 155 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.399 why don't we package it as see China and Die by the Larry Cohen of 156 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.559 God told me to him, and he's like, well, you know, 157 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.840 you might actually want to buy the rights for that, you know, And 158 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:05.639 so he was. He was confident because he kind of bought the masters off 159 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.600 the company that bought the rights, but those rights had probably expired by that 160 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.080 point. So anyway, that's how I kind of started learning about buying rights. 161 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:20.879 Karl and I decided to go after Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which had been 162 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.759 banned in England for a number of years at that point, and by the 163 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:31.000 time the current censor became the new censor and we were ready to do the 164 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.440 deal, while somebody else swept in and bought those rights and made a fortune 165 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.720 off Texas Change for Massacre. They obviously paid a lot more for it than 166 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.399 we ever could have afforded, so it's not really so bad. But then 167 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.039 I went out and made the documentary Texas Changeaw Massacre The Shocking Truth, because 168 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:50.039 I was determined to do something with Texas Change On Massacre because it's my favorite 169 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:56.679 movie, and that led me to meeting Bill lastig No. We started a 170 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.480 label called Exploited at the same time in the UK and that released films like 171 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.240 Acts, Children Ship, Play, Dead Things, Hated GDL and The Murdered 172 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:11.679 Junkies, Deranged, Three on a Meat Hook and also Maniac and Vigilante. 173 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.159 William Lustig's films. Maniac got banned. A lot of the films had to 174 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:20.399 be cut because there was still strict censorship in England at the time, which 175 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.000 meant that doing this kind of boutique label in England was just a complete dead 176 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.440 loss because who wants to collect who's a hardcore collectorate? Who wants censored versions 177 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.919 of these movies? Anyway, I became friendly with Bill. He was also 178 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.559 in Texas. Change saw the shocking truth, saw that I could make documentaries, 179 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.080 and at the time he was producing for Anko Bay and Ankor Bay had 180 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.360 just picked up the Studio Canal Library and they were starting to restore the Wickerman. 181 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.679 So he said, can you do a documentary about the Wickerman. Of 182 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.320 course, I was jumped, jumped on it immediately. This was like a 183 00:13:52.399 --> 00:14:00.600 dream job, actually being paid to do a documentary on the Wickerman. Fast 184 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:05.919 forward, I went and did the post production in Los Angeles here and Bill 185 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.159 was very happy with what we've done with the Wickerman, So I started doing 186 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:15.639 all the extras for all the featurette extras for Ankabay and so that was the 187 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.039 next couple of years. Then Bill formed Blue Underground. So I was with 188 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.840 Bill for the first four years of Blue Underground, I think, kind of 189 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.360 doing all the extras and producing disc for him. And then he started kind 190 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:35.840 of, let's just say, being disillusioned with having so many employees and such 191 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.840 a rapid release schedule, so he was keen to downsize. And at that 192 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.320 point me and Carl and another guy, John Kregan, who was working also 193 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:50.080 at Blue Underground, decided we'd start several films, which we started in two 194 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.159 thousand and six, and the first two films we released were Gwendolyn and Felicity, 195 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.279 and it's been after the races since then. Wow, it was a 196 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:03.080 pretty long run key road before we were able to get onto a regular schedule. 197 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.919 We're still not really on a on a regular schedule such that we can 198 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.559 tell people exactly how many movies per year we're going to put out, but 199 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:16.000 it's much more regular than it was for some of those fallow at least a 200 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.159 month now exactly. We know we're releasing every month you know, that's that's 201 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.519 something. But but sometimes during those first years, we wouldn't release for months 202 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:30.279 because for one reason or another, or the production hassles that go into doing 203 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:35.000 these things, or the extra effort and care we put into the extras. 204 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.840 Because of where I sort of started, I have a big, uh, 205 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:43.759 a big chip on my shoulder about the quality of extras and that's to to 206 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.000 this day. You know, we we and they're little productions in themselves, 207 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.799 you know, sometimes big productions in themselves, so you know, all that 208 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.759 kind of stuff can can really change your release date from from day to day. 209 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.399 And so so yeah, so that the thing that we're always juggling, 210 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:04.759 even though we're working on I don't know how many movies, it's ten over 211 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.600 one hundred movies, right Andrew that we've got one form or another of production, 212 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.200 and it's just which one's getting closer to the finish line. It's the 213 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.840 one that hard drives of things that I still need to work on more arrive 214 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.320 every day. Oh I just got but yeah, where's my box from yesterday? 215 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.320 I went to the office and I got a whole box of just more 216 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.440 hard drives and that was that is that all from Spain, No, no 217 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.039 Spain, friends and Italy. There you go. They just come in from 218 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.600 all over. They don't stop every time. It's just every time I go 219 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.120 to the office, the minute I leave, another box shows up, and 220 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:44.519 I feel like it's just never going to end. And then I hear people 221 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:45.840 talking about Blu Ray Is dying. I'm like, dude, look at my 222 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.679 Look at my house. It's it's cluttered with drives that I still have to 223 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:55.320 get to, Like we got so much stuff to put out. Yeah, 224 00:16:55.679 --> 00:17:00.639 yeah, and it keeps expanding. Is David with his with his beautif smiling 225 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.839 face, goes to places like AFM and can and meets all new people, 226 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.319 opening new territories, Like we just started doing a whole bunch of Spain stuff, 227 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.319 like I think I talked about last time I was on and that hasn't 228 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.680 stopped. Yeah, what we now have a correspondence in Spain who just every 229 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.599 week is like, have you heard this movie? I'm like, no, 230 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.079 it sunds right up our alley. Let's get it. So with the Blue 231 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.039 Underground talk and Blu Rays dying, this is kind of a perfect time to 232 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:30.839 ask. And I'm sure you haven't paid attention to all of his statements. 233 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.519 About a month and a half ago, Bill Lustig did another show and said 234 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:38.559 he thinks all of the boutique labels are going to be dead within five years. 235 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:42.839 How do you both feel about that? I believe Joe Ruben at Vinegue 236 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.519 Syndrome says something similar. He said five years five years ago, I know 237 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:48.880 that for sure. When I first started working with you, he was like, 238 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.680 it's going to be dead. Yeah, So there is that school of 239 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.839 thought. I am not so I am not doomsday about that. I mean, 240 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:02.039 I don't think. I don't think this will last forever in terms of 241 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.480 people wanted to build up their shelves with physical discs of these movies. But 242 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.359 it doesn't really seem to be slowing down at this point. I mean, 243 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.319 it's not on rapid ascent like like it was. But but I don't know, 244 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.359 people still seem to be pretty interested in what we're doing. And I 245 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:25.519 think the fact that we're either picking films now that people just don't have in 246 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:30.000 their library or that haven't been available for quite some time, or doing you 247 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.519 know, significant upgrades of films that have already been out, I think I'd 248 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:41.640 like to think that, you know, we're providing something that the collectors actually 249 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.119 want, you know. Well, and the other big thing, you guys 250 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.839 run a company that really, at least for me, excite me every month 251 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.359 because of the special features that you're putting into this And when you're ran by 252 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.400 somebody like David who's putting his heart in some of the special features for decades 253 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:59.759 now, I could see that leading to some sort of potential pressure to keep 254 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.319 out shining previous ones. Is that is that clear that it's one of the 255 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.559 main focuses of the company for you to keep that going, Yes, for 256 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.839 sure, And we have we have several feature length documentaries in production, some 257 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.559 that have been in production for years, which have you know, because they 258 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.839 One of the beauties of the of of documentary production is it's not like narrative 259 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:26.079 production where it needs to all happen in one chunk. Well everybody's in town 260 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.920 and everybody's hired. These things can actually, you know, be dragged out 261 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.039 for years. The downside of that is that they can drag on for years. 262 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.880 So basically we've got we've got, you know, licensed a bunch of 263 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:41.599 movies associated with the documentary I started five years ago, a ton of movies 264 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.359 which are just kind of sitting there waiting for the documentary to be finished. 265 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.680 But I'm still working on exactly. We keep on getting more as well, 266 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:56.079 don't we. That's very acusing, that's going to be a ridiculous box that 267 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.559 I will say. I will say working with David, something that he brings 268 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.759 to the table that a lot of companies don't, which kind of it very 269 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:07.000 akin to what he's known for, is he brings context and that's something that 270 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.160 I love. Like, without Adamson, you put out like six al Adamson 271 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:15.599 movies, people go oh cool ah. But if you put out a documentary 272 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.519 explaining who this is, so you can fall in love with the filmmaker and 273 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.640 finally understand kind of who he is, what he's about, and then watch 274 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:27.519 his films. There it brings so much more than just movies. It brings 275 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.000 a memory. It brings something to the to the viewer. Like for me, 276 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:36.039 I'm listening to the mel Brooks book for example, and I'm watching the 277 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:40.240 movies as he tells the stories, and it's just that context brings more new 278 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.839 memories to the films and stuff like that. So so there is something very 279 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:48.039 special about what David has been so adamant about and other companies are finally starting 280 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.799 to work on like Second Sight have been putting out novelizations and and and you 281 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:59.200 know, interview in booklets and these big old fucking sets and and if they 282 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.720 don't stop. And I think they found what they like to add, and 283 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:06.279 David is what he likes to add, And personally, I think they're both 284 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.400 great. And there are more companies catching on to that as they are. 285 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:15.319 Well, yeah, I mean it's it's certainly not just us that, but 286 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.799 it is something that we're we're we're very conscious of. And then and then 287 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.039 the stuff, for example that we're doing with with Kayla, I mean, 288 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:29.079 she's she's digging into into barrels that I that I've never even heard of, 289 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.920 you know, and so and she brings a very kind of academic perspective to 290 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.960 to the kind of things that we do. Maybe it's time to talk about 291 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:41.000 this. Then yeah, well there you go. Yeah exactly that that was 292 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.279 that you know, was was was all her creatively, And and she did 293 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:51.440 an epic three plus hour documentary called Woodlands, Dark and Days Bewitched, a 294 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:56.799 history of folk horror, which was very well received. And the Folk Horror 295 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.160 Box kind of came out of that because that's started as an extra, as 296 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.640 quite a few of our feature documentaries do, and just ended up ballooning into 297 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:11.279 this this epic documentary, and which then ballooned into this incredible box set that 298 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.759 she curated, like I say, with a lot of films that I hadn't 299 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:21.720 even heard of, but she'd gone so deep into her research and was so 300 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.039 articulate with with with her assessment of these films and the people she was getting 301 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.880 to talk about them, and it was like that I put my trust into 302 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:34.240 her in terms of what what films we should license, you know, I 303 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.480 mean, within reason, we had to be able to get them. There 304 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:41.519 had to be elements, there had to be in a certain price range. 305 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.359 But I don't think anything was licensed that. I don't think we missed out 306 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.559 on anything because it costs too much. I mean, it was just a 307 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:52.039 matter of doing the research and finding who owned it, and in quite a 308 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.319 lot of cases that old thing, sure, you know. And so but 309 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:03.720 then Eyes of Fire, even the director was like yeah, so yeah, 310 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:06.759 because he'd been out of the business for years and Eyes of Fire was kind 311 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.759 of the big a title in the box. It hadn't been available for a 312 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.240 long time. He'd been disillusioned with the business. But sometimes that's a good 313 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:21.599 thing because there he had the negative and he had not sold it to any 314 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:25.319 big studio or anything like that. He'd just kind of moved on with his 315 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:30.200 life to something else. So it was great. Yeah, this box set 316 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:36.480 is possibly. Literally last night I went on a rant, how about it 317 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.279 might be my favorite release of all time from any label. The documentary itself 318 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:48.279 I have watched multiple times and it's it is film school on a disc in 319 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:52.839 a way that you don't really get that often, and it is just a 320 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.200 gift to people that eat up things like this, and a lot of my 321 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.480 viewers love stuff like this. I got to ask the three and a half 322 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.960 hour docum or almost three and a half hour whatever, there's so many other 323 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.200 movies in there. Is there ever a chance that we get a volume two 324 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.839 to this? There is a very good chance that there'll be a volume two, 325 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:12.160 and that's all I'll say. That is one of the most exciting things 326 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:17.640 I've ever heard. This box set has changed a lot of the ways that 327 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.839 I look at film, and the thing that you did with it, with 328 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:23.920 the whole the Witch's Bundle, everything that came with it, just gave so 329 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:29.920 much context to everything. The map itself in particular was such a cool little 330 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.039 extra that you threw in. You guys have this odd personality that is not 331 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.680 just like in terms of what you're putting out, but the label itself has 332 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.359 a personality. Is that something that you guys see is important for you or 333 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:47.039 is that just it has happened along the years? Definitely, And I think 334 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:51.920 I think Andrew you sort of took that up a notch by starting the podcast, 335 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.640 for example, and things like the Severn Seller where we sort of made 336 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.799 it about you know, being part of Sebrin, I guess, and it 337 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:06.079 kind of stemmed from context, like that whole that whole thing you said it 338 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:11.039 yourself. Context That documentary brought to lights so much more about these films, 339 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.920 and you know, makes the person more willing to give something a shot. 340 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.279 So if we tell these personal stories about you know, why a film is 341 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.400 chosen or why someone loves a film, like the Criterion Closet is great, 342 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.759 but a dingy seller, you know, you're you're in there and you're you're 343 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:29.680 gonna have to say yes regardless because of the implication. Yeah, I mean, 344 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:33.279 it's much much more interesting to me and I would think a lot of 345 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.079 severin fans to hear people talk about all kinds of movies than than you know, 346 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.279 Bergman movies something like that. And that's not to say they're better or 347 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.319 anything like that. I just you know that we're more interested in the kinds 348 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:52.400 of films that we do and know people have definitely listened to the podcast and 349 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:57.359 been influenced into trying something that they wouldn't normally, and most of those people 350 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:04.039 hate by just Franco movies. Just despite me and as you should people that 351 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.680 this is this is something that really amuses us around the office, buying Jess 352 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:14.960 Franker things just to annoy Andrew. So do it more please people. The 353 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.480 other thing is that we is that we said sorry to interrupt, Oh you're 354 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.599 good. I think with in terms of like the the auterment that we that 355 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:29.000 we include with some of our releases, I think that started with the the 356 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:36.039 the hilarious gag between us that we should do a simple dwarf plushy and thinking, 357 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.960 you know, doing a children's toy for a film as gross and upsetting 358 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:45.200 as the simple dwarf, it's hilarious. So we went ahead and had that 359 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.279 made and made sure that it talked and sure and had a little commercial made 360 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.359 for it by Mike Eito, which which is a work of art in and 361 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:56.279 of itself, and and lo and behold it was. It was quite successful. 362 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.119 So then we did the anthropoplica style, and then it got people like 363 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.920 Jason in Our in Our who runs the warehouse in Arizona. He gets very 364 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:11.680 excited by the idea of what uh trinkets we can come up with. And 365 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.400 then Kayla got into it too. I mean the stuff that she commissioned for 366 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.960 the for the Witch's Bundle that you mentioned. It is great stuff. The 367 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.000 spider from Horror of Spider Island that Andrew is holding up right that and it's 368 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.319 it's a it's a nice little addition, you know. Uh, yeah, 369 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:33.440 we love it. The the Anthropophagist Plush and Sir Jess Franco the the Treetopper 370 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.240 are looking down on me right now as we speak, and they are every 371 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.359 single day. And I'm so grateful for both of those, Uh, Jess 372 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:47.039 Franco, Andrew Andrew Hatem. As far as I'm aware, I'm also not 373 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:52.640 a lout fan. Is that something that Severns has made a mission to be 374 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.000 the home of Jess Franco, because you've done so many of Franco that it 375 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.680 is now the go to place for anything Jess Franco. Yeah, no, 376 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:03.599 I mean Monda mccabber is still doing them when got a few, Yeah, 377 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.759 on the other side of the mirrorside the mirror. Yeah. So no, 378 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.599 we're we're definitely. He is the patron saint of several is what we call 379 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.880 him. And honestly it was it was when I went to first interview him 380 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:26.440 in Malaga, in Tomalinas actually in Spain for Justine Eugenny and two others that 381 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:32.160 I interviewed him for that first time with Blue Underground, where I was absolutely 382 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:36.960 sold on his I would say, his outlook on life, you know, 383 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.319 the fact that he was just kind of addicted to making films, and his 384 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:47.000 his clear memory of these movies that he made among two hundred movies. You 385 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.279 know, he made these back in the late sixties and still had very very 386 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:56.960 detailed recollections of it. And then halfway through the interview, wife Lena walks 387 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.759 in and I guess she wasn't his wife then, but you know, partner 388 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.920 of many years. Lena walked in, say anyone wants a cup of tea. 389 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.480 You know, that's something that's Lena remain just walked in and so I 390 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.319 spent the day with them in Tora Malinas, and I think from then on, 391 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:17.519 any chance I had to go and visit with with Jess and Lena and 392 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:22.960 do interviews with them with something that I found very invigorating, very inspiring, 393 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:29.359 and so just their their life being dedicated to to to making these movies. 394 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:33.599 That's that's that was their passion, and so I'd say, you just can't 395 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.559 fault that. That's that's you know right there is is why he's the patron 396 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.559 sat of Severin. I mean, we're dedicated to these kinds of films too. 397 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:47.000 So now that the beauty of it is it's a gift that keeps on 398 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:51.160 giving because he made so many movies, quite a lot of them have never 399 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.680 been out in a in a decent edition, and those negatives have not been 400 00:29:53.720 --> 00:30:00.799 touched in decades, you know. Yeah, so sometimes they'll they'll somebody who 401 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.920 comes to me, what about this film? You know, I found the 402 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.720 owner of this film. I'm like, never heard of it. Let's that's 403 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.200 Stephen Thrower, and Steven would be, oh, yes, that's a good 404 00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:12.039 one and then all right, that's a that's good enough for me. Now 405 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:18.480 did you coin the term uncle Jess or okay, where did that come from? 406 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:21.599 You know, I don't know, but it was in Jess Franco fan 407 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.839 circles. It may have been. You know. Tim Lucas was one of 408 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:30.200 the guys who popularized Jess Franco before the DVD era. In his video watched 409 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.799 up piece how to Read a Franco Movie, Lucas Balbo had done the book. 410 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.319 I think it's called Obsession, So there was already, you know, 411 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:45.480 these these these pockets of obsessive fans who who had this. I think Tim 412 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.920 Lucas said something along the lines of, if you can't assess the Jess Franco 413 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:55.720 movie without seeing all Jest Franco movies is impossible. So it becomes something becomes 414 00:30:55.759 --> 00:31:00.599 something about quest this labyrinth that you go down and I am forced to go 415 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:07.000 down. Yeah you are. It's like Stockholm syndrome. I get invested every 416 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.559 once in a while and I go holy shit, Like with sex is crazy, 417 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.920 right, the one that's coming out at Black Friday. You were like, 418 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.599 well, okay, I don't make well you you can tell me what 419 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:22.200 you thought, but it wasn't anything like you expected. Hell no, no, 420 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.039 it's it's still to this day, I'm still confusing what the what the 421 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.039 hell's going on in that movie? But he found an awesome location and used 422 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.680 the hell out of it so good, which which we had visited with Antonio 423 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.359 Mins and Stephen Thrower on one of our in the Land of Franco episodes. 424 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:42.480 So when it was offered to me, I was already familiar with the movie 425 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:48.960 and the location from having been to this spaceship shaped nightclub in Benidorm, and 426 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.480 I was like, Wow, fuck, we're gonna get that one. I 427 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:57.200 mean, Antonio covered in silver paint and uh, I'm frolicking about in this 428 00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:02.880 place, So let's do it. There's like nineteen hundred follow up questions I 429 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.240 want to ask, I mean the first one. There are so many Jess 430 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.039 Franco titles. How do you choose what to put out? Is it all 431 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:15.279 about rights or I mean, are are there still tons of elements that are 432 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.119 available? Or is it just these are all David's favorites. No that it's 433 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.240 not that these are all David's favorites, because quite often I haven't seen them 434 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:27.559 when they're proposed to me because we are, you know, going into some 435 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:32.000 obscure territory with the films that that we're going after, some of them not 436 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.000 some of them, you know, like Count Draculas, a pretty major a 437 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.920 pretty major movie in the Jess Franco, Kannon at least Vampires, Lasbus and 438 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:45.200 She Killed An Next to see mean faceless. They're kind of like the famous 439 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:51.960 ones, you know. But that is kind of exciting to me when a 440 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.519 Sex is Crazy or or some of the golden films that we've put out by 441 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.759 a Blanker and you know, House Women and stuff like that, is it's 442 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:06.880 that's interesting to me that here's a film that's just sat on the shelf for 443 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:13.720 not being not being transferred or certainly not released in the US ever in a 444 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.160 lot of cases, So that's that's exciting to me. Well, and you 445 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:22.160 you mentioned Stephen Thrower and earlier you mentioned Cuila Janie. They have been pretty 446 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.559 monumental behind the scenes of seven of the last couple of years. Can you 447 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.079 can you share their input on some of these releases, because it seems like 448 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.119 they have a lot of a lot of control over what they're putting out on 449 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:37.519 some of these discs. For you well, well, Kayla Is is part 450 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:43.359 of the severing team, so so she is she is constantly now working on 451 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:47.960 stuff. She is overseeing the Black Emmanuel Box, for example, which has 452 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:53.000 been teased but not had a date put on it yet but it's not far 453 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:59.680 off. And uh, that's a lot of stuff. But she also is 454 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:07.800 now airring for it. So she's so she's actually finding films that again probably 455 00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:12.199 that I haven't heard of, but that that she thinks are important, and 456 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.719 so she's doing that. She's coordinating all the commentaries and featurettes and stuff like 457 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:21.159 that. I mean, I don't know if you watched like her featurette on 458 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:27.039 the kinky except the Stuveniles films. Yeah, so that again was like why 459 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.880 she is just a great member of the team because she made this this this 460 00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:37.119 succinct but thorough documentary about the kinky genre, which is a genre I was 461 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:39.800 not familiar with when she proposed these movies, and I love them, you 462 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.920 know, when I watch them, I was like, these movies are fantastic 463 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.000 and they need to be known more. And so, you know, so 464 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:52.119 she's she almost runs her own sort of kaylor department essentially from her island where 465 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.320 she lives and you know, like, Okay, that's one of yours. 466 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.000 I know you'll take care of it. She'll deliver the stuff. That's great. 467 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:02.639 Stephen. We can't remember why we got him on first, but certainly 468 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.559 I became more and more friendly with him as we were doing more and more 469 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:09.960 interviews with him, and of course the same same thing. It's kind of 470 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.719 I said, I said to I sort of joked online once about the fact 471 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:21.079 that he's kind of the Brian Johnson now that Jess the Bond Scott is no 472 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:24.519 longer witness. He's not like the replacement for the real thing. But he's 473 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:30.039 a pretty fucking good follow up, you know. And I mean, obviously 474 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:36.000 his assessments are different from from Jesses, but but my god, does he 475 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:40.079 go for an incredibly entertaining, articulate, deep dive into into these movies. 476 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:45.440 It's it's phenomenal listening to him talk about, you know, these these just 477 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.840 Franco movies, which the casual observe. So and then I think we became 478 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:57.719 more associated because we went and did in Lando Franco. When I proposed that 479 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.480 to him that we should actually go to some these locations, I think he 480 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.840 mentioned that, you know, maybe some of the hotels that some of them 481 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:07.360 are nice five star hotels. Now that's dingey old Dracula's Castle, and I 482 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:12.119 was like, that's right up my alley. So we we we we prepared 483 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.400 a route through Portugal and Spain and got Antonio Mayans to come along with us 484 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:21.440 and just had an absolute blast go into these these all these different incredible play 485 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:28.280 incredible that Jess Franco was shooting these sleazy little movies in these phenomenal locations. 486 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:34.760 In port For example, there was the one in the Heart Knights of Linda. 487 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.320 And when we were there and we went into the we went into the 488 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.280 manager's office and he just had the guest book and it has Alisano was in 489 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.960 the guest book and he was like, oh, this will be where it 490 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.280 was. There was a photo of it, there was an autograph, and 491 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:47.920 then turned over to the very next page and there was Paul and Linda McCartney's 492 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.199 autographs because they were staying there after finishing a Wings album. And it's like, 493 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.400 this was a nice hotel. You know it was when they made the 494 00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:01.719 fucking Hot Nights. That's pretty awesome. Okay, So the director's box sets, 495 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:06.119 that's the big thing to go in you just mentioned the Black Commanuel box 496 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.880 and it seems like with I mean, obviously the most recent one. Got 497 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:14.280 to pimp this out again because this is an incredibly great release that has everything 498 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:19.119 Steckler that you could ever want. Essentially, is there more pressure to ramp 499 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.360 up what you guys are doing for these and are there hopefully more of these 500 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.960 director box sets coming because they're kind of setting the pace of the best box 501 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.559 sets in the game. Andrew, what do you think about that? Well? 502 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:37.400 I know that there's another box set coming and similar to one I'm going 503 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:44.519 to say one. But the thing about these sets and the excitement that they 504 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:49.960 bring it fuels us to want to up our game and and find ways to 505 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:57.719 make these things more frequent. And I mean, like, I can't we 506 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.880 had one title. I can't talk about it too much, but this director, 507 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.679 we had one title that was given to us, only Element Available, 508 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:10.079 only Element in Existence, and it was rough, but the movie was awesome. 509 00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:15.280 And uh and then I don't I don't even know, David, Maybe 510 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:19.159 you can explain where the hell this came from. But out of nowhere, 511 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:25.880 in a place unknown, discovered these original camera negatives and I was just like 512 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.519 blown away. So I'm like, now and they were, they were, 513 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.840 they were in Paris, even though these are American movies. They David literally 514 00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:37.639 went, interest, well, we got that, so I guess now we 515 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:39.559 have to do a box And he's like, I got all these other films 516 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:45.559 in the back here, and yeah, because because as as Vinegar Syndrome does 517 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:51.760 too, like David buys elements and you know in the off chance that we'll 518 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:53.960 be able to make it happen because it's like a dream thing. And so 519 00:38:54.039 --> 00:39:00.159 he's had a whole collection of this filmmaker's movies. So it's super exciting just 520 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:06.840 being able to be part of that and releasing these kind of movies out of 521 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.440 nowhere. And that's just one box set. There's more coming down the line. 522 00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:12.360 I keep telling David, I'm like, we need to do a Jess 523 00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:15.719 Franco box set, and he goes, it would never it would never come 524 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.559 out because it would never end. We've joked about that before that it would 525 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.280 just be it would have to come as a shelf that you just take, 526 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:28.280 yeah, or as I think, as a truck. Actually, it would 527 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:30.840 just be a truck that sits outside your house. The outer the outer box 528 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.599 has one bit open that constantly gets to grow on top of it. Yeah, 529 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:38.880 it's just yeah, it's impossible. But yeah, David said, there's 530 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:45.039 more that I don't know about, So that's good. Interesting. No, 531 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:49.440 I do know about another one. You're right, what's real close, real 532 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.559 close? Yeah, and then that's the one the month after that, right 533 00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:58.599 and then anyway, oh yeah, god, I mean, we don't have 534 00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:02.360 to be so cryptic if we don't want. Yeah, well, Waite, 535 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.480 I got to name a box set. I'm very excited about that. Nice. 536 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.199 That's that's like naming your first child. I don't Yeah, that was 537 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:15.159 easy. It's just like as as a first time father. It was just 538 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:19.199 as easy. I didn't have to sign anything for this one. But no, 539 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.239 it's not an actual box. It's like a it's like a four pack 540 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:23.719 of films. But I'm very proud of it. I'm very proud of that, 541 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.679 David. David was like, it's not going to be the name. 542 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.840 Six months later, that's the name, right, I guess. I guess 543 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:35.639 we got used to it. Yeah, well yeah, good, No, 544 00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:39.440 you're good, keep going. I got to force the word stexpert into everyone's 545 00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:45.239 life. So the box yeah, we uh, we could stay with Andrew 546 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:50.840 for a moment, How how did you develop your eye for editing and for 547 00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:53.639 you know, doing what you do for all these amazing releases. Is there 548 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:59.079 something that people that might aspire to be the next Andrew what they can do 549 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:04.119 to be just like you? I need someone, so please just no. 550 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:09.159 The the thing about what I do is it it became I mean, it's 551 00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.159 gotten better over time. Originally I got hired on to Severn just to sink 552 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.480 audio, and then while I'm sinking audio, I started que seeing the elements 553 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.719 just to see how it looked. And then David, would you know, 554 00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:25.119 kind of depend on that because a lot of the films like we're just kind 555 00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:28.960 of coming in so fast. He's like, I need you to just do 556 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.239 that. And then that became part of my job. And then you know, 557 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:39.119 I can't I can't express just how insane hard drives are in this job 558 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:43.760 where you're shifting boxes all over the place, and I'm like, there's no 559 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.960 organization. I don't know where anything is. So I created an organizational system 560 00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:51.800 and I was like, I'll go back into the catalog and organize. And 561 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:52.599 then as soon as I started to, I said, you know what, 562 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:57.119 I'm just gonna do it going forward, because that is a whole buck of 563 00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:00.719 the young I can't even get into. And and now now it's actually starting 564 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.880 to happen. We have a Curtis who is working for us, and now 565 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.559 one of his jobs is back cataloging and organizing everything. And it's just now 566 00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.920 it's certain to feel like a thing. I mean, I knew where everything 567 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:16.679 is going from my tenure on and but the rest of the stuff, so 568 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:22.199 I guess as an example, there's a there's a stack of hard drives right 569 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:27.880 there. Yeah, but that time, that's just like seven of two hundred 570 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.280 that we have that have got no one has scribbled writing on them. Yeah, 571 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.320 they had stamps dot Com promo pack stamps that just got and then when 572 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.639 you run out of stamp, you just turn it over and then right on 573 00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:44.320 the side, it's like that a lot of scribbled there's a second there's a 574 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.320 second sticker right here. It's all very it's a system. No one heard 575 00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.400 of one of these. Wow, the label maker. That's why it was 576 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:53.960 great when Andrew came on, because all of a sudden, it's like, 577 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:58.559 oh, now we can call Andrew and we actually need to find something rather 578 00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:05.519 than rummage through hundred drives with like and I've done that where David has a 579 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:09.639 nice little chair, I don't know what you'd call it, like a like 580 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:14.880 a stool, and there's drives and then the cabinet opens up and then there's 581 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.679 just more drives and you don't know, you know around where it's like from 582 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.320 because of the dust level on it. But I mean, no, David, 583 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:24.960 I've made It's not like David lives in the Hobbit hole but he doesn't. 584 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.280 But uh no, that it's it's like, I mean, even here, 585 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.639 what can I say? I I also I'm I'm victim to it tax 586 00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:42.159 and drives but they're all labeled. But yeah, no, it's it's it's 587 00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.599 not so much I I have OCD. But I also I'm I'm very passionate 588 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:52.679 about what we do. Having a love of film and film restoration and preservation. 589 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.960 It has definitely been the driving factor to get a lot of this stuff 590 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.800 done and looking great. And I mean I tweeted about it a while ago 591 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.920 when I was working on a Jess Franco movie of all things. I went, 592 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.280 oh, fuck, yeah, because we just discovered something that had not 593 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:15.880 been released ever, like in this form and and so from the original negative 594 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.119 and it's just like that's still even when it's a filmmaker I don't love. 595 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:22.159 I'm so excited that I get to be a part of it and I get 596 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:27.719 to put this out for people to enjoy. So if you wanted to, 597 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.559 you know, do something like this, you just have to love film and 598 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:37.599 love just filmmaking, I think, and then just being able to look at 599 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:39.719 the film. And I mean the Blu Ray dot com form people should all 600 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:44.519 do this job because they are very opinionated. Well, they think they can 601 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.519 do it. They think they can do it all. I would love to 602 00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:50.039 try their Blu Ray labels. I would love to see how they definitely better 603 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:54.360 than several so we can hope they will. They will, actually, guess, 604 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:58.559 every time they start to say something nice about us, I want to 605 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.400 just bring it right back down because I I feel like if you're getting them 606 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:08.679 on your side, you're doing something wrong. No, it's glare. There's 607 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:15.159 a lot of a lot of like the whole company is run and driven by 608 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.519 people who this isn't just a job, this is what they love and that 609 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.199 therefore, like there's that whole saying of like do something you love and you'll 610 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:24.559 never work a day in your life, which is bullshit. You'll work harder 611 00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:29.400 than everything else because you want it all to be great. David and I 612 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:35.039 text like all the time. There's no off button, and that's because not 613 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.559 just it's not just a job. Like I don't clock out and go hang 614 00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.480 out with my kid. My kid goes to bed, I come back on 615 00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:44.960 the computer and I get done what I was doing because I like, I 616 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.880 can't wait to get this out, you know. And it doesn't stop. 617 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:53.079 And I know it sounds maddening, but it doesn't stop. There's just sounds 618 00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:58.800 mad. It sounds mad, I've been saying. And then like yeah, 619 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.679 and I still try to find time to watch other companies releases and stuff to 620 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:07.000 see what they're doing, how we can improve to make our releases better. 621 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.599 Like you know, subtitles were not a huge priority for a lot of releases 622 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:15.679 earlier on, but that was something as a partially deaf person, I like, 623 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.159 I'm like, we need subtitles on every release, so that I took 624 00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:23.440 that on as a part of my responsibility to make sure that we include stage 625 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:29.079 subtitles. And now, like I mean, I see people posting like new 626 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:32.159 Fathers it's a whole new market. I didn't even know cared about subtitles, 627 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.800 new fathers who can't hear the movie over a screaming child. They just want 628 00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:39.360 to know what's happening, you know, And so like there are little things 629 00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:43.800 like that that I feel like, you know, just as you can die 630 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:46.440 from a thousand cuts, you can you can heal from a thousand bandages. 631 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:55.000 And I feel like we I is now I've heard death of a thousand cuts, 632 00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.400 but for it, yeah, I don't know, Like there is something 633 00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.840 great about working for someone like David who just is just not, if not 634 00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:10.519 more passionate than you. And he's definitely more passionate. It's but like him 635 00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:16.199 being open to collaboration and understanding of how things like work and what could realistically 636 00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:21.719 be done, and like, like like a good movie being made, collaboration 637 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:25.639 creates some something fantastic and I'm so happy to be like, I couldn't do 638 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.760 this for other companies, Like you know, I couldn't do this. When 639 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:30.760 I was working on Catfish, they were like, okay, cool, at 640 00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.280 seven o'clock, I'm going home. I'm like cool, I'm gonna stay home, 641 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:36.280 stay here and edit and if you want to see anything. They're like, 642 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:37.039 no, I'm good, I'll see it tomorrow, I guess. But 643 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:42.079 it's like I'm in, like whatever I want to do, and like his 644 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.239 enthusiasm is infectious not just to me but to everyone at the office. And 645 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:50.039 that's why you wanted him on here so bad, because exactly I get it. 646 00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:53.320 But yeah, so I guess. I hope that answers your question more 647 00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:57.760 along the lines just it does just basically be insane and then you can have 648 00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:02.440 Andrew's job. That's how this works. Collaboration is actually one of the biggest 649 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:05.960 things I wanted to ask about, and David, Andrew and I have talked 650 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.840 about this before. I'm sure you don't know this, but one of the 651 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.840 things I really try to do on this channel is to get people to be 652 00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:15.079 a little less entitled and understand how much work goes into all these Could you 653 00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:20.840 share, maybe on one of the more involved releases, how many hands actually 654 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.920 touch a disc in terms of acquisitions, sales, negotiations, subtitling, special 655 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:30.880 features, finding the elements everything. Well, I guess that outside of the 656 00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:37.039 of the original feature documentaries, where that's probably the most hands because obviously there's 657 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:45.519 a big production going on in several territories. But gosh, I thing. 658 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.480 I know, that's an intimidating question. It is because there's all the people 659 00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:57.440 here and and then all the freelance people who are essentially several employees and then 660 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.159 are a part of the seventeen I should say. But then there's the people 661 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:06.000 at the audio house. There's the people at the transfer house, and often 662 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:09.760 the transfers happen in a foreign country. The negatives won't be shipped out of 663 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:15.000 Rome or Paris or Madrid or wherever, So there's all the people at those 664 00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:20.679 labs that actually do that. And then of course there's the person coordinating getting 665 00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:23.960 the element from wherever it's stored to the lab. So then the hard drive 666 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:29.719 comes flying over to us, and then it goes to the soundhouse, it 667 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:36.159 goes to restoration and color, and it goes to subtitlings. No, not 668 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.119 often not the same person. And then we've got subtitling, and then we 669 00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:43.519 have the person if it's a foreign language thing, then the person who's in 670 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:49.079 English speaker checking the translation of the and then of course there's all the extras 671 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:52.519 which has you know, like I say, they're all kind of small productions 672 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.440 in themselves and often in other territories. So yeah, I couldn't even I 673 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:01.280 couldn't even warrant a guess, but a lot of people because then well, 674 00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.199 once that's done, and then of course the audio restorations to different different people, 675 00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:09.480 and then there's all the people who there's the person who authors the disc, 676 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:13.880 there's all the we have several people who do QC on the discs, 677 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:20.039 and then and then it goes to the person who replicates the disk and bladi 678 00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.079 bla, and then there's all the people who are involved in the actual packaging 679 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.239 as well. Of course there's the designers who have to do the packaging, 680 00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:30.159 and then there's the people we talk to who actually collect posters around the world. 681 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:31.800 You know, we've got people in Austria, We've got people in London, 682 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:36.320 We've got people in Italy who are poster collectors so that we can try 683 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:38.239 and get the original artwork. So there's those guys as well. Yeah, 684 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:43.039 it's a lot of people. I've had people ask if some of the seven 685 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:46.400 releases have been mostly one person deals, and I always have to laugh and 686 00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:51.719 say, it's impossible to do a lot of these with just one person because 687 00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:55.840 of how much is affected literally on a large scale. Yes, And so 688 00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.599 the years where it was just me, John and Carl, or me, 689 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:06.920 Carl and Nicole were there, that's where it was just a difficult thing to 690 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.760 manage because even though that we had, you know, we're wearing many hats 691 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.719 between the three of us, you then have to also, you know, 692 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:20.760 do the kind of managing of all the other people and their various jobs as 693 00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.000 well. So that's was the periods where sometimes you would have to miss a 694 00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:27.960 month or two in order to get to get a release out because it's just 695 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.519 so much stuff that has to come together at the same time. And you 696 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.559 know, as I say, that's the same for other labels too. That's 697 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.920 not unique to us, but it is. It is a lot of people 698 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:47.079 that are involved in the archaeology of unnething these movies. So another question that 699 00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:52.440 I've not heard ask of Severn before. I don't think any any interesting stories 700 00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:55.239 around negotiating something where a studio told you know, for many years and you 701 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:01.400 just kept going back to the door and finally got something. Yeah, that's 702 00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:05.679 that's happened quite a lot. I mean, just recently we had one where 703 00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:09.960 it actually got got snipes from under our noses by somebody else. So so 704 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:15.760 it happens in a bad way too for us. But but yeah, there's 705 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:20.199 there's there's plenty that we've been kind of on on the trail of for for 706 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.960 a number of years. There was I had a meeting at a FM yesterday 707 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.840 with one of the Italian sales agents and they were like, and I'm like, 708 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.719 this isn't we discovered through one of our contacts. We discovered that this 709 00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:34.800 company owned this film. They didn't even know that they owned this film. 710 00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:37.360 But they're still like, yeah, we're not sure we actually want to license 711 00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:42.000 it to you because we have a better relationship with this other label. It's 712 00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.679 like, you wouldn't have even known that you own owned this movie. But 713 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:50.079 I think I'm I'm hoping that I've persuaded them around that because that because the 714 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:58.119 other label isn't really bothered about this movie anyway. I'm talking in vaguaries because 715 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:02.079 obviously it hasn't happened yet. But yeah, there's plenty of situations where where 716 00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:06.920 we're on the trail of a movie for years, and often it's it's because 717 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:09.880 there's no elements. I mean, for example, the movie Unhinged, the 718 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:15.760 video Nasty one of the last that hasn't had a Blu ray release is one 719 00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:21.840 that we're still scouring the globe for any kind of film element, and it's 720 00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:25.760 not looking good because it didn't really have a theatrical release anywhere other than England, 721 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.079 and in England, stupid England, it got banned. And so the 722 00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:34.559 person who put it out, you know, ran scared, dumped all his 723 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.280 film elements because he didn't want the police to raid him and take him away. 724 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:45.199 So and then the director producer, he sold his one and only print 725 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:50.559 years ago and he doesn't remember who to, so that the only hope is 726 00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:52.639 that we find that person that he solved that print to, and we've got 727 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:59.760 no clues. Yes, it's that hurt. And since I've been here too, 728 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:05.000 I've gotten to experience some very weird situations where people just don't want to 729 00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:08.519 work through email or Vimeo links. They want DVD's hand delivered to their house 730 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:15.480 and the hills and and they have to have specific audio tracks and it's just 731 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:20.039 so weird. And then even still we don't hear back for months, you 732 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:23.000 know, and we just have to wait and be patient until you know, 733 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:28.000 because this is this is you know, something that we are passionate about, 734 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.480 but it might not be something that they're passionate about. They might not even 735 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:34.599 care about these movies, you know, And so it's just it's just crazy. 736 00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:37.079 Like I know Sam Sherman. I love Sam Sherman so much. But 737 00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.599 the best thing is he doesn't want a Blu ray player. He wants everything 738 00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:45.880 on DVD for final approval. And I love that about him because you call 739 00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:50.280 him and he picks up his phone and he says American Independent. He doesn't 740 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:54.760 say hello, independ Internet in dependent international, and he picks the phone and 741 00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:00.280 if he's not downstairs, it doesn't get answered. I look like there's certain 742 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.880 people like that who I were just such characters, so great, I remember, 743 00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:10.239 can I can I share one really quick side story talking about Sam Sherman. 744 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:15.840 We wanted for Midnight, the Blu Ray release of Midnight. We wanted 745 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.360 him on camera interview, and he's like, I don't do many interviews anymore, 746 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:23.880 Like it was showing the pandemic. So he didn't want anyone in his 747 00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:29.119 house. No one was there, and so we mailed him at camera and 748 00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:31.679 I had an hour and a half conversation on the phone with him, and 749 00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:35.039 to explain how to use the camera. It was a point and shoot, 750 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.400 pick it up. But he's like, okay, I'm turning the power on, 751 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.360 all right, I'm hitting the button on the left to indicate that. 752 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:45.239 And it was just like those kind of moments. It was it don't happen 753 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:49.000 very often, and I got so I'm just like, I'm so happy to 754 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.360 be in this moment, at this very at this very you know, instant. 755 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:53.880 And then we got the bonus feature, and then he wanted it on 756 00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:58.079 a DVD to review to make sure it was up to his standards, and 757 00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.519 then he approved it and it's good to go for the disk. But just 758 00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:02.960 like, there's just something magical about people like that, you know, whereas 759 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.079 if whereas if if we were shooting it on Super eight, he would have 760 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:13.679 had no problem because he's cameras down, he's got a wall of film and 761 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:17.400 cameras. And well, before I dive into all of the rest of mine, 762 00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:22.480 can we talk about some Black Friday titles? Uh? Sex is Crazy? 763 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:24.920 Can we sell some people and sex is Crazy? I think we already 764 00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:29.239 did, didn't we? I Mean basically, it's uh, it's that one 765 00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:34.320 that was shot in Benadome in the UH in the in the Spaceship Nightclub. 766 00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.960 We we didn't answer the main question though, is the sex crazy? Oh? 767 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:43.400 I can confirm the sex is crazy. Also it's pretty crazy. Yes. 768 00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:47.639 On the on the podcast, I talk about this how this film it's 769 00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:52.000 so weird. I thought there was an error, but no, it's intentional 770 00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:57.559 the whole movie. Like Jess Franco keeps popping up in shots directing the movie 771 00:56:57.559 --> 00:57:00.400 that you're watching. But it's also a movie that they're making me. But 772 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:04.960 it's not really And I had to ask, you know, uh, I 773 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:08.880 had to ask Steven Thrower. I'm like, is this it real? And 774 00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:16.639 he goes, yes, that be that what I think Next to Shining Sex, 775 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:22.079 it might be the craziest Franco film that I've seen and worked on. 776 00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:29.639 Interesting. Yeah, so take that or thing. So after Shining Sex, 777 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:35.000 you guys announced your second title, which is again continuing to add onto the 778 00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:37.159 video nasties list. We got to miss you Huggs and Kisses and you got 779 00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:42.559 recommendation for mercy on there. Yeah, I miss I miss you. Huggs 780 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:50.119 and Kisses has been missing from distribution since the VHS era, so or or 781 00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:52.880 if there's been if there was any DVD it wasn't an authorized DVD, so 782 00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:58.840 it's one, it's under a different title, that's right, that's right. 783 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.559 And so we were, you know, in my plight to get as many 784 00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:08.280 video nesties as possible. We got in touch with the Canadian Archive who had 785 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:12.239 a print and then told us who the copyright owner was, which happened to 786 00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:16.519 be the Markowitz brothers, and so we got in touch with them and did 787 00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:22.360 a deal with them and were able to finally get it. But they had 788 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.320 no clue where the negative was, which is sometimes the case with people in 789 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:30.119 these old movies. They're like, that's I lost track of the negative back 790 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:36.199 in nineteen seventy whenever it was made. But luckily, in Canada, most 791 00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:40.599 films that have a release they have to deposit a print with the Canadian Archive. 792 00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:45.000 That's the same in Spain, I believe as well, the Spanish productions 793 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:52.079 and France too, not Italy, but so a lot of their national archives 794 00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:58.760 have at least some element on these films. It's not comprehensive, it's not 795 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:01.760 fool proof, but this was the case with I Miss You Hugs and Kisses. 796 00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:06.880 Now. Of course, Kayla being Canadian, she had a personal connection 797 00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:10.320 to this movie and wanted to do the extras and oversee its production. She 798 00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:15.880 was the one who brought recommendation for Mercy to our attention. It just so 799 00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:20.719 happens that's one of the films that didn't have a print deposited with the Canadian 800 00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:28.119 Archive, so the only element we could find was a collector print of the 801 00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:31.119 US theatrical version. So it's only a bonus film. We didn't release it 802 00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:36.559 on its own because the print is you know, has has has been through 803 00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:39.960 the projector a few times, let's say. But it's a good movie, 804 00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:45.800 so which we were again able to license from the Marcus brothers and so uh 805 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:50.400 and so yeah, so it's a it's a pretty solid package. I am 806 00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:52.239 excited for both. So far are we able to talk about any more that 807 00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:58.840 are coming? This is being released whenever you whenever you say the word, 808 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:02.000 it will go up. I can even wait till the week prayer. Okay, 809 01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:06.039 Well, I guess we can talk about all of them if it's as 810 01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:09.320 long as it's as long as it's not going live until after the after the 811 01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:14.480 eighteenth. Yeah, if you if you wait until the Super Shark Pop Up 812 01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:19.920 Film Festival, then baby, let's talk everything this is exclusive you mom's the 813 01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:23.719 word baby. I will not even tell my mom. Let's go all right 814 01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:29.719 good? So okay. So we've also got The Dogs, which is a 815 01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:36.280 French film stanager A Depadia and directed by Alan Jessua, who was the director 816 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:39.480 of Shock Treatment film we put out last year, which was a very a 817 01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:47.079 very French horror movie set in a kind of self care center, spa center 818 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:53.159 where evil deeds are going on. And The Dogs is another kind of socio 819 01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:00.840 you know, it's a it's a very it's making commentary on on on society, 820 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:04.719 but it's it's pretty disturbing, and it's a and you liking it to 821 01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:07.400 White Dog, right, Andrew, Yeah, I said, it's basically like 822 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:14.000 White Dog without the racism. Dogs hate everybody in this situation. But basically, 823 01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:19.960 the cool thing about this one is that it's very much what freedoms are 824 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:25.320 we giving up for the amount of protection that we want. And it's really 825 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:31.559 a really interesting thing because you have Gerard Dipardiu, who's this like renowned dog 826 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:36.599 trainer who teaches people how to have protect dogs, but they're really kind of 827 01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:40.880 attack dogs, and there's a lot of a dog attack situations happening around they 828 01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:47.639 the city. Uh and it's it's a doctor who's very concerned is what's going 829 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:52.119 on? And if you're a fan of The Shock Tream, in which I 830 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:53.719 know a lot of people were, I also really loved Shock Tream and that 831 01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:59.320 slow grown reveal of information as the movie goes on, it's the same thing 832 01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:02.440 with the dogs. So and not only that, if you were a fan 833 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:07.239 of The Shock Treatment Blue Raing, we got the composer to come back and 834 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.719 do a h you know seen by seeing commentary on some of his tracks. 835 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:19.880 And there's also a guy doing a whole Alan Jessois retrospect appreciation, yeah, 836 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:24.559 appreciation, and it's it's a really fun little video essay. So there's plenty 837 01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:29.599 of plenty to look forward to our net release. So those retrospectives are great 838 01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:35.559 that you guys do, Thank you, thank you. Then we have oh 839 01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.760 so, the one of the uhds we're doing for Black Friday is Alex de 840 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:45.920 Laglazia's debut feature, Actual Mutante, which is serio which has never had a 841 01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:52.280 US official release before. And of course we did his second and third features, 842 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.559 Dad of the Beast and Petita Durango. Already two of my favorites. 843 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:01.920 Yeah, and so Actual Mutante is like a very audation debut which paved the 844 01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:07.519 way for the Alex to Leglazia we know in Love today. Yeah, and 845 01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:10.000 it's we go into it on the podcast. So I would say, if 846 01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:15.400 you want more of that information about the right situation, take a listen to 847 01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:22.440 that. But the the ability to get this movie out there, and not 848 01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:25.159 only in four kamp Adobe Vision. We got a new apt miss mix for 849 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:32.800 that movie, which it is insane. It's got pedro amadofarm money. So 850 01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:38.800 it's a huge budget and it looks unbelievable. It's a crazy debut feature. 851 01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:44.159 Like if you told me this was like his fifth movie after he had a 852 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.800 couple of box office smashes, I would believe you. Like it's and it 853 01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:52.639 showed that Alex was a sorry ambitious, very ambitious director, very skilled director 854 01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:58.000 who got nothing but better to the point where now he is still crushing it. 855 01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:01.360 Yeah. Well, I mean his movies still or his HBO show even 856 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:06.639 though are still just as as wild and over the top and violent and hilarious. 857 01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:12.639 This You can see that guy in this first movie, you know. 858 01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:16.000 Yeah, and yeah, tons of bonus features on this one, as well, 859 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:24.519 including a commentary that hasn't been out there since the first DVD. It 860 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:28.000 didn't get poorted around new Blu Ray, didn't get poured onto other DVDs. 861 01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:32.199 So we got that newly translated for the American audiences with commentary, very honest 862 01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:35.760 commentary with him and a bunch of the crew talking about the making of the 863 01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:40.679 movie. And I think it's that alone, I think is worth charring out. 864 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:45.960 So highly recommend that release, just for everything that's Oh we got tons 865 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:49.920 of the bonus features with behind the scenes people, including special effects people, 866 01:04:51.239 --> 01:04:56.519 and that movie is super special effects heavy. So yeah, highly recommend. 867 01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:01.119 I can't wait to get that one. Then we also have The Devil's Game, 868 01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:12.079 which is a anthology Italian anthology horror show from the early eighties which includes 869 01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:20.000 Mario Obava's last film. It's called Labnaer de Eel and it was aired after 870 01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:25.159 Mario Barba died, but he co directed it with Lamberto, his son, 871 01:05:25.719 --> 01:05:30.840 So I think it's Lamberto's debut, I think, but it's Mario obarba swansong 872 01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.480 and so and it stars Darien Nickelode. So it's quite an important piece of 873 01:05:35.679 --> 01:05:42.199 genre history, which is never oh ahead, I was going to say, 874 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.760 it's never been out before because it was only recently discovered that there was a 875 01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.320 film element of That's what I was going to say. Yeah, yeah, 876 01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:57.039 So there was a sixteen millimeter print in the Raye television archives and so we 877 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:01.639 RII scanned that for us and we're like, we were because it's just over 878 01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:04.599 an hour. I think it's an hour and seven minutes or something. We 879 01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:06.719 were like, are we going to just put this out on its own? 880 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:12.400 And then we looked at the other episodes and there were some good directors on, 881 01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:16.559 like Julia Questi who did Death Laden Egg and Jiango Kell he did an 882 01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:23.360 episode, and all the episodes were of interest as well. There were no 883 01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:28.119 film elements on the other episodes though, so we had the broadcast cast masters 884 01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:32.679 transferred of those and so that made it a it makes it a two disc 885 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:36.400 set. But this is you know, we like how horror anthologies. Every 886 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:43.079 territory seems to have decent horror anthologies dating back through television, and you know, 887 01:06:43.119 --> 01:06:46.360 it's a format that's pretty popular and enjoyable. Well, and this one 888 01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:51.559 sounds especially important. Historias Para got a lot of love just to keep you 889 01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:56.400 awake, got a lot of love, and it's similar to that as far 890 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.559 as like the level of quality. No one seemed to complain about those broadcast 891 01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:04.079 masters. So I think not only getting a nice release of the final Bava 892 01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:10.000 film, getting all those other ones where the content in the quality of the 893 01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:14.760 you know, story kind of shines a little bit harder, and I don't 894 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:16.960 know, I think that there and we got Lombarto, We got Lombarto Bava, 895 01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:24.119 and we got a comment a couple comment commentary with Tim Lucas obviously all 896 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:30.639 the colors of the book and mister Bava. Uh, you know, it's 897 01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:35.119 it's a it's gonna be a really fun release for people who like Italian cinema, 898 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:41.400 especially because there's a lot of familiar faces, familiar names, and that's 899 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:45.880 just on screen. Another one familiar face, familiar name a lot of people 900 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.960 might know, especially through several because we love him so much, mister Luigi 901 01:07:50.039 --> 01:08:00.400 Kazzi gets a triple feature. This is the Severn exclusive. So so Luigi 902 01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:05.280 is involved in the other three titles that that we're doing for Black Friday, 903 01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:12.960 and he but that we're doing an inter vision release of his of his latest 904 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:17.680 movies, which are Blood on Melia's Moon, which is a highly bizarre, 905 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:27.279 semi autobiographical but fantastical and historical epic which he essentially shot with just a small 906 01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:31.000 digital camera. And it has cameos by Dario. Sorry, Andrew, Oh 907 01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:33.039 no, I was gonna say, you can take the filmmaker. Yeah what 908 01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:36.960 your did? Your face just go confused? The cameos by Dario. Yeah, 909 01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:41.399 who else isn't it? Who else is it? Dario's in it, 910 01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:49.000 Manlo Gomerasca from Nocturno. That's that's that's how Manlio Lamberta is in it. 911 01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:58.720 Luigi himself is starzing basically. So yeah. And oh and Barbara mcnulfy from 912 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:03.039 Suspiria and the sister of it. Yeah, no, it's so and also 913 01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:06.199 the star of the film. It's a location, but it really is a 914 01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:11.520 character in the movie. It's a He's shot a lot of it at his 915 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:15.680 store Pafonderoso, which for those of us who don't ever get to make it 916 01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:19.560 to Italy, that's a great way just to see it. And uh yeah, 917 01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:24.000 And there's a second feature on there, a movie that he made afterwards 918 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:28.600 called The Little Little Wizards of Oz, which is a series of short films 919 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:31.439 of children telling the story of the Wizard of Oz and it's mixed with a 920 01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:39.119 real story. It's fucking crazy and there's it's all. It's it's animated in 921 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:44.960 the sense that it is not animated. It's cozy made it animated. And 922 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.000 there's a whole thing about making the movie. It's so weird I can't fully 923 01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:53.159 even describe it. But so I was gonna say the real the real thing 924 01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:57.000 I wanted to pimp out about that release. Uh, people who got our 925 01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:00.399 House on the Edge of the Park desk got a bonus feature of a director 926 01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:06.439 like documentary about Rigeridio Dato. This people who made that documentary also made one 927 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:13.960 about Katzi called Fantastic Kazzis. As David said, fantastic, fantastic Katzi. 928 01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:16.920 And so that is on there as well, and it ends the end credits 929 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:24.359 role as Luigi dances in a rasta hat in profondo rosso to reggae music. 930 01:10:24.399 --> 01:10:30.319 And it is worth it alone. It is beautiful. Just the man has 931 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:34.720 no shortness of joy and creativity, and what makes him happy is what he 932 01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:43.159 follows in finding finding an audience for these releases of these later films. Just 933 01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:46.800 it's similar to what I was saying about Alex. It's just like great watching 934 01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:51.000 a filmmaker have fun and do what he loves and people finding joy in that. 935 01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:57.079 So yeah, that's so that's all kind of leading to the final the 936 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.439 last leg. So David, I'll let you tell. So the last two 937 01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:08.760 are two Dario Argento movies which have been criminally underseen in the US. And 938 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:14.359 so The Five Days is the movie he made between Fourth Flies on Gray Velvet 939 01:11:14.479 --> 01:11:23.079 and Deep Red and it's and it's like a historical violent epic comedy and uh 940 01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:28.399 and one that when we used to collect, when we had our Dario Argento 941 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:31.760 collection of tapes, it was always the missing piece that Fourth Flies on Gray 942 01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:36.720 Velvet were always the missing pieces of the collection of Dario Argento movies. And 943 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:41.279 it's never, as far as I'm aware, has been out in a version 944 01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:46.600 which is English friendly. Yes, and it was scanned from the original negative, 945 01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:51.039 so we're doing a uhd of it. It's a very handsome looking movie. 946 01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:55.680 It's a it's a big, big epic because Dario is quite big at 947 01:11:55.720 --> 01:12:00.279 this point in his career. And so so yeah, the Five Days is 948 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:05.880 that missing piece in our Gento history, that that's that's never had a good 949 01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:11.560 release here, and of course that's that also comes with a ton of extras 950 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.920 as well, including a new Dario interview. Luigi Cootti was the co writer, 951 01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:20.800 interview a couple of the stars, the production manager Alan Jones obviously, 952 01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:29.000 who's a longtime Darrio expert and biographer. So yeah, it's as We're pretty 953 01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:31.319 happy to finally bring that one out because I've been I've been chasing it for 954 01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:35.399 years since I was a collector of tapes, which I still am, but 955 01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:41.520 since I was just a collector of tape right up to now. It's a 956 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:45.760 title that I've been after seeing in a decent edition. Yeah, and there 957 01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:48.720 is one more release, but before we even go into that, I'm not 958 01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:51.079 going to say it. I want David to say it because he's been working 959 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:58.079 as ass off to get this done. How many years have you been working 960 01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:03.399 to get this title? Ever since when I worked back at the video distributor 961 01:13:03.439 --> 01:13:09.359 in Nottingham, when I learned about buying rights, I had, you know, 962 01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:12.359 we didn't have the internet back in the good old days, so I 963 01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:17.239 had this director book or production company book or something that I bought from some 964 01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:25.319 store in London which had addresses, and so Cedar Specta COLLI was the production 965 01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:30.079 company behind Four Flies on Gray Velvet, and I was always trying to find 966 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:34.720 out who owned Four Flies on Gray Velvet. And so it's been a lot. 967 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:39.279 Right what's going on with Ryan's face right now because she doesn't know because 968 01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:42.920 this is officially the first person outside of the company that we've told Look, 969 01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:48.279 it's this that I just had chills literally just out finally, So it's it's 970 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:53.359 been a it's been a very long road to get here, and I know 971 01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:57.800 that it's a it's a title that a lot of people want. And then 972 01:13:57.880 --> 01:14:03.680 four Flies on Gray Velvet is really that absolute holy Grail missing gem, you 973 01:14:03.720 --> 01:14:09.479 know, that that everybody needs in their collection, and we we got it. 974 01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:15.920 We got the full chain of rights and so therefore we were able to 975 01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:20.880 access the original negative in rome and and it's a two perf negative which we 976 01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:26.399 had scanned and four K which looks absolutely phenomenal. We had it colored in 977 01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:34.800 Dolby Vision here and and restored and it looks phenomenal for the English track, 978 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:41.840 in the original element, for the Italian there are two cuts of the film 979 01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:51.479 and we're putting them both out on VHS only. Yeah, releasing the full 980 01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:58.840 director's Italian cut in with both audios. But as that film, all the 981 01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:03.600 releases kind of had situation where like Deep Red had this where some parts weren't 982 01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:09.960 dubbed in English because they were cut. And so we've replaced those bits with 983 01:15:10.079 --> 01:15:13.760 the Italian audio and gotten them, you know, newly translated, made sure 984 01:15:13.760 --> 01:15:15.960 that they're all up to date and up to snuff. And then we have 985 01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:20.840 the US release version as well, which is a little bit shorter and turns 986 01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:27.279 down the ending and a few other bits for completists and people who that's their 987 01:15:27.399 --> 01:15:30.920 version. And we wanted to make sure that this was I mean, as 988 01:15:31.039 --> 01:15:34.359 David said, this is a title he's been tracking down since he got into 989 01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:36.439 He was like, great, I got the job. How do we get 990 01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:42.279 four flies on Gray Villain? So with that amount of pressure, we wanted 991 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:48.479 to make sure that this was the release and I am so so happy with 992 01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:55.760 how it goes, just getting the original element and unearthing that and finally getting 993 01:15:55.800 --> 01:15:58.279 it in my hands, because even when we were doing it, we're like, 994 01:15:58.319 --> 01:16:00.279 I don't know if this is going to happen, like this could this 995 01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:04.720 could fall apart at any second, and getting that and then getting it over 996 01:16:04.760 --> 01:16:10.239 to illuminate who did the four K Dolby Vision color correction and restoration, and 997 01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.039 just seeing that fight. Like when we did that review session where they invited 998 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:17.000 us in and we all just got to stare at it. I think we 999 01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:20.640 just kind of just even even Joe from Vinigerson was like, I've got to 1000 01:16:20.680 --> 01:16:26.399 see this, you know, even he was like, this looks good. 1001 01:16:27.279 --> 01:16:33.920 So it was just such just a level of relief off of all of us 1002 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:39.000 collectively. We all just got to breathe and uh and then we remembered we 1003 01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:41.239 have a ship ton of bonus features that we have to get done because this 1004 01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:47.119 is a four disc Four Flies release, So it's the UHD and it's two 1005 01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:50.640 blue rays and the soundtrack CD, the Any Mark Any Soundtrack CD, and 1006 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:55.359 the two blue rays have both versions of the film as well, but also 1007 01:16:55.640 --> 01:17:00.000 hours of new extras, including a sea also co wrote this one. And 1008 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:03.239 he bangs on for like ninety minutes or something, isn't it. It's over 1009 01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:10.079 an a talking about their history. I mean, he's written a book on 1010 01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:13.720 the history of four Flizer in Italian on four Flies and Gray Velvet, so 1011 01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:17.399 he pretty much tells that story in across ninety minutes we've got Dario of course, 1012 01:17:17.439 --> 01:17:24.039 what Claudio Argento, Bud Bud Spencer. There's a featurette with the late 1013 01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:28.840 Bud Spencer, who is a sporting character in this film, Alan Jones. 1014 01:17:28.880 --> 01:17:33.960 Again, there's a wealth of vets. Oh I did want to mention also 1015 01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:38.479 though, going back to the Five Days, we also have the soundtrack CD 1016 01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:44.760 of that, but not only their soundtrack CD. Giorgio Gaslini was the composer 1017 01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:49.079 for Dario Argento between Ani A Marconi and Goblin in those early years, so 1018 01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:55.359 it has the Five Days soundtrack, but also it's two themes from Dora Into 1019 01:17:55.399 --> 01:18:00.119 Darkness and then seven themes from Deep Red. So Audio Gaslini started the soundtrack 1020 01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:08.239 to Deep Rat. He did that La la la. He did that theme, 1021 01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:11.680 and he did a bunch of others before he fell out with Dario and 1022 01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:17.560 then Goblin came into the picture and obviously horror history was changed. Yeah. 1023 01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:23.520 So but yes, that's the CD with the Five Days and that you got 1024 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:28.000 the autobiography coming as part of a bundle. You got that beautiful looking pin 1025 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.720 from Pixel Elixir, which I got to say thank you so much for continuing 1026 01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:34.000 those. I have all of them right over my shoulder. You can't see 1027 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:38.199 them there on this far wall, but I show every single one of them, 1028 01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:41.640 just because I think it's one of the best lines of extras for any 1029 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:46.840 of these releases that people put out. I love those pins. God, 1030 01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:53.119 that's astonishing. Genuinely chills the moment that that came out. I'm so glad 1031 01:18:53.159 --> 01:18:56.439 that people can have it. Yes, And it was genuine relief, I 1032 01:18:56.439 --> 01:19:00.039 swear, because I was not expecting that this time. Cannot you cannot tell 1033 01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:11.560 a soul until It's been so hard to not say anything to anybody because I'm 1034 01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.640 looking at this amazing Dolby Vision color, like I get it on my uh, 1035 01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:17.800 we have a I have a four K player here and and I got 1036 01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:20.399 the check disc and I'm like, I've got to see how this looks on 1037 01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:25.399 the disc. And I'm like, oh my god, I just want to 1038 01:19:25.439 --> 01:19:29.479 take pictures and share it with everybody, and I can't, ah, and 1039 01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:34.479 I'm like, I'm making nail marks in my hands. I'm squeezing. No. 1040 01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:40.279 It's it was such an honor to work on this release. And yeah, 1041 01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:45.119 like this whole, this whole lineup, like even now we're only just 1042 01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:48.119 announced the first like three films and even still people are like hell yeah, 1043 01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:54.880 Like there the the energy is already there for the sale of people wanting. 1044 01:19:54.920 --> 01:19:58.319 And the best part is the last two Action Mutante and Four Flies are the 1045 01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:00.640 ones that were screening at the Super for Shock Pop Up Film Festival the day 1046 01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:05.319 before this comes out, and so people don't know because the thing we do 1047 01:20:05.399 --> 01:20:09.479 in la is we we have a theater, we fill it up and then 1048 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:12.680 we don't tell anybody what it is. But the films playing are the ones 1049 01:20:12.680 --> 01:20:16.319 that are going to be released for Black Fridays. Just to getting people excited. 1050 01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:19.239 That's something that David wanted to start doing. And it's kind of like 1051 01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:26.079 our little Apple summit where we get to go and the premiere and last year 1052 01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:31.680 we did one and we had who who what was his name, the producer 1053 01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:42.800 and he was like, I haven't even seen this movie and yeah, we 1054 01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:45.399 had a huge crowd for that and we I think We're almost sold out for 1055 01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:50.399 tickets on this one. So I'm like so excited just for that second, 1056 01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:54.960 that second feature to come out. After watching Action Mutante, everyone's like, 1057 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:58.359 what the hell is going to happen next and just seeing the lights dim and 1058 01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:00.680 for people just I want to hear just the applause, like that's the kind 1059 01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:05.479 of stuff that gets me just so and that gives me the chills, like 1060 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:11.760 you know, so I'm super excited about that. And if you're hearing this 1061 01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:14.399 and you didn't know what happened, get ready because next year it's gonna happen 1062 01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:20.479 again. So yeah, yeah, it's it's a huge, huge, huge 1063 01:21:21.039 --> 01:21:25.960 line up for us this year, and I'm super happy with it. It 1064 01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:30.239 feels huge that one title alone, and actually Metante is not even one to 1065 01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:33.199 shy around from either that that's one that people have been wanting for a long 1066 01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:38.399 time, that to be treated with real respect, and theolotic Glacier is kind 1067 01:21:38.439 --> 01:21:41.760 of like getting a lot more do especially because of what you guys did with 1068 01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:45.960 the two four k's Perdida Dingo's, especially that I the moment that you guys 1069 01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:50.199 kind of soft teased that that was coming, I I essentially died inside and 1070 01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:55.479 said don't wake me until it actually releases because I did not want it took 1071 01:21:55.520 --> 01:21:59.319 a while because of all the problems that come along with the with the elements, 1072 01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:03.239 which that's say this one wasn't problem free either. But but but to 1073 01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:06.840 speak of Alex, I mean he's he's he's pretty famous in Spain. He's 1074 01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:14.600 probably I would estimate he's, if not the second most famous Spanish contemporary director, 1075 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:17.680 then he's pretty close. And he's extremely prolific. I mean he produces 1076 01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:21.000 as well as directs, and he directs movies and directed. Somebody told me 1077 01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:24.840 yesterday I foundly andrew that he's good. That he's actually got a new feature 1078 01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:27.880 film as well, one of his one of his comedies, so it's not 1079 01:22:28.039 --> 01:22:32.000 just thirty coins that he's been making over the last year. So yeah, 1080 01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:35.880 the guy never stops, and he's and he's just gotten. He's got no 1081 01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:40.920 less audacious. He's just got you know, bigger budgets and a certain amount 1082 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:45.000 of success behind him. So we love that people don't. Then people who 1083 01:22:45.039 --> 01:22:48.920 don't compromise as they as they you know, move into kind of more mainstream 1084 01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:56.159 areas and he's on HBO and that show is wild. Hell yeah, man, 1085 01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:59.880 Well, speaking of more mainstream, I got like a couple of quick 1086 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:02.600 otions then we can bring it in for a landing. The the release of 1087 01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:08.199 Like All or Nothing kind of led to a little more art house feel from 1088 01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:11.680 Severn, and then of course Out of the Blue came and that sort of 1089 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.439 gave credence to that, is that a hint of more of a broadening of 1090 01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.239 spectrums to come from spectrum from so I mean, I think, you know, 1091 01:23:18.359 --> 01:23:21.880 I think our spectrums as broad as we want it to be at this 1092 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.239 point. But there are occasional passion projects and All or Nothing was definitely one 1093 01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:30.760 of those for me. But you could say the same about The Hairdresser's Husband, 1094 01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:34.359 which we released the month after The Simple Dwarf, you know, back 1095 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:39.399 in the in the DVD days. So it's not it's not like a new 1096 01:23:39.479 --> 01:23:45.319 thing, but it's just not something we do particularly often. And but there 1097 01:23:45.359 --> 01:23:47.720 are, yes, there is a major art house movie is going to be 1098 01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:53.119 on the and the January slate as well. Nice it's got it's got slight, 1099 01:23:53.159 --> 01:23:56.159 it's got slightly more psychotronic elements to it. I mean, it's got 1100 01:23:56.239 --> 01:23:59.640 murder and sex in it, but uh, you know, it's still very 1101 01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:04.159 much house. What about other aspects of eurocult that maybe seven hasn't dived into 1102 01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:08.960 yet, like a good spaghetti western or anything. Would that ever be a 1103 01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:15.079 possibility? I wouldn't count it out, But there's nothing in the pipeline. 1104 01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:18.960 I mean, I know, I know other labels are are kind of diving 1105 01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:24.199 into the spaghetti westerns now as well. I think. I think Arrow has 1106 01:24:24.199 --> 01:24:29.199 already done a box of spaghetti westerns and I hear that worked in Silence long 1107 01:24:29.239 --> 01:24:31.840 ago, and there's there's a few violent ones that I could see fitting in 1108 01:24:31.880 --> 01:24:35.199 with Severn and kind of getting people to shake up their taste a little bit. 1109 01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.199 Yeah, I think we're more likely to do police Atteschi that in the 1110 01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:45.159 near future than spaghetti westerns. That makes sense, and honestly, let's kind 1111 01:24:45.159 --> 01:24:47.680 of do that. There's been a handful of decent releases of some of those, 1112 01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:51.960 but nothing like a big revival of Holy Hill. We're in the golden 1113 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:55.640 age of those releases. I'd love to see that start too, because a 1114 01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:59.479 lot of those are amazing. Now. There are some great actors out there, 1115 01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:01.520 like Thomas and I think he's one of the ones that I love so 1116 01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:08.359 much. I mean, Grindhouse put out tough ones, you know, And 1117 01:25:08.399 --> 01:25:15.000 what's that guy with the mustache? What a what a charming face? Can 1118 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:16.960 we just point out how you can say the guy with the mustache and David 1119 01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:24.319 immediately knows the name. Did I get that right? When he's a guy 1120 01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:28.520 with the mustache early, right, it's probably hold on, Let's look, 1121 01:25:28.600 --> 01:25:33.920 let's look Emily, who was kind of like took over from Franco Nio when 1122 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:42.960 when people couldn't get Frank you know, he he took over a lot of 1123 01:25:42.960 --> 01:25:45.359 Franko Naira's or if couldn't get Frank Carniro, you got Murtz Emily. Unfortunately, 1124 01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:48.560 he died quite young, so he's he's not been a part of the 1125 01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:54.920 revival of some of his great roles in the seventies. Yeah, but look 1126 01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:59.560 at that mustache, you know what I mean, that's all that matters. 1127 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:02.000 No, Like, there are some actors out there that are there are great, 1128 01:26:02.039 --> 01:26:09.359 and there's some great filmmakers who did some incredible Polissy attachee. I can't 1129 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:12.479 remember. There's a box that that came out not too long ago, a 1130 01:26:12.479 --> 01:26:17.880 policy attache box that was that arrow. Probably they did the uh and then 1131 01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:23.159 Rare Waves. Has they've done the Caliber forty five box. Yeah, I 1132 01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:27.840 have that and the years of lead box exactly years. Yeah. Like, 1133 01:26:28.079 --> 01:26:30.880 yeah, there's some really fun stuff, but there's still plenty to be unearthed, 1134 01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:33.079 you know, so right, but I do know that that that some 1135 01:26:33.159 --> 01:26:36.520 of those films didn't when we were at Blue Underground, they didn't do nearly 1136 01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:41.359 as well as the as as the horror movie. Same with spaghetti westerns. 1137 01:26:41.520 --> 01:26:45.800 With the exception of Jango, the the rest of them didn't do as well, 1138 01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:49.680 so we tended to kind of veer away from those genres. So maybe 1139 01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:53.640 maybe that's the last question to lean on here then, is what, uh, 1140 01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:56.720 what sort of trends do you see coming for home video in the next 1141 01:26:56.760 --> 01:27:00.560 couple of years that potentially could you know, like Hong Kong any has been 1142 01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:03.319 huge over the last year and a half, there's a few eurocult has been 1143 01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:06.279 big for years obviously, but is there a certain genre that you think is 1144 01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:12.119 about to take everybody by storm once some rights maybe get worked out, and 1145 01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:15.159 not necessarily just from Severn, just as a whole. Well, we're certainly 1146 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:20.960 we're certainly diving deeper into Spain. There's, yeah, a bunch of Hong 1147 01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:25.239 Kong movies we've got as well. So yeah, I don't know, I 1148 01:27:25.239 --> 01:27:28.319 wouldn't wanna, wouldn't wanna, wouldn't want to say, but we're definitely going 1149 01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:31.840 out. Uh, you know, we've got Indonesian, more Indonesian movies coming 1150 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:36.720 we've got So there's you know, there's there's plenty of stuff that hasn't been 1151 01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:45.479 given as especial editional treatment. I think as the industry continues to continues on, 1152 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:49.640 fans have been getting more concentrated and more interested and open into fighting new 1153 01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:55.279 stuff. And I think that's the thing that I'm most excited about with with 1154 01:27:55.399 --> 01:28:01.840 the future of the Blu rays and physical media is people like willing to take 1155 01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:04.439 that chance and go, oh, I like this label. I would love 1156 01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:09.680 to I'll check out that, like you're you're the ideal customer. You buy 1157 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:15.760 all the trinkets we put out and all the all the bundle and you've got 1158 01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:23.359 children. But uh, like, I think just having that ability to garner 1159 01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:30.319 like brand not brand loyalty, but brand trust, knowing that if it's coming 1160 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:33.880 out from a specific label or or something like that. And but then again 1161 01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:39.680 that that falls into the problem of everything being super condensed. I just want 1162 01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:43.920 you know, it's hard because there's so many different things out there. Yeah, 1163 01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:47.560 it's impossible to figure out what what's going to happen next. Yeah, 1164 01:28:47.560 --> 01:28:50.359 I mean you look, you look a question at this stuff. You look 1165 01:28:50.399 --> 01:28:54.560 at some of the stuff that you know, Manda Micabreo have done since the 1166 01:28:54.640 --> 01:28:59.800 day that they started. You know, I wouldn't necessarily say that they they 1167 01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:04.479 they started trends from certain territories, but they picked items from certain territories that 1168 01:29:04.520 --> 01:29:08.600 we all needed to see and we had no idea existed. And they're still 1169 01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:12.039 doing that. You know. I'm very interested in this, in this Bollywood 1170 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:15.359 horror set that they've they've got coming, for example, so look, look 1171 01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:21.199 how cool that is. I just watched the Haunted Turkish Bathhouse this morning from 1172 01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:26.560 Modern Macabro. Before that, I watched The Eye the Jury, which came 1173 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:29.920 out from Classic Flicks, and the next up I got Diary of a Mad 1174 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:33.159 Housewife and then on the Run like it's it's every It's all every there's everything 1175 01:29:33.199 --> 01:29:36.199 everywhere. It doesn't there, it doesn't stop. This is just the stuff 1176 01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:39.840 right next to it. And then like before that, I have our snick 1177 01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:45.920 and old lace, like this is none of these films belong together. Nope, 1178 01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:48.239 you know what I mean, And like the fact that it's all ready 1179 01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:54.000 and available and their company is putting it out and those companies like us are 1180 01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:58.199 unearthing deeper and deeper cuts and deeper and deeper things like it's I mean, 1181 01:29:58.239 --> 01:30:02.039 I'm not saying everyone's got like a dedicated Kaila Janese kind of situation where they 1182 01:30:02.119 --> 01:30:05.479 are like hyper fixated. But there are people who are just obsessed with this 1183 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:10.560 kind of stuff and they're finally getting those films that they saw at an early 1184 01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:16.359 age and fuck them up and getting it out like Peanut Butter Solution, for 1185 01:30:16.399 --> 01:30:18.920 example, that fucked up a lot of people, but no one had seen 1186 01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:26.000 it in years, you know. So it's just like there is still definitely 1187 01:30:26.119 --> 01:30:30.720 plenty to on earth and discover, and as the fan bases get more and 1188 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:35.279 more concentrated, I think we're going to have a weird period where things kind 1189 01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:40.399 of go down, but just as everything, things will boost right back up 1190 01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:43.000 because you're gonna find, like I don't know if you're a fan of pro 1191 01:30:43.039 --> 01:30:47.439 wrestling, but there's always a rough patch before there's just the prem the cream 1192 01:30:47.439 --> 01:30:50.199 of the crop. Eventually you stumble on something great and then that leads to 1193 01:30:50.239 --> 01:30:56.520 a new generation. Why I chose to talk about pro wrestling in a situation, 1194 01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:00.640 I don't know, but I'm just saying that is a good ant like 1195 01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:04.840 everything. And then of course there's pandemic three. Yeah, there's that, 1196 01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:14.359 and I'm sure eventually there will be a four. Gentlemen, James Wynn goes 1197 01:31:14.399 --> 01:31:16.920 around doing this with his hand as the three. I don't know if four 1198 01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:19.920 works as well. It looks like you have arthritis at that point in time. 1199 01:31:21.479 --> 01:31:26.640 Maybe a more accurate claw though too. It's also just a bad joke. 1200 01:31:26.680 --> 01:31:30.000 I went for it anyways, you know. Thank you guys for all 1201 01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:33.560 your time. I can't wait for everybody to see this because I literally you 1202 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:39.000 saw the moment there was a sheen pulled off of me and chills. This 1203 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:41.560 is going to be a giant sale for you, guys. I can feel 1204 01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:44.680 it. I will do my best to hype up everything I can for it. 1205 01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.119 So thank you all for just constantly putting love and passion to every one 1206 01:31:47.159 --> 01:31:50.520 of these releases. And thanks for your time today. Thank you very much. 1207 01:31:51.159 --> 01:31:54.840 All right, hopefully we can talk again soon. Thank you guys. 1208 01:31:58.319 --> 01:32:20.960 Kill me no non