Enough. What's going on, everybody? I'm here again for kind of the
second time this week. We weren't live the first time, but Will Dodson
the doctor is in the house and we are here to hang out or reconnected
and Will, how are we doing today? Pretty good? Pretty good.
It's been a long week, but a good week, and all kinds of
stuff going on. So I've been enjoying the energy of the new year.
Happy to be on the first live stream of twenty twenty three. Thanks for
having me. How you been doing? Of course? Of course I'm glad
you're here. Doing all right. I have been fairly swamped recently. I
think I'm deciding that it's a really poor decision to take vacation time while my
kids also are on vacation. That's basically just stopping one job to start another,
and it's not very relaxing. Yeah, family vacations aren't really vacations,
not for the adults, that's for sure. We've got quite a bit of
friends here. What's going on? Stan and Startists. Hello, my friend
Bren is here. We're gonna be talking about seven tonight. Yes, Cam,
what's going on? Terry? Hello? So many friends. Bruiser what's
going on? Media? Membrane is back. I just sent him a message
on IG Hello, Lissa, what's going on? Paul Hope? In twenty
twenty three is the year of your crime releases. I we'll talk about that.
I'm sure, for sure talking all things Lindsay tonight. Yeah. I
wish I could bring back on a j e Orkolani from Italy again live tonight.
That'd be amazing. Yeah, the Hobbits here, what's going on?
Holland Oates, my friend, my sister Courtney, what's going on? Stardus
is hoping it's better than Lendsay Baker spoilers. It is better in my opinion.
Yeah, let's see the Hobbits has got an X ray and the doctors
found vinegar syndrome in my soul. I think we might be talking a little
bit about vinegar syndrome tonight. Mitchell's here. I feel like that's the name
I haven't seen in a while. What's going on? Mitchell Griff what's on
the agenda tonight? Will is the one preparing the agenda all night tonight.
We got the announcements. Of course, we got what's coming next week,
But other than that, we're giving most of this to Will tonight, Dead
Sea Life? Who else is the thousand dollars? Poor? What's going on?
John Davis here? Sister Agatha? Hello, hello everybody. So I
want to turn everything's over to you. You are the host tonight, my
friend. Oh well, that's let's not get crazy. We're not yet.
I just still it'll have Well YouTube will do something, So yeah, I
do, I do have. There's been some stuff in the news that I
really think we got to talk about, especially in light of some of the
you know, year in round up shows where several topics that are kind of
adjacent came up. So I got a couple of things, and I really
appreciate you putting them up at the top of the show, because you know,
I really hope we can get some opinions from people in the audience.
So I actually got three topics. The first is totally inconsequential to anyone but
a freak like myself. And that is and this is controversial. I recently
said I forgot to grab mine so that I could also partake in the miserab
So it's not just me, right, I believe that it is not just
you. Okay, here's here's what I'm talking about people, hope the I'm
not taking them out of the bags because I feel like they're gonna be worth
some money. Now several films. I just got my bundle with the four
flies on gray velvet, and hold on, let's at the stage something controversial
with seven films. Everybody, buckle up. We'll just got a bundle with
four flies. And he has something that he would like to talk about that
he is utterly shocked by. And something is wrong here, literally shaking.
I'm not sure that I can even continue in this hobby, as I'm sure
everyone watching those. In the last or in this bundle, we had two
Hall of Fame enamel pins, number twenty five that's Mario Aboba, clearly number
twenty five and number twenty six as listed on the website Dario Argenta. Now
you see the problem there, my friends, that is clearly not a six.
That is a five. That means we have two twenty fives. I'm
really bad at holding stuff up in front of the camera, two twenty five,
which screws up the entire line. To come, are they going to
issue twenty seven and then there's no twenty six, just two twenty five.
We need reprints are sorry, we need replacement discs. I want replacement discs
we want and I'm immediately putting this up on eBay for nine hundred and ninety
nine dollars for all the cardboard enthusiasts. Right the cardboard. I think this
is a secret prank by David, who I know dislikes the cardboard wars.
All right, that was my inconsequential thing, but I did. I looked
at him and I was like, huh, and my first thought was a
froze, froze, you're back. Yeah. My first thought was I wonder
if I can make some money off of this. Of course is probably not.
The funny thing was if anybody has ever looked at my room tour video,
one of the things that I do is I I'm kind of cheap.
I couldn't pay for some really nice pin boards like people do for enamel pins.
So I went to I think it was Michael's and got some literal cork
that they have like little cord cubes, and I stuck those to my wall.
And I've got all of the Severn Hall of Fame enamel pins in order
with the card behind it so that actually displays the name for people that don't
know. So, now what do I do? You're the real victim twenty
five, I am screwed. Yeah, wow, welcome to twenty twenty three.
Starting off great, Oh man, uh I love all of this sarcastic.
Now, please don't say anything. People are gonna go flood the linking
this guys. Wow. Other than that, it was a great bundle.
I was really pleased with. I'm super excited about five days and so that
was that was just to start us up. But I actually, I actually
do have I have two things that are kind of serious. There's my segue.
Yeah, let's get away from the joking. Let's get everybody stop it
with the mirth. No, I do. I do have two things to
these two things happened in the in the news this week, and they they're
completely set. But I think that there are some ethical and memoral connections and
I don't I don't know the answer is really to the questions I'm about to
ask. So I'm putting this out for conversation. So and I want to
I want to say just kind of a heads up that that it starts out
with like an economic topic, but then it gets into some stuff that can
be pretty sensitive. So I just want to give everybody heads up that that
that in a minute, the topic will get kind of heavy. All right.
So the first part, which is not the heavy part is, and
I'm sure some of you have seen this, we were already kind of dismayed
by some of the decisions being made by Warner Brothers Discovery. Is that what
they're calling now the big conglomerate and what they've been doing with with HBO Max.
They already pulled a bunch of episodes of Sesame Street killed the Bat.
Was it bad woman or Bad Girl? That girl? Okay, kind of
retrograde title, but okay, they they they pulled back Girl after being made,
and you know, to some degree, it's like, okay, those
are the decisions that corporations make all the time. They are a bunch of
There are tons of movies that get killed after they're in the can. You
know, it sucks, but it happened. This was kind of egregious,
but very public. That's the very public, right, but but it happens.
Okay, all right? Well, now this week Warner Brothers Discovery removed
two hundred and fifty six Looney Tunes shorts, so those are now gone.
They also and this this will hit some of us really hard. They removed
seasons four through six of the Flintstones when it was just hitting its stride.
And it goes back to many conversations that we've had about the importance of preserving
UH media physically because streaming services, their corporate entities, the rights to streaming
are are kind of ephemeral. I think I'm using a femeral wrong. But
they can disappear at any moment based on the whims of the of the corporation
or the length of the of the rights, and and so that's a that's
a big problem, right there's UH and we get angry about it, like,
you know, you're removing these things. We don't have access to them
any anymore. People who don't know that they existed now may never get to
know they existed. And and things like looney tunes are particularly you can important
historically, you know, we we've many of us grew up and really enjoying
Looney Tunes. Now that we're adults, hopefully we're thinking critically about some of
the racial stereotypes and and other problems that we're in some of the learning tunes,
and hopefully thinking progressively about bugs, Bunny and drag and how what a
milestone that was for representation and all right, so these these things have been
pulled and were outraged. Uh, and so I was just kind of thinking
about that. What's my response to it? Right, I've got I've got
six volumes of learning tunes. It's not all of them, but it's close.
My kids are going to grow up seeing, you know, the results
of dropping an anvil in somebody's head. I'm not I'm not afraid of what
that might do them. Right, Okay, So that happened, and that's
kind of an ethical economic question. But then something else happened. They got
me thinking a lot more serious about it, and that is Olivia Hussey,
the actress that many of us know from Black Christmas. Olivia Hussey and Leonard
Whiting have filed a lawsuit because they if you don't know them from Black Christmas,
or if you don't know Olivia Hussey from Black Christmas, you might know
her from Franco Zephareli's Romeo and Juliet. Hussey and Whiting were fifteen and sixteen
when they made that film, and it was made in nineteen sixty sixty eight.
All right. The lawsuit has been filed because they were they allege that
they were coerced into filming a nude scene, you know, fairly explicit nude
scene. And you know, I say they alleged they were worse doesn't really
matter because they were fifteen and sixteen, right. And you know, even
if, even if you are one of those weirdos who wants to quibble about
age of consent, they were fifteen and sixteen, right, And there's all
kinds of problems with the fact that they you know, somebody can make the
artistic argument, well, this is showing now you can make Romeo and Juliet
without any nude scene, much less a nude scene than fifteen and sixteen olds.
So the movie is a problem. And this is complicated even more by
the fact that the Criterion Collection is slated to release a restored blu ray of
Romeo and Juliet on Valentine's Day of February fourteenth of this year. And so
what are they going to do, if anything, what should they do?
What should we think about it? Because right now we step away from Looney
Tunes and now we've got something really problematic. Not that money Tunes doesn't also
have probably that material letter. But this is an underage nude scene. What
do we do with that? Do we say, this is the film that
was made, this is the film that exists, This is the film that
has to be preserved. Put all kinds of warnings on it, make sure
that everybody knows clearly what the problems are. I'm kind of like the way
HBO does now with Gone with the Wind, or to provide some context whatever.
Or do we say, hey, you know what, take that scene
out. I mean, I'll throw an opinion in real quick. Since you've
been going on on that. I would say, no, going on on
that. Yeah, the first thing I would say, what what do Hussey
and Whiting want? They do they want the scene removed? Do they want
the entire film not released now on physical media? Do they want uh,
you know, just warnings and now display it even though they've been through it.
Good question. So this as of right now, and this is as
it's reported in the in the New York Times, as it is now there
there. And the reason they're suing now is because, you know, in
the wake of the you know, spread of the Me Too movement that the
Statute of Limitations in California was temporarily suspended, and as of right now,
they're suing for a great deal of money with alleged allegations of not just trauma
and PTSD, but also lost opportunities later in their careers as a result of
the kind of psychological emotional damage that it's done, you know, stuff that's
kind of difficult to prove and argue. I'm not a lawyer. I don't
know, and I don't know if this will have any impact on physical releases
or or streaming releases or anything. I do remember, like like many people
of my generation, I remember in my high school English class, our teacher
had us watch the film. Although our English teacher when the love scene came,
came and put a piece of poster board over the TV and said they're
playing checkers and then took it down after. I don't think it was because
they were underaged. It was just because he was apprude. But you know,
all right, so this and there's no way we can cover this in
this show because but it really it gets into issues of community and sexualized scenes
throughout film. Probably most I don't know how famous is it this is,
but probably most famous for esoteric film or is like me? Is you know
Kroger bab the guy who did Mom and Dad and all these other exploitation films.
The original roadshow exploitation was the first film he produced, was called Child
Bride nineteen thirty eight, right, and it's an educational film about the continued
phenomena of arranged child child adult marriages right in certain parts of the South and
the Southeast. And it features the actress Shirley Mills, who was twelve years
old at the time, in a nutscene. And that film has been preserved.
Keno puts it out on Blu Ray right now, you can do,
you know, And the argument has been that it is preserved because of its
historical curiosity and so on, and Sandy at the time Romeo and Juliet was
heralded because of the performances, and they are their great performances right well,
and before before you go on, I'm sorry, there's there's a little more
context that probably should be put out there, because some of their actual complaints
are very very valid. It's not just hey, we were displayed this way.
They are claiming that they were lied to. First off, the director
came out and said you can wear like skin colored clothing and it will be
fine. And then on the day of just magically, oh, you know
what, it's not going to film right, so let's let's go ahead and
take those off. Beyond that, they were also then told the way we
film it, you're not actually going to see any nudity. It just will
look better if you're not wearing this this clothing. So it is an interesting,
interesting idea. But then not that I'm trying to be cynical about it
or anything like that. There is the timing thing. I mean, the
fact that the statute of limitations was just lifted. And as quite a few
in Chat are pointing out that Olivia Hussey has defended the scene many many times
and has been sharing that she was proud of it to suddenly sue for half
a billion dollars and we haven't even said yet. The director is dead,
Like, can't defend anything. He can't he can't come out and say this
didn't happen. He can't do a damn thing. He is dead. So
what exactly do we do with this? Like obviously they can sue the studio
for sure, but yes, DC, we are talking about Rome and Juliet
So's it's complicated right by that very fact, and I want to say I
want to make it clear before before wrestling with it, because again I do
not know the right or if there is a right answer, right, because
we're where we're talking about the thing the film, right, which exists independently
of the people who made it and the content that's in that film, and
then we're we're talking about uh, these individual performers, and we don't want
to get into the problem of a perfect victim, right Like Okay, So
Hussey has in the past defended the scene and talked about how she's proud of
it. Maybe now she has second thoughts, or maybe now she's processing some
emotions that she did not realize. We're connected to this who knows? Right
like I I I could never I was said I could never speculate, but
I just did. I could never know, Like how how she is an
individual feels I will I will say, I'm not going to I don't expect
her to be perfect or unimpeachable. I don't expect her or Whiting to be
able to speak to this in a cut and dry way or for us to
accept it. Right. The film was made. The film is extremely influential
and has been important. And whether or not these performers were, after the
fact okay with the nude scene. The fact of the matter is it's a
nude scene with fifteen and a sixteen year old? Are we okay with that?
And I you know, I'll also, this is not the first time
or the last time that we've had to wrestle with this kind of material.
Thorah Birch was under age when she did a nude scene in American Beauty.
To be frank, even just looking at these boutique labels, there's more than
a handful of films just in the last two years that have had releases.
One of the ones that was kind of like, I'm still shocked that it
has quietly gotten a release in the US, Australia and maybe Europe as well.
Fun City Editions put out Bilitus and that has a very young woman like
showering with their mom, I think, and it's uh, it's very it's
not explicit necessarily, it's very natural, but it's it's kind of the exact
same thing. There's a handful of other films that we've had recently that that
is, you know, plain as day, very underage nudity. I mean,
look at I think Lady Snowblood has them. Yeah, and you know
it's it's I mean part of it. Part of it speaks to the way
child performers historically have been mistreated anyway, right, Like Sarah Palley's recent auto
memoir speaks to some of that and many others. And we all know tragic
stories of people like Judy Garland, who are you know, kind of force
feed speed and and and and abused in different ways. Yeah, and and
you know, everybody can come up with examples that are making me even more
uncomfortable to think about, even though even though I was like, you know,
we have to talk about this, and I don't. I don't know,
you know, uh and and and then I start thinking about and I'm
gonna cut it off, cut it off. The parameters of it here.
But you look back to how many movies from our generations, you know,
adolescents and and and previous, which feature uh, performers who are over the
age of eighteen, but they're playing characters that are under right, the animal
houses and the and the and the Fast Times Orige my Eyes and uh and
so on. Yeah, you know, we're coming up with a lot of
classic walk walk about you know. Gosh, like, now I'm now I'm
thinking, am I going to get arrested for my film collection? It's it's
such an uncomfortable topic. Whatever the ultimate motivations of Hussy and Whiting are doesn't
change the fact that it's that it's something that we have to deal with in
terms of how it's preserved and how it's contextualized and how it's right because because
aesthetically and historically, I'm like, well, you can't. You can't scrub
it out of the movie. The movie is what it is. Provide some
context. Perhaps. On the other hand, you know, the people who
owned the movie can do what they want with it, right true, Like,
going back to streaming, I was just looking at a list of shows
that pulled episodes because of white performers in blackface, including thirty Rockets, Always
Sunny in Philadelphia and more. What do we think about that those episodes are
just gone? Now? On the one hand, good, you're taking accountability
and you're removing those episodes. On the other hand, are you really taking
accountability because you just kind of scrubbed it and now nobody can call you out
on it anymore? Well, and The sad thing is those two shows,
specifically the blackface. Of those two shows, they were making fun of the
person doing blackface and talking about how ridiculous it is, which is just absolutely
awful, right, they were being satirical. And and so do we distinguish
between and intent or not? And the answer recently, in the past five
ten years has been like, no, intent doesn't matter. You're not allowed
to do this right because of because of the historical pain right face is called.
And I see the merits of that argument. And I don't want to
relitigate it here because we're we got so many things already up in there.
But but when we're talking about children, doesn't I mean, I guess,
I guess intent matters in the sense that we've got this, this artistic thing.
It can't be erased. I don't know that the morality has necessarily changed,
but but yeah, our sensitivity to it HAPs ah. And so now,
yeah, you know, Romeo and Juliet's about to come out on criterion
maybe and maybe maybe and and we're we make of it and what do we
what do we make of this stuff? In general? I do think intent
matters. I can only hope that on on film shoots that have this kind
of content, that that it's handled as sensitively and supportively as possible. But
I'm also like, I love film man, but you couldn't. There's no
way I've let my kid in that scene, you know, no matter how
much you paid me. So I don't know, you know, I know
this is not the most articulate thing. And and and I don't mean to
be a downer, but it is relevant to to our The subject matter of
the of this show and our hobby are our shared love of film and and
you know how we talk about films and how we contextualize them. I'm certainly
not advocating removing problematic material without without any kind of conversation or anything. God,
I just I just watched uh Bud Buzzby Berkeley's Babes and Arms with Mickey
Rooney and Judy Garland. Was not prepared for the minstrel scene at the end
of that film Holy Ship Awful, And you know, and I'm I know,
I'm talking about underage unity and and on one hand in black face and
the other and they're and they're different things, so please don't think I'm conflating
them. Uh. On the in the in the case of this racist content,
I don't want it to be scrubbed because I want to. I want
to be able to explain to my my children, you know, why things
are now the way they are now, why we have certain sensitivities that we
that we didn't have before, what the historical context is. I don't necessarily
want to make them watch that stuff, but I want I wanted to.
I don't want to scrub down man scenes with kids in it. That's tough.
A couple things from the chat. And then one more thing for me,
Paul, was when you said it sounded like you said menstrual. So
I'm understanding people understood that the word is minstrel uh DC says. Nowadays,
there's no any of this would be allowed. The sixties and seventies were a
very different time. Yes, the culture has changed towards capturing the information,
obviously, but on the other hand, like a lot of this has been
illegal the entire time. Yeah, you know, and let me let me
uh. By way of contrast, I show don't Torture a duckling Muccio Fulci
in my cult films class quite a bit. There's a scene where a little
boy is confronted by fully new adult woman. And my students were like,
whoa, And I was like, no, look at the way it's filmed.
He's not in the same room, not in the same room together.
And so the film has these these images that are very uncomfortable, but the
filmmaker did not put the kid in that situation, so you know, that's
that's a distinction. Of course, the image is still there and the kid
can grow up and be like what the fuck. But so one final thing
Sardis says, it's up to film history is to put this in perspective in
the future. And I agree with that, which is why we're having the
conversation. Not that I'm proclaiming myself a film historian or anything, but this
is this is a form of, you know, writing some of our context
behind what we are accomplishing right now and what we are experiencing. One of
the things that I want to cushion. And I'm not the person that wrote
articles, so I know that I have not done this, but I have
found it very awkward. And I don't know if you've seen this yet.
A lot of the places reporting on this Romeo and Juliet thing, they're using
a similar headline like Olivia Hussey sues over underage nudity in Romeo and Juliet.
There are I'm not kidding, probably seventy five percent of the articles I've seen
are completely released, uh, erasing Whiting from the headline. It's they're not
including him whatsoever, which kind of continues the fact that this myth that men
can't be sexually assaulted, that men can't be you know, a victim of
statutory rape, that men can't be somebody that is taken advantage of sexually.
And it is abhorrent to see it continue. It is literally two people filing
a lawsuit that went through the same experience together and they're erasing one of the
victims, and it is embarrassing. Yeah, it's really important. And you
know, in the in the sort of aggregation culture of Internet scoops and and
and journal journalism what passes for journalism now, the story is sure sure to
get you know, embellished and exaggerated and and decontextualized, which I hope our
listeners resist. And yeah, you know, yeah, oh uh, how
do you pronounce that d C the the the Nirvana cover situation. Yeah,
and so what's the context, right, that suit was dismissed because the argument
was that, you know, the infant was not in any way position that
was sexualizing or anything like that on the Nirvana cover. Just in case anybody
when we're talking about I can't make that argument here. Yeah, but but
but in fact, the the you know, the cover is kind of hm,
uncomfortable in ways that when it came out and I was a teenager,
I probably didn't think about. But again, you know, I'm not I'm
not coming down with anything definitive. So you know, an anybody listening who
you don't get mad, trying to just trying to, just trying to get
the conversation going, because I really don't know how I feel. Right,
you should see his parents. Yeah, you know, a lot of child
stars should sue their parents. And I mean, look at one of the
biggest stories of last year, Jeanett McCarty coming out when writing a tell all
book that's called I'm Glad My Mom Is Dead and going on like a national
speaking tour on it. And I mean not to not to get extra vulnerable
for something like this, but I can totally relate to some of the feelings
that she has expressed in many, many interviews, like, obviously I wasn't
a child star, but the way that I was treated when I was younger,
it's something that I mean, I still don't talk to my father,
I don't talk to my stepmom and I have not for years. And yeah,
honestly, maybe the parents are one of these people that if they signed
off on it, Like, how are you not also guilty of doing that?
I appreciate you sharing that, that's because that really that really brings it
home, right, Like, sometimes it's easy to distance ourselves from from the
child stars who are now all grown up, and there's there's a certain amount
of scheidenfreude when the tabloids put their stuff all over the internet, and but
there they are real people, just like just like you, just like me.
And sorry, this is more concern concerned about Luney terms disapearing. You
know, that's a real thing too. I don't I don't want that to
get lost because and because in a way it is connected, right, because
it's these these decisions that are made both economically and esthetically about what we can
have, what we can have access to, which makes, you know,
which makes it kind of reminds us of the the the corporate control over content
whose decisions are rarely made because of actual feeling but pressure. Am I losing
money? Will I lose money? Because people are outraged that this Looney Tunes
thing? Have they? They've not come out and said that these two hundred
and fifty six were removed because of sensitive content? Right, it was just
we're removing them. So what I don't understand. They own the rights to
everything, Warner Brothers. What was it costed? There is no contract negotiations.
It's their content. It was Yeah, it was a weird thing.
And I read this in an aggregating kind of site. It was the av
Club where I first read the news. So I haven't done They've been doing
it for all kinds of stuff. Uh, Westworld, it's a brand new
show. They just removed all the West World. Why oh, they removed
the episodes from HBO. So can't not on HBO Max at all? Well,
shit, I hadn't even started it yet. Again, Well, now
I'm the victim exactly. And that's that can't even be argued that it's something
like the old Looney Tunes and sensitive content? What what are we getting out
of that? I guarantee you the server space that they were using for that
is not something that is bankrupting them. Well, yeah, we've still got
still got like all thirty seasons of South Park, thankfully. I think that's
a paramount. Oh what did stream on hbox though? What it is,
isn't it? I'm not sure. I know that they just had their COVID
movie came out paramount plus. Huh. Well, I'll find out because I've
got it accounts. John says they did that because of residuals to actors.
Maybe. Ah, oh awful. Yeah, it's on HBO twenty five season.
It's not thirty. My bad. They'll get to thirty eventually. Uh
dc Abner wants to know where do you stand in Disney never releasing Song of
the South. Obviously it's offensive, but I can't help but feel it's more
Disney trying to say face and trying to bury it. Yes, I don't
think that. Yeah, free Peppyla Pew, I don't think. I don't
think either pepe Pew or Song in the South is coming back out. And
you want to know something. I don't have a memory of this, but
according to my mom, Song in the South was the first movie I saw
in theaters, like age two, and she's told me how uncomfortable it was
to watch the movie. I think we left early. I may be wrong
on that. I'll have to ask her, but yeah, even at the
even at the time she said, I was like just dancing around because I
was two. But yeah, that's my legacy. Obviously, I would rather
see it released somebody, and you know what, it might have been DC
as well. Somebody up in the chat had asked if we had seen the
like disclaimer before some of the Disney shorts that are offensive. I've seen them.
I think that it is the best way, in my opinion, to
show that content. However, I think it also must be sort of back
ended by other content that promotes material that is clearly against that in a way
that is educational, and maybe even do some sort of internal documentary that shows
where the studio came from and where they are now. And obviously Disney's ever
gonna do that, but it's something that I think would be the absolute best
way to do it. I've got I've got three volumes of Tom and Jerry
cartoons, and each one has an introduction by Whoopi Goldberg saying basically, now
listen, there's some shit in here that ain't okay, right, you don't
watch it. It's okay to laugh at the funny stuff, don't laugh at
the bad stuff. That's basically what she said. I mean, she says
it much more and and you know I agree, right, like not just
giving context, but also also doing something. This is one thing I like
about KENO is that they keep putting out We're restoring and releasing sets like pioneers
of African American cinema, early women filmmakers, and so we see all this
history that that has been suppressed in the sort of canonical history of film.
You know, there were so many women filmmakers working in the silent here,
and there are so many black filmmakers working in the Silent era despite the the
the content x right, which were certainly still very white, male dominated.
But but these things exist. And you know, if you're teaching film history
classes like I do, you don't have to show Birth of a Nation.
You can explain that Birth of a Nation exists and that it's very influential because
of continuity editing. But even at the time of its release, it was
very controversial and it was protested by the India na A c P and many
others, and instead let's show continuity editing in a Victor Showstrom movie or an
aliceki Blash movie. Lowis, we were moving. We don't have to we
don't have to show there's there's there's all this, all this history available to
us now. So coming back up and wrapping up because I want to talk
about vinegar syndrome and they're problematic titles. Uh So wrapping up for me anyway,
I want to give you the last word on this, uh no pression.
Access is important, right, like the fact that we are losing this
this important connection to the history of animation and many other things, but thanks
to the sort of economic decisions being made by Warner Brothers Discovery, that's a
problem. What do we do about that? And then on sort of a
flip side of it, but also connected, what do we do with films
that have not problematic not just problematic material, but material that is absolutely how
what do I even say that's that's absolutely tapped about to say taboo? But
right, we want to bust taboos with art, but material that features performers
who are not who we agree are not able to make those decisions legally,
I don't know, especially when their story right now is that they were not
even allowed to give consent. It is something that happened without their say whatsoever.
And even if Hussy and Whiting, even if they're being totally cynical and
they're like, hey, we're out of money, let's do this. We
have an opportunity. And I'm not saying they are, but I'm sure some
people are saying that they are. But even if they were right completely morally
bankrupt and doing this cynically to take advantage of the situation and make money,
it doesn't change the fact that that scene is in there, right, and
I don't really doubt the story of how it got filmed. You know,
like that that sounds about right for actors who are of age, especially when
the director has another allegation against them. Yeah, so I understand it,
And like Will said, to bring it back full circle and to highlight a
comment that I did not just a moment ago, dude, McMahon says on
a positive note. The remaining seasons of McCloud were finally released on DVD last
year, twenty years after Universal released the first season. Did not mean to
make Will laugh out loud, but just highlighting that is the reason why we
do what we do. And obviously this is not like some noble hobby where
you're a hero because you buy, you know, Dracula Prints of Darkness from
screen factory or something. But it is something where you are supporting a company
that is genuinely putting time and energy into restoring some of these pieces that could
potentially be lost. So I understand it. I understand both sides of the
argument. It's not my job to solve it for all of humanity, and
I'm glad about that, but it is something that absolutely should be discussed.
Yeah, And I'm scrolling through the comments right now, and I'm seeing I'm
seeing a lot of really interesting points some people who are who are kind of
taking some of the things I say to task, which is great because I'm
just talking it out. And and I don't, you know, even if
I say like I definitively don't feel good about this, that doesn't mean that
I know exactly what to do with it or with the right thing to say.
Like, as Spaghetti points out, if you bury problematic material, history
is doomed to repeat. Agreed, you know, So what do we do
with a problematic material that's that's the question do we release do we release it
on ultra high definition blu ray on Valentine's Day? Well, to make to
make one final point, and I will I will say this with a grain
of salt, obviously, but one of the things that is really bad about
banning things like this is if you just come out right and say we are
not going to allow this to ever be released. That means, first off,
all current copies of that film are going to skyrocket and price, it
is going to be in huge demand and everybody will give all the wrong kind
of attention to it. Yeah, you create a new market for it.
Yeah. And also, by the way, I want to acknowledge to the
audience the irony of the fact that in just a few minutes we're going to
discuss a film called The Infernal Rapist. I know that's coming. I don't
know exactly what I want to say about it, but I accept the responsibility.
This is what I signed up for. On the dower note of John's
comment, we're gonna we're gonna head over to announcements now, John says,
we as a country have a huge issue with understanding empathetic ideas, and then
startus I just said, oh did it. Oh, there we go.
It's going to add up on eBay at an exorbitant price when they eliminate the
senior, take the film off the market. Yeah, And to go back
to go back to John's point and points of several others. This goes this.
This actually reminds me of something you said in the the end of your
show a week or so ago about why it's why it's important for us to
challenge ourselves with art. And I don't I don't mean necessarily watching watching something
that has uncomfortable material in this particular that particular sense, but but to stretch,
to stretch ourselves and and and watch film, read, seek out art
that with with the eye to empathy, understanding and not just acceptance but acknowledgement
of other of other people and their and their individuals, their individual pain,
their individual joy and so on. Because that's really what it's all about.
I mean, what's why do we tell stories, why do we respond to
beauty? Why does beauty even exist? Right? That's what this conversation has
led to fill up your your empathy tank. That that's exactly what challenging yourself
can can absolutely do. Uh, I didn't believe this, but this is
the hilarious note and then I'm genuinely starting announcements after this. Paull of Notes
says, there is an I Spit on your Grave Valentine's Day DVD slip at
Walmart right now, and that is hidding. It is true. Wait is
it? Is it the original or one of the the I believe it's the
original. Just actually, I'm so glad you brought that up because we talked
about context and and the and the best way to contextualize problematic material. Joe
Bob Briggs commentary before I Spit on Your Grave. That is the best example
I've ever heard seen anywhere of how to take a film that is on many
levels abhorrent and easily misunderstood, and to give it context that not only reveals
the fullness of the intent of the film, but helps you, as a
viewer, take in these awful images and make something positive out of them.
Right, And if anybody out there, well, I'm not recommending that you're
watch us doing your rape, but if you do, and you haven't heard
Joe Bob Briggs commentary track for it, you should. I will use this
this moment for shameless self promotion as well. Next week we are having this
this deep conversation path continue on that we've had for the last couple weeks and
I don't know why. Next week we are going to be having three long
conversation videos on the channel. On the channel that is going to be about
psychology and film, and they are all very different context and one of them
actually we discuss I Spit on your Grave and why somebody who went through something
traumatic like that may want to watch the film itself. So it is a
very interesting week next week. Please please give us some of those watch,
give me some comments. I definitely want those to start some conversations. Mitchell
says the I Spit it's the remake, not the original. Of course,
Well, I think I'm gonna give a hot take on the remake that's like
ten years old. Now. I did not like the remake. I thought
that it's sexualized the sexual assaults, and the original does not because sexual assault
is not sexy, and and well, shit, man, what am I
doing. I'm we're supposed to be talking about Border River. Let's talk about
Border River. March twenty eighth, Keena Lover is putting out Border River from
nineteen fifty four. This gets a new audio commentary with film His Story and
Toby Rohne. This is starring Joel McCrae and Von de Carlo, directed by
George Sherman. This movie, and thank you for the for the save there,
and thank you for the platform to talk about that stuff. Yes,
let us get into more exciting and happy news. I think Von de Carlo
is such an underrated actress. You know, it's just monsters, that's what
people remember before. But she was a great character actress in so many westerns.
And Joel McCrae doesn't get enough love these days. Well I guess actually
I shouldn't say that because tons of his movies are getting released by Keno Lober
and others. But I want to see more Joel mccraig love the message boards.
She's also really good in the Monsters though, too. Oh yeah,
let's carry on to the next one. Uh conversation, we just oh boy,
all right, let's let's do it. Those are some wine coop stuff.
Oh man, they got Matt Hill on it. He writes specifically about
ultra violence and film. Okay, here we go. Uh, this is
an interesting one for many, many many reasons. So First of all,
this is coming in May from SRS Cinema, which is Subrosa Studios, and
they are let's say, they put out a lot of schlock and some of
it is classics and some of it is like Amiteville Ghost toilet Well, and
let's put it this way, SRS is why you can get on most of
Jess Franco's shot on video movies. That's where that's where you get them all.
Yeah, So this is a tim Ritter collection that is coming out,
and this is where SRS kind of takes some weird steps. So, first
of all, this is a pre order that is going live, or actually
it went live twenty three minutes ago, so the shipping date of this is
late May twenty twenty three. However, this is where it starts to get
really rocky challenge. If they sell one hundred of these by February second,
they will immediately flip the switch and make this a one thousand unit on pressed
blu rays the way it's supposed to be on a big three or four disc
set. But if they don't sell one hundred by February second, it will
only be two hundred units and you're gonna get burned. Discs, So it
is very worrisome when they don't tell you the count of what is being pre
ordered. Yeah, so why would we jump at the chance to pre order
if you're possibly only going to get a handful of burned discs? So it's
not like a kickstarter where you get your money back in the fail, right,
So I pulled it up here. Well, all right, to be
fair, it is artificially discounted from from the arbitrary title of the Arbitrary Price
one hundred and twenty nine dollars to sixty four to ninety five. Ooh,
I don't know, man, that's a big risk. So let's talk about
what's on this. This is the quote legendary filmmaker Tim Ritters shot on video
filmography. Everything outside of the Truth or Dare series comes together in one epic
release. Now, I will say this has a shocking amount of extras in
it. They they did not back down from anything really and for SRS this
is really impressive. For the original nineteen eighty five VHS release of Twisted Illusions,
which includes a Truth or Debt Dare segment, they are giving a new
upscale transfer, which these are all upscaled because they're all shot on video.
They got a new commentary with Tim Ritter and horror scholar Matt Hill. We
got a new interview with Joe Wynkoop. We've got a new interview with Tim
Ritter, new uncut twenty twenty one interview with the producer Al Nicolosi, and
then some stills gallery with there's a stills gallery with a Tim Ritter commentary.
All right, hold on, I got a question. Yep, So Matt
Hills with an S is an imminent horror scholar and that's what I was talking
about at first, But this says Matt Hill, and it's consistently Matt Hill
through all there. Yes, it is. Is this the same horror scholar?
Or did they make a typo? I think either or possible when talking
about sor a cinema. That's true. I'm gonna I'm gonna do some research.
The next feature on here is the nineteen ninety five VHS cut of Creep,
again loaded with commentaries, this one with Tim Ritter, and then another
one with Joel Win Coop and Kathy win Coop. New interview with Joel Win
Coop, and then a ninety minute Making of Creep featurette. Yeah, lots
of stuff on this next one, Dirty Cop No Donut from nineteen ninety eight.
This once again gets a commentary with Tim Ritter and Matt Hill. Then
we got some other interviews. But that is not all. This is just
the first post. There's another one. We are getting these sequel We're getting
Dirty Cop No Doughnut two. I Am a Pig Wow from the year two
thousand, new commentary, new stills and publicity blah blah blah, viral videos,
all of that twisted illusions to from two thousand and four with drive in
ads. Again we've got new commentary. This one's got the directors John Bauker,
Joe Sherlock, Joel Winop, Kathy Winkoop and Timbriter all on it.
Bigfoot Lives Short from two thousand and three, then the final feature reconciled through
the Christ from two thousand and five. Same thing. We got steals in
publicity gallery. This one's got a vintage commentary, but not a new commentary,
making of and then behind the scenes. But then they round everything out
with a bonus round up disc which is going to have Timritters never seen first
two Super eight films from nineteen seventy nine with the commentary on this uncut twenty
nineteen Savage Master rock video directed by Tim Ritter. Uh we got a photo
gallery with commentary Santa Kill short from Tim Ritter's twenty nineteen Santa Slasher short for
Richard mag and Way video and it's uncut U. There is a short film
collaboration called he Loves Me Not That is between Todd Martin and Tim Ritter.
New interview with Shannon stock In on working with Tim Ritter, Sharks of the
Corn trailer, Sharks of the Corn music video one of the things that is
pretty cool. Elijah Wood is featured on here in an interview about being inspired
by Tim Ritter and h Then there's even more. I could not even include
everything because even for a second post it was too much information. I gotta
tell you, I'm not sure if this Matt Hill is Matt Hill's I'm gonna
follow well, but it could be. I would not be surprised. Yeah,
that's the rest. Yeah, I meant, And Matt Hills is the
real deal. He's an I look up to this guy. I don't know.
I follow on Twitter. Maybe I'll maybe I'll send a message, who's
this guy? A message? Just says, have you ever heard of Tim
Ridder? Yeah? Are you the guy Tim Ridder? He's like, no,
this is my doppelganger, Tim Matt Hill. He's trying to just some
guy trying to make buck off of me. So I don't know, all
right, continuing on, this is where this week started to get interesting for
me. So Mado Micabreau came out of nowhere and announced Broken Mirror and Unquiet
Death from nineteen seventy four and nineteen seventy respectively. Broken Mer is about Anne,
a pregnant woman carrying her first child living in a magnificent but oppressive villa.
She works as a restorer of old paintings and has become obsessed by a
particular image of a woman on whose body is perched a giant bird. The
bird seems to be feeding off the woman as she works in her studio at
the top of the house and becomes aware of a man watching her from a
neighboring building. He wears a single glove on his left hand. Fearing a
descent into madness, and attempts to discover the origin and significance of the painting
that obsesses her, and starts on a perilous journey that takes her deep into
the mystery of her past. The film was highly praised on the initial theatrical
run, but has never been available on home video before. They did want
to highlight that this is featured in Kayla Genius's new edition of House of Psychotic
Women and was recently screened in the UK. The Unquiet Death is also by
the same director, and this is looking like it will be a double feature.
Well, now that problematic material is fine by me. I'm excited about
this. The posters for this are not very great. This is for the
double This is Unquiet Death. This is the only one that I could find
anywhere. And this was the French title for Broken Mirror. Unquiet Death was
really shortly after the Near Revolution that took place in France in sixty eight,
and very much in the spirit of those times. The film created a sensation
on its initial release in Paris. It has barely been seen since. And
this is also the world premiere on home video. Interesting, it's a very
very mando macabre titles. Yeah, I'm particularly interested in the stuff that came
up around that that time, and there were a lot of films that weren't
that were kind of connected to the zeitgeist. I guess of the era that
that got swallowed up, right, Like the can Film Festival was canceled as
a result of the May sixty eight and a lot of films that were set
to premiere just got buried and courts, and I don't I'm not saying that
this is one of them, but but yeah, so many films of languished
and obscurity because of the chaos of that time. And I'm always interested in
seeing, you know, little snapshots of what was happening artistically. I think
it is important to point out, as Jeremy Long is saying in the comments,
that the voice of ed Ed and Eddie is also voiced by somebody named
Matt Hill. Okay, all right, I think I think we're onto some
We're gonna have to do some sleuthing here. The Encyclopedia Brown Brigade is going
to need to to make use of the Internet to determine because I because if
this is Matt Hill's I might get a copy. But if it's just some
dude named Matt Hill, I don't give a ship. He has to say,
well, ron of SRS is very open, so if we just ask
him, we can probably get an answer. Oh what okay, I'll just
do that Mondo. Next, they also announced Night of the Executioner from nineteen
ninety two, featuring one little known actor named Paul Nashi. Nasty Nash,
I'm excited, so tagline, did you see this your favorite icon of Spanish
cult cinema? Does his version of death? Wish? Oh? Cool?
I hope it's not as I hope it's not as racist Nash. He plays
doctor Hugo Adranz, who is celebrating his fiftieth birthday with his wife and daughter
when a gang of degenerate thugs break into their home. They rob the doctor
and his family and then rape and gil both the women. Great way to
talk about this too. Their final gruesome act is to cut out doctor Hugo's
tongue, after which they leave him to bleed to death, but the doctor
survives, and, seeking venge on the punks who destroyed his family, he
begins a rigorous training program to turn himself into a merciless killing machine. Nashi's
final film as a writer, director, and star. This is a bleak
and violent work in which the action unfolds at a relentless pace, barely pausing
for breath uh. That followed by the following sentence of Paul Nashi throws into
the mix a huge dollop of sex and sleeves that that is deplorable to read
associated with na I don't want a huge dollop of anything at any time.
Uh. And his portrayal of the Silent Avenger is one of the most powerful
and chilling screen performances. This is the film's first US release and a world
premiere on Blu Ray, fully restored from the Ocean and with the number of
exclusive extras, Death Wish with a splash of Old Boy, not all of
Old Boy a drill. Ragnar says, love Manda, but they need to
have their Halloween sales in June. That way we get at a Halloween,
not in March. I mean, that's true if you're pre ordering titles,
but if you're getting the titles on sale that are already out, that's a
very specific joke, and I really appreciate it is very specific. But if
again, if you're getting the titles that are on sale, you get them
within the next couple of weeks, that's true. It's the pre orders that
take forever. Is like, you can pre order now and you know at
some point, well, shit, a little DOLLI will do you Naw.
She always gets his in his movies. He loves beautiful women, that's for
sure. Well one more they announced This just sounds absolutely wild, coming this
year from Monta Micabro's Special Silencers from nineteen eighty two. Longtime fans of Monda
micabre No, we love the crazy Indonesian films of the seventies, eighties and
nineties. We know you love them too well. You will all be happy
to know that, after many years away, we are finally heading back to
Jakarta. We have several projects in the works from that part of the world,
but this is one of the most exciting. This is one of the
key works of Indonesian exploitation cinema. It is from action specialist Arisol mixes insane
special effects, high kicking martial arts, and gruesome horror into a highly entertaining
brew. Gundar, sadistic and sleazy local politician steals a bag of small red
pills from a local mystic. These pills, called the Special Silencers, as
in the title, when dropped into someone's drink, cause a huge tree like
growth to burst from the victim's stomach. Gundar uses these pills to wipe out
anyone who gets in the way of him becoming a powerful local landlord. What
the hell? Uh wow? I love the Indonesian exploitation films. I have
so many students who have fallen in love with the country's output after seeing Lady
Terminator, and I am excited to add this to the syllabus. This looks
what is that like a tree bursts out of you after you take one of
these hills. That's amazing. That's like, that's like, if the Lorax
becomes a murderer, how do you even follow that up? Yeah, you're
right, when the Lorix becomes a murderer, Lorax and death wish I love
it? Uh To respond to Ragnar, Mondo also offered up a shipping and
general update if you made a pre order during the Halloween sale of Doctor Calgary,
Bollywood Whore or Witches Mountain. When we put these on sale, they
said not till twenty twenty three, and of course that's still the case.
Thankfully, it'll be coming in the next eleven and a half months. We
were hoping to get started mailing them out in January. That looks unlikely.
However, we expect and hope to get started in February, probably the end
of February, later than we or you would like. But these are very
big, very complicated projects. There have been all kinds of issues and roadblocks
that have come up since we put them on sale. It's on track,
just taking longer, they said. The good news is if you pre order
the retail editions of the previous batch, they are almost done. They have
just received three of the four titles and begin sending some of those out next
week. And I can attest to that because like Orbit has started getting them
in and listing them as new arrivals, so those are out in the real
world, they said. Today's announcements should show you that we are still very
much going deeper into our brand, our kind of film, all very Mondo
Macabro. They are pursuing projects that they love and sometimes that puts outside of
the mainstream vibe, but they are very happy about that. Expect more weird
erotica, strange, horror and bizarre action. Expect the obscure, the unknown,
the forgotten, Expect the unexpected. But no more box sets. Yeah,
no more box sets because they don't sell. And then in addition to
the announcements we just talked about, we have more Greek exploitation cinema coming,
more nineteen seventies, Japanese horror craziness, more French, more Indonesian, more
Spanish. We probably won't do any more huge box sets like the Bollywood Horror,
but don't be surprised if there are several multi film sets double and triple
features. Probably not another four K either, at least not this year,
but they are considering a couple that could see the light of day on that
format soon. Yeah. You know, I get antsy about shipping just like
anybody else, But for some reason, I'm more patient with Manda Micabre because
their films are so obscure yep, and and you know, it always eventually.
I've never I've never had anything canceled or not arrive, and it's kind
of become part of their brand that, you know, this film is,
this film is so obscure. I don't even know when we're gonna ship it.
We're still we're still hacking our way through through the jungle looking for elements
so so obscure. Who knows when the the the disc creating company will ever
get the file from US S artist wants to know have you heard of Snake
Sisters? Snake Sisters I picked up I think, hold on and make sure
I'm thinking of the right movie while you look that up. Anthony says,
is Lady Terminator bound to be locked to DVD forever? I've been waiting a
long time to buy it. They have been saying yes. Yeah. Unfortunately
I've been seeing that too, because that's obviously well on my watch list because
it's such a great experience. Yeah, I picked up Snake Sisters at one
of their like DVD going out of stock sales, but I haven't watched yet,
so thanks for the recommendation. I'll put it up. I'll put it
up at the top of the list. Yeah, Mondo stuff is great overall.
Well, that's it for Monta micabrou If you are ever interested in more
from them. Got a nice conversation with them on the channel, and more
to come, I believe. Yeah, oh, I did not plan on
talk about this. I will go to the next one coming soon from Keno
backtrack from nineteen ninety. This is a twenty eighteen twenty eighteen HD master by
Lionsgate. This includes both the original theatrical cuts and the the director's cut.
But really, other than you know, this is Jody Foster and Dennis Hopper
and Charlie Sheen and a little known actor named Vincent Price. Plus we got
Dean Stockwell, John John Tratrurou, Fred Ward. The big deal here,
Oh you haven't mentioned the most important former of all. We're getting there.
I'm just kidding. Go ahead, I'll put my hat in the ring for
Joe Peshi and Katherine Keener. Oh man, I can't believe this, guest.
I have no awareness of this movie at all. This is this might
be the most exciting thing comes up for me tonight. The The biggest deal,
though, is that this is a lions Gate title, and this is
I think the second or third that we've seen from a boutique in the last
like six weeks, and that is a giant deal. Lionsgate have never licensed
to boutiques ever, and if they are willing to start opening things like this,
there are a lot of exciting titles that could be on the books.
So I would keep a close eye on how somebody sell. And if this
is very popular for Keino, I would not be surprised if this and the
other couple that have been announced were just the first few, and we suddenly
see an avalanche of some of these titles. I just noticed Bob Dylan's in
this Holy shit. Yeah, okay, yeah, that was back to your
point. Avalanche is right. Holy cow, there's so many films kind of
locked away. Wow. I don't even know what to say. And this
one, by the way, another one directed by Dennis Hopper. Next up
is all about subscriber Week. We're gonna be talking about that in just a
moment. Anyways, another really exciting one that ties into another one we're going
to talk about coming soon. From Keno and the three D Film Archive on
three D and standard Blu ray. This is The Glass Web from nineteen fifty
three. This was a Edward g. Robinson movie with John Forsyth and Kathleen
Hughes, directed by Jack Arnold. I always love the restoration work the three
D film market. So pause right here. Very exciting. This is gonna
sound like I'm shilling, but I'm not. I'm actually working on an essay
about Jack Arnold for a book that's coming out about Jack Arnold later this year
or like way later this year. And you know, obviously Creature in the
Black Goon, The Incredible Shrinking Man. So many cool Westerns, which is
what I'm focused on. But yeah, three D films like The Glass Web.
My my friend David A. Cook just released a book called The History
of Three Dimensional Cinema, which includes a pretty interesting write up about this film,
Glass Web, And I know one day in the near to mid future
you'll get to meet him and talk about it. But this film in particular
killer really cool work with with the kind of early three D special effects.
Jack Arnold was one of those rare filmmakers who could both tell a good story
and work with special effects. And I am I would love it if there
were more filmmakers like him. James Cameron could maybe learn something, said the
guy who is nobody said, the most powerful filmmaker in the world. But
anyway, Jack Arnold, he obviously the name Edward G. Robinson is one
that we are going to hear at least one more time tonight. So let's
hold out on that name and move on to vinegar syndrome. Finally, all
right, all right, So we went through these together as the sale went
live the other day. We're not going to spend and a ton of time
going through all of these, but Will did not get a chance to talk
about most of these, So we're gonna let Will have a shot, and
then all of the other titles that have been announced since then we've not talked
about at all. So we're gonna dive deep into as many of these as
we can, speculate more on DSL now that we have one title revealed,
and do some more so Sidekicks. This is from nineteen ninety two and Chuck
Norris is getting a VSU. What are you thinking about that? Oh,
it's not my favorite Chuck Morris film. You know this this came out when
I was kind of too old to appreciate it. But people who are like,
you know, five to ten years younger than me are like psycho.
Yeah right, So you know, I think it's an interesting and humorous and
a generationally appropriate title because I think I think a lot of the people work
at Vinegar Syndrome or just a little bit younger than me and are the right
generation for Sidekicks to be part of their childhood. Yeah. That's about all
I am to say on Sidekicks. You know, it's I don't care about
it, but I'm glad. I'm glad it's available, and I'm glad people
are excited about it, you know, as far as Chuttenworth goes give me
the Octagon, which I have the Octagon, so I'm cool. I do
want to point out that one of the things that I am genuinely looking forward
to this for, not even the movie, but the fact that we have
a fan commentary with Joe Begis and friends. That is such an interesting addition.
I cannot wait to see it. When this got announced, he was
actively out there advertising his commentary, so I love that he was a part
of this. Gleaming wants to know how old are you, Will, Well,
I'm so glad that you have the avatar of ra Do, the vampire
from the Subspecies series, which I am exactly the right age to be obsessed
with. I'll say it, I'll say it out loud. I'm forty four
years old, and I know that I still wear T shirts and cargoes cargo
shorts, but they're comfortable, and that's just how it is. I'm younger
than Will and I think most of the people at Vinegarson rom are actually like
a year or two younger than me. Even Yeah, yeah, my prime
is passed. John said Joe Bigas is usually stone during commentary, so it'll
be a fot team. Next up, we got an announcement for a very
exciting title made in Hong Kong, Volume one specifically, and to make this
even more are all unified. Anthony Wong is in all Whoops, what was
that I clicked on something? Dang it? Anthony Wong is in all three
of these films legally Blond and four k oh No, here we go.
Yeah, awesome love Anthony Wong. Haven't seen any of these movies, no
love the sound of them. And yeah, that's a nice look in the
Volume one, The Demon's Baby, Erotic Nightmare and the Deadly Camp. Oh
yep, I probably can't show that on YouTube. Oh well, it was
very hard to see. Beyond that, I would like to once again take
this moment to happily be a product placement for myself for next week and say,
I hope you all are coming back next Thursday, because we have right
here, I'm going to highlight the name Erica Schultz, who is from the
Unsung Horror podcast. She will be on Reconnected next Thursday. WHOA. Beyond
that, we are doing a very fun conversation on top of the announcements,
So I can't wait to see what you guys think next week. It is
going to be all about horror in January and it's gonna be wild. That
is great. Yeah, gonna be a good time. Erica wrote a essay
about the film The Demon's Baby in this and yeah, can't wait to get
this. This looks genuinely great. Next up a title that I am very
excited for because this is one of the greats from Beyond in four K from
nineteen eighty six. First off, what do you think about the art on
this? This has gotten a lot of complaints why. I mean, okay,
it's not the original VHS art, but but look at that. That's
that's neat, that's cool. That's that's on brand for both Vinegar Syndrome and
Stuart Gordon Brian Husman movie. Yeah. And if you got the the nice
you know, featured spots for Ken Frey and Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton and
it looks gross and slimy and that's what the movie is. Yeah, this
is I I was so happy to see Barbara Crampton, you know, like
posting about this and social media and this is a Yeah. I mean second
only really to to re Animator in the Gordon Cannon this film, Ah,
that's so Great's soh dollopy. There's so many dollops of Nelson's sex and sleeves.
Everything you can imagine is in Dalek form. I mean in this movie
kind of famously, Barbara Crampton is very much in Dallip form. Speaking of
Barbara Crampton, wanted to remind everybody that this is getting some fun stuff.
We get re Resonator Looking Back at From Beyond, a ninety seven minute new
making of documentary featuring interviews with the heavy hitters that are still with us.
Unfortunately ripped to Stuart Gordon there, Jeffery Coombs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Forrey,
screenwriter Dennis Pioli, Brian Usna will be there, Lee Percy, the
composer, Richard band Fully artist Vanessa meant like they got the fully artist.
What the heck? Effects supervisors Michael Deacon, Anthony Dublin, effects artist William
Butler gave Bartalos, who is the director of the ever in film, the
what is the title that I'm completely forgetting somebody remind me of the chat but
he put out the one where the guy is dragging the dog's head around.
Oh is that St. Bernard? It is St. Bernard, that's the
name. Oh, that's cool. Cool, So he gets he gets interviewed
in this, and then yeah, a couple others. Still, I mean,
that's that's pretty fantastic. And then all kinds of everything else is all
archival, but it is. We get a nice and almost one hundred minute
making of documentary with interviews with basically everyone under the sun. That's really the
most exciting thing, along with what I uh, thet I don't know is
still pretty nasty. I don't want to make a T shirt to put up
on the merchantre This is dolp is the new Moist with the with the picture
of Nashi. Oh man, I'm sure that, I'm sure. I'm very
excited to see what the transfer looks like. But the documentary, more than
anything, is really exciting. This is a film I'm sure, I'm sure
it's the same for you that I've seen so many times and yeah, holy
shit, now I'll want more exactly. Yeah, I'm glad this is coming
to four K. This is the kind of film that I think really needs
to be in four K. From the eighties this isn't. I mean,
there's been a handful of four k's that have not super been necessary, but
this is one that, First of all, it was out of print,
and it's an iconic movie, it certainly is needed. But not to mention,
the colors in this are beyond incredible, So yeah, this will look
great in four K. Not to mention the folly work, I just wish.
I'm gonna I'm gonna publicly say this again. Why the hell is vinegar
Syndrome not doing an HDR grade in dolbim or a Dolbie vision. I don't
know. They get their red tinted HDR ten in there and call it a
day. Anyways, just continuing with our theme from tonight, they announced nineteen
eighty eight's Infernal Rapists. This is This is a lot. The synopsis for
this film is crazy. And this is the slip cover. I do like
the art on the back here, yeah, and honestly the art on the
front is really good too. But lots of new interviews for this one,
and Alexander Heller Nicholas is Alexandra Heller Nicholas is on this one doing an audio
essay. Yeah, well you know that that cover art kind of like reminds
of the problematic nature of so many exploitation films, like if if you're excited
to see this film, why right? And I am very interested in seeing
this film, especially based on the description and the trailer that I watched,
which which lead me to believe there's gonna that there's some sort of socio political
allegory stuff going on as well as you know, crass, sleazy exploitation and
uh yeah. And also it also leads me to kind of interrogate myself,
like why when I see a title like Villadora Infernal right, that's the Spanish
t of like infernal rapist. When I see a title like that, why
am I like? Now that looks neat? Yeah, you know this is
a so I do I want to see it? Well, I'm going to
see it because I subscribe, So it's coming. Whether I and the artist
provocative and the plot is provocative that I'm going to see, we should talk
it. We should maybe after it ships one of the next times' wrong,
we should talk about this and see what we think before we go on.
If I may, I'm going to do something. Hopefully Celeste is still here
live. I wanted to say this. I already had this queued up and
hopefully Celeste can see this. I want to give a shout out to Celeste
who is on the channel on Sunday as the sale went live, and there
is a video that came out that if you are on the fence about becoming
a subscriber to Vinegar Syndrome celested one called why you need Vinegar Syndrome's nine dollars
twenty twenty three subscription, And obviously it's a tongue in cheek title, but
it is a very logical, well thought out and the important thing, very
mathematical and analytical reasoning for why getting a nine eighty dollars subscription was a good
choice for Celest And it is something that is clearly going to be used by
other people when they're making this decision, because it is so so important to
actually break this down and find out how much money you will save, because
it's not a small amount of money. Hey can I I'm so glad you
said this because I saw the video of you with Celeste, who I had
been unfamiliar with, and then went and checked out checked out the channel and
subscribed and love it. Hey, Hey, Celest, You're great, keep
it going. Hopefully if Celeste is not there, if they come back and
watch on the replay tomorrow. That just overwhelmed with love because yeah, great
video. Definitely something that people really need to look at. And it's again
it's twenty one minutes, but it is absolutely worth it. And Celesta do's
great work on everything else. I mean, Celest just take Oh yeah,
the the analysis that uh, the analysis that has done on this channel is
astonishing. The the hell Raiser one is good. I always rave about the
Let me see if I can find it. They did a barbarian Oh there
it is. It's up. Uh you scroll past to go back out,
got it? Yeah? Right there? Really really great. The the analysis
on here is genuinely important. I think people would enjoy it. So I
had this all queued up to share and it was just a perfect opportunity.
Let's go back, uh sharing screen on the announcements again and fertile rapists.
Anything else about this other than maybe we watch it and talk about it next
time you're on, Yeah we should, we should talk about it. Yeah.
It's funny that in a weird way that the cover art with the with
the foul like piercing reminds me there are there are a bunch of a bunch
of old Skinemax movies getting released on DVD that I saw up on the Grindhouse
video site, you know, some Shannon Tweed movies and stuff like that,
and I got really excited because one of them, and I forget the title,
one of them was directed by Lee Frost, and Lee Frost is an
amazing director we should talk about sometimes. But anyway, this, this cover
art reminds me of those those Skinemax uh uh box covers except violent. But
in many ways those Skinemax titles are are violent too, you know, like
Stripped to Kill yeah, uh, Illicit Dreams for and so in a way,
this is kind of like reminding us, you know, that a lot
of the films that were marketed as erotic are actually kind of violent in ways.
The arm yeah aren't great, DC says Infernal Rapist has now become as
synonymous on the feeds as clute. Let's hope it doesn't start trending. On
that note. Let's go to the next announcement. Frostbieder ninety five. This
one sounds fun as hell. This is the back of the slip and it
looks pretty good, this says. Long ago, the mighty Windigo is defeated
and buried in a secret place known only to a select individual tasked with protecting
this unholy ground lest it be revived from the grave. When two arrogant hunters,
Gary and Dave stumble upon the wind, he goes final resting place and
kill its elderly protector, because that's what you do when you stumble upon it.
Of course, they unknowingly revive the ancient demon, which gorly dispatches Dave.
Taking refuge with another group of hunters in a nearby cabin. The posse
are set upon by all sorts of ghoulish creatures, not the least of which
is the Wind to go itself. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sandy begins
to experience visions telling her that she must now kill the Wind to go.
Come on, Sandy said, so this is a this is a trauma license
title. I had the old crappy Trauma DVD back in the day. But
what's what's really strange about this movie is that one of the stars is Ron
Ashton, the guitarist of the Stooges. Interesting and he but he does not
do anything Stooges related. There's no guitar playing whatsoever this film. Now,
I want to be your wind to go. Justin says I watched this one
as well. If you liked Winter Beast, chances are you'll like Frost Frostpider.
This was amazing great, Ron Ashton know the Stooges is in this one.
This is worth the whole sub alone for me. I'll wait on reviews
for this one. It's the only one I skipped. Interesting now, he
says, rest in peace, Ron, Yeah, yeah right. I love
the way we have like totally opposing views. I'm gonna wait for reviews.
No, I'm spending nine hundred and eighty dollars just for this time. Uh
all right, So the subscription is on sale this week, and like I
said, if you're on the fence, give celest Video a watch. But
some of the things that they are putting on here to entice you is some
information in here that is interesting. So as the year rolls on, look
out for the Blu Ray debut of regional chillers like Curse of the Blue Lights
from nineteen eighty five, new restorations that are exclusive of nineteen eighties horror classics.
Like the Devonsville Terror never on disc seventies, Drive in favorites like Arnold
from nineteen seventy two, along with plentiful Jolli, Mexican exploitation and horror are
first ever Brazilian releases never on disc, Slashers and much more. Also,
as this year marks our tenth anniversary, we're preparing a mega ten film collection
which brings you together an array of exploitation, insanity you never dreamed you could
see. Oh my god, we are getting a ten film box set if
you are a subscriber. That's amazing. On the UHD front, we're upping
our game even further with a killer assortment films ranging from Jally to Slashers,
to Monsters to a notorious early euro gore Fest. Wow, it's exciting.
Of course, you also get fifty percent off of all of the other sub
labels, which there are too many to even comprehend nowadays VSA, VSPVSU,
VSL and then of course also all of the partner labels as well. Let's
see, and of course there's Pigarama that you get discounts on, which will
continue to offer a wide array of rear, forgotten, under loved, and
just playing weird smut from around the globe, like Babe from nineteen eighty one
and the hardcore action epic from Greece The Mark from nineteen seventy seven, which
will be making its fully uncut video debut. Not the Babe. I first
thought of good bah ram you. But you know what, if Vinitor Syndrome
did a UHD of Babe Pig in the City, I would go crazy.
That film is amazing, you know what. I'm gonna say this, and
I don't care what people think. I'm not joking. Babe Pig in the
City is my favorite George Miller film, and I like his other films,
but what a Hill Did Die Upon? Oh? I love I love the
Man Maximogas, I love which is of east Wick, but Babing in the
City is his masterpiece. John says Brazilian release as in Coffin Joe Woo,
although I think that they were saying not Vinegar Syndrome. But it has been
like a wide known topic that most of the elements for Coffin Joe stuff has
been ruined. DC wants to know what do we think the retail for that
ten film set will be outside of the subscription. Obviously we don't know.
They're probably all Blu rays because a ten film four K release would be stupid
like that would be incomprehensible in price range, considering the fact that we've gotten
four film sets at sixty dollars from Vinegar Syndrome. In terms of the the
Amiteville set, I could see a ten film set easily being like one one
twenty maybe even slightly more, and MSRP will probably be like three and twenty
nine ninety nine. Yeah, I mean, how many films are in those
like Columbia sets that come out right like eight or nine and there look at
those Hammer twenty films that you can get it for twenty bucks. That's mill
Creek. I did. I happen to have a Columbia set right here?
This is six films and it's on sale for like seventy dollars, right,
so it's like twice that when yeah, now are those all four K?
Yes? Okay, well, so there you go. Let's see. I
don't want to clog up the chat about the stooges. That's what the discourse
is for. Uh. Chris Silvestri says, Vinegar Syndrome got me good.
This week. I think that's true of many people. Yeah, every day
the ten dollars sale and the any announcements something like, oh I don't have
that, I don't have that. More stooges love can't wait to listen tomorrow,
but beyond stoke to have a fellow stoogehead in the group. Absolutely more
than one DC says this will be a whole other subscription. Didn't they list
that whole month? MSRP is three h eight crazy? Yeah, that makes
sense because it should be listed here, right, it's May not the next
title? What am I doing? Come on? Get it together? May
three hundred and one dollars and ninety cents, including the tenth anniversary ten film
collection plus two more horror uhds and a truly killer set of surprise titles.
So this means four releases plus the ten film box set, is what I'm
reading. This really makes the less argument, doesn't it. Yeah? Absolutely,
Anthony says it was confirmed the ten disc Vinegar Syndrome Anniversary set will be
new titles and none being upgrades a DVD to blue And that is correct.
Justin did say on Facebook that they are all new to Vinegar Syndrome. Yeah,
so it is exciting. But here's the catch. They're all Joel Winekoop
movies on four k a Wine Win Coop. I'm probably wrong, it's probably
one Coop. I don't know. Uh, the ten for ten are wrecking
justin I think I'm over twenty titles so far. I mean, it's the
best price they've ever been. Literally, yeah, you know, well,
I'm in a I'm in a unique position because I've over the years, I've
I've got a pretty extensive vinegar syndrome collection. Like like you know, if
you do the checklist, after you get to a certain point, they change
what they call you. I've got so many on the checklist that like,
my category is t B A. So I'm not kidding, that's true.
I did the checklist and it's this TBA because it's like two hundred and some
titles. Have you done the new one? Because they did update it,
so no, no, this is the old this is the old checklist,
And I haven't looked at the new one yet. But they but but but
but each each day that they've done the the ten for ten sale, I've
looked through and there's been like one or two titles. But it's been great
because it's stuff that I've I've been wanting to check out, but it hadn't
gotten around to or it's been priced at a point that I was just like,
nah, I can't like death or a game show, which you I
think you hyped a couple of weeks ago for good reason, because it's a
I've got it on one of those Milk Creek twenty movie on five discs sets,
and yeah, I'm excited to see it on high Death. Yeah.
I And you've mentioned this before. Vinegar Central really knows how to market,
and so I'm I got I kind of got chills in a bad way when
you're talking when you were talking earlier about how some folks are feeling that vinegar
syndrome is getting more like a corporate mentality, which I take to which I
read as a as a kind of cold and like profit above all else kind
of mentality, because I really, I really like the way they convinced me
to give them my money at this point, you know, because it's these
things like well, you know, hey, we won't take it all at
once. Each day, we'll give you a little list of things that you
can look at, and I'm like, oh, I'm just spending twenty dollars
today, you know, and seven days in a row, right, But
it's also like really cool stuff and underappreciated titles. And I really liked the
new T shirt designs that they released today. And yeah, you know,
we've talked before about how they really have figured out good ways to interact with
their their clientele. Sincerely, Yeah, I don't know. We'll see the
question on many people's minds. Barry wants to know will there be a half
year subscription? I definitely sub for twenty twenty excuse me, twenty twenty three,
but I just can't afford it right now. Plus I'm Canadian. With
exchange and extra shipping, it'll be closer to fifteen hundred. Kid, Yeah
it is. It's a lot. And the way that they worded it this
year makes it sound like they may not do the half year, which I
mean, to me, that's that's silly. I feel like they'd be losing
so much money on that. I don't know. I personally started as a
half year. I think most people probably did. Yeah, when they it
was when they released was it the same year that they did? Hell comes
to Frogtown and beast Master? I think he comes to frog Down was a
year or two earlier. Okay, well, how comes to frog Town is
when I became a half year subscriber because that's one of my favorite films of
all time. That was August of twenty nineteen. Yeah, and yeah,
it's a great way for people who are, you know, in a less
comfortable position to still kind of consider, like each each month I put a
little bit away to subs to handle the subscription. That's like my Christmas gift
to myself, and it'd be a shame for people not to be able to
like give it a try for half price, especially because for a lot of
people they got to vinegar Syndrome because of some horror or exploitation title, and
really that's what the second half of the year usually focuses on. So it's
a lot easier for somebody to start with something knowing, oh, I'll have
October November, which are the big horror months for them, right and Roadhouse,
which isn't even a part of the subscription. I just checked and Beastmaster
was November of twenty twenty, so it was the next year. Okay,
Okay, that makes sense. I remember it was Christian from Christian's hobby blog
who alerted me that beast Master was about to be announced, and now I'm
remembering, I was like, boom, I'm a subscriber, don't have to
worry. Well, on top of all of the Vinegar Syndrome stuff on Sunday,
we also got a glut of partner label titles coming this month. These
next nine releases are all available to order now. This first one is from
the label Factory twenty five, and this is Actual People from twenty twenty two.
This is the back of the slip and I still I've not figured out
where, but I'd heard of this title and it's very intriguing, but really
not necessarily because of the way that they described it on this release. Yeah,
well, you know. So I'm a college professor, and if you
look at the synops of this film, it's in her last week of college,
a directionist girl deals with her growing anxieties about her love, life,
family, and future. So that's every day of my office hours. I'm
interested in watching the film, but I don't know that I'll learn anything that
makes sense. But I just realized I wasn't even sharing when I changed the
cover on that one. Yeah, DC, As a question, there's been
some confusion ast to what the cutoff is for the Halfway Sale up to win
will the titles be available. This is where it gets a little murky because
before last year's Black Friday Sale, it used to be everything from three months
to the sale before that would all be on sale, but this last sale
they said everything from before five months before the sale, which for Vinegar Syndrome
titles, five months before the sale was January if it's the Halfway Sale,
and five months before the Black Friday sale is June, which means they don't
have titles available in the previous month for that. So yeah, it's basically
six months for Vinegar Syndrome. So basically, if it came out Black Friday
or previous, it will be on sale at the Halfway Sale, guaranteed.
It's rough, it's different than it used to be. Change, don't like
it. Next one looks absolutely wild and like a lot of fun agfas putting
out Attack of the Beast Creatures from nineteen eighty five. Uh yeah, this
just looks great. It sounds like a sequel to the third segment in Trilogy
of Terror, and I can't wait to see this sat on VHS. Many
many years ago. You don't even need to drink to enjoy it. It'll
do the job for you. That is the way to do it. Next
up, Brothers Keeper from twenty twenty one is coming from Altered Innocence, and
this one, just like a lot of Altered Innocence titles, just sounds really
great, genuinely, really well done. I mean, this is the kind
of stuff we were talking about in the Best of twenty two video is the
way you know, gosh, and I hate to hear there's I don't know,
Anthony, I feel good about that, but okay, what we were
talking about in that video. One of the great things about the OCN partnership
is that people who are fans of weird exploitation genre films in America and Western
Europe also get exposed to all these films of all different genres from all over
the world. And I hope that this relationships, that this partnership, this
distribution model, stays healthy because films like this are films that I feel like
I need to see. I want to encourage my students, my friends,
everybody I notice, and Altered Innocence has a lot of those important ones.
Oh yeah, they've just continued to release very important films like the what Does
It Dress? And Blue that they just put out I think was the event
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just found it. Yeah, that was
one of my new pickups. And that one I don't understand how it still
has four hundred and twenty five left of the slip like that is justin flat
out said on this channel, it is maybe the most important OCN release of
the year, that that influential, that important. Crazy No. Next up,
we are getting a very fun slip cover from Enjoy the Ride Records.
We are getting the first VCR and cassettes Go hi Fi from twenty nineteen.
I am I'm still trying to figure out, maybe somebody else knows if this
is two different documentaries or one, because the way it's worded is that it's
only one hundred and one minutes, so either they're both very short or it's
just one long documentary. So it says the first VCR, this is a
documentary about the nineteen fifty six invention of the first VCR, which launched the
home video revolution, and then it just says, because let's go hi Fi,
the story about the past, present, remarkable future of the compact audio
cassette tape. It looks like I don't know where I read it is too.
Yeah that that two shorts, yep, which I in a way I
kind of hope it is because I think that's anot I guess that, uh,
DC says side question totally unrelated judgment call what's a better pick the blood
Orama or shack O Rama from AGFA. Well, they clearly tell you which
one you're gonna get, so uh really it's the us the question of moist
or not or dry? Do you wanna? Do you wanna moist or do
you want a doll up? Uh Eric says that this is two shorter movies,
so that helps. Next from Utopia, we're getting in between girl from
twenty nineteen. After being blindsided by your parents sudden divorced, sixteen year old
artistic, sardonic Angie Chan turns to secret hookups with popular jock Liam behind the
back of his adored social media influencer girlfriend Cheryl Ah. God, my mental
child's turning sixteen next month. I don't need a movie like this. Interesting.
If one goes to one of the final screenshots, one is around an
hour and the other's about forty minutes. All right, perfect. That helps
quite a bit. Next up another one that feels like one of the most
important OCN releases. Yes, Oh my gosh, John, that's my new
pickup line. You want it moisture a doll up. He's gonna be forever
single. Sure will. Actually, if someone's like both you're in, You're
in, the response that is have you ever seen is Paul Nashi film?
I'll actually take a pollop Canadian International Pictures. What a transition there to people
that I know watched this show. The two guys from Canadian International Pictures watch
this. I'm about to hype this movie. Come on, genuinely. One
that I am extremely, extremely excited for, Canadian International Picture is putting out
Kana Satake, which I think I'm saying that fairly close to accurate. This
is from nineteen ninety three. The subtitle on this is two hundred and seventy
Years of Resistance and this is the thirtieth anniversary special edition, which is really
neat. The big thing is this is a very underseen film. In July
nineteen ninety, a dispute or a proposed golf corps to be built on Mohawk
Lands in Oka, Quebec set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab
international headlines and see itself into the Canadian consciousness. The cool thing is this
is being released with other films from the filmmaker. There are three other films
and one is thirty minutes, one fifty eight minutes, one one hundred and
six minutes. So there's a lot of stuff on here. There's a booklet
featuring writing on the Oka Crisis series by Fay Ginsberg, Otter Simpson, Robert
Verrall. And I mean this just sounds amazing. Yeah, this film is
important, obviously, but it's also an artistic statement, a true exemplar of
documentary film. This was the first thing I got, you know, when
the when the thing, when the sale was announced. I'm so excited to
see this again. I've not seen it, and just the entire story of
everything that comes with it as well sounds great. Yeah, everybody checked this
out. Let me make up from a dollup poll up comments this film is
this film is important. Next up Lost Faith from nineteen ninety two coming from
se Core. He is all over the announcements this week. Here is the
back of this. I love this. He lost his wife, his patience,
he lost his faith so dramatic. Again, the only thing I really
want to point out on this one Saturn's core never never light on the special
features. This is Yeah, it's almost the entire screen. It's crazy.
Yeah, And you spend spent a week watching one of these goddamn things,
and I will, I will. This is particularly exciting. Vinegar Syndrome has
announced that Ocen has a new partner label with Umbrella Entertainment. And this is
the Australian label, of course, and they are putting out their previous release
in Australia of the film Undead from two thousand and three. Just so everybody's
aware, Justin has confirmed it's literally the exact same disc. It's the exact
same release. Nothing else is different special on here. It's the same release,
just put out in the US BIOSI well, that's cool, you know,
right, Like like your conversation a little while ago with with the flip
and when you all were talking about how the how it seems like double dipping
but it's actually for two different Yeah. Yeah, we've talked about that quite
a few times. Yeah, and I think that's great. I've never seen
undeb before. I mean, I'm region free, but I've also never seen
undeb before, so I'm excited to get the opportunity to see. That's the
crazy thing about Australia. Most of their releases are region free just because they
get away with it. I don't know how, but most of the Umbrella
releases have all been region free. Now I tell you, I'm still luxuriating
in that Martyrs special edition. Great release. Well that's not the right word
for how to watch Martyrs, I guess, but it's such a anyway we're
talking about did But I love Martyrs. But you you bring up a good
point. I mean, with Umbrella being a partner label, we don't know
what Umbrella's rights are on some of the previous releases. If theoretically they have
worldwide rights for Martyrs, we could see an OCN release of Martyrs before the
year end. Well then I'd be pissed because I dropped seventy bucks on this,
but it would be a great thing because the US has not had a
good release of Martyrs. And that's true, and you know, everyone who
ever has an existential thought should see Martyrs. I'm not saying it's gonna make
you happy because of them. We coincidentally had somebody drop a review for Martyrs
in the Discord today, and I'm just glad that people are Sorry, I'm
just glad people are still out there watching it. I love Martyrs. Yeah,
that film is God damn it. I'll change yet Yellow Ale is putting
out when I consume you. This is by Perry Blackshear who did they look
like people? And this release looks to be uh fairly similar quality and uh
yeah I got an intro from the director, actor, commentary track, director
commentary tracks, and behind the scenes, eleited scenes, a whole bunch of
other random stuff on here. This this one looks pretty pretty decent. I
like they look like people, So yeah, it's a good film. I
like what Yellow Veil puts out. I like there. They're one of the
labels where I trust them, you know what I mean. Like whatever whatever
they're distributing, I'll check out quietly. I have really enjoyed, I think
every single thing that Yellow Veil has done, and I really wish they got
a little more attention because I feel like people do not talk about them so
much. Yeah, no, I forgot to forgot to mention that, Thanks
Barry. The release of Undead has the soundtrack as a CD in there.
So that's a really great thing. That's something I always appreciate as a as
a special feature from all the boutique levels if there's a CD soundtrack, because
I still listen to CD and also burn them into my digital music. But
seven is the king of this obviously. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Everybody
can be dijail fund Zoe. No, nobody can dojail. You can try,
all right, let's uh, let's get into the real meat and potatoes
of everything. So one thing that got sort of announced this week is Vinegar
Syndrome is now offering VSMC, which stands for Vineger Syndrome Media Club, which
is a rewards and loyalty program that you can join. Now. You can
earn points by creating an account referring friends and then where it gets a little
dicey, leaving reviews. I'm still like waiting to hear that there's a length
requirement, otherwise you're gonna hear this movie badds. Yeah, this movie bad
for fifty points. But this has brought on all of the people complaining that
a lot of these out of print slip covers are now back in print because
you can get them for simply a thousand points from vinegar syndrome. I.
I don't get it. That looks kind of cool. A few of these
look pretty great. Like I don't even drink really, but this, this
looks pretty really good. I put that on the shelf, the skate deck.
I don't need it, but that'd be a fun wall piece. Uh.
I really don't think I need a raw Force pog. But then when
I think about that, I kind of want a raw Force pog. Yeah,
like like most of these things are crap. But but if you but
if you want it, great, right, like go go get your like
wooden disc branded. Uh I, uh I, I I'm interested. Here's
my question though about the leaving a review. What if it's negative? Is
there a distinction? Yeah? Yeah, I mean if I'll leave a negative
review, is it still going to get the points or the The scarier thing
to me is they also said if you leave a video review, you get
even more points. I guess I'll have to start my own channel now,
yes, finally done. Yeah, I don't I don't understand a lot of
the hate here. I'm still a big fan of uh not having things be
limited if something is in print, I would love everybody to be able to
have the complete release. So yeah, well, I mean it was out
of print. They printed some more and you can get them this way,
and technically they're different anyways. Yeah, And and the points system, what
I like is they you can save up to get like the premiums here the
little shosh keys, or you can save up points and get five, ten,
twenty dollars off your order, which is how other point systems like Arrow
and Rath do it. Great. I'm so glad that there's a loyalty program
for people who are going to be ordering a bunch of stuff anyway. Fantastic
DC says, I need a vinegar syndrome silhouette lamp a lah a Christmas story.
Oh my god, that's a great idea. I kind of really want
that. Now, Like twenty thousand points you get the leg Oh that's great.
Just wanted to throw out for everybody that at the end of this they
did put a little disclaimer that says VSMC slipcovers may be removed and or added
to this program without notice because exact addition sizes will not be announced, you
know, just making it limited again. The cardboard Wars continue going to the
next one. The next day they announced the first VSA of twenty twenty three,
and it is Ted Bundy from two thousand and two. This is from
Matthew Bright, the same guy that did Freeway. And you can see both
sides of the slipcover here. And from all I've read, I never have
had a chance to see this. From all I've read is this is actually
pretty good. It is. You know, we were talking before and I
told you that I was uncomfortable with serial killer movies that were like directly yeah
about especially when victims and victims' families were so alive. So like the Dahmer
series makes me kind of uncomfortable. But in the early two thousands there were
there were a bunch of these direct video films of Ted Bundy Dahmer Gacy,
and uh, this this really was the best of the bunch. Tiffany Sheppis
has a couple of scenes in it if you're if you're a fan of Titchy
Shepherds, which I am, She's important figure, especially socially. Now.
No, but anyway, this is this is a pretty good movie. I
was. I was kind of pleased to see it. Tom Saviini does the
gore effects. Yeah, check it out, it's good. I don't I
don't want to necessarily say this to undercut that supposedly Tom Savini's students mostly did
the gore effects on this. What canceled Tom Sevieni has gotten all of the
credit anyways. Next up, Kena Lober is putting out Outrage from nineteen fifty.
This is a twenty seventeen HD master by Paramount. This is of course
directed by Idle Lupino and this was released previously by Imprint in Australia. I
love Ido, I show The Hitchhiker in many of my classes. And you
know, she and Dorothy Arsner were the only women and the Director's Guild of
America for about fifty years. She's an amazing, amazing director and a pioneer
right in independent cinema. She created her own production company. She's also known
for being a pioneer in product placement as a way of raising funds for independent
features. So you know, if you see a prominently displayed bag of Torstedos
in a film today, you have idled Apino to thank in party not to
mention this film is good. Outrage is good good. That is a good
thing. DC says, Outrage just goes to show that all those Imprint titles
are going to make their way to Keino Horror, Twilight. They're getting them
all they likely will. I think the big thing is Imprint got to Paramount
first, and I don't know how they did it, But then after that
it just started to open the floodgates basically, and now not only are boutiques
getting them, Paramount even started releasing more catalog titles. So all in all,
it'll be a good thing and I'm glad that we're getting them. I
think that this will make a lot of people that are unhappy with the pricing
for imprint titles because you can get them for eight dollars on sale from Keno.
But overall it's a good thing because access to films is exactly what we
need. Next up is one of the more exciting things announced this week.
Vinegar Syndrome announced the first title in their new VSL line, which stands for
Vinegar Syndrome Labs, and they are releasing Flesh and Fantasy from nineteen forty three.
So we've not gone into this at all. There is a lot here
to unpack. So first of all, their copy a trilogy of tales of
love and death. First, a drowning during Marty Garras leads to a bitter
woman's masked reckoning. Next, an upstanding citizen is driven to madness and murder
by a palm reader's prophecy. Finally, a circus tight ropewalker is haunted by
dreams of a mysterious woman and his own death. One of the first horror
anthology films made by an American studio, This was even two years before Dead
of Night Award winning director Julian Duvivier, who did pepe le Moco, delivers
Flesh and Fantasy, three strange and at times surreal stories of the supernatural,
with an all star cast genuinely that includes Edward g Robinson that we talked about
earlier, Barbara Stanwick and Charles Boyer, who also co produced Stunningly photographed by
Ostro winner Stanley Cortes. Now the reason that name is exciting to me is
because he also filmed The Night of the Hunter and Lushley, scored by Oscar
nominee Alexander Tansman. Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents the blu ray debut of this landmark
in nineteen forties genre filmmaking, newly restored in two K and featuring insightful critical
appreciations along with rare archival materials. So this is a Region A locked blu
ray newly scanned and restored in two K from the thirty five millimeters dupe negative.
New commentary with Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman. There is a featurette with
French film director Christoph Gans video trailer and all that. Whatever. One of
the things I will say, the fact that this is Region A locked,
I would not be surprised at all if this was released by Eureka in the
UK in the next year or so. I would imagine that this is something
that they would absolutely want their hands on with they've been releasing. So what
can you tell us, Well, this this might be the most prestigious.
Is that the right word? In terms of just the people involved. This
was a movie that did not I mean it was a it was a it
was a big hit. It was one of the uh larger money makers of
nineteen forty three, but it didn't well, I mean at that time you
didn't you didn't get physical media releases of things. But it didn't take hold.
When when Physical Media is started re releasing uh classic films. So this
is this is going to be a big discovery for for many people, including
myself. I've I've read about this film and look at this, you know,
crosses vs. Over the Crister territory. I guess, I guess that's
kind of true. I do hope that it continues in the in the vein
of kind of the kind of names that you might see in a Criteria movie,
but the kinds of films that you wouldn't you know. So this is
yeah, Julian d Vvier, Baby, that's holy shit. That's I had
no idea. I've read about this but didn't realize it was Julian Davvier.
So cool. Yeah. One of the other things is there's now this kind
of public rumor that Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman also recorded another commentary for another
classic horror film just like this. I don't have the title off hand,
but supposedly it is looking like that will likely be coming soon from this line
as well. And just a reminder, we're still not done. We are
still getting another one of these, not necessarily horror or class but another VSL
title coming tomorrow at twelve oh one pm Eastern, and then another VSA on
Saturday. I have nothing but excitement for this new acronym. And speaking of
the acronym, the thing of remembering here is that VSL is meant to be
something that is an experiment for them. It's not necessarily going to be something
like what they normally put out. This is meant to be, as they
said previously, from eras and places that they have not released previously. So
I'm expecting a lot of international eventually. I'm expecting whether that be these very
old classic films, I could see them maybe getting some very modern films to
release as well, So we shall see. It's a very interesting time.
And actually there's lots of ways that they could stick to only doing things on
film, even if they did some modern stuff. A really great example,
I just had Josh Ruben on the channel, who was in a Wounded Fawn
this year from Travis Stevens, and that was filmed on sixteen millimeters and they
could absolutely put that out. Yeah, speaking of acronyms, and this is
totally nothing to do with anything. Shoot, well, I have to tell
you that every time I see vinegar syndrome, use an acronym like BS or
BSA or VSL. I think of the movie of Braxas in that movie with
Jesse Ventura, and he's he's like a android from outer space who's come to
save some save the day, and and he's he's like helping some some humans
locate something. And they're like, are you sure you can find it?
And he's like, yes, my box has VD. People go VD,
and he goes VD vibrational detection. It's just the dumbest joke that's ever been
in any movie ever. And it's the joke that I remember, like when
I'm on my deathbed and my daughter is holding my frail like paper mache hand
and herbs. I'm gonna I'm gonna quote the line from A practis about v
D. Don't take my arm too hard. It has VD vibrational detection.
DC is alluding to a hint we got previously that said that these first two
would be from fantasy and horror, and DC says, I heard someone speculate
that since the word fantasy is in this title, tomorrow's title will include the
word horror. Oh okay, interesting speculation that they could get away with there,
all right, anything else on this one before we move on. I'm
excited. I mean, this is this is exactly the kind of thing you
hope to see from an archival release, something that is been previously unavailable but
you know, written about and and now we can see it. And I
will say the the stills for this listing look incredible, absolutely like one of
the better shot black and white films. And obviously when you have the man
that shot Night of the Hunter, they better look fucking amazing. Yeah.
Next up, a company that we don't talk about all that often, Signal
One Entertainment is hosting a January sale that is on now. It ends on
January thirty first, and you can click on the link or go to their
website. They got a lot of really good stuff. They are the ones
that put out the Nickka Red Rock West fairly recently. It was I believe
the first Blu ray release anywhere with that. Well, dang on, I've
never even heard of this. Ah, you're welcome. They got the fighting
Kentuckian Oliver Hardy, John Wayne. I'm out. Ah, No John Wayne
here what. I'm not a fan of John Wayne at all. Well,
we'll talk later. He's problematic. I admit that Terry says, there are
twenty two letters left. Should we start trying to figure out what the other
vinegar syndrome sub labels will be? Next up on our twelfth VSB line.
All right, Grindhouse Video here in Knoxville is hosting a Synapse film sale on
now until the seventeenth of January, and they've got quite a lot of stuff
listed. However, most of it is DVD. Nothing wrong with that.
I'm not gonna format shame. I don't love a lot of them. Well,
it's a big thing. I don't know, if you pay attention.
A lot of people are like, oh v DVD, I am buying it.
So there's a lot of these that will literally never be on high definition.
And I've right now, I'm trying to figure out a way to make
an order. I've got like three that I want to get, and I
just got to try to make it worth it to me. I can't figure
out anything else to put in there. It's funny. There was a recent
podcast, one of the Timo podcasts for Impulse, and Timo was interviewing Jerry
Chandler and they were talking about, like, hey, are these Impulse titles
that were going to go to a PhD and Jerry was like, no,
the elements just stren't there. The market's not there, and and and that's
that this is as good as they can look. Why would we, you
know, put out a Blu ray that that doesn't look good well, and
the other thing, hardly anybody buys it, like these Nikatsu or Pinky violence
films. It's not something that that does well for any of the labels.
And it's too well, I don't know just how it's too bad because there
are a lot of titles, those Nikatsu titles that are there are really good
movies that just happened to be you know, the Pink movie. Uh yeah,
you know. I hate to say it is what it is because anybody
who says it is what it is it is being stupid in that moment because
because what you're really saying is I have no idea what to say. And
that's what I'm saying. I have no idea what to say, but get
the stuff that you want. I mean, uh, I I sing synapses
praise is as many people do as far as their their work in their Blu
Ray and four K titles and a lot of the DVDs they have that aren't
necessarily going to get restored any further. Are interesting and worthwhile titles bizarre.
For example, that's a that's a really cool movie. I'm still curious if
forever you get a Blu ray out of Lemra. Yeah, you know,
maybe because that DVD is Gosh, that's going on like twelve years old at
this point. Huh. Yeah, that one came out a long time ago.
Wave just got back to chat, was watching while eating. Just want
to say that, as a huge classic film fan, the new Vinegar Cynrom
release makes me very happy, excited to get my copy. I'm glad that
so many people were extend with that VSL release. Speaking of things to be
ecstatic for for Vinegar Syndrome, from the Picarama line, they are putting out
the Beast in Space, in Space, in Space. This is from nineteen
eighty in the distant future, Captain Larry Madison, the most heroic leader of
the space Fleet, has been sent on a mission to Lori God, a
far off planet known to be the galaxy's greatest resource for antallium, a precious
metal needed to create weaponry. However, when they reach the planet, they
discover that it's overseen by a powerful computer which is capable of forcing all those
near it to engage in mindless debauchery. Oh my god. Determined to overcome
its effects, Madison and his crew weighed through jungles and valleys in search of
antallium. But why does Lieutenant Sandra Richardson keep having strange sexual nightmares involving a
well and down beast. Yeah? I can't get into it. This one
sounds god awful to me. Seven put this out on DVD. They did,
and it's it's not really a sequel to while They're in Bora Chicks.
Yeah, actual artistic I remember I have the Severn disc and I I watched
it once. I don't think I'm made it all the way through it.
So this is happening, and if you're into it, go for it.
Yeah. Supposedly there's not a lot of adult scenes in it, which is
odd that it is a peakorama. We do have three new interviews on here.
If you're into that sort of thing, there'll be more erotic than the
film. Quite possibly. I'm just being contrarian on purpose this. I'm sure
it has a lot of fans. I'm not super into it, but I'm
sure that there are other people that are firmly in a stemographic he said,
tongue in cheek zoo. Every film is someone's favorite film, right, I've
heard that before. This is the point of the show where I break down
and plead with you that we only have ten days left to vote in the
twenty twenty two Shelf Shock rewind Awards. And if you are paying attention also,
we are doing a giveaway and I want to make sure I say seconds
this time and not minutes. Will right to enter this giveaway, film yourself
talking about your collection in front of your collection for a thirty second or less
video explaining why you love physical media. Post it on social media with the
hashtag shelf Shock Giveaway. Five winners will be selected out of those who are
entered, and those five will be in the award show. We will show
your video and one of those five will actually get a fifty dollars Grindhouse Video
gift card. Pretty cool in my mind. I mean, you can do
less than thirty seconds of work and get fifty bucks from Grindhouse video that you're
alredaying to spend a whole bunch of money at anyway, So why not?
On top of that, I wanted to throw out that we have a lot
more giveaways coming. We've kind of been trickling them out there, but there
is gonna be some other really crazy stuff. Orbit We've donated a large box
set that we're gonna be giving away. Diabolic is going to be giving away
some titles and possibly some gift cards. We also have two more Grindhouse video
gift cards that are gonna be up for grabs. They will be in the
coming six weeks or so. We're gonna be doing some of that, but
also there will be some of the live giveaways during the awards and reminder of
the awards on that one are February nineteenth. Please show up. It'll be
live on this channel, It'll be live on the shelf Shock channel, on
Twitch, everywhere. It's gonna be great. I'll be there. Will Will
be there with bells on. Will was a member of the CSC and I
am stoked that everybody that has been a part of this has, yeah,
just an invested. You've got lots of people sharing about it. I appreciate
that I haven't voted yet. I'm gonna though it's agonizing, it's a lot.
I gotta admit I haven't voted yet either, but it's not like we
still have ten days. Vinegar Syndrome today had their merch Day and they released
this Celluloid Odyssey screen print and then there is a shirt version as well.
They have a Vinegar Syndrome tenth Anniversary shirt. On the back of this it
has a Vincent ten logo. They have the film Real shirt, and then
they brought back their blood Moon shirt and this screen print will only be available
until Saturday night at midnight, I believe, and it is a timed limited
edition, so it's not numbered or anything like that. They are only gonna
make as many as they sell. We are getting close to the end for
this week. Got a few left. One of them is this box set
that we're going to talk about, Violent Streets, the Umberto Lenzi Tomas Million
Collection. Oh yeah, don't oversell it there. Holy cow, are you
kidding? What an announcement. This is a big deal. A lot of
people were kind of met on this because they've been picking up the eighty eight
films releases of the same movies. This is this is pretty cool for the
US to get a box set of Umberto Lenzi stuff that doesn't really happen for
this type of a director very often, so I'm glad we're getting it.
The pleusio tesci stuff that we are getting in this is something that is kind
of a bit of an unmined area of film for us. We got that
box set from Arrow. The Years of Lead, We've got a couple like
German releases, but nothing nothing massive. Yeah, the Zoctillary double feature too.
Yeah, these films all right. So back in the day, I
don't know if you remember, you've that label, No shame that specialized they
released DVDs because back and before they only released about twenty eight twenty nine titles.
But it was all Italian genre films, mostly politicio tesci, and now
a lot of those films are getting Convoy Busters was one of them that Cauldron
just point put out. There's other Italian genre films, like The Most Beautiful
Wives were mostly Piobella, which Twilight Time did. So these these films politico
tesci, which are like cops and robbers movies, you know, the dirty
Harry type type films, tend to really get into contemporary Italian contemporary of the
time, which from about late sixties, early seventies of the Years of Lead.
These this period where there were an unprecedented number of terrorist attacks both right
and left. When when when the Italian mafia was was assassinating judges and politicians,
I mean ship was going down, uh in all parts of Italy Sicily,
And in these films, these genre films which are like, you know,
but guys in mustaches with tight pants going after criminals. But they but
but if you like look into the context of it, right, the contemporary
Italian history is like whoa, there are these these these films are making statements
right and almost human is fucking great, No shame put that one out sending
satis is really good. The other three films I have not seen. So
this box set I was like Jimmy, because I'm really interested in that period
of Italian history, and these films are so important to understanding that. This
is a box set with some very interesting features. So gonna try to dive
into some of that here and do my best to explain why this was very
exciting but then also a little confusing. There's a handful of things that don't
make a lot of sense to me. So first off, I do want
to highlight this final sentence here in the description. This collection presents Lenzi and
Million's five Greatest collaborations now restored, uncut and uncensored from the ocens for the
first time ever. So, even though you may have those previous releases from
eighty eight Films or Code Read or other releases like the who is the other
one that just put out Freehand for a Tough Cop? I feel like I
just saw in the chat fractured Visions. That's the other one. Even though
you may have those, these are likely all new restorations if what they are
saying is accurate. Here. The other thing, there are five films in
this box set. We got Almost Human Syndicate Sayists, Freehand for a Tough
Cop, The Cynic, The Rat and the Fist, and Brothers Till We
Die. First off, there's some sort of error on their website. They've
got five films. We are getting four of their soundtracks on three discs,
and they're calling it a nine disc set. Five films, three three CDs.
It should be eight discs from what I'm reading there. So I'm not
entirely sure what's going on. Now. When they announced this and they say
nine disc collection, I think most people are probably not thinking three discs are
going to be four soundtracks, so it could be a little underwhelming when you
hear that. However, it is a Lensi and Million collection and this is
this is their five that it makes sense. The fact that we did get
the soundtracks is really cool. I'm glad that we're getting them. I'm glad
that it's a part of the box set. Then, for another downer,
out of those five films, one of them has two audio commentaries. The
other four have none. Well, they could ask me. That's what I
don't understand. There is a line of people willing to do audio commentaries on
these releases, literally for free, just to get their name out there and
just because they like doing it, and four of these films don't have one.
I should also says it is it's kind of funny. I'm really excited
about this. I'm not taking anything back about my excitement, but it's really
funny that they say the collection presents Lindsay and Million's five greatest collaborations. In
case anybody's wondering, they made six films together. The other one is The
Tough Ones, which Grindhouse Releasing has has put out on Blu Ray and spoiler
alert. It is pretty good. It's pretty good, okay, just says.
Originally they had it listed at nine and now it says eight. Good.
Good to know the Cynic, the Rat and the Fist is the only
one I haven't seen. You way to check out the Tough Ones as well
and then we can decide which are the five best. Yeah, and the
Tough Ones has had many releases over the years, and it is it is
the famous one. I will say that. Yeah, this is a great
release overall. It is seven, it's a box set, It's probably going
to be fantastic. It is Uh, it is maybe being attempted to be
marketed very well, and I think they're still learning a little bit of that.
But this release genuinely does look great. And I've seen two of these
and love them both. The the the release of Freehand for a Tough Cop
in the UK was a great release, but the transfer was not that great.
So I'm really excited to see how they could do on that one.
Yeah, this looks really good. Yeah, I'll be interesting, you know,
as you know, Severn's podcast in which they go into this release just
dropped today, so I'm going to check that out tomorrow and see what they
have to say about it. I might clear some things up, but all
in all, yeah, I'm all about some bear to Lindsey. I know
you just had Troy Howorth on here, and I'm glad he does a commentary
because he knows his ship when it comes to Lindsay. Yep, Severn was
not done. Then they are. By the way, there's just another post
with all of the extras. There's a lot of stuff on here. They
are also releasing Attack Force Z with Nameel Gibson and Sam Neil from nineteen eighty
one. Yeah. I know nothing about this. I was just looking up
the director Tim Burstall, who has a pretty extensive and interesting looking filmography,
and I haven't seen a single film he's done. This will be the first.
I was very torn when I read this. I really don't love Mel
Gibson as an action star, but then I also really love Sam Neil for
some reason, even though I think this is one of Sam Neil's. Yeah,
it says in one of his earliest film roles, two time Academy Award
Winter Mel Gibson stars with Sam Neil and John Philip Law Sam Neil in nineteen
eighty one. I mean, what else was he doing around then? Obviously,
you know, we got Possession going on. We've got a handful of
other films that he had either been in or about to be in. I
have no idea this dopia Omen three. I genuinely like that movie. Yeah,
DC says this is the prequel to Riggs the story in Leath the Weapon.
Well, sam Neil had already done my brilliant career in a couple I
feel pretty confident that he wouldn't put up with any mill Gibson's bullshit. Sam
Neil is way underrated, I think. But anyways, Yeah, I know
nothing about this. This came out of nowhere. Very interesting, but maybe
the most interesting news of the day. Let's break into this one. Somebody
asked in the chat earlier about this label. Party Girl is coming on February
twenty eighth from Fun City Additions, but it's being distributed by MVD Entertainment.
Now. Letterboxed had the exclusive news on this, and in their article they
said Vinegar Syndrome and OCN Distribution are still partnered with Fun City Editions, but
MVD Entertainment would also be releasing some of their films. This is from nineteen
ninety five and it's a Parker Posey joint that has been wanted by a lot
of people for a very long time. The trailer for this looks fantastic,
meaning the restoration. It genuinely looks like they absolutely did an amazing job on
this. However, I don't have any super inside information. I'm still very
curious how this whole partnership with OCN and Fun City is going to go down.
They haven't had releases in three years, four months, something like that.
I'm very curious to see when and if we're going to get another OCAN
title with them. Who knows, something could change at the drop of a
hat, but I know that this is a very big deal for a lot
of people. This is a title that is beloved by many Party Girl.
What's your history with it? I've not seen Party Girl. I love Parker
Posey. I've seen many of her films. I thought she was She was
my favorite part of Scream three, one of my favorite parts of Waiting for
Guffman, Best in Show. And of course she was in so many of
like indie wave nineties films that whose titles escape me because I saw so many
of them as a as a teenager. So this is a gap in my
Parker posey history that I am looking forward to checking out whoever is distributing it.
Yeah, stan Geezey says, speaking of Sam Neil in Possession. It
is up now on shutter Oh no way, great. I hope a lot
of people watch it. DC says, are these slips exclusive or can MVD
them out with them too? As far as I'm aware, it's if you
go to the same people that are creating the slips for Vinegar Syndrome, you
could just sign a contract with them yourselves and make your own slips with them,
so they'll have that MVD thing. At the bottom line, this is
true, and they will have the fun City logo the same, and they'll
probably be trink crap to all hell. Fund City did say they were working
on Primetime Panic volume two as well, but remains to be seen where we
can buy these upcoming releases. And yeah, today was an odd announcement because
it wasn't like available for pre order anywhere. Fun City just kind of tweeted
this and it was like a soft announcement. Joe Jack is asking will this
show up February first on the VS site for fun City. No, it
will not. This is being distributed by MVD not by OCN, so they
will not be selling it on the Vinegar Syndrome website. Travis has Parker Posey
great and dazed and confused. I will argue Parker Posey has been great in
every single thing she's been a part of. I can't think of anything where
I'm like Parker Posey sucked. I can't think that's one I can. I
can think of some movies where she where the movie wasn't great. But yeah,
so I'm curious to see this whole fun city additions where it's gonna potentially
shake up. We shall see. Next up is kena lover putting out love
letters from nineteen forty five with Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. We got an
audio commentary by entertainment journalist and author Brian Reesman. And that's all I know
about this. Oh. William Dietererley Man, William Diederley great director German Emmigray,
probably best known for Well Waxworks, The Silent film nineteen to Winy nineteen
twenty four, just got a recent war archive release. I believe, Yeah,
and it's it's it's it's incredible, you know, came to America and
made Oh oh. He did the second film version of Maltese Falcon Satan Met
a Lady with young Betty Davis, The Devil and Dan Daniel Webster, which
I think Criterion puts out. Yeah, he made. He made a lot
of Oh oh oh. The film noir Dark City with Charlton Heston. It's
really good. I've not seen love Letters, but a romantic film noir,
Well there you that's good enough for me. Deeally has done dozens of great
films in this within the studio system and then expressionist films in Germany before before
coming to Hollywood, so you can be guaranteed that the film's gonna look good
and be entertaining, even if it's not a total classic. Eric wanted to
throw out their Party Girls on the Criterion channel right now, and yeah,
that's one. I'm kind of shocked Criterion didn't get it, So we'll see
what is going on there. This one is available to order now, Coming
on February twenty eighth as a Best Buy exclusive four K steelbook is Training Day
from two thousand and one with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawk. Love this movie.
I believe this is getting a standard release as well, but just in
case you're interested, I would potentially consider pre ordering this one. I have
a feeling that's one will do very well for them. We were just talking
about these best By exclusives, yeah, in the last video, and I
was harping on punishing war Zone, but we were talking about how, you
know, it's problematic that they're so limited that it can be difficult for people
to get them. And I remember they did Ron, the Cura kur Saw
film. Yeah, just just like these random films that they get and they
put up these big additions and then they're gone and you have to go to
best spot and get them. Well, and Ron is the perfect example because
it didn't get a standard edition. If you want Ron on four K in
the US, that was the only way to get it, and it's long
gone. It sold out, I believe on pre order. Oh man,
I should have gotten too. Then I did get to and I gave one
away on this channel for free and sent it to somebody in the UK.
So congratulations again. Well they they should send you a second thank you.
Last announcement of the day, we got some released details. These have been
announced previously. Gold Ninja video. You can pre order now nineteen thirty two's
White Zombie with Bela Lugosi and King of the Bullwhit from nineteen fifty We got
both of the final cover arts revealed here and some of the interesting features on
these. So for White Zombie there's a commentary by Justin d'clue and Will Sloan.
Of course, there is a video that is a beginner's Guide to sixteen
millimeter projection, a discussion with arkivist and projectionist Amelia Eichler, and a video
that is called the Proto Zombie, a video history. Justin dclue made a
short film called The Film Scanner, The Film Scanner that Demanded Blood. And
then there's a bonus Bela Lugosi film from nineteen thirty five called Phantom Ship,
available for the first time in HD in a new scan from a sixteen millimeter
print. And then of course, as usual, they have liner notes on
the career of director Victor Halperin by Felix Dembinski. They always do this little
booklet with with some sort of contextual notes in it. And the interesting thing
here is their release of White Zombie. They scanned in themselves and it doesn't
look great, but they they are basically saying we wanted that to be the
case. They wanted it to feel like an old projector something that has gone
through a projector for fifty years and has this rough feeling. And there they're
basically displaying it as Justin being a a horror host like a like an Elvira
or a Spengooli type of situation. So yeah, obviously, well, I
don't know, Justin Justin could probably be pretty seductive. It's an interesting idea
for a burned Blu ray release from Canada. It it is a hard sale,
I think, and I hope that fans of his really embrace it.
But uh, yeah, that one, that one's gonna be tough because in
the US you can already get a great release from Qino with two different cuts
that look better than his release unfortunately a doll of dig fu. I'm most
excited about the the the Phantom Ship. Yeah, if you've got the Knot
release and you should have the Kuino release, you should keep it because the
Gary D. Rhodes commentary is the definitive. But I don't like what you
just said about it about it being a crappy transfer. But I do love
really, I like those all those bonus features, so I might have to
check I think I'll check this out. So on their site right now,
it says, is their beauty and the hazy imperfect? That's the question gold
Ninja Video poses to the viewer in this experimental presentation of the legendary Poverty Row
Poverty, I Can't Speak Poverty Row horror film White Zombie, in a form
meant to evoke a dream transmission from a long forgotten time or a two AM
broadcast on a local public access television hosted by two passionate people dresses monsters,
it literally says that that's I think it's more that yeah, And they have
a still of Will and Justin literally dressed up as various below Lugosi creatures,
and then it goes on to say, Will Sloan and Justin de'clue are your
ghoulish guides through this bela Lugosi classic in a new two K scan from a
battered sixteen millimeter library print whose textures throw back to the yester years when celluloid
was fed into a howling projector as the audience looked up at the dreamy,
flickering images from a cold church basement floor, Back when there was something mystical
about the black and white visuals that were impossible to grasp yet destined to haunt
your dreams. And then they even admit it. They say there are many
better looking versions of White Zombie, but none are this experience. I love
what they had to say. I don't believe that's how audience has experienced the
film. I get that, and I say this as a fan of Justin
to close work, yep, and I think that is. I think that
they were describing their childhood experiences of watching this film on television, and I
respect that, honor it, share it. Will watch this, but I'll
be keeping my Gary Rhodes commentary in the Keno Blu ray. The King of
the Bullwap release that they're putting out is getting a commentary by Will and Justin.
There is a featurette a video guide to poverty row westerns called Fast Guns
Cheaply Made. There is another one called From Deadly Whips to the Terrors of
Sin, the hair raising career of director ron Or Mond. There is a
bonus feature of Lash LaRue in his first PRC feature film, Law of the
Lash, and then they're putting in second bonus feature on there. They just
haven't figured out what they're gonna do with that one yet. And then Justin's
writing liner notes for that one, Well, I'm all in on this one.
I don't have any other release that makes sense. And that is all
of the announcements of this week. As usual, we will run through very
quickly. What is releasing this coming Tuesday. Dragons Forever four K, which
has been delayed eight hundred and twelve times and has shipped from Diabolic to most
people, including myself. I'm so glad I have it finally, Grand hog
Day in four K, Rancho Notorious from Warner Archive, Imitation of Life from
Criterion, The Dunwich Horror from Aero Video, The execute U s. Sheer
Collection with Sunny Chiba coming from Arrow, the Original Ouiji and four K from
Scream Factory. Our Dancing Daughters with Joan Crawford from Warner Archive. Warning Shot
from Keno for some reason. Friday the thirteenth, the final chapter Blu Ray
steelbook The Gang of Four from Cohen Media. She Said from last Year is
coming out. Piggy from Last Year is also releasing next week. Manda Micabro's
Standard Editions from the Last Wave is being released The Friendship Game from twenty twenty
two and The Man Who Fell to Earth from twenty twenty two, and that
was it. Oh, you didn't give enough attention to the return of Tanya
Tucker. I did that on purpose. She killed my dog, just kidding.
I couldn't think of anything that would be funny for Tanya Tucker. That
was it. Justin says I'm used to watching White Zombie on a beat up
VHS tape, so this will feel right to me. Yeah, way,
description sounds like a Tarantino's wet dream about celluloid. I would agree there.
Yes, I remember, I want to experience everything as if I were watching
it through a David Lynch fever dream some days. Wasn't there a four K
for grandhog Day already? Yes? But I don't think in a Steel book.
Well, it comes out every day. It's a rerelease Griff, just
like it will be tomorrow and sad Let's see what else do we got?
Same transfer? But maybe they added Dolby Vision. That could be possible.
Off topic about the Vinegar syndrome, partner labels are getting messy No more Terror
Vision and how fun City are working with both Vinegar syndrome and MVD not sure
how sustainable this is. I mean there, yeah, there's there's still a
lot to fall back on. But also the releases are still getting out there.
Yeah. Well, and that's the important thing. I M. Well,
you know we're not we're not in the thick of it. Uh.
And you know, you can have a great relation relationship with ten people and
an eleventh person you have a bad relationship with. And I I hope that's
what it is. I would I would hate to think that that something has
changed in terms of of respect and collaboration because from our end of things,
you know, as a as a consumer, this has been such a great
uh entry way into into these into these labels and into their films. I
hope that this is not a trend. I hope this is something that these
two labels have done what what they think is best for them and uh,
well every label should do what they think is best for themselves. Well and
by all accounts, right now, fun City is still a partner label,
so it's not like they've left. It's just a matter. I mean,
it could very well be a rights thing. We also got to remember they
are a partner label of Radiance in the UK. And MBD is handling the
Radiance releases in the US, so it could just be something through that partnership
to save them money on distribution. Indeed. Yeah, well I'm not going
to try to stir up drama until there is drama. Teri says it is
sustainable for now, but we might need a board in some string if the
partner label evolution continues. Wave as a question for us, there will out
of all of the releases that we read about tonight, which two releases would
you be most excited for? All the releases that we've talked about tonight,
I mean, well From Beyond, remember you got to keep it to two,
not your classic. I'm gonna pick six and say two of those I
made it difficult, all right, Well, i mean I've seen From Beyond
a million times, so I'm gonna take it out. Actually I'm a subscriber,
so whatever all that shit I'm getting anyway. So the ones that would
actually have to make decisions about probably that William Dieterly movie whose title is already
also in mind because it's it's twelve thirty. Then I got up at six
to start work, and well, you know what if that is Matt Hill's
on the Tim Ritter thing. I'm gonna check it out. No, that's
I'm not excited about good. I'm gonna go with the Maid in Hong Kong
Volume one Collection from Vinegar Syndrome, and then the new VSL Fantasy title.
I'm very excited to see how they handled it. Yeah, and I'm cheating
a little bit because I've already like ordered off the Venitor stuff. But you
know what, to be honest, and this is a I know this is
kind of a shitty answer. When I come on here. I'm excited about
pretty much every release because I'm excited about every release that I haven't seen because
I want to. I want to give everything a chance. Like when I
was a teenager when a Titanic came out, I mentioned James Cameron twice tonight
and h and I'll go into that. So when I was a teenagers,
Titanic came out and I was like, fuck, that movie sucks. And
my dad said have you seen it? And I was like no, I
don't even need to. I was like, well you can't. You can't
say a movie sucks if you haven't seen it. So I saw it and
it sucked, but I could tell you why and and so so. Now
I refuse to ever say something sucks until I see it. I can say
it doesn't look like it's for me, but but I can't say it sucks
unless I've seen it. I have seen Titanic. I think it sucks.
The special effects are great and and and the stars are wrong. What the
stars are wrong? Though? Yeah? Uh well and I I well,
that's another episode. But I just I honestly dislike every single James Cameron and
that includes the Terminators, which have great special effects in action but leave me
completely cold and hollow at the end. Oh god, I will break up
this monotony for a second. DC says there was an eleventh ten for ten
dollars title in Vinegar Syndrome today. This means there was a hidden title every
day this whole time, and we missed it. Oh yes, I found
an eleventh on Monday. I didn't realize it was every day. Not to
hype up myself even more tonight, but this is why you got to join
the Patreon, because if you're in the discord, I pointed them out at
least two or three of the days so far that there was a hidden title
for ten dollars and got everybody in there to get it if they wanted it.
Yes, today there was a slipcover title for ten dollars. That was
a bit. I think I had a slipcover. Maybe not, but yeah,
the titles that were supposed to be discounted were discounted. But there was
also another ten dollars title, and I let that revealed in the discord.
So yeah, make sure you join. I make sure to give everybody stock
updates and discounts that I find in there and try to save everybody some money.
So I shouldn't say what it is because I just found it. It's
the not Evictorians today. Yeah, and take it for me, you guys.
It's not worth ten dollars. I I can't even keep it up.
Will is very tired. Before we leave any any comments or questions, I
am really dying, really good. I hope I haven't upset anybody, No,
of course not. I'm speaking on behalf of all of the fifty four
sorry fifty three viewers left at the moment, and we've stayed consistent. It's
been it's been hovering around the fifty three to fifty six range the whole time
we were up to almost seventy for a little while. Yeah, a couple
of times tonight has been really fun. I did want to say one thing
to everybody, especially those that are still here obviously at the end of a
very long stream the last couple of weeks and the next week that will be
on this channel, and so many other random things that we talk about that
are deep, a lot, a lot more below the surface type of conversation
that doesn't happen on other channels. And I'm not putting those down at all,
but it is very, very heartwarming that you guys are continuing for stuff
like that and being active in conversations and not allowing it to scare you away
or walk away from difficult conversations, because that's how that's how hobbies like this
keep their integrity, first of all, being able to confront things that are
both good and bad and understand why things are the way they are. I
mean, the amount of people that have been up in arms over the pricing
of four flies on gray velvet over the last six weeks is crazy. And
then when you hear Severn explain that they had to literally take a scanner to
an Italian lab themselves, maybe we should understand that some of these things are
expensive, just because the process is expensive. So conversations are difficult, and
I'm glad that you are here to have them with us. I may quote
the great poets kiss you want the best, You've got the best, pay
for it. I still think they were plagiarizing there probably. Anyways, this
has been fantastic. You guys are amazing as usual. I want to highlight
the patrons, and I wasn't ready as I started saying that, I think
it's this one. Nope, that's not up to date. I need to
add a new one. We've gotten like three new patrons in the last week,
so it's a little out of date. It's been a really good time,
and obviously at the beginning of the new year, it is a great
time for everybody to join and maybe start a new process of checking out the
discord every day. There's a lot of action in there. And now I'll
say thank you to these patrons. You guys are amazing. I appreciate all
of the support for the channel and all of the support and the Discord.
Genuinely, I don't understand how much conversations we have in there. I don't
know the last time you've checked on the discord, I leave to go have
dinner with my family or something, come back and there's like eighty comments to
catch up on. The community is beyond acting. It's crazy. I have
to say, I find the discord intimidating. I get so stressed out because
I'm not able to get onto it as much as i want to, just
because of my computer access during the day. And then I'll get on and
it's like, oh, there's all these things and I'm trying to trying to
catch up. And that's actually one of my New Year's resolutions or whatever is,
is to be a little more intentional and make you know, like thirty
minutes a day available to get in that because there's so many people that I
want to talk to. There's so many questions that have gone through tonight that
that I have no address. Like, for example, I don't know is
d c. Ebaner in the discord because they ask specifically why Titanic sucks and
I'll be happy to explain in detail see him in person at North Carolina.
With screenshots, I'm telling them to come see you. Oh yeah, what
a whole seminar on that ship. But it's Okay, if you like it,
we can disagree. If you're like a huge Titanic fan and that's like
what you put on your profiles, that's okay. The only thing we can't
disagree on is obviously there was enough room for Leo on that door. Come
on, it's so ridiculous. Oh no, yeah, we'll see. That's
another thing that I don't like James Cameron doubling down and Lion saying that he
got a scientist to confirm right that it wouldn't be buoyant or whatever it was.
Come on for Leonardo DiCaprio at that time weighed like fifty pounds, soak
and wet, which he was on the board. To get to the discord,
you got to click on the Patreon link in the description below and join
at the supporter or VIP tier and you will be able to get an invite
to the discord. And let's see. Last thing, Wave says, what
was the blue movie guys were talking about earlier? That was great? That
is the after Blue release of Dressed in Did I just say after Blue?
The altered Innocence release of Dressed in Blue that just came out and the reason
it was an important film is because of its history and impact for the trans
community. It explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women
living in Madrid in the years following Spain's transition to democracy. Yeah. It
is really good and important and interesting and fine and joyous. Yeah, and
it's amazing that Vinegar Syndrome through Ocen brings us Dressed to Blue from the Spanish
film, but also the Spanish film The Infernal Rapist small correction, that's Mexican.
Thank you, everybody, Thank you for this week and for everything.
This has been a great start of the year. And I can't wait to
do this for the next fifty one weeks. Until next time, and oh
yeah, don't forget. Next week. Erica from Unsung Whors gonna be a
big show. I'm so glad that she's gonna be there. Will is gonna
be laughing for the next fourteen minutes. Thank you, guys, and until
next time. From two collectors to all of you, have a good night.