What is going on? I am retired, I am I am wrecked today.
I gotta be honest. Usually can release super uh you know, am
ready to go a man, It's been a long few days. I've I've
been doing quite a bit. I did an interview channel a little bit ago
today and work in Heavy Heavy lately. What's going on? We've already got
lots of friends here, uh, Ragnar, I'm loving always seeing your uh
your early comment, always love seeing that. But on Dave, my friend
Brian, what's up? And Bruisers here? What's going on? Eric?
Listen, Jeff Jack, you guys are amazing. Because everybody's week going,
it feels it feels like a good week for me. Definitely definitely tired.
I got another vacation coming up here in a couple of weeks that I am
desperately looking forward to. As most of you guys know, I do producing
for a couple podcasts and it is ending the season on one of them,
and I am very busy trying to finish up some of those episodes. I'm
recording on some of those episodes this weekend and this Saturday, This Saturday,
my gosh, I'm already tired, but starting at ten am on Saturday.
I am seeing all eight of The Nightmare on Elm Street films back to back
in a theater. I'm just hoping I can stay awake from most of them,
so we'll see what's going on. We got dead Sea Life? Hello?
John is here? What's going on? John? H John? I
was gonna DM you, but I'm just gonna say this publicly. I hope
you understand that after the season's over, I absolutely have to interview you,
know that, right? What's going on? Other? John? Video man?
And I am so sorry about the confusion on Tuesday? It was hilarious.
What's upstart this? Hello? Hello? I have been seeing a lot
of pickups lately. It feels like it's the fall pickup, like season I
guess is starting. We are seeing releases of some pretty big titles, obviously,
and the stuff that's coming starting, you know, about a week ago,
a week and a half ago. It's starting to get pretty wild out
there. We are, you know, about to hit the the the horror
month. But October is not seemingly super big for horror releases. There just
seems to be a ton of stuff coming over the next couple of months,
and I hope everybody's being fairly responsible about what they're getting. This is what
could be a very expensive fall for a lot of people, and so many
people, so many people that are looking at, you know, these four
K upgrades, seeing you know, seeing what some people are saying about these
four K upgrades. I understand it makes it difficult to look into those and
say, hey, I want this again. But you know, if their
favorite film sometimes is the right one. But you know, these catalog four
K upgrades are I feel like I got I mean this one, this is
a good one. I just got this in in Bruges four K. I
haven't opened it yet because I literally just got it. But this is the
type of movie that I'm gonna love a four K upgrade for. And yeah,
just can't wait. There's so many great titles coming out. Let me
see here. Eight movies takes me days to get through one me too.
Usually this is a very special thing for me. I talked to my wife
into letting me go with another YouTuber. Otherwise I would never be able to
do it. This is Yeah, it's impossible, especially with kids at home.
Video man and says doing an update video today hit YouTube tomorrow. One
hundred and three new titles just in the last month. See, that's what
I'm talking about. This fall is crazy. Ragnar hurts seeing other people at
the show Brothers box set and have to wait two months. You know,
I agree. I think it's odd when some people were sending them out at
Grindhouse specifically, and then Arrow after they started sending titles out, then they
delayed it. I mean it's an odd situation. But yeah, when the
Scream sale came up, I had to jump on it, says Jeff.
Yeah, they they're they're decent titles, decent prices. Too quiet, Rob,
my friend, you showed up in less than you know four minutes after
we started you miss nothing manager to snag one two price was good. Uh,
let's see past couple of weeks ordered to count your GA set nice and
rollerball returning that Return of the Living Dead release is gonna be incredible for sure.
Yep. One of the best of all time. Absolutely great, great
comedy, one of my favorites. Uh, I should make a vlog of
the Nightmare of Elm Street Marathon. I'm you know that's I've been trying to
think about what to get out of it, because there I believe there's gonna
be a short little break between each one, So I don't know if I'll
just do one video you know, uh where I take a couple of clips
between every film, and then uh at the you know, lunch break,
we'll recap everything that we've seen so far and then again at the end of
the night. Either way, it's gonna be forever long, I think.
Yeah. Like I said, the first film starts at ten AM, and
I believe the last film starts at like ten forty five or eleven forty five
PM, one of the two. It's gonna be a long damn day.
I'm I'm excited, but also trying to be you know, realistic that I'm
a parent that works a lot, and I'm gonna be exhausted already. So
we'll see. I feel like I'm going to try to make the best of
it, for sure, and I definitely don't want to fall asleep. But
we'll see. Oh man, Deep Star six and Deep Rising two really good
films. Deep Rising is great. I just watched that again recently. Let's
get into some announcements, huh. First off, before we do, let
me make sure it's still down as I'm speaking to you the release calendar.
Oh never mind, it's starting to work. I was gonna say that it
is broken and down, but it looks to be working now. Blu ray
dot Com was having issues with their release calendar, So now that it's working,
I'm gonna get it set up for a second. I'll take about five
more seconds, all right, Sharing some announcements. We already went through most
of the Vinegar Syndrome stuff together last week, and honestly, the fact that
we don't have a lot of details is gonna make this go fairly quick.
For the Vinegar Syndrome stuff. The main thing that we don't have special features
on pretty much any of these, I don't think so. As you know,
everybody knows by this point, and I've known for a little bit.
We are getting Roadhouse in four K as the next VSU from Vinegar Syndrome.
We don't know any extras. I know a couple of people involved, but
I don't think they're announcing it. But I will say this box looks kind
of amazing. I'm really curious. This is the first time they've done this.
It has artwork subject to change on the outside of this, but this
picture makes it look like they have a full box ready to go, so
I'm not entirely sure how that's working, but yeah, interesting. Then we
got an announcement for The Invisible Maniac in four K. This is the Adam
Rifkin film. Most people that have seen this, which I have not yet,
I have never had a chance to pick up that, basically a bootleg
copy that was going around for forever. Never get a chance to get that.
And most people hate this basically because it's a terrible movie. But it's
Adam Rifkin, a friend of the channel. Jeremy Long is close friends with
him, so I'm probably gonna you know, I'm a subscriber, so I'll
get this one. I'm cautiously optimistic about this for sure. Let's take a
look at the next one. Uh was there anything attached to Invisible Maniac?
No? All right, I thought I could have swore there was something else.
First, then we got the Homegrown Horrors two announcement. This is Moonstalker
from eighty nine, Dead Girls from nineteen ninety, and Hanging Heart from nineteen
eighty three, And what they say about these ones make it sound pretty interesting.
But yeah, again, no features listed, so we'll find out more
about this coming soon. The craziest thing is that as we are doing the
announcements for Black Friday stuff, this is the cool time because we get this
the weekend before the end of September, and then in two days we get
another full round of Vinegar Syndrome stuff in October, so it's gonna be it's
gonna be a very Vinegar Syndrome heavy time for a little while, and then
right after that, basically it'll feel like it's time for the sale. So
we shall see. Ongrowing Volume two is coming in Black Friday, just like
the rest of these. And I believe this is the last title other than
the secret titles. This one is Burning Paradise from nineteen ninety four. This
is the Ringo Lamb film directed by Showey Hark or Sorry, produced by the
director Shuey Harc. Our latest dive in a Hong Kong genre cinema is action
master Ringo Lam's period fantasy epic. From its astonishing fight choreography to its NonStop
carnage, this unusually dark martial arts sleeper is considered one of Lamb's most underrated
films, and like I said, produced by Schuey Harc, I've heard incredible
things about this one. I trust Foo for Thought, who is a friend
of the channel. One of the patrons has a podcast. He is one
of the ones that has really raved about this one. Most people that have
seen it seem to be very excited about this one. That has been on
my to watch list for a long time, but again not being super easy
to see in high quality, so very eager from war Hong Kong titles always,
Eric talking about Nightmare on ELM Street says, reminds me of the time
back in college when we watch the entire second season the Twin Peaks except for
the final episode in one night one night after watching the first season. That
I mean, Twin Peaks is a mind fuck enough, but that is a
lot in one night for sure. Olympia Washington does six movies in a program
called All Freaking Night Nice the New BEV in Hollywood, they usually do like
a five film marathon every month for one night. But the cool thing about
theirs is it's like a lottery. You don't know what is gonna play until
you get there. Usually you'll know like a theme, but that's about it.
Ragnar says, four K really hurts us first generation media collectors because you're
basically buying a movie for the fourth goddamn time. Yes, essentially, And
that's why for a lot of people, I would honestly really suggest us saying,
really only upgrade for the favorite, so the ones that you're gonna watch
a lot. There is an interview that I've recorded that's going to be coming
out, and I think that this person had a really healthy look at it,
and essentially it was do I have a pretty good copy of it already,
then I might not need to get it on four K. However,
I would also point out that doesn't mean it's great to you know, complain
about the four K coming out. It's not taking the place of other stuff.
There is only so many resources out there. But there are other collectors
that want it on four K and are able to. So yeah, I
understand the format war suck. And it's been like this for all of them.
I mean, people that were collecting vhs when laser disc started coming out,
they had the same feeling. Then possibly even worse. When laser disc
was, you know, going away, and DVD came out, it was
even worse because there was a lot of reasons to upgrade to DVD. It
was cheaper, it was smaller. It was you know, basically promising to
be very high quality, even though it ended up being SD. And then
the move to Blu ray was all about picture quality, and then four K
is the same thing. But as we are getting higher in quality there,
it is turning into one of the you know, it's more of a niche
reason to upgrade, which makes sense. Let's see John says they did the
same artwork subject to change with Dracula. I think you mean flesh for Frankenstein.
I think it covers them on the inner slip. Yes, probably on
the inner slip, which it would have been nice if we got more pictures
of that. Damn Eric's Burning Paradise theatrically in the nineties. That's pretty awesome.
Remember all those Screen Factory box set rumors of a nightmare on Elm Street
they died. Yeah, that's because it was faked, the big one that
took everybody by storm. I'm not even gonna say the name of the account
because he's such a terrible person. Most of you in the comments probably know
who I'm talking about, but he basically said this is confirmed coming from Screen
Factory four K box set, and all of the pictures of the cover art
on the discs. They were all taken from old fright rags t shirts,
and so many people you know, shared away and clicked like and gave this
guy so much engagement over something that was very clearly fake. And because I
you know, I'm one of the admins of one of the Screen Factory groups
on Facebook, I still have to you know, delete people talking about the
when is that Nightmary on ump Street box set coming? It's so annoying,
It's so annoying, it was so fake. Sarta says, Upgrading the TV
is what costs the money, depending on what kind of TV you're getting.
Sure, but I'd also argue that they've actually gone down a lot in price.
You know, the the TVs that used to be you know, sixty
five inches four K O leads that when it was the first year, they
were like six thousand, seven thousand dollars. It's way less than that now.
For sure. Screen Factory slowed down. Haven't had anything big since Friday
the thirteenth, just four K issue reissues and site exclusives. I mean,
there's been a lot more than a few side exclusives first of all, which
is dumb, absolutely horrendous. But yeah, I'm with what is the best
way to say this with with Screen Factory, there hasn't really been any box
sets this year. You could maybe count these three halloweens because the studio demanded
that they be sold together, but it's not. It's not really an actual
box set like when we got even I'm not even talking about Friday the thirteenth,
but something like The Omen or The Fly Where are those? There are
so many others that were you know they are possible to come out and I'm
not getting any of them. Doesn't make any sense. Josephine is here,
first time watches since last time, Devil in a Blue Dress. That's a
great one, and out Altered States. That's a fun movie. It is
maybe fun isn't the right word. Altered States is really good. Let's talk
about those mystery titles. So the Vinegar Syndrome flash pre order event was live.
You can order all those things, but the mystery titles we got some
clues. That's not even close to being all as There's two more titles which
we're not going to tell you about, perhaps the craziest of the bunch,
the surprise titles, one of which is a big budget, sleees epic with
an equally epic cast, and the other a delirious celebration of murder and mayhem
that ranks amongst the more over the top entries in the innalls of eighties slashers.
We can basically guarantee that you're not going to be disappointed now that first
clue, A lot of people were taking the epic cast side, and we're
immediately thinking Caligula, and with a cast that features like Helen Mirren, I
can see that. I can see that being a title that is epic,
and it's certainly sleazy tinto brass. You know, one of the sleaziest directors
would not be upset with that. I honestly would love to have a good
release of that. I think I've got a really old out of Plint Plint
really hold out of print blue or DVD of that one here somewhere. I'm
not sure who put that out previously. Now, was that a blue Underground
title at some point? I don't remember that was man that is gonna bug
me till I go find it. But then there's been some other guesses that
could make some sense with this one too. The second clue that we got
and as we've hopeless hopelessly, as we've hopefully demonstrated in the past, we
often saved the weirdest and wildest films as surprises, and this upcoming set will
be no different, including a film that has joined the ranks of legendary how
did this get made? With these people starring in it? Exploitation epics,
and the other the crazy debut film from a director who's clearly loved the slasher
and jallo genres as much as we all do, resulting in an effortlessly entertaining
slice of murderous perversity. You really can't go wrong, really really cool,
really broad hints. I feel like Caligula definitely does fit those, but I'm
hesitant to say it's for sure Caligula. I feel like that would be a
difficult get for them right now, and not just because of the cast necessarily,
but it's it's just one of those titles that has been a little difficult,
and last I heard there might have been some elements issues with that one.
Anyways, that is vinegar syndrome. I believe that's it. Yeah,
So vinegar syndrome stuff we will highlight as usual. When November comes, I
will do at least one or two one or two box not box. I
was reading Ragnar's comment one or two videos on recommendations, especially stuff from the
last year. Since I've done a few of the videos in the past,
I will share those again. We'll talk about them, but mostly want to
stick to the newer titles that I'm gonna be on sale for the first time,
and keep an eye on those partner label stuff coming out as well.
I mean, we talked about last week with the you know, newly formed
out of going out of print section of the website that there, you know,
could be something going on there. We might hear more about that on
the first We might hear more about that next month or whatever. It could
be a few different things, or it could be nothing, So we shall
see now. Not an announcement, but I did. I did put up
this interview with Jill who directed the stylist that was put out by Aero Video.
If you did not, I highly recommend checking out that video. And
I'm curious. I'm thinking about possibly branching out to talking to more filmmakers instead
of just people in these boutique labels. Not that it's something that you know,
there's still a plethora of people on my list of people I want to
interview into the boutiques, but it's just a busy time of the year and
some people that are filmmakers they might be on a downturn, you know for
holiday stuff coming up. What do you think? Curious to see what people
think if they'd like to hear me talk to some filmmakers. Not sure how
many people have checked this out. I noticed it got, you know,
some less Not that I'm necessarily in this for the views, but it seems
like this wasn't nearly as popular as the label interviews. So let me know
what you think. I'm curious because I would like to talk to some of
these other filmmakers for the channel if it's something you're into, Sarta says,
is Kay Parker alive? Yes? She even I believe still does conventions too.
Yeah, interesting, super interesting. Next up we got I've not talked
about Ronan Flicks in ages. It feels like we got a couple Ronan Flicks
exclusives. Coming on October eighteenth from Ronan Flicks and available to pre order now
is a copy of Becky from twenty twenty. This is the film that was
with Joel McHale, Kevin James and got some really good reviews. I've not
seen this one yet. It's a fairly modern film. I just haven't got
around to it. I think I almost watched this one day and I wants
that's what was the name of it, the Vince Vaughn one. Was it
free? I think that's what it was called. Yeah, I think that's
what it's called. My wife chose that one over this, so we did
not watch this one yet. But this is pretty interesting. It's got nice
art on the slip cover, of course, as usual, but then it's
got some good special features on here. We got introductions from the directors,
we got directing, we got like an interview featurette with the directors as well.
We got no Laughing Matter with Joel McHale and then the main actor here
in the middle, Lulu Wilson, she gets a little interview and then fan
art, behind the scenes, photo galleries and an audio commentary. So that's
pretty cool. And I believe if you pre order before a certain date,
like the fifth of October I think it was, you do get this a
little bit cheaper. So I've heard that it's pretty decent actually, so yeah,
check that out. There is one other option though, and I gotta
be honest, I'm a little more interested in this one. This is a
nightmare Man from to That and six is being released by Ronan Flicks. This
is going to be on Blu Ray for the first time with over sixty minutes
of extras, including a new interview featurette. This is from Ralph Kanefski and
it's a brilliant gem of independent horror. After receiving a demonic African mask and
the male, Ellen Morris is attacked in her dreams by an evil being she
calls nightmare Man, and is labeled a paranoid schizophrenic by both her doctor and
her husband. When Ellen is brutally attacked again, this time after being abandoned
on the side of the road while being transported to the hospital, she flees
for her life and stumbles upon a remote cabin filled with friends. Of course,
remote cabin's always the safest places to run to unsure if the demon is
real or not, everyone at the house unknowingly becomes prey to Ellen's mysterious and
ever elusive killer. A throwback to the terrifying slasher films of the eighties,
nightmare Man is one hell of a fun ride that will keep you guessing until
the very end. This gets a making of nightmare Man featurette, including interviews
with the director and Tiffany Shepis, who is in this. Then we've got
some extended scenes, a little making of behind the scenes, a jag reel,
and then a film score audio only track which is kind of cool.
Demonic mask in the mail. How much was shipping? It depends where she
got it from. Maybe she bought three and got it three free at Orbit.
What's going on? Flex glad to see you here. Does Ronan do
in house transfers? I don't think so. That is a great question.
I believe they are all handed to them. They work with Scorpion Releasing a
lot, though, so they may use some of the They may use some
of the Scorpion Releasing, you know, their resources for some of these.
Not entirely sure. Becky was released by Art Exploitation. Yes, I believe
I have that release before, which is this is probably why I'm not going
to get this new one, to be honest. Uh, Lissa watched Lars
von Trier's Nympho Maniac Volume one into the Director's cut. I have had those
on my two watch lists soon for quite some time, and I really need
to go into that. Uh yes, Ragnar, we are about to talk
about that in just a couple minutes, I swear, But yeah, it's
kind of a big deal. Next up, the Blue Underground Sale at mvdsale
dot com has been extended. It will now be going until u What is
the new ending date? I did not see today and it ended today.
Never mind, I won't spend any time. I could have swore it was
tomorrow. Who ends up sale on a Friday or a Thursday. It should
have been ending on the Friday. That's odd. Sorry, I've wasted more
time there than I should have. Keena Lover releasing nineteen forty two's Stranger in
the House with a new two K restoration. This is based on a novel
by George Simonon. I don't know anything about this one, but I love
that they're continuing to put out, you know, five titles a week,
basically. Quino also announced a big one to go with your vinegar syndrome,
Death Wish two on four K. Keena Laber is putting out Death Wish on
UHD from nineteen seventy four, the original that one. We don't have a
release date yet, but it is going to have an HDR and Dolby Vision
Master on it, Thank goodness, brand new four K scan of the OCN.
Curious how this is going to look like. This is one I'm probably
gonna have to get. This is one of the bronsons that are certainly important.
Josephine watched him blonde today. Lots of people divided on that one.
Let's see Sartis says he bought their entire inventory. That's great, quite liked
it. Andrew Dominic's visual techniques were cool. I think the contra VERSU surrounding
at as bs I honestly I think that they got the NC seventeen as a
PR stunt. It certainly feels like Keno Lber. Yeah, that feels like
a stand geezy joint over there, and I'm glad. I mean, obviously
you and you know will have been involved in certain things and involved Keno,
jeffk Early, gold Bloom and Death Wish. Yes, certainly one that uh
he went a little under the radar with that one. Uh. As I
alluded to last week, Clerks three is getting a Best Buy exclusive four K
steel book. This can be pre ordered now on the Best By site.
Now, keep in mind, because of what I mentioned last week, you
may be more interested in this than you think. This is seemingly, so
far the only four K physical release of this that has been announced. So
if you want the new Clerks film in four K, you pretty much got
to get this steel book. The digital releases will be available in four but
if you want a physical copy, this is the one that you're gonna have
to get potentially. I don't like that they're doing that. I think I
talked about this last week. I don't like that there are you know,
formats held hostage by some of these exclusives. It's not even that it's expensive,
because it's a fairly inexpensive brand new release for this it's I think it's
less than twenty five bucks. But it shouldn't be like that. People should
have options as much as possible. But yeah, it's available. You can
pre order it now. Comes out on December sixth, just like the Blu
ray release, This one is kind of cool. Coming on October eleventh is
a release called The History of Metal and Horror. Michael berryman from the Hills
Have Eyes, really kind dude. By the way, if you ever get
a chance to talk to Michael Berryman at a con, Dude is fantastic.
He is so kind. He will stand there and talk to you for as
basically as long as you'll let him. He is in incredibly, incredibly thoughtful
and just willing to spend time with fans that a lot of other people are
not. Michael Berryman rocks. Michael Berryman from the Hills Have Eyes explores the
history of heavy metal music and horror and how the two genres crossed paths.
Various metal artists share their introductions to horror influences and more. Icons also discuss
how their films have influenced the genre, their connections to metal artist and why
metal and horror work together. There is Let's See illustrated by commentary from industry
giants Mike Schiff includes a narrative wrap around film that sets up each chapter of
the documentary, and from what I read, Berryman is very much like a
sort of like a narrator going on on this, although he is going to
be speaking, and for sure, yeah, this is one that I definitely
want to get. This looks great. Eric is asking is there going to
be a four K standard release for event Horizon, not that I know of,
at least not announced yet. That is such a big title for them
that I imagine they will announce one, but uh yeah, nothing yet,
sadly, Uh just being have a good night, and man, everybody is
standing up for Michael Berrman. I love that. Uh And Eric says Burning
Paradise is awesome. That is that is really good to know. I can't
wait to see it. It seems like the titles that Vinegar Syndrome is picking
out for their Asian releases so far really really great choices, ones that people
have wanted for a long time, ones that you know, sort of fit
the Vinegar Syndrome mold, and I just I'm happy with them. They they've
been doing pretty good work on those. Indicator it gave us a pretty big
update and gonna dive into this one a little bit as well as talking about
some rumors a slightly different newsletter from Indicator after our recent schedule changes and the
early announcement of December titles in last month's newsletter. The dates that they want
you to know is that Maddigan, Robin Hood at Hammer, and The Swimmer
those are all UK only titles were released earlier this month. Orders to Kill
That is Us only was released. Last week, Universal Noir number one in
the UK only was released. Sorry will be released in October. The micro
budget cinema of Michael J. Murphy will be available in November, and we
round off the year with Entersanto, The Big Gun Down and Remember the Night
in December. Beyond that, we also wanted a trail. Two bits of
big news. First, our annual October Sale will be coming soon and promises
to be the biggest and best yet, which is super interesting. They seem
to be upping their quality of their sales, which is odd. They what
did they do last time? They started releasing the boxes and the booklets for
their limited really so that you could essentially make a limited edition release of some
of these films, which is really nice. But then they kept those going
and I can't remember if it was the last sailor of the sale before,
but they re released their Sinbad set, which was a really really nice way
for them to go about. And it's different from the first one, so
people couldn't be upset about the limited nature of that first one. It doesn't
have DVDs in the second one, so there is still something to tell them
apart, so yeah, their sales look great. Secondly, in a few
weeks time, we will be announcing our January twenty twenty three titles. And
just as the start of twenty twenty two saw the launch of Indicator line in
the US and Canada, so too will the new year see an exciting development
for US the appearance of the first Indicator four KUHD titles for the UK and
the US. We won't say anymore at this moment, so stay tuned for
more details in our October announcements. So rumors rumors with Indicator. I am
hearing that Indicator may be working on a four K box set of genre land
titles now with Arrow's upcoming documentary that they're releasing that was directed by Kat Ellinger,
who's on my time on the channel talking about that release, it would
be a really good time to release those and they will absolutely look incredible on
four K. It's those types of films that will do best with the format.
I don't know if they would make that their first four K title,
but I'm very curious to see what they're gonna do with Indicator being one of
the most consistent boutique Blu Ray labels out there. I really want to see
what kind of choices they make here, because to me, they don't feel
like the kind of company that would start, you know, hyping up four
KUHD and just have it be a rerelease of life like Night at the Demon,
Night at Night of the Demon, or the Sinbad titles. Obviously,
there's a lot of these that I would love to see in four K,
but I want to see newer titles released by some of these labels rather than
just a lot of four K upgrades. So I'm hoping that they continue to
spread the love, and if they do upgrades, I don't hopefully it's sparingly
at most. Like Vinegar Syndrome has been really good about four K upgrades.
So far, there's only been a few, so hopefully they go down that
route. Stan Geezy worked with Berryman on the Guiver. That's freakin' awesome.
Yeah, Berryman is an absolute sweetheart. John says, my best buy is
Iffy on if they'll even have their own exclusives, Well, thankfully you.
I mean, it's not great in all areas obviously because the male system sucks,
but you can have this ship to your house. Their exclusives for best
Buy. They for most of them, you can't even order for store pickup
anymore, which has been a weird development since I believe since the pandemic they
just kind of deleted it from their system. There's only been like a Marvel
release that you could have store pickup on, and it hasn't even been all
of them, nor was it even the most recent one. I think it
was like I think it was Spider Man that you could do in store pickup.
But yeah, you can have them sent to your house. Next up,
speaking Amanta micabre from Ragnar a minute ago regarding a haunted Turkish bathhouse,
I'm gonna kind of read all the way through this because to me, this
is this is like an example of the perfect way to announce one of these
and absolutely just fully restores all confidence that everybody should continue to have in a
company like this. By fur what's going on? Jeff said, Uh,
yeah, I'm I'll be with the post Office. That's fine. Video mannon
will will we be getting Masters of the Universe from Arrow? Maybe? Maybe,
I mean, we'll see. I haven't heard anything about that. Monda
Micabro. As some of you may have heard, we have discovered an issue
with the disc for a haunted Turkish bathhouse. It seems that the disc will
not load on most players. So I've heard from other people that it's working
just fine on their players, but for most people, it is not working
at all. They are doing a replacement program and it is going into production
as of the day that they posted this. We have temporarily halted shipments of
orders containing this title. If you have already received your copy, or if
your copy is on the way to you now, you will automatically be sent
the replacement disc separately once they are ready. There is no need to contact
Monda Micabro. If your order has not shipped yet, it will include the
replacement disc in the package. Once shipping is resumed, you will just need
to open and swap it out with the faulty disc that is already inside the
case. Here's the important part. We are very sorry for this inconvenience.
This was an error that occurred in the manufacturing phase and not during the authoring
or QC process. We are working with our replicator to ensure that this does
not happen again. Now with some other companies, I may not one hundred
percent believe that, but with the way that Mondo takes everything so seriously,
and the fact that this is their first replacement disc in ever, literally that
goes a long way for me for sure. John says, I had a
feeling those Redemption Blues were going out of print, that either Arrow or someone
would release them. Are they for sure going out of print? I have
not heard that. I didn't know if they were on the knot while supplies
last sale or whatever. Should we set up a show, Should we set
up a betting pool on which Steckler Disco need replacement first? Everything I've heard
about Steckler so far is that it's great. Yeah, I'll throw that out
there. Oh. I won't spend a lot of time on this, but
if any of you ever do the podcast version of this, I would love
it. If you go on to whatever you're using, whether it be Google
podcast or Apple podcast or I think it's on like Spotify, our iHeartRadio and
like fifteen other places whatever, if you don't mind leave a review rate it.
It surprisingly does a lot on the other side of the system, and
they end up promoting the show to other people, So it would be it'd
be neat to see, you know, some of the numbers start rising for
the podcast side. I don't pay attention to a whole lot of that,
but it could be helpful anymore that we can get on here. That'd be
fun for me. I love this community. Coming in twenty twenty two two
from Third Window Films, So very very short announcement here. It's the end
of September and they're saying it's gonna be coming before the end of this year
to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Satoshi Miki's comedy masterpiece A Drift in Tokyo.
They are going to release the worldwide Blu ray debut later this year. Everything
I have heard about this film is that it's great. Eric should be in
the chat still, hopefully I've not gotten to see A Drift in Tokyo.
I believe Eric probably has, knowing Eric's viewing habits. If he has,
please let me know anybody else that has. Yeah, there you go.
Eric says, it's very good. I've heard that this is genuinely a masterpiece.
Let me see. Hilton asks did you see Air four four four four's
Twitter post showing off that sweet box? That box does look kind of amazing.
I gotta be honest, Brian says, review coming thanks, Brian,
You're amazing. Let's see, all right, that's it for now, going
to the next one. We got the next announcement from Visual Vengeance, and
this one is really damn cool. This is a Blu Ray collector's edition of
Heartland of Darkness. This is coming on November eighth, and it is the
nineteen eighty nine never before seen lenea Quiggly Satanic panic epic. Now, first
off, you had me at LINEA Quigley for a lot of us that like
these type of films. That makes sense. But a satanic panic epic starring
LINEA Quigley, I am full blown sold, Like I almost want to buy
two of these just for that. That is such a great, great description.
But then reading on, this also has been called Blood Church. By
the way, in the small town of Copperton, Ohio, Paul Henson,
a former big city journalist, buys a small local newspaper. He quickly falls
into a wide reaching conspiracy of ritualistic murder and cult mind control when he discovers
that the entire town may be under the spell of a satanic reverend and his
flock. Yes, that sounds amazing, as the clues and corpses pile up.
Henson and his family are thrust into a life or death struggle to expose
the truth and stop the demonic Cabal's reign of evil. Shot in nineteen eighty
nine by Eric Swelstad on sixteen millimeters, not shot on video, lost and
obscurity and distribution false starts for over thirty years. Heartland of Darkness finally arrives
on home video for the very first time ever and is packed with bonus features
that spotlight the original creators and document the film's long history and final completion.
Really really really cool. This is just a fantastic sounding, but then these
releases from Visual Vengeance are always incredible, So listen to this new directors supervise
SD master, which I kind of wish that they were going HD master on
this. I don't know why. If it was sixteen millimeter, probably didn't
restore much, but there are tape and film elements, so that's probably why.
Deeper into the Darkness a brand new forty minute behind the scenes documentary.
There are three commentary tracks on this. LENEA. Quigley is in a new
interview talking about this. Then all kinds of archival TV interview spots behind the
scenes footage trailers. There is a work print called Fallen Angels from nineteen ninety
a rare distributor promotional video called Blood Church from back then. Six pages of
liner notes by Tony Strauss of Wang's Chop Magazine. Limited edition Heartland of Darkness
prayer Cloth, which fantastic. That's great marketing, limited slipcase in the first
pressing only a folded mini poster and then of course their VHS sticker sets that
they have been doing so great with. And I will say the trailer for
this looks remarkable. This movie looks fantastic, completely fantastic. Let me take
a look at some comments. Eric says Discovering Cinema podcast was the perfect link
for the run. Nice. That's awesome. Air four four just made a
lot of money because of your channel. We were two who bought their releases
the same night after the interview. That's great. Yeah, supposedly that last
Wave did really good for them. Stan Geeze totally off topic, but I
just watched The Nighthouse with Rebecca Hall and it's unrelentingly creepy. Okay, So
The Nighthouse amazing, amazing film. The way that they use negative space in
those you know, for those that have seen it, you know what I'm
talking about. And if you haven't seen it, absolutely watched The Nighthouse.
It is a stupendous modern horror film, really really great, and a really
good one to watch this October. It's perfect for that Rebecca hal Though amazing
performance. She carries that entire film. She really gives this grief stricken performance
that is just beyond beyond what it needed to be, and it delivers in
spades. I am a big fan of twin films and Dappelganger films, and
I know that's a really specific thing to talk about, but like Dead Ringers
from Cronenberg, big fan of it just because of the twin aspect. It's
a really interesting idea. This movie takes the idea of a Dappelganger film and
twist it on its head and it is so interesting. And that's not really
a spoiler because even hearing that completely different than what you would think going into
it. The Dappelganger aspect of it is such a which a unique take on
that style of film. I really really enjoyed The Nighthouse. Everybody absolutely needs
to see it. It is so damn good, so damn good, moving
back into this. I totally forgot that I've posted these here, so if
you have ever paid attention to Concept Media, they are a independent and mostly
horror. Some of them are like slightly comedic films, and the biggest one
that they did blew up primarily because the title of it, it's called Don't
Fuck in the Woods. They are putting out some pretty interesting resin creatures from
their films not creature, sorry, resin figures. I'm reading the picture on
the screen already. They're only making thirty of these, and I haven't checked
if they've sold out, but it's a pretty good price if you get all
four of them. So we have this one, which is from Don't Fuck
in the Woods. We've got Bigfoot from their film Stranded. We've got Lacey
from Don't Fuck in the Woods, and I love that they put a little
censored bar here, and then from the sequel Don't Fuck in the Woods too,
they have Jane and then the cool thing. You can buy all four
of them, and if you get one at a time, it's thirty bucks.
If you buy all four, it's a hundred bucks. Concept Media does
some pretty good work. They're not amazing, but they they're not terrible for
an indie horse studio, It's pretty good. Next up, we got some
announcements from Umbrella. Fascinating release here. Loving the detail on this and what
they did here. Old Boy from two thousand and three is coming from Umbrella,
the first release of Old Boy on VHS. As you can see here,
this very purple octopussy color Octopussy an average man who is kidnapped and imprisoned
in a shabby sale for fifteen years without any explanation. You know the story.
It's Old Boy. Most of us have seen this. This movie is
a masterpiece and one of the craziest movies of all time. We are getting,
like I said, exclusive VHS number to five hundred. There is a
reversible poster that is coming with us, and some pretty good artwork and a
slip on this with eight lobby cards. There is a brand new audio commentary
on this, but everything else on here has been used before. The new
audio commentaries with Dominic Pierce and Aaron mccannon. So if you're really into it,
you may want it. And if you're really into collecting vhs, this
is a gonna be a pretty rare one for sure. That is coming December.
Yeah, December seventh. By the way, I forgot to say that
also in December Hammer Horror Volume one. Now I understand Hammer Horrors have gotten
released many, many times previously. These are ones that people have at least
one copy of for the most part. But what's really cool. First off,
this little box set comes with the Evil of Frankenstein, Paranoiac, and
Nightmare. But the cool thing is that there are new audio commentaries and new
little They don't really classified as an essay, but Kim Newman discusses the stars
of these films. So on this first one we get a new podcast,
we get a new audio commentary, and then Kim Newman discusses Peter Cushing on
Paranoiac, we get a new audio commentary, Kim Newman discussing Oliver Reed,
and then a new podcast on Nightmare, new audio commentary, Kim Newman discusses
Freddy Francis, and a new podcast. So if you're really into extras on
the old Hammer Horror releases, this might be a box set you want.
Orbit will probably get this in eventually, grind Ass Video will probably carry it,
Diabolic may carry it. Cinema Classics has also been getting in Umbrella titles
and they're usually pretty cheap, so keep an eye on retailers if you are
into it. And this release looks pretty good, nice art all around,
and hard box. We got a gosh, there's a bonus disc. This
is really cool bonus disc of over one hundred hammer trailers. And then there's
a sixteen page collector's booklet. Fun release, but again hammer stuff. A
lot of people have at least one copy of those coming from Umbrella as part
of their Sunburnt Screens line, which I got to be honest, might be
their least appreciated line, which is really good. These are usually very underseen
films, and the moment I saw Sam Neil, I knew that I had
to have this. I've not pre ordered it, but oh my gosh,
I'm definitely gonna have to get this. This is from nineteen ninety coming in
December, A riotous roller coaster of murder and Mayhem set in a multicultural inner
Melbourne. This hit Australian a comedy thriller, comedy thriller Interesting stars Sam Neil
as Carl, a forty ish no hoper who's who takes a job as a
cook in a CD nightclub to escape his cantankerous mother. A flirtation with fetching
bar made Sophie, who's engaged to the nightclub owner, lands Karl on the
wrong side of a viscus bouncer. But when attacked by his drug dealing Turkish
kitchen hand, Carl inflicts a grievous form of self defense that sparks a deepening
gangland feud. Best mate Dave is soon employed as Carl's protector and gravedigger as
a band of cutthroats blocked Carl's path to his bartending sweetheart. Sounds great.
Absolutely got to see this one. I love Sam Neil. I think he
is not appreciated enough for sure. On this one. We are getting brand
new twenty twenty two Q and A with a director and cinema to and production
designer. There is also a new Death in Brunswick Hits the Road, and
I love how they call it new. It's just because it hasn't been released
previously, but it's an archival publicity tour featurette. And then we got two
audio commentaries and Memories of Murder featurette with a whole bunch of people from the
film. And then The Grass Is Greener acclaimed series detailing the lives of New
Zealand artists in Australia. Two fascinating documentaries on Sam Neil and John Clark.
I mean that sounds great, That sounds great. I absolutely love Kevin Costner
and Sam Neil absolutely. I'm a big fan of the nineties. That should
be obvious. Let's see slipcover also looks really good. I really like the
colors on this. This is the actual inner art here. And then I
believe we got one more release from Umbrella, and this one is wild The
Box of Bert December seventh, from Umbrella Burt Reynolds collection called The Box of
Bert. This is from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty four. We are
getting Canniball Run, Cannonball Run Two, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
Stroke Race, and The Man Who Loved Women. Burt Reynolds has been historically
a little hit or miss for me, but pretty much every movie in this
box set really hits for me. This is one I am probably gonna have
to get at some point. Love all of these, but man, I
have seen so many people say they want to buy this just for this sticker
that says, honk if you heart Bert This is such a fun idea for
her release. Glad Umbrella is doing it. And the cool thing is that
they are getting new extras so exclusive to the web store. You get the
vintage ad cards, two reversible posters, a musky God, I can't believe
they use these words musky, sexy, Bert air freshener, share the Bert
bumper sticker, and then a booklet full of Burt oh Man. There's a
lot of bees. Cannonball Run gets an audio commentary with a director and producer,
and then a featurette on the Cannonball Run story. Canniball Run two gets
a new audio commentary that doesn't say who did it, but I believe we
have confirmation that Nathaniel Thompson is the one that did that one. Then we
get audio Sorry Revir engines, they look back at the cross Country road Race
video essay by Andrew Nett Best Little Horehouse in Texas. We get a new
audio commentary by music historian Adam Devlin, and then nothing Dirty going On Sex
Work in Musicals video essay by Lee Gambin which Lee was posting on Facebook.
And it sounds this really really great. This looks like a wonderful release,
then Stroker Race. I think that's the one. Yeah, that's the one
I left out on New audio commentary by Nathaniel Thompson. Again there is a
NASCAR movie trailer reel on this, and then a featurette on Burt Reynolds and
Lonnie Anderson, and finally The Man Who Loved Women New audio commentary by Adrian
Martin, and then a Blake Edwards trailer reel. Finally a Hollywood Remembers Burt
Reynolds featurette. I mean, it's a box of Burt. What else is
there to say? This looks fantastic again if you are a Burt Reynolds fan,
I mean, first off, look at that art. This is such
a great idea and the way that they're leaning into it is pretty perfect.
Let's see, Brian says, have to put that bumper sticker on the car.
I'm sure what attracts some attention, and Stan is upset there's no deliverance,
which, of course it would be nice, but yeah, it feels
like that would be a little out of place here. Umbrella is underrated and
underappreciated. Completely agree there that bumper sticker needs to be on a trans am.
Great comment that's a great comment. Let's see Dead Sea Life says.
I'm willing to bet it's not a Tom Weaver commentary. I believe that Daniel
Thompson did own up to it. I don't know why it's not on the
page, but yeah, all right. So on the Home Theater forums we
got an update on Warner Archives. This was passed on from oh, what's
his last name, George? I think it's Felsteine. Somebody in the comments
correct me if I'm wrong there, Felstein or Feldstine, something like that.
He released this whole statement to somebody to pass along on their forums to specify
what is going on with Warner Archive now. One of the reasons people have
been asking so many questions. First of all, there is very little that
has come out from Warner Archive this year, pretty much at all. The
second aspect of that is the clusterfuck that is happening between Warner and Discovery and
this whole merger slash purchase, slash awful thing that's been happening. So he
wanted to make sure that everybody felt some sort of solace understanding that Warner Archive
is not going anywhere. So he came out and said there will be no
Warner Archive releases in November. Rather than have everyone wait and guess what the
new November titles will be, I wanted to you know, I thought it
would make sense to communicate this to you and ask that you pass this message
on publicly through the forum if you desire. This year has been a disappointment
in terms of our number of releases due to many internal issues within the company.
That's the bad news. So he pretty much admits there's been a lot
of crap going on on with Warner but we all knew that publicly, but
then we got the good news. Although we have often skipped December releases in
the past, we will have two new releases early this December, and they
couldn't be more different. Both our new HD masters from four K scans the
original camera negatives. They are Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman from nineteen fifty
eight and The Night of the Iguana from nineteen sixty four. But then the
really really incredible part of this In twenty twenty three, the Warner Archive collection
releases currently in the works number over fifty new film titles. There will be
more Blu Ray Classic animation and hopefully some new TV content, twenty twenty three
will look much more like twenty twenty one did with a plethora of exciting releases.
So Warner Archive is looking to come back strong, starting in December and
continuing throughout all of twenty twenty three. If they are really doing fifty titles,
unless they're planning on like a box set or some compilations, we're talking
you know, an average of four plus per month. That is huge considering
we are only getting four total titles in October November or maybe is it October,
Yeah, October, November, December. We're getting four total titles from
one archive, so to average that every month is a pretty huge increase.
I'm eager to see if they can hold to that. Although nowhere in there
does he say all fifty are coming in twenty twenty three, I guess,
but they are working on you know, fifty plus titles at this point,
so we shall see. Hopefully one of Archive continues. They are Let's see,
what is the better way to say this. They are one of the
better blu Ray companies for restorations of genuine underseen classics. Their restorations are usually
incredible because it is coming from a studio that has archived their own prints for
decades and decades. They do very well with that aspect, and I would
not doubt that anything that they have planned is probably going to look pretty amazing,
especially when it's at least a four K scan on a Blu Ray disc.
Yeah, they are usually wonderful. Speaking of four K, just this
morning we got some announcements from Eureka, including on December fifth, they are
releasing their first Masters of Cinema four k UHD title, and that is The
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari from nineteen twenty. And this release looks pretty dang special.
For those that don't know, this is a German film from nineteen twenty,
It is a full on four k UHD presentation from the restoration that was
done in twenty fourteen. That restoration looks great, but this is going to
make it look even better on a UHD. There is a limited one hundred
page book featuring archival writing and articles with vintage writing on the film by a
whole bunch of people. We are getting original German intertitles with optional English subtitles,
new audio commentary by Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby. Rigby there is an
archival audio commentary by David Colatt, a brand new interview with author and critic
Kim Newman, again, video essay by David Cairns, and then a fifty
two minute documentary on the cultural and historical impact of the film, and three
short video pieces about the film's restoration. Now, unfortunately they were unable to
get the documentary that was on a previous release of this. Oh gosh,
what release was that on? Uh? I can't remember which one, but
yeah, this is a kind of a very important four K for like the
boutique world. I feel like this is one that I think is going to
shape how many more of these we actually get if you are interested in silent
films, if you are interested in classic cinema. I don't normally speak out
like this, but I will say that this is a release that probably needs
our support, and not even necessarily because they're hurting for money or anything,
but literally just to speak with our pockets and say we want more like this.
There are tons of films that you know, many of us could name
right now that would look incredible in four K from that time. The Man
Who Laughs is a really great example, the original notes Fasu. There are
even Stan Geezee says Where's the four K Metropolis? That one would look ridiculously
great. There is so much that could ride on how well this film sells
and when it comes to archiving film in terms of historical impact and for future
generations. It is great to see these companies doing it, but it would
go a long way if you speak with your pocketbook on this one and really
stand up for high quality cinema. This one has lasted literally more than a
century and that is pretty damn cool to get that on the highest quality home
video format one hundred and two years after it came out. So yeah,
this is a pretty big deal. Hopefully that felt like a long enough moment
for this one. This is a big, big title for them to be
putting out on UHD, especially for their first UHD. But another big one
that a lot of people are excited about. Yes Madam from nineteen eighty five,
so this is a title that was originally released as Police Assassins in the
UK. Yes Madams was the first starring role for Michelle Yo and Cynthia Rothrock
and this led to a ridiculous great genre that Eric the Asian movie enthusiast and
myself and a few others have been talking about for the last year as really
needing to see a bunch of releases from and this pretty much inspired the girls
with Guns genre. So Michelle Yo, who is hot right now, I
mean everything everywhere all at once, has been a huge hit for her this
year. She's been everywhere. Basically, this is a really really good one
to go and well round basically her filmography for yourself. This one's coming out
with a slipcase two thousand copies limited. It's gonna be a blu ray from
a brand new two K restoration. You get the original Cantonese mono audio,
you get the optional English dubbed audio. You get optional English subs newly translated
for this release. I love when they do that. New audio commentary by
Frank Jing and Michael Worth, and then a brand new feature length audio commentary
by Mike Leader and arn Venoma, brand new select scene commentary with Cynthia Rothrock.
She is on this new interview with Cynthia Rothrock. There is a Locations
featurette, an old interview with Michelle Yoh, some other archival stuff on here.
This is going to be a pretty dang good release. And we got
a booklet too, two thousand copies. I really hope that this does well
and we get more like this. I am hearing that we may be getting
this in the US, but I don't know that that is for sure going
to be the case. These sort of titles will end up costing a lot
more for US distributors than a UK distributor, primarily because of the size of
the market. So so if you I mean we talked about the error four
four four four interview a little while ago. We did discuss there how or
no, not that interview. It was a third Window Films that was one
that we discussed this that the the cost of the contract for a lot of
these Asian films depends on where it's being put out, and the UK ones
it's multiple magnitudes smaller cost to put out in the UK than in the US.
So we'll see. It would be nice to get a region a release,
but also you should be region free at this point in time. Pretty
much everybody that is following stuff like this should be region free. It is
it is the best time to do it, for sure. Eureka's last release,
coming out on December fifth, is A Cat and Canary and Ghost Breakers
a double feature featuring Bob Hope. This is going to get some new features
on Eureka Classics. We got two thousands for the limited edition. We got
a new audio commentary on both films with Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby. Kim
Newman does some essays on The Katina Canary and The Ghost Breakers. There is
the nineteen forty nine radio adaptation. But again, more Bob Hope films getting
out there seems to be seems to be a big name right here. Keino
just did a handful of them. I wouldn't be surprised if we keep getting
some of these Bob Hope titles. A lot of people that grew up with
Bob Hope. This is like hitting that perfect nostalgic age for people to be
looking at these. Alrighty, only a few more left, I believe.
Coming on November first, from Cohen Media Group, we get The Good Boss
from twenty twenty one featuring Javier bard Dem. Academy Award winner. Javier bar
Dem stars as a Blanco proprietor a Bascules Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial
scales, and I clicked away like an idiot. Let's see industrial scales in
a provincial Spanish town which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide
if they merit a local Business Excellence Award. Everything has to be perfect when
the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops
to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the
process. CO and Media Group they put out a lot of interesting titles,
and this is one. I'm really interested in seeing Javier Bardem playing that sort
of a role. It would make a very interesting double feature with No Country
for Old Men. Let's see Jeff says Kim Newman is really busy. I
mean, yeah, that is his job. He is doing pretty much releases
with most labels most months, so that makes sense. Yeah, I would
hope he would stay busy with how much he's doing. Next Tuesday, October
fourth, A twenty four is releasing an exclusive to their shop version of Marcel
the Shell with Shoes on. Now, I gotta ask, why is this
a side exclusive? A twenty four really could have made this a wide release.
And if they wanted to do a side exclusive, that's a four K.
That's fine. I guess I don't love that either. But I feel
like the average consumer should be more able to pick this up at you know,
a best Buy or a Walmart. A twenty four titles sell like crazy.
I don't understand why this is going to be a side exclusive. From
the picture, you might get the idea that it's going to come with the
little figure. It is not going to come with the figure. They did,
however, state in a comment that they will be available to purchase starting
in November, so keep an eye out on that, and by then,
like you should be able to pick up their release of the film and the
figure at the same time. So if you want to wait, save some
money until November. Everybody I've everybody I trust that has seen this says that
Marcel the Shell with Shoes on is really great. So if you've not checked
it out yet, I haven't seen it because I didn't get a chance to
see it in the theater, but I'm really interested in seeing it for sure.
And finally, this is a big one for this week. But the
last thing to talk about is Scream Factory started their Shoctober sale and this year
is genuinely a sale. It commemorates screen Factory's tenth anniversary Throughout the week long
sale, customers can save fifty percent off the list price on all included titles.
Now, usually when they have a sentence like that, it really limits
how many titles are on sale. If you have not checked this sale out,
I would. There is a very long page of releases that are on
sale this time, some of them for really great prices. I've not checked
since gosh, like an hour after this got posted, I think was the
last time I looked. But when I checked, there was some things that
were really surprising. One that I wanted to point out. It's a I
think it was The Prince of Darkness, so it was one of the Carpenter
four k's. I think it was twenty eight dollars and still came with the
Sacred Bones vinyl. For twenty eight dollars, that is an incredible price.
So you're gonna get the film in four K with the slipcover and everything and
the Sacred ponent Sacred Bones vinyl. That is a remarkable package for less than
thirty dollars. And I believe when it first came out that was like fifty
bucks, so one hundred percent worth it. Those Carpenter four K's studio Canal
could do a lot better on their four ks. I don't think that's much
of a hot take to say that. However, the Screen Factory release of
the Studio Canal Scan is actually a little better than the Studio Canal released version,
so the compression is a little better. The titles that we have gotten
that were Studio Canal scans, they're just very underwhelming, very underwhelming. Continuing
though, we are even giving away brand new Screen Factory T shirts to everyone
who spends over one hundred dollars during this sale. This incredibly limited shirt is
only available during the sale, so grab one while you can. The T
shirt is available for purchase for customers who don't want to spend over one hundred
dollars or if they would like to receive more than one per order. So
the way that they're doing this is really really customer friendly. Actually, once
you add one hundred dollars worth of items into your cart, a little pop
up shows up and says what's your size, You pulled in your size and
it automatically gets added to your cart. Pretty pretty great way to go about
it. Unfortunately, the only way for you to view the shirt if you're
not looking on social media is to look on their pre order page. It
doesn't show up when it asks for your size, so if you want to
check that out, go to the pre order page or shoot, I can
probably bring it up right here. Let me see. It's a surprisingly decent
shirt, I thought, So here's the shirt design. It's gory obviously and
really hits on the physical media aspect, but it's a screen Factory shirt,
and that's pretty rare. I think that's a pretty cool idea. Yeah,
these sales are usually way worse than this, so if you are into screen
Factory or have been waiting, some of the titles are absolutely worth it at
this price. If you want, like it said, you can buy the
shirt by itself, but it's thirty bucks. It's almost worth it right there
to go and purchase one hundred dollars worth of films to get a free thirty
dollars shirt. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but considering the prices, you
could get a lot for that much money. Right now, screen Factory has
put out some incredible titles of the years. I do understand the frustration of
the last year and a half of screen Factory mostly putting out four K upgrades.
I Actually, I've been talking to a couple of people about this literally
today, and I'm gonna go read some of my comments real quick, because
I do think that I should. They asked about screen Factory, and what
did I say, where is it? They said, they've barely released any
new titles this year, like only a handful, and I did say,
I think it's more that than people are thinking. It's a little more than
people are remembering over the entire year. But they are upgrading a lot of
catalog titles to four K, for sure. But I also think they are
probably recovering from the pandemic and a few other things. A lot of people
that have complained about this will remember this vividly. Their QC has taken a
big hit over the last couple of years, and I wouldn't be surprised if
they were either like pumping the brakes a little bit or putting new processes in
place. And that's why we're getting a lot of these four K upgrades,
and hopefully newer titles are also coming. But I'm a little too optimistic sometimes,
so pretty much at this point, only time can tell we should be
getting the I think it's December titles announced on Monday. It appears that we
already know of one that was going around to this circuit today because Screen Factory
leaked it themselves. If you google screen Factory, I think it's on a
desktop computer, one of the options will say to pre order the brand new
Dawn of the Dead four K. It is the Zack Snyder remake that is
coming on four K, so we will be talking about that most likely next
week. It is a good movie, so I'm glad we're getting that one.
But again, they already released it. I do hope we are getting
more. Speaking of next week, what's coming out next week, let's discuss
those. I'm dying of thirst and for some reason, it's super hot down
here and really really really uncharacteristically usually it's nice down here. Army of Darkness
four K releases finally this one. They I think they tease this one originally
in twenty twenty in a magazine article, and everybody's been asking for almost two
full years, where's Army of Darkness? And it's finally here next Tuesday.
And I've not gotten mine yet, but everybody that has says that it looks
great, so full faith in this one. Unfortunately, no new extras and
only one cut in four K. Fright Night four K releasing next week.
Night A Living Dead four K releasing next week. Halloween four K Collection releasing
next week. Of course that's Halloween six, seven and eight. Bram Stokers
Dracula releasing in a new four K. The old one is gonna have a
little bit that is not gonna be as good as this new four K steel
book. We got some new updates, did subtitles and some other things going
into it. The Army of Darkness four K steel book comes out. Screen
two comes out on four K. Catch Me if you Can. This is
only coming out in a Blu Ray steel book. But just like Wayne's World
earlier this year, Wayne's World came out in a Blue Ray steel book and
is now coming out in the same steel book, but in four K.
I'm willing to bet that catch Me if you Can comes out in another six
or seven months on four K as well, and it'll probably be in this
exact same steel book, and they will, you know, try to get
the money from it, and it's it's such a crappy thing to do.
I really wish Paramount was not doing that. Let's see quiet, Rob says
got the Steel Book version of Army of Darkness, good looking for sure.
Nice John is getting Screen two four K and Fright Night four K. I'm
really really into Fright Night. I've never loved the look of their Blu Ray
releases for that film, so I'm really hoping that the four K it really
shines. Why is this here separately? That's Odd Watcher is coming out.
I've heard some great reviews about this film. I'm considering this one. Then
we got some mill Creek VHS retro releases of The Paper, The Replacement,
Killers The Cure, let me see really odd. We talked about this last
week, I think, or no, we talked about this on Tuesday.
Dead for a dollar. This is coming out and it is a Walter Hill
title that is not going theatrical And the worst part about it is it stars
Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe and you can get it on Blu Ray on Amazon
right now for like eleven ninety nine. The trailer looks awful awful. I
am sad about that. I really hope that it's better than it looks.
But it's Walter Hill. I mean, he's a freaking goat basically, so
I'm hoping that it's so much better than it looks. Definitely gonna have to
check that one out at some point. Shadowlands is coming as one of those
Mill Creek Ultra retro VHS covers. Let's see what else they crawl beneath.
Heard some good things about that one. Bad Santa Too coming from Shout Factory
for some reason, which by the way, already has a four K title
four K release and now it's coming out on Blu Ray from Shout Factory.
Anyways, I think that is it that we were going to talk about this
week for releases, all right. I think that's it everybody. Any lingering
questions or you know, rumors going around the hobby right now, there's so
much happening that it's hard to stay up with for it everybody. So if
you are out of loop on something, let me know. I'm always happy
to answer here. If not, and you're watching later or listening, send
a comment in. I pretty much respond to everything. Lots coming up for
the channel. One thing I did want to say that I posted in my
discord for the patrons today. Most of them have gotten a chance to see
it, so I wanted to throw out a thank you, and mostly for
the community, the people that comment, the people that are here every single
Thursday. This year has been wild for this channel. Started very low,
nowhere near you know, a thousand subscribers or anything like that, and I'm
not even really going for numbers or anything, but I am I'm seeing weird
things for me start happening behind the scenes, and things like people seeking me
out for interviewing them, and I scheduled an interview for a couple weeks from
now that is going to be easily the biggest name that's ever been associated with
my channel. And it's just been a very humbling day in terms of realizing
that you guys have jumped up and made this a welcoming, accepting community.
And I appreciate that because it's nice to not have to deal with many assholes.
I am a busy person, and to not have to clean up comments
from rude people or police people who are trying to gatekeep others or something like
that. It gets aggravating and I see that every day as I add man
some of these stupid Facebook groups. I really should stop doing that because that
gets really annoying. But genuinely, just thank you to you guys. Without
this community and what is happening, I would not be getting opportunities like that,
so I appreciate it. I just like movies. I like being able
to hold these movies, and you guys are why I continue to do this
because it is so much fun just to you know, discuss things like in
Bruges and how amazing it is and Walter Hill possibly releasing a terrible movie,
and you know, the discussion about things like Manda Micabro and region locking and
all that stuff. It's it's just fun and it's something that I'm super passionate
about. And with my odd life that I've lived so far, there's so
many different things that I've not been happy doing, and this is genuinely the
first time that I've been happy for a long period of time doing something like
this. So I really just want to say thank you guys. It's been
a very fulfilling time lately. And I've got sort of a secret project that
I'm working on with another boutique collecting entity out there in the world, and
I am hoping that you guys will get excited about something. I'm gonna need
you guys to be like a a street team of sorts coming out soon,
and that is probably going to get announced in in like three or four weeks.
But it is going to be hopefully a pretty big deal for everybody because
it's it's gonna be pretty fun. We are working on a lot of stuff
behind the scenes, and I'm just grateful for all you guys. Jeff,
I'm ashamed to say I still haven't seen Last Man Standing. I'm very behind
John. You're ridiculously kind. I can't wait to interview you too. Rob
says a reminder and wanted to share this. I totally forgot. Thank you,
Rob. This buy did fix the issue with the Reservoir Dogs four K
steel book. If you were waiting to order that, it is working now,
so please do that steel book is you know, a lot of people
are questioning the artwork, but it's going to be an interesting one to see
it in hand. I'm curious how that comes. I really just wish they
used the character from the film rather than a computer graphic, you know,
with the whole ear coming out like it would have been a fun thing if
it was the actual ear coming off of not an actual ear. That was
a weird way to say that. If it was a picture of the actual
actor with the ear coming off. Anyways, I appreciate you all. Like
I said, I think that's it. Have a wonderful night. I appreciate
all the comments. Once again, shout out as always to all the beautiful
patrons in the channel. You guys are amazing and the discord is so much
more active than I expected. If you are ever wanting to be a part
of a very active film fan and physical media fan community, link in the
description below because the Patreon stuff is so much more active than I ever expected
it to be. Again, appreciate you all. Please please pay attention to
all the stuff coming out because some of your faceabit titles are coming and they
look ridiculously good. So, as usual, from one collector to all of
you, hope you guys have a good night. We'll see you next Thursday.
More videos come to the channel as always, see you next time.
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