Nap. Oh, hey there, everybody, Happy Thursday. Just sitting here
reading through the Fright file because I'm here with Dustin who wrote this, everybody
else should be looking at this. Dustin Putman, thank you for being here
tonight. Thank you so much. Yeah. I've been watching this show for
the last year or so, and it's kind of surreal to actually be on
it. I'm not the celebrity, You're the celebrity. Like, look at
this beautiful book. I still I think I told you, but I still
love the texture of this this cover on this thing. It is so perfect.
This thing's amazing. Read through, I just hit the mic and everybody
got pissed off. Sorry about that. Read through a handful of the excerpts
a couple of weeks ago again, and man, I love the way you
write. I love every time you come home from some random triple feature on
a Friday night and update the internet for what you watched. And I go,
man, I feel bad Dustin hated that movie. Oh now, well,
thank you. Yeah. Right now I'm doing more yeah capsule reviews on
you know, Facebook and different social media outlets. But yeah, for over
twenty years, I was an online film critic and and you know, wrote
longer form reviews, and I'd gotten to the point where I had so many
and so many horror you know, horror film reviews that I just decided it
would be a great idea to uh, you know, sort of compile all
of the ones that I love them, and also write some new ones that
were exclusive to the book, and yeah, and publish it. So that's
what I did. Is there ever a chance for a volume two or something
else? What's going on because it's been a while. Yeah, so yeah
it was. It was released in twenty thirteen, and then in paperback,
and then for the tenth anniversary, I released a hardcover version of and that
was the one that you have. But yeah, I always think about about
doing a second volume. I have so many more that I couldn't get to
right right, We already got a question in the chat. Dude says,
what's the UK labeled offers free shipping? That is eureka. They must have
some sort of deal with the British government to get a kickback on the shipping,
otherwise it would not work. Craig says he was promised, Katz,
hello everybody in chat. Tonight's gonna be fun. Of course, we are
going over pickups recent Watches announcements, but then the big cornerstone discussion tonight is
one near and dear to both of our hearts. As we talked about little
capsule reviews of the Fright Files, we're gonna be talking about five slasher films
that are amazing that we love they never got a sequel, And I gonna
be honest, in literally all five of my cases, I'm grateful they never
got a sequel. I think that it would have not necessarily tarnished because I
hate when people say, yeah, why did this get a remake? Because
it ruined the first one That the movie still exists, It's still fine.
However, it would have watered them down for sure, like some of these
ones that we love definitely got watered down by the amount of sequels that it
got. How easy was it to come up with your five? I had
eight, and I had to really think about my big criteria. Was I
wanted one that are that's like a big name that people would be like,
yeah, okay, that makes perfect sense. But I really wanted to try
to not cross over with you, and so I try to pick singular ones
that I'm hoping you didn't pick. But also, for the first time in
a while, all the minor physical releases in my hand. I just ran
around and grabbed them really quick before we got on here. So it was
it was sort of difficult. What about you. Yeah, I feel like
there's one out of my five that there's a kind of good chance that we
might have crossed over on. But the other four i'd be shocked. So
but yeah, I have some shocks. Yeah, but I have all of
them on on Blu Ray and yeah, I walked around and gathered them all
up too, so I have them to show up nice. Well, let's
get into some of this other stuff. So the book. First of all,
you had been writing for quite some time. You did some exclusive to
the book. How many how many were brand new to the book when you
wrote the book? I would say probably like fifteen of the one hundred and
fifty because I had written so many, Yeah already, but you know a
lot of the older ones that I had written from back in So I started
writing online in nineteen ninety seven, like short shortly after I got the Internet,
and I was fifteen at the time, and I still remember that the
first review I ever wrote for the Internet was Contact the Jodie Foster movie.
Yeah, but yeah, and then a lot of the older ones have been
lost to time, and it's probably better that they were. Yes, a
lot of the older reviews that have been saved. I went back and read
them at the time, and I was horrified because I had gotten a lot
better, I think, just as a writer. So I went through the
older ones and basically rewrote them from the start. So if you count all
of those two, it was probably much more than fifteen. Very nice.
So with short form reviews, obviously there's not a lot of you know,
the ability to go into the nuance, for seen by seeing breakdowns, not
a lot to go into the plot. For somebody that's brand new to reviews
and they look at your work and say, man, I want to be
able to write like him. What are some of the things that you think
are essential to get out of the way for say a at most like three
paragraph review. Oh wow, well I know that. Yeah. For my
reviews, A lot of the times I had the same basic format. So
it's sort of like how they teach you, you know, when you go
to college and you write essays. It was similar to that. I would
always have like an introductory paragraph. Then I would move into the synopsis,
and then I would sort of, yeah, there would be like a paragraphere
I talk about the performances, a paragraph where I would talk about, yeah,
dive deeper into like its themes and it's different ideas and things like that,
and then like the tech side of things. So a lot of times,
yeah, I followed that sort of format, and it just came naturally
to me. Of course I would break it sometimes, but and I feel
like, yeah, yeah, I feel like if if people read read a
lot of my views. I know a few people who yeah, I have
read a lot of my reviews and and you know, regularly every week when
I was writing them, and they've since become critics themselves, and I can
sort of, I mean, not to toot my own horn, but I
can sort of see some of my influence in the way that they write.
So that's pretty cool. Nice. We do have a question from Josephine in
honor of Earth Day next week. Do you have any favorite movies to show
the beauty of nature? Oh? My gosh, well, one that I
just saw just this past week, Perfect Days. Ah. Yeah, that's
the first thing that came to mind. But that's yeah, that's the beauty
of nature, the beauty of life in general, and just even like the
mundane everyday things that you go through, like seeing them from you know,
a special sort of point of view where you actually, you know, don't
take advantage of any moment. So, I mean, that's a really good
one. It's a good call. And speaking of that, let's break into
it. How about some recent watches for you. What have you been checking
out lately? Oh, gosh, all right, I have several, So
do it the first that the first I have. I recently watched The Iron
Claw, and I really liked it. I didn't always agree with Roger Ebert,
but he often said that a movie is not what it's about, but
how it's about. And I feel like that actually rings true for this movie
because I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in wrestling, and yet it completely captured
my attention from the very first frame, and it was more of a human
story or anyway, even though there was a lot of wrestling, but I
mean, it was just done so well that that for two hours I actually
was interested in wrestling. But I would say I had heard some things going
into it about some dramatic license that they had used to the real story.
Yeah, I was kind of afraid how I would feel about that, And
so after it was over, I read the real story and I was kind
of horrified by just how much was changed. So yeah, like they I
mean, for anybody who doesn't know, I'm sure most people do, but
it's like about you know four you know, it's about five brothers who are
all part of like a wrestling dynasty, and there was a six brother in
real light who grew up and you know, he suffered from asthma and britle
bones and he never felt like he measured up to his other brothers, and
he ultimately took his own life and they completely cut him out of the movie.
So what does that say to his family and to him that he was
so unimportant that they didn't even want to have him in the movie? Like
that was very disappointing. Beyond that, like the reasoning behind it that the
rest of the story was so tragic, but this one was so similar.
We didn't want to put it in there because it would just feel SEMy.
That does feel a little weird to completely remove it. Yeah, I I
called BS on that when the director said that the reason they cut, yeah,
that they decided not to have the brother was because it would it would
make a dark story even darker and be repetitive. I mean, it really
happened, so people couldn't possibly say that it's unbelievable. And then the one
other thing, and this is really not really a spoiler, but I also
discovered that the zach Efron character in the movie he has two sons. Well,
he had ultimately had four children, but the two that are in the
in the movie proper to sons. And I discovered that in real life he
had two daughters first. And the only reason that they had him be sons
is because of the very last scene. And I don't want to give it
away, but there's a line about brothers. Yeah, and that's the only
reason they changed it was to have that. So I felt like it was
kind of manipulative and kind of cheap to change that just for that scene.
So yeah, there were lots of things like that where I was just like,
why would you change that? But you know, I understand that you
can't be completely faithful to you know, a real story, and that's perfectly
fine, but some of the things was kind of head scratching. But I
mean, but if you take that all out of it and just watch it
as a movie, it's really good. Yeah, Evron acts his socks offen
that thing. That's easily his best performance by like Miles. Oh, yeah,
he was. He was excellent in it. Yeah, I'm kind of
surprised that he wasn't up for more awards or any at all. Yeah,
all right, what else you got? I also recently watched Out of Darkness.
Oh okay, this came out earlier in the year. It was in
theaters and if you blinked, you probably missed it. But it's it's really
good. It's set in It's set forty five thousand years ago during the Stone
Age. It's a horror thriller. The director, it's his first movie,
Andrew Cumming, and I can't wait to see what he does next. He
brought so much tension to it, and you know, it's sort of it's
sort of about survival, you know, with the elements and everything, but
then there's a question that there might be something else lurking out there with the
you know, outside of this family that's trying to survive. And Yeah,
because I see so many horror movies, it takes a lot to really scare
me. But there were definitely parts in the movie where I was definitely on
the edge of my seat, so it was very well done. Nice.
And then from Kenot Laiber the minus man, ooh, nice, I do
need that one. Have you seen this? I've not seen it, but
also sounded compelling. Oh, it is really good. I had seen it
when it first came out, but hadn't seen it since. So it's from
nineteen ninety nine. It was at the Sundance Film Festival in competition, and
I had seen it shortly after that. And yeah, it's it's more of
like an art house character study of a serial killer more than a thriller.
But yeah, Owen Wilson stars in it, and it's one of his best
performances, and he's definitely the friendly serial killer you ever want to meet,
like to the point where he doesn't want to cause pain to his victims.
I'm not giving anything away because you've on this out in the opening scene,
but like, he'll just he'll just poison people. He'll put poison in a
drink and whatever this poison is, it basically takes them out within minutes and
they just pass away painlessly and and he goes to a new town and yeah,
he meets uh, he gets a job at at a at the post
office, and he meets a woman played by Janine Garoffalo, and you're sort
of she's excellent in it. And this came out like, you know,
right at like when she was really big, like shortly after like romy and
Michelle and the truth about cats and dogs and around, and she's so good
in it, and yeah, there's sort of like a possible romance that forms
between the two of them, but you're afraid for her at the same time
of what he might do to her. But it's it's it's, yeah,
a really good film. It's very subtle, it's not. Yeah, it's
not a showy movie, but it's it's one that really keeps you thinking at
the end. Very nice. Uh. I am eager to get that one
soon. For sure. It looks great. And Owen Wilson has He's had
lots of ups and downs, obviously, but man, this one sounded pretty
fantastic. Yeah, I definitely recommend it. And then I've got Rent to
Cop with Burt Reynolds and Liza Minellie and it lived up to the cover.
Yeah, that's all you can ask for. It's not it's not necessarily good,
but it's exactly what I wanted out of it. Yeah, it's like
a romance. And then at the same time there's a killer who's out to
off just e Liza Minelli because she's got in the middle of this drug bust
and she saw the you know, a lot of the people that were involved
in it, so they're trying to kill her. And it's got great photography
of there. It starts with this great aerial shot of Chicago during the opening
credits and just this like cheesy eighties ballad score that I absolutely loved, and
it's just perfectly with it and yeah and yeah. And then at the end,
or not at the end, but midway through it, Dion Warwick shows
up and I was shocked, and just seeing her and Liza together was sort
of low key my version of Avengers Endgame. So so that was a good
line. But again, it's not good, but it's entertaining. That's for
a movie like that, that's about all you can ask for anything else?
Or is that the the end of the list for the week? These are
the last two. So I've got door two. Oh nice, Door two.
I recently watched The First Door, and yeah, this couldn't be any
different than The First Door. The first one, yeah, it's about a
ador to to door salesman who become sort of obsessed with this housewife. And
this one is about a sex worker and it's more of like an erotic drama.
It's surprisingly funny in parts, like it like it had me rolling,
Like at the end, you've seen it, right, Oh yeah, the
last scene at the wedding when you know, without giving anything away, when
she gets up and gives her speech, it was absolutely hilarious. Yeah.
I watched this one specifically multiple times because I had to watch it on Silent
while putting Will's commentary on there with Nina K. Martin, And yeah,
this movie is this movie's wild. So yeah, I enjoyed it though it
was it was really good. And then the last one that I watched from
Deaf Crocodile is The Mysterious Castle of the Carpathians. Have you seen this one?
I've not watched this one yet. This is on my soon list.
It is insane. I'm so glad that I saw it. It's definitely I
know people throw this around a lot, but it truly is unlike anything else
I've ever seen. Yeah, it's it's steampunk, it's hard, it's fantasy,
it's opera, it's money python all rolled together. The production design is
amazing. It's just Yeah. When it was over, I wasn't sure what
I had just seen, but I was happy. I saw that. That's
probably about seventy three percent of deaf crocodile releases. I'd say, yeah,
that's that's a pretty accurate assumption. There the ones I can talk about.
I watched a whole one this week. That's not stuff I'm working on,
but it was a doozy. I'm sure you've seen this one because it feels
like it's right up your alley. I watched the Criterion release of Four Months,
three weeks, and two days from two thousand and seven. It is
a Romanian film about a woman that is pregnant and trying to find a way
to quote take care of it with discretion and put yourself in just some awful
situations to try to do it. And it's all about the hardship's face while
going for that. I can't even say procedure, I guess, but just
facing that in a country that is unaccepting and man, what a timely movie
to watch in twenty twenty four in the US. This movie is rough.
I watched this with my wife and her friend, and man, did it
piss the three of us off quite a bit. But I do want to
say primarily, it really showed everything that I wanted to see a movie like
this. It really captured the differences in classes over there. It really shows
you how, especially in very specific scenes, like how haphazardly some of these
people are forced to live because of the conditions the trials that face somebody,
because they are essentially viewed as less than And yeah, great movie, yeah,
isn't it. It's set in nineteen eighty seven and it's during I don't
know who who who the president was, but it was like during his dictatorship
or something. But yeah, I guess one of the when we had talked
earlier this week and you had mentioned that you had seen something that you really
loved. And one of the nice things about Letterboxed is I kind of put
together what it was and had I had the movie on Criterion and I'd never
watched it, so I watched it. Nice, what do you think?
So I watched it last night and it was amazing. It won the Palm
d'Or it can that year, and I mean, I can definitely see why.
I mean, the amount of tension in this film, like it's out
outrageous and it's it's enraging, like the subject matter, but also, yeah,
just the way that it follows these two women and yeah, it's yeah,
the tension that builds and you don't know what's exactly going to happen,
and and plus their surroundings seem not all that great anyway. There's also one
scene set at a dinner table that was one of the most claustrophobic things I've
ever seen in my life. It sort of reminded me of, oh,
my goodness, what's it called the movie with the Shiva Baby. Yes,
it had that same feel to it. It's like forced, forced ringe comedy
at the end of the day. It's not comedy in the moment, but
afterwards you're like, hah, oh, that was awful and we made it
and it's such a wonderfully written film. And I again being a little cagy
about some of the details because I hope some people hear this and go watch
it, because there's so many things, like just by saying it's about somebody
facing an abortion is kind of a bit of a spoiler because they don't even
mention that for the first thirty minutes of the movie or something. It is
something that they set it up like almost anything could be happening. If you're
astute enough to understand romania in the eighties, you probably get what's going on,
but they don't outright say it until it's like, oh, we're already
in a situation that feels really bad because of it, and now that they're
in that situation, you don't think things can get worse, and it just
keeps getting worse. But one thing I pointed out in my review, which
I really want to say with the writing with this, the thing that compliments
it perfectly is the way that they feel it because it is mostly steadycam for
the first I don't know, seventy five percent of the film or eighty percent
of the film, and then something happens and there's a desperation moment, and
from that point forward it is shaky cam and it's like this this climax of
we thought we were in control and now holy shit, everything is out in
the open, everything is out of our control. I don't know what to
do, and because of that, they add with that camera movement, the
feeling of that absolute tension and worry of like at any point we could all
be arrested and just the rest of our lives have ruined. Ronnie's asking what
movie we were talking about. We were talking about four months, three weeks,
and two days. It is a Criterion release, and yeah, it's
one of the better films I've seen in a while. I would agree.
This movie is astonishing. Still in print from Criterion, all of the sales.
You can get it for twenty bucks. Please pick this up. Added
to your wish list. It is remarkable. Yeah, and I also want
to I'm really curious to see the directors of other films, because I think
Criterion has put those out as well. I think his next film was Beyond
the Hills, and then there's another one called Graduation, So I really I'm
curious to check those out. Now. Well, now, we always talk
about pickups, and you always got a bunch, So let's hear what you're
excited to have. Pick I'm gonna get. I'm gonna go quick through this
because I have a lot I recent, all right, So I got a
Hamlet with Ian McKellen. And this is a state like a film stage version
of Hamlet that was done in London last year. So I got that.
It's rare that those get releases. That's nice. Yeah, and yeah I
try to pick those up when they do, just because, yeah, I
wish they did more of those. Affliction from Shout Select. I saw this
when it came out, and I believe nineteen ninety eight and I ninety seven,
and I remember absolutely loving it. But I don't remember anything about it
except there's a lot of yelling. I want to pick this one up,
but what what kind of pisses me off? Here? It's a Paul Schreider
film coming out through Shout in an eco case with no booklet and like next
to no special features. Yeah those are better than that, come on right.
And also it's really flimsy like it's yeah, it's in an eco caase
like you said, and it's I mean, even as far as ecocases go,
it's it's yeah, it's very just it feels like you could fall apart
at any second. I got Lisa Frankenstein, even though I know the four
case coming I hope, so I also got Fallen leaves movie Nice. From
Movie I haven't seen it yet, but I'm really curious to see it.
Two new criterions to die For and work Master Harmonies. I love to die
for. It's one of my favorite Nicole Kinman performances and one of my favorite
gust Van Sant films. I've never seen Workmeister Harmonies, but neither it sounds
great. This one I got just for the curiosity of it, but I'm
kind of scared to watch it. It's Goodbye Uncle Tom. I've heard a
lot of different things about that one. Patrick, which is from Indicator look
At, which one of my pickups is, Yeah, I've never seen Patrick.
I honestly, I don't think I've ever seen it either. And then
from Second Site, I got green Room Possessa. I'm so dying to get
green Room in Yeah. The one year that I went to that actually made
it physically to Sundance was the year that green Room was there and I saw
it at Sundance, So that was That's sort of a cool memory there.
And the very last thing I got, and I just got it today in
the mail. It is the first grave faced title. Oh wow, nice.
So I cannot wait to check this out. How is it in person?
I've still not seen. I love the packaging, I love Chloe's art.
It's it's very nice. The it has like a like a one third
slip on it. I'm not sure what you would call that. They're calling
it an obi by the way. Yeah, it's it's very tight. I
got it out, but it's uh, it's kind of hard to oh there
it is. It does come off, but it's a little tight. But
it's very nice. So I was very excited to get that nice that release
of Hamlet. Did you get that on Amazon UK? Yes? Yeah,
Stan is asking where because he wants not once, sorry, he needs it
right now. Yeah, yeah, I ordered it from Amazon UK. Will
is pointing out that you have a review of Affliction on your website from ninety
seven, and he says, I wonder if your take on it has changed
in thirty years. That has to be one of the earliest reviews that I
have that hasn't been lost. And I'm horrified if you read that, because
it's probably not very good. I would be curious to see too. What
you know my opinion has changed in the last thirty years because I gave it
four stars back then. Wow, all right, so mine I got into
from the buy to get one target thing that they were doing, and like
I said, one of them was the four K release of Patrick. I
do want to say loving these slim line Deluxe Indicator packages. This is a
really nice way to save space and give it its due in a really really
nice package, and liked it so much, figured i'd pair it with Cold
Eyes of Fear. This is the other one came out around the same time.
These are both four k UHD releases, both numbered, both hard box
releases, both thin compared to their old kind of giant box single style release.
And then I got two from the Keno sale that I wanted to highlight
quite a bit because I don't see these covered very often. They are too
I guess you call them box sets even though they're kind of just in a
single case. This first one is three discs and it is the Joachim pedro
De Andrade Complete Film a box set. This is one of the major Brazilian
filmmakers out there, and very cheap in the Keno sale, I believe you
can still get it sales still going on right now. And then the other
one that I've been wanting for years, and I finally was able to get
it, the Jewish Soul ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema box set. I have
to get that. Yeah. Yeah. On celasts, she had a Keno
sale video yeah last week, and she was talking about that one. And
because I don't think I was even familiar with it before I saw that video,
but now I want that it. Yeah, it looks great, and
it's one of their like slip case releases, and it's got twenty four page
booklet in side. It's got commentaries, it's got restored versions of films,
it's got alternate versions of films. It's got ten full films in here,
most maybe all, all of them in black and white, ranging from nineteen
thirty seven all the way up to nineteen fifty. I mean, this is
great. Humboldt Whorr says, what's the third one I got from the Target
sale? A pre order that was around the same price, and that'll be
coming in in a couple weeks, I believe. Tony says, I'm surprised
you didn't get Snapshot. I'm an idiot who already has three copies of Snapshot,
I think, and didn't need the four K. I've been trying to
collect those with that packaging. But Snapshot was one I didn't get just because
I already have the nice vinegar syndrome version, so I had that one,
and I had the eighty eight Films version, and I think I have an
old DVD from somebody to too many releases of it. It's a good film,
but I love the alternate title the Day after Halloween and it's like set
in the summer. Yeah, yeah, alright. Anything else that you want
to bring up before we head into our announcements for the week, sir,
nothing, I think we're good. Last thing I'll say everybody should check out
Dustin's book. I know I've already said at the beginning, but I know
we've picked up viewers since then. Link for his book is in the description
below, followed Dustin Facebook, Instagram, everywhere. He is great. Craig
just got his Departed four case shipped. I'm eager to check that one out
again. I was just talking about that earlier today actually, but now we
get to talk about mister Orson Wells. First release of the week, June
eleventh, Keno is releasing Orson Wells's Macbeth from nineteen forty eight. This is
going to be a pretty big release for them. Two discs special edition,
including the original nineteen forty eight two hour cuts replete with overture, exit music
and affected Highland burrs, and then the nineteen fifty paired down eighty five minute
re release which xcized most of the accented acts dialogue. We've got a new
audio commentary by Tim Freakin' Lucas. We also got an audio commentary by Joseph
McBride, who had did the biography of Orson Wells. We've got some archival
stuff, but I'm sure this is one Dustin's gonna have a lot to talk
about. Well, I haven't seen it, but I absolutely need it.
Yeah, I've seen the I've seen the Roman Polanski version of McBeth, and
I've seen the Joel Cohen Macbeth, but I haven't seen the Orson Wells one.
And yeah, I was actually I was looking back to see if it
had been previously released, and it had, so I think this is just
you know, with a slip and yeah, a new restoration. So yeah,
since I don't have the other ones, I definitely would like to get
this one. The previous release was by all of and it's got. I
think it was one of their very early releases, like twenty twelve or thirteen,
So just the restoration on this loan would have made this a pretty great
upgrade. Yeah, there's gonna be a solid release. I'm glad and anything
that Tim Lucas is involved in. I like to watch Bingo. Next on
our list is Sting July ninth, coming on Blu Ray from Wilgo. We
know nothing about special features, but this is one of the brand new films.
I feel like I remember seeing you had seen this one? Is this
one you saw? No? I have not seen dang uh eager to see
this. I'm sorry to cut you off, but I just remembered one.
One thing that I do want to quickly mention is that I just saw Abigail
tonight. Oh how was it? I totally forgot? So maybe that tells
you so it was. I it was good, but I feel like it
could have been so much better if they had not given everything away in the
trailer. It's the sort of thing where you know, for anybody, if
anybody hasn't seen the trailer, be thankful and try to avoid it and don't
watch. The movie sort of treats it as a mystery for the first half
about what's going on, and then when you find out what's going on,
you're like, well, the trailer already told me that, right, there's
a few other surprises towards the end, so you know, And it's very
I mean, Alisha Weir who plays the little girl Abigail, she's excellent in
it. She sort of reminded me of Kirsten Dunst in Interview with the Vampire,
that sort of it gave me that sort of vibe. And and Catherine
Newton was in it, and she's having a really good year with Lisa Frankenstein
and now this she's really good in it. Yeah, I just wanted to
say that to sorry to go back to what I just recently seen, but
I wanted to mention that because I just saw you're totally fine. I wanted
to know so that that's a good, good call there. But yees STI
looks decent. I'm a fan of some of the Spider movies that have come
out, and i'd be here to check this out. Well. Go kind
of like quietly doing pretty damn great over the last year or so, like
getting releases for stuff that usually would never get a release, So I'm very
happy to see stuff like this happening. Yeah, I was surprised how how
wide it went in theaters. Yeah, absolutely surprised. Next up, Magic
Mike. Yes, that Magic Mike is coming on four K on May fourteen
for Warner Brothers, Dustin, how do you feel about Magic Mike? I
actually like it, and I'm probably in the minority that I prefer it over
the second one. I know a lot of people think the second one's better.
It's more of a comedy, whereas the first one is more of like
a slice of life of Yeah, these strippers, but I would totally get
this. But I'm just they finished the trilogy, so why not why not
make like a box set with all three of them? Right? Right?
But maybe someday, hopefully we shall see. Next title is also for Warner
Brothers. They are putting out twelve Strong. Whoops, tap that twice twelve
Strong on four K on May fourteenth as well. This is the Chris Hemsworth
war movie that I for some reason, I don't know if it's just me,
I was immune to it. Nothing about the marketing for this movie ever
captured me. I just said, yeah, I don't, I don't have
any desire to see this all. So yeah, I have the Blu ray
of it and had never watched it, and so when I saw this was
announced, I decided to watch it. So I this was another one that
I watched this week, and I'm glad that I did because it told me
that I do not need the four K not great, huh. I haven't
thought about it since I saw it, so that checks out, Sorry to
remind you. Then, next one, this is pretty huge Imprint getting their
next TV release July seventeenth. They're doing The Persuaders, the complete series from
nineteen seventy one, and just like all of their TV releases, it is
I don't even know like the right word to use here, Like overwhelming,
I guess would be a good good word. This is a twelve disc set
with all twenty four digitally restored episodes, all eight of the feature film versions,
and then a gold class lineup of special features, including so many to
list that I literally can't even put like a third of them in the Instagram
post. And then they've got a bonus disc in here featuring the original cuts
of the four feature films. This is beyond stacked. This is just everything
you could possibly fit. This is massive. Yeah. When I saw this
was announced, decided to watch the entire series this week. Now just kidding,
No, I didn't go that far. Maybe next time, Dustin you
let us all down. How many of the feature film version? I'm just
kidding. Had you ever seen this at all? I've never heard of this,
so I had not either. I watched the trailer. Looks pretty damn
great. A lot of the stuff that Imprint has done has been more of
like the British film variety, like the Avengers that they did. I gotta
admit I got the Avengers in and loved it way more than expected. I
have a feeling this would probably be about on the same path. I'm eager
to see it. It looks very good. But Imprint stuff, when they're
doing TV, it is not a joke. If you're even like partly interested
in the TV stuff that they're putting out, you might wanna. You might
want to jump on it because these are like definitive sets for these film or
TV. I guess it looks like a great package. Sure does. Next,
Pino announced a brand new two K remaster coming on Blu Ray of Repossessed.
Now, this was I believe leaked a couple of years ago to supposedly
be coming from Vestron. It was never it was never officially announced, and
then this came out and Keno is working on it. It's again one of
those things where we don't have a release date, so who knows when,
but Repossessed finally getting a Blu Ray release for everybody that's dying to see it.
How do you feel about Repossessed, Dustin? Well, yeah, when
when you had posted about this announcement, there was someone in the comments who,
of course said why do we need this on Blu Ray and you said
because, I guess, well, for nostalgia of purpose is because a lot
of people really enjoy it. And that's definitely for me. Like I think
I was growing up at the exact time that this came out, and it
was perfect for me. And I was a fan of the Exorcist anyway,
So I mean, I can't even remember when this one was being filmed and
Entertainment Tonight was covering it, and I like couldn't believe that Linda Blair was
back and you know it was a spoof and Leslie Nielsen was in it,
and you know, I can't say you know, it's probably been twenty years
since I've seen it now, so I'm curious to watch it again to see
how it holds up. But I definitely have that nostalgia factor for it,
so yeah, I'll definitely be picking it up though, So we definitely the
Sulu. It was definitely needed on Blu Ray. I gotta admit it was
a funny timing thing. I can't remember it was the exact same day,
but right around here I think it was a paramount announced a reboot of a
very I'm not even gonna go down the path, but like you're rebooting something
that's very near and dear to Leslie Nielsen after he's gone. Uh, kind
of hurt a little bit. But either way, I'm glad that somebody will
love it, and hopefully that excites more people into checking out the originals.
H Craig says Blu Ray will at least get us close to what it was
supposed to look like originally, perfect example of a film that doesn't need a
four K release though. That is true, and yet if you look at
the comments on Facebook, you will see seven people that will argue with you.
I mean, whenever anybody yeah comments about you know who who was asking
for this on Blue ray or who needs this? I feel like everything deserves
to be on Blue ray, just for the preservation alone. Like I don't
know everybody, it's someone's favorite. I think I've heard that before. I've
tried to stop saying that as much. Next this one came a little out
of nowhere, and I'm actually very curious to see if you've seen this.
Media OCD, which is a company that was attached to some discothech releases.
They're putting out their own deluxe edition of Too Much Sleep. This is a
film from nineteen ninety seven, is coming on Blu Ray on May seventh.
It is a deadpan comedy film that is directed by David mckilling. Have you
seen this? I have not. I had never even heard of this before
this announcement. Yeah, I hadn't either, but yeah, just reading the
synopsis, I was very intrigued by it. So we'll pass that info along
for everybody. It says Jack is stuck in neutral. He lives with his
mom in suburban New Jersey, works as a security guard, and can barely
get out of bed in the morning. All that changes when he sees a
cute girl on the bus and then realizes seconds later that his gun is missing.
Desperate to find it, he enlists the help of a fast talking,
middle aged maybe gangster named Eddie, who sends Jack on an epic quest to
explore the darkest, strangest corners of American suburbia. Well Jack ever find his
gun, or, better yet, maybe that cute girl from the bus.
This sounds pretty damn interesting and very out of nowhere to have this random new
boutique putting this up here. So is this their first release as far as
I can tell, Yes, they've helped with other releases, but this is
the first one I believe that they specifically are putting out under media. OCD
Humboldt says, watch the trailer and it looks interesting. Craig says, I've
heard of this. Yeah, Next up here is a big one. Keno
announced a little Nick Cage movie called Snake Eyes, coming on four K at
some point. Again, no release dates. This is great though, any
more DiPalma movies is a win in my book. I don't understand why this
one's always got a little bit of hate, But how do you feel about
Snake Eyes? Dush, It's definitely grown grown on me over time. I
remember when I saw it when it came to theaters and wasn't the biggest fan
of it, although I absolutely love the opening scene. It's like this really
long ten or fifteen minute one shot and it's just amazing as it follows the
Nicholas Cage character through this arena. Very well done and very DiPalma esque.
But yeah, I've seen it several times since then and definitely like it now.
And yeah, I'm very happy that it's getting a four K. I
know a lot of people are hoping that there might be deleted scenes finally,
because apparently there was some famous original ending that had to do with like the
hurricane outside that's going on or something. But you know, even if we
don't get it, I'm happy that this is coming up. Yeah, this
is this is a big one. There are still lots of to Palma films
that we could have decent releases for, especially some of the more modern stuff
from to Palma. I know that those get overlooked quite a bit, but
I really wish somebody just took took a little bit of a leap and got
some more eyes on those movies. It's it's crazy that we have somebody like
Brian to Palma, and movies come out and they just literally get forgotten,
and it's like this, this is the guy that made carry and we're just
kind of turning our back up. What do we do it? Yeah,
exactly, couch Uh, Craig, This is not the cover art, by
the way, Craig says, glad we got the entire movie poster building block
on the cover art. This is just literally the poster. This will come
later. We'll find out what the cover is eventually. Next up Criterion.
We got a lot to talk about with Critter this week or this month,
i should say rather. First off, a huge month for Criterion. I'm
sure most people would agree, although I did see a couple of people with
the whole nothing for me this month about criterions, like, well there's some
classics, let's not talk like that. I'm so tired of people like that
who just like to whine about everything just because you're not interested and something doesn't
mean other people are. Yeah, I don't understand, especially with a month
like this. Ak you how you can see everything that they've I won't say
fixed, because they solve a lot of problems, but they've turned the Tide
on four K, and we have a month where literally everything is four K
except for one release, and it's one that already came out from a boutique
label that is attached to Radiance, So a lot of people might already have
that other film already on Blu Ray. But either way, this is a
massive month, so let's get into it. First off, July second,
four K and Blu Ray release of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid from nineteen
seventy three, a peck and Pop film. I forgot to check. I
don't remembers. Somebody in the chat correct me if I'm wrong, or Dustin
if you know. Is I feel like this might be the last of the
at least the big peck and Paw movies that we needed on Blu Ray.
I think there might be one more. Yeah, I'm not sure. I
can't remember, but this is huge. This is like monumental type of announcement.
Yeah, I'm really curious to see this. I've never seen this one
before. I know that there was some some controversy about some cut not being
included or something, but I think there are three cuts still involved, so
I don't know. The big thing is, this doesn't have the quote TCM
cut that played on Turner Classic Movies. So this is going to include new
four K digital restoration of the the fiftieth anniversary release, supervised by editors Paul
Sator and Roger Spottiswood. We've got a new four K digital restoration of the
original theatrical release, which is pretty damn cool. We got an audio commentary
for the fiftieth anniversary release featuring Sadr Spottiswood, and then adding in critic Michael
Sregau. Two four KUHD discs of the films presented with Dolby Vision HDR two
Blu rays with the films and special features. We've got let's see new interview
with author Clinton Halen about the film soundtrack, Peck and Pau's Last Western,
a new program about the making of the film on archival, interview with James
Coburn, trailer and TV spots, and then an essay by author and critic
Steve Ericsson. And one thing to note, this is not like the already
four k's on this slate. This one is actually going to be a seventy
dollars MSRP release rather than fifty, so instead of the normal on sale twenty
five. This will be thirty five on sale, and then specifically it's because
it's a four disc release. So yeah, huge release. Uh, Peck
and Paw, how do you feel about packing Paw? I? Well,
I've seen a few of his movies. I've seen Straw Dogs and Bring Me
the Head of Alfredo Garcia, but I really feel like he's one of those
sort of blind spots for me where I haven't seen a lot of his films.
Yeah, so I really and even those two that I mentioned, it's
been years since I've seen them, so I'd really like to to do a
revisit on those and check out more of his stuff. And yeah, this
looks like a great release. I'm sure I'll be picking this one up.
So Dude, McMahon says, there's a cookie cutter Western from the sixties that
VCI has on DVD, but this is the last big one that we didn't
have on Blu Ray, so that is awesome. Uh. Will is saying
that they're there's a commentary stuck on the DVD that includes Nick Redman that was
not poured it over, obviously interesting. Yes, Spaghetti says it's already on
Blu Ray, but I would totally take an updated Wild Bunch. I hope
we get that. I think that's Warner, and I think that's one of
the main reasons why we don't have that four K of that one, when
that would be a good question. Next one, another stone cold classic Le
Samurai from nineteen sixty seven. This one's coming on four K on July ninth,
and even comes with updated art. This one's a little different than the
blue ray art obviously, and we've got special features all over this one.
Le Samurai. How do you feel about this one? They're dustin. This
is another I haven't seen, but I absolutely love that cover. Yeah,
this is this is a pretty dang good cover on this one. And yeah,
I tried to because I do have the Blu ray of it and I
just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. So I tried to watch this
one too, but I just didn't have time. You don't say over everything
else that you've been watching. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest, I've never
seen this one either. I've meant to watch this, meant to watch this
for a long time, specifically because friend of the channel, Hunter Robinson,
that's been on the channel multiple times. I believe this is his favorite film
of all time, and he's been gushing about it for so long. I'm
dying to see it. And Hunter's coming back on the channel here soon,
so maybe I can get it watched before he's here. Yeah, this one
looks great, looks like a solid release again, an absolute stone cold classic,
one that absolutely nobody should be deriding. As a release from Criterion.
It's as John Piter Millville come on then, Perfect Days one that somebody else
already brought up in this episode. Vin Vendor's Perfect Days coming to four K
blu ray and DVD from Criterion on July sixteenth. Very new film from a
very big tour. Obviously, this one has a four K digital master.
This one will also have HDR on the disc. They don't say Dolby Vision,
so it's probably only EHDR ten. There's a new interview with Wender with
VIM Vendors. On this interview with the actor Koji Yakusho, there is a
short by VIM Vendors featuring a new introduction by the director, and then an
interview with producer Cogi and I, founder of the Tokyo Toilet Project, and
an essay by film critic Bill Jabiri. Perfect Days I've not been able to
see this yet. I know you've gushed once, why don't you tell us
about Perfect Days? They're dustin Well, it's I mean, in a nutshell,
it's the most beautiful film you'll ever see about a sanitation worker. It's
just it follows him day to day through his life, basically, you know,
going to clean all of the public restrooms throughout Tokyo and Yogi. What
is his name, Koji Yakusha. He won the Best Actor award at cann
last year, and I'm shocked that he wasn't talked about for any awards this
year as far as like the Oscars or anything. He is extraordinary in this
The last you know, without giving anything away, the very last shot of
the movie, it's basically just a close up on his face for an extended
period of time, and the amount that he says without saying anything at all
is just mind blowing. But it's it's such a beautiful movie. And ever
since I saw it, I've also had the Lou Reed's song Perfect Day stuck
in my head. I absolutely love that song and and it plays a pretty
pivotal part in the movie. So I highly recommend this one. It's it's
it's it's a really good one. July sixteenth. Like I said, next
up July sixteenth, Blu ray and DVD release from Criterion, Black God,
White Devil. As I mentioned, this one was previously released by Maywou Films
over in the UK. They are a hosted label with Radiance, so you
can get this through the Radiance Film site. I believe Orbit was carrying this
for a while. You can probably still get it through them. If it
wasn't selling, Orbit might have stopped importing it. But this is one that
is supposed to be a seminal, amazing, ridiculously great, fantastic release from
nineteen sixty four. I should probably watch this soon. It sounds like it'd
be perfect for me. I will say. The hard part is if you
have the Maywu release and this one is one that you love. This does
have some different special features, so you might feel compelled to pick up both.
But I gotta say I adore the cover art on this one. Like
a ridiculously great release. Just really really suggests people look into this one.
Check it out from either MAYWEO or Criterion. Obviously MAYWEU could probably use your
money a little more than Criterion, but either way, support film, give
it a watch. Any thoughts? Did you pick up the Mayweo one on
this? No? I did not. Yeah, I don't know anything about
this before this announcement, but this is another one that I'm really interested in.
This is the filmmaker on this bio. The way is Glauber or Rocha's
supposed to be great next release though this is a big one too. Farewell
My Concubine. This is coming on four K and Blu Ray July twenty third.
I believe this is only the second mainland China film that Criterion has put
out something like that. This one is from nineteen ninety three, and it
says a breathtakingly intimate romance unfolds against a sweeping backdrop of social upheaval and renowned
director Chen Kaije's sumptuous saga of passion, fate, and the transcendent possibilities of
art, spanning fifty years of twenty century Chinese history. Farewell My Concubine follows
aspiring actors Daye and Jiaolu as they emerge from a childhood of brutal training to
become Beijing opera stars, with life mirroring art as Dae's unrequited love for Jaolu
and the country's changing political tides engulfed them in their own personal tragedies of jealousy
and betrayal. The first Chinese film to win the Palm d'Or is epic filmmaking
of the highest order, visually and emotionally, ravishing from frame to exquisite frame.
This one is coming on four K and also has a Blu ray with
it. It has new conversations between Chinese cultural studies scholar Michael Barry and the
producer Janet Yang. A documentary from two thousand and three on the making of
the film interviewed from ninety three with the director, conducted by journalist Charlie Rose.
Trailer on this plus an essay by author and scholar Pauline Chen. I
have still yet been able to see this one, Dustin, have you seen
this one? I saw it when it when it first came to video,
so I was probably like eleven or twelve. This is fully appropriate for eleven
or twelve year old, but and I don't remember too much about it,
but I remember it was very buzzy when it came out. It was very
acclaimed, and I I remember enjoying it, but I mean, you know,
I'd be very curious to revisit it because it's been so long, and
I'm sure my tastes have completely changed since I was eleven or twelve so well,
and the images I've seen from this one, this one screams for a
great looking four K, so I'm hoping that they make this one look gorgeous.
I wish there was Doloby vision. I'm not even seeing any mention of
HDR unless they've updated the listing since I posted the announcement, so hopefully it
looks great. Finally, this is a big one. July twenty third on
four km blu Ray. Criterion is releasing Risky Business. Yes, Tom Cruise's
Risky Business, and uh man, the amount of people that I saw I
saw complaint that Criterion would go so low to release Risky Business. How do
you feel about that argument? Dad? Justin Well, by my face,
you probably know that I don't feel that way. I read that this was
Tom Cruise's first film that's been in the Criterion collection. Is that true?
That is one hundred accurate. That's shocking. I think it's a great movie.
I I probably gravitated growing up I probably gravitated more towards like the or
the John Hughes types of teens movies, but I definitely really liked this one
one and probably appreciated it even more when I saw it as an adult.
So and yeah, a four K restoration and the amount of special features that
are on this, I'm I think this is a great choice for Criterion.
Well, speaking of extras, let's talk about that new four K digital restoration
of the director's cut and the original theatrical release, supervised and approved by the
director Paul Brickman. We've got one four K disc of the film prevent presented
in Dolby Vision HDR, and a Blu Ray audio commentary for the theatrical release
featuring Brickman, Abnet, and Tom Cruise, new interviews with Avnet and casting
director Nancy Klopper, new conversations between the editor Richard Chew and film His Story
and Bobby Osteen. There is a Story of Risky Business, a program featuring
interviews with Brickman, Abnet, cast members and others, some screen tests with
some of the actors, and then an essay by film curator and critic Dave
care I've always looked at this as much smarter than people give it credit for.
This is not surprising to me. This is a pretty solid pick.
Not only that we've seen over the last couple of years proof that every single
label needs to put out a film like Risky Business sometimes that will sell very
well on release that they can recoup some of the cost so that we can
keep getting some of the other obscure films that we are all dying to see.
So let's not complain. I see also that there's a comment, like
you said, a commentary that Tom Cruise is on. I'm assuming that's like
an archival commentary. It doesn't say, but I would bet yes. I
highly doubt Tom Cruise sits down for two and a half hours to discuss it
in the in the middle of filming his next Mission Impossible movie that he's been
filming since like twenty nineteen. I think he's been filming these two films since
twenty nineteen. At this point, it certainly feels that way. That's a
good comment. Blake. For the longest time, the only way to get
the Prince Song d ms R n CD was by buying the Risky Business soundtrack.
Wow, let's see, yes, dude, says my frustration is still
not having Born on the fourth of July on four K. But there's this
Obviously, it's just venting. They got to do what they got to do.
This is their four K answer to the Armageddon DVD. Kind I feel
like they've gone in a different direction from Armageddon at least I feel like I
was gonna say, I feel like if they were gonna put Born on the
fourth of July out that well, if I feel like they would have to
get the rights to Platoon and Heaven and Earth and sort of put all three
of them together, because it wasn't that like Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy. I
think so, Yeah, which that would be an amazing set. If they
were able to do that, it would and they could fix what's going on.
Eric from MVD rewind Yeah, if they could fix that really terrible Platoon
four K that's already out there, that that'd be pretty damn great. I
have that, but I haven't watched it yet because I've heard so many horror
stories I'm afraid to put it in. I was not talking down on Armageddon,
by the way, I think Armageddon's fun. Armageddon deserves a four K,
says Simner. All right, go into our next title. Let's go
over the UK. We've got a bunch of UK stuff to cover this week.
It was a myriad of UK only releases out of nowhere. Oh,
there we go, GK Fans says. The commentary is from the twenty fifth
anniversary DVD release. Nice. I wonder. I'm curious if Tom Cruise has
ever done any other commentaries, or if that's the only one he's ever done.
Because I killed man, I feel like he did. He not do
a top gun one at some point, not that I recall, but he
could have very well. All right, let's go. Let's go over to
the UK first. Another big name, Ken Russell's The Music Lovers coming to
Blu Ray on June seventeenth from BFI. This is going to have a new
audio commentary by Matthew Maleia interview with Alexandra Vernie Elliott from this year. Ken
Russell's son looks back on his father's work and remembers his own appearance in The
Music Lovers. That's pretty rad. And then there's a whole bunch of archival
features on here. And then they've got an illustrated booklet with new writing on
the movie by Matthew malea new essay by Carolyn Langhorst, and contributions from Alexander,
Vernie Elliott and Lacy Russell. I'm just glad more Ken Russell is coming
out there in a great release. Oh he did a video commentary for Jerry
McGuire. Oh I remember that. Yeah, yep, I've seen that one.
Hum interesting, Uh, Ken Russell, how do you feel about Ken
Russell over all their dustin? Yeah, he's very unusual, very but I
just every time I see a Ken Russell film coming out, I just always
dream that we're one step closer to The Devils. I well, and speaking
of BFI, they do have the best current release of it on DVD,
but yeah, it would be nice to get an updated thing. But I
guess my question is, I mean, I know there's the controversy involved in
Warner Brothers and all of that, but if they can put The Devils on
the Criterion streaming channel, why, like what how is that different than just
putting out a nice Blu ray release of it? If? If I remember
right, that streaming version was still the cut version, it was not the
uncut version. I don't think legally the uncut version has ever been released.
Oh really, Oh I didn't know that, or if not, it's it's
been a long time. Uh yeah, completely agree with John. I don't
think it's anywhere near as controversial as people think. Eric says it's because of
money. Yet that's probably a big part of it. Although you gotta imagine
at this point if they put out, if they put out The Devils,
they would make just huge hand over fist money. Oh my gosh. That
and also the lift. This is true. Yes, Ronnie and Tonia both
confirmed that it is the cut version that was the lift. The keep,
oh the keep, well, that one supposedly is the the elements are not
good enough to get that upgraded. HDI thought that is what they said.
I thought that it was just Michael Man not wanting to put it out or
something. The Devil's bigger, longer uncut studio's way the cost versus reward,
correct Eric, Yeah, that's a big thing, but you can't imagine what
the Devil's. The cost would outweigh the reward for this just just the amount
of positive publicity for the studio alone would be huge with them putting that out.
I don't know the cut scenes are in the documentary about it. Yes,
all right, so that is the Music Lover's next title. They are
also doing Die Monster Die from July twenty second. Somebody in the comments on
here said, or if you read this in German, it is the Monster
the So this is coming out. We've got an audio commentary by Vic Pratt
and William Fowler from this year. It's a new audio commentary by the founders
of the BFI Flip sideline and authors of The Bodies Beneath the Flip side of
British Film and Television. They're also going to be doing some other new extras
for this that they've not confirmed yet. This first pressing will have a booklet
just like most of the others. Oh geez, Craig says, here's an
offer. We will pay for the entire restoration of The Devil's manufacturing and distribution,
plus handover fifty percent of revenue for the rights to put out the film.
All right, Warner, if you're watching, yeah, get Warner Brothers
on the film. Oh man, Well, that's that's the frustrating thing.
And we're gonna talk about Warner later tonight, because Shout had announced some Warner
titles today. Actually, the really frustrating thing about this is Warner doesn't work
with basically anyone, and then they decide to work with Shout Factory, and
Shout takes their films and does next to nothing with it. Eric says he
can tell us why Warner won't do that? Tell us, Eric, please
tell us. So Yeah, that's die, Monster Die with Boris Karloff.
Next title is Remember from nineteen eighty two. This one's coming from BFI as
part of their Flip Side series on July fifteenth. This is set around the
pubs and clubs of the then notorious Union Street in nineteen eighty s Plymouth.
Colin Gregg's direction and Hugh Stoddard script skillfully cuts between the interweaving stories of several
characters as they prepare for the coming months at sea. The ensemble cast includes
early performances from the likes of Timothy Spall, John Altman and Gary Oldman.
In his big screen debut or why most big studios don't license? Please share
away type as fast as you can, Eric, Baby Oldman, Exactly what
is this? This is remembrance? So on this we're gonna have a newly
remastered from the OCN and presented in high definition interview with the director from twenty
twenty four, brand new interview with the director, interview with the screenwriter Hugh
Stoddard, interview with John Altman, and brand new for this we've got a
nineteen minute fallowing the Daily Lives the New Naval ratings from their arrival at training
establishment HMS Rawleigh. Will be a nice little featurette on there, and then
in that first pressing as usual, they've got a booklet and then they've also
got more extras on the way. Uh. Any any thoughts on the BFI
releases so far? They're dustin. I mean, I'm I'm sold just on
it being Gary Oldman's film debut. That's a big deal, especially for an
actor that most of us have come to love because he's He's one of those
that you know, blends into every single character he portrayed. I don't.
I still don't know what he really looks like because he looks different in every
role. I could pass it on the street, not not known. That's
really funny. Yeah, the cover art on these, I I agree there,
Craig. I know it's one of your big hang ups. It's they're
not super appealing. Unfortunately, next one BFI is releasing a dry Wine season
from nineteen eighty nine on June seventeenth on Blu Ray. This had a previous
Criterion release. This does say extras to be confirmed. No idea if it
will be able to compete with the Criterion release, but I'm just glad it's
coming out on Blue in another territory. Do you ever see a dry white
season? I have the Criterion and I haven't watched it. I've not seen
this one. I need to see it. I'd really love Donald Sutherland.
Yeah, Donald Sutherland is very I feel like I can say he's underrated because
I believe he's never been even nominated for an Oscar. I think I read
that and it completely shocks me. Okay, So Eric says, if a
studio rep in charge of catalog titles puts a deep catalog out and it doesn't
sell enough copies and it fails, it could affect their job. But I
really feel like the Devils would sell. The Devils is not one of those
that like that has like a no fail contract written into it. And then
he says, if a studio rep license is a deep catalog title to a
boutique company and they do great with it. Oh God, I'm gonna hate
this next tweet, aren't I? Oh no, Uh, it could affect
their job because they didn't do it themselves. Yep. That pisses me off.
So basically, the best thing to do is to not do anything because
there's no risk because you didn't see somebody else succeed and you didn't fail.
Yikes. Huh that's a good way to put it. I mean, yeah,
this is the obvious thing. John says. It probably would just be
Warner Brothers doing a Devil's four K themselves. But if if they think that
title too risky, that essentially indicates no title is worth putting out because that
is literally the most written about We're dying to see it on physical media title,
and if they're scared to do that one, then nothing is worth putting
out period. That's that's embarrassing, all right. Next announcement another BFI,
another one of big names, Heavenly Pursuits from nineteen eighty six. This is
coming on June seventeenth on Blu Ray with Helen Mirren and Tom Conti. This
one is supposedly pretty damn great. I read a little bit on this one
when I posted this. We got an interview with Tom County from twenty twenty
four. Brand new interview Helen Mirren speaking on the BFI stage in twenty nineteen.
There's a little interview with her. There is a thirteen minute short called
The Miracle. There is a nineteen minute show work called The Science of Miracles.
This is a little featurette from the BFI archive. And then they got
a BFI booklet in that first pressing. Of course, Eric says he worked
for several maybe yeah, And when I interviewed Eric, yeah, we talked
about that for just a minute. Worked for several studios. Seen at firsthand,
it's safer to do nothing good God well, Eric, since you've worked
in so many boutiques and not to not to run with this lett. We're
gonna talk about a Warner release coming in the UK tonight. That's this big,
fancy release of a major title. Why are they doing it in the
UK and not in the US. You don't think we're I know which one
you're talking about. You don't think we're days away from the US version being
announced. I think we'll get one in the US that will be much less
robust than the UK release, just like they did with the Exorcist, And
if you're not gonna do it for the Exorcist, why would they do that
for that title that we're gonna talk about in a little while. Yeah,
there's so many different questions that we could go down with the studio route for
sure. Next up, though, we've got some Umbrella announcements too. August
seventh, four K from Umbrella in Australia. We've got JSA the Joint Security
Area from two thousand. This one is a big deal because it's a Park
Chan Wook film JSA. Have you seen this one there, Dustin, No,
I haven't seen this one. What about Park chan Wook? I've seen
Old Boy and that's great, and I've seen did he do what's the title?
Devil is in the title? I'm trying to think what it is.
Wasn't the title that I can't remember? But I think that he did another
one if anybody knows. I think devil is in the title. But aside
from those two, I think those are the only two I've seen. Old
Boys a classic obviously. I highly recommend JSA. Absolutely love it. It
is really great. I love all this stuff. Thirst is the bigger one
that I recommend for people. It is one that definitely needs to be seen
to be believed. That movie is wild. Yeah, it would be a
good choice. Umbrella is doing some great stuff. Sadly they stop licensing to
MVD years ago. Yep, Umbrella's they're making some moves, but unfortunately mostly
in the packaging department. Or are you talking about I saw the Devil?
Yeah, I saw the Devil. I think he didn't direct it, I
know, I just looked it up. Yeap, that is ge Woon Kim.
Sorry, I was getting a message from somebody that might make a quick
appearance in just a little bit as a surprise. JSA totally worth it.
This one is coming as an Umbrella web store exclusive. If you get their
giant box set, this one'll have a forty eight page book featuring essays from
a whole bunch of individuals, custom art, rigid slipcase, eight art cards,
a reversible poster, and it'll be a limited copy. And then the
extras. We get a new commentary with Park chan Wook himself, a new
commentary with Park chan Wook, some of the actors from the film. We've
got all kinds of archival featurettes, and then some music videos. If you
love this movie. This is clearly the definitive release of this. But yeah,
this is a really good release. I do have the ARA release,
so I'm certainly not gonna grab this anytime soon. Yeah, love JSA strongly
recommend it. These ones. I've not seen some of these ones, but
man of these look good. August seventh, they're releasing Darling from nineteen sixty
five starring Julie Christie. Have you seen Darling? I have not. Damn,
go ahead, I'm slipping. I should I should have watched it before.
You can only watch forty movies before the show. I totally get it.
Yeah, this is another one that I'm just like, you know,
how have I not seen this before? And I definitely want to. It
looks incredible. Will says, Darling is the announcement of the week. That
is, Oh that's a lot of praise. Let me see, I am
spelling Brian's name wrong. This one is going to have again a forty eight
page book featuring a bunch of essays, eight art cards, original poster,
art slipcase, reversible poster, limited numbered case, and then a new commentary
by Howard s Berger and Nathaniel Thompson. We've got a piece on Julie Christia,
the sixty Zeitgeist by Professor Melanie Williams, and then Kim Newman on here
to talk about Dirk Boguard. Kim Newman, how do you feel about Kim
Newman, Douston. Have you watched much of his stuff? Yes? Yeah,
I love all of the stuff that Kim Newman does. Kim Newman is
great, and I always liked just looking wherever he, you know, because
he usually films this stuff. I'm assuming in his house and I just always
like looking at his bookshelves and all the books behind all right. Next up
from Umbrella is Dating the Enemy from nineteen ninety six, and it says Freaky
Friday takes a turn down under in the beloved rom com Dating the Enemy newly
restored and remastered from the Umbrella Vault with new written and video extras starring Guy
Pierce and Claudia Carbon as ex lovers who inexplicably likably switch bodies. This one.
If you get the big chunky package from them, it'll have a forty
eight page book again, custom art rigid slipcase, custom art slipcase inside of
that, eight art cards, reversible poster, numbered edition, new audio commentary
by the director Megan Simpson Sorry Megan Simpson Huberman and a cinematographer Steve Arnold,
new interview with the actor Matt Day, and then some interviews from nineteen ninety
six. Umbrella just kind of quietly killing the packaging game. Although every time
when I see this it reminds me of a ninety sitcom. Yeah, like
that looks you know, like a like a Will and Grace sort of show
or something. This is the prequel to Two Guys and Girl in the Pizza
Place, or like Caroline in the City or something like that. Yes,
I think Chris on Facebook sins I need food stamps that will work on Umbrella's
website. Oh man, that uh all right. Love and Other Catastrophes from
nineteen ninety six is the next one getting a release from them, this says,
Featuring a host of Australian icons including Kim Oh, how do you say
that? Last name? Ginjel I'm gonna say, Matt Day, and Rada
Mitchell, the film explores the humorous and sometimes tumultuous journey of young adulthood and
the quest for love amidst life's catastrophes. This one again forty eight page book
with a bunch of brand new pieces of essay writing. We've got original poster
arts on the slipcase, original poster art on the another slipcase on the inside,
eight art cards of reversible poster, new audio commentary with the director Emma
Kate Krogan, a new interview with Matt Day. There's so much coming from
them. Yeah, this one I actually am really looking forward to. I
have seen this one and it's been a long time, but I remember really
enjoying and I think it was the first film that I saw Rodi Mitchell in,
so this was like when she was still in Australia before she came to
the to the States. But yeah, I remember really enjoying this one,
so I'm very excited to check it out again. I love the one I
decided to not ask if you've seen it is the one that you have seen
it exactly. Next title is the one that I saw so many people excited
about. Umbrella is putting out the Prime Evils. This has a date of
twenty twenty three, but it goes a little deeper than that. This is
a film that's forty five years in the making from the late David Allen.
No monster or a special effects fani will want to miss this movie. This
is a glorious tribute to classic animation with a true sense of adventure that reminds
the audience why movies are magical. It was unfinished and left on the cutting
room floor for three decades. The epic sci fi adventure of the Prime Evils
from the infamous Full Moon features has been resurrected for the screen with two different
cuts of the film and a full feature length documentary. This one is going
to have a new video essay by Howards Berger on the Prime Evils and Lost
Films, Dark Dreamers episode by which is of Charles Band, video essay by
Jamie and Aspasia Leonard on Lost Monsters and Cryptozoology, a making of featurette,
and then an alternate extended version of the feature. This is crazy that they're
putting so much into this. I also would imagine because it's Full Moon,
no doubt this is getting at least one, if not about twelve different sort
of releases from Full Moon at some point. This should be region free,
but just an fyi, this will likely be coming out from Full Moon in
the US at some point. Yeah, this looks wild. Yeah, that's
some great packaging. That's what I can say about Umbrella, for the most
part, is great packaging. I wish that they were able to do some
more restoration work, but yeah, Humboldt says, I prefer this to the
James Cameron stuff. Moving right along to I Believe the last Umbrella announcement,
which is a huge month for them. Blu Ray release of The Quiet Family
by Kim G. Wound, who directed I Saw the Devil. That's what
I was thinking of. The Quiet Family is a darkly humorous musing on the
lengths people will go to protect their own interest. This one if you get
that big release from Umbrella, forty eight page book with a bunch of new
essays. We got a reversible poster, art cards, limited numbered release,
new audio commentary with Pierce Conran and James marsh, archival commentary with the director
and actor Song Kang Ho, interviews with the producers and actors. A forty
five minute short. Forty five minutes short called Coming Out by the director,
a making of featurette, some music videos and this looks like one I am
very eager to see. I love I Saw the Devil, obviously love A
tale of two sisters, too, But I saw The Devil as the one
that I'm a little more holding close to my heart. But yeah, I've
never seen this one. Yeah I haven't either, but yeah, I love
I saw The Devil and a Tale of Two Sisters, So yeah, yeah,
I definitely want to see this one. This looks pretty damn good.
Oh gosh, there's one more, and of course it's this and I forgot
it. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey too. If you got the
first one and I get so, I had to get this one. If
you want to complete the collection, you got to do it. And now,
honestly I feel like I should have got the first one because it would
be pretty cool to have both. Well, yeah, I'm glad that they're
at least following through with you know, the same formatting of the packaging.
So yeah, no matter what I thought of the first one, I absolutely
had to get this one, which I've actually heard the second one is better
than the first one, so I have as well. I believe John has
seen it, and I think he rated it higher. So this one is
going to have another big release, just like that first one. This will
have a ruined childhood sixteen page quote kids book called The Sticky Story of a
Bloody poo. Yikes. This one will be a custom design rigid K sixteen
art cards, sixteen wow reversible poster, limited numbered case, audio commentary with
the cast and crew, bunch of extras, deleted scenes, behind the score,
behind the scenes, audition tapes, interviews. All of that bonus stuff
very much goes in line with the first one. No, I believe they've
already announced a third one. There, Craig got to keep that pooniverse going.
I hate that term. I hate that all right, Moving right along,
Hey, I put out an interview with John sorry John, Josh Schaeffer
from Lunch Meet VHS this week. I am moving everything and bumping my camera.
Hope you check it out. It was fun. Josh is a very
passionate lover of analog video and you you will feel that watching that interview,
because man, he goes all in on VHS. And yeah, check it
out. Next, Mark Wahlberg and Arthur the King from twenty twenty four.
This is coming on May twenty eighth from Lionsgate. You see a lot of
new stuff that you happen to see this one. I didn't see this one,
but I absolutely loved the marketing that they did for this, where it
literally said in big letters on the screen, this dog survives because that's what
everybody's worried about, so right, it was kind of nice to It's kind
of nice to at least know that going into it. But no, I
didn't see this one. That's that's probably all right. Next another UK release,
Fabulous Films is putting out Backbeat from nineteen ninety four. This is coming
out on May sixth on Blu Ray. You might recognize some faces in this.
We got Stephen dorf Heart, Sherry Lee. Dave Grohl does some music
for this. This is supposed to be pretty good. I've never seen this.
Did you ever see Backbeat? I haven't, and I really, yeah,
I really, I've always wanted to see this and I just never have.
And yeah, I think Shout Select put it out and they did.
Yes, But yeah it sounds yeah, it sounds really good. Yep.
I'm eager to see this one. Yep. Moving to our next one.
Another UK release, Wicked Little Letters, coming on Blu Ray from Studio Canal
on May thirteen. This is an Olivia Coleman movie, which I feel like
she is in like seven movies a year. Right now. She's in this
with Jesse Buckley. This will have a couple of featurettes, but nothing crazy
on the release. I had never heard of this title until this got announced.
Have you seen or heard of this one? Yeah, I've heard really
good things about it. Yeah, it came out a few weeks ago around
here theatrically, but it's probably gone already a bit. Oh yeah, but
the people who saw it said it was really good. Oh yeah. I
got nothing against Olivia Coleman. I'm just amazed that she like she can just
happen to be everywhere. Please have her keep showing him. She's amazing everything
showing. Yeah, I think every movie would be better with her in it.
So well, Winnie the Pooh three, here we go, Well,
now I want that to happen. Another UK release, Cabrini, coming on
May twenty seventh on Blue Rays in the UK. Now, this one's interesting
because it got some It got some mild praise from a handful of people.
This one's got John Lithgow in it, so it's got some star power.
Did you see Cabrini? I have not, But am I the only one
who thinks of Candy Man when I see this title? I do as well.
Actually, and uh that made me more interested. But I'm sorry I
was gonna say I heard. I've also there have been news stories about people
going to see this but then accidentally ending up in the immaculate screening and and
something tells me they're very different films. Well, and if they're not,
I really want to see Cabreen. Uh so, what's interesting. Instagram cropped
this picture in a really odd way, and if you see at the top
here you'll you'll barely see just a little bit of it. At the top
of this case, it says from the studio that brought you the Sound of
Freedom, it's really weird marketing strategy to lay on something that was already controversial
for a lot of people. I feel like you would have been better just
leaving that alone. But uh, yeah, I don't know. Yes,
yeah, because it was such a big hit, but yeah, there's a
lot of baggage connected to it. Move into our next announcement, another UK
title, Variety I believe had a keynoverlease here in the States. This is
coming very soon, like in four days, very soon, April twenty second,
from a label called The Other Parties. They are releasing this if you
want. They have a lavish package with the VHS. I've got everything linked
here if you want it. I from what I can see, nothing in
the features is new. But if you really want to go all in because
you love this movie, it's a very limited package. I believe they only
had twenty five, so you might want to look it up. Glad this
is coming out for people so that they could have a chance to get this
in the UK. More territories with more films is always a good thing.
I've never heard of that label the other parties me neither, and when you
go to their site, I was very curious about this site because when I
went into it, the entire site was basically Variety and it seemed odd to
have an entire company just surrounding this film. So I'm not sure if this
is just their like their first title, or if they're just going all in
on it. Who knows, Yes, Craig, twenty five copies of the
VHS like special Fancy bundle. The regular release will have much bigger run.
I'm sure I think it is their first release. Sibner all right. Next
June eighteenth, Kino is releasing Blown Away from ninety four on four K and
Blu Ray. You got Jeff Bridges, you got Tommy Lee Jones on this.
You've got some archival commentaries, brand new HD master with Dolby Vision from
a four K scan of the OCN. No new features from what I can
oh wait, Sorry, there's a new one. Mike Leader and Arna Venema
do an audio commentary on this that's new. They don't build these as new,
which they normally do, so maybe the audio commentary Stephen Hopkins is new
as well, but I'm not entirely sure here. I've never seen Blown Away.
How do you feel about this one? Dustin? The thing that I
always think of is it came out in the summer of ninety four, around
the same time as Speed, and I think that that movie overshadowed this one
because it was so good, and I have seen that it's been a while,
but I mean, I remember it being a pretty solid, solid action
thriller. I kind of love Tommy Lee Jones, so even if it's not
solid, I'd probably still like it. Moving to our next one, speaking
of Immaculates, this is getting a Blu ray release in the States on June
eleventh, and a four K media book release on June eighteenth in Germany.
Neon and d KAL are handling the Blue in the States, and Cape Light
is handling the four K in Germany. Special features we have in commentary from
Michael Mohan, the director, and then on the German release, we've got
a two disc limited edition collectors of release. We don't have any details on
extras, probably the exact same commentary on that one. I would imagine we'll
also have a twenty four page booklet. But the odds are, and I'm
not saying this is a guarantee, but the odds are this will likely get
a four K release in the States. Eventually. This was a fairly big
hit for them, and Mohan is somebody that loves physical media. I would
not be surprised at all if eventually he came out with like an old Boy
style four K release? Has this is right? Yeah? Have they released
anything in four K? That Old Boy released from them? Was four K?
That fancy one? Yeah? This is yeah. I was trying to
tamper down my why why isn't this on four K? Thing? But I'm
gonna say it just this once tonight for this movie, because I really feel
like this would benefit for four K because it's it's beautifully shot but very dark,
and I think that that, yeah, it would look beautiful in four
K and it will. Uh yes, Celeste and h I shout out to
Dust and the goat. No, she's the good and Ryan, very very
dark movie. This will this will need four K. This is a movie
that some of the scenes in this it it needs that HDR to actually have
those those deep dark blacks, and uh, it'll look amazing. And again
I'm I'm willing to bet hard money that eventually this comes on four K in
the States from neon. So do you think I should get this or no?
Will debate after the stream for a minute. Next title American Fiction.
This is one that a lot of people were worried about not getting a disc
release at all because it had been so long since it came out. June,
Warner is releasing American Fiction themselves. This is the Jeffrey Wright film that
came out last year that made a run for quite a few oscars and is
great. I'm sure you saw this one. What'd you think of American Fiction?
Yeah, I'm glad that that it is finally being announced and yeah it
was. It was a really good movie. I don't know that I was
over the top in love with it like some people were. Well, I
don't know that I would really compare them because the other one's more serious.
But I liked Origin a lot more than this one. I really I loved
Origin. That was my second favorite movie of last year. But this does
have a well Jeffrey Wright is excellent in it, and the writing is really
sharp and really is very funny. Did you see that? I did.
Yeah, this movie is is great. I kind of wish I went and
saw this in the theater. I did watch this one at home. I
think that this movie shines literally in every single scene. Jeffrey Wright. How
does he not get more love for every single thing he touches? Yeah,
it was so nice to see him, you know, front and center in
a movie so often, you know, in supporting roles. So yeah,
it was it was great seeing him. Craig says a tennis friend of mine
hates this movie. Literally the only person I've heard anything bad about it from.
It's pretty funny. Hey, the Physical Media Advocate, we are putting
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printed and then you can pick up the next zine and you can see your
name in print. Next Paramount is re re re releasing Florist Jump on a
four K steal book on July second. From what I can tell, this
is not an updated four K restoration, which is unfortunate because the four K
for this is pretty awful. But it is going to have four discs or
sorry, five discs, a four K disc, a Blu ray disc,
and two CDs. I think it actually has two Blu ray discs. But
nothing really new unless you don't have all of the like the cdc antracks and
all that. This is a lot. We really don't need another release of
Forrest Gump, I don't think. And this is definitely not a new restoration
or anything. Nope, they if they, I think if it was a
new restoration, they would be advertising that like crazy good point moving right along,
this is a big one. Dony releasing Thunderheart on May twenty first.
This is one with Val Kilmer that a lot of people have wanted for a
long time. I've never seen thunder art. Have you seen this one?
Yes? And yeah, this will date me. I used to watch this
all the time on Laser Disc, and it's yeah, it's a it's an
excellent film. Yeah, and I probably haven't seen it since Laser Disc.
So yeah, when I saw this was announced, it was like a blast
from the past because I hadn't thought about it in so long, but I
just remembered that I really liked it, so I'm yeah, I'm definitely gonna
order this one. I got a lot of complaints that this one's not going
to be four K. Unfortunately, that's just how it is. The hard
part is this is available on four K streaming, so I imagine they think
this is just not gonna do well on physical media, so they they're announcing
it on Blu Ray. The funny thing is, if this suddenly sells like
Gangbusters, they'll probably go, oh, well, then let's put it on
four K, and then people will go, well, now I already have
a Blu Ray, I don't need to buy that. For next up,
Saints and Sinners from just last year coming on Blue Ray on May twenty eighth.
Liam Neeson, did you see this one? I didn't know a lot
of the I actually saw this one. Yeah, this one got pretty fairly
good reviews, but I don't know. It's at the point where all of
the Liam Neeson films are starting to run together for me. Yeah, and
but I am looking forward to the Naked Gun with him, so we shall
see. I mean, I I don't know if it's going to be good
or not, but I'm very curious to see. Yeah, I want to
see how they do the editing for that next one. Luke Bassan's dog Man
getting a US release from Universal on June eleventh. I feel like hardly anybody
has seen this one yet. Have you seen this one? I'm imagining not.
Luke Passan doesn't seem to have made anything great for a couple of decades,
so I'd be curious to check this one out. Did this get a
theatrical release or not here? I think it did in the EU. Basically,
just a couple more before the big ones that I want to talk about.
Radiance put up their next six month subscription you can do to July to
December of this year, and the big news here is that they fixed it
so you don't have to check out six different times to get six different shipments.
You can get the You can just check out once and get six months
worth of shipments. Package each month they fixed that. It was really annoying
last time if you tried to go and get a subscription from them. So
check out Radiance if you're into the second half of the year. Here's a
little movie, Taxi Driver, getting a standalone four K release in a steel
book on June twenty fifth. This is the exact same discs from that Columbia
Classics Volume two set that it was a part of. Taxi Drivers. Pretty
pretty okay. How do you feel about Taxi Driver, Dustin? Oh,
it's great and yeah, I have the Columbia Classics box sets, so I
won't be getting this one, but I'm glad that it's finally getting its own
separate release for those who weren't able to get that. This is one of
very few. Yeah, this is one of very few in those box sets
that have gotten a standalone release, So everybody check this out. The four
K looks absolutely stunning. I've got that Columbia Classics too. It looks great.
This following Taxi Driver is just hilarious. June eleventh, the Shrek Forever
After is coming out on four K from Universal. Yes, they're also putting
out a Shrek for Film four K collection if you really want that. And
this is where my patience pays off, because I knew that they were gonna
do a box set once all four of them were out, So I refuse
to buy these because I really, I really like the first two. I
would need to rewatch the third and fourth one, but I do like the
first and second one. This is better than the third one. For sure.
Everybody calls the third one Shrek the third but but yeah, I do
want the collection of these, so I will be getting that. I love
animation on four K so when it's done right, it looks amazing. Just
a reminder, you can pick up the newest issue of the Physical Media Advocate
from Cinema Classics. If you are buying physical media already, there's no reason
not to. Specifically, if you go to Cinema Classics and spend seventy five
bucks, look at that, you can put in the comments of Physical Media
Advocate and he'll send you one for free. That's an incredible deal and the
big thing for him. He's got multiple deals. If you buy six releases,
you get the seventh one for free. You get free shipping over sixty
dollars, and if you buy if you buy stuff with five different release dates.
He sends you all of them as they come in, so you don't
have to worry about all of them waiting until the last one arrives. Cinema
Classics is a pretty great place. Check it out, and pretty soon we'll
have some more announcements about some other retail locations selling the physical Media Advocate the
other big thing. We're gonna come back to this at the end of the
other announcements, but I want to cover this and then we got the stuff
I'm super excited about. May twenty. First, Sony is releasing The Vertical
Ray of the Sun as part of their Sony Pictures Classics line. This is
coming on Blu Ray. I've never seen this one. This is a Vietnamese
drama. This is to be great. Sony Pictures Classics kind of always knocks
it out of the park. Have you seen this one? I haven't,
but yeah, I'm in just from the Sony Pictures Classics the cover. I'm
actually surprised I haven't heard of this one prior to this announcement because it seems
like something I would have would have heard of. But yeah, I agree.
Before we go to our next announcement, I figured for the next little
batch, it might be useful to have some help, So to have somebody
here to introduce the Terror Vision titles, Let's bring in mister Brad Henderson.
You got my Harry Potters on, so just for you, nice Dustin,
Brad, Brad, Dustin Putman. Hey, Brad, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. I know you're a big fan, so thank
you for always taking pictures. Did you do the like on the stairs or
on the stairs? Yes, yes, yes, yeah, Well I don't
know if you were on early. But did you see I received a river
in the mail today? Oh no, no, I joined in when I
think you were talking about Luke Luca's songs. So yeah, no, it
looks it's a beautiful I don't have a copy yet, so I'm glad it
looks good. Oh I got one before you. Yeah, and I'm always
usually last, so you know. But anyways, yeah, no, it
didn't get a theatrical release here because he was going through all his allegations during
the time. I was going to see it in Texas, but I got
COVID at Fantastic Fest when it premiered there, so I didn't get to go.
But yeah, well, well welcome sir. Last night a big,
big release night for Terror Vision. We had a big live stream that went
just about two hours. Last night covered four new releases on home video,
covered a vinyl LP release. First thing, we're gonna get into some of
the titles in just a moment. How's the reaction been in your mind?
Reaction has been good, you know. You know, it's always one of
those things where you have different expectations for everything and then you know, especially
when you have like, you know, four titles in an LP, it
just you know, we're very happy with the response. But yeah, I
mean, everything's been going okay, but it's only been like twenty four hours.
Imagine things will pick up over the weekend. And my biggest thing is
I hope people will give a shot all the contemporary stuff, you know,
because I know people will dig the stuff we just announced, but it's the
contemporary stuff I'm a little That's what I'm most anxious about. So well,
let's go through all of those. We're going to cover the contemporary sale and
the announcement. So first thing, we announced an old kung fu master.
This is from nineteen eighty one. This is one that is really important to
prime rely to simply preserve this film. Why don't you tell us a story
behind that one and why it looks the way it does. Yeah, So
I love kind of those chopsake. I mean, I love all action films
and you know, stuff from Hong Kong, Taiwan, all those things.
But just like how I am with you know, horror and exploitation and you
know, even this stuff that I did at Vinegar Syndrome, I kind of
like the Nitti and Gritty forgotten about lost lost stuff. And there's there's a
slew of these types of films that just never got a decent treatment at all,
and mainly wire just kind of even bootlegged on tapes, you know,
Uh, I know Wu Tang Collection had a lot of these at one time.
I think a lot of them were bootlegs. But again, no one,
no one really claims the rights on some of this stuff. However,
we actually did find the rights owner on this stuff. It basically this,
I mean I could say their name is Paul Maslak and Niva Friedman. They
had this company called L and T in back in the eighties and they were
purchasing these films for US rights and screening them in you know, dinging theaters
and stuff on these like long runs of like on forty second Street and stuff
like that that would play these types of films. And yeah, they bought
a ton of this stuff for the US and it just kind of sat with
them because they never really thought about home video, even with tape. It
was mainly to make money theatrically because that's where the big money was. And
yeah, we you know, it's basically it's kind of changed hands a couple
of times, and you know, they have basically a sales rep who's a
palid mine and we have we licensed, you know, quite a few of
these films. The only issue is that there's no material because they didn't really
keep their prints or they had to send them back. So we have to
find film material, which is very rough on these types of movies, because
it's a lot of these things are just thrown away. They weren't preserved in
the sense because they really weren't by a big studio or anything. And some
of the most of the time, like these were made for cash grabs,
and a lot of them had music that I mean, you listen to Game
of Killers, don't report us to the Pink Panther rights owners because the Pink
Panther music plays in Game of Killers numerous times, you know, and some
idiom mccarnis as well. But yeah, so it's just like that's just kind
of how they made these films so old master very much like Game of Killers.
We were able to track down a print for it, and it was
that it was in terrible, terrible shape, probably the most like the worst
I've ever seen, honestly with these films. Like when they opened up the
canisters, it was like liquid at the bottom and it just stunk really really
bad. And when you smell something like when you open a canister and you
get a whiff of that vinegar smell and it hits you and it almost like
knocks you back, you know that your film is in pretty bad shape.
But we have a pretty good team of people that do this stuff. So
we cleaned it up, ran it through. It was basically bright pink magenta,
and we had to get it back to what we would think that this
film would look like. So our color is Steve. He worked really really
hard on Game Killers in this and yeah, it brought it back to life.
And there's a lot of damage on these two films, and you know,
I had that kind of internal debate that, you know, obviously we
want to do restoration because that's important, but with these films, like there
was so much damage, it was like we could do some stuff, but
it would still look beat up. And I was like, it kind of
gives a good vibe to it watching these things like this. You know,
it's almost like if you ever see a telescene of a film, you know,
we're just running through a scanner and you you know, you slap it
on your television, looks like you're watching a print. That's kind of what
this looks like. And with the types of films these are, it kind
of gives it that vibe that you're watching it in the dingy theater on the
screen and just having a good time. And that's what these films are.
And this in one in particular, has such a massive cast in it.
It's and it's pretty like just kind of forgotten about, but it has a
huge cast. Most of these guys went on and girls went on to do
a lot of things, and uh yeah, it just was always a quirky,
goofy, silly movie. Game of Killers is more serious. This is
a little bit more comedic, but they always sound really cool, not not
shitting on it. But then you watch it and you're like, oh,
it's like this martial arts master gets these students together and takes on this head
honcho. Well yeah, they that happens, but it's kind of goofy as
it does. So, yeah, chop socky film a lot of fun I
love. We played the trailer last night and the like overwhelming, like five
comments in a row was did that guy just grab that other dude's tits?
Just everybody's saying it. Yeah, it's a really great part of the trailer.
Yeah, Rock like that scene and he thought it was funny, and
yeah, I mean that's the whole that's the whole point is that we don't
want to shy away from these types of films, you know of like kind
of the goofy nous, So we kind of went all out on this Game
of Killer. The trailer played a little bit more serious than the movie,
but that's because we used If you watch the Game of Killers trailer, it's
actually the soundtrack to Copperhead that we released that we used in the trailer,
which was kind of funny. But yeah, I mean I just adore these
movies. They're fun, they're easy watches, and if you have some friends
that like action movies and martial arts, you want to get some beer and
pizza. These things are kind of fun to watch. They may hate you
afterwards. But also if you picked up the Game of Killers release, there
is like a companion visual essay on this. This one has a history of
Cecilia Wong, obviously a very important name in all kinds of cinema over there,
as she contributed a lot of the most popular people in the movie too.
Yeah, I'm very proud of how that came out, and the big
thing gone from Hooper Dodd is the one that did that great UK accent.
Go go and listen to a sultry white man just to teach you about Cecilia
long for the next fifteen minutes. It's a great piece. But the next
one I think was gonna ask a question real quick. Oh, go ahead,
Dustin, Oh, it wasn't a question. I was just gonna comment
that. Yeah. I was there for the live stream announcement last night,
and I don't know who put together the trailer for this movie, but I
can't imagine anybody watching it and not wanting to order it instantly. Yeah,
that would have been John Daily Rock Chudson. He's doing our trailers now and
he's pretty good at it. Well, that's so well done. John was
just on the show a couple of weeks ago, and if you he is
a character. I love working with John. He's a good guy. Satanic.
This one seemed to make a lot of people happy. We've got this
coming from nineteen sixty eight. You can get a bundle with this freaking amazing
shirt. Also, this one is coming with the Italian audio. There seemed
to be some questions for people not seeing that. In the announcement it says
you can get it with the original Italian audio audio and there's an English dub
on here. On top of that, we got a commentary with Eugeniy Orcalani,
Troy Howarth, Nathaniel Thompson, interview with Piero Viverelli, interview with Patrizia
Rasso, a visual essay by Eugenie Orclani, and then another visual essay by
Alexandra Heller Nicholas, plus the complete original soundtrack. Tell us about Satanic,
Bradon Why you love this one? Yeah? I mean this is actually a
movie that Ryan really wanted at first. I mean, I'm a fan of
the movie too, but he when we kind of sit down and we just
like discuss like some of our favorites and what we want to see, he
mentioned Satanic and I was like, oh, yeah, I knew who owned
that, and we went to the rights owner and we made a deal.
It was a little a little tricky because it was it was a material issue
on this and the film has never really film's never seen HD. It's never
had a legitimate disc release in the US. Honestly, I don't even know
VHS, to be honest with you, but it's never had a disc release
in the US. It's never been an HD overseas. The only time I
ever had a legitimate DVD release was in Italy and it didn't have any English
friendly, you know, subtitles or whatever. And so yeah, we we
we found a partial negative for this one and partial prints and we put it
together and we also had additional two other prints that were in very good condition.
And that's how this movie was color timed, and we did the color
grading on it because it was they weren't really they weren't fade. One was
not faded hardly at all, which was actually kind of remarkable, being it's
incredibly old. And yeah, we went through and we did this whole new
color grade on the film, because if you see the film on these DVDs
and bootlegs, the color is completely off. I always joke, I think
I put in here that her hair's purple in those movies, and it's not
purple at all. It's like like gray. It does have a little bit
of color, but the colors of the film are like a little they're kind
of just like kind of tuned down a little bit, and it kind of
gives this kind of unique vibe to the film, especially with kind of the
architecture, the clothing and everything. It's just a really beautiful movie. And
yeah, it's it's if anybody's familiar with like, you know, these fifties
sixties eurospy like these comics at what Satanic's based on. I mean, there's
kind of a few other films like this that came in around the time.
I think The Cat with a Golden Claws or something like that, or The
Golden Cat with the Golden Claus with the Cat Girl I's what it's called,
and then a Criminal and stuff like that. So a whole kind of slu
of these films, and this one is really good because it mixes a lot
of horror with it because she's disfigured. It kind of has this like Jacquel
and hide type thing that she takes this like drinks this serum and then turns
into this you know, beautiful woman and then she's if you know, she's
hideous on the if she doesn't, and that's when she starts you know,
killing and has this rage attack thing. But yeah, eurospy, euro cult
film. And it also has a lot of extras on it, which I
was super happy about. And it's got a great, great soundtrack. And
I think I said this last night in the livestream there's actually an extra on
this disc that's not listed, and you won't see it listed anywhere. You
just have to put the disc in. But don't get crazy. It's nothing
crazy. If there's something a little Easter egg that's on there, that's all,
you know, kind of fun. But yeah, it's it's really stacked
for what it was. And also like having that original language, we got
new subtitles that were done for it, and then also we have that English
dub for what it was here in the US. I don't know where this
dub came from though. That's the funny thing, Like there's no evidence of
it, so I don't know if it's fan made, if it was professionally
done, if it was done for television, because this did play on television
like in the like eight not probably eighties, probably about early nineties. It
played on television. And I don't know where this dub came from, maybe
from a studio that put it out. I have no idea, but we
have it and it's on there, so yeah, it's again. I would
listen to the Italian audio because it's better, but it is. I know.
There's a whole debate on dubbing and stuff, and we had We got
a little negative feedback when we did Escape from Hell whole because we didn't put
the English dub on that on that disc. But the reason why is because
our version is longer. So we had that debate, like do people just
watch the movie like in silence, like do we just cut it off and
like they have that, or do we like then do we put the dialogue
and then have subtitles for a few minutes and then But I was like thinking,
like immediately people are gonna watch this and then turn it off and email
us immediately, and we're gonna have this huge problem with people not understand ending
even though because I know people don't read, so we have the longer track
in the movie. I mean, people don't read. It's just a fact
that it's no offense. It's just people do not read. And you know,
I just was like, the bonus is that the film is displayed in
its original aspect ratio that was never seen before. And it also has a
longer movie. It has like an extra two minutes. It's never been seen.
So that's like the compromise. So we left it. We left it
off. But anyways, Satanic gets English dub and it's if you want to
watch that, but I prefer the Italian audio. Do the actors speak an
Italian or Yeah? In this movie it's it's a it's a straight up Italian
production. So I wasn't sure if it was like a lot of Gellow where
they were speaking English, but then it was dubbed. Uh No, I
don't think anybody speaks English in in the movie. Yeah, I don't know.
It's because it's also it's a Spanish Italian production. But I don't think
anybody speaks Spanish in the movie. It's just that the film, like some
of the producers and what they were doing around that time, because these films
were very, very popular, especially in the like nineteen sixty eight to nineteen
seventy two. These were huge moneymakers in Italy. Any of the thoughts on
Satanic Dustin excited about this one. Oh, I can't wait for this one.
Yeah, this is something that I mean, this is why I love
Terror Vision because before last night I had never heard of this movie. But
after seeing the trailer for this one also, I yeah, I couldn't wait
to get a hold of the copy of it. So yeah, it's one
of those movies that's it is kind of unseen and not known. This one
was a little fun because we didn't tease this at all, so no one
knew that this one was coming. We didn't share any restoration pictures or tease
nothing, which is actually that's probably what we start doing because it's a lot
more fun that way. And we've also had like announced and tease a bunch
of other stuff, but this one was a lot of fun to unveil.
Well, speaking of that, one of the worst kept secrets well, and
this one was announced, but man, mister Weaiinorski himself wanted to spoil everything.
Papa Topolis this is this is coming in May as well, coming on
Blu Ray and the list of extras on this is staggering. But Brad's favorite
part. You can order it in a bundle with this glorious T shirt.
This is just brilliant, just the just you let you know how things run
at Terra Vision. I came up with that twelve hours before we went live
because we have like a nail gun shirt and we had a Satanic shirt.
We weren't going to make an old Master shirt because that'd be weird. But
yeah, it was Papa Topless. It's like, man, what can we
do because a promotion that they did back in the day, they did socks
for it. They had Popatapolas socks during like it's it's initial like DVD release.
It's like that's I mean, that's unique. But I don't want to
do that, and so like I just I just remember, like listening to
so many Jim Norsky like commentaries and interviews, especially in Papa Topolas, he'll
just flat out he says, I hate it if he did doesn't like something,
He'll just say I hate it. And it was funny because we asked
for his permission for that shirt like yesterday and I said, and Ryan was
like, can you call Wenorsky and ask him if like this is cool?
And he was like, do you think he'll like it? And I was
like, no, he'll say I hate it. It's okay, Like that's
just how Lenorsky is. It's like, uh so, yeah, it's a
it's a common thing that he says and this you'll hear it like maybe have
a drinking game. Drink every time you hear when Orsky says I hate it,
and pop a topless and you'll be drunk. But yeah, this was
Yeah, we announced this. You know, Jim has been talking about this.
We just kind of like ignored it, but he was talking about it
on his Facebook account for for like probably a month or two talking about how
which is a Breastwick was coming out. But yeah, we announced Papa topless
the way back. And you know, we had a lot of things kind
of like set that we were going to do, but we when I asked
Clay the director, I was like, hey, can you send me this,
this and this? And he did. He says, Oh, I
have this other drive and I don't really know what's on it, and he
said, I think it's pop a topless stuff. So I said, yeah,
just send it. We'll go through everything and organize it and make sure.
And it had this fucking work print on it, and I'm like,
oh my god, like that is insane. So we talked to him about
it because Claim is very very respectful of everybody that was involved in this movie
because he had gain a lot of their trust, especially when Orsky, but
also the women because they are just you know, naked. So he was
very protective of how everything is done and display which we highly respected. And
he worked with us of like you know what needs to be you know,
cut, what needs to be blurred, you know this type of thing.
Because the girls only signed up to be in this part, not in this
behind the scenes stuff, so you will see, like I think in the
workprint, you will see some like black bars over things, and that is
due to their request. If you want to see boobies, watch which is
Brustwick. There's tons of them, so much nudity in that movie. But
anyways, yeah, so we did the three hour work print and then you
know, we were talking behind the scenes and I just I jokingly said,
what if we put which is a Breastwick on here? And it had it
was in kind of this rights limbo and it was really aggravating, which actually
delayed the release for it. But we were like, hey, this is
a Breastwick and it was jim Is technically owns the copyright, but it was
licensed out already, so we had to go to that rights owner and we're
like, you can keep your BBD in print, you can do all this
stuff, you know, but it needs to be like we really want this.
Thank you Craig. I imagine that's Craig, but we really want this
version. So we were able to take that when we did a new dish
restoration on which is a Breastwick to create an HD, which was really funny
to do because it's not a good movie and we would never release which is
a Breastwick by itself. But we put so much time and energy into this
in this part because I just felt it really kind of took this release and
gave it, like really pushed it over the edge. Because I mean,
I'm not gonna I don't want to sound like an asshole, but if we
don't like get win something for Papadopolis. There's fucking release. I don't know
what to do. It's literally like six months and probably even longer doing all
this stuff, you know, and it's some new new interviews, archival stuff.
We you know, dug up quite a bit of you know, archival
stuff that never really made it, and we also kind of redid a lot
of these extras, and you know, some of the some of the footage
was rough because when Clay this, he needed to be out of the way.
He couldn't have a crew, he couldn't have like all these things.
He was literally like under a table or something or like backed up in a
corner behind a door to make sure he was out of everybody's place, and
he shot on like a literal DV camera. So a lot of some of
these extras are done like that, and yeah, it just took a lot
of time also organizing them, getting the files ready. The QC process on
this was absolutely insane because we watch everything three times in the QC process,
So I don't know, that's like probably like I don't know, maybe ten
twelve hours of stuff. It's thirty six hours of QC honor and our people
hate us, but you know, it's so funny because sometimes I'll get a
comments like isn't this too much? Is this overkill? And I'm like,
yeah, it is, but what the fuck am I gonna do? Like
not put it on there? You know. The only debate we had was
House of Julie's strain, because Julie's gone, and we didn't want to be
disrespectful, but we were like, it's an honor to Julie do that.
I've always adored her since I was a kid, really watching her movies.
But yeah, no, it's just a it's a great package and everybody in
this movie is wonderful. We did talk to other people, you know,
we did talk to Stormy Daniels, which she declined because she's obviously in this
whole thing right now. Julie K. Smith declined, I think, you
know, because a lot of these women, you know, they're getting older,
so they don't want to be on camera that sort of thing. Me,
she is an absolute all star, gorgeous as ever, and of course
she got in front of the camera because she's doing all these big ass fucking
commercials, which her trailer real that Monique Parent trailer reel is on there.
It's literally her trailer reel that she gives to big companies, and I think
her target commercial is on there, and like all these other big companies,
she does all this shit. It's funny. She's great, But yeah,
it was kind of a big passion project and I could talk hours for this.
I think the biggest thing with Papa Toopolis is even though it's a documentary,
it doesn't feel like that. It feels like a comedy. It feels
like a written comedy and vein of like American movie meets Kirby enthusiasm of a
filmmaker who is literally trying to cut days and cut time just to do it
to get done quicker. And Jim is it's so unique as far as like
who he is. There's not too many people that could get away with what
Jim does and says. But he's such kind of like this teddy bear loving
person who is also incredibly grumpy and just like once like he doesn't I think
at one point, like in the dock, he's like, so we're gonna
go out here and shoot this. We got two lights and we're gonna shoot
the rest of this bullshit, you know, and he just like he talks
about movies bullshit the entire time. But yeah, it's a it was a
I love this movie and it was a big inspiration when I saw it back
in the day, because that's the other thing and then inspires you as a
filmmaker, probably of what not to do, but yeah, I love it.
If you are watching this and you've been watching the channel for a long
time, this phrase restore the way Norski versus probably common to you. Will
uses that all the time, and I will say this visual essay on here.
You might see somebody that looks a lot like Will wearing a wig and
just do it a very love letter specifically to y Norski. I will say
no more because the comedy hits. If you watch that for the first one,
it's it's very funny. It was funny because when we went because Clay.
The part of our deal with Clay, which I usually do that is
all the filmmakers because it's a trust thing, is I say, if they
want to be involved, I have them give the green light on everything.
We don't do any extras, which you notice because we went back and forth
on this with kind of editing things together. Is that Clay watched it and
he like didn't understand what was happening, and he was like, I guess
this is funny, and I'm like, it is funny. He's like I
but he's like it's fine. He's like, there's nothing offensive. It's just
like, what are you guys doing? And I was like, I don't
really know. I was like, these guys are doing their own thing.
I was like, I trust them. I think it's funny, and he
was like, whatever, Dustin, you want Norsky guy at all looking forward
to this. I've seen I've seen why Norski films in the past, but
I don't think I'm the fan that Dodson is. But everybody's seen a Why
Norski film at some point. But I love they don't even know you did,
That's the crazy thing. But yeah, I love. I love you
know, any documentaries about you know, making movies and behind the scenes and
all that. So yeah, I'm all over this. Uh. This is
one of those things that if you are into like genuine like brand said,
genuinely inspiring. This is just like a scrappy sort of documentary, just again
like that Robert Rodriguez Lloyd cop and type of go out and just make the
fucking movie already type of feeling. It's great. Now you can have a
killer weekend by reading uh like Rebel out a Crew, watching American Movie and
watching Papa Toopoulos. I feel like you could make any movie you wanted to
do, so I agree, uh, Will says whatever, lool, I
will take that rout. It's funny, you know, because the thing about
Clay is he's so successful in what he does, and I just wish he
would like made more documentaries. But he's he's such a funny He's such a
funny dude, and he was really just fun to work with and trust that
that's one hundred percent because you know the movie, you know, we licensed
it from him, right, So yeah it was. But yeah, this
this was, this was this movie was a long time coming like this.
I mean, it's kind of really it's it's weird when you uh, you
know, I'm sure if Craig's still in here, you can, you know,
probably talk about this a little bit. Is that work on something you
know, you conjure upt the idea, you talk about getting the movie out,
you know, or you talk about the movie you want to do.
You know, you search the rights, you find the rights, you create
a relationship, you know, you do all of this other stuff, you
know, getting it together. You're you know, you do your restorations,
you do your you know, interviews, you do your behind the scenes stuff.
You get all the packaging together, you put it up, and it's
like putting your kid. Like it's literally from birth to like giving them out
to like graduating, and you take you have this journey with the movies.
So that's why I think, you know, companies, when something doesn't do
well, it kind of hurts, right because you spend you know, none
of this stuff is really done quickly. There are films that you can like
things do come together nicely and quicker and easier, but something like this,
it took you know, we announced that in like May of last year or
something. August. I think this is one of the August titles. Oh
August, we did that. Okay, Well, we acquired it like probably
I would say, February, January, February of yeah, no, yeah,
handing our baby. It's exactly what it's like, probably like January or
February of like twenty twenty three, I would say, And yeah, I
mean it's it's been like a year and some change and that's a long time
to my movie. You talk about almost every day and getting things together.
So yeah, it's it's it's a it's it's a hilarious kind of part.
But it also like makes you happy that you get to see it off end
of the world. Yeah. Well, speaking of films with the journey,
let's get over the nail gun mass occur. This is everything I said applies
to this one too, right, Yeah, first off, the big thing
somehow a lot of people missed in the announcement that this is a four k
UHD release. Yeah, I saw like five or eight comments somebody said,
oh god, this is UHD. Well then I have to get it.
Yeah, this is a this is what I would call a massive upgrade over
the previous releases that we've had on Blu Ray. And just like Papatopoulos,
this one is just fully stacked to the gills with extras. Brad tell us
all about nail gun and also, by the way, bundle with a really
great shirt as well for this one. Cheaper than a chance. I don't
know, they shoot a lot of nails. I don't know how expensive nails
are in those compression cancers. Anyways, Yeah, I think, well,
to be fair, I don't think when we first announced this movie, we
were just saying we were doing a Blu ray because the previous Blu ray that
exists, which have the same transfer on from a code red in eighty eight
films release. You know, Bill had his thing that he did. And
I mean, even though Bill was a asshole at times, I mean I
knew Bill personally, he was a pioneer in this industry. Like even if
he was shitty to a lot of people and said some awful things, doesn't
change the fact that he is one of the very first people to start,
you know, the DVD boutique business, and I was able to pick up
his movies at Best Buy for Christ's sakes back then when he was doing you
know, DVDs and whatnot. So yeah, but Bill had a thing of
doing things where he did things a little bit cheaper. He wasn't too keen
on technology or wanted to spend the time on certain things. So I always
felt the restoration on this could have been better, especially this is like one
of his first like Blu rays that he did, because he did like four
Blu rays at once when he launched, when he started doing Blu rays.
It was like voices from Beyond Neon Maniacs, Neil Gunmasker, and I think
just before Dawn and maybe Savage Streets was in there too, and so he
launched those first style. I remember buying that bundle and then he wrote to
me, it's like, don't be an asshole when you get these something like
that, because I gave him a hard time on a couple of DVDs back
in the day. But anyways, yeah, I just felt it could be
improved on. So that's what we were doing. We were doing a Blu
ray and once we kind of started doing things, we found a couple more
elements for it. And when we had everything at the lab, you know,
we were looking at everything and we were like, well, UHD might
be possible on this. Let's just test it out. So he did a
ten on the first reel kind of to like see how it look, and
we looked at it and it was like, okay, like this this is
actually doable. It was kind of a stretch and it was really hard,
but you know, I shared some side by sides and we have a restoration
trailer for you to actually see like how different it actually looks and it's and
it's it's very very noticeable for me at least, I know, so I
felt comfortable, you know, doing a UHD, which obviously ups the price
on the cost to the customer, but also for us too because UHD,
you know, you actually have to get a license if you do it properly.
You know, I don't know how many people go around it, but
you actually have to get a license to do UHD, and then you have
to pay per unit technically, so that is costly, and then also just
materialize. It's it's uh, you know, it takes everything kind of takes
longer, everything is, you know, I mean some people say it's triple.
It's pretty close, like it's it's it's not cheap, you know,
especially just doing the HDR. HDR is incredibly costly, and you know,
you you try to do things with a budget, but at the same time
you need the work to be one hundred percent. So it's it's it's uh,
it's a little rough at times trying to make those decisions. So,
yeah, we were able to do four k UHD with HDR color grade because
I really don't see the point of doing UHD if you don't have HDR and
then we have the two I'm going to try to because you can't read your
screen, don't don't show. I'm going to see how well I can remember.
So we have two archiital restorations on here. We have the four x
three and then the wide screen that they did, which is fine, but
it's not the original aspect ratio for the movie. I just think they did
that because people would complain about black bars on the side. Right, we
have a new commentary from the Hysteria Continues, which I know that's confusing to
people because the eighty eight films had a Hysteria Continues commentary, but eighty eight
films wouldn't let us have that. So I just reached out Staria Continues as
like, so silly, but can you do it again? But they were
kind of thrilled to do it, so they did it again. You know.
I had these two wonderful guys do a new commentary for us, even
though did my thing of the founder of reconnected on here. Yeah, I
made sure that was there. There was an archival commentary from Lloyd. Lloyd
Crier runs Texas fright Mare. He is the guy that created that and he
is he is the owner of Nail Gun Mascer. So it was kind of
fun working with him because he's a super fan of the movie and he owns
it and he has so much more like memorabilia. There's a new interview on
here. Ryan actually did all these interviews, by the way, right,
yeah, you did all these new interviews. Went about that for a seconds.
I don't want to steal your thunder. I mean there, I'll just
say me like, I'm personally invested at this point. All of them are
great. The big one like Rocky Patterson, who's the This is plenty for
a film like this. He's like the number one build person in this movie.
And technically he's the doctor, which is barely a doctor in this movie.
He he know, like, I've talked on the phone doctor, He's
an awful doctor. I've probably talked on the phone with him at this point
for a combined about twelve or fourteen hours. He literally called me this week,
not even knowing that we were announcing it this week. He's just,
hey, just check it up on you from down here and beautiful down Texas,
and yeah, we just chat randomly. Michelle Meyer was stoked to be
able to talk about this one of the big ones. Connie Spear was very
like, didn't even want to do an interview, but she's like, I'll
do an audio interview and then afterwards, if you let me hear what you're
gonna print, so I can, you know, be okay with it.
She she got done and she's like, thank you guys for being you know,
making me feel comfortable. This was great. I'm happy to have finally
done this. Everybody just loved being a part of this. And if you
really want to see like one of the funniest ones, Kick Connolly, She's
in this movie for less than maybe three or four minutes and she's just like,
Yeah. Terry Lofton came down to the strip club I was working at
and said, anybody here with big tits that want to be in a movie?
And so I said, yeah, why not? And it's it's great.
The interviews are super fun. Stoked on him. The commentary with me
and Will this is the first commentary we ever recorded. We are pretty damn
proud of it. But overall, this release, definitive release, Like there's
nothing that we'll ever be able to come close to this in any shape or
form. Yeah, yeah, because we have you know, the the interviews.
We have archival interviews with Terry Lofton who has passed, interview with Whitey
Thomas, who's a composer who was passed. Those are both our archival.
We had a new essay from Alexandra Heller Nichols Nicholas. And then when I
was doing like research on because I try to like find out like what other
you any other companies, like a French company released a movie and do they
have any extras? Like how can we reach out to them and license their
extra? Well, I was like on YouTube and I found in yes Mina
which I watched her stuff on rewind Zone on Route More, but she did
a piece on it. So I reached out to the Rupe More and we
put that on there. And then yeah, the Alamo draft House screening,
I'm trying to look at here, I can't. Yeah, the locations feature
at and nailed. Oh, it would have been so much more helpful.
You told me not to do anything, so I left at the first time.
Oh, I I just didn't want you to take away your screen.
But that's fine. So, yeah, the Alamo Draft House screening is that's
an old archival stuff location feature at so the location feature at and the nailed
the making of That's from Synaps off their DVD. Don and Jerry were very
generous and letting us use those nail gun Q and A with Joe Bob.
I'll take some bloopers, which I think that I'll take some bloopers. They're
disappeared. The only way they survived is through that Synapse DVD. No one
knows where those went. Wow like, because those were actually film reels that
were scanned back like when they did that DVD. No one knows where they're
at. So those are actually extracted from the Synapse DVD and put on there.
Yeah, promotional trailer which there's actually no trailer for this movie. Apparently
I didn't know that. I tried finding a trailer. All there is is
this promotional sales trailer that they cut together to sell the movie back in the
day to video companies. And then we created new subtitles which Michael Keene did,
which they're kind of funny because there's some things in the movie. It
was it'd be actually fun to kind of go back and it would be funny
to do that is probably an extra is Michael Keene and I talking back and
forth of trying to figure out what the characters say in the movie, because
there's a couple moments in the movie where you have no clue, Like there's
that scene where there's people are having sex up against a tree yep, and
she says, God, I can't if you. If you when you watch
the movie, she says the most ridiculous things cue him and I don't know
if they're ridiculous or if she's just mumbling and we didn't understand, but I
wish I I like I would write back to Michael and I was like,
I think she's saying this, and he was like, that doesn't make any
sense. And I was like, well, we could put like in audible,
but like just put this because it sounds like, you know, fuck
me, like a TV hot box or something like that. That's like like
that's the type of language they use. And I'm like, that doesn't Like
who sells that. I don't think that's what it was. But it's it's
very it's just not it's it was funny. And there was like maybe five
or six senes and we were just like going back and forth. He was
sending them over and he's like, do you think they're saying this? And
I'm like, I don't know, you know, well, we'll try it,
but yeah, a lot of fun. Yeah, I saw the guy
who wasn't Yeah, I'll tell you what I've never encountered something. I thought
forums were weird. Reddit four k uhd forums, Holy shit, people are
nuts. You talk about Blu Ray Bros. These four k bros Are insane.
I got yelled at for releasing nail Gun Masker. I was. I
actually was said to me, you waste your time with this trash and we
don't have the last Samurai on four kuhd. That was the movie they choose.
And I'm like, okay, start a label, see if you can
get Samurai. I don't know, like you know, it's just like it's
so it's so weird to me, like like honestly, it's so. It's
it's funny because like Twitter is probably the most positive place for stuff at this
point, and it's odd that that I'm saying that face book is weird,
the forum is fine, Discords really cool. But yeah, I just I
got saw. I saw so much negativity and I just laid into people.
I just was like, you're not gonna buy anything ever from us anywcause there's
no way you're gonna buy fucking you know, copper Head or fucking Hollowgate.
So I was like, what is like, what exactly is your problem?
Like, like, just don't buy it. And they're like, you're taking
advantage of us in the format, and I'm like, just please block me,
like that's I I don't need your money. You just go leave me
alone, you know. And I was like they're they're they're getting downvoted,
but they're still like going at it like I'm the bad guy. And I
was like, I don't know, man, I just want to release these
fucking movies that are cool. You know. I understand Panic Room is it
an UHD? But I want it too. But like, oh okay,
you know, yeah, I see poor Craig getting nailed at. I love
that. I just I had to look it up when you said that to
see what all the comments said. One of the top voted comments says,
these screenshots make it look like some guy just grabbed a camera and filmed this
guy murdering people. And then you responded, that's usually how movies are made,
by someone grabbing a camera and filming people doing stuff. I mean,
I just yeah, it's like it's like, I don't know. And here's
the thing is, I don't think they understand, like how they just don't
understand how things work. Is that they I don't take a lot of people
and they use like they hear these terms like color grading and rest I mean,
they don't know what any of this stuff means, and then they try
to use it to attack, you know, they're like, oh, you
have low hanging fruit, do something cheap to make a lot of money.
I was like, if you think fucking nail Gun was cheap, literally a
most expensive release we've ever done, and it's a if you if you look
on it, there's eight thousand of those made, right, We did eight
thousand nail guns, and the minimum that a movie costs and manufacture like that
is like twelve dollars. So do the fucking math right there and you'll understand
how much nail Gun actually cost us. And that's just to fucking manufacturerer.
That doesn't count the restoration, the extras and authoring and all this, the
fucking color grading and HDR. Now, it is insane amount of money that
we spent on this, But it's not the point. I'm not asking for
charity it's yeah, I know, right, it's so funny, like the
biggest experts are people that have no idea what they're actually talking about. Nail
Gun Samurai sounds like a really bad movie, by the way, but yeah,
it's just like, you know, the thing is is like this is
a full hashion project. Yeah, when we make money on this is gonna
be a while, like we've already spent all the money, like we were
just trying to recoup at this point. But anyways, yeah, I mean
the ol gun is a fucking great, great time. Man. It was
a lot of fun to do and we love doing it and it's yeah,
I mean, we wouldn't do anything different. And also that slip covers in
Boss, by the way, it looks really like cool and slick cool and
Si it did not look great in the stream last night. No, no,
it looks way so glossy. Dude. I don't know. I mean,
I understand. It's always I always laugh because I watched those like people
cover like you know, Blu rays for companies and stuff on YouTube or our
stuff, and they like they like try to hold their hands so it doesn't
even so it's like always looks like shit like don't even try. So yeah,
it's uh anyways, yeah, don't don't go to the reddit four k.
The other things like the Blue Teak, Blu Ray place that's wine.
All that stuff's cool, but four k uhd like and then you get accused
for making one post and then he accused for slinging your shit and I'm like,
I'm just trying to let you know it's there, like, you know,
because most people appreciate one you telling them that the movies available, and
also like it's one stock. I've always had like a anytime I post a
low stock post, I ninety nine percent of the people are like, oh
wow, thank you for telling me. I'm gonna go pick it up now.
But when you do it on Reddit, man, they're like, oh,
you're just pathetic. You're just trying to sell it. And I'm like,
I'm just letting the people know. Man, I'm just trying to just
trying to let you know that it's low. Just delete the post or block
me if you don't want to see it. Apologies, Dustin any thoughts on
nail gun. Oh, I would much prefer this on four K than the
last samurai. So there's it is a weird movie to choose, like,
there's so many like and it's funny they don't think that we like those movies.
That's always like the accusation and it's like, no, I love all
the same stuff that you do. It's just that I love this stuff a
little more. And this stuff is No studio is going to do this.
The studio is going to release their own, you know, last Samurai Panic
Room, which I don't know what Panic Room is getting release, which is
kind of ridiculous. But you know, we're not going to be able to
march down and be like, hey, can we get Panic Room. Ain't
gonna happen, you know. Well, let's uh highlight the fact that we
also have multiple bundles. You can get bundles with all four films. You
can get bundles with all four films and then ulp, you can get the
Satanic Bundle, the nail Gun Bundle, the Popatopolis Bundle. There's bundles galore
on top of that. Like Brad mentioned, there's a contemporary sale. Ten
titles all on sale. If you get them with out slip covers, it's
only one hundred and forty bucks. You get them with slip covers, its
one hundred and ninety. Every title is discounted by itself as well if you
just want to get one or two. But the bundle price is ridiculously good
for these. It is too cheap to be frank, there's a UHD in
there. Yeah, when the Screaming Starts as four K. These are all
newer films, and a lot of newer films don't get a lot of love
from people from some of these boutiques. So I know you shared some love
for one or two of these last night. Any others that you want to
highlight, maybe some different ones today. Yeah, I mean one, I
love everything, and yeah, I want to do more contemporary stuff. But
again, it just people don't gravitate towards it because it's it's not old enough,
it seems. Ryan and I talk internally that if it's not twenty years
old, people seem not to care as much. And I'm not saying that
as a jab, it's just that's just the truth. But yeah, I
mean, we we put a lot of work into these, Like When the
Streaming Starts was a tremendous amount of work because we went back like that movie,
we went back to the original master because it was already mastered in two
K, but they did a four K but they never completed it because it
was just going to be streaming and you can't really stream four KUHD. When
you do, you're not doing it just just a heads up, like it's
too big of a file to actually come through. It will look better,
but it's not. You're not streaming for KUHD. So yeah, we went
back to you know, with the director in their post house because they still
had the files and they were like, oh, yeah, we can,
we can totally do that. Like let's let's go back and we'll do we'll
finish that out, we'll do the color grading and everything, and it was.
It was a lengthy process, but it was fun for the director Connor,
because he got to actually revisit the movie real quick, you know,
after they just kind of finished it. But I guess that might have been
annoying to him, but it was it was fun for us. I think
he had a good time. But yeah, I mean, that had a
whole new shebang, and that was incredibly costly on a movie that we knew
that wasn't going to do very well. But if the opportunity to do UHD
was there, we were going to take it. The other stuff. Obviously
we couldn't do uhd on because they were already mastered in two K or whatever.
But yeah, Welcome to Hell I talked about last night. That's probably
my favorite of the batch. I've always loved Chocolate Starboard Vanilla. That was
movie I used to work at Wild I Releasing back in the day, and
that was a movie that I really liked on that label and I always felt
again, it kind of got shafted. It felt different. It was marketed
in a weird way, and it is kind of like this taxi driver esque
movie and it's a little dark. It's funny at times, but it's also
like really sad and serious and if anybody's familiar with like The York Stalker,
that's kind of where the idea for this movie came from, which is like
a really terrifying story and like it has an awful ending to it. But
yeah, we actually had, like they I guess they had some of the
footage that they were looking at when they were doing this, because like I
made like I forget like hundreds of hours of videos during his uh breakdown.
But yeah, Warren the lead in that he has this like mental like Breakdown
and Chocolate Starvinela has so many goddamn extras. There's a TV show on that
disc as well, the first episode of the director's TV show that he did.
Yeah, it's like twelve episodes or something. They're not long, but
it's the whole fucking seasons on there. And then Some Guy who Kills People
is another disc that is incredible. I mean all these discs aside, but
I think for maybe Cube are stacked, just because it was weird when we
try to do the extras for Cube. All those people are like very popular
in Japan, and they wanted like like five thousand US dollars for interviews,
and I'm like, no, we're not going to do that. So we
got I just went back to Vincio Natali, who created Cube, and he
did like he did a very it's a long long interview on that disc and
he talks about Cube one, two, and three and then the remake because
he did supervise like the script on this. So but yeah, I mean,
All Jacked Up in Full of Worms is probably the one I would gravitate
towards a lot because it's a mixture of experimental film with like drama it kind
of feels like early two thousand stuff, and it's just a really bizarre drug
e trip movie and it's pretty like if you're offended easily, I wouldn't watch
it because there's some weird stuff that happens in the movie. All fake but
you know, but there is a lot of weird shit in that movie and
it hits too. It's it's like seventy minutes and it just kind of it
goes all in and Get My Gun. That was a long ad. I
actually tried Getting Get My Gun for Wild Eye Releasing when I was doing acquisitions
for them, but they already had kind of a plan in place for their
own like DVD, and when I you know, that was Actually it's funny
Parasitesn' Get My Gun or two movies I tried to get for a while Eye
Releasing it just didn't work out. And those are like the two of the
first movies I signed when I joined Terror Vision and created it with Ryan.
Well, I didn't create Terrorivision with Ryan. It was already existed. We
created the video side. But yeah, Parasites Didn't Get My Gun were the
first two now we picked up. But yeah, they're all wonderful films.
It's just newer films are harder to sell, and this sale is just a
spotlight them and hope that people give things a chance. We want to do
more contemporary stuff, but you know, not trying to whine here, but
when it doesn't sell, it's kind of hard to continue to do. And
this day and age, so many films are not getting physical media releases.
They're just on stream so which inherently means in just a couple of years they're
gone for good. Basically. Yeah, like after the license is up with
these streaming companies, they're just gonna They're just gonna go. They're just gonna
disappear. And you think it's bad now with some of these older films,
it's gonna be way worse because in twenty years you'll be like, where's this
movie, or it's gonna come back and be well, hey remember this and
it's just not available at least if it's on a disc. It's the longevity
of the film will be a lot longer. And I want to do more,
you know, because I watch newer films all the time, but it
just again, it just seems that as soon as someone sees that it's new.
They'll either not be interested or they'll be like, oh, I can
just stream it, which sure, stream it and watch it if you hopefully
you like it. But you know, if you like it, maybe buy
it, you know, help the cause, because there's I mean, at
this point in time, there's so many I mean, you could see so
many films can look and just so much as not getting a physical media release.
So yeah, well thanks for hanging out and streaming two nights in a
row. Yeah it's not as late as last night, but thanks for having
me. Not quite. We'll be on quite a bit later though, So
yeah, thanks for hanging out. Everybody should probably go check out tear Vision's
website. This is you said it last night. This is sort of like
a relaunching of the label. This is like, hey, we got our
shit together where everything's in stock and shipping we had announced previously, and these
are kind of incredible releases. This whole slate is like a remarkable achievement.
And that's not just being stated as somebody to help with them. These are
like scary, scary, great releases. Yeah, no, I appreciate it,
and yeah, it's it is kind of like a fresh kind of go
with what we're doing, and yeah, we have a lot more plans,
a lot more surprises, stuff that people will never guess. It's gonna get
weirder. We got some popular films, some studio films coming and people are
gonna be like, how the fuck did you get that? And it's like,
yeah, if you want to answer one question we had, Dallas asked
earlier, without revealing any titles, is Terrrovision working on any other four k's
for other slashers? Yeah? We I mean we already announced Happy holl Night.
We're in the middle of doing the HDR color grade on that. We
delayed it because we're trying to As I said last night, it's happy how
Night has a spooky situation where the movie was made. They screened it for
producers and they were like, we don't like this, so they hired another
director to come in and they reshot the movie and they kept some original footage
and then redid a bunch of other stuff and yeah, it's that is what
we know is Happy hell Night. And I'm like trying to find this version,
whether it's a video transfer or what, and we haven't been able to,
so we may just have to I mean, we've been looking for like
a year and a half, two years. We thought it might be in
the Czech Republic, where the movie is made, but the lab doesn't have
anything there, but we'll keep checking a couple other places. But yeah,
we have that, and then we have yeah. I mean, we've already
announced Roctober Blood and we're working on that, which that won't be a four
K because it's a video transfer. We're in talks to do a few others
that we're trying to license that are eighty slash sures to give a UHD upgrade
or it's on UHD for the first time. We have a lost film coming
out that's going to be UHD, which is kind of funny. So it's
never had a physical media release ever and it's gonna jump to UHD. It's
a slasher film. It was made I think it was made in nineteen eighty
nine and not released until like ninety two, and it was like a self
release they did, so it's never really seen the line of day. Not
many people know. I have a lot of people don't know about it.
But it went for a big jump to UHD and that's pretty funny because that's
a that's also a really stupid gamble for terror Vision. But just wait till
the thread on that one. Wait till the Reddit thread on that one.
Oh god, yeah, they're like, what the fun I've never even heard
of this movie. But yeah, we have we have a we have a
few things lined up. I don't know how much is going to be this
year. Happy Hell Night will be in October. Blood it just depends.
We have some shot on video slashers that we have that will be coming out.
Shot on video will still happen, It's just that it's kind of I
guess we had Dreamstock there last month, but we got penned as a shot
on video label. So we're trying to like be smarter about not releasing so
much Sought on video even though it's like only like twenty percent of our catalog.
But right, oh well, well again, thanks sir, Thanks for
hanging out, Thanks for answering some questions. Yeah, thanks for all the
kind things. And everybody's sticking around and you doing this and you're still talking
about Tereravision, so I appreciate it always. All right, see you guys,
I'll leave the studio so you don't have to boot me out. Dade.
Yeah, well, sorry for adding a bunch of extra time to the
night. Hopefully that was a fun little addition. Let's finish. We've only
got a few left of the announcements. Shout announced a couple site exclusives.
The first, how is this an exclusive? The Getaway from nineteen ninety four?
This is the Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger starring film with Michael Madsen James
Woods. And they added a new random number from the Shout Studios dartboard.
Of the limited numbers, this one's limited to two thousand and ten units.
That's so random, I I am. And now I officially cannot track out
of the doing this because the jump from fifteen hundred units to sixteen twenty.
At least it was around one hundred and twenty. That's okay, I could
see that going up, but now this is three hundred and ninety higher.
That's not like inventories don't work like that. I don't know. So this
one is coming on Blu Ray. This is available to order now, should
be shipping damn near immediately. The big thing this is the uncensored, unrated
version in HD. It's got new interviews with C Courtney Joiner and the composer
Mark Isham, new audio commentary with Travis Woods, some archival behind the scenes
featuress making of interviews, and that is coming now the Getaway. Have you
seen this one? I just don't. Yeah, we've been through this before,
but like I just still understand how you go to the work of doing
these new special features with these new interviews and commentaries, and then new release
it, you know, limited to the store like this. I just don't
get it. So these are the ones that I mentioned earlier when we were
talking about Warner licensing things and then them just putting it out. I almost
wonder if Warner is requiring them to put it out like this to literally ensure
that it fails. Like Eric was talking about in the comments earlier, it
won't make any money. So it's not like Warner looks like they made a
bad decision because shouts not doing anything with it. Basically, well, against
my better judgment, I did order this today well as usual, it came
with a second one to entice you to upgrade for free shipping, and you
can. You can also order Death and the Maiden Now from nineteen ninety four
with Sigourney Weaver Ben Kingsley this one. The bonus features that they have listed
is literally that it has audio. Oh that's good. I saw this earlier
and laughed so hard just realizing tonight I was gonna be able to say that
line. The bonus features is that this film has audio. The big deal.
The big deal is that this is a plan Ski film. This is
one that a lot of people thought would not be coming to HD in the
States, and now it is. Of course, it is limited to one,
six and twenty units because shout and it is a side exclusive, but
you can get it now. Yeah. I remember this being a terrific film,
So yeah, I'm glad that it's at least coming out in some form.
So yeah, this is one I hope last because I want this one,
but I want to pay thirty dollars for it. That's why you got
to get both, so you can get the free shifting. A couple others
announced later today, the Cleanse from twenty sixteen. This is coming out on
May twenty first from Sony themselves. This was a Johnny Gallecki starring film with
Oliver Platt and Angelica Houston. Did you watch this one? Where was I
in twenty sixteen, because how did I miss this? Right? I never
heard of this, and Angelica Houston and Johnny Galleki in a genre film sounds
very intriguing, and I like the cover is really cool, so I mean,
I'm kind of intrigued by it. But yeah, I was shocked when
I thought it was brand new or something. So I was shocked when I
saw that it said twenty sixteen because I definitely don't remember this coming out.
I saw the press release and I literally, just like you, I had
to go run to IMDb to verify because I was like, there's no way
this is eight years old. I've never heard of this, but yeah,
Sony Pictures just randomly releasing something eight years later. Then Keino putting out The
north Star and Armored Attack from nineteen forty three, so the way this works.
The Blu ray includes Armored Attack as well as the newly remastered to complete
original theatrical cut of The North Star, which runs thirty minutes longer and preserves
Milestone's initial vision of the film before these politically motivated changes were made that they
discuss in the post here, and this acclaimed original cut was nominated for six
Oscars in nineteen forty three, including Best Cinematography and Original Screenplay. This gets
a new four K restoration of both of the cuts, new audio commentary for
The North Star by Adrian Martin, new audio commentary for Armored Attack by Steve
Mitchell and Steven J. Rubin. So at least they are committing to audio
commentaries for all of these. Glad this is coming out and sounds like a
release that I would probably be interested in. What do you think that same?
I haven't seen them, but yeah, I was actually shocked when you
just said that it was nominated for all of this oscars. That just made
me more intrigued. Yeah, and yeah, I totally understand poulp. There's
somebody on the discord that I was helping with get some Keno releases outside of
the US. It's not easy to track those down. And finally, for
new release announcements for this week, Warner Brothers in the UK, just like
we mentioned earlier, getting a delay release of North By Northwest, the Hitchcock
film from nineteen fifty nine, one that had zero four K release prior this
is coming in the UK and a four K steel book lavish huge release.
We don't have an exact release date, but it'll probably be smack dab in
the middle of the summer, and it's coming with all kinds of stuff.
We're talking about a steel book, a rigid slipcase with detachable lenticular artwork,
a matchbox capacity envelope. We've got double sided vintage poster, double sided vintage
art card, double side, a vantage bookmark, three double sided art cards,
a forty page booklet. They are working on potential more features of what
they're gonna put on the four K disc, but this looks like a remarkable
release for a huge, huge title. And the big thing this is only
coming out in the UK. I can almost guarantee you that this is not
getting a release like this in the US. It'll likely come just as a
regular four K release here in the States. This is great, but I
would say, if you want this, and you really really want this Hitchcock
title to be this lavish release for you, get it sooner than later.
This feels to me a lot like the Exorcist release from last year. If
you don't get it early, you're not going to get this. Then I
guess I'm gonna have to get it. Hitchcock, how do you feel about
Hitchcock obviously as a master, but this is a big one. Love Hitchcock
and this is one of the greats. Yeah, I'm excited to see this
on four K. This is a This is a pretty big deal. Man.
Again, that was That was a lot tonight, a lot of announcements.
Thanks to Brad for hanging out. Sorry for taking up a little bit
of extra time in the middle there. Oh no, I was glad to
be able to finally meet him. Nice. One more thing that I had
to share. I said we would come back after this. I will make
this full screen to not make it awkward for just a minute for Dustin.
Hey, I'm announcing a new show. By the way, I'm putting out
a new podcast called Film Foundations with Chris Stashu over at the Culture Cast.
We are releasing one of these every single Wednesday, and right now. You
can go onto YouTube or on the podcast provider of your choice and check out
episode zero. These are all going to be video and audio podcast. You
can watch these on a different YouTube channel called film Foundations. I've got the
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it on your podcast provider, and we explain the show in this episode zero.
Every single episode is going to have a very firm like we are very
specific on what you're going to hear in every single episode. Got four different
questions that we answer based on the topic and what's crazy. I've gotten this
question so many times this week, Polpe says another podcast, when do I
sleep funny enough, We've already we've been working on this for months. We
already have the next seven months of episodes for this recorded. We are recording
more and more of these. We're trying to get very ahead of ourselves so
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recording three episodes of this. But yeah, we are doing a lot.
This show is going to be really fun. I think if you listen to
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really loved the topic that we're talking about that day, or never known anything
about the topic, and both of those conceits will be something that you go
into an episode and have a reason to argue with, or have a reason
to support, or have a reason to say, now, you guys are
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Every episode is going to cover either an actor, a director, a
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And pretty soon I gotta have Miss Dustin on the show. You're definitely
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on here, But either way, go subscribe please. The first real episode
is releasing on May first, and then it will be every Wednesday after that,
possibly until the end of time. Yeah, Eli, we just went
over those shout side exclusives not even maybe four and a half minutes ago.
I mean, I'm glad that it's coming out, but it sucks that it's
a side exclusive. That's too big of a movie to only get a side
exclusive. Now, really quickly, we always go over what is releasing next
week, just in case you forgot. Let me make this not full screen
now, So next week we get the Departed four K releases. We've got
Nostalgia four K, the first Tarkowsky to hit four K. That's coming from
Keno Rolling Thunder four K from Shau select The Beekeeper, Kat and MC Canary
coming from Eureka in both the US and the UK. The Kingdom Trilogy Lars
von Trier is The Kingdom Trilogy coming from Mobe. I Am Cuba four K
from Criterion Steel, Magnolius four K, that Goodbye Uncle Tom FOURK that Dustin
held up earlier, Black Mask from Eureka, more genre Lan four k's from
Indicator Tormented from Filmmasters, which is a great release than the Scarface Mob from
Arrow, Driveaway Dolls from the Studio. A couple other random ones like Monolith
coming out from Willgo, household Saints coming from Keno, Graphic Sexual Whore coming
from Synapse, Hanseling, Gretel Media Book coming from Cape Light. The next
Something Weird compilation from Keno called The Road to Ruin. That one's coming out
next week. Hardware Wars coming out soon. I think that got delayed.
I don't think that's coming out next week. I believe eight Man out coming
out from the studio on a BDR. And that's it. Of the big
releases other than the ones you picked up. Any of these something that you're
excited to be getting here soon, in, Dustin, Yeah, next week
is gonna kill me. Here's a lot basically everything on those top two rows
I want. Yeah, it's two very good good rows. Yeah, I'm
really excited about The Kingdom coming out. Yeah, that's a big deal.
That is incredible if anybody has never seen it. Yes, I'm very happy
that that's coming out. Yep, it's one that I am. In fact,
that is one that i've coming out believe from the Target sale also,
but that's next week and we made it now. It's already been got three
hours. This is a long show tonight, thanks Brad. Uh. Okay,
let's hit our discussion hard. Do you need a break? You need
to go to the bathroom? You need to Oh no, I'm good out
through all right. Slashers first, Uh, Dustin, why do you like
Slashers? What is about slashers that made you want to talk about them?
It's always been my favorite subgenre of horror, probably because, Yeah, my
parents really weren't that strict with me growing up so as far as what I
watched, So they just always told me, as long as you know it's
not real, it's fine. So I was like five years old, renting
Friday the thirteenth and and so, and I think, yeah, I don't
I don't know why those appealed to to me. I guess because they're they're
in a sense, very formulaic as far as like, you know what you're
getting, as far as far as slashes are concerned, like they're gonna set
up the victims, there's gonna be a killer, and they're gonna go after
each one at a time. And I think, I don't know. I
think that appealed to me growing up, and it's always sort of stayed with
me. And I always liked the aesthetic of I don't know, the you
know, if the killer wears a mask or something like that, and I
just always enjoyed that. So it's always just stuck with me. And that's
what I've always liked. I I agree, I'm very happy with most slashers,
even bad slashers. There's usually something super fun about them. I mean,
it's like a comfort movie for me. I don't know why. That's
how we say you know what you're getting? So tonight, as we stated,
the discussion is focused on eighty Slashers, specifically that never got a sequel.
So let's dive right in Dustin what's your number five choice. Well,
just a preface, Yeah, when I was these were the first five that
that came to my mind when I was thinking about them. Not necessarily like
my top five, but but I do think that they're that they're pretty up
there. But I did notice it was not intentional at all, but I
noticed that, you know, with Slashers, a lot of times you think
of them being revolving around teenage characters, but four out of the five that
I chose are actually adult characters, and the other one is college age.
So there were none that were, you know, younger characters. Not that
in the eighties even the high schoolers were played by thirty year olds. But
now I'm starting to worry that I think we might have a few crossinggos.
No so, and also also to preface, the first two that I'm doing
are two that I saw when I was a kid and just loved them and
watched them a lot. So there's lots of nostalgia involved in the first two,
and then the other three I came to later on and I was just
sort of blown away by by all of them. So the first one that
I'm doing is nineteen eighty threes Mortuary good pick. Yeah, this one.
Yeah, this one I probably watched I don't even know how many times growing
up. It always have you seen it? I had. It's been a
long long time, but I saw. I think I saw the Scorpion that
released that before MVD R one, Yeah, I believe so. Yeah,
we watched that. Blue released it with a slip. Yeah, and I
had to buy it even though it was just a slip with the same stuff
that I had to do. But I this would always really creeped me out.
I loved the just the atmosphere of it. It's set in southern California
along the coast. The main character is a college student and her father has
recently been well. They say that he drowned that she's convinced that he was
killed. And meanwhile there's a friend of hers goes missing and then she starts
seeing somebody stalking her who's in a black cloak carrying some sort of sharp embalming
instruments. And it's very creepy and it also has it has a really good
cat Mary McDonough. She was coming off of the Waltons for nine seasons and
she was the lead in it. So I don't know if they were trying
to do sort of well, not really like Jamie Leekurz because she hadn't come
off, but maybe like somebody who was who had like a name attached to
her already. And then her boyfriend in the movie is David Wallace and he
was also in another eighty slasher called Humongous. And then Linda da George and
Christopher George. They were married at the time and this was his last film.
He passed away right after this, and she played Linda d George plays
her mother, and then Bill Paxton, who is amazing. But it's uh,
yeah, I just I've always yeah, I really liked this one.
Yeah, Like I said, it always creeped me out, and it still
holds a lot of power for me because I rewatched it just a few weeks
ago, and yeah, that's my first choice. This is a good pick,
one that doesn't get talked about enough and really kind of fits in the
style of mind because a lot of mine are ones that when you mentioned it,
a lot of us that are into this boutique physical media world will go,
oh, yeah that one, yeah, of course, and it's got
that like nostalgic feeling, but just something about these most of the titles,
I don't see people going to bat for what. Like I said, one
of mine is like a pretty obvious choice, but other than that, the
other four I think are pretty good semi deep cuts. Mortuary is definitely up
there that sort of deep cut. My first one is one with some of
the most creative skills in the eighties I think, And the biggest thing is
it has probably the most creative setting for a slasher, which is one of
the reasons why I love it. Not to mention the setting, but we
also have people that I adore that are attached to it, like mister Sam
Raimi and Bruce Campbell. I'm gonna talk about Intruder. This movie is set
in a grocery store and because of that has some super unique depths. It's
got some really well done gore like this is known as a gore heavy film.
The big thing though, if you have never seen this, this Sinapse
release is brilliant For this movie. There is a new making of on this
there's an audio commentary with the director, Scott Spiegel and the producer. There
is extended murder sequences from the original work print, which is crazy for a
film like this to be able to get that on a release. There's outtakes
from the now last short film Night Crew This God, I don't even remember.
Let's just say what year this came out. This had to have been
two thousand and eleven Blu ray from Synaps. This is an old release and
it is it still holds up. This is a great release. I really
hope someday if we can find some reason to do like brand new special features,
I would love this to get a giant, like really special edition four
K release, And not that it has to be four K. This movie
just doesn't get love, and I feel like in today's marketplace, this coming
on four K is something that people will get super excited about and go by
just because they've heard so much about it. This movie's astonishing. What do
you think about Intruder Testin? Oh, it's really good. Yeah, I
haven't. I saw it when it when Synaps put it out, and I
haven't seen it since then, but it's really stuck with me over the years.
I do love the the grocery store setting, and that's another thing,
yeah that I had forgotten to mention, just that appeals to me about Slashers
is a lot of them are a lot of them, are you know,
a lot of times the setting is another character in the story. So and
that certainly certainly stands for intruder. Ain't that the truth? All right?
Let's go to your second one, all right? The second one is also
the second one that I that I watched a lot as a kid, and
it's it is American Gothic, good thing. Have you seen this one?
I again, I think I did years ago, but yeah, this is
one that no one talks about. Yeah, and and it is really good.
Like I know, a lot of people always say because it stars Rod
Steiger and Yvonne de Carlow. I believe she was in she was in The
Munsters, and of course Rod Steiger was you know, Oscar nominated, and
people always talk about how, you know, they must have been so embarras
rest by this film. And this was towards the end of their careers.
But they're both great in it, and I mean they really you know,
they definitely do not phone it in. But yeah, this one is from
nineteen eighty eight and just it's about a group of adult friends who charter a
plane in Seattle. They're going on vacation, and they run into engine trouble
on the plane and they have to land, as you do, on a
deserted island, and they discover that the only ones living there is this devoutly
religious family led by mon Pa, and they have three children who are all
middle aged, but they still dress and act like their little kids, and
it's very strange, very weird, very disconcerting. They welcome them in,
you know, to give them shelter while while, you know, one of
the friends stays back to work on the plane, and they immediately offend the
family and they clearly forget about Thou shall not kill with their religion because they
start killing them all. And but one of the interesting things that I also
find with it is that the lead act or the lead character in it,
Cynthia, she has recently lost her newborn or well infant child in a drowning
accident, and she's just been released from a mental institution and she's trying to
get over her grief at the same time that all of this is happening.
And and I think that it's it's sort of a fast name that dichotomy between
the lead character who's still trap grappling with the trauma and guilda losing her baby,
and then one of their children, Fanny, who again is like forty
five years old, and she's a little girl, and she's carrying around a
baby doll that's actually a real skeleton of a baby. So so sort of
I don't want to give away exactly what happens, but it's not really good
for her mental health. Let's just say that I am very very due for
rewatch for this one. Gosh yeah, wow, Will, Will, says
the Prowler of the Dorm of the Drip, blood Maniac tear trained Black Christmas
If just before Don counts it's my number one, Will we should be friends,
That's all I'll say. I Yeah, I definitely need to rewatch American
Gothic. My my next one is the only one I picked. That's the
obvious one, and I wanted to get it away pretty early, and so
I gotta go with the story of Harry Warden. Like My Bloody Valentine,
is such a stylish idea of a film. There's so much that you can
do with This doesn't have a sequel. It does have a remake that I
don't hate. I think the remake is pretty decent for this, especially if
you watch it with the right three D and all that. But this good
kills, great acting, super memorable killer. We were talking about that,
this is uh, this is a classic. Most people have seen this.
I don't need to explain this to most people. I'm just I'm sorry.
I was just gonna say, I feel like that could be the most popular
slasher that never got a sequel. I was thinking that, or maybe Terror
Train. I think even this is more popular than that, Like I it
Loaly and even even when the remake came out and was such a hit,
and you would have thought that they might have done a sequel to that,
and then they Yep, this is maybe some one of those that's amazing that
there's no sequel that, like you could have made them a ton of money.
Yeah, but yeah, that yeah, that's a great one. Had
to do it. Clearly, most people have seen it. But it's a
it's just a beautiful movie. Yeah. So my third is if I said
ice skating, would you know what I'm talking about. There's a couple scenes
that immediately come to oh wait, no, one of them is the nineties.
I think I'm doubting myself. Now, what is it going with Curtains?
Okay, which has one of the great uh sort of kill set pieces
where one of the characters is a professional ice skater and she goes out one
morning and it's nice and tranquil and she's out practicing on the on the pond
frozen over, and she gets stalked by a killer in an old hag mask
with a carrying a sickle, and it's so it's so I don't know it.
It's so weird, like just the imagery of the scene, but so
inspired at the same time. I think in a lot of ways, because
people sort of think about curtains, they sort of put it together with that
scene, and I think it's sort of like suggests what could have been.
Because there were a lot of production issues with this movie, and they filmed
like the middle section that like the middle hour of it or whatever, and
then they came back like a year or two later and filmed the opening and
the ending with a different director, and the original director was so angry with
it that he took his name all off of it. So but at the
same time, it weirdly still all comes together, and I just think it's
very effective. I love the snowy setting of it. I think it's interesting
that Basically, the general premise is that they're sort of a sleazy director invites
six aspiring actresses to his mansion for the weekend to all vive for the same
role in an upcoming film that he's making, and and yeah, there's a
killer in their midst at the same time. But it's very well done.
And yeah, like I said, I love the snowy setting. There's another
great third act chase scene, and I love a good chase scene in a
slasher, and this one has a great one at the end in a sort
of it's like a like a set shed or something like. It's like a
shed with with all of like the sets and production equipment and things like that,
and it's just very well done. So yeah, I love Curtains.
Have you seen that one multiple times? This is one with some very evocative
visuals. This is a movie that will stick with you for a long time.
This is funny enough, one of the eight that I was choosing from
and it unfortunately just eked out to the bottom three. I probably should have
picked that over my Bloody Valentine. But Curtains is, like I hesitate to
say it, but like, I think it's one of the most unique titles
probably that we could pick for tonight. It's one of the more bizarre and
like, how does this have? Like how did this even get made in
this type of film, because there's this seems like a risky one for a
studio to put some money behind. And I'm glad it's here, Glad I
got a good release. Sint amsterly kind of killed it with this one.
It was notorious for you know, prior to the Blu Ray release when it
was only available on vhs, and I guess probably maybe you two, but
the quality of it was so bad that there would be full sections of it
where you couldn't even tell what was happening on the screen. And so yeah,
when Synapse put out the Blu Ray, it was just, yeah,
it was a revelation. It was like seeing it for the first time,
and it really did showcase how well it was shot and filmed and only made
the movie better overall. So yeah, I would fully agree there and funny
enough not to immediately glom onto it, but I would say the same over
my next pick. And man, my first pick was a synaps too.
Snames get a lot of love right now. My next pick is a Synapse
and they did the exact same thing for this one. This is nineteen eighty
one for a film that I love, specifically for the ending of this movie,
that is the The Dorm that Dripped Blood. This movie is one.
It's a Christmas movie set in Christmas slasher set in a very snowy dorm area
where students are disappearing, very like cliche set up there, but it does
one of the most non cliche things for an ending. And I know that
a lot of Slashers have like the hey, we're indicating that there could be
a sequel, but this very specifically has like the opposite of a happy ending,
and that's why I love this movie. I don't think that's a spoiler
or anything like that, but I do feel like most people have never seen
this movie. I think this is one that people have maybe heard about.
There's a I think I remember they discussed the alternate title on here. Oh
yeah, death Dorm. For some reason, there's an alternate version on here
called death Dorm, so people knew death Dorm or the Dorm that Dripped Blood.
But the ending of this movie is really what sets the thing apart.
Sets this thing a part for me. But I also love just Christmas slashers.
It's a really fun genre by itself, and this one specifically again another
great release. Interviews, audio commentary. Synaps killed it again. I think
this was a two thousand and yeah, twenty eleven Synaps release back when they
were releasing, you know, more than three titles a year. This is
a big one and it goes on sale for very cheap. I don't necessarily
see this one getting a four K. I see something like Curtains getting a
four K before this, or Intruder because they have a little bit bigger of
a reputation. This one gets overlooked by like ninety eight percent of the horror
community. Dorm is amazing. This movie's fantastic. It's yeah, it's really
good. And I believe and even more impressive, I believe that it was
actually filmed by like UCLA film students. It was a student film. Yeah,
yeah, and so that just yeah, that just makes it even more
impressive. And I know, like Daphne's Zuniga, isn't it? And I
think that might be favorite her first film. It is, I believe,
even though she's out of it pretty quick. But yeah, I love the
campus setting of that, the Christmas sort of vibes in the background. And
yeah, I think the most memorable thing about it is definitely the decidedly downbeat
ending. I mean, that's a very sort of ballsy way to end a
movie. Yes it is. I love the ending of that one. And
yes, dude McMahon is right pointing out the dorm that drip blood. I'm
remembering, and I could be wrong. In the beginning, I thought it
had one scene with snow. It is set in California, so it's not
like it's a snow capped film. But if I remember it, I think
there's one scene with snow. I think it's just like a set piece.
Anyways, I cannot remember, but I may I may have just misspoke there.
Well, it is head of Christmas, though there might be like snow
like on like the edges of the street. Yes, all right, sir,
we only got a couple left already. All right. My fourth is
so this one. I only discovered my last two. Actually, they're both
Era releases, and I discovered both of them. I had never heard of
either one of them until they were announced, and both of them just blew
my mind, and I was like, how have I gone all my life?
And never seen this movie in Nice. So it is nineteen eighty two's
The Slayer. Oh wow, that is not when I would have expected out
of nowhere it. Have you seen this one? It's I don't think I
actually ever saw that. Oh I I think you'd really like it. Yeah,
this one is has a similar setup to American Gothic in that it's again
adult care. Is a married couple and her brother and sister in law and
they're all going on vacation and they get a pilot flies them to an island
in Georgia for vacation, and there's a house there that they're staying at,
but wouldn't you know it, a hurricane is moving in at the same time.
The main character is an artist, and she's sort of since childhood,
she's been plagued by all of these nightmares of things that either have come true
or just things that she wouldn't have known. And when she when they get
there, they pass by a broken down theater that she had previously painted in
one of her recent paintings, and there's no way for her to have even
known of it. But yeahs as the hurricane move then someone is killing the
you know, the four of them and you don't see who it is.
And I think that's what's unique about it is it's also a mystery at the
same time, because you don't know if if she's hallucinating, if it's a
part of her dreams, if she's you know, if it's if she's having
some sort of like mental issues, or if somebody is actually on the island
killing them, or if it could even be something otherworldly and you don't see
it. And the Yeah, the set pieces, there's one that's set in
a sort of like aboding shed is just amazingly done without actually showing you any
of you know, who's actually doing it. And the kills are really creative,
very brutal, and you wouldn't expect it, like just how how how
they're oft and then it all leads up to an ending that you just sort
of have to see for yourself. I'm gonna have to watch this one very
soon. I think gosh, did did screen Factory put this out in the
US? I cann't tell if that was a narrow UK or US? Yeah,
I think it was the US. Oh wow, yeah hmm, but
yeah, if you don't have this, yeah, definitely recommended. Yeah,
this is one of my favorite Slashers that never got a sequel. Wow,
that sounds fantastic and very right up my alley. And I also just love
that it's actually mature characters who are just living their lives and so it's sort
of like a slice of life at the same time, even though there's all
of these horrific things that are happening to them, and it's just it's just
very smart, very very creepy, and yeah, and then it takes a
big swing at the end, and that's all I'll say. Nice. What's
funny is you said both of yours are from era of video, so that
confirms we have zero crossovers. Oh awesome this one. A lot of people
are gonna probably say that this is a very popular pick, but I'm going
to push back against that and say, there's a lot of people right now
that are not buying this because this is a pretty old release and I think
people are waiting on a four K that we have no idea if it's coming
or not. In fact, it seems like we're not getting one. My
pick is from Blue Underground, and people are going to think that I pulled
all these together after Will's comment, But when I said We're very much friends.
Will named literally most of my choices the Prowler from nineteen eighty one.
This is an incredible movie about a soldier that is really kind of cast out
and comes back for very soldierrific revenge. We'll say this is all the gore
effects of this handled by the master Tom Savini, and that is one of
the main reasons I love this movie. I think this has one of the
more I'm gonna put this closer so you can see some detail, one of
the more unique and effective looking killers that This is one of the main reasons
I am shocked this didn't get five films just the look of this killer.
I could see this being all over Spirit Halloween in twenty twenty four. That's
true. This movie is amazing and if you've never seen it has really great
acting, a very good story. It's got like some actual from when it
came out. The people that were making this you can tell like they were
affected by the Vietnam War and a lot of the whole military aspect plays a
big part of the story. I could see this being really big if people
have never checked this out and going God, yeah, like that's a relatable
thing for all of us that grew up with family members of the military or
went to the Iraq War or whatever. There's so much that you can find
in this movie to relate to. The kills are fantastic, the Gore,
it's Savini. It's a huge win and again great release from Blue Underground.
There's not a ton on the disc, but they do have an audio commentary
with the director and Tom Savigni and then behind the scenes featurette on his Gore
footage, which again it's the highlight of this film. I love practical Gore
and the Prowler is like top notch for practical Gore. Yeah, that has
some of the greatest Tom Sevini makeup effects of any movie. And yeah,
that's also one that I always hear people hoping will get a four K sometime
because I think it would just look so great. I agree, and it's
one of those it's so much at night that it would shine with great HDR.
Yep, yep, yep. That was a great pick, all right,
sir, Final one, my final one, and this is my favorite
of the five and like the like the Slayer. Yeah, I had not
heard of this until Aero put it out, and I think it's nearly a
masterpiece. That's how much I love this movie. And I don't put around
that word that often. And this is nineteen eighty One's what mad House?
Oh? Wow, have you seen that? I've not seen this one.
This is a very early arrow release. Let's see, it's like twenty fifteen
or sixteen. I think at least seventeen. Okay. It actually came out
within just a few months of The Slayers, so they were like really on
a roll that year. But our Mad House is Oh, I gotta say
the director's name because it's so great. Oh video g Asinitis night. He
had previously made The Beyond the Door, the original, but this movie okay.
So it came out the same year as Happy Birthday to Me, and
they're very similar in a way because they're both centered around the main character's birthday
coming up. And but this one's better, I would say. And I
do like Happy Birthday to Me, but this one is everything is great.
Like from the very beginning, I was blown away, Like I the first
time I watched this, I knew from the opening credits that this was gonna
be my type of movie. It starts out with yeah, an opening credit
sequence that's set to the creepiest version of Rockabye Baby that you'll ever hear.
It sounds like as if tiny Tim was asked to sing a nursery rhyme and
he just wanted to scare the hell out of you, because that's exactly what
it sounds like. But the general idea is the main character, Juli esh
her birth her twenty fifth birthday is coming up. And I also love a
good countdown in a in a horror movie, and this like counts down,
so it's like five days until Julia's birthday. Nice firth day is till her
birthday. So she was born with a twin sister named Mary, and Mary
was very twisted and sort of sort of abused her her sister Julia, and
was eventually sent to a mental hospital where she's currently still at and she's also
suffering from a skin disease at the same time. But she's like very unhinged,
and just a few days before their twenty fifth birthday, she escapes naturally.
But and then yeah, there's yeah, people around her are being are
being found dead. She I love that it really takes the time to really
focus on the characters. The main character is just so well drawn from the
script. She teaches at a school for the deaf, and it I mean
the movie really could have just like washed by that, but like it actually
takes the time to really show her teaching the kids. It's very empathetic towards
the deaf community, towards the students. You know, there's one student who
passes away, and it actually like there's a scene where she's actually like working
helping them to work through their grief. And the fact that a movie,
like a slasher movie like this actually like takes time out to do something like
that, I just think it's working on another level. And then the main
character, she's played by Trish Everley, and this was her one and only
role, and she is so spectacular in it that I just like to think
that she just figured that there was nowhere for her to go a bit down,
so she just like got out of the business after that. I'm too
good. Yeah, I can't get because like if it's your very first role
and like you're in almost every scene and like it's this good of a role,
Like yes, it's in a slasher movie, but like it's really well
done, and I just feel like, yeah, I just I've tried searching
for her just out of curiosity online to see what happened to her, and
there's like nothing, like I have absolutely no idea what happened. It's the
only credit that she has on IMDb. But she's great, and like you
could just imagine her becoming like a huge actor if she had continued on and
but and then and then yeah, it culminates on her birthday. It's so
twisted what happens. There's there's multiple surprises, there's and then it ends with
this existential Georgia Bernard Shaw quote like before the end credits, and it actually
earns it like it's it's not overwrought, like it actually like makes sense like
with the end, and it actually leaves you thinking about life. And it's
like an excellent, like like really deep thing. So I'm just like,
I love this movie. Do you do well selling it? I I think
I have Mad House and I'm gonna need to pop it in soon's I think
I have Mad House. Yeah, because this is one of those ones that's
been out so long, it's been very cheap. A few times. Yeah,
I can't. Yeah, whenever you get around to it, I know
you're a little busy but whenever you do get around to it, I can't
wait to hear what your what your thoughts are because everybody that I've talked to
who also discovered it when Aero put it out, they felt the exact same
way that I did. So Yeah, so when I was thinking of my
top five that didn't get a sequel, and again I had never even heard
of it. So but it's my favorite of the five. Well mine is
also my favorite when we decide on this topic. This is the only one
that I put on a list and said, I know I will talk about
this one. Let me fill it in with four others. And this is
a movie that I'm not gonna say the twist in case you've never seen it,
but it is made or broken by the very specific twist in this film.
But what's funny when you watch it and you pay even like half attention,
it's not a twist in any semblance of the word. It is quite
obvious from about a third of the way in this is what is happening.
But I have to go with one of my favorites of all time, Jeff
Lieberman's from nineteen eighty one, which I think, like six of our picks
were from nineteen eighty one, probably just before Don. This is have you
seen this one? Okay, thank goodness, just before Don is a masterpiece.
I think this is also one that Synaps I believe has indicated they are
going to do a four K. I think eventually that's the current plans this
This movie is great. It's a handful of friends that are going up to
the middle of the woods to camp and they come across a very sweaty and
probably drunk George Kennedy who does all of the stereotypical like don't go any farther,
ye, kids, it's dangerous type of you know, warnings to all
these kids, and of course they don't listen. They go up and yeah,
it is dangerous. They shouldn't have gotten any further. There's not a
lot of like really super thought out gore, but the way this is acted
and the story that is behind this is fun. But the biggest thing,
the twist is like the exact type of film I love to watch. It
is for some reason that style of we're gonna use this very obvious conceit which
There's another Arrow release from the eighties that is a slasher that never got a
sequel. That when you said that you were gonna do two Arrow, I
thought maybe it was gonna be blood Rage, So oh yeah, that's that's
a good one too. This one is just it's so eighties. It is
so like really funny from from a certain point of view, there's very like
stereotypical skinny dipping shots. There's this bridge sequence that they make like extra tense
and scary. Uh. It's it's just a fun damn movie. And if
you've never seen Just Before Dawn, the Code Red releases out there. It
was re released by Keno I think at some point or maybe not, but
it's been out in a couple different releases and it's good. But if Synaps
puts out a four K, this is going to get a lot of love.
And I really hope you're there for it because it's one of the greatest
of all time. It's it's one that's so well made and fun and Jeff
Lieberman is great at what he does, but just trying to craft that story
without giving it away is really difficult. And no, it's not fully successful,
but it's it's mostly good and it's very very fun. What do you
think Just Before Done? And it also doesn't it open with Blondie's Heart of
Glass, which I always remember because I'm always like, how did they get
the rights to that song? Yep, well it's code read doing it,
so they could have just not got the rights, and then who cares on
home video too? But no that it's a Yeah, it's an excellent film,
and I want to say this and the least sexual way possible, that
it has one of the greatest fisting scenes and all in all the film,
and that's all I'll say about that. Oh, Dustin, I'm so glad
that you're here. Man, Hen solid picks no crossovers really shows how how
amazing the eighties were for slashers, Like it was the genre. Uh,
the genre genre. I get, That's what I was trying to go for.
There, the genre within genre film that was super popular at the time.
Uh and obviously super big on practical effects in all of them because the
CGI was not there yet. The casting is really great most of the time.
Simoner says just before Donn is out of print from everybody, so good
to know, don't overpay for it. Yeah, I think that's gotta come
come out again from somebody. Well, it's way too popular again. I
believe Synaps announced it when they announced Street Trash was coming out on thur kyk
Oh awesome. So event well it's Synaps, so that could be like another
three years. Yeah, lots of nature shots, lots of daylight scenes.
Uh. Yeah, the code red release is very soft. It will look
beautiful, I'm sure. Yeah. I'm looking at some of the other like
picks that other people had mentioned, and yeah, there's so many more that
we could have chosen that I really liked. I mean Night School, I
really like Night School, Stage Fright, Oh yeah, stage Fright. I
love the al Killer. It's such a great mask. No mention of pieces.
I love pieces. Oh yeah, I was gonna when I was talking
about Mortuary before and I was talking about Linda D. George, I was
gonna I was gonna actually reference her famous pieces quote about bastards. Oh man.
Uh but yeah, yes, I think that. Yeah, there's so
many. Yeah, I'm glad that we didn't repeat any And yeah, that
just goes to show how how many of there really are out there that are
quality films that I think a lot of people sleep on. Stan says,
you love pieces to pieces, I do, of course. Jake says Maniac,
which technically there's a quote Maniac too, kind of if you go buy
the alternate title for the Last Horses Show. But Maniac is great obviously the
hard part. I don't know that I call Maniac a slasher film. It
doesn't like when I watch it. I mean, yeah, because well it's
sort of like told from the slasher's point of view. It feels almost like
a true crime film more than a slasher. Yeah. Yeah, it's more
of like a serial I think of it more as like a serial killer film
than slasher. It's like Henry Portrait of a serial Killer. I would never
call that a slasher. No, No, definitely not. And then yeah
another yeah, graduation day. I like that one. Graduation day is good.
Good, Yeah, lots of good picks. I mean we could have
gone almost anywhere down this path. And I mean ten releases all on physical
media, ten great films, lots of like unique masks, lots of great
kills, most of them done very well, and a lot of adults.
So which goes adults, Yeah, it goes to prove that they're definitely were
they weren't all just like high school tape movies. In fact, I think
all a minor adults I can't remember. I mean, like I said,
the closest thing for me was Mortuary and they're in college. But so stands
bringing up Funhouse, and stand might disown me and stop helping with the physical
media advocate. But I will say I'm not the biggest fan of The Funhouse.
Oh well I am. I need to rewatch it. It's been a
long time. Well no, it's only been like two and a half years.
Yeah. I need to be in a better headspace for The Funhouse to
see if I can appreciate it more. I'm sorry, Stan, I know
you're mister Hooper, but uh yeah, well I just love how like I
know a lot of people criticize Funhouse because they think it's too slow, because
really they don't. They don't actually go into the Funhouse until like almost an
hour into the movie, right, and so, but I actually like just
following them through the carnival and just I don't know, I always liked that
about it, and then once they do get to the Funhouse, I think
it's very effective. Yeah, I've always really liked it. It's got some
decent scenes. I think the hard part of me and I don't know why
we're going on a die Tribe about the Funhouse now, but the opening where
the how old is he? Like thirteen year old brother is trying to grope
his older sister or whatever, Like that's kind of gross to start your movie
like that. What are we doing? Toby? Yeah? And then and
then and then it follows the brother who like wanted to go to the carnival
but she you know, it wasn't gonna her. His sister wasn't gonna take
him, and then he goes to the carnival and nothing really ever comes of
it. But I don't know, I like the I don't know. I
think it has sort of, like I don't know, an atmosphere to it
that I really like that I gravitate towards. So yeah, it's even if
you aren't a fan, maybe yeah, a rewatch, maybe you could reconsider.
I like carnival films, and I'm kind of amazed that I don't love
this one. I was just gonna say, I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten
a remake. With all of the you know, horror remakes that have come
out. I know, like years ago there was rumblings that Eli Roth was
gonna direct a remake of it, but that never came to be. But
yeah, I'm surprised. I'm probably gonna get slaughtered for saying this. I
this isn't like the type of thing that I know people didn't love the Halloween
remake. I feel like Rob Zombie could do good with a title like fun
house like it's just that weird off the like off to the side, gross
like underbelly type of crowd that, yeah, he should make that movie.
That makes sense that I think, Yeah, we need to get that to
him, because yeah, it would totally be like House of a Thousand Corpses
that said in front at a carnival. Stan is probably typing like nine hundred
words right now to cuss me out after saying Rob Zombie should remake a Toby
Hooper film. But uh, yeah, I would love to see that.
I mean I was, Yeah, I was deeply offended in two thousand and
seven when the Halloween remake came out, And I've gotten more used to it
as the years have gone on and I've watched it, like, I don't
dislike it as much as I did the first time around. And I'll defend
his Halloween two to the end of time. It's so good, Like people
who say that that's one of the worst movies, Like, I don't understand
it. I think that's one of the great Halloween sequels. It absolutely is,
because the entire franchise is not even that great. Like, there's a
few really great Halloween films, and that's clearly one of them. Well,
I mean, we did it, and now it's been almost four hours,
so I give you your night back, Dustin. You you've been a remarkable
guest. I cannot wait to have you back. I think that everybody should
be following Dustin. Check out his book The Fright File. Anything else that
you want to say or highlight or turn people to before we leave. No,
just yeah, I'm on yeah, Facebook and Instagram and all of that,
and I think you have all of the links down below if you're interested.
And but I just want to thank you for having me and this.
It was such an honor to be on your show. I absolutely look forward
to this every Thursday watching it, so to be on it, it was
just yeah, it was a thrill. So thank you. Thank you,
sir. You've made it a better and more high brow show just by showing
your face. So thank you. The last thing I'll say to everybody.
Normally I might say something like check out the Patreon or something, but the
big thing, yes, I do have another thing coming out, which I'm
an idiot for I get that. Please go check out Film Foundations. One
thing I didn't say earlier when I was running it down everything about Disconnected,
it's in the name. Everything has been focused on physical media, which I
love. I will never ever make that something that goes away. But I
don't get people that come to this to talk about film all that often when
watching Reconnected, I have all kinds of people watching for the announcements, and
then if you look, the moment the announcements are done, we go to
talk about film. Viewers drop off like crazy. And not that I'm dying
for people to watch or listen or something like that, but I want more
of a place to talk about film. That is my passion. That is
why I buy these releases, That's why I highlight these releases, That's why
I work on these releases. So I really wanted somewhere to really gush about,
to learn about, to decry sometimes, and really just discussed to the
ends of the earth, everything and anything concerning film. So check out Film
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