Hey, Hey, there everybody, and welcome back to Reconnected. I am
here with a fairly new friend of mine, Will Dodson. I had him
on the show last week, and I hope a lot of you have seen
that video that we put up now, because I would love it if you
had any questions that came up after viewing that to be able to ask Will
tonight, because man, oh man, he is a Toby Hooper expert and
he's got a lot of other knowledge and he would be more than happy to
share. And let's get into it. Will, how are we doing today?
I'm doing good. Yeah, thanks for having me again. I'm really
excited to be here and really enjoyed the Toby Hooper interview. Already got some
good comments and saw circulating around them the social media netasphere. But I'm also
excited to kind of diversify a little bit talk about some other films and filmmakers.
So yeah, let's have at it nice. We already are getting some
people shuffle in. So again, if you saw anything last Friday about Toby
and you want to know some more, Will is literally the expert on Toby
Hooper, so please just get those questions. We'll get to them as soon
as we can. Got a lot to talk about tonight. There have been
we knew this week was going to be heavy. We got Arrow announcements,
we got Vinegar Syndrome and all their partner label announcements. We've got a smattering
of some others. And on top of that, we got some redefining reasons
to discuss physical media this week, as HBO Max has suddenly deleted I think
it's six or eight titles or something like that off of their service which were
HBO Max originals. So where else would they go? Any thoughts from you
on they're deleting those, Well, there's all the hubbub going on about Batgirl
being being canceled, and you know, you got to feel for all the
people involved on production when something gets canceled so close to completion. But there's
also been, you know, some controversy over the fact that Netflix is re
editing episodes of Stranger Things, which I'm mildly concerned about. I haven't seen.
I was waiting to watch the last season with my daughter, and now
I'm not not even sure it's artistically viable, right, But you know,
it goes to a lot of the conversations we have about the importance of physical
media for archiving and preserving films and filmmakers because streaming services there's no guarantee they're
gonna keep stuff on US licenses expired for their original content, they can shelve
it for tax purposes, as we've seen with the merger or acquisition. I
guess of what is a Discovery Plus right, kind of an ironic name for
a company since they're hiding everything. Really odd to like put their hat on
Discovery Plus. It seems like as well, it seems odd to put all
of your bets behind that. I don't know. Yeah, the whole situation
is is sad and uh, the the two films that were canceled with That
Girl and Scoob. I not only you know, for the the stars that
were you know, potentially going to have life changing roles, but I mean
the the amount of crew that works on these films that are now not going
to have exposure, that are not going to have the ability to have this
on the resume, that aren't going to have, you know, something to
show their kids. I know for a lot of people that work on it
will be like Scoob, that's a that's a big deal. For them,
and now that is just taken from them. They had no say in it.
So the only things that are guaranteed are things that you physically hold in
your hand. So it shows that this is all that much more important.
And I hope that we see some sort of resurgence again. And we keep
getting these random things that cause resurgences and I love that, but just never
seems enough to get all of society behind it again. But I don't know
that we'll ever get that sort of resurgence again. Yeah. Man, you
know, well, it keeps getting hot. People are gonna have to stay
inside and they need something to do. That is very, very true.
So speaking of that, you got anything new that you want to show to
everybody? See what you got picked up here recently? Oh? Yeah,
I had a couple of things come in maybe some some of these are kind
of older releases that I'm just kind of catching up with. Let's say one,
I'll mention, No, there's some strooms that got announced today that we'll
probably talk about. But I just picked up This is the Mill Creek release
of the twelve pack of Randolph Scott films. I mainly got this because I
think all seven of the films he made with the director of Bud Buddeker are
on there. They all really deserve MH remastered high definition ven maybe even some
four K releases. This isn't that, but it's the best we have for
now. Still no high definition even Blu ray release of seven of them from
now which is the best movie with Randall Scott and oh yeah, that's not
in here. So not all of this, but well most of them.
We'll see one I want to talk about later. I want to get into
some announcements, but we'll see. I get I got a Walter Hill film,
Crossroads Nice with Ralph Marcio. I'm pretty excited about that, you know,
boxing This is an older release, came out a few years ago from
Keno, but I always like mentioning this. I always teach at least one
of her films in my general intro film appreciation class, and that's the Idol
Lupino. She was a real pioneer as an actress and a director. I
think at one point she and Dorothy Arsner were the only women and the director's
guild. But she was also a pioneer in independent filmmaking. And here's a
strange factoid. She was one of the innovators of product placement and movies as
a way to raise money for for independent productions. Interesting that we have her
to day for the you know, perfectly placed bottles of tostedos that we see
today, among some other So I'm pretty excited about that set. It's got
some great films at the Bigamist, the Hitchhiker, which is probably our best
known film. Nice I got some in this week. These are in from
for review from Imprint. They actually sent me these to share with the channel.
The first one we got Barabbas and this is nineteen sixty one, and
this is a pretty decent looking disc has got ten ADP high f presentation,
an audio commentary by Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman from this year. And then
Richard Fleischer looking back, an interview with the Hollywood director, and then film
History and Sheldon Hall on Barrabas and that's from this year. So lots of
good stuff on this one. And again Imprint just killing it with what they're
putting out. I love Richard Fleischer. He is a director who deserves a
lot more exposure. Partly I think people don't really pay attention to him,
to his career because he did so many different genres of film, he's not
really known right A particular one. One of my favorites is a sort of
daytime more heist film called Violent Saturday with Lee Marvin in just full villain mode,
just nasty, nice bank heist movie. But you know he did twenty
thousand leagues under this scene. I mean, so many great movies. I
haven't seen a Bravisa. I don't want to spoil the end, but it's
sad. I've heard that. The next one is another director that I really
like, and they seem to get really really heavy in the directors for the
month of July. Ken Russell film of horror, and this one we got
an audio look at that. Look at that audio commentary by Alexander Heller,
Nicholas and Josh Nelson on this from this year. There's an interview with actress
Teresa Russell from this year, which that's kind of a pretty big deal,
and then an interview with Ginger Lynn Allen which is exciting, and then interview
with the writer Deborah Dalton X rated at Tour Bruce Le Bruce on Ken Russell's
Horror, Legitimate and Illegitimate Women in Ken Russell's Horror, a video essay by
Kat Ellinger, which was the first thing that made me go, I gotta
get this to see what Kat says on that. And this one for those
that don't know, it's from nineteen ninety one, so it's a fairly modern
Ken Russell compared to a lot of the stuff that people know. And I
saw that years ago and can't wait to see that again. Yeah. I
think I saw Late Night on Skin a Max when I was fourteen years old.
Yeah, it wasn't quite well at the adolescent self, it was a
little disappointed. It wasn't wasn't like that, yep, but I thought,
but great, it really is a great film. Yeah, I'm so it's
going to get rediscovered. And I mean, anytime you can get a Kim
Russell film, you should at least see it at least ones. Yeah.
Next one is Andy Garcia in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.
This is a pretty unique movie. This one's from nineteen ninety five, not
one that a lot of people nowadays have been talking about. So I'm again,
just like Horror, I'm really glad this one's out there right for rediscovery.
This one's got things to write in Denver when You're Dead, an interview
with the screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, Things to direct in Denver when You're Dead,
interview with the director Gary Fleeeder, and then things to Perform in Denver when
You're Dead, an interview with actor Andy Garcia, a modern interview with Andy
Garcia on this film, which that's pretty damn cool, and then also an
interview with the production designer. That's kind of a lot to get for something
like this that has not been getting a lot of attention lately. But the
biggest one this month box set Oh Jim Sheridan films, four Irish films,
My Left Foot, the Field, in the Name of the Father, and
The Boxer. And obviously some of these are titles that people know very well,
especially this one had got I think it's a shout select release in the
Name of the Father, and then The Boxer also had a shout select release,
I believe. But to get all these together, that's that's a really
cool set for them and another director that you know, had a moment in
the in the early mid nineties who really needs to be rediscovered. Yeah,
so this is an excellent opportunity. I really love the Boxer. I'm a
big fan of that film. The Boxer is great. Gosh, another one
that's been years since I've seen. So Daniel day lewis just obviously amazing and
at this point seems to be retired, but we'll see if he ever comes
back. That would be swell. Let's go through who all is here before
we start going through the announcements. What's going on? Startists? He says,
welcome to Will. Oh hey, thanks Lissa, how are we doing?
And christians Hobby Blog says, yay, Will, what's going on?
Big fan of Christian's hobby blog? Jeff, What's going on? Evening Sartists
wanted to share that he watched the UT at Austin Roundtable on Hooper. You
guys did awesome. Thanks glad you get to check that out. A lot
of great interviews in there. Joe, Bob Greggs of course was great.
Scaltefolia, Stan Geezy, Julius bandon Chris was such a fun talk once again
that Roundtables in the description below tonight, So if you want to save that
for later, make sure you open that in a new tab and go back
to it after this show. Terry, what's going on? Flickering waves.
Eric is here. Sartis just spent two hundred dollars on partner labels at Vinegarson
Room. We'll talk about those a lot tonight. Christians Hobby Blog wants killer
Condom on Blu Ray. I don't know that one. Oh yeah, you
gotta check that out Trauma Licensed. So a current theme for Christians Hobby Blog
is please Vinegar Syndrome. Since they have that, they get a lot of
those trauma license releases. It's a great film based on a comic book and
it's about mid nineties and it's it's about uh really, it's a it's a
it's a pretty enlightened for its time, you know, the defense I guess
of queer identities specifically in this story. And the film is about a moralizing
group that's trying to stamp out sin using killer condoms. It's great, like
a perfect pairing for that. What is Visual Vengeance release of La Age Jabber
that's about to come out? Oh absolutely, I got my pre order at
grind House for that one. Nice Hilton wanted to point out that Peacemaker is
coming out on Blue Has that been confirmed for the US? Because I know
it got confirmed for Canada. I've not heard for sure that it's coming to
the US. Let me know if somebody else has seen that here. Yeah,
I really do hope. Netflix says the same as Sandman. I don't
understand some of these places, Like, obviously they want to get subscribers in
to watch their stuff. But if you're not gonna get people that are collecting
physical media, just release something and make some money. That's better than no
dollars. Yeah, that's why I really like what Shutter does this, But
you know, putting out several of there yeah titles, and at least that
way they give themselves an exclusive they get it for like four or five months
before it comes out on Blue. That's perfect. I'm totally fine with that.
Sure. Uh. Lissa wanted to share she just watched Life Force last
weekend, one of my favorite Toby Hooper directed movies. Cam's here. What's
going on? Cam? John is probably working as he listens. What's up?
John? Dude, McMahon, you are at the live stream? Nice?
Happy you're here. Christian says, I watched One Eyed Jacks recently.
It's a new favorite Western of mine. Uh. Jeff says the Hitchhiker,
that's one of his favorite noirs and Dave's here, what's going on? Dave?
Let's see, are we in the golden age of film collecting? I
say, yes, uh, maybe maybe you did that interview a couple of
weeks ago with was his name Adam from Adam from Window. I liked his
answer to that question, like yes and no. Right, but the the
margins are so difficult for eternal profit reducing high end physical media. Right.
But it certainly is a rabid collecting community. And you know, if you're
a film student, film fan, you definitely have more options than you've ever
had before. So there's that, But the business is tough. Yeah.
I do think that in the the like the golden age of the DVD era,
I guess as a decent way to put that, I think we had
more films being released on DVD. But I think we are in perhaps the
golden age of treating everything with love and passion as much as humanly possible.
Yeah, for the most part, don't. I don't miss the VHS days,
even though I still feel nostalgia for the video store. I worked in
a video store for four years when I was in college, and I liked
the fact that I could look at the boxes for at the time, there
are I think thirteen Witchcraft movies and I watched them all and I don't regret
it, but I'll never do it again. But I liked that they were
there, right, But VHS is a format I have no nostalgia for.
Yeah, not really. Dave, what's going on? Dave got an Arrow
order in Jallo Essentials, the Red Box and the Andromeda Strain. I love
the Andromeda Strain. Robert Wise, Yeah, oh, look, t s
artist does two? Neil's here? What's going on? Neil and Steve?
Hey, Steve, Okay, I think we are ready for some announcements.
This is a rough week because I was I was posting announcements on the fly.
My sister was here on vacation, so I was spending a lot of
time with her. I know that I missed BFI announcements this week, but
I will get those up and we'll talk about those next week. So let's
dive in. The First thing we got last Friday was Arrow. Arrow Video
put out a pretty interesting month after taking a couple really light months. We
are getting the count Yorga collection. This is coming on October twenty fifth,
and this has let me see here. It's got Disc one, we got
count Yorga Vampire, and then Disc two the Return of count Yorga. This
is gonna have a blu ray for both movies, the original audio subtitles of
course, and then there's a collector's book in this first the limited release that
they always do, fold out double sided posters for both films featuring commissioned artwork
by Heather Vaughan, twelve double sided postcard sized lobby cards reproduction press book for
count Yorga Vampire, which that's a really cool piece to add, I think.
Then we got brand new audio commentary by Tim Lucas, which is pretty
damn exciting. Then a new appreciation of count Yorga by Heather Draine and Chris
O'Neil, new interview with Frank Darabant in which the award winning filmmaker talks about
his love for count Yorga Vampire, and then a new interview with actor Michael
Murphy. And there's even more on that disc. There's some old legsy features
coming on there. And then on disc two for the return, we get
a new audio commentary by Stephen Bissett, the count and the Counterculture, a
brand new interview with critic Maitland mcdonnaugh, Chamber of Music of Horror, a
new interview with Dave Huckville about the scores for both films, and then again
some old legacy features on there. What do you think about count Yorga?
Wow? So when I first saw it, I was like, damn,
because I've got the Twilight Time, the Blu Ray of count Yorga and the
Shout release of Return. But I imagine these are going to be some refreshed
and I'm really I'm pretty excited about. Like I like seeing interviews with Baytlan
mcdonna. You know, she wrote one of the first really good books about
Daria Argento, Broken Mirror's Broken Mind. Chris so Neil did a video essay
for the I'm Dangerous Tonight Blu ray that that I contributed to. Uh,
of course Tim Lucas, And yeah, there's a lot of good stuff in
there. I think that's gonna be worth checking out. I might have to
might have to finance that by selling my out of print Twilight Time. There's
a lot of people still after those old Twilight Time days, that's for sure.
Yeah, what's going on? Dead Sea Life? Glad You're here.
Dude says he remembers seeing all those Witchcraft movies at the family video down the
street. Wanted to run them all into a marathon, but never did.
You saved yourself some pain, but it's doable. Spaghetti wants us to start
over because he was a little late, and we're gonna do that right now.
So welcome to reconnected. This is I'm just kidding, Let's get right
back to this. What's going on? Spaghetti? Glad you're here, next
one up from aerow. This was heavily rumored earlier this year, and I'm
really glad it came to fruition because this might be my favorite Chronimberg nowadays.
I think that other than I mean this is I think we talked about this
either last week or the week before. It's really difficult to say that when
he has a life changing film in The Fly. So I'm not even going
to count The Fly. The Fly is a classic everybody. Yeah, that's
like the most one of the most amazing films of all time. This,
other than The Fly, is probably my favorite Chronimberg at this point. So
in the UK only, they are putting out a four k uhd of videodrome
once again, they are doing what they've done with some of their other releases
and basically copying everything about that Blu Ray release that they did and just putting
a four K disk in it. But also they are doing a version of
this with the og poster artwork, and that is an aerosite exclusive. And
as far as I remember, I don't think there are any new features on
this at all. Yeah, I think everything I'm seeing is from the original.
Now. One thing to point out, the original release of Video Drome
it had the David Cronenberg early works. This does not. So you are
losing quite a bit if you try to get rid of your old limited edition
and then replace it with this. Now, they do have the David Cronenberg
early works that they sell separately. But I don't know. This is a
pretty incredible film and I really can't wait to see it in four K.
Well till Lucas is talking over everything. Now, look at that, I
guess that's got to be new, right, I mean, I don't think
so. I think that was on the original. I'd have to look.
Wow, I don't remember it being there. It maybe Bill Wilson, So
I've looked at it. I remember watching though that that fear on film Roundtable
from nineteen eighty two with Cronenberg and Carpenter and Landis and mc garrison and I
remember John Landis no offense to John Landas he didn't care. It was real
like extra on that shit, you know, any a minute and just watching
Carpenter's eyes rolling in the back of his head getting annoyed, because it's almost
worth watching that before any of the other features. It's a wonderful conversation.
I definitely suggest people seek that out if you have not seen it. Yeah,
really good. Uh, I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. I'd say he's
probably I don't know. When people ask him of my favorite filmmaker, I
have a different answer every day, but I'd probably say David Cronenberg more often
than any other filmmaker. And like you, this is probably my first or
second favorite film. And I like to think about it as a as a
triple feature with Existence and Crimes of the Future, the new Crimes of the
Future, not the original experimental film, with this film being kind of the
the analog exploration of the media theory of Marshall mccluan, and then Existence getting
into virtual reality and cybernetics and then finally Crimes of the Future, this sort
of evolution, devolution of older man's perspective on these same things. I'm excited
about this coming out so that I can do all three again. I need
to revisit Crimes of the Future, because I got to be honest, I
did not love it in the theater. It is A it's a it's a.
I don't know. It seemed like there was a lot of meat left
on the bone there that they could have done more with sort of an anti
climactic ending for me. But yeah, I definitely see the trilogy idea there.
And Man, excess Tends really needs more attention nowadays, really does Sure?
Quiet Rob, what's going on? My friend? He is also excited
for Video Drome. Antoine's also here What's going on? Video Store says,
I want Canada to host the Olympics so Cronenberg can direct the opening ceremony.
That would be amazing. Yeah. Next up from them, they are putting
out something called Take Back the Night from twenty twenty one and I don't normally
say something like this, but man, this movie does not look like one
I would enjoy. Yeah, you know, I hadn't heard of this and
I assumed, and it turned out rightly that this kind of fits into the
sort of revitalized rape revenge genre. Although this scene I watched the trailer today
and got pretty intrigued. But this genre movie, I don't know if enjoy
is the right word anyway, you know, right, it's kind of an
an experience, an experience that hopefully will lead to some some some positive insights
and reactions. I actually found that this is straightening on to be so uh
so, I think I'm gonna check it out this week or weekend and see
see how it looks. But the package is really cool, you know,
it's decent. I think it probably really jibs with the overall tone of the
film very well. From what I saw from the trailer, it looks like
that's going to fit right in. Uh this one. For those that have
not read into this one, it says, finding yourself the victim of a
violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried
to kill her, but our troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles
to the surface, causing her family, community, and the author used to
question her account. Alone in he fight Jane starts to doubt her own memory
of the attack and to wonder if the monster exists at all. So this
is fueled by formidable female talent both in front of and behind the camera,
and Take Back the Night's a terrifying suspense thriller that's both an eye opening expose
and a powerful rallying cry. This one has an audio commentary by Gia Elliott
and Alexandra Heller Nicholas, author of Rape Revenge Films A critical study, and
Alexandra Heller Nicholas has been everywhere lately, wonderful author. By the way,
that's a great book. She's fantastic. Yeah, So I'm looking forward to
this. And then Please Don't Say the word go ahead, I said,
I was looking forward to this, and I was like, well, that's
kind of a weird thing to say for this particular genre I'm really interested in
seeing. Then after that we got Please Don't Say the Word Monster on national
television. A visual essay by Emma Westwood. Another visual by film critics Cerice
Howard, exploring the idea of safe spaces, sanctuary and vulnerability. And then
what is a Body? Another visual essay by Justine Smith examining bodily autonomy and
monsters are Real. Another visual essay by film critic BJ Colangelo or Sorry Colangelo
looking at survivor, Unity, sexual violence and social media theatrical trailer and BJ
and her wife They are wonderful. Just we're on one of the podcasts that
I produce. Take a look at their work. They do some really really
interesting stuff. They are just amazing critics and some really really good commentary out
there on Film Video Store says I do wish labels reached out to more contributors.
I think on more work by Alexandre Heller Nicholas than David Lynch. I
gotta be honest, I see that there is really a small little club lately,
and some of these boutiques on people contributed. But it's also hard to
find good talent for stuff like this, willing to do it for how little
they're able to pay. Yeah, well, it's hard hard to get exposure.
Hopefully, hopefully support more people will get into the club. I was
about to say, how's the commentary on something that just came out recently from
Keno there will Yeah, Well, you know, I'm dangerous tonight Blu ray
that came out last week it's been getting some some decent reviews. I mean,
obviously that the focus should be on the film, but it really is
packed with with with extras, as we talked about on the interview, and
some of the reviews that have come out about the Blu Ray have been have
been nice. And yeah, we'll see. I hope it does well.
I hope that it leads to more of Toby's television work coming out and you
know, see what happens. I agree. So that's Take Back the Night.
And then next up they put out one that looks pretty damn intriguing to
me. This is Two Witches from twenty twenty one. Expectant young mother Sarah
is convinced she has been given the evil eye from a mysterious, blank eyed
old hag while she is dining with their bullish and insensitive partner Simon. When
the couple go to visit his new ag friends Dustin and Melissa, dark forces
are unleashed after an ill advised attempt at consulting a Ouiji board to allay her
fears. Meanwhile, tensions grow between grad school student Rachel and her new roommate
Masha after a violent incident involving a man at a man that the strange and
impulsive young woman has brought home. This is from a first time feature director
who also shot, edited, and contributed to the soundtrack, which is pretty
dang cool. This one's got a new audio commentary by the director, new
audio commentary by the producer behind the movie, a two part behind the scenes
featurette, and then some interviews the score, an interview with the composer,
and some others like a Q and A at Grimfest twenty one. And then
of course in the first pressing you got one of those books two Witches.
Any thoughts on this one? First, I'm hearing of it, but I
mean, I'm always excited to check out obvious passion projects like this, when
when you know filmmakers put together something that's so personal, right, you know,
I will say that at this day and age, everybody should know never
consult a Luigi board for comfort. But I will forgive that trope, and
definitely I'll give this a watch. I'm intrigued. Tropes are tropes for a
reason. Then they put out a very interesting one. This is called Gothic
Fantastico, featuring Lady Morgan's vengeance, the blanche Field Monster, the third and
The Witch. This is going to have brand new two K restorations from the
OCN for all four movies. These are all Blu rays of course, and
then we got optional Italian and English front and end titles on a few of
them. We got subtitles of course. New video introduction stage film by Italian
film devote Mark Thompson Ashworth, eighty page booklet which is pretty dang cool for
something like this, fulled out double sided poster. And then again audio commentaries
and video essays by Kat Allinger, Alexandra Heller, Nicholas Erica Blanc, Paul
Muller and Moore. There's all kinds of names on this because this is going
to have four pretty stack discs for these films. Well, I'll tell you
I'm most excited about The Witch. This film. This is one of the
first films by Domiano Domiani, who is not as well known as he should
be. Uh Blue under Round has put out a couple of his films pull
Up for the general How to Kill a Judge. He's probably best known for
films about the Italian mafia, his masterpiece Moglia Pubella and The Most Beautiful Wife,
which was the first film with Muti. That's that's a fantastic film.
And he's probably best known in America for directing the best Amityville movie in my
opinion, Amityville two of the Possession. One of the last things he did,
I'll actually hold up was an Italian television show about the mafia, La
Povre and Octopus. He directed the entire first season of that show. Can
You Tell I Love Domiano? Domiani were actually and I'm not familiar with the
other three films, but I'm gonna I'm gonna check them all out because of
The Witch, which is kind of an avant garde gender politics, exploration of
terror intention for anybody wondering, I do think one or two of these is
on to be right now for free to be able to stream, So if
you want to check out one or two of them before putting down it's like
a sixty or seventy dollars set or whatever. This is looking to me like
one of the ones that's genuinely worth it because of the amount of work put
into these, so much content, so much love and passion put into this,
and it looks just like really interesting four pack of films. Then we
started getting some others once again. You showed some Milk Creek titles earlier.
This is one that mil Creek put out a couple of years ago, and
Keino Lober on October eleventh is now releasing Blind Fury with Rutger Howard. Now
stepping away from what they've been doing with a couple these other recent announcements.
This one actually has a new audio commentary, which the other ones they were
getting nothing new now. There's nothing new about a restoration or anything like that,
so it's all gonna be the same except for that audio commentary, So
there is If you're really into Rutger Howard, you might want this. The
commentary is done by screenwriter Charles Robert Carner, moderated by filmmaker Douglas Hasdale and
Blind Fury Rutger Howard Thoughts oh Man, don't forget Terry o'quinn's in it and
Meg Foster and Randall Tech's cop This is a fun movie. Might be a
good double feature with Hubbo with a shotgun, so you get kind of meg
career Rutger Howard and late career Rucker Howard. Philp Noise did Dead Calm,
which is a really good thriller. Yeah, I'm pretty interested in this one.
Terry O'Quinn is great, always a really wonderful actor. Yeah, Blind
Fear Fun sought a couple of years ago. It's it's worth the watch at
least once. And this one most likely will be one of the very cheap
Keynote titles, so this should be pretty easy to pick up even in a
sale. Yeah, add on to get the free shipping. There you go.
Uh Now, this one is a very timely one to talk about because
these are going up for pre order tomorrow this Friday, August fifth, at
ten a m Eastern nine am here in the Central Standard time zone, and
I'm excited for the next air four four four four releases. First up,
we got Centipede Horror. This is coming with slipcase limited to one thousand.
There's a booklet, three stickers, some lobby cards, double sided poster,
and then a Margaret Lee card and then there is also another slipcase limited to
one thousand with all of the same items. Then their second title is Red
Spell Spell's Red limited to one thousand on this slip and of course a second
slip Red spell Spells Red. All right, Asian Wacky Horror will what are
your thoughts on that. I'm a big fan of Centipede Horror, which I
saw on a really terrible DVD release I think I got from Netflix when Netflix
was mail order a long time ago. And it is like all the other
films that are for four four four has put out so far. I guess
the technical term is it's pretty fucked up. I haven't seen Red Spell Spells
Red before, but if they're coming out together, then I'm willing to take
the chance because some pet horror is it's something. These look really interesting to
me. I've not seen either one of these before. I am kind of
curious to see how people respond to the pricing. The fact that we get
options is really cool. I think there are more people that will be able
to get a copy, as long as we don't get people that buy both
of them immediately or all four of them. Technically, I just you know,
thirty six bucks for a Blu ray release. That is getting on the
price of your side for a Blu Ray. But I get it. It's
boutiques, and you know things have changed for some of these, and then
a lot of people are going to point out stuff like vinegar Syndrome for a
four K release is forty five fifty dollars, and then we get box sets
going up to eight all that so I get it. Prices arising, it's
tough, I'm probably going to do it. So this is going to have
for special features on the first film, Centipede, who a two K restoration
of the uncut film elements. Then there's an animal cool street cut, which
I always love when companies do that for people that don't want to see it.
And it's only going to be missing less than a minute of footage,
so not too much predicting ultra violence, Hong Kong's Cat three rating. That's
just a little featurette. And then spot the different Centipede horror censorship. I'm
really curious about seeing that. And then they've got some newly translated English and
Mandarin subtitles on Red Spell Spells Red. We're getting again a two K restoration
that is uncut, an animal cruelty free cut. That one is going to
be almost three minutes cut out of the film. And then how to make
a successful Hong Kong Black Magic film. A little featurette there, and then
again newly translated subs. They're doing a lot of stuff on these, Yeah,
I always appreciate refreshed subtitle translations. I have feeling that the version of
Centipeede Horror that I watched was not the most accurate translation, so I'm looking
forward to an enhanced doing experience. I did a conversation on the other channel
for Discovering Cinema with me and Flip and Frank Jang, who did a lot
of the older Asian titles back in like the mid two thousands, and he's
doing a lot of commentaries, especially for like Eureka lately, and there's so
many things that he has done to retranslate because a lot of these subs they're
still using his subtitles from like fifteen years ago, and it just was not
was not done perfectly. So he's fixing some of those and I'm just glad
that they're getting better releases nowadays. Yeah, Christian Tabby Blog wants to point
out there the release of Robotrock Robo Tricks Can't Speak. Has a great essay
on CAT three and then I Believe It's the Untold Story from Unearthed Films has
a really nice doc on CAT three Films. Oh, I love the un
Told Story of the movies. Is such a good movie. And then for
this they are doing a VHS collaboration with lunch Meat, and those vhs will
be up for grabs during the pre order. There's going to be fifty of
them for Centipede Horror, fifty for Red Spell Spells Red, and fifty for
Anatomia Extinction, which was their very first release. Now they also have some
bundle options, So for eighty dollars, you can get one of the Centipede
Blue Rays, one of the Red Spell Blue Rays, and it will have
all four of the slip cases and that's eighty bucks. Or you can for
ninety dollars have one of the Centipede Blue Rays, both of the limited slipcases
for Centipede and the extras, the VHS for it and the shirt for it.
Or for the Red Spell you can get one Blu Ray, both slipcases,
the VHS and the shirt for ninety dollars, or the limited Centipede and
Red Nico Bundle you can get Centipede and Scorpions. A Nico Films Zoology limited
rigid box includes exclusive art on both sides and a magnetic clasp limited book inside
containing newly commissioned comics of both Centipede Horror, and Red Spell Spells Red by
Mark Gross, plus the novelization of Red Spell Spells Red translated to English for
the first time ever with photos and artwork. It will also include a centiped
Horror Blu Ray, a Red Spell Blu Ray, all four limited slipcases,
and all of the limited extras. Holy gosh, I think there's another one
though there's another bundle? Oh is there? Yeah? I will have to
look it up because I'm I must have men it. I think for one
hundred and eighty you get everything that's right. It wouldn't let me upload that
one. Yeah, let me let me share this picture so I don't know
how I missed that one. Again. It's from having my sister here this
week. That's what I'm gonna blame. I shouldn't have said anything. So
I want to get one of those, and not that many. It's only
limited to twenty. Dear gosh, all right, let me let me stop
hearing the screen and we'll share that one for a second. Man, limited
to twenty Shoot, what time does that go on? Sale? Ten am
Eastern? So Centipede and Red Megabundle this is limited to twenty for one hundred
and eighty dollars you get everything that they had listed there one hundred and eighty
dollars, it's around nine fifty eight. I don't have to pretend I'm getting
an emergency phone call so i can jet out of work. I'm interviewing another
label tomorrow and it will be over right as that goes on sale, So
I'm gonna I'm gonna have to jet out of there quickly. All right.
So that is air four four four four. Lots of cool stuff. I'm
I'm curious to see what else we have on the horizon. Yeah, they
they've done kind of a lot already, but also they've really been around since
like early in the pandemic, and they've only put out a handful of titles
now, so it shows that they're I mean, either there's been a lot
of delays or they're they're putting a lot of time and energy into each one,
and it looks like it's the latter, because they they are really delivering
the good stuff. All right, you got something else? No, I
was just gonna say, I I really I appreciate the boutique labels whose identity
is kind of wrapped up around releasing one thing at a time. Yeah,
very similar, although they've been around much longer and have a much larger catalog.
But at the same time, I'm mindful of the labels to have much
larger catalogs, like like Third Eye and of course fini Er Syndrome seven.
And I like the fact that there are so many different identities for the different
labels. It kind of makes it less transactional to me, like that they
all have their own personalities. I mean, it is transactional, but it's
it's less exploitive. You know, there's almost a personality there because they seem
to be going down a very specific round. And I think this is a
good example of how you know, you can work in a capital I don't
want to get to esoteric, but how you can work in the capitalist system
but still have kind of a an ethic about you, you know, where
the profit isn't the only margin. You have to make profit to stay viable,
obviously, but you're also really paying attention to quality and and interaction with
your customer base and so on. And you know, it wouldn't it be
nice if that's how it was. Speaking of esoteric, Jeff wants to know,
does we'll get a lot of pushback or disapproval in your classes when you
discuss some of these films. You know, that's a good question, And
shockingly the answer is no, not really. I teach a lot of courses
to non majors, so they're they're first and second year students who don't have
a whole lot of background in film studies. And then I teach courses to
upper level students, especially like my Cult Films course is more for upper level,
and I do I do give a trigger warning, and in the sense
that I say, like, look, some of these movies are going to
feature material that can that can be upsetting. And I've shown them Cannibal Holocaust
several times, and I frame it said, look, I'm not I'm not
showing this because I want to upset anybody or shock anybody. I'm showing this
because you know, this is a significant film and it deserves analysis. That's
the argument that I'm making. I think it deserves analysis. You may disagree,
and we can have that conversation. And I've had a couple of people,
you know, I've been teaching seventeen years. I've had a couple of
people who have said, you know what, I don't I don't really want
to come this day, I don't want to. I've had two people opt
out of seeing Cannibal Holocaust, which is totally fair. I think the only
time anybody's ever walked out of the movie was actually Tromeo and Juliet. A
guy got up and said and came over and we said, I'm sorry,
I just can't take it. And I said, you can see that,
you know, go ahead, you know, we're excused. But no.
I think if you're fortunate enough to teach in a situation where you can really
have a conversation with the students and let them be involved and give them background
on the films, even when you're showing stuff that that can be really upsetting
and shocking, they're prepared for it. They're watching it as a group,
and it's you know. I of course, semester starts in two weeks,
so I could get reported to the provosts like right away, you know.
But but now so far, you know, one thing I can say,
and I'll leave this as my legacy in the world. Anybody who comes to
my school and majors and media studies is probably going to see Franken Hooker.
They're probably going to see one of the films that we'll talk about when we
get to The Vinegar Syndrome, Partner and several others. And I'm really proud
of that because so many of these underground cult films have so much to say
socially and and artistically that otherwise, you know, wouldn't wouldn't make the cut.
So I'll throw out there as well that trigger warning in the context that's
given before showing these That is the perfect reason to really dive into these physical
releases because the commentaries, these essays that we've already mentioned tonight, these featurettes,
they do this wonderful, literally almost film school level job of delivering context,
of delivering an exploit, an explanation of what was happening during that era,
what the director's vision was, or you know, so many things that
can affect what an actual film is produced to be, whether that be something
from the studio or an actor or whatever. There's so much that can happen
on a film production that context can be genuinely important to not only your enjoyment
of the film, but what it actually means. And you understanding, yeah,
and you know, the gold standard want immediately thought of when you started
saying that was Joe Bob Briggs commentary track and I Spit on Your Grave,
which is a deeply unpleasant movie and should be to watch, you know,
the but his commentary contextualizes in such a way that you really appreciate what what
the film is. And so many others, like like many of the names
that that you've mentioned tonight, who are kind of dominant in in the commentary
world, do something really similar and and and not just analyzing but advocating for
the for the films. I got a couple more now that we're talking about
this that not really trying to get a degree. They're just there to take
a class because they enjoy film. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll let them
in if you want to if if if any student wants to be there,
I want him there, you know, because so many people don't really want
to, you know, they're taking it for a credit and whatever. And
part of my job is to try to get people into it. But if
somebody is already enthusiastic on video store wants to know, how do you screen
the films? Is it in a cinema type theater or just wheel out an
old VHS are twenty two and c R T t V well, I'm at
the University of kind of on the Greensboro. We don't quite have the Chapel
Hill budgets. We do still have VHS players, but we do have a
projector with Blu Ray capability now in many of the rooms. There are some
rooms that I teach him we have to wheel out. I got a sixty
inch TV with a Blu Ray. We don't have any four K or anything
like that. That'll that will never happen. I don't think we were going
we can show VHS when necessarily we have streaming that we can do library streaming
services. So there are a lot of different formats that we use to show
things. But yeah, when I when I wheel it, when I wheel
out the TV, it's always kind of funny because it feels so like eighties
about to watch the Driver's add video or something. Substitute teachers here, time
to watch something to get you all to shut up. Last one on this
for now, Stan says, what's your favorite Toby Hooper movie and why is
it? Spontaneous Combustion. Stan Geezy, the author of Smoldering embers on the
set of Spontaneous Combustion. I think Spontaneous Combustion should be on the list of
everyone's favorite Toby Hooper film films, and if they read Stan's book, it
definitely won't leap up the standings. Back to air four four four, I
want to point out what Brian says, so excited to get Red Spell and
Centipede releases. Never thought this would happen. And that is the reason to
keep supporting companies like this, because there are lots of films out there that
there are fans of that are still thinking may never happen. But if we
are able to keep some forwarding these companies, it just may be that film
for you. Next up is will just a reminder that if you have not
seen the video that we put up last week, please go watch our conversation
about Toby Hooper. It is a really in depth look and a really fun
conversation about everything from Vietnam to current politics to why if you ask who directed
poultry guyst you are a dick. That's the truth. But you know,
you know, we didn't have time to talk about everything. Somebody pointed out
in the comments that we didn't talk about the fun House, and my friend
Chris is going to kill me because I forgot to talk about Night Tares,
which is one of our favorites to watch together, So we might have to
do a part to at some point. Oh no, yeah, Funhouse was
a glaring emission for sure. There's probably a lot more that could be said
about Eating Alive. There's somebody out there. I mean, he just had
such a varied career. Anyways, Keno announced that they are putting out a
release of Assassination from nineteen sixty seven with Henry Silva. This is a new
four K restoration only coming on Blu Ray. This will not be a four
K disc, but still pretty cool. Nice you know, little crime film
here by Emilio mira Aglia. I think I said that right, the same
one that did the Night Evelyn came out of the Great and the Red Queen
Killed seven times, both of those put out by Arrow and that little double
pack box set got years ago. At this point, that had to have
been like a gosh, probably six or seven year old release. Now I
have the old No Shame DVD releases that come with the figurines. Oh wow,
I love Amelia maragl Those and those two films Evelyn and the Red Queen
are gorgeous. So I'm really looking for I've never seen assassination well Henry Silvia,
so this is exciting. They've they've been doing a lot of work over
at Keno. It seems like they slowed down a little bit here after after
I'm Dangerous tonight and we got a little bit of a reprieve for a couple
of weeks. But man, they're still just cranking out these announcements. So
there's still lots more from Keno on the horizon. Next up some interesting ones
that I know. We got some fans of on here, so even though
I know nothing about them, I know you guys are excited. Some disco
tech stuff. We're getting a release of Space Sheriff Gavon from nineteen eighty two,
all episodes in HD. This is the first time ever released with English
subs, and it will contain a reunion discussion with the lead actor Kenji Oba
and director Osamu Kaneta. There's a photo gallery and then a historical essay by
Mike Dent. Are you into any of these types of shows for back then?
These are outside of my wheelhouse, but I'm interested and filling the gap
there. You know. I do teach a course on the origins of anime
but I'm not an expert, so it really is kind of an intro and
a lot of these live action shows that kind of connect to the genre,
right, I'm looking forward to checking out lots of kaiju releases from Discothech,
lots of old like Tokusatsu. The next one they announced, speaking of Legend
of Dinosaurs and monster birds, this is one of the last kill the whatever
I don't I don't remember what it was called the episodes of Mystery Science Theater
and they are not able to have that commentary. This is coming in twenty
twenty two. A new HD transfer looks sillier than ever vintage Frontier Enterprises.
Dub Is included new subtitles, which is really cool for something like this,
and this is coming on Blu Ray twenty twenty two. Okay, Next is
Keno is putting out The rain Maker. This is how Wallace is the rain
Maker with Burt Lancaster and Catherine Hepburn. And there was a lot of discussion
from this title. I don't know if you saw any of this commentary that
came out. I think this was announced on Sunday. People are freaking out
because this is being remastered in HD by paramount from a six K scan of
the thirty five millimeter VistaVision original camera negative. So I wanted to see if
everybody could get on the same page a little bit about what that means.
So essentially, this is still only going to be a ten eighty P Blu
ray disc, but they are doing it in a restoration that has done even
higher than a four K restoration, and it is it has nothing to do
with the six K disc or anything like that. It is about restoring it
and archiving it at the highest possible quality. There are other films that have
been restored in like eight K, ten K I got. I think there
was even something like sixteen K on one of those a few years ago.
And it doesn't have any effect on you necessarily. It's just on how people
are getting it remastered. So don't think that from this there's gonna be a
six K player or anything like that. You're never going to have a six
K disc that you're buying. You're never going to have, you know,
any type of physical media at home that you need to buy a new six
K TV. For any thoughts or anything to add on that front, there
will Yeah, well, this division only lasted about six or seven years.
Yeah, before before the technology kind of outpaced in terms of the fine film
ray, but it was kind of the progenitor of what we now noahs imax,
And I imagine that this that this scan is is to kind of help
make up for the fact that the film grain is a little less fine than
than the processes that came out in the late fifties early sixties. That's that's
my guess. I'm not an I'm no expert there, but it's a pretty
good movie, say, and there were there were a handful of things that
were done like that over the years. I mean, Technicolor is a big
thing obviously, h Panavision was a big one when it came out that we've
got the oh, gosh, what is that? Uh? Is it smile
Vision that Warner Archive just put out that one recently? Gosh, what is
it? There's the one that's like for a circular type screen. Do you
remember the one I'm talking about? Uh? I cannot remember the actual title
of it. But yeah, there were a handful of these methods that were
used to make films and so to preserve them at the highest possible quality.
It makes sense. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, if we
can there, we go. Thank you, Terry. I knew you'd come
through Cinerama and Smilebox. Smilebox is the one I was thinking, Hey,
my sister, she must have landed in Texas. Look at that. Glad
she's safe. Yeah, so Cinerama and Smilebox, there are other Essentially,
there are other formats out there that we are going to have to, you
know, to restore them at the highest possible quality. It's going to be
different, and that's okay, nothing wrong with that at all. I mean,
Burt Lancaster and Captain Hepburn's gonna move some utes so they can afford to
do a good restoration exactly. Spaghetti says, I want old Bert to pop
out of the screen and shake my hand with that remaster. At the truth,
Anthony looking forward to watching my six k digital files. I eat my
rehydrated pizza Hut Pizza maybe someday in the future. And then I kind of
brought this up for a second, but it looks like we have Chris to
blame, he says. I started it on the cult site on Facebook.
So yeah, there is no new anything coming. It's just a really great
restoration of a film. Oh boy, speaking of Polisians, what's the phrase
polishings and turns? Yeah, I'm super nostalgic for h two. Oh I
don't love the others, but let's go through this. Shout Factory announced their
October titles, the long rumored and finally confirmed Halloween four K. They're calling
this a collection from nineteen ninety five to two thousand and two. Lots of
information has come out on these on it through like reply on Twitter. So
first off, this is not available to Canada. Usually, Shout Factory sells
all their stuff in Canada as well. This one, they could not get
licensing in Canada. They could not get licensing to sell these separately, so
these will only be available in the box set. These are not going to
come out as single releases at all unless they amend the contract later, which
is really interesting. I have a feeling that they did that because they were
probably not going to sell many of Halloween Resurrection. The diehard collectors would get
one of all of them, but the others at least have a following.
Resurrection is sort of behind on that front. Maybe. I mean Buster Rhymes
fans would probably get into it absolutely, of course, if you order from
Shout Factory, you'll get the box set and then they are doing the three
different roll posters of these if you want them to match the first five you
got last year. Extras are in progress and we'll be announced later. The
four K for the Halloween six is going to have the theatrical and the producers
cut on UHD, which is pretty crazy that we're getting the producer's cut in
four K. I did not think they would be able to pull that off,
but that's awesome. I'd be interested in seeing how that looks. You
know, Chris and Michael Myers is in some ways of betrayal of John Carpenter's
vision of Michael Myers having no you know, motivation or backstory and per se.
But it's kind of interesting to think about, you know, Druidic rights
and legends, and you know, Paul Rudd, that's kind of neat to
see him in that context. But H two O is a pretty good movie.
I mean, Steve Miner is a good filmmaker. He made Thirteenth two
and three, several good films in his career. I thought hgot really refreshed
the franchise, so that's I think that's worth seeing. For sure, Josh
Hartnett coming straight out of the faculty and into H two oh, not changing
wardrobe or hairstyle at all. Jamie Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee both in H
two O, which is kind of a cool thing. Yeah again, I
don't know why I'm so nostalgic. I love H two Oh. It is
a wacky film. It is off the wall compared to the franchise, but
it exists and it's it's fun. A lot here all leads to everybody talking
about the art on that box. The box art leaves a lot to be
desired, but it does. I mean, it's very much inspired by the
films. The drawing of Michael Myers is from the film. There's so much
that just I don't know. There's a lot here and I'm hoping that there
it does say extras in progress. I'm hoping they're able to get a lot
for this. That's new. I know we get confirmation on at least a
new commentary coming because somebody announced that on Instagram or something like five months back,
which is how we knew something was coming for these Well, if anybody
at Shell Factories listening and wants a frame by frame analysis of the fight between
Michael Myers and Busted Rhymes. I'm available. I want to hear all of
the analysis with very analytical terms. This also pretty much confirms that the zombie
films are not coming on four K. I believe the rights now for those
two are with lions Gate. I think after everything that went down, so
it seems like we are probably not going to get those and time will tell.
I think if they were going to do it, it would probably be
this fall, after Halloween ends or around Halloween ends, so time will tell.
But the other exciting thing is coming to four K, which means back
in print in the United States as the Collector's edition is the Return of the
Living Dead. This is gonna come with one of their pin sets, and
this is coming with a poster of course, and extras are in progress and
we'll be announced later, just like Halloween set, which means again I hope
they get some more. However, this is going to be the same as
the first time where they are unable to get that one random music track that
they couldn't put on their first release, So it is not going to be
the one hundred percent perfect music rights. The only release still in the entire
world on Blu ray is the second site Steel Book had everything intact. Everything
else is missing at least one music track, which is crazy. Collect them
all. It's great that it comes with a pen because then you can put
it on your jacket and say, you think this is a fucking costume.
This is the way of life. I only paid fifty seven dollars for these
pins. Right, Oh man, weirdest possible announcement ever, I think now
Factory is putting out Bad Santa Too on Blu Ray on October fourth. Now,
the reason this is so odd this has a standalone four K release.
It does. Yes, the original film doesn't even have a four K release,
but this gets another Blu Ray release after the four K is out.
Well, this is This is by the director of Mister Popper's Penguin, so
that's obviously we want to see the visual design. Definitely surprised it did not
come with a sign poster then, thanks Anthony. It says deadbeat Dance,
Deadbeat Dance by the Damned? Is that missing song? I always forget the
title of that, and it should be really obvious with that film. Next
up one of their studio Ghibli films. They're putting out when Warney is there
from twenty fourteen in a steal book. And then there's of course going to
be a standard release as well. This is coming on October eleventh, same
thing exclusive booklet, feature length storyboards, the making of some behind the scenes
stuff like that. Gibli, you a Ghibli fan. Anytime I teach the
anime class, I always show Grave of the Fireflies and I bring several boxes
of tissues for students, and of course you know, play me az Aki
films, and I like when Marni was there. I saw that several years
ago, beautiful. I'll tell one studio Ghibli story, real book. I
took my daughter to see who she was about seven at the time, to
see Pompoco had been released in the theaters, and I'd never seen it before.
I just knew the studio Ghibley, and I was on these magical raccoons
and they were sitting on these like bouncy balls. Whe are those things?
And then I realized there were the testicles, which is where the magic came
from. And I looked around to see if the parents noticed, and everybody
just played it cool while these raccoons stretched their testicles into ang gliders. And
pulled magical dust out of them and stuff, and so far she seems okay,
she's almost ten, hasn't mentioned it. I'm gonna have to show my
seven year old those magical raccoon balls soon. No testicles in when Marnie was
there that I can recome. That's a plus. Speaking of four K from
Shout, they are also putting out Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure on four K.
This is only going to have a four K disc. It will not
have the Blu ray. They are saying that they're going to try to get
some extras later. They were going to confirm those, as they do quite
often, at a later date. Interesting sort of release that they're just putting
this out. Yeah, I'm wondering if you know, you drop your forty
bucks for it now and then next year they do a box set with about
three films you know, well no, well know, yeah. I this
is one I I hesitate to say this publicly because I don't know if I
could stand by it, but this is one where the sequel may still be
my favorite of the two. So I don't know how ye uh yeahs Bogus
is maybe my favorite of the two. I think Carlin. Carlin was special
man. I yeah, anyways, I could talk about Carlin for hours.
Excellent adventure. This comes out October eleventh and four K coming from the shout
Select line, but possibly the bigger deal. They've never released this film.
We are getting the last detail in four K from Jack Nicholson. Obviously,
this is the Ashby film. This is coming October twenty fifth to the shout
Select line. This is kind of a very out of nowhere shout Select like
classy title compared to what they've been putting out on shout Select lately. And
damn it, I just got the indicator Blu Ray like a month ago.
Got tired of waiting for the last detail. The big hal Ashby fan of
course, harolda Mama being there, the Landlords, so many good films.
Yeah, double dip, gotta do it. This is This is bound to
look pretty incredible in four K. This is just one of those movies that's
special. Jack Nicholson back then was on fire, absolutely incredible, incredible actor.
Yeah, this is from nineteen seventy three, so it just the height
possibly of everything Jack Nickson was doing back then. The last detail is great.
Everybody should check this one. Out. I'm curious to see if they're
able to get anything from the Indicator release, because they could license some of
it. Yeah. Well, yeah, there's hardly anybody left to talk about
the film. It's very true from cast and crew, so hope. So
I doubt Nicholson would be able to say much coherent about it at this point.
Yeah, this is another Ghibli film. We were getting Ocean Waves from
nineteen ninety three. I don't know anything about this one. Have you seen
this one? I'm with you on that one. I've you know, seen
the icon and little Ghibli catalogs and websites, but I've not. I've not
looked at it before. Just from reading the description, you know, I
like, I like, I especially like animated films that have a bit of
melancholy too, the trauma. So this looks like something that I'll we want
to check out and enjoy. I missed this joke. I wanted to share
this because video Store is hilarious. The last detail with extras to be confirmed
later. The irony. Yes, they did not get any details. Nicely
done, and then they are putting out in a steal book. On October
eighteenth, a Silent voice from twenty sixteen. Yet again nothing on my end
on this one. Yeah, I mean either. But now I should probably
start planning my next anime course, and this will be a good excuse to
use some school funds to do some research. I gotta admit this art probably
gonna look really nice on a steel book. Yeah it does look and again
the description looks good. Yeah, definitely does. But one that I'm genuinely
excited about. Shot on the sheep movie Farmageddon from twenty nineteen. This is
coming out on October eighteenth from Shout Factory. I think I'm gonna get this
one and show my kids. I always love finding some of these old animated
horror adjacent titles that we can share with them, So yeah, this will
definitely be coming this year. Yeah. Anything I can do to steer my
youngest away from like those sing movies and get a turns to the quality stuff,
I'm happy to be a part of that. So I support farm Agavin
as well. Amen to that. Then this is The Possessed from twenty twenty
one. This is coming on October eighteenth, and I am blanking on who
it was, but somebody I think it was in my discord was saying that
they are or no. I apologize. It was a friend of mine that
I know from Oklahoma that he's in some of the Facebook groups. He sent
me a message saying that his buddy is the one that made this film.
So congrats to him for getting this put out by Shout This is Again from
twenty twenty one. Jacob Chandler is an ordinary man with an ext extraordinary gift.
A true accidental exorcist, Jacob and his nephew Liam have forged a career
clearing demons from the bodies of their clients. Lately, something has changed.
As possessions are increasing. Jacob fights to keep those he loves safe, the
burden weighing heavily on his shoulders. When he crosses paths with Liam's new girlfriend,
Adalie Carlyle, he recognizes something in her dark, broken gaze. She
too can see what lies beyond the world of the living. Jacob never expected
to meet anyone else like himself, nor did he anticipate needing her help.
And for all slipcover lovers, this is going to be one of those indie
films that's not a collector's edition that will come with a slipcover on it.
From Scream Factory so if you're trying to get all of those, this is
one. I gotta admit. I'm a sucker for possession movies. I was
just about to ask, if you're the same, I really enjoy them.
What about I was gonna ask. I talked to my sister about this.
Just I think it was last night, The Last Exorcism. Did you ever
see that movie? Oh? Yeah, you know, that wasn't bad.
I thought it was decent, and then at the very end I hated the
last three minutes of that movie. Oh well, you know. Yeah,
the genre kind of lends itself to disappointing endings, Ain't that the truth?
Yeah? I think The Last Exorcism was fun, But I'm curious to see
a nice modern take on a possession film. Yeah, I'll check that out.
Yeah. Then, God, they're doing a lot of stuff in October
from Shout Factory. The Deer King. This is from twenty twenty one.
I know nothing about this. Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils
in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence
is up ended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease
attack leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free,
the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside, but are pursued
by nefarious forces intent on protecting Una at all costs. Van must uncover the
true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom and its possible cure. Well,
now this sounds like the exact plot of Nicholas Cage's Season of the Witch.
Well, I have no value judgment on that. No, no, that
could be interesting quite as bizarre as that as season of which one I hope
not. But let's get to main event for everybody this week. Everybody has
been talking about the Vinegar Syndrome and partner label titles. There is so much
coming every single month, and this month does not disappoint. We have so
much to go over here. First, up Forgotten Jolly Volume five, which
includes a White Dress for Mariel I Believe It's How You Say It from nineteen
seventy two, Tropic of Cancer also from seventy two, and nine Guests for
a Crime from seventy seven. All three of these are region free. The
all three films are getting newly restored in four K from the OCN and then
some interviews, some audio essays. We got Rachel Nisbett on White Dress and
actually she's on cancer and crime as well, and then some interviews with some
actors. We got some interesting things. We don't have any commentaries, which
had a few people point out, Yeah, now, the only one of
this group I'm familiar with is a White Dress from Mariau, which was released
under another title, Spirits of Death, and it's got Ivnan Rasimov in it,
who I really like, from Dave Dada's Jungle Holocausts and a ton of
stuff. Yeah, and that one's a real slow build. I don't mean,
I mean I think anybody gets killed until like an hour in. But
it's very atmospheric, stylish, you know, as the genre demands, of
course. So I'm a subscriber, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna see these no
matter what. So how do you how do you feel about Jallo as a
whole? Mm hmm, gosh, what a question. Well, you know,
like like many fans of my generation, Argenta was the first entree into
you know, like noir, it's not it's it only became a genre in
retrospect right right in the Italian industry, like Hollywood kind of cannibalizing, and
so the style got quickly internalized by so many filmmakers who you know, Jolly
Like like any other genre, most of them are crap, but but there
are also so many gems and sometimes you just have to wade through. Yeah,
you know, that's that's how I feel about it. I don't mind.
I don't mind wading through, which with the Forgotten Jolly series, you
really have to some of them. Some of the titles in the series so
far have not been great. I think we've had a couple of really good
box sets, one that was pretty good and then one that was a little
lesser. Uh, this one, I think I've seen Tropic of Cancer,
but that may just be my memory messing with me. With y'all. O.
My big thing is I am just a sucker for murder mysteries. Yeah,
and it's at the basis of all of these, no matter what.
And because of that, there's just always something intriguing there, and it's it's
so much fun just to try to guess along or you know, see that
they're playing this like a mystery. But they accidentally showed the killer eight minutes
into the film, so you know who it is all along, but they're
like, who is it? Or all the other random mistakes that happen in
these films. It's so so interesting now to look back with an I from
sixty years after and say, what were you doing? Yeah? Well,
you know, I think I think you can compare fans of Jolly to fans
of like true crime podcasts and true crime documentaries on Netflix, because there's a
kind of familiarity with the forum that that kind of comforts Une and wells in.
But then when anybody does something different to tweak that formula, like,
oh that's cool, and then for whatever are raising because we're human beings are
We're just attracted to stories about people being brutally murdered. That's that seems to
be a primal feature of our I always love with Yallo that if you find
somebody that really likes Yallo, they are able to talk about a film and
a lot of the time it's that unique thing that they that that that specific
film has that they grab onto. So like with The Forgotten Jolly, there's
sister of Versula. So everybody's like, but that weapon, right, I
mean everybody that they just want to talk about that weapon or you know with
Fulci there's oh that one scene where the kid dies. That's kind of a
big deal, right, and you just grab onto these one things and it
really it lends to discussion, well, it lends to remembering the movie better
than a lot of other films that could come across as kind of say me,
so, yeah, Jolly is super great for that. You know,
last year speak of a faulty and jalla Jolly film. Last year I decided
to sh Don't Torture at Duckling and in my cult films class as an example
of Jolly, the other one I should I should too Jollo Films deep red
with the other by Argenta, And I thought I thought they were gonna hate
Torture. They loved it. Uh. Look, they got so into it
and really latched onto the kind of commentary about the Catholic Church and and uh
and all of that. I was, I was really surprised. That's such
a great movie. Uh. Next up in the oh and by the way,
if you are, you are getting all of the Vinegar Syndrome titles this
month. That was announced on the first they For some reason, this has
not been in the description for the last couple of months, so it's been
confusing some people. I think the last time they did it was in the
the Halfway Sale titles, so July and August both did not have those descriptions
in there. So, yeah, you are getting everything this month, except
for the stuff that we're going to talk about at Summerfest, which came out
of nowhere. Yes, we'll talk about that in a minute. Next up,
we are getting a really really interesting double feature for me. We are
getting Hot Snake from nineteen seventy four. This is the cover of the slip
for this, but this is a double feature, and on the back guns
and guts and I got to hide a little bit of that from nineteen seventy
six. These are two random Mexican westerns. Yeah. Well, if Fernando
Rojas made like one hundred movies between nineteen sixty nine and about two thousand,
mid two thousands, just cranking them out at like Jess Franco speed, Hot
Snake I think was one of his early films, six or seven. I
saw this a long time ago. I know I did. I swear to
God I saw it. I can tell you nothing about it except for the
trivia I just shared. I am actually really excited that they're branching out of
this. I know a lot of people have been asking about westerns from Vinegar
Syndrome for a long time. A lot of those people are asking about spaghetti
westerns. But I think this is even cooler and lends to the idea of
what Vinegar Syndrome does a little more for that preserving cinema that will likely not
be preserved elsewhere. So for something like this, we are getting new four
K restorations from the OCN on both films, and then on Guns, Guts
and Gosh what is the title, Guns and Guts, we are getting an
interview with Renee Cardona, the third on that one, and then of course
they got the reversible artwork on there. There is not a whole lot of
extras, but again it's a double feature. This looks pretty damn sweet cool.
I've just started to get familiar with Cardona stuff because set stuff out right,
and Vinegar Syndrome put out the Cardona Collection. Oh, they did the
Cardona Collections. Yeah, and it had been planned. I believe it's a
trilogy of box sets, and then the tragic thing happened. Well, first
of all, they got a lot of backlash because well, not a lot.
I think that there were a handful of very vocal people online that didn't
like the films, and they complained a whole lot about the Cardona collection.
But then as they were working on the second collection, one of the Cardonas
passed away, Like Brad Henderson was scheduling an interview for the following day on
the phone with him, and he passed away that night. Oh way,
I didn't know that. Wow. Oh that's too bad. So production on
those have kind of skidded into a halt publicly, at least, they haven't
said much on if they're going to continue to put those out. I imagine
they will. I mean, they pay for the rights and the respirations,
I'm sure. But on top of that, it was their their first magnetic
box, so they were planning on getting the other ones right next to it.
Well, here come, you know, I'm looking forward to guns and
guns. No. Yeah, I can see why somebody would not like the
films of Cardona, but I think they're kind of interesting to look at.
Yep, I get it. This is kind of a big one. We
are getting the incredible Melting Man from nineteen seventy seven in four K. This
is another one that was recent well not recently. It was also put out
on Blu ray from Scream Factory. It is now long out of Prance a
couple of years now. Really great looking slip cover. In my opinion on
this one lends itself to the title very very well incredible. Melting Man is
genuinely a fantastic movie. So this is one that I'm glad is getting a
nice upgrade. Have you seen the one I saw? I saw the Mystery
Science Theater version. It was season seven, the last season on Comedy Central,
the shortened season. But so I've always wanted to see the uncut version
and I never got a chance to look at the Shell Factory. So I'm
really excited about that. It's going to be gross, yeah, oh yeah,
because of course the Mister Science Theater, all the gross stuff is kind
of cut out. So I'm really I'm giddy. I feel like a little
kid about this one. This is a four K UHD and then there is
a region A locked Blu ray in the set as well. Of course we
have HDR on it newly scanned restored in four K from the OCN. We
got a commentary with the director, new interview with the director, new interview
with the script supervisor, and then some small archival featurettes in there. But
the cool thing is just genuinely a great movie. This is the one that
they were hinting at for a while of a four K release of a classic
drive in title. People were speculating on this one for a long time and
it it It really fits the bill for this and seems right up there with
some of the best releases from Vinegar Syndrome. Love this movie. I don't
know why, but I'm a big fan of a I hate using this word
because some people don't like it, but a big fan of goopy movies like
Body Melt that they put out is one of my not like top ten from
Vinegar Syndrome because they put out some really great stuff. But Body Melt is
fantastic. Stuff like Street Trash is amazing, of course, Yeah, some
of these goofy movies. That's like Day of the Dead. I really love
the ending of that because it just gets so gross. That's share that I
says this is the best release of August, which is interesting maybe, and
that is leading us to what is probably not the best release of August.
We are getting the birds too. Land's end from nineteen ninety four, and
some people very unhappy that this is getting any sort of release. But again,
as I say, everything deserves some sort of release. Jeff, damn
it. Goopy is definitely a genre. We just made it a genre.
This is I've never seen this one. It's directed by Rick Rosenthal. It's
supposed to be god awful, but it's probably really fun to laugh at.
Ted and Mary have just moved with their two young daughters to the sleepy coastal
town of gull Islands so that Ted can complete work on his thesis. Everything
couldn't seem more picturesque about their new seaside home, that is, except for
the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds. After surviving an unprovoked nighttime avian invasion,
Ted becomes determined to figure out the cause of their unusual behavior, an
investigation which leads him to uncover the sinister goings on in the nearby waters.
All the while the birds increase. They're now deadly attacks, moving up from
family pets to human victims. This is never released on disc previously. Many
of Your Syndrome brings this notorious sequel to Blu Ray, newly restored from the
thirty five interpositive and featuring comprehensive interviews with the cast and crew. We get
a fifty four minute extensive making of documentary called Don't Remake Hitchcock, featuring interviews
with the cast and crew, then a seventeen minute interview with the composer,
and a locations featurette with the production assistant Craig Edwards. Commentary track on top
of that with film historians Amandareas and I don't want to make fun of this,
but if this is a real name, Sam, I mean, how
do you have a name like Sam Pancake? I want to not jump into
something like commentary tracks. That's amazing. Stan wants to say it is night
unwatchable. I'd say stands probably right, but it's common, so I'm gonna
check it out. Dude, mcmahon'says, my heart sunk when I saw the
rumors about birds do was true? What a tremendous waste of time and talent.
Yikes, I've never seen the birds too? Is this one of your
favorites there? Will? I've not seen the birds too. I am glad
that you know. As I said before we were talking about I'm dangerous tonight,
I'm really glad that so many television films are getting released, because obviously
there's gonna be a lot of stuff that is lesser quality, just like everything
else. But if it opens the possibility for for some some work by directors
that we love, like to the Hooper, Less Crave, and you know
so many people who worked in in television. I have not seen The Birds
too. I had an opportunity to see it when it came out on cable.
I chose not to. That was a decision I made at the time.
Yeah, the televised terror set was was really good. I will not
fault Vinegar Syndrome for putting it out. They had the opportunity. They calculate
they can make a little profit out one, and if that that helps out
in future things, then I'm supported. I'm gonna check it out just because
I've never seen it, but I definitely take the warnings in mind, and
I'll have a backup film ready to go if I can't make it through.
Smart and Smart and Smart possibly the most exciting thing that came out of what.
Wow, that's a whole lot of spam. Let me delete that.
Sorry that Yeah, that was I think a representation of the Birds too.
That makes sense. This came out of nowhere. I don't think there was
any rumors or anything about this. We are getting what they are calling Summerfest
twenty twenty two. And some of their verbiage here is interesting. It says
this will be a film preservation sales event from August nineteenth through August twenty first,
a select group of titles will be fifty percent off. There will be
one new VSA, two new Pikorama titles, two catalog slipcovers, and new
merch And these are all things that if you're a sub you're gonna have to
buy separately. Those are not going to be included in your subscription at all.
But the whole film preservation focused sales event is an interesting take on that.
Yeah, and the wording is a little vague because one it says a
select group of titles. Does that mean titles that have already been released or
is this new stuff that's being announced that they have been working on. It's
unclear. Even more odd is I didn't copy over their verbiage directly, but
it did say something along the lines of from our archives specifically, which means,
I mean, first of all, for those that don't know, Vinegar
Syndrome has literally one of the largest archives in the entire US. They have
a ton of titles, them, AGFA, a handful of others. They
are up there with some of the biggest and they have a lot of stuff
in their archive that they've not released, And just the way they were did
that, it made it sound like there was going to be some stuff that
they have either not released previously, or titles that are not going to be
Vinegar Syndrome titles or something. So I am very curious to see what leads
from this. That's my that's my initial interpretation too. So hey, they're
they're doing their job right right it. They're making us curious and racking our
brains about it, and then when it comes out, we'll be like,
Okay, I'm doing it. By the way, the Pea Karamas that they're
putting out supposedly one of them is four K again, so that I think
that'll be the third or fourth Pea Karama title in four K, which is
crazy, absolutely crazy. I'm so glad they're doing that though. Yeah.
Now we get into where a lot of people get most excited nowadays, and
that is all of the partner labels Video Store wanted to say currently being preserved,
which is what they said about their archive. It implies it is yet
unreleased, which is exactly what I first thought, so we shall see.
I also wanted to point out Christians Hobby Block says we need a remaster slip
cover of Pale Blood, Malabimba and Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy. I
don't know if that's an inside joke, but just to in case it's not.
They have said they will not re reallyse slipcovers for anything, So Pale
Blood, Malabimba in Nine Lives if they I believe all three are sold out,
those are those are gone for good? Sadly? Yeah, all good
titles. I'm a huge fan of Pale Blood. I was gonna say Pale
Blood is for me, by far the best there. Malabimba's actually surprisingly great
too, But Pale Blood is a very unique film, and I really like
I hate to rub salt in the wound here, but I really like the
slipcover They done that too. It looks really nice in the head. Yeah
too. This first one after Blue Dirty Paradise from Altered Innocence. This is
from twenty twenty one. This is the front of the slip, and here
is the backside one of the more artistic looking slips from Altered Innocence. Have
you have you dabbled into any of the Altered Innocence titles? You into them
at all? Oh? Yeah? Several? Pull up a couple of their
titles. I got work computer, but vinegar syndrome they block on my work
computer side. Lapt up. Yeah, I just actually ordered the jack be
Nimble nice. I really like Pals. I like Ari Bato, Death of
Nintendo Wild Tigers. I know it's pretty good too. So, yeah,
several of their releases I've enjoyed. I think Knife plus Heart is still my
favorite from them, and then Adoration is a just a beautiful movie overall.
Yeah, yeah, what's going on? All that is? Man happier here?
Brian Christian's hobby blocks is the commentary for Nine Lives is awesome? Degan,
right, I believe so she's on I think she's on a couple of
the adult titles. She says so much stuff. Well, that's one that's
one of those like we were talking about before, where they coming to track
really contextualizes the film and applicate for it because otherwise, Yeah, I agree
there. This one seems really interesting for Altered Innocence, just for the first
couple of sentences here, it says, in a faraway future, on a
wild and untamed, female inhabited planet called after Blue, a lonely teenager named
Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous and sensual assassin from her prison. I
mean that alone, that's a kind of a wild premise already. This is
directed by Bertrand Mandico, which has gotten a lot of releases seemingly this year
with the Apocalypse after Set coming from Monto Micabro and then Altered Innocence. Same
thing Ragnar says could be wrong, But isn't Altered Innocence a gay and lesbian
inspired films? They I believe what they've said is is it like caters towards
the queer community at least? So there's a lot there for sure. This
one, like I said from twenty twenty one, it's a region a locked
blu ray. We've got unseen footage by the director. There's a short film
by the director on here, and then a twenty page booklet. Again,
so glad that a lot of these partner labels are suddenly doing more booklets because
they help so much to contextualize what you can't do on some of these with
featurettes. Yeah, it's nice timing too, with the sort of resurrection of
Kate Bush thanks to Stranger Things. I have to assume that this is inspired
by the real Kate Bush. The character the murderer character is named Kate Bush
in this film described as lesbian al topo in space. Yeah, that's worth
watching. I'll check that out immediately, worth watching. Yeah, this is
stunning thirty five millimeter in camera, practical effects, other worldly set pieces,
and a dazzling score. So yeah, there is a lot on the bone
here for this one. For me, this seems very very interesting. Next
up is one that is brand new to the list of partner labels. This
is a title called The corn Shucker, and it's spelled differently as you'll see
there. This is the backside of the slip. This is from nineteen ninety
seven and is only sixty three minutes long. From the new partner label,
VHS hit Fest. Supposedly, I believe they used to be called VHS shit
Fest. Yeah, that's how I read it, and I think that was
on purpose. VHS has been uncovering and releasing movies on video for over a
decade across DVD and VHS. Now they are moving on to Blu Ray with
the same goal to showcase the most unique, crazy and obscure movies that they
have discovered through years of collecting vhs, allowing even more people to actually be
able to experience these nearly lost gems in the best versions possible. Now,
this was a lot of people thought this was originally an SOV film. This
was actually shot on sixteen millimeter, so it is worthy of an upgrade in
that front. And then on top of that, we've got some other stuff
coming up. We got any audio commentary and interview at Music Video, and
a whole bunch of others on here. But yeah, this looks like an
interesting introduction to a new partner label. Any thoughts on lost VHS films?
Well, you know, no, you know, I really appreciate I know
this is shot on sixteen but I've really appreciated some of the titles that like
Saturn's Core is released and had a great interview with it was it Ross,
Yeah, Ros Schneider, that was fantastic. You know, I remember as
a kid renting stuff like Cannibal Hookers and cannibal camp out, you know,
sv stuff. The fact that this is shot on sixteen really I'm interested.
I'm interested in seeing what looks like. I have a lot of corn shucking
based jokes just from where I grew up that probably not safe for the channel,
but lamb on me, I'm all ears. Oh. On top of
the sixteen millimeter, this is also shot in really weird looking black and white,
super unique, So I kind of I'm really interested on seeing what this
is going to look like on disk. Yeah, it looks odd, so
let's take a look at it. The story behind this one, it says
the corn shucker is a mythical creature who has lived simply and peacefully with nature,
but now he is besieged by urban sprawl. With nowhere else to go,
he is forced to deal with varmints and outlandishly odd townsfolk. Well this
is the same story as pomp Poco. I can't wait to see the short
corn Shucker's balls. Oh man almost missed myself up there. As his food
supply diminishes, the cornshucker is confronted by the bigoted old man Thomas I'm an
act of desperation. The cornshucker is forced to do the unthinkable. His existence
is in peril, and the mysterious world he inhabits could be destroyed. Only
nature in the townsfolk will decide his fate. Swear to God. Man,
that's pomp poco. But okay, yeah, we'll talk about that one later.
I'm sure at some point we should speak ahead when it comes out,
we should devote a whole show just the corn shucker analysis. I might be
down for that. Let's see what it actually is if there's enough to put
it down. This one is Speak of the Devil. We just talked about
Saturn's Core Dead North from nineteen ninety one, and a really really shot on
video inspired slipcover on this one, which I tend to love. I think
it looks pretty great on the slip here. And again Saturn's Core just doing
great work. Nineteen ninety one, when three couples escaped to the woods together
for a weekend camping trip, their idyllic vacation quickly becomes a desperate struggle for
survival when a deranged X wielding psychopath begins murdering them one by one. An
impossible web of marital infidelities leads to a meandering mosaic of endless red herrings,
deranged non vets, bitter office rivalries, perilous pungeee pits, and puffy brown
plaid couches. First off, I want to give another tip of the hat
to the wonderful copywriter at Vinegar Syndrome and their partner labels. It's probably all
ATOCN because oh man, they do some great jobs every single month. Yeah,
they truly captured the right tone, you know, in the tradition of
blood cult. Dead North is a hypnotic shot on video soap opera, slasher,
epic, never said those words together, I don't think, and an
early non custom passion project from director Gary Witson and his new Jersey based company
Wave Productions. Dead North continues to stupefy underground movie fans with its beguiling blend
of head scratching who done it, homespun gore effects, and charming regional eccentrist
eccentricities. Again, this is a Wave film from nineteen ninety one, and
the just the term Wave Productions turns off a lot of people. But this
is not one of those custom films, so it might be a little more
tolerable for you on that front. Well, I hope so, since that
features a feature length remake of the If you don't watch the movie once,
you get to see it twice and if you want to watch it even more.
There's an audio commentary with the director, moderated by Ros Schneider, co
director of Mail Order Murderer, who was on this channel earlier audio commentary with
Richard Moog, author of Analog Nightmares, The Shot on video Horror Films from
eighty two to ninety five interview with Gary Witson himself, and then The Pineland
Murders directed by our director. Gary Witson's twenty twelve feature length remake Like It
Was Just Said from twenty twelve, That's Wild. The Hanging Judge a nineteen
ninety one custom short from Wave featuring the cast of Dead North and it's forty
five minutes long, Crushed Gary Witson's nineteen ninety five short featuring Dead North stars
Clancy McCauley and Avon Warren, and Lunch Meet Midnight Stack, a twenty eight
page booklet featuring rare vintage news articles plus writings by a handful of people.
That's really cool that they're putting this out. So cool, you know,
I had a student close to a decade ago who was really into SOV did
a whole project for class and really proselytized the virtues of SV filmmaking to me.
And I wish you were able to be here now because there's so so
much more than you to have access to. Plus with all the extras and
real respect given, you know, making the movies hard, it is,
I have nothing but respect. I want to throw out another thing that I
mentioned and Ross and I talked about in our interview on Saturn's Core stuff that
these films, Yes, they're shot on video, and so a lot of
people scoff at why are we getting them on Blu Ray? They can't look
any better. I understand that, but also look at everything that is on
this disc because this is not something that you could ever see in a package,
you know, on VHS or even in the heyday of DVDs, because
there's so much content coming in this package that is just astounding. Yeah,
you know, anybody who can convince their friends, coworkers, family members to
work on these films as a character, you know, and I want to
know about them, not only that, and then have them come back for
a couple of shorts after because they didn't hate the first experience enough. And
it just continues and continues. First off, I'll throw out there, as
much as we're going to talk about this film, this slipcover is already sold
out and it is the fourth of August. We are getting from Yellowville Pictures
Faults from twenty fourteen. Nice looking slip here that nobody else is able to
purchase. The front and back here looks decent. This says Claire is under
the grip of a mysterious news sorry, mysterious new cult called False. Desperate
to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost
experts on mind control, Ansel Roth, to kidnap and deprogram her. However,
once the process is underway, Anzel realizes he may not be the one
in control, which just sounds fricking incredible to me. This one is directed
by Riley Stearns, which is making a bit of an impact lately. He
just put out the film Duel on Blu Ray. A lot of people love
and Riley stuff recently Austin, Texas, fella Yeah, and then of course
we are getting a whole bunch of stuff on here. We get the original
cast commentary from twenty fifteen with the cast which includes Mary, Elizabeth Winstead and
the director, and then a new crew commentary from twenty twenty two with the
DP Michael Reagan, the editor and the director of course reprogramming faults and interview
with the director, a deprogramming fault discussion on cult deprogramming between low La Blanc
cult survivor turned filmmaker and director Riley Stearns, which that just sounds incredibly fascinating
to me. Riley Sterns Sundance selected short film called The Cub from twenty thirteen,
and then a transcribed discussion between the director Alex Ross Perry from her Smell
and then director Riley Stearns in an illustrated twelve page booklet, which is an
interesting idea to include on here. Yeah, that's really cool. I'm sad
that I missed the slipcovers, but I'm gonna check it out. It went
very quickly, and this month was a little odd because they had four or
five titles that were only limited to a thousand, which has seemingly been happening
a little more lately, and this has been an element of discussion and as
a subscriber, I'll ask you, because the subscriber totals, they've been raising
the totals on how many they're printing for the last couple of years. So
a couple of years, well, not a couple of years ago, now,
gosh, five years ago. Now a lot of them were only limited
to one thousand to fifteen hundred because venderary syndrome was so small. And now
we're getting titles with you know, ten thousand slipcovers, and it's a big
change now these one thousand limit on the partner labels. Do you think that
is I'll use the word nefarious. Do you think it is in any way
OCN trying to get people to buy titles that they wouldn't otherwise purchase. I
mean, it would be nefarious for sure if they print a thousand, kind
of create an artificial shortage and then print another thousand, you know, right,
But so far, I don't think I've seen any of that. Have
you seen any of that? They've never done that, And I've heard this
sort of argument of they're just trying to get people to buy these, which
I mean, you don't have to buy them. One thing that I would
like and you know, I don't mean to be snooty or anything, but
you know, part of the reason to do the subscriber package is to kind
of be part of that you know, inside group that's going to get stuff,
you know, before everybody else. And and you know, the more
the more titles are printed, the less exclusive the club is, and so
there's that that could hurt the incentive. I'm still going to remain a subscriber.
I support Fingers Decentric. I'm wrapping them with my T shirt tonight.
But I wonder if it's possible for them to create a second subscriber option,
like a partner label subscription, that might you know, kind of recapture that
that feeling of being in a small select club of people who throw away all
their all the money they would have caught Christmas presents for the family with in
November, you know, and I'd probably be one of them. I think
the Liberty has come out and said that they can't do that, just because
not all of it is planned so far in advance. But I think it
would be really interesting if they made a way to say you're able to get
you know, fifty titles and you just choose them throughout the year email us
and we'll add it to it, and it's just a very specific total.
However, they would have to say, like this title is a box set
and it's not able to be chosen or something like that, right, well,
you know, something like that. Maybe maybe they can think about it
down the road. It's hard, Like if you're a completist, then I
get pretty obsessive about complete aism with labels. It's really hard to keep up
with partner label titles. That's not really a complaint because I'm so happy that
so many of these films are getting you know, ice releases and getting that
kind of attention, but it's it's tough to keep up. Well, I
mean on top of that, I mean there's twenty two partner labels now,
so that is an astonishing number. In some months we're getting fifteen new titles.
So a subscription would be just insane. But also just to incentivize the
Vinegar Syndrome subscription, that's why it's also going to be a subscriber, because
you always get these partner label titles at the fifty percent off sales price.
Yeah, that's a that's a real godsend, especially because of the next title
that I've already ordered, all right, so false looks and sounds pretty dang
good. And the next one we are getting the films of Doris Wishman,
The Moonlight Years. And this is one of the sideloading sets. It's got
the magnet in it to capture, you know, the same first set that
they put out. Good God, another one come on. This one is
called The Moonlight Years because it's from nineteen sixty five to nineteen sixty nine.
And I believe they said in the interview they did with me, which by
the way, you need to watch that because it's pretty incredible what they talk
about. I believe this is going to be the biggest of the three sets.
And then they also said that in twenty twenty three they're going to be
putting out another standalone outside of those three sets through AGFA from Doris Wishman.
Ooh, well, this one has some of her most important titles, Bad
Girls Go to Hell. It's the other film that I always show. And
I'm a big fan of Another Day Another Man in Decent Desires too, But
I'm getting ahead of myself. Go ahead and give the introduction. There is
so much in here, as you can probably see here six hundred and twenty
three minutes of combined film. We are getting, Gosh, what is this?
I think it's three discs, So yeah, a three disc release.
The first one has Bad Girls go to Hell from sixty five, in Decent
Desires from sixty eight, and a Taste of Flesh from sixty seven, and
then dis two has Another Day, Another Man from sixty six, My Brother's
Wife from sixty six, and Passion Fever from sixty nine. Then Disc three
has The Sex Perils of Paulette from sixty five, the Hot Month of August
from sixty six, and Too Much, Too Often from sixty eight. Now,
one complaint I've seen people say is that we are only getting some of
the s VHS masters and they're not able to get any any better film masters
that they're able to remaster unfortunately, which I do get. Thankfully, we
are able to get a commentary with Frank Hennen Lauterer on Bad Girls go to
Hell, and then we got a commentary with queer film historian Liz Purcell for
Indecent Desires, then a booklet with writing from Lisa Patrue, which is a
big, big deal to be able to get that in this Uh. Then
a Let's See My Brother's Wife gets a commentary from Wishman biographer Michael Bowen and
a photo gallery on that one as well, and then finally, The Sex
Perils of Paulette gets a commentary from Lisa Petrucci herself. I'm I'm so stoked
that she is still involved and able to do something like this because she does
not have to at all. Yeah, I'm you know, complaints about quality
aside, I'm just so glad that these are getting released at all. You
know, Wishman is such a unique and fascinating story and a lot of her
films are surprisingly cool and interesting and weird, so this is great. A
lot of them are also a lot more relevant and timely than people think,
because she was very much an outlier at the time. So this is one
that is going to be bringing a lot of people onto a completely different like
level of understanding Doris Wishman than you've ever thought possible considering what they're packaging together.
I do agree with Flickering Waves here, he says, I'm all about
the Wishman box sets, but I think the third box may prove to be
my favorite. I think that third box may prove to be most, maybe
the most accessible to a lot of people, and possibly at least the one
that they remember the most cool. I'm offer that, you know, every
year when I teach Bag Girls Go to Hell, several students get obsessed with
Wishmen. And then when they check out films like you know, Let Me
Die a Woman and and discover that these kinds of stories and these kinds of
conversations, and obviously the language has changed over time, but but the fact
that someone was trying to tell these stories, even if it's someone in an
exploitive way, I just really responded that, like, oh, I had
no idea there was this whole you know, world of cinema that that Michael
Bay didn't make, you know exactly. And what's really exciting to me is
that this is eventually going to turn into basically a single cohesive collection that will
rival some of the bigger ones like that severn Is put out with the Milligan
and the Radentis Steckler and all of these, because it's going to have almost
all of her films across the three and then whatever the standalone releases, which
if you know Wishman's filmography, there's a couple of guesses that you could throw
out there, because it's they're really nic could be missing that much as soon
as they're done. I'm curious because also we could get a Pikorama title from
Vinegar Syndrome with a couple of the missing ones as well. She denied she
ever made any of those kinds of stuff. We shall see, though,
Go ahead. I just hope they managed to somehow get Dildo Heaven. God.
Yeah, I really hope. So. Again, to kind of visualize
how much is in this set, here is the listing on the back of
all of the titles. Again, it is a three disc set and really
really important to really just dive into her filmography if you have that first set
and just keep it going, because there's still a third set coming this year
as well. Moving right along, we are getting from Gunpowder and Sky Hearts
Beat Loud, which is from twenty eight and possibly a little more mainstream than
people were expecting. I'm really glad because I didn't get the first Blu ray
release, and I've actually been wanting to see this for quite some time.
This is the front of the slip and then here is the back. This
movie stars Nick Offerman, Keirsey, Clemens Blithe Danner, one of my favorite
actors of all time, possibly Tony Colette, sash Lane, and Ted Dancing.
This is basically about a single dad and a record store owner named Frank
who is trying to connect with his I believe daughter a little bit more.
Yeah, So the father and daughter start to perform together and it's basically just
a feel good music movie which really speaks to who I am. I can't
wait to see this for the first time. Finally, have you seen this
one? No? I mean it seems sweet, you know, and as
somebody who's about to send we're about to send our oldest daughter to the college
here in a couple of weeks and kind of dealing with the emotional impact of
that. I don't know, I might have trouble getting through this one.
So this one has all kinds of new stuff, which is really unexpected.
We got a new feature length audio commentary with the director and a co writer
and composer recorded this year, new interview with the director recorded this year,
new interview with Nick Offerman recorded this year, and then feature length audio commentary
with the director interview from a few years ago. We even got Tony Collette
interview on here and just a bunch of stuff. We're getting a lot of
the behind the scenes, all kinds of stuff. Plus then a booklet featuring
a new essay by writer BJ Colangelo. Like I mentioned earlier, great stuff.
Yeah, it's a killer cast. I don't know anything about it.
I'm kind of surprised I hadn't heard anything about it. With that cast,
it definitely flew under the radar quite a bit. Oh and the director,
I just looked him up because I thought his name looked familiar. Graduate of
the North Carolina School of Arts right right down the road for me in Winston
Salem. So nice. Now I have to check it out because he's a
hometown guy. Let's see what else we got, because we are barely getting
started. From Canadian International Pictures, we are getting the kid Brother. Here
is the front of the horizontal slip and here is the back. Now,
this is one that some people are championing, championing so hard and I have
never seen this, but good gosh, after reading everything on this, I
can't wait to watch this. This says going through life without legs. Thirteen
year old Kenny. Kenny easter Day is playing a version of himself on this
film. Is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs.
He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film
crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny's parents, brother, and absentee sister
bring long simmering tensions to the surface, shaking Kenny's delicate sense of balance.
Determined to better understand his place in the world, he hits the road for
a daring journey of self discovery at the age of thirteen, and just to
sell it a little bit more, Canadian International says an unprecedented cinematic achievement that
has earned acclaim, awards and disbelief all over the world, while remaining largely
unknown in North America. The Kid Brother is a one of a kind coming
of age triumph. In his one and only film role, Kenny easter Day
lights up the screen with an infectiously appealing performance full of charm and playful abandon.
This is going to be a scan in four K from the OCN restored
by Elephant Memoir du Cinema French Whatever, with sound transferred and restored from the
original thirty five millimeter magnetic film four track final mix, which is really cool.
They don't always go that extra step. There, We've got an audio
commentary featuring author and film historian and Canadian Kila Denise and writer film critic Ralph
Elawani, and then from twenty twenty two, a thirty three minute interview with
the writer and director. Then also from this year, an interview with Gagnan's
longtime producing partner Yuri Yoshimura Gayan, and then nine minute long memories from the
film's international festival tour, Then again a booklet featuring Rick Tremble's motion picture Purgatory
comic strip on the film, and a new interview with co star Jesse easter
Day Junior. You know what I think about Kenny I remember vaguely, well
not vaguely because I remember him, but I remember he used to film the
Jerry Springer Show as a guy's not not one of the you know, red
wrecks fights shows, but what you know, when they would kind of get,
you know, a little bit exploited because it be like the inspirational story
type of stuff. But but I remember him being a guest, and that's
about it. He died not too long ago, a few years ago.
Kenny Easterly did yesterday which is sad, of course, but so yeah,
I'm really I'm really interested in this. I've never heard of this. He
had to have been pretty young, probably forties ish, Yeah, early forties.
Very interesting, alrighty. Next one from Enjoy the Ride Records. Another
one that I had on here for an interview. This is one that screamed
something I have to watch and very soon we are getting. Low Sound Desert
from twenty fifteen, two chapters on rock music. This is a documentary by
Jerg Steineck about the rock music scene in the low Desert of California. What
was started by revolting punk rock kids hidden from narrow minded authorities of suburban desert
communities in the early eighties gave birth to bands like Caius and Queens of the
Stone Age. With its unique artistic approach, the film provides a deep,
intimate insight and captures the attitude of the Coachella Valley's music scene. From jamming
all night in the middle of a surreal desert landscape to headlining European stages,
desert rock continued its underground spread and became international treasure. Low Sand Desert is
narrated by Josh Hami Mario Lali, Brant, Bjork, Alfredo Hernandez, Scott
Reader, Sean Wheeler, and many more from bands like Caius, Queens of
the Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso, Jetson, Mondo Generator, among
others. This is going to be region free and then they've got an hour
of additional footage on here. And I grew up in California and grew up
in the music scene. I did not get to anything in this area.
I never really went anywhere near the Coachella area, never went among palm springs,
nothing like that. So I am super curious to dive into this.
Oh man, that's the same daughter there were about us in the college.
I just got into Caius, and I'm proud of myself for doing so,
because they kill it in Queens and stone Age evolved out of that band.
I'm really interested in what who among others are going to be right the other
band? You know, the stone of rock and punk rock bands, and
how you know how far south are they going? Are they getting into some
of the Arizona bands too, like Neat Puppets and stuff like that. I
wonder, I don't know, it could be. I mean, they're very
close to the Arizona Boarder there for sure. Now I'm definitely going to get
into this one. Start to says, I passed because I never heard of
any of these musicians. I highly wreck Man checking out Caius and Queens of
the Stone Age. Specifically Queens of the Stone Age has ever since they started
putting out music many they speak to my soul. Yeah, you got the
group man. Next up a big title from Fun City Editions with the man
Hel Holbrook. This is Natural Enemies from nineteen seventy nine. What do you
feel about Fun City and Hal Holbrook? There will love how Holbrook just watched
him and his boy recently and Girls Night Out there under Slasher movie. I
like that this this release is advertised as you know, coming from the director
of Revenge of the Nerds and true Beverly Hills yep, which is for my
generation. That's like, oh awesome. You know, so I've never heard
of Natural Enemies. I loved Revenge of the Nerds growing up. Still love
parts of that movie, other parts of not aged well. The Troop Beverly
Hills is a family classic for our for our family for a long time,
So say, yeah, this is this looks really interesting. To me.
Oh, Louis Fletcher's in It Cool. The plot on this one, too,
sounds wild. It says, what causes a man who seemingly has everything,
a thriving business and family, to snap and throw it all away?
It's the question that this provocative and intelligent psychological drama investigates. Successful New York
magazine publisher Paul Stewart has reached his breaking point, and today is the day
he has decided to kill himself, his wife, and their children. Holy
shit, his marriage to Miriam has grown cold and distant. On this final
day, he seeks the answers that might relieve him of his despair through encounters
with a psychiatrist, an astronaut, a friend who survived the Holocaust, five
prostitutes in a brothel, and a lonely woman on the train ride home.
I mean, I have to see that. That's a hell of a day,
So go ahead. So this this is the movie that would have happened
if the parents and Troop Beverly Hills had not gotten divorced. Yeah, this
is ten years later. Video Stores's Natural Enemies is a great, great film.
It's like if Michael Hannica directed Save the Tiger. Oh, Wow,
they should get that on the back of the back of the box. That's
at endorsement. Interesting. Interesting. So this is region free, new two
K restoration from the thirty five millimeter deposit print held at the Library of Congress.
Booklet with a new essay by j Bailey, newly recorded audio commentary by
Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast, and then a newly filmed two part
video interview with the director, Jeff Canoe, and then there's a video introduction
by that director on there, which, Man, this is great. I
am so glad that this is getting a new release again, a director that
people knew for completely other types of films and I cannot wait to see this.
And that cover art is boss. It is perfect. And then this
is the backside, what goes around just going through her head? Yep,
I love the prostitutes on top of the the quote here on the back today
Paul Stewart is planning to kill his wife, his children, and himself.
They are not messing around with this, No, not even any comments.
This is going straight through, dude, says. Happy to see early Jeff
Canoe getting some attention. He's kind of underrated just because he'll always be the
revenge of the nerds guy, which nowadays that that's not always a positive thing
unfortunately. But yeah, I agree. I do think that he's been overlooked
a little bit for some of this, and he's he's got a bit of
a filmography. It's it's something that's not been dipped into too many times.
Yeah, this might, this might lead to a resurgence. Someone start checking
out. And again, Fun City has been just crushing it with their releases.
They are almost at one hundred percent. I think there's one or two
titles that a lot of people have been hit or miss on, especially like
Bill Tis. A lot of people did not like. Oh morever in Collar
fantastic. I'm so happy they put that out. Coca Cola Kid, I
mean, yeah, you're right, and they did the prime time Panic.
I think that Christian was mentioned in the chat. A lot of good titles
and fantastic for sure. Next up from Canny or Connie, however you say
it out loud Robinson's Garden from nineteen eighty seven, which, first of all,
one of the most vibrant slipcovers we've seen in quite some time, very
very interesting colors. Here. This says on a drunken walk home. Bohemian
drug dealer Kumi discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by
the vast and untapped space rampant with luxuriant vegetation, she promptly sells all of
her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island out of the
concrete squat and wiles her days away growing cabbage and expressing herself in any way.
She pleases. This one is going to be a region a locked release.
We've got a couple of interviews on here. New art and then new
writing by k. F. Wadanabe. Very interesting, very interesting for sure.
I'm super interested in the fact that Tom Deciller ton to Ceto, I
can never remember how to pronounce his name. Shot this, I mean,
you know his obviously. The films listed there, Living Living, Johnny Sway,
several others really good. And yeah that it's kind of propped up in
that early to mid eighties hunk no Wave scene sounds pretty interesting. Slipcover looks
like the trapper keeper I had when I was a kid. I'm kind of
entranced by it. Ye Flickering Wave says that Robinson Garden slip would make for
a wild shirt. It would look like a perfect ninety shirt, especially if
they really use that left side. Yeah cool man. Let's see two of
Jeff Canows films are on the going out of print sale at Keno. Says
dude McMahon. That's interesting. Which ones, dude, if you don't mind
sharing so we can tell everybody there. Next up, this is the one
coming from Culture Shock releasing. This is Streets of Death from nineteen eighty seven.
Here is the front of the slip and here is the back. The
censoring is by me. It will be uncensored when you get this slip.
This says in dumpsters, in the gutters, and even hanging from hooks,
the streets of Los Angeles are being littered with murdered sex workers. As you
do, A sinister john with a sizeable wallet is tempting desperate women into dangerous
traps. If the police cannot find the killer, then who will. Maybe
it will be a former detective, or perhaps it will be a couple of
guys shooting a documentary about prostitution. I know nothing about this one. This
is Regent Free. Interview with the director is on here. Interview with actor
Larry Thomas, who you may recognize as the Soup Nazi, and Tommy Kirk
old Yeller, Hey Kirk, Yeah, oh yeah, this one is.
We also got a full length commentary by movie Milt Grindhouse and Exploitation Podcast.
I've not listened to them, so I'm not sure how that's gonna be.
Wow, let's see, dude. McMahon answered and said, tough guys and
via v I Washowski are the ones that are in the keynote going out of
print sale. Good to know, Thank you, dude. Let's see somehow
missed Robson's Garden sounds like my type of movie. Also, gonna have to
go back to get Kid Brother natural enemies in this It's just a solid That's
the hard thing is it's a solid month every single month right now, it
really is, And somehow we're still not done. Summer of Blood is coming
from Factory twenty five, which I gotta admit the stuff that they keep putting
out is it can be a little odd and a little varied, but they
are doing some great work over a Factory twenty five. They're the ones that
did other music and then The Oregonian and a couple others that they's still a
fairly new partner label. Here's the front and the back of the slip here
interesting back. I'll leave that when there for a second, This says writer
director Owner Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious,
and commitment shi Eric Sparrow, who is dumped by his career woman girlfriend
when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to
a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already deteriorating confidence,
until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead lady killer with a maniacal
sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision
of absurd self deprecating wit and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious
horror comedy with a clever bite all its own. This is from twenty fourteen
region free. We got two different commentaries by the director and main star on
here something really cool. We got a twenty nine minute vampire interview with Larry
Fessenden and then a twenty five minute vampire interview with somebody named Lloyd Kaufman.
I wish they were together. Yeah, that would have been cool. We
got some behind the scenes, some deleted scenes, some trailers in here,
and then again another booklet. We got a twenty four page illustrated booklet with
essays by Simon Bacon and the director. I got to mention Simon Bacon,
whose work I'm familiar with. He's a really, really knowledgeable scholar, especially
on all things vampire. He's written like, I don't know, one hundred
and fifty books about vampires, not really that many, but a lot.
And the guy knows his stuff really fun to work with, So that's worth
the price of admission right there. I don't know what it is, but
there's been a lot of stuff brought up about vampires lately, so I'm glad
that we're getting more about this again. It's a genre that seems to go
in cycles, and we seem to be in a little lull for vampire films
right now, so I'm I'm glad we're getting this. Yeah, it goes
zombie vampires, zombie vampire, and then every now and then there's like a
werewolf movie. I actually I actually wrote an essay in a film International several
years ago about zombies and vampires from Reagan to Trump and how the how the
film's come evolved in that period. And it was really it really is a
cycle. You know. It was really interesting doing the research seeing you know,
which films and television shows were coming out. Man, right now,
zombies are making most of the money, but the vampires are still still kicking.
Zombies have been hot pretty much ever since, like Sean of the Dead
ish. Yeah, and they just won't go away. They're relentless. You
know. They really are make money as video games, yeah, not a
lot. Zombies are better for video games, you can't. Empires are more
difficult. You can get great stuff like Castlevania, but you can't do the
shoot them up. It's very true. I mean that original Left for Dead
video game from like fifteen years ago or so, that game was so great.
Yeah, we got a few more left here, I think, or
maybe it's just one or two from Utopia, you know what. I think
This is the last one. This is You Can't Kill Meme. You Can't
Kill Meme from twenty twenty. This is a film by Haley Garigis. I
think it's pronounced. This is the back of the slip here. This is
a hybrid documentary feature film about the genesis of mimetic magic and its application by
the alt right in the United States. This is gonna have a sick steaming
at Q and a from the Fantasia Festival. It's a region free blue.
But other than that, not a lot on this disc. I'm curious to
see this doc though I'm not seen this one. This seems pretty crucial to
the times, and now that I know what it's about, the cover makes
a lot more sense, a whole lot more sense. Yeah, let's see.
It's starring Sean Bell, Billy Breugo or Breujo, Carol Mike Michayla Kirk
R. Peckwood, and Nick Peterson. Yeah. I've not even heard of
this one, but this sounds pretty great. And that was it for partner
labels. So again a strong month. I believe we are up to twenty
two different Vinegar Syndrome partner labels right now, which every single month we talked
about. It's a lot to keep up on, but again, the quality,
it's not taking away from anything by having twenty two partner labels. They
are all doing great work. Most of them are gosh, I can't even
say that. I think there's a good five or seven of them that don't
put out stuff all that often, and then there's a good eleven to fourteen
of them that seem to release at least one title every month. So it's
very great to see what we're getting from all these Yeah, and really for
people who really want to seek out films that they don't know a lot about,
it's so nice to have Vineger Syndrome as a hub that collects all this
stuff together, because so much easier than tracking things down. So major appreciation
to get Beneger's Syndrome for that great question from Video Store, I am right,
and assuming if something is region free, it probably won't see a release
in other territories. Not one hundred percent of the time, but that is
I'm gonna say that is generally true. There are there are some exceptions to
that, especially when we see things like the Air four four four release that
was tied in with the third Window Films release of The Wicked Forest and the
other one that came with that. Those I believe are both region free because
they worked together so it was time to came out at the near the exact
same time and no matter where you got it, you're getting mostly the same
content. But really it's all about the licenser. Some of them just playing,
don't care. And it seems like Australia gets a lot of region free
releases of titles that are coming out elsewhere, so it's not always correct,
but usually next up. Got a few more left. I mentioned earlier I
put out an interview with the guys from AGFA and I think it's a pretty
good one. Spend some time with that if you haven't. They do talk
about stuff coming out over the next year or so. They drop a couple
of things that they're working on which are pretty exciting and they haven't mentioned it
elsewhere, so a little exclusive there. But things that are getting re released.
We mentioned the Keno lawber Mill Creek re releases. This is another one
coming out, Eyes of Lower Mars from nineteen seventy eight. Genuinely a fantastic
film. This is one of the better ones out there from around this time,
and we got the special features that were on the previous release, but
nothing on here is new, and that Mill Creek release is not super old,
so it's really odd how they seem to have picked up a handful of
titles that were just recently released by mill Creek, and some of them are
less than like two and a half years old, and they're already getting brand
new releases. I'm very curious as to why or what they think they're getting
out of that good film. Have you seen Eyes of Laura Mars? Oh
yeah, John Carpenter one of his earliest writing credits. And you know Urban
Kershner is king of the sequels, right the Empire strikes back Robo Cup two.
This is a nice little thriller, you know if Faye Donaway and Tolly
Jones are really good and it's pretty early in Tommy Lee Jones' career, very
young. Yeah, this is like right after he did Rolling Thunder I think,
which I just watched the other night. That holds up nice Hiley Jones
has some of the best lines. I'm gonna go kill a lot of people.
So yeah, I has a lot of Mars. I don't think I'll
be upgrading my copy, but I might watch it again here now that's getting
re released. Highly recommend. This movie is basically what we're getting at yet
another one, But this is another interesting one where we get some new special
features. Happy Birthday to Me is getting a release from Keno on October eighteenth,
and it's one of the most iconic imageries from a film cover of all
time. I swear this poster was basically required to be in every video store
for like five years. That was in the contract or something. Dude says
Keno in this Mill Creek thing is making me wonder if I should keep waiting
on Renegades. I haven't picked it up yet. That's a good question.
This gets a new interview with actress Tracy E. Bergman and a new audio
commentary by co screenwriter Timothy Bond, moderated by Daniel Kreamer, and not a
whole lot else on here. Happy Birthday to Me, it's a it's not
what I love, it's it's fun. What do you think A Happy Birthday
to me? Well, as a Jay Lee Thompson completist, you know you
can't. You can't go through his whole career without making a pit stop with
late Charles Bronson and Happy Birthday to me. It's not. It's not my
favorite movie in the world, not my favorite slasher, but uh, I
recall enjoying it and it's it's I would say it's kind of indifferently made.
You know, Glenn Ford doesn't look too happy to be there. But you
know, we're talking about Jollo's and the Jolly and and the formula and kind
of picking out interesting bits from the from the dreg you know, Happy Birthday.
Yeah, Jamie Thompson isn't a derated director. He's fantastic. And even
the late Charles Bronson movies that have some problematic politics or are taught action movies
and and get the most out of the budgets. Happy Birthday to me though,
is you know, it's kind of a middling slasher movie. If you
like slasher movies, this is gonna be fun watch for you. It's not
gonna like convert anybody to the genre. Now, okay, but the poster
iconic I swear this movie has had gosh so many releases on every format.
This is like one of the most released movies. At least it feels like
next up. Speaking of AGFA, we just spoke on them. Smut Without
Smut, Volume one is coming from One to One Film's UK as part of
their AGVA partnership. Now, one of the reasons that this might be interesting
is that this was a fully limited release in the US, So the title
is a print, which means if you want these two titles, this is
gonna be the cheapest way to get these. And I believe in the US
it's fully fully gone out of print. You're not able to get this unless
you're getting it secondhand. Again, this is literally the the X rated genre
movies with the X rated bits removed. These are interesting. And then they
have the smut without smut versions and the uncut versions both included if you want
to see everything on there with them without smut. Yes, they also have
the commentary track on Things to Come with the AGFA team, which is one
of the better listens because they you know, they put a lot of love
into stuff like this, so it's really nice to hear from the people that
are restoring us and putting it out what they think of the film. Yeah,
I missed, I missed the set without smut but went out of print,
so this will be a good chance for me. Check these out definitely.
And then another AGFA title coming out from One on one Films in the
UK is Scary Tales, which, I gotta be honest is one of my
favorite AGPA releases. I think that this is one of their more more fun
titles. I will really point out they've got this notice here. This movie
was shot on VHS and edited on tape, and it definitely shows it's not
the highest quality, but it is a little anthology film and it's fun.
And then on top of that, they've got the commentary track with the director
on here. There's a demo version which is really interesting. They've got vintage
TV promo appearances with the director which I watched on the agfadisk here from the
US and it's hilarious seeing these guys on like a public access show with an
actual news team and really interesting take on it. And then there's a bonus
movie on here from nineteen ninety four called Darkest Soul plus early horror shorts from
the director. This is one of those discs that just has everything encapsulated on
this to make this a giant, giant package for everybody that purchases it.
Definitely recommended from me. Have you seen Scary Tails yet? No? It
looks really cool. I saw that. Oh I can't remember the label now,
but they've announced a limited edition of Mazes and Monsters, you know,
the made for TV Dungeons and Dragons, Satanic scare movie with young Tom Hanks.
Yep, Plumeria Pictures. Yeah, ah, that's what. That might
make a good double feature with this, although actually Darkest Soul might make a
double feature with it. Mazes Monsters isn't very good. I mean, Scary
Tales is certainly not the highest quality either, but it's it's certainly fun and
a nice little snapshot into that time. Nineteen ninety three was a wild time
for shot on tape stuff for sure. Then Second Site has announced their next
limited edition title. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but
we got the beauty shots here and the date and all that. So you
can pre order this now from Second Site. And I'm only seeing now that
we don't have an actual release date on there. Let me see what they
say on their website. This is coming on September twenty six from Second Sight.
This is a fairly new film. This is from twenty twenty one.
A brutal enforcer returns home after a ten year absence to embark on a gruesome
quest for vengeance against the crime family that kidnapped his son and left him for
dead. Now, everybody that I've heard that have seen this film seems to
really love it and think it's one of the better modern crime films. And
somehow I've never seen it. I never even heard of it before they announced
it. I just completely missed out on this one. Have you seen this
one? No? But when I saw the announcement for this release, I
got kind of excited because this, again, like possession movies, this is
a sub genre of action sci fi western movies that I don't know. I
just get into that long, simmering revenge film. I'm excited about that.
Packaging looks great, really cool. Yeah, nice art on the cover of
this one. Again, lots of stuff. Second Site always does great with
these. They've got audio commentary with the writer and director and some actors,
new interview with the director, an interview with the producer, and then an
interview with another one of the producers. Then, of course, their limited
edition will have that big hard box set with the softcover book on the inside
with new essays from Andrew Graves, Elena Alazak, and Megan Navarro, plus
the six collectors art cards you see there. It is currently available to pre
order, and it's relatively cheap, I gotta be honest. Twenty four ninety
nine British pounds. That's not that bad. And finally, coming on October
eleventh, from Keno, we get Blue Iguana from nineteen eighty eight. Again,
I feel like I'm just saying this a lot tonight. This is one
that I somehow have not seen before. We've got a decent cast on here
with somebody named Dean Stockwell. Some people may have heard of Jessica Harper from
Suspiria's in this. We've got Flee in this colorful eighties neo noir, hilarious
spoof that's part mystery, part thriller and all fun. And on top of
that, Dylan McDermott is in this. He stars as a Vince Holloway,
a poor excuse for a bounty hunter with a problem. The people he tries
to bring back alive keep winding up dead, and in the bounty biz,
no pulse means no paycheck. So Vince accepts a high risk offer from the
IRS to recover twenty million dollars from a crooked bank and the sleepy little town
of Diablo, Mexico. Once of It's hits the Diablo, he discovers a
notorious bar called the Blue Iguana. It's loaded with thugs, killers, smugglers
and evil women. Vince feels right at home, but he'd feel more like
making a run for it if he knew what awaits him. This has a
trailer on it, and that is it. Here is the inner art that
they're also going to be using, and that comes on October eleventh. Wow,
I've seen this one. This So this is flee halfway between Suburbia and
The Big Lebowski or no, the chase. I think the chase came between
what a Cast? Yeah, and I don't say this because Dean Stockwell is
in it, but the premise sounds somewhat Lynchian, you know, a bit
yeah, so kind of wild at hardish. Yeah, yeah, let's check
this out. I know nothing. This one certainly looks fun to me.
And again I'll throw out what Stan says. Right there, Keena Lober is
just doing it up right. They seem to always do, I mean,
putting out like five or six titles seemingly a week. You kind of have
to do a lot at a time. Christian, I barely beat you there.
I just threw out wilder heart could Yeah, as we always do.
Let's go over what is coming out next week on a disc just in case
you forgot, and then we will go over a fairly quick Q and A
time with Will if anybody has anything else from the video. So next Tuesday
we are getting Heat on four K, which seemingly has some people saying that
it's too dark on the four K, But I gotta wonder how much of
that is up to people using either poor poor screens on their TV or not
using great equipment. Too many people are using like a PS five to play
four K films or Xbox one X or whatever. I yeah, you got
to do it right if you really want the highest picture quality on these.
We're getting Event Horizon in four K. Both of those are studio discs.
Of course. Crimes of the Future finally comes out next Tuesday. That got
to mention earlier from US Sonic The Hedgehog two four K. My kids been
dying for that for months. Men from A twenty four and Alex Garland is
the director on that one that's finally getting the blue release. I'm not gonna
mention dooman four K we got from Paramount Presents Back to the Beach, which
a lot of people seem to be waiting on Flying Guillotine too, from eighty
eight Films. A lot of people getting that one in already. Same with
Doctor Lamb from Unearthed Films. We got some reviews popping up on that one.
Finally, from the film Detective Battle of the Worlds from nineteen sixty one,
the next code red title made in Sweden with Christina Lindbergh. That's kind
of a big one for a lot of people. That was finally getting released.
Down to Earth with Chris Rock. That's one I remember a lot of
people loving back then Vivo. I saw this one earlier this year. Actually
not that bad. I've got kids, so I see a lot of these
animated films. I've seen Worse State of Grace with Sean Penn and ed Ed
Harris and Gary Oldman is getting its release. La Age jabber I mentioned that
one earlier that is coming out from Visual Vengeance famous TNA two with Darcy,
the male girl from the Last Drive in That is Full Moon putting that one
out, and that seems to be selling like gangbusters for a lot of retailers
right now. I'll tell you why. In addition to the lovely Talentsed Darcy,
Jacqueline Levelle, the Pride of Full Moon, video aim end to that
from Keno we're getting I believe these are both Keno little Man What Now and
Next Time we Love? This one Next Time we Love has James Stewart in
it. And then I think we're getting some re releases, which is why
Murder Made Easy This is from Screen Team Releasing. I think that's getting a
re release Yellow Brick Road. I can't remember who put that one out,
but I've heard some people say that's a decent one. I need to check
that one out. And that's the bulk of them as far as I remember.
Oh, I apologize. I forgot Trauma was releasing their version of Death
by Temptation. Yeah, that is what next week looks like. So,
now that we are done with announcements and what's coming out next week, any
questions for Will on Toby Hooper on our discussion that we released last week or
anything else. And as you type those out, Will, I think you
got some stuff to talk about that's coming up soon. You want to share
with the class what's going on in the world. Well, I'm kind of
excited. Tomorrow I'm going to be recording a podcast sent him a Death Cult
with Adam Boger about we're going to talk about Wes Craven's television films, which
I'm pretty excited about. Yeah, it's I'm working on a project about writing
about those films, Summer of Fear, Chiller, Invitation to Help Casebusters,
and the unreleased Night Visions. I think that's all, and so I'm excited
about that. So that'll become an album to the podcast universe in a week
or so, and and hopefully that that bit of writing will be coming out
next year. We'll see. Oh yeah, I was mentioning to you before
we got started. There's a new book coming out around Christmas about Todd Browning.
I'm really excited to be part of. Did some research on his film
Devil Big Todd Browning guy. Anybody who's into classic macabb and horror, I
hope is too. Yeah, So those are some some things that I'm working
on, excited about, really looking forward to seeing how people respond to the
I'm Dangerous Tonight Blue write, which I should mention Stan Geezy Is is also
a part of He was a videographer on the film and there is and contributed
amazing behind the scenes footage of Toby Hooper directing and casting crew working. So
there's my little promotional real. As I said last time, all the links
for will are in the description below, where to follow him, where to
get some of the books that he's helped edit. And then on top of
that, the I'm Dangerous Tonight Blu ray available now pretty much everywhere. Keina
Lober has distribution everywhere, so make sure you check that out. Toby Hooper
made for TV film. We got our first question for you, what movie
do you want to see? Vin Ger Centram put out the most Well,
I think they're already going to answer that question with Texas Chainsaw and answer for
two. But you know, I don't want to sound like a program both.
The PI Karama label is the only place I could think of that would
release, that could release the uh that could hear welcome stand uh. The
Peak Aarama label is the only place that I think could potentially release Wes Craven's
pornographic film. West Craven directed a film under the non diplome abe Snake called
several titles, but I think Angela is the fireworks woman is the most common
one. And he did that between here right, you know, he did
it right before between Last House and Left and he'lls have eyes and the film
features a lot of the themes about family and the kind of rot of the
American middle class that that you see in his his uh wu on movies.
So I'd love to that'd probably be be the one. I actually did it
a two hour long you know with on Christian's hobby blog, which we went
through about forty different films we wanted to see released in high definitions. So
nice if you want to kill some time. That'd be worth checking out too.
The the Wes Craven porn film that he just brought up that has been
guessed by a lot of people as coming from Vinegar Syndrome with some of the
hints that they've put out previously, and it's never came to fruition. I
would love to see that. It would be nice just as a hey,
let's get all of you know, this incredible director's films out there. It
would it would be really nice to see overall. Yeah, you know the
little feature on the Vinegar Syndrome website where they lets you suggest a movie every
six or eight months or so. I'll have just like one too many glasses
of wine and I'll get on there and I'll say, Angela's the fireworks,
Will I'll type it in And then the next question is do you have any
idea where the film elements are? Do you have any access to them?
I'm like, no, I just I'm asking you to do all the work.
Please do it all in your classes? Do you talk about Hitchcock a
lot? Kind of cliche for a film teacher, but he was obviously a
groundbreaking filmmaker. And the reason that Birds two is such an insult to film
lovers is everybody cool with Gus van Sant Psycho though, would be cool with
that? Yeah. I actually don't teach Hitchcock a lot, just because the
older were established tenured professors tend to focus on the cannon right filmmakers. But
I usually when I teach Hitchcock, I usually do a lesser known film,
like The Lady Vanishes is when I recently did. I'm a big fan of
Frenzy, so I try to get slipped that one in. There sabotage,
So I tend to leave the most well known titles to other faculty. And
you know, my tendency is always to show the stuff that they're not going
to see anywhere else, whether obviously why I teach my cult film scores.
That specifically was for when I teach, you know, even film appreciation,
and my job is to teach basic film technique. Film for them. I
can show Citizen Kane, and I often do, but I could also show
The Hitchhiker by Idolipino. I can show Pale Blood, in which I'm going
to show in October for HALLOWEENA so I always try to get stuff off the
beating pat. I love Hitchcock I've got fifty some of his films in my
collection. Jeff says Lifeboat has underlooked. I think it definitely is got to
I think that's got to release from Keno I remember, right. And then
Christian says, watch Sabatur by Hitchcock recently and loved it. It's as good,
but you also have to see Sabotage. It's too. Speaking of Christian,
he says, who's a cult director? That you have more exposure by
these labels, more exposure tough questions. That is a tough one. Well,
now that Jeff Canoe is getting his day in court, we can,
uh, we can try to highlight some others. You know, I'm gonna
have to think about that question for a second actually, because you know,
I would like to see some directors who haven't had smaller filmographies that haven't been
explored, like Deborah Brock who did Summer Party Massacre too. She also did
Rock and Roll High School Forever, which needs it needs a good release because
that movie is bonkers. I'd like to see a little love over there.
Gosh, well they got out Adams and covered Ted Michaels. We need some
more Ted Michaels films released in high definition. It was a great documentary,
The Wild World The t ten. Michael's out ten years ago. Most of
his stuff is still only available on DVD. Who puts out the corpscribers?
Is that vineger syndrome? Yeah, so at least have that. Is there
anywhere we can find your list of favorite films? I don't have a list
any sort of like blog or anything like that you can plain people to,
you know, I really need to do that. I was telling I was
telling you last time we talked to I've just recently got a Twitter. I've
stayed largely off the internet. I technically have a letterbox tocount. I just
haven't really done anything with it. I need. I'm gonna have to do
that soon. I'm pretty pretty sure that's like standard issue for professors now you
have to have a website hawk your wares and promote your work. So coming
soon, coming soon. But you know, shows like this, I pretty
much say all I have to say. Here's a good one favorite film book
of all all time American Twilight The Cinema of Toby Hooper. That's a tough
one too. I I'm not trying to be difficult with the answer, but
it really kind of depends on the sort of sub genre film book. The
book that really got me into film studies was David Skull and Elias Savada's Dark
Carnival, The Biography of Todd Browning. But you know, I've been very
fortunate to be a student of and now a friend to David A. Cook,
who wrote the History of Narrative Film, which is probably the best single
volume I think history book. That's pretty good read too. It's about eight
hundred pages, so it's not it's not going to be in one sitting or
anything. I really like the work of Gwendel and Audrey Foster. She writes
a lot of you know, really great analyzes and reclamations of underseen films.
Especially by women directors, directors of color, Wheeler Winston Dixon, who's written
like a hundred books. They're all really good at Christopher Shared, who's a
big influence on me. This is just going to keep going, so I'll
stop there. But oh yeah, you know, one last one I really
like is Gary Rhodes. He writes a lot of great stuff. Really,
his research is really deep. Dives into the archives. He goes through drafts
of scripts, noting every change. He finds all of the memos and really
pieces together how films got made. He is the authoritative biographer of Bill and
Legosi's written four or five books on ASI. All right, I'll stop there.
Film books are always difficult for me to read because I end up taking
notes and just want to go deep dive into thirty four different movies before starting
into the next chapter. Yeah, it's one of those things where you highlight
every sentence. Definitely, Video stores is that you've seen the Art of Dying,
And if so, why didn't it win the best picture. I've not
seen the Heart of Dying yet. Ever since I had kids, I've started
lagging about five or six years behind films as they get released. Yep.
But I'll put that to the top of my queue, and as soon as
I see it, I will answer the question is what on wait? What
what won Best Picture? What year? Was that? I don't even know
h thoughts on The Mangler. It's one of the few films where I actually
fell asleep in the theater. Stands gonna come for you. The Mangler is
definitely not Toby Hooper's best movie, but it's one that I think rewards rewatching.
That's a real shame that that was his last theatrical release. I think
that the New Shout Factory release, and I think Ero just did a UK
release that's got a USA by Scalptifolia, who is the most effusive champion of
that film I've ever met. I think when you when you get to revisit
it and kind of think about it in context of his other films, there
Mangler improves. I think, you know, a lot of it is the
concept kind of throws people off, like it's a haunted laund you know,
but it's not. It's not that. It's it's the machinery that that grinds
a working class to gristle, you know. It's it's it's really a very
gooey metaphor for you know, in the book Americans, Twilight with two essays
on the main load. It's the only film that gets two essays, and
one analyzes it as a There's a lot of different things, I'm boiling down
fine. One analyzes as a metaphor for the Hollywood machinery, and then another
more broadly capitalism and in general. So I'd recommend getting the book and rewatching
the ad as as obtuse of a question this is, do you think there
is a clear Toby Hooper like objectively best made film and worst made film.
I mean, he's tempting to say to the Texas Chainsaw Mascer is the best
made film because it's just so perfectly formed, you know, But certainly Hooper
had higher budgets after not much higher, but higher budgets after that, that
she could make the argument that on a technical level, other films are more
accomplished. Toby Hooper's worst film mhm. I mean, for me, probably
Eggshells is the least entertaining. I'm going to look at, you know,
his twenty thirty some film filmography. That's not the first one want to choose,
but even it's pretty well he was a super talented guy on a technical
level, and the people he collaborated with were just top notch. He didn't
he didn't work with a lot of you know, shitty editors or or or
cinematographers. So I don't know. I have to think on that one as
well. I'll say, for now, Eggshells is probably my least favorite,
and Chainsaw two is just mind like growing up was always my favorite stuff.
Let's go for a fun one and then we'll close it out with a pretty
heavy question here. First off, what is the best barbecue? And I'll
say there's not necessarily a right answer, but there's definitely a wrong answer.
Well, so I'm from North Carolina, you know, and we make it
a certain way that might not appeal to you. As long as the answer
is not Texas, I'm fine with that. Well, no, it's it's
it's it's not Texas. You've got a pretty good barbecue place right here in
Greensborough called Stadius Barbecue. I like it, but we gotta some vinegar style
to the barbecue here. For COVID, it was a nice festival that would
come through the Winston Salem area area that I used to go to. Haven't
been since I think it's reopen. Yeah, I must say, I want
to say Stany's Barbecue right here in Nice, all right here it is Why
is film academia important? And what can it give us that the internet cannot?
You know that that's a really good question, because yeah, I think
Sam Deagan was talking about this a little bit in her interview a couple of
weeks ago. You know, there's definitely a large faction of academia that's kind
of closed off. You can interpret it as elitist or or just community of
people that have developed a type of jargon that just won't admit anybody else.
And I think, you know, you can read a lot of academic film
books and find them just impenetrable. Same for literature. And in that way,
some of the best film criticism and film journalism I've ever read has been
you know, what we'd call amateur you know, fan fan scholars, you
know, people who are just really interested in it and do it as a
hobby. Some of the best YouTube shows I've seen are done about people in
their spare time, on their own time. So, uh, to the
to that part of the question, what can academia give people that the Internet
can't I would say not a lot. But one thing that film academia can
give the first you know, and if you go to school for this sort
of thing, you get a concentrated time and opportunity to really expand your range
and and draw from people who have spent their lives doing this kind of research
and working hard to archive and preserve films and also to contextualize them in the
history. And you know, people can do that on their own as well,
but the university gives a kind of concentrated place and archive, a library,
uh and a collection of talent that that can be accessible for you know,
the students who are were there. You know. In publishing, and
this is a good or and a bad thing. You know, there's an
academic publishing you have to go through a lot of gatekeepers. So one thing
you can be s of is that you know, if you look at a
book like American Twilight, it's written in a way that successful you do not
have to be a film scholler and understand it. It's pretty pretty much jargon
free. But you also but you also know it's gone through the ringer right.
Experts in the field have read it, critiqued it, we've had to
respond to those criticisms and apart work it apart and and that part of the
gatekeeping I think is really valuable as opposed to to books that don't go through
that process, that that that can be a little bit sloppier in their in
their research. On the other hand, you know, a lot of books
don't make it through the gateway because there's some kind of resistance to the subject
matter or or there's a radical approach that that entrenched minds just don't get.
And so this is a really long answer that basically says both and are are
important. And and you know, there are a lot of people. I
don't want to say that I'm in any way special, because there are a
lot of people like me who kind of straddle the lines if that lovely image
of straddling who who who work in academia and and kind of can speak speak
English, but are really like I'm not a filmmaker. That's not part of
my talent. But I am a pretty good writer, and I'm passionate about
film, and I don't want to be an archive archivist and an advocate for
film that reaches as wide an audience is possible. And I think I think
a lot of academics, especially in this generation and the younger generations, are
that. A lot of film journalists are are that, you know, Internet
Scott, Internet critics. The few remaining print critics are that. Yeah.
I think what academics have to offer is a certain talent pool and a certain
depth of research that hopefully they make available to the wider public. I'd agree
there. I mean that accessibility is really one of the most important things,
and that leads to the overall idea of film in general. When we're talking
about archiving all of these works, and that's why these extra features that we
get on physical media is so important, because we get some of the voices
that you will not be able to have if you just stick to a streaming
method where there's no special features. You get access to families that were affected
by these films. You get access to a producer from a film from fifty
years ago that remembers everything about it and can share everything. I mean the
fact that we have Franco Niro interviewed in twenty eighteen talking about Djingo made fifty
two years prior, and you can literally remember day to day stories. It
is wild how much context we have lost with so much of this, and
I just hope we never stop archiving some of this. Yeah. Yeah,
film is one of the youngest art forms, but it's also in art films
most in need of preservation and quickly right as people do pass on. I
recently listened to a podcast about some Warner Archive titles than they just upgraded to
Blu ray. The Errol Flint movie The Adventures of Don Juan, directed on
Vincent Sherman, and they were able to port over audio commentary that Sherman did
before he passed away. It's fantastic, great stories. As awful as this
whole situation is, we got to end it with talking about this for the
final time. What is with the decades long rumors about Spielberg directing poultry guys?
Yeah, what is with that? Well, there's a nice uh piece
about that in the book and and uh, let's see Chris, Chris Wofter
and I were on Cinema Defficult podcast addressing it, and then uh, in
the interview with Ryan last week, we addressed it. You know, I'm
gonna go with to sum it up. Uh. Joe Bob Briggs pointed out
that one thing that Toby Hooper was never good at was glad hand handing and
and schmoozing and playing the game. And for whatever reason, you know,
a couple of folks who were potentially on the set and spread that rumor,
as as Spielberg, who was a collaborative producer and co writer of the film
with Hooper, was setting up a second unit unit shot. But you know,
as we were saying in the interview last week, if you watch Spielberg's
movies and you watch Hooper's movies, and then you watch Poultu, guys,
the only reason Poulter Gee might look a little bit like a Spielberg movie is
because of the money. Ye. The themes, the sense of humor,
the darkness, the scares, those are those are all in the style of
Hooper, and Hooper and Spielberg worked together several times after that, amazing stories
taken and so on. So it wasn't I think that this this rumor definitely
caused problems between them, but not problems that were left totally unresolved from all
accounts, and of credits, staying easy for his insight because he knew slightly
more than slightly actually really well and friends with Hooper son Tony Toby Hooper was
kind of a reclusive guy, retiring guy, put his energy into communication on
the set and then after that kind of come off to his own devices.
Where Spielberg, and this is knock on, Spielberg is much more of a
personality. You know, big man very much so. But you know,
watch watch the films, and it's it's a dumb rumer, really is I
would agree there if you enjoy conversations like this, This is my one time
tonight that I will bring up, not that any of us are educators or
anything like that, but over on our Patreon, which I will say thank
you to all of our patrons now, including our one Kevin Smith. On
there, we have a lot of conversations about stuff just like we've been talking
about all day over in our discord and the ability to just share everybody having
these different opinions and analyzing films and talking about quality of films and releases and
you know, just different focuses and cycles on the hobby. It's a really
great place if you are curious about that. The link for the Patreon is
in the description below, and the really the only thing to say tonight will
just thank you so much for your time. I really hope everybody enjoyed this.
There's so much education to pass along and to get free access like this
to an educator is just priceless. So thank you, oh man. Happy
to be here. Hey, I'll throw out a rumor for you who directed
Jaws, because I have incredible authority that Steven Spielberg couldn't figure out how to
make it work without showing the shark and stomped off the set and the producer
had to finish it so spread that around the internet video stores is funny and
nobody mentions how Hooper directed eighty percent of Saving Private Ryan. Let's get these
going, oh man, everybody, thanks for watching tonight. I know it's
been a long show from this time from two collectors to all of you.
Hope you have a good night. We'll see you next Thursday. More videos
coming out this week from the Disconnected see then, Thanks everybody,