As Hey, Hey, happy Thursday everyone. We've got Will back for the
first Thursday of the month with a very different background this time as he is
starting to unbox his collection in his not real new place, but new place
to home his collection at the moment, Will welcome back, my friend,
happy to be here. Happy Halloween. I hope you enjoyed trick or treating
other than freezing my tail off. Yeah, it's a decent week. It
was pretty cold here too, but we managed to do Okay. I think
we have enough processed sugar to last us at least a few weeks, at
least a couple of weeks, I'm sure. And that's including the Dad text,
which of course is mandatory. Well, speaking of Dad text and Halloween,
before we get into saying hello to all the friends on the chat and
all that, Will has a special guest that would like to come on and
talk about a recent watch. That's right, we'll do a sort of guest
recent watch because, as I've mentioned before, my youngest daughter, Helen,
her birthday is on Halloween, and so I surprised her on Halloween. She
had a math test that day, and she thought she was going to go
to school and take a math test, but I let her sleep in and
then let her play hooky and took her to see It's an Off. Yeah.
So we got a guest reviewer here. This is Helen. Hello Helen.
So what'd you think of Five Nights at Freddy's? Yeh? Would you
many plot twists? Yeah? All right? What was what was the what
was the issue there? I don't know? Yeah? Well was it?
Did you did you enjoy the scares? Yeah? Yeah? What was your
favorite scare? Did you like it? When the can we do spoilers?
Uh? Got kitlan hah. That's my favorite part too, because it kind
of just went like yeah, like that. Look at the camera there.
Somebody saying, hello, Helen, excellent analysis. Now how long have you
been waiting to see this? You've been learning the lore of Five Nights at
Freddy's now since you've been like six years old, haven't you? Yeah?
She like five years, five years you've been waiting for this movie. You
did you like anything about it? Yeah? Yeah? Like what I liked
the cupcake? You like the cupcake? It was a deadly cupcake. Yeah,
Helen, we got a question for you. Somebody says, did you
understand the dream sequences? Yeah? Yeah, what was happening in the dream
sequences? The guy was having the same dream over and over and was trying
to different his reality through his dreams, different his reality. Huh interesting,
interesting, Now I want to see it. Yeah. How about the performances?
What did you think of the actors who embodied these characters you've known so
long? It was good? Yeah? You thought they cast it? Well?
Yeah? Okay, all right? What about the little girl? Uh?
She was okay, it's okay. Could you have done better? Yeah?
You heard it here first five nights at Freddy's two starring Helen. Well,
thank you, Helen. Yeah, yeah, well, thank you for
that review. It's that was the best goodbye yet? That was amazing.
All right, let's go through a lot of these. I pointed out a
lot of our hellos before we went live. We got Josephine here, Ronnie
here, Paul's here, dude, McMahon, antwine, Siboner, Hello,
David lash what's up in a long time since he's been on a live stream?
Eric Jake, This is a fun one. Ancient pixels. Hello,
I came here from Deaf Crocodile's Twitter post. Did you happen to see what
Craig said about us on Twitter. I'm asking you, and I think you
muted your microphone again. Oh William, I have not seen the X.
You should check out X. Let's see. We got Chris Silver a lot
of great announcements this week. We will be covering them. Ragnar, what's
going on? Dustin Putnam? Sorry Putman, I always say that wrong the
first try. If it's Thursday night, it's reconnected. Thank you all for
you, thank you all for all you do for the physical Meetia community.
Ryan love only it's Will's time of the month. Will's at that time of
the month for you, man, It's always somebody's time of the month in
this house. I love that we both always have red cheeks because it kind
of never mind. I'm chilly. John demarsk go's here, the broadcast director
for the Mets. It's off season time, unfortunately for the Mets. Hello
Hello John, continuing on Silent Mandibals here Flickering Waves. Hello, Ryan,
Will and Chat finished October with White Zone be The Beyond the Composers, But
how sue Doctor Jekylin's Sister, Hyde, Freaks and Mark of the Vampire,
Oh Todd Browning double feature. That's very nice, very solid finish. Uh
yeah, this is probably a good time to point out through the Patreon this
this last weekend, we all watched How Sue Together and man that is a
fun group viewing movie. Oh yeah, if you're into that, check out
the Patreon link in the description below. Craig's here from Deaf Crocodile. Uh,
thank you think the Helen's that Helen was here? That was fantastic heaven?
Uh, Nickomedies, good evening, gentlemen. Okay, surprise me love
that. Thanks for the little donation there, Nicomedes. Tony's here. Hello
there, everyone missed you last week? What's up? Will Sinner just asked
a question. I'm gonna answer it. Okay, I'm behind sid Sinner asks,
at what point do you fear Helen discovering her Just Franco collection asking you
questions. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna turn this camera here and up at
the top, right underneath those Shaw's coat boxes, that's the Just Franco collection.
So it's it's right in the living room where it belongs. And you
know, I'm not gonna introduce it actively. I'm gonna let it be an
organic discovery. But yeah, I probably won't let her watch any other That
was like when one of my first videos I did with the kids and I
asked Spencer which one he wanted to watch in the movie room, and he
looked around and was just reading the big bold titles. I was like,
Okay, maybe we should do something else because there's some titles you probably shouldn't
be reading. Yet, everybody is very happy that Helen was here. And
then David Lash's rookie move muting your mic there will come on. I mean,
yeah, it's it's like I'm in groundhog Day technologically. If only everybody
knew the amount of tech things I've had to solve for will remotely from hundreds
of miles away to pick some of our projects. It's a well known fact
that media studies professors are all completely incompetent technologically. You should see us try
to. You should see us try to start up a projector of teaching on
a teaching station and play a play a Blu ray. It's impossible. Oh
man, we got a super ahoy from Silent Mandible. Thank you Sarah for
that. Glad you are here, and uh man, lots of great friends
here tonight. Will the last couple of times that we've been on we've been
sort of rushed because we've had a ton of stuff to cover. We haven't
talked a lot about pickups and watches in a long time. I think we
should spend a little bit of time on those tonight. How do you think
about that? I think we should luxuriate in our pickups and watch this.
Let's do that. So first, let's do some pickups. One I really
wanted to highlight your syndrome. Got in a copy of a book I've been
wanting for a long time. This is the Amanda Reyes Are You in the
House Alone? That made for TV Movie Guide. I've been wanting this.
Unfortunately, I wanted the really nice one from Headpress and the UK that you
could get in with the hardcover and super fancy edition, but it was free
shipping and that was super enticing. The other one, this is a very
Will centric pickup. But did not spend any time talking about this last time.
The Freaks and Sideshow Shockers release from a Criterion for Todd Browning. This.
This is sort of a miracle that we have this in our hands.
How much have you been looking forward to this? Here? I never thought
it would happen. You know, in my cult film's class, which I've
now been teaching for seventeen years, the one film that is always the first
in the syllabus's Freaks, And you know, the e v D release was
was good, but the sound is not great. It's you know, an
early sound film. And so this upgrade has made things a lot clearer and
I can't wait to show it to people. And this set also has The
Unknown, which is I like to introduce in in like the very first introduction
to film studies of course that students take. I like to use The Unknown
as the as the first silent film most of these students have ever seen,
because it really subverts what they're what they imagine it's going to be like.
And The Mystic. The Mystic is new, like it's newly released. I've
never seen it. I can't I can't wait to take a look. I
haven't watched it yet. But obviously that was a day one from the Criterion
sale last last month. Yeah, just two weeks ago now, I think,
yeah, telling that it's not technically announced yet, but I believe the
Barnes and Noble Criterion sale is starting here in just a couple hours Oh God,
if you are keen on Criterions, it might be time to start making
that list and checking it twice because there's a lot of really good stuff that's
come out from Criterion this year for sure. Well I gotta tell you so
as you know. And I'm not sure whether this is a brag or a
cry for help, but I do have the complete Criterion collection up to whatever
was available in the sale last month, except for two titles, the Bud
Butterker box set and the Filma and Louise four K. So once I have
those two and then whatever else has been released, whatever else is eligible for
the sale for November releases, I will continue to have the complete Spine number.
Yeah, cry for help might be accurate there. Paul with a super
chat Saint Hi, and then he says he's got Freaks on order with a
local retailer, just waiting for things to come in for it to ship.
Am I am? I guessing right? Paul? Is that Cinemaniacs, because
man, they they got a lot of great stuff for OSSI's down there.
I really hope people are checking those out if you're down in Australia, because
they are doing some great work for everybody down there, Craig says, our
local Barnes and Noble just closed. I think it was the last big bookstore
in area. They hung along a lot longer than everyone else, but a
last they are gone. Now, God, that's sad. Obviously you were
not here last time we were talking about Best Buy. But all of this
is just every time one of these is announced, it's it's sad. But
at the same time, there's labels cropping up every year. Still. I
got a message today from somebody that's, hey, I'm start to label soon.
You want to talk about it. So it's still happening. Yeah,
it's great, and you know, for someone like me, I I don't
think I've entered a Best Buy in a decade. But but those sales,
you know, are important to the overall industry. And I'll point people to
a recent interview that celested on her channel with Brad Henderson, who really laid
out the ripple effects that that big box retail has on the boutique industry.
Definitely worth a listen, and you know, it's a reminder that it's important
for us to support our favorite labels. Oh, I see Laurent. Laurent
says Hell yeah, have my favorite partners in crime, Hello to Germany.
We've had a lobe trotting tonight. We had a little back and forth the
other night because Laurent went to see the Great horror pump band blitz Kid,
who happened to be friends of mine going back about twenty six years now,
and so I asked Lauran to say hello to them from me in Germany.
So I'm sure and he did so, I'm sure it was a nice surprise
for them. That's fantastic. A couple more I wanted to highlight Unearthed sent
in for review Full Body Massage. They are putting this out as part of
the Unearthed Classics line. I just want to point out that as part of
the marketing for this, they are calling this one of the most erotic films
of all time. Which it's funny you say that, because when you flashed
the cover I was like, is that Joe, Bob Briggs and Darcy recreating
the scene from Ghost oh Man? And then two others that came in for
review, this time from Australia and two that I really want to highlight,
William Friedkin's Bug got a new release from Imprint. This is one that is,
it had been announced as coming on four K from Keno, and it
got canceled when Friedkin took a little too long with the to Live and Die
in La four K, And then now there's no other chances, unfortunately with
him reviewing some of these. But Bug is out now and it's got a
commentary from Friedkin that came out previously, and then Troy Howarth and Tony Strauss
are on a brand new commentary on here as well. Plus there's a discussion
with Friedkin, and it looks like this will probably be the best release that
we'll have for this for a while at least. And then finally one of
my favorite horrors from the two thousands, which I think that first decade was
a bit of a low spot for a lot of people. There were some
good ones, but not not a lot of great horror came out around then.
I think one of the best ones is the Orphanage and Imprint put out
this really nice hard box release, two cases and a book, and it's
a decent little booklet in here, and they've got two discs. One of
them includes a commentary by author Xavier al dona Rees. There is a video
essay by Miranda Corkoran, video essay by doctor Rachel Knightley, some interviews,
a featurette, and then the bonus features. There's a just cavalcade of featurettes
on that second disc. They have all kinds of stuff on there, and
then a Q and A with Juan Antonio, Biona and I love this movie.
If anybody has not seen it yet, please check it out. Imprint
does great work and this is an astonishing release they do. I'm a big
fan of Bug and you convinced me on the Orphanage, which I've not seen
before. It's a really good one and it's produced by Del Toro, so
it's got that early two thousands like his, like super Mexican folk type of
mindset behind it. It's really great. Oh. One more note from Laurent
and I want to acknowledge that I pronounce his name differently every time I say
it, but I'm trying to do it the right way, which is why
it comes out different every time. But we want to pitch a segment for
you in which the two of us share our love for particular cheesy action titles.
The segment will be called Double Dragon, and we will wear large,
colorful headbands while we do the while we do the discussion. One day that
will be happening. Yeah, all right, So let's go through your four
hundred pickups. There will oh pickups. Okay, here we go. Oh
man, I was ready and then you said it. All right, so
I'm given the abbreviated list. I don't have any where to set this damn
microphone, so out to hold it. That's all right. At least we
will only hear every time any part of your body moves, Yeah, you
will. So first I want to highlight a couple of titles from Vineger Syndrome
and O c N. I'm just gonna highlight one title from the Vinegar Syndrome
subscription, and that, of course, is Mother's Day, which actually does
deserve a four K in my opinion. I know I talked about Mother's Day
last time I was on the show, so I won't get into it.
But I freaking love this movie. It's wonderful. So there's that. Also,
on the repeated recommendations of Chris from They Live By film, I Got
Altered Innocence Wild, which I'm excited to see. I went on and on
about this to the point that people, I'm sure question my psychological state.
But hey, here's the defilers, Lee Frost. This is the guy I
want to become the new cult filmmaker on everybody's minds. And of course the
documentary We Kill for Love about erotic thrillers from Yellow Veil Pictures. You said
this looked terrible, and that's part of the reason I picked it up Saturn
Saturn Saturn's core s o V aquatic thriller Deep Undead. I watched the trailer
and I was like, it actually looks pretty ambitious. I'm gonna check it
out. I didn't mean that as a bad thing. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, and shout out to Craig told you I get the cat movie Cat
City. I can't wait to watch it. I know you don't get a
chance to check in with the scored every day, but the number of times
that people have been watching that movie and only reviewing it as calling it the
cat movie is so funny. In the discord, well, I hope it's
increased sales rather than anyway. Okay, moving on, I have this is
gonna this is this is so fun. We have time to actually go through
pickups. Yes, so rip Grindhouse physical store. But since I do not
live in Tennessee. I don't use the physical store anyway, and so from
Grindhouse I picked up uh the hell Raiser quartette of Torment nice four case.
I still have to decide what to do with my scarlet box because of the
Leviathan documentary. Yeah, for space reasons, I'm gonna have to get rid
of it. But I guess I'll just watch it and hope Shudder keeps it
up forever. Wait, I don't even think it's on shutter anymore, is
it? Damn well? Anyway? Also, I'm very excited about this one,
Cynthia Rothrock's Lady Reporter from Eureka. And was it Paul? We talked
about this the Australian film Hercules Return. Yeah, and this was like several
months ago. But as a result of the back and forth we had,
was it Paul? I think it was Paul or Tony or maybe both of
them, okay on on the strength of their recommendations, I put in a
an order for it. But of course it was also included in this order
with Lady Reporter and Hell Razors, so it took several months before I actually
got it. But I'm patient. I don't mind waiting speaking of waiting.
I have put in a big order at Orbit many many moons ago, and
then when they had their anniversary Radiance sale, I added to that order and
so I got a bunch of Radiance titles, Red Sun which looks very good,
the underrated O C. And Stiggs by Robert Alan Filler up with super
Ronnie says, they let us ladies be reporters. Now they're called I think
they're called typographers or and Messiah of Evil which like that releases wild Like almost
everyone, I've been waiting to see this for many years and now I have
seen it, So we can talk about that in a minute. Two getting
near the end eureka. As you probably know how to Halloween sales. So
I picked up actually only had this on DVD, so I'm excited. Delum
ooh nice, the Last Warning, the Carloff Universal Terror box set, Oh
nice. And we'll talk about collecting a little bit later and managing a physical
collection. This was a great release to get because it allowed me to get
rid of two bulky DVDs because I used to have Troll and Troll two and
Best Worst Movie on two DVDs, and now I have them all on this
Eureka blu ray nice. All right, last one, you may have Rookie
move again. Will your thumb needs to stay away from them? If you
all y'all can kiss my ass? All right, I'll start that over.
You may have noticed I'm wearing a Legend of Boggy Creek shirt. Nice.
I know this actually is a nerdy story that I'm about to tell. So
the Legend of Boggy Creek four K, which actually looks really good. I
mean, the real star of that movie is the location, and it's gorgeous,
the kind of backwoods buyu area of where they shoot it. It was
same place as Gator Bait. I forget the name of the place. Well,
anyway, so I ordered this from the website and the family I guess
did the restoration and are handling the release. Well, I get this email
one day and it says Pamela or Pamola. It's spelled with a U.
So I don't know if it's Pamela or Pamola because you know they're from Arkansas.
Pierce and I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? I got an
email from Charles Pierce's daughter, and so I opened the email and she says
I'm sorry to say that the extra large t her is out of stock.
Would you like a replacement? And I was like, oh my god.
She cares about my well being as a person. So I wrote back and
I said, well, I'd love to get the long sleeve, but it's
a different price. How do you want me to pay the difference? And
she wrote back again said don't worry about it. So we're friends now on
the gift giving level. Even. Yeah, like, next time I go
to Arkansas, we're gonna, I don't know, go hunting. Laurent says,
Damn, Missive of Evil is a classic, mister Dodson. How come
that you saw it so late? Why I was so busy earning my doctorate
that I didn't have time. Craig says, literally, just open a box
that arrived today. Dracula and Son from seven, Extreme Prejudice and Witness four
Kid Deluxe, all from Diabolic. Woot. You were talking about Hell Raiser
and the the two deluxe releases that it got. I just happened to have
next to me, one of the rarest releases I have. I wonder if
anybody's ever gonna go through the trouble to put out debtor on another Blu ray
because this thing. Have you seen how much this goes for on eBay right
now? Just this, this not good movie sells regularly for like three hundred
and forty dollars. Holy shit. Yeah, I haven't I haven't searched for
it. Is that the one with like the Alcoholic cop. Oh, It's
been honestly a few years since I've watched it, but I think so it's
either this one or the one before it. But yeah, this one,
this one is wild. It's been a long time. We'll make you some
money. I like movies. I don't know. Well, since the last
time you've been on we we had something in interesting happened. We had our
first title announced where our names are on here, Yeah, the Swiss Conspiracy,
and this is I don't know if this is an interesting story, but
I'm going to tell it. When we saw that film Masters had that title,
it just so happens that next year a book about Jack Arnold, who
directed The Swiss Conspiracy, and and everybody in the audience I'm sure knows who
Jack Arnold is. What they've seen a creature from the Black Lagoon or the
Incredible Shrinking Man tarantula right or countless great Westerns. So there's a book edited
by Michael Schumann Schumann Michael Schumann Uh called the Film Films of Jack Arnold,
which is coming out on the Refocus series at Edinburgh University Press, which the
Wes Craven Collection is also on, that came out earlier this year, and
so we pitched a kind of unique visual essay in which we edited together interviews
with Michael Schumann and Christopher Wolter, who also co edited the Toby Hooper book
with me, and as in the Jack Arnold book, I'm in the Jack
Arnold book as well, writing about his Westerns, in particular one he did
Jack Arnold did with Fred the Hammer, Williamson and Durville Martin. So in
addition to checking out The Swiss Conspiracy when it comes out next February, you
should also check out The Films of Jack Arnold when it is released sometime later
in twenty twenty four. But it's going to be a pretty great book.
I'm very excited, and it was so cool to work with you on this,
and to work with film masters. They were, you know, so
responsive and easy. So yeah, really excited, and it's got other good
features on it too, They are also extremely supportive, and it is saying
something that the one of the first things that's getting announced with our names on
it is literally it turned into essentially a documentary on the story of Jack Arnold's
life. Yeah, it's not a short visual essay. This thing's almost half
an hour long. So yeah, it turned out really well. You are
getting your money's worth with this release. This is going to be a really
exceptional visual essay in my opinion, had a good editor on that. And
listen, this film is pretty fun too. If you've ever wanted to see
David Hesse and John Saxon in a fistfight, this is your chance. Yeah,
Craig says, where can we pre order? I believe it is up
on It is up on Grindhouse right now for only nineteen bucks because he discounts
pre orders. So if you want to see that, really really sell it
out for Mike, go pre order The Swiss Conspiracy and blow film Master's away
by making this sell like Gangbusters. They would love that. Please. Yeah,
this this release is going to be well worth all of your time,
and I really hope people enjoy it because it's it's kind of incredible. Hey,
you want to see something cool. You see that big stack behind my
head? Yes, it was making me nervous. That's all my Jim Way
Norsky movies. Oh gee, Well, somebody was asking you showed your your
Franco titles. They said they thought you had two hundred. That's not all
of them over there, is it. No, I don't have two hundred.
I have one hundred and now six and six are all one hundred and
six over there? Yeah, it's three full shelves. There's some other stuff
on there too. Dang blue rays are skinny. Yeah, that's that's that's
true. And there's a couple that are like double features and stuff in there
too, I'm sure. Well, yeah, and his digital films are all
in slim case box sets, so there's like four or five on each of
those. But yeah, one hundred and what did I say? Six undred
and six? Yeah? I just ordered I know, I know that you
don't support this, but full Moon at their sale, I ordered the blue
Rita, so that's one hundred and six. I saw a picture the other
day. Did they change the cover art on that after all of the pushback?
Not? I saw? Hmmm, I'm gonna have to look it up
because I don't know if it was Blue Rita or are they releasing some other
Franco title that I missed. No, I'm gonna have to do some research.
I apologize, all right, Silent Mandibal says, calling it will crushed
by movie Stack April twelfth, twenty twenty. Well, you know it's funny.
I think we're going to talk about that after the announcements, right,
the difficult logistics, that's the word I'm trying to think of. I hope
you can edit this and post the logistics of physical media collecting, because this
is I've got I've got about nine thousand movies. I think Ryan actually has
more. This is this is like three boxes of fifty some that are still
packed up in my damn laundry room. So yeah, to hype up a
little bit after all of the announcements and what's coming out next week, we're
actually gonna have a little bit of a discussion tonight. We're going to talk
about moving a collection and then storing a collection. What are the realistic issues
that you may face with that. A couple couple of comments to cover before
we get into announcements. Ronnie's Stokes says, why Norski stack. Nickimedi says,
I'm just starting to get genre loan. I need help with Franco.
Hit mostly missed so far. Don't be hating. I don't think anybody here's
gonna be hayten because mostly me too. And this is where I'm gonna step
in and say I will defend some things for Frank over here, because I
know a lot of people when we say Franco, they immediately think Ryan Brian
hates it. I'm really hold you say it because you say you do.
Listen when you put out how many's what like one hundred and seventy three films
that he's done? No, he's it like his on IMDb he's credited for
like two hundred and four or five. I'll look it up. Okay,
So with Franco, he's got some that you would call normal films in quotation
marks. What is that? Did you see that? I guess I'm celebrating
Jess Franco here, no idea where that came from. I'm not going to
use any hand signals anymore. With with Jess Franco. He did some stuff
with the there's another producer, some German producer that he did a lot with
that got. I think it was the Golden Goya collection in Germany. Do
you remember what I'm talking about? I'm sure you do. I do.
There was like fifteen films that came out through that line, and most of
those are more normal and that I've liked. Also, a lot of his
earlier fairly standard horror I liked. It's the crazy random vaginal zoom ins that
don't make a lot of sense to me. But we'll let we'll translate those.
I guess. I gotta tell you, I don't recall ever seeing a
vaginal zoom in, but if you want to appoint me in the right direction,
I'll check it out. So he's on IMDb. He's credited for two
hundred and seven. So I have I have just over half. No,
I have just under half of this film. Geez Cinema Jimbo says, I
moved nine thousand plus discs when I moved from LA to Ohio, not to
mention h of sixteen millimeter film prints. Oh that is terrifying. Yeah,
that's My problems are relatively easy. Really. Oh that's the name, Thank
you, Gary Dietrich. Erwin Dietrich. It was the German producer and the
stuff he did right before. The stuff that the stuff that he did with
Harry Allen Towers right before was good too. I kind of wanted to just
do a bunch of other hand signals, see if anything else happens. Anyways,
Well, be careful, don't do this. I'm not signing up for
the memes. All right, let's talk about announcements before we start getting down
too many of these crazy offshoots. Let's get into some carry. This is
what we got first. My friend, he almost had rabbit holes, didn't
you. I didn't want to. Arrow first announcement of this week. Last
Friday, Arrow announced that their carry release is getting upgraded to four K.
I tried to take a quick look at this, and I can't tell if
there's anything new from the old one. Anybody wanna save if they've confirmed this.
I don't have the old one anymore, so I could not for some
reason compare hold on a second. So you're hanging on to debtor. But
you got rid of your Carrie four K because I have the other Carrie four
K that already came out. Okay, so you've got the Scream Factory four
K. Yeah, okay, and do we know they're the same transfer,
I guess, or I believe they are. Yeah, Okay, still I'm
tempted. Yeah, and I get it. And it's a It's to Palma,
loved Palma, all right. Chris says, nothing new for features.
So yeah, if you just never picked up that old limited edition, or
you gotta have that four K disc if you got the old one, I
almost just suggest waiting and getting the four K disc on sale and putting indie
year old limited edition. Since it's all the same, let's go to the
other big thing that they announced. Well, not this one, the next
one, I guess. January thirtieth on Bluay in the US and Canada,
Earros releasing Murphy's War with Peter O'Toole. This one got I believe it was
an indicator release in the UK, and now it's out in the US and
Canada. This one will have a new visual essay by David Cairns, archive
interviews from director John Glenn and the focus puller Robin Vigeon, archive interview with
the film critic Sheldon Hall, and then a reversible sleeve and a collector's booklet
with new writing by Philip Kemp. I've never seen Murphy's War is this one
that you're into. I haven't, but I'm a sucker for you know,
British war movies, so this is a definite checkout for me. I totally
agree with Chris here. I think this is one of like the best pieces
of art announced for a single film in quite some time. I really enjoyed
the way this looks. Yeah, it's a cool, cool cover. Now
the other one that a lot of people are excited about. They are releasing
on January sixteenth only in the US and Canada. Conan the Barbarian on four
K. Arnie coming on four K from Arrow? What do you think about
that? Will Conan? What is best in life? To see your film
restored from the OCN. From the OCN, to see your film on four
K and to hear the lamentations of the women? So this one new four
K restoration from the OCN by Arrow, double sided, fulled out poster,
six double sided collectors postcards, illustrated collector's booklet with new writing by Walter Chaw
who Craig is always championing and John Walsh. We also have a lot of
other stuff on here, including archival feature commentary by the director and Arnie on
the extended cuts, new feature commentary by Paul M. Salmon, the author
of Conan the Phenomenon on the extended cut, as well newly assembled isolated score
track. And then on disc two of this it's a blu ray disc only
We've got Conan Unchained, the Making of Conan archive documentary from two thousand Designing
Conan, and a newly filmed interview with a production artist, William Stout,
and a whole bunch more of archival interviews and featurettes that were so long that
I couldn't fit them in the post Man. This is this is gonna be
a great chance to get more love for Conan the Destroyer, which I mean,
I think a lot of us already really love it, but it's generally
considered the lesser of the two. I love it. Richard Fleischer is such
a great director, you know, from everything from twenty thousand Leagues under the
Sea with Kirk Douglas for Disney, all the way up to Conan the Destroyer
and Red Sonia as well. Fleischer could do any thing. Did a oh
man, he does this great daytime noir with Lee Marvin called Violent Saturday.
I mean, you, Fleischer, you can track Fleisher's career from the heyday
of the studio era all the way up to these you know, eighties Sword
and Sandal, Sword and Sorcery movies. So I'm really really excited about both
of these, but even more so about Conan the Destroyer. Wilt Chamberlain,
Gray Slick, come on, so uh yeah, let's let's reveal that because
all the comments are about both of these, so that way we can talk
about both of them. January sixteenth, they are also releasing the sequel,
Conan the Destroyer on four K in the US and Canada. This is going
to have new four K restoration by Arrow from the OCN bunch of our literally
three archival commentaries, plus a new commentary by Paul Salmon again, newly assembled
isolated score track, plus some extras, featuretes, newly filmed interviews, all
that other fun stuff, six double sided postcards, illustrated collector's booklet, and
then of course they're releasing it took a minute after that, hold on,
it's there somewhere. Okay, maybe it's not, and that must have never
posted. They're releasing a double set box with both of them, and you
can get that with both the four k's Unfortunately the art on that I think
is a little lesser than this one. I think the individual releases look quite
a bit better art wise. Well are you picking these up? Are you
thinking of getting individuals? You're gonna go for the double pack? Double pack?
We had somebody already mentioned, I think what Yeah, Simonner says,
the two pack is already down to fifty nine bucks on Amazon. There you
go, that is a very good price. Yeah, my bad, I
didn't have my glasses on it. I thought you were showing the combo pack,
but you were just showing the barbarian. I don't even have the combo
back. Well, I don't know what happened art issues aside. I recommend
the the two pack to everybody. This is a very very exciting announcement.
I don't know where it's at. I'm kind of sad that it's not up
there. And yeah, I kind of agree with Chrissy here. Fifty nine
bucks on Amazon with the damaged box likely, I don't know how much it
is at Grindhouse or Orbit or Diabolic. You're gonna get better taken care of
their and it's probably only if it's more expensive by a couple bucks. I
would go with one of those. For sure, that's not plan. But
really, if I'm getting these, I kind of want to save room.
That double pack is very enticing. Laurent says, damn, I need this,
with great stunts from Tony Brubaker Conan as must have hope the transfer is
good and not like red Sonia, which is now Green and Sonia. Don't
even get me started on that. I was so excited I sold my DVD,
which I now regret, and now I've got that four K monstrosity.
Someone needs to rescue it as soon as possible. I saw somebody was at
Carrie said that Siskel and Ebert gave red Sonia a bad review. Those guys
are sexist zombies. I red Sonia is fantastic. That's it. That's all
I'm gonna say. Uh. Joel, who is from Scarecrow Videos's best bet
for Excalibur now is a probably shout and that that is probably true. And
I think Excalibur is one of maybe two or three that don't have any four
K releases that are from that that overall genre in that time. Oh well,
you know it. You know somebody needs to do. Speaking of that
genre, there's there's one film out there that still hasn't gotten an HD release
of any kind, and it's one of the greatest of the sword and sorcery
of films of that era. Hawk the Slayer. I don't think I've seen
this. Oh my god, you got to make it happen. I gotta
make it happen. Is anybody in the in the audience seen Hawk the Slayer
post In the chat, Chris says, I still want Kindergarten Cop in four
K that's coming. It's coming from and it's coming in January. I believe.
Sorry, that is not my role. That is your role. It's
your role too. That's why you're here, my friend. I'm just the
color commentary. I'm I'm are you wait, I'm am I Mark Jackson or
Jeff Van Gundy. Paul knows what's up clearly. I'm Shack. And you're
like, uh, Charles, Charles or Stephen A. Smith or something.
Hey man, hey man, come on man, Kindergarten Cop Come on,
you need to see Kindergarten Cop two. It's in a month Assori School with
Dolph Lungren. I love the energy tonight, man, this is amazing.
Uh, Paul says, howcked a Slayer, the amazing Kid in King Arthur's
Court, Siveners says, call me crazy. What do you think the odds
are of Criterion coming out of Blue and doing Excalibur? Not super high in
my opinion, probably not. Brian has the laser disc amazing Roger Roger can't
speak. Roger Ebert gave Speed to Cruise Control a positive review and defended it
by asking haters if they could make a better movie. I mean, it's
weird, right because when when guys like that go because they had such an
outsized impact on some culture. So when they do something, when they when
they like something, you like like Last House on the Left or something,
or the cable guy in the case of Gene Cisco, you're like, yeah,
these guys get it. But then you know everything more often than so.
Stupid Cinema says you used to have HOWK this layer? And Super eight
Wow CinemaScope, Wow, I love that movie. What's going on? Simner
says Excalibur feels like one of those Breakfast Club titles they would put out to
make money. Maybe I don't know, well, yeah, but unlike Breakfast
Club, I'd be happy to get EXCaliber, you know, and I've got
I've got freaking Chasing Amy DVD now because because of my obsession with having all
the spines, EXCaliber is way better. We had somebody ask earlier and I
forgot to highlight the question. How is the laser disc collection? Do you
have many or all of the Criterion laser discs? Oh? No, I
don't have any laser discs. You are not complete, you trader. I'm
sorry. I have the complete d Okay, we got rid of him.
We're good to go. Now complete DVD Blu Ray four K. That's pretty
incredible. Still, it's ridiculous. Paul says Imprint should do a sword and
Sandal set and include Yes, they should. Paul should be a head of
acquisitions. Dude, McMahon wants to know do you have Armygeddon in the rock?
Yes? I have the complete collection of all the spines, got the
Killer, got everything. But no, you're right, I do not have
laser discs. I was. I didn't start collecting until laser discs were long
gone. So those laser discs are not spine numbered, right, or at
least they don't correlate with the rest of the collection. I don't think they
correlate I feel like they might have had numbers. Well, I'm not sure.
I've got my limitations. Wow, Brian does have a complete laser disc
collection for Criteria. I bow down, I bow down. Amazing. Oh
wait, wait, wait wait he says he's got the complete laser disc set.
But does that mean you do not have the complete DVD? He does
not. He is a leisure disc collector. Oh okay, well, you
know we should join forces and become the Criterion collection. That's an encumbered Well,
let's keep going, all right. We finally got some confirmation and details
on second site releasing Mean Streets from seventy three. This is coming on four
K in the UK on January fifteenth, also getting released on Blu Ray.
And this is the Scorsese joint of course, and this was supervised and approved
by the director and collaborator, not only Scorsese, but Shoemaker as well.
And this is going to have a new audio commentary by Demetrios Matho the I'm
probably saying that last name wrong, author of BFI Film's classics Mean Street,
and David Thompson, who's the co editor of Scorsese on Scorsese seen specific audio
commentary with Scorsese and actor Amy Robinson New interview with the producer Jonathan Happlin.
You've got a few other featurettes and some feature length documentaries on here, and
then, of course this comes with one hundred and seventy eight page book new
Essays by Mark ash Daniel BYRD, Charles Bermesco, Lillian Crawford, Elena Alazak,
Manuel Alazak, Christina Newland, and an extract from Scorsese on Scorsese plus
eight Collectors Art Cards Wild Set that looks great? Is it the same four
K transfer as the Criterion release? Sir? You know, maybe we should
talk about that real quick, because do you know why everybody is talking about
this to begin with? No, So, there is an individual that reviewed
the Criterion Mean Street release on the blu ray dot com forums, and it
is somebody that is notorious for being extra hard on color grading that he supposedly
knows next to nothing about. So second site has been getting that same exact
question. Just today they answered and said, we've had a few queries.
Loll They've probably had more than a thousand regarding the master we are using for
Mean Streets. We co funded the new four K restoration with Criterion, and
therefore we are both using the same master. The restoration was closely supervised by
Scorsese and Shoemaker, who used Scorsese's own personal print as reference for the color
grading. This may differ from previous releases, which did not have his involvement
and were not accurate to the correct look of the film. An additional print
held at the Academy was also viewed and closely matched his reference print. Scorsese
worked with colorist Yvonne Lucas on his new version to finally have Mean Streets look
the way he originally intended on Blu Ray. So they they're both the same.
The Criterion and this one are exactly the same. But this one's got
a book. This one has a book, and and I believe this one.
I wasn't talking about extras. I was just talking about the restorations.
One might even have exclusive extras as well. Man, that's that's gonna be
it. That's a tough choice. Obviously, I got it for reasons are
I stated, I got to get the Criterion. But you know, and
in my little Scorsese slow marathon, I had to watch the old crappy Blu
ray of Mean Streets so I'm excited to be able to go back and and
watch it again. I'm glad. What did you think of the song on
your rewatch? Oh? Well, I love meme streets. I thought it
was great. You know, I could tell the Blu Ray was a little
deficient, especially in the sound. So when I saw this in the announcement
for Criteria and now this, I was pretty pleased. I agree. Yeah,
I just watched the four K of After Hours, which I still don't
like that much, but looked great. Carrie Mulligan says, are you referring
to the Films at Home guy? I am not. It is somebody that
writes reviews for Blu ray dot com, and don't I don't know if any
other YouTuber has covered mean streets and about the color grade or anything like that.
I normally don't say this, but I would just say, if films
at Home is talking about it, he likely just read the review that's on
Blu ray dot com to be able to make the video. That is what
everybody is going off of right now. So if you've got a lot of
people out there talking about the color grade, when second site comes out there
and they are transparent like that, I respect that I'd rather have it look
like the way Scor says he wants to perfect world. I might want both
options on the disc, but just monetarily, that's not going to be feasible.
Yeah, just plain and simple, that's not gonna work. I mean,
we have releases where they're needing to choose between certain cuts. Being in
four K, they're not going to give us two different restorations on four K
just for the fun of it. Yeah, they can't do that anyways.
Mean, Street's four K available to pre order now and yeah, January fifteenth,
four K and Blu ray. Check it out. Man, if physical
media is dying, it is going out with a bang, as we always
have at least like sixty titles to cover on the first week of the month.
Yeah, you can say it's going out in style. If it is,
I'll tell you what. Yeah, I'm like, why can't you put
me in the middle of the month. Well, let's go to the next
one, which the next one this time is three films. Actually, Sandpiper
Pictures is releasing these three films on December nineteenth on Blu Ray. We get
The Sure Thing from nineteen eighty five, little known film from some indie startup
director Invaders from Mars by Toby Hooper coming on the same date, December nineteenth.
That's from nineteen eighty six, and then High Spirits from nineteen eighty eight
is also coming now. The sort of downside and I'll highlight Invaders from Mars
just because I know you're the Hooper guy. The sort of downside of it
being Sandpiper. This will be the same exact transfer as before. They're not
going to pay for a new transfer. There will not be new features,
there will not be new anything. It's nice that these will be in print,
but if they were going to invest in these, I wish they would
actually invest in these. So is is the Scream Factory out of print?
The Scream Factory. Invaders from Mars has been selling for more than fifty dollars
for about three and a half or four years now. I was just looking
behind me because my Toby Hooper collection is on the shelf. Well, well,
I'm not selling mine, so we'll get a four K or something.
Yeah, okay, well all right. The sure thing I actually have never
seen and I am slowly working on a book about teen comedies from basically from
Animal House to the present. And this is one that is a blind spot
for me, so I may have to check this one out. On the
bright side, when these get released, they end up being around thirteen fourteen
bucks during low times, so that's a decent thing and I'm glad people will
be able to see them. I won't be too publicly negative about Sam Piper.
I just wish that they would do a little bit to put some love
into these releases. Oh, Daphne's a nigga. He The Dorm that Dripped
Blood Sweet was the show that she was on. She was famous for a
while. What was that? I'm not sure about the show. Somebody helped
me out in the chat there, dude McMahon is asking, did Criterion release
The sure Thing on DVD? No, do you have all of the titles
memorized? I know that, well more or less. I know what's not.
I know that's definitely not. The sure Thing is definitely not on Melrose
Plays. The sure Thing is definitely not on Criterion, or I would have
it all right, So, yeah, sure Thing Invaders from Ours High Spirits.
Those are all coming December nineteenth on Blu Ray High Spirits. For anybody
that doesn't recognize the title, that was on one of those double features from
Screen Factory as well. Wow, look at that cast, Peter O'Toole and
Steve Gutenberg. At last, no mention of Daryl Hannah. Well you know
it's the male dynamic. Daryl Hannah blows them both out of that one.
Well, look at the others. You also got Beverly D'Angelo in this and
Liam Neeson in a very le Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson, and he's fighting
ghosts. I don't think I've ever seen spirit so oh Liam Neeson as a
ghost. So it's like beetlejuice, but with Liam Neeson, I think he
would actually scare people, all right. The next one, he and Aleck
Baldwin could have a low talk off kind of like, I'm so glad you
kept it to the low talk off and not disparaging Alec Baldwin's good name.
At this moment, I don't know what's good about it, but that's why
I said that. Uh Keena lover soon who knows when that is? They're
releasing Let's Dance from nineteen fifty on Blu Ray, that is with Betty Hutton
and fred Astaire Nice and uh Freda Stairey's he's done a couple of small things
previously. Oh yeah, this is and this is what Bowie and Jagger based
their video on. Good stuff, Good good stuff. Reggie says of holding
ed Kevin Costner, Let's one probably high spirits, because he's probably saying because
I would have seen it. I've not even seen every Kevin Costner film?
Are you Kevin Costner fan? I am a Kevin Costner in very specific movies
fan. I like most of what he's done. Okay, are are you
a Kevin Costner hater? Do you want to fight? I like some movies
that Kevin Costner is at. Like what hmm, it's a good answer.
Let's go to the next announcement, The Untouchables. That's a good movie.
Hey, that's a great movie, all right. December twelfth on Blu ray,
Kino is re releasing The House of the Long Shadows from nineteen eighty three
with Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. This is gonna have
the same transfer as they're twenty fifteen release, but they've encoded it at a
higher bit rate on a dual layered BD fifty disc rather than a twenty five
gig disc, So this will have a much better encode. It should look
better than the previous release. They've also added a full length documentary on this,
a one hundred and four minute full length documentary, And of course now
they're selling everything with a slipcover to get everybody to buy it. So yeah,
this is coming out again. Great anytime we can get some Pete Walker
out in the world. And you know the cast obviously House. I mean
it's a good movie too, So yeah, God, I look at all
these comments with great seven Costner titles. I've never seen such a rapid fire
list as shitty movies. I like, like, I like a Perfect World.
That's a good one. Did you ever see mister Brooks? No I
did. I didn't, so I can't comment on that one. So I
have a feeling that you would hate it. But it is the most unhinged
Kevin Coster movie the world. Do you remember the premise? Do you remember
hearing anything about it? Well, he's like a murderer, right, and
it was like a big deal because he was like going against type. Yeah,
well kind of. Kevin cost plays a serial killer, and Dane Cook,
of all people, says, I want to be like, you can
you train me that sounds about right, and it's freaking wild. Love that
movie. Well, I now I know where Dane Cook gets his method.
Pan Cook has kind of been treated really poorly anyways. Oh, is this
gonna become a Dane Cook rehabilitation? Not at all. I actually hated his
comedy, especially because he stole some jokes. But the big thing, I
don't know if you've heard about that his brother was his manager for a while
and was hiding money and stole like a couple million dollars from Dane. Damn
Dane. Sorry, buddy, careful who you trust in this world? Ah,
there's a good class. Did you ever see Fandango? That's where I
get movie tickets from. All right, let's go back. No, I've
never heard I didn't know that was a movie. I've never heard of it.
It's a one archive release, came out in eighty three, I think,
great one. Oh yeah, what's the Trauma movies in? Is that
Sizzlebeat USA? Yes? I believe so, I believe so. All right,
So Grindhouse Video will already said rip Grindhouse. But to go into some
details here, it's the physical the physical store for Grindhouse Video shutting down on
December thirty first, if you have ever had a desire to go to Knoxville
to go to the Grindhouse Video store, you got till the end of the
year. That's it. And then the online store is shutting down through January
so that they can reorganize, get all of their in person in the store
inventory accounted for properly, and then the online store will be back online starting
on February first. That's a long time to go without Grindhouse Video dot com.
I hope that everybody continues to support them. Mike does great stuff,
love the website. It is sad to see this go. But at the
same time I get it, like rent prices are insane for physical stores right
now, and it's in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I don't know if they
have a blooming physical media presence necessarily, but it is kind of sad.
Well, you're you're not allowed to read half the books anymore, so you
think video will be doing better, But you're allowed to read the book.
You just have to be over eighteen and in the privacy of your own home,
you can't teach the books. Oh gosh. Well, yeah, I
am sad about that too, you know, obviously I'm not able to shop
there physically, but I do get a lot of stuff online. And you
know, just anytime something like this shuts down, you're sad. Oh yeah,
I forgot about that. Dane Cook dates little kids. Yeah, Ronnie
says, Dane Cook just married a woman he's been dating since she was a
teenager. Well that's interesting. No, thanks, next one. I think
this is about to be over or just finished. Hal Hartley is running a
kickstarter for his next film, Where to Land. Right before COVID came.
This was a okay, it says ending November third, so it's got to
be ending in the morning. This was an active kickstarter right as COVID came
and everything that crashed and burned from that, it wasn't going to work.
So he actively refunded everybody and was just able to relaunch the kickstarter and it
looks like it was funded. So if you want to get in on it,
which is now a guarantee to be able to get stuff, it is
now the time to do it. It had an incredible day. It literally
they got like twenty thousand dollars of donations just to day, So if you
really want in on it, this is the time to do it and got
some good perks in there. That's what integranty gets you. Brothers. I
hope you're paying attention. Completely agree, I love I love Hal Hartley.
That's great, And a lot of people that collect his Blu Ray stuff might
want to know that he is saying the physical release of this will match the
style of the other Blu Ray releases, so you don't have to worry about
that. Oh, thank goodness, that's a big thing for a lot of
people. Sondro, speaking of Trauma, did you end up getting a replacement
disc for the Toxic Avenger box set? And should I upgrade to the four
K versus the Blue Ray set? So? First off, yes, I
got a replacement third disc. I still need to make sure that my second
disc plays because when I put it in the first time it did not work.
It also skipped. I may need to contact them. Then should I
upgrade to four K? Unfortunately, I'm not going to say yes or no.
I think that's a very personal decision as a as subjectively as I can
say this. Why are you laughing? It is? Oh it sounds like
some like sex hygiene thing. It is a section. Have you watched Toxic
Avenger. Come on, William, of course I have, so you should
understand. Genuinely, I don't think that anybody that watches these in four K
could ever be disappointed in any way. These look astonishing in four K.
They look better than anything that Trauma has ever put out, ever, ever,
ever, ever. It's wild how good these look in four K.
And if you want to upgrade, I think you should. If you don't
want to upgrade, I think that's totally cool. Obviously, the Blu rays
are gonna be super cheap and the four k's are a little pricey. They'll
probably be around for a long time. So if you just want to wait
until they hit a certain price point, put put a little note on your
phone, or put get a price tracker, and when they get down to
that point, pull the trigger. So here's my problem. I still have
the Toxic Avenger DVD box set because it includes the entire Toxic Crusaders cartoon series,
which is great in which I showed to my children when they were young,
and they loved singing the theme song, which made me so happy.
Toxic co statos, And so this four case that doesn't have Toxic Crusaders,
and I don't see any release forthcoming. I do have the Trauma Truma Now
streaming service, but they're not going to lose the rights to that. But
still, you know, having that that's a cartoon that it's freaking good,
and I like, I like to put it on every now and then.
So I don't know. I do want to do the upgrade. Obviously going
from DVD to four K would be nice. But ah, and they do
look incredible. I've never heard anybody say that about an in house trauma movie.
Well, keep in mind, Vinegar Syndrome did the scans. Oh,
I didn't know they were doing scans for like trauma Truma movies. I thought
it was just they were just restoring, uh licensed movie. Yeah. If
anybody does not know this, A lot of these, a lot of the
boutiques that we all love and support, many of them don't do their own
scans. They simply don't have film scanners. So like Severn, they do
scans all the time for other companies they did. Uh, oh gosh,
what is there? Was a Western? Was it Bonanza or was it something
else that just came out on DVD recently? It was like sixty discs or
something. A network TV show They did all of the scans for all of
those episodes at Severn. Wow. So it happens all the time. Vinegar
Syndrome does scans for other people. Severn does scans. Not all these places
can afford a scanner. Scanners are super expensive. You're for a decent one.
You're looking at fifty thousand plus easily. Wow, just or the scanner.
And that's not even the work that goes into it too. Yeah,
I wish i'd about the cartoon. Yeah, I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
But this four kse set's on my Christmas list, so oh wow. Sondra
says, not a plug or anything. But Deep Discount has fifteen percent off
and it's on sale right now. So overall, that toxic set is down
to seventy three bucks. See. And that's the other thing. If it
had the Toxic Crusaders on it, I could justify it as a Christmas gift
for my children. But I agree with Sibner. Here, get the set
and put the ones with the cartoons in an envelope and put that in the
box set. I'm gonna pretend I did and see that I do not envelope
discs. I am not a nineteen ninety CD collector. That is anathema.
I do not envelope discs. That is a sinful display. What's the point?
Might as well just get a fucking digital code and say, look at
my collection. I got digital codes. I've not heard you passionate about something
like this in a long time. Amazing. I do not envelope a disk.
You know everybody's always complaining I get it scratch from the from the packaging.
And you're gonna envelope a disc. Get out of here. Oh man,
okay, you're not gonna put that comment up there. We're not here
to shoot down all of the other YouTubers. We're talking, we're talking about
physical media collecting, and you're talking about envelope and disc. Am I I
feel like Alan Iverson all of a sudden, we're talking about a collection.
You're talking about envelope and a disc. Who amazing? Amazing? Are we
collectors? Are? We? Are? We are? We? Best buy
shoppers like you see this? Nicomedie says the why Norskian wisdom of Will Dodson,
the doctor of discs. I'd expect somebody who gets their collection from Best
by the envelope a disc all right, enough of this via looking down on
others Keno. Eventually, someday they will be releasing a Gunfight at the OK
Corral on four K. This is the nineteen fifty seven Gunfight at the OK
Corral. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, h Lee Van Cleef is in this
and one Dennis Hopper, John Sturge's Baby. This is awesome, great movie.
I love you Sittinger, Hey, check it out, dude, I
learned how to say your name only took many months. Tonight there will be
a recurring theme to discuss sales. We mentioned. The Barnes and Noble sale
for Criterion Discs is starting here in just a few hours. Next one we're
talking about, Indicator is hosting their seventh anniversary sale right now at the site
until noon on the sixth of November UK time. Of course, they are
having our final sale the year, our seventh anniversary sale and our largest ever.
Of course, it's the hyperbole. They put out more films since then,
so of course it's going to be the largest one ever, which includes
nearly two hundred and fifty items. Now here's the thing. They have selected
limited edition titles on sale for six ninety nine, the return of a three
for fifteen pound deal on a wide range of standard editions and selected limited editions.
Lots of things have sold out already, and a reminder that the end
of the year they are doing away with the whole points program, So if
you got points, spend them now. The hard part is they are making
it tough. If you're getting a three for fifteen deal, you cannot use
points on that purchase. So make sure you're doing it the right way.
Get get all your money's worth, and uh, keep keep track of everything
and make sure you're spending wisely. I got I used my points and did
the three for fifteen. Nice. Any big ones that you got that you're
excited for, Yeah, I got the I got one of the hammer Box
sets. I think it was Volume five. Stuff was selling out as I
was filling out my cart. What else did I get? I had?
I had several titles. Crystal Vestry on Facebook says I ordered seventy titles.
The movies came out to six dollars apiece. Jeez, I gotta do it.
There's so many good things in that sale. I found some stuff.
Yeah, I found a couple of films, but by directors I liked that
I hadn't heard of, so I picked some things up. Yeah, I
got a couple box sets. There's been so many sales. I'm like forgetting
all the stuff that I work. I honestly, I've not even looked.
I keep forgetting to check to see if I even have points. I'm not
sure if I do. And the only thing I'm really after I really want
that Mexico Macob set. They're down to like the last I think they like
less than fifty of the US releases of that box set. Yeah. Hm,
I'm gonna be throwing a bunch of money m Prince soon. I still
haven't gotten the Sidney J. Fury or the Walter Hill or other. I
never got the Sydney J. Fury. I wish, Yeah, I gotta
do it, Craig, I wish restoring films paid better. I'd buy a
ton more movies. On that note, everybody go to Deaf Crocodile dot com
and buy from them directly. Gets the most bang for the buck there,
please. All of the new release titles for Deaf Crocodile are all available on
the website. Oh and will showing off the cat movie. I've got I
got one close. Which one was it? I think I had visitors somewhere
nearby. Oh, I got my visitor, my arcanic starter kick Starter.
Yeah, with my trading card. So if anybody wants to trade trading cards,
I'm now available for that. Paul deff Crocodile ships worldwide, worldwide.
It'll be a little price. It'll be pricing, but think of it this
way. For twenty dollars, something will go all the way around the world.
This is true. That's pretty mud. Craig says, we shipped Australia
all the time. It's not cheap though. This is true, and it
also says wasn't looking for a plug. I know I only plug things I
love, and I love you, Craig, so thank you. Next up,
well you plugged, you plugged Dane Cook. I did not plug Dane
Cook. I said I liked a movie that is not a plug. Come
on another Kickstarter. Well campaign, this one's on Indiegogo, But there is
another Indiegogo campaign up right now for Christopher Bickle. You might know him because
he did the sort of like exploitation grindhouse. He type film a couple of
years ago called Bad Girls. Also did the Theta Girl. You can now
back his new film A Potter No Stare and The Mission of Light, and
it looks pretty great. It's looks to be a a folkhore of sorts and
I I'm into it. I hope somebody would would check this out. This
one, you got all kinds of things that you can choose from. They
also made a really freaking great looking soundtrack for this and they're releasing it on
vinyl. And they've got a lot of great artists that are some they are
contributing to the soundtrack. They even got Tim Cappello, the sexy sax Man
from the Lost Boys. He plays sax on the soundtrack. Like that's amazing.
It is a double LP variant. So check this out if you have
not, might be worth it for you. Roddy says visitors from the Arkonic
Galaxy Rules. I want to Momo action figure. You can't. You can't
run Benny's bats up without a plug. Speaking of crowdfunding, one of my
favorite artists, Kelly Jones, has a Kickstarter up doing a Dracula graphic novel.
Nice dead Sea Life says he played with Tim in two separate bands.
Was Tim playing sax then or something else that's fantastic. Do you like The
Lost Boys? Will? Did you seriously mute your microphone for the third time
tonight? You know, I mute it because you tell me to. I
used to never mute it, and you're like, when you're not talking,
you should mute it. That's for audio commentary, sir. I'll go back
to the Dracula graphic novel real quick, because Dracula is an a pistolary,
So how can it be a graphic novel because it's just letters and journal entries,
good, good tray. Well, I guess we'll find out. I'm
excited about, like, nobody's ever adapted Dracula the way it's actually written.
Yeah, all right. What was the other thing you were talking about?
I asked if you liked The Lost Boys because, uh, Sexy sax Man
is on the soundtrack for Potter Noster in the mission of light Man. Talk
about milking it that And I said that with all respect that guy, I
forget his name, but he's managed to stay relevant for you know what,
three four decades now. He still goes to cons as the Sexy sax Man,
I mean the mad Man. The mad Man guy played him on Satday
Live or something. Yep, it's amazing. What's his name, John hann
Uh, that's him. Hilarious. Dead Sea Life says he played sax for
us in the Dead ELV and Bobby Steele had him play on an undead song.
That's incredible. Oh my god, are you in the Dead alv?
I that's what he's saying. I love you guys. Oh man, that's
incredible. That's awesome, dude. Chrys Silvestri says Lost Boys needs a proper
four K release with a nice box and new extras. Uh. I did
get the four K? Is it okay? I thought it looked okay,
it looks incredible. Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with the four K?
What's wrong with the four K? Chris? Dead Sea Life is the
singer of the Dead LV. No shit, Wow, I am honored.
This is this is so cool everybody, everybody, if you don't know Dead
el get on it. Speaking of plugs, there you go. Yeah,
I'll plug that happily. Well, let's talk about screen Factory. Then.
First release January twenty third, they are releasing Thinner from nineteen ninety six.
This is coming on Blu Ray has a slipcover on it, and it says
extras in progress and will be announced at a later date. It let me
do it. Go ahead, What do you think of Thinner? I've never
seen it. You've never seen Thinner. I've seen the trailer like one hundred
thousands. Man, I'm definitely gonna watch it now for certain reasons. Uh,
this is a great, great release that you should pick up. I
will not say that it's a terrible movie. I won't say that it's a
great movie either. I think it could have been adapted a little bit better.
It's a movie. But also it's got some great features that are gonna
be honest and I know because I edited them. And Yeah, this is
gonna be a great, great release. This is this is fun. It
has a some stuff that I can't say specifically, I guess, but uh,
yeah, I would suggest checking this one out. Spend a lot of
time on the features on this and they're really interesting. So check them out.
Yeah, I'll you know, you know, evaluate the evaluate the movie
as you will any Any film that came out in nineteen ninety six in the
horror genre has a disadvantage automatically, especially in retrospect because of Scream. Of
course, Scream didn't come out until December, so you know, it wasn't
like it wasn't like they were competing. I think Thinner came out in the
summer sometime, but I could be wrong on that. But uh, you
know, and people are evaluating and looking back, Oh, nineteen ninety six
horror films. Thinner's not the one they're gonna highlight, right, it's gonna
be screened, but it's yes, it's worth a watch. I have a
yeah, it's a it's a fun release, primarily to for practical effects.
They put a lot of work into practical effects on this movie, including a
fat suit, including a pie that looks like it's breathing. There's there's some
really cool, interesting scenes, really great. Michael Smith says, any chance
you might get Kim Newman to do an episode of your podcast? I fricking
wish. Yes, I would love to do it. He is on my
list. I genuinely keep a long list of individuals that I'm trying to get,
hoping for some of them to happen soon that are near the top of
my list. I got a list too. I want to add it to
your list. We should do that. Well, some people want to get
on just a yell at him. Dead Sea Life loved Thinner. A lot
of people saying Thinner is fun. That the Dead Elby love Thinner. That's
all you're going to talk about tonight, dude. Next up, Screen Factory
is putting out Funeral Home from nineteen eighty on January thirtieth. This is one
a lot of people expected Vinegar Syndrome to have, and for some reason they
are not putting it out. They are putting out other stuff. Well,
Scream Factory got Funeral Home. This is kind of surprising that they'd put this
out, and it's a brand new title to them, not one that they'd
released previously. And it's probably a good time to point out that Thinner as
Usual has Collector's Edition written across the top. Funeral Home is called a special
edition. Now this is not the first time they've done that, but they've
never actually find what that means. I would love to hear somebody try to
explain it. I don't know, maybe a collector's edition. They're saying,
Hey, these suckers will get like multiple releases, and a special edition is
code for this? Is it? It's not gonna like a collector's edition is
like wink, there's gonna be a four K in three months. Well,
and that's the thing with Thinner. I was shocked it wasn't a four K.
They were talking about it together on the special features that they were expecting
it to be a four k' that's what I'm saying. I'm saying, Collector's
Edition is a this is a this is a hypothesis. I know what you're
saying. Let's see what happens. The other thing. Uh, Thinner is
already available on four K with HDR on digital. Why is that only a
Blu Ray release. I think that's ironic given the themes of Thinner, that
you can only get it on four K if it is physically immaterial, that's
stretching of the word ironic. But we'll take it. No, that's literally
what ironic means. Jennifer eighth is also listed as a special edition. This
has been a weird title, by the way. This is coming on January
twenty third, Blu Ray only from Screen Factory. This one has been like
a public knowledge title that they've had and been working on for about three years.
This one has been rumored to be coming out in a few months since
before COVID. Literally, this is wild. It technically never got officially announced.
Previously it got leaked, and then they must not have ever been able
to finish it, and now it's finally here. This one is an interesting
one. This is a hell of a cast. Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman,
You've got John Malcolm, Lance Hendrickson. I don't think I've ever seen
this one, because I don't remember it at all. Have you seen this
one? I had no idea. Bruce Robinson directed that, yes, sir,
I'm gonna have to see it now. I remember when it came out
in theaters and I was like early high school. Maybe when did this come
out? Ninety two? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, so I was like
eighth grade, eighth grade, ninth grade, maybe so I started kindergarten in
nineteen ninety two. Yeah, well, Dane Cook might have been interested in
it. I had already aged out. Jesus, it's it's not liable if
it's satire. So yeah, I remember. I remember thinking that the trailer
looked interesting, but I wasn't able to drive or anything, so I couldn't
see it. I guess this will be my chands. Bruce Robinson directed this,
yes, sir, with Neil and I, uh yeah, I'm very
curious to see how he would do a thriller. Yeah, uh yeah.
This one is definitely intriguing, Like I said, also has the special edition
title at the top, so we'll see extras in progress will be announced at
a later date. Next up, January two, they're putting out Forced Vengeance
with Chuck Norris. Is this the original art or is there's something going on
here, because man, I I don't know. I don't remember seeing that
before, don't. I don't like the way that looks convengeance be forced,
Like if someone's like, if it's a forced vengeance, is it really vengeance
or just an obligation? It should maybe it should have been foisted vengeance.
Oh jeez. So this one coming on blue ray. This is the era
of Chuck Norris. It's always fun though. Nineteen eighty two coming on blue
ray on January second. This will only have a trailer and a new twenty
twenty three scan from the Interpositive on this Blu ray. It's a it's a
it's a forced scan. It's just literally off at the inn Positive. Yeah,
Ronnie says, Norris is unrecognizable there, and that is exactly what I'm
getting at Craig says, that is the original poster art. That is wild.
It looks like Tom Atkins. You really Tom Atkins after getting punched.
Oh jeez, Yeah, that doesn't look like Chuck Halloween four Forced Vengeance.
It would have just been it said, Halloway four Ced Vengeance. Yeah.
Oh man. Then January, here we go. They're releasing Telephone from nineteen
seventy seven with Bronzo new Scan from the Inner Positive, just like Force Vengeance,
and a trailer that is it nothing else, which means no Paul Talbot
commentary. That's kind of kind of disappointing. That is disappointing, but I'm
super stoked that's getting a release. Didn't this have an old Warner archive DVD?
I don't know. I saw it on like a like squished double featured
DVD with Saint Ives, which that's your cue to click to the next one.
Oh sorry, I was looking at comments while you were talking the next
one, Street Girls. It's not even the right the other Charles Bronson.
Okay, let's go to the other Charles Bronson. Then we'll back up Saint
Ives. This is from nineteen seventy six, coming on January ninth. This
will have a behind the scenes featurette, new scan from the Interpositive, and
a trailer Charles Bronson Saint Ives. So both Saint Ives and Telephone are awesome.
I love Charles Bronson so much. Look the dude. The dude was
a coal miner who was who decided to get into acting because it seemed easier.
That's like, what better origin story could you have than that? A
Lithuanian immigrant coal miner in Pennsylvania who's like, you know what, acting looks
easier, just like that, and then he goes up and he's like,
yeah, he's in House of Wax with Vincent Price, and then it's on
to the races. Saint Ives love it. Telephone love it underseen, I
think for a lot of film fans these days who know him more for his
weirdly reactionary eighties movies with Jay Lee Thompson and Michael Winner. So check these
out, yep. Saint Ives and Telephone. You're looking at January ninth for
both of those from Shout and then the other big one in between these that
we glossed over here. Shout Studios has a new site exclusive up which they
announced at the same time as all the other titles, which was interesting street
Girls from nineteen seventy five. This one is limited to sixteen hundred units as
opposed to fifteen hundred units. Wow, why who knows? They're just making
changes. This has a new HD master and has a new commentary with adult
film historian Peter I. Lunis, a new interview with actor filmmaker Katherine Wilson,
an image gallery, and a trailer and you can pick it up now
from their site. And that is it. Well, first of all,
that's more extras than they're usually on their site, exclusives wrecked, and I
think it's appropriate that you should have to pay more for Street Girls. Okay,
okay, hey it's Stan. Hey, Stan, sumiler says, we'll
just made it to neuro face. I love that you did it, as
you leaned in. You're a fucking spoiled bitch. Hey. I don't know
much about Michael Miller, but Jackson County Jail is a good movie. Yeah,
okay, this looks interesting. Barry Levinson co wrote this. Okay you
did? I also want to throw out the funniest line of this to me,
not even Lyne. The funniest half line of this filmed on the mean
streets of Eugene, Oregon. These days, they're full of Antifa and people
that don't want to work. Wow. Going to the next one. I
believe this is the last of the Shout titles. Let me verify before I
look like an idiot again. Yes, it is so. This one is
coming on January sixteenth, with the g Kids also producing. We got Ernest
and Celestine a trip to Gibberisha, and from what I've heard, this is
supposed to be great. I've not seen any of the Earnest and Celestine titles,
but I've heard great things about all of them. This is gonna have
a making of interview with the directors and cast producer and how to draw our
main characters, and a couple of trailers and you can pick this up now.
I desperately wish this were the other Ernest. You're not the only one.
Yeah, I certainly agree. Oh my god, Ernest goes to France
with some chick named Celestine. That would be awesome. Oh man, would
be incredible. Ice is here tonight? What's going on? Ice? I
hope you're will my friend. Well. I don't want to take away from
the film though, that that actually so Is it the same people that did
I Gotta put my Glasses back on the same people did Triplets of Belleville.
H Oh, No, it's one of It's one of those from the producer
of Yeah never mind, still looks looks interesting. Uh. The first film
is incredible. Can't wait to pick this one up and watch it, says
Ben. Uh. Yeah, I've heard great things about that first one,
Simner baur Verdon. How do you how do you say no? I mean
in French? I wish I spoke if anybody speaks French type in how to
say not? I mean? So? Uh. Before we keep going into
these deeper titles because we're coming up on some of the super intriguing ones that
we're gonna deep dive some some features on Shout, this has been an interesting
month. They did not announce any sort of lobby cards or prism stickers or
enamel pins. Good yeah, just good titles. The other thing, this
is the first month since they announced a four K release that there has not
been a four K title. I believe lots of things seem to be changing
behind the scenes at Shout. Obviously, we talked about a couple I think
we're going on a couple months now, one of the two main gentlemen behind
Scream Factory stepped down from the company very publicly. And now I'm hearing a
couple others that we're working there, like one of their marketing individuals and some
others were either let go or walked away. And there's a seems to be
a big shakeup that is going down at Screen Factory, and somebody's been watching
disconnected. It could be it very well could be. No, certainly,
it's like, who was the fucking moron who came up with forty dollars lobby
cards? You get out of this office, you get out of this company?
Do these actually cost eight dollars apiece? What is happening? Gosh?
Anyways, I just wanted to point that out. It is very interesting.
And then dude McMahon says, no shout select titles this month? Do they
usually have one each month? So they skip back and forth? They definitely
skip back and forth. It's certainly not all all months. Gave us.
Anthony gave us the answer. We need no go with Craig first. Sorry,
sorry sorry, Craig says, UHD authoring costs of fortune. A title
needs to move, A good number of units to make that make that make
any sense? Well, they've They've had plenty that have done it previously.
You were gonna point out Anthony, but I also wanted to point out that
somebody your friend earlier said this here. Thank you. That's awesome, and
it's a very different translation than what Anthony has. Thet'd see life. They
have plenty of jobs, but they limited paid a fifteen hundred per person.
Wow. I still can't get over this. Oh my god, this was
the guy you thought was from uh, from Saturn's course several months ago.
Yep, oh my god. Nicki Mini says, where can I find out
more on the Scream Shout factory shakeup? You can't. It's it's not public
info, unfortunately. It's there's a couple I know, a couple of people
that know some people that work there, and beyond that, the rest is
just public speculation. Unfortunately. Uh. They're still working on that one shosse
at too, that was delayed. Supposedly they've got multiple shot sets still coming.
Uh. Ancient Pals or sorry Ancient Pixels has been buying four K since
twenty eighteen. Would like to see more four K titles, especially with tradition.
I'll sell animation. Hell yeah, I agree. Uh. Dude to
McMahon says, I doubt they'll make any money back on a Thinner four K.
I kind of disagree. I think there's a rabid fan base for Stephen
King titles. Well, I guess technically Thinner is a Bachmann title, so
maybe you're right. Benefits to be announced at a later time. That's a
good one. Oh that is a great line. Oh, I love that.
Uh let's see. I was just looking up to see if there's any
dead l Via tour dates coming up soon, but I don't see any.
So we'll want you to get to work. Hey, I'll be there,
Will not will Nick Commidi says shouts delays on announcing extras is crazy making,
especially on the Shaw Brothers sets. Not only that they know what they are
going to be when they announce these titles, and that's what frustrates me beyond
belief. Multiple times I've finished and submitted extras before they announced them and they
don't announce them. I don't get it. It is weird because it seems
like more people would buy stuff based on the extras. Well that and so
many of us are looking at Region B releases of the same titles and wanting
to compare and make a decision. And if you're not going to announce extras,
how how do you get people to buy yours? Yeah, John says,
I think Shout is the only studio who hasn't done a chessprinco Here you
go Dead Alvi. We played twice a year and we haven't rehearsed in six
We go into every show completely cold. We're horribly unprofessional. Oh it sounds
like us. Uh, yeah, that's true. Let's keep going, all
right. Nicholas Cage in Butcher's Crossing is coming soon on Blu Ray. We
don't have a final date on this yet, but this is coming from Sony
and you can pre order this one now. And I the way, this
looks like he had not been in any westerns ever in his career. It
looks like this is now going to be the second or third one he's done
in like the last eighteen months. Hey, have you seen the trailer for
that movie where he's like in Everybody's dreams? Jeremy saw it beyond fest and
said it was incredible. I've never heard Jeremy say a movie was not incredible.
You should read all of his reviews. He talks down on a lot
of movies. Oh, he writes, he could say the same for you.
Well, you can google my ass literally because you had a nude on
the internet for years. That's true. Uh, blitz kid. I think
it's down. No. But the the weird thing about that trailer is that,
like the voiceover keeps saying it's a comedy, but nothing in the trailer
indicates that it's funny. Yeah, so, I like, I'm not slamming
Jeremy's opinion in this particular sentence that I'm saying, I just just don't get
it. Yeah, I understand marketing is odd, but we're talking about Butcher's
crossing. Well, now let's talk about Love Actually, coming out November twenty
first on four K from Universal, one of Will's favorites. This is coming.
I don't think there's anything new on here. Unfortunately, everything was on
the previous releases two disc release. What do you think of Love Actually?
So, I'm a huge fan of Rowan Atkinson, and I'm a huge fan
of Blackadder. I'm a huge fan of Mister Bean, huge fan of The
Thin Blue Line, which ran for a couple of seasons all been out in
Richard Curtis, but Love actually takes the sentimentality that that I don't like of
those three series and concentrates it into a single movie, and I just can't
It's it gives me diabetes. If you are into romantic comedies that are very
sacharine, this is the one. Uh, this is a very Sacharin comedy.
Yeah, not even real sugar. It's the cancer sugar, which is
also the real sugar. Anyway. Oh wait, what's what what am I
thinking of? No, they're all just cancers. Yeah yeah, but the
fake sugar that's saccharin, right, Yes, yeah, okay's one of them.
Anyways. Uh. Ron Inflicks is hosting a Halloween flash sail. Uh.
Like I said, there's gonna be a little pattern here, and this
one is wild. So they have literally dropped a ton of titles down to
nine ninety nine more than fifty blue rays. Some of them have sold out,
so it might be under fifty now. But the big thing here you
get an extra fifty percent off if you buy at least five of those in
the Halloween title and or in the Halloween sale. As long as you put
them in the cart, they apply this discount code for you and it drops
them in half. So somebody in the chat earlier said they got six titles
for twenty five bucks. Yeah, like, you can't beat this sale.
This might be one of the best Blu ray sALS that we've seen in four
or five years. So I'm currently I've got a cart open with ten titles
forty nine five or something like that. But I'm looking at those ten titles
and I'm like, I really want these and the answer is no, But
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it just because some of them haven't
seen before and they look to kind of neat, and I figure, well,
you know, back in the rental days, this is about what i'd
pay maybe for a new release. And then if I if I'm like,
you know, this does not deserve shelf space, I can try to sell
it, I guess. But wow, you know, that's the kind of
thing that really puts obsessives in a dilemma. It's like, Wow, what
a great sale. I don't really care about I don't really care about any
of them, but I gotta get them now. I don't hunt is like
it's forty nine ninety nine. So with the half off. It's it's like
twenty nine. It's forty nine ninety nine for the Super Deluxe box set.
I believe just the standard blue is nine ninety nine. I didn't see the
standard blue in the sale. That might have sold out. Okay. I
liked HANT. I saw it. I saw it on. I think Joe
Bob did it. I really enjoy Haunt. I don't remember if he did
it, but yeah, great, great fun movie. Anthony asks, if
I grab death Warrant, that's the that's the highlight of my car. I
have a I do have Death Warrant, but it's a Blu ray with like
five different bandamn movies on it, So this will be a nice, nicer
edition. The HANT standard edition was available and it did sell out. Oh
okay, actually, uh, Simon Or asked, how many copies of I
Spit on Your Grave do I have? And it's oh, you can't see
it, but it's it's behind me. The box set with the Joe Bob
commentaries. Okay, John confirmed it was. It was a Halloween special with
Joe Bob. Then I saw HANT. I liked HANT. I thought it
was I thought it was fun. I don't think I'm gona get that super
deluxe thing. I'm getting the the five dollars I already had Nana. Actually,
the reason there are only ten titles in my card is because I have
literally every other title that's being offered except for lawnmower Man two and that Hunt
Utal Lux edition. And the crazy thing is you could just willy nilly choose
titles and they're only five dollars apiece. As long as you're getting five,
that is a crazy cheap price. Don't go too crazy unless you absolutely need
them. But it's hard when like if you were if you had none of
these and you wanted all fifty titles that were part of the sale. Two
hundred and fifty bucks for fifty blu rays is great for boutique blue rays.
A lot of them are good. I recommend young Blood. Yeah, there's
several dozen. Nana's good. There are several dozen that already had that that
I really enjoy. But yeah, so this ten is like the dregs.
Like I have almost all these titles from previous sales over the years, so
these are like the last ones that are perennially included in the sales, barely
hanging on. Yeah, and I'm still not getting mom or man too.
Alrighty. Next up, I put up an interview with Jonathan Gillette from the
Rively Theater in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. And I know that sounds super specific,
and we talk about his theater and it's gonna like make you want to go
to that theater. However, I think it's a really great conversation for theaters
in general and people discussing the theater experience and all that goes into it in
running a theater. And this individual just bought the Rively Theater last year with
this two siblings. So if you're into that idea, I suggest giving it
a watch. That's so cool the way you I mean, like, I
look through your archive of interviews and it's unbelievable the diversity of of people connected
to the art. I mean everyone from you know, John and the art
of like live editing, live directing sports to theater theater in Wisconsin, a
theater slash pizzeria, which and I'm not saying that to make fun. I'm
saying, like, this is awesome. I have I've not watched this interview
yet, but it's I've already got a tab open so that I can enjoy
it. It's just amazing. I appreciate that. Yeh, stay tuned next
week. I got a really fun one coming and yeah, we'll talk more
about that next week. More on sales, Manda Macabreu is currently running their
Halloween sale and they are getting low on the new limited edition pre orders.
They are going fast, just like that flash pre order that they did.
All of their stuff is for sale right now through November seventh, and the
big thing, the shipping is slashed to almost nothing. If you're buying the
catalog titles, they are crazy, crazy cheap for shipping. Like if I
think it was if you're in Canada, it's like two dollars for every title,
which is nothing. That's incredibly cheap. If you're in the US,
I think it was two or three dollars for the first title and a dollar
for every title after that. That's wildly cheap. This is one I always
say, you know, go and support Mota Micabro because they are one of
the most consistent bootie labels out there. But this is something that I really
hope doesn't fall on deaf ears, because man, they have so many great
title stuff that's been never been on sale. Is finally on sale this time,
stuff that you will love if you go and buy some of their Blu
rays. I was almost disappointed that I already have almost everything Mondo's Relief.
So I'm still looking at that pre order bundle because under twenty BI worth it
for what there what's in there, But still it's a it's a lot,
so I'm still kind of waffling on that. I gotta actually let's go back
to your interview. I want to highlight a comment that Paul just posted about
your interview with the cast of The Exorcists. Yep, I also enjoyed that,
and but I do have to take you to task because a lot of
people pay you know, a lot of people rightly were impressed about Doug Bradley
and the great conversation that you had. But there was another legendary figure in
that interview who has not gotten enough attention, partly because she came in late,
but partly because you're just not aware of how incredible she is. And
that is Denise Doff, Yes, sir, one of the great scream queens
of the nineties, star of the Subspecies series, most recently Subspecies five,
which was incredible. Denise Duff Denise Duff needs respect and I want more people
to go check out that interview and post some comments in appreciation of Denise Stuff.
Thank you will, thank you for that. The big one for me
wasn't even Doug Bradley. It was Harry Manvordini. That was my big get
there, and he's great. But Denise Stuff, get I get it completely,
get it all right, go into the next one. For I like
how you managed me. You did a good job because I would have kept
going I would have kept going up and you're still I see what you're doing
and you're right to do it. Uh. We got a question, Ronnie
says, any recommendations for the Mona Micabro sale. Uh, I have a
lot. Mona micabre has kind of just done a lot of great things.
I would say, dear fan or the fan is a great one. Uh,
Spider is a great one. Panic Eats is a wonderful release from them.
Killer of Dolls, Killer of Dolls. Uh, Iguana with the what
is the rest of that title? Iguana? Is it Iguana with a Tongue
of Fire? Is that mondo? I believe it is. I think that's
Ara. Maybe what am I thinking? Oh? The there's is the Fox
with the Velvet tailed so similar. Yes, they pretty much all of their
stuff. If you've never seen the film they you will probably like something about
every single one of their releases. They are one of the best most well
rounded labels out there. Pull up Cinema Jimbo's There You Go, Cinema.
Gimo says, I worked with any stuff on Hell Comes to Frogtown Too.
I was the scripts supervisor on that. Fun to work with Robert Zadar.
Hell. Yeah, when are we going to get a release of Hell Comes
to Frogtown Too? Oh? Send that to Erica. You could have exp
have provided context, just reason for that. It was funnier to leave it
like that. You know, like people think I'm just saying random and you
don't know what I'm talking about. You know exactly what I'm talk about,
and you could provide the context. That's what this back and forth is specific.
I don't know if that is public knowledge, but she is working on
for her episode though. So Oh anyways, Keena Lover announced for Halloween that
they are in twenty twenty four releasing Del Toro's Mimic on four K Mimic.
Have you seen Mimic? Wait? He did the first one I thought he
did. The second one was that Blade. You know, John Sales did
some script doctoring on the on that first that first one, which lets you
know the situation that they're in. You know that? Yes, not bad?
Wait are you are you sure? Hold on? Yeah? Did the
second one? No, this is Del Toro instead of just looking it up?
Have you seen Mimic? Yeah, the little cockroaches that look like they
have trench coats. Thanks. See this is back and forth, will Well?
Who did Mimic too? Okay? I say that you're right. Mimic
two was directed by Jean Desagos Nakaze. All right, yeah, you know
it's okay. It was. It was Del Toro kind of getting himself established
in Hollywood, and it has a I wouldn't consider it like canonical Del Toro,
but uh like, if you're interested in understanding Del Toro as an artist,
I think Mimic as well as Blade two are important to see. I
would agree there. I don't think we we ever talked about Del Toro much.
Are you anti Del Toro or I'm Del Toro agnostic in that all of
his movies that I've seen, and I haven't seen Pinocchio yet. But I've
seen almost everything that he's done, and I've found all of them beautiful,
but most of them I've found narratively lacking. Like I know this is gonna
be the end of my life, but I prefer Neil Jordan's how Boy.
Wait Neil Marshall, not Neil Soran. But yeah, I mean any anytime.
Yeah, Devil's Backbone, Uh, just a gorgeous film. I remember
showing Cronus uh to uh film class on my fortieth birthday, which was fun.
Yeah, I mean his films are gorgeous. And that's I haven't seen
Pacific Rim yet or anything like that. Dan says, Neil Jordan's l Boy
would be interesting. It cast like Robert Downey Junior or somebody. But uh,
yeah, you know, a lot of his films I found a little
narratively well, I said, lacking. But I don't know. Something didn't
click for me in like Pan's Labyrinth, which I found was beautiful, watched
with my mother, my mother wept watch. Yeah, yeah, of course
you did. I have some kind of I have some I mean, of
course everybody did, is what I mean. Like I have some sort of
emotional like void that prevents me from connecting to the particular melancholy of del Torum.
But I do, I do have nothing but respect for him. I
loved that backhanded compliment. It was not a backhanded compliment like I was saying
you're I was saying you're a normal person and I'm not. Well, that's
the opposite of what it came across as. So it's beautiful. Anyways,
we got an we got another Halloween surprise, which I know that you're very
excited about. So let's discuss Terror Vision's release of Dante's Inferno from nineteen eleven.
And that is the slipcover. Here is the inner art on this and
they are presenting a new four K restoration from surviving elements of an over one
hundred year old film that was one of the first of its kind and inspired
countless filmmakers through the ages, giving us what we know and love today.
This release includes a new commentary and three new scores. Three new scores created
specifically for this release. The film is presented in the black and white,
but they also have a red tint version, giving it a more hellish look.
Red tints were used at the beginning of the twenty centuries, an anti
copy system red colors were more difficult to shoot and couldn't be printed on film.
This never before seen version was a copy of the international English version used
across the world after the release of the movie, and therefore the intertitles are
in English. So you've got three news scores on this and then a new
commentary by film historian James L. Nybar And this looks like an incredible release.
So it's so crazy that Terrorvision's doing this because I always support the kickstarters
of what are they called Redwood manor yes, Redwood Creek something like that,
not Mill Creek, well, Redwood something anyway, and they do these great
silent films, but Dante's Inferno was the only one that I missed, Like
I've supported all their others, but I missed this one, and so I
don't have a copy of it, and now TerrorVision is putting it out.
Is it a different is it the same restoration or I believe it's the same
restoration because there is no other elements and this is literally a public domain film.
But the big difference and I've gotten a lot of questions, and not
only that, we even have a question here. I heard this is the
same transfer as the Redwood Creek Blu Ray transfer, and I've only heard bad
things about that. Is that true? So on the Redwood Creek Blu Ray
they put that film on the disc on they put it out in tennydi It
wasn't even ten adp, so it looks way worse. And then on top
of that, it was compressed a hell on a BD twenty five, So
this will be out on at least a BD fifty. Terror Vision always gives
the films enough for him to breathe there and with three scores and a second
presentation of the film, this is all the more reasons to purchase this release.
It looks like an incredible release. Oh yeah, that's a definite.
That's a definite for sure. Yes, And if you've not seen it,
the trailer for this looks pretty damn fun. I mean anything else, I'm
a huge fan of silent films. As a sedner points out, I am
the picture of Dorian Gray and was alive when these films were being produced.
Oh man, Craig says, where is that trailer? I will get you
a link one second. This is great and by the way, I did
want to shout out this is going very quickly. If you want a slipcover
on this one, you may want to get it sooner than later. It's
already more than halfway sold out, which for Terrovision, that is remarkably quick.
There are less than nine hundred copies of that slip cover left already.
People need to be cooperative with the scheduling of their sales. All right,
all right, I'm gonna head over to Terror Vision after this is over.
This might result in me emptying that Ronan Flick's card. I think it would
be a one that you would enjoy more. Oh hell yeah, yeah,
weird. They don't have the trailer on their website. It is up on
their YouTube channel. Not sure why it's not on the website yet. Next
up, we got a random announcement from Imprint that is pretty large here.
Imprint Films has launched what they are calling Imprint Asia and they say Asian cinema
fans, this is for you via Vision Entertainment and Imprint is excited to announce
its newest media disc tribution expansion. With the launch of Imprint Asia. It
will deliver ongoing releases of contemporary and classic Asian cinema across film festival, multi
digital platforms and physical media, including four K and Blu Ray for Australia and
New Zealand. They're already working with some of the biggest Asian licensing partners in
the market. The new brand will be launching with the host of key properties,
including twenty twenty three box office mega hit Lost in the Stars, Larry
Yang's twenty twenty three action comedy Right On with Jackie Chan, which here is
actually surprisingly decent, and the twenty twenty three sci fi epic The Wandering Earth
two, which we just talked about last week or the week before because it's
coming out from well Go USA as well. And they say in addition to
the new release slate, there will be ongoing classic releases with new restorations and
extras produced for physical media collectors, including chen Kigs, The Emperor and the
Assassin from ninety eight, Farewell My Concubine from ninety two, Shueye Hark's The
Legend of Zoo from two thousand and one, Key Commis d C Is Watching
from two thousand and two, which was co written by A. Kira Kurosawa,
and many more. This latest branded arm of Via Vision will no doubt
capture the hearts and minds of Asian cinema lovers across all genres. You muted
yourself to say something. It's already captured. It's already captured my heart.
Will you recommended this microphone? And I do not like the placement of the
mute button. It's really great for most people because most people don't hold this
microphone. It's supposed to be sat upon something. Well, I no longer
have a desk. Well, you need to get promoted again, promoted.
I'm not even assistant to the regional manager. Paul is happy with thisnnouncement,
and Nicomedia says, I hope imprint unearths. Some say Jun Suzuki Nikatsu titles
feel like he's getting forgotten again except in Japan, and I don't see Criterion
releasing those. Suzukis not to mention some Norfumi Suzukis. We're still waiting for
Sex and Fury did that? No, No, in Australia didn't. Umbrella
didn't put that out. Somebody put out Female Yaka's Tale, but which was
the sequel. But if Sex and Fury were released, I would already have
several copies, several copies. Uh. Peter Puffer says, imprint releases are
so much good stuff, but it's frustrating in the US and budgetary wise,
they do get kind of pricey. Can't really argue with that. Sadly,
I do kind of like it when I go to the website and i look
at the Australian price and I'm like whoa, and then I click st dollars
and I'm like, okay, maybe, yeah, it would be nice.
All right, we are ready for the next one. And the next one
is Ninja Versus Shark from twenty twenty three, is coming on Blu Ray on
November twenty first from Media Blasters. And I've heard that this is actually pretty
fun and that is a wild, wild cover, you know, irl.
My money's on Shark. But as far as the movie goes, I'm willing
to suspend disbelief of course, siveners, asking not to be a nitpicker.
I can wait. But when is the Red Handcuffs release coming from Cauldron?
First off, I believe the Red Handcuffs release was not Cauldron, but now
that Zero Woman Red Handcuffs. Oh oh oh sorry, you know what I
need to know my role. I'll let you finish Bill. Who's it coming
from THEO Neon Eagle Video is the one that put out Zero Woman, Red
Handcuffs, and I believe the last email they sent out was that those would
be shipping somewhere between two and three weeks after the top line and the other
two titles that were just sent out recently. So if my math is right,
I think, sorry, this was really funny. I think there should
probably be shipping in the next ten days or so. I am the analyst
and you are the play by play. Come on, Charles, get it
together, Senator. You ordered from Cauldron, but the label that is putting
it out is Neon Eagle Video that is owned by Jesse from Diabolic and Cauldron
and mister Jared Honor from Monda Micabro Cauldron. At the same time as Zero
Woman, Red Handcuffs. Cauldron put out Ratman, So you you likely ordered
both of those, as did I, as did many of us. Yes,
it is. It is an Asian focused label that is teeming with Cauldron
for manufacturing and all of that. Uh, let me tell you the Zero
Woman, Red Handcuffs. Holy shit, that's probably the most excited I've been
all year about a title. I am very excited to see what else Neon
Eagle is gonna unearth because they they've already got some fun stuff and that's only
their second release, right. Yeah. The other one was, h yes,
good job, you're gonna say something now, Craig said, a man's
got to know his limitations. And let me tell you, I'm constantly reminded.
You know, I'm actually kind of sad because I've had the same boss
in different jobs for seventeen years and she's amazing, just like the best boss
I've ever had, and and she her she left her last because all these
budget cuts are coming, so she wisely took another position elsewhere, and so
she's left. And you know, we're all sad about the band breaking up
and everything, but the for me, what's going to be really difficult is
that, for seventeen years I have, on a daily basis with with preternatural
confidence, stated wrong things, and her role as my boss has been to
correct me, and I no longer have that tether. Well, I'm happy
to help in our hours together. Yeah, as far as we're concerned,
that's obviously, like I can't even work a microphone, much less correctly identify
releases. All right, we got one more title before the OCN titles.
Next up is Milestone Films, which is a Keno Larber partner label. They
are putting out The Exiles from nineteen sixty one. Another one that I've not
been able to see, but I have only heard great things about. This
is a Kent mackenzie film, and it chronicles one night in the lives of
young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles.
Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows
a group of exiles who are transplants from Southwest reservations as they flirt, drink,
party, fight, and dance. I have not seen this? Have
you been able to? Because this sounds incredible? Wait? Did Charles Burnett
direct this? It says present Sherman Alexi and Charles Burnett present. Did he
direct? I can't see. I'm not seeing that that's listed here. I'd
have to go look on IMDb. Well, whatever the case, his involvement
is enough for me to want to see it, not to mention Sherman LEXI,
you know all right? Anything else on the Exiles we like you.
I don't know anything about it. This is a this is a revelation but
again those those particular names as curators and potential a co creators. That's enough.
That should be enough for everybody. All right, next thing that we're
going to talk about is OCN Titles. Unfortunately, the first announcement didn't copy
over to Instagram properly, so we're going to look at it on the Vineger
Syndrome website. And that is their release through their Vinegar Syndrome publishing line of
the Maniac four issue hardcase comic collection. And this thing looks wild. Let's
look at some of these pictures. Yeah, real coffee table. I don't
know who all is in comics, but if you are, this looks like
a really nice, well put together set. Yeah, lots of goodies come
with us, and if you want, you can order this T shirt with
it, which the first time they did Zombie there was also a T shirt
available and many people did not see that, so keep in mind if you
want a T shirt you can check that out. There's a great one to
wear to the grocery store. Yeah, I mean there's not anything super offensive
on it. Gets the checkout? Did you find everything you're looking for?
Quite? So that is a Maniac and everything that comes with that next up
is going to be let me get the other screen up here. It is.
Uh, so they are putting out a an enamel pin that is filled
with liquid of the eye scene from a zombie and uh, it's interesting that
there's liquid in it. I kind of want to see that. Does the
splinter move, like, do you get this? Does it do a little?
It doesn't look like it, but you can see the liquid is here,
so it looks maybe the blood looks like it's spurting out, but it
hasn't been penetrated yet. There's there shouldn't be any blood. I don't know.
Maybe it's just flowing behind it. Well, that's cool. Ragnar got
to meet Christina Lindberg on Halloween. That's cool. Oh, I think she
was at she was at an American con, her first one in like nine
or twelve years or something. I think, Well, she's in She's in
Northuzuki's Sex and Fury. Yeah. Nice. Stan had a little trouble resolving
this image at first. You are not the only one. I had a
lot of people ask what am I even looking at here? And yeah,
when it's when it's blown up, it looks a lot better. The tiny
picture did not look great, man. All kinds of people getting their Joe
Spinell plushy in nice. I wish I got that plushy. Uh. Next
up, we got a whole bunch of partner labels and who's this Deaf Crocodile
first up on the slate this month, and uh they are putting out Benny's
Bathtub, which was revealed exclusively on this channel. This one we've already talked
about previously, but just really want to reiterate that this has three full episodes
of the Danish children's TV series Sir Clean, which ran from nineteen sixty seven
to seventy one, including Escape from America, which was banned back where this
was made. And it sounds wild. Two audio commentary tracks on this,
and a new essay by Steve Rifle, authoring by Fidelity Emotion Always because Deaf
Crocodile puts the best into all these releases. This looks like an astonishing,
astonishing release and I cannot wait to see it. This was an immediate must
have for me, and I'm gonna ensure that I refer to it by its
proper title, Benny's Bathtub. That bathtub movie that was like, that's that's
exactly what I was gonna say, but I was like, no, I'm
not gonna do that. But yeah, this is a this is a definite
pickup. I was unfamiliar with it, but that that episode we did with
Craig his discussion of the background and the trailer, Holy cow. Yeah,
yeah, that's already in my my cart, my Vineger syndrome, Ocean cart
and if you really want to see I think I'm going to do that.
I think any yeah, you know what, I'm gonna get that direction from
deaf crocodile. Look at you. Good job. Parental note, Benny's Bathtub
feature scenes of animated semi nude mermaids, so hey, just wanted to point
that out there, just like The Little Mermaid had. That was the first
side boob I ever saw nineteen eighty eight, eighty nine, When was the
Little Mermaid? I think it was right around then something like that. Yeah,
that's right, and I give another trading card. That's not if you
get it through Ocean. There's no trading card, only semi nude. Yeah,
they have no tops. Little Mermaid was eighty nine. Yep. Next
up, the label Canadian International Pictures is putting out the Christmas Martian from seventy
five. While out looking for a Christmas tree one winter day, siblings Francois
and Katou encounter a bizarrely dressed entity who emanates bubbles and shoplifts from a convenience
store. When Katou convinced this man is really a Martian, the children follow
his green trail all the way to a flying saucer. After confirming his alien
identity, they form an instant bond and pool their efforts to fix the martians
damaged spaceship so you can return to his home planet. Meanwhile, the police
joined forces with the vigilante mob to track down this mysterious visitor and put his
antics to an end. I mean what first of all? But also this
looks wild. Slipcover for this looks fantastic, really loving all the colors on
this, and they say a viable contender for the weirdest cande of all time,
of all time. This also has on this available in the French and
the more outlandish English dub. There's a commentary with Paul Krup and Jason Pachonski
fromcinuxploitation dot com. They also have trailers for all a thirty two minute compendium
of the trailers for the Christmas Martian in the first fifteen films and the trailers
for all series, trailers for all commentary, as well new audio interview with
the actor Marcel Suburan. There is a Joy of Winter documentary short, an
animated short, and a booklet with a new interview with the NFB curator Mark
Saint Pierre. In an essay on the composer Jacques Perron, I mean this
is a loaded, fun looking release. Well, Marsha ask for help,
you help them allegedly, Yeah, this just looks fun. I got a
warning from Erica from Unsung Horrors that posted a two and a half star review
that said, warning, this movie is certainly not for everyone, but it
sounds wild enough to see at least once. Just you're just still laughing about
Allegedly, Ronnie says, I asked my Canadian friends if they knew this movie,
and they didn't. I was disappointed they didn't have weird nostalgic feelings for
it. Yeah, well this is a this is a Quebecan movie, right,
I believe so, So it's different a Quebec quah quebec qua. Yeah,
that's different. That's different. Yeah, like Quebec quam might not even
say this is a Canadian movie. Yep, every single movie is someone's favorite
movie. Completely agree. There you go, well said, right, that's
that's the one. Then we got an announcement. Altered Innocence is putting out
Fogie is a Bastard from nineteen ninety eight. This is set in Zurich during
the early seventies and posting a killer soundtrack that includes the Stooges and the Velvet
Underground. This one sounds it looks pretty decent. You got a region free
Blu ray, new interview with the director, restoration trailer, and a couple
other trailers. Decent looking movie. So so on the slipcover here, what
are you thinking on this one? I know you like a lot of the
Altered Innocence releases. Yeah, well I can't go wrong with that soundtrack.
That sounds like worth a watch. At least it's a very will soundtrack.
Yeah yeah, I'm all over it. Let's see. Ronnie just preordered this
says it looks good. Yeah, it definitely looks good. Next one,
I Blame Society is coming from the Canalog. This is a twenty twenty film
and really kind of intrigued me. So this says, we gave you all
these ideas and you go off and make weird. Francis ha the famous last
words of a producer who doubts the awesome power of writer director star Jillian Wallace
Horvat. After a few idiosyncratic short films, Horvat gave the world a concentrated
dose of her made a meta Madness and I blame society, a film that
destroys itself and its benefactors as it goes on. Lots of great individuals in
this, including Making Blair, who I adore and I believe they Yeah,
there is a film from twenty fifteen called Kiss Kiss Fingerban that has Anton Yelchin
in it. That's it's only a short, but it's Anton Yelchin. I
love him. Well. I don't know if I want to say this though
why not? I don't know, you know, but for some reason that
I don almost sound like a purist or anything. But for some reason that
title selling gross. That's just a short film on there, Well, being
short does not have anything to do with it. I think it somehow tall.
That's okay, And you know what, I bet this was part of
her point. It somehow access to a deep seated puritanical imprint in my psyche,
a remnant of the patriarchy that is ruining culture. So yeah, we'lls
do it. I blame society too, I'm a feminist anyways. Next up
Connie, one of my favorite of the Ocean Partner labels as well. They
are putting out Journey to the West from twenty twenty one. Again, great
looking art on this release. I think that they really picked some great imagery
on this and this is gonna be a region a locked blu ray HD presentation
director's introduction for this intro interview with Kong Deshan. There's twenty four minutes,
some trailers, promotional videos, and a booklet with stills and posters this film,
though, if you've not read the synopsis, I'm gonna run through this
real quick because this sounds wild. The years have worn out. Tang Jihun
Jihun the editor in chief of the foremost space exploration magazine in China. His
entire life is now a I don't know that word pay pay peyon, showing
my lack of education there, I guess to a space age long gone.
When he hears of a collective UFO siding in a remote village called Burning Nest.
He glimpses a possibility for redemption. Flanked by a cynical staffer, a
drunk and an insomniac groupie, he journeys westward to the Dalleong Mountains of Shishuan
to face the truth about the universe and himself. I have heard that this
is great. Is that a strand of DNA with a carot in it?
That is precisely what that looks like to me, but also a video camera
and a wine bottle. Okay, I'm into it. Well. As I
said last time, Connie is a company that I just kind of automatically pick
up their titles as they come out, so no reason to change, I
gotta admit. As we're about halfway through these partner label releases. Other than
a couple, it seems like a lot of really exciting titles, but nothing
that the community overall is really jumping on hardcore, which is interesting. It
seems like an odd batch to have everybody not be super excited for, so
I hope people take a look at what all of these are, watch some
of the trailers, actually read the synopsies and find out what they are and
support the labels you like, if you've got the ability and you want to,
this might be a more challenging month. This is the first thing I
see that this is the first month in a long time where I hadn't seen
any of the titles and actually, yeah, I don't Actually was not familiar
with any of the titles. So I don't know if that's part of the
issue for other people, but because it certainly gave me a moment where I'm
like, well, I don't know, I don't know what I'm interested in
this month, right, But as I'm taking the chance to, as you
say, look at trailers and read the synopsis, I'm like a little more
interested. Yeah, I totally get that. Next up is the Killing of
Bobby Green. This is coming from Saturn's Core, and this is from nineteen
ninety. This also has let's see there is a bonus movie on this called
Crooks from nineteen eighty nine as well, and then director's edit of Crooks that
removes a good sixteen minutes from it. Lots of stuff coming on these discs
Saturn's Core. Again, they never once ever put out a disc that doesn't
have a ton of stuff on it, so they are just releasing everything that
they can with these films. If you're into this, absolutely checked out laughing
because I saw Ronnie's comment there's no video game nostalgia doc this month. Milo's
Secret Castle, the Untold Story. Oh man, I gotta sell you,
you know, like I have never been an sv guy, not because of
well, just because yeah, it doesn't look look the same as film and
Saturn's Corps more than and I say, this is a guy who made her
as of a film or never quite finished it. But Saturn's Core man is
doing the lord's work or the underwords work. Because you know, I've really
gotten into stuff as a result of checking out. I mean always I knew
Scooter McCrae. I knew his work and appreciated it. But Saturn's Core,
probably as much as any other label, is introducing me to stuff that I
otherwise never would have found that I do appreciate. So I don't know.
I don't know about the killing of Bob Bobby Green, but I'll probably check
it out at some point. Yeah, Saturn's Core, Terror, Vision,
VHS, hit Fest, Visual Vengeance. Yea, these labels are putting stuff
out that that are soov and stuck there for years. It's quite astonishing some
of these films that they're able to rescue right now. I enjoyed speaking of
visual vengeance, I enjoyed la as Jabber. I thought that that turned out
to be worth it. Yeah, I would agree there. Next up is
the Dark Star Pictures title Pig Killer from twenty twenty two, which a title
like that certainly makes you pause. Look at that cast. That's enough.
I'm definitely getting this. So this one says based on the terrifying true story
of Robert Willie Picton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes
shocked the world. Pig Killer graphically depicts Picton's felonious farmhouse of rape, torture,
slaughter, and dismemberment of almost fifty women. With this herculean hog Balthazar
by his side, Willie and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorized Vancouver's downtown East
Side for almost two decades until his two thousand and two arrest that uncovered the
most bizarre series of murders Canada has ever seen. Ir what that's wild?
Uh? Gingerlynn is in this We got it behind the scenes with Ginger Lynn
behind the scenes with Michael Pere, Deleted scenes, alternate scenes, Q and
A from Siney, Excess Pig Mask Progress, Canadian Bacon, the making of
uh Meet the Pig that's in the movie, and then a couple other auditions
and screen tests and such. Yeah bye, Laying Biling is in this absolutely,
Jake Busey, Yeah, Blue Temple, Yeah, this is great.
That's all I have to say. My dog, my dog's name is also
Balthazar coincidental. Do you call him like RJ for short or something? No,
I call him, uh, well, various obscenities. I was gonna
say, most of the time, it's all profanities from what I hear.
Fucking that dog man. My dog has been for some reason. I think
it's because it's finally getting cold. My dog has been nestling between the wheels
of my office chair while I work, so I can't move at all for
hours at a time, and I go to move like a half an inch
and she freaks the hell out. I'm just like, get out of here
anyway. Your dog's great, though, yeah, and she's she always acts
like nothing happened. Right after that, she's like, oh, you want
to talk. I hear you yelling you want to hang out? Yeah?
Anyways. Next up is Yellow Veil putting out The Runner from twenty twenty two.
This says, a strange, bloodied woman travels to a secluded rural town.
And that's the only synopsis you get, the odd thing here. That's
the synopsis you get, and you'll like it. And that's it. The
odd thing here. This is thirty nine minutes. That's oh really, Yeah?
The Runner is thirty nine minutes. Is there about that? Is there
anything else? I mean, there's there's other stuff because there's an intro from
Steven Hanley, there's an interview with a couple of people, of commentary tracks,
some music videos, polaroid slideshow, the big Thing. There's an essay
by Alexander Heller Nicholas illustrated with polaroids from the sets. Well, I like
her, but that's that's it. I'm not against shorts. Yeah, full
price. This is up for full price. If you're not a subscriber,
this costs twenty eight dollars. I don't want to sound like an old man
or anything as opposed to everything else I've said tonight, But I see on
there featuring all new music from Boy Harsher, and I'm like, who,
yeah, same thing. Never heard of boy Harsher. Twenty eight dollars for
a thirty nine minute movie. Well, there be some good ass minutes.
That's not a great thing, I don't think. Oh wait, boy Harsher
made the movie and it features all new music from boy. Something tells me
this is a vanity project. I'm very confused. Now is that his name
or did he choose that? Where does it say boy Harsher made the movie
on the cover A boy is a boy Harsher film. I'm too busy looking
at the credits. I guess it says directed by J. Matthews and Augustus
Muller. Oh well, I wonder if boy Harsher is like the producer and
it's like one of those is doing like from the producer of Yeah, it
could be having you tonight, Tony, good to see you. We'll put
his glasses on. It gets with the two edges from the camera. Doesn't
want to sound like an old Oh that is rehearse, go, rehearse.
Okay, so here we go. I love your screen, Dame, and
I love that I have to repeat this. Bear butt gorilla hut, says
the runner is on shutter. I watched it. It's a long music video.
What do you call that? You can't call that? Spread equal?
What is that? I'm talking about? The image? Oh I saw?
Okay, I'm getting it down so I don't get tost Yeah, a thirty
nine minute film film and quotation marks for twenty eight bucks when you're not a
subscriber, and even then as a subscriber, it's it's twenty bucks like that's
that's honestly still a little high for this, I think. But you know,
this is the genius of boy Harsher because we've been talking about We've been
talking about this film for longer than any movie we've talked about tonight, almost
as long as the movie we've got We've got, I mean, Craig's watching,
and we spent like thirty seconds on the bathtub, on Benny's bathtub,
and here we give him a full show previously. Yeah, but we're going
on and on about this fucking runner and we're just given boy Harsher what he
wants. Yeah, let's let's move next up this month from AGFA Shredder Orpheus
from nineteen ninety Let's shred Our Way to Hell. The Greek myth is reimagined
as a post apocalyptic skateboard rock opera what did I just say? Rock opera
and Shredder Orpheus, a low budget hallucination that drops somewhere between the music video
for Devo's Whippet, a Bones Brigade skate tape, and a surrealist art project.
The story follows Orpheus, a rock star who descends to Hell in order
to save his kidnapped wife and the universe from Satan and his hypnotic TV signals.
Filmed in Seattle, featuring a rare screen roll from Stephen Jesse Bernstein the
william S Burrows of the Pacific Northwest, Shreder Orpheus makes its disk debut with
a new preservation from the original film elements. That's just a funny thing to
say, the william Burrows of, Hey, look, this looks like it'd
be a good double feature with Prayer of the roller Boys. You know what
I'm saying. And Due McMahon is excited, so that that tells me something,
yeah, he says. Never. Shredder Orpheus is huge. Never thought
i'd see it on Blu Ray. First time I've ever pre ordered from VS.
Wow, Oh, that's an endorsement. Must be a big one,
he says. It's not like anything you've ever seen, I guarantee. Well,
then have you seen the Runner. We almost have a full commentary done
for it. Now Death send him an influence. So this disc is also
going to have a bomb Shelter video promo from ninety three, a commentary with
the director Robert McGinley and Agfaz brett Berg, who's fantastic behind the scenes photo
gallery preservation of the original VHS version, which I love that they're doing that.
More companies should do that. That's fun. Original home video trailer booklet
with a Robert McGinley interview by David J. Moore and writing by Amy Rose
and subtitles fun looking release, Never heard of it? Greg says. Was
this also shot on the mean streets of ben Oregon? Hey man, Antifa,
Oh man, you'll be careful out there. Next up, Umbrella is
releasing Top Not Detective from twenty seventeen. This previous got a Third Window Films
release, so you might have that one if you are somebody that's been getting
some of the Third Window releases. Just a heads up. This one is
region free. An audio commentary by the directors the original pilot episode on this
you got a trailer team y as previs fights, behind the scenes feature at
a CD soundtrack coming in this. That's not all that common. So uh
yeah, this looks like a decent release and this one is the same price
as Runner. I'm sorry. Well, you know, it's like it's like
a cricket thing. You got a striker and a runner, you gotta get
him in tandem. Yep. Uh, Dude, McMahon says, I can
finally retire my VHS of or More. Was it called Orpheus Shredder Orpheus?
Uh says I heard it was released on DVD, but never found a copy.
It seems like AGFA saying it was never it's making its disc debut,
So maybe it was never officially on DVD and that's why you couldn't find a
copy. Yeah, I agree with this. Kerry mulligan says, Shredder sounds
like it could be fun, like Turbo Kid and Psycho Gore Man. Wow.
Yeah, Well, Timestriker looks pretty cool too. It's actually called topknot
Detective sir. Yeah, well it's the time Striker. What is that?
I believe it's a show within the show, It says. This mockumentary unravels
the tale of how Ronan Sui Tan Time made it to the Australian scenes back
in the late nineties, retitled as Topknot Detective. Did you already say that?
No, but I typed it yesterday. Okay, let's see. Michael
says, no sign yet on the Barne Noble Criterion sale. I think last
time they started at midnight. I gotta agree. I've been refreshing at this
at the same time when I could every so long. And yeah, it's
still not showing up. So we'll see what happens. I don't want to
sound like a nihilist or anything, but I'm just gonna wait till tomorrow.
I don't think there's anything wrong with her or later later today. I guess,
yes, it is after midnight there. Factory twenty five is releasing Warm
Blood from twenty twenty two, and this one looks like it could be a
really interesting standout from this month, says set in the underbelly of nineteen eighties
Modesto, California, which is almost like saying the mean streets of Eugene,
Oregon. I gotta be honest, right, like, oh Modesto, I've
heard about all those Modesto gangs. Warm Blood uses the real life diary of
a teenage runaway named Red, returning home to find her father in this narrative.
In his narrative featured debut, the director Rick Tarnowski's history is a skate
video director informs the frenetic storytelling style as he combines Red's nihilist musings with a
collage of documentary and B movie meta narratives that paint a CD picture of life
on the outskirts of town in old modesto talk radio bits and punk music underscore
the auditory cacophony of doom, while frequent Kelly reichart collaborator Christopher Blovelt lends his
immersive naturalist lens shooting on gritty sixteen millimeter While Red searches the streets, A
constant, foreboding presence looms around the chemically toxic river that is polluting the town.
Via cable access news reporter interviewing the local residents about its impact, Tarnaski
infuses today's growing apathy around the insurmountable nature of our man made ecological disasters into
this raw, politically subversive tale. Okay, I'm interested in Sanmas, but
I resent the number of adjectives in the title or the synopsis. Everything.
You just read like there's a lot in that synopsis that was like ninety percent
adjectives. It really was way too many adjectives. Write me a paragraph,
but make it pretty. You know that many adjectives is kind of a red
flag. You know, when you see that many adjectives, you gotta say
yourself, I don't believe them all. I don't believe them all. If
there was six, we'd talk. I just feel like that was some extraneous
adjectives. Oh man, Chris is asking do we know of Subscriber Week is
in January again? I forgot if they announced it. I believe. Don't
don't quote me as many people might, but I believe Justin has confirmed on
Facebook that it was going to be in January again, But I am not
one hundred percent sure. And uh Sibner, I think it'll be three am
that starts, so it matches with the West coast. Last time it actually
started with the East coast. Maybe they're maybe they're trying to give love to
the coasts. Then Factory twenty five is also able to sell this LP crate
glass ornament and then this VHS glass ornament. And these are pretty nice.
They look pretty nice at least I don't know that I want to buy them
for the price that they're up for, considering they're twenty dollars apiece and only
a couple inches. But says the guy who does not like Jess Franco but
has the Franco ornament. I like some Jess Franco, but that ornament,
that ornament is amazing. I don't even have that ornament. I'll sell it
to you for ninety dollars. I'll sell you a copy of debt Or for
six hundred and fifty. Oh, man, love it. I'll trade you
my scarlet box for it. I already have the scarlet box. Oh,
here we go. We'll getting into your favorite series. I'm just gonna turn
it off. Thanks for watching everybody, anyways. Next up, Keno Lober
announced the thirty eighth entry sorry I don't know new Rovenuda sixteenth sorry, sixteenth
entry into their film noir The Dark Side of Cinema series is coming on January
ninth. This is gonna have the brand new HD Masters of the Mystery of
Marie Roget, Chicago Deadline, and iron Man. These are from nineteen forty
two, forty nine, and fifty one. All three are in black and
white. They're all from a two K scan of the thirty five millimeters fine
grain elements. We got a new audio commentary for the Mystery of Marie Roget
by Tom Weaver, Gary L. Prange and Tom Zimmerman. We have a
new audio commentary for the Mystery of Marie Roget by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones.
New audio commentary for Chicago Deadline by Alan K. Rhad. Another new
audio commentary for Iron Man by Gary Garani. Some trailers, and that's it.
I know you're not excited, but I'm I'm one hundred percent all in
on the film noir series from Keno, and I love the fact that like
half of them are titles that are so obscure that this is the only way
they can get released. It is in these kind of branded box sets.
Every box set that I've gotten, and I've got about six or seven of
these so far, everyone has at least one movie that was a revelation to
me. It's good. Yeah, I'm not against them getting released at all.
That's a great thing super stoked. This one, though, Keno is
releasing Please Not Now from nineteen sixty one. This is coming on January two,
starring one Brigitte Bardeaux. That's wrong, we've seen it. Audio commentary
by Alexandra Heller Nicholas on this Okay, great look and release. I mean,
anytime Alexandre Heller Nicholas is on a disc, it's already worth it.
And this, I think is a Bordeaux movie that probably many people are unfamiliar
with, including me. This is what I've seen, you know, like
listed in books, but I've never watched. So some said it was the
most provocative comedy of nineteen sixty one. Oh then we got some BFI announcements
today. They are releasing The Wages of Fear on four K from three.
This is coming on February fifth in the UK. And this is where you
wax poetic for the next three minutes on this film. Go right ahead,
Nona, I just get it. That's I mean, anybody watching this show
who hasn't seen The Wages of Fear, I should get this and see the
Wages of Fear. And I know there's a lot of freakin fans who enjoy
Sorcerer, which is a remake of this film. So this is your chance
to ref and this is a complete I had not heard this at all.
I am learning this at the moment that you post it. I have the
I have the Criterion release. Obviously, I had no idea four K was
about to come out. Wow, this is Cludo's masterpiece. Yeah, so
a lot of people. I have recently got this on Blu ray and now
it's coming out of four K. So just throwing it out there. It's
getting a release. Ronnie says, what's it like ordering from BFI from the
US? Don't ask Sibbner who is still waiting on titles that he ordered during
a sale like a good six or eight weeks ago. Usually it's pretty decent.
I'm not sure what's going on right now, Chris. This is not
BFI's first four K release. They've done a handful now at this point.
I believe. In fact, I think the Proposition may have been their first
four K release. Oh, written by Nick Cave. It does not mention
the source of the restoration. Craig, No, it does not. Oh
that might be an issue. Then I wouldn't say that until we know something.
Well, That's why I use the word might. Well, we don't
need to mention a potential issue. It was too late. I did right
next time, don't well, I used the word might because then I said
nothing. I said nothing at all. Well, it's time you realize that
you are Charles Barkley, and people look at you for inspiration and knowledge on
these and when you say there might be an issue, people are already thinking
there is an issue that needs to be resolved. I'm not a role model,
nor have I ever won a championship at any level. I mean,
to be fair, Barkley barely won. He didn't win. Didn't he win
one? No, he almost did. He he got traded to the Rockets
with when they still had clubs. But they didn't. They didn't, they
didn't get it. And you know what, I'm glad Karl Malone ever won
because fuck that guy. I wish Charles had gotten one. Charles Barkley deserved
it. The championship, Charles is pretty damn funny. And I do think
it's hilarious that they put Carl Why are we talking about sports? It's hilarious
that they put Karl Malone on that Laker's dream team, right, before he
retired. That was god awful. I thought that was a fitting end for
all all people involved. It was such I enjoyed watching North Carolina's own Rashid
Wallace and the Detroit Pistons take those pieces of shit apart. Anyways, enough
about the wages of fear. I guess BFI also announced February nineteenth on Blu
Ray they're releasing Erna Hertzeg Radical Dreamer. Yeah. This master filmmaker, a
tour poet, truth seeker, explorer, brand meme, actor, alauded voice,
artiste, doomsayer, legend. That is Werner Hertzeg. This is the
man now eighty one, who had a three hundred and twenty ton steamboat hauled
over a steep hill in Peru, who hypnotizes his actors, climbs down into
volcanoes, talks to murderers on death row, cooks and eats his own shoe,
and was once shot at It's these moments, along with other stories,
as well as his appearances and everything from The Simpsons to The Mandalorian, that
have made Herzog a cult figure the world over. With exclusive behind the scenes
access into Hertzog's everyday life, rare archive material, and in depth interviews with
the man himself and celebrated collaborators including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and his
wife Lena Herzog. We are giving an exciting glimpse into his work process in
personal life. Also appearing in the film are Joshua Oppenheimer, Robert Pattinson,
Patti Smith, Carl Weathers, Vim Vendors, and Chloe Shao. You're also
gonna have a trailer on this and a booklet about with new writing on the
film and full credits. I love Erner Herzog, one of my probably top
five or six filmmakers. And you know, Grizzly Man is still not on
blu Ray. Can you believe that? Look it up because if I would
love to be wrong, and if I am wrong, I will go purchase
it from wherever right after this. But I like to teach, in particular
the enigma of Casper Hauser his I just love Verner Hertzeg's films Into the Abyss,
you know, talking about interviewing serial killers and stuff. One of the
great indictments of capital punishment in America, one of the few countries that still
as capital punishment. One of the great three D movies Caves have Forgotten Dream
Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Can I interrupt to say that Grizzly Man has been
released three times on Blu Ray in the UK? Thank you? Okay,
Well, I don't live in the UK, but I will now look it
up. Unconscionable that it hasn't been released. I love that. After I
answered that I just got an email from Simner and giving me a link to
the release of the UK I don't I don't want to sound like a narciss
or, narcissist or anything, but I think Senator waits until the first Thursday
of each month just to fact check everything I say. I'm ready to go.
Okay, uh my point is I really love uh Vernon Hertzeg. You
know he's the one Zach Snyder thing. No, is it? I think
it's Zack Snyder. Incident at Lockness. I don't know that one. All
right, Senator, tell me if I'm right on Incident at Lockness, the
mockumentary about the Locknest Monster with Hertz Herds song is acting in it. It's
Zach Penn is the director, Zach. Okay, it was a Zach.
What did Zach Penn do The funck is that well? Anyway, incident lockness
is awesome too. So what I'm trying to say is I can't wait to
see this documentary. I love Verner Herdzong so much, and you know,
there are the endless parodies of his voice and the way he talks cosmically about
everything. But god damn, don't you wish you could hang out with him?
Oh? Well, realistically probably not, but like in a man,
that'd be fun. Theoretically maybe that's exactly the kind of conversation I want to
have about everything, all right. Next up from BFI, they are putting
out Beautiful Thing from nineteen ninety six. This is coming on March nineteenth on
BLU Ray and I have heard only wonderful things about this, says During a
long hot summer in South London, Jamie is bunking off school more than usual,
scurrying back to the TV in the flat and the Thamesmead, a state
where he lives with his mother, Sondra, whilst his neighbor Leah, who's
been kicked out of school, Spencer Day's listening to Mama Cast records and the
same block as Jamie's sporty classmate Stay or Steve, whose home life is punctuated
by the regular beatings he receives from both his father and brother. One night,
in a bid to escape the violence, Steve takes refuge in Sanders flat
and sleeps head to toe with Jamie. As Sanders struggles with a job promotion
in her relationship with her hippie boyfriend Tony, Jamie and Steve gradually discover their
affection for each other. And I believe it's supposed to be a really great
LGBT focused coming of age movie. That's supposed to be great. Yeah,
that sounds cool. Yeah, I like. I like a good romantic unless
it's love. Actually, I like a good romantic film. I'm only laughing,
not about what you said. But Sibner has now emailed me the poster
of Incident at Locknest. Well, all right, what else does Zach Penn
direct? Why did I think he was Zack Snyder? I don't. Zach
Penn has also directed Let's see I've got a pulling up now. Oh man,
that is not the face I expected on somebody named Zach Penn. Wow,
Wow he is. He has directed three things, Incident of Lockness the
Grand from two thousand and seven and Atari game over from twenty fourteen? Is
that like an ets ETR documentary coming weird? Yeah? That's Isn't that crazy
what memory does? Because I remember I remember seeing Incident lock Ness when it
came out and h and be like, wow, this is Zack Snyder.
Maybe I don't know. I don't know how I made the mistake. It's
also wild because it was two thousand and four, Yeah, twenty years ago.
Do you understand the difference between now and then? Oh my god,
I was so smart and then I was like I was, I was svelt
man a long time ago. Well, anyway, a point is Werner heart
talk is great and I gotta I gotta say this. I don't know who.
I can't remember who posted this, but I think it might have been
carried somebody said that towards the end of the night, I have morph than
to Norm McDonald, which I don't exactly know what that means, but I
guess it's because I'm getting tired my voices. But uh, but now you've
gotten to this like uh gay love story directed by Henny McDonald, and I
can't help but think of it like Norm's sister or cousin or something to be
like, hey, hey, everybody deserves a lot. Now I want to
hear the mashup of Charles Barkley playing Norm McDonald. Oh god, I don't
even know what that would be. I'm like beautiful Things starring Andy Richter.
Wow. Yeah, Sumner says to check out Zach Penn's writing comments and uh
not comments, sorry, credits and uh he's got a lot of stuff in
here. Free Guy, Ready Player One, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk,
X Men, The Last Stand, and Fantastic four and elektra all of
Will's favorites. Okay, well, I just want to say that Zach Penn
made a good movie. Norm mc doodson, Hey man, I'll take that.
I missed that guy. I remember, Oh my god, my sister
did the most appropriately uh norm thing, but it made me cry. I
didn't know he had died, and I just I got this text for my
sister, and it was a gift of the scene in Dirty, Dirty Work
when Norm is being thrown into a dumpster. And so I just opened my
phone. It's this is repeated image of Norman donald been thrown into a dumpster.
And then I get a news alert that he had died, and I
fucking wept. I got cried and uh it took it took me a few
hours. But but I uh but I had to say to my sister,
you know what that was? That was the right move. Unintentional norm type
humor. I don't know, it's oh man, you should see. I've
got a I've got Q cards in front of me. This is I've been
working, this is. This is the reason I'm ONM only once a month.
I work on it. Uh, let's go to the next one.
We only got a couple left. Uh. BFI is also releasing on a
January twenty second scale. U scaala not sure to pronounce this, I've not
seen it. Don't roast me in the comments please. From twenty twenty,
it says archive footage, eye popping movie clips, acid crazed animation, and
some famous names collide to tell the story of London's infamous influentia Scala cinema,
scallow cinema, with its cracked marble floors, resonant cats and mysterious extra sensory
rumblings. This was magic and a refuge from the violence of Thatcher's Britain.
Hilarious, reverend and ultimately heartbreaking with the fabulous original score by Barry Adamson.
It is more than mere nostalgia. It's an X rated love letter and a
universal shout out to the power of cinemas to inspire impressionable young minds and create
a sense of community for outsiders, a place where everyone is welcome. Yes,
we need we need those. I like to say that about this place
too. I missed the writing credit for ninety nine's Inspector Gadget. I didn't
expand the IMDb I apologize Sidner. Terry says. The only way that this
could be more for Terry would be for them to retitle it from Scala to
Terry. The incredibly strange film show clip package is the cherry on top.
Yeah, there's a lot on this. Oh this is a Yeah. It
was one hundred audio feature commentary by the directors. Best of the rest,
essential outtakes from it. Thirty minute intimate portrait of the cinema in its later
years, originally made for Cable London. The Scaler's projectionist at work. Incredible
incredibly strange film show sampler, Essential psychotronic interviews with some Scala favorite filmmakers.
Animations from the film that's from twenty twenty three. The Viz cartoonist creates a
piece of artwork for the film's from this year as well lots of new stuff.
This looks to be a pretty loaded disc if you are into something like
this. And we'll left. I think we only got one or two left,
so let's discuss The Eternal Daughter. We had gone over this one previously.
But Joanna Hogg's release is coming on January twenty second on blue ray from
the BFI. This is going to have an audio commentary by Joanna Hogg and
the PDE Stephanie Kludge. We got a short film by Joanna Hogg from twenty
twenty three that's eleven minutes, and there's a theatrical trailer and some other extras
that will be announced at a later date. And h yeah, it looks
looks like a good release for this one. And we don't have a US
release for this one yet, So love Joanna Hog. Sorry, had a
familial situation occur, Love Joanna Hogg. Good. BFI's got some shit this
week, this month, whatever, whenever they're releasing them, Well, this
one is January. They're kind of all over the place, including one of
these was March we're already getting March announcements. Sir, who knows what we're
even going to be here? I know, well, uh, February twenty
six, they're also releasing Getting It Back, the story of Again. Another
word that can be pronounced six different ways? What's what would you say as
you're reading this? Will you're the educator? I'm going with Simande Simonde.
This is from twenty twenty two and the racially turbulent UK of the early seventies.
A group of black musicians came together in South London with the common love
of rhythm and a message. A piece Simande, with a dove as their
symbol, combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean gurus to form a unique
sound. Despite success of the US, they faced indifference in their native Britain,
becoming disillusioned and disbanding in seventy five. This is going to have a
trailer on it and an illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full
credits, and that is it. I just wanna Simonde, got it?
That's what I fucking said. You said Simonde, not Simonde. I just
looked it up. I was correct. Samande ah means dove, and calypsour.
I love it. You sound like so, I don't know, like
nonplussed about that. Yeah, this is what the fuck it means. Clipso
God, I'm actually I'm doing an impression of my dad. Anytime, anytime
anything like related to like any kind of awareness of other people comes up,
my dad goes, I'm woke. Oh Jesus, I'm woke. I'm into
it. I've come around. I've come around, That's what he says.
Because I've come around, I'm like, way to go, dad, Could
you just sound a little less angry about it? All right? Last thing
we do after announcements is check on what is coming out next week, just
in case you were forgetting, and there's quite a lot. Cargo four k,
Witness four K, that's an arrow release, American Graffiti four K,
which again I'm not one to trash like we were talking about with mean streets,
but I'm hearing American Graffiti is littered with DNR, so you may want
to wait on some more specific reviews from those that are getting that early.
I'm not checking that one out anytime. So it's also littered with shitty writing.
See that was a very norm joke. Scrooge four K next week Trading
Places four K new four K steel Book of the Guns of Navarone, Jackie
Chan box set from Criterion, Black Hawk Down four K steel Books, Surviving
the Game finally on blue from Shout. Violent Knights, relely Re release on
four K. Duck Soup, Monkey Business, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers are
all getting standard releases from the studio next week. Oh Wow, full Body
Massage from Unearthed. The South Park of the Streaming Wars coming from Paramounts Grand
Tarisma four next week as well. Coconuts also one of those standards from the
studio. Buster Keaton Collection, Volume five from Coen Media. World of Giants
from the Classic Flicks collection, Shamus coming to our baskin from Fun City Editions,
which we don't get to talk about enough. The Clerk's Won Through three
Premium box set. I think this is the one that folds out like the
quick Stop if I remember right. The perfume of the Lady in Black.
That's a rare video title bullet for Sandoval coming from VCI Robodoc. This is
one that people are saying it's actually pretty good. Uh. The Gamblers coming
from VCI Warhorse One. I believe that one is coming from well, go
Usa, Lion Girl coming from MVD. That's most of the big ones.
Any of those near the top at least that you're eager for are picking up.
Go back to full body massage. Look at it quickly and tell me
it doesn't look like Joe Bob and Darcy. So. I've never said this
before because I know your affinity for Joe Bob, but Joe Bob looks like
a younger version of my grandfather that's passed away, unfortunately, And that picture
makes it very apparent. He looks just like my grandfather in that picture.
Well, I'm not offended, I'm just sorry he's passed away. Eh.
He was kind of a dick. Yeah, so there's some good stuff coming
out, I mean, Surviving the Game obviously, the Jackie Chan, the
Witness, all those Marx brothers. People should check out if they don't already
have them in box sets and stuff, Buster Keaton obviously. Yeah. A
bunch of good stuff, cool, cool, cool, good week Yeah.
Yeah yeah. Uh, Craig has a witness already. Simmonar wants to know
if anybody else listening to the New Beatles song today did you hear about that?
And listen to it at all. Oh man, I remember. I
remember when it was like, what was the song? When the anthology came
out, like twenty years ago, the big documentary yep, and I was
like, oh, this is the last song. So no, I haven't,
I haven't heard yet. I'm sure I will, but it wasn't like
something that I was like, right looked about and I don't, all right,
don't. I've never really been a Beatles guy. You don't. You
don't seem like a Beatles guy at all. I like him. I used
to date. I used to date a woman who was who was like obsessive
and had like every you know, had record like live recordings of them singing
in German at playing in German clubs and stuff. So like I've I've listened
to all of it and like every I mean, abbey Road, what a
great album. But but it's not like my thing. I'm more of a
like and this is probably because of my dad. I'm more of a kinkskuy.
I like the Kinks, working working class rock operas, you know,
Yeah, I get that. Yeah. A lot lots of stuff going on,
god, lots of lots of films being released. That's the big thing,
and man, one thing I did want to say before we get into
this whole managing a physical collection part of the conversation. I had somebody comment
on one of the Instagram posts and I glossed over it tonight because I didn't
know if I was gonna mention it. But there there was a comment that
said too many new movies and somebody upset that a movie post two thousand was
getting another release and essentially just posting negativity on an announcement. All these films
need to be saved. There are countless films going through film festivals right now
that are not getting any release, not going on streaming, not getting any
physical media release, and therefore we'll be on the verge of being lost media
very soon. That's that's crazy to think of in twenty twenty three. And
you know what, this is so important that you're saying this. I didn't
know you were going to bring this up, but I'm glad you did because
I want to make a confession. When I looked at the OCN releases,
I found myself going like, oh god, everything's from like twenty two,
twenty twenty three. I don't know about this, And I had to stop
myself and be like, why am I like biased against new movies. Well,
there's a couple reasons, right. One, most new movies suck because
of the effect of the blockbuster over the last thirty years. Okay, but
in fact, throughout history, most movies suck, just like most books suck
and those songs suck. You know, you have to look to find the
good stuff, and sometimes the stuff that you think sucks is actually pretty good.
It just takes a while to realize it. But the other thing is,
you know, as somebody who is trained in film studies, you're kind
of because you spend so much time studying film history, you you kind of
gravitate towards older releases as a result, because you're used to kind of the
archive mentality, like I need to go back and learn what's been what's been
made, and and how what's been made influences what's been made since. And
so as we get farther and farther up and closer to the present day,
you kind of have less less imprinted reverence. Yep, boy, But you're
right, the new stuff is in just as much danger of being lost as
the silent films were, right when they didn't preserve film at all and just
burned it. The new stuff isn't getting physical release at all at all.
It's going to streaming for a couple months and then disappearing or not even going
to streaming. We're not even going to streaming. We'll never know the genius
that might have been backgirl and so Yeah, like dude McMahon says, but
are those new films in as much danger as fifty to one hundred year old
films on deteriorating film stock. Funny enough, they are, because most of
the times the films that we know that are on deteriorating film stock that are
fifty to one hundred years old, they're being archived one way or the other,
or they're being restored every so often. But something that's on a single
hard drive from a director, it literally may not go anywhere. And if
it's on one hard drive for a director, how many people in the chat
have had a hard drive fail on them. I've had a hard drive fail
this year already. It happens all the damn time. God Siminar even brings
up, remember Toy Story two almost got completely erased because somebody took something home,
Like it's crazy, what goes through some of these. It's not just
film stock that is deteriorating, it's the fact that we could lose all of
this. Yeah. Carrie Mulligan says the worst part of attending film festivals is
that you sometimes fall in love with the film you may never see again,
still hunting down Norway's Harajuku, among many others. There was when I was
at Texas Freightmere a few years ago. There was a film that I saw
like the first third of and the person I was with was going through massive
back problems and we need to walk out. And I'm still dying to see
the end of that movie. And I don't even remember what the name of
it is, so I can't search it out. Yeah, you know,
and this will kind of get us into not that I'm pushing us towards it,
eventually, questions of collecting and physical media storage, because it's exactly these
kinds of questions that make it so hard for me ever to get rid of
something Like I've seen Ninja Zombie and I enjoyed it, but I'm probably never
going to watch it again, right, But I can't get rid of it.
But it's a DVD and I can't I can't, you know, like
what if what if I need to show this to somebody? Yeah, you
know. And yeah, the other thing is especially for you know, people
doing stuff like you and I especially you as an educator. A lot of
this stuff if you can't see it anywhere else and you need to refer to
something, Yeah, you literally have a library you have. I mean I
call this this space the disconnected physical Media collection Museum and libraries what I call
it. And there's been many times Will and I have been working on something
or talking about something and I go, oh, yeah, I've got a
copy of that. I'll go pop it in and see if you know what
the audio commentary on that one says about it, and we'll go do some
do some research. I just had to send something to Germany because they couldn't
find something, a copy of something on a disc, so I was the
one that could help them. Yeah, every semester, my students are amazed
when I'll show a film and they can't find it torrenting somewhere, and then
they're like, shit, I'm gonna have to actually go to class. Yeah.
So many things just completely unavailable, and it's it's it's amazing that that
that I'll even have a physical copy of it. When you think of how
many films have not even made the leap to VHS, much less to DVD,
Blu ray, you know. And that's that's why the work that these
boutique labels do is so important, right, like, because the big studios
definitely aren't doing it anymore. Right You still have more of archives hopefully will
keep going, you know, paramount, you know, but but most of
them, but most of the stuff this needs rescueing isn't necessarily with the big
studios, so right, And that's that's why, like the Netflix DVD program
was such a big deal for people like will. That's why Scarecrow Video offering
people to rent nationally through through their rental program and they will send it to
you, you can send it back. That is a huge thing where you
can access some of these not only just the old films, but the bonus
features that are on those that could be potentially lost as well. That's one
of the things I descended Germany, like, even if you get the rights
to something, some of these places they just don't care and don't have copies
of it. It's wild what some of these go through. It's Anyways,
I could just go on for this for hours. Well we're gonna be that's
what we're talking about further, huh touoche. So that's why it's so important
to physically store your stuff well and when you're moving, take good care of
them. So I'm gonna highlight dude's comments here first and then we'll go into
some of that Dude McMahon says. Circling ran back to Pamela Pierce heard a
great interview where she had trouble tracking down a good print of Boggie Creek because
the distributor burned most of the thirty five millimeter prints. She heard Tarantino had
a copy but didn't know how to get a hold of them. She ended
up buying one on eBay for a couple thousand bucks. That's amazing, Well
for looks pretty good, and and look it's it's not a movie for everybody,
but it's really interesting because it's it's it's essentially a proto uh, a
proto true crime, proto unsolved mysteries, proto ancient aliens, or or or
one of those kinds of pseudoscience reality shows. Because it's a it's a it's
a compilation of re enactments of quote unquote real Bigfoot encounters. And you know,
I think for any unadventurous filmgoer it's a boring movie. But when you
when you really sit down and give it the attention and enjoy the incredible location
photography, I mean, it's just gorgeous, but also kind of get into
the experimental structure of the film, it's really fulfilling experience. So yeah,
Boggy Creek is a movie that I don't know if I'll ever watch it again,
but I'm definitely not getting rid of it. And I love my long
sleeved tea that I got with no extra charge from Pamela Pears herself. So
on that note, as we said, we're going to discuss a little bit
on the physical maintaining of the discs and some tips for moving that I had
prepared for somebody else. I was going to put this in another video,
but may as well go over it here. So first, you've you've had
to move quite a bit recently. Do you have any any casualties anything that
got damaged in the move at all? Yeah, And this is why anytime
there's anytime Criteria announce makes an announcement and I see a cardboard box set,
I'm like, God damn it, because I know that it's going to get
damaged when I have to move it around, inevitably in storage. Right yeah,
so right now, Yeah, my collections in about fifty some boxes.
I had kept everything alphabetical, entirely alphabetical, with separate sections for box sets
based on director, actor or you know, themed collections whatever. But I
can't do that here. I have room for Maybe this is like the most
privileged complaint you've ever heard. I have room for maybe a thousand movies in
the hear And so what I'm doing, and this is the first time I've
ever done something like this, is I'm pulling out stuff by label. So
behind me here is Severn. That's like almost the complete Severn, pretty much
the complete seven. And I've got my Imprint and my Radius and my Eureka
and eighty eight and all my O c ms. I don't have Vinegar,
Syndrome or Criterion out because there's so many of those that I need to get
like a rotating tower for them. I've got on the opposite side of this
camera. I've got all of my four k's pulled, and that's kind of
it, but it's kind of weird because I'm so used to my viewing habits
are very director focused or genre focus. Yeah, and when things were alphabetized,
it was easy for me to just know where to go. On the
other hand, and I know, you know, I've watched a lot of
people's videos in which they show how they arrange their collections, and I'm I'm
kind of interested in seeing how it looks for the for the displayer in me
for the first time, to see all the all the label right, the
label continuity. I've got all my error four four four fours there that one's
easy, my synaps and my Mando Macabro on the other sign, so that
part is going to be interesting. I'll be able to concentrate my viewing on
those. I certainly can't put my keyno out. That's like half the collection.
I gotta admit, it is really nice to see labels together when when
there's something that looks nice together, like I I have. The far corner
of my room is just red because it's Monda macabre. All of the DVD
and Blu ray cases next to each other is just bright red. A lot
of the arrow ones look really great together. Especially like the slipcover Blu Ray
releases. They look fantastic, So that part is kind of cool. The
the opportunity to curate, you know, I can. I spent all this
week. I've been pulling boxes out and going through them, and I've gotten
about a box and a half worth of stuff to get rid of. And
I pulled out, uh, I pulled out all my Gemlin Norski films for
reasons that I'm not going to say at this time, and h and that
was kind of fun going through stuff. And of course I picked out a
couple other titles that I'm like, I need to watch these like this week.
But I also, you know, going back to your question about damage
and and losing stuff, and then and and just the the kind of esthetic
and ethical questions about collecting and display, it's tough, you know, Like
again, being able to collect at all is a privilege, right. It
means that you either have disposable income where you're making bad choices, and you're
capable of making bad choices, right, and probably a little bit of both,
or a lot of both in my case, I'm sure in your case.
Two, I don't talking about it. I'm seeing all these great comments.
And you know what I'm not seeing is people who are like, you
know what, I'll put them in sleeves. I keep them all in the
envelopes. It's like, that's a different channel, sir. You know there's
a community for you elsewhere. Dude McMahon says he only has two my norskis.
I don't believe you. I think you have more. You just don't
know it. Chris saying, Will if they came out with a two hundred
and seven disc Jess Franco Complete box set for two grand, would you buy
it? The answer is yes, Yeah. I mean that's a pretty good
fucking deal that I'd probably get that. If it was a Spielberg set two
hundred and seven movies for two thousand dollars, that's it. Spielberg wishes he
did two hundred seven movies. Fucker where were we get three? And I
gotta say in the nineties, when I would see people put CDs into those
binders, I would just like, that would be the end of our friendship.
I'd be like, you have no respect for art, Like, what
are you doing? You know I only did it because I carried it in
the car everywhere. That makes it even worse because then you pull them out
and you got to blow on them and rub them on your pant leg and
then the player n I maintained my stuff way too much. Yeah, So
a lot of questions that can come up from that. Obviously, the ethical
side of displaying and everything that comes from that is five other conversations in one.
The big thing though, is caring for these and you know, we're
talking about archiving in a way that doesn't lead to lost media. And one
of the things that you hear about is disc rot. That's a scary thing
for a lot of people. Have you had any any discs that you've lost
a disc rot? I have never discovered it. I'm sure there's I mean,
chances are there something in here that isn't going to play anymore, but
it's not happened. So for those that I've never seen it, disc rot
usually shows up as like a white cloudy film basically that is on the the
silver side of a blu ray that it over time, it will likely be
expanding from the inner to the outer rings of the disc. I've not ever
had a disc rot on any of mine, however, I don't know if
you remember there was a batch of Oh gosh, I think it was lions
Gate from like twenty eleven. They had like a couple months where all of
the discs failed super quickly, and unfortunately one of mine fell into that batch
and I went to watch it a few months ago and it just didn't work
at all. Nothing about it didn't didn't even try to spin. It's crazy.
What was it? I think it was House of a Thousand Corpses.
And you're gonna be like, yeah, it's Rob Zombie, who cares?
But that's exactly what I was gonna say. I love that movie and I
really wanted to watch it, And Carrie Mulligan just said her Devil's Rejects.
You know what, it might have been Devil's Rejects. In fact, now
I think it definitely may have been Devil's Rejects because I've got that autographed by
Bill Moseley and someone else too. So yeah, discrot sucks, and a
lot of times there's nothing you can do about that. People talk about discrod
as if it's something that you can combat. The if the lions Gate thing
was disc rot, there was nothing that collectors could do. They were all
going to fail no matter what. But the other side of that is a
lot of people talk about like temperature control rooms and before the heat or the
cold can ruin your disc I think the bigger thing that people need to look
out for, especially for somebody like will humidity. Have you ever had problems
with humidity? Will? I have been very fortunate because, you know,
for the past thirteen years I've been living in a an apartment of faculty apartment
that was connected to a resident a residence hall on campus, and so it
had you know, super centralized he there and was really well well maintained,
no problem. Now I'm in a house or rental, and the house itself
is good, well insulated, but the bulk of my collection are in boxes
stacked up, which means that there's weight, you know, pushing down,
and they're in our laundry room, which, because of the way the house
is done, is not it doesn't get like humid, balmy, or or
particularly cold, but it's still a laundry room, and uh, it just
makes me nervous. And then my book collection. I have about twenty five
hundred books that's in about forty eight boxes, and we have that in an
outbuilding. It's it's it's a it has air conditioning, it has heat,
it's it's but you know, we don't use and it gets pretty humid here.
So in the summer, I'm it's it'll be cheaper than getting a storage
unit, so I'll probably just keep the air conditioning on low when it sorts
to get hot. I don't think humidity will be a problem, but but
temperature would be if I didn't make a an intervention. Uh so yeah,
I mean, like, for me, my only recourse is to black man
a rich person sexually, or win the lottery. And I'll tell you you
know, I've had I've had my chances. I dated a girl in high
school who, not long after we broke up, her father won the West
Virginia State lottery twice, like multi multimillion dollars. Like why could I have
not knocked her up? Nice girl too, Like would have been fine?
Oh so close. So yeah, I just like, Uh, this is
a rental obviously, so it won't be a permanent thing. Hopefully. I
don't know. But as far as size goes, I need like one room,
one more room and I'll be able to properly. I know all of
us probably say that, don't we. I just need one more room.
Yeah, if we end up staying here, I've already told my kids what
they use as a playroom. Now it'll be my playroom eventually. Yeah,
I'm like, oh, I can't wait until you get old and move out.
Remember that time that I had kids that didn't care about big toys that
they could jump on and stuff. Yeah, I can't wait for kids like
that again. Nicki medi says, my problem is I have so many discs
in so little space. I've stacked half of them. Trying to solve it
without moving is a challenge. You are speaking our language. My friend with
Will and I are both seeing a lot of stacking issues. I mean,
I've you know, I've got stacks you can see right here starting to go
on top of my shelves. I've got stacks. I don't really show this
side, but I've got stacks pile up on the table right now that need
to be put away, and I have no place to put them. I've
got the closet of shame that looks ridiculously bad. There's I mean, space
is a true issue, and so that brings us to a big question about
our are collecting and curation right, Like, what's our because you know we're
going to die, right and I don't like to think about it. But
like, so I'm forty five and I've got about nine thousand movies, which
means it would take about thirty years to watch them all if I watched one
a day, and I like to think I have thirty years, maybe hopefully
fifty, but also one a day shooting it pretty short. That's about all
I can do right now and then and then you know, there's also all
the streaming stuff. And I have about nine thousand movies now. But he
says the closetive shame I came out and I still have one that that is
the best guy. I love that. Yeah, well that's the big question
now, right, like, like realistically, because I get new movies every
week, I'm probably gonna pass away with with some films unwatched in the collection.
So so what are we gonna do? So, like I'm I'm some
people who are into film studies might be familiar with and I've mentioned him on
the show before. David A. Cook, who wrote a history of narrative
film UH and Lost Illusions American cinema in the seventies, as well as a
new book History of three dimensional cinema. You know, he's he's one of
the top film historians in the world. And he happens to also be at
at my school and and we've become friends. And he has a collection that
is somewhere around fifteen twenty thousand movies stacked all over like he's got the whole
house. It's an abomination. But he's he's you know, he's seventy five
years old, and he's so he's starting to think, like, what what
should I do with this shit? Because because I heard somewhere I can't take
it with me. I think it was a Frank Kapper movie. And so
he's enlisted my help in trying to find a way to donate his collection to
a library. But it's actually very difficult. You can't just call up a
library and say, hey, would you like a library or my personal library
of twenty thousand films to make available to the world. You'd think a library
would be like, hey, yeah, that's our mission, but most libraries
are like, no, I don't want anything, especially not the gay stuff
these days, you know, that's unfortunately a problem. Yeah, sadly to
bring so one of the ways that I approach a lot of this is this
whole room is my retirement plan. I don't plan on spending a lot on
exorbitant travel, even though I probably should. I want to get my culture
from nineteen seventy shlock and I already have it. And the other thing is
like, yeah, if I die prematurely, I kind of feel like my
kids have a built in library already for their futures. And because I'm working
to instill some of that passion for film, I really hope that it's something
that they're into. And I've already seen some examples of that. And if
not, not like you know, trying to pimp out the Patreon more or
anything like that, but if you've watched the videos with my kids in them,
a lot of these, they're already fascinated with the actual physical product of
looking at these films, what comes in them, what comes with them,
what the films can say, what you know, what else is on the
disc. Even the act of putting the disc in the thing is just this
almost ritualistic thing that we do. And I really hope I'm I'm building that
passion. And so if I were to die next Thursday before our show in
a bus accident, when I'm crossing the street. You know, they'll they'll
have a built in retirement plan for them for years, and honestly, because
the subscriptions, they'll still beginning films for a few months. So it's the
it's a giving Yeah. So I started laughing specifically because I thought of my
Just Franco collection being like Helen, this is for you. Open a box
and the light pours out. But I gotta say, Simner said, university
will say them, No, I'm talking about a university. They won't.
It's it's it's there's a whole difficult process of uh transferring media to to libraries,
and then non university libraries will just be like, no, we can't
take them. You know you can. You can give them to us and
we'll put them in our like dollar sale. But I don't like the idea
that makes me think of a ghost world, you know, with Steve Bushini
go into like different garage sales to find to find forty five. That's that's
Realistically, it's gonna be a situation like like I'm dangerous tonight where all my
all my stuff's gonna end up in a cursed trunk, you know, and
I'm trying to get my kids interested in it. I took Helen to see
The Invisible Man, uh, the not the new one, the the James
Whale version at the Alamo a couple of weeks ago, and she enjoyed it.
Uh. And and there are some films that she's she's starting to get
into, like she loves Nightmare Before Christmas and things like that, which I
hope will lead to an interest in all of this stuff. But I just
don't know, you know, like my dad tried to leave a legacy for
me, and I rejected him resoundingly. You know me too. I mean,
my dad tried so hard to make me an alcoholic and thankfully I just
completely went away from that. My dad. My dad's in marijuana, so
that's probably why I stuck with the alcohol. It's too bad. My dad
is an incredible gardener, like raises in all of all of my folks.
They eat food that they grow. And both me and my sister were like,
fuck you, Dad, We're going to stare at screens till we die.
What kind of secrets are you arboring? What kind of what I said?
What kind of secrets are you arboring? I'm all, I'm just trying
to be funny. Yeah, well he he's got them all. Like,
if Escape from l A happens, I'm gonna die in the first wave.
I'm gonna die in the bad CGI. Yeah, I'll be able to talk
for another time. Escape from l A CGI issues aside, That movie was
right, thanks, Ronnie. Similar Oh my gosh. What Yeah, Similarly,
you'll be happy to know that I've settled it on my stomach. I
wanted to bring up some some tips for moving. I had somebody message probably
about a year ago, and I had been planning on making this another video
of itself. But we were talking about this because I'm you know, I've
been saying this like a year. But we're really trying to we're really trying
to focus on this and get going. But we we were hoping on moving
soon. And there's so much shit in this room that just the idea of
moving it. I kind of want to not ever move. And y'all I've
seen it, uh yeah, moving, oh my god. And let me
tell you, books even worse. But yeah, boxes of books are so
heavy, oh my god, oh my god, and none of them are
the same height of course. Ever, yeah, I'm still I'm bringing like,
I'm bringing one box a day home from my my temporary storage of in
my office a new office, to to the the outbuilding that we have on
this property. But my book collection is like fifty eight boxes, so it's
going to take fifty eight trips to get them on. But yeah, you
know, as you're saying, like having seen your archive, Yeah, the
best thing about moving movies is that you can divide them up by format.
Of course, your media books are going to be a problem, and your
beloved media books thanks thanks to Europe. This is the this is their revenge
for our Europe's revenge on our measurement systems as media books. But yeah,
you know, when you move, you find yourself being able to throw away
like half your stuff, but none of your you know, movies or books.
That's the stuff that takes up so much space. And you're like,
but no, I've got to preserve this. I've got to save this for
the next generation. And you realize how ridiculous you sound, and yet you
you're you also cannot let go of it because it defines, it defines so
much of our our lives. Like maybe I'm full of myself, but I
think there's a difference between collecting this kind of stuff and you know, basic
materialism. You know, yes, we're obsessively attached to these physical material items,
but not in the way that kind of a voracious consumer of creature comforts
is, right, do you know what I mean? What I'm saying,
these accumulations are not They're luxuries in the sense that you know, we have
the ability to amass them, but they're not luxuries in the sense of making
our lives in any way like more pampered. Right, Like collecting film,
collecting books, collecting art, collecting music is work. It's a burden,
you know, to move as a burden, and these are you know,
you can't just throw these out and get new ones like you can with say,
clothes or or appliances. Right, So, I I don't know,
Sondra is asking. I know you guys don't like paper sleeves, but do
either of you take DVDs or blu rays and put them into multi disc four
k's if you want to keep all three iterations of the movie. Look,
I don't. I don't want to sound combative, but the idea of adulterating
the packaging, even if it's bad packaging, to some other kind of format
to save space or for any other reason. Just I can't do it.
Yeah, even if, even if I've got some like mill Creek double feature
case, I couldn't take the discs out and put them in something else I
have. I'm more than willing to mention I've got multiple four K discs that
I wanted to keep the the I think it was a DVD release that came
with special features that were not on the four K of the Blu ray,
so I'd get one of the the four K swinging trade discs and be able
to put three discs in there. So I just take the sleeve out of
the other release, put it in the new case, and get all three
discs and call it today. Why not? That's perfect? Oh, I
think I'm misunderstood the question. Then, well you just said. What you
just said is okay, frankensigning releases together, not using other forms of storage.
Okay, Okay, then yes, that's okay. I haven't done it.
I haven't done it, but I'm not against it. But we have
your permission, got it? Dude? McMahon says, I hate moving.
It really sucks. Fortunately, we got an astonishing deal in a much bigger
house, nice, plenty of room to spread out, never moving again.
Yes, smart, similar, Okay, to go with the theme you Die
Tomorrow. You can fit three Blu Ray four K or DVDs in your coffin
with you? Which do you go with? Three? Three? That's a
dang good question. Does a does a box set count as one or as
many disks are there? I think it's it's three. It's three titles,
right, Oh yeah, I'll go three single titles too. Okay, Well,
for me it would be sentimental, and so I would go with Cemetery
Man, Franken Hooker and Slumber Party Massacre two. I know that those are
not obscure or or anything like that, but they were. They were formative,
and when you ask the question, those were the three that popped into
my head, so they must be right. I would go with, uh,
the the one that a lot of people would have guessed. I'm going
to take the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves four K from Arrow because it's an
astonishing release, the coming out release from Altered Innocence, because it was the
first disc that my name was on. And I'm going to throw in probably
the steel book that I have of Halloween. I mean that was such a
formative film for me as well. And yeah, I think those are three
good choices. Well, to be fair, if it's going to be about
like packaging and stuff and special features, I can't say any of the ones
that I would have want to take with me. Ask us that question soon
soon. Question Mark Nikko Medi says, I call my deal the chaos of
curation. I love this stuff, I just don't want to own it.
Yeah. Yeah. Carrie Mulligan a guy freaked out on Michael Keane because he
let his son play with the Friday the thirteenth box set during a live All
right, interesting, who's Michael Kane? He's another YouTube re'sment on the show
before. He was in The Shelf Shock last year as well. What is
k E E N E? Yeah? That sounds familiar. What's the He
does like mostly Vinegar Syndrome stuff. He does editing for Vinegar Syndrome special features
and also has done some TerrorVision. He's got that that movie The Head Coming
Out from Terror Vision that he directed. Ah, okay, cool, I
knew i'd heard that name before. Uh Summers says, we'll just physically clutch
his pearls. What was that over Oh was that repackaging stuff? I think
it was just through the whole ran there about it being more important than consumerism.
Mostly agree will but the firm Blu Ray art work is terrible and had
no problem throwing that disc in the four case. Wow. I also say
that the firm is terrible, but that's okay, we don't have to agree.
Yeah, So going into the ethics of display. So so my wife
very kindly told me this room I can have, right, and and that's
kind of a big deal because it's not like enclosed, like like if somebody
comes into the house, they're going to see the room. So obviously I
can't hang my Demented Death Farm Massacre framed poster or Frank and Hook or anything
like that. I've got like Metropolis and things like that. I do have
my just Break of films on display subtly, like I'm not calling attention to
him, but if somebody would walk up to him and look at the titles,
they'd be like, what's the center and Informaniac about right, it's Citizen
Kane. It's a remake of Citizen Kane. And people be like, you're
bullshitting. I'm like, no, it is, you know, but the
I don't know. The choices are difficult because as I was going through the
boxes, uh to to to pull stuff out to find stuff that I could
sell and try and shrink the collection a little bit everything that I picked up,
I'm like, God, I want to watch this tonight. I want
to watch this tonight. And then you
know what ends up happening is, uh, I watch a show while I
wait for my wife to get sleepy enough so that I can then put in
a movie after she leaves, and then she leaves, and I'm like,
God, damn it, Ah, I'm gonna watch an episode of like gm
V and fall asleep on the couch, you know. So it's it's uh,
it becomes this big question of like going back again, like what am
I doing this for? I've got I've got a collection that is impossible to
see all of and it's growing faster than I could watch even if I could
watch two movies a night, no problem, right, And so then then
you got to ask yourself, like, well, why am I buying all
these movies to eventually try to leave it to a library that may reject me
to try to get my my yeah, and Thursday nights people don't first and
nights people don't even get to watch movies at all. It's just watch you
yapping with somebody. That's crazy, Like how did this even happen? That's
a different question, like how did you conquer this niche market? And we've
been talking so long that Deaf Crocodile has already restored He restored a film while
listening to us. I guess some service like filling the blank space between your
ears if you need some background noise to help you focus on a frame by
frame restoration of a film that's not even a Deaf Crocodile release. So like,
I don't know this question. I think we all come come to at
some point like I am. I am amassing a collection of stuff, a
a a burden right that I'm gonna carry with me wherever I go, of
stuff that I will not all of it well I ever be able to appreciate
what is this for? And and I say this with no answer, And
yet I'm not going to stop because because because I love cinema, I love
film, and even if I never watch something, I know that by getting
a copy I am contributing to its existence. Oh, I did answer it
well, said, yeah, there's a lot that goes into it for sure.
Yeah, I don't even need to add anything. Really, it's it's
it's a tough decision, but yeah, I mean, buy what you want,
want to watch what you buy, and and also that and ingested watch
what you buy. I mean, don't as much as possible. Yeah,
this whole one or two movies. Like I again, I'm genuinely treating mine
like a retirement plan. I am. I'm planning on watching as much as
I possibly can, and honestly, and I know Will's going through a lot
of the same thing, counting down the days until either no offense to the
kids that they're not in the house, or they're fifteen, and I can
listen to two films loud where they're cussing or there's murder happening on the screen
and not going to be you know, traumatizing a seven year old with autism
that walks into the room because I'm watching this murder movie. Especially because Tino
is releasing the ILSA movies next year. Thankfully, my youngest will be turning
eight next year, so that's a plus. Well, if nothing else,
make sure you watch Cat City by Deaf Crocodile. Great film, beautiful release.
Yeah chuck, full of extras, including a commentary by Sam Deacon An
Any any moving tips that we want to throw out for somebody that might be
doing that. Okay, so this may this is an amateurish thing, but
most of the moves in my life I have like gone to liquor stores and
grocery stores and just kind of begged for boxes. And one thing I would
say is that it's worth it to pay money to get boxes that are all
the same side. That was definitely on my list, and it's it's the
second thing on my list. Actually the first thing on my list you kind
of already mentioned, so I want to go through it real quick. I
would say, even though even if you have a giant collection, do not
worry about packing an order. It is more important to pack by format so
it's the same height and all a lot easier for you to put weight on
things in a way that is safe for everything in that box. And if
you're if you're a long time VS collector, put the Pikaramas in a separate
box, both so that you can keep it away from people who don't need
to see it, and so that you can have access to it when you
do need to see it. Yes, uh so, yeah, my thing
packed by format. And same as will I say, don't cheap out on
boxes, Like I know a lot of us get a lot of boxes.
So your first mindset is I've already got forty boxes saved from Diabolic DVD or
you know, Grindhouse or seven or what have you. A lot of those
boxes are not made for moving boxes. They are fairly thin, they're they're
they're not going to hold up you haul. Use those for knickknacks. Yeah,
but Nickknacks put your knickknacks in those. Your Nickknack Patty wax go in
those those boxes. Get the yeah, get the strong uniform boxes for your
collection. That's a big deal. And then on top of that, you
are getting packing materials. So make sure you're saving some of that bubble rap
and those air pillows. That goes a long way to save things up on
the sides. You are going to have, you know, a little bit
of protection that helps and goes a long way. Boxes are gonna shift no
matter how tightly you pack them, no matter how much you put it in
there. The boxes that you use are super important. Yeah, the big
thing too for a lot of us that are going to be doing this.
Some people go with the moving company, and I would say have them pack
everything that is not your collection. Pack those yourself if you want them to
be treated as importantly. You can really only trust yourself with that. Yeah,
save those guys for plates and ship else saying hell, raiser, you
can't trust moving moving companies. Uh, if you are using a moving truck.
We talked about some of these, you know, standardized boxes, but
also the the better thing that you can do put those like cube sized boxes
standardly stacked behind tall furniture so that way they are lodged in place and protected.
That's a big deal. But if you have one hundred of those film
canisters that Vinegarson am used to ship, you probably already have your space problem
solved. If you have a hundred of those, Yeah, I don't have
any man one thing that I'm sure will could attest to. Right now,
when you're looking at how much time you're prepping to pack and move a collection,
take that time and probably double it. At least. It takes a
lot longer to do this stuff than you think. Oh, yeah. I
like. What I like to do is schedule my moving time in the same
week that I have a hard deadline for something else, not just one like
three hard times. Yeah, that usually helped. I. I remember when
I was moving out of the the apartment. I thought I had all this,
I thought I had plenty of time, and I was like, yeah,
I'm gonna have the my last night in the apartment. I'll I'll have
a bottle of wine and watch a movie and and have a good night's sleep.
And this was around like six o'clock at night. It's like, yeah,
I just need to finish packing up the movies. And then around four
in the morning, I was like, I'm not gonna get done packing tonight.
I just need to sleep for three hours and then get up and finish.
And so I go to sleep in my own sweat. You know.
It just there was no there was no elegance to it at all, because
it took so much longer than I could have ever imagined. Yeah. Rough,
Uh, let's see a couple of others that I had written down.
One. A lot of people when they're talking about moving, they seem to
go to the idea of tots. I say, for collections for these never
use tots. They don't have the gift that you want, and it will
dent everything. And then the sides that they're a little bit thinner and they
do give, they're going to to dent whatever you got on the inside,
it's going to push into it. What's a tote like a total like a
big plastic rubber made to oh oh oh yeah, no, those are yeah,
you're right, they're not garbage. Yeah, they're well, they're fine
for other stuff, but yeah, yeah, if you're desperately trying to shape
wrong shape exactly. And that's the other big thing. They're not even flat
bottomed. And supposedly all those all those girls make the world go around.
M h. I had to be made joke before you went there. I
prefer I prefer the round bottom tope. But okay, normally yes, but
yeah, these are not full in the way you want them to be.
In the Karen series, uh uh what about uh the actual physical storage in
your room when you've got stuff on display, anything that you found that you
want to throw out there is meaningful ideas or protection ideas well as we are
already mentioned. You know, if you have limited space in particular highlighting particular
you know, individual labels is a good way to go, or or format
like four O K for example. That's really hard for me because my particular
psychological idiosyncrasies demand like the full every everything get displayed, and so it's really
hard for me to pull things out and then know that stuff's out of alphabetical
order things like that. But yeah, I think most normal people are able
to, you know, make displays that are themed like here are all my
Westerns? Or here are my here are all my or trap worms or something
see. And I've never I've never even understood the idea of of alphabetizing,
Like I understand it's easy to find a title quickly, but I'd rather go
by genre because I when I I'm I'm storing these to watch, and i'd
normally I don't think I want to watch a movie that starts with a letter
L. I think I want to watch a horror movie, and I go
grab a horror movie. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, But I
mean, of course you get in the difficulty of like hybrid genre is like
where does uh you know, where does this film go? Where does that
film go? Where does you know? Where would I put Cowboys and aliens
the track. But even you know, like if if if if, like
us, you're in the thousands of movies. So even even when you separated
by genre, you you still alphabetize them, right or something like that within
the genre. Yes, yeah, yeah, so that I mean, that's
that's fine. Yeah, it just gets tough when you have to make decisions
about like horror comedies or or or write. Yeah. So I understand that
because it's you always know where a title is when it's alphabetical. But again,
I don't go, hmm, what letters should we watch tonight? And
see this is how weird I am. Like most of the stuff I watch.
I'm like, Okay, I'm going to watch everything by ex director or
I'm going to start at Z and what like. When I first started getting
into movies, and this is one of the reasons that I'm a huge well
I'll explain. So I started. I started working at a video store and
I was like, Okay, well I'm going to start I'm going to just
watch every single movie in order alphabetically in the horror section. But I decided
to start backwards, and so one of the first things one of my formative
influences is at the time when I was nineteen and a college student in nineteen
ninety seven. At the time, there were fourteen Witchcraft movies, and like,
my introduction to like immersing myself in film studies was that it's amazing,
it's amazing, I'm alive. But yeah, like I watched all fourteen at
the time, all fourteen Witchcraft movies, and then kept going backwards all the
way to Enigma was the first one in the section. See And this is
actually a good topic to bring up in response to this, because obviously everybody
sorts in a different way, but the way that we're describing it back and
forth. You've got your quirk of how you watch. I've got my quirk
of I like the whole I do this far too often. I do the
video store mentality. I'm gonna go through and browse my titles till one goes,
oh, you have to watch this right now, so my stuff.
If I was doing that, I would have it in a way that would
appeal to that mindset for you. If you're watching by director, I would
say, why don't you go alphabetical by director? Well, I've got you
know, all these different like spreadsheets and Google Google docs and things that I
can consult, so like, without even looking at the collection, I can
be like, Okay, well, I'd like to watch a film by Sergio
Martino tonight, or or you know, Mikayla Suaby tonight. What do I
have? And then I can and then I can see a list like oh,
okay, or like, how many movies do I have by ring a
Lamb? Six? Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch all six of them
this weekend. You know, I'm gonna go from City on Fire to Replicant.
Yeah. If I was doing what has been sort of steering my viewing
lately, i'd almost be organizing by runtime run time seems to be lately.
That's a big deal. That's that's yeah. That stops me from certain directors.
Oh this is seventy five minutes I'm watching that tonight. As that may
be one of the reasons I love Lee Frost so much as as opposed to
like, you know, the various Russians uh ideology. Notwithstanding, Yeah,
you know, for me, well, for me, the full alphabetical thing
still allows me to do kind of a video store browse, not through,
not via genre, but I'll just kind of, you know, go through
okay Elle, and I'll see these these films from all different genres and finally
settle on one. You know, whether it's Let's Scare Jessica to Death or
or John Sales Leahana or or you know the various. There's like six different
films called Laura, and for some reason you end up watching a Leprechaun four
I think is that one of the Trenchard Smiths ones? Yeah, it is
so yeah, that could happen. That could happen for vinegar syndromean criterion,
do you go buy catalog number or title? I feel like I feel like
you do criterion by catalog number and vs. By title. No, well,
I mean everything is alphabetized, but like, yeah, the the stuff
that's got spine numbers on it, like Criterion causes me to have like,
uh a sandspur in my soul, you know, like as I'm looking through,
like, yeah, I should, I should really put all the criterions
together just to see what it looks like. Well now I probably will as
soon as I'm able to. But but I mean, when you get to
the point that you have eight, nine, ten thousand movies, the alphabet
really needs to be part of your thinking, you know, Yeah, Unfortunately
it is the the smartest way to go about a lot of that. So
when I made a when I made a video showing my complete collection vertically instead
of horizontally as instructed h for the for last year's shelf Shock rewinding. You
know, you saw I went, I went around the room and and and
things were displayed, and and I took time to you know, make some
some stuff look interesting and to intersperse, you know, figurines and posters and
stickers and things like that. But when you have a collection that that is
a panopoly that girls, you know, fills an entire room. And in
fact that wasn't that video was not the whole collection. Yeah, it's spilled
over into two other rooms. And I've gotten more things since then, a
lot more things. It's it's easy for me to understand the appeal of different
like themed organizations, but it's hard for me to It's hard for me to
accept anything except for the alphabet. There are certain things that I think it's
it's certainly size of catalog dependent genres and by label makes a lot of sense
if you only have a couple thousand at most, But when you start talking
about like eight to nine thousand man alphabetical is very appealing. Yeah, yeah,
you know I have. I have about twenty five hundred books. And
you know, for most of most of the time I've known you, I
was in my old office and so you could see behind me in that in
that office that there were just books everywhere, and it was all around the
room. And those were also organized alphabetically by so they were divided by subjects.
So it was like science, history, music, literature, film,
religion, philosophy, et cetera. And then organized by author. And the
division had the director of the Housing and Residence Life Unit of the university would
occasionally visit the office just to say hi and see how things are going.
And he would come in and he would wait until I wasn't looking and would
move a book just to see if I would notice. And I always noticed,
but sometimes it took a while. I would just be uncomfortable and and
be like, what the fuck happened? And yeah, and uh it was
it was one of those things where you torture someone with undiagnosed OCD. But
but I always noticed he would he would move something every no, not every
time, but every time he did move something, I would find it and
he would think that's real funny. And and then after thirteen years of knowing
me and being on good, good relations I changed positions and I could have
stayed in the same office, but he was like, no, I'm moving
you to a closet. Fuck you. And and that's that's what human relations
are like. You know, you think you think you're you think you're cool,
and then you find out you're not. Well, we're getting to the
end of what we should probably wrap up. Uh, I do want to
say one thing that kind of ties the whole Physical location in a collection and
for moving is really important, and UH just want to highlight that one of
the things you should always prep for is movement for a collection. Physical movement
is the enemy for all of these things. You don't want to stack to
fall over. You don't want uh, if it's something in a box,
you don't want the stuff in the box to move it all. It's the
same as when you're shipping a package. You don't want to get something in
from Diabolic and shake the box and you hear contents just going all over like
you get from Best Buy your Amazon. You you want those things to be
stuffed tight in that box and uh not be able to move at all.
So if you're moving locking in there tight, if you are storing things in
your collection room, find a way to do it so it's really difficult for
things to move and they won't be able to move just off the wall.
You heard it from Ryan for a stuff that box tight. Hey, you
know what to day I was. I was trying to go through a box
and I set it down on a surface that I thought was stable, and
it fell and the box burst and all the Thank God it was DVDs.
You know, they like, thank you Christ Jesus in Heaven that it was
only the DVDs, but like half of them the discs like popped out.
I had to like open every case and make sure everything was okay. And
then it was a I felt real bad. I can't remember if it was
before. Yeah, it had to have been before you came here. I
think Will and I we were researching a book and I don't have the book,
and I asked Will for it and he sent me a picture. I
think it was like lodged up behind something and you had to stand awkwardly in
a room and move half a box to the side to take a picture and
say it's up there in that car. Do you want to know what the
book was? No? Not right now? Okay, Okay, tune in
next month. Maybe maybe it might be next month. At this point,
it might be June of next year. Would it really be that much of
a hint? I mean, who knows? Okay, you can go ahead
and say it. No, I like, well, I'm big into edging.
This has been an unhinged episode of Reconnected. I'm gonna edge you off
for the next month. At least we don't know when stuff's getting announced.
Oh oh, what buck was it? Oh gosh, Graig Cook, I'm
so glad we did that, you know. Oh man, I was in
such a bad mood today. I'm really glad that we got to do that.
And thanks to the audience. I just I can't. I can't even
believe him here. I thank thank you, thank you for for having me,
thank you for watching, Thank you Simner for for our really tense,
intense relationship. Just just this is great. I feel like I feel like
I can avoid therapy a little bit longer, just a few more days,
not too long, anyways. I hope you all have enjoyed tonight. It
has been a blast to have you all in here. Next week we are
coming back with another fun episode and it is going to be with Tim Talk's
Talkies from his YouTube channel. He's never been on the channel before at all,
so excited to have Tim on. It'll be a fun week. Keep
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it's the vinegar Syndrome Sale, Celeste will be here live for it. That's
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