What's going on all I'm so glad to see everybody hear waiting it is.
It's gonna be a pretty incredible night tonight. I'm I'm so stoked, legitimately
been counting down for this all week. There is so so much to go
over, just a litany of announcements this week, and then on top of
that, in just a couple of minutes, I'm gonna be introducing a friend
of mine that is going to make this show just incredible tonight. I am
so stoked. Glad you guys are here. First off, see who is
here in the chat? My man Brian, what's going on? Mitchell's here?
Hey, Hey Mitchell, Derek, how are you? One hundred Good
to see you tonight. My man Eric is here also, Hey, Jeff,
glad to see here after seeing you in the discord earlier. Speaking of
discord, before I get into it, make it awkward with somebody else being
on the channel. Just to call some attention in case you didn't see it.
I put out a video just yesterday about a channel update and some of
the cool things that are a part of it is that I'm planning doing three
pre recorded videos a week. I'm hoping to make this weekly show a audio
podcast that I put out. I worked on that literally today. That should
be coming out here pretty soon. I'm planning on by I'm saying by the
end of the month to be a little conservative about it, but I think
it'll be earlier than that. But the bigger thing, which really really cool
for the community, I think, is that I started a Patreon and no
no pressure to join it, nothing like that, But if you wanted to,
there are a couple tier level that you can jump into that will get
you access to the disconnected Discord, which for those of you that don't know
what discord is, it's basically a messaging app where you can come in and
have different channels that we can talk about different things. But the big thing,
I'm sorry, Siri wanted to get involved. Sorry. The big thing
that I want to use it for is if I see like a low price
on something, I can shoot it out to everybody in the community immediately.
If I see something in stock that is rare, I can shoot it out
there fast. So if you're into that, you're open to that idea.
The link for the Patreon is in the description below. Got some other friends
that joined Ken Carlson. Hey, Hey, Ken Cohen's here. Glad you
came back. Sartists, My man, you are in for a surprise.
I got a new intro coming for the Channel and I included a tag like
you see in the bottom corner right now that is with you and you're gonna
love it. I'm glad that you're a part of it. Dave's here,
what's up Dave? So tonight, if you have never listened, I'm going
to wholeheartedly push that you listen to the podcast for a friend of mine that
I'm introducing now. Our guest tonight is named Chris and he is a member
of a podcast called They Live by Film and just gosh, it's been a
few weeks now. I can't remember the date that it went live on the
channel, but I did about an hour pre recorded with him where we talked
about underappreciated labels five each, labels that go a little bit under the radar,
and we shared, you know, personal feelings on them, what we
like about them. And Chris is great. He is super knowledgeable. He's
got a small group of friends that he made this really successful podcast with and
last year they they sort of exploded. They started meeting with people in the
industry. They got to meet with Justin lit Liberty from Vinegar Syndrome, and
from that point on they were just Sky's the limit. They met with some
people people from Errow, They met with Lewis Justin from Mascer Video. They
met with the George Eastman Library, they met with guys from I Believe,
they met with Indicator. They've got a whole bunch under their belt, and
they ask from Most of the time it's Chris interviewing them. He does the
best with that, and then the actual show itself is three friends that just
talk about movies, and they're super fun to listen to. But the interviews
that they do are great. There's a lot of information that some of these
companies are not just putting out there, so it's really nice to hear it
straight from the source. What's going on? Dustin glad you're here. And
some of these industry people bring up things like the process for restoring films,
the cost for restoring films, the way that for example, the Aero video
one, there was a full conversation about why directors are choosing to have certain
cuts of films on on the disc rather than maybe the cut of the film
that we're used to, or something like the color timing that's been a problem
with Criterion, So they talk about that a little bit. They talk about
how they have to actually negotiate that with directors. Just really interesting talks.
But if you are into that sort of thing, it is a great resource
to be able to dive into and learn more about the hobby, learn more
about what goes into these excellent releases that we are getting in every single week
for some of us, these releases that we love, and I fully appreciate
what they are doing because they are opening some doors to some information that just
were not opened previously. And there is also a link for Chris's things in
the description below. There is the podcast, there is their website. They
have a subreddit for those of you that are on Reddit where they meet up.
Chris actually has his own subreddit and he talks about films that he watches.
He does polls, he he does like top ten list things like that,
he is fantastic. Cam's here, what's going on? Nerd? Yes,
So Chris is driving home and we'll be on in just a moment.
One thing that I do on the show frequently is a digital giveaway. So
for those of you that are keen, I'm gonna do one now, and
we're also gonna do one after all of the announcements for the week. So
the first one I'm gonna do is for the movie Apocalypse. Now the final
cut. I believe this should redeem in four K. So if you're interested,
you are gonna go to Lionsgate dot com slash redeem, lionsgate dot com
slash redeem maxims hey hey, and the code on lionsgate dot com slash redeem
is c is in't Charlie zero one z as an zebra four, s as
in Sam, f as in Frank six v as in Victor, e as
in Edward three, l as in Lincoln e as an m, Edward m
as in Mary a as an Adam and the last digit so you can get
there first nine CE zero one Z four s F six V E three l
E M A nine. Hopefully somebody got it. I'm gonna be doing another
one of these at the end of the channel at the end of the broadcast
tonight, just so everybody can hang around flickerings here, what's going on,
flickering glad to see you let me know if You've got that apocalypse now,
so I know I can get rid of the slip. And for that one,
I wanted to say thanks to Derek Ambrose, who is a part of
the stream tonight he said, hey, he donated that for everybody. Derek
is somebody that imported I believe the Steel Book up to Canada, and in
Canada he can't redeem that, so we wanted to give it back to the
community. So thanks Derek. We appreciate you. Glad you did that.
Hey, hey, Zachary Brian, thanks for having Chris on. Hopefully he's
not too late. Yeah, that's Chris for you. Derek again, thank
you. You are awesome. Jeff says, I think that's one of the
films I told my girlfriend to get me for my birthday. That would have
been perfect. Nice free digital. All right, that is awesome. Let's
see Sarta says, watched Hypnosis and ham on Rye today. No problem recommending
Hypnosis ham on Rye is a mumblecored ooh that is why I bought it.
I am stoked on ham on Rye. I really want to see it.
But a very solid recommendation on Hypnosis from startis at least and for everybody on
the channel. You know, I highly I usually agree with pretty much everything.
STARTA says there's a couple things we're very different on. All right,
I think it's about time we start looking at some of these and the very
first one we're going to talk about it's not super important, so hopefully Chris
is here before we get to the second one. So let me share the
disconnected Instagram all right. After last week's show, the very first announcement was
one that we're going to be talking about a lot tonight. Candy Man in
four K coming from Turbine Media. So for those of you that don't know,
Turbine Media is the company that put out like the American Werewolf in London
four K before Aro did it. They are the ones that put out I
believe that giant Psycho set, not four K, but with everything in it
that they put out that first giant big box of all of the Psycho films,
a big German book, stuff like that. Obviously they're from Germany,
but lately they've been really pushing on media books and digipacks. So this is
coming with three different cover options in four K, and you can see the
covers here. But I got a little bit of a closer look, and
here they are, so this I guess they're in reverse order. This is
cover C, this is Cover B the Classic, and then this is cover
A. They're fairly new artwork. I don't think that's been used previously.
Zach says. Their leatherface release looks so great almost makes me forget how bad
the movie is. All right, And of course, like I said,
now that I'm talking about the first one, Chris is here, so we're
gonna bring him on to the show. My man, how are we doing?
Hey, how's the how's it going? Good to see you. I
gave you this big, lengthy introduction and really praised they live by film,
so man, well thank you. Unfortunately I don't have a private limo service
yet, and you have kids, so you know how this goes. They
were trying to coordinate a few things, but I'm here. I've got whistle
pig to celebrate the occasion, nice and and Topuchico for for the for the
SIPs in between. And I was going to try to draw on the whiteboard
behind me, but this pens out of ink, so I won't be doing
anything funny. I saw you reach for it. I was gonna wait,
and then I saw you turn around me and I was like, Okay,
I guess we're going. I wish I did have a private limo. My
son did tonight. I I took him to cub Scouts right before this and
literally stumbled in just a few minutes before I got everything set up. So
just barely until it goes. Well, cheers to cheers to running kids around.
But thanks for the kind of words. And it looks I saw I
saw Zach is here too, which is state that thanks for joining Zach.
That's cool. Yeah. For those that don't know, Zach is also from
the They Live by Film podcast. He is a big part of it.
And uh yeah, just a great team all around. Like I said,
uh, the only one that we've talked about is the German four K of
candy Man. But like I said, we got we got some more candy
Man to talk about. Tonight. He knocked on the door three times and
I came into the room. I've actually, yeah, that's well, we
don't have to if you've already talked about it, we don't have to get
into it. But very exciting. That means there's a four K scan out
there, so I can't wait to see what else is? What else is
on the horizon? Well, we won't have to wait too long, as
they say, so right after this, the very next morning, we started
getting some Arrow announcements, and up first is Girls' Night Out from nineteen eighty
two, and this one was also called The Scare Me. And the way
that Arrow announced this, a lot of people thought that these were two different
films, but they are not. So this is one slipcover they're doing,
and then there's a second slipcover that is the alternate title of The Scaremaker.
But these are both the exact same film. Yeah, so whichever one you
want to go with, they are both available. And for this one,
this is the students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun
and frolics in the form of an all night scavenger hunt. Little do they
know that they are, in fact the ones being hunted. An unhinged assailant
disguised in the college's goofy bear mascot outfit and bearing knives for claws. Two
years before Freddy donned his famous gloves is stocking the campus help bent on carving
up co eds, so immediately, I'm all in, I love that synopsis.
Yeah so, and then when when I read that synopsis and took a
closer look, this slip is actually really cool. You got the crazy bear
breaking in and the clause coming out here write it or throat. That is
a great piece of art. Yeah. I wonder there was a post on
Reddit a couple of days back that was celebrating all the cover artists. Did
you see that? I did not. There was a It actually put the
picture of like the people that were behind the cover r. I don't know
that this specific one was on there, but Criterion was on there. Actually,
you know what, it may have been a Criterion post. Maybe that's
why. And now that I think about it, maybe it was on the
Criterion sup. But yeah, I love like to know who's making these designs,
because like, what a fun job to watch the movies and have to
kind of try to capture the spirit of the movie in a customer work right,
And not often enough are we even given the names, let alone credit
with like an Instagram handle or something to be able to find them. Criterion
is actually really good about it. At the bottom of most of their announcements,
they do usually credit the artist, but like Shout Factories, genuinely pretty
open about it usually but not not all the other ones. Some of them
do. Yeah, according to Lewis Overritt Massacre, they're all his people that
he found. That's what he claims for all of the boutiques. Yeah,
everybody uses hit alright, So we'll see. Ken is asking, so the
Scaremaker slip will have the Osbourne artwork on the inside, right, Absolutely,
I can pretty much guarantee that it'll have the opposite will look just like this,
And honestly, this slip will probably come with the Scaremaker artwork on the
inside as well. I would not be surprised about that at all, Sartis
says. Anyone else remember the phone in her hand. We're not all that
young. Other than Girls Night Out. They got an exciting announcement here.
I don't know about you. How do you feel about Gasper Noue? Okay,
so I know he's a controversial guy. I love his stuff. I
haven't seen lux Aturna, but when who was it? It was the second
Sight, the Putati Reversible. It was second Sight right indicator indicator, Yeah,
of course, thank you. That was an instant buy for me.
I think he's good. I really like his stuff. I agree, I
do. Obviously he's he's he's struck some nerves, we'll say, with some
of his releases. This is Luxaturna, one of his newer films. This
is from twenty nineteen and as they really laid it out here, Gaspernoue,
the arch provocateur of New French extremity, responsible for Irreversible and Enter the Void,
blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction in lux Aturna, his ode to
the suffering and sacrifices involved in the creation of art. Now important to know
about this is this is only coming in the UK from Aero because the US
will see a release from Vineger Syndrome partner label Yellow Veil Pictures. This was
available to pre order ever so momentarily on Diabolic and they pulled the listing.
Grindhouse Video also had it listed and it was pulled just shortly after that.
But this should be pretty readily available obviously, you can order it straight from
Arrow. I'm willing to bet Orbit will also get this in I'm sure yes,
Mitchell says. This is the one Arrow was asked to not release in
the US, and that's because Yellow Alle was already working on their deal.
Yeah you know what, Actually, maybe not, because Orbit put up the
Obayashi Trilogy, the Warts, the anti war trilogy that came out from the
third window, and they pulled it down, and the next day they had
up the error No is it sorry, the Wicked Warrist and Funky Forest.
No, man, I'm sorry, that's exactly what it was. Yeah,
it was funky forest and warped forest. And then the next day they pulled
it down and put up the Air forty four to forty four one. So
maybe even Orbit won't have it, which would be nuts. They have all
this stuff. Yeah, that's possible. And Orbit's pretty close with vine your
syndrome. They sell a lot of their stuff. They get all the VSAs
and all that, so that's possible. What's going on, Tom, glad
you're here. So let's go into this one a little bit. This one
says French cinema icons Charlotte Gainsburg and Beatrice I'm assuming that's pronounced Dally or Die
playing themselves stars the lead actress and the director of an experimental film about witches.
But as preparations for the shoot get underway, they're increasingly chaotic production slowly
unravels as egos and bitter resentments rise to the surface, threatening to derail the
entire enterprise. This is shot over just five days and largely improvised by the
superlative cast. Luxaturna is a powerful hypnotic assault on the senses like no other,
cementing Noway's position as one of the most incendiary voices in cinema today.
Yeah, it's No Way, so there's a lot to it. First off,
coming on this brand new audio commentary by Cat Ellinger, which, if
it wasn't No Way, that alone would have made me pre order this because
I love cat Ellinger so much. But to see those two combined, this
is going to be great. Well, I mean, Charlotte Gainsburg is a
hell of an actress too. I'm trying to remember why vhs Dale Dolly Philis
sounds so familiar. Was she the one from Betty Blue? Yes, I
believe it does say that, Yes, from Betty Blue and Inside as well.
Yeah, yeah, she's a good actress too. I mean that's I
mean, he's good, he gets he gets very talented people in his movies.
But I can't wait to see this. Your counterpart, Zach says they
better offer a better cover or I'm importing. First off, I don't see
it getting much better than this. This slip is great. Uh, let's
see other than that one thing I wanted to highlight here, is there?
A is there? There is a new brand new visual essay on which crowd
in Cinema by author and critic Miranda Corkran. Sounds enticing to me. But
then there's also The Flicker, a thirty minute short film by Tony Conrad,
who's strobing effect inspired LUXATURNA super interesting. Yeah, I'm just thinking of the
sorry that there's two points of interest there. The first one, you know,
Severn put out the All Haunts brs. It feels like this is a
really good time for kind of like folk cinema. It really is, and
this fall into that or not. But speaking of that one that I was
going to bring up later tonight, but this is the perfect segue, so
I'll just talk about it now. Did you see twenty twenty one's Antlers?
Oh I'm so bad on current releases. No, but I know it's an
amazing cover. I really want to see it. I'm usually fairly bad on
them as well. I've forced myself in the last couple of months to try
to get caught up with a bunch of them that were on my must watch
list, and I'm still many behind. But I just watched Antlers this week
and it is a very modern folk horror film and I highly recommend it.
It got awful reviews for some reason, and it turned out to be like
surprisingly good. There's some really good practical effects, which is rare. Jesse
Plemons is in it and is fricking great. He is just stupendous. The
acting overall is really good. There is a couple shoddy CGI scenes that they
had to use CGI on CGIN and I understand that, but it was It's
about the Wind to Go and it works pretty well. They do change some
aspects of it, but the practical effects alone made it a much a must
watch for me. There is a wicked scene at the end where they show
the actual Wind to Go creature. And this is not a spoiler. I
wouldn't be saying this, but they I've never seen this done in a movie.
They have the Wind to Go and he has the skin of somebody's face
over his face, and it wasn't like done on purpose. It was just
the way that they they made the the mythology of the one to Go work
is that it made sense. And that shot alone was one of the most
gnarly things I've seen in a couple of years in modern cinema. It was
great. I love it. Have you ever seen Larry Festenden's Wind to Goo
a long time ago when it first came out, And first of all,
Larry Festenden does not get spoken about enough. He is surprisingly good. He's
so good, so low budget stuff, but he tells the whole story,
he really does. And yeah, and also he acts, and a lot
of people that can write that well, they usually can't act. And he's
not amazing, but he's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
back to gaspar nowa we have this, and this is coming in a slip
release. This isn't getting like one of the big hard box releases, but
we are getting in a hard box Enter the Void, the other one that
they just alluded to in that last announcement. Now, one thing that in
these announcements that a lot of people don't pick up on when some retailers or
distributors when they announced it and they have you know, Gaspernoe, the maker
of Enter the Void and blah blah blah, and they possibly have rights to
release some of the other films. That means that that other one might be
coming. So if you look on this last one, they said gasperne who
did Irreversible and Enter the Void. Obviously they don't have Irreversible, but Irreversible
doesn't have a US release, So I was thinking, what if maybe eventually
they put out Irreversible in the US. Could be I'm not saying that's coming,
but it's a possibility. So Enter the Void is not one that got
this huge release, and now it is time. So this is only again,
only coming in the UK. And this is from two thousand and nine
and also from Gaspernoe. So this says American siblings Oscar and Linda eke out
a shared existence in Tokyo, he by dealing drugs, she by working as
a stripper. However, tragedy strikes when a deal turns sour and Oscar is
shot by the police. As his lifeless body lies on the floor of a
public toilet, his soul floats high above the neon drenched Tokyo streets, observing
the effect of his death on his sister and reliving the events in his life
that brought him to this juncture. First off, I believe you've seen into
the Void? Right? No? No, okay, I thought you'd said
that you did. No, I haven't. I'm so excited for this.
Sadly, I've not seen it either. I was waiting for a good release
of this before I went out and got I think there was an old DVD
of this. I'm just I'm not trying to be a quality snob, but
lately I kind of have been. I don't really want to buy a DVD
for something that is likely to get a Blu Ray I mean, but also,
no, is not somebody who takes that kind of stuff lightly, like
very planned out things like Climax. Climax is wild and beautiful and even irreversible
that just got the first semi wide Blu Ray release. There was one I
think that came from Korea as part of Nova Media in a very limited slipcase
release something like that. But yeah, it has not gotten a big release.
So I am stoked that this is getting the big hard box release.
So this has ten ADP Blu Ray of the one hundred and forty three minute
UK theatrical cut and the full length one hundred and sixty one minute director's cut,
subtitles for both Enter the Sensorium, a brand new visual essay on the
film by author and critic Alexandra Heller Nicholas, who has been doing a lot
of stuff recently, so stoked on that brand new video interview with typography designer
and long term NOA collaborator Tom can Eight deleted scenes, archival making of archival,
Vortex featurette, DMT Loop featurette, and a whole bunch of trailers,
image gallery. All that stuff, but then limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve
featuring two choices of artwork, illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film
by John Towson and Rich Johnson, and an oral history of the film by
Steven Handley, plus a fold out double sided poster featuring both of the choices
of artwork on the poster, and then six double sided postcard sized art cards.
It's crazy, man like so much in these Yeah, it's amazing.
But I was trying to think about this because when I saw Into the Void.
You know, we've been talking a lot to these folks. I know
you talked to Jared as well about this recently. You know, rights is
a huge issue as to what comes out, like the ability to actually acquire
some of this stuff. It's expensive, yep. I can't imagine. Noa's
stuff is cheap. No. So you know, these kind of big blowout
editions kind of make sense for that, right, because you've got to You've
got to recoup some costs exactly. And the big thing is, I want
to know how much time went into this, because something like this, with
how much no cares about it, it had to be in the pipeline for
a while, I would say, yeah, especially to put out two films
of his at the same time. Right, I was not hoping that they
were gonna do not stand by me? What's it called? I stand alone?
I stand alone? Have you seen that? I've not seen it.
I think I have the DVD. It is buried in my closet. I
I've not watched it yet. But again, that's it's never that one's never
gotten a Blu ray release from anywhere. I mean, shocker. It's pretty
fucked up, right, and it's got a pretty famous cover of a guy
holding a gun to his head. Yeah, but it's it's great. It's
a really, really good early film. My friend John here in the chat
says, Enter the Void has been on my list for a while. Quentin
Tarantino says it has the best opening credit sequence ever, which immediately piques my
interest. And then we got a couple of people saying they need to watch
Irreversible, Dustin saying I've not seen any of his films. I would suggest,
yesed it it there? What is the appropriate way to say this?
So Irreversible is talked about as this incredibly rough, sadistic movie, and I
don't know that I'm just softened to it. But in all reality, there
are two scenes that are kind of hard to watch. There's one scene which
is right in the very beginning of the film, which has some heightened violence,
and then there is an extended sexual assault scene, but it is not
done in a way to highlight the sexual assault. It is literally made in
a way to empathize with it and make you feel the emotional gut punch of
the third act, and Irreversible is amazing in that sense. Yeah, I
remember I saw that in theaters actually, and I saw it again in theaters
and I questioned my life choices when I went back to see it. But
the reason I like it is because the way that they look at how time
destroys everything that's I don't want to spoil anything, but like that's kind of
that theme that's explored throughout the movie is the time destroys everything, right,
And by playing with time the way that he does, and the timing of
when things are intense and terrible and when things are happy, it just leaves
this like really mixed, like crazy kind of swirl of emotions. And I
mean he had control of me, like he did it, you know.
He I think he accomplished what he set out to do, and that turned
me on to him. So anyways, I have a soft spot for that
movie. I can't imagine watching it all the time though. It's a tough
watch it is. And one last thing I will say before we stopped just
worshiping Gas for no way, the thing that I appreciate about Irreversible is for
me, as not to make this anything very you know, politically correct or
anything like that, but as a male, watching an extended, awkward feeling
sexual assault scene like that really makes you empathize with that case character in a
way that you really can't in a lot of different situations. Obviously, I'll
never feel what she felt. I'll never feel what other people who you know
have come out as victims of things have felt. But it is one of
those situations that really can put you in that scene and feel it in a
way that you never could have imagined possible. Yeah, it's true. And
then I wanted to highlight too. Your friend Zach here says new French extremity
stuff is mostly in DVD. Be nice to see more of it yet,
Blu Ray, I will highlight if you have shutter on March first, two
days ago, they just added a giant wave of new French extremity to Shutter
in high definition. So they have inside Martyrs High Tension. There is two
or three more, and all of them just got added on March first.
Unfortunately, the way that Shutter gets right sometimes that sometimes only lasts a month.
So if you've been wanting to see them and you have Shutter, make
that a priority. No idea how long going to be there, but it
is the perfect time to be wanting to get into French extremity. High Tension
is so good. High Tension, I think was the first French extreme film
I ever saw, and I fell in love with the genre before I sign
anything else. I love high tension. Uh wow, we're not even through
Arrow yet. Next one, speaking of what we just mentioned a little while
ago, candy Man in four K. So Arrow is putting out in the
UK only candy Man in four K. Now, it is important to point
out this is all of the exact same packaging that they had released when they
put it out on Blu Ray. None of the posters are different, none
of anything is different other than the words like four K twenty one to sixty
P that is different. Everything else exactly the same, and I don't believe.
Just making sure real quick, Yes, there is not any new special
features in here. Unless somebody knows something I don't. Nothing was added to
this release at all. It is just a four k UHD disc of their
previous scan with HDR grading and all that, but no new features. And
they're not even including the Blu Ray. No, okay, they are not.
And one of the things that I kind of want to highlight on that
I did mention this couple weeks ago. There is a video on YouTube and
I need to share it on my YouTube channel because it is so important.
A couple of the guys from Aero did an interview and they highlighted that the
reason they do that where it's only four K on some of these and also
which titles they're choosing to do four K, is because some of these releases,
the four K is three times the cost of a Blu ray release because
of how much extra work goes into it, on top of the extra time,
the HDR grading, the more involved scan that goes into it, on
top of that, three times the cost, which is crazy. Yeah,
it's interesting. I wonder, I mean, you're definitely in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars at that point all in potentially, Yeah, at the time
you're pressing the discs and everything, because I'm trying to remember what they said.
There was a breakdown? Was it? I think it was we did
the breakdown? Now it was the Death Crocodile. Guys, they did a
breakdown and even the titles that they do when they did back when they were
with our Bellos they did what's that really crazy kind of ray pe Japanese cartoon
that they put out, Belladon Have Sadness That one was over one hundred thousand
dollars for that restoration. Jesus and I can't imagine that that made any money,
if at all. Really, theatrical is how they make their money.
Yeah, not on not just strictly from Blu ray ypt right, let's see
flex is asking are all four K movies region free? So technical? The
format itself has nothing written in it for region locking. However, there have
been at this point I believe four releases worldwide that have been region locked,
and only one of them were in the US, and it was a shout
Factory disc for I think it's Weathering with You, and it's kind of a
shady thing. They're not supposed to be able to do that. The other
three are probably titles you were never going to import, so don't worry about
it. Basically, anything that you're going to want to watch unless you're really
into that Shout Factory Weathering with You, it's going to be region free.
Four K is all supposed to be region free. There is not even language
in the format at all for being region locked. All right. Another fun
one arrow in the US, only not in the UK at all. This
is coming to the US. Are releasing One Armed Boxer from nineteen seventy two,
and this was previously released. I believe by Eureka, not eighty eight
Films. I always get that mixed up because eighty eight Films has done most
of the Shaw Brothers things. So One Arms Boxer is coming. This is
the new artwork, and then the Aerostore site exclusive. They are releasing this
original poster art which I gotta love. This slip is great, amazing.
So for those that don't know, this is Yu Chian Long is the best
fighter to come out of his local martial arts school, but when he crosses
the ruthless leader of a local crime syndicate, the Big Boss's brutal bevy of
deadly killers make mince meat out of the school and everyone inside. Now the
only survivor of the massacre and short of one appendage, you is gifted a
powerful elixir that promises to give him the strength to take swift revenge on the
army of assassins, each representing the most lethal forms of fighting from across the
Eastern Hemisphere. So, as far as I can tell, the stuff that
they have on here is literally just a copy of the Eureka disc. Don't
think there is anything brand new. I don't. Yeah, that's probably true
because they typically they would put like new something something you know, right,
unless it's one of the smaller features. But have you seen many Jimmy Jimmy
U films? M Jimmy Wang you I've seen a couple a long time ago.
I've not really dove in since this big resurgence. Lately, I've focused
on other things. Anyways, just a shout out to he always makes.
His movies are so entertaining. He has another one with the guy with one
armed one armed swordsman. I believe yep, he's got one about somebody who's
like a flying guillotine. Anyways, He's just his movies are wacky and they're
really fun. Uh. Here actually in the second paragraph, it says,
proving once and for all that you only need five fingers of death to get
the job done. Wang would later reprise his role in the infamous sequel Master
of the Flying Guillotine, but it's the dementedly inventive original where he's arguably at
the height of his powers. And one thing I wanted to say about this
is that they also have on here the commentary by Frank Jang from the New
York Asian Film Festival. Frank Jang is a friend of the Channel and if
you are interested. We had on our other show, Discovering Cinema. Channel
link is in the description below. We had Frank Jang on and just talk
to him for almost two hours. And the dude is one of the most
knowledgeable people you will ever meet on Hong Kong cinema, on all Asian cinema
really, but this guy still, he's like in his mid fifties, has
like three full time jobs. He does commentaries at least once or twice a
month. Dude is a beast. And if you really want to dive in
and learn, go back and watch that episode on Discovering Cinema because he is
great. Next from Arrow, this is a big one and this is coming
in the US and the UK. We are getting wild things from nineteen ninety
eight in four K Are you a big erotic thriller fan? Uh No?
I mean, look, I'm gonna be honest, this is a late night
show. I watched this movie. I've watched four minutes of this movie fifty
times. When I I don't know, I can't promise you that I've seen
the whole thing all the way through. I don't know for sure that I
know the plot. Well. Speaking of the plot, let's go into that
real quick, popular and charming student counselor Sam Lombardo, which, of course
an Eurotic thriller. Your character title is gonna be. Sam Lombardo is no
stranger to being the focus of female attention within the moneyed clicks of Florida's Blue
Bay. His fortunes are about to change dramatically, however, when one of
the wealthiest students at his high school, sultry siren Kelly Van Ryan, accuses
him of rape. The charge looks sure to stick when another girl from the
other end of the social spectrum, Susie Taller or I think it's Toller,
actually steps forward with her own allegations. But Detective Duquet smells something fishy and
the truth is as murky and dangerous as the alligator infested swamps in the hinterlands
of this affluent beach community. Wild Things is uh, it's wild. First
of all, the cast in this is incredible. We have Matt Dillon,
we have Denise Richards, we have Nev Campbell, we have Kevin Bacon and
uh, Kevin Bacon chose some stuff off in this movie. It's where people
show stuff. Yeah, and it's a great one. There is a couple
scenes that have been cemented in gift history across the internet. Wild Things is
great if you are looking to get into this, absolutely loaded with special features.
But the big thing this is the limited edition box set that they're released.
And they are also releasing this limited edition steel book box set just like
they did with Dune. Now this is dual format Blu ray and four K
hard box slip case all across the steel book, and then it does have
the book with it and all that, and then they are also releasing just
this steel book by itself. Now, if you notice, the artwork is
very similar to the True Romance artwork. It's the exact same artist. And
personally, I think it looks great. No, no, sorry, I
with all respect to the artist. I know how hard they work for this.
You know what, Okay, I haven't seen that. Like I said,
I haven't even seen the whole movie. Maybe it really fits the vibe.
It does, It really does. But on top of that, one
of the things is I hated the True Romance steel book when it got announced.
Holding it in the hand, this artwork looks ten times better, okay,
And I can see how this is going to look a lot better in
the hand than it does on the screen. So question for the the people
with no self control that are listening, and maybe a questioned for you too,
right, do you buy both? Do you buy just the steel book?
Do you buy just the limited packaging? Where do you go for me
on this one? I am choosing the limited Steel book kind of a best
of both worlds thing. You get the steel book art, you get this
different slip box that is different than let's see the first one that the box
is this more like nine This is more like the thriller focus of the movie
type of slip box. This is more of the erotic focus the slipbox.
Yeah, this is It's genuinely a fun movie. But I am going to
highlight one thing from flex. Does Wild Things deserve this kind of treatment?
Absolutely not it personally, it probably deserves a four K because, like I've
said on this channel before, I think most movies deserve a four K.
I think that they should be scanned in the highest quality possible. They should
probably get good color grading, they should get something where they get attention done
to preserve it faithfully in the best way possible. Does it need multiple posters,
art cards, three discs and you know, hours and hours of new
features. No, probably not, but it's fun. And honestly, I
am a big fan of nineties erotic thrillers, and I think that this and
the the Imprint box set for the after Dark Noir that they're putting out are
kind of signaling a return to that. And then even Trauma just did their
Sexy Box, which is all nineties kind of erotic thrillers. They're more like
skin imax titles. I was just looking really quick. I thought this made
a hundred million dollars. I guess it didn't. It probably made a hundred
million dollars in rentals, but it did. Okay, yeah, this is
a hot rental, but this was a big blockbuster title. Yeah exactly,
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I feel like talking of like rights issues and
stuff like one of the interesting things I've noticed with Aro even before they got
brought up by the Hut group. But I'm figuring this is kind of signaling.
This is like they're going into discs that will go well beyond like the
boutique collector that's into genre films, Like these titles that they're putting out are
like they have like big appeal, Like a lot of different folks know about
these movies right certainly falls into that category. One thing I will say is
that if you have been to a best Buy that still has any physical media,
ero titles have been showing up in best Buy. Recently, Dune in
four K has been in best Buy. This is another example of a title
that will be in best Buy in four K because they will be able to
sell it for thirty two dollars and make a good twelve bucks on that release
every single time. And people that are just there looking for a USB cable
that they need today are more likely to pick up wild things than you think,
because the kind of people that are shopping at best Buy for a USB
cable were twenty two when this came out. That's a good point, It's
all right. One thing I wanted to highlight before I go to the absolute
next title is O. C. Floyd saying you can see Kevin's Bacon and
four K. That's way too good of a joke to pass up. I
gotta admit I almost said Kevin Goes Whole Hog, but I didn't think that
was gonna fit close enough with the Bacon title, So that was arrow.
And then we got a tease from Second Site that they are currently in the
works for four k later this year on Texas Chainsaw Massacre nineteen seventy four.
I don't I've never heard of this movie before. First off, what do
you think about Second Site? Okay, so we had the most inside track
possible. Ask him directly would he be on the podcast? And he it
was very polite, but said, I don't do press. So nobody knows
anything about this guy other than his name is Chris something, So I like
him already. It's a combined effort. Chris does, like the packaging and
sort of like the reasons everybody loves Second Site is sort of Chris. And
then Filled from Fractured Visions is the one that does all the supplemental material,
and I think it's just a one and a half man shot, right,
And the fact that that's the background for this company blows my mind, like
how is that possible? I agree? And then on top of that,
they literally have emerged as one of the best in the game for coming out
with complete packaging for films that honestly, I can't think of anything they've put
out that hasn't deserved the treatment that they've got. So I don't think that
they've had their wild things, which is, you know, going above and
beyond on something that probably doesn't need to go above and beyond like that,
And speaking of that, you're your friend Zach here says, maybe Aero can
do Basic Instinct four K for the US. It would pairwell. I would
not be surprised at all if that is already in the works and probably getting
it out soon. Any Do any of y'all have the old Basic Instinct DVD
with the ice pick in it? I remember seeing it. I do not
have that. I still have it on my shelf somewhere. So yeah.
Second site, Texas chainsawm Asker in four K coming later this year. First
of all, a lot of people are going to complain that this does not
need four K, that it looks just fine in Blu ray. Keep in
mind, the HDR is going to make this movie look completely different than you've
ever seen it before, and in a good way, not like it looks
muddy or green, you know, like the Criterion release of Memories of Murder
or anything like that. That this is going to be a good four K
release. I guarantee it. The the the flares from this, the colors
are going to be popping more than you've ever expected, but it is going
to be great. Obviously, this film has a lot of releases over the
years, probably too many. I think the only movie that has maybe been
exploited worse than this is The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead too. But
I am comfortable saying the second site release of this is going to be the
definitive release of Texas Chains. I'm asking. And we'll be talking more about
Second Site in just a second, but first let's talk about a fun one
cauldron. Cauldron Films, headed by Jesse from Diabolic, is putting out two
titles that are up for pre order now on Cauldron dashfilms dot com and on
Diabolic and they are shipping in late May. First one, I do not
know how to say this. Just off the top of my head, I
would say Satyr or Sator. I'm assuming it's Satyr. This is from twenty
nineteen, and both of these are fairly modern, which is not very Cauldron
like. However, Jesse islam saying that they will very much feel like Caldron
films. So this is from twenty nineteen and the tagline is after you have
suffered, he will find you and it says, Secluded in a desolate forest,
home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken
family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam, guided by a
pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers, only to learn that they are
not alone. An insidious presence by the name of Satyr, setor whatever has
been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years in an attempt
to claim them. Shot in the Santa Cruz Mountains and drawing from his grandmother's
real life belief in a protective spirit that spoke to her, Satyr quietly unspools
a story of isolation and dread that fits firmly into the recent wave of en
Suttling art house horror. Cauldron Films is honored to release the worldwide blu ray
debut of this film that Pace magazine named the best horror film of twenty twenty
one. And this has a subs behind the scenes director's commentary trailer, a
mini poster that is folded, and then the high quality slipcase. This is
limited to only a thousand copies. I wonder if that's ucleted as a retail
edition or something. But wasn't this guys Jordan Graham. Wasn't he the guy
that did there's that movie that came out about ten years ago called Specter.
Wasn't that him? Let me check? Really best? Interesting? Yeah?
Yeah, same guy. Specter's cool man, Like, this guy does a
lot with his stories. I'm excited about let's just for I don't say there,
I guess like, I'm excited about this. This is how Mitchell says.
It's pronounced like that, so that works. And then our friend John
says it is a slow burn with a great finale creepy, but I'm not
sure the juice is worth the squeeze, okay, and then U So that
is the first one again limited to only a thousand, and let's see.
Is this the one? Yes, this is the one that I really wanted
to highlight at the end, So we'll talk about that in a second.
This is Lisa or Eliza, the Fox Fairy from twenty fifteen, also coming
to Cauldron. The Suitor's only rival is death. Lisa is a lonely nurse
whose only company is the ghost of a long dead Japanese pop star. Out
of jealousy, he turns her into a fox fairy, and now everyone that
is attracted to Lisa dies a horrible death. In order to finally find true
love, Lisa must overcome the curse and defeat the jealousy of her suave,
supernatural suitor. Imagine the candy coated aesthetic of Amili crossed with a darkly comic
mean streak, and you have Lisa the Fox Fairy. Although it was released
in twenty fifteen and played the US festival circuit, Lisa has been unavailable on
Blu Ray worldwide until now. And this has English subs, behind the scenes,
interview, storyboards, music video, t again with the Cat Ellinger,
an audio essay by Cat Ellinger, a mini poster folded inside high quality slipcase
featuring artwork by Hot Love. And then it says limited to fifteen hundred copies
and this is a one time pressing, no standard edition to follow, So
if you really want this one, this is the one that you would want
to grab and make sure that you're getting it now. I want to know
what's going on in Hungary. I've been watching some of Bellatar's films recently.
There's good filmmaking coming out of Hungry, so I'm excited about this one.
Yeah, and the premise really right up my alley. Sounds super interesting.
But Cauldron really hitting hard, and they already started teasing a couple more releases
on their website. They've got some more like seventies jallo stuff like that coming.
It's looking to be a good year from them, I hope so for
jesse sake, I hope he sells out like crazy. And then of course
the new label that is going to be a sub label of that. I
announced on my interview with Jared from Anto Macabre. Jared and Jesse are coming
together to partner on something called Gold. I believe it's called Gold Eagle Video
or sorry, Neon Eagle Video. Yeah, I think Neon Eagle Video.
And that is going to be basically trashy action Asian films, which amazing and
supposedly that's going to fall into the Cauldron banner, and they've already got multiple
films lined up. I am so stoked about that one. Yeah, good
for those guys. I mean, the stuff that that Jared's doing is obviously
world class, So I like the idea of them pairing up. Yes,
and they both have obviously been around for quite some time. And really know
what they're doing. Let me see here. I think the next one is
the next Second Site. Yes, so we are getting on April nineteenth in
four K from Second Site The Witch from twenty fifteen, and this limited edition
release looks pretty freaking great. I love this artwork very much fits the tone
of the film. Pretty much everybody has seen The Witch by now, so
I'm not gonna go through the synopsis here. But the really cool thing is
the overwhelming abundance of new special features here for so four K with Dolby Vision
HDR, an archival audio commentary by the director Robert Eggers, new audio commentary
by film writer and broadcaster Anna Bogutskaya, A Puritan Nightmare, a new interview
with Robert Eggers, a new interview with Anya Taylor Joy, a new interview
with Ralph Innocon, a new interview with Kate Dickey, a new interview with
actor Harvey Scrimshaw, and then features interviews with Robert Eggers and cast in A
primal folk tale is what they called it. And then there's a BFI London
Film Festival Q and A with pretty much everybody involved, and then a short
film called Brothers by Robert Eggers. This is just awesome. But the big
thing that really stuck out to me because I love my second site releases for
these one hundred and fifty page hardback book with new essays by Emerson Baker,
Daniel Byrd, Anton Battel, Charles Burmesco, Lillian Crawford, shy Ley Rowan
Legg, and Anya Stanley, plus Still's costume and production design gallery with six
collectors art cards. Talk about definitive editions like yeah, feel it every time,
and let me see I think there is a picture of the expanded Yes,
here we go. So here are the art cards that are coming with
it, and then the hard hardback book and the box and then the digipack.
This is just incredible. Yeah, I uh, what do you think
about The Witch? Never heard of it? No? Isn't this an a
twenty four movie or off it is? Yes, I didn't know that.
They Their releases are usually so good in and of themselves. I don't know.
I guess the release of the Witch was pretty basic though, right it
was. They did put out the four K in the US, but it's
there's not a ton on there. Yeah, I haven't seen anything by Robert
Eggers. I hope I can still get still beyond the channel. I like
live in the like fifties through nineties, kind of like it's really rare that
I see new stuff. I'm working on it. I'm working on that part
of me. I'm trying to improve myself. For you, Ryan Good,
this one would fit your taste very well. I think I know I'd love
it. I need to see it. And then we are getting speaking of
coming from the fifties to nineties. Keino Lower is putting out Times Square from
nineteen eighty one with a little known actor named Tim Curry. This one gets
a new four K restoration from the OCN, a new commentary by Kat Ellinger
on a Keno release, and then audio commentary with the director and star Robin
Johnson, and the trailer getting a gassy slipcase and everything. This one says,
rich girl Pammy is the sheltered daughter of a prominent politician. Wild child
Nicky is a tough runaway. Together, the two teams escape from a psychiatric
hospital and, with the help of radio DJ Johnny LaGuardia played by Tim Curry
playing a radio DJ, become punk rock heroes on the streets of New York
City. But just as their outrageous new life begins to come together, they
find that society wants to tear them apart. Can a sisterhood that runs so
deep survive the cold heart of the city. This one genuinely looks pretty fun
to me. I've never seen this. Yeah, I saw it on VHS
actually many many moons ago. I think I'm trying to remember if this is
when they like dance on a building at one point. I mean, that's
such a vague thing to remember. I just have these like random memories of
this movie. He was super fun. Yeah, it looks good to me.
Not to mention it's Tim Curry playing DJ. I kind of want to
see that, right. Speaking of Keno, their Sunday or I think this
was announced on Saturday this last week. They're putting out bedtime for Bonzo from
nineteen fifty one, and the big name here is this stars Ronald Reagan,
little known gentlemen, look at that crazy monkey too, Reagan or the Bonzo
maybe, But let's spend some time talking about the next Keno announcement in four
K this year. I believe, well, they haven't specified, but I'm
fairly certain this is gonna come this year we are getting nineteen fifty five's Night
of the Hunter. Where's the clapping, like Hiker, if there's you know
this whole thing about like not every film deserves a four K or whatever,
right. I just as soon as I saw this release, I just started
imagining some of the shadows scenes in this movie and what they're gonna look like,
And I got like goosebumps. So why don't you let everybody know your
feelings on Night of the Hunter? Well, I get a lot. It's
I saw it for the first time a year or two ago, and if
you haven't seen it, like change that. Like the movie is unbelievable and
basically, if you can imagine a cinematic kind of universe, they create a
world they create where they use camera angles and shadows to basically make things look
not only larger than life, but like they really play with perspective in very
innovative ways, like something I really haven't seen before. Like there's a scene
in particular where it's about this guy who's chasing these kids and he's a very
evil man. And there's this one scene where that he's in a basement and
he's chasing them up the stairs at the basement and the way that they shoot
the scene. I mean, I can't imagine their cgi. This movie was
made in like seventeen hundreds, but the way that they fulfillmed it, it's
all You see his shadow and it looks like he's growing as he reaches up
the stairs for them, and it's like this unbelievable creepy horror vibes from a
movie that starts off extremely sanitary and fifties kind of safe, and it's just,
Oh, we could spend another two hours just talking about this movie and
dissecting it. I think it plays extremely well as like an art house film.
I think it plays extremely well as like a genre film. It just
I think it covers the spectrum so well. It's wonderful. This is a
cornerstone film for Criterion. This is one that they have hung their hat on
for quite some time. This has, first off, some incredible, incredible
acting in it. We have Robert Mitcham Shelley Winters both acting their ass off,
but really Charles Lawton is the main hero of this film. And there's
so much that can be said about this that I can't just gush for the
next half hour, or we will be here till two o'clock in the morning.
But Night of the Hunter is a psychological horror film rooted in religion,
and it is it is beyond harrowing when you watch this for the first time
to see to see yourself being able to understand what these people are fighting for
and trying to live for, and by the end of it, it feels
like you have been being chased. It's odd because it's shot in a way
that, to me like it very much has the nineteen fifty five feeling of
possibly being kind of shot like a play. Basically, it's like a stage
playing a lot of scenes, but it is done in such a way that
it enhances every single aspect and that's so difficult to convey vocally without just seeing
it, because it is a work of art through and through. Jeff is
asking, is that Mitcham's best perform runs. Maybe that would be tough.
He's done quite a lot of really good things, and yeah, Zach says,
the underwater scene is still one of the greatest looking shots in film.
It is. It is such a creepy shot too, It is so well
done. It's amazing. Yeah, I'm trying to think. I think he
really like people really like his performance in Cape fear Right. Yeah, that
might be up there anyways. I don't know. I guess we don't have
to, but I think it's certainly top top three for him. I have
to imagine. I think he plays doesn't he play Marlow in The Big Sleep?
I believe, so it has to be up there anyways. Whatever,
But this is a good one. There's a lot that people don't talk about
with him too, that because he just did a lot of films back then.
There's one that he played. I think he was a senator for Alabama,
and in fact, I think Betty White even was in that, playing
the Senator of Kansas or something like that, in a very small role.
But he is this off the cuff communist, hating senator that he's great for
that role because he's so there is this this powerful feeling of him just standing
on film. He is intimidating, just inherently being Robert Mitcham. Yeah,
exactly, all right. So the last thing to point out here is obviously
Keino is killing four K lately. They are taking so many titles from Criterion,
not necessarily taking them from Criterion, because they are only putting out a
lot of these on four K, which means they don't have the rights to
the Blue. They are only releasing it off four K. They are format
locked. I guess you could say into what they can release there. But
a lot of these are MGM titles, and I believe this is their last
MGM from the fifties at least that they are announcing in four K. So
they've taken a handful from Criterion, and they've taken a lot from Screen Factory.
Kino is just stepping up their game and putting their money on the table
and killing it. Yeah. Yeah, credit to where they're I mean,
they really feels like it came out of nowhere too, because for so long
they had quantity over quality. But that's not the case anymore. And the
crazy thing is now they have both. They never step down the quantity.
They are announcing things five and six times a week. It is crazy true.
Okay, let's get into Scream Factory since I just brought them up.
Speaking of four K, Scream Factory, on May twenty fourth is releasing Life
Force from a little known actor named Toby Hooper. For those that don't know,
A Mission to investigate Haley's comment discovers an even stranger phenomenon an alien spacecraft.
Following a deadly confrontation, the aliens arrive on Earth, where their seductive
leader begins a terrifying campaign to drain the life force of everyone she encounters.
Obviously there is a focus on the word seductive there. Her victims in turn
continue the cycle, and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger. And
when the mission soul survivor played by Steve Railsback, sets out to stop her,
he comes face to face with the most beautiful and most horrifying being he's
ever known. Will he be able to destroy the vampires or will he become
yet another victim of her fatal charm? And then the big thing that people
were asking about on here. Please note about the international cut. Cannon cut
the original camera negative to match the theatrical version of the film. Any trims
from the original camera negative were not saved. As a result, the international
cut only exists as an interpositive film element. We felt cutting those scenes into
the original camera negative for a UHD release would be jarring because of the increase
in resolution of twenty one to sixty p. So this is an example of
I really wish that they didn't make this choice for us. I wish they
had this as an option on the disc. The the international cut will be
included, but only on Blu Ray, So that Blu Ray that they're including,
it's literally just gonna be the same disc from the Steel Book they put
out a couple of years ago. But either way, this is one that's
going to look great in four K. Pretty much guaranteed. This is going
to be a very interesting movie to see how they do with this, because
this is the first four K release of this film in the world, So
this is all shout factory. This is not a re release or anything like
that. Are we like one hundred percent sure that Poltergeist is a bigger job
than Texas Chainsawn Massacre? If they're going to call out from the director of
Poltergeists over to TCM, is that, like, I don't know why they
chose that. Like I alluded to earlier, it is possible that they have
the rights to Poultergeist and could be releasing that in four K. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, good call. I'm not going to say that they
do, but that I would not be surprised at all with the titles they've
been able to get yet that would it would be a stoner. But yeah,
they're gonna do a Hooper box set. That's going to be their big
box set this year. You heard it here on the show first. Okay,
thanks for being here, Chris, have a good night. No.
Uh so, yeah, Life Force is great. When I said that there
is a big focus on the word seductive, there's essentially a character in this
who's nude for pretty much the entire movie. Life Force is a lot of
fun and it's it's decent. It's not peak Hooper obviously, but it's good.
It's no Eating Alive, Oh God, I hate eating That movie is
so bad. Uh. But when we talk about movies that I genuinely love
and got excited for, we are getting a Blu Ray release finally of The
Ghost and the Darkness starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer. I love this god
forsaken movie and so many people hate it. I don't get why. But
just to go into this, Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer bring to life the
heart pounding story based on true events in remote East Africa in eighteen ninety six,
when two murderous lions on a man eating rampage forced workers to stop construction
on a railway. Big Game hunter Charles Remington and engineer Lieutenant Colonel John Henry
Patterson, such manly names in this movie, set out to stop the deadly
predators. However, the lines between hunter and prey soon become blurred as the
men enter a dark and unfamiliar wilderness, where the thrill of the hunt quickly
becomes the most dangerous game of their lives. Have you seen The Ghost in
the Darkness? Yeah? I was just gonna say, like I this is
one of those ones I think I saw with commercials on like some edited version
on TV or something. As you're going through the description, I have like
certain memoric image just kind of flashing in my mind from the movie. But
this is like an old memory. Yeah. And this played heavily on like
cable and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, have you I assume you've
seen it by the way you're gushing about it. Yes, this is one.
I think my dad loved this movie. This is one that I watched
a lot, and then because of the year that it was. It was
made in ninety six. This is right around when I like I first saw
Halloween, when I think it was eight, So ninety four ninety five is
somewhere around there, and then right after that it was let's show you pretty
much everything, because now that you've watched Halloween you can see anything, of
course. So yeah, I watched Ghost in the Darkness a lot growing up.
But this one's kind of a big deal because this has never been released
on Blue anywhere, and this is a good Paramount release that I also would
not be surprised if this was announced by Imprint here soon, since they've had
such a close relationship with Paramount. Yeah, that's a good point, does
it say? I'm like, okay, don I was hoping it said from
the director of Nightmare and Elm Street five, just going along with my theory
of what good this is the guy that did night right Elm Street five hoping,
just going along with the theory that it means like indicative of future releases,
is right, But because people have been pushing for Scream to release that
nosebox sets forever now, yep, and I we'll see. I don't think
that'll happen, actually, but I don't think so too, honest. Yep.
So they're doing the Ghost in the Darkness and then I'm actually kind of
excited because I love this movie again nineteen ninety six it was a perfect year
for me. And four K we are getting the craft now again. Everybody
knows what this is, especially because Scream just put this out a couple of
years ago. There is nothing new on this disc. It is just a
four K version of their previous release. Now. The big thing here,
though, is that they are highlighting new four K restoration by Sony. Sony
does incredible work on their four K restorations. Sony is probably, at least
for me, probably number one studio for storing their films in four K.
And I have a feeling that this is going to look just amazing. And
this is also the first time that Sony, as far as I'm aware,
has licensed out a four K release of one of their films to a boutique.
Interesting, Okay, could be a good sign. Could be a real
good sign. Yeah. I mean, these major studios, the volts are
just so deep, like you know, they should like start digging around in
there. That'd be great. Yeah, And not to mention, why not
make more money than you're making now? That seems to be what they're always
about, right, Okay? And then four K of Escape from New York.
Wow, this is a big one obviously, and a lot of people
we knew this was coming because they are using the Studio Canal four K restoration
that they did, which means we will now have three out of the four
that Studio Canal did, and base on that, I can basically one hundred
percent guarantee that before the year's over, we're gonna have the Fog in four
K. I would not be surprised to see that be like an August or
September release. I'm sure they have hopefully something decent sized for October, but
this would be the Fog would be a good primer. Oh, last year
was the Michael myerstuff. Never mind, I was like, they didn't do
a box that last year, but they had their four K ye yet,
right, And you know, they've sort of hinted that they might be doing
the rest of the Halloween in four K, but I honestly, I still
think that's kind of a pipe dream with everybody that they would have to negotiate
with. But yeah, this is a big one obviously. Carpenter is a
god amongst men, and pretty much everybody that has seen Escape from New York
Love Escapes from New York. So this one is fun. Came out in
nineteen eighty one, before the Thing, before a lot of you know,
it was Pete Carpenter era. Basically, have you seen Escape from La as
well? I yes, I've seen Escape from La I've also I've got the
four K coming. I'm curious to see how good it looks. I don't
think it's as bad as everybody makes it out to be. Yeah, it's
it's fun. I mean, he's the best basketball player in the world and
he can serve the city. Like, what's not the that's true. We
got a question, Mitchell says, this brings up the question, is that
the same UHD master for the digital and has anyone seen a difference between the
between the two physical and digital? Well, first off, compression on a
physical disc will always be better than digital. You're gonna have artifacting on digital
that will always look inferior to what you can see on physical and even there
are some blu ray physical that looks better than four K digital because of that,
so it is important to find the best that you can if that's what
you're into. But I will say, having watched the Studio Canal four K,
have Escape from New York is that it's really good. I think that
it's a fairly good four K scan. It's got pretty good HDR. The
all of the blacks look rather deep in that movie. It's a it's a
very dark film obviously for what they're filming, and I think it'll look great.
That being said, I also hope that they improve on the Studio Canal
with their compression because the four K of They Live and what was the other
one they put out, I'm blanking right now, Prince of Darkness. Both
of them came out on four K through screen Factory after they did on Studio
Canal, and they each technically look slightly better from screen Factory, So I'm
hoping that that continues with this. It's not a massive improvement, but slightly.
I just love that we live in a world where carpent is getting this
kind of cheating and you have choices like you can choose which country to buy
four K Escape from New York. I just hope that it can continues to
things like In the Mouth of Madness, because he's got underrated titles that go
above and beyond what some of the best features from other directors that are getting
four K releases. In the Mouth of Madness is such an incredible movie.
I feel like his titles must sell well though. I bet it will happen.
They do, I mean shout put out his Elvis movie. It's they
got to do well. Yeah. And then, speaking of four K re
releases, screen Factory, this is our third option of the night. They
are putting out Candy Man in four K in the US. Now, the
big thing here is they are using what Aero Video did to this movie.
They are using the Aero Video four K scan, So basically they are probably
going to be identical scans. I don't think that there's gonna be much done
to this in terms of better compression or anything like that. However, this
does have a new interview with actress Vanessa Williams, so there is if you're
a if you're somebody that really wants all of the features that you can get,
this does have a reason to have you upgrade to this one. What
does that mean for new four KUHD presentation in Adobe Vision. I wonder HGO
ten compatible on both cuts of the film. I wonder why they're claiming that
is new. I wonder if that means new over their old release. Uh
yes, and well, and they can also make that claim if it's new
to the region. Yeah, that's just because it's coming out in the US
and has not been available before it is new. Yeah, that's exactly the
probably what it is yet. And uh, before I go on and we
leave Carpenter of the Dust, I will say Mitchell, Big Trouble in Little
China better be the next Carpenter to get a four K. We know for
sure that Pelham is coming out. Does that been announced it? Who's doing
that? Uh? Hell? Oh uh, that's your you're mixing up two
of the titles the gosh, but for some reason, assault on Precinct thirteen
thirteen is the one I'm thinking of. That's the one we know for sure
is getting a skin. Well, we know that def Crocodile has restored it,
but they they have been claiming all along that they don't have the rights
to physical No. I think it's going to be these guys. I do
too. Yeah, we're still in Shout right, yep. Yeah, I
think it's gonna be these guys. And uh, we still got some rando
titles here coming out from Shout. But after that, let's talk about the
bundle that they're putting out for Escape from New York. This comes with the
Escape from New York three disc four K set with the slipcover a limited edition
eighteen by twenty four inch roll poster of the original theatrical artwork, which I
love that that's the poster they're giving us. But the big thing here,
just like the other Carpenter titles that they've done on four K, we are
getting a seven inch on exclusive with blue splatter vinyl from Sacred Bones featuring music
from Escape from New York composed by John Carpenter and recorded by John and his
son Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. There is the twenty seventeen version of the
main title and the B side contains a never before released recording of sixty ninth
Street Bridge recorded in twenty twenty, and that vinyl is through Screen Factory limited
to two thousand copies. However, Sacred Bones also has their own variant of
that vinyl, and personally I think that Sacred Bones version actually looks a little
bit better, But for people that aren't into the variance, that's no big
deal. And then on top of that, if you get this giant package
Screen Factory and Gutter Garbs have teamed up to bring you the official Escape from
New York enamel pin set, exclusive to shout Factory dot com and limited to
only one thousand units. And through that, these five little pieces of art
in the bottom corner are the enamel pins that you're getting. And now again,
last time we talked about in an enamel pin set coming from screen Factory,
everybody was crying because I how expensive it was. Enamel pins are expensive.
Enamel pins take a lot to make, and they usually average in price
somewhere between like twelve to fifteen dollars. So at five of these, even
on the low end, there twelve at five at sixty bucks. The set
here with the pins is sixty dollars more than the set without the pins,
and all you're getting is that pin set. So yeah, it's a little
high, but if you are a pin collector, which a lot of people
are, then it checks out and you're used to that price range. I'm
not going to necessarily defend that. I think that they probably could have made
it about forty to forty five dollars more and it would have made sense for
them economically. Still, it'll sell out, probably though, Oh yeah,
I guarantee you will. It's a carpenter And honestly, that's probably why the
Happy Death Day one with the exclusive pin set, I think that was only
forty five or fifty dollars more, and that's it'll probably still sell out,
but not as fast as this one. Religion in interesting times, I know,
I don't want to go up to two we of a detour at this,
but like, if they do get the rights to Nightmare on Elm Street,
they could kind of present how they wanted, right. Oh yeah,
if it was three hundred bucks, it would sell well. And the big
question if they get the rights to Nightmare on Elm Street, do they get
the rights to all of them in four K? Because we have never seen
through any distributor an entire franchise on four K all at once in a box
set like that. That I mean, that would easily be three hundred dollars
worth of content. Yeah, that's true. The amount of money that would
go into scanning and color grading and HDR and all of that would be intense.
Yeah, that's true. And I say that right after. You know,
if you went to the Amazon or Target buy to get one free sale
and tried to order the Friday the thirteenth set. You could have got it
for like sixty seven dollars a few times, which is that's so cheap for
that entire set. That set is incredible. It doesn't even feel like they
cover cost of that. Maybe so somehow, but that's crazy. Yep,
all right, that is a weird picture. To follow that up with Shout
Factories also putting out the nineteen ninety seven Trekkies the twenty fifth anniversary edition.
Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentist drill
and Federation garb, and the debate over Trekkies versus Trekkers rages on. For
those of you that want this, you probably already know what this is.
I'm not going to dive too deep into Trekkies. Next is Poopel of Chimney
Town from twenty twenty. That's probably not at all how you say that,
But Shout Factory does a lot of these animated titles, so again, if
you are looking for this, you probably already know about it and going to
move to the next one. This is a Screen Factory title that continues the
erotic thriller trend. So this is go ahead, No, I said,
yeah, it does. This is a fen fetal directed by Brian de Palma
from two thousand and two. This is with Antonio Benderis and Rebecca Romaine Stemos.
A ten million dollar diamond ripoff, a stolen identity, a new life
married to a diplomat Laura. I think it's pronounce Laura. Laura ash has
risked big, one big, but then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in
Paris, and suddenly enemies from Laura's secret past know who and where she is,
and they all want their share of the diamond heist or her life or
both. And uh yeah, fem fatal is. Uh it's a movie.
Yeah, I wish I had done more research in nineties thrillers. I don't
think that's a genre that I like. I mean, I've seen this movie
on the shelves and video stores for years, but I don't think I ever
saw it. And if I remember right, I believe this is the first
Blu Ray release of this one as well. Nice, which is kind of
a big deal for a di Palma movie. Sure, yeah, yeah cool.
We are also getting from Shout Select two for the Money, featuring a
really odd looking, Matthew McConaughey. We got Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey,
and Renee Russo a name that I have not heard in a very long time.
Yeah, yes, is Yeah, she was huge around this time.
This is from two thousand and five, when Brandon Lang is tapped to be
the protege of sports Gamblings power player Walter Abrams. He swiftly becomes the golden
boy of the high Rollers for consistently picking football winners. Now, with millions
on the line, Brandon finds himself in a deadly game of con versus con
with his mentor. Jeremy Piven is also in this two thousand and five Jeremy
Piven. Nice. This has audio commentary with the director GJ. Caruso and
screenwriter Dan Gilroy The Making of Insider Interview with deleted scenes with optional audio commentary
with DJ Cruso or Dan Gilroy. It's a decent little shout Select release,
but kind of an odd title. This guy, this DJ Caruso guy.
I think, if I'm not wrong, I think he's being asked to direct
the fourth Triple X movie. You know that Vin Diesel series. I think
he gets these like kind of like genre action new movies to do. Shouts
Select is weird. Do you do you collect them? Are you complete on
them? Uh? No, nowhere near complete. They're one of those where
I don't know, if they stuck to one type of film, it would
be a lot easier to choose from. But I mean for a company that
has put out the big Sleep Liar Liar and uh you know what, yeah,
exactly, and then like the Pink Panther films, they don't really feel
like they fit as a cohesive line. I think when they originally announce Shout
Select that it was these are important type of films that they were trying to
go for, and then I don't know that, uh that seemed to go
away quite quickly. Yeah, yeah, the same thing. I can't keep
up. I mean, they've got some they've got some really great titles.
I'm not taking that away from them. But the big thing with Shout Select
is that they they seem to have just stopped the like the Collector's editions that
they've put out, they only have been putting out like one every like eight
months or more. I think last year only had Explorers, that was a
big collector's edition that was a big title for shout Select. I mean even
this year we got liar, liar, just what was that January that that
came out or maybe February, But it had a new scan and they didn't
give it a collector's edition, they didn't put a slip on it. They
didn't get a whole bunch of new act and I don't know why that is
a huge title to get sure. Yeah, in the comments, Nathan says
fem Feto is awesome and it has style that sounds like it's a follow movie.
Yep. Great. Speaking of movies, I guess that shout Select puts
out they're also putting out dinosaur World. If you're really looking for this.
This is from twenty twenty. Uh, hilarious. Welcome to dinosaur World,
an eye popping place where anything can happen and the life and death stakes are
all too real. I think that is an actual asteroid. Yeah, and
it looks like there's two of them. Uh yeah this Uh, I'm curious
how many of these they're gonna say, tens, dozens even, Okay,
moving on to something more up your time zone at least Son of Samson from
nineteen sixties coming from Keno lober And is getting one of their now famous slipcovers
that seemingly everything is getting. Uh, this is getting a new audio commentary
by film historian David Delvaier and filmmaker historian Michael Varatti. Uh, let's see.
Yeah, I was, I was pumped to see this one. This
is what's the Oh, so I'm gonna anyways, there's there's a you know,
one of these Italian my chie state films, my chief state films.
It's one of these big kind of Italian like strong men, you know,
sort of sort of sandals type type things that it's one of the one of
the better ones in that genre. This is a it's a really fun movie.
Yeah. And I believe they have rights for another one that is similar
to this. I can't remember the title of the other one, but I
think that is coming soon as well. Is this part of their streaming thing?
Have you ever tried their genre streaming thing? I did when it first
announced that it coming out. I think, what did I watch on there?
I think I watched like a Vincent Price movie and maybe one other,
but I generally I try not to stream so much. I've used it.
The main reason I used it is because sometimes I would get lucky and be
able to watch things while I work, and that's what I used it for,
because they have a better option for things like this, And yeah,
it worked well for that for a while. But now I started that new
position in gosh, I think it was November, and that was like a
month after they announced it, so I've just been swamped since then. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, Son of Samson and this is coming on May tenth.
All right, we did get a newsletter from Anto Micabro and at the
end they said that they are going to be having available to pre order in
late May or early June. The other side of the mirror from Jess Franco
in nineteen seventy three. All right, you said, this is in the
this is from I missed this announcement. This is from Aanda Macabro. Yep,
came in their newsletter. Oh cool, good for them. This is
a very late era Jess Franco, and I believe they are planning on having
three or four titles available to pre order at this time, so it'll be
this plus two more or this plus three more at the end of May or
early June that this is going to be available. Yeah, big stuff coming
for them this year. This should sell really well. There's a lot of
just Franco, just francohites. I think that they are called Franco files.
Oh that's better, that's much better. And so yeah, they said check
out justin Coffee's amazing new artwork for it above. It will be one of
at least three, possibly even four new limited edition blues that will have on
sale probably in May or early June. And then just to remind everybody that
they are also doing Caligari and four K during the Halloween sale. And then
between the June announcements and the Halloween sale there should be another round of pre
orders in there somewhere around like August ish, I believe. I think that's
the one that's gonna have their box set. I either that or box set
may be pushed to Halloween. Now. Yeah, really really great looking year
for them, though this one, Mitchell says, this one is exciting.
This one is indeed exciting Monta Micabre. They are seeming to ramp it up
after a semi slow I mean even then twenty twenty one wasn't slow for them,
just not a lot that people seem to get like this fervor for and
they have some incredible stuff coming their first four K. That's a big deal.
Yeah, but now it's time to get into the big stuff. I
almost feel like we should take an intermission and put on the let's all go
to the Lobby song or something. Uh. Vinegar Syndrome. On the first
of March, they put up all of their March package that you can pre
order and all of their three hundred and seventeen partner label releases. First from
Vinegar Syndrome, a four K double feature of Schizoid and then let me switch
the artwork and x ray. Now, for those of you that don't have
a ten minute memory, this exact double feature was previously released by Screen Factory
and it is still like it's not I don't think this is one that got
super expensive. It may have, but these movies, Schizoid particularly, is
not like incredible. I don't love it. X Ray is pretty fun,
but they're all right. I was joking with Zach. I don't know if
he's still on the line, but we were joking about I really want one
of the special features to be like some mention of how Klaus Kinky klaus Kinski,
just like destroyed the set. It was like a real pain in the
ass on the set for Schizoid. I mean, I don't know if that's
true, but I'm assuming it was on most of his films. Yes,
I kind of want to start calling him klass Kinky now. Eric Johnson,
talking about that last one, says, the only Jess Franco I've seen his
Bloody Moon, which I hated, and I will say I also did not
like Bloody Moon. I think it is one of his worst movies. So
if that means anything, Eric, I would strongly suggest looking at some of
the other ones. So go ahead. No, I said, that's and
that's saying something. Jess Franco's fine, but he has some bad movies,
and he's kind of like he's got he's got some real stinkers. Uh.
These two titles, the first one, like I said, Schizoid. Peter
Fails is a renowned a psychiatrist who is unable to reconcile his relationship with his
teenage daughter, Alison. Julie, one of Peter's patients, is a successful
advice columnist in the midst of a messy divorce, who has also started receiving
letters. When a black clad scissors wielding killer begins murdering people in Julie's life.
She begins to suspect that her unknown writer and this mystery assailant might be
one and the same. And that's from nineteen eighty and then X rays from
nineteen eighty two, when Susan was a little girl, she rejected the valentine
of a love struck classmate. Decades later, she's come to the hospital for
a routine medical examination, but when her X ray seems to show something unusual,
Susan finds herself trapped in a bizarre medical nightmare made all the worse as
her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in
his path as a means of proving his undying romantic obsession. Really unique premise
for X ray, which is one of the main reasons why I like it.
Yeah, I haven't seen X ray actually, but Zach was touting its
praises and now you are as well, so I'll definitely be excited for this
one. Schizoid, what do you think you have a I forget if it's
as a kind of a hobby or formal training and counseling kind of psychiatry,
right, psychology. Yeah, what do you think about all these movies that
are having these really broad brush strokes on you know, official diagnoses like schizoid,
these kind of things. They I mean, I don't It could just
be me, but I approached them obviously with with levity first and foremost.
But I think that at the heart they are yeah, they're they're pure entertainment
pieces. They're they're trash in that sense. But the cool thing here both
of these are on four K, so there is a if you care about
these movies in any sense, there's a legitimate reason to buy these over the
screen factory release. This is a three disc set, two four k's and
a Blu Ray. The Blu ray itself is region A locked and it's newly
scanned and restored in four K. On both of these from their thirty five
millimeter original camera negatives. And then there are new interviews with Schizoid, writer,
director, actress, makeup artist, and another actress. And then Ultraviolet
Vengeance the talent and technicians of X Ray, a brand new making of documentary
featuring interviews with the cast and crew of X Ray and I love the making
of it. That vinegar syndrome. They're able to do. They really do
great work. Yeah, let's see Mitchell said, is that not every Klaskinski
vehicle movie. Yeah, Klauskinski was a character. Yeah, this one looks
really good. I am glad that it's a double feature and they're not charging
for two different four K releases for these films. I think that would have
pissed off a lot of people considering it was a double feature released on Blue
previously. But speaking of double features, they're also putting out hard Rock Zombies
from nineteen eighty five and a double feature with Slaughterhouse Rock from nineteen eighty seven.
Now, the reason I bring that up is similar to that last one.
It's because Slaughterhouse Rock had a pretty good release from Scorpion Releasing already.
Have you seen either one of those? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, for sure, I've seen both. I mean, I don't know,
I'm a little biased. I love this kind of stuff. It doesn't
really matter how bad it is if it has rock in it and like metal
in it. I'm there. I agree. I think this is a good
double feature. I'm glad that they were able to differentiate the upgrade that they're
giving to Slaughterhouse Rock give people a reason to get this, and primarily just
having it be a double feature, it feels less like a cash grab because
they genuinely could have released both of them as upgrades on their own right.
Yeah, they would have both sold, probably especially in Vinegar's line for sure.
So for those that don't know hard rock Zombies from nineteen eighty five,
a heavy metal band has been invited to appear in a conservative small town.
What they don't know is that their hosts are in fact a family of horrific
and murderous mutants whose patriarch is none other than Hitler. After being swiftly murdered,
Cassie, the only nonviolent member of this depraved clan, wills the band
back to life. Soon, the stuffy townspeople are faced with an unwelcoming,
unwelcome reckoning as the zombie fide musicians thrash and maim their way through the community
and the name of grizzly revenge and love and then Slaughterhouse Rock, which I
genuinely love. Slaughterhouse Rock from nineteen eighty seven. Alex, a college student,
is being plagued by strange dreams, of which a grotesque man commits heinous
acts of torture and murder. With the help of his friends, Alex discovers
that he has an unexplained telepathic link to a notorious killer who once lived on
Alcatraz Island and whose bloodlust extends beyond the grave. When his supernatural experiences began
taking on real life manifestations, Alex and his friends sneak into the abandoned prison
to put an end to their reign of terror, only to unwittingly walk into
a bloodbath. I like the last the way they start the last paragraph of
their description on their site. I love this dispensing with any sense of narrative
logic, which is true. A lot of this you gotta you gotta kinda
put that, you know, put some of those expectations to the side.
Yeah, these are just silly, fun movies. This is this is a
really good one. I agree. Let's see. Mitchell says, I've seen
Slaughterhouse Rocks cover before, but never seen the movie, and it's a very
iconic cover, so a lot of people will recognize that for sure. Justin
says in the newsletter, they said that Slaughterhouse Rock has extra gore footage that
wasn't in the other release, so that's a plus. And then Nathan says
they should have had better art for Hard Rock Zombies. I mean, it's
not awful, it's it's decent, but I can understand that. And then
some of the extras here. Hard Rock Zombies is newly scanned restored in two
K, while Slaughterhouse Rock is newly scanned restored in four K. Never Say
Die, a making of documentary featuring interviews with e J. Kurse, samman,
Gino Andrews, Mick McCain's, Ted Wells, Richard Vidan, and David
O'Hara. That's coming on Hard Rock Zombies, and then Gotta Love the title
of this featurette with special effects artist Chris Briggs and Everett Burrell, Popcorn Farts
and Low Budget Cheese. They also have an interview with actress Who'sette Boggs and
the Bible of Holy Moses, Holy Moses, Watching Hard Rock Zombies through a
fanatics eye, an interview with author Lucy Hall, and then Slaughterhouse Rocks.
They've got an interview with the cinematographer, an interview with actress Tammy Hyler,
and an interview with the actor Nicholas Selosi and an interview with the actor Al
Fleming. Not a whole lot on Slaughterhouse Rock, but it's still something.
I'm team Nathan. I don't like the covers for Headrock Zombies. Yeah,
obviously it could have been better. For sure, it is what it is.
I got it. I mean I'm a subscriber, so I get it
anyways, right, John says, boy, if that Slaughterhouse Rock cover doesn't
tickle your video store and installed you a happy place, I don't know what
will. Slaughterhouse Rock was everywhere, but this may be the biggest title that
everybody is talking about this month. Under syndrome. Somehow got Reform school Girls.
Yeah, this is a big deal, a huge deal. Obviously.
This has the legendary Sybil Danning, and this is a film that people genuinely
know and love from a very you know, a deep place for a lot
of people. This is from nineteen eighty six, and the Pride More Juvenile
Detention facility isn't just a place for troubled teenage girls to serve of their time.
Instead, it's a living hell filled with sexual depravity and violence. Jenny,
a fresh inmate, becomes the de facto protector of Lisa, an innocent
young girl forced to be a plaything to anyone after her body. Then there's
Charlie, a hard and teenage lesbian who torments her fellow prisoners through brutal acts
of sexual sadism. But no one instills more fear and even the toughest girls
than the sadistic Edna, who, with a blind eye turned by money,
hungry ward and Sutter, delights in terrorizing her beautiful prisoners. However, the
girls have had enough and things are about to change at Pride. More So,
this is a quick tangent, but it's directly related. I promise have
you ever sat through Angel three? The Vinegar did that three? Angel?
Of course? That commentary is fascinating Tom de Simoni, And then that director
that I don't like, David Dicoto, David Dakoto. They just David is
basically like I guess he was kind of like mentored by Tom, and they
both grew up in the world of like shooting pornography together and then kind of
transitioning into like kind of mainline genre films. And it's a really good commentary.
So anyways, like I'm sure that it would be good here as well.
But like, if you want to hear two people that have grown up
together just kind of geeking out on like the way they got into filmmaking and
what it was like, to what the lessons they learned from making pornography and
like all this stuff. It's it's cool. I was shocked by it,
Like it's way better than the movie. Yeah, and that's obviously not hard
to do, but it's just a great reminder to really pay attention to the
extras that are on some of these because not only will it give you a
new appreciation for like film in general, but sometimes a lot of these movies
people loathe the first time they watched them, but just by watching the commentary,
it can flip your entire understanding of a movie. It can give you
the appreciation that you need to really understand, like why they even made a
film. You can get motivations, you can get you know, this took
four days to film this way, and just listening to the story of why
they did that, you suddenly appreciate everything so much more. Yeah, totally.
So. This one is region free, newly scanned and restored in two
K from the thirty five millimeter interpositive. There is also an extended making of
documentary featuring brand new interviews with the cast and crew, which just excites me
so much. Interview with the theatrical producer Alan Eichler, an interview with author
and critic Brianna Whipple on the life and career of actress Wendy o Williams.
There's archival commentary track with the writer and director, which is great, and
then commentary track with queer film historian Elizabeth Purcell, video footage from the play
woman behind Bars, and then all of this stuff that's on everything. This
is great. I'm glad that they got a title this big. This is
one of those like big deal titles for them. Yeah. Yeah, it'll
see a lot for them, and good good for them for sure. Yeah.
Speaking of things that will sell a lot, how about the next VSA
title that you can order now. This is Talons of the Eagle, featuring
the Man the Myth of the Legend, Billy Blinks and Jelal. I never
remember I say his last name, is it Mary Mariah? I think it's
Murphy, but I heard him just someone said he's I don't know if this
is the title he gave himself or if like people called him this, but
they called him the Lebanese Steven Sacal, Like I don't know, like he's
just it's kind of I can't get that out of my head now. So
like he is so proud of himself in all these movies that VSA has been
putting out. It cracks me up. So I can't wait to watch this
one. I got a question, what do you before we get into the
overall discussion of the movie, what do you feel that the VSA line has
turned into for you? And what do you feel about the number of VSAs
that we've gotten as well? Oh cool, I was literally thinking about this
yesterday. That's so funny. Maybe we're just kind of synthatical right here.
So VSP represents sort of like modern films that Vinegar Syndromes putting out that fit
like their style, right, and then there's the main line obviously, and
then VSU. I don't know, I guess I kind of the way you
could think about it as like big, really famous like cult classics that they're
bringing in, like all the stops for and like really kind of blowing out
of the water and for VSUS. By the way, they did say they
wanted to highlight those because they don't fit with the vinegar syndrome line. It
wouldn't make any sense on vinegar syndrome, but basically is what they said.
Okay, then I guess the cynic in me says, like, but their
movies they want to put out because they're gonna sell a lot, but which
I mean, I'm really happy they did Best Masters a lot of fun but
vsay, I don't know. They're like they have Action USA, so anything
else they do after that, they're forgiven for because that's one of the greatest
movies of all time. And I'll fight you, like not you, but
like anybody is, like I've seen that movie I don't know twenty times at
this point, and I was when they released that, Like it felt like
I was falling in love my heart like skipping. Yeah, they feel like
they've been really into these joelaw Mary he's like a producer that likes to do
martial arts. I guess, so they've been really into his films and fine,
I guess you know they love the Cynthia roth Rock movies and Okay,
like I don't know they I'm here for them. I'll keep supporting them.
They've They've got me suckered in with that hard box. It looks nice and
has number on it, so I'll keep going for a while. And a
poster with every single one, and a poster like and honestly like a great
release like the movies all have. They look and sound fantastic. I don't
know, I'm neutral on them. What about you? First off, Zach
says, if you want to go to sleep at some point, don't let
Christacker. I will say, like I. First off, VSAY stands for
Vinegar Syndrome Archive, and they are supposedly treating it as the video store of
your type of titles and what we got from them, some of them are
great action USA, wonderful movie. I just did a review for Four Cheers
of America. It's not an incredible movie, but it's a hell of a
lot of fun. It was a very fun movie to watch. I was
entertained the entire time. That being said, we are up to I think
they just announced number twenty one. I think this is twenty one. Two.
I think it's twenty two, but they're right around there. Yeah.
So when they first put these out, we were getting like four or five
a year, yeah, somewhere around there, and now we're getting like two
during every sale and almost one a month. Yeah, I'm not gonna say
overkill necessarily, but it's just you're you're releasing a full label's worth of movies
basically interesting. Yeah, it kind of takes the like mystique out of it
a little bit, exactly. And if you want them to feel special,
like, at least give some breathing room around them. And the only thing
that made me really feel like that this time is you just did the Big
Trilogy with Cynthia Rothrock and it was great Tiger clause, it's a nice,
you know, decent package, came in the same packaging all that, and
it was like five bucks more and it was three movies. Yeah, why
wouldn't they put this with TC two thousand and make it a double feature and
even you know, charge five dollars more than a regular VSA. But then
you don't make people feel like I'm gonna buy two different Billy Blanks movies and
spend twenty five dollars on each one. Yeah, good point, good point.
I don't know. I'm just curious how they while you introduced the next
title, I'm gonna check. I'm curious to see because you know, they
talk about like how these labels are selling out, Like how many they have
left? I'm curious to see. I'm curious to go back a few months
and see if these are actually selling for them, Oh, Champagne and Bullets
or GID even as the other one that should be mentioned that was a fantastic
movie. So they have these ones that are big, like really like,
I'm really proud that they're putting out every once in a while. Yep,
and again they are. They're wonderful releases. I love the case that they
use, even though its a lot of people hate trying to put the blue
ray case back into it. I love that we get posters for them.
I am a sucker for posters. I love that they get a lot of
features. It's great. I'm not saying don't buy or support the VSA's that
they're genuinely great. So this one, dea agent and martial arts expert Tyler
Wilson Payton played by Billy Blanks himself is sent on an assignment to Toronto,
where he is with trying to stop an influx of narcotics into the States.
Once in Toronto, Wilson his partner with Detective Michael Reid, and the two
undergo rigorous martial arts training in the hopes of entering a local fighting tournament and
getting closer to a well known drug dealer named mister Lee played by James Hogg.
After saving Lee's life, Wilson and Reed go undercover in Lee's gang in
order to find the evidence they need to put Lee away. However, their
martial arts training will be put to the test when Wilson and Reed try to
take down Lee's syndicate and the two are forced to fight for their lives.
With explosive action sequences and well choreographed fight scenes, Talents of the Eagle remains
one of the best from action producer Jalal Mary or Murhaigh, featuring high octane
martial arts performances from Billy Blanks and Jalala himself, as well as solid solid
performances from Priscilla Barnes and the always enjoyable James Hong Vininger. Syndrome Archive is
proud to present Talents of the Eagle for the first time on Blu Ray,
scanned in four K from the Ocen. This is from nineteen ninety two and
its region free and we were getting a commentary track with Joel Al and then
a making of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew the original trailer,
and then again they all get double sided posters with that new fancy VSA packaging,
and this one is limited to five thousand. You know, I'm just
I just had an idea. Did you see New York Ninja? And have
you seen that yet? Yes? So you know how like all the voices
are basically like this crew, right, it's like rock, Like the VSA
line is basically like the voices of New York and Ninja, right, So
maybe there's something there where they're like striking deals. I don't know, and
it makes sense. We do know that there are more Cynthia Rothrock films coming,
all right, so that makes sense. And we're almost complete on Jeel
and Mayory, so maybe his films needed to be released. Well, once
we're complete, we can just just be done for it then and then then
they'll start releasing him on four K or something. But then this month,
OCN dis Distributions is putting out eleven different partner labels releases eleven, so let's
break them all down. First, one is from Saturn's Core Audio and Video.
This one is Backwoods Marcie from nineteen ninety eight, and a lot of
people are looking down on this one, but it's also kind of a unique
and important title. This is the front of the slip, and then here
is the back that says she's homeless and hungry for sex, blood and revenge.
So this one. A wrong turn during a business trip leads an unsuspecting
yuppie down a perilous road of terror after he foolishly runs a foul of Marsi,
a psychotic redneck homeless woman who dwells deep in the ominous swamp lands of
the New Jersey Pine barrens. After excuse me. After capturing him and caging
him like an animal, the depraved Marcie methodically tortures and rapes her helpless male
cap Upon his escape, a savage fight to the death ensues, where only
the most cunning of the two will survive. Now the reason that it's looked
at is important, they say in their copy. Here. One of the
few shot on video movies in history to be helmed by a woman, Backwoods
Marsie was written, produced, scored, and directed by actress turn filmmaker Don
Murphy, who also turns in a tour to force acting performance and a dual
role that earned her a Best Actress nomination at the nineteen ninety nine b Movie
Awards. Let's See This is a long sought after, strangely feminist nineties arrow
shot on video horror epic, newly uncovered and restored from the vaults of the
infamous South Jersey based studio Sharky Video. As an added bonus backwards, Marcie
now comes paired with another Sharky Video, Kurio writer director Dave Castilioni's nineteen ninety
five brain melting holiday themed shot on video comedy An Ex Hooker's Christmas Carol.
So this has a whole bunch of special feature and it is a double feature
title. But Saturn's Core, Like most people are very anti Saturn's Core because
they're anti shot on video. So what do you think? I think?
Okay, two things. When we were talking one of the we had this
brief discussion about like, are there any of the partner labels that we're not
buying anymore or whatever, And Saturn's Core was one of my answers. But
then they these titles that they're releasing now actually kind of keep drawing me in.
I do like shot on Video stuff to a certain extent. I think
there's some cool storytelling coming from that, and I'm going to give them a
shot. I just got in my February stuff and this one was super enticing
to me. From Saturn's core, Red Skirt Lake and then we Await was
on the other side, and yeah, this release looks incredible and it sounds
like perfect for my taste. I think that you know, they had the
one it was what was it called Duck anyways, one of their releases was
the movie that was about the Columbine massacre. But it was like this weird,
kind of like super dark comedy about these two kids that go in and
shoot up schools. It felt like it was in very poor taste. Was
that the was that Saturn core? Yeah? It was. And uh,
It's like it seems to me like maybe kind of their identity is becoming these
movies that are shocking from a cultural standpoint, Like they're going and finding these
things that are sort of like jarring culturally, and typically the people that the
financing for those is not coming through studios because who's gonna make Like which studio
is going to make Duck? The Carbine school and massacre? Like six months
after Columbine. Yeah, so that's intriguing to me, Like I want to
give them another shot and just kind of see because I kind of like,
I guess maybe like the spirit behind that it feels kind of punk rock,
Like I'm into it. I really love the documentary they did on Wave.
Oh I haven't seen it, Okay, I'll check it out. I think
that was their first release. Actually on which movie it is? The Wave?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Waves. Yeah. I'm sorry, yes,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was great. I'm sorry
Mail Order Murder that's what it was called. No, I just yeah,
yeah, no, yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Right.
Yeah, they did a great job with that for sure. But also
I wanted to say, it's interesting on this like feminist kind of thing.
What was the movie that they just released through Vinegar Syndrome Pictures, The Scary
of sixty First. Yep, that's another one. It's like written by a
woman, directed by a woman, starring women. Crazy, Like that movie
is insane, Like I hate to say, like I couldn't believe it was
made by a woman because it's not really fair. But like I just I'm
happy that women that are making those types of movies are now getting press and
getting attention because they're crazy genre movies that are like you would like expect to
be from a man historically, and so I'm really happy these voices are coming
up. And the cooler thing for me is that one is a very modern
movie that was just made and it's very rooted modern times. It's all about
Jeffrey Epstein. So it's an interesting one. I just watched that one recently.
Yeah, it's wild. Next up, from this cover art still from
Factory twenty five, we are getting Hellaware from twenty fourteen. Helloware gently satirizes
the world of highbrow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed
by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the incestuous New York socialite
shit that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a
more authentic brand of contemporary art. When a coked up YouTube search leads to
a music video from delawarean goth rap young torture killers, an insane clown posse
knockoff, Nate knows he's found his subjects. He soon drags his friends with
benefits Bernadette, to rural Delaware to shoot the group playing in their parents' basement
to immerse himself in the group's culture and add an extra layer of realism to
his work. Nate befriends the rappers and makes return trips to get to know
them, but as his relationship with the group develops, he becomes increasingly aware
that while you can take the boy out of the art world, you can't
take the art world out of the boy. You know the album from that
rap group, Do you know what it's cost which one the young Torture kill
is. Oh no, it's called I'll Cut Your Dick Off. Oh yeah,
yeah. They're putting that out on vinyl. That's the best part.
So that is the front of the slip. Here's the back to show I'll
Cut your dick Off. This is hilarious. The big thing for me that
I love about this is it's seventy three minutes long. Yeah right, Oh,
Zach, I love Revenge. Zach brought up Revenge from twenty seventeen fits
that criteria as well. Shot by a woman, a very feminist type of
movie. Revenge is incredible. Yeah. Yeah, so this one is getting
It's a region pre blu ray deleted and extended scenes behind the scenes of helloware,
commentary with a few people on it, a trailer music video for I'll
Cut You dick Off, and then a twenty four page booklet with a foreword
by a Belle Ferrara, essays by Nick Pinkerton, Michael Chaikin Chaikin, Sean
Price Williams, and Michael m by Landick. Ye, that's that's impressive.
Actually, Yeah, for a title that has I'll cut You dick Off on
the back of it, careers connection to this, that's crazy. I have
no idea. Huh. Next up, though, The Long Walk from Yellow
Veil Pictures. This is a twenty nineteen film. An elderly man who has
the power to time travel thanks to a mysterious companion whose death he witnessed,
decides to trespass into his own past and set in motion a plan to prevent
his mother's suffering and appease his soul. This is the front of the slip
and here is the back. Well, anything about this one intrigue you?
Well? So I got to see Knocking from this from this company and it
was great, Like, I mean, it was simple, maybe not great,
it was good. It was a good, solid, like three out
of five or three like it was good. And they they seem to have
a beautiful art designer for like their cover work. I don't know who they
work with, but they're very like elegant and sort of like artistic with their
cover art. So what we were just talking about, Yellow Veil, what
title was that from? Where they're putting out a title luxA Turna from gas
Renault of course. Yeah. Yeah, John in the comment says, this
sounds like the most interesting partner release this month, with lux Aturna on the
horizon. It looks like Yellow All's emerging as my favorite partner. Yeah,
John, I agree, that's I don't know about Yeah, I don't a
favorite, but certainly like I want to see the things they put out,
and that's like I trust them a lot. I agree there. And then
on top of that, I always have loved time travel movies. Yeah,
So that alone is as soon as I read that, I was I'm in
immediately the Long Walk. Next up from Canny releasing Ode to Nothing from twenty
eighteen. Dwayne Reides Baltasar's Owed to Nothing is a powerful meditation on our universal
longing for connection and increasingly precarious, uncertain, and isolated times. The intellectibility
and omnipresence of death is given form here in an uncanny cohabitation with destitute itself
and what amounts to one of the most captivating art horror hybrids to emerge from
the Philippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director, and Best
Screenplay award given at Quaison City's influential Q Cinema Festival, highlighting new Filipino cinema.
Ode to Nothing unfolds in a languid and hypnotic manner. Every careful shot
oozing with the palpable texture of rot, humidity and crushing loneliness, sounds like
a light watch. And looking at the art here, it's gonna be a
very vibrant setting too. Canon Abel from them was that Philippines as well?
Uh? I think so yeah, Manila okay? So being natural though was
not right being natural to z. I feel like that was Thai or something
like that. Japan. So I'm just I didn't know either. I was
just looking at there. So they have Japan and then two for the Philippines,
I mean three cheers for Khannie. They I love these guys so far,
Like this is the thing I like. I think we can't talk about
this before, but the fact that you can go to Vinegar Syndrome and buy
these kind of movies feels like cheating somehow. Yep, I love it.
I will say when I first read this, this sounded to me, and
this is going to be a weird word to use, and I know that,
and I apologize in advance, but this sounds to me like a palate
cleanser. And the way I say that is because for me and I actually
I talked about this with a couple of people this week. Oddly, I
feel like there are certain movies that if you are in the wrong mood when
you watch them, you will hate the movie. Ok And there are certain
things that if you are stuck watching I won't just use like a broad term
like happy films, but things that are you know, say, like your
favorite genre for like ten films in a row. It really works to do
that and then dive into something like this that is going to make you sink
into your emotions and then really appreciate the story they're trying to tell. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. I think I so. One
of the things I do like other than genre movies, I'm trying to go
back and like watch a lot of these art house films that I missed or
whatever. So like every year I try to pick like one big director and
the one I'm doing this year is one kar Wai and like last year was
Felini and like in so those are like the I kind of call these like
the challengers, right, And then for me, the palate cleanser is like
Action USA or like something like silly that I can just like turn my mind
off too. But even though I think we're using different vocabulary, like the
sentiment like I'm right there with you, like you have to have I have
to have both, Like I can't watch like Billy Banks movies like back to
back to back, like I need to mix it. Yeah, And that's
why I look at it, I guess more as a mood cleanser. There.
I can't watch you know, victorious rocky uh sports films for four day
straight and then feel like, oh, We're all victorious and everything's great,
because then after that I want to dive into something like this and just really
sync to the floor with this depressive state and really just languish in that.
But then after that, sure I can watch a romantic comedy from two thousand
and five and love it and that that makes sense. Yeah, Justin says
it looks like a foreign bleak Swiss army man. Okay, that's awesome,
and then also says this is my most anticipated this month. The trailer wowed
me. I also wanted to point out John says I also randomly watched a
twenty twenty two film from Yellow Veil on Shutter called Hellbender. Shutter's been advertising
the hell out of this film micro budget folkrps. Again, we just talked
about that. That comes from the same guys who did The Deeper You Dig,
which is a family. It is a husband and wife and daughter.
I believe that all work together. And he says he'd recommend Some people seem
to hate Hellbender so far, but it's just very divisive. I would certainly
look into Hellbender and that we're probably gonna get a discrelease of that eventually from
Yellow Veale. Next up from Canadian International Pictures, we are getting the other
French New Wave Volume one. And what's interesting here is when they put out
their copy, they put a little I might say teaser. I think it
was an accident, but we'll talk about that in a second. This is
three trailblazing classics from the dawn of Quebec's cinematic revolution. Here is the front
of the slip, which I adore the slip. I think this is a
really well designed slip. And then this is the back with the three titles
that we're getting here, so we have the cat in the bag. On
the cusp of adulthood, Claude loses faith in society and commits to a state
of revolt which strains his relationship with Barbara and leads him on a path to
isolation. Featuring an original score by jazz legend John Coltrane. I don't know
how to say this name. Giles Gruhles Experiment in Spontaneous Cinema is a timeless
exploration of youthful dissolution that brought new audacity to Quebec cinema. And then the
second feature, The Merry World of Leopold Z. On Christmas Eve, snowplow
driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping and
time for midnight Mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Giles Carl The
Merryworld of leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant
conclusion and then the third and final feature, Yule eight seven to one,
During a weekend visit to Montreal, a Parisian engineer has a romantic fling,
befriends a young girl, and rethinks his war fractured past while navigating an unfamiliar
new world. An early breakthrough for prolific auteur Jacques Gudbaut. Yule eight seven
to one is an artfully directed, deceptively breezy convergence of cultures. So there
is all kinds of like short films and featurettes and all kinds of extras here,
but the cool thing at the bottom. They accidentally included English SDH subtitles
for all nine films, so I'm willing to bet we are going to get
three of these releases. This is labeled as French New Wave Volume one,
we are likely getting a volume two and three. Those sneaky bastards, I
have to I'm gonna be totally honest. I don't have a strong passion for
the Canadian New Way. I'll give these films a shot, though, like
it, I'll be interested to see it. Beautiful cover design it is.
And the only reason that I am kind of very interested in it is because
I really respect Justin the Clue who does gold Ninja video, and he has
been completely hyping up everything because he is a Canadian native and completely just in
love with what they are releasing through these labels right now. So coming from
Canada, he is all about this. All right, Oh, Justin,
you might be right, he says. I think they're talking about the shorts
that are included. Yeah, those sneaky bastards that could be true on two,
three, four or five six, and then the three main Yeah,
you might be right, damn it. Justin John says, it's fascinating that
we can purchase this from the same website I bought Tracula Suck from the last
month. What a great way to juxtapose that. Next up, we are
getting Pathogen from AGFA. Here is the back of that slip and conceived when
filmmaker Emily Hoggins was twelve years old and released when she was only fifteen fifteen,
Pathogen is one of the most accomplished horror movies ever made by a person
before they could legally drive a car. A mysterious technology has transformed the residents
of Austin, Texas into flesh craving zombies armed with a knife and axe and
many pairs of flip flops. Middle schooler Danny and her peewee zombie Squad take
to the streets to battle undead parents, teens, and even a toddler.
With an impressive devotion to editing a storytelling, Pathogen delivers eyeball gouging decapitations and
knife fights, along with an endearing perspective that could only originate from a teenager.
Ag fun Bleeding School are overjoyed to give Pathogen its first ever wide release,
complete with Zombie Girl the Movie, a feature length documentary about the making
of the movie. I love Actus so much. I just spoke to them
yesterday, So the episode will come out in like a month. Nice,
they're gonna go they're doing seventeen total titles this year. Wow. And next
year they're gonna be like, I don't know, they're a little bit vague,
but like they're ramping up in a big way, Like they're gonna start
putting out of a lot of movies interesting, and I just I don't know.
They're the nicest, most like down to earth people. They're totally geeks,
like in the most endearing, like loving way. I mean that,
and like, I just want to support these guys. I don't know.
I love. Yeah, I'm a big fan of ACABA. They are great,
important people. I will say I have not loved most of their output.
Go ahead, have you seen bat Pussy? I have not finished it.
Oh man, that movie. I was like, that's one of my
favorite movies. Now, I like so hard at that movie. I have
weird tastes though, so I'm not going to defend it. It's a crazy
movie. But I love a lot of what they've done. Scary movie is
really good. Captain Alex obviously is a classic for a reason. There are
the horror trailer show that they did was great. The scare films that they
did are just amazing. To dive back into time through that, there's a
lot of really great stuff. And the important thing is that they are an
archive first and foremost. Literally it's in their name and I will throw out
again for those that don't know, AGFA is literally a non profit. If
you go on to Amazon right now and you go on Amazon Smile, you
can set them as the organization that makes money when you shop on Amazon.
I don't even like. I try not shop on Amazon, but when I
do, four percent of what I get goes to AGFA, because I'm trying
to support them, because they deserve it. Sword in the Clause one I
would recommend anybody watch too. Sword in the Clause A decent one. Next
up in one of the most intriguing looking slips that I've seen in quite some
time on here. This is coming from Collective Project Space thirteen from twenty twenty
one. An emerging performance artist finally gets a coveted show at a Manhattan gallery,
but right as he begins his durational, provocative piece, the entire city
shuts down for COVID nineteen. Unswayed, he locks himself in a white cube
space to continue his performance from an for an audience of none. Yeah,
honestly, I don't know that I am eager to watch films with COVID nineteen
as a plot point in it. Yet we are still very much in the
throes of it, and I'm not super stoked to get that as a plot
device yet. But Circle Collective genuinely has done really good work so far.
I gotta be honest, and this has a conversation with Theodore. There's a
handful of people trailer opening weekend Q and As from Roxy Cinema with the cast
and crew. And then this is the front of the slip and this is
the bat. There's a tidy Utopia. I don't know what it is.
There's like it's like they're all kind of part of the similar group or something.
It all feels very New York art. Yeah, and not not just
because of this title, but legitimately a lot of the stuff they put out,
like uh uhia, yes, Donni's bar mitzvah, the the documentary they
did of the New York artist. There's all kinds of stuff that Utopia has
done. Yes, very very similar. Oh sorry, Utopia is very much
New York. Yes, Martha, It's one of my favorite movies last year.
So the woman who followed Martha draws a picture yep, or takes a
picture or something like that, the one where she follows graffiti arts around and
stuff. It's amazing. But these guys put out assholes. Which was it
stars the same woman that then went on to do that Scary sixty first.
She's an intense actress yep, and did well in Scary of sixty first.
Yeah, Yeah, that was a tough role, but this might be the
one that I am most excited about for this month. I am stoked to
say that Enjoy the Ride Records is putting out Scream Queen. Scream Queen my
Name Maaron elm Street sets the record straight about the controversial sequel to A Nightmare
on Elm Street, which ended Mark Patten's acting career just as it was about
to begin. Scream Queen follows Patton as he travels to WHRR conventions across the
US, each new city and wraps a chapter from his life that has met
with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail as he attempts to make peace with this
past and embrace his legacy as cinema's first male Scream Queen. Scream Queen also
finds Patton confronting Freddy's Revenge cast and crew for the first time ever, including
co stars Robert Rustler, Kim Myers, and Klu Gallagher, as well as
Freddie himself Robert England. This is a pretty big documentary that got released in
twenty nineteen but had not gotten a Blu Ray release until now, and I
am very, very excited that this is going to be finally in the hands
of a lot more people. Where did you see it? Well, I've
got the DVD release of it first of all. Okay, definitely giving that
away now. But yeah, this I think it was also streaming maybe on
shutter momentarily. Okay, that's cool somewhere. Yeah, I can't figure out
etr. They're all over the place, but the movies yep. And then
a very bright pink slip cover on this one, and then all kinds of
pretty cool uh extras here we have Mark Patten, Roman, Chimmy Anti and
Tyler Jensen audio commentary, an alt opening for it called The Psychic, a
look at horror genre studies with doctor andrew S Cahill, called The Monster Is
Queer, a tribute to Wes Craven by Mark Patten, and then an extended
fireside chat with the cast of Freddy's Revenge, Backstage with Screen Queen Femininity and
the Horror film a discussion, and then a booklet is also included with an
essay by BJ colon Jello who is I believe BJ is from another podcast.
She's done all kinds of stuff, very big in the queer horse scene,
and it seems like, yeah, Anthony saying, screen Queen's a great documentary,
a good companion piece to watch with a Nightmare Elm Street Part two looking
forward to picking up. And that's the best thing I think we watched.
I want to say. My wife and I we watched the first five Nightmare
on Elm Streets recently something like that, and when we watched part two we
had a discussion afterwards. I was like, so, what do you think
and just went into some of it and how it felt so different from the
first one. I said, well, before we watch part three, you
gotta watch this documentary. So that's when we watched it for the first time.
Cool. Oh okay, Culture Shock Releasing, which is getting a whole
lot of press. They are putting out Slash Dance on Blu Ray, which
is a film that they put out on DVD previously and sold quite well.
This is from nineteen eighty nine and this is a essentially one of the like
horror workout video movie things that was a thing for a while thanks to LENEA.
Quickly, I assume beautiful dancers are being brutally murdered at the Van Slake
Theater. Is it the Weird Brothers who run the theater, the perverted stage
manager, a vengeful ghost. Bombshell Detective Tory Rains must go undercover as a
dancer to find the killer or become his next victim. This is going to
be region free with a bonus feature film called Hollywood's New Blood, a full
length commentary with the director, a full length commentary by Hack the Movies podcast
interview with actor Jay Buzz Von Ornsteiner, interview with the producer Andrew Meisner,
and then three minute flash dance by Future Schlock of Everything is Terrible and yeah,
same art as they had on their DVD release. And then what's cool
is because they also have Hollywood's new Blood. The other side of the slip
is highlighting that double feature nice this is I haven't seen this movie before,
but aren't these the ones that did Hooker with the Hackslaw I think that,
Yeah, yeah, yes, and Cannibal Hookers yep. Culture Shock Releasing also
just put out an American Scream and then they did the big one that everybody's
loving so far is Girlfriend from Hell. That's right, that's right, that's
right. Yeah, that was then. Yeah, They're they're fun, They're
they're one. I want to follow Yeah, and they are one of the
newest partner labels they came out with that Canadian International Pictures that they both were
added recently. That's right up next, because we are still not done from
Altered Innocence. We are getting stop Zemlia from twenty twenty one, hanging out
with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes,
playing, refusing to accept dreaming with open eyes. Life as a teenager can
be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introvert at high school,
girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best
friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non conformist status. While trying
to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a
way that forces her out of her comfort zone. In her debut, the
Ukrainian director Katerina Gornostai composes a deeply emotional and multi layered portrait of a generation
whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental So, first off, kind
of hard to just let that go without recognizing that Ukraine is literally in the
middle of being attacked right now. So this might be a good time to
beef up on at least learning and supporting some part of Ukrainian art. This
is the back of the slip says, how does your body feel when you're
in love? Really bad, awful, but still you need this feeling?
Yeah. Altered Innocence is all about coming of age stories, queer stories,
and really diving into some some art house things that are just really well made.
They have my favorite cover of all the Vinegar Syndrome partner labels. Do
you know what just one I'm gonna be talking about wild Boys? No,
it's a knife and Heart. Do you remember that one? Uh? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah. When I saw that, I was like, man,
that is brilliant. It is such a we'll say blunt to include for
those that don't remember, it's the sex toy with a knife in it?
Yeah? What about this? Anything you're interested in there? I have been
collecting Altered Innocence. They're one of the labels I'm going to go through soon.
I don't think i've seen I've seen maybe a few of their movies Death
of Nintendo, I saw So Long, Abillity, Sound and Furious. I've
seen three or four, But and then they're putting out. Oh, they're
ones that put out that new Elois Deglecia film which correct Pals, Yeah,
which Severn put out the rest of it, or a lot of his other
stuff, right, Yes, so yeah, I think this labels cool,
Like I'm intrigued by them. I like the coming of age films and queer
representation is out there, so I want to support these guys for now.
For sure, I think this might be the last one. I don't want
to speak too ahead of myself, but we are getting from music Box selects
Sybil from twenty nineteen, and I've heard nothing but great things about this.
A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triette. Sybil follows a psychotherapist
who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sybil starts
dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration
until she gets a call from Margo, a young actress wrapped up in a
dramatic affair with their co star Igor, who happens to be married to the
film's Becoming further enmeshed in Margo's life, Sybil starts to blur past and present
fiction with reality, and the personal with the professional as she begins to use
Margo's life as source material for her novel. This one has a feature audio
commentary by Alexandra Heller Nicholas, like I brought up earlier interviews with the director
and actors photo gallery. Not a whole lot else. But this is the
front and this is the back of the slip pretty classy looking slip here.
Yeah, no, it's it's definitely an art house movie. Is this before
or after? Blue is the warmest color? Sorry, I was trying to
find that out, because that's the actress from Blue is the warmest color.
I believe it's after. This is after, Okay, I believe so,
So this is what she's doing now because this is twenty nineteen. Yeah,
it must be after. Yeah, you're right. Cool. Yeah it looks
good. I mean it looks like an arthouse film. Yeah. Yeah,
it could be easily be Criterion type or whatever. So absolutely, yeah.
But last couple of things to cover On Vinegar Syndrome, there was new merch
available and some of these have sold out now. For Screen Queen, they
have the soundtrack on vinyl and on cassette, and if you wanted Hellaware,
they have this gorgeous vinyl cover Young Torture killas I'll cut your dick off,
and then Vinegar Syndrome is doing a Green Saint Patrick's Day logo tee. But
now, what do you feel about what Ragnar said here? I personally think
that there are way too many partner labels. Okay, there's I might split
minded on this. There's the collector's side of me that was enjoying supporting all
the partner labels, that's frustrated because I can't keep up. Then there's the
side of me that like has spoken to Craig and Dennis over at Deaf Crocodile
and like they're good dudes, and like I'm happy that they get to plug
into a machine and like sell their stuff. So I don't know, like
I feel like as the person buying it, it's like frustrating, it's too
much. But if I was starting a label right now, I would consider
it, even though I've heard they take a big cut, Like it's nice
to be able to sell your products, right. So I don't know if
there's going to be a new like competitor to MVD in the marketplace. It
feels like maybe they're doing a good job with it so far. What do
you think? I very much in the same frame of mind. But I
will also add what I believe we talked about when you did the video with
me a few weeks ago. The fact that they have so many partner labels
means that they literally have something that they can appeal to everyone for. Yeah,
and the fact that you can go to the website, like we just
said and by Dracula sucks followed by an art house Ukrainian film is it feels
like magic first of all, But second of all, it means that no
matter what type of person you are, even if you spend ten minutes on
the Vinegar Syndrome website, you can find a film that you go you know
what, I kind of want to really see this. Yeah, and yes,
there is a lot of partner labels. There's a lot to keep track
of. But at the same time, it's not made for you to collect
every single thing from every partner label. It is made for art to be
shared, for movie to be out there and discover. And I think that
it is again something that I've said on the channel way too many times.
Every single movie has been somebody's favorite movie, and no matter what it deserves
to be handled with the most utmost respect. Yeah, and we'll see if
we agree in May when they do their halfway to like Friday so and they
announce five new partner labels or whatever. Right, right, I can't really
argue with that anything else about Vendger Syndrome and partner label. I think that's
the last thing. Let me make sure before I. Oh, no,
that covers them all. Yeah, that covers them all. It's a very
big month and that that is seemingly the new norm first of all, that
we're gonna have literally this month, there's what four Vinegar Syndrome releases or maybe
yeah, four vinegaro Syndrome releases plus eleven partner label releases. Fifteen in one
month is a lot and a lot of these are double features. So it's
actually like twenty films. Yeah, yeah, it's the Kino model, right,
But because they're coming from so many different sources, they're getting that like
really high touch, high quality, and even even Keno, who also has
a lot of partner labels, still doesn't have as many as Vinegar Syndrome.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true. I don't know. I love
them though, like I want them to be very successful, and they seem
to be big fans of movies, and they're seem to be doing it the
right way, so I'll keep supporting them. I think we're about to talk
about them. But I'm having to make choices. Like one of the companies
that I love a lot, but I've stopped buying. I'm very selective with
the Severn because their box sets are amazing. They're like when they do that
two or three discs special limited like cases, they're they're amazing, yea,
and even their standard releases are fine. But like, I'm just starting to
have to make choices now, Like I can't do Vinegar and Arrow and Severn
and Massacre and like and and and then you know, like there's just you
start to make choice, and you start to make choices. Now, I
agree, And speaking of Severn, that does mean that it's time. Coming
on eight, what just happened? I had to do that every single week.
I do it at least once. Coming on April twenty sixth from seven
Marty Gras massacre from nineteen seventy eight. Probably can't show that on YouTube,
so maybe I should change that. Coming from seven April twenty six this was
previously released us to buy code red. For those that have never seen it,
this is uh, it's I don't know, have you seen Marti Giromasker?
First of all, yes, I have. What do you think where
was the Was it an Italian movie? Where was it originally? I believe
so? Yeah, it is right. I think it's like, okay,
uh, it's a wild movie. I think it's one that I'm trying to
like, I am so deep into these kind of films, it's hard to
be like objective about it. Right. It's a lot of fun, and
I think it's one that like people probably the people that are watching, like
the people that listen to this are like also kind of deep in this world,
would love like. I think it's one of those kind of musty type
of films from this world. If you've never seen it, it definitely is.
And then not to mention, this is going to be the best release
that the film will ever get, probably so. With only five films,
New Orleans based writer producer director Jack Weiss became one of the most enigmatic figures
in seventies exploitation, and for his final trash piece, Weiss delivered a filth
field disco drenched and gore soaked epic of butchered Hooker's hard boiled homicide cops and
a prissy psycho with an Aztec sacrifice fetish that remains a once in a lifetime
Slee's experience. Kurt Dawson, Ronald Tannet and February seventy five Playboy playmate Laura
Mish starring the shocking yet hysterical Fever Dream of Regional Filmmaking, with a soundtrack
by Dennis Coffee and Mike Theodore and still banned in the UK, is one
of the original DPP thirty nine video nasties, now with a two K master
compiled from the best post Katrina elements and a revealing new interview with Jack Weiss
himself. Yeah, gotta love the word trash piece there, because it definitely
is. This is one that is. First off, I don't think it's
quite as gory as they make it sound there. It's it's pretty. I
mean, it's a little blood heavy, I guess, but it's not like
gory in the way that you would think, especially for a film from what
years at seventy eight and then this has I'm not in a Hollywood interview with
the director, the Marty Grock Killer interview with actor William Metso and the first
victim interview with actress Laura Mish, which is kind of cool that Playboy Playmate
came on to do that. It's ninety six minutes region free. It's a
good set. Yeah. I honestly think if you have the Code Red you
probably don't need this release. But I will say that pretty much anything is
going to be better than a Code Red, So if you don't have it,
this is obviously the one to go for, right. Yeah, I
feel like this is one of those releases that like has a fan base.
Oh, it certainly does, and it's gonna it'll sell well, which I'm
happy for them to. Yeah, and the Code Red release came out years
ago. It is quite an old release, so yeah, this is not
a shock at all. But that's not the only thing they're releasing. Speaking
of Jackweis, coming on April twenty six from Seven Films, they're releasing The
Big Sleezy, a Jackweis double feature with Crypt of Dark Secrets, Crypt of
Dark Secrets and Death Brings Roses. Perhaps the most bizarre film by New Orleans
writer, producer director Jackwiss is seventy one minutes of supernatural Sleeze featuring voodoo vengeance,
a possessed swamp stripper, and multiple feats of knuckleheaded folk horror, newly
mastered from the original negative thought lost for more than thirty years. Death Brings
Roses is the big Easia Tours epic of pimps, hookers, mob bosses,
Double Crosses, a stupefying parade of performances by non professional locals and Henry Youngman,
a real life Hollywood tough guy. Scott Brady, Broderick Crawford and Hermione
Gingold star in this French quarter crime saga that walks a fine line between utter
hilarity and bubbling sleeve. Scannon two K from the personal thirty five millimeter print
of the director yep, I mean the cover tells you everything you need to
know about these two exactly. Not going to spend a ton of time on
those, but one of the more intriguing titles this month, Severn is putting
out Hey, Stop Stabbing Me from two thousand and three, long before they
became big time Hollywood players with dorm Days, Golan The Insatiable and Sonic The
Hedgehog twenty year Old producer, co writer, director Josh Miller and producer co
writer star Pat Casey spent the summer of two thousand with five hundred dollars,
a mini dvcam, and a group of friends in Bloomington, Minnesota, creating
what remains the most insanely accomplished and long out of print comedy horror hit of
the shot on video Era. It's a deranged suburban saga of whole day serial
killers, nimpho girlfriends, close stealing monsters, and lawnmower murders. That film
threat calls goofy and funny, with charm despair, filled with ideas both creative
and bizarre. And this is an inner vision title not Severn proud to present
this justifiable cult favorite, now lovingly remastered an HD with all new reunion featurettes,
audio commentaries, short films, and much more. And there is all
kinds of stuff including Sledgehammers at Don, a bonus feature length film which is
eighty three minutes, and then other short films as well. There's all kinds
of stuff on this release. This is like the best thing about Severn,
right. They do this as well, if not better than anybody, Like
their supplement Game is incredible. I don't know how they do it with the
small team because I think they're actually shoot and edit a lot of their own
stuff. I don't think they fimb it out. They absolutely do. That
is evident because a lot of the Down of the Dead special features for the
UK released from Second Site. Severn was in charge of those special features,
So there you go. Yeah, it's very impressive what they were able to
do. So I don't know if if they have like a separate arm that
kind of does the supplements or whatever. But like you look at this and
you're like, well, I mean I don't know about the movie maybe,
but like, I mean, there's so much. This is like a very
deep dive into this director. There's special features. Yeah, and literally these
are the voices behind Sonic and Sonic the Hedgehog two, right, and for
those that didn't see it, the two gentlemen that are reference to the beginning
here. They also did a YouTube episode of the Severn Seller where they go
on and talk about things that are in the seven Library and a sort of
riff on the Criterion closet method. Nice. I mean, Peter Jackson started
in Horror, right, so maybe that's all kinds of them. I mean
James Cameron, look at what he's done. Yeah, right, right right?
Was it Piranha too? Right? Yep? The Spawning Seven. Not
one to let a release go by without a whole bunch of trinkets for Marty
Gras Masker. They are also releasing a bead set for Marti Gras and a
green shotglass. They're also putting out an American Splatter Movies en amel pin.
But the cooler thing is that Marty Gras Masker is getting one of their now
like genuinely famous novelizations. This is the third one they've done, and it
is the same guy that's done all three of them. But then there's also
a comic book, and they released some pictures from the comic book on their
Facebook and it is risk. It looks pretty good. So this is the
bundle just for Marti Gras Masker for everything sixty four bucks limited to five hundred.
If you want just the three releases, it's sixty five dollars, and
then if you want everything that they're releasing in April, it is one hundred
and four dollars, which, eah, I don't I'm not a big drinked
guy, so I don't ever go for these. I don't have any place
to put a lot of that stuff, but I'm certainly running out of places
to put those things. It is crazy that we're still not done. So
I was talking about Violent City because this is being released in the UK and
this is also coming out from Keno on May seventeenth. This is with Charles
Bronson and gets a brand new two K restoration of Violent City in English and
Italian with optional subs new audio commentary by film historian Paul Talbot, the one
and only Bronzon film fan that is as deep and knowledgeable as he is,
the author Bronson's loose books, Shooting Violent City, interview with the co writer
and director Sergio Solima, theatrical trailers for Violent City and the Family, and
a TV spot for the Family, and let's see. Four K restoration of
Violent City in Italian with optional English subtitles is on disc two h D Master
of the Family, a two K scan of thirty five millimeters print in English
with the optional subtitles. So there's a lot, honest, this is actually
a decent size release from Quino, Ireland. That name is sounds so familiar.
She's in a lot of Bronzon movies, right, She's in a lot
of stuff around that time. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah.
One of their patented slipcovers now is making a sweet appearance here because it's Bronzon,
so they had to put one on there. And then a kind of
exciting title. Gold Ninja Video is putting out Skip Tracer from nineteen seventy seven.
This is about a repo man who skips town after his life is threatened.
And this is available to pre order now and if you were one of
their Indigogo subscribers, that is included already in your package. But again,
just like with all the Gold Ninja Video release, says justin Declue is all
over this thing, and it also has a bonus film called Passion Zaial Daland's
unreleased movie called Passion. Golden Ninja Video does great work, absolutely worth every
penny. Yeah, I've been I've wordered a few other things since we spoke
to kind of support him, but I haven't seen him yet. That's I'm
I'm I'm very happy to support that guy. Sounds awesome. The cover art
they put out for this after is much better than this poster. This is
not the cover art being used and it's it looks like a really good package.
Cool uh talked about that you are here. And then Blue Underground we
have got some release details. Uncle Sam from nineteen ninety six coming on four
K with a lenticular cover of the famous you know this this picture and then
the the more zombie fide picture. It's fourth of July weekend, and the
recently discovered corpse of Sergeant Sam Harper, killed by friendly fire during the first
goal for is returned to his all American hometown. But when Sam rises from
the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean
War veteran played by Isaac Hayes himself can stop his red blooded rampage. Draft
dodgers, tax cheats, crooked politicians and flag burners. Beware, Uncle Sam
wants you dead. This was directed by William Lustig, so of course this
is getting a four K release from the thirty five millimeter camera negative. This
is going to look great, of course, It's Blue Underground. It's going
to be amazing. It gets an audio commentary and archival one obviously with Bill
Lustig and Larry Cohen and the producer, and then there is another commentary with
Bill Lustig and star Isaac Hayes, and then fire stunts with audio commentary by
stunt coordinator Spiro Rosattos, deleted scene gagreel and this is only a four K
disc. There is no Blu ray coming in this package. Have you seen
this movie? I have. I've got the Blu ray right behind me.
It is it's pretty good. It's it's uh, I won't say it.
Well, it's pretty peak air elastic. Yeah, exactly. I think that's
a good way to say it. I like the I like the little twist.
But that commentary with Larry Cohen, I just I love every time Larry
Cohen talks. I think that man is like so smart and like I think
this is a great commentation. He is brilliant and his hands are on so
many different things that you you don't even realize until you actually dig in,
because he wrote so many things, he directed so many things. He's just
everywhere. Yeah. Uh okay, so I guess I forgot that we weren't
tonch with vinegar syndrome. Let's talk about the very last thing of this week,
which, first of all, thanks everybody that's hung around, because this
has been literally the biggest week of announcements that I can remember in the last
multiple years, just primarily because everybody's announcements lined up at once. We got
announcements from pretty much every May Your boutique except for like eighty eight Films and
Eureka and Criterion, but pretty much everybody else. So Vinegar Syndrome we have
dates in hand for their flash pre order for their Halfway to Black Friday megasale,
which will be in May. The flash pre order will be March twenty
fifth through twenty seventh, just a few short weeks away, and some details
that they go into here. Every sale we try our best to best the
one before, and this time will be no exception, with five fantastic Vinegar
Syndrome releases, among them three four ks, three never on Blu Ray horror
films, one of which will also be a four K, the world four
K premiere of a crazy action classic restored in both of its versions, and
of course, the authorized worldwide four K and Blu Ray debut of the notorious
thriller A Cruel Picture and on Thriller extras are stacking up, including revealing interviews
with Christina Lindberg, along with numerous other cast and crew who have never publicly
discussed their work on film. On top of that, we have plentiful trailer
stills, outtakes, and all of the same stuff that they always do.
But the really interesting paragraph here that a lot of people have been asking me
about. So I want to spend a minute on this because this is kind
of a very public swipe at Synaps here. And yes, we are aware
of the inferior blu ray utilizing a nearly twenty year old master that is being
sold, and we are working to resolve that situation. But if you,
as a connoisseur of exploitation cinema, wish to see thriller looking the best that
ever has and in the most comprehensive edition that ever will be, and you
believe that filmmakers ought to be respected and paid for their work, we highly
encourage you to wait a few more weeks to place an order for the Vinegar
Syndrome edition. It'll be worth it, damn. So, first off,
they're literally saying that Synaps is selling a bootlet. Yep uh. This is
this is basically a public season to sist. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
That's a good wad. Look at it the fact that they said that
we are working, h what was the exact urbage here? We are,
uh, we are aware of it and working to resolve that situation, which
means Synapse does not have permission to release thriller from anybody that holds the rights.
And from what I have heard that they they had their previous master that
they had on DVD and they were under the impression that they had the right
to sell it on Blu Ray and just waited and so they took that DVD
scan and put it on a Blu Ray. And that's it. You gotta
check the right stuff. I mean, like you can, you can say
what you want, but you've got to check. That was the thing I've
I've learned through all these conversations. You have to you have to know because
as soon as you start making money off of somebody's property, it bubbles up
to the surface real fast, right, And with something like this, especially
with a title that so many people know and are fond of, and it's
it's kind of a big deal title. Yeah, that's this is like a
this is like a fuck random find out type of title. Yeah, yeah,
totally. What was the one last year is at Django, right,
Uh, the infamous Jango release. Yeah, that was a Blue Underground and
Arrow fiasco that that caused all of that. I am kind of glad that
that one got delayed because we were able to eventually get the four K at
the same time and legitimately one of the best looking four k's ever. I
mean, that movie is awesome anyways, but that that transfer is just as
well. So the big thing other than thriller that we you know, we
hit on pretty well there. The flash pre order is already happening this month,
and a lot of people they are they're like just now into some of
their Black Friday titles and it's already almost time for that halfway to Black Friday
flash pre order. Things move fast around here. I hope everybody is ready,
all right. Next thing we always do is talk about what's coming out
next week. Okay, let me share that screen and last week or I
guess this week was really slow, but next week really picks it up again.
So we got the best movie of last year, says four people on
blu ray dot com. The matrix resolution resurrections of four K is coming out.
Speaking of synapse phenomenon, four K is coming out, and the Aero
video version of that one is already shipping. Their release of Thriller supposedly is
coming out next week. The Death Game from Grindhouse releasing. I believe we'll
be shipping here shortly. Oh yeah, that's right. They have two types
us coming out, right or is it just that one? Just this one?
And then they did the Rudy Ray Moore book yet and we are getting
Monster from Greenhill. Wanted to hit this home a little bit. This is
coming from the film Detective. Not a lot of people talk about them,
and I hear the Monster from Green Hell is really good. I just ordered
that one as part of the best buy sale that is I believe still going
on. It might be done now, but got that one pretty cheap.
Should be here in the next week. Adoption from Criterion is getting its release,
and then Hester Street from Cohen Media, a sub label of Keino,
is coming out the Legend of Laurna. I believe this is the other YouTuber
master Chaoss movie. I would give everybody a hardy please go check that out,
support other people in the hobby. And then Keno's release of the Apartment
is also releasing. I don't believe the four K is coming next week.
It might be from Epic Pictures, which I love and I always try to
talk about because nobody else does. The Swerve is coming out. They are
one of the labels that also puts out the Dread Pictures. They're up to
gosh like almost forty numbered releases that are great and uh like. They're the
ones that put out Terrify a few years ago, the modern horror with Art
the Clown. Yeah. Yeah, and that is I think all of it
unless you're a real big Brooklyn ninety nine fan. At this point, we
usually talk about pickups. Do you have anything you want to share? Yeah?
Sure, so we had I don't have them with me. We had
to kind of get out of our house quickly because we uncovered some mold in
the house. Oh that's We're in a temporary spot and I anyways, I
don't have them with me. I got the I got the February sale for
Vinegar Syndrome in with the partner labels. So I'm starting to go through those
and that's been fun. And then this has been a relatively slow like couple
of weeks for me for pickups. I got those in. I'm expecting to
spend a lot of money between March and April, and so I'm kind of
saving up a little bit. There was one more thing I know I got
in ohh. So speaking of things that take like forever to come in or
whatever, rare Ro video. So I'm still one of the like five people
that buys from their website despite all their problems, and I basically just kind
of like buy and just like I'm like okay, like it's gonna come when
it comes in. So I got four movies that I ordered in November that
we're more on the like experimental side of Italian cinema, a lot of shorts,
a lot of people play with like almost like Stan Bracket style of kind
of very experimental shorts. And so I got four titles at there from that
from them, I think that covers it from the last like two or three
weeks from me. Rero is a wild and I will remind everyone if you
if you are not into them yet, the best time is if you just
get into one or two titles during a Kino sale. Kino also distributes for
them, so it's a really good time. You can find them for like
nine ten bucks and just throw that in there. Check it out. They've
got the like the way that I always describe them is like they're the directors
you know, and then the films you don't know from those people exactly,
Like they're they're deep into like genres, Italian genre films. Oh, it's
not like a pickup, but every year I get a ten dollars cupon from
Criterion because I was like a charter subscriber for the channel, and so I
just got it. And like historically that means that next Tuesday is going to
be the Flashdale Nice. I'm like ninety five percent confident that it's going to
come next Tuesday. And that's that's usually a twenty four hour sale through the
Criterion website and fifty off everything. As always, that is the best time
to buy from them, by far. I set aside a few things that
I thought would be more up your rally. I got in the newest wave
of imprint, so I got the February titles. We got the return of
Pink Panther this is from nineteen seventy five, and lots of good stuff on
here. Let's see yeah, yeah, yeah, decent release. And then
I'm stoked on this one. The out of towners with Jack Levin. Oh
yeah, this one's from nineteen seventy, the sequel that everybody seemingly hates.
But I've never seen the Bad News Bears in Breaking twenty. It's not great,
but yeah whatever. The exciting ones, though, is the two kind
of box sets that they put out for this month. We got Jerry Lewis
at Columbia and this is in an actual hard box and everything in the same
imprint style. And this has the big Mouth and hook Line and Sinker from
nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty nine and special features on both audio commentaries on
both. This is It's a pretty good release, but this is the save
the one that I really wanted to love. For last, we have the
Odd Couple collection, and this is so crazy what they're doing here. So
first we have the Odd Couple from nineteen sixty eight. Of course, we
have the Odd Couple two, which is thirty years later with both Jack Lemon
and Walter Mattha in nineteen ninety eight. But they also have the Odd Couple
on television. They have in the nineteen seventies television series Cantoni Randall and Jack
Klugman share an apartment without driving each other Crazy. Ten classic episodes spanning all
five seasons are presented for the first time on Blu Ray, and I love
the way they did that. They chose ten episodes, they put it with
two different films, and then put it in a box set. Yeah,
that's cool, cool idea. That's a really good comedy too. Yeah,
it's classic. And then the last thing I really wanted to highlight because I'm
so stoked I got this because it went fast, and I guess this is
going for like three and a half times the cost on the second hand market
already. I got the Arrow video version of Don't Go in the House,
their video nasty cover. You got the Aero video, different logo on the
front here. And the big thing about this is this has a completely different
cut of the film that's not on the Severn release. This has a third
bonus disc. When you bought the video nasty version of this rather cool release.
That's great. Where did you get it from? Aero? It was
the only place to get it, Yeah, Aero Direct and they yeah,
they sold out very quickly. Recent watches. Is there anything that you watched
recently that you want to highlight? Oh yeah, sure, yeah, give
me if you can if you can give it either ten seconds, I have
it right here, or if you want to start with one and we can
switch. But as fast as my internet can pulls up, I'll uh so
one of the things actually here, I can jump in. So one of
the things I've been doing this year, like, of all the things that
I'm kind of into, my biggest blind spot is actually classic Hollywood movies.
I obviously don't love them, like kind of like especially like forties fifties like
dramas. I just like like stabbed me in the eye, like I can't
do it. I don't like them at all, but I want to like
give him a chance. So one of the things I've been doing this year
is that like ten years ago or twelve years ago or something, Warner Brothers
released one hundred DVD bucks and it's like it's it's not a one hundred.
I think it's like fifty discs, right, it's a honker like and it's
been sitting on my shelf. I got it secondhand for like sixty bucks or
something crazy, and I was like, yeah, one day I'll go through
these and finally see like freaking like Yankee Doodle Dandy, Like I don't care
like whatever. So I've been doing that, and there's some really good movies
in there, like credit where credits do. Like these movies are famous for
a reason. Recently, I rewatched Costa Blanca and like, that's just I
don't know, like it's worth the hype. That movie's fantastic, Like the
dialogue is so sharp and like the characters are like so perfectly like crafted,
and there's so much that's not spoken but still communicated, and that movie's great.
I did see Yankee Doodle Dandy. I didn't like that movie. It
was dumb. And yeah, I'm just scrolling through the I saw The Scary
of sixty first. Did you ever see Possession? Oh? Of course,
God, I love it movie, Like I had very similar vibes to me,
Like it had that real frenetic like you're not at rest as the audience,
you don't really know exactly what's going on, and like they kind of
trust the audience to piece it together a little bit enough to at least leave
with like some semblance of a discussion on it. And I like it when
directors do that. And I feel like none of people are talking about Scary
sixty first. So I watch about a movie a day. I could go
on for a long time, but I'll stop there. These are some ones
that are kind of jumping out. What about you? You're good? I've
talked about most of mine. I can't do a movie a day with two
young kids, sadly. I watched The Scary of sixty first recently. The
way I said it in my review is that I understood the art behind it,
and I liked what I liked in it, but I was not the
demographic overall. It wasn't for me. I think that the story that it
told it was very successful in and the people that it's meant for will probably
adore that movie, but it wasn't meant for me. Yeah, I do
think that Antler's was much better than I expected. But even that, like
again, just like you, I've rarely watched a lot of new movies like
that, so I was still very out of my element. What else is
there recently? I should pull up my letterboxed not a lot recently. Oh
h and then I watched Fortress of America this week the VSA, Like I
said, and I reviewed that for the channel, so that that was a
fun one. Well, what's that movie? It's a wild movie. I
love that they try to. I mean, the characters of this film are
literally portrayed as training for military, but they're literally just murdering everybody that's in
this random town next to them. And I don't I don't understand it.
Yeah. There, So that one had like kind of you know, Nazi
type, kind of like fascist themes. And then I just recently saw a
wolf Pack. Have you seen that? I just got my February packaging.
I've not been able to watch anything yet. That movie's crazy, Like,
I like, there was a movie made in the eighties that was like watching
it now is like it's uncomfortable to watch because it basically is like how fascist
and rises in a small town and it's done pretty well. Actually, Like
it's kind of a heavy movie for a BSA title. It's too relevant.
Yeah, it's hard to watch really, but it's interesting that they're releasing is
kind of politically charged movies. One of our comments says they got in Labyrinth
of Cinema. Yeah, and then their Vinegar Center Mortar, which included Delta
Space Mission from Deaf Crocodile and I cannot wait to watch Delta Space Mission.
Oh yeah, did you watch that one? Yet. Don't tell them no,
I haven't seen it yet. I haven't. I'm going to see it
soon and I can't wait. Looks really good. One thing that have not
brought up again, but I know that you wanted to talk about it.
Let me share this screen. You want to talk about master Video? Oh
okay, yeah, yeah yeah, So, I mean, I don't know,
we're just like it's like a love fest for the Batique labels here,
but like in a world where like everybody is doing it their own way,
Lewis is like really doing it his own way. Like he's been around for
a long time. He's he is not a part of MPD, he's not
a part of OCN. He's like his own distributor. He has his own
streaming site. He's sort of like this loud, well not loud, but
I mean like he sort of like champions these really like nasty kind of exploitation
movies, right, A lot of releases otherwise, and then every once in
a while he releases the bad Pack and it's like, I really watch I
like his release of Maha call if if you've seen it as that movie awesome.
I recommended that somebody earlier today, I said you appear to be somebody
that would love Maha call and they said, I have one Masker video release
and it's that one. So I was right, great, if you can
find a copy of what's the one? Not Jack o' lantern but Hacklelana,
thank you. That movie is really fun too. But yeah, like I
think Lewis is like one of these guys that just I want personally. I
just want to support him. It's one hundred percent if you buy from the
store, he gets the money, and like it just all goes into the
next releases. Like he's a very busy person. He has his hands and
like a lot of different pies, so he doesn't even necessarily make a lot
of money from the releases. It just funds more releases from him and like
kind of growing the business in a way that I like what he does.
And sometimes the movies are a little intense for me. He hasn't put out
on Blu ray yet, he hasn't gone into the like humbling dollar flesh territory.
I don't know if I could honestly buy that one. I might just
record it, but I might keep it in its wrapping. I don't love
those kind of movies, right, but yeah, I don't know. I
like the fact that he's like kind of punk rock in a world of people
that are already outside the system, and I want to support him. The
only thing, obviously, Mascer Video has some reputations to overcome. There's a
lot of people that used to order from ASCAR Video back in like twenty seventeen
and eighteen, and for some reason you would order something and not get word
back for literally six months, and people would complain all the time about that,
and rightfully, so obviously you shouldn't have to deal with that, of
course. But the biggest thing with Masker is they'll announce the title, like
the Bad Pack. They announced the Bad Pack like fourteen months ago, and
then there was nothing about it for fourteen months, and now you can pre
order it. The other thing, I've had a lot of people ask lately,
what do you think about these titles like the Bad Pack? Will say,
maybe I'm forgetting let me open this one up. This might be a
bad option. These are twenty nine dollars to order right now, and oh
yeah, see that was a bad option. I think Hardcore is the one
that I was actually thinking of. This is uh yeah, so this is
thirty dollars to pre order, and there's no features on here. There's an
extensive Steels gallery and trailers for other Master titles and that's it. Thirty bucks
for that seems like a lot. Yeah, I mean it's true. I
have nothing to say to that. It's true. Like it this is his
way of probably funding the future releases. But like, I don't know if
that's fair to necessarily ask people to do that, right, And I get
that, And then, like I was saying, the bad pack, it
does have a new commentary, and I think Portrait Andrea Palmer had something brand
new, right, And yeah, it has a short film called flesh Meat
Dolls. Gotta love that face. Yeah, so they're they're a little expensive
to dive into. But Masker Video, a lot of the stuff they put
out is genuinely fun. Weird to say that after saying flesh meat Dolls,
but yeah, they are known for some of the more like depraved titles on
their DVD side at least, but they they've put out some some gems in
between. And if you if you can find something that you like, grab
onto it, enjoy it. And uh, yeah, that's that's it about
Masker Video. I have one more digital copy to give away for tonight.
I I don't think you were here for that first one. I apologize.
Uh, so I'm gonna give away a copy of Requiem for a Dream.
I think this is gonna be a four K redeemer as well. Go to
Lionsgate dot com slash redeem again. Uh if you are interested, I'll give
the code right now in about five seconds. Gives everybody some time to get
there, and it'll be a race for the end. Lionsgate dot com slash
redeem. The code is Sea is in Charlie k is in King five six
two fs and Frank Jay is in John five ell is in Lincoln, seas
in Charlie, You as in Union, el is in Linca, Linca Lincoln,
z as in Zoo p Is and Paul Jays and John and the number
eight. All right, we did it. I think. I think that's
everything for tonight. Anything else in the last week that came up that you
want to shout out or anything, No, I think thanks for being so
kind to me always and for I can't wait to hear what you said about
the podcast, but thank you, and it's always very You're very effusive in
your praise, so thank you you. I continue to listen to your episodes.
I think you're one of the more steady and and like informative and good
voices on YouTube. And yeah, I don't know, man, this is
fun. I think I appreciate you doing this. This is a lot of
work. I was just even something like putting together that slide show or whatever.
How are you like kind of you know, there's a there's a lot
of work that goes into these, so I think it shows and I really
really appreciate what you're doing there is I thank you for that. Speaking of
the podcast, anything coming up that you can hint at or yeah, sure,
so we have okay, we just released. I was personally geeked out
with Dice Skate bepoo, just the most sweetheart guy, Like I can't I
don't even know how to say it. He just like if you ever doubt
that there's like still good people in the world, Like just listen to him
talk like you just you just want to like squeeze him. He's like so
sweet Dice Skate and then we have something weird is next. Then after that
is going to be the world's foremost silent film accompanist. His name is Ben
Model. This dude is awesome, Like he's a very enigmatic person. He
has to try to convince people to like silent film. So if you can
imagine like the person who's the world's foremost at that like very like enigmatic person
has got great energy. And then after that is going to be Agfa,
which is it is my personal favorite interview as far as like on screen kind
of chemistry or whatever on eric chemistry. And then we're going to be recording
Yellow Veil speaking of that, and we're still trying to put down one on
one and Indicator. Those are the ones that we're trying to pin down,
So hopefully that comes up soon. I think when we talked last time,
you were working on imprint. Anything ever come through with them. They're very
generous, but they're very busy, so not yet. They I mean for
a label that's only been around since May of I think twenty twenty, they
put out like seven or eight titles a month for most months, I imagine
they are busy as hell. They kind of remind me of like Shout Factory
or something. This vi a vision group because they did out a lot of
like random TV and stuff and then they also have these like the Jangi Mao
like beautiful red box set and stuff, so they know they're an interesting one.
They're super interesting. Well again, thanks for all your time. Obviously
it's been a long show, but I appreciate everybody sticking around. It has
been a hell of a week if you're into physical media. And again for
the last gosh, we're going on like twenty years that people have been ringing
the death knell for physical media and we have a week like this. We
have Candy Man and Life Force and you know, Schizoid and x roy all
coming to four K and so much more. It is crazy what we're getting.
Long live physical Media, Long live collectors, Long live you, Chris.
I appreciate your time. Have a good night, everybody. OW