WEBVTT 1 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:37.120 Hello everybody, and welcome back to another Thursday evening on the disc Connected. 2 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.560 We're here with somebody that I respect and admire quite a bit, mister Troy 3 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.680 Howard. Tonight, Troy, thanks for volunteering to do this. Thank you 4 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.159 for having me. Got Klaus over his shoulder and ready to hang out. 5 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.959 We're gonna be talking about Peter Cushing tonight, just a little bit of a 6 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.159 lean I I have found that I don't explain this before we get started enough, 7 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.400 So if it's somebody's first time here, just so you're aware, we're 8 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.479 gonna go over some you know, random hangout time for a little bit, 9 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.080 talk about some recent pickups, what we've watched, go into all of the 10 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.520 physical media announcements for the week, and then we have a long discussion tonight. 11 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.919 It's going to be a discussion on Peter Cushing. And like many of 12 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.639 you, probably I am on the lighter side of knowledge on Peter Cushing. 13 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.400 So I'm going to rely on Troy Tonight. Troy, are you ready to 14 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.680 be a tour guide for me? I'll just make it up and hope that 15 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:38.280 nobody calls me out for it. Well, I imagine, knowing what we 16 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.719 both know, that wouldn't be the first time. Well, true, we 17 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:49.400 have something to highlight for mister Cushing. He just recently had a pretty pretty 18 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.120 incredible look and release from seven that just came out called Cushing's Curiosities, and 19 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.240 I unfortunately don't have it yet. I'm dying to get this one. Same 20 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:02.120 with that Donza Macabre of all too, and they're doing a lot with some 21 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.639 of these box sets, so I'm excited to talk about it. Yeah. 22 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.039 Well, I mean, I don't have the Don's Macaber sets yet. I'm 23 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.240 sure I will at some point, but I do have Cushion Curiosities, and 24 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.159 very pleased I am with it. I am excited to hear more about it 25 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.159 and here all of the knowledge that you can impart on us. Speaking of 26 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.960 physical things, any recent pickups that you'd like to share with the group, 27 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:34.080 Well, there are a few, but I figured I would just grab and 28 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:42.280 show off this little toy here, the Coffin Joe box set from Arrow Collection 29 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.240 of Films by Jose Molhica Marines. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. If 30 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.240 I'm not, I apologize. I don't. I'm not conversant in the language, 31 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.919 but as far as I know, that's correct, and yeah, that's 32 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:00.000 a really amazing box set. These are films, some of which have never 33 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.120 really been presented properly on video before, as I'm sure I remember Synaps put 34 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.439 out some of the films in the US a long time ago on DVD, 35 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:14.120 so these are long overdue upgrades with all kinds of new special features. And 36 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.000 apparently I've not dug into it yet, but the remastering on the films is 37 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.879 pretty mind blowing, so good stuff. Uh, for those that haven't heard 38 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.839 yet, I haven't posted anything about it. We weren't going to talk about 39 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.199 it news, but should highlight here there's likely going to be a disc replacement 40 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.800 for one of the discs in this there's one of the films the caption stop 41 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:39.639 at thirty three minutes in and for some reason, they're just not existent for 42 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:42.079 the rest of the film. So I'm sure they'll they're they're going to have 43 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.199 to replace that. It's not in English, and uh, yeah, they'll 44 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.600 get that out to everybody shoon, I'm sure, and Aaron's usually pretty good 45 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.519 about that, so we will, we will. I'm I'm sure here in 46 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.759 the next you know, one or two weeks about that, since it's happening 47 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:00.759 for everybody. Well, it happens. Even Paramount put out a four K 48 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:05.800 of Rosemary's Baby recently and they had to do a replacement because there was a 49 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.920 line of dialogue that Ralph Bellamy says late in the film that I'm watching it. 50 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.160 I thought, wait a second, I know this movie very well, 51 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.040 where's that line? And then sure enough I saw there was a replacement program 52 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.680 which I already got my replacement, and the line is back. So that's 53 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:26.600 good. That's very fast for a studio to be honest. A couple things 54 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.480 for me. I finally got in Weird the Al Yankovic story on four K. 55 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.439 This is the shout release one of this since it got announced. Love 56 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:38.720 Weird Al been to one of its concerts. Have you ever been into Weird 57 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.480 Al? I'm sure somebody of your age were quite some time with him. 58 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Yeah, yeah, a little bit. Not a fanatic, but I definitely 59 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.720 am familiar and have enjoyed some of it. Never never had the opportunity to 60 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.759 see him live, though. It is a blast and he puts on a 61 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.680 hell of a show. The other big one I got in Second Site's massive 62 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.319 release of Mean Streets. This is the four K box set that just came 63 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:08.879 out shows this over Criterion. I just generally prefer Second Sight's output and then 64 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.199 the big one for me suitable flesh. This is the newest one from Joe 65 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.639 Lynch, and should take the time here to tell everybody that's not in the 66 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:20.519 Patreon Patreon got the chance to input questions if they had it. But I 67 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.639 was able to interview the director, mister Joe Lynch himself this week and that'll 68 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.319 be up on the channel in the next few weeks. And this is a 69 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:32.480 really good one. The dude has some incredible talent and it felt like a 70 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:38.639 very passing of the Torch moment from the Lovecraft worship area of the mid eighties 71 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:43.360 to the early nineties with Stuart Gordon going over to Joe Lynch and really really 72 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.680 loved it. We got a question to show the spine of Mean Streets to 73 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.079 see how thick it is. A it's a pretty big release. It's not 74 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:55.160 as big as Drive or anything like that, but it's a big release for 75 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.160 sure. Any recent watches that are not part of your work that you want 76 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:06.360 to be able to talk about, Uh, well, I made my way 77 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:13.279 through the massive sensual world of Men Black Men. Well from several that one 78 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.759 which was yeah, yeah, it was quite the journey, and I have 79 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:23.000 to say it was a fascinating experience. I can't say I liked all the 80 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.720 films, but I liked most of them, and I was very happy to 81 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.399 have them all gathered together. I mean, there's you know, there are 82 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.040 only so many of them that are like quote unquote legitimate black menuil films, 83 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.839 and there's a bunch of kind of you know, adjacent titles. It was 84 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.560 fun to have them. H There were a couple that kind of had me, 85 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.319 you know, wanting to slit a wrist trying to make my way through 86 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:46.800 them, But by and large, I was very pleased. They are a 87 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:51.160 lot of fun to watch, and I would highly recommend that set to anybody 88 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.240 that's curious. You're you're gonna be sucked in for quite some time with that 89 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:01.199 one. I Yeah, I agree. I I still think this is one 90 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.680 of the easily, like the most ambitious box sets ever created. I mean, 91 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.360 the fact that we got that many, that many rights holders to negotiate 92 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.720 and be able to come together and something so ambitious like this is just impressive. 93 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:22.399 Seven like that there's something special happening there. Yeah, No, they 94 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.319 do. They do a lot of good work and well. Also I watched 95 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:31.759 their release of Delamorte de Lamori recently, and also their release of Last Horror 96 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.039 Film with Joe Spinel, and again, you know, fine releases. I 97 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.480 mean, I did kind of find myself wondering as I was watching Last Horror 98 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.320 Film, did this really need to be on four K? I'm not altogether 99 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.000 sure about that given the visual quality of the film, but it looks as 100 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.480 good as it ever can and it's got a lot of good stuff extras wise, 101 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:56.399 and it's lovingly produced, so that's nice and well. Dellamorte Delamoria was 102 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.399 was just gorgeous of course. Really finally find only caught the release that deserved 103 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.320 comments, I guess for you from Brendan, just want to say, while 104 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.120 you're here, thank you. Troy learned so much about genre film from your 105 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.679 books and staving into it a few years ago. Thank you. It's always 106 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:20.279 nice to hear that people are appreciating and enjoying my efforts, and there are 107 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.279 many, many efforts. If you have never checked out Troy stuff, please 108 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.480 go out there. Many of them are still available on Amazon, still fairly 109 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:33.320 inexpensive, and the amount of information in them can be overwhelming, so it 110 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.799 is very much worth worth your your pennies that you can throw at it. 111 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.799 Reason watches for me a couple things. For some projects that I'm working on. 112 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.759 I spent a lot of time with the one that mister Craig from Deaf 113 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.000 Crocodile announced here just a couple of weeks ago. kN ditsa ditza. I'm 114 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.960 gonna say on that way on purpose because Will and I have been joking about 115 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.799 the title for a little bit. We just did a visual essay for that 116 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.320 one, so I feel like I've been in Russia for last week. It 117 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.840 is a glorious film, and when that finally comes out, I think you 118 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:13.080 all will really appreciate it. That movie is magnificent. Let's see comment on 119 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.559 the last horror film. Watching that four K, I felt like I was 120 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:20.240 a physically transported to nineteen eighty one at the con Film Festival. Yeah, 121 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.639 it is the only horror film that Marcella Mostrani was ever in, and he 122 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:31.120 didn't even know he was in it. Derek says Scarecrow videos a mecca film. 123 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.559 Unbelievable selection. I've been there many times. Do support Scarecrow Buy a 124 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.600 shirt. Derek is talking about the fact that I'm wearing a Scarecrow video shirt 125 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:45.440 tonight in Seattle. Go support them please, They're amazing people. But yeah, 126 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.840 not many other recent watches for me tonight. The big thing I just 127 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.159 I want Troy to feel welcome tonight. So let's jump into some of these 128 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:56.799 announcements. My first one tonight. This is one of my favorite films in 129 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.120 the last decade. I'm eager to see if Troy has seen this one second 130 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.360 Sights Who he just showed the Mean Streets from They're putting out a four K 131 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.840 green Room, which came out in twenty fifteen. This is a very, 132 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.320 very incredible film in my opinion, with a punk rock band that is stuck 133 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.200 in a neo Nazi bar overnight and have to fight to survive the night. 134 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.840 Basically, we got a new audio commentary, some archival commentaries, new interviews 135 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.879 with a bunch of individuals involved, and this is really exciting for me. 136 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.279 Especially We've got new essays by a mutual friend of ours, Eugenio Eric Alanis 137 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.960 on this one, and then Alexandra Heller, Nicholas Josh Hurtado, Joline Richardson 138 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.120 and a few others, plus the standard second site art cards and all that 139 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:45.200 fun stuff that comes with it. Have you ever seen Green Room Troy? 140 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.159 Oh, yeah, No, it's a very good film. Patrick Stewart's great 141 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:54.000 and of course, and yeah, I definitely I'm glad to see that this 142 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.960 is getting a nice upgrade and always nice to see O Jennio involved in anything 143 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.080 that is a is he busy man by the way he is, His hands 144 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.639 are in everything. It seems like, Yeah, he's definitely got a full 145 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.159 plate. I'm there with him quite frequently, so I know, Yeah, 146 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.720 you guys have done a lot over over the last year together. It seems 147 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.240 like stepped up a little bit with you and Nathaniel and him working trio on 148 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.720 some of these. Yeah, commentary wise, I forget when we did our 149 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:26.679 first one together. It might have been it might have been twenty twenty two. 150 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.200 But yeah, there have been a bunch lately, and well we're going 151 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.879 to be recording another one next week as a matter of fact, and there's 152 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.960 lots of that, and we collaborate on book projects as well. So he's 153 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.559 he's good people and he's been a great, tremendous asset for me as far 154 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.519 as you know, helping to enrich my projects, my book projects. The 155 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.519 most odd thing about him when it comes to Italian cinema is you can name 156 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.559 seemingly anybody in Italian cinema history and he'll have some personal story attached to that 157 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:05.639 individual jewel somehow. Well, yeah, his mother worked in the Talian film 158 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.559 industry, and of course his grandfather was a great director. Julia Petroni directed 159 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.480 To Paper with Orson Wells and Tomas Millia and Death Rides a Horse with Lee 160 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:20.000 Van Cleef and John Philip Loss. So yeah, he's his roots run pretty 161 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.120 deep. And whenever I do commentaries with him, I don't even attempt to 162 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.080 say Italian titles because it's bad enough the way that I pronounced these things anyway. 163 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.480 But when I'm there with him, I just I let him do it, 164 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.000 because he knows what he's doing. I reached out to him a little 165 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.519 while ago to talk about some special features I have him working on for another 166 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.159 release, and I brought up this random film. I was like, Hey, 167 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.240 do you happen to know anybody from this? He goes, oh, 168 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:50.879 yeah, my mom dated the directors. What the hell? Yeah? Love 169 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:58.240 love that guy. Next one another one up from Second Side the film Possessor 170 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.480 from twenty twenty. This is the Brandon Kronenberg film. This is coming out 171 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.519 on four K on March eighteenth. This is going to be four K and 172 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:11.679 Blu ray discs in this and the special features and the main feature are on 173 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.320 both discs, So even if you are region A locked, you should be 174 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.919 able to get this and watch everything on the disc in your four K player. 175 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.240 So that's pretty damn cool. We've got a new audio commentary from Brandon 176 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.440 Kroneberg on this. We've got a double Dolby Vision. I forgot to say 177 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.399 that, but yeah, it'll be full four K and Dolby Vision HDR. 178 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.559 New interview with Brandon Kroneberg, new interview with a bunch of people from the 179 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.720 film. And again we've got you know, the art cards and all that 180 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:41.159 fun stuff that they put in this. And then we got a short film 181 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:46.799 please speak continuously and describe your experiences that they come to you. That's really 182 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.440 cool that they don't get to do that all that often. And then we've 183 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.679 got one hundred and twenty page book on this with new essays by Stacy Abbott, 184 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.960 Anton Btateel, John Towson, and Heather Wixon. I mean, it's 185 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:03.120 second side again, just incredible, incredible quality. What do you think of 186 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:09.879 Possessor? Troy very interesting film. I'm not entirely aboard the Brandon Cronenberg trading 187 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.399 just yet. I love his father, but between this and Infinity Pool, 188 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:20.440 he's definitely very interesting. I find the films more I let's say, I 189 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.720 appreciate them and I respect them more than I probably really enjoy them. But 190 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.919 they're definitely interesting. They're definitely original, and yeah, he's definitely somebody that 191 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.480 I'm interested to watch as he evolves. Did you ever get a chance to 192 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.720 see his first film, Anti Viral? I didn't see that one. Just 193 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.279 this to two I mentioned, and like I said, I thought they were 194 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.919 you know, they're definitely well worth seeing. They weren't the type of films 195 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.000 that made me say, oh, I can't wait to watch that again, 196 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.559 But you know, you never know. Sometimes you see him again later down 197 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.240 the line and they click with you more. So. They're not films that 198 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.919 I would write off by any means. I would agree there. I really 199 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.200 liked Possessor and for some reason still haven't want watched it since that first time. 200 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:06.159 It's nothing that super drew me back into it. But for especially for 201 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.559 a second film, it took some swings. It was not something that you 202 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.200 would expect from a second film. But then again, it's a Cronaberg, 203 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:15.720 so I mean it's kind of in his veins. Probably it runs into family 204 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:22.440 exactly. Next one up is one that we are gonna talk about for sure. 205 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.639 Unlawful Entry from nineteen ninety two that I just talked about on the channel 206 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:33.080 about six weeks ago or so is coming out as a site exclusive from Shout 207 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.720 Studios. And this sold out within forty eight or seventy two hours of being 208 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.360 announced something like that. And what's funny is it's a side exclusive that got 209 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:47.000 some new special features. It's got a retrospective interview with a director, it's 210 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:52.120 got an interview with the cinematographer, a retrospective interview with film music historian Daniel 211 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.159 Schweiger about the James Horner score on this. And it was announced as having 212 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:00.200 sixteen hundred and twenty copies, the most arbitrary that Shout could think of, 213 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.839 and out of nowhere. Today they said, oh, it sold very well. 214 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.720 How about now we announced that we can sell nine hundred and eighty more 215 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.720 of them. And so this limited edition copy is going now all the way 216 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.920 up to twenty six hundred titles, and those nine hundred and eighty will be 217 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.480 going back up for sale when they get to the warehouse, and they've already 218 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.119 shipped most of that first run that was ordered, So keep an eye on 219 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.119 that if you missed it and you want it, because this is in my 220 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.279 opinion. I'm gonna ask Troy if you've seen it, But I love this 221 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.759 movie. I think this is one of the better thrillers from the nineties and 222 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.799 it never should have been a side exclusive from Shout Troy Unlawful Entry. Have 223 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.960 you seen it not in so many years? I would hate to comment on 224 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.279 it. I have very fuzzy memories of seeing it many many years ago. 225 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.599 I'm not crazy about the whole side exclusive model. I don't really understand it. 226 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.799 I've heard people try to rationalize it as some kind of a licensing thing, 227 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.559 which doesn't really make sense to me. I don't think that's really the 228 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:06.680 rational I know that there have been some site exclusives that left a lot to 229 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.640 be desired, so I'm glad to see that this one, you know, 230 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:14.920 will hopefully be a nice addition. Hopefully the transfer is good and they put 231 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.759 some features on, so that's that's nice. Where they got this number from. 232 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.440 I don't know. You know, maybe they have they have a dark 233 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:23.359 board with numbers on it and they just hit it. I don't know, 234 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:27.160 but hey whatever, I mean, good for those who want it. But 235 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:33.319 I don't really understand that. I don't understand how you could argue that it 236 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.920 could be a contractual thing for the numbers when they can just pull out another 237 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.319 nine hundred and eighty because it sold. Well. No, it doesn't make 238 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:45.799 sense to me. I mean, what what license or I mean what what 239 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.160 would the advantage be. Well, we we'll give it to you for a 240 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.680 little bit cheaper if you only print eleven hundred copies. Okay, we'll do 241 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.200 it. I mean, I don't I don't understand that. That doesn't make 242 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.839 sense to me. So I think they kind of don't have faith in some 243 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.799 of these titles, and they figure, well, we don't want to do 244 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.359 a full run, so we'll just do a limited number and see how it 245 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.680 goes, and then if it does well enough, hey we'll print some more. 246 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.680 And uh yeah, I mean, well the next is these next nine 247 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.240 hundred sold, so well we'll print another thousand. Whatever, it's not my 248 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:19.119 place to say either way. This is It's a movie starring Kurt Russell and 249 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.960 Rayleiota. This should have been a regular collector's edition, wide release for everybody. 250 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:29.240 And the biggest thing that nobody ever says about these side exclusives is they 251 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:33.599 only ship to the US and sometimes Canada, so nobody else in the world 252 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.240 can get them. And a Lava entry doesn't have another Blu Ray release that's 253 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.599 legal. There's a couple bootlegs out there, but this is a big deal, 254 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:42.799 Like, this is a title that a lot of people have wanted for 255 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.920 a long time. Yeah, hopefully a UK label will pick it up or 256 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:52.119 something and even the playing field a little bit. That would be swell, 257 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.960 and honestly, with what Umbrella has been pumping out lately, I feel like 258 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:59.720 they could do a lot with this title. Yeah, yeah, Umbrella. 259 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.359 There's any number of different boutique labels that are either in the UK, Australia, 260 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.920 you know, Germany, but all kinds of places. I'm sure this 261 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.920 will turn up somewhere else. It's surprising every now and again the films that 262 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.480 kind of fall through the cracks for the longest time. I mean, we've 263 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:18.359 seen a lot of that films that you wouldn't think, not even necessarily huge 264 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.759 films, but movies that you'd think would have a release and they just don't. 265 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:26.119 I mean, one of the ones that I'm totally perplexed by it don't 266 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:29.759 know why it's not available. I'd love to get it is This Boy's Life 267 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:33.759 with De Niro and DiCaprio, and I can't. I mean, I've looked 268 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.559 around, and I guess it had Blu ray release at one point or another 269 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:38.319 in one country or other, but it's not in print right now as far 270 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.640 as I can tell. And that's a strange one, like that's that's a 271 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.880 movie with a big cast and has some name value to it. So but 272 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.839 who knows, Yeah, who knows? Indeed, all right, go into 273 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:56.079 the next one. That's enough about Unlawful Entry. The next title, coming 274 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:00.880 from Leon Eagle, who is associated with Cauldron, of course, is Ninja 275 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.960 Terminator from nineteen eighty four. Pre Orders went up for this last Friday, 276 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:10.279 and this is the first ever authorized disc release in North America. It's got 277 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.720 a four K scan of the OCN and includes the right aspect ratio for the 278 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.319 first time, includes the original source film too, which is called The Uninvited 279 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.400 Guest of the Star Fairy, and this is going to be in the limited 280 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.880 release. It's going to be two blu rays in their own case, housed 281 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.720 in a rigid slipcase with art by Justin Coffee and a forty page perfect bound 282 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:36.319 book with new writing on this, and it's going to be one of these. 283 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:38.759 The second disc is going to be in the limited edition only, so 284 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.519 there will be a standard for Ninja Terminator, but it will not have the 285 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:48.559 Uninvited Guest of the Star Fairy. So if you want this godfree ho gift 286 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.119 to humanity, you might want to jump on this soon. And I mean 287 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:55.119 this is this is a fun look and release it try. I think we 288 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:56.400 ever talked about stuff like this. Are you know any of the martial arts 289 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.759 titles that have been coming out recently. It's not really my thing as such. 290 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.640 I've seen this one, you know, in very blurry condition. Of 291 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:11.559 course it's somewhat infamous, but it's an interesting it's a fun movie. I 292 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:14.759 mean, what can you say. It's That's never really been my big thing, 293 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:19.759 though I've gotten a lot more into kind of South Korean films in recent 294 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.920 years, very interested in a lot of the films that have been coming out, 295 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.960 and not just a genre scene, but all kinds of different types of 296 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:33.640 films. It's been quite interesting to explore, but not so much into the 297 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:38.799 kung fu, you know, ninja kind of scene so much. Yeah, 298 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:45.200 I get that fully. Next up is a Sony Pictures Classics title coming on 299 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:49.559 February twentieth, and I don't know how to pronounce this myself, The Looten 300 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:56.160 Defense, The Losing Defense as it's from two thousand with John Turturou and I 301 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.440 have never seen this one. Is this one that you're familiar with? Troy 302 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:03.000 no nop, never heard of it, but it's Turturo and I've pretty much 303 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:07.599 always liked him and Terturo around two thousand was great, so I'd love to 304 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.440 check it out. And it's an interesting chess movies. There's there's some pretty 305 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:18.799 good chess movies out there. Next up from Keno coming soon as part of 306 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:22.799 their Kino Classics line, is Ten Men from nineteen eighteen. This is going 307 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:29.160 to be a pretty great look and release. I mean they as far as 308 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.000 I'm aworried, Kino has not done a whole lot with stuff this old in 309 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:36.839 a little bit, so this is pretty dang exciting coming from them, and 310 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:42.799 just another one of the silence they're adding to the Kino Classics line. Troy, 311 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:48.839 any silence that you've loved for a long time? Yeah, it's funny. 312 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.039 I saw the first silent film I ever saw was when I was a 313 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:57.200 child. I think it was Family the Opera, and you know, I've 314 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.039 been warned ahead of time because I wanted to see it so badly, and 315 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.559 my mom tried telling me, what, it's a silent movie. I said, 316 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:04.759 I don't care, I wouldn't see it, And of course I got 317 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.759 it home and I watched it, but well, I can't hear anything was 318 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.119 a movie. So it took me a while to kind of get into silent 319 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.359 films, but I'm happy to say eventually I did in a big way. 320 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.839 I love them. I mean, there are so many wonders. They were 321 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.839 some of the most innovative films were being made during that time, and there 322 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.799 was a tremendous kind of reset that happened when sound was brought in because of 323 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.880 the equipment and everything that you know, sort of changed the playing field. 324 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:36.880 All these incredibly, very visually dynamic movies that were made by directors like Paul 325 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:41.559 Lennie and Fritz Lang and Murnau. A lot of the German films in particular 326 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:47.759 were incredibly adventurous, and we kind of lost that for a while with the 327 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:53.680 early sound techniques and sound technology. So all the big time was obviously Nosferatu, 328 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.359 Caligari, The Goal and Katni Canary, which I believe is coming out 329 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:03.200 on Blu Ray sometime pretty soon. I'm excited about that. Yep, Faust, 330 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.519 you know the last laugh. I mean, it's just a list goes 331 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.000 on and on Sunrise lots of wonderful, wonderful, silent film. So I'm 332 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.480 always excited to see films of that vintage being kind of rescued and put out 333 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.319 there. It's very important because a lot of these films have never really been 334 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.839 available in really decent copies before. What's funny is we're about to talk about 335 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:26.599 The kat and Canary in just a couple of minutes, and we got a 336 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.559 question from Michael for you, speaking of movies missing from Blu Ray, Troy, 337 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:34.839 have you seen Mute Witness another one that I saw long ago and would 338 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:37.799 love to reacquaint myself with. I don't have a copy of it right now, 339 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:42.319 so yeah, I agree. It's strange. Again, it just seems 340 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:45.559 wholly arbitrary why certain things aren't available. I'm sure there are reasons for it, 341 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:52.440 but I'm not clear on what that is. I don't think they specified 342 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.200 physical release, but I believe Aero announced that they had acquired it. I 343 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.160 think they alluded to theatrical at the time, but a lot of people are 344 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.279 speculating that it's probably coming physical from them. Well, usually if they're going 345 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.319 to go that route, they'll put it out on a disc as well, 346 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.480 exactly. Next title up is The Triplets of Belleville, and for a lot 347 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:15.680 of people, man, was this a big announcement this week. There was 348 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.839 a previous blue release of this, but it was only a BDR, So 349 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.200 now it's going to be a proper press disc from Sony Pictures Classics. It's 350 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.440 got a lot of the special features from the previous releases. I think it 351 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:33.240 may be missing one. I believe there's a short documentary from one of the 352 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.680 previous releases. But animation. Animation is going to get talked about a lot 353 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:45.839 tonight, Troy, are you in an animation at all? I like it. 354 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.640 I can't say that it's a specialty of mine though, I kind of 355 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.240 lost track of animation when I got into my sort of adult years, But 356 00:26:53.319 --> 00:27:00.880 obviously I grew up loving a variety Tom and Jerry cartoons and tunes and Disney 357 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.599 films that I saw as a child and so forth. So there's a lot 358 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.119 of them that I actually thought looked really good, but I was always kind 359 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.160 of embarrassed to go see them, so I didn't get proud to going, 360 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:18.119 Yeah, thankfully they are. People are seemingly coming around to respecting them quite 361 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.599 a bit, but it helps with people like Miyazaki putting out films in twenty 362 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.880 twenty three that are getting huge theatrical releases and people respecting them beyond a belief 363 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:34.920 because it's Miyazaki. Next up is another film noir box set from Kino. 364 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.880 This is number nineteen. This one is announced with no release date, but 365 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:44.039 it is coming soon. It will have Dark City from nineteen fifty, No 366 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:48.640 Man of her Own from nineteen fifty as well, and then Beware My Lovely 367 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:53.680 from nineteen fifty two. These are all getting twenty twenty or twenty twenty two 368 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:59.279 HG masters from Paramount. They are all four K scans, so they should 369 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:04.000 look pretty dang good. And these are supposed to be three pretty solid films 370 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.759 in this one, I've not. I don't think I've seen any of these. 371 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.799 I may have seen No Man of her Own. Yeah, I'm a 372 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.559 big noir fan. So this this made me very excited for one reason and 373 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:19.519 one reason only. And it's Beware My Lovely, which is a film another 374 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:22.160 film I've been saying for years, where is this movie? Along with The 375 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.279 Desperate Hours with Humphrey Bogart Frederick Marsh which finally came out. Beware My Lovely 376 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:33.079 is Idle the Pino being terrorized by Robert Ryan. It doesn't get much better 377 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.799 than that. Robert Ryan's one of my all time favorite actors. He could 378 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:40.519 play heroes, he could play villains. He could play villains that were oddly 379 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:45.599 kind of sympathetic and also just totally vile, like his biggot a character in 380 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.680 Oh God. I can't remember that Edward Demetrich film off the top of my 381 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:55.279 head that he was in the title is Escaping Me. But I mean he 382 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:57.039 could, he could do pretty much anything. I mean, an amazing, 383 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:00.720 amazing actor. So I'm so happy to see the film coming out in Blu 384 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.359 ray in the US. I think it had got an Australian release in one 385 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:08.599 of those really very steeply priced sets, so I'm glad I held off Dark 386 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:15.279 City is Also it's not bad as decent Charlton Heston. Actually it was Heston's 387 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.440 first film, if I remember correctly, that No Man of her Own. 388 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.000 I don't know that I've seen that one, but regardless, I'm gonna be 389 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:27.359 picking up this set for Beware, My Lovely Love. This Sivener in the 390 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:32.079 chat says, can only imagine the titles for the Dark Side of Cinema xxx. 391 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:41.680 Maybe it'll be erotic thriller neo noirs. That'd be nice. Next one 392 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:45.960 is The Wolf House from twenty eighteen is getting a Blu Ray on May twenty 393 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.680 first, from kim Stim themselves. This is also going to include a selection 394 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:55.279 of short films and a mutual friend of ours, Celeste Leacabra, just recently 395 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.920 spoke this out into the ether using this as a wishless item, please put 396 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:03.759 the sat on Blu ray. And it took literally less than I think sixty 397 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.599 days from monce Alessa that to the announcement. So that's pretty dang good odds. 398 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.640 And I know a lot of people are very excited about this. I've 399 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.440 not had a chance to catch up with this one, but it seems to 400 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:19.880 be pretty experimental and supposed to be pretty good. Yes, ce last only 401 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:22.640 has to mention the title. I have to buy it when it comes out 402 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.160 in a foreign edition that's overpriced, and then it'll come out over here in 403 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:30.839 a better version as much cheaper. Well keep it up, then, troy 404 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:36.119 I do, I do. I just ordered a four K of Mario Baba's 405 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:41.200 Black Sunday so to benefit Humanity Sweet. I'll be looking forward to that KEYNO 406 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:48.680 announcement any day it could happen. Next up, speaking of animation, Kung 407 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:53.440 Fu Panda on four K is coming on March twelfth. The big thing for 408 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:57.480 a lot of people that are into sound is this will have a Dolby atmost 409 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:03.480 sound set on this instead of the old five point one that it had previously. 410 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.559 So if you are really into Kung Fu Panda, which to be fair, 411 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.440 it's a pretty decent movie. It's not amazing, but it's pretty decent, 412 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:15.880 you might really want that. Next up is the one we just mentioned, 413 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.880 so Eureka. Last week we discussed that Eureka was coming to the US 414 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:26.960 under the MVD distribution model, and they announced their first two titles. The 415 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.599 big thing is that, as Troy alluded to, they are putting out The 416 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.599 Cat and the Canary from nineteen twenty seven, and they are also releasing Black 417 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.160 Mask, the Jetly film from nineteen ninety six. Both of those films will 418 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.599 come out in the US and the UK. It should be right around the 419 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.000 same time, probably same day, actually one day off, but yeah, 420 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.880 at the same time. And yeah, I mean Eureka coming out of the 421 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.559 gate with some pretty pretty big things. Yeah, Kat and Canary is wonderful. 422 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.440 I mean, it's one of the early old dark house thrillers. And 423 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.000 of course it's been remade numerous times. They did a version nineteen thirty nine 424 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.200 with Bob Hope and then Radley Mesker of all people, who was famous for 425 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.000 his kind of high, high gloss, hygien Eronica films. He made a 426 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:13.559 version in the late seventies with like Carol Linley and Daniel Massey and Edward Fox, 427 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.079 a lot of good actors. But the nineteen twenty seven version by Paul 428 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.440 Lennie's the best one. It's the gold standard and was a big influence on 429 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.119 one of my great favorite movies. James Wals The Old Dark House from nineteen 430 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:28.559 thirty two. I just watched that one for the first time last October and 431 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:34.279 loved that. That movie is remarkable. You are very lucky that you get 432 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.880 to see it now. The way it looks I remember the first version I 433 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.599 saw was taken from a bootleg VHS. That was just it was so dark, 434 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:44.960 It was sobody you couldn't see what was going on for chunks of it. 435 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.599 So, not surprisingly, I didn't much care for it when I first 436 00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:51.119 saw it, also because it wasn't quite what I expected. It's not really 437 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.200 a straight horror film. It's it's very much a dark comedy, although it 438 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:58.240 does have some creepy stuff in it. But the way it looks now, 439 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:01.359 oh, it's just amazing. When I saw the Blu Ray release that came 440 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.880 out a few years ago, I just I couldn't believe that they were able 441 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.559 to make it look that good. That movie got me from the opening scene, 442 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:13.920 like the amount of rain pouring and the silliness of driving and what they 443 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:17.240 were driving in right then, Yeah, Raymond Massey complaining about the weather and 444 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:22.240 the big water trickling down his neck, and Melvin Douglas just being incredibly just 445 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.519 sort of cynical about everything. It's just a wonderful film. It's so perverse 446 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:32.799 too. I just deeply, deeply love that movie. I'm glad MVD rewind 447 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.359 they are putting out Sabotage from nineteen ninety six on May seventh. This is 448 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.920 the marked Cooscas film with Carrie on Moss, Graham Green, and Tony Todd. 449 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.119 This will have a new interview with Markdkoskas that is thirty two minutes long. 450 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.240 That's a long conversation to have about sabotage. And they also got a 451 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.119 new interview with Tony Todd. Like to get those two names for this. 452 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:58.640 That's that's pretty dann cool as usual the MVD rewind. It'll have that classy 453 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.000 MVD slipcover for the first print run. But I've never seen this one. 454 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:05.039 Is this the type movie that you were into in the nineties, Troy. 455 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:08.079 I like a good action movie, but I don't think I ever saw this 456 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.559 one. It doesn't ring any bells. But they're missing an opportunity not to 457 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:16.800 get William Shaantner to narrate a trailer for it so he can say sabotage. 458 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:25.760 There's still time MVD check it out next up March twelfth on four K and 459 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.199 Blu. Ray Warner Brothers is releasing the new iteration of the color Purple from 460 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.039 last year. I've heard pretty great things about this one. I've not been 461 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.400 able to check this one out yet, but it's got a lot of incredible 462 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:45.880 actors in this one. And yeah, it's a musical. Yeah, I'm 463 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.000 kind of allergic to musicals. I must confess. It's the one genre that 464 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.239 kind of eludes me. I don't understand it. I mean, it's no 465 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.360 more ridiculous than people turning into werewolves, I understand, but I've never understood 466 00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.280 like the sound of music, they're running away from the Nazis, let's stop 467 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.840 and sing a song or West Side Story. You know we're gonna have a 468 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.760 fight, Let's let's sing. I don't know. I don't get it. 469 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.119 I've of course seen Spielberg's version, which I'm not crazy about. Honestly, 470 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:12.239 I think it's got I think it was very well intentioned and very nobly intentioned 471 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.199 film, but it kind of watered down the material too much for my tastes. 472 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.320 But you know, why not do if you're gonna do something different to 473 00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.480 a musical version, And maybe it's maybe it's a wonderful film. I haven't 474 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:28.679 seen it, though. They're going very different, I think, so very 475 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:34.119 different. Next one, we got a bunch of Criterion announcements and big, 476 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.639 big month from them. The first thing really to point out is that almost 477 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.400 everything is a four K release this month from Criterion, which is a far 478 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:45.840 cry from Criterion of just a couple of years ago. So obviously this one 479 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:50.719 is a re release. But on April second, we are getting a hen 480 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.599 on four K. This is from nineteen ninety five, the Vincent Cassell film. 481 00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:58.159 No new special features, of course, because it's Criterion and they're just 482 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.639 putting it on four K. I'm sure you've seen this one and have at 483 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:06.519 least something to say about it. Oh no, it's it's well, we're 484 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:08.559 checking out if you haven't seen this very powerful film. I mean again, 485 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:14.920 Criterion, you know it's it's I don't know. It's a controversial topic because 486 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:17.000 there are people that are just well, I guess it's true of any label. 487 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:22.360 They're they're kind of fetishists who just won't hear anything against against certain labels. 488 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.719 And I don't really understand that Criterion was indeed the gold standard for many 489 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:30.920 years and I think they've gotten rather lazy more recently, when when Night of 490 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:36.000 the Demons too is getting a stacked addition on on Blu Ray, and some 491 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.280 of the things they're putting out are just getting like a little featurette or a 492 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.280 trailer. Come on, you can do better than that. So I'm not 493 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:46.360 surprised that they haven't commissioned much in a way of new extras for these for 494 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:52.760 these re releases on four K. But you know, it's it's nice that 495 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:57.800 the titles are getting re released in new format, at least, if I 496 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:01.840 may strengthen your argument ever so slightly, Night of the Demons getting you know, 497 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:07.519 stacked releases for all of the films in the whole franchise in multiple territories 498 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:14.360 in Europe and the US like that is a huge, huge, huge deal 499 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:17.119 for those films. Yeah, and then they put out After Hours, which 500 00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:21.400 is a great film, and they don't give it much. Yeah, it's 501 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.920 mostly poured it over from the Warner Brothers DVD release. They put a new 502 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.800 interview with Scorsese, which is always nice, but come on, you can 503 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:35.760 do better than that. There's some wonderful catalog titles that they've they went from 504 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.840 like DVD to Blue Raydom like Tunes of Glory with alec Innis and John Mills, 505 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.119 for example, And I was so you know, I was so disappointed 506 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.360 to see that the old version was bare bones and the new versions bar bones 507 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.880 too, Like, really, come on, you could do something with that. 508 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:53.320 Thankfully, the movie looked pretty spectacular. Yeah, that's the most important 509 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:57.440 thing. We shouldn't lose sight of that. But I don't know. I 510 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.039 think there's a lot of competition these days with BOUTI labels, and they really 511 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:05.519 need to kind of they want to reclaim the throne. They need to step 512 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:09.079 it up a little bit. I would agree there fully. Next one up 513 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:15.159 is a Bellatar film from April sixteenth, Verkmeister Harmonies. This is one that 514 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:19.920 a lot of people were beyond excited as getting released. This is coming on 515 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.639 four K and Blu ray on April sixteenth, new four K restoration, one 516 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:27.559 four K disc of the film and one Blu ray of the film and special 517 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.880 features will be in the four K release. Tar's first feature film, Family 518 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.760 Nest for nineteen seventy nine, is also in this. I think a lot 519 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:39.079 of people glossed over that there's a new interview with Belatar by Scott Foundus and 520 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:44.719 then new subtitles with an essay also by film programmer and critic Dennis Limb. 521 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.960 This is a big deal for a lot of Bellatar fans. Are you in 522 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:54.639 that camp, Troy? I must confess ignorance. So far, I've yet 523 00:38:54.679 --> 00:39:00.039 to explore that filmography. As passionate as I am about a great many filmmakers 524 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.760 and have delved into everything they've ever done, there are some that have just 525 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:09.400 completely escaped me so far. So Belatar will cross my path one of these 526 00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:14.760 days, but not thus far. Maybe one of these days you can spend 527 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:19.280 Belatars with Satan Tango for your first outing and spend all day with it. 528 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:25.639 There you go. Next title coming on four K and Blu Ray is I 529 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:31.400 Am Cuba. This is from nineteen sixty four and a landmark film that people 530 00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:37.599 are very excited about. The response to this was overwhelmingly positive. You got 531 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:39.199 a four K disc of the movie and then the Blu ray with the film 532 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.119 and special features. There's a two thousand and four documentary on this film that 533 00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:47.480 came out previously. There's an interview from two thousand and three with Martin Scorsese 534 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:52.000 talking about it. New appreciation of the film by cinematographer Bradford Young. But 535 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:58.280 that's it. The only thing they added is just a small appreciation of the 536 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.239 film piece. So yeah, this kind goes exactly with what you were just 537 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.480 saying. There's also an essay by film critic one Antonio Garcia Barrero on this. 538 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:08.760 But for such a big deal, like I feel like this film probably 539 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:17.840 could have used a little more context. It blows my mind because they surely 540 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:24.440 are in very good sort of financial position to be able to coordinate with any 541 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:30.239 number of different people who produce extras, to get some featurettes, maybe hire 542 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:34.360 somebody to do a commentary or whatever. But they just they don't seem particularly 543 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.920 interested in doing that, and I don't I don't know. Mine's not the 544 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:42.760 reason why. Mine's just to complain that they don't do more. Yeah, 545 00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:46.000 And the crazy thing is there will still be literally thousands of people lining up 546 00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:50.199 to buy these at the next sale, so oh yeah, of course they 547 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:54.920 always will. And you know, hey, what I think of them isn't 548 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.360 going to effect anything. I know, there are a lot of people who 549 00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:00.800 just absolutely swear by them as the absolute gold stand, which, as I 550 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:06.559 say, I think they were. But these days not so much. Yeah, 551 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.360 and obviously they're still mostly choosing pretty great titles. I just wish they 552 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:14.000 put a little more into it. It's it's a stacked competition market now. 553 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:19.119 And I mean the hard part is they have a fan base that there's places 554 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:23.239 online with people literally saying, give me x title that already has a great 555 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.800 boutique release from somebody else, and they just want it from Criterion with the 556 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:31.039 sea on the cover. Yeah, that I've never understood. You know, 557 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:37.320 they put out a blue ray of David Lynch's The Elephant Man, where a 558 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.320 studio can now put out a four K, and you know, people were 559 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:43.880 losing their mind. Oh, Criterions putting out the studio Cannow did a better 560 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.679 version, it's nicer. You know, it doesn't matter. I mean it's 561 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:50.960 again, it's the label. It's this. This is true of so many 562 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.159 different things. It's like people get obsessed over, you know, labels on 563 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:59.480 shirts or shoes or anything else. That's that's all that matters. I mean, 564 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.159 for years, people which just kept saying, oh, I wish they 565 00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.199 would put this movie out or Citizen King. You know, they finally did, 566 00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.159 they put out a four K, And for years, you know they 567 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:13.199 had they had Blue Ray out, which was a perfectly nice special edition blue 568 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.000 ray I wanted, I wonder through Criterion. Well, I mean eventually they 569 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:20.199 got to it and they did a fine job with it. But you know, 570 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.920 I don't know. Like I said, it's it's a little bit mysterious 571 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:27.519 to me. It surely is. But either way, it'll be a good 572 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:34.159 release and I'm sure it'll look fantastic. Next title is one Again. Like 573 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:38.199 every single title this month, people went crazy for this one, notwithstanding April 574 00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:44.679 thirtieth on Blu ray only, Criterion is releasing Dogfight from nineteen ninety one with 575 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:49.079 River Phoenix and Lily Taylor. And this is one that people have wanted for 576 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.599 quite some time. New two K digital restoration. On this we got an 577 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:57.400 audio commentary featuring Savoka and the producer Richard Gway, new interview with Siovoka and 578 00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:01.079 actor Lily Taylor conducted by Mary Herron. It's pretty dang cool. New interviews 579 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:07.679 with a cinematographer, production designer, script supervisor, music supervisor, supervising sound 580 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.000 editor, and the editor. And you got an essay by film critic Christina 581 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.840 Newland on this one. And I mean, this is a pretty stacked release. 582 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.519 That's a lot of new stuff that I could be excited about. Yeah, 583 00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.880 that's more like it's that's what that should be kind of the norm. 584 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.559 But it's obviously he's not, so you know, good for this particular film 585 00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:34.000 that it got that kind of trade. This is you know somebody just a 586 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.480 moment ago in the chat and I lost it. I would highlight it right 587 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.079 now, but it just went by. They basically pointed out that if Criterion 588 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:43.480 can't get the director, they seem to just say, well, never mind, 589 00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:45.800 we're just not going to put a whole lot on there. Well yeah, 590 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:52.360 yeah, I think so a lot of love for Dogfight in the chat 591 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:58.280 right now, love that River Phoenix at his finest. Nice. Yes, 592 00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:00.559 this is one of their best months in a long time, Dallas, I 593 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:09.000 would agree. Next up, he used the last from Criterion Picnic it Hanging 594 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:15.440 Rock coming on April ninth on four K. We all probably could have guessed 595 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:19.559 this was coming after Second Site put out their four K. No updates to 596 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.079 the Criterion release, no new features or anything like this, but this movie 597 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:27.920 looks pretty great in four K. I believe it's the exact same scan a 598 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.840 Second Site. They may have done their own in house restoration work on something, 599 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:36.159 and there could be an ever so slight difference. Honestly, probably not, 600 00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:38.800 though this is it's a killer movie. Though what do you think of 601 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:43.880 Picnic a Hanging Rock? What's a great film? But they're putting out the 602 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:50.239 shortened version, you know, that's the problem. I have the same issue 603 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.000 whenever they put out you know, they did the Fellini set for example, 604 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:57.480 which was a wonderful set in many respects, but they have this kind of 605 00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:01.679 snobby attitude towards English dubs, and you know, I understand the whole sort 606 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:05.519 of purist thing and people think that, you know, these films should be 607 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.639 watching Italian, but that's not always necessarily true. In some of the cases, 608 00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.159 some of the films had, you know, were shot English and had 609 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.920 the actual actors voices on the soundtracks, and that should have been included. 610 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:19.280 So in a case like this, unless there's something I'm missing, I don't 611 00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.039 understand why they don't also include the full uncut version. It's friends of like 612 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:27.599 ten minutes longer as opposed to this shortened version, even if that's you know, 613 00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:30.239 a preferred cut. I think if you're going to do it right, 614 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.559 you should put both edits on there. I'd say that's true of just about 615 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:37.119 anything. I mean, if there are multiple versions, you know, I'm 616 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:44.039 talking significant differences. Not necessarily you know, one version's missing a couple of 617 00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:46.800 minutes and due to censorship or something, but like reconstructed versions, you know, 618 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.760 really alternate versions, they should be included. So that's kind of the 619 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.559 issue I have with this release. It's it's a great film, but it's 620 00:45:54.840 --> 00:46:01.440 inherently flawed. This is true. That is it for Criterion this month, 621 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:05.719 No matter what we say. I gotta be honest. It is a pretty 622 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:09.719 fantastic month compared to what they've been doing. Five incredible releases. I'm sure 623 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.599 they're all going to look great, and eighty percent of them in four K. 624 00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:16.760 That's a big deal for a company like Criterion that took so long to 625 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:20.760 come to that format. So I mean, that could be a sign of 626 00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.880 things to come, That could be a sign of a tide change. It 627 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:24.920 could just be a really good month, and it could be back to square 628 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:30.039 one tomorrow. So we shall see. Next one is another four K release 629 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:35.079 that Troy is intimately familiar with. How about we talk about some burial ground. 630 00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:40.280 So Severn just put out on their website that they are shipping Burial Ground 631 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:45.920 in four K in early February and this will be coming out widely shortly after 632 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:51.199 that. This is the nineteen eighty one film that is incredible. On this 633 00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.079 one, we got an audio commentary with Nathaniel Thompson, the other Gentleman is 634 00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.760 part of the stream tonight and au Jenny or Kalani, and we are looking 635 00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:05.599 at a bunch of archival features on these and really solid release overall. Troy, 636 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.719 why don't you tell us about Burial Ground and the commentary that's on it? 637 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:13.519 Well, I mean, if you've seen Burial Ground, you know you 638 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.840 know what to expect. If you haven't seen it, if you have a 639 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:23.480 taste for the more kind of offbeat and over the top and outlandish and sleazy 640 00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:30.360 side of European coat cinema, this is a really fine example of a film 641 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:36.960 that's just utterly bonkers and demented. You know, it has a slight, 642 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.400 almost kind of soft core vibe to it in a way, but also gets 643 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:45.039 into really sort of creepy atmospherics. But I mean, the characters are all 644 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:51.000 just sort of unlikable and unpleasant, and everybody's sort of screwing around, and 645 00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:55.519 the living dead are broading, and you know, mayhem is ensuing. And 646 00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:01.360 there's a little boy who looks like Dario Argento who is played by a short 647 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:05.159 person, a little person who is an adult, and they're trying to make 648 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.360 him look like a child for a good reason. There's a scene in the 649 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:14.800 film that there's a reason why this was done. The English dub is loaded 650 00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:22.840 with infamous dialogue singers and terrifically over the top vocal performances from especially Carolyn Denvers 651 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:28.559 Diiffin Seka, who did the voice of Daria nickelodeon Phenomenon and Deep Red. 652 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:34.039 She voices Marie angelet jo Adano in this film. She plays the mother of 653 00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:37.440 the little boy. The little boy that I was talking about before, played 654 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.360 by Peter Bark, who was interviewed on this disc. So that makes it 655 00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:45.800 a must in and of itself. It's deranged fun. I love it. 656 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.400 I always have. I would not make great claims for it. I think 657 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.480 anybody who tries to take this movie too seriously is really missing the point. 658 00:48:53.159 --> 00:49:00.159 It's just a deliriously sort of feverish, strange and just entertain movie. It's 659 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.920 one of those movies I saw when I was probably way too young. Back 660 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.480 in the eighties, the VHS you couldn't escape from it, and it was 661 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:08.960 so muddy, it was so dark, you could hardly see what was going 662 00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:14.239 on. So now we're onto you know, we've had a four K release 663 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.840 from Mediate Films in the UK, which is where we recorded our commentary originally 664 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:21.599 for, and now Severn is putting out their version. I would imagine it 665 00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:24.679 looked pretty comparable, and I'm glad to see that they recycled most of the 666 00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:29.280 extras and kind of pulled their resources. So that's that's a nice thing. 667 00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:31.760 Took me by surprise. I didn't know that was happening, so you know, 668 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.519 I'm glad to see that those who didn't get a chance to import the 669 00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:39.840 eighty eight release will have this as an option. So good stuff. Yeah, 670 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.800 this is a big one. The entire time you were speaking at the 671 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.440 end there, I was trying to think of a way to use a Peters 672 00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:51.400 bark is as bad as his bite because of that scene in the movie. 673 00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:57.559 But probably shouldn't go there. We have a question, is this seven release 674 00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.800 also fifty five dollars since it's a four K? I answered in the chat, 675 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:02.559 but really, wanted to highlight they did pretty well. I mean, 676 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.280 this one's thirty eight dollars on release day coming from them. That's that's a 677 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.360 lot better than what the big sale four ks have been recently. So it's 678 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.800 a big difference. Yeah, it is, And you know, eventually, 679 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:20.679 I don't know if the plans are to do kind of you know, slim 680 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:23.199 down sort of general release versions. Maybe I don't know that they might be 681 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:29.079 more more affordable. And I don't know if all these are available on Amazon 682 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:31.239 or not. But very often, even when something has a stiff price, 683 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:35.039 usually you can get it pretty cheap on there if you just have a little 684 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:39.159 bit of patience. So I understand when people gripe about the prices. I 685 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:42.320 get it. But you know, sometimes if you just have a little bit 686 00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.480 of patience, you'll get what you want eventually without paying through the nose for 687 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:51.119 it. All of these ones will be available on Amazon, same with everything 688 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:54.440 from that Black Friday slate that they had, so all of those will be 689 00:50:54.480 --> 00:51:00.000 available. I don't think they've had a true site exclusive or full the limited 690 00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:06.559 edition that you can't buy again since the last horror film. Well that's good. 691 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:09.480 It's been a little bit of time. Next up as part of this 692 00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:15.119 month's announcements from them is Blood Moon. This is from nineteen ninety and this 693 00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:19.679 will have a Blu ray disc in This also shipping near the beginning of February 694 00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.679 as well. This says, though it arrived near the end of the cycle, 695 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:28.400 it remains the most satisfyingly deprayed yet least seen old school slasher and odsplitation 696 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.880 history. And I've never seen this, but from what I've heard, this 697 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:36.239 is one that a lot of people really do not like. So I'd love 698 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:38.800 to hear Troy if you've seen this one. I haven't seen it. No, 699 00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:45.199 I haven't seen it. Nineties horror is not really my favorite time. 700 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.159 There's a lot of stuff that went on in the nineties that I was not 701 00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.440 a big fan of in terms of film, so I never did it around 702 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:57.559 to this one. Well, I mean, that's pretty late for a slasher 703 00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.559 film, but it's pre screen, so I guess it'll at least be irony 704 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:06.079 for you. I would assume that is true. And also it's pretty late 705 00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.840 for oz plitation. A lot of the stuff that they were really diving into 706 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:15.119 is done just a little bit before then. Yeah. Next title from them 707 00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:21.960 is Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein from nineteen seventy two. This is the North American 708 00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:28.199 disc premiere for this Jess Franco film. I am I gonna, be honest, 709 00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.719 dying to see this one. And thankfully the special features on this interview 710 00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:36.119 with Stephen Thrower. He had to speak on this. He's the Master of 711 00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:43.639 Franco in the Land of Franco Part ten and they just continue this long running 712 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:50.400 documentary basically of everything that's happened for Franco and Thrower doing whatever he could possibly 713 00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:52.760 do to get the world to love Jess Franco. I've missed this one so 714 00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:57.920 far. Have you seen this one, Troy Well? I mean, I 715 00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:00.480 think the release could have used the commentary, but I won't go there. 716 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.519 I have and you know, most people who've seen this film in the US 717 00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:12.039 of a certain age saw it under the title The Screaming Dead and it's one 718 00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.199 of the most infamously awful pan and scan VHS releases of all time, because 719 00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:22.199 this is a widescreen film two thirty five and it was just an absolute eye 720 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:24.320 sore. So I'm really curious to see what this looks like. This has 721 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:30.199 had a really checkered past on video. The first version I ever saw was 722 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.679 actually taken from a Japanese laser disc. It's virtually a silent film. But 723 00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:38.880 if you take my advice, if you watch it, I would recommend watching 724 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:42.760 it in Spanish. Don't watch it in English because the English stub adds a 725 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.599 lot of voiceover, which it really kind of ruins the mood in the Spanish 726 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:50.199 version. A lot of it unfolds with just sort of sound effects and weird 727 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:52.719 kind of bird calls and things like that. It's not really a lot of 728 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:55.440 talking going on. You have Dennis Price, who's one of my favorite actors, 729 00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:00.320 playing doctor Frankenstein. He's at death's door by the time he does this 730 00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:05.039 film. He's, you know, he looks much older than he really is. 731 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:08.280 The drinking has taking his whole great actor, but in kind of, 732 00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:13.480 you know, reduced in poverished circumstances doing this movie. And Howard Vernon, 733 00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:17.400 another actor I love, playing Dracula, almost a kind of pantomime version of 734 00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:22.360 Dracula with a sort of you know, weirdly colored face and fangs and the 735 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:28.079 top hat. And it's a very strange movie. It's Jess Franco. I 736 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:30.239 mean, if you like Franco, you probably will like it. If you 737 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:32.800 don't like Franco, this is not the movie that's gonna win you over. 738 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:37.760 I like it. I prefer the kind of sister production that he did with 739 00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:43.039 the same cast called Erotic Rights of Frankenstein, which I think is a much 740 00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:46.440 more, much more compellingly weird movie. But this is a really strange one 741 00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.800 too, and I'm really excited to see this. I wasted no time putting 742 00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:53.880 in an order for this one. Nice. Yeah, this is This is 743 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:58.360 a pretty fun month from them, and not only are we getting those three 744 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:02.760 titles, they also are doing some of their fun bundles, including this hilarious 745 00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.039 Burial Ground pillowcase, and gotta ask, are you getting the pillowcase? Truly? 746 00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:14.800 No, you don't want to sleep, We're just gonna let it go 747 00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:17.320 it. No, No, I'm not doing the pillow case. No, 748 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:22.239 I will pass on that. But I'm glad that there are people out there 749 00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:25.960 that want to have the toys and then the carry on bags and the flushies 750 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.719 and the cases. That's fun for those who want to, but that's not 751 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:35.559 so much my thing. I gotta admit the shirt for this is pretty nice 752 00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:38.480 for Burial Ground when the nice turns red, the dead shall rise, and 753 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:43.199 it says the gates of Hell have opened at the bottom. But it's also 754 00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:46.280 it's a Pall Bear Press shirt and they're always super high quality, very comfortable 755 00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:50.880 shirts. I'm not getting the shirt, but man, it's a nice design. 756 00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:54.000 They also have the JUSTICESE Bundle, which actually saves you some decent money 757 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:58.760 if you're getting all three. I gotta laugh a little bit because it is 758 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.840 literally one dollar below the free shipping threshold. They could have just made it 759 00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:07.639 eighty and shipped it to you for free, but no, can't do that. 760 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:13.639 To draw the line somewhere. Uh. And then finally you can do 761 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.719 a bundle with all of the goodies this month, all three releases, teachert 762 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:22.480 and Pillowcase if you really want everything. Yeah, this is a this is 763 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.599 a fun month from seven and kind of came out of nowhere. I and 764 00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:29.679 you know, we knew we were getting Burial Grand four K, but not 765 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.920 anytime soon, and not with these three films together. That's a it's a 766 00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:37.119 fun package. Yeah. Yeah. Dracula, our prisioner frank Stein, was 767 00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:40.519 the real surprise for me. I had no idea. Very glad that it's 768 00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:45.239 happening. So you know, I'm a I'm a committed Franco fan. I'm 769 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:47.480 not one of the Franco fans that defends everything he ever made. He made 770 00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:52.280 some lousy movies, but I do like this one. I think it's just 771 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:57.079 don't go in expecting a traditional classical kind of horror film. It's it's not 772 00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:02.320 that type of film. You heard it here first, everybody dragon, It's 773 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:08.920 a classic exploitation driven grindhouse slasher from over other tropes I can throw at it. 774 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:14.679 No, it's gonna be off the wall. Yeah, let's see. 775 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:21.360 Next up is a little known film with Christopher Lee called The Whip in the 776 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.880 Body by Mario Bava, which I have a feeling that Troy has a lot 777 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:30.760 to say about this film. Well, it's one of Bova's best films. 778 00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:36.039 Nathaniel Thompson and I did a commentary for the eighty eight Films release, which 779 00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:40.320 also included a second commentary by Kim Newman and Sean Hogan, I believe, 780 00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:47.079 as well as interviews with lambert A Bava, Mario's son Sergeo Martinez, who 781 00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:51.679 worked on the film in the behind the scenes capacity, in Ernesta Costaldi, 782 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.159 who wrote the script, as well as a booklet, a nice thick booklet 783 00:57:55.199 --> 00:58:00.119 with essays. This version is rather paired down by comparison, but it is 784 00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.360 using the same scan that eighty eight was able to put together for their release. 785 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:07.199 And let me tell you, you know, if if you if you 786 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.519 want a more stacked version, then that's the one. Obviously you would want 787 00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:13.840 the eighty eight one because it's got a lot more extra stuff on it. 788 00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:16.880 But if you're not regent, be friendly, or if it's too expensive for 789 00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.360 you, whatever this is, this is a good way to see it because 790 00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:23.599 the previous high def versions of this movie looked horrible. They were way too 791 00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:28.320 murky, they were way too dark, The colors were all wrong, the 792 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:35.800 characters look like Opalyumpa's colors were just completely wrong. This this isn't even a 793 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:37.840 matter of interpretation. I mean, it was just wrong. But now it 794 00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:44.920 looks fantastic. I gather there were some people online that were trying to argue 795 00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:47.639 that the German DVD looked better. I suggest they go get their eyes checked, 796 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:52.599 because that's simply not true. The the new scan that eighty eight put 797 00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:59.960 together looks sensational. Kino's reusing it for this edition. They're reusing their timbler 798 00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:02.119 commentary. And I don't know if there's anything else included on this or not, 799 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:06.800 but if you just want to get a look at the film the way 800 00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:08.679 it really should look, this is a good way of finally seeing it the 801 00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:12.079 way it should be. It's again, Twin of Bob is the very best 802 00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:15.719 films. Yeah, and it's coming on March twelfth. It'll have the classic 803 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:21.119 thin Keno's slipcover and all that fun stuff, but I do wish it had 804 00:59:21.119 --> 00:59:23.760 a couple of more of those special features. But it's also Keno who's going 805 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:28.440 to try to sell this probably on sale a couple months later for like nine 806 00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:31.199 dollars, so it's they can't put a whole lot on there will be too 807 00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:36.000 expensive for them. So yeah, totally get it. Either way, great 808 00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:38.559 film. That eighty eight release looks stupendous. I just answered Brendan in the 809 00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:44.199 chat if you've not seen that eighty eight film's release, this movie has never 810 00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:47.480 looked better. And I mean, hands down, most people that know Boba 811 00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:51.880 know this is one of the best. I love this movie and everybody should 812 00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:59.280 have it. Next up, another from Keno cry The Beloved Country from nineteen 813 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:01.840 fifty one coming soon. We've got City Platier, Canada, Lee, Charles 814 01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:07.119 Carson, Joyce Carey, Jeffrey Keene. I've never seen this one. It's 815 01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:09.519 a nineteen fifty one film. Is this one that you're into? There? 816 01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:15.719 Troy again years ago, I seem to recall catching on on American movie classics 817 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:20.159 when they used to run you know, old movies as opposed to what they're 818 01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:24.079 running now. And yeah, I recall it being a good film. I 819 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:29.920 couldn't tell you much else beyond that, though, exactly about the same. 820 01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:36.239 Next up is a big one after last year, especially A twenty four is 821 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.039 supposedly going to put up a pre sale for Stop Making Sense, the Talking 822 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:45.360 Heads film from nineteen eighty four. This will be a four K and Blu 823 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.159 ray release. It looks like it will be an A twenty four site exclusive, 824 01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.360 one of their fancy releases. Not sure if it'll be the giant one 825 01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:55.719 or the smaller release. If it follows the previous patterns, it should be 826 01:00:55.719 --> 01:01:00.199 a regular size release from them, not the giant ones. And the date 827 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:05.199 of January twenty seventh is odd, but that's what Variety is reporting. January 828 01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:09.239 twenty seventh is a Saturday, and I don't think most films are going to 829 01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:15.079 get announced on a Saturday, unless you're keynot announcing that they're releasing something someday 830 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:20.079 that that really doesn't happen. That'll probably be the day before I'm guessing I'm 831 01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:22.719 gonna throw out their next Friday, the twenty sixth is probably when this goes 832 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:27.000 live. If you've never seen it, highly recommend it. This is one 833 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:30.960 of the best music based films ever. I mean, Talking Heads are an 834 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.639 incredible group and this movie alone is legendary. And to see this in four 835 01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:39.159 K I guarantee is going to be stupendous. You're nodding with it what you 836 01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:43.400 have feelings on? Stop making sense? Oh no, it's up there with 837 01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:47.360 The Last Waltz, you know, and that sort of venue of films, 838 01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:52.800 you know, based around based around that type of music, not not a 839 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:55.639 musical as such, but sort of performance and so forth, you know, 840 01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:00.159 documentary and so forth. Yeah, it's a it's a fantastic film, and 841 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:08.000 obviously that will be much appreciated after so many years. Everything I heard about 842 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.519 the theatrical run that this played just two and a half three months ago was 843 01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:19.639 it looks better than ever and a legendary four K scan dying to see this 844 01:02:19.719 --> 01:02:22.920 again, This will this will be mine soon. I cannot wait for this 845 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:30.320 today alone, we got a ton of announcements and everything else from here on 846 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:35.639 out was just announced today and there's there's a lot of them. First up 847 01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:38.239 is March twenty fifth in the UK and March twenty sixth in the US for 848 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:43.719 this and the following two announcements. These are all coming from Indicator in March 849 01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:49.239 in both territories. This first one is Santo Versus The Writers of Terror. 850 01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:53.840 They are continuing with a four K restoration of this Santo film. This is 851 01:02:53.960 --> 01:03:00.440 also coupled with Lepers and Sex, the recently rediscovered sexy reworking off Santo Versus 852 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:06.119 The Writers of Terror, which is basically a softcore version of it. Don't 853 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:08.599 expect like a full on adult film or anything with that. You got a 854 01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:15.119 commentary with film and story in a Mexican cinema specialist David Wilt some never before 855 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:20.480 seen archival interviews on this. We've got a Lucha Libra specialist and filmmaker in 856 01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:24.519 the Killer film, Elcritico and Mascarado, the masked critic assessing the film and 857 01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:30.599 it's different versions. That's pretty damn cool. We've got alternative French credits, 858 01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:35.679 We've got some other interviews and just some context giving extras on this film. 859 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:39.960 Indicator going all in on this release, including an eighty page book with a 860 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:44.639 new essay by Colin Gunkel and a bunch of archival essays. This will be 861 01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:46.960 limited to eight thousand for the limited edition, and I'm sure this will get 862 01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:55.639 a standard eventually. But this sounds like a really fun release. Any Santo 863 01:03:55.719 --> 01:04:01.639 for you? Have you ever been into that stuff? No? No, 864 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:05.000 not to sound snobby, it's nothing, you know. I mean, everybody 865 01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:10.760 likes what they like. That never really that never really pulled me in personally, 866 01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:15.039 So I have no experience to speak of with regards to Santo and the 867 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.480 masked superhero genre. Nice Ian Miller in the chat says, Hi, Ryan 868 01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.199 and Troy just bout a used copy of eighty eight s Whipping the Body. 869 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.239 Even though I'm not reaching free yet, I will buy the new keynot and 870 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:30.039 keep the eighty eight since it's one of my favorite Bava films. Nice on 871 01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:34.760 all the bases covered, got a copy of it all. Next up is 872 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.760 the Batwoman from Indicator, Same thing, releasing in March in the US and 873 01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.840 UK. I should mention two. All three of these are Renee Cardona titles 874 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:48.119 Renee Cardona Senior and this one will have an audio commentary by David Wilt as 875 01:04:48.159 --> 01:04:53.920 well. This one will have a bunch of similar features, image galleries, 876 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:59.199 all kinds of archival information and again eighty page book with the new essay by 877 01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:03.480 Dolores Ti with some archival essays. This one just looks fun. Love the 878 01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:11.199 art on these two, they really did great. Greg is saying is it 879 01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:16.639 DC licensed? I don't know. I mean, it's an interesting shout. 880 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:24.320 Have my doubts. I would have to say probably not. And then finally 881 01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:30.760 is the panther woman and man. The art on this one is wild. 882 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.480 Love this art again, March in the Bolt the US and UK. This 883 01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:38.880 one is from nineteen sixty seven two K restoration from the OCN. We have 884 01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:43.920 an audio commentary with the publisher from Parts Unknown and screenwriter of Los Compagnonies de 885 01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:49.239 la Luca Leedre Keith J. Rainville. We've got killer film doing fifteen minutes 886 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:54.559 on this. El Critico Mascarado, the Master critic, Luca liber specialist and 887 01:05:54.599 --> 01:06:00.400 filmmaker behind the Monterey Female Wrestlers, documentary cat Fight twenty four minutes academic Latin 888 01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:04.480 American horror specialists speaking on this. We've got another eighty page booklet with a 889 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:08.920 new essay by Robert Smith. They're just putting a lot of love into all 890 01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:14.639 these which is pretty damn rare for films like this to get this kind of 891 01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:20.599 treatment. Is really really great. No, I think that's wonderful. Chris 892 01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:26.360 Silvestri says this will go great right next to Batpussy, and yes it will. 893 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.360 And then for the month of April in the UK and US, Indicator 894 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:35.800 also announced two genre lo on titles. The first April twenty second in the 895 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:41.280 UK twenty third in the US, is a four K release of Demoniacs. 896 01:06:42.119 --> 01:06:45.519 This is going to be a great release. And if you've never read the 897 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:48.320 copy that Indicator put out for this this morning, tell me that just by 898 01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:53.000 hearing this it doesn't make you want to buy this. A gang of ruthless 899 01:06:53.079 --> 01:06:57.440 pirates known as the Wreckers rape two survivors of a shipwreck. The women, 900 01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.679 now mute for some reason, are guided by a miss sterious clown to a 901 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:05.400 ruined castle, where they receive magical powers with which to exact through revenge on 902 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:15.920 the game. I mean though, that is a film. Indicator is a 903 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:19.639 gift to humanity, says Brandon. Yeah. So this one is a brand 904 01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:26.679 new four K HDR restoration from the original negative by Indicator themselves. We've got 905 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.960 three presentations of the film, the original theatrical, the longer explicit export version, 906 01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:34.920 and Curse of the Living Dead, the alternative English language cut. We 907 01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:40.440 got an audio commentary by Tim Lucas that's brand new on this selected scenes commentary 908 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:44.559 with Genre Loan from two thousand and five. There is a Genre Lan introducing 909 01:07:44.599 --> 01:07:47.239 the film from nineteen ninety eight. Then there's a new presentation of an interview 910 01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:53.519 with the regular Rolan collaborator at Jean Pierre Boy, newly edited archival interview with 911 01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:58.760 actor Willie Brake, and some other appreciation stuff like that. Plus we have 912 01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:02.239 an eighty page book with by Alexandra Heller Nicholas on this. This will be 913 01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:08.239 limited to ten thousand individually numbered titles six thousand and four K four thousand blu 914 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.239 ray for the four K in us and I have a feeling, just a 915 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:15.199 heads up, this one is probably going to sell very well. This is 916 01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:18.760 one that people have wanted for a bit in a new release, and I 917 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:23.640 would probably pre order this sooner than later if you really are dying to have 918 01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:28.560 this. It's a good film. It's definitely, I think one of his 919 01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:32.199 most offbeat and interesting films, and yeah, very happy to see it get 920 01:08:32.239 --> 01:08:36.880 an upgrade like this. I don't know, Roland is like Franco. He's 921 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:40.600 not for everybody, but if you can, if you can get into his 922 01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:44.079 sort of mood and approach and so forth. But this is more of a 923 01:08:44.279 --> 01:08:46.960 you know, it's sort of in a style of an old Cereal so it's 924 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.720 a little bit more action oriented and a little bit you know, quote unquote 925 01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:54.119 livelier in some of his other movies, which tend to be a little bit 926 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:59.880 more sort of funereal and slow paced, So this one might have a broader 927 01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:03.119 peel in some respects. Did you check out any of the Land four k's 928 01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:09.920 from last year. I have a bunch of them setting on the pile to 929 01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:13.920 be watched. But I did watch the four k's of I know, I 930 01:09:13.960 --> 01:09:16.319 watched Shiver of the Vampires, which is my favorite Roman, and I was 931 01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:20.159 absolutely thrilled with that because it's such a beautiful looking film and one of the 932 01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:24.720 other vampire films I can't remember which one I watched, but yeah, I 933 01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:30.079 was definitely pleased and long overdue to get nice releases like this for his films. 934 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.479 He's one of my favorites. It's been a blur of a year, 935 01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:36.319 so I may be wrong, but if I remember, last year was the 936 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:42.039 first four K for Indicator, and they have wowed with every single one that 937 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.439 they put out, I think they've all looked just majestic. For a company 938 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:50.159 like Indicator, I wouldn't expect anything else, but they are genuinely looking like 939 01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:57.279 special. They are putting a lot of work into them. And then finally 940 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:01.239 from Indicator April twenty second, UK April twenty third in the US again four 941 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:06.479 KM Blu Ray the Nude Vampire from John Milan. This one is going to 942 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:10.880 get a lot of similar features. We got a commentary with Kevin Lyons and 943 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.800 Jonathan Rigby who they both do great work. I believe both of them are 944 01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:18.760 on the cushion curiosity set that we're going to talk about tonight. Right they 945 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:24.119 are, and I'm very very happy to see them involved in these because it's 946 01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:28.880 nice to have some different voices represented on occasion and I'm very curious to hear 947 01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:33.439 them tackle Roland because this is fresh terrain for them as far as commentaries go, 948 01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:36.800 so that should be really interesting. And this is a really strange film 949 01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:42.319 too. This is a sort of horror sci fi hybrid with the usual dashover 950 01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:46.800 roticism on this. We also have an updated documentary by Daniel Goyette, who 951 01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:53.760 was Rolan's personal assistant for a long time. We've got extracts from selected interviews 952 01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:58.359 with Rolan conducted by Goette between ninety eight and two thousand and three. Interview 953 01:10:58.359 --> 01:11:02.600 with the arkivist Lucas Balboks boring Roland's connection to the French Anarchist Union that sounds 954 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:09.239 fascinating, some other interviews and appreciations. And then another eighty page booklet with 955 01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:14.600 a selection of new and archival writings. Again ten thousand, limited title. 956 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:20.239 But this is really cool that they're putting this much into role on Well, 957 01:11:20.279 --> 01:11:24.239 there should be more. I'm sure it looks like they're working their way through 958 01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:27.720 the catalog, so there should be some great ones look forward to. Yet, 959 01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:31.680 I really wanted to highlight before we stepped away from Roland exactly what Craig 960 01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:35.279 is saying in a night you know. On the show, we cover all 961 01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:40.640 of the studio titles and most of the time the art on those. To 962 01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:44.920 say they leave a lot to be desired is very under selling of how poor 963 01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:49.520 those studio titles look on the cover. And man, they are really selling 964 01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:55.800 those Roland titles with some beautiful commissioned artwork. Yeah well yeah, I mean 965 01:11:55.840 --> 01:12:00.279 some of them are based also in the original poster art from the French French 966 01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:05.199 releases. They look great, I mean really really fantastic, loyok, gorgeous. 967 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:11.159 I'm not a packaging fetishist as such, but I do appreciate it whenever 968 01:12:11.159 --> 01:12:14.760 they put obviously a lot of love and care into something like that, they 969 01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.279 look classy. They're also not misrepresenting them in a really tacky way. Yeah, 970 01:12:18.359 --> 01:12:21.960 a lot of them very similar to the original art as well seem to 971 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:29.760 be inspired by them. Movie is releasing Priscilla on four K and Blu ray 972 01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:32.199 in the UK and Germany, though should be coming very very soon. Right 973 01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:36.279 now, it's only placeholder dates all across the internet, but I'm sure we'll 974 01:12:36.319 --> 01:12:40.960 hear a final date on those. I don't think movie is going to have 975 01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:45.039 it in the US, but if you really want the four K from movie, 976 01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:48.119 they will probably have this orbit Eventually, they've been getting a lot of 977 01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:56.000 the movie titles, so I would keep an eye on those. Then. 978 01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:59.720 Man, this one, this was a big deal for me. February twenty 979 01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:03.239 seven from a Warner Archive. We are getting a box set and also as 980 01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:06.560 individual releases, and we'll talk about the individual ones in just a couple minutes. 981 01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:13.439 This box set is Hannah Barbara Superstars ten and these are from nineteen eighty 982 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.239 seven and that year the legendary animation team of William Hannah and Joseph Barbara brought 983 01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:23.159 forth a series of ten feature length animated features to television, all of which 984 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:27.880 would feature their most popular cartoon characters. These films were sold into syndication as 985 01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:32.880 the Hannah Barbera Superstars ten, each providing irresistible entertainment. Yogi Bear and Scooby 986 01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:36.039 Doo each star in three of the films on this box set, along with 987 01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:40.600 a one time only meeting of the Flintstones and the Jetsons. Judy Jetson takes 988 01:13:40.600 --> 01:13:44.199 the spotlight in their own adventure, while Huckleberry Hound heads up an exciting all 989 01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:47.359 star Western and the level will Topcat and his gang star in a story set 990 01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:53.600 in Beverly Hills. Also The Scooby Dew and The Reluctant Werewolf is going to 991 01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:58.880 have a bonus feature for Scooby Goes to Hollywood, and Yogi in Invasion of 992 01:13:58.920 --> 01:14:02.520 the Space Bears is going to include Yogi's arc Clark, which is an episode 993 01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:09.800 from Yogi's Gang. I love these releases, and I feel like they've really 994 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:13.479 really killed it with this. When we talk about the individuals in just a 995 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:18.279 moment, I would I would love to see all of these on my shelf. 996 01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:21.039 But man, this box set, you know, we'll talk about that 997 01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:25.119 just second. With the with the single titles. Hold on on that thought. 998 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:29.159 Let's go to the next one. First, Cohen Media Group, who 999 01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:32.119 put out The Old Dark House. We were just talking about Driving Madeline from 1000 01:14:32.159 --> 01:14:35.680 twenty twenty three. They are releasing this on Blu Ray on March nineteenth. 1001 01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:41.119 No special features, it looks like, but it's got pretty good reviews online 1002 01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:44.520 and it's supposed to be pretty good. I had never heard about this one 1003 01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:47.479 until today, though. Have you heard about this one? No? No, 1004 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:54.960 I have not. Okay, So those ten individual titles from one of 1005 01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:57.760 archive. Here is the cover art for all ten of these. We got 1006 01:14:58.039 --> 01:15:01.119 the good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, 1007 01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:08.119 Rocket with Judy Jetson, Scooby Doo and the Ghoul school Scooby Doo and 1008 01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:12.880 the Reluctant Werewolf Scooby Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Top Cat and the Beverly 1009 01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:16.600 Hills Cats, Yogi An Invasion of the Space Bears, Yogi's Great Escape, 1010 01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:21.920 and Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose. So what's crazy 1011 01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:27.600 is all of these are gonna be up on Amazon for probably twenty one ninety 1012 01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:30.920 nine, but the box set right now you can pre order for I think 1013 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:34.359 seventy dollars, So if you get the box that you are saving quite a 1014 01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:39.560 bit of money on all of those. So I would absolutely check this out 1015 01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:45.119 if you are super into it. Brendan said that I willed this into existence. 1016 01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:47.359 I've been crying for a lot of these for a long time. Love 1017 01:15:47.439 --> 01:15:50.600 me some animation. Were you a Hanna Barbara person at all? I know 1018 01:15:50.600 --> 01:15:56.520 we talked about animation a minute ago. I'm gonna sound very grinchy now. 1019 01:15:56.560 --> 01:16:00.880 I'm not a fan of Hannibar Bear, but I did watch a number of 1020 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:03.439 the Anna Barbara. You know, obviously the flint Stones and the Jetson's and 1021 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:09.680 Scooby Doo when I was a child, but they have not retained a place 1022 01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:14.840 in my heart into grinchy adulthood. I'm sorry to say, well, I 1023 01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:17.159 can't wait to have these. I will be I will be the who to 1024 01:16:17.239 --> 01:16:20.680 your grinch. No, I'm glad they're being I think everything should be made 1025 01:16:20.680 --> 01:16:25.439 available for people who like it, So that's good. I love that we 1026 01:16:25.479 --> 01:16:29.880 go to Yo from Yogi Bear the Spruce Gooset and Goodbye Uncle Tom in four 1027 01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:33.560 K. What a time to be alive? Yeah, this is this is 1028 01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:41.600 wild Blue Underground. On April twenty, Third is releasing a strictly limited edition 1029 01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.439 of Goodbye Uncle Tom in four K, or if you don't want the four 1030 01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:47.760 K, they are also releasing it on Blu Ray. Both of these will 1031 01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:53.640 be four disc limited editions. The copy I used here is about the same 1032 01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:57.359 for both of them. Just the four K disc will have two four k's 1033 01:16:57.520 --> 01:17:00.960 and two Blue rays. The Blu Ray set will have four Blu rays. 1034 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.960 This is a world premiere new four K sixteen bit restoration of both the English 1035 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:11.319 and Italian versions from the original negatives. First off, that's insane that in 1036 01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:15.399 twenty twenty four we are getting new four K restorations of Goodbye Uncle Tom, 1037 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:20.399 and not just one, both versions of the film before we dive into some 1038 01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:25.880 special features, any thoughts on this one, Troy A doo Zo Tom. 1039 01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:34.279 Yes, part of the infamous sort of Mondo's cycle, you know that is 1040 01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:41.479 sort of infamous and revered in equal measure. This was out of left field. 1041 01:17:41.560 --> 01:17:44.800 I knew it was coming, I had heard about it. Yeah, 1042 01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:46.399 I mean again, it goes back to what I said when it's time to 1043 01:17:46.439 --> 01:17:53.159 be alive. I can certainly certainly say that I would not have imagined that 1044 01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:59.079 this would be a title that would reach four K before any number of other 1045 01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:01.000 titles. But I think it's wonderful that it's getting a release, and it's 1046 01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:05.119 obviously getting stacked release, And yeah, I mean this has caused for celebration. 1047 01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:09.680 If you like this movie, it's it's certainly it's one that once you 1048 01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:14.840 see it, you won't forget it. Chris Silvestri on Facebook says this release 1049 01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:17.800 will be fifty to sixty dollars, though most likely it is if you go 1050 01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.159 to the Blue Underground website. But I will happily shout from the rooftops, 1051 01:18:21.560 --> 01:18:26.439 go to Diabolic DVD right now and you can get this for I believe forty 1052 01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:30.640 six dollars on four K, which for a strictly limited title from Blue Underground 1053 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:35.000 that has never released a bad four K. That's to me, that's a 1054 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:40.560 pretty easy purchase, especially for a film like this that is really important and 1055 01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:45.439 one that needs a lot of context, and thankfully we are getting a lot 1056 01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:48.439 of context in these special features. Here. The first two discs if you 1057 01:18:48.479 --> 01:18:51.560 get the four K version, those are both four KS. We get the 1058 01:18:51.760 --> 01:18:56.680 English version which is one hundred and twenty three minutes, the Italian version which 1059 01:18:56.720 --> 01:18:59.960 is one hundred and thirty six minutes, and then the Blu ray discs. 1060 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:04.119 We have the importance of Shocking, a future length documentary by the director Andrea 1061 01:19:04.119 --> 01:19:09.720 Bettinetti, which is ninety four minutes long, The Godfather's a Mondo, a 1062 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:14.079 documentary by director David Gregory, which is eighty nine minutes long, Goodbye Cruel 1063 01:19:14.079 --> 01:19:17.000 Mondo, interviews with the writers and directors on this which is twenty minutes long, 1064 01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:21.159 Behind the Scenes which is fifty minutes long, Mondo Mercenaries, and the 1065 01:19:21.159 --> 01:19:25.800 interview with the academic Mark Goodall, which is probably going to be incredible. 1066 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:30.199 That's twenty seven minutes interview with Professor Matthew J. Smith for twenty minutes. 1067 01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:36.000 That one is covering objection under authoritarianism. Incredible. And then after all of 1068 01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:42.319 that, you're also getting the original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD as a bonus, 1069 01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:46.000 plus a collectible booklet with the new essay by Dan Madigan. This is a 1070 01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:53.640 wildly stacked release for this. Yeah, I mean I understand that, I 1071 01:19:53.760 --> 01:19:56.920 understand that people are, you know, on budgets, and you know, 1072 01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:00.760 it's not always convenient to shell out a certain amount of money, But I 1073 01:20:00.760 --> 01:20:04.159 mean, this is pretty stacked. I mean, it's it's I don't think 1074 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:10.000 that they can really be accused of overcharging in this context. And yeah, 1075 01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:12.399 like you said, there's going to be options to be able to get a 1076 01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:16.000 little bit cheaper too, So that's that's also a good thing. Man. 1077 01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:24.039 So many comments coming in about this one diabolic four K for forty six nine 1078 01:20:24.159 --> 01:20:26.600 or thirty two ninety nine on Blu Ray. That's not bad. They put 1079 01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:29.800 a lot in this release. They put a hell of a lot of this 1080 01:20:29.880 --> 01:20:33.479 release. So I agree, very glad this will be out there. It's 1081 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:40.199 important. It's also just a heads up. A lot of the phrases being 1082 01:20:40.359 --> 01:20:44.359 thrown around about this are very accurate. It is shocking if you're If you're 1083 01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:46.800 not ready or willing to go into it, just keep in mind that the 1084 01:20:46.840 --> 01:20:50.680 most shocking thing about it is a lot of stuff that's in this was inspired 1085 01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:57.039 by actual events and the actual treatment of people. And yeah, just heads 1086 01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:04.319 up this this is an important one. Next release is The Book of Clarence 1087 01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:10.159 starring la Keith Stanfield, which I love everything he's done. That's coming out 1088 01:21:10.399 --> 01:21:13.840 soon on Blu Ray from Sony. This was last year's film, and I 1089 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:16.000 have a feeling Troy has probably not seen this one either, just like me. 1090 01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:20.119 I have not seen it, but I do love thea Keith Stanf. 1091 01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:26.920 Stanfield based on Atlanta, which is a series I greatly enjoy. I was 1092 01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.439 gonna say, have you seen Atlanta, because man, he is he was 1093 01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:33.439 a revelation in that movie from episode one, or movie in that series from 1094 01:21:33.479 --> 01:21:38.960 episode one. Well, I can't remember the name of the character which you 1095 01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:41.439 may remember. I don't know, but there was an episode's one of the 1096 01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:46.119 creepiest things I've ever seen on television, and it's Teddy Perkins. Teddy Perkins, 1097 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:50.000 Yes, if you haven't seen it Teddy Perkins, I always tell people, 1098 01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:53.920 you know, you don't have to have seen the whole series in order 1099 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:57.680 to appreciate this episode. If you don't feel like watching the whole thing, 1100 01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:00.239 just find a Teddy Perkins episode, watch that and get back to me. 1101 01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:06.199 That is something I felt so bad for him in that episode. I was 1102 01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:11.760 just very uncomfortable to whole way through in the best sense of the term. 1103 01:22:12.439 --> 01:22:17.439 I loved that episode dearly. On the other one of the other podcasts that 1104 01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:21.199 I host, The Incinerator, we did an episode on Atlanta episodes, and 1105 01:22:21.239 --> 01:22:28.159 it was one of the most fun things to discuss the different amounts of the 1106 01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:32.439 way that episodes from Atlanta can affect people based on your own personal experiences or 1107 01:22:32.520 --> 01:22:38.359 just how you perceive an episode. That show I think is going to, 1108 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:42.239 you know, be something people discover for the next ten or fifteen years and 1109 01:22:42.279 --> 01:22:45.680 go, holy shit, how did we not appreciate this more in the time 1110 01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:47.479 that it was coming out, because that thing is a masterpiece through and through. 1111 01:22:47.680 --> 01:22:55.720 Yeah. Next up is a book which we don't normally talk about a 1112 01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:59.800 lot, but this is a pretty important one coming this fall, and I 1113 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:02.000 we don't have a date yet, although Amazon is saying ships in August. 1114 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:06.960 We'll see if that is accurate. From PM Press, Revolution in thirty five 1115 01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:13.760 millimeters Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Art House to the Grindhouse, 1116 01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:17.199 nineteen sixty to nineteen ninety. This is coming out, edited by Andrew Nett 1117 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:21.159 and Sam Degan, a name that you've heard on here many many times. 1118 01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:27.720 On this we got twelve contributors, including Robert Scvarla, Andy Rose, melamet, 1119 01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:31.560 Ude Batia, Mike White, Christos Silakis I probably said that wrong, 1120 01:23:31.760 --> 01:23:35.239 Michael A. Gonzalez, Matthew Kowalski, Ema Westwood, Kimberly, Lindbergh, 1121 01:23:35.239 --> 01:23:41.520 Scott Anberg, Lee Broughton, and Charles Perks. This is a book that's 1122 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.239 been in the works for a long time, literally a couple of years. 1123 01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:50.399 I immediately am going to be purchasing this soon. I cannot wait to get 1124 01:23:50.399 --> 01:23:55.199 this in. I had Sam on to talk about protest cinema as she was 1125 01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:58.960 working on this literally more than a year ago. It's been probably about eighteen 1126 01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:03.439 months at this point actually, and I can't imagine that this being anything other 1127 01:24:03.439 --> 01:24:10.640 than a masterpiece. This book is probably going to be incredible looks impressive. 1128 01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:15.840 Looks like it took a lot of work too, Sure it did. Next 1129 01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:19.119 up, February twenty seventh, another animation film that Troy will love on four 1130 01:24:19.239 --> 01:24:25.640 K and Blu Ray from Universal is Migration. I actually did see this late 1131 01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:30.119 last year and it was surprisingly good. I'll just say that much. It 1132 01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:36.520 looks like no special features, but a surprisingly funny movie. Next up is 1133 01:24:38.079 --> 01:24:41.680 one that I've not seen at all. Cult forty five, the complete series 1134 01:24:41.760 --> 01:24:45.560 is coming to Blu Ray from Warner Archive on March twelfth. It's going to 1135 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:51.560 be a ten disc sixty seven episode sets. Were you ever a Cult forty 1136 01:24:51.560 --> 01:24:57.479 five person, sir? Now? Before my time? I kind of figured 1137 01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:00.920 let's just keep going. Then. Next up, we got some details on 1138 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:05.600 some keynot releases. The first March twelfth, The President's Analyst from nineteen sixty 1139 01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:11.159 seven. This one's getting a new audio commentary by Julie Krugo and Peter Hancoff. 1140 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.159 And there is a archival commentary by mister Tim Lucas on this one as 1141 01:25:15.159 --> 01:25:18.199 well. And we talked about this one the first time I got announced. 1142 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:23.880 But since you weren't here, are you familiar with the President's Analyst? Oh? 1143 01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:26.920 Yeah, that's a wonderful film. It's a great sattire, well worth 1144 01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:31.600 seeing. James Coburn's always delightful and very happy to see Julie Krgo involved in 1145 01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:34.920 this and in more releases. She's a very sweet lady. She knows her 1146 01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:40.359 stuff, you know, somebody I'm very fond of on a personal level and 1147 01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:44.680 have a great deal of respect for her her work as well. So glad 1148 01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:48.199 that she's in on this release. Nice And then the next one, also 1149 01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:53.279 March twelfth, The Lincoln Conspiracy. This one has a new commentary by the 1150 01:25:53.319 --> 01:25:58.479 director James L. Conway, moderated by friend of mine Howard S. Berger. 1151 01:25:58.680 --> 01:26:03.199 Any thoughts on the Lincoln never seen it? Never seen it? Same 1152 01:26:03.319 --> 01:26:09.479 here Craig from Deaf Crocodile says, we could probably just have a show of 1153 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:15.239 just Keno announcements. This is true. They announced a lot of movies next 1154 01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:20.079 one. Speaking of Keno, they are re releasing so nothing new on these 1155 01:26:20.399 --> 01:26:25.119 Death Rides, A Horse, the Line in Winter, A Fistful of Dynamite, 1156 01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.319 and the Long Riders. These are all coming on March twelfth, and 1157 01:26:28.359 --> 01:26:30.960 it heads up. If you did not hear the news, I think we 1158 01:26:30.000 --> 01:26:33.920 talked about it about a month ago, but a Fistful of Dynamite had been 1159 01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:39.680 announced as coming on four K that had to be canceled. They also canceled 1160 01:26:39.960 --> 01:26:44.880 the four K of Charlie Varick er Veric however you say it, there was 1161 01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:47.600 Varic, That's what I thought. There's some legal problem with that one that 1162 01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:51.319 they couldn't do it. But Fistful they've never said the reason for why they 1163 01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:55.640 had to cancel it, so I'm curious what happened there. But it is 1164 01:26:55.680 --> 01:26:59.119 coming back out on Blu Ray from Keno. Any of these four that you 1165 01:26:59.159 --> 01:27:01.760 want to give a special shit out too, Oh, they're all fine films. 1166 01:27:01.760 --> 01:27:04.319 I mean, I love fas. I prefer the title Duck you Sucker, 1167 01:27:04.359 --> 01:27:11.239 even though it's nonsensical. But fistball Dynamite is what they're calling. It 1168 01:27:11.279 --> 01:27:14.720 is a wonderful film. I wish I knew why the four K was canceled, 1169 01:27:14.760 --> 01:27:18.560 because we've been getting nice upgrades on Leon's other films, and this one 1170 01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:24.079 is probably his most underrated film. I don't tend to use that word too 1171 01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:28.039 much because it's used so much it doesn't mean anything, but that one I 1172 01:27:28.079 --> 01:27:30.560 think tends to really kind of get the short shrift by a lot of people. 1173 01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:34.079 I like it a lot. Death Ride's a Horse is a great Italian 1174 01:27:34.119 --> 01:27:41.119 western I mentioned before, direct by Julia Patroni, John Philip Law and Lee 1175 01:27:41.159 --> 01:27:45.960 van Cleef. It actually might be my favorite of Van Cleef's movies that he 1176 01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:47.600 did in Italy where he was the star, you know, as opposed to 1177 01:27:47.640 --> 01:27:53.600 being second fiddle. And Lion Winners is fantastic too. I mean, you 1178 01:27:53.640 --> 01:27:57.079 know, that's well, that's a great film to watch around Christmas time, 1179 01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:00.760 but it's also it's a great acting showcase. Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn at 1180 01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:04.760 their best. And then you have people like Anthony Hopkins and his first film, 1181 01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:09.560 and Timothy Dalton and either his first or one of his very first films. 1182 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:12.800 And yeah, it's just a terrific film. And The Long Riders is 1183 01:28:12.840 --> 01:28:15.399 great too. I mean there's not a dun in that patch. Lots of 1184 01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:17.920 big names starring all four of these two. By the way, if you're 1185 01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:23.159 not paying attention, these are four big ones. Yeah. And then finally 1186 01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:29.479 this week January thirtieth, very very soon, Dcal and Neon are working together 1187 01:28:29.520 --> 01:28:33.840 to put out a BDR so a Burned Blu ray of Eileen from last year 1188 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:36.960 from twenty twenty three. This is the one with Thomas and McKenzie and Anne 1189 01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:41.760 Hathaway. And I've heard this is a great film. I'm kind of surprised 1190 01:28:41.800 --> 01:28:45.399 it's only getting a BDR. I mean, I guess I could see it 1191 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:49.479 probably will not sell super great, but so kind of sucks. It's a 1192 01:28:49.760 --> 01:28:56.399 good new movie. We should get a decent pressed release of it, you 1193 01:28:56.439 --> 01:29:00.399 would think so. And yet here we are. That's it for the week. 1194 01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:04.159 And after we go over those, we normally talk about what is coming 1195 01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:09.279 out next week, just in case you forgot, And next week starts some 1196 01:29:09.800 --> 01:29:13.880 big ones again. Keno with the four K of Kindergarten Cop, which I 1197 01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:18.359 watched Kindergarten Cop with my kids last night, and man was that movie crazier 1198 01:29:18.399 --> 01:29:25.000 than I remember. Thinner from Screen Factory releasing next week Jennifer eight, as 1199 01:29:25.039 --> 01:29:32.079 well the Chantelle Ackerman Masterpieces collection from Criterion. Following that, we've got a 1200 01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:36.439 standard release of Curse the Dog, God in the Inferno from Monto Micabro and 1201 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:44.039 Triplets of Belleville. Already we've got the Indicator titles, including Jenna with Christopher 1202 01:29:44.119 --> 01:29:46.840 Lee, which was one that people were very excited to see announced, and 1203 01:29:47.199 --> 01:29:53.159 that's the big ones any of these first handful of titles that excite you there 1204 01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:58.520 at all? Troy, I don't know about excited, but you know, 1205 01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:01.159 Kindergarten cops a lot fun, of course. I mean you'd have to you'd 1206 01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:04.479 have to have a very cold hard not to not to have some enthusiasm for 1207 01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:08.399 that. And uh, Jenna is not much of a film, but it's 1208 01:30:08.399 --> 01:30:11.640 got a great performance. But Christopher Lee, it was one of the performances 1209 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:15.560 he was really particularly proud of. There was a lot of controversy over a 1210 01:30:14.920 --> 01:30:19.840 uh, you know, a Anglo Saxon actor playing that part for obvious reasons, 1211 01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:24.399 but it's done with great reverence and he plays it beautifully, so it's 1212 01:30:24.439 --> 01:30:27.399 worth seeing. For him. I wouldn't go in expecting a great film because 1213 01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:30.199 I don't think it is, but I mean that was the like that was 1214 01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:31.439 a luck with him sometimes, you know, he was he was a great 1215 01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:34.800 resputant and a not very good movie about respute, and he was a great 1216 01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:39.000 Bond villain and a not very good Bond movie. So it didn't always have 1217 01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:41.399 the best of luck. But you know, it's worth seeing if you're a 1218 01:30:41.439 --> 01:30:45.079 fan of his. It's it's definitely worth seeing that he is exciting and one 1219 01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:49.119 that I believe has been fairly hard to find right for a while. Yeah, 1220 01:30:49.159 --> 01:30:54.279 it didn't get much of a release altogether, and you know then there 1221 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:58.680 was a kind of a crappy overseas DVD as I recall, and yeah, 1222 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:01.239 it's it's never really had a way of exposure. So that's nice. I'm 1223 01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:04.479 glad that they're putting it out and more people have an opportunity to see it 1224 01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:09.720 and appreciate how good he isn't it? And speaking of Christopher Len, now 1225 01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:14.439 that we're done with announcements, it's time to discuss a collaborator of mister Christopher 1226 01:31:14.520 --> 01:31:17.359 Lee, Peter Cushing, which I've seen some from but nowhere near enough. 1227 01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:23.960 So I'm eager to hold your hand and to dive into this filmography because I 1228 01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:29.920 you know, it's for actors like Cushing and Christopher Lee and some of the 1229 01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.119 other big ones that were kind of all over the map and got big, 1230 01:31:32.239 --> 01:31:36.079 big and lasted for quite some time. It's hard to be you know, 1231 01:31:38.319 --> 01:31:40.920 if you want to do it the right way and you know, really dive 1232 01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:43.800 in in a way where you're not turned off at first. It's hard to 1233 01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:45.479 know where to start, hard to know what were the big ones that were 1234 01:31:45.520 --> 01:31:49.640 appreciated, what are the fun ones that are underrated? So first off an 1235 01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:55.560 intro to mister Cushing. What can you share with this? Oh? Where 1236 01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:59.359 to begin? I mean, you know, he was an actor who got 1237 01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:03.079 his start in films actually in Hollywood. In nineteen thirty nine, he went 1238 01:32:03.079 --> 01:32:08.159 out to Hollywood in order to try and get a career going in films. 1239 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:11.720 Very first film he was in was Man in the Iron Mask, directed by 1240 01:32:11.760 --> 01:32:15.880 James Whale, which is funny because you know, nearly twenty years later he 1241 01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:23.439 finds himself starring in a film Curse of Frankenstein, which is often described erroneously, 1242 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:26.680 but you know, it was often described as the remake of James Wales's 1243 01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:30.159 Frankenstein from nineteen thirty one. It's very different interpretation of Mary Shelley's Book of 1244 01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:33.640 course, but funnily enough, yes, his very first job out the gate 1245 01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:38.560 was being directed by James Whale, who also directed him in another film and 1246 01:32:38.560 --> 01:32:42.479 I think it was actually Wales's last completed feature film called They Dare Not Love 1247 01:32:42.520 --> 01:32:45.199 A couple of years later. During this period of time, he also did 1248 01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:50.199 a small role in a Lauren Hardy comedy called Trump at Oxford, which is 1249 01:32:50.279 --> 01:32:55.000 certainly well worth seeing if you haven't seen it. I love Lauren Hardy myself. 1250 01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:58.399 I think they're kind of timeless. Their comedies are still very, very 1251 01:32:58.439 --> 01:33:03.239 funny seeing him acting opposite them. But you know, like a lot of 1252 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:08.800 Englishmen abroad during that time, the war came about, he decided to go 1253 01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:12.319 back and try to pitch into the war effort to get anywhere with that, 1254 01:33:12.560 --> 01:33:16.199 because he had some injuries when he was a younger man, you know, 1255 01:33:16.359 --> 01:33:23.279 in playing football and so forth. So he got involved in the kind of 1256 01:33:24.119 --> 01:33:30.199 morale boosting the ensa part of the entertainment industry where they kind of get together 1257 01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:34.560 and entertain the troops with performances and so forth. Became a big star in 1258 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:39.880 the nineteen fifties on television. He was a huge, huge star on British 1259 01:33:39.920 --> 01:33:46.880 television. I mean really impossible to overstate his popularity at that time. In 1260 01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:51.119 particular, did a version of nineteen eighty four which was adapted by Nigel Neil, 1261 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:55.800 a name that might be familiar to some of you. Obviously, he 1262 01:33:55.880 --> 01:34:00.680 was the man responsible for writing the quator Mass story that were made originally as 1263 01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:04.920 TV plays for the BBC. Than Hammer made versions in the fifties and sixties 1264 01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:10.319 as well. He was also involved in the writing of Halloween three season of 1265 01:34:10.359 --> 01:34:12.920 the Witch, although he took his name off it because he wasn't happy with 1266 01:34:12.960 --> 01:34:19.239 the results. And he did this version for TV of nineteen eighty four that 1267 01:34:19.359 --> 01:34:25.319 was so shocking in its time it caused an incredible amount of controversy. It 1268 01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:30.800 has happily survived, not in the best version, because the original broadcast version 1269 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.760 that was put out that Cushing always said was much better, was not the 1270 01:34:33.840 --> 01:34:36.359 version that was kept. It was not the version that was recorded. It 1271 01:34:36.359 --> 01:34:41.399 was a repeat performance. But we're lucky that we have it all together because 1272 01:34:41.720 --> 01:34:44.920 most of the TV stuff that was put out at that time, basically the 1273 01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:48.479 BBC would just take them over. Takes were expensive, it wasn't practical to 1274 01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:54.239 keep everything that was being broadcast, So there's huge chunks of television history that 1275 01:34:54.279 --> 01:34:59.119 were just taped over because nobody thought it was important. So unfortunately, a 1276 01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:00.560 lot of that stuff is gone on, including a lot of interesting stuff that 1277 01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:05.640 Cushing did even into the nineteen sixties. He didn't ask him off adaptation of 1278 01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:10.600 the Caves of Steel, for example, which doesn't exist anymore. Well, 1279 01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:14.079 I think there's like a clip that's floating around, which gives one hope that 1280 01:35:14.159 --> 01:35:18.359 maybe somewhere, maybe the full version exists. But he was getting a huge, 1281 01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:23.520 huge star in British television, and also he worked in big films but 1282 01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:28.000 in small parts. So he's in Mulin Rouge, for example, the John 1283 01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:32.399 Houston film I emphasize, not the one with Nicole Kidman and he played, 1284 01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:35.199 although that would have been that would have been fantastic to see Cushing in a 1285 01:35:35.239 --> 01:35:39.680 bond Lerman film. Well, not just Cushing, because Christopher Lee is also 1286 01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:44.399 in it. There there before they're even you know, connected in terms of 1287 01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:46.960 doing horror films together. They both appear in this movie by John Houston, 1288 01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:51.399 which is based on the real life story of Tulusla Trek, obviously made into 1289 01:35:51.399 --> 01:35:56.000 a very melodramatic kind of soap opera matter of respects, but a beautiful looking 1290 01:35:56.000 --> 01:35:59.439 movie. And he, you know, he's he's pretty much all over the 1291 01:35:59.479 --> 01:36:02.720 map doing all kinds of different films in the nineteen fifties. But then the 1292 01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:10.159 Curse of Frankenstein. He's offered the role of Baron Frankenstein in this new color 1293 01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:15.279 adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and in the process the movie becomes a huge 1294 01:36:15.359 --> 01:36:19.560 hit. It is enormously successful across the globe. It's the first kind of 1295 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:26.680 color gothic horror film of its vintage, you know, after a break in 1296 01:36:26.800 --> 01:36:30.119 gothic horror, which had kind of fallen out of fashion, got into the 1297 01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:32.840 Abin and Costello type parodies, and then it was the era of science fiction, 1298 01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.920 big bug monster movies, things like that, Godzilla, all that sort 1299 01:36:36.960 --> 01:36:40.960 of thing was de rage for a period of time, but Curse of Frankenstein 1300 01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:45.760 proved that audiences could still be interested in and indeed drawn to, gothic horror. 1301 01:36:46.640 --> 01:36:50.119 So kicked off a whole new revolution, which ultimately, you know, 1302 01:36:50.319 --> 01:36:55.640 kind of expanded into other countries including Italy, France, etc. But Curs 1303 01:36:55.720 --> 01:37:00.680 Frankenstein was the big one that kind of got the ball rolling in and doing 1304 01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:06.359 that film, Cushing became identified very strongly with horror films, and for a 1305 01:37:06.359 --> 01:37:10.960 period of time, I think it's true to say he kind of bucked against 1306 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:13.039 that a little bit. He was a little bit uncomfortable with that. He 1307 01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:16.000 didn't want to be typecast, but eventually settled into it and did a whole 1308 01:37:16.359 --> 01:37:23.199 slew of horror films throughout the sixties, seventies into the early eighties, you 1309 01:37:23.239 --> 01:37:25.960 know, So, I mean there's a lot to cover. I mean in 1310 01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:29.680 terms of, you know, which films are most interesting. I don't know 1311 01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:32.720 if you have any particular areas that you're more keen in talking about than others. 1312 01:37:32.760 --> 01:37:38.800 But that's kind of that's kind of the very generic initial overview of who 1313 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:44.600 Cushing was. Let's not forget too also stage actor. He had worked with 1314 01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:46.600 Lawrence Olivier. He's in Lawrence Olivier's film of Hamlet, played the role of 1315 01:37:46.600 --> 01:37:51.159 Ostrich, which was played by Robin Williams in the Kenneth browna version many many 1316 01:37:51.239 --> 01:37:56.680 years later, Christopher Lee also in that film. Funnily enough, in an 1317 01:37:56.720 --> 01:38:01.479 unbuilt kind of stolen cameo appearance, he claimed that he sort of snuck onto 1318 01:38:01.479 --> 01:38:09.439 the set and downed some armor and played a character very much in the background, 1319 01:38:09.520 --> 01:38:13.600 so nobody even knew that he was there, including Olivia apparently. But 1320 01:38:13.960 --> 01:38:16.640 that was their first kind of film together, even though they didn't meet at 1321 01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:20.920 that time. But it's funny how often their careers kind of intersected and how 1322 01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:25.520 many times they ended up working together because they played off each other very very 1323 01:38:25.560 --> 01:38:31.479 well. My big Cushing is one that we could probably talk for links about 1324 01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:34.600 is the Christ of Frankenstein. It's already been talked about quite a bit, 1325 01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:39.920 but I love a lot of the Hammer titles, and that one obviously sticks 1326 01:38:39.920 --> 01:38:46.239 out as a really really important title, considering he was born in I think 1327 01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:50.720 nineteen thirteen or fourteen, somewhere around there, and then thirteen and then he 1328 01:38:51.119 --> 01:38:56.880 passed in what ninety five, ninety four? He died ninety four, which 1329 01:38:56.920 --> 01:39:00.279 I'll never forget for a couple of reasons. One is back in nineteen eighty 1330 01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:06.079 six on Turner what used to be called WTBS. It's not just called TBS. 1331 01:39:08.640 --> 01:39:12.840 They used to have a program on I don't know Saturday mornings or Sunday 1332 01:39:12.840 --> 01:39:17.479 mornings, probably Saturday mornings where a local kind of film critic named Bill Tush 1333 01:39:18.079 --> 01:39:25.039 hosted movies and they ran Frankenstein must be destroyed. And when the film was 1334 01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:28.800 over, you know, Bill Tush came back and said, you know that 1335 01:39:28.840 --> 01:39:32.159 this screening was dedicated to Peter Cushing, who had passed away earlier that year. 1336 01:39:32.520 --> 01:39:35.239 I was nine years old, and Peter Cushing was already one of my 1337 01:39:35.439 --> 01:39:39.319 favorites and one of my sort of childhood heroes, and I was very sad 1338 01:39:39.359 --> 01:39:43.039 to hear this. It was terrible, and only to realize then a couple 1339 01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:45.199 of years later, he's still alive. I had no idea so he was 1340 01:39:45.239 --> 01:39:50.359 back from the dead, only then to discover in nineteen ninety four in August, 1341 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:57.000 I remember being it was a nice sunny day and I was getting ready 1342 01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:59.600 to go out with a friend and my dad called me into the living room 1343 01:39:59.640 --> 01:40:01.199 said hey, hey, Troy, come out and look. And as soon 1344 01:40:01.199 --> 01:40:04.600 as I came out, I knew it was bad because on the Channel four 1345 01:40:04.640 --> 01:40:08.840 news there was a clip of the end of the original Hammer Dracula, and 1346 01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:11.119 I thought, oh boy, one of them is dead. And it was 1347 01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:15.960 Peter Cushing that passed away finally, so I had to mourn him twice, 1348 01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:19.960 so to speak. That seems apt for somebody like Cushing, who had a 1349 01:40:20.039 --> 01:40:26.720 few comebacks and lots of different eras of his life dedicated to two different types 1350 01:40:26.760 --> 01:40:30.239 of films. Do you remember the first Cushing film that you got to see? 1351 01:40:30.239 --> 01:40:32.840 Fright? You were going to ask me that, you know, I 1352 01:40:32.880 --> 01:40:36.439 hear people sometimes talking about you know, I remember seeing this movie when I 1353 01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:39.720 was two years old or three years old, and I think I full of 1354 01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:44.680 shit. Nobody remembers that far back. I can go back at least in 1355 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:46.720 nineteen eighty two when I was five years old, and I can remember being 1356 01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:51.000 excited to see certain films at that time. I can't swear to anything before 1357 01:40:51.039 --> 01:40:55.800 that. They're all kind of muddled together, and honest to God, I 1358 01:40:56.399 --> 01:40:59.960 can tell you that from the time I was just a very small child, 1359 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.880 I have very vivid memories of being fan of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, 1360 01:41:03.960 --> 01:41:10.359 Boris Karlov Ba Lego, see Basil Rathbone. I don't have a particular one 1361 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:14.159 that I can say this was the one. I don't remember that I would 1362 01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:16.720 say it might have been maybe The Mummy. It might have been Dracula eighteen, 1363 01:41:16.800 --> 01:41:19.760 nineteen seventy two, it could have been Franken Sein must be destroyed. 1364 01:41:19.800 --> 01:41:23.840 I'm not entirely sure. I know I saw those ones when I was very 1365 01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:28.399 very young. Is there is there a film that you know, maybe not 1366 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:30.720 one that he necessarily said was his best, but that you look at and 1367 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:39.439 say, this is like the perfect Cushing performance. I think his finest film 1368 01:41:39.479 --> 01:41:43.159 work, Obviously, I can't assess his theater work. For obvious reasons, 1369 01:41:43.199 --> 01:41:45.359 and television is a different thing, and there's a lot of work there that's 1370 01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:48.840 gone we can't see. But I think his best film work was franken Stein 1371 01:41:48.960 --> 01:41:55.279 Must be Destroyed, largely because it takes to Cushing persona and subverts it in 1372 01:41:55.279 --> 01:41:59.439 such an interesting way, kind of similar to what Vincent Price does in witch 1373 01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:04.079 Finder Jenny, where you take this image of the perfect Victorian gentleman with impeccable 1374 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:10.199 manners, very much a dandy, never hair out of place, immaculately dressed, 1375 01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:13.199 and everything else, and it just turns him into a thorough going bastard. 1376 01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:16.199 Now he is terrible, not terrible and his acting, but terrible as 1377 01:42:16.199 --> 01:42:19.560 a character in the Curse of Frankenstein as well. And it's funny because a 1378 01:42:19.600 --> 01:42:23.560 lot of people, because they love Pushing so much, they tend to act 1379 01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:27.239 as if, you know, he was always such a lovable character on screen, 1380 01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:30.880 actually played quite a few villains, and Cushing himself. I don't know 1381 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:33.640 if he always said this or if it was in later years when he kind 1382 01:42:33.640 --> 01:42:36.800 of became very sort of spiritual and very religious. He always tried to act 1383 01:42:36.800 --> 01:42:42.520 as if Baron Frankenstein was this kind of progressive, you know, kind of 1384 01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:45.199 a medical pioneer, and he was in it for the good of humanity. 1385 01:42:45.239 --> 01:42:48.159 It really wasn't. I mean for the most part, and a couple of 1386 01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:53.159 the Frankenstein films try to regard these films as a continuity as impossible. They 1387 01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:57.119 don't link together for the most part. There are some that do, but 1388 01:42:57.159 --> 01:43:00.159 if you try and look at them all as a continuous it doesn't work at 1389 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:02.079 all. So there are a couple where he's more heroic than others, but 1390 01:43:02.199 --> 01:43:05.640 another ones he's really nasty. He was nasty, and Curse of Frankenson he's 1391 01:43:05.800 --> 01:43:14.079 even nastier and Frankenstein must be destroyed. He is remarkably unpleasant in that movie. 1392 01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:17.520 But he has so many brilliant scenes in that especially there's a great scene 1393 01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:23.680 where he's he's in sort of disguise, he's changed his name, and he's 1394 01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:27.399 on the run from the authorities, and he overhears some stuffed shirts that are 1395 01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:30.680 staying in the same place that he's staying at the same boarding house talking about 1396 01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:33.479 him, not realizing he's in the room, and then he just proceeds to 1397 01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:39.279 eviscerate them verbally without even raising his voice. It's an amazing scene, very 1398 01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:44.000 very funny but also just you know, again an indicator of what an absolutely 1399 01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:48.880 brilliant actor he was. It's been you know, we've been talking about this 1400 01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:53.439 for almost fifteen minutes and nobody's said the word Star Wars yet, which is 1401 01:43:53.560 --> 01:43:58.079 a good thing. But it's obviously that's probably the film that he's been in 1402 01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:01.840 that's been seen by the most people, most likely other than Star Wars. 1403 01:44:01.840 --> 01:44:05.239 What do you think he made the biggest impact with? What do you think 1404 01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:11.640 is his output that the most people you know had something personal attached to it. 1405 01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:15.039 I mean, Star Wars is obviously the big one, which, funnily 1406 01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:18.079 enough, did nothing for his career. I think there are reasons for that, 1407 01:44:18.119 --> 01:44:20.479 but I mean, if you look at his filmography after that didn't do 1408 01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:26.319 anything for him. Yeah, honestly, which is kind of surprising in some 1409 01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:30.960 respects Cursa Frankensin. In terms of his film work, undoubtedly was the big 1410 01:44:30.000 --> 01:44:34.000 one, no question about that. And in terms of his just his reputation 1411 01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:40.239 in Great Britain as a number one TV draw Like seriously, people would leave 1412 01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:43.399 the pubs and go home early to watch TV. If they heard Peter Cushing 1413 01:44:43.560 --> 01:44:47.119 was in a play, we'd be nineteen eighty four, which was was a 1414 01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:53.119 very very big deal at that time. And one of the other things that 1415 01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:56.359 he was known for is he had a lot of great co stars. Obviously 1416 01:44:56.439 --> 01:44:59.560 we talked about with Christopher Lee and some other big names that he played with 1417 01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:03.439 multip times. Yeah, which which do you think was maybe his best pairing? 1418 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:05.800 Was it Christopher Lee or is there somebody else that you love to see 1419 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:09.920 him with? Oh? Lee, without a doubt. I mean he he 1420 01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:15.199 worked with Incent Price a couple of times, but no, no, Christopher 1421 01:45:15.239 --> 01:45:18.720 Lee was the perfect They just complimented each other beautifully because they're very different actors. 1422 01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:24.159 Pushing was very fussy, h He had a lot of mannerisms that you 1423 01:45:24.159 --> 01:45:27.720 know, you could always count on. You know, it's the finger and 1424 01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:30.560 slicking back his hair in moments of stress, rubbing his he did these. 1425 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:34.359 He was a very busy actor. Christopher Lee was very still, very minimalist. 1426 01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:38.880 Christopher Lee was a pure film actor, which I think means that his 1427 01:45:38.920 --> 01:45:43.319 performances in general tend to be more naturalistic, whereas Cushing was was a theater 1428 01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:46.000 actor, so sometimes he needed to be rained in a little bit. He 1429 01:45:46.039 --> 01:45:51.800 could be slightly theatrical, but they just you know, He was very jittery, 1430 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:57.039 very nervous, always constantly moving around, notorious for always fiddling with props, 1431 01:45:57.079 --> 01:46:00.600 you know, always bringing props into scenes, whereas Lee was very still. 1432 01:46:00.000 --> 01:46:03.199 But whenever he would leap into action, it had that much more impact 1433 01:46:03.239 --> 01:46:08.680 because he was kind of conserving it. So they work beautifully together. They 1434 01:46:08.720 --> 01:46:11.399 go along very well too. They were friends. They weren't you know, 1435 01:46:11.479 --> 01:46:14.199 they weren't best friends in the way that some people make it out to be, 1436 01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:15.359 like, oh they oh, they used to. They didn't go to 1437 01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:20.279 barbecues together, they didn't hang out in each other's you know, basements and 1438 01:46:20.279 --> 01:46:24.720 and and shoot the breeze. But they were friends. They had mutual respect 1439 01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:28.199 for each other, and certainly work together on a number of films. I 1440 01:46:28.199 --> 01:46:30.800 mean, you know, again going all the way back to a you know, 1441 01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:35.079 accidental pairings in things like Hamlet, Mulan Rouge, through all these films 1442 01:46:35.079 --> 01:46:40.920 that went through the well, really into the well technically, even the nineties, 1443 01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:45.680 because they The last thing that Cushing did was co recording a narration for 1444 01:46:46.199 --> 01:46:49.840 Flesh and Blood documentary about Hammer, which he and Christopher Lee narrated. It 1445 01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:53.520 was the last thing Cushing did. He was literally dying when he did that 1446 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:57.600 in a very very bad shape. So you know, but in terms of 1447 01:46:57.640 --> 01:47:00.840 films, all the films at Hammer, all the stuff an things like The 1448 01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:05.119 House and Drip Blood, you know, oddball films like Scream and Scream Again, 1449 01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:10.319 which I'm very fond of, and you know, their their last kind 1450 01:47:10.319 --> 01:47:15.439 of big screen kind of jaunt. Also bringing in Vincent Price and John Carroty 1451 01:47:15.640 --> 01:47:19.079 House of Long Shadows. That was a House of Long Shadows. And one 1452 01:47:19.079 --> 01:47:20.680 more that I was going to bring up, what do you think of Horror 1453 01:47:20.680 --> 01:47:26.760 Express That's my favorite of the of their pairings. I don't think it's a 1454 01:47:26.760 --> 01:47:30.479 better film or even as good a film as like the original Dracula or The 1455 01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:34.960 Mummy, for example, but in terms of it's the best example of them 1456 01:47:34.960 --> 01:47:38.960 playing off each other. It's the only film that really gives them an opportunity 1457 01:47:39.000 --> 01:47:41.760 to hold way through, to really play off each other. Yes, it's 1458 01:47:41.840 --> 01:47:44.720 so much fun. They're on the same side, but they're kind of antagonistic 1459 01:47:44.720 --> 01:47:48.319 towards each other at first. It's again taking christ really's image is being sort 1460 01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:51.680 of slightly stuffy and pompous and humorless and everything, and turning it on his 1461 01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:56.680 head so that he's very sort of frigid and unapproachable and unsympathetic at first, 1462 01:47:56.680 --> 01:47:59.319 but then he becomes a full fledged like action hero at the end. He's 1463 01:47:59.359 --> 01:48:02.119 fantastic in that film, and Cushing is just so much fun with his impish 1464 01:48:02.119 --> 01:48:06.119 sense of humor and so forth. It's it's just it's tremendously entertaining. I 1465 01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:10.439 could watch that movie. I could watch that movie every year for the rest 1466 01:48:10.479 --> 01:48:14.439 of my life. I'm so glad you agree. This is one that I 1467 01:48:14.439 --> 01:48:16.680 wouldn't say it's like an exploited title on home video, but it's one. 1468 01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:31.199 Sh it's the photo about to die? What happened? Anyways, I'll continue 1469 01:48:31.199 --> 01:48:36.520 on in Horror Express while we try to find Troy again. I don't know 1470 01:48:36.560 --> 01:48:42.760 what just happened. Horror Express is one that's not been like exploited on home 1471 01:48:42.840 --> 01:48:45.640 video, but it has lots of releases, so I feel like a lot 1472 01:48:45.640 --> 01:48:49.039 of people have had a chance to be able to watch those. If you've 1473 01:48:49.079 --> 01:48:54.319 not seen Horror Express, you can get it. I believe Arrow even had 1474 01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:58.199 a release quite a few years ago, and then there was Scorpion or somebody 1475 01:48:58.199 --> 01:49:00.319 else to put it out in the US. It has it's definitely been out 1476 01:49:00.319 --> 01:49:04.119 there The big thing that Troy and I are going to talk about in just 1477 01:49:04.159 --> 01:49:10.760 a moment when we get Troy back is the recent Severn release of Cushing Curiosities. 1478 01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:15.279 This is a six disc box set that is now shipping. This one 1479 01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:20.000 just started coming out fairly recently. I think people have been getting the scene 1480 01:49:20.079 --> 01:49:24.000 for like a month now. I think this was shipping right after the Black 1481 01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:28.399 Friday sale. And there is a lot of this. There are five feature 1482 01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.840 films, six of the BBC teleplays that Troy is just talking about, a 1483 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:39.279 two hundred page book, and sixteen plus hours of special features. There are 1484 01:49:39.359 --> 01:49:45.199 commentaries on almost everything. There is a lot of love in this with it. 1485 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:49.399 Doesn't it look like Emmanuel is taking a photo Ryan Jeez, A lot 1486 01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:56.960 of love in this with Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby. That's the other name 1487 01:49:57.000 --> 01:50:00.840 I was looking for. And we also have the the Sherlock Holmes release in 1488 01:50:00.920 --> 01:50:04.159 This is supposed to be great. I don't have this one in yet, 1489 01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:11.319 but I'm eager to get it. There's Troy again. Hello. I apologize. 1490 01:50:11.359 --> 01:50:14.359 I was using my phone and I did not realize we were going to 1491 01:50:14.439 --> 01:50:18.760 have such a long pregame and my phone ended up dying on me, So 1492 01:50:19.159 --> 01:50:24.520 you're okay. It was really funny timing because I heard shit and then it 1493 01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:29.039 was like falling from your face and then it died. I know it was 1494 01:50:29.159 --> 01:50:33.239 coming, I just I had no way to prevent it from happening. Well, 1495 01:50:33.279 --> 01:50:36.760 Cushing curiosities in this, I just started talking about it to waste a 1496 01:50:36.760 --> 01:50:41.039 little time before you come back. In this, we've got ConA Silence from 1497 01:50:41.079 --> 01:50:45.000 nineteen sixty. We've got Suspect from nineteen sixty and The Man Who Finally Died 1498 01:50:45.039 --> 01:50:50.119 from sixty two. Three and four are Sherlock Holmes discs, and then five 1499 01:50:50.199 --> 01:50:56.520 is Bloodsuckers from nineteen seventy one, and then finally six is Tender Dracula from 1500 01:50:56.520 --> 01:51:00.479 seventy four. What can you tell us about any of these and anything else 1501 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:04.560 about the Box that that you want to rave about? Well, I think 1502 01:51:04.600 --> 01:51:09.840 the big thing I'd like to rave about is the book. You can't even 1503 01:51:09.840 --> 01:51:13.840 call it a booklet. I mean, that's an accurate book that Jonathan Rigby 1504 01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:15.920 put together, which is fantastic, and I would say it's the best thing 1505 01:51:15.920 --> 01:51:21.399 that's been written about Peter Cushing thus far. Most of the biographies that have 1506 01:51:21.560 --> 01:51:26.359 well all of the biographies have been written about him fall into this trap of 1507 01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:29.800 kind of trying to make him into Saint Peter. He was, by all 1508 01:51:29.800 --> 01:51:34.399 accounts, you know, a lovely guy and extremely extremely professional and everything. 1509 01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:38.399 But he had his quirks and he had his flaws, and there were things 1510 01:51:38.399 --> 01:51:42.239 that, you know, kind of go against the image of his sort of 1511 01:51:42.279 --> 01:51:47.239 squeaky clean image. And Jonathan Rigby kind of wrestles with the peculiarities of his 1512 01:51:47.319 --> 01:51:51.119 personality in this book. And it's a man who many respects was kind of 1513 01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:55.560 a Peter Pan in many respects. He was a little bit of a child 1514 01:51:56.439 --> 01:52:01.880 in some regards, and not exactly not exactly always as squeaky clean as some 1515 01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:04.640 people make him out to be. Not to take anything away from him, 1516 01:52:04.680 --> 01:52:08.880 it's just reality what he is, and kind of trying to analyze, you 1517 01:52:08.920 --> 01:52:11.359 know, why his career went the way that it did, and why he 1518 01:52:11.399 --> 01:52:15.319 didn't have more success in certain areas, and you know, and so forth 1519 01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:18.079 and so on. So it's a wonderful, wonderful addition. I mean, 1520 01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:23.119 it could be released on its own, you know, and be fantastic. 1521 01:52:23.560 --> 01:52:27.760 I'd love to see a proper biography written of him by somebody like either Jonathan 1522 01:52:27.840 --> 01:52:31.199 Rigby or somebody who's willing to take it on seriously and honestly like that. 1523 01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:34.960 So that'd be the first thing I'd say. The other thing is that all 1524 01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:39.600 these films, you know, they're not on the same tier, they're not 1525 01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:42.840 all the same quality, but I'm just so glad to see them all released. 1526 01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:47.079 ConA Silence is a really good movie with a very good cast. You 1527 01:52:47.159 --> 01:52:53.399 bought George Sanders, Andre Morel, Michael Craig, Charles Tingwell, Noel Willman, 1528 01:52:53.560 --> 01:52:56.359 lots of really familiar faces, Especially if you're into the Ammer films, 1529 01:52:56.640 --> 01:53:00.960 You're going to recognize a lot of these actors. And I would say he 1530 01:53:00.000 --> 01:53:06.640 explores cushing curiosities, and it's it's a really good Bernard Lee too, who 1531 01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:11.239 was em in the James Bond films for many years. It's a really good 1532 01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:15.119 sort of suspense drama, and Cushing plays a thoroughly unpleasant character in it, 1533 01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:19.960 so another example of him not always being the nice guy on screen. Suspect 1534 01:53:20.079 --> 01:53:24.399 is a great movie. It's a it's a little B movie, a little 1535 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:28.720 little sort of cheap thing that the Bolting brothers threw together, you know, 1536 01:53:28.880 --> 01:53:32.680 to sort of demonstrate the ability to make a low budget programmer with high quality. 1537 01:53:32.720 --> 01:53:35.840 So you've got Peter Cushing, Donald pleasants, Ian Bannon who steals the 1538 01:53:35.880 --> 01:53:41.439 show, and lots of really good actors in that film, and a really 1539 01:53:41.479 --> 01:53:45.000 gripping narrative, even as the British comedian Spike Milligan in it as well. 1540 01:53:46.319 --> 01:53:50.119 He has some amusing bits in that film. And Thoroley Walters, who's a 1541 01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:53.760 familiar face from a lot of Hammer films. He's in it too, So 1542 01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:57.319 that one I recommend very highly. The Man Who Finally Died is not as 1543 01:53:57.319 --> 01:53:59.520 good. It's a little bit. I think it's a little dry. It's 1544 01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:02.199 a little but it does have some good things and it's again a great cast 1545 01:54:02.800 --> 01:54:08.600 headed by Stanley Baker, who was a big star. He's a Welsh actor. 1546 01:54:08.600 --> 01:54:12.279 He's a big star back in the sixties. He's somewhat forgotten now, 1547 01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:15.159 I think, largely because he died rather young. But you know, people 1548 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:20.359 were into genre films might remember him for playing the sarcastic police inspector in Luccio 1549 01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:26.159 Fulci's Lizard of Woman's Skin, amongst other things. But I mean obviously big 1550 01:54:26.199 --> 01:54:30.760 films like Zulu and Guns and Avaron and so forth. So film isn't quite 1551 01:54:30.840 --> 01:54:34.840 the sum of its parts, but it's worth looking at. The Sherlock Holmes 1552 01:54:34.880 --> 01:54:40.359 series is interesting because it's these are the surviving episodes, as well as excerpts 1553 01:54:40.399 --> 01:54:45.760 of some shows that haven't survived, but there are clips of them available famously. 1554 01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:47.880 Cushing, well, we should say, first of all, he played 1555 01:54:47.960 --> 01:54:51.560 Charlock Holmes in nineteen fifty eight for Hammer in a version of Hound of the 1556 01:54:51.560 --> 01:54:57.479 Baskervilles. It has often been said that the film is a commercial failure and 1557 01:54:57.560 --> 01:55:00.920 that this killed a series of Charlock Holmes film that Hammer was going to make. 1558 01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:02.560 That neither of these things are true. First of all, the film 1559 01:55:02.640 --> 01:55:06.600 was successful. It wasn't as successful as Curs of Frankenstein or Dracula or Avenge 1560 01:55:06.600 --> 01:55:12.199 of Frankenstein, but it made money. But they never intended to make a 1561 01:55:12.279 --> 01:55:15.960 series of Charlock Holmes films. That wasn't their part of their agenda. They 1562 01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:19.439 just thought, out of the Baskerville's Gothic this fits into what we're doing at 1563 01:55:19.439 --> 01:55:21.960 this time, will do one. I'm sure if it had been a bigger 1564 01:55:23.039 --> 01:55:25.479 hit, they might have looked into doing more, but it wasn't really up 1565 01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:29.159 to them because they didn't control the rights of the stories at that time, 1566 01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:31.800 and the estate was not happy with the film, apparently because they thought it 1567 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:35.880 was too violent. So I think that was going to happen regardless anyway. 1568 01:55:35.920 --> 01:55:41.159 A decade later, he takes over from an actor named Douglas Wilmer, who 1569 01:55:41.239 --> 01:55:48.399 has been playing Charlock Holmes on TV back in nineteen sixty five. He had 1570 01:55:48.399 --> 01:55:54.640 a miserable experience making the series, and Cushing similarly had a miserable experience because 1571 01:55:54.960 --> 01:55:59.840 he'd been promised all kinds of rehearsal time and opportunities to do things properly, 1572 01:55:59.880 --> 01:56:02.079 and the whole thing was just chaos. It was a very you know, 1573 01:56:03.119 --> 01:56:08.319 ill prepared and Cushing always said, you know, I don't see myself doing 1574 01:56:08.319 --> 01:56:11.159 my best work in this series. I see an actor who's just desperately trying 1575 01:56:11.199 --> 01:56:14.159 to spit his lines out without screwing up. As a matter of fact, 1576 01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:17.640 he does flob a few which tells you something. He's an immaculate actor. 1577 01:56:17.680 --> 01:56:21.279 But given the way that the way that the series was put together, it's 1578 01:56:21.279 --> 01:56:28.279 not surprising that it's a little rough around the edges. If this were Cushings 1579 01:56:28.359 --> 01:56:31.439 only kind of go at Charlotte Holmes, I wouldn't say that he would rank 1580 01:56:31.520 --> 01:56:34.720 his one of my favorites in the character. He's fine in the series, 1581 01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:38.680 but it's not his best work. His work in The hellnd of the Basket 1582 01:56:38.720 --> 01:56:41.359 Rolls for Hammer, on the other hand, is fantastic. It really kind 1583 01:56:41.399 --> 01:56:45.159 of paves the way for what Jeremy Brett did later on in the eighties and 1584 01:56:45.239 --> 01:56:49.960 nineties with his portrayal of homes, which is fairly definitive. So these are 1585 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:54.600 interesting curiosities. They're a little rough around the edges, but you know they're 1586 01:56:54.640 --> 01:56:58.960 well worth taking a look at. Speaking rough around the edges. Bloodsuckers, 1587 01:56:59.119 --> 01:57:02.800 Yeah, Tim in an orgy sequence, and Cushing's not in the orgy sequence. 1588 01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:08.399 I hate. The most shocking thing you're ever going to see Cushing do 1589 01:57:08.560 --> 01:57:12.399 on film isn't a movie he did from sixty Well, he's shot in sixty 1590 01:57:12.399 --> 01:57:16.039 seven. It came out sixty I Corruption, where there's a Continental version which 1591 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:20.319 is on the Blu Ray versions, where he wrestles around with a naked prostitute 1592 01:57:20.359 --> 01:57:27.960 and spreads stage blood over her exposed breasts. You know, many Cushing fans 1593 01:57:28.000 --> 01:57:33.079 needed their fainting couches for that one. Gentlemen are doing such a thing. 1594 01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:40.039 Bloodsuckers is a really weird film. It's a mess. It's not surprising it's 1595 01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:45.439 a mess because it really wasn't finished. It was a troubled production. There 1596 01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:47.119 are a lot of stories about a lot of things have been said that the 1597 01:57:48.760 --> 01:57:53.239 you know that the money ran out, and other people have denied that this 1598 01:57:53.319 --> 01:57:57.319 is true. But ultimately what we've got is a movie that is in sorely 1599 01:57:58.119 --> 01:58:01.439 unfinished conditions. So the whole first the movies very choppy, makes it very 1600 01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:04.680 difficult to get into. It's an absolute mess upfront, but if you stick 1601 01:58:04.720 --> 01:58:08.720 with it, it gets better as it goes on. It's got some interesting 1602 01:58:08.760 --> 01:58:12.560 stuff and Cushing doesn't have a lot to do, but he's got a great 1603 01:58:12.560 --> 01:58:16.880 scene at the end which is definitely well worth seeing. And it's got a 1604 01:58:16.920 --> 01:58:21.640 great cameo by Edward Woodward, who is fantastic as a sort of expert on 1605 01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:28.479 vampirism. He's got some very funny lines and it's almost worth watching just for 1606 01:58:28.560 --> 01:58:30.960 him. It's an interesting film. It's never looked as good before. I 1607 01:58:30.960 --> 01:58:35.479 can tell you. The release that Severn put together for this is pretty extraordinary, 1608 01:58:35.680 --> 01:58:40.279 and it's got a great commentary by Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lynes, who 1609 01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:45.520 again, I aspire to that level of quality of what they do and what 1610 01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:48.640 they bring to these releases. So it's a great example of taking a movie 1611 01:58:48.680 --> 01:58:55.319 that has suffered a lot in terms of being badly regarded down through the years 1612 01:58:55.760 --> 01:58:59.560 and being put together now in an addition that at least makes it possible to 1613 01:58:59.600 --> 01:59:03.159 appreciate it and see what it was trying to do. I love that as 1614 01:59:03.199 --> 01:59:09.439 they introduce this they say it could be revaluated as the longest version ever assembled. 1615 01:59:09.479 --> 01:59:12.560 Obviously they skret around, is it complete? No, because it never 1616 01:59:12.760 --> 01:59:15.840 was, not really No, but it is the longest version because that orgy 1617 01:59:15.880 --> 01:59:19.920 scene I mentioned was cut, which, let's be honest, was for the 1618 01:59:19.960 --> 01:59:24.680 best. But you know it's there now and it does make it, I 1619 01:59:24.720 --> 01:59:29.399 believe, the only Peter Cushing film with full frontal nudity again with the coushing 1620 01:59:29.439 --> 01:59:33.479 finger, not from the man himself though. Tender Dracula. Yeah, that's 1621 01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:39.720 an oddball film too, which I appreciate more now actually having seen this beautiful 1622 01:59:39.760 --> 01:59:45.279 blu ray presentation. It's a movie that's it's a little misleading. There's a 1623 01:59:45.319 --> 01:59:48.279 question as to whether you know, is he actually even a vampire in the 1624 01:59:48.279 --> 01:59:53.800 film. It's unclear. We can interpret it as he's a real vampire, 1625 01:59:53.960 --> 01:59:57.800 or he may not be just crackpot horror film star who identifies too closely with 1626 01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:02.600 his role the film. Film has some interesting kind of meta kind of flourishes 1627 02:00:02.680 --> 02:00:08.359 which almost in a way kind of makes it comparable for him to say like 1628 02:00:08.479 --> 02:00:11.880 Theater of Blood for Vincent Price, where it's almost a little bit of celebration 1629 02:00:12.000 --> 02:00:15.800 of Cushing the actor in terms of, you know, we see the character 1630 02:00:15.920 --> 02:00:18.079 McGregor who he plays as a horror film star, and he's got scrap books 1631 02:00:18.880 --> 02:00:24.039 with photos. We can see pictures of Cushing at various different stages in his 1632 02:00:24.079 --> 02:00:29.039 career and so forth. He has some lovely scenes in the film with the 1633 02:00:29.119 --> 02:00:32.680 lead of Valley, wonderful Italian actress who had been in The Third Man but 1634 02:00:32.720 --> 02:00:36.960 also in things like Lisa and the Devil and Suspiria, and their scenes are 1635 02:00:38.000 --> 02:00:40.920 really really good. But there's also a lot of other sort of French farce 1636 02:00:41.000 --> 02:00:45.760 material with other actors which isn't nearly as interesting or engaging. But if you 1637 02:00:45.920 --> 02:00:48.720 watch the film, this is one of those ones where you kind of want 1638 02:00:48.720 --> 02:00:53.279 to toggle back and forth the Cushing Valley scenes watch them in English because it's 1639 02:00:53.279 --> 02:00:57.680 got their voices. But the other scenes with the French actors, you're probably 1640 02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:00.560 better off watching those scenes in French. There's still not for funny, but 1641 02:01:00.560 --> 02:01:04.800 at least they're better than the English language dubs on those actors. Interesting. 1642 02:01:05.039 --> 02:01:10.600 And again Troy just brought up Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons, but they are 1643 02:01:11.159 --> 02:01:15.239 literally all over the set. Jonathan Rigby especially is one that I always like 1644 02:01:15.359 --> 02:01:18.880 listening to, not to take away from Kevin Lyons, just something about Jonathan 1645 02:01:18.960 --> 02:01:25.760 Rigby is just magnetic and just so educational. I'm dying to see stuff from 1646 02:01:25.760 --> 02:01:30.039 the set. I definitely need to pick it up eventually. Yeah, it's 1647 02:01:30.039 --> 02:01:33.479 well worth buying. It's worth it. I mean again, why did they 1648 02:01:33.520 --> 02:01:36.680 haven't marked down to ninety five dollars. That's a good good deal for what 1649 02:01:36.680 --> 02:01:40.399 you're getting with all those films and plus that book. I mean, it's 1650 02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:45.720 it's really beautifully put together, so it has my highest recommendation. The crazy 1651 02:01:45.760 --> 02:01:49.279 thing is, I think the release from Amazon comes with the book as well, 1652 02:01:49.479 --> 02:01:53.520 and the link for that's in the description below. It's even cheaper on 1653 02:01:53.560 --> 02:01:57.840 Amazon. It's like seventy two right now. It's a that's a damn good 1654 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:00.000 deal, so I would check that out. Link is in the description. 1655 02:02:01.680 --> 02:02:08.000 Kuching has done so much over the years too, like what if questions for 1656 02:02:08.039 --> 02:02:11.479 you? We talked about who is your favorite that he was with? Who 1657 02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:14.079 did he never start with that you would have loved to have seen him do 1658 02:02:14.159 --> 02:02:20.199 something with from around that time, Surprisingly, never cross paths professionally, and 1659 02:02:20.319 --> 02:02:24.760 I don't even know if personally with Boris Karloff. I would have liked to 1660 02:02:24.840 --> 02:02:29.319 have seen that Basil Rathbone very nearly happened, which would have been wonderful. 1661 02:02:29.319 --> 02:02:32.079 We would have had two of the very best Sherlock Holmes's, well, the 1662 02:02:32.159 --> 02:02:36.199 two best Sharlock holmes is of the big screen up until that time. They 1663 02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:41.239 were supposed to be in a movie together called The Blood Beast Terror, which 1664 02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:45.399 is the infamous killer moth movie Giant killer moth movie, which is better than 1665 02:02:45.439 --> 02:02:48.239 you might think based on that description, or maybe not as good either, 1666 02:02:48.279 --> 02:02:53.279 depending on your point of view. As a Rathbone was supposed to have played 1667 02:02:53.319 --> 02:02:57.239 the mad scientist in that film, but unfortunately he passed away. He had 1668 02:02:57.279 --> 02:03:00.720 just come back from doing a film, a very strange film in Mexico with 1669 02:03:00.760 --> 02:03:05.720 Cameron Mitchell and John Carodine called autopsy for a ghost. Apparently the altitude in 1670 02:03:05.760 --> 02:03:10.479 Mexico didn't agree with him, and he died of a heart attack quite suddenly. 1671 02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:12.760 I think he was seventy five, which is not you know, it's 1672 02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:16.000 not that old. So he was he was gearing up to do this movie 1673 02:03:16.039 --> 02:03:19.239 in England with Peter Cushing, and that would have been a joy to have 1674 02:03:19.319 --> 02:03:23.199 seen that. So either one of those guys, I would have loved to 1675 02:03:23.199 --> 02:03:27.920 have seen him sharing a screen with them other than characters. Is there a 1676 02:03:28.000 --> 02:03:30.079 role that he didn't ever get to play, or a type of role that 1677 02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:33.039 he never played that you you feel like he would have been really great at 1678 02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:39.840 I would have. I think he. I think it would have been interesting 1679 02:03:39.880 --> 02:03:43.680 to have seen him in the James Bond universe in some capacity. I think 1680 02:03:43.720 --> 02:03:47.039 he could have played a villain very effectively. If we look at the films, 1681 02:03:47.359 --> 02:03:50.119 what villain would he have been good for the only one that I can 1682 02:03:50.239 --> 02:03:55.800 think of that you know certainly he could have done and was you know, 1683 02:03:55.880 --> 02:03:58.840 took place during his time when he was still active and so forth. He 1684 02:03:58.920 --> 02:04:02.479 would have been good. As Stromberg in the Spy Who Loved Me. I 1685 02:04:02.520 --> 02:04:05.640 think he would have been good for that, not to take anything away from 1686 02:04:05.680 --> 02:04:10.920 Kurt Jurgen's he was great, but I think Cushing would have been or alternatively, 1687 02:04:11.880 --> 02:04:14.640 after Bernard Lee stepped down his m he would have been a good m 1688 02:04:14.800 --> 02:04:19.079 as well. So I think in something like that that would have been interesting. 1689 02:04:19.119 --> 02:04:24.000 I would have liked to have seen him doing something like that. It's 1690 02:04:24.079 --> 02:04:29.640 pretty well known that he turned out well. His agent turned down Halloween. 1691 02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:33.640 He was offered the role of Doctor Loomis. I only just saw this recently. 1692 02:04:33.640 --> 02:04:36.079 Somebody was saying, oh, he turned it down. He couldn't do 1693 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:40.039 it because he was working on Star Wars. Star Wars was shot two years 1694 02:04:40.039 --> 02:04:45.359 before Halloween. He shot his scenes I believe in a week all the week 1695 02:04:45.560 --> 02:04:49.399 in May of nineteen seventy six. I believe Halloween was shot in the spring 1696 02:04:49.439 --> 02:04:51.840 of nineteen seventy eight, so I think he could have slotted it in, 1697 02:04:53.520 --> 02:04:57.399 but his agent thought that the film wasn't worthy of his time. I think 1698 02:04:57.439 --> 02:05:00.840 if Kushing would have gotten to offer directly, he probably we would have done 1699 02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:03.560 it, and he would have been good. I mean, you know, 1700 02:05:03.920 --> 02:05:06.399 I have no reason to doubt that he would have been good, but his 1701 02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:10.119 health would have only permitted him to have done the first film. In the 1702 02:05:10.159 --> 02:05:14.159 second film, he wouldn't have been available for the later ones. Christopher Lee 1703 02:05:14.199 --> 02:05:16.920 did turn it down because he really was trying to get away from that type 1704 02:05:16.960 --> 02:05:21.760 of film. He did apparently tell Debor Hill, the producer at a function 1705 02:05:21.880 --> 02:05:26.560 I think for Escape from New York, that it was a mistake, But 1706 02:05:26.640 --> 02:05:28.840 he may have just been saying that to be nice, because honestly, I 1707 02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:31.119 don't think he really wanted to get type cast again in horror films. And 1708 02:05:31.159 --> 02:05:34.640 that's exactly what happened to Donald Pleasant's after that. So the right guy got 1709 02:05:34.640 --> 02:05:41.159 the part, though. Yeah, Donald Pleasants certainly embraced it after that. 1710 02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:44.560 Well. I mean, you know, he was what the English call it 1711 02:05:44.640 --> 02:05:48.239 jobbing actor, as were Cushing in Lee. You know, if the opportunity 1712 02:05:48.279 --> 02:05:50.439 was there, if they could slot it into the schedule, they were happy 1713 02:05:50.439 --> 02:05:54.600 to do it. They just love to work and go places and work on 1714 02:05:54.680 --> 02:05:58.279 films. I mean, the thing about Cushing was how quintessentially English he was, 1715 02:05:58.359 --> 02:06:02.479 and that he was very much unlike Christopher Lee and indeed unlike Donald Pleasance. 1716 02:06:02.600 --> 02:06:06.680 He was, you know, reluctant to travel outside of England for years. 1717 02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:11.680 That changed after his wife died in nineteen seventy one, and you know, 1718 02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:15.600 he went into a complete sort of nervous breakdown, very publicly talked about 1719 02:06:15.760 --> 02:06:19.079 being suicidal and everything else, which didn't do his career any good. I 1720 02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:21.960 can assure you. I think that made a lot of people reluctant to hire 1721 02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:26.439 him. I think that connects into some of the issues he had later on 1722 02:06:26.560 --> 02:06:30.680 his career in terms of not you know, not getting bigger offers. I 1723 02:06:30.680 --> 02:06:34.159 mean, Jonathan Rigby's talked about this as well, and other people have as 1724 02:06:34.159 --> 02:06:39.880 well. I mean, this is pretty common knowledge that he he suffered terribly 1725 02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:42.520 after her death, and he kind of going into this real, kind of 1726 02:06:42.560 --> 02:06:45.920 deeply spiritual period and he was very religious and so forth, which he never 1727 02:06:45.960 --> 02:06:50.000 seemed to be prior to that, but during that period of time it seemed 1728 02:06:50.000 --> 02:06:55.159 as though because he wasn't he was just so desperately unhappy. He was willing 1729 02:06:55.199 --> 02:06:59.199 to go wherever. So he started doing films, and he did a horror 1730 02:06:59.239 --> 02:07:05.159 film in Florida called shock Waves, for example. He famously broke a tooth 1731 02:07:05.399 --> 02:07:10.720 on the flight on his way to do that film. Didn't want to do 1732 02:07:10.760 --> 02:07:13.199 anything about it until he got back to England, so he could see his 1733 02:07:13.239 --> 02:07:16.119 own dentist, and the only thing he was really concerned about was getting a 1734 02:07:16.119 --> 02:07:20.720 stack of buckwheats at the International House of Pancakes. So you know, he 1735 02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:23.800 was only too happy to go and do that. He did a film in 1736 02:07:23.800 --> 02:07:27.560 Greece with Donald Pleasants called Land of the Minotaur or the Devil's Men, was 1737 02:07:27.600 --> 02:07:30.319 a pretty terrible film, but he, you know, went to Germany in 1738 02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:33.439 all these different places. But before before his wife's death, he didn't really 1739 02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:38.359 do that too much. He tended to stick pretty close to home, and 1740 02:07:38.399 --> 02:07:42.800 so he made him the most I think quintessentially English of all the horror film 1741 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:47.680 stars, and English proper. Indeed, a lot of his mannerisms, it 1742 02:07:48.000 --> 02:07:54.399 feels very like somebody that would be called lord or something back then. You 1743 02:07:54.439 --> 02:07:58.600 mentioned his hair earlier, The way that he always caressed it just screamed English 1744 02:07:58.600 --> 02:08:01.560 to be oh yeah, well, I mean, and of course it's it's 1745 02:08:01.600 --> 02:08:03.960 true to say too. And you know, obviously I speak from experience. 1746 02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:09.560 He wore a wig or a hair piece in a great many films going back 1747 02:08:09.600 --> 02:08:13.319 to the nineteenth as. Indeed, to Christopher Lee, Lee never acknowledged that 1748 02:08:13.640 --> 02:08:16.800 he tried to keep that secret. I think, but Cushing, you know, 1749 02:08:16.840 --> 02:08:20.479 would sometimes appear in films without his hair piece. So sometimes you'll see 1750 02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:24.239 him in movies where he has you know, big bufont of hair you know, 1751 02:08:24.319 --> 02:08:26.399 going on, and it's it's just a hair piece, whereas you see 1752 02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:31.520 him in certain other films where he's he's you know, old natural so to 1753 02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:33.119 speak. So a house of long shadows for example, we mentioned before, 1754 02:08:33.800 --> 02:08:37.039 he's not you know, augmented with anything. There you can see where his 1755 02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:41.600 hairline was really at. So he was always, you know, he was 1756 02:08:41.640 --> 02:08:46.640 always doing that sort of gesture of smoothing down the hair and so forth, 1757 02:08:46.720 --> 02:08:50.159 maybe sometimes making sure that it was still there. And yeah, I mean 1758 02:08:50.199 --> 02:08:54.079 he again, he was a very he very mannered, very fussy in some 1759 02:08:54.119 --> 02:08:58.640 respects. There were times when that could get a little carried away. Maybe 1760 02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:01.359 he needed to be sort of rained in ever so slightly. But he was 1761 02:09:01.399 --> 02:09:11.399 a very very versatile actor and extremely extremely gifted actor who unfortunately, if you 1762 02:09:11.600 --> 02:09:15.600 look at his filmography, you know, from the beginning to the end. 1763 02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:18.720 I think one of the reasons he was only too happy to stick with horror 1764 02:09:18.760 --> 02:09:22.199 films after a certain point anyway, was he realized that they were giving him 1765 02:09:22.199 --> 02:09:26.560 better parts because most of the other films that he did outside of the horror 1766 02:09:26.600 --> 02:09:31.439 genre, and I'm talking about films and not talking theater or television. He 1767 02:09:31.479 --> 02:09:33.840 had great opportunities in both of those, although he didn't like doing theater very 1768 02:09:33.880 --> 02:09:39.560 much. He didn't like the repetitious aspect of it. But in terms of 1769 02:09:39.560 --> 02:09:41.920 films, he didn't get very good film roles other than his horror films for 1770 02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:46.680 the most part. Like he's in some good movies, you know, Time 1771 02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:50.119 Without Time Without Pity, Joseph Losey Noir that he's in, he doesn't have 1772 02:09:50.119 --> 02:09:54.880 a very good part in it, and a lot of other things as well, 1773 02:09:54.000 --> 02:09:58.039 you know, with the exception of some things like Cash on Demand, 1774 02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:01.359 Cone of Silence and Suspect that we mentioned before, those were really good parts. 1775 02:10:01.800 --> 02:10:05.560 But for the most part, his real opportunities to shine came in these 1776 02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:09.800 horror films, and you know, obviously made the very best of it and 1777 02:10:09.960 --> 02:10:15.279 delivered some really fantastic performances. I mean, again is Baron Frankenstein. But 1778 02:10:15.359 --> 02:10:18.720 also on the other side of the coin, doctor Van helsing in various Hammer 1779 02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:24.079 films as well, and sometimes even just really adding a lot to characters that 1780 02:10:24.119 --> 02:10:26.279 didn't have a lot on the page. I mean, if you look at 1781 02:10:26.560 --> 02:10:28.840 a movie like The Mummy, there's not really a lot for him on the 1782 02:10:28.880 --> 02:10:33.359 page, I don't think, but he really brings that character life and does 1783 02:10:33.359 --> 02:10:35.119 a lot with it, so you know again, or a film like The 1784 02:10:35.159 --> 02:10:39.439 Skull, which really rests heavily on his shoulders because so much of that movie 1785 02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:43.000 is just following him around. It's a very thin movie in terms of plot, 1786 02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:46.800 but the mood, the atmosphere is really fantastic, and Pushing does a 1787 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:52.920 beautiful job of carrying it. Are there We'll say, like two deep cuts 1788 02:10:54.079 --> 02:10:58.359 that maybe we've either mentioned or haven't mentioned at all, but something that you 1789 02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:01.439 know, most of us have probably never seen that you would say, these 1790 02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:05.000 are absolutely worth your time checking out. Even if you look at a couple 1791 02:11:05.039 --> 02:11:09.199 of his biggest titles, these are like the second wave of you absolutely should 1792 02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:13.279 follow up with a couple more. It's hard to say, I mean deep 1793 02:11:13.319 --> 02:11:18.960 cut. I don't know. You know, there's certainly films that aren't as 1794 02:11:18.119 --> 02:11:24.840 popular or performances I should say that don't get talked about as much. But 1795 02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:26.399 I wouldn't say that there are films that aren't very well known. I mean, 1796 02:11:26.439 --> 02:11:31.439 I think a really really interesting performance of his is an Asylum, which 1797 02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:35.840 is one of the Amicus anthologies he did. This was during this period and 1798 02:11:35.920 --> 02:11:39.640 Rigby talks about this in his book as well. This this period of really 1799 02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:46.920 intense, nakedly emotional performance he was giving after his wife died. Really sometimes 1800 02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:50.800 playing extremes of emotions, and in this character's case, he's playing a man 1801 02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:54.119 who's grieving, so he's bringing a lot of that grief that he's feeling in 1802 02:11:54.159 --> 02:11:58.439 his real life to the character. And it's a really oddly affecting performance. 1803 02:12:00.079 --> 02:12:03.279 In a segment that's not always spoken of terribly well, it's called the Weird 1804 02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:09.399 Tailor, where he commissions Barry Morse to make a suit out of this very 1805 02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:11.880 unusual fabric and it turns out that it's to be used to bring his dead 1806 02:12:11.920 --> 02:12:16.000 son back to life. Spoiler alert. But the movie is over fifty years 1807 02:12:16.039 --> 02:12:24.399 old, you know. It's a lovely performance from him in that in terms 1808 02:12:24.439 --> 02:12:28.399 of I mean, on a different end of the spectrum in terms of playing 1809 02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:31.479 again just a really nasty character. It's not that it's an unknown film. 1810 02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:35.199 I think it's fairly popular among people who like these films. But Twins of 1811 02:12:35.239 --> 02:12:45.520 Evil, where he plays a fanatical witch hunter who is extremely unsympathetic. And 1812 02:12:45.560 --> 02:12:48.800 again it's always funny to me, you know, again because people love pushing 1813 02:12:48.840 --> 02:12:52.319 so much, and for obvious reasons. I mean, there was a great 1814 02:12:52.520 --> 02:12:56.039 warmth to it, and a great warmth to him and a great humanity to 1815 02:12:56.119 --> 02:13:01.199 him. But you know, let's not confused the actor with the roles, 1816 02:13:01.359 --> 02:13:07.600 you know, and vice versa. He is he was capable of playing really 1817 02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:11.279 nasty, unpleasant characters. And I don't think it's necessary always to sort of 1818 02:13:11.319 --> 02:13:13.520 say, oh, but he was. He was doing it for a good 1819 02:13:13.520 --> 02:13:20.079 gun. No, he wasn't no nasty characters. So I like seeing him 1820 02:13:20.079 --> 02:13:22.880 and something like that or corruption I mentioned before is another one. I mean, 1821 02:13:22.319 --> 02:13:24.560 it's not a movie I'm that crazy about, but boy, is he 1822 02:13:24.640 --> 02:13:28.079 good in it. I would agree there that's a fun one for him. 1823 02:13:30.199 --> 02:13:33.119 Yeah. The seven set, it is by all accounts, everybody seems to 1824 02:13:33.159 --> 02:13:37.720 be raving about it. I cannot wait to have it. I'm so glad 1825 02:13:37.720 --> 02:13:41.399 that you wanted to advocate for it. And again, Rigby Allons clearly put 1826 02:13:41.479 --> 02:13:46.039 their all into the set. There's such a huge part of it and for 1827 02:13:46.159 --> 02:13:50.079 Severn to bring you know, we're just talking about deep cuts. Some of 1828 02:13:50.119 --> 02:13:52.000 those are very deep cuts, and just to get them out there for people 1829 02:13:52.000 --> 02:13:54.640 to be able to see, not to mention the rescued episodes. I mean, 1830 02:13:54.680 --> 02:13:58.039 that's that's a big deal. A lot of these would never get a 1831 02:13:58.119 --> 02:14:03.359 chance with any other label, So Severn just once again delivering things that are 1832 02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:05.880 I mean, to be fair, a lot of those are kind of risky, 1833 02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:09.119 and especially to put them in a bit of an expensive package. I 1834 02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:16.000 really hope some people discover those and go all in on them because they do 1835 02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:20.000 incredible work. So I mean, really, Troy, just thank you, 1836 02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:22.399 thank you for wanting to talk about Cushing. He's not somebody that gets a 1837 02:14:22.399 --> 02:14:26.399 ton of love, and it's perfect time after what Severn did, so glad 1838 02:14:26.439 --> 02:14:31.159 you suggested him. Yeah, I mean again, he's He's one of my 1839 02:14:31.279 --> 02:14:35.199 favorites, has been for literally for as long as I can remember, and 1840 02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:39.840 always a pleasure to get a chance to talk about him. As many commentaries 1841 02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:41.239 as I've done, I think I've only done one film that he was in, 1842 02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:46.159 and that's the House of Trip Blood. You know, obviously a movie 1843 02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.399 I love and have a great tale of affection for. But yeah, I 1844 02:14:50.399 --> 02:14:56.560 mean, he's he's somebody I never tire of watching. And it's interesting pop 1845 02:14:56.560 --> 02:15:01.880 culture has a very short memory. It's true to say that you know, 1846 02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:07.239 even big iconic actors and so forth, that you would think people, most 1847 02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:11.159 younger people and just the average person on the street, they don't. They 1848 02:15:11.159 --> 02:15:16.199 probably don't even know who Humphrey Bogart is, to be honest, they probably 1849 02:15:16.239 --> 02:15:18.640 don't. They probably don't know who Evererge Robinson is. You know, a 1850 02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:22.359 lot of these people, they certainly don't know who Peter Cushing is. And 1851 02:15:22.399 --> 02:15:24.000 if they do, they know him as the old guy in Star Wars, 1852 02:15:26.279 --> 02:15:28.520 which to an extent is what probably a lot of people would say about Christopher 1853 02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:31.800 Lee now as well. They know him for battling Yoda in one of the 1854 02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:35.199 later Star Wars movies, or for being Saramon in Lord of the Rings. 1855 02:15:35.239 --> 02:15:39.680 I mean, Lee was fortunate that he had this fantastic last act after a 1856 02:15:39.680 --> 02:15:43.720 pretty grim period in the eighties and nineties where he wasn't always getting great films, 1857 02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:48.119 So he had a great renaissance at the end. I think Kushing could 1858 02:15:48.119 --> 02:15:52.640 have had something similar had his health been better. But unfortunately, after doing 1859 02:15:52.760 --> 02:15:58.239 what became his last theatrical big screen film, a movie called Biggles Adventures and 1860 02:15:58.319 --> 02:16:05.119 time. Around about nineteen eighty five, he was diagnosed with cancer, and 1861 02:16:05.239 --> 02:16:09.880 you know, his health became too precarious for him to be in short so 1862 02:16:09.039 --> 02:16:11.840 he wanted to work. He kept, you know, he was Actually I 1863 02:16:11.880 --> 02:16:16.039 mentioned Jeremy Brett before he was going to do one of the episodes of the 1864 02:16:16.199 --> 02:16:20.680 Charlotte Holmes series that Jeremy Brett did, called The Last Vampire. He ended 1865 02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:24.479 up not being able to do it due to ill health, so you know, 1866 02:16:24.600 --> 02:16:28.720 there you go. Unfortunately, he didn't have an opportunity to continue on 1867 02:16:28.840 --> 02:16:33.799 acting into the nineteen nineties, and I can still remember it very vividly when 1868 02:16:33.840 --> 02:16:39.879 he passed away. It was, you know, certain celebrity deaths hit you 1869 02:16:39.959 --> 02:16:45.760 in a certain way. Cushing, Pleasance, Christopher Lee obviously, and a 1870 02:16:45.799 --> 02:16:50.239 few others definitely hit me hard because these are people I grew up really really 1871 02:16:50.280 --> 02:16:54.959 admiring and almost in a weirdser way, they almost sort of felt like family 1872 02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:58.719 to me growing up because they were they were just always there. Vincent Price 1873 02:16:58.760 --> 02:17:01.120 another one, big, big one. When Vincent Price died in ninety three, 1874 02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:07.000 I was really terribly depressed, you know, and I didn't know these 1875 02:17:07.040 --> 02:17:09.719 people. I didn't need them, you know, although I did manage to 1876 02:17:09.719 --> 02:17:13.719 cot Peter Cushing's autograph I sent away and he sent it to me not long 1877 02:17:13.799 --> 02:17:20.040 before he died. So I mean, that's that's that's really cool, that's 1878 02:17:20.079 --> 02:17:26.280 awesome. I don't always do this, but I gotta ask you, got 1879 02:17:26.280 --> 02:17:28.760 any book work happening? Is there anything else that you can hint that you 1880 02:17:28.760 --> 02:17:33.239 got coming up anytime soon? Uh? No? I mean I can talk 1881 02:17:33.280 --> 02:17:37.600 about a couple of things because I've already announced them. We talked before about 1882 02:17:37.639 --> 02:17:43.879 Eugenio Ercolani. He and I are working on a potential series we're planning to 1883 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:46.879 make, you know, at least a few volumes of these. It's called 1884 02:17:46.239 --> 02:17:54.399 Unsung Heroes, which are going to focus on Italian filmmakers whose output wasn't especially 1885 02:17:54.440 --> 02:18:01.000 prolific. So we're writing about four different directors too, and to he's writing 1886 02:18:01.040 --> 02:18:05.520 about his grandfather, Julia Petroni, and the director named Franko Rossetti. I'm 1887 02:18:05.559 --> 02:18:11.360 writing about Massimo Dalamano and Vittorio Seleno. These are not household names, but 1888 02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:16.079 you know, it would be difficult to write a book about any of these 1889 02:18:16.120 --> 02:18:20.799 people, just them, because Massimo Dalamano, for example, only directed eleven 1890 02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:24.760 features. So that's that's difficult to sustain into a book, but if you 1891 02:18:24.799 --> 02:18:28.520 put them all together, you know, that's that's kind of the idea. 1892 02:18:28.639 --> 02:18:35.959 So that's being worked on. I've written a book which is in the process 1893 02:18:35.000 --> 02:18:43.239 of being edited about the German director Robert Siegel made called Lauren, which if 1894 02:18:43.280 --> 02:18:46.200 you haven't seen, I highly recommend. It's a really beautiful film, you 1895 02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:50.440 know, really, I think one of the best German horror films ever made. 1896 02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:56.120 Uh. And he's not had the career that he really deserved in many 1897 02:18:56.120 --> 02:18:58.200 respects, but he's he's done some other interesting stuff, so you know, 1898 02:18:58.239 --> 02:19:03.600 working with him, interviewing him very extensively, and so forth. You know, 1899 02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.159 I've done this book, and I'm planning a book on the Italian director 1900 02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:11.840 Alberto de Martino, who you may not be familiar with, but directed things 1901 02:19:11.959 --> 02:19:18.079 like Blazing Magnum with Stuart Whitman and John Saxon, and The Antichrist with Mel 1902 02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:22.719 Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy, A Holocaust two thousand with Kirk Douglas. So yeah, 1903 02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:26.760 I got that coming as well. Interesting. And then I mean fairly 1904 02:19:26.799 --> 02:19:31.120 recently, you just put out your last one. Was it last or not? 1905 02:19:31.479 --> 02:19:33.120 It was twenty twenty two or was that twenty twenty three? Time has 1906 02:19:33.159 --> 02:19:37.840 blurred so much time has blurred for me altogether. I'm lucky. I believe 1907 02:19:37.920 --> 02:19:41.879 it was twenty twenty two that Make Them Die Slowly came out, which Coromberta 1908 02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:48.239 Lenzi, which yeah, I was very, very pleased with the way that 1909 02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:52.479 that turned out, and I can talk about it here. I mean, 1910 02:19:52.479 --> 02:19:54.959 I have no reason not to. I haven't announced it yet, but it's 1911 02:19:54.959 --> 02:20:01.120 been a decade since I did these so deadly so perverse books was turned into 1912 02:20:01.399 --> 02:20:03.280 a trilogy, wasn't what was intended to be that way, but you know, 1913 02:20:03.520 --> 02:20:07.719 all these years later, I'm I'm mulling over the idea of doing another 1914 02:20:07.959 --> 02:20:11.920 book, not part of that series, but another kind of a broader overview 1915 02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:16.079 of the Jallo not an encyclopedia type of thing, but more kind of examining 1916 02:20:16.079 --> 02:20:20.280 different trends in different styles of the films and you know, assembling it slightly 1917 02:20:20.280 --> 02:20:26.120 differently. So that's something I'm thinking about doing as well. Hopefully that's not 1918 02:20:26.159 --> 02:20:28.799 going back to the same well too often, but I think it's it's been 1919 02:20:28.920 --> 02:20:35.200 enough time. Well, I I mean, after looking at the Make Them 1920 02:20:35.200 --> 02:20:37.879 Die Slowly, I have to admit and would say this to anybody. It's 1921 02:20:37.920 --> 02:20:41.200 not just because you're hearing anything. You're clearly just getting better and better with 1922 02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:46.760 time. That that book is astonishing and it's it's one that people should be 1923 02:20:46.799 --> 02:20:52.040 looking up. It's incredible. I had troyon right around when it was coming 1924 02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:56.639 out, and go back and watch that conversation. It's it's an incredible piece. 1925 02:20:56.639 --> 02:20:58.040 And Lindsey keeps getting a lot of love on home video lately, so 1926 02:20:58.079 --> 02:21:01.319 people that are falling for Lendsey, this is a good time to go pick 1927 02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:05.479 up a supplemental piece will fill some of that context around some of these films. 1928 02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:09.159 And just you know, if you've enjoyed Troy for the last hour talking 1929 02:21:09.200 --> 02:21:13.159 about Peter Cushing, there's a lot with Troy's work that you can dive into 1930 02:21:13.360 --> 02:21:18.079 from you know, commentaries and books and lots of things to support Troy, 1931 02:21:18.159 --> 02:21:22.920 So please go do that. I've enjoyed your work immensely, so it's an 1932 02:21:22.959 --> 02:21:24.520 honor to have you here again tonight, sir, Well, thank you. 1933 02:21:24.879 --> 02:21:28.479 I'm glad you said I'm getting better and better and not worse and worse, 1934 02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:35.399 although some might disagree, but yes, I appreciate it, and yeah, 1935 02:21:35.479 --> 02:21:39.079 there's more Lensy coming, by the way, as far as upgrades and things 1936 02:21:39.159 --> 02:21:43.000 are concerned, I can't tell you what or from whom, but there is 1937 02:21:43.040 --> 02:21:48.479 more coming that is not surprising. I'm really glad that that's happening. Troy 1938 02:21:48.680 --> 02:21:52.360 and everybody that's been hanging out tonight, thank you so much for taking the 1939 02:21:52.360 --> 02:21:56.840 time to be here. Craig from Deaf Crocodile, could you he wants you 1940 02:21:56.879 --> 02:22:01.639 to repeat that German film that you were talking about. It's called at l 1941 02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:07.200 a U r i N. It's from the nineteen eighties, was released in 1942 02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:16.239 eighty nine. There is a British blu ray at this point from second run. 1943 02:22:18.200 --> 02:22:24.959 It's a really really fine film. Lots of influences from many interesting sources, 1944 02:22:26.600 --> 02:22:31.719 heavy Polanski influence for example. You know, maybe maybe he's somebody will 1945 02:22:31.760 --> 02:22:37.000 talk about someday. If the public is prepared. We will try to get 1946 02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:41.040 the public prepared. Again. Everybody go check out Troy stuff. Thanks for 1947 02:22:41.079 --> 02:22:43.879 your time hanging out tonight. We will see you next Thursday, Troy, 1948 02:22:43.040 --> 02:22:46.040 if you'll if you'll come back, I would be thrilled to heavyback soon. 1949 02:22:46.959 --> 02:22:50.399 Just ask me. I'm not hard to get a hold of. Have a 1950 02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:52.239 good one. Everybody. We'll see you next week.