Hey, hey, everybody, and I'm already tired just looking at the giant
list of what we are about to talk about tonight. It is gonna be
a wild one and I genuinely don't think I'd pick anybody else right now to
do this with and on the show tonight, I've got my new and already
dear friend, mister Will Dotson, who is a film scholar, professor Toby
Hooper extraordinaire. And we've got some other cool things to talk about, including
Todd Browning. But yeah, showing off one of his fancy new Disconnected shirts
that says Toby or Not Toby Hooper. Love that design link for the merchants
in the store below. I didn't really plan on doing that, but hey,
it's there, Will. How are we tonight? I'm good. I
actually I just cut myself, so I hope I don't bleed out on the
show. But in case, in case anybody's sweamished, that might be a
little blood of to night. Well that actually makes sense with the amount of
things we got to cover, because I guarantee there's gonna be some more blood,
sweat and tears tonight. First off, I want to highlight Will Dotson
and Bruiser three when three says Dodson, still need to grab your book.
Will's books are linked in the description below, but one that is not still
linked the description below because it literally just got announced. Will tell me about
what's going on with Todd Browning. Oh man, So this is going to
come out on bear Manor Media, and it's part of a series done by
the great Tom Weaver called From Scripts to Screen. There's a bunch of great
titles in that collection on ed Wood and all kinds of great classic directors.
This one is the centerpiece of this book, which is edited by Gary D.
Rhoades, who's the foremost authority on bail Legosi and classic horse and he
does great audio commentaries for things like White Zombie. So if you've ever gotten
the White Zombie the way you've heard him before anyway, So this book is
the centerpiece. Is Todd Browning's unproduced script for his zombie film called The Vault
of the Dead, So he's we've got the original script, essays about the
Volts of the Dead, about the Mark of the Vampire. My contribution is
about the very strange late Todd Browning film The Devil Doll, and I give
a whole history of its evolution from a script called Witch of timbukto to its
final form that deviled on. It's a it's a pretty amazing story, and
I gotta say, you know, with all humility, I'm more proud of
this essay than I think anything I've ever in. Its a really great book
and priced for for consumers, so awesome. Well I'll tweet the link out
as soon as it's available for pre order. But yeah, just went to
press. We did the final corrections last week, and super excited that that
is very appreciated to see it priced for consumers. As artist wants to know,
Will, is this your home or are you at the school both?
I'm a I'm a faculty in residence here at UNC Greensboro. So this is
my office. Pretty dope office, it really is. But we actually live
here on campus and this is a This is a residence hall where Ashby Residential
College, the program that I work with work in is housed in My family
and I have an apartment just down the hall from here. This is my
sanctuary and where I keep all the stuff that my wife won't let me have
in the apartment. That makes a whole lot of sense. Speaking of Will's
contributions, I believe one of his contemporaries, mister Stan Geezy, I think
that's how you say his last name wrong, Geezy. Yeah, I got
it right, he says, great shirt. Will let me promote one more
thing, because if you're into Toby Hooper, you need to know about this
new book by Stan Geezy, Red Scare, the making of Toby Hooper's I'm
Dangerous Tonight, which we actually talked about last time because I contributed an AU
audio commentary and Stan Geezey did an interview and I'm behind the scenes. This
book is great. I'm not just saying that because stands on here. It's
even got I even wrote a blurb for it along with Dee Wallace. So
we're friends now, beautiful just separated by a paragraph. Yeah. So Red
Scare is out. I check it out. It's available on Amazon and everywhere
else. Yeah. And Will will definitely be on the show again. So
the next time he's on, if there is a link for that new Todd
Browning book, it will clearly be in the description for the next one,
So just watch out for that. I will promote everything Will does until the
day I am canceled from this platform because it inevitably it will happen after we're
talking about the kind of things we're going to talk about tonight. But there's
a lot going on right now. The world has been weird this last week.
We've gotten announcements for everything from random what people thought were snuff films to
art house films from the eighties and nineties to just about eleven minutes ago,
I put out the most recent announcement, and we are covering it live tonight.
I hope everybody's ready because, oh my gosh, we've got you know,
I do this for my Instagram and there's about eighty five ish posts tonight
that we have to go over and Jeremy Long and we broke the record for
longest stream on this channel just last week, and if Will's up for it,
we may end up being forced to do it tonight. So I appreciate
that I got a whole bottle of speed, got some green tea pills ready
to go. Well, Luckily in twenty minutes when that bottle's empty, then
you can pee in it, so you'll be fine. For that was for
WILL students who might be joining in. So hello to all of you.
It has been a great week. So first off, a couple of things
about us. Have you been watching anything cool lately or maybe showing any films
to your classes? Yeah? So, oh gosh, where to start?
I'll start with class since I just I actually just got out of class Thursday
nights. I teach film appreciation, which is kind of the intro general audience.
Class. Teach the basic parameters of film has tree and uh terminology technique
and you know, try to help people with their taste subtly and uh.
Tonight, we were actually looking at some examples of early silent comedy. And
this this time we've been I've been emphasizing women and women directors, uh and
and you know, non white directors, especially in the early days of cinema.
So we looked at some films by Alice Ghebe, Lachet, Lois Webber.
Tonight we watched a Mabel Norman film, one of the very first films
to include Charlie Chaplin. Mabel Normand, who worked with Max Sinnett and Keyston
Studios, was the first performer to ever get hit with a pie in the
face and this is this is important. She also directed the first feature length
comedy until these punk Roomians in nineteen fourteen. So we looked at some of
those, a little bit of Chaplain and Fatty Arbuckle and Keaton, and then
we wrapped it up with you know, during the early early days of cinema,
we were still in we still had segregation, and studios would give incredibly
low budgets to black filmmakers to make movies for black theaters, and these were
called race films. And so we watched an example of one starring Sam Jacks,
who had created a character that is kind of recognizable vaudeville slapstick and it's
called The Reckless Rover, which was preserved and released in that Pioneers of African
American Cinema set that Keino put together with Library of Congress. Yeah, it's
it's a really interesting film. So the students get to learn basic techniques,
continuity of editing, cross cutting and whatnot, while they're also seeing some sort
of hidden histories of Hollywood. So what of silent movies tonight? And then
in my own time, I watched were Wolves Within last night, which I
am pretty funny, and yeah, I enjoyed it. It has been a
weird week. I've been getting home, been really tired and just watching random
things without thinking. The night before last, I watched a movie with Dolph
Lungern and Stone called Steve Austin. Now I'm a huge Dolph Lungdren fan.
Inexplicably, I can't tell you why. I just love the man. I
have forty three of his films. And so I watched a movie called The
Package and it's pretty good. It's pretty good. You know, Stone called
Steve Austin is the good guy, so who ends up winning. But you
know, in real life, you know, would have killed. So I
saw that. And then the last thing I'll say that I watched this week
was I fell for the hype and I sat down and I watched la Aids
jabber. Yes you think I loved the ironic twist at the end. Yes,
And I got my I got my syringe. Nice. So thank you
to grind House Video for that. I love how many films have released syringe
pens now it's it's like no longer a novelty. I probably got five of
them here. I wanted to point out while you were talking about uh the
female and early comedies, Christian's hobby blog and I were on the exact same
page. I wanted to bring up that set of early women directors that Keno
is about to drop. I believe it's called Cinema's First Nasty Women or something
like that looks really great and I believe, oh gosh, where was it.
I think Keno direct has a really good pre order price on it right
now and it's like sixty bucks, and that's great for everything that's coming in
it. I mean, man, you're fine. I want to know what
this newer set of early sexploitation is. You can also check out the Newmark
Cousins the nine and forty minute documentary Women Make Film, which is a kind
of alternate history. More Cousins did The Story of Film and Odyssey, which
which is a pretty great fifteen hour documentary about the true film. Yeah.
So yeah, that early sexploitation set. I saw something about that somewhere,
but I can't remember what it is. Maybe I've got like two more comments.
I wanted to point out real quick. First, as Jeff k He's
asking what is wrong with talking about the four k of a Christmas Story.
Nothing. They're just technically not officially announced yet and I'm waiting on the actual
press release because I don't have any good details. I don't want to just
hold up a picture and say, hey, this is coming, ask me
about in two weeks. So I'm literally checking like every forty five minutes because
I wanted to put those in this week, but they're still not officially announced.
There's also a pulp fiction four K coming in a reservoir Dogs four K
coming. No official announcements yet, but those are highly looking to be coming
somewhere around the end of November early December. And then Jeff also had a
question, what kind of restrictions were put on the race films? Do you
have anything in the pocket that you can talk to about that for a minute,
Well, if you mean restrictions in terms of content, no more than
anything out any you know, Hollywood film. In terms of distribution, they
were exclusively distributed to theaters that were segregated for black audiences only, and so
obviously not every town even had that. But and so you know, silent
cinema and early sound cinema, the preservation efforts weren't, you know, their
films were just thrown away or left to rot, which is where we get
the term vinegar syndrome from. And uh and the race films, and you
know, obviously they were there was no effort for years. So the stuff
that's in that box set, a lot of it is severely damaged and all
of it, a lot of it is loaded to YouTube so you can look
them up. I think the most probably the most famous film in the set
is a Western called The Bronze Bukkaroo. And if you've ever seen Mario Van
Peeble's revisionist Western Posse, uh they it has what he Strode does. The
storyteller given these this narration about the history of black and African American cowboys.
Right one in four cowboys in the West after the Civil War was black.
You don't see that in westerns, and so Posse it tells tells, you
know, a story of some black outlaws. And at the end credits it
shows footage from The Bronze Buckeroo that's nineteen let's say forty they're looking them make
sure I'm right, and nineteen thirty nine house clothes, and it's you know,
it's just a kind of run in the middle Western, but you know,
really well made and especially given by tiny budgets these filmmakers we're giving.
It's just a whole side of some of the people don't know about. If
if anybody is super into this historical side of race discussion in film, and
you are also maybe a traveler or you're anywhere near the Kansas City area,
I will throw at One really cool thing is, uh, the Kansas City
area is basically known as one of the birthplaces of jazz in the entire country.
And we have a really incredible jazz museum that I just went to about
a month ago with my sister who happens to be in the chat what's going
on courty and speaking of like physical media and cinema and classic you know,
archival of basically this massive culture that was up rising at the time. They
have this really really wonderful interactive exhibit where you can watch literal recorded film from
around like the mid twenties all the way up to the early seventies, and
it's got basically everything in between. They're not super long, but the fact
that you can watch something and it's an incredible shape from like nineteen twenty seven,
I think is the earliest one, all the way up to about nineteen
seventy three or four. It is a great way to just check in and
watch how culture evolved, how we treated people back then, How there was
this entire underbelly of artists that were incredible that never got the love that they
really should have at the time, and time just started to pass them by.
That's amazing. Hey, Well, for folks who are interested in checking
stuff up virtually, go to blackfilm Archive dot com, which is run by
Maya Caid. I think I'm pronouncing our last name right. She's a scholar
in residence at the Library of Congress. And that website, which has tiered
subscriptions, including free for newsletters, has so much stuff. Blackfilmmarchive dot Com.
Spaghetti says, I just watched Criterions release A Buck and the Preacher,
great film and release on the topic of race in the Western genre. Fantastic
movie. And then a last question before we get into the announcements. Christian
Tabby blog says, I see a Jess Franco book in the background. Is
that new or is that Stephen Thrower's already released megabook. Well, what an
eagle eye you have. This came out actually around the same time as the
Thrower book, and we were very careful to make sure we'd have much overlap.
This is called The Films of Jess Franco, edited by Antonio Lazar Rabol
and Ian Olney. If you've ever seen The Killer of Dolls that Manda Micawber
put out, Antonio I was interviewed about the history of Spanish hortor cinema on
that anyway, this is, uh, this is the first that I'm aware
of, the first scholarly book about Jess Franco. And I got an essay
in it, which is which is about the process of immersing yourself in Franco's
filmography. So if you're interested, this is available at Wayne State University Press
and you get an Amazon Bruns and all that stuff. This came out in
twenty what nineteen, eighteen eighteen. Yeah, and I know that this is
not going to be on Ryan's reading list of media. You can just check
my essay out the rest of it, you know. Literally, I was
going to email you afterwards and say, hey, do you have a Do
you have a download copy of that essay? You can ford? Yes,
Please go out and support art of all different kinds. There's so much there
to consume. And I understand your time is valuable and obviously do what pleases
you, But I mean Tonight will show you that, even though we've been
told for the last I mean decades decades that physical media is dying, eighty
plus releases to discuss tonight, so let's jump in and get started, all
right, Oh boy, First things first. Right after the show last week,
we started getting some announcements from Imprint Films and they are releasing volume two
of one of the best box sets to come out in the last few years,
and that is their After Dark neo Noir Cinema. This is coming with
Blue Steel from nineteen ninety, Internal Affairs from nineteen ninety, Crimson Rivers and
The Way of the Gun and the Yards those are all from two thousand and
then Nark from two thousand and two. This is a limited edition seven disc
hard box with eighty page booklet featuring essays from Peterkel, Peter Galvin, Blake
Howard, and Alexi Tilopolis something like that. I'm not great with names,
but they have tons of features on here. There's more to be announced on
a lot of these, so we're not going to go too in depth on
these, but just in case any of those titles really jump out at you
will, oh, Catherine Bigelow, Blue Steele, as a star turned,
well, she was already a star. This is a star action turn for
Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, she's she's strong, she's sexy, she puts
up on those ships. That one's a really fun and interesting movie. A
lot of the rest of them, I know, you know, I worked
in a video store for four years while I was a college student, and
several of these I've seen. I've the cover art from their VHS cassettes.
It's imprinted in my brain. I've seen Way of the Gun. I saw
part of The Yards, but I don't think I ended up finishing it.
But I'm really interested in jumping into it again. For me, Blue Steel's
worth the whole set, so yeah, I'll probably get it. Oh no,
yeah, Blue Steel is great. The other one in here that I
know that I love is narc Nark is a great film. I feel like
I again, either I've seen The Yards or just like you, for some
reason, I feel like I'm picturing the the VHS art just sitting on the
shelf like nobody ever wanted to rent it, so something like that. This
is a great looking set, a little expensive, but again, it's seven
films and they each get a wide array of special features. I mean,
just look at internal Affairs here. They've got a new interview with the director,
new interview with the screenwriter, new interview with the co composer, and
they're still going to be announcing more features. So those this post alone,
it's just for the first couple of films in it. This next one we
got and rivers. This one's got all kinds of stuff on there. We've
got documentaries, we got commentaries, We've got a whole bunch of other stuff.
Plus they're announcing more the Way of the Gun. They've got a new
commentary with Travis Woods, commentary with the director and the composer Joe Kramer,
plus more on the Way. I mean, they Imprints has not been around
that long and they are going ham on these releases. They I think they
came out in May of two thousand or not May of twenty twenty or somewhere
around there, and they are already up at like almost Spye number two hundred
already. I don't know how they can keep it up, but they are.
They're murdering it. It's amazing. I'm looking at the price tag on
it. But it's in Australian dollars, so it's true I'll need to convert
it. But let's look on pricing. We do have a very expensive,
expensive, that's not a word, a very expensive Australian piece that just got
announced right before this. That man the price on that. At the end,
we'll talk about that. But Imprint also announced a box set for director
Roland Jaffi. These films are from eighty four through ninety two, and then
there is also a bonus from two thousand and two. So the biggest one
for me is this has The Killing Fields and we actually spoke on this for
a second before we came on. The Killing Fields is an incredible landmark achievement
in film. It's one that a lot of people watched in school because it
is just so evocative of everything that was happening in that time. And yeah,
the whole Khmer rouge in Cambodian period of history is one that a lot
of people nowadays are not really, you know, super knowledgeable of. So
now that this is coming out, I'm hoping that some more get up to
speed with some of our past atrocities. Yeah, Joffe is such a he's
kind of a He's an important director that I think a lot of people nowadays
don't don't really remember or give d H really important is in terms of film
as as historical activism. City of Joy is as well. I'm I was
saying beforehand, it's a set that I'm definitely gonna dig into. I'm not
like emotionally moved, you know, emotionally moved, like excited the way I
am about like uh, Jim win or Ski Dinosaur Island type of movie.
But I'm really excited as as a as a as a film fan who's also
interested in history has depicted in film and and certainly the movie. The movies
themselves are very moving, both in terms of your sense of emotional connection and
social justice. So yeah, there is advertising that don't even advertise it.
I'm just I'm into it. That's fine. And it's what's really cool with
the Killing Fields, the one that I'm super excited about. It's coming with
the second disc and this is going to be a feature length documentary by Arthur
Dong exploring the life and experiences of doctor Hang s Nure, who is forced
into the brutal labor camps by the Khmer Rouge. Years later, he will
recreate his experiences in the film, which is just astonishing that he's willing to
do that, and then the one from two thousand and two that's pretty cool
here, Prisoners of our Own History. The First Four Films of Roland Jaffe
is a new exclusive feature length documentary that is done with Joffei. There's all
kinds of interviews discussing his work, and it's done by Ballyhoo Pictures. So
when you get this, it's not just four films. You're getting all kinds
of stuff with this. And one of the other ones that we didn't mention
other than City of Joy, Fat Man and Little Boy, is one that
obviously a lot of people know by name, and that one stars Paul Newman,
which is a pretty big deal. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie Groves,
the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons
Fatman and Lil Boy. Dwight Schultz is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant
scientist attempting to bring the Startling mission to fruition. Murdoch, if you are
anything like me, one of the films I'm looking forward to most of the
next year is Oppenheimer from Nolan, and this would be a great time to
get you know, hyped for something like that coming. So yeah, certainly
eager in checking this out. For sure. I have to think that the
casting of Howling Mad Murdoch of the A Team as Robert Oppenheimer had to have
been an m joke somewhere along the line, like somebody had been We're casting
a man who is best known as as as an insane and unhinged soldier.
No, that's not social commentary at all. Imprint, of course, even
after announcing two box sets, they were nowhere near being done. They announced
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains from nineteen eighty two. And I don't
understand how this is finally, finally, I believe getting its either its first
Blu Ray release or first legit Blu Ray release pretty much from anywhere. But
this is one that a lot of people have been begging for and I think
was rumored to be coming from Criterion. Karin Burns is a typical frustrated teenager
living in a nowhere town until she catches punk band The Looters. Bewitched by
the whole punk scene, she and her fledgling band The Stains join the tour
and in no time at all become media magnets. The band forms a rabid
following of young girls, while Karinn begins a relationship with louter singer Billy played
by Ray Winstone. As the Stains get bigger and bigger, however, Karin's
ambition gets the better of her and this is coming with so much shown here.
We got an audio commentary by the director, audio commentary with Diane Lane
and Laura Dern that's an archival one, a new audio commentary by Lee Gambin
and Alison Wolfe, some video essays won by Kat Ellinger, which again,
if she is ever in special features, run and buy that as soon as
you can, because she always does incredible work. We got audio interviews with
actors. This is just an incredible release. I'm assuming you've seen this at
some point, right, I've never seen it. I'm so excited. I
tell you, I did something I've never seen and I'm a huge I'm a
punk guy. I've always heard about it and it was kind of legendary.
Am my friend group. I'll tell you I did something kind of foolish.
When this was announced, I tweeted how excited I was to finally see the
debut of the wondrous Debbie Rashwan, of whom I'm a fan and I and
I added her just to see if she would, you know, like it,
and she she posted, thanks Will, that's a that's pretty special.
A lot of people don't understand, but I'm getting some attention like that is
amazing. Oh my heart is still beating fast. This one has been hard
to see for a long time. It took ages to come to DVD.
It's taken longer to come to Blu ray. This is a great, great,
under underseen, underground movie and it is I wow. I went to
say a sentence and I had my mind completely interrupted by Brian saying I've made
a few fad in the States in my day. And that was funny as
hell. Thanks Brian. Yeah, this this is a great movie. And
as somebody that came primarily from stand even calling you inured after that, uh,
as somebody that came out of some spots of the music industry, the
Family Stains is a special film and I do think that this is one that
a lot of people should should make an effort to get. And it's only
if you want the limited edition. It's only limited to fifteen hundred copies.
So get it in soon. Very exciting. Oh I see Sarah Marcus did
a video essay that book she wrote, Girls to the Front, about the
riot girl movement in the early nighties. Pretty good, pretty good book.
Nice. Yeah, I have not read that one. City of God.
This is kind of a massive film for a lot of people as well.
This is from two thousand and two. Have you seen City of God.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't because I should have, and so I'm gonna
yeah. This was when this came out, you know, it was really
well reviewed, obviously nominated for several Oscars, and I just never never saw
it. Yeah, this is a really really interesting film and was huge,
huge pop culture phenomenon when it came out, Which is odd because two thousand
and two, like a lot of people nowadays are yeah, Parasite won the
Oscar for Best Picture, but stuff like this it took a lot, a
lot to break through the mainstream even honestly, even like five or six years
ago. So something like this making the impact that it did is astonishing now,
but in its time just bloody amazing. City of God is special.
We don't know much about the features right now, or honestly about the scan
Imprint really doesn't share a lot about their scans unless it's something brand new from
Paramountain. They have the exact details on it, but this is one I
would recommend certainly you try to check out if you have not, then distant.
This is from nineteen eighty eight, coming in the end of November,
and I loved this one because they lead off by saying John Lithgow from Shrek
and Footloops. That's I mean, John Lithgow from Shrek and Footloose, that's
how you're gonna I mean Harry and the Henderson leading. I mean, I'd
rather read John Lithgow from Third Rock from the Sun than either of those,
Like what are we doing to John Lithgow? The only thing that could have
been worse to say there is John Lithgow from the pet Cemetery remake or Third
Rock from the suners I just said that I did. I'd rather see that.
So John Liftgow stars as a self exiled bush vet and Ralph Maggio from
My Cousin Vinnie. They don't lead with the karate Kid there come on co
stars as the son he hasn't seen in fifteen years. Their uneasy reunion accidentally
sparks, war, haunted violence, and father and son and sheer a harrowing
fight for survival that will either destroy them or unify them forever. Uh.
This was pretty widely uh like underseen, but very much appreciated by a lot
of people in its time, a lot of the critics. I mean,
you can even see Roger Ebert is quoted there. I I gotta be honest,
I've never seen this one. I don't know how because I adore John
Lithgow, but it's another one that just it doesn't get a lot of play.
Yeah, and that's you know, that's what's so great about every time
I watch one of your announcement shows or catch stuff, I'm you know,
I've devoted I've devoted my whole professional life to this, and I feel like
I don't know anything because these these Naples are releasing stuff. I'm like,
what is that movie? How did I miss it? You know? And
so I'm pretty, I'm pretty I'm excited about all these these announcements from Imprint.
It is a really great way from them. And uh, for the
the people that you know are like Will and myself. When you look at
announcements like this and you go, I haven't seen anything. I'm the exact
same way. I happen to have seen a few from this slate of announcements,
but most of the time I'm blind buying like ninety five plus percent of
what I see. And it's my film school, and it's what I love,
and it's exactly the way I want to approach a film nowadays, being
you know, even something like Nope that was just in theaters, I tried
to go into a completely blind. And what's better going and blind than a
movie from nineteen eighty eight that I've never seen of, never seen anything from
before, never heard any details about it. That's the best way to go
blind. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a good cast. I
certainly hope to check this out with guys amazing. Speaking of a good cast,
school Ties, this is like a miraculous cast. School Ties is from
nineteen ninety two, and you got to hear this cast if you've not looked
into this yet. Brendan Fraser of George of the Jungle leads an all star
cast including Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell in this acclaimed coming
of age drama. Uh this is getting a new audio commentary with Jim Hemphel
and other features. But this is Imprint film number one eighty eight and it
is supposed to be a fairly good drama. And I have also missed this
one. I've seen this. This is one of my one of my favorite
instances. This is and this is Brendan Fraser's performance, one of my favorite
instances of an angry young man in the rain, screaming cowards at the at
the anti Semitic bullies who've who've made made his life live in hell. Yeah
you know it's I mean it is Fraser kind of developing from the George of
the Jungle and Sino Man roles that he was getting early in his career to
straight drama and yeah, you know it's. It's not a great fell despite
what the text there says, but it's pretty good. It's worth it's worth
a say, it's worth a life, I will throw out there. And
Sino Man is a classic god I love and Sino Man. I agree nineties
comedy. Brendan Fraser is amazing. But for anybody that knows me and has
ever heard me rant about Brendan Fraser before, I say Brandon Brendan Fraser before
his performance in his I think it's two episodes back to back of Scrubs will
change your life, incredible episodes of TV. Anyways, I will get off
this soapbox of my love for Brendan Fraser, and I can't wait to see
him. Have you seen the pictures that he's in the whale coming up from
a twenty four? Yeah? Geez, that's that's like de Nero level commitment.
He is back and it looks to be a performance that will be a
new mark on his career. And I can't wait to see the The Fraser
Sons, however we're gonna call it, it's probably the Brendan Sons whatever,
because that sounds a little better. I really hope that he is back.
I know that he went through the victim end of some me too stuff and
talking about it caused some consternation in Hollywood for some reason, I think primarily
because he was a male. But he is remarkable and in every single thing
he does, including the somehow hated film but Dazzled. I don't know how
many people hate the film, but Dazzled. I love the Dazzled. That
and a Blast from the Past are two back to back that he puts in
like, what's that I sat forgotten about that film? They are like remarkably
grounded performances from him and what could be very silly films. Yeah, Brendan
Fraser is as a gift. I could just sit here for another album talk
about him. Let's keep going. Though. We got into some Arrow announcements
and this one, this one is silly because this was, Oh my gosh,
airheads. Yeah, we're gonna talk about Brendan Fraser. We guys have
heads. The Wolf of Wall Street. This was teased from Arrow in one
of their little postcard inserts. I think it was like the end of twenty
nineteen or maybe early twenty twenty, and then there was silence for ever,
basically, and somebody went to some Blu ray release came out in the UK
and they said, Okay, this must have been what Ero was getting at,
because we haven't heard anything in years at this point. And then out
of nowhere they dropped the first four K release of The Wolf of Wall Street
in the UK, and I got to admit, the way this box is
is really neat. This is a big limited edition hard box release from Aero
Video. The Wolf of Wall Street. Obviously Scorsese film from twenty thirteen.
Leo DiCaprio's amazing in it. Jonah Hill is wild in it. Matthew McConaughey
is kind of unhinged in his very small piece in it, but incredible film.
And you really lead all of that into Margot Robbie though. I mean,
you gotta see Wolf of Wall Street in four K. Scorsese and Margot
Robbie. Right, Yes, we got all kinds of new stuff in this.
We got a new interview with the screenwriter, new interview with the production
designer. We got a new visual essay by Simon Ward on the dark humor
of Martin Scorsese, which to me that sounds like one of the most important
things on this entire release. I cannot wait to see that, and then
all kinds of archival featurettes. I really hope this blows the studio release from
the US just out of the water. The Wolf of Wall Street and Scorsese,
what are your thoughts? Okay, some people might get mad at me,
but this is a redemption story like so many of Scorsese's films. In
two thousand and six, I got so mad at The Departed, which at
the time I thought sucked. When I saw in the theaters, and I
got mad that that's what he got the oscar for, and I quit watching
Scorsese. I have not seen I have not seen a single Scorsese movie,
and he directed since two thousand and six. Now that was the reaction of
a young man, and I'm much I'm much older now, and I recently
started a rewatch of Scorsese films from the beginning. So Boxcar Bertha Alice doesn't
live here anymore, New York, New York taxi driver. I've been watching
them everything in order. I probably love something out, but I've been watching
everyone in order. I just saw the Criterion four K of The Last Waltz
with the Band Raging Bulla's next. So that's where I am, and I'm
going to continue. I'm going to rewatch The Departed for the first time since
two thousand and six, and then I'll continue. I already have gotten a
copy of The Wolf of Wall Street, but I guess I'll go ahead and
upgrade. I have plenty of time before I get there, because I got
about thirty movies to go through. I am eager to hear when you revisit
The Departed, how things have changed in the last sixteen years for you.
Yeah, well, you know, I like I mean, I like Infrontal
Affairs, and I'm glad that the trilogy is going to be coming out on
Criterion too, so I'll probably come out about the time I get to it,
so I'll be able to do them altogether. Yeah, that would be
a fun Well maybe fun is not a good operative word there, but that'd
be a very exciting weekend at least. Yeah, I'm excited about it.
So that's why I have not seen The Wolf of Wall Street yet, but
I am turning my life around. I have found whatever the squorse is equivalent
of religion is and I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming home. I
mean, isn't that just basically Catholicism? Yeah? It for those that have
seen it, I kind of the Pulse Trader person. I did want to
highlight one thing, and this is fascinating to me because I had no idea.
There is something called Planet Hollywolf that is coming on this It is a
new visual essay by Maddie Burr. I think it's pronounced Boudrowitz and uh Dave
Wayne On Jordan Belfort's lesser known career is a low budget movie producer. I
had no idea that that was a thing, so I'm very interested in checking
that out. Yeah, that's that's interesting, And Jordan Belfort is a wild
character already, but just to see some extra context with it, that sounds
exciting. But even more exciting one of my favorite films from the nineties,
We are getting Robin Hood Prince of Thieves from nineteen ninety one in four K
and Blu Ray. Oh my god. Yes, I am so stoked that
we are getting this. We have joked about this in the discord for months,
literally that this is one of my absolute most beloved films from childhood.
Even though most people hate this, I adore this film. I think that
this is a great retelling of Robinhood. I think Kevin Costner can't do an
accent in this film, but it is still amazing. I think Morgan Freeman
acts his ass off. Maybe doesn't play a great Irishman, but he's still
really great in the film. I think we have one of the absolute best
and like riveting villains in this in Alan Rickman, of course, and then
Mary Elizabeth what's her last name? Master Antonio just an incredible mate Marian in
this film. Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves at lamp Bastard by mel Brooks.
But what do you think of it? Will don't forget the great Christian
Slater, as Will Scarlett well frequently in that film he gets forgotten too,
So it doesn't make sense feeling a little bit inferior today. I remember seeing
this in the theater when I was a kid. Alan Ritman is fantastic in
it. I think that the the video for Brian Adams Everything I Do,
I Do It for You kind of ruined the movie for a lot of the
MTV generation that I'm a part of. I'm I'm interested in revisiting it because
I have not seen it since I saw in the theater when I was what
when did that come out? In nineteeny one plus thirteen when I saw it?
Hey a four K rendition of Kevin Costner's Buetox and a waterfall Sign me
up? No, I'm excited, set up. Yeah. I remember it
being really exciting, So it'll be fun to watch it again, and it
undoubtedly will likely be a gorgeous four k. Uh. Some of the way
that they shot this film, like obviously this has been sort of panned for
the last I mean we're at thirty years literally, this is thirty one years
later and this has, uh, it's not ever really gotten great critical reception,
but it is an undoubtedly gorgeous film, especially like just the first act,
the amount of ground that they cover, the scenery, the three in
the castle work that they show in the background, it is just beautiful to
see. And of course what really gets you with this film is the characters.
I mean Alan Rickman at the end going oh God, jod Out what
that spot? I mean, it's so classic, I cannot wait. Yeah,
this is this is like a life changing film for me. Bonuses on
go ahead. I'm glad to see. They do not include the Brian Adams,
but they do include it very Adam. Oh they do it perfect.
It's different Brian Adams everything I do, I do it for you performance at
Slain Castle in Ireland. So they they held back on the music video.
They said, we won't hit you extra hard with that. You've watched it
three hundred and twenty four, nine hundred and six times, so you can
watch him do it to the castle. You've never seen that before and it's
now too right. So it's maybe there's no year on it on that one.
I will undoubtedly be watching that. So in this we get a limited
edition packaging with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork, sixty page
perfect bound illustrated collector's booklet with Jackson Cooper and Mark Kunliff doing some writing on
the film. Double sided fulled out poster of both original and newly commissioned artwork.
And man, I didn't realize that before this talks about two fold out
posters. Does that mean we get two there? Huh? Six double sided
postcard sized art cards. And then we get the old archival audio commentary with
Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater and a couple of the writers. We get a
making of a new multi part documentary featuring new interviews with Densham Watson, director
of photography Douglas Milsom, the editor, costume designer John Bloomfield, and many
more members of the creative team. I am all in just for that documentary.
First of all, I can't wait to hear stories about this, hosted
by Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan famous for being Irish, I believe, and
one of the reasons he was hated is James bond because he really wasn't from
Britain. Yeah, this is an amazing looking release. But if this is
somehow not enough for you, I believe we will come a couple hits down
here to find out. They are also releasing it in a steel book version
and this is fo or Blu Ray I believe as well. If not,
it's just four K. But then they also have one of their classic Let's
hit them for every single penny where they are doing the big limited edition hard
box and casing around the steel book with the book, with the posters,
with everything, and uh, they even have the unique art and it's a
I think this is a Zavvy exclusive release in the UK. Wow, I
just all in. I can't believe they went so far for this movie that
I love and I am stoked. Definitely next to the next, to the
Disney Fox movie movie version of Brotherhood. This is definitely my favorite one.
So probably when they announced this, we were talking about it in the discord
and I said, in this film a Marian's a babe, but in the
Disney film, she's a Fox. I thought that was very funny, said
anything, I had to repeat it. I'm an idiot. Next one incredible
but true from Quentin Depew from twenty twenty two is Coming. I believe this
is the director that did Rubber, if I remember right. I think that's
the way I remember this name. This is coming in the UK and the
US it says on four K, but I think I must have mistyped there.
I don't believe this is four K. This is a very odd film
for them, but I'm sort of interested. This one is You're right Rubber.
Wow. I'm kind of surprised that I remember that name. Alan Schabat
and Marie are a middle aged bourgeois couple who moved to their new house in
a quiet suburb. A key feature of their new abode that the estate agent
points out to them is a mysterious tunnel in the basement. Little they realize
that it will turn their lives upside down. This was a pandemic film,
and the only like real interesting pool for me is Quentin Depew. He's he's
pretty great. I've liked a lot of his stuff so far. Did you
ever see Rubber? Yeah? It's weird. I like it. It was
so unique. How it That's another one that grabbed like a way bigger portion
of popular culture. Than you would think, and for some reason it broke
through. I mean, I'm not going to say no to it. It's
the kind of movie that I think is odd enough to really appreciate. But
yeah, this one looks interesting and uh, I don't know, might check
it out. Well. So the other thing, and I haven't seen the
film song kind of excited about it. But the other thing about Quentin Depew
is back in the late nineties early two thousands he was a super cool DJ
electronic artist called mister Wazzo. I have several of his albums, really cool
stuff. I don't think I I knew that. Yeah, interesting weird rhythms
and stuff. The spelling is Isaiah mister Waa hmmm. Yeah, now Christian
Hobby blocks that. I really want to see Arro do. The next film
by the Adams family, Hellbender, my favorite movie so far this year.
They already released Deeper You Dig, which Deeper You Dig? Great, really
interesting movie. I do think Hellbender is being distributed by one of the Vinegar
Syndrome partner labels, and I would not be surprised if that came out through
them in the next six or seven months. Cool. That's the Witch movie.
Yeah, silent Mandible says he's got another film coming out too, called
Smoking Causes Coughing. That is that is the name that's going to cause some
problems for people for sure. Cool. Oh he also Okay, he's the
one that did keep an eye out that to Canalog released another one of the
Vinegar Sindrome partner labels. That is very true, all right. Next one
up is Audrey Rose. Audrey Rose obviously had an imprint release, and this
has everything that is on that imprint release. So if you happen to already
have that, you probably don't want to jump into this one because it's the
exact same disc it looks like. But I will say the movie looks great
and the features are genuinely pretty good. It is a decent film. It's
from seventy seven, coming both the UK and the US, and if I
remember right, I think it's the first time in blu ray in either of
those territories. Have you seen Audrey Rose. I have the Twilight Time edition.
Okay, it did have a blue that's right, So I'm gonna have
to allow to compare them. I love Robert Wise, and this is this
is a late late film by Robert Wise. Yeah, it's pretty good.
I mean, you know, it's in it's in that sort of possession movie
type of genre. Yeah, and like the Change laying that kind of stuff.
Yeah, and like Robert wise movies, it's really well edited, really
well edited, and this does have some things that that imprint disc doesn't have.
So if you really love the film, this is a brand new restoration
from a new four K scan of the OCN on this one, and we
got a brand new audio commentary. We got a new featurette looking at the
New York locations used in the film, a whole bunch of old archival featurettes.
But this is just another stellar looking release. Yeah, Okay, Friday
last week went a little wild, and this is where it started to really
take off. So everybody knew we were getting some we were getting some imprint
announcements. Also, everybody knew we were getting some arro announcements. But then
out of nowhere Grindhouse Releasing, who has been fairly quiet over the last few
years other than a couple of Blu ray teases, and they finally put it
out earlier this year. I'm not gonna take that away from him, but
this came out of nowhere, so they teamed up with Bloody Disgusting to exclusively
report that Grindhouse Releasing is bringing two Italian horror classics to four KUHD, both
The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust, two of the most famous, most famous horror
titles of all time. Undoubtedly one obviously coming from Fulci, who has quite
a few releases on four K so far. But then Cannibal Holocaust has just
been announced in the UK and now it'll be coming out in the US.
This one will have it's less than like less than half a second more footage
in the US than the UK because it has to be cut in the UK.
But this this is an interesting release because they can also report the Grindhouse
Releasing has teamed with legendary composer Fabio Fritzi to present a brand new version of
The Beyond, director Luccio Fulci's nineteen eighty one horror masterpiece. And this is
premiering theatrically from Grindhouse this year, and they are calling it the Composer's Cut,
with the brand new four K presentation newly scanned from the o CN with
a brand new score. How do you feel about that? So people who
like Fulchy have you know, everybody has got their favorite film. The Beyond
is mine. I think it's this ultimate movie, and I like almost all
of his movies, so I'm really interested in this. I'm kind of I'm
confused because, you know, I hear the composer's cut, and does that
mean that the film itself is re edited or just the the the the score.
If it's the if it's the film being re edited by another person,
I don't know. I'm gonna see it and find out because but it doesn't.
It doesn't really make that clear. But you know, maybe the composer's
cut is just a tagline meaning it's an on this score. I'm cool to
hear a Fabio score, you know, And that's what it sounds like to
me, it says in the next sentence here. Premiering this fall in theatrical
release from grind House, The Beyond, the Composer's Cut feature is Fabio Fritzy's
new score for The Beyond, with a brand new four K presentation of The
Beyond newly scanned from the OCN. So if it's newly scanned from the OCN,
it should be completely uncut in terms of visuals. However, I got
to give some like public feedback over whoever is writing this press release. We
don't know for sure what is coming on the UHD. You're leading off your
announcement that they're putting these out on four K UHD, But you don't tell
us if the composer's cut is going to be in the four k UHD.
You don't tell us if it's gonna have both versions on four K. You
don't tell us you know what exactly to expect, and that beyond the original
score is kind of iconic for people that have grown up with that film.
We're not gonna want to give up that sc It's it's amazing. So if
this is the only version of the film, I mean, I'll be happy
to see it in four K, but I'm gonna be a little disappointed to
not have that original score. Yeah, absolutely, I you know, and
the original score is also it's And I'm sure most of us on this on
this livestream have have a CD copy and a digital copy and several homemade editions.
I think I just sold my last copy of the old Incorbate ten DVD
to upgrade to the Grindhouse Blu ray. So yeah, yeah, this is
yeah, hopefully we get the original score too. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
I'm excited about it. I mean yeah, but buried in this press
release. There is a ton of stuff on here, so Bob Rowski,
who is in charge of Grindhouse Releasing, they even got the Grindhouse Releasing logo
stuck in the recent film Doctor Strains and the Multiverse of Madness. He also
came out and said that he is finishing four kuhd HDR disc editions of Full
Cheese, The Beyond and Diodato's Cannibal Holocaust, but then some things that they've
been teasing for a couple of years. Rowski also also confirmed work is close
to complete on two sought after seventies thrillers coming soon to Blu Ray from Grindhouse
Hollywood nine to eight screening next month at the New BEV, and then William
Graffy's Impulse starring William Shatner. They are also releasing Blu ray editions of two
Texas indies, SF Brown Rags, Scum of the Earth and Palmer Rocky's Magnum
Opus. Love Is Deep Inside and from what I hear, Love Is Deep
Inside is supposed to be incredible. I've never seen it, but I've heard
great things about it forever. Yeah, all four of these are films that
I've read about in various books about exploitation and horror, but I've never had
a chance to see. So this is a pretty exciting announcement and so low
key. It's just kind of slipped it in there. Oh yeah, you
know four K Cannibal Holocaust in you know, all these other couple other films
that nobody's ever been able to get a hold up before that. I laughed
so hard when I saw that you have this entire press release and at the
end, and by the way, we're also doing these other four announcements that
we've talked about forever. They're almost done. Have a good day, Okay,
I'm excited. I am cautiously optimistic about their ability to do great four
K. Morowski usually does incredible work on his disc releases. One thing I
will throw out to the ether in the hopes that they can do this.
The original Grindhouse Releasing release That is hard to say that fest. The original
release of Cannibal Holocaust from Grindhouse Releasing. That's a little better, had a
wonderful documentary on the DVD. They could not get the rights for it on
the Blu Ray, so it is missing on the Blu Ray release. I
hope they're able to restore that somehow and get just the definitive edition so that
we can all say, Okay, we bought campiballl Holocaust nine times, we
don't have to buy it ever again. Oh man, hold on, let
me plug something else. That's we're talking about Campbell Holocaust figure absolutely anytime.
Christian's hobby blog says the logo of Grindhouse showing up was almost the best part
of Doctor Strange. I mean, the movie wasn't awful, but yeah,
I understand what you're saying. So Column Waddell and Naomi Hollwell just finished this
documentary search It for Calibal Holocaust. I'm sure several people have heard of it,
but it is really well done. I actually I had a chance to
work with Column on an upcoming unnamed project because it's not quite complete and a
book project, and he talked a little bit about how difficult this film was
to make. It really took a lot out of them, but it's really
really well done. So anybody out there is super fan of Cambal Holocaust,
check out Searching for cambl Holocaust, and then also if you just really love
Diadado, the recent releases of House at the Edge of the Park from Arrow
and seven. I think of the ones that did that, they have the
feature on there. I believe it's called us Searching or Diodato Holocaust or searching
for Diadado or something like that. It's it's a very interesting one. I
saw most of that on a release that came out previous. But yeah,
it's supposed to be great. Yeah, let's get this added back in there
and carry on with this remarkable day because we are not done, and it
is an hour into the show and we are barely on Friday morning from last
week, so there is still so much to go over and one of the
most challenging ones to talk about. Let's break into this one. So a
few weeks ago I released a fun interview with the guys over at Air four
four four four and they were great. They did tease four announcements last Friday,
and there was a little bit of some shape thrown in one of these
announcements, so we're going to talk about that. First. They announced a
fatal termination from nineteen ninety. They say they are working on a restoration of
the legendary Hong Kong action film with arguably the most irresponsible and dangerous scenes ever
put to film. But it's really so much more than just those scenes.
Watching the amazing cast, including Munley Ray Lu, Siemen Lam, Simon Lamb,
Robin Shao and Philip Coe go after each other with NonStop precision is exhilarating
to say the least. This is definitely one film every Hong Kong action lover
should see. And then the second one attached to this is Challenge of the
Lady Ninja from eighty three, and they say, maybe introduce the most outlantish
martial arts film you've never seen. This Taiwanese ninja film is overflowing with crazy
antics. And this is where whoever is writing the copy, this is the
kind of copy that you were going to sell people with immediately, female blood
wrestling, giant spider webs, underground gopher fights, never seen one of those
on screen, Murder by Ninja, Seduction, an all female assassin squad,
and several big bads. It's an incredible little martial arts film that really throws
everything in the book at you. We're proud to be doing a brand new
restoration of the film and hope that you will embrace it with as much affection
as we have. It has strong female lead characters who kick ass, and
we honestly can't wait to show it off. This is the original poster for
Failed Termination, and then this is Challenge of the Lady Ninja. Any history
with these two for you. I've not seen Fatal Termination, but I have
seen Challenge of the Lady Ninja on VHS. It was some video back in
the day, you know, when you'd let go go on a beach vacation
visiting correct grandparents or something, and you'd find one of those beach video shacks.
I saw it there and you know, terrible vhsto, but I remember
it being, yes, quite outlandish. It was fun. So I'm really
excited about this one. Air does really great work, and they were one
full on channel. If you did not get to see that interview, go
check it out. But then the thing that disappointed me a little bit.
They did put out two more announcements, and this first one you might notice
a little bit of shade. They announced Thrilling a Bloody Sword from nineteen eighty
one. You may have heard of this one recently, as a print of
it was scanned and released to the public. We are doing a proper restoration
of the original elements to make sure the film is seen in the right way
for the first time ever, and we went through the correct channels to do
so. We'll get back to that in just a second. Like challenge,
this Taiwanese film is filled with crazy predicaments and set pieces, but it's a
fantasy wou chaf fairy tale epic that looks a lot like what a live action
heavy metal magazine adaptation may look like if it were done right in the nineteen
eighties. We're talking he Man meets Flash Gordon meets Ghostbusters meets snow White meets
a Laddin, monsters, flashy costumes, black magic, wild set decoration.
You're gonna love it. So obviously they are alluding to the gold Ninja video
release of Thrilling Bloody Sword that has come out in the last year and a
half and it took everybody by storm. Most people have never seen this film.
They did a limited edition Blu ray of eight hundred copies and it sold
sold out very quickly. They sold so many that for the first time they
said we're gonna do a repressing and we're gonna put a standard edition of these
and they were putting that out and this got announced and it's it's kind of
kind of some shade. It came out of nowhere, and gold Ninja had
nothing to do with it. They were, you know, they thought that
they were doing the right thing when they put that out. They thought that
this was an abandoned film and R four four four four just happened to have
the the correct contact and found the original rights holders. And I don't think
the shade was needed there, did you? Did you get the shade?
Like I felt? Oh? Yeah, well, and I saw who was
just in Little Liberty just in the clue, the Clue, the Clue,
I messed up my justice too many, Justine justin the Clue. Yeah,
I saw him kind of mentioned that. I think he said something like,
oh, that must be why a bunch of pre orders just got canceled.
And you know that that makes me sad, you know, whenever you see
your your heroes in a fight, you know, like with the Thriller release
and you know, cent ams and vinegar Syndrome and stuff like that. I
know, it's a really small market and there, and there's a lot of
friendly competition that sometimes gets less friendly and more more tense. But you know,
I think it's great to be proud of the work that you're doing.
I don't know any of the people personally involved, so I don't know if
there's higher history or any other reason for it, but yeah, you know,
you hate to see it. Yeah, And you can tell that they
felt a little bad for it afterwards because they edited their announcement after this was
made. They took out some of that shade, and I'm glad, but
that also really shows Yeah, probably should have thought about it a little better
the first time, but thankfully we got you know, I got it out
there and copied it and pasted it before it could be changed. Thrilling,
bloody sword, fantastic movie that's made the rounds of the last year, getting
a new restoration. I'm not gonna say like you're only a real fan if
you have both releases or anything, but you will get value out of both.
Undoubtedly there will be extras from the Gold Ninja release that will not be
on the air release, and then this one will have new extras us a
new restoration. So if you just love the film, this is going to
be the absolute best way is to get both releases. Yeah, now,
I I want to compare them, you know. Yeah, and then the
the Gold Ninja release had like burned in subs and everything. So I imagine
this is going to shine when they get a brand new restoration on it.
Uh. John Demarsica, one of the patrons, said, did I hear
that Will is a film professor at u NCG. I studied film right down
the street at NC State. Yeah, that's right. A lot of NC
State's higher and maybe I'll go there, but no, Yeah, now for
seventeen years. Yeah, that's a good little it's a good little media studies
program and teaching the English department as well. So great. Always good to
see some home hometown fellaws Moscow School of the Arts down the street the other
way. So there's a lot of filmmaking going on in North Carolina despite our
legislature's attempts to finmy film production in our state. Ain't that the truth?
Let's see. They also announced the Imperial Sword Killing the Devil from the same
year as Thrilling Bloody Sword. This is another Taiwanese fantasy woshia picture that takes
off at warp speed and never rest until you suddenly realize it's all over and
can safely wipe the sweat from your forehead. This film has skeletons, acid
pits, flying dragons that make people explode, cartoon death drops, and rock
climbing, and that's all in the first ten minutes. This is a film
that rushes by you. It's like a fast moving train and if you catch
it, you'll be privy to all its secrets and amazingness. We're thrilled to
be doing a full restoration so it can be seen in all its glory.
But the other random thing that they threw at the end of this we are
hoping to get run and Kill and read to Kill out within the fourth quarter
of this year. And before this summer air four four four had been sweet
time between announcements. And if they're gonna somehow get those out in the next
three and a half months, that's kind of incredible. Yeah, well,
you're right. Whoever does their copy really knows how to really knows how to
sell it. Yeah, one more thing I wanted to throw out about their
last announcement, So about these two fatal termination and challenge of the Lady Ninja.
When I posted the announcements for these. They also went to Facebook and
Jared Honor, who is in charge of Mondo Micabro, saw the announcement and
commented, this is an exact quote. He says, this is crazy.
I have looked into both of these films and both had huge asking prices,
like Suspiria level prices. Not sure how these guys pulled this off. And
for anybody that has worked behind the scenes in anything and have heard Suspiria supposedly
is a license that was like people even knowing how many copy sy Spiria has
sold, it would still make you wonder if you could ever make money on
it type of license. So the fact that these were anywhere near that high
and Era is putting it out either they have an incredible negotiator or they are
secretly loaded or something. This is a wild development for them. Well,
those Anatomia sales, it's gotta be, even though they only did a thousand
of them. Moving on because if we don't, we will explode into pumpkins.
Later, filming for eighty eight films in the UK on December fifth,
we are getting something called Sac Seventies, a British sex comedy threesome featuring the
Sex Thief, O, Pair Girls and Zeta One from the era that brought
us the Senior Carry On films and the Confessions movies. There also came a
run of other, delightfully of their time British sex comedies. These are beautifully
presented together three of those typically silly and salicious softcore porn romps from seventy seventy
two and seventy three sex comedies. How do you feel about them? That's
a loaded question on purpose. Well, all right, So the centerpiece of
this for me, partly because it's the only one I've seen, is the
Old Pair Girls, which was directed by vow Guest, who was a great
Hammer director. And uh, you know, you know, I like my
cannibal films. It's got mem Lae in it, one of her one of
her you know, non cannibal films. So I'm really interested for that reason.
There's already a blu ray out of Old Pair Girls. I can't remember
who did it, but I'm imagining this is I'm hoping this will be some
kind of restoration And I mean, how can you know, how can you
say no to a late night seventies British sex I'll watch that. I completely
agree, and I believe O Pa Girls is the only one I've seen,
but it's good. I'm very interested in seeing all of these. Yeah,
I wanted to respond. Ragnar says, I love four four four, but
didn't they just get done, saying they didn't want to be noticed for being
just Asian labels. Aren't these all Asian? Their website literally says they are
a Maryland based home video label dedicated to preserving the wild and obscure side of
Asian cinema lost to North America. I think what they said in that interview
was they didn't want to just do horror or that side of things. They're
trying to do sci fi. They're trying to do action, They're trying to
do that whole everything out there. So there there's a lot to them that
we've not seen yet. But anyways, all that is Man says, release
more sex comedies. Amen, completely agree. Next up, then we got
in some wonderful Cauldron announcements. We are getting Convoy Busters from nineteen seventy eight.
This is a two K restoration from the OCN. We get optional subs
thankfully, and Italian audio with English subs thankfully. New extras. We get
a lethal Hunter of subtle variation with tough Guy film expert Mike Molloy, My
Father the Cop and interview with Maurzio Matteo Murley, The Massy Touch, interview
with De Nilo Massei and a video tribute, a commentary by Mike Malloy Mike
Martinez and then all kinds of archival extras Cauldron kind of killing it with these
two announcements for those that have not seen Convoy Busters. This is from seventy
eight and says after brandishing his gun and badge too many times in front of
powerful people, Marizio Merley, who is from Violent Naples and the Cenic Threat
and the Fist, is busted down from homicide to emergency squad. Despite his
demotion, he is not content with letting Rome's criminal element run rampant, and
his violent nature soon finds him the target of both the press and the local
mob. After a bloody attempt on his life, he has transferred to a
quiet coastal town to run a local department. But never one to leave things
alone, he quickly finds a dangerous smuggling ring is using the cover of the
sea and darkness to run their operations in his sleepy district. Oh yeah,
convoy Busters. Have you seen it? Oh yeah, Uh, this is
the one where there's a p policity ATTESTI where where ut merely takes down on
a helicopter with a with a pistol leading out of a mood. And I
at one point had every release by the Italian exploitation specialty labeled no Shame and
that's who. That's who put out conduct Busters there sadly defunct and only ever
released DVDs. So I checked all the It looks like all the spell features
on that release are on this release, plus some new stuff. Super excited,
go ahead, punk and make them a day. I don't think I've
ever seen an actual, like good cut of this. I think the only
time I've ever seen it was at least slightly edited to be on TV years
ago, sometime in the nineties. This I don't think it's ever been confirmed,
but I always saw this and really thought that this was possibly like direct
inspiration for Hot Fuzz from Edgar Wright. There's so much that happens in this
that feels like it could be just absolutely great release from Cauldron Jesse obviously behind
Diabolic as well. Great people. If you can support them if it sounds
like it's your jam. This is a very, very great film. Yeah,
I'll definitely be supporting Cauldron and Diabola from this one for sure. Their
next one is Shanghai Joe. And by the way, both of these are
coming around November twenty ninth, they will be shipping. This one is from
nineteen seventy three, and this says Chin Howe arrives in America looking for a
better life, only to be faced with locals that don't take kindly to outsiders.
Somehow still relevant much of their surprise. Chin is not your average drifter
as he rips his way through racist bad guys with his unstoppable fighting techniques.
After word of his skill spreads, he gets a job at a ranch,
only to find that the owner, Stanley Spencer, is a cattle smuggling slave
trader who brutalizes Mexican farmers and anyone else who dares get in his way.
Chin ramps up the violence as he stops at nothing to free the slaves and
enact revenge on the sadistic Spencer. So they got a lot of stuff on
this. We got a bunch of interviews, we got a visual essay,
from Eric Zaldivar. We got a commentary with Mike House from the Spaghetti Western
Digest. We got a folded poster the slipcase, but it also has the
CD sound track, and this is limited to fifteen hundred copies, And for
those wondering, this is contractually obligated to only be able to ship to the
US and Canada, which kind of sucks for a lot of the international collectors.
But that means either there's another release out there, there's probably another one
about to come. I'm really I'm interested, basically. Yeah, I've certainly
never seen this one. Yeah. Cool. I imagine there's a lot of
stuff in here that is not twenty twenty two PC, but that's fine by
me. I will happily look past it. Jeremy Long, my friend,
I hate to break it to you, your record might be in question tonight.
Already coming up next from eighty eight Films in the UK, Gorgeous from
nineteen ninety nine. This is their next Jackie Chan release. And I know
nothing about this one. I've never seen this one. I lost track of
Jackie Chan around this time. I'm but it's Jackie Chan. Yeah, this
is what I haven't seen either. Nineteen ninety nine. Okay, so this
will be like somewhere in the area of mister nice guy and who am I
and stuff like that. This was him preparing for rush hour, So this
is this is like peak then, yeah, this is high quality cinema.
I'm sure. Yeah, and not not gonna, you know, look down
on this or anything. I'm sure I'm gonna love it. The plot soon
becomes more complicated after the beautiful Boo finds a message in a bottle. She
travels to Hong Kong and search with the writer of the note, believing him
to be her true love. She instead falls in love with a professional fighter
CN played by Jackie of course, and then a bitter rivals rise to the
surface in this all out action packed romantic comedy. I don't think I've ever
heard of romantic comedy called action packed. Well, I've heard of that,
but not in a long time. And I feel like that's something we have
been sorely missing out on. Well, and you know, Brad Allen got
down there with the boxing glove. He was an Australian stuntman martial artists and
he was in a bunch of Jackie Chan movies around this time. Starting with
Drunken Master three and tragically died at age forty eight just last year. So
I'm glad to get a chance to see some of his stuff, you know,
as an actor in front, in front of the camera, rather than
being hidden as a stunt performer. Yeah, it was pretty good. Yeah,
We've mentioned this kind of before on the show, but stunt performers really
don't get the attention and recognition they deserve, especially one from the past that
obviously unions and OSHA and everything. Nowadays stuff is a lot safer. It's
still not super safe, but the stuff that people went through from like the
sixties to the early nineties on some of these sets, I'm you're essentially donating
your body to science. So just big, big, you know, props
to everybody that was in that field. Yeah. I always remember the flashback
sequence of Singing in the Rain where Gene Kelly is talking about his early days
and film doing his own stunts and everything, and all the slapstick of buildings
following on him. This there's a safety nothing at all. It's not much
of an exaggeration. And genuinely, when are we ever going to get an
Oscar presentation for people in stuntwork. It is beyond necessary. Yeah. I
don't understand why there's not more advocacy for it. It seems like a no
brainer. I think it's because certain actors don't like it. I like to
have Audiencess be reminded that they're not really doing what it looks like they're doing.
Maybe either that or everybody's pissed off because Tom Cruise would win it every
year. Next announcement, Snake and Crane Arts of shell Land. This is
coming in the UK from eighty eight Films. I mean, first of all,
didn't they release a like a standard release of this previously? And this
is I believe this is gonna come out as just a big release from them,
more of a limited edition, which kind of weird because the first one
only came out a couple of years ago. I think I have that right.
I may be wrong there. This one is more of classic peak era
Chan. This is from seventy eight. And what about this era of Chan?
Were you ever into it? Yeah? Okay, so this there's a
flashback. I must have been fourteen or fifteen and the mercer mal in Bluefield,
West Virginia went into a disc jockey CD store and they had a little
display of like three ninety nine VHS tapes and I got this in Killer Meteors.
Yeah, and these are the first Jackie Chan movies I ever saw.
And then soon after that Roman the Bronx came out in theaters, so that
I saw that. But I really, you know, even though it was
a bad like pan scan hack job of VHS, I really got in and
this is this is a lot less of the humorous Jackie Chan and we know,
more more straight up martial arts and I really got into it. So
I'm excited to see this when supposed to look you know. Yeah, and
eighty eight films. If you don't have any of his, any of his,
any of their Jackie Chan releases, they are you know, they basically
they worship at the ground of Chan over there, and they've given the utmost
respect to all of these. If you're gonna jump in, this is a
really good one to start in to find that bare like raw type of martial
arts film with Jackie Chan. And it's one that a lot of people saw
and they don't really remember because it was, you know, staticky on a
TV channel that you don't remember from nineteen ninety four. It would come on
at three o'clock in the morning and you wouldn't see everything. And it was
probably one of those old pan and scan scans. And this is gonna be
mind blowing if you haven't seen it in the last thirty years. So completely
recommend this one. Next up, eighty eight Films oddly releasing Miami Vice from
two thousand and six. We don't know anything about this is the this is
the picture they're using. I'm kind of surprised they didn't announce this in four
K. I feel like it would have been a great time to do that.
We need more Michael Mann and four K and it's a I kind of
think that this is a little bit of a slept on movie. I think
it's better than people give it credit for. Jamie Foxx, Colin Ferrell,
Michael Mann. I mean, what do you complain about. I was kind
of prejudiced against Michael Man same period of time that I did my stupid Martin
Swiss as you think, and I've since made up for most of the Michael
Man gaps. But I never saw my advice. But a former student now
friend of mine, Cleaton Delert, who's now a writer and sometime actor in
La he swears by this movie, and I've grown to trust him, so
I'm gonna finally see it soon. I think if if Man Hunter is like
the Michael Manified version of Silence and the Lambs and Red Dragon, this is
literally just the Michael Manified version of the TV show, and that's to me,
that's a pretty damn good formula for for something that I'd appreciate. I
mean, I adore Man Hunter, and obviously he is a classic and there's
a handful of others that we could really get into because man is just that
incredible of a director, But Miami Advice it is unfairly hated. I think
another major announcement just kind of came out of nowhere from Cauldron, and we
got a couple more that we're going to go to from them. I just
watched this this week. City of the Living Dead from nineteen eighty is coming
in four k UHD is Cauldron's first UHD title. You said that you love
The Beyond. How do you feel about City of the Living Dead? So
I'm a huge fan of City Living Dead. It doesn't make sense in all
the right ways, you know, it's a oh put that on the cover.
I hope Cauldron heard that. I love the movie. It's truly an
atmosphere experience and atmospheric experience. Plus my favorite at this time, apprentice director
Mikaylae Suave has the best death scene in this movie. That's that's the Drills
of the Head. And uh, I love mikaylay Swaby. You know,
listeners, I'm sure no stage fright and the church and cemetery man and now
he's doing TV is doing that Rocko SCAIONI popular police show in Italy right now.
But anyway, you know, he's in everything. He's that, he's
the guy in Demon's He's the guy in in in all the you know he
did he did that great documentary about her Gento Dari and Shinto's World of Darkness.
Why am I talking about? Oh yeah, he's in my favorite scene
in the City and Dead. So yeah, this is this is great fault
gy I. I love it. I'm so excited about it. There there
is so much in this film. Uh and literally just having watched this last
weekend and then to have this announcement really brightened my week. Uh. It
was such a nice way to revisit this kind of a blink because it had
been a couple of years, but I I love how many iconic scenes are
in this film. I love the amount of just shock, pure shock that
comes out of some of the scenes in this film. What's going on by
fur and I think this was I think this was either my first or second
Fulcie film. I can never remember. I don't know if I saw this
or Zombie first. But the full on and really it's an adjective now at
this point, but the full on fulginess of this movie is so shocking.
If you've never watched it at all, it kind of grips you and never
lets go. I mean the car scene where you see the hanging priest and
a woman literally vomiting up her guts and I say literally because Fulcie had her
do it. That is just shocking. Even the seance scene in the beginning
of shocking. The maggot scene is awful in this movie so much. But
really, the thing I want to really highlight for those that have not seen
this in a while, the coffin scene that Quentin Tarantino stole for Kill Bill.
It is such a masterpiece of filmmaking that I I it will change you.
This movie is fantastic it's a fever dream in some spots, but Fullchi
is just he is a maestro period. There's not really much else that you
can say, and speaking you know, heavily on Full Chi can really just
bring out everything for me. And I want to say nineteen sentences at once,
and I end up just kind of blabbering because he's so amazing. All
that to say, this is incredible. We don't have a release day yet,
but four K coming out in twenty twenty three, and this is their
first four K and for Cauldron that is very exciting. That is a huge
deal. And for anybody worried because you have the Scorpion releasing that new four
K scan that they did it was not on a UHD disc. It looks
great. I'm not going to take that away from them. But Jesse did
say they don't want to just release the same stuff. This is going to
be getting a lot of new special features and I don't think this is wrong
in me to say so. Nobody repeat this everywhere. Sam Degan confirmed that
she is involved, so she will have something on that disc and I just
can't wait. This is going to be a remarkable release and I again I'm
just so excited. I think between Fulci and our Genta, I think those
those are the most like multiple buys of versions of movies that I've ever had
to do. And I don't I don't mind it because it's always there are
always these great improvements. Yeah, and somehow these films from decades prior.
I mean, this is a forty two year old film. It looks incredible.
Even that Scorpion blu ray looks remarkable. And Fulci Fulci knew how to
film. He was really great at what he does. So I can't wait
to see it. That's another good Stephen Thrower book to check out his behnest
look. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do have that one. I
was trying to think if that's the one that I've read a lot of.
Yes, Thrower, just amazing. Speaking of Cauldron, they also updated their
coming suon section on their site. We are seeing now the House of Lost
Souls from eighty nine, Cries and Shadows from seventy five, the House of
Clocks from eighty nine, and then I think there was one more. What
is it in the second picture? Yeah, there it is the House of
Clocks from eighty nine. Yeah, all right, So there are some exciting
titles coming out of Cauldron. They have some decent connections. It looks like
some of these titles people have wanted for a while. I hope that we
can keep seeing stuff like City of the Living Dead, like The House of
Clocks. These are pretty big deals. I'm stoked. Oh yeah, there's
you know, it's another Fulci movie. And there's only that I'm aware of
a kind of bad DVD release to that. So this is great maness.
Now, one of our other discussion group chats that I've got, we've been
talking. I I really think that one of these labels need to start picking
up some stuff that's not his famous cult stuff. We really need some of
the like the the old comedy, some of the westerns he did. We
need some of the brand, like the very modern Folci titles. Nobody's releasing
those and just putting his name on there, it would explode. He did
a sex comedy, The Eroticist. Yeah, m m ya put out Yeah,
get on, please, somebody. I feel like Severn could do a
killer box set with a bunch of Fulci titles. So funny to think of
a Luccio Fulci sex comedy, knowing knowing that the body horror that could be
in that. I'm I'm still excited somehow. Yeah, let's see. Keno
announced November twenty ninth we were getting Inspector, my gray double feature from forty
two and forty three. This is in French with English subs, and it's
got a couple of trailers, but that is all they announced. I don't
know anything about these old French noar, It's just never been my thing.
How about yourself, Well, I just started I just started watching the new
series of Margrant with mister Bean Roan Atkinson in the title role. It was
pretty good. So and I've never really seen any you know, these other
you know series films of the characters. So probably not something I'll want to
make shelf space for, but something I would definitely want to figure out how
to rener per see. I didn't think we were going to be deep diving
into this topic. But how good is Rowan Atkinson? Like genuinely one of
the greatest actors of all time? He's great, uh, you know,
his his sketch comedy and not the nine o'clock news. That ensemble I think
deserves to be thought of and spoken of in the same breath as Monty Python
and Early Saturday Alive. That show was fantastic, and then black Adder of
course is the greatest ever, nothing, nothing over touched back and even the
the Superman stream stuff that he's done from obviously mister Bean and the classic rat
Race. Uh Miss Roan Atkinson. He is supposedly just like extremely detailed and
really focused on set, and everybody that works with him like just fascinated with
his ability to take anything that he's given and turn it into a masterpiece.
I just always I've always loved that about him, you know. And there's
there's always been something kind of working class about about his comedy. Whereas the
Monty Python guys guys are all like elite pah, which is fine, but
Ron Atkinson's characters are always so relatable and on there's never any like ironic separation.
Right now he is these characters. And I haven't seen the b thing
that he did for Netflix shit, but I'm gonna check it out. I
watched it. I definitely wanted to. I love the guy. Next up,
this is a kickstart of that is running right now. The Magician is
getting a new k restoration and limited addition Blu Ray from Redwook, red Wood
Creek Films. This is the nineteen twenty sixth film, and this was considered
lost for many years. Carlos Klaren's wrote that it was perhaps the most elusive
of lost films, and since the time that he wrote that, various prints
of the film have surfaced. Some have screened to independent movie festivals from nineteen
ninety three onwards, which again, it seems odd to call it lost when
that was, you know, thirty years ago, but it was gone for
almost seventy years. Literally the film has been shown on TCM, remained commercially
unavailable on Blu Ray until this release, and in twenty twenty two, thanks
to the acquisition of a new sixteen millimeters black and white print from nineteen twenty
six, a new four K scan is possible. I believe they have already
met their goal, but they are still looking for more, obviously to be
able to continue with projects like this. And you can score your limited edition
region free Blu Ray right now. It's not going to be a burn Blu
Ray. They are pressing it and the number of copies is going to be
based on how many people promote it. It will not be available elsewhere.
It is only a Kickstarter exclusive, so if you want that, the link
is there four K restoration of The Magician. How do you feel about this?
Obviously this is at least Todd Browning adjacent. Yeah, well so Rex
Hitchcock is the director, no relation. Uh, he is an Irish director.
He's probably that's known for the Silent Version of Prison, Prisoner of zend
Zenda, and Garden of a Law. I don't know anything about The Magician,
but yeah, you're right that based on the description that I've read about,
it's definitely in the in the realm of the macabre and the and the
Todd Browning stuff that all looked so much, which we'll get too later.
I don't have any money get the Kickstarter, but I'm gonna I'm gonna click
on the link and I want to think about it. Well, thankfully.
And I had this open and I closed it earlier because I was going to
talk about this tonight. The Kickstarter for this, it's fairly reasonably priced.
The blu ray is uh, let's see it is it's fifty over that fifty
euros. I think that's that simple. I know that sounds like a lot,
but for a film like this, that is literally almost one hundred years
old. I think that it's going to a decent place and it's literally never
going to be available anywhere else. So if you really want it, now
is the time, and this release the campaign it was only a four thousand
dollars goal and they've already released. Sorry, they've already reached almost ten grand
and it is open for another thirty two days. So if you got to
save up till the next paycheck, you got plenty of time. Next one,
coming on November first, from sand Piper Pictures is Dream Lover from nineteen
ninety four James Spader and the Lovely Match and a Mick. This is a
wonderful sexually charged HITCHCOCKI and tight web of suspense. But one thing I wanted
to point out a lot of people have been waiting on this one for a
a good home video release that is fully uncut, and unfortunately, from the
run time that they are announcing, it looks like this will be the theatrical
cut and not the unrated cut that people have wanted for a long time.
And it's one of those that's like very cut. It's like seventeen minutes shorter
or something like that. I can't exactly remember the number, but it's supposedly
a very different cut. I've never seen the unrated cut. Very few people
have, I guess, but I'm not even sure if I've seen the theatrical
it seems familiar to me. But I know anything about this offhand? What
about you? I don't want to sound like creeper anything. Oh god,
no, I please release all of the like the erotic thrillers. I want
all of them in my veins. Look, man, this came out when
I was sixteen, and there's some there's some scenes with Match and Benner.
I can't imagine what the cut version of the uncut version looks like. And
you know James Spader had iron of these uh yeah, you know with Crash.
Yeah, that was the one I just saw Mark Frost actually directed.
Well, anyway, I remember I was sixteen when it came out. I
remember nothing from this movie except for the erotic scenes, and which I vaguely
remember. But I remember at the time being like, oh my god,
I'm you know, so, I I hope I'll sound like a bad guy
because obviously I don't mean to objectify, but that's it is. It's erotic
thriller. And it preys upon your your feelings for such things. Storyville.
That's the movie. I'm trying to think of another erotic thriller that came out
around that at same time, directed by Mark Frost, also with Twin Peaks
connection James Spader. Ah, I think it was a ninety two or ninety
three, so James Spader was on this run anyway, I don't remember the
movie. I'm really curious to see it see if it's good. I'm tolly
forgot about Secretary. Yeah that was great, so, you know, and
god damn, you know, James Spader was gorgeous, you know. Oh
yeah, and just he had that quality of guzzy sleaziness that was somehow still
kind of like attractive and cool. Yep. You know if I were Molly
Ringwall, I would have gone for him. Yeah, pretty in pink.
You know What's funny. Spader has always been so recognizable and such like literally
a tour de force actor and most most of the things that he does,
and everybody view him as just sort of being in a lot of stuff for
a very long time. If you go to his IMDb, Spader only has
fifty four acting credits over his entire career, which compared to people his age
that started around when he did that, that is very small, especially considering
that includes you know, multiple TV shows. It's got stuff like the Office
in there. But he started acting. His first credit was in seventy eight,
and he only has fifty four credits. That's a she really goes to
show when you got the quality, that quantity really doesn't matter anywhere near as
much. Yeah. I just pulled up his filmography and I'm looking for a
bad movie. And there are movies at don't I don't think are great,
great, But I don't see a single movie that I've seen that I would
call bad. I'm sure there's gotta beople. Well, I totally forgot he
was in sex Salizing Videotape too, such a great movie. Yeah. Anyways,
enough enough fawning over Spader. Now coming go ahead. Oh sorry,
Well, next to Crash. My favorite Spader film is Mannequin. Let me
look through the list. I might have something else, let me see I
mean Wall Street Classic. Uh yeah, mine might be Crashed too. Oh
gosh, he's done so much great stuff. I'm gonna say Avengers Age of
Ultron. That was a joke. Nobody stabbed me. Oh, sadly John
took the joke. He just commented Age of Ultron's bad. Well, he
was just a voice actor. That's a paycheck. That's o bit uh Keeno.
Announced coming soon, Hell Is for Heroes from sixty two. This gets
a brand new twenty twenty two master from a two K scan of a thirty
five millimeter fine grain print. Starring Steve McQueen and directed by Don Siegel.
From Invasion of the Bodies and Charlie Verrick and Escape from Alcatraz. So big
names associate with this, and somehow I don't think I've ever seen it because
it's not really my style, but I'm certainly interested in it now Hell's for
Heroes. Yeah, this hasn't been easily available. I've seen some VHS copies,
but I never got to see it before. I loved Seagull, and
you know, this era of war movies, I'm kind of a sucker for.
Yeah, so, and Seagull's work and these kinds of set pieces is
just great. So that's that's a definite watch for me. Escape from Alcatraz
was a big one for me growing up. I don't know if it was
the California of it all, being a kid from California, I visited.
I've been on the Alcatraz Island a couple of times. I did on those
tours when I was like five, where they had somebody that used to be
a prisoner there signing books and giving a cool talk about it and everything.
Yeah. I love some of those eras of films, but the war films
just never got to me. But this sounds fantastic. Yeah, oh man,
you know, I'd say another really great one that Kino puts out of
Segull from around this era is The gun Runners, which is another adaptation of
to Have It Have Not with Audie Murphy and Eddie Albert. Eddie Albert is
great in this film. Keino is hard to talk about because they just it's
an endless barrage of titles and every single week. You know, I'm not
saying they're all great. There's a couple duds, no doubt, but they
put out so much stuff that they've got so many classics, especially nowadays,
they kind of got big in like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. Now they've
got that Keno Luber money and they're just putting out everything. Yeah, that
kind of looks amazing. My wish list on their site is just un ending.
It's like a Twitter scroll exactly. And for those that don't know,
Kino absolutely great to pre order from directly. They usually are at least a
few dollars cheaper than everyone else, and if you time it where you're getting
at least fifty dollars with the titles. You get free shipping, and it's
not just like media mail. They ship you ups and it's pretty good shipping,
and it's fast, and I mean, just great service overall. Next
up kind of a cool one for me because I've had the owner of Dead
Vision Productions on here. This is the Gainesville Ripper coming from Dead Visions Productions
with a co partner of Severed Cinema. This is from twenty ten and one
of the reasons that I knew that I had to pre order this, which,
by the way, this is available now. It released last night at
midnight. They are only putting out one hundred copies of this on Blu Ray.
So if you want this, go to Deadvision Productions dot com. Before
I go through this rant, open another tab check it out. I hosted
this announcement and somebody within literally like five minutes commented and said this is atrocious
that they would make a movie about a real killer. How are you doing
this? I'm from Gatesville and all this other long rant, and I'm like,
you know what, I'm buying a copy. How could you make a
movie about a real killer? Exactly? Like, there's not been one hundred
and ninety three other films in the last two years premiered on Netflix alone about
real killers. I'm definitely sympathetic to people who are sensitive about especially if they're
from the era area or removed through it of dramatizations or exploitation of real people
being you know, killed. So I get that, but you can't stop
it, right, there's nothing to be done about it, and not to
mention through our like this is the way that we are going to learn as
a society and try to weed out the ridiculousness. So you're all about it.
Yeah. For those that don't know anything about this, which I also
did not before this was announced. In the year nineteen ninety, the college
town of Gainesville, Florida, becomes a blood soaked hunting ground as a serial
killer ravages the community and leaves a trail of depravity and horror in his wake.
Who will be next and how will he be stopped? Based on the
real life and crimes of Danny Rowling, this film has been all but lost
after its initial theatrical release in twenty ten. First off astonished that this got
a theatrical release in twenty ten with something like The Gainesville Ripper. This special
edition two k blu ray includes an exclusive interview with the director Josh Townsend,
never before seen shorts, trailers, and more, and they are giving its
first ever disc release, meaning it was never even on DVD and this was
released just twelve years ago. I mean, I got a buddy who was
from Gainesville would have been a kid at the time. I might have to
ask you about this interesting all right? So the yeah Dead Vision Productions dot
Com. It is available now then on Sunday. Keino also announced in four
k uhd Ryan Johnson's Brick from two thousand and five, starring Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Uh Brick. Do you how do you feel about this one? Because
I know that this is a bit of a divisive film. Yeah, you
know, Okay, so I have not seen it. Oh but I but
I teach a course every now and then called the rhetoric of adolescence in American
high school films, and and one of my assignments is all the students have
to pick a movie that's not on my syllabus and give a presentation about it.
And I remember a student who thought this movie was just the best and
gave a great presentation and made me interested in it. And I got a
DVD that's been sitting in a stack for a couple of years. So maybe
I'll just go ahead and do the four K and ce uh you know,
I've definitely read reviews that are mad, but it seems like an interesting concept.
And Ryan Johnson's, you know, an interesting director. Yeah, and
it's before he got all of his uh you know, Star Wars hate.
Obviously, Justin Gordon Levitt is great in it, and I think one of
the reasons that it's pretty divisive is it's not it's just not a traditional film.
It definitely steps out of the normal mold and uh, brick is brick
is It's pretty special. And really it's entirely entirely because of Joseph Joseph Gordon
Levitt, the dude when he's given a great script. Joseph Gordon Levitt is
just a remarkable remarkable vessel for good work. I I've always appreciated what he's
done, even with something that you know could be taking as cheesy, like
Five Hundred Days of Summer. He is fantastic in that film. On the
back covered is Joseph Gott Third Rock from the Sun. No, it says
Joseph Gordon Levitt angels in the outfield. Oh man, Yeah, I love
that we're spending multiple times talking about Third Rock from the Sun alumni. Tonight
next up in four K featuring French Stewart. No, I'm kidding home alone
four Oh gosh, I think there's five or six of those now, and
I don't believe it. Uh and timely enough. The kid that played Buzz
in that first film, uh kind of got me too, canceled this week.
He's got some major allegations against him. Yeah what Yeah, No,
I hadn't heard that Buzz McCallister is. Uh. He just started in a
not starred. He played a minor role in Uh Kimmy from Steven Soderberg.
And yes, supposedly he is in some hot water at the moment. Ah.
Man, that's a shame. I hadn't right. Just so, Manville
says, we need a French stupart thriller. The next he can be the
next Macgrant, except played completely seriously. All right after Sunday, we rolled
around on Monday to some shout Factory announcements and they are decent. I mean,
this first one really caught me by surprise. The Company of Wolves from
nineteen eighty four is coming direct to four K. I don't think this was
ever on Blu Ray, at least in the States. This is coming,
Like I said, November twenty second, featuring Angela Lansbury. A lot of
people will recognize a couple of scenes that they've been kind of like widely circulated
from this film once again a noteword on extras or anything like that. But
this is a collector's edition from Screen Factory, so hopefully they do well by
the title and put a lot on it. Is this This seems like one
that you would have watched as a kid quite a bit. Yeah, and
I've only ever seen it on VHS and it's Neil Jordan, you know.
So I'm looking for some color, I'm looking for some shadow. I'm pretty
excited about this. Yeah, this was a pretty big deal in the eighties
especially, I mean Angela Lansbury has been a star for like since the dawn
of time, essentially. I am astonished. I believe she's still alive,
right, Yeah, she is ninety five at this point. Yeah. And
her niece is in I'm Dangerous Tonight. Yeah, she's ninety seven. Yeah,
Angela Lansbury's ninety seven. I love her in the film Gaslight. Gaslight
is amazing. It's so good wall Away. Yeah, and we're gonna talk
about shout Factory and Screen Factory more in just a second after we go through
all these announcements, because there's kind of a lot to talk about them.
This week, shout Factory announced A Kind of Loving featuring Alan Bates from nineteen
sixty two, the debut full length feature film from Acclaim director John Strauschinger,
who did Midnight Cowboy. A Kind of Loving stars Alan Bates as Vic Brown,
a young draftsman who search for love leads to Ingrid Rothwell played by Jude
Ritchie, an employee in the company. Ingrid quickly falls in love with Vic,
but when she becomes pregnant, Vic only reluctantly agrees to marry her,
finding himself forced into a life he never wanted. Vic resents Ingrid and the
position of sudden responsibility. When Ingrid ends up losing the baby, Vic,
spurred on by the acid tongue remarks of his sour mother in law, makes
a decision that could change all of their lives forever. This is shout Factory,
not scream Factory. It's more of a drama than a than a horror.
But uh, I don't think I've ever seen this one. I kind
of loving I haven't either. I'm so excited about this because you know,
Schlessinger's second film was Billy Liar, you know, and and uh he did
Marathon Man, he did Yanks, he did There's another movie that doesn't have
a Blu Ray release yet that I hope they get to that he did with
Julie Christie called Darling. So I'm hoping this is the first of a few
re releases of this stuff. Truly great director. Yeah. Yeah, Sunday
Blo Sunday Yeah, which I believe that just got either announced or just came
out from imprint, I think if I remember right, Oh yeah, oh,
and Criterion has an addition too, I believe. Yeah. Uh uh.
This release is exciting to me for one major reason. And I feel
like a lot of people, and I've been victim. Victim, I've been
guilty of this myself, looking at films from this era as being very tame
and really kind of like light on cinema. Every once in a while,
you'll watch a film that has a plot that is still so relevant and still
so punchy that like this one sounds like that, you just realize cinema has
always just kind of been there. And obviously we've got the Hayes Code and
stuff like that that has changed the way that cinema was made. But some
of these plot lines are things that they still affect society today. And it's
not only things that you can relate to, but they're the real, the
raw they are they go there and a lot of these films. We talked
about that with Sam Degan when I had her on, and I've I've got
a lot of discussions previously on films from the sixties and previous that just really
don't back down. Even a film like Gaslight has some major major plot lines
that people, you know, they just like don't believe that they happen in
films back then, and I don't understand it. It just seems like people
don't ever want to branch out. Yeah, everything was in black and white
and people didn't open their mouths when they kissed. Yeah, that's basically it.
This next one is an interesting one. This is coming whoops, let
me go up to the rollerball is coming in four K from a screen factory.
This is getting four K only. This will not contain a Blu Ray
disc, and some people are up in arms. This is just one of
the reasons. We're going to talk about some other shout factory controversy after going
through these announcements. But the reason this only has a four K disc is
because Scorpion put out the Blu Ray in the US and they had an exclusive
on run in Flix and that came out like early twenty twenty one or early
twenty twenty and it's just now getting a wide Blu Ray release where it's coming
to other retailers and that's coming out like this month, literally in September.
So whether you want Blu Ray or four K, that's what's going to dictate
which version you get your choice. I've got the Twilight Time Blu Ray,
so I don't know what I'm gonna do. Well, And there was also
a I think it was from k Plight in Germany. There was this giant,
like eighty dollars four K release that had like six discs of Rollerball and
it had all kinds of problems, so a lot of people had that.
I think that thing had two replacement discs for one movie. Wow. Yeah,
So Rollerball, this one is kind of you pretty much always know it.
This is an odd film. The big thing it's got James con in
it Rest in Peace recently one of the best of all time. This is
a decent performance from him, but an odd thing here. This is not
a collector's edition, but they're still releasing a poster with it, which is
not usually the case with Shout Factory. So if you have always wanted a
really nice Rollerball poster, it'll be a poster. I won't say that it's
really nice, but yeah, you'll get a you'll get a poster and four
k uh. You know Norman Jewison, who who is really the first Canadian
director to make it in Hollywood, made several really good films, Cincinnati Kid
and Thomas Crownfair, both with Stephen McQueen. He you know, he's a
pretty good director that doesn't get a lot of He did. He did the
film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. In fact, that was the film he
did right before Rollerball. So and Rollerball is a little cheesy, but it's
it's still a decent film. So it is Jesus Christ Superstar. Yeah,
yeah, for sure. But but but you know, the guy had range,
and yeah, so I I encourage people to check his films out.
To go from James con and Rollerball to Jesus Christ Superstar. You gotta have
range either that or you're you're gonna face some creative problems, that's for sure.
And so here's nineteen seventy three to nineteen seventy six normOn Jewison does Jesus
Christ Superstar, Rollerball, and Fist with Sylvester Stallone. So there you go.
Well, and he worked with some incredible actors just in those few years.
That's a pretty good run. Next up, one of the more exciting
announcements for a lot of people we are getting this is from the Shout select
line. This is a nice little box set, the Sunny Chiba Collection.
This has seven films in this seven films all coming on I believe it's four
yeah, four discs, and one of the coolest things seven films. You
can buy this from shout Factory Direct right now for sixty bucks for seven sunny
cheap of films. That is a remarkably low price for a box set like
this. Well, but even better prices are usually lower elsewhere, so you
might be able to get this for like fifty from a Grindhouse video eventually,
or if you're gonna, you know, buy from Amazon, which I hope
that you're choosing better retailers, but this will probably sell for you know,
on sale. I could see this going for forty forty five with the sixty
dollars original price. And these are good movies too, oh Man, Samurai
Reincarnation, Bodyguard. Yeah, the seven films we got, we got Yakuza
Wolf, we got Yakuza Wolf two, Extend My Condolences. Disc two we
got Bodyguard Kiba and Bodyguard Kiba two. Disc three Showgun Shadow and Samurai Reincarnation,
and then Disc four we got Swords of Vengeance. We got a bunch
of extras, but we don't know about those yet. They will announce them
later. I really hope, by the way, another rest in Peace.
In the last year, Sony Chiba gone from us now, I really hope
there's some sort of nice tribute to him on there. I hope so too.
That guy was great. You know, we haven't really talked about Quentin
Tarantino together. I've got very complicated feelings about him, but I'm eternally grateful
for the proselytizing that Tarantino did for Sonny Chiapa through true Romance and Kill Bill.
In fact, I don't know how many people know this been trivia,
but Ezekio Bible quote that Sam Jackson says in pulp Fiction is actually lifted from
the epigraph of Bodyguard keepas So that's that was the first time I saw a
Boudy Guarchia. I was like, God, damn it, he didn't even
read his own bible. Uh. Tarantino obviously known for literally just straight lifting
scenes out of many Asian films. Yeah, I agree. I have lots
and lots of conflicted thoughts on Tarantino. I think a lot of people worship
him, and maybe sometimes rightfully so in their mind because maybe that's all they've
seen. But other times he is very much just like the film bro equal
of you know, of a film scholar, and I really wish people sought
out deeper levels of film analysis and if you really take a part what he
says in a lot of his film analysis, in his podcast, in his
interviews, in his commentaries, it is very surface level stuff. Not that
that's bad necessarily, we've all been there, we all need to be there
sometimes, but man, uh yeah, you can go a lot deeper than
Tarantino surface level. That's exact adjective I was. I would have said,
you know, And I'm so grateful we all have to be for his impact
on home video, right like when when pulp fiction hit and he started doing
the Quentin Tarantino who present Swollowing thunder Pictures stuff, he single handedly revitalized the
market for restoring exploitation and horror and calls on the video and and and rescuing
the careers of people like Robert Forster who who deserved I mean, jack I'm
go on record and say Jackie Brown is his best film in my opinion,
and namely because of Forster and Pangreer, but his films themselves, I just
get, yeah, gatway, that's that's a good way of putting it.
I don't I actually I don't own any Tarantino films. I just I always
eventually see him, and I like pulling apart, like, oh, this
is from that, and this is from that, and this is from that.
But it's it's less collage and more pastiche in my opinion. Yeah,
and I'm not going to take away you know, a lot of them are
well done, and I love pretty much everything. I've seen most of them
in the theaters, and I will probably see everything he makes in the theaters
no matter what. But there's certainly some question choices along the way. Well,
we'll stop that one there. Some cheap a collection looks pretty yeah.
Next up, Used Cars. This is a classic comedy from Roberts mechis coming
in four K from Shout Select. This is from nineteen eighty releasing on November
fifteenth. Kurt Russell doing very young Kurt Russell things in this movie, and
it's this is a banger. This is also very slept on. I'm sure
you've seen Used Cars once, you're twelve times. Yeah, not in a
long time, though. I think I saw it on like it might have
even been edited on TNT or something. I might have seen it in full,
like on Cinemax or HBO. So when I saw this announcement, I
was pretty pleased. Because that's when I want to revisit I mean, Jack
Warden, Kurt Russell, Oh yeah, yeah, this is a This is
a great one. This has a previous Shouts Select release, so it's not
a brand new title from them, But this is one that certainly needs to
be in more people's eyeballs. And obviously, if you're into Zemechis and a
lot of the other like giant name titles that he's done, you'll see a
lot of the early foundation of Zamechas in this film. These cars really really
good stuff. One that people most of the time have seen. Piranha.
This is a Corman title from nineteen seventy eight, coming in a four K
collector's edition. This is also available in a bundle with an exclusive limited addition
enamel pin set you can see here. And this is probably not gonna look
real well as I zoom this in, so I apologize to everybody watching.
But one of the cool things I love that New World Pictures presents pin in
that corner there is fantastic and I really wish they had done like a New
World Pictures teacher. That would have been amazing. Yeah, I really like
Parana. I'm also a big Defender of the Modern Purana remake and the Pirana
three what is it Prana double d is? I don't think called the second
one. There's so much fun this one on four K. This is gonna
look great. There was a lot of really amazing filmmakers that had their hand
in this. Unfortunately, let me let me make sure. I think there's
one or two more from Shout Okay, there's nothing else big. So this
is where we're going to talk about some of the the the problems with Shout
Factory people are having right now Paranha and four K. We are getting a
lot of releases getting announced from Shout Factory that are four K upgrades of their
previous films that they've put out with essentially no new special features. I don't
think Paranha, let me look at the list here, I don't think there
is anything new other than the four K scan. No, nothing new on
this one. So they also do the same to us with Return of the
Living Dead, Army of Darkness, a couple others. Some of them they're
they're doing really well, Like they announced the Halloween box set that's coming out
in four K, and the special features for that. Resurrection is getting like
nine new features, which who needs that? I'm gonna love them, but
uh, what do you think? What do you think about these coming out
with no new special features in a four K box? Well, I'll tell
you what I want to see as a special feature in Halloween Resurrection Bust Rhymes
performing in a castle in Ireland, literally singing Ryan Adams everything I do,
I do. I'd like to see. You know, there's an ethics to
double dipping, and and I feel like, you know, for those who
have the four K technology and are really into the restorations, it's great to
see these recently released raditions getting getting the upgrade. I do know they could.
They can at least get another interview in there, you know. I
mean with Space Truckers, they at least got a new Barbara Crampton interview.
You think Joe Dante doesn't want to talk some more about his movies, come
on, hell, I'll do a commentary. I know a lot about fron
So I do. I do think it's unfortunate and frankly, for me,
there are a lot of those titles I'm not gonna upgrade, partly and partly
because I don't think the the the difference in picture is going to be that
much to make to make it worth it, and that's that's really all you
can do is uh to make an impact on shouts. Slash stream has declined.
Yeah, I see both sides here. With some of the other titles,
Return of the Living Dead is the best example of this that has been
out of print for ages. There there was a viral picture that went around
like eighteen months ago, taken I believe in Missouri where I'm here living in
Missouri right now, from one of the vintage stocks in the area, which
is like a reseller place you can go trade in, use, buy new,
get some store credit type place, and they were selling wrapped a new
wrapped version of Return to Living Dead for ninety dollars. Hell I a copy
well, and the crazy thing that thing was selling with a slipcover for like
one hundred and twenty dollars to collectors because they wanted the slip for the longest
time. So I understand when something goes out of print and now you're release
it on four K with no new extras, even it's for all the people
that missed out, it's a great opportunity to get it. On the other
hand, I also understand the issue of I love these films, I would
have loved to see something new on it, and just the new restoration may
not be enough to entice me. I will say, if that's what you're
feeling, the release just probably isn't for you, And that's okay, And
that's what you should understand as a person in this hobby. Not every release
is going to be made for you. If Piranha is one of your favorite,
you know, like top ten films of all time, and you want
the absolute best release, this is probably gonna be it. And this may
be one that you upgrade because you want to see one of your top ten
favorite films in four K with the best you know, deepest blacks possible,
with HDR and everything, so you shell out for it. No big deal.
But I mean, in all reality, you don't have to buy any
of these. So there's a lot of complaints right now. The biggest thing
to really love as a as a lover of film, as a lover of
just cinema in general, is the fact that we are archiving and storing for
the rest of time and humanity a very important film to the history of cinema.
Piranha in the best possible quality read. Yeah. Absolutely. The fact
that you can get it at all, it is pretty cool. Yeah.
I mean the fact that we have a film from one of the most prolific
filmmakers of all time, from nineteen seventy eight and with already a litany of
bonus features, and now you can get it in the highest possible home video
format that will probably ever exist. That's kind of amazing. I doubt we
ever see eight K discs, and if so, we will likely never see
Piranha. I'm not going eight kd No never, There's no way. I
yeah, we've talked about before. I don't see it happening. I wouldn't
even really know what that would mean. That's a good point. We went
from ten adp to twenty one sixty, so that would be God, that
would be math. I can't do in my head right now because I'm exhausted.
Summer Ghost from twenty twenty one is coming from Chat Factor November. First.
This is an anime title coming from G Kids. I know nothing about
it. Did you have something about Summer Ghost? No, just it's a
kid's movie about kids who are about to touch their death. So hey sounds
like a family night in my house. It really does. Dustin also wanted
to highlight some of the recent Shout Scream releases have arrived with fingerprints and scratches
on the disc two or the the off gassing. Have you heard about that
one? No? Oh yeah, I saw some picture, so I think
this is the one that had it worse online. This is my copy of
Child's Play two. Let me see if I can show this. So those
on this side that kind of look like smudges, yeah it is. I
mean, we see if I can get a good reflection here and watch it
kind of looks where is there we go? It is look at that it
is like greasy, and they claimed it's the word off gassing. But the
hard thing which a lot of people are just immediately attacking Shout and Scream factory
with this, it is not just them. So there is only one disc
manufacturer in all of North America. It is located in Mexico, and a
lot of companies are having this problem right now. Criterion is facing it,
Kino is facing it, and it's not just Shout and Scream. Shout and
Scream is just one of the most popular boutique labels because they do very mainstream
horror films, so they get noticed more and that's what a lot of collectors
love. So it's happening very much across the board. And all I can
say, and I've said this in a few of my videos before, when
you buy something, open it, open it, make sure it's not damaged,
make sure you have the right disc, make sure that it's something that
you bought and it's all there and ready to go. What do you think
a lot of people are saying that this is QC errors from Shout Factory and
they don't understand Shout Factory doesn't put these discs in the cases. Yeah,
I'm actually spoke. I was thinking about how many discs are stacked up that
are unopened in here. I was getting a little nervous. Yeah, I've
certainly been there before. Imprint has announced a Father's Day flash sale twenty percent
off, and this confused a lot of people that follow my page because they
are in the United States and they don't realize that Father's Day in Australia is
this coming Sunday. If you want some Imprint titles, you can get twenty
percent off until this Sunday, the fourth of September, Fast and free shipping.
If you're in Australia. This does include or sorry exclude, all pre
orders and Imprint films July and August releases, but anything previous to July you
can get twenty percent off, which is pretty dang good. Like I understand,
imprint is fairly expensive to get in, but twenty percent off is nothing
really to sneeze at. That's a sizable discount. Yeah, that's pretty good.
We'll take a look at that. If you're doing that, they got
this code Father's Day twenty twenty two. That'll get you your discount at checkout.
And don't forget when you're looking at their site that is in Australian dollars,
not usd Let's continue on here. Some previously aduffrint titles from Twilight Time
are coming this fall from Sandpiper Pictures. This is an odd one. Sandpiper
Pictures is a label that there's like a lot of rumors going around that people
know nothing about. And the rumor about Sandpiper Pictures is that it is owned
by the people who used to own all of films and they just quietly started
this new place called Sandpiper Pictures and they are putting out a lot of the
old Twilight Time releases that went out of print. Yes, we are getting
Radio Days, Another Woman, the Purple Rows of Cairo, and Broadway Daniel
Rose. They've got a lot of the Woody Allen flicks coming. These are
all coming on October eighteenth, and then they also have Shadows and Fog and
Crimes and Misdemeanors. Those are coming on October twenty fifth, and then on
November first, we are getting Wuthering Heights and a cartoon, I believe is
how it's pronounced. Lots and lots of old Twilight Time releases that were out
of print and expensive getting brand new releases. A lot of these seems like
one that you would like. Any of those that jump out as must watches,
well, you know, I know watching Woody Allen is problematic at best
weather. Whether or not where you stand on the allegations that have been made
against him, you can't deny that he's done some creepy ship at least.
I'm not a huge fan of Woody Allen as a as a as a filmmaker,
but these films Crimes and Misdemeanors, Purple Rose of Cairo, Shadows and
Fog in particular, are really really good, you know, objectively and really
really important part of cinema history that can't be denied. On the cinematography by
send spend Nick, I'm just unparalleled. So I actually have Do you remember
there were three like huge DVD sets of Woody Allen Aero Academy, I believe,
right, No, no, no, these are are they from Academy?
They did Blu Ray sets in the UK? Maybe that's what I'm thinking.
Hum were those Blu Ray Now that I now, I can't remember offhand,
but I know that they were. There were three sets, and I
believe they were all Aerow Academy, but man, they may have been Blu
Ray. Gosh, I've not seen one of those sets in a very long
time. I used to have those, but I certainly don't have them anymore.
I don't remember what I did with them. I put them in the
sail pile. So I have several of the Twilight Time editions, but I
did not have Crimes and Misdemeanors, Purple Ros and Cairos and Radio Days and
stuff like that. So this, if nothing else, that's this lets me
get rid of those old DBB sets, right, which were probably already in
the cell pile. Anyways, Yeah, I do, I really, I
really want to see these particular movies again in high definition. Yeah, and
that was the hard part about Twilight Time. They would release three thousand of
a movie, and for some of the movies, like they did Fright Night
and it sold out pretty much immediately and then there was no other release of
it allowed because they just put it out and that's it for years. Yeah,
it is nice to see a company come along like Sandpiper Pictures and put
these out. But again, maybe a little odd that we don't know anything
about them and they came out of nowhere. Not that it's like a conspiracy
or anything, just it would be nice to know what's going on. Some
people on the blu ray dot com forums like really investigated it and found out
like their business license is in the same town as the old Olive Films Pictures
business license is how they were getting there. And yeah, there's a lot
of people trying to find out what's going on with these guys. Yeah,
no website or anything, nothing at all. Then, Keno Lober is releasing
on November eighth, Fancy Pants from nineteen fifty with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball,
couple of no name kids just trying to earn a living. Around that
time, I used to love Bob Hope and everybody and their mother loves Lucy
obviously so much that they named the show after that. What uh what do
you think about Bob Hope and Lucille Ball when I grew When I was growing
up, the only thing I knew Bob Hope from was those US support the
troops. Yeah things. And you know, I gotta admit I had my
attitude of you know, punk rocker from hell, and I thought he was
the cheesiest you know Reagan era, you know, shithead comic. And I've
never seen a single one of his movies. I can't. I have never
seen any of the Yeah, I've never seen a single thing he's been in,
so I've not seen many. He is funny, but I will agree
he's fairly cheesy, and I had a lot of the same thoughts when I
was younger. Lucy, although, is a gift to humanity and I will
defend that till the day I die. Well. And George Marshall directed it,
so that's a real director. Oh and this is getting It was a
brand new Paramount restoration four K scan of the thirty five millimeter three strip Technicolor
element. So this should look very good. High definition Bob Hope, high
definition Lucille Bob, Yeah, for sure, I'll check it out. Why
not? For those into the company, Disco Tech, they are releasing a
whole bunch of stuff on the twenty ninth. I will completely admit right now,
I'm not into a lot of this, but I know a lot of
you are, so I'll go through this quickly because I don't know anything about
them. If you know something, just shout because I'm on another tab and
I can't see you at the moment. But Sherlock Hown the complete series coming
with some extras. Know nothing about it. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds.
We talked about this on the show on Tuesday. Supposedly this is god
awful, just one of those old classic Kaiju films that is pretty poorly acted
and doesn't have great features. But the cover looks amazing and they'll probably sell
a whole bunch because of that. I don't know how to pronounce this.
You're a sa Yatsura. I'm gonna guess that's pretty close. Always, my
darling, this is coming out, and then Tales of Symphonia, the animation
Simpho gear ax z Kat's Eye season two and a couple of these are getting
some extras, but most of them are just the release of the title.
Anything in their up your ally, is that mostly out of your wheelhouse as
well. I'm certain that my two younger kids will would want to see all
of these, So if they're not watching them already, especially that one,
huh, well, I don't know. I might have to preview that one
myself. Now, my fifteen year old's got a subscription to Crunchy Role as
streaming service, which role does very well from what I've heard. Yeah,
so I'll take the list of these titles and ask which ones are good.
Nice media Blasters which has been semi quiet they are putting out banned from nineteen
eighty nine and somehow, I don't know that I've ever heard anything about this
one, and I don't get it. ROBERTA. Finley. This is her
last feature film, the never before released, eagerly awaited unseen cult film Sex,
Guns and rock and Roll, When a Smooth Jazz Guitarist. First of
all, again incredible copy here When When a Smooth Jazz guitarist is demonically possessed
by the ghost of Teddy Homicide great name, a notorious violent punk rocker.
All hell and guitar strings are sure to break loose. This is Grindhouse Grand
Diva, Roberta Finley's last feature film, the never before released, eagerly awaited,
unseen cult film that has steadily gained in reputation since it was completed and
unceremoniously shelved in nineteen eighty nine. A punk era time capsule waiting to detonate
band will finally be unleashed in a fully restored, uncut and freshly four K
scan special edition. This gets new interviews with the director and cast member Debi
Roshan. I feel like we've talked about her at some point tonight. Roberta
Finley. Roberta Finley, one of the lone femme a tours of the exploitation
film industry, has recently seen a resurgence of serious interest in her eclectic film
output and is the subject of recent retrospectives at the Tribelca Tribeca Film Festival and
other international festivals. Her cinematic oubra is now the subject of a scholarly and
pricey reference book called The Film of Robert of Finley, the newest volume and
the Refocus American Director Series published by the University of Edinburgh. Here is the
back of the release, and I gotta say, I am desperate, desperately
wanting to see this. Yeah, you know, well, first let me
say that that Refocus American Director Series, which is edited by Gary D.
Rhodes, who did the Time Browning book that I'm a part of, is
a great series. They are expensive books because they're priced for library purchase,
and just like with boutique film labels, the margin of error for book publishing
is so slim you've got to make your production costs back. So that's why
that is. But a lot of them get cheaper editions Gary Rhodes Refocus on
bud Buteker you can get for about thirty five bucks and hopefully the Finley.
They also have one on Doris Fishman with Fishman Swish Me. Hopefully hopefully the
Friendly and one will come down in price because I really want to read it.
I love Oh yeah. So when I teach my cult films course,
I always show a roberta family film at least one. Usually it's Tenement.
I've done the I've done the cut version of A Woman's Tournament before, but
Tenement's always a big crowd pleaser. And when I show interviews with Roberta Frienily,
the class is always just won over by how charming and senecal she is.
I'm excited about bands too. Debbie Rashan going to do a double feature
with the Fabulous Stains. I'm pretty excited about this. This is literally shipping
now, so if you want to purchase this direct from Media Blasters, you
can get this fairly quickly. This looks great. I also I really enjoy
Tenement. I think all that is man and myself. I think we talked
about that like a year ago at this point. But really the other one
you brought up, A Woman's Torment, is one that I have really pushed
from Vinegar Syndrome for a lot of people. It is a great release,
a very moody film, a very like atmospheric what is going on? Just
like psychological head case of a film. It's so good, I tell you
so. Every time every time I teach that movie, I'll put the Blu
ray in and I'll go to the menu and I'll hit play, And every
time I hit play, I'm like, oh fuck, I got the porn
version. You know, I'm so worried that my thumb is gonna cut.
You know it'd be over so far, so good. I've always shown the
correct version for class. Oh man, I would be super worried. No
problem with the graphic violence. I can show Cannibal Holocaust all day, which
is hilarious. God, America is weird. We talked about Golden into Video
earlier and this is a great time to discuss that they announced a new film.
And when I say new, I don't just mean new to them.
This is Honeycomb coming from them, and this is a twenty twenty two film.
In the mundane hours of early summer, five girls sulk in their own
boredom, waiting for something. When Willow stumbles upon a seemingly abandoned cabin,
she begins fantasizing about the life she and the girls could have there. Leader
Jewles, Vicky, and Millie pack their bags and whisper a quick goodbye to
the life they knew. They flow through open fields, blissfully entering their new,
sun soaked world. Director Avalon FAST's new film, Honeycomb is a way
of feeling a slow mindless space has been written with borderless rules and time to
fill. The girls push for a meaning that is hardly there, struggling to
reach out, grab it and lock it in a box. Sometimes the girls
find themselves feeling as though they were more free before. Brand new film.
Never seen it, but this sounds very interesting and like the director is close
to Justin at gold Ninja. I believe she's Canadian as well. She's done
some stuff with Justin before, so I'm certainly curious about this one. And
it sounds really interesting. Yeah, not quite, not quite the copy that
Era has for their descriptions, but this is a whole different kind of though.
Yeah, that does look interesting, and I really like I got a
soft spot for these kinds of yeah, coming age type of deals. I
I mean, yeah, I'm interested in that. I agree, and I
don't know what it is. Obviously the art is good, as much as
that word is meaningless in that sentence, just saying this art is good is
pointless, but it's enticing to me. It is something that really is drawing
me in and I'm very happy with how gold Ninja is doing that because art
like this, and then with the recent release of Skip Tracer, This art
is fantastic. I love what they've been doing with these, and I mean
skip Tracer. This is a film from nineteen seventy seven, and putting an
art piece like this on there is going to breathe new life into something that
people have either never seen or maybe not heard about in decades, even a
brand new film like Honeycomb. But it looking like that I already want to
be in. But the copy alone, it just sounds enticing. Yeah,
this sounds in true. I just looked up Avalon fast because I hadn't heard
of her before, and I see that she's got a horror film coming up
that she describes he's being inspired by Mandy Nicholas Cage film. So hmm,
oh, it's about witchcraft and stuff. Okay, I'm in for both.
Oh Man. The next one, Private Desert. This is coming from Keina
lober On October twenty fifth. And this is a wild synopsis. This is
a movie from twenty twenty one, and reading this, I was not ready
for what they say in this entire synopsis. Here, Sarah is a gender
fluid blue collar worker who lives as her male birth identity by day while caring
for her religious grandmother in Silbradinho, a small town in the northeast of Brazil.
Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Kurutiba, has
been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that's all over the news.
The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sarah, whom he
has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, Daniel drives two thousand
miles across Brazil to find her. He posts Sarah's picture all over town,
but no one recognized her. Untelly receives a mysterious call from someone claiming to
know her and asking to meet. What follows is a journey of the heart
that will change Sarah and Daniel forever. Just a nice, relevant, an
incredibly important film, it sounds like for today. They say. This is
a swooning, sun baked romance and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity
at a time when LGBTQ plus rights are increasingly imperiled everywhere. An official selection
of the Venice Film Festival in Brazil's official submission to the ninety fourth Academy Awards.
Kino is putting out this film with lush cinematography and a haunting atmospheric score,
and they close out this synopsis with You'll Never hear Total Eclipse of the
Heart the same again that one. I mean, this sounds really really interesting.
Yeah it does. And you're right, you know, there are these
kinds of stories that still aren't getting enough visibility, and I hope it's good.
It looks like it could be good. Yeah. If they see this
as good enough to submit for the Oscars, I gotta imagine it's at least
worth a watch. Next up, let's see this was via Vision announced a
four K Steel Book of Dirty Dancing is coming to Australia. This is coming
in a three D Lenticular hard case and includes the film on four K Blu
ray and of course regular blue ray, with over six hours of bonus features,
none of them are really new. If you have any of the releases
from the last couple of years, you may not need this for the discs,
But if you're a steel book collector or really love fancy packaging, I
think this is the best thing out there for this film, which again,
this is one of those films we talked about earlier. It tells a really
gritty, real story that a lot of films were kind of scared to really
hit head on, and this and you know a few others that were contemporaries
of it, really took the reins on something that was important to share.
This could be a double feature with a kind of loving that John Lessenger movie
we were talking about earlier, that might add add some new context to each
of them. Absolutely, Uh, let's see what's next. Uh. Just
uh. I know a lot of people that watch this shared that they loved
this movie. I haven't seen this one yet, but that's one of the
reasons I shared this. R L j. E Is releasing The Reef Stocked.
This is a modern shark film, and I don't know about you.
I've always loved shark films and I can't really explain why a lot of them
are crap, but I still have such a great time watching them. Yeah,
yeah, you know, you gotta have a soft spot for the for
the shark movies I really love, like Open Water and the Shallows that was.
That's a recent one that was really good. I haven't I haven't seen
The Reef. Just just the other day, I was helping a friend,
an older friend, and his wife moves some furniture and there were watching Shark
to Puss Versus Wear a Whale or something like that, and that was that
was a good time. We moved some chairs around and had that on in
the background. That was fun. I think one of the labels, not
like one of the big US labels or anything, but somebody is putting out
another one of the Sharknado collections of all the films, And yeah, I
don't think I've ever been desperate enough to watch like Sharknado six or whatever it
is, but I mean the first one was kind of interesting. Well call
me a purist, but I feel like the Sharknado films really jumped on the
bandwagon of the Korman Shark to Puss and Shark to Puss Versus series. Absolutely.
I just never could Sharknado films were too you know, and and Corman
movies play it just straight enough to it sort of appeal to me. And
and I prefer my CGI Monstrous to be hybrids. I'm really looking forward to
parent I think, isn't it Jim Winsky did Pirana Conda? Yeah, I
believe so. Hell Yeah, I can't wait to see that. I hope
that gets released. Oh man, Uh, I'm trying to find a way
to get a Veloci pastor joke in there, but I can't think of any
good way. Uh do you know what? Do you know what's sad?
If I've got the rolling Jeffy set and Parana Conda sitting on a table,
I'm gonna watch the pan Con probably same here. That's that's I'm a bad
guy. I'm a bad person. Uh s. Jamie Ola says, I
saw Orca in the theaters. Wow, that's cool. Orca is an interesting
version of these types of films. And actually, if he's still in the
chat, I think Jeremy Long for his birthday last year, I sent him
Orca the Screen Factory release and it's it's one of those that you just you
got to watch if you haven't seen it in a long time and go,
wow, I mean this got a theatrical release. Well, are you're talking
about the one with Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling. I mean what a cast?
Yeah, we need like a special edition of Free Willie now another one
of those modern films that I wanted to share because this is kind of a
questionable release. I'm really curious what they're gonna do here. This is the
film fall from this year. This is getting released from Lionsgate. And the
reason that this film is kind of making some big waves is this film is
rated PG thirteen because they went in and used AI to cut out a lot
of the actors cussing as they were filming this. So they turned a lot
of fucks into fricks and released it into PG thirteen theaters. And I don't
know about you, and I haven't I've seen a press release that has details
on special features or anything. I don't see the word unrated on this cut.
I want the actual film, the way that the director shot it.
When are we going to get that? I'll tell you what. If I'm
in the situation on that cover, I'm not saying frick exactly. I've said
this to so many people. If I am on a tower that's collapsing,
I'm not gonna say there's so many mother flipping snakes on this mother or Monday
to Friday plane or whatever he says. I mean, come on, we
don't need to censor a film like this. People are dying. You don't
say, holy heck, oh my gosh, Billy. Anyways, this is
actually getting like really great reviews surprisingly. I've heard it's fantastic. I really
want to see it. And this is exactly what I've heard. For people
that are nervous about any sort of heights or disasters of any type, this
has been a very anxiety inducing film for a lot of people. And you
know, Jeffrey Morgan is a man who knows how to curse. You're taking
out half the performance. That is a damn good point, my friend.
That is like his biggest tool. I mean, you don't take a hammer
away from the carpenter. Come on, let's see what is coming after the
fall. Okay, all that is man, You're up. All that is
man. You were finally here. He's been waiting to talk about these all
night. Coming on October twenty fifth from Warner Archive. Doctor Jekyl and Mister
Hyde from nineteen thirty one. This is based on Robert Lewis Stevenson's classic tale
of a scientist investigation into the nature of good and evil. This original production
of Doctor Jekyl and Mister Hyde picked up three Oscar noms. This is up
for pre order now. Since I've posted this, I've not seen any details
come out on special features. They may be out there now and I just
missed them today. But will this is all about you, my friend,
for the next two ye the next two announcements, this is all you.
Well, I'm very excited about this. I know many people were kind of
nervous. Has it been a year or several months when when the Victor Fleming
Doctor Jacky ol mister Hyde was released by one of archives, Because there's that
old snapcase that has the Ruben Mamoul Mamullion and the Victor Flewing together, and
of course the Malian film is superior, and so I'm really glad that I
can finally get rid of that dam snapcase and have high definition of both.
You know. Obviously the performance by Frederick March is fairly legendary. I'm just
excited about it. And Ruben Mamullion is a great director that deserves free discovery
for a lot of people who who aren't really familiar with this stuff. So
invative in his direction of musicals. Did the first I believe two strip Technicolor
film with Becky Sharp. What's that film he did love in the after No,
that's Love Me Tonight, Yes, Love Me Tonight. One of all
time great musicals and one of the great innovators of sound. I hate transition
to sound great, so this, this version of Jacky and Hyde is one
of the most iconic and important So I'm so excited, and it's genuinely a
classic. We're looking at something that's almost one hundred years old being restored in
basically a definitive addition. I don't see something like this making its way to
four K anytime soon. The elements at this point I got to be a
little worried about it. And obviously, something even like the Universal Monster series,
it took a lot of work to get those into four K, and
those are basically like they're faded to sell very well, but something like this
may not do quite as well. It's a classic Robert Luce Stevenson an amazing
author that led into some great adaptations, obviously, and I strongly suggest people
check this one out. Yeah, this is another one I could probably talk
about for another half hour, but we're basically into breakfast time almost. But
maybe the more important one for us tonight, because we have a Todd Browning
superfan here. Mark of the Vampire from nineteen thirty five, also coming from
Warner Archive. This one says Sir Borroughton I think that's how you say something
like that, or Boroughton. It's been a long time since I've seen anything
from this movie. A prominent Prague resident is discovered murdered in his home,
with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, are An
Auto and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the
mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but received little help from the
law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to
assist with the investigation. So what can you tell us about Mark of the
Vampire? Well, so, going back to the book that's coming out Todd
Browning is The Revolt of the Dead. There's an excellent essay by Gary D.
Rhodes called Mark of the Vampires of Prague, and several other references to
Mark of the Vampire in here. This movie is a sort of a remake
of London at Midnight, the Lost Todd Browning Lon Cheney collaboration. And ah,
man, I almost I had to wear my Toby or not to tell
you shirt, but I almost have this great T shirt of Carol Borland in
her iconic Empire outfit with the hair and the and the I mean Carol Borland
for those who don't know who she is is is kind of the godmother of
of goth style, mostly from this movie. In fact, she wasn't in
many other movies after this until late eighties early nineties. I think she was
in a couple of fred Ole and Ray movies and cameos Biohazard, I think,
and she's She's fantastic. Belle Lagosi is fantastic. So I don't want
to spoil it for anybody who hasn't seen it, because it's kind of a
mystery and there's some comedy and a great bait and switch move that Todd Browning
does with this. A lot of people don't really think of Todd Browning as
having a lot of comedy, and as films this this is as much,
if not more comedy than than it is thriller or or or horror. And
it's strange and bizarre, and Baylor Legotiates is strange, bizarre in a very
small role. I don't want to say too much else about it. I
hope John Peters is right that Monday After Midnight may appear one day. I
remember getting my heart broken by Harry knowles as so many people have when he
posted something at some point, he posted something that a print had been found,
and it was all bullshit. Yeah, Todd Browning is a director.
You know, he's one of the very few directors from that era, from
the Silent era, who top lined his movies. You know. It was
like John Carpenter's They Live, Todd Browning's The Unholy Three. You know.
I highly recommend people read David Skull and jali As Savada's book Dark Carle about
him. I think I might have recommended it before. The very first thing
I ever published was about Freaks, which I show every time I teach cult
films. That's the one film that always there, speaking of I'm sure you
don't know any like insider Warner release news or anything like that. Do you
think we have hope for a BLU ray of Freaks coming out anytime soon?
It's been hinted at as coming from Criterion eventually. Maybe there's even been like,
oh, we're getting it on four K this year, I've been told.
But do you think we genuinely will see an HD release of Freaks?
Yeah? I don't know about the elements. You know that that was such
a debacle with MGM. I I don't know what all has survived. The
DVD release has pretty teny sound, and it has great extras. It's got
David Scall commentary, David Scall documentary and whatnot. I would be happy to
give a commentary on this one. But even even a sub a non optimal
right blue upgrade would be great. I doubt the missing footage I doubt will
ever be found, because I don't think it's missing. I think it's been
destroyed. Right it's it's probably my number one, number two most wanted upgrade,
and I hope it happens soon that I have no insider knowledge now,
I uh yeah, Freaks is special. Obviously, it's one of the most
like reference films of all time. And the amount of things that we've had
come out that have you know, done the the Google gobble, one of
us seen, or the amount of times that people reference a Freak Show or
a lot of that is from Freaks. And I mean even if there is
a suboptimal like Blu Ray release of a handful of his movies where they just
put a couple of the old SD releases on a blue ray together, I
could be down for something like that, just just get the art out to
the people. Well, and you know, while we're at it, you
know, Warner's got a bunch of his stuff on DVD. The Devil Doll
was in a box set called like Masters of Suspense that had Doctor X,
Yeah, Mad Love and a bunch of And there are all two movies on
per DVD and none of them work right. And after a while, three
of the movies on that set, Doctor X, Mad Love and Oh Mark
the Vampire that's on that set too, I have been released and what remains
is the return of Doctor X and The Devil Doll. And I can't remember
the last film. But we also need upgrades of the Unknown, which you
did with the Laon Cheney and Joan Crawford. Outside the Law. There are
some Keynote released blue ray releases of his early silent but still only DVD for
one of archives of things like The Blackbird and the Show which is really good.
West of Zanzibar, which is one of the most screwed up movies I've
ever seen. Can I are you familiar with that one? Oh? My
god? So Lionel, how do I even describe the plot line? Lionel
Barrymore gets cuckolded, right, and he gets he gets pissed off, and
he goes to to UH an African trading post, and he decides to get
back at the guy who cuckled him by a stealing his his his infant baby
and raising her in a brothel and making her a prostitute with syphilis. Uh.
And then at the end it turns out it's his own daughter. And
it's incredible. It's one of the most disturbing the original Old Boy sounds like
almost yes, absolutely, I believe that it had to have inspired some someone
somewhere along the way, if I could instill some of my own fear.
We have been doing this now for one hundred and seventy minutes. We haven't
even started the vinegar syndrome stuff yet. All about that, Let's move on
from Ive again. Two very very needed releases from them coming next month in
October. I'm hoping for some good features. Last I checked, we still
don't have any of those listed. I guess one more thing I forgot.
This is also Warner Archive. Sweet Tooth season one is coming. Never watched
it, but you can pre order it now. I've actually heard a handful
of people really like this so if that's your thing, check it out.
This one is an interesting one. Screen Team Releasing is sort of a little
indie label from I want to say, like Minnesota or Iowa, somewhere like
that, just north of me, somewhere around here. And they've done a
good amount of films, like twenty twenty five films over the last handful of
years and one of the ones that have made them a lot of pedigree is
ten thirty one, and they are releasing the third entry into the Now trilogy
of films. This is the EC Comics brand at a slipcover they're doing.
Here is the inside art, and this is a modern anthology horror film.
They've got a few people that you might recognize from some other indie horror things.
But one of the cool things that's got music by Rocky Gray, who
was the original drummer from an Essence and he's turned into a film producer for
music and done quite a lot for acting himself, I believe, and helped
to put out some of these films. So if that's your thing, available
now you can order an autographed copy. I believe they were selling the CD
and some other things. But they do pretty good work. Yeah, okay.
I'm also a sucker for anthologies like chat Coifune or The Smoking Cat.
I don't talk about them enough. I tried to share as much as I
can from them, but a lot of their stuff is an English friendly,
and I don't love to share when things aren't coming with the English friendly for
a channel where I only know how to speak English because I'm white as hell.
But this one is going to be completely available to English speaking audiences as
this will have English subs. This is going to be Lose the Flower of
Evil from twenty nineteen. This has got a couple releases. This came out
from Fractured Visions as well. This is from twenty nineteen, Like I said,
region free, and it's got subtitles in English, a whole bunch of
features on here. I believe it's all the same features from the Fractured Visions
release, so really only super necessary if you didn't get that or you're wanting
this version. It's supposed to be a decent film. I've not seen it
yet. And by the way, la Check with Fume is going to have
a basically like the scientific term for this would be a metric fuck ton of
titles available for pre order tomorrow. They's supposed to be like a lot out
of nowhere, and they don't sell a lot of items, so it's supposed
to be like a fairly big day for them. So if you're into it,
I would check them out pretty soon because they goes up at a six
pm French time, six pm French time. Speaking of classy French titles,
Unearth Bilm is releasing the August Underground Trilogy on Blu Ray. This is from
two thousand and one. They are doing this with sever Cinema and toe tag.
This is the one I alluded to earlier as like the most most like
a snuff film that you could possibly think of. This is a very notorious,
infamous trilogy. Just really great effects in this movie. If you really
want like realistic torture and gore in your films and you just want to be
really taken away by some of those things, which nothing wrong with that.
I've been known to watch quite a lot of films of this myself. I
even have the old Blu Ray release of this that is autographed by Fred Vogel
myself. So hardcore, you know, extreme cinema. What is your stance
on that? Well, if it's good. It's good. You know,
there are things in that kind of extreme genre that that that I'm not too
into. But then there, you know, I in the in the in
their higher budget realm of things, I thought there was a lot of value
in the Human Centipede films and Serbian film stuff like that. I I sat
through several editions of the Guinea Pig films and yeah, but but this is
something that's that's kind of its own things and and the fact that the copy
refers to the film the experience being the sodomy of your morals makes me curious
to see exactly what that might entail. Stanzas is very extreme. Uh yeah,
so you know, I don't know, I don't know. Check it
out. Uh, this is deffinitely very extreme. The coolest thing is that
this is one that has been long sought out for Blu Ray by a lot
of people because it's it's it's one of those things that's a very important trilogy,
and the old Blu Ray it has sold, you know, if you
could get it by the eBay sensors fast enough, and it's sold. Editions
of this have sold for like two hundred bucks previously. So just to be
able to get this into mainstream audience's hands again and scare some people. It'll
be cool just to have it out there just for art's sake. And I
will say this is genuinely one of like the best set of It's not even
special effects, you just really good practical ways to show show gore. It's
very well done. You look like you just googled some images from it.
I did. I did, and and then just for fundsies, I I
went to see if Amazon and carried it, and they don't have this edition
with some earlier ones, but I did get a I did see a notification
on the website that we've been going on so long that the Rings of Power
has premiered all of a sudden, our numbers are going to drop to like
three people watching. Everybody's gonna be on Amazon Prime. Hell, I'd rather
watch this, and I bet it's gonna be just as long. I getting
close already, And we have again haven't even really started vinegar syndrome, because
this isn't even ill vinegar syndrome. They announced that there is an update to
subscriber pricing. They are saying goodbye to coupon codes. Those have been a
pain, and now you don't have to use those anymore. As long as
you are signed in, it will only show you the subscriber pricing. You
don't have to worry about that. If you shop through the app, which
I don't know many people who do, it's been a little buggy, you
will see that in your cart at checkout, so make sure that you use
normal checkout method. Don't use Apple Paid the quick pay option because it will
not notice that your subscriber pricing is in place. And they also said they're
switching up their shipping options for subs. There's only going to be free subscriber
shipping no matter where you are, whether that be Canada, the US,
or international, so it will notice through your account being logged in where you
are and only give you that option, which is kind of cool. Yeah,
that's cool. I don't know, is it really that inconvenient to use
the code. I actually thought the codes were a smart way of them getting
get made to buy more because I'm fill up my cart and it'd be like
so expensive, and then I put in the code and I go way down
and it was still way more than I should pay. But I'd be like,
look how much I'm saving you. I'm not gonna I'm not going to
go through and delete stuff. So but now now that the pricing will be
accurate, I might be a more frugal. Supposedly they had a thing where
they're They're like the foundation of their website could only give out so many coupon
codes, so they were like running out of coupon codes literally. And then
the other thing I didn't love is when they for some reason, were forced
to use a different one. So if you wanted to buy the Doris Wishman
set and three other partner labels, you had to use two different codes,
which means you had to check out twice. Yeah. Anyways, as of
noon tomorrow, which was today, the website has a slightly updated look and
feel, and there will be some new features such as sorting and filtering products,
browsing by genre, and much more. There's still some features that I've
been asking for for a few years that do not exist. Like I want
to be able to open up a title and see what day it was released?
Why is that so hard? If I go to a partner label,
I want to see what day this came out. I should be able to
see that, and there's nothing there to indicate I want a partner label checklist.
Where's that. Let's get into Vinegar Syndrome now, now that we have
been filming for three hours. Jesus, oh Jeremy, I'm sorry, this
is probably going to beat your record. This is a big deal. Available
now on four K on the wow was not able to type myself properly.
There available to order now on the Vinegar Syndrome website. In four K we
are getting the classic The Amiteville Whoror from nineteen seventy nine. We'll get into
the features in just a minute, but first of all, how do you
feel about this movie? Well? First of all, I want to say
my goal tonight is to be longer than the running time of a Bailatar film,
and I think we can get there easily. Last last time I was
here, I lost my shit over Domiano Domiani, right, who, among
other things, directed Amityville to the Possession. I've got the Scream Factory set
of the first three films on the Vinegar Syndrome set of the of the sequels.
I you know this is Stuart Rosenberg quality direct I mean, the first
three films are all really good, I think, And can I say right
now. Amitaville two the best of the series by far? Absolutely give me
that on four K as soon as possible. Oh and the sound, the
sound and that one great, Tommy. This I think for me this is
the second best of the series and the original. And I'm really interested in
hearing the buzz and uh here. I think the sound design uh in the
four K with with my with my speakers is going to be great. To
be honest, I you know, if this was like vs. A thing
where you had to purchase it separately, I might hesitate to upgrade. It's
in some subscriber. I have no choice, so I'm looking forward to it.
I like the Amity Field films. Yes, I like this one quite
a bit. I think it's got a handful of really really like scenes that
will dig India and we'll hold on for a large part of your life.
I do understand a lot of people thinking that this is a little bit boring,
and I could you know, I could see that, especially if you've
watched like the first six back to back and go well, I mean the
first one really didn't grab me because the rest of them just got crazy.
And I get that, like genuinely. The second one I think is the
best Amdeville film ever. But the coolest thing about this release, other than
this incredible back art on the slip, I gotta say this is amazing.
The coolest thing is the special features on here. So four K HDR on
this newly scanned restored in four K from the OCN amazing presented for the first
time on home video with the original unaltered theatrical surround mix with an optional stereo
mix. First of all, I had no idea that there was ever any
sort of alterations done to the sound, So that's really cool me either.
Uh. This next part My Amiteville Diaries, a brand new making of documentary
featuring interviews with screenwriter Sanderstern, actor Mino Polus, actor Don Stroud, actor
Mark Veyhanion, and actress Amy Wright really cool. And then everything else on
here. They got literally all of the special features from every other home video
release pretty much ever that people have liked. All they got from the original
MGM disc. They got the second site features, they got the screen factory
features. There is nothing missing on here as far as I can see.
Yeah, that's great. I like Mino. Plus, do you remember that
TV show he was in Voyagers the Time Travel Show. I have not thought
about that in such a long time. I barely can picture it. Oh
you must not be a Mino Plue super fan like myse not not a super
fan. I've not watched that three times this year. I apologize. Show
Ragnar says, what am I supposed to do with the box set net from
screen Factor? You got to keep it because it's Amdavillain three D. Come
on, yeah, you gotta keep it. Uh yeah, this is this
is a massive title for Vinegar Syndrome. This is a great, solid release
and as long as it looks great in four K, which all indications is
that it should, I mean Margo Kidder, James Brolin, uh, Rod
Steiger, I mean this is a this is a stone cold classic. And
then a month from today we get to look forward to a four K release
of Texas Chainsaw Masker two, and I I just can't wait. Anyways,
Let's carry on because there's a lot of cool titles, uh the Iceman Cometh,
which is also coming in the UK for eighty eight films. So if
anybody is going to compare now you can look at special features and see what
is on both and make a choice. Or get both. H This is
a two disc region A Blu ray set, so it's locked. It is
not region free. This is from nineteen eighty nine, and essentially this is
I believe this is the one. Yeah, three hundred years later. One
of the characters is accidentally thought out and unfamiliar with the surroundings, so it's
it's it's unfrozen caveman lawyer, but it's yeah. They've got the Hong Kong
cut on here, They've got the alternate Mandarin export cut, which is seven
minutes longer. They've got a commentary track with Sam Degan, and then a
new interview with cinematographer Punhank Sang, and some other all crop archival features with
a booklet the Iceman cometh Any feelings well, coming right after their release of
Writing Wrongs, another win Vout film, which is great. I've been watching
that release, and the two alternate Hong Kong cut and Mandarin cuts in that
film they were so different that I felt like I was, I mean,
you're watching the film from a whole different perspective. There's so much different stuff,
So I'm curious. I'm curious how different these cuts are. If it's
if it's as drastic as that. I'm gonna really enjoy, you know,
seeing the film twice from two different angles, and I'm glad they're I'm glad
to do stuff like that like that, give give the alternate cuts. A
lot of people, you know, might not watch them, I don't know,
but for somebody like me, I really appreciate it. Well. For
certain films like Righting Wrong specifically, it makes a giant difference Miami Connection,
they just had a completely different one with that as well. I get not
understanding for all of them. It would be nice to perhaps explain the difference
upfront and allow people to make the decision some of them. I've seen them
do that on you know, in different ways. But one thing for me,
I think this is really cool that we're seeing this increase in Asian films
from Vinegar syndrome. I think that they could do very well with these ever
since Ebola Syndrome and this, and you know, a couple others or writing
wrongs. Obviously we've got a lot coming. We've got another one that we're
going to talk about in a few minutes that they hinted at, And I
mean, I am loving this year's output from vinegar syndrome that has a lot
to love. Next up Mutant Hunt, which, if I'm remembering right,
I think this is a full moon title. Originally, this is from nineteen
eighty seven. In the near future of nineteen ninety two, robots have become
a facet of everyday life. Doctor Z, the diabolical head of one of
the country's top robotics firms, has developed a solution named Eupheron, which,
when injected into a cyborgs, transforms them from manservant into impossibly strong and powerful
killing machines. In an attempt by doctor Z to take absolute power, realizing
the implications of Z's actions, chief robotics engineer Paul Haynes attempts to stop the
robot takeover, only to be kidnapped, of course, along with his sister
Darla. After achieving a dangerous escape, Darla then enlist the help of tough
as grit bounty hunter Matt Riker What a Strong name, and the two begin
a quest to destroy the murderous machines. This is newly scanned and restored in
four K from the OCN. This gets a commentary track with Elizabeth Purcell interview
with the makeup special effects artist Ed French, a very long interview with actor
doctor j Buzz von Ornsteiner Lol, and then an interview with actor Mark Leagan.
Here is the back of the slip any thoughts on Mutant Hunt and the
robot Cyborg Year of nineteen eighty seven. So Tim Kinkaid also did Breeders and
Mutant in Robot Holocaust, which shared our Empire pictures full mon things. But
then he went on, I just I ad met, I looked him up.
I did not know this off the top of my head, and you'll
you'll know why I think it's important to I'll let people know that. He
went on to do a twenty four volume series called Joe Gage Sex Files,
the first of which is subtitled Jack Off Party at Billy Bombs. So he
yea looks like he went deep into the world of gay pornography, which is
you know, it's cool truck Stop on nine ninety five, Tough Guys,
Colon getting off Neil Forst Men's Room too. It was pretty cool a mutant
Hunt. So back to the back to the film, how can you not
love that description? You know, the that era of Empire and film and
later when they became full Moon. Just every film is even even their worst
films are watchable. And I don't I don't think this film was actually distributed
by it Down, but it's the same vein So I'm super stoked. You
know what's crazy. Breeders came out in eighty six. This came out in
eighty seven, Mutant Hunt, but so did Robot Holocaust. Dude put out
like four films in eighty seven, and Ryot on forty Second Street. Yeah,
I I don't understand, because like Robot Holocaust is not like a tiny
movie, It's got a lot going on. This seems to have a lot
going on. That is a lot of work in the span of less than
a year and a half. When you add Breeders into that, this is
cool. I'm looking at this guy's filmography and I gotta know more, honestly,
because there's a bunch of other films the Occultist Tulsa County in line and
look really cool. So Newton Hunt will be my entree into the filmography of
Tim kincaid Aka and Joe Gage. We also are getting Buried Alive from nineteen
eighty nine. This is a take on Edground Poe. Of course, Janet
has taken a job as a teacher at Ravenscroft Hall very Edground Poe there,
a girls reform school for juvenile delinquents. Not long after arriving, Janet's dreams
become plagued with haunting visions of a mysterious brick wall, coupled with a very
real increase in disappearances of the facility's young pupils. While dismissed by the headmaster
as nothing more than runaways, Janet is not convinced and begins investigating the history
of the school and its assortment of unbalanced staff members. This is a macabre,
contemporary reimagining of Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale The Black Cat, And we
got some big names. We've got Robert Vaughan, Donald Pleasance, John Carradine,
out of Nowhere, erotican cult film superstar, Miss Gingerlynn Allen featuring arresting
visuals from the regular cinematographer Gerard le Beau. Vinegar Syndrome is excited to view
this underseen piece of French South African slasher cinema on Blu Ray, which I
mean that alone is really intriguing to me. I've never seen this for sure,
newly restored in two k Here is the back of the slip we got
newly restored, like I said, and then a short interview with Ginger Lynn
Allen, and then another short interview with William Butler, and that's it.
This is a This is not one of the discs that is stuffed to the
gills, but this is this is an exciting, exciting title. Yeah.
Yeah, the same director's Edge of Sanity, which Arrow put out recently.
That's a yeah, beautiful and sleazy movie. I haven't seen this so looking
forward to it. I feel like almost one hundred times and I have said
I'm stoked or I'm excited, but I am. I am, and there's
nothing wrong with that. Yeah. So far, there hasn't been anything come
up where I say, no, that should never be released. It's shit,
because everything should always be released. Yeah. Moving along to the one
of the most important action stars of our day, Don the Dragon Wilson,
from their VSA line. You can get Red Sun Rising from nineteen ninety three
and Don the Dragon Wilson. Recently, you know, Miami Connection came out
and this looks it's a VSA. This is coming with some brand new interviews.
We got Don the Dragon, Wilson himself. We got a new interview
with the first ad Erica Fox, new interview with the producer, cinematographer and
ed, and then all kinds of archival interviews. There's a lot going on
on this, And if you're collecting VSAs, this seems right in line with
a lot of the other titles. Oh yeah, Pete, Terry Farrell,
Michael Hinside. Yeah, that's gonna be cool. This one screams nineteen ninety
three to me, especially when you look at the VSA's Usually they've got like
an artistic cover and then you flip it over and it's usually a realistic cover,
And this, I mean just very nineteen ninety three for sure. Yeah.
So and Ferrell did this film hot on the heels of her Star Turn
and Hell Raiser three Hell on Earth which was three is great. Yeah,
shot right here in Greensboro, North Carolina. Nice Yah. Then Vineger Center
released a couple of new pieces of merch in this they're calling it Vinegar Death
is the line that they're using here. This is the logo cover, the
film reel shirt, and then they're doing the film Reel tote bag. I
like their shirts. I wear a lot of them, but I certainly don't
need the exact same design that they've released the last ten or twelve times.
I would love to see some new stuff from them, including bring back some
hats. Damn it, I want a Vinger's Room hat, and they haven't
sold any in years. Well, I don't look good in yellow. I
think it's tough to look good and yellow. People who can do it,
I'm always impressed. I look like I've got some kind of disease when I'm
wearing yellow. It just makes my skin gonna turn the same color. I
can't imagine that's true. I bet you look amazing and yellow. I mean
you're pulling off this incredible shirt right now, right, very different. No
other way to hawk my own designs more so than that. Yeah, then
we got a dozen a dozen new partner label titles from Factory twenty five.
We were getting eight from twenty thirteen. This is supposed to be a really
good film, and I know I've said that a lot tonight, but not
what I've seen, and it's got great reviews pretty much everywhere. The back
of the slip is pretty damn funny. It sounds like a bleak film,
But I am super interested in it. You having to seen in this have
you no? But you know? Based on the description, it seems to
have something in common with Todd Phillips Joker and James Gunn's Super, which I
think is probably the best film. Super is very underrated. I love that
film, and if I'm if that assumption is right, then I'm gonna be
really I'll put this at the top of the stack on Yeah, it does
sound great and genuinely it has some really great reviews. I love that this
is coming with a twenty four page booklet, and it says, twenty four
page booklet with original jokes written for the film and essays by a couple of
different of historians area. I love these booklets. Hope that these labels keep
doing it. John says, I was slightly scared this was the James Franco
directed ape. I'm so glad it's not continuing the run of really good partner
label releases. This is Terror Visions, Blood, Guts and Sunshine. This
is the front and back of the slip. For those that don't know,
there's an indie horror director from Florida that has worked with Gator Blade Films for
quite a few years, and he recently announced his retirement. He's working on
a couple of things and just working on indie films. It's not sustainable for
him. And one of the last few things he's done is this documentary and
it was previously released on Blu Ray last year by Gator Blade, and now
it's getting a wider release after Terror Vision saw it and took a liking to
it. And this is literally a history of horror documentary for films made in
Florida, and Sean Donahue knows a hell of a lot about it. So
this says Snake, Sunshine, summer heat, and horror. Explore the independent
horror film scene that Florida has been vigorously pumping out since the invention of film.
This Blu Ray is jam packed with interviews, exploitation, never before seen
footage, and cinema madness. Watch and learn about films new and old in
this exclusive documentary made for cult horror fans, featuring exclusive interviews from Herschel,
Gordon Lewis, John Waters, John Landis, William Graffy, SHD, Sean
Donahue, Chris Woods, Marcus Cook, Steve Biro, who is behind Unearthed
Films, Tim Ritter, Joel Yoop and Moore, and it's good. It's
just over a couple hours long. They've also got some features on here.
There's the home Video Store feature, a bunch of trailers that were made in
Florida, Grindhouse Video Tour, a little older video since Grindhouse Videos not in
Florida anymore. Ye documentary that I think most people watching this channel probably are
really interested in. I mean, previously unseen interviews with Herschel Gordon Lewis.
That's I don't even need the rest of it, and the rest of it
looks great. I'm also I'm really interested in that Grindhouse Video Tour, which
especially because they've got the new location in Nashville, and this is a way
of kind of preserving and memorializing that space, which which I never got to
visit in person. So but but I think that whole story of that what's
his name, Mike saying his whole story. I heard him on a podcast,
what an interesting life he's had. But to hear him tell it,
ah, you know, yeah, I'd certainly recommend checking this out. I
enjoyed what I've seen of it. I've still not quite finished it, but
it is it is interesting, to say the least. A lot of people
don't love the stuff Sean Donne. He was done, which is probably why
he's never super taken off. But he's got a lot of random ass films
that people have. You know, his fans are very, very loyal.
There's just not enough to you know, pay the wages throughout the year.
Yeah, just said the biggest thing I think Sean did. Gosh, what
is the the Christmas core he did. I feel like that was on shutter
for a while or something. He did Die Di Delta Pie, and then
a few years ago he did Cannibal. He's got an actor named Bob Glazier
that he uses in a lot of his films, and he's he's got his
fans, I'll say that much. I've got a lot of his stuff just
to support him and keep indie cinema going. But it's it's hard out there
and you can't make a ton of money. So when you can, it's
just another reason to support indie films. Yeah. From Enjoy the Ride Records,
we are getting Dead Guy Killing Music from twenty twenty one. This authorized
documentary chronicles the short lived career of the band Dead Guy and their seminal hardcore
album Fixation on a Coworker, featuring never before seen pictures and videos, live
audio recordings, and more. There's interviews with every member of the band and
industry peers, just all just under an hour and a half long, which
is great for a music doc for something like this, and then extras on
this They've got all kinds of performances, They've got all kinds of outtakes on
here. I know nothing about the band, but I am a huge sucker
for music documentaries, so I will absolutely be checking this out eventually. Oh
yeah, when I saw this announcement, listen to the album. I streamed
it. Now now I got to go get a copy because I used to
have a cassette of it. It's kind of metal ly what do they call
it? Mathcore? Yep, mathcore? I don't really know what that means.
But they're really good. They're real technical, they're mad, they're real
angry. Not to get a nerdy as we're talking about math core, which
sounds like the most nerdy thing ever said on this channel if I remember right.
Mathcore derives from the fact that they switch back and forth through odd time
signatures, which leads to not having a really easy to follow rhythm for a
lot of the songs, but if you listen to it enough, it becomes
something that literally begins to like entrance you there. There's a handful of bands
that are very math core that I've loved for a long time, and I
kind of fell into some of that after listening to some really good post hardcore
bands, and I can't wait to see this just claim desperate. Yeah,
well, I guess is the most famous one, like Dylander escape Plan?
Yeah? Probably? Yeah. I love that album they do with Mike Patton,
but uh yeah, that guy's good. Guys. I'm I will have
to check them out too. Then. From Culture Shock Releasing, and this
is from nineteen ninety one, we are getting Devil Writer. First of all,
great art on this release. Loving the way this looks. This says
yuppie Tom brings his investor buddies out to a dude ranch, hoping they'll want
to help him turn it into a high end resort. Classic cliche storyline.
There, Tom has a connection with the place his family's blood is in the
soil, and now I feel like it's less cliche. For a century,
the Devil Writer has roamed the land, killing all who try to claim it
as their own awakening. Whenever it is trespassed upon, Tom and his friends
will surely die unless they figure out how to kill the Devil Rider. Uh.
When I first read that today, all I thought was, is that
a Scooby Doo episode? Uh? This one looks interesting? Directed by Vick
Alexander has got a handful of like Rick Grote, I feel like I've heard
the name quite a few times and Tag Grote Region three VHS cut of the
film and some behind the scenes and interviews and Devil writer, what are you
thinking? I know nothing like you. I'm loving that art and I I
yeah, that's funny. Yeah, I don't know, I'll see this.
Shock has been a little hit or miss for me. Yeah, yeah,
some of the some of the releases that haven't been super into, but well,
you know something I have, I'll check them all out. You know,
I'm so obsessive about collecting that I tend to go for a completionist.
And with the partner labels, I've got almost everything from everybody except for Culture,
Shock and AGFA, just because they have so many titles that have but
Shock a lot of some of well probably more of their titles than the the
other partner labels haven't been up my alley, but now that they're doing those
semi regular partner showcase, yeah, that's probably what I deep dive into.
That's a good plan. And then obviously a lot of the stuff should be
there for the fifty percent off sale come November, which we're gonna be talking
about a little while because it's already September, and even though a lot of
people, myself included, still haven't even watched everything that came in the big
halfway to Black Friday sale, we are already about to talk about the Black
Friday Sale. More to come in probably about an hour and a half when
we get there. At the end of the show, we got some major
titles coming from partner labels, and this is just the first one. Fair
Game is coming from Dark Star Pictures. This got a release from I believe
the Umbrella Osploitation line Osploitation Classics. I believe it's called a few years ago,
and fair Game is gonna make a lot of people happy because this release
looks pretty great. This is from nineteen eighty six and it's a young woman
running a wildlife sanctuary and the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is
confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill
the animals in the sanctuary. I mean bored and you kill animals into sanctuary,
And when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have
a little fund with her too. Turns out they may get a bit more
fun than they bargained for. Uh yeah, this has a whole bunch of
stuff on this We got an audio commentary with the director and writer, extend
ended interview with an actress, behind the scenes stuff. But then we got
some short films from the director as well, Vandalism from eighty one, Break
in eighty three, Taken by Storm eighty four, another one from eighty four,
and then under Pressure from eighty six. Have you seen fair Game?
No, but I have seen a horror film that Mario Andreachro made after that,
called The Dreaming and it was pretty good. And after that, like
the rest of his career, is all kids movies, family movies. Maybe
to make up for all the dead kangaroos. It's a lot of movies with
kids and kids and animals and stuff. This is a really good time to
bring up something that I brought up in my interview with Air four four four
four again for those that don't know about it. For films, there is
a website out there called does the doogde dot com and quite often I will
check that website before I watch a film with my wife and there are certain
things that she just doesn't love, and a movie like this would have a
lot of things that she does not want to see. Does the Dog Dies
not just about animals dying. It is very much about all kinds of things
that people may see as triggers and filmed like sexual assaults, dying when you're
scared of heights, if you're scared of open water, and it describes all
the things like that that you may see that you may want to avoid.
So it's a good one to bookmark and check out every once in a while
if you are interested in, you know, helping somebody out that they may
not want to see first, well, that's a good service, you know,
when you're speaking of dogs. Probably this guy's most well known film in
the States is called Napoleon from the mid nineties, and it's about it's about
a little Golden Retriever puppy and so some some hot air balloon stuff happened.
I don't think the dog dies, So you're good to watch Napoleon. I
think I've seen it and I'm not remembering it at all. You said the
term Napoleon, and immediately it was like nostalgia. Nostalgia. The every video
store went into had one or two copies of the box. And it's very
colorful. It's a Golden Retriever in a hot air balloon basket and a bright
colored, multi colored balloon above them. So yeah, it's a memorable box.
It's oh my gosh, Yes, it's in my head. I have
not seen that poster in ages. Yes, and there's a penguin in it
and a ted Koala. What the heck? Yeah, he's, like I
said, he's making up for this movie. He's gotta be quiet. Rob
As asking him. It makes me wonder which movie which would be the movie
with more entries on that site? What movie is the most things that would
be triggering for people, well, your old standards, like you know,
cannibal holocausts. I don't remember which movie it was. My wife and I
were watching a Jess Franco film, and she went, that's not real,
is it when some animal died and I went, well, it's just Franco,
so maybe and I went and checked on the site and I went bad
news and had to tell her anyways, let's keep going before we're here for
another three hours, like Brian just hinted at the Yeah, I'm still going
all that is, man, We're going over four hours tonight. Probably in
this month. We are getting a double feature from AGFA that is absolutely going
to get this episode demonetized if it wasn't already, The Devil and Fuck the
Devil two double feature from nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety one. This is the
slip cover they're going with, and you should say the Devil. Oh,
sorry, yes we are. We are using AI in real time to change.
We are going for the cuss cut here Explode out of the German Horror
Underground, Fuck the Devil and Fuck the Devil to Return of the Fucker.
Gotta love that subtitle there. These are cinematic equivalents of DIY comic books that
were made by a teenage stoner while experimenting with bootleg acid, and there's nothing
else like them. The films tell the story of the Fucker, a phantasmagorical
death machine who materializes from haunted VHS tapes of evil Dead Too and a nightmare
on Elm Street to wreak havoc on unsuspecting parents, teens, and babies.
So before I continue, by that point, I've already clicked purchase just for
the record, there's nothing else needed there. Fueled by subversive violence, experimental
techniques, and an unconditional love for the horror genre, these Cassia Cory driven
miracles teleport us into a dreamlike panic state where Rambo posters, eight bits,
sound barfs, and nightmare freddies rule our subconsciousness. Ag Fund Bleeding School are
overjoyed to welcome the fuck Her to home video for the first time ever,
complete with a new twenty twenty two director's cut on both the original cuts and
a fuck ton of extras. Amazing, amazing, amazing. There's a booklet
in this, there's commentaries, outtake, shorts, trailers, everything. Altogether,
these two films are less than eighty minutes if you watch both of them
back to back. So is it is it Fuck the Devil or Fuck the
Devil? Like are you making love to the devil? Or are you saying,
no, you know, I don't know this. I don't know the
sense of it. I'd love to know, and I will tell you when
it arrives later this month. I'll find out for myself. I'm sure too.
Kwi Rob says, I'm going energizer Bunny tonight. I want to know
what that means. I felt exhausted before I started, and you and I
are I mean, you energize me. I love doing these things with you,
so thanks for being here again. Yeah. First of all, I
love the back of the slip and I really wish they had made this a
poster. I would absolutely hang that in my movie room. Might make my
daughter's Halloween costume. Oh man, the finding the other language Evil Dead two
shirt is going to be a little difficult. Youre probably gonna have to print
it yourself. This is one I had heard about a few months ago,
coming from who is this one? The canalog? And I can't wait for
this. This sounds ludicrous, and what I've read is that this is a
wild film, So we are getting KFC from twenty sixteen. This is the
front of the slip and the back, so a little boring on the slip.
However, for those of you that haven't read about this check this out.
Talk about out of left field. This omnibus of strange and harrowing stories
connected by vagabond characters at various levels of moral bankruptcy, revolves around the same
KFC location exactly. A sick doctor and his twisted cohorts attack random people and
ultimately cannibalize them. The doctor's own rotund young son has grown accustomed to the
taste of human flesh and gleefully tries to share it with street kids who have
already run a foul of an assortment of evil creeps. Bizarre would be an
understatement for this out of control orgy of revenge, featuring cryptic dialogue and plastic,
almost detached depictions of deliberate torment and the squashy, sucking, splattering and
dull thudding of abused flesh. This is from a debut filmmaker takes the body
whore genre to new heights, combining a theoreal on we and anami. I
don't know why I said that weird. I'll leave it though, with raw
visceral savagery. Not for the faint hearted. Oh man, Yeah, I
watched the trailer for this and it's solving. I watched that trailer when I
first heard about this a couple of months ago, and I immediately put this
on my to watch immediately list. I had a similar thought to John.
John said, so it's like street trash. The parts that I started to
think of was remind me of the first time I watched A Ball of Syndrome,
and there's a few scenes in that that really harken back to some of
the feelings that I got watching this trailer. But oh man, this movie
looks and sounds wild. We got an essay on this thing in an interview
with the filmmaker, a couple interviews maybe and yeah, looks like a good
release to Canalog has done great work so far. But this might be like
the most famous partner label coming out this month, and so many people are
into this. What what did I do? I love? I just love
the juxtaposition, cannibalizing it, the KFC to Married to the Mob coming from
Fun City Editions. This is a nineteen eighty eight classic with some of the
biggest names that you'll see in a partner label release so far. This is
the beautiful slipcover on this. This is the front and the back. Loving
the Colors. It looks like it's gonna be great. Everybody loves Angela,
but Angela's married to the Mob and a starmaking performance. Michelle Pfeiffer is suburban
mafia housewife Angela DeMarco in Jonathan Demi's hit comedy Married to the Mob. When
her unfaithful husband, Frank the Cucumber played by Alec Baldwin is iced by his
boss Tony the Tiger Russo by none other than Dean Stockwell, Angela flees her
cloistered existence on Long Island for the big City with several interested parties in hot
pursuit Tony, who's smitten with Angela, Tony's insanely jealous wife Connie, and
FBI agent Mike Downey played by Stranger Things own Matthew Modine, who believes Angela
is the key to locking Tony up for a very long time. Uh something
really cool. Stranger Things is huge right now. Matthew Modine filmed a new
interview for this Wow really really cool flickering. I had the exact same question.
How Well, first of all, it's only a two K scan from
an interpositive, and I think the fact that it's an interpositive is what made
it possibly not be a four K scan on this one, but it looks
and sounds great. We got a new booklet in this with essays by Jordine
Cels and a DJ and writer Margaret Barton FuMO. We got an audio commentary
by Danielle Henderson and Millie D. Shirko of the I Saw What You Did
podcast. Uh. Married to the Mom is a very very big title for
Fun City, and I really hope it sounds like king puzzers for them.
Yeah, I mean I'm excited about that. You know, Matthew, Matthew
leviin I. I have a real soft spot for him because when Stanley Kubrick
died, he wrote the absolute best tribute of all the all the people that
I read and and gave this really meticulous account not only of what it was,
what the working methods were like, but how they made him feel,
you know, and uh, and in so doing, uh, he threw
some shade at Tom Cruise, who was trying to act like they were best
like he and Stanley were best friends after shut which I like to that too.
What does that have to do with the movie, Nothing, but like
you, I'm excited, you know, Jonathan Demi titles are always I always
find that when I watched the first time I watched any of his movies,
I'm kind of like, not really into it because they seem just like run
of the mill genre movies. But then the second third time I watch them,
I keep finding layers and different things and side characters and stuff. I
haven't seen Married to the Mob probably since what well I have to do be
VHS days. So this is this is really cool. This is one that
if I remember right, I think it was my dad really liked this one,
and I just haven't seen it since probably the last time I watched it
with him. There's been a long time. I think this was the title
again, a lot of the up from my child that I've blocked out.
It just very much. I think it was fun City, a huge get
with this title. The director's films that they've gotten so far have been Matt
I mean Lymon Ramsey, Jonathan Demi crazy like uh yeah, smile from Michael
Ritchie like dude McMahon brought up. I'm shocked they've been able to get such
a great catalog, and I hope it does not slow down. They are
they are absolutely killing it. The Stanley Kubrick conversation for a second. I
I don't know. I wanted to bring up two things. First of all,
for the last few years, we've gotten the Kubrick four K in November
December. They haven't announced one for this year yet, and I really hope
we get something. Uh there, there's still a handful of his stuff that
we don't have on four K. Keno's obviously added to that a lot in
last year with some of his more classic films that came out through Criterion,
but his his last film that it's one of his bet and you know,
bringing up his death, the fact that he if I remember it, like,
he submitted notes to the studio about some editing stuff and then passed away
like two days later and never got to see it released and see what ultimately
was, you know, not the fanfare that it deserved at the time.
But in due time, people have fallen in love with that film, and
I don't think that film could ever be done the way that it is.
The fact that we got those two people starring in that film is one of
the biggest pieces of social commentary in it. Yeah, I don't even know,
they still don't know. Yeah, I mean the fact that we have
Tom Cruise himself walking around that debauchery in his mind, that alone is like,
how did this get made? And how did it get made? When
it got made, by who it got made that it is such a mind
blowing achievement. It's amazing to me that we don't have that on four K
and something that really needs to be looked at again. Cubrick is. You
could talk about him for years and you know, aswad Shut's the only film
by him that I've ever gotten to see in the theater on you first release
said restorations and everything. But going like on a Friday night opening weekend to
see that and watching everyone around us like eventually get pissed off and totally detached
from the movie was so fun. This is not full metal jacket kind.
Well yeah, I touche, Let's carry on. Uh. This is from
Canadian International Pictures. Nobody waved goodbye and this sounds absolutely fascinating. Here's the
back of the slip. This says, a startling film that shows what teenagers
feel, but never tell. Teenager Peter Mark has it all, supported parents,
a loving girlfriend, and a comfortable middle class existence, but on the
brink of finishing high school, he feels emboldened by his impending freedom and excuse
me, and decides to pursue a rebellious new path. After his parents make
their disapproval known, Peter decides to move out on his own, confident he'll
conquer the working world with his insight and sophistication. When the reality turns out
to be far less glamorous, he settles for a shady new job that continues
his criminal evolution. This is supposedly ranked among the most important Canadian films of
all time, and this is the feature directorial debut of the Guy that did
The Earning Game with Canadian International put that out previously and will Discovery for me.
I really enjoyed The Earning Game. Canadian International has quietly been putting out
like some of the most solid releases from all these partners, so this one.
In addition to this, we also have three of Owen's early shorts.
This disc also includes Christopher's movie Matinee, an inventive documentary that shows where Toronto
teen Rebellion landed just a few years later, and then also Lonely Boy,
the landmark Paul Anka short that preceded theatrical screening of Nobody Wave Goodbye. This
is an absolutely stacked discs. I mean we've got literally six films on here,
some short, some feature length, and I mean you can just watch
this for hours. This is incredible. Yeah, and I will, Terry
says the preview for Nobody Wave Goodbye was quite good. It is, and
the fact that they are putting up trailers for quite a few of these,
it's always nice when they have them attached on that sale page. Moving right
along, Saturday Night at the Baths from Altered Innocence, which is a LGBTQ
queer related label. Of course, this is newly Your Sort and four K.
David Buckley's landmark excursion into bisexuality, seventies relationship politics, and the historical
importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in this nineteen seventy five film. This
is a region free Blu ray. Region free Blu Ray. There's a video
essay by Lee Gambon, some interviews and restoration trailer, which I love when
they do restoration trailers to show what it was and what they restored it to.
It is one of the best ways to show why these restorations are so
important. Moving Got Something on that one. Yeah, sure, well,
I just I so appreciate what alternative innocence is doing. And it is,
as you said, so timely. I don't I don't just teach media studies.
I also teach apply to ethics. And just today we were talking about
the Dobbs decision in Supreme Court, and not just obviously the impact it has
on guaranteed right to reproductive health, access to reproductive health abortion services, but
also the potential future effects on other rights to right to privacy cases, including
including Lawrence versus Casey, which essentially legalized uh, non hetero relations. And
and seeing these films that that that document the the struggles and the joys and
the culture right of of queer life, you know, prior to Lawrence versus
Texas, and and and the achievement of marriage equality and so on, is
just such important hit history and history that that that people who aren't necessarily affected
by these kinds of restrictions need to know about, right the people like me.
So I I just think this is a wonderful service, not you know,
preserving art, but also expanding our knowledge of history. That's what That's
what I want to say. And it's important in a year when literally these
court decisions have been named drawing as possibly being in danger. It is not
a joking matter in any sense of the word. That you know, there
are certain things that could be up forward debate that just seem fundamental at this
point, and a lot of them make no sense. But it really is
through documentation like this that shows the evolution of our culture and how it should
just be literally second nature. Yeah. You know, my students they're so
young now, right, they're always surprised that the guaranteed right to even access
contraception for heterosexual couples is only fifty years old, right, We've only had
that since nineteen seventy. I mean, it's incredible, Yeah, I mean
the fact that we have people that were, you know, on the front
lines of civil rights issues and gay rights issues in the fifty sixty seventies.
So many people are like that was generations ago, and then you realize,
wait, some of these people are still alive, and it just reminds you
how precarious, precarious, or hold on culture and rights can be. Not
to get all political or anything, let's go to sixteen tongues in a very
dramatic change, sixteen tongues coming from Saturn's Core Audio Videos is from nineteen ninety
nine. This is the front of the slip and here's the back, looking
very technicolor and interesting. This is a wild looking release here. Adrian Torque
is a renegade cop who has lost more than half of his skin in a
terrorist explosion. His missing flesh has been replaced with the tongue meat recovered from
the sixteen victims that died during the tragedy. First of all, I can't
wait to see how they come to that decision. And then this name,
I don't get it. I read this name earlier I was like, wait
a minute, is this real? Jinny Chinchin is a genetically engined prostitute assassin
chasing down the scientists who implanted her sex organs under the folds of her eyelids.
What am I reading? Alec Silens is a waried computer hacker hunting through
the pornographic abyss of cyberspace for the identity of her brother's killer at a rundown
S and m hotel purgatory where even the strangest desires can be met for a
price. The trajectories of this star Cross trio intersect in a claustrophobic collision of
sex, blood, bullets, and personal apocalypse. Yeah, hard to believe
this is a Scooter McCrae show. And it's even made worse right now by
the fact that we are just about four hours into the stream and I'm reading
that and everything is a fever dream. So, Scooter McRae, we got
an audio commentary with the director and producer, and another audio commentary with a
few other people involved. But the cool thing we got some short films.
We got a sixteen millimeters student film by Scooter McCrae from eighty eight with his
commentary. We got a sixteen meal student film by Scooter McCrae from eighty seven
with commentary, and then a bonus movie called Saint Frankenstein, Scooter McCrae's award
winning twenty fifteen short films starring Melanie Gatos and Tina Krause in HD with optional
director's commentary, and then an isolated score by none other than a Fabio Fritzy,
somebody we just talked about earlier. This sounds just absolute, absolute wild.
I've seen this. I saw this around the same time that I saw
Shattered Dead, many many many years ago. So I'm really excited to see
it again. As I recall, it was kind of strange. Yeah,
I would imagine. So Flickering Wave says it is genre madlibs, and I
think that's a really great way to say that. Stan Geezy is somehow still
watching. Will he is in it for the long haul. Stand, We're
gonna have a long scholarly conversation afterwards. That's gonna last at least two hours
stands on West Coast time, so it's still early for him. I mean,
that's easy. Come on, stand, you're doing great. I hope
you don't have a seven o'clock class in the morning. I get my kids
to school. They'll be all right me too. Candy Releasing is releasing Well
that's again a double word there. I shouldn't say. We are getting Viva
Erotica from Canny Releasing. This is from nineteen ninety six. This is the
only title this month that is a strictly limited title. So if you were
wanting this one, this is not one that you can get the standard edition
of eventually, this is only getting these three thousand copies. Beloved Hong Kong
icon Leslie Chung from Happy Together Stars as sing An ambitious atawork filmmaker with two
flops to his name. When his producer secures funding for his next project from
a freshly cleaned up Triad financier, he has said, Baddled with the sexy
Taipei starlet Mango, tasked with being more Wang Jing than Wang kar y,
and encouraged by his long suffering girlfriend, Sing gets to work on his first
softcore porno. This is supposed to be really great. This is a region
a locked release. We got an interview with a handful of people, commentary
by Brian Who and journalist Ada Sang from the podcast Saturday School with a Booklet.
Do you have any history about Viva Erotica? I wish I did.
No, This is brand new to me. I mean, I'm familiar with
Leslie Cheung and Shuki and a couple other names in the credits, but this
is this is a new one. So cool. Yeah, this one is
certainly interesting. One of the things that really is going to grab a lot
of people is if you read in the second paragraph, alongside her sex and
Zen two co star Elvis Sweet, Viva Erotica offers an electrifying, behind the
scenes look at the sleazy world of Cat three, filmmaking in a declining industry.
This is like inspired by a true story from Bosco Lamb and Lochi Lung's
argents experiences as an assistant director from Hell. This has a lot of really
interesting cameos like Anthony Wong is in it and Sean Laocheng wing from Running Out
of Time. There is a lot going for this one, so I am
super super interested in this. John wants to know WHOA WHOA this is Cat
three. I'm not sure if this is Cat three or if this is talking
about Cat three, but the fact that the Cat three logo for the rating
is on the back here that very well could mean that it is typically Cat
three, And I think a lot of people were missing that when this got
announced earlier, because this is this is like a very big deal for what
seems to be the ongoing trend with some of these boutique releases right now.
Anyways, we are down to the home stretch with only a few left.
But one of the biggest things out of Vinegar Syndrome today was details on their
fall flash pre order for the Black Friday sale. Over the weekend of September
twenty third, they are hosting their flash pre order in anticipation of our always
colossal Black Friday Sale, meaning we only have three weeks until the flash preorder
event for Black Friday, which is wild. During the pre order, you'll
be able to secure your copies of the entire Vinegar Syndrome branded November lineup.
Three of our five November VS releases will be revealed, including full specs and
extras, among them Never on Blue Slashers and an ultra violent Hong Kong actioner
directed by one of the genre's undisputed masters. That was the thing that really
got me excited about this November they say. We'll also be revealing and putting
up for pre order our next VSU, which is an eighties action classic with
a legendary leading performance from a Hollywood superstar. And then, related to the
Black Friday sale, we are slightly changing the way we'll be selling yearly subscriptions
for twenty twenty three. The basic subscription model will remain the same, but
specifically when we sell the subscriptions will be a bit different. More to follow
on that front. And as you and I are both subscribers, what do
you think that means? I don't know. I get nervous once I get
settled into a routine, right getting, you know, as a parent who
tries not to be selfish, even though I am same, having the subscriber's
sale in November is tough because I got I'm also prepping for Christmas. You
know, I've already told my kids Christmas is canceled forever, So if the
timing of it changed a little bit, then that might be good. But
then again, you know, I'm gonna I'm an academic, some a paycheck
flush weights and in the summer nothing, So hopefully it'll be at an advantagious
time or or maybe multiple times. I don't know. I don't know what
it could mean. I'm the way I'm reading this, I've got two ideas.
I think that they will either initiate some sort of installment plan where you
can possibly like pay quarterly or something like that. But clearly this is probably
because the the subscription for next year is probably going to be over one thousand
dollars, which is a lot of money, but with rising cost and more
four K and everything that's happening, I am willing to bet that that is
one of the major reasons. The other thing that they could do, which
when they say, when we are doing this, that could allude to you
know, you could pay quarterly, but also they could make it so you
could get your animal subscription at any time, and when you sign up,
you literally have twelve months. And one of the reasons that may help people
there are a lot of people that get upset when they subscribe in January and
stuff runs out in December. But one of the big reasons to subscribe now
is partner labels, and if you if you're expiring in December, you have
to get all the partner labels when you want that come out in December,
otherwise you lose those discounts. So it's tough. I understand why they would
do it, but I mean they gotta find some way to work with people
on that, so I kind of get that. We'll see, we're all
just speculating here, of course. Yeah, well that would make sense with
the new way of showing the pricing and getting rid of the codes. If
you were able to get it, you know, at all different times,
it wouldn't have to track you as it wouldn't be as difficult to track you.
Yeah, cut down on customer inquiries via email, I'm sure just if
you can see the price. You still have an active subscription discount, go
for it right, Only a few more left here. Thankfully, Keno announced
on November twenty ninth we were getting a French noir collection. These are all
two K restorations in a two disc set. We are getting Speaking a Murder
from nineteen fifty seven, Back to the Wall from nineteen fifty eight, and
Witness in the City from nineteen fifty nine. I know nothing about any French
noir titles. Is this your uber at all? Well? Two out of
three got Jean Gabin, so I'll be worth checking out. No, I'm
not familiar with the directors, not familiar with the titles, so all right,
we can move on to the next one. But I definitely want to
see you. Here we go. One of my favorite movies of all time
already, even though it just came out this year, everything everywhere, all
at once. I wanted to share this in case somebody was looking for a
nice release of this and in the States. The nicest release so far that
we have is a Walmart exclusive slip cover which just come on January third in
France only. It looks like this is getting a four K steel book.
You can buy it from. I always call it Finnac. I've never heard
anybody else say it out loud, but that's what I call it. Fnac
is the website. I've got that link here or Amazon, Amazon and France
you can buy it and they both will ship here. And this is a
gorgeous looking steel book. It will still have English subs if you have never
bought any sort of French release. The only thing that bothers me about these.
Let me see if I can show everybody. These spines are usually backwards,
so when you put it with their US titles, they would all be
facing that way, and you're French titles will be facing that way, and
it's so annoying. I think they do that on purpose, thankfully, And
we talked about this in the discord a little bit today. Are there is
a genuine market for magnetic spines for steel books, and somebody will likely be
allowing this to be fixed if you just put a little metal spine over it
with a magnet. We are, I think, two announcements away from the
end here. Coming on November fifteenth from Classic Flicks. They are releasing all
of their Little Rascals collections that they've put out so far in one giant release,
they have done I believe six now of their Little Rascals releases. This
is just one era of Little Rascals. This is not like all of the
Little Rascals ever, because there's a ton of Our Gang and Little Rascal stuff.
But this is available to pre order now and one of the cool things
is if you have been buying them as they come out, you can also
buy just the brand new bonus disc. And I really wish other companies would
do this. This is such a great way to make fans happy and not
feel like they were wasting money as they go along. Overall, if you
like Our Gang or Little Rascals, these are really incredible restorations of their work.
And a lot of these are very old. They've got tons of short
films. Uh. These discs are just full on stacked. They've done great
work from classic flicks. And I remember when I was a kid, I
used to get up at five or six in the morning and watch Little Rascals
and Three Stooges shorts on TBS and I'm so happy. And they hold up.
I mean they do. There's there's obviously problematic content, and not as
much as other things not that that makes it okay, right, but but
the Little Rascal shorts are solid, They're well made, these performed, they
are Yeah, and again I just really want to highlight. I know we're
over four hours into a stream, so the forty of you that are still
watching, first of all, congratulations, this is amazing. But second of
all, how many times do we see from boutique something as awesome as we're
releasing everything that we've been doing for the last couple of years and now you
can just buy this extra set and the cool thing. Let me open up
this link for just the bonus disc. I want to make sure that I'm
reading this correctly before I say it out loud, but they say here this
item is for the bonus disc only, which is included in the collection.
It is for those who previously purchased the individual six volumes on Blu Ray,
but don't want to buy the entire collection just for this. This is where
it gets really cool. While the Centennial Collection is a six disc set,
the purchase of this separate disc will come housed in a seven disc case with
the same artwork as the Centennial collection, So they are going above and beyond
just for the bonus disc to allow you to host everything in one collection.
Incredible. Yeah, that's that's solid, a solid customer service. And I
believe the next one is the last announcement. Yes, congratulations everybody. This
was announced like three minutes before our stream and somehow I got it up via
Vision in Australia. On November ninth, Is releasing Saw the Ultimate Collection four
K plus ray with exclusive replica reverse bear Trap, which is amazing to look
at. I am a giant Soft fan. I love this. I really
hope I can get this, but I'm gonna talk about the price in just
a second. This is limited to only fifteen hundred copies and this thing,
it weighs just over half a kilo. It's got all of the films from
the Saw franchise and some specs on this we have all let me see which
ones are in four K. Here we got the first one in four K,
and of course Spiral from the Book of Saw in four K and Jigsaw
in four K. Everything else is on Blu Ray, and that means these
are just the same Saw films that they've been putting out for ages. The
only thing that's really new and worth it is this really nice replica Reverse bear
Trap, and for somebody that loves Saw, I'm kind of itching to pull
the trigger. But if you go to the website, this thing costs four
hundred Australian dollars, which in US money that is I believe around two hundred
and seventy dollars. Holy shit. I mean you can buy the entire Saw
collection here with the three on four K and everything else on blue for like
thirty five forty bucks on a bad day. So I I would love to
have it, but there's no way I can justify two hundred dollars on or
and that's even being very generous, but like two hundred and thirty dollars on
a replica of Reverse bear Trap. I wish I could. What's your favorite
Saw movie? I got to go with Saw two. It's got some of
my favorite traps. I think the needle pit is appalling. I think that
it's got some really really good, uh just overall storylines in the film,
and then the almost matching the astonishing twist from the first film, the fact
that the kid was in the safe the entire time, right by the dad.
It is such a gut punch at the end. It's just I remember
watching it opening day in at the theater with my now wife and just being
like, oh, he was right there and not having that twist spoiled again.
Sorry spoiler for anybody that hasn't seen a Saw Too yet. Uh.
I love the franchise. I've seen almost all of them on open day with
my now wife in the theater, and there's only a couple I missed because
at the time she moved out of state and it's one of our favorites to
watch together. That's cool, you said, too, That's that's I think
that's probably the best one, but it's my second favorite one. I like.
I like six the best because that's that's the funny one that was Was
that one of the Darren Lynn Bousman directed ones. I think, Oh,
I don't know, I don't even remember if you directed the one, but
I just like I liked it being about killing insurance adjusters. Yep, there's
a I don't know. I've liked the entire franchise. I gotta be honest,
let me share. Ostan says he's always been partial of the first film,
which obviously it's a classic, got one of the best twists in cinema
history. Literally I just I just wish that car Carrie always had been able
to work in and as you wish line rating somewhere. Carrie Alwis has had
such an odd career. I mean, obviously he's in some iconic roles when
he was super young, and then saw he comes back and Saw seven or
whatever as the Apprentice again, and then randomly he's the god awful mayor in
season three of Stranger Things. I what. Anyways, after those announcements,
we always cover what's coming out next week. Thankfully, this will only take
about twenty seconds. Blowout in four K coming from Criteria next week. The
Funhouse in four K already shipping if you order that from Screen Factory. Most
people are getting those. If you're a Star Trek fan, lots of four
K coming for you next week, and Minions, The Rise of Grew.
I know everybody's excited about that. The lions Gate really great steel books.
They're putting out the three ten Uma four K next week. That steel Book.
Unfortunately, that's a really bad four K transfer and it's not a new
transfer on that one. Rachel Rachel from Warner Archive. And then we got
some of those re releases of Vincent Price titles. We got the Oblong Box
and Twice Told Tales. I'm really curious in seeing this Paravision Dreams triple feature
of the Golden Age of three D films of Pine and Thomas. Uh,
that's coming out from Keno and then uh, I think that's pretty much it.
Uh. Yeah, the next week is gonna be a big one,
as you can see there. But uh, we'll get into that next Thursday.
It has been four hours and eight minutes. Will I can keep going?
Well, do you have any pickups you wanted to share, any anything
recently that you want to highlight. I'll sell you. Before we started that,
I was supposed to get my big Vinegar Syndrome Hall that included the one
print sale and the summer sale, and they didn't come today. But I
did get some stuff. Let's see I got I got a bunch of stuff
from that Warner Archives. Nice for I'll just I got a couple of bugs
Buzzby Berkeley titles, Strike Up the Band Girl Crazy. I'm working on a
project about Woody Strode right now. So I got Tarzan's Three Challenges nice and
oh, we'll package from Synapps today. Yeah, Indicator, I picked up
Hoffman with Peter Sellers. Just got that into Nice. Nice, and but
one of the Bud Butecker films that I've been wanting forever. Got some eighty
eight films stuff Flying Guillotine and what's this other one? Martiall Club Nice.
I'm a huge fan of Robert mac whistle at Eaton Falls and uh all your
last thing I'll show is you know, we talked a little bit about shouting
Screen Factory not always being the most considerate of customers. But I had to
pull the trigger on Cat Shay's Strip to Kill. I wish Strip to Kill
two was there as well. I went ahead and did Watchers too, because
I like nice and that one just went out of print, I believe,
like right after you've probably bought that. Yeah, and not happy about the
artwork, but very happy anytime I can get some Stuart Gordon. I'm also
frustrated that that was limited. That absolutely should have been a wide release from
them. It's it's Stuart Gordon, for God's sake, you know, I
think I mentioned to you before. I'm really excited. I'm hoping next year
to go up to the new Stuart Gordon Archives University Wisconsin, Madison, so
That's that's what I got going on. How about you? Anything cool?
Yeah, A couple of things. One that I'm gonna show off here for
patrons later in their own video, but just want to highlight publicly that Another
one of the patrons, Eric Altieri, we we he posted something in the
discord see if anybody wanted it, and uh, I was like, I
love Kevin Smith, I'd love to have it, and uh we we did
not even like a trade. He was like, here, I'll send it
to you, and I was like, I'll just send you something for fun.
And I sent him an unopened imprint title, which no big deal.
But then what showed up is this, uh Kevin Smith, uh the Jane
Silent Bob reboot script, and it's got it's literally the entire script. It's
got some comic book pages in the back. Uh. He never told me
that when I got it and opened it up, I would find out that
it is autographed. Oh cool man, that's when signature autographed. I mean
that that is such a really really neat thing. I I love this community
that we've built just out of nowhere. And he's like, yeah, I
happen to have two of them, so why not we'll just give one of
them away. I got in the newest Lionsgates steel book. I've never seen
Warrior. This is a four K release. I love the way they are
doing these slip covers on the steel book, incorporating the design into it.
We can see a very different steel book when you do that. Really nice
art on this one too, one that I'm eager to check out. A
lot of people I trust say this is a great film, so super curious,
but then just a cinematic classic that has inspired James Cameron to do some
of his biggest works. I am really glad to share with my kids.
Fern Gully, the Last Rainforest from gioaut Factory. Yes, that is a
prequel to Avatar and I just can't wait to see that again. I'll do
as well. All that being said, I'd love to just sit and talk
with you for an hour, but it's spent four hours and fifteen minutes.
I think you got to go to bed. I'm too jacked. I'll figure
something out. Yeah, I'll get to sleep, but yeah, we'll have
to do that Herefore too long, U Chad again? Talk about some movie
stuff McMahon wants to notice. Will prefer killers over Don Seals version. Okay,
that's a good question. Let me say this, So the Don Siegel
version is awesome. One of the best performances by Norman Fell that I can
recall seeing. And I love almost every performance by Norman Fell. Uh you
know you got you got Ronald Reagan and his last dastardly role. I'm gonna
go with the version because of the cinematography The Killers Don Siegel Killers is much
flatter, doesn't doesn't have the rich shadow and depth on the films always seem
to have, so visually, I gotta go with it. But you know
those those are two films that have their own strengths, and I would never
want to get rid of one in favor of the other. But yeah,
I will go with the version if it comes down to it. And I
do. I really love Robert. I did a whole presentation on his western
Custer of the West and kind of show some of the noir influences in the
film. And you know that that scene with Robert Ryan give a little monologue
before he's executed one of them just just one of the best epic takes on
Custer. Robert Shaw Holy Calf. Yeah, so well, we will go
another hour. If I start talking about I really can, we will close.
Then this is the perfect way to close with a couple of stan geezy
comments. We were talking about Stuart Gordon. He met him after a performance
of jeff Ray Combs One Man Show about ed Brey Allen Poe, which Gordon
had directed. That's awesome, but the real question here, where do you
find time to watch all these movies? Because I don't know about you,
I don't. It is my retirement plan. I can't watch most of these
all the time because I've got two young kids and I just can't wait till
they're both, you know, at least fourteen or fifteen, and I can
pretty much get away with watching any of these sex comedies exactly. Yeah,
it's tough. I have very unhealthy habits of staying up late and getting up
early, which well I need to stop because I want to live forever.
I want to be a sexy true blood vampire. Why can't I be a
Swedish vampire with my own bars. I don't think that's asking too much.
But a lot of watching movies yet. You know, when I was young,
I lived in under Young Adult. One of my first jobs I lived
in eastern Kentucky and would just I didn't have a whole lot of lot going
on there, you know, when I watched a lot of movies, read
a lot of books, and it's definitely slid down. I try, I
try to watch a movie a day. I don't always succeed. Yeah,
I did really well with that in July, I watched almost a film every
single day, and then August came and I got like basically hit by a
truck. August was a really hard month in this house, and I'm eager
to get back into it, and I'm actually starting as of let's see,
it's twelve forty five here, so as of eight hours ago, eight and
a half hours ago, I started a ten day vacation and I am hoping
that I can watch a lot more of the next ten days. But I'll
close this out tonight with the tea's somehow, I've gotten some really great interviews
lined up over the next ten days, and I cannot wait to share it
with all of you. There's some exciting things coming from the channel, and
if you want to know about them early and be able to get some questions
in on these interviews, the only way to do that is to become a
patron that The link is the description below. Thank you to all of these
patrons, including the gentleman sitting on the other side of the screen, Will
Dots, and I appreciate that you are there in our discord, participating with
us. We all appreciate your commentary. All of you are just fantastic.
The support for the channel means everything to me. I genuinely appreciate it.
Well, thanks for welcoming me into the fold. I think this channel is
so important and this and channels like that are really the future of media and
film studies. And I'm in it for the long haul. So yeah,
gnad to be here. I can't wait. Will and I have talked.
We've got multiple plans for Will coming back. We've got some other scholarly topics
that will be coming out throughout the rest of the year and into the next.
There's beyond my wildest dreams of topics that we're gonna be able to cover.
So John says, I live in the discord. Sorry, this really
enjoys having you here. Stan, Thanks for hanging out tonight. Your fantastic
presence as well. Everybody just amazing that we've we've got you know, almost
forty people continuing to watch for four hours and going on twenty minutes. Now,
I appreciate you guys. We all got to get some sleep. What's
up? Will do I have the record? You do? Not only do
you have the record, you have the record by like almost half an hour.
Great. Last week Jeremy was like, I'll just beat it by a
couple of minutes. And now you're you're staring the record in the rear view
and it's it's beyond beyond the record. Everybody. Thank you. More coming
out from the channel over the next week, from two collectors to all of
you. Have a good night.