Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome back to another Thursday Night Live this
Speaker 2: week for the Severn Sale with somebody that is going
Speaker 2: to be an actual expert on Severn and I cannot
Speaker 2: wait to dive into this. I've been logging for the
Speaker 2: show since I first talked to you, my friend. Tonight,
Speaker 2: we have QC Extraordinaire mister Blake Monahan. Blake, thanks for
Speaker 2: showing up tonight.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I love that QC Extraordinaire. That sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, when you sent me the resume, I was oppressed
Speaker 2: that you actually put that on there. That's able to move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: It's a good choice. So first time on the show.
Speaker 2: How you been introduce yourself to the world? Tell them
Speaker 2: what do you want everybody to know about you?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I guess I've been started with physical
Speaker 3: media since I worked at Suncoast Video in the nineties,
Speaker 3: you know, of course, I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: can relate to that. Actually before that, probably working in
Speaker 3: mom and pop video rental stores. You know. I am
Speaker 3: older forty seven, probably older than a bunch of your audience.
Speaker 3: I have mostly dogs and cats, you know, no children,
Speaker 3: so that helps.
Speaker 2: That's why you look so young.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, so working around videos always and
Speaker 3: having a desire to go to film school David Lynch.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, I saw Lost Highway when I
Speaker 3: was in my formative years and was blown away. I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh wow, this is like crazy, you know, and then
Speaker 3: always liked the horror films and George Romero, particularly being
Speaker 3: from Pennsylvania, you know, that kind of regional filmmaker really
Speaker 3: spoke to me. And I guess, you know, we're getting
Speaker 3: those homebrewed books like John Russo and you know, how
Speaker 3: to make a movie type books, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: had me, you know, wanted to go to film school,
Speaker 3: and I dabbled in that a little bit, but of course,
Speaker 3: you know that's a tough realm. And then you know,
Speaker 3: from there started working doing I guess the way to
Speaker 3: describe it. And that time was you know, selling, selling
Speaker 3: movies at at conventions, you know, like DVD rs that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, you know, and meeting people like Mike,
Speaker 3: license titles, those kind of things. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 3: this is the wild West of the nineties, of course,
Speaker 3: so it's a different realm, you know, but quickly met
Speaker 3: people like Bill Lustig, Mike Rainy. That kind of set
Speaker 3: me on the right. And one of the things that
Speaker 3: I really wanted to do. I was reading Bill Landis's
Speaker 3: books Lezoid Express at the time, and the vibe of
Speaker 3: the grindhouses, the forty second Street experience kind of really
Speaker 3: made me want to like experience something like that, you know.
Speaker 3: So I started doing some revival screenings here at home
Speaker 3: only because of meeting Mike from Something Weird, who had
Speaker 3: put me in touch with Eric Hayden at Hollywood Book
Speaker 3: and Poster, and they had like all kinds of stuff HG.
Speaker 3: Lewis and crazy, crazy reels and reels, you know, and
Speaker 3: this is before AGFO and it was a little harder
Speaker 3: to track down all of that stuff, you know. So
Speaker 3: we did a screening of Blood Feasts and then that's
Speaker 3: how I got hooked up with things with Bill Lusted.
Speaker 3: We did a zombie, We did a screening with Bill
Speaker 3: coming up to do Maniac Cop one and two, and
Speaker 3: you know, I was really enjoying doing the programming. That
Speaker 3: was awesome, you know, but it was tough to maintain,
Speaker 3: you know around here is I live in screen, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: It's a small area. You know, it's not as it
Speaker 3: quite as now. It's a little more thriving. People can
Speaker 3: do monthly events and things like that. But this is
Speaker 3: like two thousand and two, two thousand and three around there,
Speaker 3: you know, a little harder to hype, a little harder
Speaker 3: to carry on a monthly audience, I felt like, and
Speaker 3: there was like really cool things going on. Of course,
Speaker 3: like you know, the the Zoom films guys were not
Speaker 3: that far away doing stuff. So kind of from there,
Speaker 3: I went and worked at Trauma, you know, and that
Speaker 3: was that was really where I cut my teeth. For sure.
Speaker 2: You are you are the second I think in the
Speaker 2: last week that I've talked to that has some sort
Speaker 2: of pretty major background in trauma. So what all did
Speaker 2: you do with Trauma?
Speaker 3: Well, early on, when I originally went to film school,
Speaker 3: I was trying to get a job as a production
Speaker 3: assistant on I think at the time it would have
Speaker 3: been maybe Terror Firmer, It must have been around that time,
Speaker 3: you know, But I you know, I just didn't think
Speaker 3: I could juggle both. I was going to New York
Speaker 3: Film Academy, which is just kind of like a really
Speaker 3: intensive program where you kind of have to you know,
Speaker 3: it wasn't like I had a lot of time to burn,
Speaker 3: you know, so it took me a few years, and
Speaker 3: it was only after doing the screenings and stuff. I
Speaker 3: kind of went to Lloyd with like a Manila envelope
Speaker 3: full of like newspaper cuttings and flyers of things that
Speaker 3: I did, and like dumped them on his desk. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, like give me a job, and like you know,
Speaker 3: they kind of like blew me off, and I was
Speaker 3: like whatever, you know, and kind of like got on
Speaker 3: the bus to come back home, and Michael Hurst called
Speaker 3: me and he was like, why would you get this job?
Speaker 3: It's a terrible job. If we don't pay you anything,
Speaker 3: we're going to treat you like trash. Why would you
Speaker 3: want this? I'm like, I don't know, you know, like
Speaker 3: give him all the reasons why I want it, and
Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll call you monday. And you know,
Speaker 3: kind of went to go do that thing, you know.
Speaker 3: There I was doing public relations and acquisitions. So basically
Speaker 3: at that time at Troma, they still had the cool
Speaker 3: building on Ninth Avenue, you know health Skitchen there. You know,
Speaker 3: it was awesome, awesome building. You probably, oh, well, it
Speaker 3: was worth a lot. Then there was a McDonald's downstairs,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It was like, you know,
Speaker 3: it was the building I think was probably one of
Speaker 3: the best assets, you know, And at that time you
Speaker 3: had to figure, like I was working with Trauma Team
Speaker 3: video kind of I was actually just watching well I
Speaker 3: don't want to get into that just yet, but you know,
Speaker 3: around two thousand and three, you know, when the when
Speaker 3: the DVD things starts to like implode, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And that was kind of what was wild
Speaker 3: to me getting back into physical media now was a
Speaker 3: lot of the titles, the trauma pickup titles that were
Speaker 3: like nobody cared for are now hot cells, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. And I love to see that shift
Speaker 3: in the market and and people like, you know, seeing that,
Speaker 3: like you know, fifteen years almost twenty years later, you're
Speaker 3: like that is awesome, you know, like it's really cool
Speaker 3: to see things finally like reach their audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so many of these are getting definitive
Speaker 2: releases that back then we had people scoffing at and
Speaker 2: now we're all like, fucking Mother's Day has this incredible
Speaker 2: four kre you know.
Speaker 3: But even then there were like really discerning fans that
Speaker 3: were like, you have to do it right, and you know,
Speaker 3: back then, I can't. You know, there was a lot
Speaker 3: of scenarios where it wasn't done right because it was
Speaker 3: a TVD and there's like, ah whatever, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? And I do see like the meticulous care
Speaker 3: that goes into it now, which is incredible to me,
Speaker 3: you know, truly is film restoration being the forefront and
Speaker 3: the DVD sales almost being like after, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like it's it's cool to see so much
Speaker 3: care important too things.
Speaker 2: Well and funny enough. I don't know if you're ready
Speaker 2: for that stage, but you're one of the people putting
Speaker 2: in that care nowadays. Is that? Is that what came after?
Speaker 2: About that part?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean I think it kind of I
Speaker 3: don't do you remember the film The Children? Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right, So there was a DVD release of The
Speaker 3: Children that trumpa put out that was largely maligned, widely
Speaker 3: low you know, and we Trauma Team Video didn't really
Speaker 3: have a lot of a lot of input like as
Speaker 3: how things went, but we sure did get a lot
Speaker 3: of hate mail and at that time, like my inbox
Speaker 3: is like exploded, but just like hate mail over the
Speaker 3: transfer of the child. And I couldn't particularly tell you
Speaker 3: what was wrong with it, but at that time it
Speaker 3: kind of it kind of I was like, Okay, maybe
Speaker 3: I need to chill on on this for a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And yeah, and we tried.
Speaker 3: We left Traumatine Video, me and some of the other
Speaker 3: dudes and went and made our own tried to make
Speaker 3: our own movie. It was called Kickball the movie. It
Speaker 3: was executive produced by Lloyd and Michael. But it didn't
Speaker 3: get finished. And then I went and worked on a
Speaker 3: movie that Paul Sorbino filmed up here, which also did
Speaker 3: not get finished.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So I started just kind of like collecting disc a
Speaker 3: little bit. And during the pandemic it kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: just getting away from film and stuff getting for a while.
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, well, kind of get away,
Speaker 3: get away from disks and stuff for a while. But
Speaker 3: during the pandemic I picked back up on dis and
Speaker 3: wanted to collect disc again. Like I had picked up
Speaker 3: a few things, you know, some standouts, liquid Sky from
Speaker 3: Vinegar Syndrome. I was like, you know, that kind of
Speaker 3: was a thing that brought me back in, but definitely
Speaker 3: during the pandemic started collecting again to the large degree.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a funny story how I get back
Speaker 3: into it because around the time do you remember the
Speaker 3: Non Exploitation box set that so they were rapid firing
Speaker 3: putting out a bunch of stuff, you know. And around
Speaker 3: that time I listened to the Seventh Films podcasts and
Speaker 3: Andrew was talking about doing QC on Bloodford Dracula and
Speaker 3: was like, this has been horrible, you know, like we
Speaker 3: need somebody else to do this work. You know, probably
Speaker 3: probably just joking, you know, and seven does like a
Speaker 3: rapid fire release of a couple of things that they
Speaker 3: post on Facebook, so on maybe the third thing, which
Speaker 3: I believe is in non exploitation. I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: how about I, you know, do some of that QC
Speaker 3: work that Andrew doesn't want to do, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of just like throwing it out there, you know, like
Speaker 3: and sure enough, Andrew messages me and is like, hey, dude,
Speaker 3: like do you have any experience and that actually I do,
Speaker 3: you know, doing the Trouble Team video thing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So they gave me a couple of test jobs and
Speaker 3: that was a couple of years ago, and from there
Speaker 3: you know it's kind of expanded, you know, really just checking,
Speaker 3: you know, as much as I can. I try to
Speaker 3: watch as much as I can. QC is not a joke.
Speaker 2: I know most people have probably not had to do
Speaker 2: one for a disc yet, but it is exhausting. It
Speaker 2: is something that takes a very specific eye. Why don't
Speaker 2: you share some of the things that you look for
Speaker 2: in some of these QCs.
Speaker 3: I think it would really depend on what stage that
Speaker 3: I get it right, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: sometimes I'm looking at things like directly out of restoration
Speaker 3: and you're just looking for restoration errors, you know, like
Speaker 3: drop frames. You know you're gonna look at the color
Speaker 3: correction things like that, But a lot of that is
Speaker 3: color correction especially is not stuff for I work with
Speaker 3: a lot of smarter people and kind of on my
Speaker 3: on my end, you know, I always Andrew has put
Speaker 3: it to me, like I'm looking at it like on
Speaker 3: the same end that everybody else here watching is looking
Speaker 3: at it, you know what I mean, Like I'm I'm
Speaker 3: I'm a dude watching a disc at home. Does it work?
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? Like it does? Is
Speaker 3: there weird saying thing? And one thing that I'm semi
Speaker 3: fanatical about is subtitles because the way that everything is
Speaker 3: mixed today. Of course, I always have subtitles on, you know,
Speaker 3: and it will drive me bananas when they're not as
Speaker 3: accurate as they can be. I don't waste a lot
Speaker 3: of time on it, but it's one of those things
Speaker 3: that like you try to get right, and you try
Speaker 3: to and some some labels particularly, are like, you really
Speaker 3: want to get the tone right. You really want to
Speaker 3: make sure that it matches what it's supposed to be saying.
Speaker 3: You know, we're a word or two here there. I'm
Speaker 3: sure nobody really cares, but you know, you want it
Speaker 3: to be I want it to be spot on all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: I agree to yeah, I I don't think I've mentioned
Speaker 2: this on the show, but this year I stepped in
Speaker 2: and I've done QC on a couple of titles for
Speaker 2: Severn and it was post restoration before any of the
Speaker 2: other stuff, so there wasn't even subtitles to check or
Speaker 2: anything yet. But it was two of the titles that
Speaker 2: are getting upgraded to four K tonight. And it is
Speaker 2: crazy to see, you know, from the inside something that
Speaker 2: you've seen on Blu Ray multiple times because one of
Speaker 2: the titles that we're going to be talking about tonight
Speaker 2: that I was able to do is Wild Beast, and
Speaker 2: that movie is a classic. I mean, it's a movie
Speaker 2: that I've seen at this point probably I mean after
Speaker 2: QC you could probably count that for like another four
Speaker 2: but like eight times actually trying to watch the movie,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's featured in Red Rocket in a
Speaker 2: poster in Seohn Baker's movie. It's one of those it's
Speaker 2: one of those movies that has gained notoriety through that
Speaker 2: first Blu ray release from Severn, and so to do
Speaker 2: it right, they have to really just do an incredible
Speaker 2: restoration to make this shine because it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: a quintessential Severn title, like this is one of their
Speaker 2: classic films, and man, this thing is beautiful. What are
Speaker 2: some of the movies that you've done QC on that
Speaker 2: have been just something that has wowed you for how
Speaker 2: it's looked.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, for sure, Sanitary, man, I mean that I
Speaker 3: that was a favorite film of mine for the longest time,
Speaker 3: and when I saw it in the theaters even it
Speaker 3: was muddy. The d the DVD released, the Anchor Bay
Speaker 3: DVD release was Muddy. I never I had the shameless
Speaker 3: Blu Ray hit was awful. You can say it, you know,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't. You know. It's something that I that
Speaker 3: I needed to hang on to, so seeing it in
Speaker 3: all of its glory. But I mean, I feel like
Speaker 3: most four K restorations I watched these days like really
Speaker 3: bowl me over, because yeah, you know, I came from
Speaker 3: either the theater or VHS generation. So and especially the
Speaker 3: VHS generation. I mean, like it's cool like that. The
Speaker 3: collector's market of VHS is is what it is, you know,
Speaker 3: but living living through it and having access to like
Speaker 3: a four K of Dawn of the Dead, come on, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not one.
Speaker 2: Of those that has nostalgia for the v h us here.
Speaker 3: You know what, I want to diss it, you know,
Speaker 3: like I have all kinds of stuff, you know, but ye,
Speaker 3: like it's just it's not quite my thing.
Speaker 2: Not quite my thing is a great way to put it.
Speaker 2: We're going to go through some more about the QC
Speaker 2: for seven stuff later and that's that's the big topic tonight. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we got a seven sale launching in the middle of
Speaker 2: the show. Later on tonight. We got some recommendations Blake's
Speaker 2: got ten titles. I've got somewhere between seven and ten
Speaker 2: titles to talk about. What We'll get there as soon
Speaker 2: as we go through the announcements. But let's do our
Speaker 2: regular stuff first. What uh what do you got pickups lately?
Speaker 3: Well, right before, like I mean, right before we started,
Speaker 3: I was watching your Your five dollars recommendation, the Kim's
Speaker 3: video documentary.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: That really put me in the mood for this conversation
Speaker 3: because it brought back so much nostalgia and I had
Speaker 3: no idea that mister Kim was such a gangster, like
Speaker 3: it's a it was a really I thought it was
Speaker 3: a really on documentary. It wasn't. I thought it was
Speaker 3: going to be all nostalgia. It starts out that way,
Speaker 3: but then just like he gets in this awesome you know,
Speaker 3: like uh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that was really fun.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I took a little mini vacation
Speaker 3: so I could watch a couple finally unwrap a couple
Speaker 3: of titles and like, you know, talk about them now.
Speaker 3: Of course, I know you were talking about this a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, the Equator mass experiment. It is
Speaker 3: just oh my god.
Speaker 2: So I did bring this up tonight, this one, and
Speaker 2: here's the second one.
Speaker 3: Oh no, these are.
Speaker 2: Incredible, Like, I mean, you've been sharing some pictures. How
Speaker 2: do you feel about these? What has been amazing?
Speaker 3: Like It's one of those things where I look at
Speaker 3: it and I'm like, oh my god, like eighty dollars
Speaker 3: all right, no, no, you know, and then finally like
Speaker 3: all right, me fine, you know, paying for whatever. Its
Speaker 3: semi paining list. Then it shows up and you're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you know, even just popping like the
Speaker 3: first disc and there's like a million bar features. There's
Speaker 3: you know, I know everybody that gets down on the
Speaker 3: art cards and stuff. But maybe one day I'll frame them.
Speaker 3: I don't know, they're so cool, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just like I guess it's a way to like
Speaker 3: inflate the price of things sometimes, but I don't know
Speaker 3: it's so cool. I don't care.
Speaker 2: Great and I mean honestly for the price. Somehow they
Speaker 2: feel like a steal at the end of it, Like
Speaker 2: there's so much in there.
Speaker 3: There's like four four, four or five discs in there,
Speaker 3: you know, I think, and the restorations are beautiful, Like
Speaker 3: I did you finally get a chance to watch this
Speaker 3: one or the first one.
Speaker 2: The first one I have. I've at least scanned over
Speaker 2: the disc. I've seen quater Masts many times, so I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to pour through it again.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I had never seen it before, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Mean the three main movies are incredible. You got to
Speaker 2: get the sequel to If you have not yet, you should.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean, don't that a good time? Dude?
Speaker 3: I already figured you need to talk to me to
Speaker 3: spend some money tonight.
Speaker 2: So just a little bit nothing crazy, anything else you
Speaker 2: want to you wanna flash?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So, oh yeah, dude, this for sure the mystery
Speaker 3: of the Third Planet, This Death Crocodile, Treasure of Soviet animation.
Speaker 3: This thing plays like psychedelic Johnny Quest from Russia. It
Speaker 3: is like what a vibe, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 3: I feel like any Death Crocodile movie you just pop
Speaker 3: it on and you're like, what, Like, it's just such
Speaker 3: a vibe. You know. That in particular was so much fun.
Speaker 3: I loved it. It was total Johnny Quest vibes.
Speaker 4: The uh.
Speaker 2: The hard thing to share about that because animation, for
Speaker 2: some reason, when you post stills online, they're not super impressive.
Speaker 2: These movies you need to pop the disc in and
Speaker 2: just kind of live in the restoration for a minute.
Speaker 3: So it's and there's a there's a jankiness to the
Speaker 3: animation that of course, you know, it's like this, you know,
Speaker 3: Soviet like era like of course, it was very cheaply
Speaker 3: you know, designed and made. But it's just the ingenuity
Speaker 3: I have the character design, creature design space backgrounds. It's
Speaker 3: like it competes with anything that Japanese animation has offered
Speaker 3: from the seventies, you know what I mean. It's crazy
Speaker 3: and to me it's like The Wild West. You know,
Speaker 3: I watched that stuff. I know nothing about it, you know,
Speaker 3: it's so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that first release is great. And we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about volume two tonight. In fact, I think
Speaker 2: that's our first announcement we get to talk about awesome.
Speaker 2: All right. I'll share a couple and then if you
Speaker 2: got anything else you can throw it in. This is
Speaker 2: very late. It is July twenty fourth. This released on
Speaker 2: July first, and I just got my own copy of
Speaker 2: the magazine that I publish, and here is issue number
Speaker 2: twenty and this is the all black and white. It
Speaker 2: look at that. Yeah, I took delayed like three weeks
Speaker 2: to get it to my house. The author copies suck
Speaker 2: to get, but I am so happy with this one.
Speaker 2: It is crazy good looking in personally, I gotta.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm happy to announce that mine came quickly from Amazon.
Speaker 3: So I really I love the black and white photo
Speaker 3: section in the middle. You know, that's really cool, you know,
Speaker 3: but glamour shots. Yeah, there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of great writing in there as well. It's fun. It's
Speaker 3: fun to pick up a zine, you know, like style publication,
Speaker 3: but it's it's a lot slicker than the crosswords and
Speaker 3: stuff or so, you know. That's the only problem with
Speaker 3: the dude is I want to mark it up. I
Speaker 3: want to like get my pan out. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got to do it for sure. It's so much fun.
Speaker 2: I mean, I had somebody show that they keep the
Speaker 2: release date parts of it and they circle the ones
Speaker 2: that they want so they can go back through and
Speaker 2: actually cross them out when they get it in.
Speaker 3: And that's I kind of wanted to highlight it with
Speaker 3: the highlighter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If anybody is not get it yet,
Speaker 2: you got to check it out. It's it's it's some
Speaker 2: good stuff. I see Silent mannible saying he's got to
Speaker 2: get the physical copies. They are so worth it. Dustin saying,
Speaker 2: got that issue is hard copies So aid arrived in
Speaker 2: the mail.
Speaker 3: A week before I released it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dustin always when I announce it by like the
Speaker 2: next morning, he's like, look what I got already.
Speaker 3: I'm my gosh, dang it.
Speaker 2: Next one, you talked about an OCN release, So here's
Speaker 2: one that I wanted to share. This is the Saturn's
Speaker 2: Core release of Twisted issues that just came out. This
Speaker 2: is Charles Pinion soov film that I am super stoked
Speaker 2: to get. Helped produce the commentary for this release and
Speaker 2: could not order this fast enough when it went up
Speaker 2: crazy like different type of like glossy slipcover for Saturn
Speaker 2: Score than they normally do. But in all reality, this
Speaker 2: is the poster that many people recognize just as an
Speaker 2: overloaded disc as usual. I mean, the back is literally
Speaker 2: all the way to the bottom of it, and I
Speaker 2: think there's even there might even be one more thing
Speaker 2: that's not listed here because there's not enough space. But
Speaker 2: it is like every time you get a release like that,
Speaker 2: I know that I got my money's worth, which I
Speaker 2: always appreciate, so that's been nice. I got one more,
Speaker 2: sort of smaller release, but I did get one more
Speaker 2: that I wanted to pair with quater Mass too, because
Speaker 2: I pre ordered this months ago, and I think a
Speaker 2: warehouse change sort of spawned a delay. And finally I
Speaker 2: got in this thing that is heavier than all shit,
Speaker 2: and that is Wake and Fright four K from Umbrella, and.
Speaker 3: It's at that chalky boy. I love those translucent slips
Speaker 3: like that. Yes, yeah, that is such a nice look.
Speaker 3: That's really nice. Love this movie. I have not put
Speaker 3: the four K in yet. I just watched this.
Speaker 2: I think it was in October, but man, really eager
Speaker 2: to watch this again. This is if you've never seen
Speaker 2: Wake and Fright, it is one of the sweatiest movies
Speaker 2: you will ever see. It is a very hot type
Speaker 2: of movie, and so it's not really great to watch
Speaker 2: in July in the middle of a freaking heat wave
Speaker 2: in the Midwest. I'll probably watch this like mid November
Speaker 2: and be able to warm up a little bit around.
Speaker 3: So you watch, you watch the cold movies in the
Speaker 3: summer and the hot movies in the winter. I'm a
Speaker 3: fat man. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It genuinely brings me a little bit of comfort. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's worth it for sure.
Speaker 3: I feel like I do the opposite because, like, you know,
Speaker 3: we had a heat wave here and I was watching
Speaker 3: like Hills have Eyes and stuff like that, Texas Chainsaw
Speaker 3: getting sweaty.
Speaker 2: Hills Advice is rough in the summer, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: watch the original or the remake. Both of them are like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna suck the soul, idiot.
Speaker 3: Yeah I was. I was actually pricing out the I
Speaker 3: have only seen the first of the Wrong Turn films.
Speaker 3: Maybe your watchers can tell me if the rest of
Speaker 3: them are worth watching, because around that time I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe I should check those out too, But I was like,
Speaker 3: there's like eight of them or something.
Speaker 2: I don't think i've seen any of the rug The first.
Speaker 3: One is you know, you got the killer hillbilly scenario.
Speaker 3: You know you can't go wrong with that. It's always
Speaker 3: always plausible, I need to for sure.
Speaker 2: The last one, I feel like is a quite blake
Speaker 2: type of pick. And I have the first one here somewhere,
Speaker 2: but this one is maybe of the first two, the
Speaker 2: one that I'm more excited about also very much goes
Speaker 2: with the shirt throm Aring Tonight kind of on theme
Speaker 2: because we both are into some of the something weird stuff.
Speaker 2: This new Psychotronica set that is coming out through They're
Speaker 2: they're calling it MVD visual, but I think it's actually
Speaker 2: a piece of VCI if I remember right. So these
Speaker 2: are this is Mondo key Hole. This is the second
Speaker 2: release in this new line that they're doing. I think
Speaker 2: they've announced six now. And there's some like sexploitation type titles.
Speaker 2: There's some some stuff that is a little on the
Speaker 2: sneezier side. They're not gonna have like amazing restorations or anything.
Speaker 2: These are gonna be pretty budget type of releases. But
Speaker 2: these are really really interesting and not getting a lot
Speaker 2: of attention on other sort of labels. So check the
Speaker 2: other ones out that they just did. Oh gosh, I
Speaker 2: can't remember the name of it, but I think it's
Speaker 2: The Mermaids of Birius or something like that is one
Speaker 2: of them, and it's basically just a bunch of topless mermaids.
Speaker 2: I mean, what's not to love there? That that's great,
Speaker 2: But yeah, Monda Keyhole is not going to get probably
Speaker 2: a release from anybody else anytime soon. And these are
Speaker 2: these are decent releases. I mean we're talking too discs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got reversible art. It's got some special features as
Speaker 2: a brand new commentary on here. Uh it is if
Speaker 2: I remember, I think this is even like a two
Speaker 2: K restoration scan. But these are these are yeah, restored
Speaker 2: in two K from the original uncut thirty five millimeter negative.
Speaker 2: I kind of think these are going under the radar,
Speaker 2: so pay attention to these.
Speaker 3: If. Yeah, I definitely need that Topless Mermaids definitely sounds
Speaker 3: like right.
Speaker 2: I think it comes out next month. I need to
Speaker 2: get that one in here too. But it brings up
Speaker 2: something that is really really exciting for tonight. If you
Speaker 2: are paying attention to the announcements. Right before we went
Speaker 2: live tonight, I shared a video across all of my
Speaker 2: social media for a new podcast joining the Someone's Favorite
Speaker 2: Productions Network, And now I want to share that video
Speaker 2: with all of you before we go into the announcements
Speaker 2: only bring it.
Speaker 3: Hello, filthy movie lovers.
Speaker 5: My name is Gentry Austin, now on Casey Scott, and
Speaker 5: we're the hosts of the Sin Syndicate film podcast for
Speaker 5: Something Weirdos Anti Criterion Bros. And Joseph Sarno of Ficionados
Speaker 5: join us semi weekly as we peer into the adults
Speaker 5: only theaters in sticky floored cinemas of the golden age
Speaker 5: of sexploitation, when the morals were loose, the laws were murky,
Speaker 5: and the intercourse was all simulated. Find us now on
Speaker 5: the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2: There we go, and we're back. So yeah, really really
Speaker 2: exciting that they're part of the network, but maybe even
Speaker 2: more exciting we get to bring on for a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Here the two hosts of the show. Here's Gentry Austin
Speaker 2: and Casey Scott. Welcome, gentlemen, Hey guys, thank you for
Speaker 2: having us and grand tradition.
Speaker 6: We're already talking over each other.
Speaker 2: I am so that this is incredible. First, tell us
Speaker 2: how sin sind Kit got started.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll start, I guess I started a Instagram page
Speaker 7: probably about a year and a half ago, just dedicated
Speaker 7: to sexploitation, mainly as a way for me to kind
Speaker 7: of just remember all the stuff I was watching, because
Speaker 7: if you've watched any sexploitation you know that they're very brief.
Speaker 7: Ninety minutes is probably for a sexploitation film. So I
Speaker 7: was watching so many I was like, okay, I need
Speaker 7: to like just catalog this somehow. So I just started
Speaker 7: a page and posted original screen caps and video clips,
Speaker 7: and after a while I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 7: in my research, I was like, you know, nobody's really
Speaker 7: doing a.
Speaker 3: Podcast about this.
Speaker 7: I mean, some people have been covering some of the titles,
Speaker 7: some of the larger titles I guess, you know, the
Speaker 7: Best Buyers and some of the doors Wishman stuff. But
Speaker 7: I kind of saw a void there and I was
Speaker 7: just like, well, Jesus, God knows, we don't need another podcast,
Speaker 7: but you know, this might be fun. So you know,
Speaker 7: Casey is a guy who you know, his name has
Speaker 7: come up a lot in my research into sexploitation, so
Speaker 7: I had sent him just a random message online. I
Speaker 7: was just like, hey, I want to start a sexploitation podcast,
Speaker 7: and right away he was like, let's do it. So
Speaker 7: I was like, all right, let's let's start it. And
Speaker 7: we just have been kind of off to the races
Speaker 7: since then.
Speaker 2: Well in my post I shared that literally like three
Speaker 2: minutes into hearing the first episode that I listened to,
Speaker 2: I went, you know, we have to get this podcast
Speaker 2: I mean, it is movies I love. It is respect
Speaker 2: to filmmakers that don't get much respect. It is well researched,
Speaker 2: It is accurate research. It is discussing back and forth
Speaker 2: if we're going to fix IMDb pages because nobody has
Speaker 2: over the last forty three years. And that is the
Speaker 2: kind of autistic attention to detail that I love. Casey, Ye,
Speaker 2: how did we get to this point in research? Because
Speaker 2: this is incredible?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Casey is a stickler for their accuracy.
Speaker 8: All right, go ahead, Casey, I really am. Yeah, but
Speaker 8: I've said that multiple times, you know. In our last
Speaker 8: episode that just I think the first one on the
Speaker 8: network was the ed Wood one, and we talked about
Speaker 8: how there are people attributing films to ed Wood, but
Speaker 8: I need the proof, and it's hard to find proof
Speaker 8: on a lot of these things. So that's what I
Speaker 8: try to do. You know, I've been doing this for
Speaker 8: I've been doing this since high school and I turned
Speaker 8: forty two this year, so I've been doing this for
Speaker 8: a long time. I've been reaching out to people who
Speaker 8: will talk to me and doing extras for you know,
Speaker 8: media Blasters releases, Vinegar Syndrome releases, District picts, releases things
Speaker 8: like that over the years. So I've thought about doing
Speaker 8: a podcast, but I tend to stay I try to
Speaker 8: try to stay in the background. I try to platform
Speaker 8: the people that I'm writing about or that I'm interviewing.
Speaker 6: It's really more about them.
Speaker 8: But Gentry contacted me, and I said, well, I think
Speaker 8: there's all work if I'm working with someone who's passionate
Speaker 8: as Gentry, because then it will be I'll have someone
Speaker 8: that can we can support each other and keep each
Speaker 8: other passionate and interested about this. And Gentry does the editing,
Speaker 8: Gentry does the sound bite, sound clips and everything, and no,
Speaker 8: it's it's been fun so far, but it's it's the
Speaker 8: only frustrating thing for me is that we've barely.
Speaker 6: Scratched the surface. So we have a massive list of stuff.
Speaker 8: That we want to want to cover and we only
Speaker 8: do it like once every week or every two weeks,
Speaker 8: and we want need to do a double feature or something,
Speaker 8: Gentry to kind of knock a few more off this list.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I see, Yeah, I had I had pitched that
Speaker 7: early on, like, hey, we'll do like top ten you know,
Speaker 7: newty qts, top ten naughty Westerns. But then I think
Speaker 7: we kind of decided not to go that route, but yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll see.
Speaker 8: I tend to do that anyway, because we cover so
Speaker 8: much stuff in one episode on one film, and that
Speaker 8: was actually that's something I was thinking about doing a
Speaker 8: letterbox list of all the movies that we randomly bring
Speaker 8: up in every episode, you know, because we really jump
Speaker 8: all a massive list.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always wish i'd done that when I first started,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was just gonna say, like a little background is that,
Speaker 7: you know, we cover one, like Casey said, we cover
Speaker 7: one film per episode, and we do a pretty deep
Speaker 7: dive on it. We like, you know, if if you've
Speaker 7: if you're familiar with exploitation, like, there is still a
Speaker 7: lot of mystery around a lot of the films, so
Speaker 7: we do our best to try to uncoll for what
Speaker 7: we can. And Casey's a great researcher. I'm an armchair
Speaker 7: researcher as well, So so give our yeah, give it
Speaker 7: a listen, and hopefully, you know, let us know if
Speaker 7: we if we missed anything or if there's any corrections.
Speaker 6: We love that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the kind of the kind of titles you
Speaker 2: guys are covering. I mean you mentioned I would. You've
Speaker 2: talked about, uh, these these sexy nwdy westerns. You've talked
Speaker 2: about these random ass exploitation films that so many people
Speaker 2: have just never heard of. Something weird gets brought up
Speaker 2: pretty much every twelve seconds. And Blake, who is yesternight,
Speaker 2: loves something weird as well.
Speaker 3: Blake, I love something weird. Y, just do it.
Speaker 2: Mahoning like just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Right man, it was my so I only live like
Speaker 3: seriously like under an hour away from there, but my
Speaker 3: schedule and everything, I just have not gotten a chance
Speaker 3: to go out there. But as soon as I saw
Speaker 3: there was something weird event, yeah, we had to go.
Speaker 3: We had a dh I had met Lisa back in
Speaker 3: the day, you know it conventions like back then. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but like it was nice to see her and say hi,
Speaker 3: uh you know. Of course seeing that stuff though, like
Speaker 3: on the on the drive in screen and the little
Speaker 3: intermissions like everything. It was fourth of July. It was
Speaker 3: like the best Fourth of July I ever hed, you know,
Speaker 3: like it was really fun and Mahoning was just such
Speaker 3: a good vibe. Yeah, very good vibe.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they did a something weird series in anthology film
Speaker 8: markots here in New York a couple of years ago,
Speaker 8: and you know it was with Mike uh. I think
Speaker 8: it was after Mike could pass unfortunately, but Lisa was involved.
Speaker 8: And they sent actual prints and they had a print
Speaker 8: that they had two prints that actually broke while they
Speaker 8: were testing them on the projectors. But they actually sent
Speaker 8: the one print they had of the pick up with
Speaker 8: the burnt in Danish subtitles, the one print they sent
Speaker 8: to actually project on that. Yeah, and then one of
Speaker 8: the only two prints of Smell of Honey they sent,
Speaker 8: and I think Frank Frank kinelatter sent behind sat behind
Speaker 8: me and we get whispering to each other, Oh my god, this.
Speaker 3: Is so cool.
Speaker 6: I can't believe we're getting to see this. It was like,
Speaker 6: is a really otherworldly experience.
Speaker 3: So any of those.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you gotta take it. If they ever show anywhere
Speaker 8: New you like an hour is a fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in New York is like scranted in
Speaker 3: New York, very close to each other. So we you know,
Speaker 3: we we were supposed to come for Tribeca Film Festival
Speaker 3: this year to see the Milligan stuff, but just things
Speaker 3: that right for us, So yeah, speaking of that.
Speaker 2: Night, Casey, you just went on a long, long discussion
Speaker 2: on the on the Milligan stuff. Can you share some
Speaker 2: fun experiences from that night?
Speaker 6: That was one that I unfortunately was not able to make.
Speaker 8: Alex or Alex are kind of unofficial third co host.
Speaker 8: Alex DeSanto was able to go and he but he
Speaker 8: is kind of like a celebrity in the Milligan world,
Speaker 8: so he went to like a special pre screening thing
Speaker 8: with all these Milligan actors and with Jimmy McDonough. So,
Speaker 8: I mean, he didn't it wasn't He didn't really go
Speaker 8: into that much detail about what that night was. But
Speaker 8: I think we could have done a whole episode about
Speaker 8: that event because he was just over the moon with that,
Speaker 8: with that experience. But I'm excited to see those when
Speaker 8: they come out.
Speaker 7: Hell yeah, like yeah, yeah, and be on the documentary
Speaker 7: if you picked it. It hasn't been announced yet, but
Speaker 7: I'm assuming Severn is gonna be putting out that degenerate documentary.
Speaker 7: So keep an eye over Alex. He'll be the guy
Speaker 7: with like the great hair you seem, yeah.
Speaker 2: The only one the model.
Speaker 3: Yes. Uh.
Speaker 2: You got a question from Dan Sibner. What is each
Speaker 2: of your favorites NUDI subgenre casey, what's yours?
Speaker 8: Oh God, you know I have to stay classic and
Speaker 8: go with the Ruffies unfortunate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the Ruffies.
Speaker 8: The Ruffies were kind of the mind blowing subgenre that
Speaker 8: I was like, oh wow, these are really kind of
Speaker 8: hateful towards women, and it makes you think about like why,
Speaker 8: and so it really opens up the whole can of
Speaker 8: worms about the historical and the social context of these films,
Speaker 8: like what led to this? How are these films? How
Speaker 8: are these films seen then? And how are they seen now?
Speaker 8: And we're really lucky we got to see any of
Speaker 8: them because most of them are black and white, and
Speaker 8: though it did not have any kind of home video
Speaker 8: life at all until Something Weird came around, so like
Speaker 8: we wouldn't know who Michael Finley was, we wouldn't know
Speaker 8: Anton Holden or you know, the OLDA films like none
Speaker 8: of the We would know none of those if it
Speaker 8: wasn't for Something Weird. So definitely the Roughies for me,
Speaker 8: which is I guess a boring answer, but I just
Speaker 8: keep going back to them.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Gentry.
Speaker 2: If I remember your commentary right, it's got to be
Speaker 2: the nudy Westerns, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, there's a lot of good ones.
Speaker 3: I do love.
Speaker 7: I do like, I really like the good nudy Westerns
Speaker 7: that we got, which are like three of them. But no,
Speaker 7: I'd probably say the same as Casey, probably the Ruffies
Speaker 7: or the new you could call them, probably the nudy Noirs,
Speaker 7: same thing. But yeah, if you listen to our kiss
Speaker 7: Me Quick episode where we talked about the Nudy Cuties,
Speaker 7: you know, we talk about how it's all building up,
Speaker 7: you know, the nudi Quts built up to the Ruffies
Speaker 7: because you know the market was saturated with these stupid
Speaker 7: nudy comedies where men were like not allowed to touch women.
Speaker 7: So you know, the Ruffies were introducing this concept like Okay,
Speaker 7: we're going to go all the way now. You know,
Speaker 7: the censorship laws were lax enough that we can we
Speaker 7: can abuse them and do you know.
Speaker 5: Heinous things to them.
Speaker 7: So that's that's and then it goes we could go
Speaker 7: further than that, but we'll keep it from we'll keep
Speaker 7: it there.
Speaker 2: What about you, Blake, do you do you have one
Speaker 2: of those that's your favorite?
Speaker 3: I mean, of course, anything with like monsters in it,
Speaker 3: like what is it House on Bear Mountain or monsters
Speaker 3: crashed the Pajama Party, you know, like those kind of things,
Speaker 3: right dead yeah, oh man, Orgy of the Dead, the
Speaker 3: classic classic ed would you know a theme strip tease
Speaker 3: in multiple rounds with Chris Well, yeah, cannot be griswe.
Speaker 2: I mean I would say ruffies too, So that's already
Speaker 2: been believed to death.
Speaker 7: But then they're coming off really woman hating here, classic
Speaker 7: monster kid.
Speaker 8: I mean that was kind of fun. When we did
Speaker 8: Kiss Me Quick, we kind of touched on that a
Speaker 8: little bit. There aren't there aren't enough monster No, to
Speaker 8: be honest, you don't make a couple naked ladies nearly enough.
Speaker 6: No, it's just it's such a fun.
Speaker 3: But those are my main interests, so.
Speaker 8: That tracks the interests are sex and horror, So that
Speaker 8: might that might mean why the Ruffies are kind of
Speaker 8: because they are really horrific at least for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I just watched a couple of the
Speaker 3: Joe films and you know, I'm sorry, great, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: and the Ron Sullivan Ron Sullivan box seat from Yeah,
Speaker 3: some cool stuff in there, man, but also very very mean.
Speaker 8: Yes, well, last weekend was like that's the one particular
Speaker 8: experience whatsoever. Yeah, like I interview know about that film
Speaker 8: and he said, yeah, I just basically live to Sam
Speaker 8: Lake and said I was a film student to get
Speaker 8: in Who's good graces and said, oh, I wrote this
Speaker 8: little script and he said, here's a camera, go shoot
Speaker 8: your movie. That's why there's all the shit that is overexposed, and.
Speaker 3: Well, like he didn't know what he was doing for
Speaker 3: what it is. Though it looks amazing now. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think they look so good. Everything on there, it
Speaker 3: just pops. It's so awesome. It's so awesome to see
Speaker 3: that stuff like wrist Story did that degree.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for coming on and joining the network.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people in chat. Are you
Speaker 2: going to subscribe to that podcast? Now before we go, Gentry,
Speaker 2: tell us about this brand new episode with the ed
Speaker 2: Wood Films.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had Will Sloan on, who some of you
Speaker 7: may know for his work he did with gold Ninja Video.
Speaker 7: He's done a bunch of stuff with them. But he's
Speaker 7: got a new book out about Edward. It's like a
Speaker 7: critical analysis. And I reach out to him to talk
Speaker 7: about a film that nobody wants to talk about, which
Speaker 7: is the Sinister Urge.
Speaker 6: It's ed Woods pretty much his last.
Speaker 7: Mainstream movie before he couldn't get a job and just
Speaker 7: started writing smutty novels and he wrote Orgy the Dead
Speaker 7: somewhere in the middle there.
Speaker 6: But yeah, we talked to Will about Sinister Urge and
Speaker 6: kind of how it you know where it.
Speaker 7: Is in the ed Wood Cannon, and going back to
Speaker 7: the Ruffie, we talk about how it's kind of one
Speaker 7: of the first Ruffies, maybe the first or second one,
Speaker 7: but you'll have to listen to the episode to learn
Speaker 7: more about that.
Speaker 2: Cannot wait, Casey Gentry, thanks for doing this. Everybody, please
Speaker 2: go subscribe. The links are out there. Anywhere that you
Speaker 2: get your podcasts from, you can get the sin syndicate.
Speaker 2: You guys are incredible, Genuinely, the amount of work that
Speaker 2: goes into each episode should be applauded, and I know
Speaker 2: that from experience, podcasting is rather insular, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: you don't get that feedback a lot. So thank you
Speaker 2: for what you do because it's incredible work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Ali. Guys, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks for hanging.
Speaker 6: Out, Thank you for having us. Glad to because of guys.
Speaker 2: Have a good night.
Speaker 6: You guys, you too, Thanks.
Speaker 2: All right, I mean thanks for putting up with that Blake.
Speaker 3: That was awesome. That was awesome. I checked out the
Speaker 3: podcast the other day when you told me that they
Speaker 3: were going to be on, and it's awesome. It's very
Speaker 3: much something that I will find myself listening to all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: So nice, cool, nice recent watches. Is there anything else
Speaker 2: that wasn't in your pickups that you wanted to highlight
Speaker 2: before we go into this or do you have more pickups?
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I do, Oh, I do have some
Speaker 3: more pickups. Of course. I did get from the from
Speaker 3: the from the Criterion sale. I got Thief. It took
Speaker 3: forever to get here, you know. I don't know what
Speaker 3: was going on with Amazon with that one, but it
Speaker 3: was a nice price, so I had to get it,
Speaker 3: you know. Nice. That was an essential I did get,
Speaker 3: of course, after so going to the driving event at
Speaker 3: mahoning into something weird, I had to get the teenage
Speaker 3: Gang Debs nice right, Yeah, that that was another one
Speaker 3: and definitely a big shout out to I got my
Speaker 3: copy of Breaking Glass. I loved this movie. Earlier when
Speaker 3: we talked about the QC. Of course I did not mention.
Speaker 3: I have pretty much worked on every Fun City release
Speaker 3: since Party Girl, and so this one was really fun.
Speaker 3: And I found myself like listening to Hazel O'Connor for
Speaker 3: like weeks afterwards, you know, like, very very cool movie.
Speaker 3: I don't have that yet, we get it, dude.
Speaker 2: I wanted to pre order it with Fabulous Stains and
Speaker 2: I was like, this up soon, right, And now it's
Speaker 2: been like six weeks since we found out about it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, come on, get it out there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'll pick it up eventually because I've never
Speaker 2: seen that one, but I love Fabulous Stains, so I
Speaker 2: was really hoping to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was a cool like you know,
Speaker 3: also kind of simultaneously almost I had worked on for Keno,
Speaker 3: the Blur documentary and the live performance, and I never
Speaker 3: knew that Phil, Phil Daniels. Phil said his name, the actor,
Speaker 3: Yeah he was. He's the guy that does the park
Speaker 3: life pretty much spoken word for the for the Blur song.
Speaker 3: He's from Quadrophenia. He's also in Breaking Glass, you know,
Speaker 3: so it's got a neat little uh. I know that guy.
Speaker 3: You know, It's cool, very cool, nice.
Speaker 2: Uh. Any other recent watches.
Speaker 3: We went to go see Spinal Tap in the theater
Speaker 3: the other day, which included a little bit of the
Speaker 3: of the new film, which was very enticing.
Speaker 2: I think the trailer just dropped like right when we
Speaker 2: went live, because they're doing this San Diego Comic Con
Speaker 2: event thing right now too, so we'll have to see
Speaker 2: that soon. I'm kind of worried because they're all quite
Speaker 2: old and it's been a long time.
Speaker 3: The the the little clip that they played at the
Speaker 3: end of the movie very much referenced that in in
Speaker 3: a very hilarious way. So I'm hoping that's like the
Speaker 3: joke that they go with kind of you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So it seemed, you know, we'll see't I don't,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not a huge comedy guy, so I
Speaker 3: don't really watch a ton of comedy films.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's twenty I mean, I was gonna say twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, but like modern times right now is kind
Speaker 2: of rough for comedy. I'm very curious to see how
Speaker 2: this whole Naked Gun reboot slash remake goes over with people,
Speaker 2: because great comedies are kind of hard to come by
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough subject, and it's probably not my
Speaker 3: best subject because I've never been like I have a
Speaker 3: few of course, you know what I mean that I
Speaker 3: really enjoy, but it's just you know, yeah, definitely. It's
Speaker 3: easy to have a nostalgic filter on comedies from when
Speaker 3: you were younger. And that's what I always ask myself,
Speaker 3: like is it that am I just getting older and
Speaker 3: the humor is not the same for me, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, a lot of the stuff that's coming
Speaker 3: out now and that's probably why I don't enjoy it,
Speaker 3: or is it just not funny? You know?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it's a different time. And I
Speaker 2: mean that's a good question. You mentioned you go to
Speaker 2: the theater for spinal tip. Are you seeing many modern movies?
Speaker 3: Probably? Probably not. I feel like a lot of my
Speaker 3: time is tied up in QC. To be honest with there.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, Like.
Speaker 3: You know, I work another job too. I work three
Speaker 3: days a week and pretty much the rest of it,
Speaker 3: Like if I get out, it's normally I don't even
Speaker 3: remember it was the last new thing that we saw
Speaker 3: it was, To be honest with you, yeah, it takes
Speaker 3: a bit to get me to go to the theater. Also,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not into like I might see Superman
Speaker 3: because it seems you know, fun. And James Gunn So
Speaker 3: that's an interesting story. When I worked at Troma, James
Speaker 3: had the job that I had maybe two people ahead
Speaker 3: of me, so he was kind of in the slither
Speaker 3: stage of his career then and was always like very
Speaker 3: cool when I had to like message him and ask
Speaker 3: him questions, just some you know, low level trauma idiot,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And you know when he
Speaker 3: had his like bigger films come out in the Guardians and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, I remember sending the messages and he
Speaker 3: was always like very cool about it, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So seeing also how hard the Hooe got
Speaker 3: trolled on, I would probably want to want to go
Speaker 3: see it just for moral reasons, you know, Like you know,
Speaker 3: but I enjoy a popcorn movie, and if I don't
Speaker 3: see it, if I don't see it in the theater,
Speaker 3: my likelihood of seeing it is like zero, you know,
Speaker 3: So I really would have to, you know, And I'm
Speaker 3: not a snob about how it or anything like that.
Speaker 3: It's just it's kind of like, you know, I just
Speaker 3: don't that's not quite the vibe. Yeah, I look for
Speaker 3: you also, Mike Ripe. I know you've seen me complain
Speaker 3: about this on my personal Facebook. Everything is three hours long.
Speaker 3: I don't need another three hour like comic book movie. Man,
Speaker 3: give me like, yeah, I watched all these exploitation movies
Speaker 3: or seventy minutes. I love it. It's like, give me
Speaker 3: a tight eddy, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, to get into what I
Speaker 2: watched this week. Speaking of modern movies, we are. We're
Speaker 2: at the stage where I'm trying to escape my kids
Speaker 2: quite a bit. So we somehow talked to my mom
Speaker 2: into watching our kids every Saturday for us to go
Speaker 2: to the theater. So at this point I'm watching movies
Speaker 2: that I could not possibly care less about, but I
Speaker 2: get to stay out and in a movie theater. So
Speaker 2: I'm basically in heaven, even though the movies aren't great.
Speaker 3: But this last week's enjoying the experience of going. It's
Speaker 3: such exactly time. Yeah. Always yeah.
Speaker 2: So this last weekend I was kind of worried because
Speaker 2: things did not look amazing in the trailers. But first
Speaker 2: film we went and saw Eddington. This is a rough
Speaker 2: one to set your palette for the Night. The next
Speaker 2: ari Astra film. I thought it was quite well made.
Speaker 2: It was really well shot. They really captured New Mexico
Speaker 2: beautifully captured twenty twenty in a way that I don't
Speaker 2: think think anybody has in a film yet.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, just like you just said,
Speaker 2: I think there was about forty minutes that did not
Speaker 2: need to be in this movie. I feel like ari
Speaker 2: Astra's at a stage in his career where nobody is
Speaker 2: telling him no, and he just puts every single thing
Speaker 2: that he needs in his mind to put in the movie.
Speaker 2: And the story is great, and I like the movie.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I didn't, but it definitely had
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that just playing did not need
Speaker 2: to be in the movie. I mean, the second act
Speaker 2: specifically is long and drawn out.
Speaker 3: It does definitely, you know, obviously a result of like
Speaker 3: the limitations previously of film stock and the raw materials
Speaker 3: and things, you know, not having to deal with that
Speaker 3: has opened up a whole new world of wank, you know, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: a cinematic wank, you know, like and I don't know,
Speaker 3: man like sometimes and I you know, I like a
Speaker 3: ton like I love on the Silver Globe you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. That movie's like three hours long and
Speaker 3: has big sections that are just spoken word. But it's awesome.
Speaker 3: You you know what I mean. Movies that need to be long,
Speaker 3: you know, like they need to be long, and I
Speaker 3: could you know, that's a whole argument. This will set
Speaker 3: off a whole entire argument. But it needs to be long,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, well you want to you want to
Speaker 3: trim a good twenty minutes out of the Godfather, you know,
Speaker 3: like I don't know, you know, like, but that's really funny,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, last Weekend, the other two real quick. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna breeze by the second one, because god, this movie
Speaker 2: is not easy to talk about. I know what you
Speaker 2: did last summer at the reboot Slash remake. This is
Speaker 2: a terrible movie. It's awfully written. That being said, it
Speaker 2: was entertaining, like it was a fun watch, but in
Speaker 2: no way is it a good movie. Like they they
Speaker 2: spoiled it's they the movie spoiled itself like twenty minutes
Speaker 2: into it, and I'm just lost at that stage. But
Speaker 2: the last one is really the one that I wanted
Speaker 2: to spend a moment on because I don't think hardly
Speaker 2: anybody's gonna see this movie let alone in the theater, right,
Speaker 2: I bet this is going to get very little play.
Speaker 2: But somehow amc here was showing a film with one
Speaker 2: of the worst titles I've ever heard, called don't Let's
Speaker 2: go to the dogs tonight?
Speaker 3: Did Ai write that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the dogs tonight? This is a movie
Speaker 2: about a family of European descent that is living in
Speaker 2: Africa in nineteen eighty during one of the wartimes that
Speaker 2: is happening around there, and there is a period of
Speaker 2: political tension where they're leading up to a general election
Speaker 2: and essentially, if one candidate wins, the idea of democracy
Speaker 2: feels like it's going to win. And if the other
Speaker 2: candidate wins, like the nation of Africa that is sort
Speaker 2: of independent away from the Europeans that are there are
Speaker 2: they're feeling more confident that they're going to fare better.
Speaker 2: But it's a very much a rising tension film all
Speaker 2: leading up to this political moment. But what makes us
Speaker 2: interesting is this a movie that is made from the
Speaker 2: point of view of an eight year old. So there
Speaker 2: is a young daughter named Bobo in this film that
Speaker 2: we are watching the entire time, and so there's certain
Speaker 2: things that happened that you're only catching glimpses of them
Speaker 2: because you're the eight year old watching this. And so
Speaker 2: there's things like the parents go into the room and
Speaker 2: they shut the door, and she says, oh, I know
Speaker 2: what they're doing in there, because the door is shut
Speaker 2: and locked, and then there's like a brief pause and
Speaker 2: she says, yeah, they're moving furniture and sometimes naked, and
Speaker 2: it's just like, it's an eight year old, so they
Speaker 2: obviously we know what they're doing, has no clue, and
Speaker 2: it's just a hilarious setup for that. But the interesting
Speaker 2: part is for those that loved the movie Matilda when
Speaker 2: you were younger, this was directed and starring miss Honey
Speaker 2: from Matilda. I had no idea it was her until
Speaker 2: it started.
Speaker 3: Good movie.
Speaker 2: I gave it a solid three and a half stars.
Speaker 2: It was worth the time, It wasn't super long. It
Speaker 2: was a good film. Good time.
Speaker 3: Now, how does your personal rating scale work? Let me
Speaker 3: ask you, and hold on one second. My diabetic dog
Speaker 3: is eating cat. Oliver, get over here. I told you
Speaker 3: don't named Oliver. That was perfection. He's named Oliver Reed.
Speaker 3: He's named after you know, the famed actor. Probably why
Speaker 3: he is now diabetic is that he always had an
Speaker 3: affinity for beer, and what he would do was if
Speaker 3: you happen to leave a drink on the floor or
Speaker 3: like anywhere, he would knock it over or lick the
Speaker 3: top of it. And you know, I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 3: he's he's diabetic now. And I've kind of disliked whethered
Speaker 3: it for the last bit of the conversation because I
Speaker 3: didn't want to be ruined. Like but we previously discussed.
Speaker 3: We have several rescue animals here and one of the
Speaker 3: one of the wonderful things about doing QCs that allows
Speaker 3: me to also care for the menagerie.
Speaker 2: As I explained to Blake the chat knows, I said,
Speaker 2: you you're gonna mention the animals. I have to make
Speaker 2: an appearance tonight. So at some point there something will
Speaker 2: make an appearance with four links.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I feel like the Orange Cats are just
Speaker 3: getting ready for something big.
Speaker 2: All right, So yeah, check out some of those movies
Speaker 2: if they sound interesting. I feel like it's time to
Speaker 2: get into some announcements. Though we got to breeze through
Speaker 2: some of these. We can get to Severn. Let us
Speaker 2: do it. So first, up tonight. Is I actually like
Speaker 2: that a little bit better. Deaf Crocodile announced their title
Speaker 2: that is up for pre order.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This is The Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume two. This
Speaker 2: has in it The Snow Queen, The Scarlet Flower, and
Speaker 2: the Key from nineteen fifty seven, nineteen fifty two and
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty one. Now, the interesting thing about this that
Speaker 2: is a little abnormal from Deaf Crocodile stuff. Usually they
Speaker 2: put something up for pre order and it's going to
Speaker 2: be out the end of the following month. There was
Speaker 2: a restoration backup, and Craig has been working like crazy
Speaker 2: and so sadly this is going to be coming out
Speaker 2: the next month. This will be out in September, not August.
Speaker 2: But on the bright side, you get two really great
Speaker 2: titles in September. We're going to announce the next one
Speaker 2: in August. Another incredible movie. I hope you guys check
Speaker 2: out both of them. But this is a big deal. Specifically,
Speaker 2: The Snow Queen is one that people have been wanting
Speaker 2: a great restoration for for ages. We have lots of
Speaker 2: examples of Miyazaki praising The Snow Queen, saying this is
Speaker 2: his favorite film and Without it, Studio Ghibli would would
Speaker 2: not exist. So that's a that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: That's cool, man. How many volumes of these have? They
Speaker 3: said yes.
Speaker 2: In the podcast episode that we just released last week,
Speaker 2: they say there are currently six volumes Treasures of Soviet
Speaker 2: Animation planned.
Speaker 3: At least I have to resubscribe because I have everything
Speaker 3: from the beginning and it's been a little little tougher
Speaker 3: to chase without the subscription, so I think I need
Speaker 3: to do that again.
Speaker 2: Well, and hopefully people watching. No, I'm not really wanted
Speaker 2: to like hype up foma or anything like that, but
Speaker 2: I'm also really proud of Deaf Crocodile because after leaving
Speaker 2: OCN and going through that transition for a little while, it,
Speaker 2: you know, some people got lost in the shuffle. Of course, inevitably,
Speaker 2: everybody knew that was going to happen when you leave
Speaker 2: a company like that. But now some of these edis.
Speaker 3: That's unfortunate because I feel like the things that they've
Speaker 3: done in the nice hard box editions since then have
Speaker 3: been just like really beautiful.
Speaker 2: Right the hard part if you're not a subscriber, some
Speaker 2: of these limited editions are starting to sell out quickly.
Speaker 3: Now I did notice that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are multiple titles that have come out in
Speaker 2: just the last three or four months that are already
Speaker 2: gone of the deluxe edition. So if anybody's after these again,
Speaker 2: not trying to say fear missing out, go by now
Speaker 2: or they're gone. But on the other hand, like The
Speaker 2: Snow Queen is a title that a lot of people
Speaker 2: have wanted on disc for a long time. I don't
Speaker 2: see this volume lasting very.
Speaker 3: Long, So Buddie, I can hear my credit cards screaming tomorrow.
Speaker 3: All right, I knew you're gonna talk me into all
Speaker 3: kinds of bad stuff here tonight.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not trying, but congratulations, because you're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: This release, by the way, lots of stuff to go over.
Speaker 2: We've got all three films in Russian with English subs.
Speaker 2: We have a new visual essay by Evan Chester on here,
Speaker 2: new visual essay by John Atkins of Animation Obsessive, New
Speaker 2: commentary tracks by Ralf Gezen on this. New artwork on
Speaker 2: the standard edition by Beth Morris, who does great stuff.
Speaker 2: I love the circles that we're doing on the animation
Speaker 2: sets for the Soviet stuff. It's such a beautiful way
Speaker 2: to separate the three titles in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I listened to your interview with her the other day,
Speaker 3: and I think that her work on this stuff has
Speaker 3: been just awesome, just awesome.
Speaker 2: And then the deluxe edition, this is Haley Bucks. She
Speaker 2: is doing the art for all of the hard boxes
Speaker 2: in this set for at least you know, we've got
Speaker 2: six so far and more potentially theoretically, so that's crazy.
Speaker 2: And then of course you get a sixty page illustrated
Speaker 2: book with it. You've got another essay by Rolf kes In,
Speaker 2: and then of course an essay by Waltshaw, who does
Speaker 2: something for all of the book's incredible release. Check it
Speaker 2: out now if you are into it. Nice first Severn
Speaker 2: title of the night. So, a four K release of
Speaker 2: kill List from twenty eleven is on the doc. This
Speaker 2: is the first four K release of this title anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world. Over six hours of special features. You
Speaker 2: get a commentary with Ben Wheatley and Mike Hewitt on
Speaker 2: this archival commentary with Ben and Amy Jump, another archival
Speaker 2: commentary with some of the actors. You've got interviews that
Speaker 2: are coming on this. You've got archival making of all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. Kill List I love this movie. I
Speaker 2: think this is one of the better folkhre movies of
Speaker 2: the last twenty years, because you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are gonna say that they dropped off at that point,
Speaker 2: but this, I think is like top tier of that group.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen this one here and did you
Speaker 2: you see this title?
Speaker 3: For sure? Did? Yeah? I think the only one out
Speaker 3: of this batch that I didn't do in some form
Speaker 3: or another was the Linda Blair film for the Summer Sale,
Speaker 3: I should say, but this film in particular, I had
Speaker 3: not seen before, and so when I get a title,
Speaker 3: I just I just download it, get ready to work
Speaker 3: on it. I don't if I've never heard of it,
Speaker 3: I don't look it up. I don't want to know
Speaker 3: anything about it. I mean, that's kind of how I
Speaker 3: treat my film watching in general. I try not to
Speaker 3: watch trailers if I don't have to, and things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, so you can imagine that this one was
Speaker 3: a what the hell you know? And I feel like,
Speaker 3: of course, the less said about it, the better. But
Speaker 3: you know, Ben Wheatley awesome, so cool. The supplements, I
Speaker 3: feel like, really give you a feeling for the friendship
Speaker 3: between the two lead actors, and it gives you a
Speaker 3: better appreciation for the performance in the whole thing. It
Speaker 3: just gives it depth, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 3: what an awesome movie. Yeah, it's If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: just don't just don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2: Don't watch a trailer, don't read anything, don't go Please
Speaker 2: don't go check reviews because one of the worst things
Speaker 2: that you could do is hurt the feeling that this
Speaker 2: movie is going to give you, because you will feel
Speaker 2: quite a lot. Yeah, this movie's amazing.
Speaker 3: It definitely had me guessing I've until the last act,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. Nice all right.
Speaker 2: Next up, Keno Laber September twenty third is part of
Speaker 2: their Keino Cult line. They're putting out Dan Curtis's late
Speaker 2: night mysteries from nineteen seventy four. These are some made
Speaker 2: for TV. I think they're just called made for TV movies.
Speaker 2: In this I believe it's like three or four of them.
Speaker 2: Nightmare at forty three Hillcrest is getting commentary by Amanda
Speaker 2: Reyas and Heidi Honeycut.
Speaker 3: Honeycut.
Speaker 2: I think Amanda said that at least one of these
Speaker 2: know the ones has a commentary and Keino for some
Speaker 2: reason did not list it in the announcement, but I
Speaker 2: believe it's there. Yeah, this looks like a must for me.
Speaker 2: I love Amanda Rays being on these releases. She's obviously
Speaker 2: the authority on the made for TV stuff. Is this
Speaker 2: something you're gonna check out there, Blake?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. I love Dan Curtis. Of course.
Speaker 3: Dark Shadows is a is a big It's a big influence.
Speaker 3: When I was young, when I was a wee lad
Speaker 3: and we had four channels, PBS had had Doctor Who
Speaker 3: in Dark Shadows all the time. Yeah, and I love
Speaker 3: the seventies and eighties television movie vibe. But he was
Speaker 3: keen on previously put out the classic was it Classic
Speaker 3: Ghosts or something like that. Yeah. Set Also, you know,
Speaker 3: they're just like these are mood pieces, vibes. You know,
Speaker 3: you can just kind of hang out and like, you know,
Speaker 3: they're they're creepy, you know, maybe not a ton of action,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're used to like the Italian gut
Speaker 3: Busters or something like that, but all vibe pieces always
Speaker 3: worth watching.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing is these are like genuine rescues.
Speaker 2: It's kind of amazing that the made for TV stuff
Speaker 2: is actually being put on disc because for years we
Speaker 2: didn't think a lot of these were ever gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, things even like was it the one
Speaker 3: with the little goblin guys in the basement, don't don't
Speaker 3: look in the basement or something like that?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, please write all of the copy for every release ever,
Speaker 2: because that was amazing.
Speaker 3: Green Light, It's a go picture.
Speaker 2: Next up, very different vibe from made for TV movies.
Speaker 2: September ninth, Vertical Entertainment putting out Liam Neeson in Ice
Speaker 2: Road Vengeance, which is a sequel I don't even remember.
Speaker 2: Maybe the first one was just called Ice Road.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this guy is just kind of doing his thing.
Speaker 2: Uh are you li and guy in action movies in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't say that if I, you know,
Speaker 3: if I didn't get a couple of teeth fowl or something,
Speaker 3: I would watch this. You know, Land on the Couch
Speaker 3: looks kind of like something I can I can knock
Speaker 3: out too, But I don't know if i'd be adding
Speaker 3: this one of the shelves anytime soon.
Speaker 2: It looks like a painkiller movie, got it?
Speaker 3: For sure? That's yeah? On four K.
Speaker 2: Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. We don't have a date yet,
Speaker 2: but they've already previously released this on Blu Ray. This
Speaker 2: will likely knowing Keno, probably not yet any new extra
Speaker 2: since they just did it on Blue, but hey, it'll
Speaker 2: get a brand new HDR Dolby Vision Master. And there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people that love this movie, so this
Speaker 2: is a big deal for a lot of eighties kids.
Speaker 3: And this has a stacked cast otherwise, doesn't it yet?
Speaker 3: Like Lance Henrickson, like a whole sure is in ninety
Speaker 3: one too, like peak Lance Hendrickson, I you know this,
Speaker 3: this seems like it could have gotten a VSU restoration.
Speaker 3: I wonder how escape you know it would have looked
Speaker 3: nice next to Navy sales.
Speaker 2: Myself stuck with Kenos since they buy eight hundred and
Speaker 2: forty seven licenses a year. All right, next up of
Speaker 2: four K upgrade Sunday seven is releasing Asylum this year,
Speaker 2: so this will not be available tonight. This will go
Speaker 2: up on Sunday to get you to come back and
Speaker 2: buy some of their four K upgrades. We got four
Speaker 2: of those titles that they're updating that are titles that
Speaker 2: they've released prior that are now going to four K.
Speaker 2: Asylum is one that has a brand new interview. So
Speaker 2: this is a new Blu ray and a new four
Speaker 2: K disc. They're not just reusing the old Blu ray.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, Asylum is one that has a
Speaker 2: history of looking pretty bad on Blu Ray. And I
Speaker 2: don't think seven would be mad at me saying this.
Speaker 2: They're Blue didn't even look that great. It was pretty muddled,
Speaker 2: very grainy, like very of its time, sort of scan
Speaker 2: last time they went back and they were able to
Speaker 2: get the OCN for a four Okay, and this movie
Speaker 2: is a revelation. Uh, it looks really damn great. I
Speaker 2: will say the wrap round parts are not quite as
Speaker 2: clean as the other parts in this film, right, I
Speaker 2: think that's just based on the materials that they had. Unfortunately, however,
Speaker 2: all of the shorts in this anthology look incredible. Tell
Speaker 2: me about this one, sir.
Speaker 3: Like you said, I think I saw you talk about
Speaker 3: this somewhere online. The Shimmering Suit. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 3: looks so awesome. It finally makes sense.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, but you know, I am a sucker for any
Speaker 3: kind of anthology film. I mean, that's just always been
Speaker 3: my favorite and the Amicus anthologies for whatever reason, they're
Speaker 3: just kind of got this you know air. You know,
Speaker 3: they're they're a little like it's it's a little different
Speaker 3: than Hammer, you know, and they're they're a little grittier.
Speaker 3: They tend to like it a little more into the gods,
Speaker 3: not the Hammer side away from it. But you know, uh,
Speaker 3: they definitely this one, this one works for me. It's
Speaker 3: got a lot of great stories.
Speaker 2: It does, it's it's it's also one of those that
Speaker 2: has multiple memorable stories. I know that anthologies are very
Speaker 2: hit or miss, and this one, I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: Christopher Lee is in one of these. You've got that
Speaker 2: little miniature doll we're going to talk about in a
Speaker 2: little while. They're doing an enamel pin of the doll
Speaker 2: at the end of this year.
Speaker 3: That ten looks amazing And I was listening to the
Speaker 3: podcast earlier. Did I hear that it like has a
Speaker 3: hinge like that it opens up to the guts. I
Speaker 3: have to have that, right, I have to have that, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've seen Asylum, you know what the little
Speaker 2: doll is at the end, and it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: a perfect thing. I feel like, I again, I have
Speaker 2: to own that pin at some point. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: movie's great. I also Q see this one, and the
Speaker 2: restoration is just so good compared to what this used
Speaker 2: to look like. People will be very happy if they
Speaker 2: picked us up. Funny enough, back to back. The next
Speaker 2: Upgrade Sunday title is Wild Beasts. This is, like I said,
Speaker 2: another one that I was able to Q see. This
Speaker 2: is from nineteen eighty four, and this is again a
Speaker 2: quintessential Severn title. And as I wrote here, and I
Speaker 2: wrote this myself, like seven didn't tell me to write
Speaker 2: this or anything I said. The Blu Ray included with
Speaker 2: this four K Here is also a newly authored disc.
Speaker 2: The four K was so substantial compared to the old
Speaker 2: Blu Ray that they felt like they needed to upgrade
Speaker 2: the Blue for everybody as well. It is sourced from
Speaker 2: the four K Master that they used for this new
Speaker 2: four K. And I have to admit I've always enjoyed
Speaker 2: this movie, but seeing this with this four K Master
Speaker 2: this time was like a brand new movie.
Speaker 3: Dopping it lops so good. The Pope tell.
Speaker 2: Us about your history with Wild Beasts and why you
Speaker 2: like this movie.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I love trust Berry.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought you were about to say PCP there
Speaker 2: for a moment. No, it goes with the film pretty much.
Speaker 2: It hasn't seen it by the.
Speaker 3: Way, Yeah, I mean spoiler alert, but you know, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a wild premise. But like you know,
Speaker 3: the Mono Kane films, you know, all of that stuff.
Speaker 3: I've been a fan of Women of the World Goodbye
Speaker 3: Uncle Tom, Like those are just this dude knew one
Speaker 3: mode of filmmaking and it was excess like he just
Speaker 3: never relaxed for five minutes. And like this one was
Speaker 3: new to me because I'd only really seen the Mondo
Speaker 3: films and not really seen much that he had done
Speaker 3: on his own without Jaco Petty, you know, And so
Speaker 3: seeing that I was I was really blown away by it.
Speaker 3: You know. The protagonist or the hero is mustache is
Speaker 3: also so impressive. It is just it is the best
Speaker 3: mustache in Italian cinema. I mean it's just it rocks
Speaker 3: and wow and look yeah, look at that. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, that's the orange cat vibe I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Exactly. I do want to fix something Adam in the
Speaker 2: comments brought up he wasn't trying to correct me, but
Speaker 2: I will notice that I said Christopher Lee, because of
Speaker 2: course when you think about British films, you always get
Speaker 2: the two of them mixed up. Peter Cushing is the
Speaker 2: one that was in Asylum, not Christopher Lee. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yeah, chrispher Lee and Peter Cushing don't exactly
Speaker 2: look alike, but hey, it happens.
Speaker 3: But they're like peanut Butter and jelly bro usually. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the next one. This is a four
Speaker 2: K upgrade of The Boys next Door, directed by Penelope Sprus,
Speaker 2: starring Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen. This one has no
Speaker 2: new extras. This is simply an upgrade to four K.
Speaker 2: But as we'll talk about in the recommendations tonight, this
Speaker 2: is one of my favorite Severn films of all time.
Speaker 2: I've not been able to see the four K on
Speaker 2: this one, So tell me what this one's like.
Speaker 3: I really feel like it just the cinematography pops in it, now,
Speaker 3: do you know what I mean. It's just I had
Speaker 3: again another one that was pretty new to me. I'd
Speaker 3: never seen it before, you know, so, and a lot
Speaker 3: of these eighties kind of indie you know, like under
Speaker 3: the radar films kind of Escape Me, you know, the
Speaker 3: one I'll mention later. But it's just again the mood
Speaker 3: that and it's based on a true story, right, I
Speaker 3: think it's at least inspired loosely. Loosely loosely yeah, yes, No,
Speaker 3: it's a great movie. It's just you know, it kind
Speaker 3: of fits into that, like at Close Range and the
Speaker 3: other film I will mention later, you know, like I
Speaker 3: kind of see them all in that same sub genre
Speaker 3: of gritty eighties like coming of age movies in a way,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It is very hard to explain because this movie starts
Speaker 2: with one vibe and very quickly gets to a very
Speaker 2: dark vibe.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but very worth to watch. Incredible performances for both
Speaker 2: of the the two leads very akin to Henry Portrait
Speaker 2: of a serial Killer, but far less nihilistic in a
Speaker 2: weird way, because it's still very nihilistic, just somehow far
Speaker 2: less nihilistic.
Speaker 3: It's got the eighties gloss. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: Henry had no gloss. Henry was gritty as all hell,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, But you still got This
Speaker 3: has some gloss, which keeps it slightly elevated above the book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Dustin had asked a question about Wild
Speaker 2: Beast is there real animal violence in this? And I
Speaker 2: tried to respond and YouTube did not want to display
Speaker 2: the comment, So I will display this one Dustin. Yes,
Speaker 2: there is some animal on animal violence in Wild Beasts
Speaker 2: that happens.
Speaker 3: And also some rats were literally burned in the film.
Speaker 2: And that was not special effects, so I will warn
Speaker 2: about that for sure. But I think that was the
Speaker 2: only like animal torture by humans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's the scene early on where they're
Speaker 3: like drugging the tigers. Do be is because they're really
Speaker 3: drugging the tiger? Do you know what I mean? But
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, it's it is the product of its time,
Speaker 3: and if that is something that makes me uncomfortable by
Speaker 3: all means, I would avoid it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's not I feel like anytime an animal comes on
Speaker 3: screen at all, despite the level of production, even a
Speaker 3: Hollywood film, I'm like, oh boy, this is a plot point,
Speaker 3: especially in horror films, you know what I mean. As
Speaker 3: an animal lover, like I just I don't just leave.
Speaker 3: Just let's not let's not include that at all, you know,
Speaker 3: And it is something to to reconcile for sure. And
Speaker 3: you know, if there would be one of the if
Speaker 3: I had to say that there and this is a
Speaker 3: planned response, I guess, and that if there was one
Speaker 3: thing that was hard to do when you q see it,
Speaker 3: it is films with animal violence, because having to watch
Speaker 3: that repeatedly is not fun, you know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and like Brendan is saying here, I wasn't
Speaker 2: trying to downplay the word some yet, like hundreds of
Speaker 2: rats are burned in this movie and.
Speaker 3: One yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, it's not it's
Speaker 3: not scene. Rat's Night of Terror also has a lot
Speaker 3: of that in it too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And I mean anytime you're taking mice and dyeing them
Speaker 3: black to make them look like rats, I don't write
Speaker 3: charcoal whatever they're using. I don't think it's a great
Speaker 3: it's a great idea, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like yeah, I don't think they can scent it.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean the laugh editor make light of it.
Speaker 3: But it's just you know, of course being uh, you know,
Speaker 3: in the exploitation film Realm. It's something that I feel
Speaker 3: like we are mostly familiar with. And if you make
Speaker 3: a choice to not want to see that it's a
Speaker 3: you know, it's your choice, and I agree with it,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, But if you want to
Speaker 3: see it. I don't agree with editing anything out exactly
Speaker 3: what I mean, So it should be you know, retained
Speaker 3: for for what it is.
Speaker 2: That's why I love when companies give us the option
Speaker 2: put both on there. Yeah, nothing nothing wrong with this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen that, Like didn't they do like a
Speaker 3: seamless branching with Cannibal Holocaust at one point where it
Speaker 3: was like you can watch a version without you know,
Speaker 3: it's you know, and that's you know, something that takes
Speaker 3: a commendable amount of work for the author authoring team,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. That's a it's a lot
Speaker 3: of work and it's it's it's I appreciate that. That's cool,
Speaker 3: especially in a film like Canial Holo cos Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean there's a lot of other objectionable things gone out there.
Speaker 3: It isn't exactly the Son of Music otherwise, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 9: But like.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Stephen from Unearth Films. Was asked
Speaker 2: if they were if they were going to do an
Speaker 2: animal cruelty free version of Calamity of Snakes and he said,
Speaker 2: we considered it, and then we realized the movie was
Speaker 2: going to be twelve minutes long.
Speaker 3: That's like when you watch like hot and Saucy Pizza
Speaker 3: Girls on YouTube and they cut out all the saucy parts,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So like that's literally just
Speaker 3: it's like just like twenty minutes. I thought it was
Speaker 3: a Chuck E cheese commercial. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next up September twenty second in the UK from screen
Speaker 2: Bound is Sex with the Stars from nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: This is not one I know about. Have never seen
Speaker 2: this and it does not look like there are any extras.
Speaker 3: Have you seen this one? I have not. It does
Speaker 3: sound promising, though.
Speaker 2: Very cleverly edited so that I can share this on
Speaker 2: YouTube and Instagram. I appreciate that screen Bound, thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Unless that's the original poster art, which is
Speaker 2: very helpful, because man, I've been flagged many times.
Speaker 3: For some of the cover art I've had to post.
Speaker 3: This reminds me when I was young, like so my
Speaker 3: mom would allow me to have things like Jane's addiction
Speaker 3: record with nudity on it, or a Clive Barker comment
Speaker 3: with nudity in it, but when I would get it,
Speaker 3: it would have bikinis drawn on everybody. My mom would
Speaker 3: kind of like self censor the things, you know, like yeah,
Speaker 3: when I was younger, you know what I mean. That's
Speaker 3: what this kind of reminds me of. It's like censored.
Speaker 3: It's like drawn in here, over the over the.
Speaker 2: Bits quite cleverly. Next up, August twenty ninth on four
Speaker 2: K over in Germany, Wicked Vision is releasing Spider Labyrinth
Speaker 2: on four K. Now, usually I don't announce a lot
Speaker 2: of the Wicked Vision stuff, but obviously this movie's very
Speaker 2: special to me. On top of doing the commentary and
Speaker 2: the visual essay for it, which they did get from Severn,
Speaker 2: and I provided the original track so that these could
Speaker 2: be on here as well. The big thing is people
Speaker 2: have fallen in love with this movie over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years since Severn released it, and Wicked Vision
Speaker 2: is including the Italian language audio track, which Severn was
Speaker 2: not able to get, so this is theoretically an upgrade
Speaker 2: for somebody that wants the original language. Severn only was
Speaker 2: able to do the English dub, so this is actually
Speaker 2: going to be slightly different, and it's got some exclusive
Speaker 2: restoration stuff that they did and could look even a
Speaker 2: little bit better.
Speaker 3: Is this like a big box? I'm trying to understand the.
Speaker 2: The concept photo here is that you're actually able to
Speaker 2: choose just the film, or you can subscribe to an
Speaker 2: Italian cinema collection, which will get you ten releases over
Speaker 2: the next year and a half and it goes. They
Speaker 2: send you the box with the first one and every
Speaker 2: time you get one, you just slide it right into
Speaker 2: the box when you get it. That's pretty cool, and
Speaker 2: they're talking some pretty big stuff if you subscribe to this.
Speaker 2: Did I list it here? I don't remember if I
Speaker 2: included it. If not, I should have, I did not.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately we'll come back to that one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the titles that you're able to get are
Speaker 2: pretty big, Like I think they are looking at the
Speaker 2: whip in the body Bava doing it in four K,
Speaker 2: which has not happened anywhere else in the world yet,
Speaker 2: so pretty big stuff like that. So that's it's a
Speaker 2: pretty rad idea.
Speaker 3: I think. I'm sure the Bava four k's will now
Speaker 3: start to appear across the world. As I received my
Speaker 3: box at from shot factory. That's Monday. It's Monday, it
Speaker 3: just ships, so it was I was on the fence
Speaker 3: with that one, but it's Bava and.
Speaker 2: If you don't have any of them, it's a really
Speaker 2: great set.
Speaker 3: We I have some, but not enough to justify not
Speaker 3: buying it, right, So there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, the Wicked Vision stuff, I mean for
Speaker 2: those that have been following the channel for quite some time.
Speaker 2: I'm friends with Ront who has done a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff with Wicked Vision over the years, and they do
Speaker 2: really great workover in Germany. All of their stuff, even
Speaker 2: if they don't advertise it, I think I'm allowed to say,
Speaker 2: but pretty much every single title has added to English subtitles,
Speaker 2: even when they're theoretically not supposed to. So you can
Speaker 2: buy from Wicked Vision knowing that it's licensed material, which
Speaker 2: isn't always the case in Germany, that it will have
Speaker 2: English subtitles, and that it will be high quality.
Speaker 3: Pretty much always pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Going to our Next one is House on the Edge
Speaker 2: of the Park is the other four K upgrade coming
Speaker 2: from seven on Sunday as part of their upgrade Sunday.
Speaker 2: Another one that came out just a few years ago
Speaker 2: on Blu Ray from seven that made a big splash.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal title. How does the four
Speaker 2: K look on this one, sir?
Speaker 3: Looks really good. I mean, you know, this movie kind
Speaker 3: of has a lot of like you know, the party
Speaker 3: scenes is very dark in the beginning, very much benefits
Speaker 3: I feel like from four K. I know there was
Speaker 3: an issue with the black metals in the past on
Speaker 3: the original release of the Blu Ray. I never thought
Speaker 3: that the Blu Ray looked bad, but like this definitely,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's a very the cinematography is
Speaker 3: very dark, and I very much feel like it helps
Speaker 3: with a lot of that. And you know, I mean
Speaker 3: it's a must have in the Italian horror collection for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And if somebody is out there and you have
Speaker 2: not seen House on the Edge of the Park, it
Speaker 2: is a very worthwhile movie. And if looking at this
Speaker 2: slip cover is turning you off in anyway, this is
Speaker 2: meant to be like a very anti thematic slip cover.
Speaker 2: It's meant to be very different than what the actual
Speaker 2: film looks like. It's a really good piece of art,
Speaker 2: but the actual cover here, this is much more akin
Speaker 2: to the feeling that you get while watching this movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do love that artwork, but I mean,
Speaker 3: all the performances in this movie are really great. Davids
Speaker 3: is awesome, David has amazing, you know, I mean, show
Speaker 3: me a bad David Hes movie, I guess. But you know,
Speaker 3: Annie Bell also who I love, is in this and yeah,
Speaker 3: I just it benefits from the upgrade. It's worth having
Speaker 3: it and all the Italian stuff. In my opinion, there's
Speaker 3: just some heavy hitters that you're like zombie, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, things like that that I'm always going
Speaker 3: to upgrade, and this looks great, and I would say
Speaker 3: it's worth the upgrade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like sim sind the kids saying here, Lorraine
Speaker 2: de sill is in this one and Wild Beasts, so
Speaker 2: you get two of them and yeah, great, great look
Speaker 2: and release David David has is the Lena Quickly of
Speaker 2: Horrors is similar.
Speaker 3: That's that's pretty app Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Especially the seventies and eighties. Next up over in the
Speaker 2: UK on September fifteenth, Studio Canal is doing a four
Speaker 2: K release of The Man in the White Suit as
Speaker 2: part of their Vintage Classics collection. This is a brand
Speaker 2: new four K restoration of the movie. We've got a
Speaker 2: new feature d on here. Matthew Sweet on the Man
Speaker 2: in the White Suit, and then a bunch of archival features.
Speaker 2: You've got a sixty four page booklet and then a
Speaker 2: poster of the original artwork. Not what I've seen. Are
Speaker 2: you into British stuff like this?
Speaker 3: That's not something I have seen either.
Speaker 2: Know that that makes sense. I am in the same boat.
Speaker 2: So we'll go to the next one. Oh, this title
Speaker 2: September ninth, Blu Ray the US, coming from the decal
Speaker 2: of the ritual from this year. This is the al
Speaker 2: Pacino and Dan Stevens Possession movie that we talked about
Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago. I still can't believe they got
Speaker 2: al Pacino to do a Possession movie in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: and just based on that, even though everybody says it's bad,
Speaker 2: I kind of want.
Speaker 3: To see it. Yeah, I mean I yes, that sounds
Speaker 3: like a great performance.
Speaker 2: So everybody in the comments tell us how bad it is,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna say, yeah, but I'll still watch it. Oh,
Speaker 2: speaking of what is supposed to be terrible. September ninth,
Speaker 2: Blu Ray coming from Magenta Light Studios, a indie that
Speaker 2: I have never heard of doing physical media here in
Speaker 2: the US of Bride Hard from this year. This played
Speaker 2: one week in theaters and then bombed hard and now
Speaker 2: this rebel Wilson leading film is coming to Blu Ray
Speaker 2: on September ninth. One of those comedies that we were
Speaker 2: talking about that are pretty rare.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have not seen this one.
Speaker 2: I'm not shocked. I just talked about this one. But
Speaker 2: you can pre order the four K steel book release
Speaker 2: of I Know What You Did last summer, the brand
Speaker 2: new reboot that is out there. I've gotten some questions.
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing a standard four K of this one.
Speaker 2: There is a standard Blu Ray available to pre order
Speaker 2: and this four K steel book, So it looks like
Speaker 2: Sony might be going steel book only. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: saying the worst steel book like eight hundred and fourteen
Speaker 2: times to Night Blake. Are you a steel book person?
Speaker 2: Do you have many?
Speaker 3: I don't I have? Yeah, Like I mean, I bought Tombstone.
Speaker 3: I buy them when it's necessary. I reserved a Night
Speaker 3: of Living Dead. Of course I don't have. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of strong opinions on them online, is there not?
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't know. Like, as you can
Speaker 3: see here, I front face a lot of stuff. So
Speaker 3: I'm a little less you know, sensitive to it. I
Speaker 3: feel like if I had to spine that I do
Speaker 3: spine some of my collection, and that might I might
Speaker 3: not like it as much. But yeah, you know, I
Speaker 3: definitely have had a lot that have come damage. But
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's a depending on who you get
Speaker 3: it from. You're not getting damaged steelbooks from from Diabolic
Speaker 3: or something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, unless the post office decides to punt your
Speaker 2: box to your Yeah.
Speaker 3: True. But I mean, for the most part, I feel
Speaker 3: like the indie retailers really packaged things. Like when I
Speaker 3: got my quator Mass that I bought it on Amazon
Speaker 3: and it came international in like in an envelope that
Speaker 3: was soaking lack. When I got it, so an.
Speaker 2: Envelope that's dripping and then it barely it.
Speaker 3: Was like seventy bucks ship. So I was like, all right,
Speaker 3: you know, like whatever, you know, Like.
Speaker 2: Next up, I clicked the wrong thing, I apologize. Next
Speaker 2: up is another steel book. This is Disney's Leelo and
Speaker 2: Stitch from this year. I'll breeze through this one. Since
Speaker 2: Blake wud I much say they are doing a four
Speaker 2: K steel book. No standard four K standard Blu Ray
Speaker 2: and a standard DVD. This remake is not good. I
Speaker 2: did not need to watch this in the theater, and
Speaker 2: for some reason I did. I don't get it. Don't
Speaker 2: watch it. It's not great. Going to the next one.
Speaker 2: Another British film, The Wrong Arm of the Law, coming
Speaker 2: to Blu Ray from Keno on September ninth. This is
Speaker 2: a Peter Sellers film, has a brand new audio commentary
Speaker 2: by Lawrence Luherman, and then some are extras.
Speaker 3: Peter Sellers is pretty fun. Have you seen much from
Speaker 3: Peter Sellers? No, not really. I mean Pink Panther when
Speaker 3: I was younger, but like, I'm really not familiar with
Speaker 3: this body of work, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've not seen too many either the Pink Panther
Speaker 2: and maybe one or two others at most. Maybe next
Speaker 2: up September sixteenth, Universal pissing a lot of people off
Speaker 2: by releasing Speak No Evil on four K after they
Speaker 2: release it on Blu Ray. This is last year's Speak
Speaker 2: No Evil that people decided this will probably never go
Speaker 2: to four K and now, of course it is no
Speaker 2: new extras, but this will have Dolby vision and this
Speaker 2: is still not the original Speak No Evil, which does
Speaker 2: not even have an English friendly HD release. Dear God,
Speaker 2: please somebody release that film. We need it. It's very good.
Speaker 2: Going to our next one. Two thousand and five's Cinderella Man.
Speaker 2: Got a four K coming up on September sixteenth. This
Speaker 2: is Russell Crowe, Rene Zilweger. This is gonna have Dolby
Speaker 2: Vision HDR ten. I had never seen Cinderella Man. Is
Speaker 2: this one you got to see back.
Speaker 3: In the day. No, I've not seen this one either,
Speaker 3: also somehow not surprised. Yeah, I think that some of
Speaker 3: the rom cons. Now, this looks interesting to me. I
Speaker 3: saw this the other day.
Speaker 2: I like these collections that were.
Speaker 3: Archive is doing. Yeah, so that's very nice.
Speaker 2: September second, the Greta Garbo collection. We've got four films here,
Speaker 2: and these are pretty cheap. I mean, we're are Archive
Speaker 2: when they come out on basically Amazon now or unless
Speaker 2: you go to Movies in these are on release about
Speaker 2: eighteen bucks of pop. And these are all old discs.
Speaker 2: Let's not give them too much praise. I guess these
Speaker 2: are just the same old discs, just repackaged.
Speaker 3: But they're cheap.
Speaker 2: To get all four of these, it's forty bucks, which
Speaker 2: that was basically the price of two of them on release.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty great. We've got Anna Christy from nineteen thirty,
Speaker 2: We've got Camille, We've got Ninochka, and we've got Queen Christina.
Speaker 2: I don't have all the years listed to I apologize,
Speaker 2: but I've here heard supposedly these are all like really
Speaker 2: great top tier movies for her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that looks like a lot of fun. And like
Speaker 3: I've been trying to I have so much I don't know,
Speaker 3: well for B films, cult films, I don't have a
Speaker 3: lot of classics and really like you know, with the
Speaker 3: Criterion sale or just the last couple of things like
Speaker 3: pick up like Maltese Falcon things like that, like really
Speaker 3: cheap when they're like, you know, fifteen bucks, eighteen bucks,
Speaker 3: because this is it's nice to have that collection in
Speaker 3: the four case of these things look amazing and you know,
Speaker 3: I mean this is blue, but you know, I'm sure
Speaker 3: they look amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ronnie says, had Queen Christina on my shelf forever,
Speaker 2: but need to watch it. Corin says, Nanachika is fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: That's all I've heard is that all four of these
Speaker 2: are pretty much incredible We've got a couple more of
Speaker 2: those talking about just a second, but first A twenty
Speaker 2: four in September releasing Materialists on ray. This is a
Speaker 2: movie from this year that wasn't terrible. I saw this
Speaker 2: in the theater. I liked it. It was nowhere near
Speaker 2: as good as Selene Song's first film, but I thought
Speaker 2: it was a good time. Good performances from everybody, that
Speaker 2: says a commentary from Selene Song. This has a featurette
Speaker 2: called the Math of Modern Dating making Materialists. There is
Speaker 2: a composer Deep Dive, and then they've been doing these
Speaker 2: postcards with all their releases, so you can look forward
Speaker 2: to that good movie, excited that it's getting a good release.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are upset it's not
Speaker 2: four K. Doesn't bother me. It's not something that I
Speaker 2: needed to be in four K.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely find a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things I feel like I will I will settle with.
Speaker 3: You know, I've wrestled with like you know, Nightmare and
Speaker 3: Elm Street. You know, upgrade to four K, but like
Speaker 3: the old Blu ray doesn't look all that great, so
Speaker 3: maybe we'll see. Yeah, do I care though? Do I care?
Speaker 3: Because beyond three, I mean, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean two and a half years ago, I watched
Speaker 2: all eight of them in the theater in one day.
Speaker 3: So I and how did you? How did you feel
Speaker 3: about the latter half of the of the films? I
Speaker 3: made diminishing return.
Speaker 2: Sure, but the odd ones are great one three, Devin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're pretty fun.
Speaker 3: What is the moment the girl with the bug arms
Speaker 3: when she's doing the weightlifting. It's got the Tornado O'Connor song. Five.
Speaker 3: I like that one. I do like that one.
Speaker 2: I don't remember which one at this point.
Speaker 3: I got you very off topic. I'm sorry, No, I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I do want to throw out Kevin Jenkins
Speaker 2: saying does Pedro Pescal ever sleep? He's in everything. I
Speaker 2: realized this week that I'm going to see a movie
Speaker 2: with Pedro pescal and It this weekend. And that's the
Speaker 2: third one in like five weeks that I've seen him
Speaker 2: in in the theater. That's brand new. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I feel like there was nineties actors that might have
Speaker 3: had that kind It was like Billy Bob Thornton kind
Speaker 3: of show up and everything for like a hot like decade,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Sure, but he wasn't starring in like true, every big
Speaker 2: film for three weeks in a row, and everybody's saying
Speaker 2: that that movie you're looking for is Part four.
Speaker 3: It's Dreammaster already, Harlan. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: That's what happened.
Speaker 2: So here's one of those other Warner Archive collections. This
Speaker 2: one is the Errol Flynn Collection. This one has six films,
Speaker 2: and yes it is proportional. This one is sixty dollars
Speaker 2: to pre order right now. This one has Robin Hood, Seahawk,
Speaker 2: Santa Fe Trail, Edge of Darkness, Objective, Burma, and Don
Speaker 2: jah Are Adventures of Don Juan. Yeah, I think out
Speaker 2: of these, I've only seen Robin Hood.
Speaker 3: But I like ten bucks of film though. For ten
Speaker 3: bucks of film, like it's crazy, Like this is this
Speaker 3: is why I'm always broke.
Speaker 2: Bro Six classics for sixty bucks. That's pretty great.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's awesome. Well, this is the one I
Speaker 3: was waiting for. This one. Here look at that.
Speaker 2: This is maybe the most exciting of them, especially if
Speaker 2: you don't have any of these movies. So another war
Speaker 2: Archives on September two of World Without End Attack of
Speaker 2: the Fifty Foot Woman, The Beast from twenty Thousand Fathoms
Speaker 2: and Them. This is this is a great set. I
Speaker 2: think I've seen three out of these four. Them is
Speaker 2: a classic.
Speaker 3: Odet and is just unbelievable. I have great memories of
Speaker 3: watching that on TV with my family when I was young. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is a really great film.
Speaker 2: And again, forty bucks for great HD releases of these
Speaker 2: four movies is.
Speaker 3: Kind of amazing. Absolutely, I'm stoked on it.
Speaker 2: Over in Germany on October twenty third, you can pick
Speaker 2: up a four K steel book of Child's Play, or
Speaker 2: a four K media book of Child's Play, or a
Speaker 2: four K media book of Child's Play. These are all
Speaker 2: coming from Cape Light, who do pretty good work. They've
Speaker 2: screwed up a couple of discs, so for something like this,
Speaker 2: they're probably using literally like the exact same material as
Speaker 2: Screen Factory, So don't expect like some sort of fixed
Speaker 2: problem type of disk or anything like that. It's probably identical.
Speaker 2: No new extras on this, but it is subtypled in English,
Speaker 2: and that is a good thing.
Speaker 3: I like media books. I don't have any, but I
Speaker 3: always like if I get into that, then there's going
Speaker 3: to be an even greater issue than there already is,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, shelf space has rapidly become a problem.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that most people who haven't built their own
Speaker 3: shelves can relate to that. It's like buying any kind
Speaker 3: of prefab off of Amazon recently has been really prohibitive.
Speaker 3: It's like crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not great. I mean, prices skyrocketing on
Speaker 2: those since the pandemic stuff at least doubled for shelf space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm for sure a lot of that stuff is
Speaker 3: coming from I mean, I don't know what the situation
Speaker 3: with tariffs is, but it seems like every time I
Speaker 3: want to buy something, there's one involved.
Speaker 2: If I need something that they start the tariff right
Speaker 2: before me, right that day.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Next up, Keno Classics on September sixteenth, they're putting out
Speaker 2: a blu ray of matchin in Uniform from nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: This is a milestone of queer cinema, and this is
Speaker 2: supposed to be great. I know that there was a
Speaker 2: earlier version of this, I think from the late thirties
Speaker 2: or early forties. That it's supposed to be really great,
Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm glad this is coming out. I
Speaker 2: have not seen this version, but I've heard nothing but
Speaker 2: great things. Oh there it is, nineteen thirty one is
Speaker 2: the original one?
Speaker 3: There it is. I think the great thing about Keno's
Speaker 3: massive slate is that it allows them to do a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff like this and things that are like silence.
Speaker 3: Like I worked on a big collection of made in
Speaker 3: New Jersey. I need that set. Yeah, those were very cool,
Speaker 3: you know, and just that's something that I'm not sure
Speaker 3: a lot of places would take a chance on, you know,
Speaker 3: but they have the size to do that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: and it's important. Those things are important as much as like,
Speaker 3: you know, I need like the greatest chunkiest edition of
Speaker 3: the shot on video horror film from you know, two
Speaker 3: thousand and one. I also need a nice collection of
Speaker 3: silence and things that it's just a nice I think,
Speaker 3: how to cleanse the talent and balance things out sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's absolutely needed.
Speaker 3: Good call.
Speaker 2: Next up is Angry Harvest, coming as part of the
Speaker 2: Chino Classics line, also on September sixteenth on Blu Ray.
Speaker 2: This is from nineteen eighty five and not a movie
Speaker 2: I've ever seen, but this was nominated for the Oscar
Speaker 2: for Best Foreign Language Movie that year and is supposedly
Speaker 2: again really great. This one has an audio commentary by
Speaker 2: Bill Gabierri if you've never heard any of the work
Speaker 2: from Bilga, some great great film critique that I really
Speaker 2: want to highlight here because this is a movie that
Speaker 2: probably needs the context, and I imagine the commentary on
Speaker 2: this is astounding cool. Going to our next one, We've
Speaker 2: got a film called Ildno, also known as The Gift
Speaker 2: from two thousand and three, coming from Keno on September
Speaker 2: twenty third. This is a four K restoration, has a
Speaker 2: trailer on here. Not a film that I'd ever heard of,
Speaker 2: but it is one that looks really important. Definitely curious
Speaker 2: in checking us out, I wanted to read Nazi Ronnie's
Speaker 2: comment here. The Nazis tried to destroy the original match
Speaker 2: In in Uniform because it was a lesbian movie, but it
Speaker 2: miraculously survived.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, that's awesome. That's the kind
Speaker 3: of film preservation man that like you could really really
Speaker 3: get behind.
Speaker 2: Exactly. As part of Keno Distribution, Cohen Media Group is
Speaker 2: releasing Unicorns from twenty twenty three. This is starring Ben
Speaker 2: Hardy and Jason Battel has a trailer on here. I
Speaker 2: had heard that this movie was good, but again, one
Speaker 2: do you don't get to see one of these in
Speaker 2: some festival runs. These get very difficult to see. So
Speaker 2: I'm glad that somebody like Coen is putting some time
Speaker 2: and energy into releasing it because I wanted to see
Speaker 2: this and it sounds really great. It's the same producing
Speaker 2: team that did The Kids Are All Right and Broke
Speaker 2: Back Mountain, and it's supposed to be great nice. This
Speaker 2: is a big deal for so many people. First off,
Speaker 2: crazy cover on this release. September thirtieth, Keno is releasing
Speaker 2: a four K of Yorgos Lanthemos's Dog Tooth from two
Speaker 2: thousand and nine. They had had this on Blu Ray
Speaker 2: for quite some time, but this got a brand new
Speaker 2: HDR Dolby Vision Master, all supervised by your Ghos, and
Speaker 2: it looks to be an incredible release. The theatrical screenings
Speaker 2: have gotten good reviews and all that. This is also
Speaker 2: gonna have a booklet, which Quino does not do a
Speaker 2: ton of. There's an interview with Yorgos in that booklet
Speaker 2: that Letterbox did and then on the extras on the
Speaker 2: four K disc. There's an audio commentary with a few
Speaker 2: people on there that there is a archival commentary, and
Speaker 2: then there is a blu ray of special features as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a must if I remember right,
Speaker 2: I believe this is.
Speaker 3: The first Yrgos film to get to four K. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen any of his work, so I definitely need
Speaker 3: to catch up, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, knowing some of the stuff that you like, I
Speaker 2: really feel like this would probably be.
Speaker 3: Your jan It's been highly recommended to me, for sure.
Speaker 2: He makes what on a very understated way of selling
Speaker 2: this to you. He makes weird movies. I like weird movies, Right,
Speaker 2: That's a must. Yeah, people need to see this. This
Speaker 2: is the most random thing I've seen from Keno in
Speaker 2: at least twelve seconds. September thirtieth, they're putting out the
Speaker 2: Lake Trilogy from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two. This
Speaker 2: is Slovenian and it is a crime drama series on
Speaker 2: the novels of Tadej Globe. It is in many ways
Speaker 2: Slovenia's Alpine answer to the Nordic noir craze, a cinematic
Speaker 2: police procedural and a scenic winter landscape with a dark
Speaker 2: and troubled protagonist. Yeah, this sounds really interesting. It's got
Speaker 2: a really great bunch of cinematography that is just not
Speaker 2: anything I get to see living in the middle of
Speaker 2: Kansas City. But the old murder mysteries are always fun. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: and what a wild poster. It's just a dude reflecting
Speaker 2: on a lake. I will take it. But yeah, he
Speaker 2: definitely looks cold out there. Going to our next one,
Speaker 2: another Keto title through RaRo. On September thirtieth, they are
Speaker 2: putting out the forty four Specialist. This is also known
Speaker 2: as Mark Strikes Again and so yes, this is a
Speaker 2: sequel and they have not released the first one, nor
Speaker 2: does it matter, nor the second one. I believe this
Speaker 2: is the third one, which is hilarious.
Speaker 3: Is this like Leonard Part six? In a way? In
Speaker 3: a way?
Speaker 2: We got an audio commentary by Rachel Nisbitt on this.
Speaker 2: Glad they're putting us out. This is probably a good
Speaker 2: time to announce and share. I believe Rero has quietly
Speaker 2: canceled the last title they announced. I am trying to
Speaker 2: do some research on that, so I will share if
Speaker 2: I can find something else soon. We talked about that
Speaker 2: about a month ago, but now it has quietly disappeared
Speaker 2: from every site on the internet. So we shall see
Speaker 2: going to the next one Hammer, so we spent some
Speaker 2: time talking about Kuiter Mass. Their next four K title
Speaker 2: is The Man in Black from nineteen fifty. Is this
Speaker 2: one that you are excited about, Blake?
Speaker 3: Yeah, these smaller ones, the smaller Hammer special editions like Shatter,
Speaker 3: Foresighted Triangle. I haven't gotten any, so I haven't seen
Speaker 3: them even really in the wild, but I want every
Speaker 3: last one of them.
Speaker 2: So these smaller ones, they are much smaller than the
Speaker 2: ones that Blake and I shared earlier. They're less than
Speaker 2: I think half the size of those, and these are
Speaker 2: This is a two disc release, specifically, it's got a
Speaker 2: four K disc and a Blu ray disc. And just
Speaker 2: to share how much work Hammer puts into these, this
Speaker 2: has English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles. What other
Speaker 2: boutique label is doing that for their releases.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing I wouldn't want to see that.
Speaker 2: Well, and if that's not enough, that you have to
Speaker 2: check in five different languages, two brand new commentaries, lots
Speaker 2: of new interviews, lots of new featurettes, visual essays, plus
Speaker 2: a giant booklet, like there is so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they really, I mean it's it's just like I
Speaker 3: go on the site and I want to buy like
Speaker 3: every last thing that they have, like I pretty much.
Speaker 3: You know, when the Anchor Babe Boutique DVD explosion started,
Speaker 3: you had a lot of Hammer films getting snapped up
Speaker 3: in that wave, you know what I mean. And that
Speaker 3: was a lot of my you know, the vhs even
Speaker 3: they had vhs dragging the Prince of Darkness. I remember
Speaker 3: doing the Clamshell releases if you remember those. And so
Speaker 3: the Hammer stuff was really like when I started collecting
Speaker 3: the stuff that I started buying first, and it was
Speaker 3: very much it brought me back like I had seen
Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff on television when I was younger,
Speaker 3: but didn't really know you know what I mean. You'd
Speaker 3: always catch something on broadcast halfway through, you know. But
Speaker 3: all of it is just that there's a lot, I mean,
Speaker 3: there's definitely a lot of Hammer films that are boring
Speaker 3: kind of you know what I mean, But these aren't
Speaker 3: any of them that I've seen so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that that's a good way to say,
Speaker 2: because yeah, there are quite a few Hammer films that are.
Speaker 3: A couple of snoozers in there, for sure.
Speaker 2: Well forgettable, there's probably the kindest way to say that.
Speaker 3: I still, you know, and I feel like I like
Speaker 3: to revisit things though every couple of years, you know,
Speaker 3: and your attitudes towards things always change, you know, And
Speaker 3: things I did not like at all before are things
Speaker 3: that I like a lot now. And so you know,
Speaker 3: maybe you think it's boring when you're a gore hound
Speaker 3: and you're just looking for Fulty movies and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but you revisit it as an adult, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is actually pretty cerebral and cool. You know. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I would have like connected something with
Speaker 3: like quator Mass Experiment like I did watching it now,
Speaker 3: you know, if I watched it when I was seventeen.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and the reality at least for me. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to speak on your behalf too, but when
Speaker 2: I watch things, I just go through cycles. So sometimes
Speaker 2: on a Wednesday, I might think it's boring, but a
Speaker 2: month later BE like, oh, it's Tuesday. This movie is
Speaker 2: fantastic now.
Speaker 3: And I always refer to it as like the the QC.
Speaker 3: Stockholm syndrome two is like, sometimes sometimes I'll watch something
Speaker 3: I'm like, I hated that, Like damn, I hate that movie.
Speaker 3: It sucks, you know what I mean. And then like
Speaker 3: I go through the commentary, I go through the extras,
Speaker 3: then I watch it in Italian and then I'm like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: it doesn't suck. I just didn't understand it at all
Speaker 3: the first time, or I didn't have the context to
Speaker 3: necessarily get what I was looking at, you know, And
Speaker 3: I think, you know, not everybody. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I would if I had the time, if I was
Speaker 3: just watching stuff for fun, to be like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna fully explore this movie I hate, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, but but you know, sometimes when you do it
Speaker 3: for work, it could be a very positive experience because
Speaker 3: I feel like, well, I asked you before about how
Speaker 3: you rate your films on Letterbox and I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I was listening to a commentary once and for work,
Speaker 3: of course, and they were talking about how on Letterbox
Speaker 3: they always start with a three star rating because like,
Speaker 3: you made a movie, you did something phenomenal and hard,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. All of the nuance in
Speaker 3: my rating is between three and five you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Unless I really hate it, then I'll give
Speaker 3: it a hard one, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 3: that's rare. That's rare. You know, it's rare that I
Speaker 3: really really hate something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's pretty close to exactly how I do it.
Speaker 2: And on that note, I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 2: I got a solid three.
Speaker 3: Didn't give it a little bit, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2: The whole QC fatigue experience with some of these is
Speaker 2: so real. I mean not to like pause in the
Speaker 2: middle of the announcements for just a minute, But a
Speaker 2: couple months ago I shared on here that I had
Speaker 2: that giant accident basically while I was in LA where
Speaker 2: my wife and I both lost our laptops and they
Speaker 2: were ruined. And I was in the middle of qcing
Speaker 2: Asylum at the time that that happened.
Speaker 3: My god, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 2: I was running up against the deadline, lost my computer,
Speaker 2: and so I was in there trying to get it done.
Speaker 2: I had two visual essays that I was about to
Speaker 2: turn in and this QC that were all roughly at
Speaker 2: like sixty percent complete, and so getting back into getting
Speaker 2: it done when I was already past the deadline, and
Speaker 2: I didn't want Severn pissed at me. I was working
Speaker 2: at like one o'clock in the morning, going, Nope, I
Speaker 2: gotta do this. Like you see, you have to be
Speaker 2: completely one hundred percent in I think I watched the
Speaker 2: end of that movie. I'm not kidding, maybe like eleven times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and like we can get into it when
Speaker 3: you're done, But it's it's not it's not work that
Speaker 3: you can force, do you know what I mean? Because
Speaker 3: like you you really have to be like one hundred
Speaker 3: percent when you and and and it's really easy to
Speaker 3: get fatigued really fast, you know. And I know we
Speaker 3: talked about that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, if we got more time at the end,
Speaker 2: we can throw more in there back you say, yeah, crazy,
Speaker 2: But first we got to talk about this edgy motherfucking
Speaker 2: release uh A Dark Sky. As part of their Dark
Speaker 2: Sky Selects line, they're putting out a blu ray steel
Speaker 2: book of Faces of Death, that movie that your brother's
Speaker 2: friend showed you in nineteen ninety two because he found
Speaker 2: it under a blanket in his best friend's van. This
Speaker 2: thing gets a brand new extra on here called many
Speaker 2: Faces of Death, and nothing else new except for the
Speaker 2: packaging overall, I don't want to try to steer anybody
Speaker 2: into buying this or not buying this. But one note
Speaker 2: is I have heard that if you want all of
Speaker 2: the Faces of Death films, you may just want to
Speaker 2: wait a little bit longer and see if something were
Speaker 2: to happen in the world, because you might be hearing
Speaker 2: more about the series soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I would. There's a nostaligia factor
Speaker 3: that makes you want to revisit this, but maybe one time.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about owning this thing.
Speaker 3: Like you know, it's of course most of it is
Speaker 3: just stage or you know, it's like a Mondo film,
Speaker 3: an American Mondo film. I guess. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 3: if I feel an inclination to own it. But it
Speaker 3: is a very attractive looking steel book. Tho'll look at that.
Speaker 3: The inside artwork is very nice.
Speaker 2: Very very very classic and evocative of this title.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 2: Let's go over some of the Severn stuff after the
Speaker 2: rest of the announcements. We're gonna cover all this in
Speaker 2: just a minute, so I'm gonna skip over that indicator
Speaker 2: put out some crazy looking titles just this morning. First
Speaker 2: one is plot of fear. This is getting a four
Speaker 2: K and blu ray release over in the UK on
Speaker 2: October twenty second.
Speaker 3: Not a US release. This is a.
Speaker 2: Film that's going to get a new commentary with Eugenie
Speaker 2: Orkilani and Troy Howarth interview with the first ad on
Speaker 2: this film, new presentation of an interview from twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: a bunch of newly edited stuff. Eugenie orka Lani really
Speaker 2: kind of crushed the extras on both of these. He
Speaker 2: did so much. Eighty page booklet with new essays, some
Speaker 2: really good stuff. And then to go with it, they
Speaker 2: got Franco Niro in Hitchhike.
Speaker 3: From that movie is a that's a great movie. I
Speaker 3: highly recommend this one.
Speaker 2: This is the big winner of these two. I love
Speaker 2: this movie. Uh. This is also four K and blu ray,
Speaker 2: also coming in the UK only also on October twenty second.
Speaker 2: Lots of new extras from Eugenio again some really great
Speaker 2: looking stuff. Tell the world about Hitchhike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will be snapping this one up. It is.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a good double feature with the
Speaker 3: with the Bava film. Yeah what is it Babby Dogs
Speaker 3: or has another name too? Yeah it does. Yeah, something
Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, I like this is a double feature,
Speaker 3: very kind of cool Italian road movie with Well David
Speaker 3: has sprinkled in here, right, isn't he in the one?
Speaker 3: He is one? Yeah, so he's always as we discussed
Speaker 3: earlier just on eleven that guy. Yeah, different, a different
Speaker 3: breed dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this this is a This is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: This is gonna look incredible. Franco Nero just being amazing
Speaker 2: in this movie. Also, it's a more more coney soundtrack.
Speaker 2: You pretty much have to have it at that point.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think this is a beautiful piece of
Speaker 2: cover art too.
Speaker 3: All of their stuff I have, I'm, you know, a
Speaker 3: big Genrelyn guy, and I have all of the Indicator
Speaker 3: stuff that they've put out so far, and just gorgeous
Speaker 3: special editions. I've bought those films so many times now.
Speaker 3: I bought them on laser disc and the original DVDs
Speaker 3: and then again on blue ray. I finally had finished
Speaker 3: the collection from Kino when these ones started getting announced.
Speaker 3: But you want to talk about four K upgrades that
Speaker 3: like are just completely a world beyond the old scam. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they are the rillin stuff. I mean, I thought I
Speaker 3: was a fan before and I know now it's gorgeous, gorgeous,
Speaker 3: like they just pop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they look incredible. And then not to mention,
Speaker 2: not to just harp on packaging, but I am a
Speaker 2: huge fan and I happen to have not that I
Speaker 2: play on this, Sibnard, you don't need to to comment
Speaker 2: on that. I happen to have an indicator one right here.
Speaker 2: This is Cardinal Knowledge that they just did on four
Speaker 2: K over in the UK. And this is a hard
Speaker 2: box release. Wow, look at this. It is a thin
Speaker 2: packaging and it's got the disc and it's got a
Speaker 2: booklet all in this hyper thin but extra like fancy
Speaker 2: packaging to show that this is a prestige title. We're
Speaker 2: giving it just something special and it's essentially like barely
Speaker 2: over the size of a Blu ray and it's a
Speaker 2: hard box release, Like this is the way to do
Speaker 2: something like this. I love this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do really nice work. The booklets included with
Speaker 3: these two are phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Oh man, this is hilarious. And yeah, just like Wave said,
Speaker 2: their boxes don't take up the entire shelf. It's great.
Speaker 2: Everybody needs to adopt that packaging. It is probably my favorite.
Speaker 3: I do have one gripe though one of them I
Speaker 3: can't remember. I can't see it from here, but the
Speaker 3: one of the real in titles, maybe two, is taller
Speaker 3: than all the other ones. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think they were still getting used to it and
Speaker 2: they were not quite right.
Speaker 3: Like, bro, it drives me crazy.
Speaker 2: Just off the top.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let's just shave a little off the top.
Speaker 3: That'll be fine.
Speaker 2: October seventh, in the US, we are getting a four
Speaker 2: K steel book of Dangerous Animals that just came out
Speaker 2: this year. This is from IFC and Shutter working together.
Speaker 2: This is the movie that they marketed as a shark
Speaker 2: attack film that has zero shark attacks.
Speaker 3: It is. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: A lot of people hate this movie, but I thought
Speaker 2: it was pretty fun. It is another one of those
Speaker 2: that's not a good movie, but I had a good
Speaker 2: time with it.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot of animal attacks films
Speaker 3: going on right now.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I'm getting the shark feeling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sark week.
Speaker 2: It's not shark week. Let's not go down. The August nineteenth,
Speaker 2: Sony as part of the Sony Pictures Classics line, they're
Speaker 2: putting out the House of Sand from two thousand and
Speaker 2: five not what I've seen, but it stars Fernando Torres
Speaker 2: and this is supposedly incredible one that I had multiple
Speaker 2: people message me about today and it sounds like I
Speaker 2: need to pick this up because it sounds amazing. Were
Speaker 2: you able to see this one ever?
Speaker 3: I have not seen it.
Speaker 2: No, for everybody that can see this on Facebook, Jeremy
Speaker 2: is a friend. It is not my birthday. He always
Speaker 2: does this. Thank you for moving right along. Turbine over
Speaker 2: in Germany keeping the three D dream alive. On Luck fourteenth,
Speaker 2: they are releasing a three pack of three D tiles
Speaker 2: new to Blu Rays. So we've got Fast and Furious
Speaker 2: ten or Fast X, Puss in Boots, the Last Wish
Speaker 2: and then Trolls banded together. All of these on four
Speaker 2: K or not four K three D for the first
Speaker 2: time anywhere in the world. They are region free discs
Speaker 2: and they are super high quality. Turbine does really great
Speaker 2: work on these, and if you are just like wanting
Speaker 2: to keep your three D dreams alive home, they do
Speaker 2: a really like really affordable bundle on these, so if
Speaker 2: you want all three or like if you're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I want to these and maybe I could do the third,
Speaker 2: you just kind of get all three and it's cheap
Speaker 2: and it's not a bad deal.
Speaker 3: Nice. I did see you put some boots. That's a
Speaker 3: great movie. Did you like it? Of course, dude, fucking amazing.
Speaker 3: You got an orange cap protagonist. Of course I'm gonna
Speaker 3: like that movie.
Speaker 2: Next up is The Island. This is from nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 2: getting a Blu ray release from Eureka in the UK
Speaker 2: on October thirteenth, North America on October fourteenth. This says
Speaker 2: it is perhaps the most accomplished genre picture directed by
Speaker 2: British Chinese filmmaker Po Chi Long, which I've heard is
Speaker 2: an incredible movie. Very curious to check this one out.
Speaker 2: It looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I had this in my cart earlier today.
Speaker 2: And mine right now.
Speaker 3: It sounds so good. It's like what like Texas Chains
Speaker 3: or something like that they compare it to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely one that I need to need to
Speaker 2: check out.
Speaker 3: And really it's really economical. I had that and I
Speaker 3: think Diabolical Doctor Z in my cart and it was
Speaker 3: like fifty bucks ship for the two of them, which
Speaker 3: really is not bad.
Speaker 2: Well, and keep in mind Eureka Free Worldwide shipping if
Speaker 2: you order direct, which is yeah.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's a crazy deal. Like, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, they're a little more expensive even just to
Speaker 3: order them domestically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not bad, especially if you only want one somehow,
Speaker 2: Still free shipping, no threshold, free shipping.
Speaker 3: How do you argue with this? The thing that was
Speaker 3: houlding me up was I have Diabolical Doctor Z on
Speaker 3: another disc, so knowing that I might dis order this guy, then.
Speaker 2: I will say, we're about to cover Diabolical Doctor Z
Speaker 2: in like twelve seconds. But there is something on that
Speaker 2: disc that might entice me at least, so I'm keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on it. The Island has a new commentary
Speaker 2: with Frank Jang and a new commentary with Mike Leader
Speaker 2: and Art Venoma. There's an interview with the director from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. This sounds like a really great, fun release,
Speaker 2: But Diabolical Doctor Z is going to be after this one.
Speaker 2: I forgot this one was here. October thirteenth, Blu Ray
Speaker 2: in the UK of the Ambulance, Larry Cohen's nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: really fun movie with Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones
Speaker 2: that everybody should see. At least once, if not seventeen times,
Speaker 2: because it's that good. New commentary by Steve Mitchell. Archival
Speaker 2: commentary with Larry Cohen, moderated by Steve Mitchell. There is
Speaker 2: a new visual essay on The Ambulance and Medical Horror
Speaker 2: by Murray Leader. New interview with the writer Michael Doyle,
Speaker 2: and this is great. Have you ever seen the Ambulance?
Speaker 3: I have not, But Eric robertson Larry Cohen sounds like,
Speaker 3: oh wait, no, I feel like I did see this.
Speaker 3: This was a HBO or Cinemax, Like, yeah, dude, I
Speaker 3: did see this one. Yeah, this is a good one
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun movie.
Speaker 3: But now, Eric Roberts is always a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Diabolical doctor Z coming out in the u UK on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray on October twentieth. The Jess Franco film from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six, Eureka, going all in on the Just
Speaker 2: Franco titles this one on the disc we have a
Speaker 2: commentary by Tim Lucas. We also have a new discussion
Speaker 2: of European Gothic horror in the nineteen sixties, the Xavier
Speaker 2: Ald Donna Rees. There's a new visual essay on Mad
Speaker 2: Science in Gothic Horror from Mary Shelley to Jess Franco
Speaker 2: by Sam Degan, and that is going to be a
Speaker 2: blast to watch.
Speaker 3: That sounds awesome. I'm a big fan of the essays
Speaker 3: these days, the visual essays and things like that. It's
Speaker 3: like a two very nice, concise way to get your
Speaker 3: perspective and voice heard out there. You know, it's just
Speaker 3: like rather than perhaps a full commentary or you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that, Like I myself am trying
Speaker 3: to get more into reading booklets and minor notes because
Speaker 3: there's just so much information in there, you know. But
Speaker 3: the visual essay it's a great way to get that across,
Speaker 3: I agree fully.
Speaker 2: Over in Germany on November fifth, you can get a
Speaker 2: four K steel book of the Silence of the Lambs,
Speaker 2: or a four K media book of the Silence of
Speaker 2: the Lambs, or a four K media book of the
Speaker 2: Silence of the Lambs. Yes, for the record, that is
Speaker 2: the second time I've been able to do that in
Speaker 2: the last minutes. This is also coming from Cape Light
Speaker 2: Over There no new extras. This is likely the arrow restoration,
Speaker 2: so it's probably gonna look great. This is primarily if
Speaker 2: you didn't get the Arrow four K limited edition, and
Speaker 2: you're like, man, I've always wanted this in a steel
Speaker 2: book with a completely different language than I speak on
Speaker 2: the cover, Or I really like the media book art
Speaker 2: and I really want a booklet attached to a film
Speaker 2: that I can't read in German. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 2: great option for you. Another German title, So many of
Speaker 2: those this week play on. On October twenty, Second is
Speaker 2: releasing a four K media book of Argento's Phantom of
Speaker 2: the Opera from nineteen ninety. This is not the cover art.
Speaker 2: This is just one of the posters that was used
Speaker 2: on the film. But this is pretty widely regarded as
Speaker 2: the worst Argento film. Have you seen this?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It is. It is most certainly the beginning of
Speaker 3: where it starts to get not great. Now. I know
Speaker 3: there's some highlights in there, Sleepless, I feel like things
Speaker 3: like that, but this is where I started to drop
Speaker 3: off as a fan. I think, you know, I'm again,
Speaker 3: maybe this is something that if I revisit it now
Speaker 3: I might have a better appreciation for for what it is.
Speaker 3: But you know, I remember it looks looking really bad,
Speaker 3: like maybe that was just that was just the DVD
Speaker 3: release at the time. But maybe I just feel like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of like subpart cinematography, I feel like,
Speaker 3: and a lot of the later Argento films, And I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's just a product of like that
Speaker 3: era of straight to video, like even like Trauma is
Speaker 3: a little you know, you know, like yeah, and are
Speaker 3: used to the Garris lighting in the Argento style of
Speaker 3: course his younger years. You're not going to eat it's
Speaker 3: like what you know, but you just I feel like
Speaker 3: you see that in general with kind of Italian films
Speaker 3: as they kind of get into that mid to later
Speaker 3: eighties period or early nineties, you know, things get very drab. Right.
Speaker 2: So in the comments, wave is saying a terrible Argento
Speaker 2: film and VS isn't releasing it. I guess there's always
Speaker 2: time for them to put it out. So here's the joke.
Speaker 2: We found out during Subscriber Week just this month that
Speaker 2: in the second half of twenty twenty five, Vinegar Syndrome
Speaker 2: is releasing a four K of in Argento film. I
Speaker 2: would not be surprised in any way if it was
Speaker 2: this fanom of the opera, considering we've not heard anything
Speaker 2: about this being upgraded. This was released previously by Scorpion,
Speaker 2: So this is probably able to be licensed in the
Speaker 2: US because that was at least five years ago. So
Speaker 2: theoretically that could be the one that we're seeing coming
Speaker 2: at the end of the year. There's also the quite
Speaker 2: high chance that it is the card Player. That would
Speaker 2: not surprise me in any way, or not the card Player. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that just happened, Sleepless, that's the other way. Sleepless. For
Speaker 2: some reason thinks.
Speaker 3: Are they all like the same production company, like, because
Speaker 3: they're kind of a similar era, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, similar era. I believe they all have historically been licensed,
Speaker 2: like in a bundle, if you're going to get one,
Speaker 2: you're going to get all of them. So it would
Speaker 2: not surprise me for sure. All Right, only a few
Speaker 2: things left. Like I said, we'll come back to the
Speaker 2: Severn stuff. September twenty third, Kino putting out French Without
Speaker 2: Tears from nineteen forty. This is a Ray Milan film.
Speaker 2: This has a new audio commentary by Gary Garani. I'm
Speaker 2: assuming this is not a family classic that you've seen
Speaker 2: seventy two times.
Speaker 3: No, it is not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same here. Had never heard of this before this week,
Speaker 2: and I don't know anything about it. So we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that later. We got to replacement program that probably
Speaker 2: isn't going to affect too many of you. But Warner
Speaker 2: Archive is having some trouble with their High Society release.
Speaker 2: If you remember, we already talked about the fact that
Speaker 2: many of these went out without slipcovers, and they were like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're so sorry. If you want a slipcover, even if
Speaker 2: you didn't buy it, email us and we'll send you
Speaker 2: a slipcover. Which, for the record, nobody's gotten a slipcover
Speaker 2: yet that I know of, so hey, Warner Archive, you
Speaker 2: should probably send those. But also they have found that
Speaker 2: one of the batches of the discs was pausing and
Speaker 2: skipping at seventeen minutes and forty seven seconds. So if
Speaker 2: your copy does that, you will need to email disc
Speaker 2: services at allied von dot com. If yours does not
Speaker 2: do that, you should not email them just to get
Speaker 2: another copy of that four K disc for free. So,
Speaker 2: just for the record, check your release. You may want
Speaker 2: to check it out.
Speaker 3: QC.
Speaker 2: How does that work? Hey blick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a lot of this stuff I feel
Speaker 3: like that I've been seeing recently. I mean, there are
Speaker 3: definitely things that I've seen that have happened on the
Speaker 3: end that would have been things, you know, that we
Speaker 3: would have caught. But mostly I'm seeing stuff that's like
Speaker 3: replication and you know, like stuff that's happening and at
Speaker 3: the manufacturing and you know, like, you know, I feel
Speaker 3: like at least you know, with I mean seven, you know,
Speaker 3: there's several layers of us watching things, you know, and
Speaker 3: we have Todd, our fearless QC leader, who really has
Speaker 3: like the eagle eye, and working with him has been
Speaker 3: such a learning experience that dude is like on it,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But there's a couple of
Speaker 3: us watching everything, and you know, I mean, I know
Speaker 3: a lot of the smaller labels, you know, I've kind
Speaker 3: of like stepped in to help them with things sometimes
Speaker 3: and they're working with like really short turn around times.
Speaker 3: Like I got asked to do something today and they're like,
Speaker 3: can we have it like tomorrow? Like no, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, But I could definitely get it as
Speaker 3: fast as I can, you know. But you know that's
Speaker 3: like I said, I feel like and really, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's important to say I only speak
Speaker 3: for myself. I'm freelance, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: don't represent any companies and things like that, but it
Speaker 3: just seems like the majority of things happen, you know
Speaker 3: that I've been seeing. You know, there's there's definitely been
Speaker 3: one or two things that I've seen that you know,
Speaker 3: that might have or should have been caught on the
Speaker 3: other end. But there's the things that are so hard too,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like it's just you see
Speaker 3: how you could watch something a thousand times and then
Speaker 3: on the thousand and first time find something new, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, considering I watched the second half of Asylum
Speaker 2: eleven times.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and it really it is like trying to
Speaker 3: identify deal breakers, you know, or disc breakers. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's that's constantly what I'm trying to do is break
Speaker 3: the disc you know, when I get it, at the
Speaker 3: point that I get disc emulation phase, I am trying
Speaker 3: to break it, you know what I mean. Like I
Speaker 3: am just like you know, going through everything, stopping it,
Speaker 3: going back, pop up menu, this, that, back out, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, and you will break them sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like, So that's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the QC stuff is not able to be overstated enough.
Speaker 2: How much work goes into some of these I mean
Speaker 2: we're talking the entire disc being looked through for some
Speaker 2: of these companies, like upwards of thirty plus times, with
Speaker 2: different people on different setups, with different TVs, different players,
Speaker 2: checking for different.
Speaker 3: Things, and it's impossible to like, you know, create every scenario.
Speaker 3: Like I'm a video game guy too, you know, I
Speaker 3: love video games and and things like Bethesda games which
Speaker 3: are so complex but always broken. You know, those things
Speaker 3: could be fixed, you know, you know kind of after
Speaker 3: the fact. You can't really fix the disc after the
Speaker 3: fact that unless it's like a replacement program, which gets prohibitive,
Speaker 3: and you know, you know, it's it's great. I see
Speaker 3: so much in the boutiques where they're really for the
Speaker 3: most part on it, like we're as a major. It's
Speaker 3: like some things that never got fixed, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. As I've tried to go through and sell
Speaker 3: off kings like Blu rays and DVD's older releases, you
Speaker 3: find out like, oh, well this had a flaw and
Speaker 3: if you didn't get the you didn't get the replacement
Speaker 3: just then, Like I can't sell that to somebody. I
Speaker 3: can't know only now you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 3: sell a flawed to somebody.
Speaker 2: That is true. We got one more that is not
Speaker 2: Severn and then we will get into the seven stuff.
Speaker 2: On September thirtieth, Neon and Dekel are working together to
Speaker 2: put out a four K of the Life of Chuck
Speaker 2: from this year and so also get a Blu ray release.
Speaker 2: This is a Stephen King story that was made into
Speaker 2: a film by Mike Flanagan, starring at Tom Hidlston che
Speaker 2: would tell Edgy four, Karen Gill and Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill,
Speaker 2: a bunch of other faces that you recognize. This is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite films of the year. This movie
Speaker 2: was profound love this movie. Audio commentary from Flannagan on
Speaker 2: the disc. We've got a making a feature atte exclusive
Speaker 2: onset interviews with a bunch of the actors, trailers, teasers
Speaker 2: and they say and more, which sounds great. This is
Speaker 2: This is absolutely an astounding movie and if you missed it,
Speaker 2: because it was easy to miss it, you should try
Speaker 2: to make time to watch this movie.
Speaker 3: It is glorious. I heard you talking about the cinematography
Speaker 3: and stuff in it the other day, I believe on
Speaker 3: one of your pods and some of the some of
Speaker 3: the you said some of the shots that he gets
Speaker 3: away with and stuff, and it is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does stuff that I've never seen somebody try
Speaker 2: to do in a movie. And it's just I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those movies that you watch and
Speaker 2: at least for me, I watched and felt like in
Speaker 2: awe and not just like, oh, this is a beautiful shot.
Speaker 2: I'm amazed that they could do this like one of
Speaker 2: those where it actually made me feel like small in
Speaker 2: the universe while watching it like that, I loved. I
Speaker 2: had a great time with it. All right, So that
Speaker 2: is it for this week, really quickly, in case you
Speaker 2: have forgotten, here's what is coming out next week. We've
Speaker 2: got some big ones. Gonna skip over some of the
Speaker 2: VS stuff since most people have had those shipped already.
Speaker 2: We've got a Spinter Repet Detective four K from Shout
Speaker 2: Billy Madison four K from Keno, the Thunderbolts four K,
Speaker 2: Steel Book and Blu Ray and all that standard and
Speaker 2: whatever standard four K, all that coming from Disney to
Speaker 2: Catch a Thief four K coming as well the beyond
Speaker 2: standard four K, which is I believe pretty much identical
Speaker 2: to the limited four K at least in terms of
Speaker 2: the discs. The packaging is a little different. I believe
Speaker 2: that's finally getting out there and shipping. The Venetian scheme
Speaker 2: four K. The new Wes Anderson is out there. We've
Speaker 2: got They Died with Their Boots On from one our archive,
Speaker 2: the jet Leek collection. This is the first of that
Speaker 2: new Golden Princess titles that Shout is putting out that
Speaker 2: is going to be out there. This looks great. Cannot
Speaker 2: wait to get mine in. We've got Faded to Black
Speaker 2: four K from Screen Factory finally releasing. Nobody is getting
Speaker 2: another four K release. We've got Hiding Out in four
Speaker 2: K the John Cryer title from Keno.
Speaker 3: I love that movie.
Speaker 2: Have you never seen it?
Speaker 3: Oh? Great, dude, it is. That's another HBO eighties classic.
Speaker 3: It's like this great scene where I think he's like
Speaker 3: on the run from the mob and he's like in
Speaker 3: you know, kind of on his own, decides it like
Speaker 3: disguise himself as a high school student, and you know,
Speaker 3: he's got this scene where he's like in the office
Speaker 3: and like what's your name? And he's looked at a
Speaker 3: can of coffee. He's like, it's Maxwell Houser and they
Speaker 3: just like go with it. It's like the original Kaiser Susday.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. It's totally totally worth a watch. That's that.
Speaker 3: And you know what really needs a release is Morgan
Speaker 3: stort Is Coming Home. Have you ever seen that one?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another John Cryer, I believe, and he's like
Speaker 3: a gorehound obsessed with like George Romero in the film.
Speaker 3: I found it on the on the internet archives not
Speaker 3: that long, but that's begging for a release for sure.
Speaker 3: Very nice.
Speaker 2: Some more Warner archive this week we got Nights to
Speaker 2: the Roundtable and the Cobweb from nineteen fifty five. Kind
Speaker 2: of really long awaited titles. Tear Vision stuff will finally
Speaker 2: be releasing over the next few days to the subscribers
Speaker 2: and then the wholesalers. We've got Suddenly in the Dark
Speaker 2: and the other titles Children of Violent Rome and The
Speaker 2: Devil's Sword that people have been waiting on. Suddenly the
Speaker 2: Dark has been the cursed title that people have been
Speaker 2: waiting on since January finally going out. This has had
Speaker 2: multiple QC problems that we were just talking about that
Speaker 2: happened in manufacturing, and then there were some other issues.
Speaker 2: One of them we caught it in QC, went to
Speaker 2: go fix it, and then all of the SINC went
Speaker 2: out for some reason when we fixed it.
Speaker 3: So that's been like that. I mean, that's another thing too, right,
Speaker 3: There's so many moving parts that texting one might throw
Speaker 3: everything else out.
Speaker 2: Yep, Super Nightmare, Gotta love It, curdled on four K
Speaker 2: from Keno this week as well, Prisoner of Zenda from
Speaker 2: Warner Archive, The Castle and Blow of Fu Manchu four
Speaker 2: K releases from Blood from Blue Underground. Oh, Blood Underground.
Speaker 2: That's a crazy title arcade from full Moon this week.
Speaker 2: We've got Terrifying Girls High School, a couple of those
Speaker 2: coming out from Disco Tech, Bright Leaf from Warner Archive
Speaker 2: this week, All Years from Film Masters, Common Writer X
Speaker 2: from Disco Tech as well, Brainstorm from Warner Archive, Melinda
Speaker 2: from More Archive, one that I really need to pick
Speaker 2: up two weeks with Love from More Archive as well,
Speaker 2: the Diabolic Trilogy from Keno Lorber.
Speaker 3: We have I think one or two more that I
Speaker 3: wanted to bring up.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Rust, the Alec Baldwin film getting its studio
Speaker 2: release this week. If you were after that one, and
Speaker 2: then of course all of the titles that we were
Speaker 2: talking about earlier with the seven stuff and then Mondo
Speaker 2: Keyhole from the Psychotronica line that I shared at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff coming out next week. Pretty exciting dang week.
Speaker 2: But tonight is about the Severn sales. So let me
Speaker 2: let me switch back to what I was going to
Speaker 2: share for our bundles, because we have not gone through
Speaker 2: all of the bundles yet.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: A lot to share. Let's go through the policies real quick.
Speaker 2: So this starts tonight. Sale will be going until eleven
Speaker 2: nine pm on let's see where is Tuesday, seven twenty
Speaker 2: or sorry, twelve one am on Tuesday, so basically Monday
Speaker 2: night going into Tuesday, the sale will stop. In this sale,
Speaker 2: we have ten brand new titles, fifty percent off of
Speaker 2: most everything Severin and Intervision except for the stuff that's
Speaker 2: come out in the last nine months. And then that
Speaker 2: of course includes the stuff that is brand new to
Speaker 2: this sale slate four k UHD upgrade on Sunday. Those
Speaker 2: are the four titles we already discussed. There will be
Speaker 2: new merch items Saturday will be a box at sale.
Speaker 2: Will talk about those in just a minute. There will
Speaker 2: be a bunch of merch that is on sale. There
Speaker 2: will be a bunch of titles on sale for the
Speaker 2: first time that we have not seen before, like Cemetery
Speaker 2: Man that Blake called out earlier, The Devil's Honey four K,
Speaker 2: The Church four K, The Sect four K, Butcher Baker,
Speaker 2: Nightmare Maker four K, the Mad Bomber, Blu Ray, lots
Speaker 2: of titles that have come out in the last nine
Speaker 2: months the people have wanted and now will be on
Speaker 2: sale for the first time. This is where a lot
Speaker 2: of people are gonna get a lot of bang out
Speaker 2: of their buck. Severn's Box Sale Saturday Sale. This will
Speaker 2: be from midnight to midnight all day July twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: The ones that are gonna be on sale all the
Speaker 2: Haunts Byres Volume one, The Lensie Baker Collection, Cushing Curry Curiosities,
Speaker 2: Donze Macabra Volumes One through three, The Dungeon of Andy Milligan,
Speaker 2: The Eurocrip of Christopher Lee Volumes one and two, Game
Speaker 2: of Clones, the Bruce Floitation Set, House of Psychotic Women,
Speaker 2: The Ray Dennis Steckler Box Set, the Non Exploitation set
Speaker 2: that you talked about earlier. Then we've got the Black
Speaker 2: Menuel Box and the Lenzi Milan collection. Lots and lots
Speaker 2: of box sets going on sale. Any of those that
Speaker 2: you want to shut up before we go to the
Speaker 2: next bundle, that's part of the seal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Actually, of course, like one of my
Speaker 3: picks for the sale, if you're going to buy anything,
Speaker 3: for sure would be my absolute favorite, The Central World
Speaker 3: of Black Menuel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go into it, tell us about it.
Speaker 3: This set is just it was. When I started working
Speaker 3: with Andrew, I feel like I would ask about this
Speaker 3: all the time, like when do we have to black menul?
Speaker 3: When do we do with Black men? Well? You know,
Speaker 3: and then finally, you know, I started to work on
Speaker 3: some of the titles and see a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: I'd never seen. You know. First of all, I mean
Speaker 3: the book in this thing, look at this all right,
Speaker 3: I mean that is just that in itself. You got
Speaker 3: a little rundown of the films, all kinds of like
Speaker 3: essays and the thing that I like about this, these
Speaker 3: films kind of would have been lost. I feel like
Speaker 3: if it weren't for a serious critical feminist reevaluation of
Speaker 3: the films themselves, because it would be so easy to
Speaker 3: dismiss them as just exploitation films and there's so much
Speaker 3: more going on there, you know, and appreciating, you know,
Speaker 3: Laura Gemzer as like the female James Bond like of
Speaker 3: the time, Like they're like traveloge films, like you can
Speaker 3: watch that that is a summer vacation in a box.
Speaker 3: You will go all over the world, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And it's just such a I mean, what
Speaker 3: a monumental feat to track down all of those films
Speaker 3: and find the best quality sources that you can find,
Speaker 3: and they look beautiful, you know my pick for the
Speaker 3: ten just the the the restoration on it is just
Speaker 3: mind blowing. You can just I feel like when you're
Speaker 3: so accustomed to seeing this stuff. I either saw it
Speaker 3: on cable, you know, like through an old TV, you know,
Speaker 3: all the coaxial cable like TV, or I saw I
Speaker 3: saw a VHS tape, you know, a rental tape that
Speaker 3: had been rented a thousand times or later I saw
Speaker 3: you know, third fourth generation bootleg VHS tapes of these films,
Speaker 3: something like a Manuel on the Last Cannibals, you know,
Speaker 3: like which is a classic. You know, you'd always to
Speaker 3: buy a bootleg of that at the conventions for years,
Speaker 3: and then you see it cleaned up and in the
Speaker 3: context of the other films, and just with all the
Speaker 3: analysis that's on there, and like the commentaries, there's just
Speaker 3: so much to dive into and you'll walk away from it.
Speaker 3: Like I mean, I feel like seven puts so much
Speaker 3: into the extras in so much like comprehensive material that
Speaker 3: each disc is almost like a film school in a box.
Speaker 3: Like if you really want to know something about an
Speaker 3: you know, a film or a director or a creative team.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you you can you could probably write
Speaker 3: a doctoral thesis by going through the extras on a
Speaker 3: few of the discs, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 3: that is like no slatch. That is such a great set.
Speaker 3: It's just the design. It's heavy as hell as you
Speaker 3: might know, right, you know, like I noticed it was
Speaker 3: getting marks and it from being on the shelf we
Speaker 3: like right here because it was like front facing. So
Speaker 3: it's just because it's just so heavy. But then you
Speaker 3: got the little wheel, you know, the term. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I want to turn it too much because
Speaker 3: it's I don't know what's going to pop up on YouTube,
Speaker 3: but yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, what a great box set.
Speaker 3: And of course all the haunts is you know, the
Speaker 3: full core stuff. Eyes of Fire alone in that set
Speaker 3: is just such a great film. And again, you just
Speaker 3: that box set has such a witchy vibe to it. Man,
Speaker 3: you can like just dive into all the extras, the
Speaker 3: short films, a little like you know, a little animated things.
Speaker 3: There's just so much to love about it. But when
Speaker 3: it comes to box sets like seven really like they
Speaker 3: nail it. You know. We some of the stuff that
Speaker 3: I've worked on for them just is just like I mean,
Speaker 3: Steckler was kind of coming together when I first started
Speaker 3: with them, you know, it was just there's so much
Speaker 3: in there, like it's crazy. It's again, you want a
Speaker 3: comprehensive director box set, you know, there's quite a few.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And one of the easy ways to get some
Speaker 2: of those is during that box set sale. But also
Speaker 2: if you love some other stuff, they got some crazy bundles.
Speaker 2: So this time we've got what is called the Fistful
Speaker 2: of Finns Bundle. This is going to be the four
Speaker 2: Italian shark exploitation titles that they got. So you got
Speaker 2: The Shark Hunter, You've got Monster Shark, you got Night
Speaker 2: of the Sharks, and then you've got the Shark book
Speaker 2: that they're putting out there. I said four shark exploitation,
Speaker 2: I definitely meant three. And then you also get the
Speaker 2: slipcase that comes with it. That's the fourth thing. This
Speaker 2: is a pretty good price. I think one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixteen bucks for all three of these plus the book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like the box is very cool, and these
Speaker 3: movies are just so much fun. I mean, Frank on
Speaker 3: Neiro in The Blonde Wig, it's just that movie opens
Speaker 3: with like he's just like cooling on the rocks, like
Speaker 3: being a beach bomb, you know, and it's just like
Speaker 3: this totally like he's got he's got his his fishing
Speaker 3: line out, and he sees he gets a little he
Speaker 3: gets a little pole, and he goes running down and
Speaker 3: he just like pulls up a little shark. It's just
Speaker 3: like the most casual shark hunting beach bum because of
Speaker 3: course it's Frank Onneiro. You can do that, you know.
Speaker 3: And then you get Treat Williams of course in the
Speaker 3: In the Last Shark, which is also you know, just
Speaker 3: a phenomenal action film. It's so weird to see him
Speaker 3: pop up in an Italian action action film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need I need to see that one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a good looking bundle. And then we talked
Speaker 2: about kill List earlier. They've got this bundle with ki
Speaker 2: List that has the four K release. It's got the
Speaker 2: killst t shirt and then a Glow in the Dark
Speaker 2: com manual emanual. I was thinking of black Commanuel enamel
Speaker 2: pin with this and this thing. Sixty five bucks for
Speaker 2: a brand new four K release and a shirt and
Speaker 2: a pin. I mean, people used to complain about seven prices,
Speaker 2: but I feel like they're pretty good this time.
Speaker 3: A good shirt will run you thirty five dollars most
Speaker 3: prices now plus shipping. So yeah, that's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3: And I love the enamel pins. I have like a
Speaker 3: little corkboard that I put them on the Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then on this little panel that I've got here.
Speaker 2: The Baskin release is a part of the Turkish Delight bundle.
Speaker 2: This one you get the four K release of the
Speaker 2: film and then this art of Baskin book. Now. They
Speaker 2: shared a little video on this, and so a little note.
Speaker 2: If you love the world of Baskin, you need this
Speaker 2: companion book. They say features more than one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty pages of rare photos, storyboards, illustrations behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: production shots, cast and crew recollections and everything else you
Speaker 2: want to know about this film. And best of all,
Speaker 2: it is autographed by the director. So for sixty seven bucks,
Speaker 2: this is a pretty cool deal too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I liked this movie a lot. This
Speaker 3: was something I had not even really heard of before
Speaker 3: I watched it, and it's a lot of fun. Have
Speaker 3: you seen it?
Speaker 2: I have seen it. I've got the screen Factory released
Speaker 2: that they put out years ago, and I love that movie.
Speaker 2: It's psychotic about it. It loses control kind of quickly
Speaker 2: in a weird way, and you go, you go to
Speaker 2: some weird places. It's a movie that's very difficult to
Speaker 2: actually describe because man, there's some indescribable things that happened
Speaker 2: in that movie.
Speaker 3: And again it's one that, like I feel like is
Speaker 3: best left like kind of you know, if you can
Speaker 3: go in too. I feel like it increases my ability
Speaker 3: to enjoy phones so much more if I just going
Speaker 3: completely blind, you know what I mean. Like, I'm willing
Speaker 3: to accept it for what it is, you know, And
Speaker 3: that one in particular has some twists and turns that
Speaker 3: really worthwhile, some big ones.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the next bundle that they have is the
Speaker 2: just the discs bundle, and so you get the ten
Speaker 2: brand new releases, not the four K upgrades, just the
Speaker 2: ten brand new ones that are new to the sale,
Speaker 2: and that is Basking, four K kill Us, four K Sisters,
Speaker 2: four K, Dead Sleep, Blu Ray, Skinheads, Blu Ray, Fearless Dragons,
Speaker 2: Blu Ray, Ferret Vampire, Blu Ray, Monster Shark, Blue Ray,
Speaker 2: Shark Under Blu Ray, Night of the Sharks, Blu Ray,
Speaker 2: and then the slipcase to catch all of those shark'sploitation movies.
Speaker 2: All of these for two hundred and sixty bucks twenty
Speaker 2: six dollars of release is kind of incredible for brand
Speaker 2: new releases from Severn.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great deal. I mean, man, like
Speaker 3: I you know, like I said, I did not see
Speaker 3: the Linda Blair film, but just about everything else that
Speaker 3: I've seen this in this slate has been a lot
Speaker 3: of fun.
Speaker 2: Well, and I could throw out there because we're featured
Speaker 2: on the discs for the Linda Blair film. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a fun movie. It's not the best Linda Blair movie,
Speaker 2: but it is a crazy story that is all like
Speaker 2: it's it is based on an actual doctor taking advantage
Speaker 2: and killing people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I listened to that. They discussed it on the
Speaker 3: seven podcast. I listened to it earlier today and they
Speaker 3: were talking about how is a true story. It's like,
Speaker 3: although as much as a relaxation clinic where they put
Speaker 3: you in new coma sounds very appealing to me. If
Speaker 3: I could maybe get up in three and a half years,
Speaker 3: that would be awesome, you know what I mean? But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it would work out.
Speaker 2: So the next that they have is the Everything Bundle.
Speaker 2: So this gets you all of the discs. It also
Speaker 2: gets you all of uh the like little shirts and
Speaker 2: books and all those little trinkets that are coming with
Speaker 2: everything else for that price for all of these brand
Speaker 2: new things, that is quite a lot of stuff to
Speaker 2: get for sure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you get the four K Upgrade Bundle. This
Speaker 2: is the Sunday for four K upgrades that we talked
Speaker 2: about earlier. All of the for one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: five bucks. So basically, if you want every single thing
Speaker 2: that Severn is doing brand new during this sale, you
Speaker 2: need these two bundles, and yes, combine them, you're at
Speaker 2: almost five hundred dollars and that's a ton of money.
Speaker 2: I'm not taking that away. However, fourteen new releases, shirts, books,
Speaker 2: enamel pins, slipcovers on most of the releases. This is
Speaker 2: a ton of stuff. Severn is kind of doing a
Speaker 2: massive slate here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I always love their bundles, you know, they always
Speaker 3: put together like the coolest little drinkets and stuff too,
Speaker 3: you know, in the shirts. You know, we're always I
Speaker 3: have my Steckflo shirt on right now. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, you know, nice.
Speaker 2: So this is a lot. We have recommendations, but we're
Speaker 2: only about eight minutes away, seven minutes away from the
Speaker 2: site opening. I'm gonna stop sharing this, blake. Why don't
Speaker 2: you run through you already talked about black and Menuil
Speaker 2: give us well three more and then we'll see if
Speaker 2: that gets up right up to the sale time. Then
Speaker 2: we'll open up the sale and then we'll go through
Speaker 2: the rest of our lists.
Speaker 3: Sure, I would recommend Midnight if you haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 3: John Russo's Midnight, you know, being a like we talked
Speaker 3: about this earlier, like the regional regional filmmaking, regional films,
Speaker 3: and I think this one's great. It's got John Ampliss,
Speaker 3: who you know, you know, from Martin Daye Dead. He
Speaker 3: plays like a bad cop. We got Lawrence Tierney in here,
Speaker 3: also kind of playing like a bit of a sleeves bag,
Speaker 3: you know. But it's a great restoration. All of the
Speaker 3: extras are really cool. If you're like a Romero or
Speaker 3: like Latent Image, you know, the early like Pittsburgh Filmmaker
Speaker 3: Crew fan. I think there's a lot of stuff there
Speaker 3: to dive into. It's a it's a great disc and
Speaker 3: definitely you know, one to pick up on the sale, and.
Speaker 2: It's it's one that's been there for a long time,
Speaker 2: so it will absolutely be on sale. It will probably
Speaker 2: be pretty damn cheap too. That's one that's been a
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, you're like twenty nineteen something like, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I made sure one of my picks. Of course,
Speaker 3: Jess Franco's Thong Girls, which is probably one of the
Speaker 3: best movies I've seen in a long time, is not
Speaker 3: going to be on sale today, so I made sure
Speaker 3: that everything else is going to be and we'll have
Speaker 3: to save that one for another another discussion.
Speaker 2: Well, even then, Thong Girls is it. I think it
Speaker 2: was only like twenty two.
Speaker 3: Dollars on this It is the best Jess Franco movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, like it is just so much fun.
Speaker 2: And on top of that, I think on Amazon it
Speaker 2: was only going for like eighteen for a while, so
Speaker 2: if you can't wait for sale, that's basically a sale price.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're a Franco fan, you need that one.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's it's totally so different than
Speaker 3: what I'm used to for Franco, but also kind of
Speaker 3: like ahead of its time, like going to like a
Speaker 3: lot of the subject matter, and it I think is
Speaker 3: like very relevant now more so maybe than it was,
Speaker 3: or you know, more easy to talk about. I think
Speaker 3: it's definitely could find an audience. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, Franco is Franco, and obviously he gets a lot
Speaker 2: of releases, but he is I don't know, He's done
Speaker 2: so many different things. So we'll see who gets grabbed by.
Speaker 2: What what's your next one?
Speaker 3: I love Gwendolyn? Have you ever seen Gwendolen? This is
Speaker 3: also by the director of The White Emmanuel, whose name
Speaker 3: I will never believe because of course my brain does
Speaker 3: not want to ever pronounce it like it's supposed to
Speaker 3: be used. Yeachin, you know what I mean. But this one,
Speaker 3: you got what Brett Hoff, Right, you know, he's amazing
Speaker 3: in this and just it's every set piece is kind
Speaker 3: of like you know, you know how White e Manuel
Speaker 3: very much is like very because because us is like
Speaker 3: a photographer, so he's got very great Nissan san In
Speaker 3: this movie in particular, it's just very like kind of gaudy,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, definitely ridiculous, over the top,
Speaker 3: like I'm not even sure what it's about sometimes, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? But what a great watch Man.
Speaker 3: That movie is just so much fun.
Speaker 2: I am kind of shocked they have not upgraded that
Speaker 2: one to four K yet. This is another one of
Speaker 2: those that's like a quintessential Severn title.
Speaker 3: It definitely feels like it, you know, the threat of
Speaker 3: one liners throughout it too, or just like amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were making a list of Like when
Speaker 2: I think of Severn, I think of these ten titles,
Speaker 2: I feel like Gwendolyn kind of has to be on
Speaker 2: there because it was a foundational one.
Speaker 3: For them for sure. For sure.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do let's do one more and then
Speaker 2: I will share one of mine after.
Speaker 3: That cool staying in that vein kind of I would
Speaker 3: do massacre in Dinosaur Valley. This one has it all.
Speaker 3: It's got a little Indiana Jones, it's got a little Cannibals,
Speaker 3: it's got a little plane crash. It's clearly like just
Speaker 3: kind of rolling a camera in an office space with
Speaker 3: fake windows and they're like putting up against the trees
Speaker 3: like it's just and Michael Softkeev also is just a
Speaker 3: another quite essential Severin Staple actor you know from After
Speaker 3: the Fall of New York. He's kind of Brett Huffish,
Speaker 3: you know, the quipping American guy who's not quite sure
Speaker 3: why he's there, but he's just gonna wise crack his
Speaker 3: way through it.
Speaker 2: It's a good, good choice, good choice. This is a
Speaker 2: fun one. I've not watched this one, I think since
Speaker 2: it came out, and I got to be honest, I
Speaker 2: don't remember a lot of this movie. I need to
Speaker 2: see it though. Again. The one I'm gonna shout out,
Speaker 2: which we talked about just a minute ago before I
Speaker 2: talk about another full title because we kind of already
Speaker 2: mentioned this. Spider Labyrinth will absolutely be on sale. And yes,
Speaker 2: I'm on the disc with Will, But have you got
Speaker 2: an ending forget forget me being on the disc. This
Speaker 2: movie is amazing It is essentially a just weird, weird
Speaker 2: setting over in Budapest, and we've got an individual that's
Speaker 2: gone over there from the US to investigate some things,
Speaker 2: and things just start to get a little weird. The
Speaker 2: townspeople are starting to be at a place and suddenly
Speaker 2: it is a just special effects masterpiece of an ending
Speaker 2: that I love so so much.
Speaker 3: The last of that movie, you'll have your jaw, hang
Speaker 3: it off your face.
Speaker 2: It may be a climactic moment.
Speaker 3: And like that. That's a film that I had not
Speaker 3: heard of before, and like, you know, I've considered myself
Speaker 3: fairly well versed in the European and Italian stuff and like,
Speaker 3: you know, all right, what's this all about? But boy, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's a payoff, buddy.
Speaker 2: The other one to go a little depressing after that.
Speaker 2: This is a title that Severn's had got way longer
Speaker 2: than twenty nineteen. I think it was like a twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen title. This is the documentary The Killing of America.
Speaker 2: This is a documentary from nineteen I think it's eighty one,
Speaker 2: and it's essentially about like gun control and how we've
Speaker 2: sensationalized violence in a lot of things and it's a really,
Speaker 2: really great narrative on here, Sibner saying, the site is live,
Speaker 2: so I will refresh here we go. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to check out some of this and show everybody some
Speaker 2: sales prices. But while I finished that, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: Killing of America, because it is a really great movie,
Speaker 2: a good documentary, one that is important and sadly still
Speaker 2: incredibly relevant. Man, this is their seventy five percent offset.
Speaker 3: Wow, I look at this, man, there's some great stuff
Speaker 3: in here.
Speaker 2: Six and seven dollars on.
Speaker 3: First of all, if you don't have Overboard four ninety nine,
Speaker 3: now is your chance. I mean, I would snap that
Speaker 3: up in a heartbeat. It's such a great slip cover too,
Speaker 3: with a slipcover, Okay, like book, this is the best movie.
Speaker 3: Like it's phenomenal. I don't know if it translates into
Speaker 3: today's environment. And man, it's another staple HBO movie. I
Speaker 3: believe I saw that one in the theaters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good movie. It's definitely a little some
Speaker 2: of the storylines in twenty twenty five I am perfect,
Speaker 2: but you'll still.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it for sure.
Speaker 2: Some other really good things in here that are I
Speaker 2: mean all of these are under ten bucks.
Speaker 3: Chris Lee Stuff Castle Living Dead Crypt of the Vampire
Speaker 3: would be a must have for me. Endgame Joe Demato's
Speaker 3: Endgame awesome post apocalyptic film.
Speaker 2: Mastering Dinosaur Valley that you just shouted out.
Speaker 3: Seven. Yeah, you will not spend a better seven dollars today,
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 2: But they do have Gwendolyn also for seven to fifteen,
Speaker 2: not the one that you just shouted out. Peanut Butter
Speaker 2: Solution I think is really great. That's one of their
Speaker 2: seven kids titles.
Speaker 3: So it's really funny. That's a like when I, you know,
Speaker 3: I work at a bar a couple of days a week,
Speaker 3: and I tell the guys what I do, and they're like,
Speaker 3: you know, mostly met with blank stares, and then I recently,
Speaker 3: not recently, but when I had started working there. I
Speaker 3: mentioned one of the guys I worked on the Peanut
Speaker 3: Butter Solution, and he was awestruck. I had to get
Speaker 3: him a copy. Yeah, it's like he watched it with
Speaker 3: his son, which really was to me like the best
Speaker 3: part about it, like exposing a new generation to the
Speaker 3: peanut butter Solution. Yes, seven fifty Gwendolen, you have the
Speaker 3: Mondo films here also really cool. I like the Jane
Speaker 3: Mansfield one. You know, can't beat that.
Speaker 2: A weird one for everybody. Saint Bernard. Have you seen
Speaker 2: Saint Bernard dip Blake?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I have not, so Saint Bernard is a crazy, crazy
Speaker 2: exercise in practical effects. Gay Bartolos directed, and it is
Speaker 2: a guy dragging around a Saint Bernard head for the
Speaker 2: entire film with some crazy stuff. Just the setting of
Speaker 2: this film is wild. It is. It is absolutely worth
Speaker 2: the watch. Very philosophical movie. I love that movie. Nice Man.
Speaker 2: Some in crazy crazy prices on.
Speaker 3: These Jack the Ripper six.
Speaker 2: The Old UK release a basket for seven fifty if
Speaker 2: you don't want the four K upgrade.
Speaker 3: Shocking Dark. I would also highly recommend.
Speaker 2: Shocking Dark is great future Shock The Story two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight d is a must burdevic. Seventh, there you go,
Speaker 2: there's the Killing of America for seven fifty. H Man
Speaker 2: the I'd love the the trailer compilations that so many
Speaker 2: of these companies have put out. Oh yeah, that's exploitation
Speaker 2: and kung fu trailers a fury.
Speaker 3: People need those. Yeah. When I went to David's premiere
Speaker 3: of the Clones of Bruce that Tribeca two or three
Speaker 3: years ago. They were giving away copies of that like
Speaker 3: an old goodie bag. And I do love trailer collections.
Speaker 3: There is a cat here in case you're seeing tail.
Speaker 2: I got to be honest looking at the brand new
Speaker 2: releases here, Blu rays with out slipcovers twenty one dollars.
Speaker 2: That is a very fair price for a brand new
Speaker 2: Blu ray from seven something with a slipcase like Ferrete
Speaker 2: Vampire twenty seven bucks. That's not a bad deal at all.
Speaker 3: That movie is very cool for anybody who has been
Speaker 3: like me and had not heard of it prior. I
Speaker 3: think it's it's you know, it's got a little political
Speaker 3: commentary in there, but you can just watch it kind
Speaker 3: of for what it is, and it's kind of just
Speaker 3: a weird addition to the Vampire films. Very cool, very
Speaker 3: cool car in it too. You know a lot of
Speaker 3: history of the car. I guess it's like a legendary
Speaker 3: car in Czechoslovakia.
Speaker 2: I mean it looks pretty amazing. The slipcover on that
Speaker 2: looks great too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I love the artwork they did for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So now all that stuff is the main titles
Speaker 2: there are listed at the front, and then you've got
Speaker 2: the sale stuff, which we should be able to go
Speaker 2: through and look at pretty much everything else that's a
Speaker 2: catalog title. We'll need to go to like the second
Speaker 2: page here to get to some of the cheaper stuff.
Speaker 3: But gosh, here's what.
Speaker 2: Like thun Girls twenty bucks not on sale, but even
Speaker 2: on sale, it's only gonna be fifteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty is not bad at all. You will not
Speaker 3: regret that purchase.
Speaker 2: Moving down, we should be approaching. Okay, so this is
Speaker 2: where stuff starts getting on sale here. So we've got
Speaker 2: like the Creature fifteen bucks dog called Vengeance fifteen bucks.
Speaker 2: The Dario Argento Deep Cuts is twenty seven to fifty.
Speaker 2: I might need to get on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's a couple of great episodes. A lot
Speaker 3: of that Italian TV stuff that has been servicing is
Speaker 3: really worth watching. And I feel like, you know, I
Speaker 3: have a I'm a sucker for Lambert Obama. There's just
Speaker 3: some kind of vibe to his movie. He's like kind
Speaker 3: of cheesy once he gets past demons and stuff, you know,
Speaker 3: but like they're just like a comfortable sweatshirt, you you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And that's how I felt about these, Like,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of on I think it was
Speaker 3: Eyewitness that I watched that I like the most, But
Speaker 3: the Prince of Terrors, like it's a trip as well,
Speaker 3: you know, it's got a it's got a killer ending. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have not seen any of them, and I've heard
Speaker 2: that it's actually a really good release. And I love
Speaker 2: I mean, I love Argento, so I definitely want to
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the the Argento Deep Cuts with the Door
Speaker 3: in the Darkness has just got some really cool stuff
Speaker 3: on there, and then there's all kinds of really like
Speaker 3: shorts that he did like on other shows, and a
Speaker 3: lot of that was new to me. So definitely check
Speaker 3: that out if you get a chance, and especially if
Speaker 3: you're an Argento a completist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, The Mad Bomber is that one that you saw
Speaker 2: and q se there Blake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did watch that one. It's it's it's different,
Speaker 3: it's a different it feels that one feels kind of like, uh,
Speaker 3: something weirdy to me, kind of you know.
Speaker 9: Very like exploitative, exploitative. It's got like a lot of
Speaker 9: gore in the explosion scenes. It seems like it was
Speaker 9: maybe they'd try to do a topical thing like, uh,
Speaker 9: you know who is in that. There's like Joe Don
Speaker 9: Baker or somebody's in the right like crazy like seventies Stalwart.
Speaker 3: You know another tip Chuck Connor's. That's Chuck Connors, that's
Speaker 3: the guy. Yeah, so you know, I mean, if you
Speaker 3: like that kind of stuff, but it's not going to
Speaker 3: be something that wins you over if you're not into
Speaker 3: the vibe of like the seventies kind of like, I
Speaker 3: don't know who would be watching this, It might not
Speaker 3: be into that. It's right, it's definitely. It's definitely fun
Speaker 3: and worth watching, and it's got a great explosive.
Speaker 2: Ending reminder that this is not a sale price, but
Speaker 2: this is usually hard to get unless you're at a convention.
Speaker 2: They've got the Four Flies on Gray velvet four K
Speaker 2: release up fifty five bucks, solid release. Again, this is
Speaker 2: it's pricey compared to the other stuff we were just
Speaker 2: talking about, but it is a wonderful release of this movie.
Speaker 3: I loved the restoration on this one. I had. This
Speaker 3: was really hard to track down in the in the
Speaker 3: early days. I feel like YEP, four Flies and Cat
Speaker 3: of nine Tails were always kind of the ones that
Speaker 3: the liars, but this one in particular, and I really
Speaker 3: like the uh the crazy music kind of starts out
Speaker 3: with like very like like frantic like drumming music and stuff.
Speaker 3: It's just you could see Argento cutting his teeth, I
Speaker 3: feel like, for for What's to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's great restoration, absolutely worth watching. One that
Speaker 2: I have still not seen the full movie of, but
Speaker 2: when Severn announced it, I went and found a version
Speaker 2: to watch and it looked it really really intriguing. What
Speaker 2: is the Red Light Banded all about? Did you see
Speaker 2: that one?
Speaker 3: I did? Now that's like a brazil like Brazilian right, Yes,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like a It reminded me a bit
Speaker 3: of like a stream of consciousness type filmmaking, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like, yeah, hallucinatory and amazing manifesto. So
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's I'm trying to is it's very
Speaker 3: avant garde, you know what I mean, Like it's it's
Speaker 3: hard to just just tribe what it's about, but it's
Speaker 3: definitely very artie and and very political.
Speaker 2: It looks good, it really.
Speaker 3: I mean for seventeen forty eight, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great price for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got the short films on there too. I
Speaker 3: actually do remember the short films. Yeah, those are very cool.
Speaker 3: There's three different lions that had short now. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: that's that's got some cool stuff on it.
Speaker 2: Uh. I have to ask if they're here from your
Speaker 2: friend's list, because I'm not on the East Coast. Is
Speaker 2: it actually your birthday on Friday the twenty fifth here, Blake? No, okay, good,
Speaker 2: So they're just doing the Jeremy thing like I got earlier.
Speaker 3: Perfect, it's in November.
Speaker 2: Amazing, Okay, So we talked about Ruffies earlier. Hot Spur
Speaker 2: is definitely one that people should get.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, Hot Spur and Scavengers all right next to
Speaker 3: the the commentary that Andrew and Joe Rubin do on
Speaker 3: both of us. It's just that's worth the price of
Speaker 3: admission alone. When when I saw Lisa from Something Weird,
Speaker 3: I she asked what I was up to these days,
Speaker 3: and I told her about working QC and doing working Severn.
Speaker 3: She had the pickup and like, oh, you didn't bring
Speaker 3: Scavengers and Hotspurs. She's like, yeah, no, I kind of
Speaker 3: left those ones. I didn't know if they are a
Speaker 3: little too much to bring to the family certainly environment,
Speaker 3: but the The commentaries I don't know are are so
Speaker 3: much fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are looking through Blu rays only right now,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna switch over to four K in just
Speaker 2: a second. I wanted to go down to this title
Speaker 2: right here, so Close Circuit. I think I've been ringing
Speaker 2: the bill a lot.
Speaker 3: That's my number two pick for today. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just in case you have never seen Close Circuit,
Speaker 2: Close Circuit is a secret masterpiece in Severn's catalog that
Speaker 2: so many people have still not seen. And it is stupendous,
Speaker 2: incredible story. All takes place in a movie theater and
Speaker 2: it is just a wonderful, wonderful premise.
Speaker 3: But a cast of characters in that right, Like as
Speaker 3: they go through an interview, it's like each each person
Speaker 3: gets their time to shine as their own little weirdo,
Speaker 3: unique character. And there's definitely like you can't tell me
Speaker 3: that they didn't see that when they wrote Demons. I
Speaker 3: don't care what anybody says. Okay, Like there is so
Speaker 3: many there's so much demons vibe to that movie that
Speaker 3: like it just had to be, but it is it.
Speaker 3: The ending is just another one. It's best to not
Speaker 3: know too much about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. So here we are with the
Speaker 2: four k's the first one that we got in this list.
Speaker 2: That's unseale. Here is the Opera five disc. This is
Speaker 2: the set that is massive and incredible operas theoretically. I
Speaker 2: still call it my favorite Argento I this movie and
Speaker 2: this four K is beautiful, just amazing.
Speaker 3: Yep, A tremendous, tremendous amount of work. I feel like
Speaker 3: this this group of titles was had a lot going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty twenty, Texas Gladiators on sale for the first time.
Speaker 2: Castle of Blood four K on sale for the first time.
Speaker 3: I had Texas Gladiators as a pick for tonight. I
Speaker 3: would highly recommend that one as well. Al Kliver, I
Speaker 3: feel like Zombie, you know, you know, the mustachio ginger
Speaker 3: man who shows up in a lot of Fulci and
Speaker 3: other assorted Italian films, Joe Tomano. He gets his chance
Speaker 3: to shine as the lead in this one, and it's like,
Speaker 3: if you like fall Out and those kind of things,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like a post apocalyptic vibe, but kind
Speaker 3: of like a spaghetti western. I don't know. Man, highly
Speaker 3: recommend that as well. And anytime you're gonna get the
Speaker 3: soundtrack in there to this Italian stuff, it's like you
Speaker 3: gotta jump on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually listen to these CDs and it's so
Speaker 2: nice to have some of these in high quality, like
Speaker 2: proper recordings. It's it's a god say and seven does
Speaker 2: great stuff on that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's no surprise that, Like I'm a big
Speaker 3: vinyl guy, and I listened to a lot of vinyl. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: like CDs especially, I've kind of gotten back into and
Speaker 3: like cause I like to you know, I do a
Speaker 3: lot of streaming, but I like the uh being you know,
Speaker 3: listening to one album at a time, you know, whereas
Speaker 3: with streaming, you know, you kind of you drift off
Speaker 3: and you don't listen. You just kind of just continue, continue, continue.
Speaker 3: Vinyl it forces you to like refocus your attention every
Speaker 3: time you flip the record, you know. But I don't
Speaker 3: always have that kind of time if I'm cleaning the
Speaker 3: kitchen or something. But if I still want to do that,
Speaker 3: a CD may sound so good. Put them across my
Speaker 3: five point one system. They sound great.
Speaker 2: You know, like this is uh, this is gonna be ridiculous,
Speaker 2: but just uh, it was a two days ago. I
Speaker 2: think I finally remembered a password for a hard drive
Speaker 2: that I had from years ago from all of the
Speaker 2: CDs that I collected for years, and was able to
Speaker 2: get into it to load it into my current hard
Speaker 2: drives and found out it was four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: gigabytes of like my entire life in music, and I'm
Speaker 2: so stoked just to go through everything again.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. Like I was definitely like on this lime
Speaker 3: wire phase or whatever you want to call it, whereas
Speaker 3: it's like for a while, you know, kind of And
Speaker 3: that's one thing, you know, physical media collecting has its
Speaker 3: ebbs and flows. I had a big VHS collection and
Speaker 3: sold it off, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 3: had a lot of DVDs and sold them off. And
Speaker 3: when I did that, it was like I hung on
Speaker 3: to all the euro stuff and the things that I
Speaker 3: thought would be obscure and sold off, like the Jason's
Speaker 3: and the Freddy's and the things that I knew would
Speaker 3: get another release, you know, And like collecting kind of
Speaker 3: has ebbs and flows to it. You know. There was
Speaker 3: a while where I was like, I'm just gonna fill
Speaker 3: hard drives with stuff, but then I never watched any
Speaker 3: of it, you know what I mean, Like a hard
Speaker 3: drive full of stuff is not as cool as like, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know, I.
Speaker 2: Never stopped buying CDs. My whole thing is this just
Speaker 2: became the passion that was more than music. Music used
Speaker 2: to be my number one, with movies being number two.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's flipped and I don't see that
Speaker 2: changing back anytime soon, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially as I get older, I feel like
Speaker 3: I have more of an emotional reaction to film cinema
Speaker 3: than an easier time connecting to new work. I should say,
Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to film than music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that there, and that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen this similar is asking
Speaker 2: is Echo and Forbidden any good? Have you seen that one?
Speaker 3: Blake? I have not seen that one.
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the Mando double features that
Speaker 2: they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I came out around the same time as
Speaker 2: the Jane Mansfield one.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, those were a little bit before me. I
Speaker 3: just got the Jane Mansfield myself. I think I'm one
Speaker 3: of the last sales because it was really cheap. I
Speaker 3: do like Mondo films. As we discussed before, you know
Speaker 3: they're kind of but again, that's something that you can
Speaker 3: and kind of haplessly wander into animal violence if you're
Speaker 3: not careful.
Speaker 2: Right right, that that does happen. I am keeping my
Speaker 2: eyes on Butcher Baker nightmare Maker.
Speaker 3: I might pick that up a peak.
Speaker 2: I might pick that one up. I've been very very
Speaker 2: wanting it since it went for sale with them because
Speaker 2: I remember seeing that years ago, and I need the
Speaker 2: four K.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, it's a lot of fun. Man. I
Speaker 3: know Andrew loves that one a lot, so he was
Speaker 3: really stoked when we were working on that one.
Speaker 2: I'll shout out the psychic, really great fulcy film. The
Speaker 2: four K looks very very good here it is.
Speaker 3: That's as good as that movie is ever gonna look,
Speaker 3: man like. Indeed, I do like that later era Folg too.
Speaker 3: You know there's this It's charming, if not his best work.
Speaker 2: Oh no, dude, McMahon is saying, they've got Cruel Jaws
Speaker 2: back up.
Speaker 3: Oh let me pull that up real quick.
Speaker 2: Is it with the slip or is it just with
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so it's the the blu ray of Cruel Jaws.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was gone for quite some time. So this
Speaker 2: is this is convention stock, so like like four Flies
Speaker 2: on gray velvet, it is not gonna have a slip.
Speaker 2: It is not going to.
Speaker 3: Be on sale.
Speaker 2: This is just it's hard to get and now you
Speaker 2: can get it on Blu Ray, which is cool. I'm
Speaker 2: glad they had this opportunity back up there for some people.
Speaker 3: Did we talk about Fearless Dragons?
Speaker 2: I think it was mentioned, but not like in depth yet.
Speaker 3: No, that is so fun. I mean that if you're
Speaker 3: looking for a good time pizza and beer kung Fu movie, like,
Speaker 3: that thing is just a blast.
Speaker 2: Dude McMahon is saying, Mask of Satan. Too bad, it's
Speaker 2: not on sale. This one is not gonna be on
Speaker 2: sale till the next sale. I believe Black Friday is
Speaker 2: the first time that will be on sale because this
Speaker 2: one was just released last Black Friday. Some of their
Speaker 2: older four K stuff are great titles that I would
Speaker 2: recommend as well. Nightmare looks really great on four K.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, Nightmare is amazing.
Speaker 2: I saw you reaching. I was like, are we going
Speaker 2: to go into it?
Speaker 3: No? No, we got a cat that's all perfect.
Speaker 2: The Five Days and oo there Argento, that one's on
Speaker 2: sale for that four K Love me, the Axiom Mutante,
Speaker 2: the Alex Deela Glacia titles that they've done are just incredible.
Speaker 3: Here's what I see that I could recommend faceless nice
Speaker 3: Jess Franco for people who don't like Jess Franco. That
Speaker 3: is true, you know. And it's got an unforgettable theme
Speaker 3: song that you just cannot get out of your head.
Speaker 3: For better or for worse, I'm thinking about it right now.
Speaker 3: But it's got a lot of great gore effects in it,
Speaker 3: which I think that, like, I don't really can't think
Speaker 3: of a lot of Franco where it gets gory other
Speaker 3: than Bloody Moon maybe, yeah, know, like this one is
Speaker 3: just and the restoration on that is just, oh my god,
Speaker 3: Like it's you know, I feel like I went to France. Uh.
Speaker 2: Two of that I can mention that are on the
Speaker 2: screen that I had in my stack. I think these are, yeah,
Speaker 2: my only four k ones that I was going to
Speaker 2: talk about other than Spider Labyrinth Out of the Blue,
Speaker 2: not a very common Severn title.
Speaker 3: This is kind of my number one pick.
Speaker 2: Look at that the uh this is like one of
Speaker 2: their art house type of titles. This is Dennis Hopper
Speaker 2: at his absolute best.
Speaker 3: I saw this thing in the worse depending on what.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: It is an incredible movie. It is a.
Speaker 2: Depressing, nihilistic movie at some points, but it is quite
Speaker 2: worth the watch with a just Gangbusters ending that people
Speaker 2: will love if you've never seen it before, and then
Speaker 2: they're very very first. Four K is one on my
Speaker 2: list that I have to recommend because Santa Soandre is
Speaker 2: an incredible release from them. Nice little package that they
Speaker 2: put together here this is I think it's a four
Speaker 2: disc set. Yeah, four disc set. It's got some like
Speaker 2: art cards in here, and the restoration on this thing
Speaker 2: is just incredible. It is a hot or asci film
Speaker 2: through and through. But man, this is this was shocking
Speaker 2: when when Severn first put this out because it was
Speaker 2: a film that people were like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 2: pretty good, and then they did their four K restoration
Speaker 2: was oh my god, this is jaw dropping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a great movie. So the rest of his
Speaker 3: work really needs four K restoration? Right? Did Errow do?
Speaker 3: Four K is a blu ray? Just blu ray? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I don't know what the state of the elements,
Speaker 3: you know are or rights ownership. I think that was
Speaker 3: always a big thing because it was owned by like
Speaker 3: Alan Klein right, El Topo was like the Beatles manager
Speaker 3: guy who tend to be as it here in the US. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's the reason my the Verve had to handle their
Speaker 3: royalties over to the Rolling Stones for for their Sweet Symphony.
Speaker 3: You know, the guy. The guy's a bulldog for the
Speaker 3: rights of his Internet intellectual properties. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a common thing. Unfortunately with him. Uh, it happens.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's like Richard Rubensin and Donnovan Dead.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's an unfortunate well yeah, man, I never
Speaker 3: forgave him since like the late nineties when he sent
Speaker 3: season distance letters to the Donna the Dead fan pages.
Speaker 3: Like I was, like, I had like my first compact
Speaker 3: for Sario computer and I'm just like discovering the whole.
Speaker 3: Like you were talking about the Internet third spaces the
Speaker 3: other day, you know, like if you if you if
Speaker 3: you lived in a small area or you liked a
Speaker 3: certain kind of like you know, I you know, I
Speaker 3: had a few friends that really this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But getting into broader conversations you know with people came
Speaker 3: through you know, going on all message boards and fan
Speaker 3: sites like that and everything. You know, it was so
Speaker 3: much harder to obtain information about movies and stuff then,
Speaker 3: you know, if you you couldn't just pull out the
Speaker 3: IMDb for Donovan Dead or you know, it almost like
Speaker 3: things would take on like a mythical status. You would
Speaker 3: hear of them but never see them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to literally pull away like one of the
Speaker 2: only resources was just the most asshole of movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so he's always been and he's definitely not
Speaker 3: hurting for money since he produced like Doom and things
Speaker 3: like that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But you know, right, So some of the seven merch
Speaker 2: is on sale, not at necessarily fifty percent off, although
Speaker 2: some of them are fifty percent. Some of them are
Speaker 2: even more on sale than fifty percent. But I mean,
Speaker 2: shirts just over fifteen bucks is a pretty good deal.
Speaker 2: You've got stickers for like a dollar fifty, hoodie for
Speaker 2: thirty eight bucks for seven is pretty good.
Speaker 3: I love the hoodie, and I can't speak highly enough
Speaker 3: about the water bottles. There's two of them. I have
Speaker 3: one of them here, and I love the bottle. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the metal one is also great.
Speaker 2: But I don't have any of the water bottles. I
Speaker 2: guess I'll have to look at that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm into the glasswear brot. I think I've got
Speaker 3: the pint glass. I think I've got the coffee mag Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've got the Little waken Fright pint glass.
Speaker 3: Nice. Nice. Yeah, I'm a glassware dork. Nice.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the opera shirt is is a really nice one.
Speaker 2: I love this seven podcast logo tea that they've got
Speaker 2: some really good stuff to look through here. Let's go
Speaker 2: through a couple more of your recommendations, Blake, that we
Speaker 2: haven't talked about.
Speaker 3: Sure. I mean, for the most part, I kind of
Speaker 3: blasted through a couple in there because you mentioned them.
Speaker 3: You know, we got Faceless, We've got Texas Gladiators. I know,
Speaker 3: I haven't brought it up yet. This was one of
Speaker 3: my favorite films. I love cemetery Man. However, the QC
Speaker 3: process on this is quite rigorous, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if I watched it again. So it's an amazing set up.
Speaker 3: And again, like I spoke of it earlier, like it
Speaker 3: looks better than the film has ever looked. You know.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's just there's so much detail on the
Speaker 3: cinematography of that it was just missing from from every
Speaker 3: other presentation of it before and the five point one
Speaker 3: or the I think it's at most on this one.
Speaker 3: Is it not great sound mix? Great sound mix.
Speaker 2: That set also some really great extras to that don't
Speaker 2: get praised enough. Just truly an all together, really really
Speaker 2: wonderful set yep.
Speaker 3: And i'd say otherwise Vampyros Lesbos, you know, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: just Franco fan or if you're just getting into the
Speaker 3: Severn stuff, that is definitely one that you have to have.
Speaker 3: It's Franco. I'd say that there's two entry points there
Speaker 3: for Franco, depending on which angle you want to take
Speaker 3: in my recommendations. You got Faceless, which is a little
Speaker 3: more of a straight up like kind of exploitation, I
Speaker 3: don't want to say slasher movie, but horror movie. And
Speaker 3: then there's Vampires Lesbos, which is just like free, free
Speaker 3: jazz Dracula yep.
Speaker 2: And and it's good. That's the big thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good. That is d Franco film. I think
Speaker 3: for a lot of people, I mean for me, it
Speaker 3: brought me back listening or watching the documentary about Kim's
Speaker 3: video That's where I had first picked up this. This
Speaker 3: is kind of how Jess Franco got on my radar.
Speaker 3: This is like a big record kind of in the
Speaker 3: nineties for like DJs and stuff. It was the Sexadelic
Speaker 3: Dance Party and had like, I think some stuff from
Speaker 3: She Kills in Ecstasy and Vampiris Lesbos on it. I
Speaker 3: had actually heard that long before I saw the movies
Speaker 3: and kind of just like would stare at the cover
Speaker 3: like this seems so cool, and then I was not
Speaker 3: disappointed when I saw it.
Speaker 2: Craig is asking if it's possible to add more to
Speaker 2: an existing order, and yes, during the sale it is.
Speaker 2: I believe it'll give you the option at checkout.
Speaker 3: All right, give us another give us another title there,
Speaker 3: blakeh boy, geez, let's see when we went through Gwendolyne
Speaker 3: Massacre and Dinosaur Valley, do we talk about Voludo Nero
Speaker 3: my pick that was out of the Black Emmanuel set
Speaker 3: I think a little bit another Al Kliver, great great
Speaker 3: character actor from Italy. He's you know, he's in the
Speaker 3: Texas Gladiators, Zombie all that stuff. He plays a bit
Speaker 3: of a cult leader. It's kind of like disaffected rich
Speaker 3: people sex vacation, weird trip out movie, but like it's
Speaker 3: got a lot going on, and yeah, that's definitely. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that would get a standalone release. I
Speaker 3: know the the I'm sorry, what is in the Tales?
Speaker 3: The Spanish TV series?
Speaker 6: What is that?
Speaker 3: If you have not seen it, I would highly recommend
Speaker 3: it's kind of like got you know, like a Twilight
Speaker 3: Zone vibe or like you know, outer Limits.
Speaker 2: And if I remember right, this thing is like a
Speaker 2: shocking amount of content in here.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a bunch of episodes right yeah.
Speaker 2: The runtime almost fifteen hundred minutes. Yeah, and if you
Speaker 2: buy it right now, it's seventeen dollars and forty eight cents.
Speaker 3: I feel like I worked on that for like half
Speaker 3: a summer.
Speaker 2: Like, let's see, do you think the Pickup is going
Speaker 2: to sell out before it goes on sale? No? I
Speaker 2: don't even think it's limited, So no, definitely not.
Speaker 3: I would snap up, you know, if my personal sale
Speaker 3: approach to this one, to snap up a lot of
Speaker 3: those those chief titles right away, because absolutely that is
Speaker 3: like a great way to bulk up your seven shells.
Speaker 2: No, and some of those seven fifty ones are likely
Speaker 2: closer to selling out or at least going out of print.
Speaker 2: Pickup is limited to two thousand. I did not realize that.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, maybe, I don't know, it's not
Speaker 2: one that I see in a lot of like hall
Speaker 2: posts or anything.
Speaker 3: I think the leaf ross is a little bit of
Speaker 3: a tough cell.
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, in twenty twenty five, I can see that
Speaker 2: case for sure.
Speaker 3: But again, like I said with Black and Manuel, like
Speaker 3: all it takes is the right re evaluation and the
Speaker 3: right the right lens on these things to kind of
Speaker 3: you know, and appreciates cinema as a time capsule, you know.
Speaker 2: On that note, one that is super relevant right now,
Speaker 2: I think I'm close to coming up to it here,
Speaker 2: so I will scroll for a second to verify there.
Speaker 2: It is one of my favorites. And the entire Severn
Speaker 2: catalog is the Canadian film Siege.
Speaker 3: Have you seen that? The one that is a very
Speaker 3: cool one.
Speaker 2: So this is a movie that starts with some people
Speaker 2: in a club that is a not great situation when
Speaker 2: they are encroached upon by people that are just looking
Speaker 2: to pull out a planned attack on this group and
Speaker 2: they essentially have to go hole up and keep themselves alive.
Speaker 2: And it's something sort of similar to like Assault on
Speaker 2: Precinct thirteen, And it's incredibly incredibly mesmerizing. The movie is
Speaker 2: really well acted, It is tense through and through. It
Speaker 2: is a really poignant ending ending, and the whole thing
Speaker 2: sort of stems from a period of time in Canada
Speaker 2: where some of this is based on not quite like
Speaker 2: a true story, but a real series of events that
Speaker 2: happened that learning about the history that was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: So definitely we're checking.
Speaker 3: Out another one where the bonus features give you some
Speaker 3: historical context to appreciate the film a little more.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I still can't believe Overboard is five.
Speaker 3: Bucks by two. What a great Christmas present.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Grandma, I bought you a Blu ray copy
Speaker 2: of Overboard. You can't play and it is probably problematic in.
Speaker 3: Twenty if you love Grandma, n if you buyer a
Speaker 3: Blu ray player too, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, lots of fun stuff in their catalogs starting
Speaker 2: around this time, and going back that a lot of
Speaker 2: people still have not seen. Night of the Demon is
Speaker 2: the classic severin We're Gonna Rip off your dick, Bigfoot movie.
Speaker 3: Don't Go in the House. Also great movie there, I
Speaker 3: love that one.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 3: That's a Stockholm syndrome movie. That's a movie that I
Speaker 3: thought that I hated until I started working on it
Speaker 3: and that I discovered that I actually love it.
Speaker 2: Dude McMahon is saying the free shipping thrushold was one hundred,
Speaker 2: but it's wanting to charge me ten bucks. Did they
Speaker 2: stop or do they change that? Let me look up
Speaker 2: their policy here that we just had pulled up, because
Speaker 2: as far as I'm aware, I thought one hundred was
Speaker 2: still the free shipping.
Speaker 3: I think you had to choose that. It's a selected
Speaker 3: checkout if you look at.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, is it giving you the option to get
Speaker 2: free shipping if you select something else? McMahon, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: says free med email shipping over one hundred just selected
Speaker 2: at checkout, So there should be an option there for
Speaker 2: you when you're in the process. You shouted out Midnight earlier,
Speaker 2: and then I want to shout out Cannibal Man. This
Speaker 2: is why I had to watch a couple of times
Speaker 2: to appreciate. I did not love it the first time,
Speaker 2: and then watching the second time, and after learning about
Speaker 2: all of the political context behind the Franco regime and everything,
Speaker 2: Cannibal Man is really well acted. I think people will
Speaker 2: appreciate that if they have never seen it, it's worth
Speaker 2: the watch.
Speaker 3: I think when you're looking at a lot of the
Speaker 3: Spanish stuff as a reaction to the end or the
Speaker 3: dying throws of the Franco regime, it makes it all
Speaker 3: the more interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it explains a lot some stuff. If you're
Speaker 2: watching it for the first time of that context, it
Speaker 2: might seem a little nonsensical even, but finding out why
Speaker 2: the film had to do that is a completely different story.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know that we're talking about shark'sploitation stuff a lot
Speaker 2: because of what is in the brand new titles, but
Speaker 2: we should probably point out Deep Blood, the Joe Tomato film,
Speaker 2: which in the seven catalog before it did not have
Speaker 2: a lot of friends other than cruel Jaws, and now
Speaker 2: it's got quite a few that it can hang out with.
Speaker 2: Demato is always wild, but this is one that if
Speaker 2: you want a fun Jaws ripoff, you should check it out.
Speaker 2: It is it is worth the watch. Not the best
Speaker 2: shark exploitation film, but definitely worth owning.
Speaker 3: And it's it's pretty cheap right now. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, any Joe to Moatto, in my opinion, is
Speaker 3: it's worth owning.
Speaker 2: I would agree.
Speaker 3: There is the Caligula film, the Joda motto caligular film
Speaker 3: is that one on sale? I like that one a
Speaker 3: lot too, it is, of course that would be a
Speaker 3: good one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I pull up all the demodel that you can and
Speaker 2: add to Kart because they are the two.
Speaker 3: Dis Colegula and Messalina. Is only seventeen forty eight, for sure.
Speaker 3: You got two cuts of the movie, the X rated
Speaker 3: cut and the unrated cut, for sure, worn't it so? Uh?
Speaker 2: Somebody was asking about this film earlier in the chat,
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to say, if you've never seen it,
Speaker 2: Day of the Animals is one of the most fun
Speaker 2: animal attacks films that you can watch. I mean you
Speaker 2: literally see Leslie Nilsen your face light.
Speaker 3: Up right, I'll allow you to continue.
Speaker 2: You see Leslie Nilson like get in a boxing match there, Like,
Speaker 2: is that the best way to say it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's hands involved. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Day of the Animals is a really interesting premise for
Speaker 2: a film.
Speaker 3: Bunny of the Animal, Grizzly, you know, any of the
Speaker 3: animal Wild Beasts of course also kind of fits in that,
Speaker 3: although that's the only one I think where they're on VCP. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, less less nature, more man made. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: Day of the Animals is probably my favorite of that
Speaker 2: era of the Animals attacks films. It's it's a fun story,
Speaker 2: it's it's got actual animals that they do some crazy
Speaker 2: stuff with real animals in that movie that probably would
Speaker 2: never be allowed on a set.
Speaker 3: I know. Yeah, good stuff. Dang deep Blood is only
Speaker 3: seven fifty. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of money on Deep Blood once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could. You could definitely build a nice collection
Speaker 3: with some of these prizes seven fifty.
Speaker 2: It seems like the free shipping option disappears if you
Speaker 2: check out through the shop app. This happened to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could do the guest thing right, check out
Speaker 3: as a guest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about to give that as the recommendation.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if this is a hot take,
Speaker 2: but fuck Shop, Like I hate how much they're like
Speaker 2: controlling the checkout process on so many of these sites.
Speaker 3: And like I prefer to use PayPal paying for and
Speaker 3: they kind of like unless you do the checkout as
Speaker 3: a guest, sometimes they will pigeonhole you into using your
Speaker 3: shop app and then they give you like the bogus
Speaker 3: like here's ten dollars in cash that you can't use
Speaker 3: on anything, and if you try to it's like the
Speaker 3: prices are different. So it's a you know, but coming
Speaker 3: from the this is the school of I'm gonna send
Speaker 3: beg my mom for a check so I could send
Speaker 3: it out for a catalog, and when I would get that,
Speaker 3: six weeks later, send out another check so I could
Speaker 3: get my movies. And maybe they showed up, maybe they didn't,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I guess I'll settle for
Speaker 3: shop for the shot aapp. I can, like, you know,
Speaker 3: keep an eye on where things are and get excited,
Speaker 3: like today when I was like, oh my god, my
Speaker 3: Mario Bama set is on.
Speaker 2: I want to shout out def Crocodile, who just posted
Speaker 2: in the chat. I just removed the check out with
Speaker 2: shot feature in our store. Yes, thank you, that's why
Speaker 2: you're incredible.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Let's see some other ones. Tales of the and Canny
Speaker 2: is definitely one that people should see if you have
Speaker 2: not seen it yet. Severn is a kind of incredible
Speaker 2: at these in house production documentaries and this is the
Speaker 2: story of anthology horror and it's just really well done.
Speaker 2: Fifteen bucks can't beat that. Just perfect. Let's see Cruel
Speaker 2: Jaws back in stock. Like we mentioned earlier, some of
Speaker 2: the more classic Severn stuff popping up here.
Speaker 3: The Beast Must Die. I love that one too. It's
Speaker 3: so classic. That's Amicus as well, is it not.
Speaker 2: I believe it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: If you are not one of the lucky, like nineteen
Speaker 2: people that still have the Al Adamson box set, the
Speaker 2: Al Adamson Documentary is one hundred percent worth your time.
Speaker 2: One of the craziest stories of somebody's life that you
Speaker 2: will ever hear again. In house documentaries from Severn is
Speaker 2: kind of David's like Forte that's what he was doing
Speaker 2: way back in the day at in kirbay Uh and
Speaker 2: then helping with Blue Underground and now doing it on
Speaker 2: his own. Severn is pumping out some of the best
Speaker 2: documentaries out there. I mean, look at what they're doing
Speaker 2: with the Susanna story right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, working with these guys, David Carl Andrew Todd,
Speaker 3: their passion for the movies like it's it's it's just
Speaker 3: a world different than you know. Had I had, you know,
Speaker 3: I worked for these guys first before everything else that
Speaker 3: I did, I probably would have had a much different
Speaker 3: experience in the industry. Than I did back then. You know,
Speaker 3: these are guys that are absolutely fans first and foremost,
Speaker 3: and just like you know, you realize that, you know,
Speaker 3: I've been around this whole collecting scene for decades now,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's a small group of people that
Speaker 3: kind of you know, perpetuate a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 3: And it's it's people like you and everybody. This is
Speaker 3: like watching and commenting that keep this stuff alive, you know.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's funny like how you'll you know,
Speaker 3: like when I met Bill Leussig, he's like, oh, my
Speaker 3: partner David Gregory, and like years later that's somebody that
Speaker 3: I'm working for, you know what I mean. Like it's
Speaker 3: just kind of you see how it's really driven by,
Speaker 3: you know, people with passion for the physical media and
Speaker 3: for the films themselves. And it's nice to see younger
Speaker 3: generations of people you know, watching your show or you know,
Speaker 3: getting into collecting. And like I was saying before, like
Speaker 3: films that were trauma pickups that we couldn't give away
Speaker 3: seeing them finally find an audience. You know, a story
Speaker 3: of a junkie that that VSL put out, it was amazing.
Speaker 3: I love that movie. It was like one of my
Speaker 3: favorite pickups, you know, and it's just when like the
Speaker 3: boutique company is being run by fans and people who
Speaker 3: are actively keeping this stuff alive doing documentaries rather than
Speaker 3: you know, soulless corporations. That's why we get stuff that's
Speaker 3: so comprehensive and why like, you know, something will get
Speaker 3: delayed so we could put an extra bonus feature on
Speaker 3: there or a CD soundtrack, you know. That's that little
Speaker 3: stuff to go the extra mile, like is so huge,
Speaker 3: and that's what attracted me to Severe in the first place,
Speaker 3: made me want to work with them, you know, just
Speaker 3: because it just seemed like you weren't just selling me
Speaker 3: some crap. You know, like so much goes into presenting
Speaker 3: this the best possible way. And you see that when
Speaker 3: they get a find a new source or finally dig
Speaker 3: up a negative, you know, they go out of their
Speaker 3: way to make a nice restoration and do it right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They just did that with.
Speaker 2: Oh, the Franco movie or not Franco, the klaus Kinski Dracula.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they just did that again.
Speaker 2: It was something that like, oh, we're never gonna be
Speaker 2: able to find this, let's just put this out.
Speaker 3: They did it.
Speaker 2: It was great, and then suddenly they did find it
Speaker 2: and they went through the process of making just an
Speaker 2: incredible release out of it, which many of the labels
Speaker 2: would have just said, we can't do anything.
Speaker 3: Sure, And it never it never feels like a cash grab.
Speaker 3: It always just feels like, you know, we are doing
Speaker 3: this because we found a better source. We want to
Speaker 3: give you the best possible version.
Speaker 2: You know. I wanted to point out Blood on Satan's Claw.
Speaker 2: This is another one of the convention stock titles, one
Speaker 2: that you can't always get from Severn. So if this
Speaker 2: is a title that you want, you may want to
Speaker 2: prioritize that during this weekend sale.
Speaker 3: Great movie as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, V, if you have never seen it or you
Speaker 2: don't have plans to pick up the first box set
Speaker 2: All the Haunts by Hours because it is in that
Speaker 2: box set. V is a really wonderful movie. It has
Speaker 2: one of the most memorable final fifteen minutes in a
Speaker 2: film that you will ever see. It has some of
Speaker 2: the most shocking imagery that they I still can't believe
Speaker 2: how they got some of those shots in that film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Eastern European stuff from that era is just
Speaker 3: like it's again, a whole new world to explore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, now you're getting into like the old era
Speaker 2: of seven. A lot of these are stuff that people
Speaker 2: that got in like post pandemic that many people had
Speaker 2: not even seen many of these titles because these were
Speaker 2: released in like twenty eighteen and previously love a lot
Speaker 2: of these. Next to Kin is a really great film.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that one? No Xtakin is good. People
Speaker 2: need to check that out. Skinner that is one that
Speaker 2: will make you feel a little creepy for sure. All
Speaker 2: the Colors of Giallo is another one of the documentaries
Speaker 2: you should check out. They also have All the Colors
Speaker 2: of the Dark. That was a sale two disc title.
Speaker 2: Came into this little fancy dual package that they put
Speaker 2: out back in the day. What else Anthropophagus and Absurd
Speaker 2: I believe these said that both of these are coming
Speaker 2: in four K eventually. I think they're working on restorations
Speaker 2: those still, so may if you're not, like I have
Speaker 2: to hop on four these would be a goodbye right now.
Speaker 3: But if not, you may want to hold off on those.
Speaker 2: The Changeling this is another one that is a title
Speaker 2: that Seven has put out multiple releases of and their
Speaker 2: four K of the Changeling looks great, and this is
Speaker 2: just an amazing classic horror.
Speaker 3: Movie, probably one of the creepiest ghost stories. I feel
Speaker 3: like it might be my favorite. Yeah story, it's very good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's so worth checking out. It is a great, great
Speaker 3: time see seven coffee mug is only seven dollars. I'd
Speaker 3: like to point out, very very worth it for the
Speaker 3: glass beaar fans off. There very nice.
Speaker 2: Some classics here, like The Devil's Rain and Devil's Honey.
Speaker 2: Devil's Honey is a four K now, Threads is one
Speaker 2: that I have recommended quite a few times. However, that
Speaker 2: one is another one that's rumored to be getting a
Speaker 2: four K soon, So I don't know if that'll be
Speaker 2: seven or somebody else, but you might want to check
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: Nice, Yeah, that one. I think Diabolic posted a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago or a couple weeks ago saying that
Speaker 3: like sales had gone up on it, like after like
Speaker 3: some one of the most recent crises. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was I ran or one of those things
Speaker 3: like that's certainly a choice you like of your viewing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, more of these trailer compilations listen on this last
Speaker 2: page here. Dark Waters is another one that is that
Speaker 2: one's in the first all the haunts.
Speaker 3: Right, I think so yeah, Yeah, that one's.
Speaker 2: A different disc even so if you want everything, I
Speaker 2: think this one has different special features that are not
Speaker 2: in the box set.
Speaker 3: Cathay's Curse, but that's the older Blu ray.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that one is on four K. Now.
Speaker 3: Doctor Butcher MD has a four K now as well. Uh,
Speaker 3: Doctor Butcher four K would always be in my top recommendations.
Speaker 2: Uh. The Lost Soul documentary. This is one that everybody
Speaker 2: should probably see at least once. If you're into the
Speaker 2: island of doctor Moreau's story, you gotta check this out.
Speaker 2: And then there we go Vampius Lesbos and She Killed
Speaker 2: in Ecstasy. Both are if you're getting into seven you
Speaker 2: probably should have both.
Speaker 3: Of these for sure, definitely must have.
Speaker 2: That is the end of the Blu Rays. Let's go over.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look closer at some of this merch stuff.
Speaker 2: Seven dollars coffee mug is intriguing. Geez, that is cheap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I recommend it's a nice one.
Speaker 2: Seven Shock class that definitely already have one of those.
Speaker 2: I don't need a flask for anything. Why do I
Speaker 2: feel compelled? Cloud Mage says The Changeling is unbelievable, one
Speaker 2: of the most shocking opening standing movie ever. Love it
Speaker 2: been putting off the four kp grade, but the sale
Speaker 2: might force my hand. Agree about next of kin and
Speaker 2: change links? Is Couch Odyssey? Two good movies? What else
Speaker 2: we got website exclusives? Lots of stuff gonna be on
Speaker 2: sale in this one. They've got a lot of slipcover
Speaker 2: stuff that you can't get anywhere else that's on sale
Speaker 2: this time. Nice gosh, seventeen fifty for some of these
Speaker 2: titles that I've been wanting for a while, might be
Speaker 2: forcing my hand.
Speaker 3: I gotta admit.
Speaker 2: Let's see any other questions or recommendations from the chat.
Speaker 2: I just realized they're still selling The Kathy's Curse for
Speaker 2: K box.
Speaker 3: I didn't didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I might need to pick that up.
Speaker 3: I have one. I don't think it lights up.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3: I don't think it ever did. But I think that
Speaker 3: was one that I just asked for, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't care if it works to send me one,
Speaker 3: you know, like it.
Speaker 2: Was a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I remember the old dead pit VHS
Speaker 3: slip back in the day. But it is a gorgeous
Speaker 3: looking cover regardless. I mean, I like, you know, I
Speaker 3: love the slips yep uh.
Speaker 2: Cloud Mage wants to ask what Gwendolen is, Like, why
Speaker 2: don't you talk about this one again?
Speaker 3: There, Blake, Yeah, it's kind of I won't say it's
Speaker 3: a comedy, but it's definitely funny, you know. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like I said, it's on part with Emmanuel the
Speaker 3: Sylvia Crystal one in that, like it's got great Nissan
Speaker 3: Son everything is set up perfectly, but it's just really goofy,
Speaker 3: and I guess it would be like kind of a
Speaker 3: sex comedy. It's got Tawny Katain in it shwing, you know,
Speaker 3: like can't go wrong there, you know. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just it's a lot of fun, you know. It's goofy.
Speaker 3: It's it's not like it's certainly not a neurotic film
Speaker 3: like a Manu. Yeah, it's it's it's it plays its
Speaker 3: hand goofy, like right from the beginning. It kind of
Speaker 3: plays like a great value John Carpenter movie or something
Speaker 3: like that, you know, And like I said, the protagonist
Speaker 3: is always kind of like you know, or Brett Hooff
Speaker 3: is always kind of like doing quips, you know. And
Speaker 3: the original title of it was like like the Perils
Speaker 3: of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik Yak or
Speaker 3: something like that, which kind of I feel like that
Speaker 3: gives you like a better idea of the vibe of
Speaker 3: the movie. It's like goofy kind of you know. Again,
Speaker 3: I think that's Andrew's term, like the pizza and beer movies,
Speaker 3: like one of those things you want to throw on, like,
Speaker 3: hey guy, I'm gonna say it's something fun, you know,
Speaker 3: like sometimes some of this stuff I could watch gets
Speaker 3: a little grim or or or boring or repetitive and
Speaker 3: something like that you could just bust on. It's a party,
Speaker 3: party film. Yeah. It's also got a great soundtrack by
Speaker 3: Pierre Boshet, who does some music for some of the
Speaker 3: Men All films.
Speaker 2: I don't think I knew that was the same composer,
Speaker 2: and now that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: I think he did maybe the second because Serge Gainsburg
Speaker 3: does like the third right, something like that, something like that.
Speaker 2: I want to shout out one that I was going
Speaker 2: to grab and forget all about it. All about evil
Speaker 2: is a really great watch some great extras on this
Speaker 2: Disso were you were you doing QC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one of the first ones that I did.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun, and that was kind
Speaker 3: of like, you know, like I kind of had an
Speaker 3: aversion to newer films and so or things that were
Speaker 3: like so OV until I started doing QC, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of got like a really fun like
Speaker 3: John Waters vibe to it almost. You can tell it.
Speaker 3: They're like kind of going for that, you know, but
Speaker 3: it's not it's not like annoying or or overt in
Speaker 3: a way that like makes it less original. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely worth the watching. Sasha Leone great in it,
Speaker 2: and again it's really great, really great extras on that disc.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have mentioned so many titles tonight, and I
Speaker 2: feel like there's more than I wanted to say, But yeah,
Speaker 2: what else you got, Blake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough when you're trying to like I mean,
Speaker 3: I would just recommend so many of them, you know,
Speaker 3: like there's so much stuff here. Castle of Blood, of
Speaker 3: course is amazing. I don't know, if that's something that
Speaker 3: is fifty percent off, that's a great four K upgrade.
Speaker 3: If you don't have it, of course. I don't think
Speaker 3: we've talked about the clones of Bruce, you know, if
Speaker 3: we're going to go for the box set Sunday or
Speaker 3: is that Sunday Saturday? Sorry, Saturday Saturday? You know, the
Speaker 3: clones of Bruce. If you're a fan of martial arts,
Speaker 3: I mean, you could grab Fearless Dragons and Fearless Dragons
Speaker 3: on that and call it a day. You know. There's
Speaker 3: just so much and there's so much fun in that
Speaker 3: Bruce set, you know, and kung Fu films Asian films
Speaker 3: in general are kind of another thing that I've kind
Speaker 3: of just really started to get into through work. You know.
Speaker 3: I did a little bit of work on one of
Speaker 3: the Shaw Brothers sets, I think Sharve's three, and that
Speaker 3: was when I kind of started like, Okay, maybe I
Speaker 3: do really like this stuff and you know, get a
Speaker 3: little more appreciation for the choreography and things like that
Speaker 3: in the films.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. I think the Bruce Ploitation Box is
Speaker 2: the main thing on my mind for the sale, for sure.
Speaker 2: I for some reason I've been holding off, and now
Speaker 2: it's just time.
Speaker 3: Yep, don't wait any longer, bro.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it'll be one hundred bucks. And for
Speaker 2: those that have been like on the fence on that price,
Speaker 2: don't forget that the Severn Store release has a full
Speaker 2: extra disc that the wide release does not have for
Speaker 2: that title.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: So these are some of the newer ones that we
Speaker 2: haven't spent a lot of time on. But keep in
Speaker 2: mind some of these bundles are limited. So like the
Speaker 2: the Everything Bundle is limited to only fifty, the Turkish
Speaker 2: Delight Bundle is only to one hundred and fifty. So
Speaker 2: if you're after like that art book, you might want
Speaker 2: to jump on those sooner than later. I bet that
Speaker 2: the Everything Bundle will probably sell out in like the
Speaker 2: next twelve hours. It pretty much always does. And then
Speaker 2: the Turkish Delight Bundle. Baskin is kind of like a
Speaker 2: low key, pretty big movie. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people love that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one. I would definitely check it out.
Speaker 2: Let's while we're just scrolling through some of these things,
Speaker 2: let's go through the QC process some more, because for
Speaker 2: those that don't understand, what are some examples when you're
Speaker 2: looking post restoration? What are some of the things that
Speaker 2: you're looking for?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest thing. You know, you
Speaker 3: want to find any kind of like dropped frames or
Speaker 3: any kind of like weirdness going on. It always seems
Speaker 3: like more often not things that get miss or things
Speaker 3: in the periphery like where there's scanning the film, you know,
Speaker 3: you'll see things that kind of like we'll slide to
Speaker 3: one side making sure that things are framed correctly. And
Speaker 3: especially when they're doing like recreations of the edits from
Speaker 3: the o C and there's a lot that go wrong there.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's a lot of you know, digital
Speaker 3: stuff and digital artifacts, restoration artifacts, flashing. There's a million
Speaker 3: things that could go wrong. And that's just in that stage.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't you know, I obviously am not
Speaker 3: working alongside of like the color of correctionists and things
Speaker 3: like that. But when something is wrong, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, or like Dolbi vision things like that aren't
Speaker 3: working like you're going to know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, so post the restoration and they get everything
Speaker 2: ready on the disc, how are you checking the disc
Speaker 2: to make sure that it's good for production?
Speaker 3: So I either use and like the old APO two
Speaker 3: three player, which you can basically get like a disc
Speaker 3: image or emulation and play it off of that to
Speaker 3: or I could burn it, depending if I want to
Speaker 3: try it on different machines. Sometimes I have a PlayStation,
Speaker 3: I have an Xbox, and if I have time, I
Speaker 3: like to pop things in different machines, different configurations of sound,
Speaker 3: whether I'd be running through an optical cable or an HDMI.
Speaker 3: The other day I found an audio issue that manifested
Speaker 3: on something. Not when it was plugged in through the HDMI,
Speaker 3: but if you plugged it into the optical, like all
Speaker 3: of the channels were wrong, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But when it was down mixed into PCM, it was right,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So it was like when
Speaker 3: it but you know, So that was something that like,
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like I learned something all the time,
Speaker 3: and that was that was a big one. Crazy.
Speaker 2: I love that you brought up the player that you have,
Speaker 2: and it's hilarious because I have an OPO two of
Speaker 2: three and I let Andrew know, and that was the
Speaker 2: moment where he was like, oh my god, how are
Speaker 2: you not doing QC for us?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Opo, that is like a leg up that allows
Speaker 3: me to do a lot of stuff four K, especially
Speaker 3: because a Blu Ray DVD I can burn, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, But a four K I can't really burn.
Speaker 3: And that allows me to run the four K from
Speaker 3: a file like it was a disc. Essentially it acts
Speaker 3: exactly the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the APO two three for those that don't know,
Speaker 2: it's not been manufactured since I think twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: So now the secondary market prices on them insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like starting at like two thousand dollars. Literally, it's stupid.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely stupid. I might have to plug in
Speaker 2: here really quick. Can you give you one second of course?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I have that player as well, and it
Speaker 2: is something that will allow you to put in basically
Speaker 2: any format and it will be able to read it
Speaker 2: and play it. For a lot of people, the OPO
Speaker 2: is like the the main thing that you want to
Speaker 2: basically be able to throw anything at it in your
Speaker 2: collection and it will be able to find a way
Speaker 2: to read it. And considering the second prices, they are
Speaker 2: not easy to come by nowadays. Sadly, let's see picked
Speaker 2: up the Baskin Bundle and feeding Frenzy Nice. Danny Mozart
Speaker 2: says OPO is too good, it couldn't last yeah, that is.
Speaker 3: True for sure.
Speaker 2: M dude McMahon, what is your audio setup for QC.
Speaker 2: I'll ask Blake that in a second. I have not
Speaker 2: been one to do QC for audio. I've only done
Speaker 2: QC for video. I don't have a good audio setup
Speaker 2: for that, sadly, so yeah, I'll ask him that just
Speaker 2: a second. Paul is saying what is comparable to the OPO?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: This is the sad thing is why it's valuable and
Speaker 2: still like cost two grands on the second hand market.
Speaker 2: There is nothing comparable to the OPO now. There's nothing
Speaker 2: being manufactured that you will play everything like the OPO did.
Speaker 2: There is nothing that has all of the options that
Speaker 2: the OPO had. There's nothing that has been reliable like
Speaker 2: the OPO is. So it is something that is difficult
Speaker 2: for sure. This name how did you get to the
Speaker 2: web store exclusive section? When you go up to the
Speaker 2: menu and go to shop, it shows on the left
Speaker 2: side here under formats web Store Exclusive slipcover section. Blake,
Speaker 2: we had a question of what is your audio set
Speaker 2: up like for QC.
Speaker 3: It really depends. I use like an LG seven to
Speaker 3: one system. I also try to check on like just
Speaker 3: the TVs I have an LGC two that's my main monitor.
Speaker 3: I feel like the LGC two gives you like the
Speaker 3: best Dulby Vision color representation. I'm sure there's nicer models,
Speaker 3: but that's just been the one that I've been working
Speaker 3: on for a while. But I use an LG seven
Speaker 3: to one. Nothing fancy, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 3: is just a store lot, best buy, yeah type thing.
Speaker 3: And then I also I tend to check with headphones
Speaker 3: a lot, especially commentaries. Commentaries tend to have a lot
Speaker 3: of weird anomalies in them, and two point zero mixes.
Speaker 3: I check in headphones a lot too. But I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm only ever limited by how much time I have
Speaker 3: to work on something because I would love to go
Speaker 3: through it, like on every machine, with every audio and
Speaker 3: visual configuration. It's like, you know, if you've ever recorded
Speaker 3: music on indie music for yourself, like you want to
Speaker 3: listen to it in the car, You want to like,
Speaker 3: you know, listen to it everywhere. So I mean I
Speaker 3: try to to be as extensive as I can, like
Speaker 3: even go as far as like a lot of times
Speaker 3: looking for things like in supplements like misspelled chirons or
Speaker 3: like you know, just in subtitles. Of course, that's always
Speaker 3: the that could be its own job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, there's a lot that you can
Speaker 2: find in some of these things. And I think that
Speaker 2: is kind of the unsung hero of this QC process
Speaker 2: that people aren't realizing, because gosh, you can discover just
Speaker 2: almost anything, and so many different stages.
Speaker 3: Of this and and you know, like I said, like
Speaker 3: it's a matter of breaking things like trying to you know,
Speaker 3: you know, like just knowing the way that my system worked,
Speaker 3: knowing that like you know, I wasn't to get the
Speaker 3: pure you know, DTS mix. I had to use the
Speaker 3: optical you know, so like they just but it would
Speaker 3: be easy if I'm just doing two point out, just
Speaker 3: be like, oh, I'll just use the HDMO, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, check it that way, right. It's just,
Speaker 3: you know, you you learn that there is just and
Speaker 3: it's always like a terrible feeling if I see a
Speaker 3: note about like a disc recall or something and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I raised my notes. I'm like, did
Speaker 3: I work on that? Like, like you know so, but
Speaker 3: thankfully I haven't experienced that too much. Knock on wood.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that is a worrisome thing with QC.
Speaker 2: For sure, you don't want to be the person that
Speaker 2: caused something to get missed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's and it's hard,
Speaker 3: like you are, you know, more covered with some scenarios
Speaker 3: than others, Like some places like it might you know,
Speaker 3: smaller labels, it might be me and the person who
Speaker 3: runs the label looking at it, and that's it, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. The person who runs the label
Speaker 3: might be fatigued from looking at it a thousand times,
Speaker 3: you know. So that's and that's the thing. It's like
Speaker 3: fresh eyes are always going to be or fresh look
Speaker 3: at something. That's why I always try to like take
Speaker 3: breaks or come back to it, you know, and you can't,
Speaker 3: like you can't race through it. You cannot race with
Speaker 3: the word like I have all this work to do,
Speaker 3: it's gonna take me x amount of hours, Like no,
Speaker 3: you don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's a lot more tiring than people
Speaker 2: probably understand.
Speaker 3: I Mean.
Speaker 2: One of the things with QC is your eyes kind
Speaker 2: of have to be open the entire time, Like blinking
Speaker 2: is a problem.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a professional napper, like I will take like
Speaker 3: if I get slightly tired and I find myself my
Speaker 3: attention drifting, and especially this time of the year where
Speaker 3: it's so hot, if I find my attention drifting, I
Speaker 3: will go and take a nap just to get back
Speaker 3: on it with fresh eyes. Because, like you said, watching
Speaker 3: the end of Asylum like eight times, like that's what happens.
Speaker 3: Like if you're trying to force something, you're trying to
Speaker 3: get through the deadline, you're trying to watch something at
Speaker 3: the last minute. Sometimes it's better just to go to
Speaker 3: bed and look at it, you know, get up, set
Speaker 3: your alarm for four am, and get up and look
Speaker 3: at it again, you know, take a nap, go to
Speaker 3: sleep for an hour.
Speaker 2: Blake am I right? And assuming that because you're plugged in,
Speaker 2: you can't use the headphones now yeah?
Speaker 3: Correct? Sorry, making sure are you getting some feedback?
Speaker 2: Ever so slightly? Plus you're a little quieter than you were,
Speaker 2: but that's okay.
Speaker 3: I might be able to switch back in the second
Speaker 3: I met like seventeen percent everywhere, it's not pretty cracked.
Speaker 3: Quick here.
Speaker 2: Understood, and now your sideways?
Speaker 3: Oh oh all right, well let's see if you can come
Speaker 3: back here we go, Yeah, you're good, all right, I'll
Speaker 3: try to be louder.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, maybe we. I mean we've looked through most
Speaker 2: of the titles. We're probably close to the end here.
Speaker 2: Did you have any on your list that you wanted
Speaker 2: to share that we haven't yet?
Speaker 3: I feel like between the two of us we covered
Speaker 3: all ten of them. I would say out of the
Speaker 3: Blue is my number one. Closed Circuit would be my
Speaker 3: number two.
Speaker 2: I love this movie. I love Close Circuit.
Speaker 3: I love that we were on the same page for
Speaker 3: both of those. Yeah, out of the Blue is like
Speaker 3: that eighties renegade filmmaking vibe that I was talking about before.
Speaker 3: I had a great quote that I had the right
Speaker 3: that starts off that that film in particular, and goes
Speaker 3: to show you the mind space of Hopper. At this
Speaker 3: point he said, for a person like me, it's a
Speaker 3: miracle that I get the opportunity to direct a film
Speaker 3: because I don't listen to anybody, And it seemed like
Speaker 3: he was in that phase of not listening to anybody.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it shows in the movie. Yeah, he's ripping
Speaker 3: beers the entire time, very very clearly.
Speaker 2: Of the ten brand new films on the slate, what
Speaker 2: are like top two that you would recommend for people
Speaker 2: that you think are just the most fun.
Speaker 3: I would do Ferrat Vampire for sure, and it would
Speaker 3: be a tough decision for me to decide between Last
Speaker 3: Shark or The Shark Hunter. So it depends you, like,
Speaker 3: do you like Treat Williams or do you like Frank
Speaker 3: o'neiro in a wig? God, that's hard, it is hard.
Speaker 3: They're both essentially. I feel like they talk about how
Speaker 3: it's kind of the same story for like at least
Speaker 3: half of the film, but they both really work for me,
Speaker 3: man and I like, you know, we didn't mention it,
Speaker 3: but Doug Buck's Sisters is actually a good watch. Cloye
Speaker 3: Sabini's great in it, Stephen Ray is great in it,
Speaker 3: and it's I mean, it takes balls the size of
Speaker 3: Cincinnati to remake a Brian de Palmer movie. So I
Speaker 3: give Doug Buck credit for that for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that is a bold move to do that,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it definitely I do not hate it. It's
Speaker 3: it's a decent watch.
Speaker 2: Anymore any more questions out of the chat before maybe
Speaker 2: we call it for the night. As people are thinking
Speaker 2: and maybe writing out a question, I just want to
Speaker 2: say thank you. You've been incredible, Blake. You've answered so
Speaker 2: many fun questions. Here's a question. Plan nine wants to know.
Speaker 2: I'm half Hispanic, but I'm curious about skinheads. Any info
Speaker 2: on the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Clauia Pragosa and roseal Vanieri, like like
Speaker 3: our Drudy what's her last name? Sorry, I'm thinking of
Speaker 3: two different people. It's like their take on Robber Stomper.
Speaker 3: You know, it's uh and it's got like, you know,
Speaker 3: the Fergaso charm. So it's it's it's serious, which is
Speaker 3: you know, when you look at Foragasso's other work, it's
Speaker 3: hard to take it serious. But it actually is a
Speaker 3: pretty good movie, a decent story, and it's like again
Speaker 3: contemporary thing to that Robber Stopper, maybe American history X
Speaker 3: era of them being like, hey, look, we could make
Speaker 3: something serious too. And I mean obviously the storyline of
Speaker 3: like disaffected like male youth like kind of is relevant
Speaker 3: right now. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the first time I'm blu Ray anywhere in
Speaker 2: the world. And it's Rosella Drudy.
Speaker 3: Is the name Rudy, Yes, that's it. Yeah, thinking Rosalvanieri
Speaker 3: and Rosella Drudy.
Speaker 2: Say that five times fast. Yeah, but genuinely, I mean
Speaker 2: great behind the scenes on all the QC process. I've
Speaker 2: only been involved in the post restoration steps, so it's
Speaker 2: nice to hear about all the other stuff. But to
Speaker 2: hear somebody that's seen all of these in the last
Speaker 2: few months and so much work and all the titles
Speaker 2: that we're all about to enjoy, just thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that this is not a process
Speaker 3: that you're.
Speaker 2: Getting fan mail for all your hard work on these,
Speaker 2: so genuinely thank you for what you do.
Speaker 3: No, dude, I really appreciate this. This is a lot
Speaker 3: of fun and thank you. I mean, at the point
Speaker 3: that I started doing QC, I started listening to you
Speaker 3: pretty much and really got my discollecting and high gear.
Speaker 3: And the enthusiasm that I had, you know, for this
Speaker 3: and continue to have for it is mostly because of
Speaker 3: people like you, Andrew David, Jonathan Hurstberg from Fun City,
Speaker 3: like everybody that I work with, it is just so
Speaker 3: enthusiastic about you know, you know, we're all fans on
Speaker 3: top of of you know, working on this stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One thing I do want to say for anybody that
Speaker 2: did not see it. Blake's letterbox Facebook, Instagram, all that
Speaker 2: is in the description below. Go give him a follow.
Speaker 2: He is somebody that you should absolutely keep an eye
Speaker 2: on throughout the years. I mean, he's watched so many
Speaker 2: of these movies that we're all interested in. He gets
Speaker 2: to watch them before us and prepare us for it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's worth it.
Speaker 3: And I had post lots of pictures of cats. If
Speaker 3: you like cats, I got lots of them. I'm surprisingly
Speaker 3: one made a brief appearance tonight, very brief. I better
Speaker 3: go check there, probably lighting the house on fire.
Speaker 2: Hilton says. Any thoughts on Ozzy lost this week obviously?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's a bummer, you know, Like I feel
Speaker 3: like all the heavy hitters, the legends from the seventies
Speaker 3: lou reed Ozzy, you know, and what a terrible year
Speaker 3: of David Lynch, you know, all the legends. I definitely
Speaker 3: feel like the world that I came from is starting
Speaker 3: to not exist anymore, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy to lose Azzy, but I mean, to
Speaker 2: be fair, we got a lot more Ouzsie than I
Speaker 2: think many of us ever expected.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what a way to go out. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you saw the footage from that concert, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: so awesome, So cool and just like, what a touching
Speaker 3: tribute to the man. You know, dude's been around Like me,
Speaker 3: you can't. I've seen a lot of people trying to
Speaker 3: discount his contribution to music, and that's crazy fan or not.
Speaker 3: You can't do that, not at all. I mean, he
Speaker 3: is a legend literally for sure.
Speaker 2: Well that's all we got tonight. See everybody back next Thursday.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the rest of the sale. Keep in mind stuff
Speaker 2: changes every day, so like the box set sale will
Speaker 2: be there on Saturday, the Sunday will be the upgrade day.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on the stock counts. I mean, some
Speaker 2: of this stuff, for all we know, could sell out.
Speaker 2: There's stuff that's limited. There's stuff that I mean some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that's only seven to fifty could be
Speaker 2: nearing the end of their license theoretically, so they could
Speaker 2: literally just run out of them. So keep a close eye.
Speaker 3: Cheers man, Thank you, Thanks.
Speaker 2: Blake, have a good night. We'll see you all next Thursday,
Speaker 2: and have a good week. Stay safe everybody. Yeah, another
Speaker 2: new first time guest next Thursday too, so come hang
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