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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the fourth annual Shelf Shock rewind Awards.
Speaker 2: Something I never thought I'd be saying in my lifetime,
Speaker 2: and it is amazing to be here hosting with the
Speaker 2: one and only mister Chris Higgins Beard of Film Guy
Speaker 2: welcome and thank you for doing this, sir.
Speaker 5: Dude, thank you for having me do this. Man, this
Speaker 5: is an honor. I've watched for three years, so it
Speaker 5: feels only right that I deserved to be on the fourth.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm glad that's not the actual bar because
Speaker 2: a lot of people here hopefully would be in that
Speaker 2: same running. So I'm glad that you could be here
Speaker 2: for that, Glad that everybody's here watching live. Hopefully it
Speaker 2: is a big deal for everybody, because it's a big
Speaker 2: deal for both of us. We've been working on this
Speaker 2: for quite some time. Literally, I'm going to be still
Speaker 2: be working on some of this as we are live.
Speaker 2: I will be fully transparent about that fact. I am
Speaker 2: a little bit behind. But speaking behind, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about somebody who's been behind the scenes for a
Speaker 2: lot of this, and I could not have done it
Speaker 2: without him. It is the person that started this with me,
Speaker 2: the one and only mister Stephen Billing Steven.
Speaker 6: Thanks hey, now, man, guys, that's another year of physical
Speaker 6: media and another year for us to celebrate it.
Speaker 7: I'm excited.
Speaker 5: Ryan.
Speaker 6: I'm glad to hear that you're still working behind. Whenever
Speaker 6: I hear that Ryan's working on something wild. He's working
Speaker 6: on something. It just makes me happy.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you're happy a lot because it happens
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 5: You love the torture he's going through right now.
Speaker 7: Torture right and he loves it.
Speaker 8: He loves it though.
Speaker 2: It does keep you going, It makes makes my heart
Speaker 2: keep pumping. But I'm glad that it's pumping because I
Speaker 2: get to be here with you, Glad to I get
Speaker 2: to experience with all this. How did you feel about
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five as a whole for physical media because
Speaker 2: it was a it was a weird, crazy year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, you know, like, you know, I've worked on
Speaker 6: my habits a lot, you know, so I'm not like,
Speaker 6: I'm not like, you know, like trying to pay attention
Speaker 6: to every little thing because it gets it makes me crazy.
Speaker 6: But everything that I saw coming out that it just
Speaker 6: went in all different directions. And you know, one of
Speaker 6: my favorites, I mean, I got some favorites up here
Speaker 6: on the shelf.
Speaker 8: One of my favorites.
Speaker 9: Is down here Night of the Juggler.
Speaker 6: Man, Oh, this guy is releas I love it and
Speaker 6: uh so, yeah, no, I I I love this stuff.
Speaker 6: And that's why we started it, and it was a
Speaker 6: crazy year man, and more you know, as as we know,
Speaker 6: this happens every year, so more to come, more crazy
Speaker 6: stuff to come.
Speaker 2: More crazy stuff to come. Genuinely, thank you for doing
Speaker 2: this with me, Steven, Thank you for being here. Chris,
Speaker 2: you guys are incredible and cannot wait to see what
Speaker 2: everybody thinks because we got some wild stuff happening tonight.
Speaker 2: So glad you're here.
Speaker 6: All right, we have a good time hosting tonight. I'll
Speaker 6: bib watching and let's do it.
Speaker 2: Come on all right, Thanks Daven, see you soon. And Chris,
Speaker 2: what about you? What are you excited for tonight? What
Speaker 2: do you what are you hoping wins? What are you
Speaker 2: hoping the people voted for?
Speaker 5: You know, it's been it's been a year, man. I
Speaker 5: feel like a lot of dreams came true this year.
Speaker 5: There was so much stuff that people have been clamoring
Speaker 5: for for years, including myself as a collector, especially in Horror.
Speaker 5: More than ever, I think horror continues to present itself
Speaker 5: as not only dominating box office, but also kind of
Speaker 5: dominating physical media, whether it's four K you know masters
Speaker 5: coming out or four K Remasters coming out, or you know,
Speaker 5: old exploitation stuff finally getting the light a day and
Speaker 5: coming out. There's so much of it, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: hoping to kind of see some. I would love to
Speaker 5: see some of the kind of releases that were a
Speaker 5: big deal to us, and the deep cuts get a
Speaker 5: little bit more attention, you know what I mean, Shina
Speaker 5: light on some of those. Yeah, And you know, the
Speaker 5: labels have really been stepping it up, you know, bonus
Speaker 5: features and supplemental material something that I as well as
Speaker 5: you try to champion on physical media, and I think
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five really stepped up in a big way
Speaker 5: where labels are kind of forced to do more than
Speaker 5: ever before because of just demand and everybody's crushing it man,
Speaker 5: from packaging to supplemental material to the volume of extras.
Speaker 5: It's it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, I agree, it's been an impressive year. I
Speaker 2: mean we're getting sets, we're getting director's box sets, We're
Speaker 2: getting a lot of incredible releases. I cannot wait for
Speaker 2: everybody to see these, which means I mean, maybe we
Speaker 2: should just get into our first one. Let's uh, let's
Speaker 2: bring this up on the stage because it's the first one,
Speaker 2: and to look a little wonky. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: change it to full screen immediately. I promise it'll look better.
Speaker 2: But let's talk about our first category, which is best
Speaker 2: pre code and silent film release from last year.
Speaker 10: Hello there, I'm Tony Machez and I'm John Matthews, and
Speaker 10: we are the co hosts of Imprint Casts and we
Speaker 10: are honored to present one of these categories for the
Speaker 10: shof Shocking winder Wards. Once again, Ryan and Chris, thank
Speaker 10: you so much for adding us on.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity to present this.
Speaker 10: Silent film and pre code cinema. So many film masterpieces
Speaker 10: from there, directors like George Meliez, FW Murnow even out
Speaker 10: with Hitchcock.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, like some of the best and most innovative works
Speaker 11: came from that time. And it was a real boundary
Speaker 11: pushing too, because some of the films from the era
Speaker 11: really quite ahead of their time in quite graphic and
Speaker 11: obviously stuff that you wouldn't see later on once the code
Speaker 11: came into place. But yeah, this sort of golden period
Speaker 11: of sort of like a free movement of filmmakers and
Speaker 11: some really great stuff came out of it, and it
Speaker 11: was a particularly great year to see some of the
Speaker 11: stuff get released on Blu ray and four K amazingly
Speaker 11: as well.
Speaker 10: Definitely, and we are honored to present the Best pre
Speaker 10: Code and Silent Film Blace for twenty twenty five and
Speaker 10: the nominees.
Speaker 5: Are Alrane and The Student of Prague, Deaf Crocodile, The
Speaker 5: Cat and the Canary four K, Quino Laurberg, Hell's Angels
Speaker 5: four K Criterion Collection, He Who Gets Slapped, Flicker Alley,
Speaker 5: The Old Dark House four K Eureka Entertainment.
Speaker 10: And the winner for the CSC Award for the Best
Speaker 10: pre Code and Silent Film Release is Al Rang and
Speaker 10: The Student of Prague from Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 11: That release went out of print very quickly, so it
Speaker 11: actually sold out before pre order, so I didn't actually
Speaker 11: get my hands in it because it sold out, but
Speaker 11: it is one I am willing to track down Monday,
Speaker 11: but I'll just settle for the standard edition now. But
Speaker 11: it's a yeah, I love what Deaf Crocodile do.
Speaker 13: Yes.
Speaker 11: And the community winner for the Best pre Code and
Speaker 11: Silent Film Release is from Eureka Entertainment and is The
Speaker 11: Old Dark House four K, which was a really nice
Speaker 11: upgrade from Eureka this year.
Speaker 10: Congratulations to both winners, well deserved.
Speaker 12: Oh wow, that's very cool.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 12: Didn't see that coming.
Speaker 14: We are really stoked to hear that, especially because there's
Speaker 14: so many other amazing silent and pre code releases out there.
Speaker 14: Huge thanks to everyone who worked on that, in particular
Speaker 14: my good friend of many years Stefan Dressler and his
Speaker 14: entire team at the Munich Film Museum who have preserved
Speaker 14: and restored the materials that we put out on the
Speaker 14: Alroune and Student of Prague release. It's the first of
Speaker 14: hopefully a number of releases of rare silent cinema with
Speaker 14: our partners at Munich, so a huge shout out to them,
Speaker 14: and to again all of the essay writers commentators Dave
Speaker 14: McKeon for the gorgeous artwork for the deluxe edition. And
Speaker 14: it was our first silent cinema release.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 15: It's nice that it's stalled well and now winning this award.
Speaker 15: It's a good start for silent cinema from Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 2: So that's incredible, all right. So that is our first
Speaker 2: category pre code silent film release. Incredible release. From Deaf
Speaker 2: Crocodile that Alroade and Stoner a prog double feature you
Speaker 2: can still get in the standard. It's not gone forever,
Speaker 2: John said, out of print, but you can still get it.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. That Eureka release also incredible. Deaf Crocodile. You've
Speaker 2: been checking much of theirs out recently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they were nice enough to last year
Speaker 5: hook me up with a whole bunch of animation stuff
Speaker 5: to check out because I was on Reconnected talking about
Speaker 5: how I don't know shit about it and they were like,
Speaker 5: we need to change that. I think it's literally what
Speaker 5: their email said. And it's been incredible ever since because
Speaker 5: as somebody who I consider myself pretty willing to branch out,
Speaker 5: they really opened my eyes to unique and new experiences.
Speaker 5: And I mean the bonus features, the packaging all incredible, man.
Speaker 5: I mean they're deserving of every bit of this. But
Speaker 5: the Old Dark House from Eureka is also incredible.
Speaker 2: So reddible for kidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely incredible man.
Speaker 2: As a reminder, we are going to have a handful
Speaker 2: of giveaways tonight to make sure you're here and ready
Speaker 2: to answer some quick trivia questions via the chat. When
Speaker 2: those comes up first. One to answer correctly is going
Speaker 2: to be winning a handful of some awesome giveaways. We'll
Speaker 2: have to cover those soon, but I mean, let's just
Speaker 2: keep it running. I am pleased to bring back somebody
Speaker 2: who's now done this. Well, he'll tell you he's done
Speaker 2: it four times in a row, and he's very excited
Speaker 2: about that. Let's kick it over to one of my
Speaker 2: dearest friends, mister Jeremy Long.
Speaker 16: Oh I there, Sorry, you caught me doing a little
Speaker 16: light reading high on you physical media lovers. It's me again,
Speaker 16: Jeremy Long, frequent guests of the disconnected to meet.
Speaker 13: Let's be real, you all know who I am by now, right.
Speaker 16: I mean this is the fourth year of the Shelf
Speaker 16: Shock Rewind Awards, after all, and not to pray.
Speaker 13: But I've been a part of all.
Speaker 17: Four years, only two against my will.
Speaker 16: Anyways, I'm back once again this year to present the
Speaker 16: Best Contemporary Studio Release Award. And some of you Shelf
Speaker 16: Shock fans might be wondering, hey, Jeremy, why you're at
Speaker 16: home in front of your awesome physical media collection, not
Speaker 16: out at some exotic location somewhere for this year's video.
Speaker 13: And the answer is.
Speaker 16: Unfortunately, I'm still on house arrests for impersonating Dave Grohl
Speaker 16: in last year's video series. Anyways, turns out he's quite
Speaker 16: litigious and well, never mind, my lawyer says, I'm not
Speaker 16: allowed to talk about it.
Speaker 13: So let's just move on with the video and the
Speaker 13: nominees are.
Speaker 5: Here's where the nominees go. Bring her back. Four K
Speaker 5: A twenty four Final Destination, Bloodlines, four K Steel Book,
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers, Sinners four K Steel Book, Warner Brothers, The
Speaker 5: Toxic Avenger four K Steel Book, Cinnerverse Weapons four K
Speaker 5: Steel Book, Warner Brothers.
Speaker 16: Hey, welcome back, everybody. Here's a pop quiz for you.
Speaker 16: What is the winner of both the CSC and community
Speaker 16: vote and me all have in common. We're all sinners
Speaker 16: on contractor obligated to say the winner is the four
Speaker 16: K Steel Book and not the tiny guitar.
Speaker 13: Anyways. Also forgive me Father.
Speaker 2: Suey Jersey, all right, bulp exist.
Speaker 13: Foo fighters.
Speaker 16: That's a close one, because if he was real, let's
Speaker 16: face it, I'd be going straight to hell.
Speaker 13: Fuck mm hm. Back to you, Ryan and Chris.
Speaker 2: Oh, jeremy studio stuff? Are you picking up a bunch
Speaker 2: of studio titles? Nowadays, I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: tend to steer clear of those. I'm curious what you
Speaker 2: think about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I I try to I'm not
Speaker 5: I'm not a steel book guy, so I don't really
Speaker 5: pick those up. But Toxic Avenger I picked up. I mean,
Speaker 5: I thought I had to support a friend and having that,
Speaker 5: you know, so that's I mean, you're close to Jersey,
Speaker 5: that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he is my naw,
Speaker 5: he is my superhero. By the way, bring her I
Speaker 5: picked up from a good disc YEP, Final Destination. I
Speaker 5: picked up we do have sinners, but hot take. I'm
Speaker 5: just kind of mid on sinners.
Speaker 2: Well, it's too bad Chris had to go for the night.
Speaker 2: But and okay, there he is. No sinners is wonderful.
Speaker 2: We don't need to let him keep keep a waxing
Speaker 2: poetic about how it's not wonderful. I'm just kidding. I
Speaker 2: know Chris respects it. Let's let's just keep this rolling.
Speaker 2: A couple of these videos tonight are gonna be a
Speaker 2: little bit on the longer side. So I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 2: keep us rolling because we got some people involved that
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be happy to see. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of individuals that they don't really get a
Speaker 2: lot of public voices. So we're gonna we're gonna keep
Speaker 2: this running. Next up, keeping it going with the studio.
Speaker 2: We got the studio catalog rely so anything that didn't
Speaker 2: come out over the last couple of years, and they're
Speaker 2: reaching back into some of the vaults to put these out.
Speaker 2: And of course before we go through this, I did
Speaker 2: want to highlight we have two winners in every category,
Speaker 2: and the reason is for everybody that's not familiar with this,
Speaker 2: we've got our Creator Selection Committe. Now, this is a
Speaker 2: curated group of a little over one hundred people that
Speaker 2: are filmmakers, people that work at labels, people that do
Speaker 2: audio commentary, special features, producers, people that work on these discs, podcasters, YouTubers,
Speaker 2: all kinds of people in the industry, and they're the
Speaker 2: ones that nominated many of our titles. But also we
Speaker 2: wanted to give them a choice to pick their favorite.
Speaker 2: So you see a winner from them, you also see
Speaker 2: a winner from the community. That's why we have two
Speaker 2: on every category. Do you ever have a question on that,
Speaker 2: let me know and I'll help you work that out.
Speaker 2: But let's go into that studio catalog release now and
Speaker 2: find out what they have to say for that.
Speaker 17: What's up?
Speaker 13: Everybody?
Speaker 18: Garatt back here from Born to Be rad In, one
Speaker 18: half of the Anchor Bay Archives podcast, and I am
Speaker 18: honored to be here today to present the best studio
Speaker 18: catalog release of twenty and twenty five. And the nominees are.
Speaker 5: Boogie Knights four K Steel Book, Warner Brothers, A Nightmare
Speaker 5: on Elm Street four K steel book collection, Warner Brothers
Speaker 5: Knight of the Living Dead nineteen ninety four K steel book,
Speaker 5: Sony Pictures, Panic Room four K Steel book, Sony Pictures
Speaker 5: seven four K Steel book Warner Brothers.
Speaker 18: And the winner, voted by the Creators Selection community goes
Speaker 18: to A Nightmare on Elm Street four K box set
Speaker 18: by Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: Here is the winner, this beauty here.
Speaker 5: Check this out. What a great release, guys.
Speaker 18: We've been wanting.
Speaker 2: This for so long and this year we finally got it.
Speaker 18: And the winner, voted by you the community.
Speaker 19: Is.
Speaker 18: A Nightmare on Elm Street four K box set from
Speaker 18: Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: Boom.
Speaker 5: Check it out again, guys.
Speaker 18: This thing just swept the studio catalog release and I
Speaker 18: couldn't be happy because I love that edition.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad we have it now.
Speaker 18: Thanks again for having me, guys, now enjoy the rest
Speaker 18: of the show.
Speaker 2: I guess it came back curarly. Thanks for Garrett. I
Speaker 2: feel like he was the perfect one to talk about
Speaker 2: that release. So glad that he came on here with us.
Speaker 2: It's a hell of a box set. Did you get
Speaker 2: the box set?
Speaker 5: I did actually want it. I want it in a
Speaker 5: giveaway from Monster. Yeah, I missed out on it the
Speaker 5: initial run. Thank god, I want it, and I think
Speaker 5: it's more than deserving that we got that. I'm really
Speaker 5: shocked that Night of Living Dead ninety didn't take one
Speaker 5: of them, because I thought that was equally as big
Speaker 5: a deal. But both are incredible, and I actually the
Speaker 5: neighboring Elms Street set. I remember kind of like seeing
Speaker 5: unboxing and stuff and I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 5: it looks cool, but like I'm okay with the standard.
Speaker 5: And then when my giveaway came in, I just kind
Speaker 5: of took a second and I was like, I was wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm happy I have this now, and they look ridiculous,
Speaker 5: like yeah, insane.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's really easy on a giant package like that
Speaker 2: to talk about the steel books and the gorgeous art
Speaker 2: and all that stuff, but the reality is, I think
Speaker 2: the biggest thing here a studio put out a box
Speaker 2: set of really incredible looking four K releases of a
Speaker 2: franchise that's never gotten a lot of love on home video.
Speaker 2: A lot of the releases for that has been we'll
Speaker 2: say subpar, to say, the best thing that we could
Speaker 2: say about it. So the new ones, they're they're kind
Speaker 2: of incredible. I'm glad that they're out. I'm glad that
Speaker 2: people can respect it. And it sounds like we might
Speaker 2: be getting a rerelease later this year so more people
Speaker 2: could pick it up, so that's a good thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do want to tell people, if you have
Speaker 5: the Night a Living Dead nineteen ninety steel book, give
Speaker 5: the Tom Savini the new Tom Savini audio commentary. I've
Speaker 5: run with that. I bet you wou'd raise your appreciation
Speaker 5: for that just a little bit more than the new
Speaker 5: footage added.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a lot there. Even the new footage
Speaker 2: is it's probably not as incredible as you would think
Speaker 2: hearing the mythic nature of it over the years, but
Speaker 2: the four K picture on that does look really great,
Speaker 2: So check it out one thing that I feel like
Speaker 2: we've been getting a lot more love the last couple
Speaker 2: of years with our animated release. And I know that
Speaker 2: you've just kind of started dipping your toes in the
Speaker 2: animated pool, but it is something that's been near and
Speaker 2: dear to me and want to throw it to my
Speaker 2: dear friend mister Connor Holt to talk about our best
Speaker 2: release on the animated side. So let's shoot it out
Speaker 2: to Los Angeles and Hi, I'm Connor Holt.
Speaker 20: You might know me as VHS Spectacular Instagram and I
Speaker 20: write about film for the Physical Media Advocate. This parking
Speaker 20: lot has a very special place in animation history. Before
Speaker 20: was a strip mall. It was the original home of
Speaker 20: Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was here that Mickey Mouse
Speaker 20: was created and where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Speaker 20: came to life. Animation has come a long way since then,
Speaker 20: being made all over the world, an incredible variety of
Speaker 20: styles and stories, and thanks to Physical we can appreciate
Speaker 20: all of it. The nominees for Best Animation Release.
Speaker 5: Are Essential Polish Animation, Radiance Films, Flow four K, Criterion Collection,
Speaker 5: When and the Book of Sand four K, Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 5: I married a strange person. Deaf Crocodile, Perfect Blue four
Speaker 5: k G Kids.
Speaker 20: Oh look a vh's copy of my neighbor Totoro. Let's
Speaker 20: take a look inside. And the winner of best Animation Release,
Speaker 20: as chosen by the creator's Selection Committee is Perfect Blue
Speaker 20: four K from g Kids, and the winner chosen by
Speaker 20: the community is Flow four K from Criterion. Congrats to both.
Speaker 2: Huge year for animation. I'm glad the Perfect Blue is
Speaker 2: getting into more people's hands. That movie is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: There's Connor and the chat long love animation. Hell yeah,
Speaker 2: Connor was the perfect person to do animation. Thanks for
Speaker 2: showing some history there. I thought that was a really
Speaker 2: cool place to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was awesome. I also think it was so
Speaker 5: cool that Criterion picked up Flow so quickly, So I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some big acquisitions from them coming up,
Speaker 2: like right after stuff is coming out from the Oscars
Speaker 2: and stuff. They got a couple coming out this year
Speaker 2: from those, like Sentimental Values about to be coming out
Speaker 2: just a few months. But one of the companies that
Speaker 2: has been making people very happy for animation is Deaf Crocodile,
Speaker 2: And it sounds like it might be a good time
Speaker 2: to do our first giveaway for the nights. Why don't
Speaker 2: you tell them about that?
Speaker 13: Chris?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So a huge thank you to Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 5: We're actually going to be giving away a fifty dollars
Speaker 5: gift card for their sight and couldn't think of a
Speaker 5: better trivia question than to kind of wrap it around
Speaker 5: to some Deaf Crocodile history, So I hope you're up
Speaker 5: to date. Your question is what title was Deaf Crocodile's
Speaker 5: first major restoration project?
Speaker 2: First one in the chat to type it out wins
Speaker 2: a fifty dollars Deaf Crocodile gift certificate. It is not
Speaker 2: what's the cast named Travis. That was a good try,
Speaker 2: but you probably could have answer that before it went in.
Speaker 2: This is a title that for anybody that was wondering
Speaker 2: you might find an answer not on disc from them yet.
Speaker 2: Lots of answers coming in stuff that they've done, but
Speaker 2: I've not seen the proper title yet, so we'll keep
Speaker 2: that going. Winners tonight as they choose the Ice Grizzle
Speaker 2: Subman from Singapore, the title would have been the Unknown
Speaker 2: Man from Shandygorb, but that's still not the right answer.
Speaker 2: A good try there. If you are winning tonight, you
Speaker 2: are going to have somebody that is going to be
Speaker 2: sending me an email and Matt over at what's the
Speaker 2: idea editing? Got it? Funny enough, they have not released
Speaker 2: this on disc because they don't have the rights to
Speaker 2: release it. They just helped with the restoration assault on
Speaker 2: Precinct thirteen was their first major restoration project that they
Speaker 2: handled as Deaf Crocodile before they became a disc producer.
Speaker 2: So congratulations, Matt. Send me an email at shelf Shock
Speaker 2: Rewind at gmail dot com and I will get your
Speaker 2: email address over to Craig at Deaf Crocodile and we'll
Speaker 2: figure out how to go from there. So appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Matt. And yeah, it was a trick question. It's sorry, Craig.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. Let's see, I think it's probably time
Speaker 2: to go in to best Martial Arts release following that
Speaker 2: Martial Arts. Are you into many of the martial arts
Speaker 2: titles that are coming out recently?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I'm getting into them. There's so much
Speaker 5: coming out. I think you don't really have a choice
Speaker 5: to kind of dip your toes in you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. But it really started for me, honest when
Speaker 5: Severn did the uh the Bruce Ploitation box set.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun box, super fun box.
Speaker 5: At that point, the show scope was already so far, like,
Speaker 5: already so intimidating. So I you know, I jumped into
Speaker 5: Bruce Ploitation. That really kind of opened up the door
Speaker 5: for me, and I've been dabbling in it more and more.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited to see who takes this one home.
Speaker 2: Well, anybody that is super into martial arts or maybe
Speaker 2: just getting into martial arts. One of the people that
Speaker 2: I would suggest that you follow on social media and
Speaker 2: on YouTube to get into any of this is my
Speaker 2: dear friend, The Fanatical Dragon, and let's throw it over
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 21: Hey, thank you, Ryan and Chris. I'm Johnny aka the
Speaker 21: Fanatical Dragon. You can find me right here on YouTube
Speaker 21: posting reviews on boxings and interviews on a station cinema.
Speaker 21: I am also one third of the Night Adventures podcast
Speaker 21: alongside Jason from Martial Arts Theater three thousand and Sean
Speaker 21: from Food for Thoughts, and I'm extremely lucky to contribute to.
Speaker 11: A whole bunch of blue releases.
Speaker 21: I've written for Verdy, eight films for Chameleon and for Television,
Speaker 21: produced video essays for Spectrum, and have a whole lot
Speaker 21: more in stall for twenty twenty six. But today it's
Speaker 21: all about twenty twenty five and it's my absolute pleasure
Speaker 21: to announce the category for best Martial Arts Release from
Speaker 21: twenty twenty five. So back to you Ryan and Chris
Speaker 21: for the nominations.
Speaker 5: Wahachi Bushido four K, Manda Micabre, Come Drink with Me
Speaker 5: four K, eighty eight Films, Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors,
Speaker 5: the Heroic Cinema of chang Che, Eureka Entertainment, The Great
Speaker 5: Chase Neon Eagle Video Showscope Volume four Erro Video.
Speaker 21: Hey, thank you again Ryan and Chris, So without any
Speaker 21: further ado, it's time to announce the winner of the
Speaker 21: best Martial Arts Release of twenty twenty five, and it is,
Speaker 21: of course, hit Is Arrow for Shawscope Volling four I
Speaker 21: who've managed to win not only the CSC Award but
Speaker 21: also the Community Choice Awards. So I'm not a clean
Speaker 21: slate for Arrow, as it was the last time I
Speaker 21: did one of these when they won for their boost
Speaker 21: box set. That's probably sitting up there on my shelf
Speaker 21: behind me. But for twenty twenty five, it was Show
Speaker 21: Scott Voling four, an incredible box set, really really kind
Speaker 21: of great mix of horror and fantasy, with a little
Speaker 21: bit of wooshat thrown in as well. If you've not
Speaker 21: had a chance to pick it up, I absolutely recommend
Speaker 21: that you do. But back to Ryan and Chris for
Speaker 21: the rest of the categories. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 17: Wow.
Speaker 22: Well that's I mean, that's wonderful here because I mean,
Speaker 22: technically speaking, it's not even really a martial arts set.
Speaker 22: It's kind of one of the one of the things
Speaker 22: that we wanted to do, particularly when we picked the
Speaker 22: name show Scope, which obviously is the name of the
Speaker 22: widescreen process, but we also wanted to ultimately in you know, beyond,
Speaker 22: in further box sets, beyond the volumes one and two
Speaker 22: that we initially had kind of set up. We wanted
Speaker 22: to do justice to all the different genres that not
Speaker 22: all the genres necessarily, but as many of the genres
Speaker 22: as we could that Shore Brothers would do. So I
Speaker 22: was particularly excited that volume four would be the horror,
Speaker 22: sci fi fantasy box set, and there's still some martial
Speaker 22: arts in there. There's still a fair amount of you know,
Speaker 22: kind of Wou Shah crossover and a bit of kung
Speaker 22: Fu as well. But now it's you know, the fact
Speaker 22: that the fans are kind of still, you know, after
Speaker 22: all these years, coming back for more. It's wonderful to see.
Speaker 22: So thank you very much to the Academy.
Speaker 2: James is amazing. I love what Erro's done. The Shasco
Speaker 2: box sets are kind of incredible, and that fourth one,
Speaker 2: I know, made a lot of people happy because it
Speaker 2: was like the genre box set that they've put out
Speaker 2: that wasn't just fairly strict martial arts. So even somebody
Speaker 2: like you who's just getting into it would probably appreciate
Speaker 2: it more than many.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, honestly, I appreciate just how much
Speaker 5: shaw stuff we're getting out in general. I mean, but
Speaker 5: from in print, from Vinegar Syndrome, you know, this past year,
Speaker 5: especially for horror fans. Yeah, there's been so much and
Speaker 5: they've actually been kind of some of my favorite discoveries
Speaker 5: over the last year or so. So incredible work there.
Speaker 2: Boutiques, though other of the martial arts have been focusing
Speaker 2: on kind of the bread and butter of the boutique world.
Speaker 2: Which is what they've been putting out through their releases
Speaker 2: for years, and that is horror. I know that horror
Speaker 2: is special to you, and I have not even given
Speaker 2: you a chance to talk about it. So why don't
Speaker 2: you talk about your podcast for a moment. If everybody's
Speaker 2: watching it and they appreciate you, where could they find you?
Speaker 23: Ah?
Speaker 5: Thank you so very lucky to host an incredible podcast
Speaker 5: with my best friend, or say incredible in my view,
Speaker 5: I see it as incredible. It is called Beyond the
Speaker 5: Blood Steve from After Hours Video and I. We essentially
Speaker 5: break down genre films using their audio commentary as our
Speaker 5: discussion base. So we'll watch a movie deep dive into it,
Speaker 5: dive into the audio commentaries, and kind of build a
Speaker 5: conversation that comes from what we see as a unique
Speaker 5: point of view. For those who maybe aren't into commentaries,
Speaker 5: are just getting into them. There's so much information in
Speaker 5: there that is absolutely phenomenal and not watching them, you're
Speaker 5: missing out on a lot of just fantastic insight and analysis.
Speaker 5: And on our show, we use them to form a conversation.
Speaker 5: And we're very lucky to be part of someone's favorite productions.
Speaker 5: With Ryan and a bunch of other podcasts, and it's
Speaker 5: really been, you know, phenomenal journey. We just had on
Speaker 5: Dave Lee from Umbrella Entertainment to talk about the making
Speaker 5: of their upcoming Monsters and Curiosities box set. It's been
Speaker 5: a crazy journey, man, and I just can't thank you
Speaker 5: and everybody else enough who's been tuning in. You know,
Speaker 5: you start these things and you don't really know what's
Speaker 5: going to happen, right, You're like, okay, let's just let's go.
Speaker 5: And then the first year passed and the show grew
Speaker 5: so much that going into year two was actually kind
Speaker 5: of nerve wracking because we're like, all right, how do
Speaker 5: we do this better and keep this train rolling? And
Speaker 5: so far this year alone, you know, everything that we've
Speaker 5: put out since January first has done incredibly well. We
Speaker 5: can see no growth in the show, and we just
Speaker 5: hope that we're lending our hand to the education that
Speaker 5: physical media can provide and teaching people to appreciate beyond
Speaker 5: just the movie on the disc.
Speaker 2: You know, I think anybody watching this would like your show.
Speaker 2: So if you're into horror, if you're into audio commentaries,
Speaker 2: check that out. But if you're into horror, you're probably
Speaker 2: eager to see this next category. Let's bring on somebody
Speaker 2: that you might have already seen on YouTube, and that
Speaker 2: is let's just show it. Here we go.
Speaker 24: Hey everyone, my name is Daniel with the cobweb Channel,
Speaker 24: a YouTube show where I make videos counting down lists
Speaker 24: of a ridiculous amount of horror and cult movies, rankings, recommendations.
Speaker 2: It's a good time.
Speaker 24: And while most of us physical media lovers love to
Speaker 24: collect movies from all different genres like yes I have
Speaker 24: while you were sleeping on both DVD and VHS, there's
Speaker 24: just no question these boutique labels by far put the
Speaker 24: most care and attention on the horror genre, which is
Speaker 24: also my favorite genre in all of film, which is
Speaker 24: why I am so honored to be presenting in the
Speaker 24: category of Best Horror Release and the nominees for best
Speaker 24: and Scariest I'm sure horror release are.
Speaker 5: The beyond four K Grindhouse Releasing In the Mouth of Madness,
Speaker 5: four K Ero Video, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, four
Speaker 5: K Vinegar Syndrome, A Nightmare on Numb Street, four K
Speaker 5: ste a book Collection, Warner Brothers Possession, four K Second
Speaker 5: Sight Films.
Speaker 24: And the winner of Best horror release is apparently this
Speaker 24: clamshell VHS edition of Goosebumps Werewolf of Fever Swamp. I mean,
Speaker 24: I'm a nineties kid. I love Goosebumps and this is
Speaker 24: an absolute banger episode. But isn't this like really old?
Speaker 24: I don't really under Oh oh, I see, I think
Speaker 24: this is the winners, guys, this is the winners right here.
Speaker 24: Oh man, this is exciting. Stuff seems really old. This
Speaker 24: seems like it's been foretold in prophecy for many years ago.
Speaker 24: And the winner of Best Horror Release as voted by
Speaker 24: the Creator Selection Committee is Possession on four K from
Speaker 24: Second Sight Films. Such an incredible and one of a
Speaker 24: kind film, and for me, also wins in the category
Speaker 24: of best sex Scene. It's actually not weird that I
Speaker 24: said that. Don't make it weird. And the winner of
Speaker 24: Best Horror Release as voted by the community is The
Speaker 24: Beyond four K from Grindhouse Releasing. Also an incredible film
Speaker 24: that I love. But I think what clinched it for
Speaker 24: the community was that eyeball, the little plastic eyeball. Come on,
Speaker 24: who out there got that? Show your hands? Thank you
Speaker 24: so much for having me on the show. Now I'm
Speaker 24: gonna go watch a scary movie.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 17: So yeah, thank you so much, guys. It's an honor.
Speaker 17: It's my passion project for us all here at Second
Speaker 17: Side Films. It's a film we've respected for many years,
Speaker 17: and it's just excellent that the film has been so
Speaker 17: well received by you guys and from the community at large.
Speaker 25: Well, that's incredible. There's so much great stuff was released
Speaker 25: last year that it's pretty astounding.
Speaker 13: Wow, that's something. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: For those that don't know, Bob Morowski, who owns Grindhouse Releasing,
Speaker 2: is literally the editor for every Sam ReVII movie ever made. Like,
Speaker 2: what is happening? There's a Sam Remi movie in theaters
Speaker 2: right now, and we just got the editor of every
Speaker 2: Sam Remi movie to talk about the release of The Beyond. Like,
Speaker 2: just an incredible time on the show, Dude.
Speaker 5: Can I just say, like, Daniel's energy is incredible? Man,
Speaker 5: No wonder that guy just hit a hunter k on
Speaker 5: YouTube man in seed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dani, it was pretty great. Glad that we finally
Speaker 2: got to see somebody from Second Site talk about these releases.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time coming on the show. So
Speaker 2: glad that we got Philip Escott on here. He is
Speaker 2: doing just remarkable work. I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: in the Chat love Second Site, so it's incredible to
Speaker 2: see a face for the first time in a long
Speaker 2: time with them. Horror though, just knocking it out of
Speaker 2: the park every year. It is crazy what we're able
Speaker 2: to get coming out of some of these boutiques. But
Speaker 2: everybody needs to check it out. I do want to
Speaker 2: stand in in line with the Chat though. Give us
Speaker 2: Pieces on four K somebody. I absolutely need that. We
Speaker 2: need a new generation of people to discover Pieces and say,
Speaker 2: what the hell am I watching?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, And I also want to plug once more
Speaker 5: beyond the Blood podcast. If you go back to August
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty five, we had a nearly two hour
Speaker 5: conversation with Philip A. Scott all about the Texans Chainsaw Maasker.
Speaker 5: We broke down their box set, talked about the legacy,
Speaker 5: talked about the documentary, Like we talked about so much
Speaker 5: stuff with him, and I think if you're a second
Speaker 5: SIT fan, you're gonna want to go back and check
Speaker 5: that out.
Speaker 2: What an incredible segue that was and I don't even
Speaker 2: think you planned it. Let's talk about documentaries. I am
Speaker 2: a huge fan of documentaries, literally, having launched a label
Speaker 2: myself this year. One of the first titles that we
Speaker 2: announced was a documentary. And I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of labels have kind of steered clear away from them,
Speaker 2: and I get why, But also they're very important and
Speaker 2: I really wish more people would focus on them. But
Speaker 2: having Steen, my dear friend in the chat, who is
Speaker 2: about to announce this one, everybody gives some love to
Speaker 2: mister KB loves movies, and let's throw it over to
Speaker 2: him and take a look at his incredible collection.
Speaker 26: I did not set out to find it. Discoveries never
Speaker 26: begin that way. They begin with boredom and an expensive
Speaker 26: movie that resists opening behind winter scarves and a manual
Speaker 26: written in four extinct languages. There it was a glow,
Speaker 26: not bright, not aggressive, just read the kind of red
Speaker 26: suggests importance or danger or a special edition you forgot
Speaker 26: you paid extra for. I turned the corner slowly. The
Speaker 26: red hue grows stronger, like a sunrise over discontinued formats, DVD, BLU,
Speaker 26: ray four, K, Ultra HD, all staring back at me, patient,
Speaker 26: slightly disappointed. This is not a collection, this is an archive.
Speaker 13: What's up? Y'all.
Speaker 27: It's KB from KB Loves Movies. Join us every week
Speaker 27: for the conversation. But in the meanwhile, I'm here to
Speaker 27: present the best documentary release. And the nominees are.
Speaker 5: Burden of Dreams four K Criterion Collection, Chain Reactions, Media Book,
Speaker 5: Dark Sky selects David Burns American Utopia four K Criterion Collection,
Speaker 5: on Davy four K, Canadian International Pictures, Colonious, MONK, Straight
Speaker 5: No Chaser Criterion Collection.
Speaker 27: And the Creators Selection Committee selects Burden of Dreams four
Speaker 27: K Criterion Collection. Also, the community selects Burden of Dreams
Speaker 27: four K Criterion Collection. Congratulations to all the winners.
Speaker 2: KP's Collections A vibe, Man, I love that Red Light dude.
Speaker 5: It was so good. I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know where we're at right now,
Speaker 5: but I'm into it.
Speaker 2: He sent me the video and I was like, what
Speaker 2: is this voice over? This is incredible? So stoked on
Speaker 2: that documentaries. Are you watching many documentaries? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I watch I watch a lot, just depending
Speaker 5: on kind of what's coming out. We have so many,
Speaker 5: you know. Hearts of Darkness was finally just announced to
Speaker 5: come out from Snaps but this year I finally dove
Speaker 5: into like robodoc the massive RoboCop documentary Chain Reactions was
Speaker 5: a great one to get, especially that physical release with
Speaker 5: all the alternate versions of Texas Chainslaw mass here that
Speaker 5: was phenomenal. There's so many man and I feel like
Speaker 5: it's really grown to be like such a strong focus
Speaker 5: on individual movies, like to think back ten years ago
Speaker 5: and imagine like what In Search of Darkness has been doing,
Speaker 5: and companies actually putting time and effort into these incredibly long,
Speaker 5: extremely detailed documentaries that like one percent of the fan
Speaker 5: base of that film is actually going to watch. We
Speaker 5: appreciate so greatly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Documentaries are a big, fun, fun time
Speaker 2: for me. I really wish more companies would focus on them.
Speaker 2: And one thing that I feel like some companies are
Speaker 2: focusing on more nowadays is technical quality. For the first time,
Speaker 2: in like the home video world, we're getting a lot
Speaker 2: of people being very particular about audio and video and
Speaker 2: now I'd like to to kind of shed some light
Speaker 2: on those that are doing their best in those categories.
Speaker 2: So let's send it over to one of my inspirations
Speaker 2: in this world. Literally, one of the people inspired me
Speaker 2: to pick up the mantle and do what I do.
Speaker 2: Mister Justin Biem at Reverend Entertainment.
Speaker 9: I'm Justin Beam with Reverend Entertainment and I'm excited to
Speaker 9: once again be part of the Shelf Shock Awards. Physical
Speaker 9: media has never meant more than it does right now.
Speaker 9: From the studios to the independence, there are so many
Speaker 9: people putting a lot of effort and love into the
Speaker 9: releases that sit on your shelves. This really is film
Speaker 9: preservation in my opinion, It's great to have a show
Speaker 9: like this that celebrates the work that producers like me
Speaker 9: onto everyone else in the chain are doing to make
Speaker 9: sure that the movies you love are ending up in
Speaker 9: your hands with the best video and audio presentation possible.
Speaker 9: My category today is Best Audio Presentation and we have
Speaker 9: a tremendous lineup of releases as nominees. Let's take a.
Speaker 5: Look, Master and Commander The Far Side of the World.
Speaker 5: Four K steal Book, Disney Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning
Speaker 5: four K Steal Book, Paramount Pictures, Sinners four K Steel Book,
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers Sorcerer four K Criterion Collection, Warfare four K
Speaker 5: A twenty four.
Speaker 9: The winner for Best Audio Presentation in both the CSC
Speaker 9: and community categories is the same and deservedly so. One
Speaker 9: of my favorite releases of twenty twenty five, Sorcerer on
Speaker 9: four K from Criterion. Criterion does it again. Congratulations to
Speaker 9: all involved.
Speaker 2: You know, before this year, I feel like Criterion had
Speaker 2: won some time before, it was getting some attention from
Speaker 2: the shelf shock rewind voters. But thankfully I feel like
Speaker 2: people have come around over the last couple of years
Speaker 2: and got a lot more attention on Criterion.
Speaker 5: They have, they have, and deservedly so. I definitely need
Speaker 5: people to put on the Warfare four K though and
Speaker 5: experience yeah, because holy hell, is that immersive like it is?
Speaker 2: It is some of the best audio I've heard in
Speaker 2: literally a couple of years. The Warfare disc is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: But thankfully, a lot of these companies also doing a
Speaker 2: lot to pay attention on the video side. And I'm
Speaker 2: really glad that we're about to share this video because
Speaker 2: we got a story behind one of these releases, and
Speaker 2: the journey that the film got to come out is
Speaker 2: kind of impressive. You'll hear, it's like a decade in
Speaker 2: the making almost. Let's go to the video.
Speaker 28: Hey, everybody, I'm Nathaniel Thompson. I run the website Mondo Digital.
Speaker 28: It's Mondo hyphendigital dot com around since nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 28: You can hear me on a few hundred audio commentaries.
Speaker 28: I'm on numerous Shutter shows about horror movies, and I've
Speaker 28: written several books, most recently The Frightfi Guy to Vampire Movies.
Speaker 28: But most importantly, I am so glad to be back
Speaker 28: as a presenter tonight. Tonight I be presenting the award
Speaker 28: for Best Video Presentation. That is the release from the
Speaker 28: last year that made your eyeballs the happiest. So, without
Speaker 28: further ado, the nominees for Best Video Presentation.
Speaker 5: Are The Beyond four K brind House Releasing, Eyes Wide
Speaker 5: Chut four K Criterion Collection, re Animator four K, Ignite Films,
Speaker 5: Sinners four K, Steel Book, Warner Brothers Sorcerer four K
Speaker 5: Criterion Collection.
Speaker 2: Well, there you have it.
Speaker 28: Those are the nominees, and now it's time to find out.
Speaker 28: First up, the Creators Selection Committees pick for Best Video Presentation. Hmm,
Speaker 28: well let's find out. It could be Attack Diggy Attack.
Speaker 28: It is the Beyond four K from Grindhouse Releasing. Congratulations,
Speaker 28: And next up we have the public vote.
Speaker 2: Which one did all of you.
Speaker 28: Pick as the best video presentation? Well, let's see. Well
Speaker 28: it's a clean sweep. You picked once again, The Beyond.
Speaker 28: So you have Face, the Seat of Darkness, and all
Speaker 28: the wren that may be explored, and you have your winner.
Speaker 28: So congratulations to Grindhouse releasing with their massive special edition
Speaker 28: of The Beyond. Well done guys.
Speaker 25: Wow, well that's something I'm really proud of knowing how
Speaker 25: many years we spent trying to get this thing to
Speaker 25: look correct. I mean we literally for this release went
Speaker 25: through four different scans at two labs in Rome. It
Speaker 25: was such a nightmare because of the condition of the
Speaker 25: negative and the ability of the first slab in Rome.
Speaker 25: We pulled it away from them and took it to
Speaker 25: an incredible place called Limoging retro Vata in Bologna. And
Speaker 25: then even then it took to two full scans to
Speaker 25: get it right because the first lab had actually damaged
Speaker 25: the negative and scratched it, and so when the place
Speaker 25: in Bologna did the first scan, there were scratches and
Speaker 25: we had to totally re scan it again using a
Speaker 25: wetgate scanner. The whole, the whole process we started it
Speaker 25: in twenty sixteen, and you know here it is, it
Speaker 25: took nine years to actually come up with this final product.
Speaker 25: So so yeah, I'm very happy. And then once we
Speaker 25: got the scans from Bologna, we it was during COVID
Speaker 25: and and Shotocam Labs here in La helped us out.
Speaker 25: And we have actually did the color correction in the
Speaker 25: garage of our photocamp colors because it was during COVID
Speaker 25: and we were working together, you know, with with masks,
Speaker 25: so it was it was a really long process. So
Speaker 25: I'm I felt vindicated getting this great honor, So thank
Speaker 25: you so much.
Speaker 2: Dang, congrats grind Ass releasing. That's a that's a big
Speaker 2: deal type of release. To get that for and to
Speaker 2: see nine years of work being put into one title
Speaker 2: and then the whole community vote for it, that's got
Speaker 2: to feel pretty incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I dude, I remember doing that. I remember when
Speaker 5: you sent out the CSC voting. You know, everything was
Speaker 5: pretty like I was moving through it pretty quick. And
Speaker 5: then I I got to Best Visual Presentation. I stared
Speaker 5: at the nominees and I went, oh, fuck, how do
Speaker 5: you do? Like you know, I clearly, I mean, I
Speaker 5: think the beyond four k deserves every bit of it.
Speaker 5: But holy hell, was it up against some just incredible
Speaker 5: stuff like I'm a Reanimator is one of my favorite
Speaker 5: movies of all time. Yeah, to put it up against
Speaker 5: what ig Night Films did with that this year, it
Speaker 5: was a pretty like impossible task to uh, you know,
Speaker 5: to do that. And funny enough, today, I actually like
Speaker 5: I I took the little eyeball out of it, and
Speaker 5: I didn't know what to do with it, and somehow
Speaker 5: it ended up in my sock drawer and it just
Speaker 5: so happened that this morning, I don't know, this morning,
Speaker 5: I was running low enough on socks that it popped
Speaker 5: up at the bottom of my drawer, and uh, it
Speaker 5: was a perfect day for it to but I did
Speaker 5: jump a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I'm okay, what an eye popping release for you
Speaker 2: as as you were watching the show tonight. If any
Speaker 2: of those releases catch your eye and you're like, damn,
Speaker 2: I really want to buy one of those, one place
Speaker 2: that you could look to is Odysseymovies dot Com. Uh, Chris,
Speaker 2: why don't we do our second giveaway and let's make
Speaker 2: it something at Odyssey Movies.
Speaker 5: Sure sure, so, uh thank you to Odyssey movies. We're
Speaker 5: gonna be giving away a twenty five dollars gift certificate
Speaker 5: to their site. So I hope your uh, your Reanimator
Speaker 5: knowledge is uh, you know, as good as it can be.
Speaker 5: Because your question is re Animator's location for the Miskatonic
Speaker 5: Medical School shares the shooting location with what nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: one film?
Speaker 2: What nineteen ninety one film shares the same shooting location?
Speaker 2: This is one that you should be able to get
Speaker 2: pretty quickly, especially if you love either of these two movies.
Speaker 2: And I have a feeling most of those in the
Speaker 2: chat do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see. I'm waiting for it all the pop.
Speaker 2: Up Reanimator throughout the years. Did you pick up the
Speaker 2: second side of the ignite?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 5: I picked up the ignite? Yep, there it is. It's there.
Speaker 2: Oh, I clicked the wrong one, this one. Jake over
Speaker 2: at Distorted Visions with the right answer. It is terminator
Speaker 2: to Terminator to Jake, I tell you to email me,
Speaker 2: but uh, just give me. I know you DM me
Speaker 2: and I will get your email address for Travis at
Speaker 2: Audust See. Thank you and congratulations on the twenty five
Speaker 2: dollars gift card to Odyssey. Congrats Jake. Good question. By
Speaker 2: the way, I really you know, tying those two movies
Speaker 2: together is super interesting and a really fun one. And
Speaker 2: you know, we just talked about the quality of video.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I love championing the most
Speaker 2: about a lot of these releases are not just when
Speaker 2: a video looks great, because it, yeah, it takes a
Speaker 2: lot of work to do that, but I love when
Speaker 2: something goes from looking really terrible to looking really great.
Speaker 2: We mentioned earlier, not Marion elm Street, something like that,
Speaker 2: And so one of the ones that I really like
Speaker 2: to kind of highlight on this is the upgrade on
Speaker 2: home video restorations. So let's cover that as our next category.
Speaker 17: The heck are you guys watching?
Speaker 29: You know, I'm supposed to be doing this Shelf Shock
Speaker 29: Rewind Awards Presentation Best Home Video Restoration. I'm supposed to
Speaker 29: doing that, like right now. You know that, don't you?
Speaker 30: All right?
Speaker 29: I mean, you're just up here like you own the place.
Speaker 29: I have news for you.
Speaker 4: You do not.
Speaker 2: You do not.
Speaker 29: I'm like, all right, sorry, folks, let me just It'll
Speaker 29: just be a second.
Speaker 9: Look.
Speaker 29: It's really been one of the great pleasures of my
Speaker 29: life nurturing you and watching you grow. But this entitlement mentality,
Speaker 29: I mean, you're just like taking over the whole room.
Speaker 13: This can't.
Speaker 29: Who am I kidding?
Speaker 12: Here's the nominees.
Speaker 5: Behind the Green Door of four K Mitchell Brothers Film Group,
Speaker 5: from Lucy Dirty Work four K, Vinegar Syndrome, Eyes Wide
Speaker 5: Shut four K Criterion Collection, Knight of the Juggler four K,
Speaker 5: Transmission Radiance Sorcerer four K Criterion Collection.
Speaker 9: Seriously, we can't go on like this.
Speaker 29: I mean, this is this is out of control.
Speaker 12: This is too much.
Speaker 5: You know, this is too much?
Speaker 13: Really is the award? Oh?
Speaker 31: Thanks?
Speaker 29: The award, The award for Best Home Video Restoration Upgrade
Speaker 29: goes to the Community Selection committee has selected Knight of
Speaker 29: the Juggler four K from Radiance and Transmission sub label,
Speaker 29: so that takes scare of that.
Speaker 7: And here's this other award.
Speaker 29: Oh I forgot there's two, the Community Award, Eyes Wide
Speaker 29: Shut four K Criterion. Congratulations Tom Cruise.
Speaker 31: And this came for you in the mail.
Speaker 29: Oh, I'll put them right here.
Speaker 8: That's a good spot.
Speaker 2: I love Jim. The ideas, the ideas are amazing. On
Speaker 2: the people that are presenting these awards every year.
Speaker 5: Can I just say two of the five for best
Speaker 5: Home Video restoration are the horniest movies imaginable. And I
Speaker 5: love seeing that Between Eyes, White Shut and Behind the
Speaker 5: Green Door.
Speaker 2: Yes, but also when you think about it, like I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna throw this out there, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like Behind the Green Door should have won, Like the
Speaker 2: four K is remarkable and the previous release way worse
Speaker 2: than that one. So I don't know, Like I get it,
Speaker 2: a lot of people did not buy that disc. That
Speaker 2: is buying, you know, we'll say, Sorcerer, those those those
Speaker 2: fantass are not crossing. It's not something else that I
Speaker 2: could have said there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I posted all about Behind the Green Door on
Speaker 5: my Instagram and I got like seven messages that were like,
Speaker 5: are you just selling porn?
Speaker 32: Now?
Speaker 5: I'm like, listen, man, let's just learn to appreciate everything,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: Do those people think you're selling everything that you're posting
Speaker 2: about online?
Speaker 5: I don't know. They're blocked.
Speaker 2: That was a good fit. I really liked that. That
Speaker 2: was really funny. Well, one thing that Behind the Green
Speaker 2: Door has a lot of great things going forward is packaging.
Speaker 2: I know that we always talk about this a lot,
Speaker 2: but as far as packaging, I am not the biggest
Speaker 2: proponent of many of the giant packages, but I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people are and this is always an
Speaker 2: exciting one. But more exciting for me is we got
Speaker 2: a voice behind at least one of the packages, the
Speaker 2: one this year. Let's shoot it over to best Packaging.
Speaker 13: Hello.
Speaker 33: Yeah, I am Jim lenz Kowski with the directors on podcasts,
Speaker 33: remember the Chicago Film Critics Association, and creator the Now
Speaker 33: Playing Network and a variety of other fun things that
Speaker 33: you can find at Jim Laskowski dot net.
Speaker 13: So it's quite.
Speaker 33: The honor to be presenting for this year's edition of
Speaker 33: shelf Shock Rewind. Thanks to people like Ryan Verel and
Speaker 33: everybody involved with just the physical media community. I am
Speaker 33: now an obsessive I am now collecting to the point
Speaker 33: where there are concerns for my well being from friends
Speaker 33: and co workers and others that have concerns about my
Speaker 33: level of obsession when it comes to film, maybe to
Speaker 33: a little bit of an obsessive degree. And I will
Speaker 33: say that my fiance is a little bit worried about
Speaker 33: my obsession with physical media at this point. But I
Speaker 33: did find her underground in a tunnel, smashing some egg
Speaker 33: cartons and screaming at the top of her lungs. Yeah,
Speaker 33: but movies allow us to escape all that and in
Speaker 33: some cases confront it in a healthy manner. I'm just
Speaker 33: so grateful that there is this community of people out there.
Speaker 33: There's a whole lot of things to be grateful for,
Speaker 33: and one of those things happens to be physical media
Speaker 33: packaging design.
Speaker 17: So without further ado, let's do this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Black Sheep two thousand and six, four K Umbrella Entertainment,
Speaker 5: I Never're on Elm Street four K Stuable Collection, Warner
Speaker 5: Brothers Possession, four K, Second Sight Films, Teenage Mutant, Ninja
Speaker 5: Turtles Trilogy, four K Aero Video, The Wes Anderson Archive
Speaker 5: ten Films twenty five years on four K Criterion Collection.
Speaker 33: The winner selected by the community first and foremost is
Speaker 33: the Wes Anderson Collection from Criterion ten Films twenty five
Speaker 33: Years four K. It's a spectacularly put together collection of
Speaker 33: films that I happen to love and enjoy immensely. And
Speaker 33: the winner from the Creators Selection Committee for best Packaging
Speaker 33: Design happens to be Possession.
Speaker 12: From Second Side.
Speaker 34: Look at how beautiful it is.
Speaker 33: Thank you so much, and congratulations to Second Site. Who
Speaker 33: continuously puts out great work. I cannot say enough good
Speaker 33: things about them, and I certainly adore the film Possession.
Speaker 33: And of course I came home and was at the
Speaker 33: bottom of the stairs clutching my copy of Session. But
Speaker 33: everything's okay, Now, what just happened?
Speaker 12: What year is this?
Speaker 35: Wow?
Speaker 36: That's so nice, Thank you. Well. I did this alongside
Speaker 36: with Eric Skillman from the Criterion Collection, and then of
Speaker 36: course Wes Anderson. You know, it was his vision to
Speaker 36: have this nineteen seventies inspired encyclopedia set that felt like
Speaker 36: get it at a yard sale, and so it was
Speaker 36: an honor to be able to work on it. And
Speaker 36: it felt like I had been training my whole life
Speaker 36: for this because I love that style of design. So
Speaker 36: it felt I felt really grateful to be able to
Speaker 36: be a part of it. So thank you.
Speaker 17: That's incredible, Thank you so much, guys. Yeah, the Pacatum
Speaker 17: was a labor of love. We actually found a French
Speaker 17: poster that was the size of a bus, so we
Speaker 17: had to get it photographed in different sections, in different
Speaker 17: sections and then put that together again digitally. So yeah,
Speaker 17: that was a task in and of itself. Yeah, we
Speaker 17: actually sent the cleaned up version to Bache of the
Speaker 17: Artist as well, and we sent her the original post
Speaker 17: that we'd found and bought. So yeah, she has the
Speaker 17: the biggest poster known to man has been sent for
Speaker 17: so yeah. To see it go down so well is yeah,
Speaker 17: it makes it all worth it.
Speaker 2: I want to live a life where somebody sends me
Speaker 2: a poster of possession the size of a bus and
Speaker 2: that's just like a normal day for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can. I could probably wrap that on all
Speaker 5: four walls of this room and I'd be fine with it.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be amazing?
Speaker 5: I do want to say that the wes Anderson from
Speaker 5: Criterion collection is the most wes Anderson wes Anderson thing
Speaker 5: I think I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: It's perfectly agreed. Yeah, absolutely fits perfectly. Congrats to Beth.
Speaker 2: That was one. I was so stoked that I was
Speaker 2: able to get her to be a part of this.
Speaker 2: Her choices on that release are just simply astonishing. It's
Speaker 2: something that I was impressed by the moment I heard
Speaker 2: that she was doing it, the moment I saw it.
Speaker 2: And if you go to Beth's website without even the
Speaker 2: wes Anderson aspect of it, you look at it and go, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course she should have designed the Wes Anderson box set.
Speaker 2: I will say though Black Sheep was robbed. I know
Speaker 2: I already said the chat, but that box set is
Speaker 2: by far the best designed of everything that we just
Speaker 2: saw in the categories. Black Sheep should have won. It
Speaker 2: was amazing. Not any other releases coming covered in wool. Guys,
Speaker 2: come on, let's go over that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, the wool blood soaked wool presentation is because
Speaker 5: they did that before with Saspot's Sunset. I think as well.
Speaker 2: They did, Yes, they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's so good man, it's such a good idea.
Speaker 2: What is always exciting is when people come in and
Speaker 2: rag on steel books because I'm not a huge steel
Speaker 2: book fan like a lot of people, but I always
Speaker 2: love and we get the right person to present award.
Speaker 2: And what makes more sense than somebody that is literally
Speaker 2: called steel book obsessed. So let's send it over to Jake.
Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, Jake here from steel book Obsessed, and it's
Speaker 4: an absolute privilege of mine to help announce what the
Speaker 4: best steel book is, both from the committee and from
Speaker 4: the community. I adore that disconnected the shelf shock rewind
Speaker 4: is an amazing award ceremony. It's an honor just to
Speaker 4: be a part of it. There were two hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty two steel book releases in the US this year.
Speaker 4: I had one hundred and forty one of them. There
Speaker 4: were so many great choices to choose from this year,
Speaker 4: but here are the nominees that made the final list.
Speaker 5: Bogie Nights four K, Warner Brothers Dogma four K, Lionsgate Limited,
Speaker 5: A Nightmare on Elm Street four K Collection, Warner Brothers
Speaker 5: Panic Room four K, Sony Pictures, Small Soldiers four K,
Speaker 5: Paramount Pictures.
Speaker 4: Those are all great nominees. I have all of them
Speaker 4: in my collection behind me. But there can only be
Speaker 4: one winner. Let's open up the blank steel book to
Speaker 4: see exactly who the winner is and will you have it?
Speaker 4: Will you look at that? Both the Creator Selection Committee
Speaker 4: and the community winner for Best steal Book is this
Speaker 4: heavy honker for a Nightmare on Elm Street box set.
Speaker 4: This is a holy Grail piece that is now a
Speaker 4: reality thanks to Warner Brothers. Hopefully they continue to put
Speaker 4: out amazing physical media. In twenty twenty six and beyond,
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens with the whole netflix of it all.
Speaker 4: But let's just revel in the positivity that is this
Speaker 4: amazing box set for an amazing horror franchise. Back to you,
Speaker 4: Ryan and Chris.
Speaker 2: We went this long, just over and now until somebody
Speaker 2: said the word Netflix. But thanks Jake, it could have
Speaker 2: been worse. I guess I'm glad. I'm glad that this
Speaker 2: one in a way. But also I did say in
Speaker 2: the chat already, this is the most obvious wind of
Speaker 2: the entire night. I promise the rest are not quite
Speaker 2: as obvious. But when you're talking about best steel books
Speaker 2: and you get a full steel book collection for a
Speaker 2: horror franchise, there's not a lot of options for people
Speaker 2: that are just die hard about horror. And uh yeah
Speaker 2: it looks nice. It is something that is wonderful. Release,
Speaker 2: Glad it came out. Glad that people could find joy
Speaker 2: in that entirely.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean there was no surprise there. I mean,
Speaker 5: having the original artwork, all the individual steel books. I
Speaker 5: love not having the titles on the front of each
Speaker 5: of them. I think that was a nice way to
Speaker 5: kind of like clean it up.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: The nice little image on the back is something other
Speaker 5: than just having a blank you know. Back on it,
Speaker 5: but I think it's the whole entire the whole entire
Speaker 5: case in general. Having the little details with the torn
Speaker 5: sweater on it, kind of like the embossing and stuff
Speaker 5: on that release, I think really puts it over the top.
Speaker 5: So I think it's well deserved, even though it's a
Speaker 5: kind of a give me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of a gimme. What is also
Speaker 2: important about it is, again, they put so much time
Speaker 2: to the restoration, so I really want to highlight that part.
Speaker 2: I know that we're really talking about the Steel books
Speaker 2: and that cool. It's a wonderful franchise. I love the movies.
Speaker 2: I'm just glad they look so good. Yeah, let's continue.
Speaker 2: Every year for the last handful of years, we always
Speaker 2: bring in a special segment to memorialize somebody that contributed
Speaker 2: a lot to the industry, and that is the incredible
Speaker 2: film his story in Sergio Mims. And now we've got
Speaker 2: kind of a long segment, so Chris and I are
Speaker 2: going to be off the screen for a minute. But
Speaker 2: I really hope people appreciate the y Yeah, uh, here
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 5: Sergio Mims was best known as a Chicago based film
Speaker 5: critic and the co founder of the annual Black Harvest
Speaker 5: Film Festival, but he also championed classical music, especially the
Speaker 5: works of black composers. Sergio died in October twenty twenty
Speaker 5: two at the age of sixty seven and left behind
Speaker 5: a legacy of encouragement, education and passion.
Speaker 2: The past three recipients of the Sergio Mims Memorial Award
Speaker 2: were Kayla Denise Sam Degan and Eugenio Ricolani. All three
Speaker 2: continue to work tirelessly to deliver high quality analysis on
Speaker 2: film through various outlets. We have pushed to give an
Speaker 2: award in Sergio's name and will continue as long as
Speaker 2: these awards continue. For the twenty twenty five Shelf Shock
Speaker 2: for Rewinde Awards, we would like to present the Sergio
Speaker 2: Mims Memorial Award for extra Ordinary Contributions to Film critique,
Speaker 2: context and Commentary to Alexandra Heller Nicholas.
Speaker 5: If you've picked up any number of releases from any
Speaker 5: boutique Blu Ray company in the last decade or so,
Speaker 5: there's a one hundred percent chance you have seen the
Speaker 5: name Alexandra Heller Nicholas. She has become one of the
Speaker 5: most distinctive and prolific voices in contemporary film scholarship, particularly
Speaker 5: in the realms of horror, cult, and exploitation cinema.
Speaker 2: Her academic work bridges popular genre studies and serious theoretical inquiry,
Speaker 2: and shows us that films that have been ignored or
Speaker 2: dismissed as marginal or trash are in fact rich sites
Speaker 2: of formal experimentation, political discourse, and cultural interest. Through her
Speaker 2: books on rapeerven cinema, found footage, horror, witchcraft, and cult filmmakers,
Speaker 2: she has consistently modeled how close textual analysis, feminist theory,
Speaker 2: and historical contextualization can convey complex analysis in accessible and
Speaker 2: entertaining language.
Speaker 5: Beyond the page. Heller Nicholas has made an extraordinary contribution
Speaker 5: to film culture through her Blu Ray audio commentary and
Speaker 5: video essays, which now number in the hundreds. Her commentaries
Speaker 5: combined production history, genre contexts, theoretical framing, and scene specific analysis,
Speaker 5: all delivered with genuine enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: Physical media increasingly has become a vital archive of film history,
Speaker 2: and her work ensures that genre cinema is preserved as
Speaker 2: an object of study worthy of intellectual engagement.
Speaker 5: What distinguishes her contribution's most is the generosity of her approach.
Speaker 5: She treats filmmakers, audiences, and the films themselves with seriousness
Speaker 5: and respect. Whether unpacking the politics of violence and exploitation
Speaker 5: cinema or illuminating the craft behind cult classics, Heller Nicholas
Speaker 5: embodies a model of public scholarship that is both academically
Speaker 5: rigorous and audience friendly. Her work reminds us that criticism
Speaker 5: can expand the canon and deepen our appreciation of films
Speaker 5: we thought we already knew.
Speaker 2: We would like to say thank you to Alexandra Heller
Speaker 2: Nicholas for her prolific list of accomplishments, her ability to
Speaker 2: champion and remain enthusiastic about every film, and her passion
Speaker 2: for physical media across the wide range of genres and mediums.
Speaker 5: We would like to share some words of appreciation from
Speaker 5: a few of her peers and collaborators to share with
Speaker 5: all of you today.
Speaker 17: Alex is literally one of the best academics. I a
Speaker 17: recovering academic, as she would like to say, but her
Speaker 17: knowledge of cinema is inspiring, and how she is able
Speaker 17: to just memorize all this stuff about films is incredible
Speaker 17: and I am generally in all of the woman. She
Speaker 17: is an absolute force of nature and yeah, ty lover,
Speaker 17: and yeah she deserves it.
Speaker 19: I think some people would classify Alex as a critic.
Speaker 19: A critic usually is meant to you know, you agree,
Speaker 19: you align with their taste.
Speaker 7: They can sway you from a movie to watch not
Speaker 7: to watch. Alex has always kind of inspired people to
Speaker 7: watch movies, I think, a big difference that critics aren't
Speaker 7: able to do. Sometimes she influences you, and she challenges
Speaker 7: you to venture off on your own and dig deep
Speaker 7: into maybe something that she's that she's in love with.
Speaker 37: Huge congratulations, Alex. It's such a cool award and has
Speaker 37: been so wonderful to work with you. You've been a
Speaker 37: huge inspiration to my work and so very supportive over many,
Speaker 37: many years now, and so I'm just thrilled that you're
Speaker 37: being recognized. Congratulations.
Speaker 35: If I was to try and list all of the
Speaker 35: reasons that I love and admire Alex, it could easily
Speaker 35: fill the pages of a book. Although, unlike Alex, who
Speaker 35: I suspect never actually takes a break to sleep. In
Speaker 35: the time it would take me to write that book,
Speaker 35: Alex would probably have written and published no less than
Speaker 35: ten books, and mine would still be nowhere.
Speaker 13: Near as good.
Speaker 35: I first met Alex many years ago to a screening
Speaker 35: of the House with Laughing Windows, a film that, oddly enough,
Speaker 35: we wound up recording an audio commentary for which released
Speaker 35: last year. So to say that was a fortuitous meeting
Speaker 35: is something of an understatement, because I've had the good
Speaker 35: fortune to work with Alex on a number of projects
Speaker 35: over the years, going all the way back to our
Speaker 35: days together on community radio Station three Triple R one
Speaker 35: oh two point seven on Plato's Cave, and in all
Speaker 35: the time I've known her, I have to say that
Speaker 35: her dedication to film culture is matched only by the
Speaker 35: truly intimidating output of her work that she's produced over
Speaker 35: the years, the book publications, the audio commentaries, the essays,
Speaker 35: the articles, conference papers, radio and podcast appearances. But beyond that,
Speaker 35: sheer volume of her work, or the passion that she
Speaker 35: brings to each project, the rigorous level of research, the
Speaker 35: depth of her film knowledge. One of the things that
Speaker 35: I admire the most is her absolute dedication to making
Speaker 35: those insights and contributions accessible, without pretension, without academic stuffiness.
Speaker 35: It's never about gatekeeping for Alex, but about conveying the
Speaker 35: deep love that she has for the medium to that
Speaker 35: audience in whatever form that might be, whether it's high
Speaker 35: art or low art. It's always about the particular film
Speaker 35: first and foremost, and about opening cinema up to new
Speaker 35: insights and new audiences. There's always a selflessness in her approach,
Speaker 35: which I think is as rare as it is enviable.
Speaker 35: And I think that's evident too in the way that
Speaker 35: she lifts up those around her, the way that she
Speaker 35: uses her platform, and especially in her producing work to
Speaker 35: elevate voices that may not always be the most obvious candidates,
Speaker 35: but are the ones that best serve the particular project
Speaker 35: by bringing new or alternative perspectives to a film. And
Speaker 35: I am absolute proof of that, because there's no exaggeration
Speaker 35: to say that I wouldn't have had the good fortune
Speaker 35: to have worked on many of the projects that I
Speaker 35: have without her having my back, without her opening those
Speaker 35: doors for me, And for that, I'm not only forever
Speaker 35: in her debt, but also eternally grateful. I'm lucky to
Speaker 35: count her as a colleague, but even luckier to count
Speaker 35: her as a dear, dear friend. So Alex congrats on
Speaker 35: this latest recognition. It is thoroughly well earned, and I
Speaker 35: can't wait to blind by all of those forthcoming purchases
Speaker 35: that have your name on them. Viva la Cinema and
Speaker 35: long lived physical media.
Speaker 32: Alexandra Holy Cannoli. What a gold standard of a writer,
Speaker 32: a commensator, a personality and or person I adore Alexandra,
Speaker 32: Helen Nichols. This woman, this creative, this writer is somebody
Speaker 32: who everything she touches is rich, fascinating, intelligent. All of
Speaker 32: her work has this absolutely intoxicating combination of keen, observation, knowledge,
Speaker 32: and just overall just really a great sense of intelligence
Speaker 32: that is, you know, that you learn a lot from.
Speaker 32: And she never talks down to the reader. She never
Speaker 32: talks down to the listener. She is basically does that
Speaker 32: thing that all of my heroes do, which is like
Speaker 32: she basically is like kind of extending an arm and
Speaker 32: being like, come here, check this out. And I adore
Speaker 32: that about her. On top of her just always phenomenal work.
Speaker 32: She is the gold standard of a person in the
Speaker 32: film community. Alexandra is always, to me, consistently somebody who
Speaker 32: shines and is classy, is funny, very generous. There's never
Speaker 32: any of any sort of potential, you know, you know,
Speaker 32: every community has its toxicities. Alexandra is never involved with that.
Speaker 32: She's always rising above it. She never gets tainted by it.
Speaker 32: She's always just one hundred percent generous and nice and
Speaker 32: kind and funny. She can have like a savage wit
Speaker 32: about her, but her heart is golden like I absolutely
Speaker 32: adore her, and I would be hard pressed to think
Speaker 32: of somebody more deserving than this of this award than Alexandra.
Speaker 32: She is absolutely what all of us in this community
Speaker 32: should aspire to be.
Speaker 33: The level of.
Speaker 32: She's absolutely phenomenal and absolutely congratulations to this just juggernaut
Speaker 32: of a creator and all of the kudos and love.
Speaker 2: Well there we have it. I really hope that people
Speaker 2: take this as a moment to not only look at
Speaker 2: alex Heller Nicholas's work, but also Sergio Mims's work and
Speaker 2: all those people that are just out there constantly praising
Speaker 2: her work. And it's a lot to praise because I
Speaker 2: cannot name anybody more prolific in home video than Alexander.
Speaker 2: Because I swear every week of my show I mentioned
Speaker 2: her name a number of times, and that is awesome.
Speaker 2: But holy hell, Alexandra, take a break sometimes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this is you know people like her
Speaker 5: are the reason why the people like you get into
Speaker 5: this like we do, people like you know myself and
Speaker 5: Steve with the podcast. She's come up probably at some
Speaker 5: point in every single episode we've done in some capacity.
Speaker 5: Like that's the level of influence. And I can't encourage
Speaker 5: people enough to if you haven't seen her work or
Speaker 5: heard her voice, seek it out and find out. I'm
Speaker 5: sure it's on your shelves somewhere.
Speaker 2: Not only somewhere, And many of the releases, I do
Speaker 2: want to say Alexandra is approachable, and I think that's
Speaker 2: one of the most important thing. On so many of
Speaker 2: these releases. Chris and I have both been championing the
Speaker 2: idea of physical media being education and I really hope
Speaker 2: people embrace that for years to come. On that note,
Speaker 2: let's get back to some of our other pieces. We
Speaker 2: were just talking about packaging and steelbook and of course
Speaker 2: what goes hand in hand with that but great artwork.
Speaker 2: So let's cover the best artwork of the year.
Speaker 12: Hello. My name is Will Dodson. I'm a writer and
Speaker 12: a media studies professor, and I am delighted to be
Speaker 12: presenting the award for Best Artwork the nominees.
Speaker 5: Are altered States four K by Richie Beckett, Criterion Collection,
Speaker 5: The Deadly Spawned four K by Wes Ben Scoter, Synapp's Films,
Speaker 5: Freaked four K by Thomas Nicolette, Umbrella Entertainment, A History
Speaker 5: of Violence four K by Connor Williamson, Criterion Collection, a
Speaker 5: newly four K Michael Deforge cinematograph.
Speaker 12: And the winner of the Creator's Selection Committee is altered
Speaker 12: States for the Criterion Collection. The winner of the community
Speaker 12: vote is altered States Criterion Collection.
Speaker 38: Damn, Okay, that's abstely wild. Wow, that's crazy, man.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm so.
Speaker 13: Hoestly, like I live.
Speaker 38: Kind of outside of that world in many ways, with
Speaker 38: like his comedia stuff, I'm like such a sort of
Speaker 38: led eye in these ways.
Speaker 2: I felt like.
Speaker 38: When we put out that Criterion Ought and I saw
Speaker 38: all the other incredible artwork that was coming out even
Speaker 38: just in that way, even continuously, you know, like I was,
Speaker 38: it was a big deal making it. And then when
Speaker 38: I saw it come out, you know, I saw how
Speaker 38: much other incredible art was going on in that.
Speaker 13: And which is really exciting to see.
Speaker 38: I guess my point in that is like I don't, yeah,
Speaker 38: I don't know how how it lands with every with
Speaker 38: everyone else collectively amongst all of the other incredible artists
Speaker 38: out there.
Speaker 7: You know, that's amazing.
Speaker 38: Thank you, Thank you to anyone who had any part
Speaker 38: in doing or making this put none in that way.
Speaker 11: That's extremely extremely cool.
Speaker 38: I don't feel like i've ever I haven't really been
Speaker 38: awarded anything in that way before, So yeah, I kind
Speaker 38: of learning thinking that's extremely cool. You know, I come
Speaker 38: from a time of sort of like going to the
Speaker 38: video store. I don't even now use Blu rays and
Speaker 38: DVDs and things like that, Like I don't even have
Speaker 38: really physical media myself I have. I come from, you know,
Speaker 38: I grew up going to the video store buying something
Speaker 38: very much based the packaging was so integral to what
Speaker 38: I was taking home with me and the decisions I
Speaker 38: made about what I was going to watch. And going
Speaker 38: into to the video store, you'd go with an idea
Speaker 38: of what you wanted to get, but invariably you would
Speaker 38: go in it was someone else who you had it out,
Speaker 38: and they only had three copies, so then you'd have
Speaker 38: to go for a wild card option, and that would
Speaker 38: very often be based on what the artwork was and
Speaker 38: I also feel that in that era, the artwork often
Speaker 38: was not entirely representation of exactly what the film was,
Speaker 38: even you know, it's as kind of a step away
Speaker 38: from it. I always think of it like the idea
Speaker 38: of what the art would be if you were telling
Speaker 38: your friend about the film. You know, this is what
Speaker 38: this film is. So if it comes to me to
Speaker 38: then make art represent a film, whether it's a poster
Speaker 38: or whether it's packaging, like this, I wanted to look
Speaker 38: like what you'd tell your mate the film was, you know,
Speaker 38: not just a picture of even depicting a specific moment
Speaker 38: necessarily from it, but maybe something's just a bit more
Speaker 38: of a fantastical take on it, you know, with that
Speaker 38: move with alted status. It's already such a visually stunning
Speaker 38: film with so many visual like when I was asked
Speaker 38: to do it, immediately I jumped at the chance, just
Speaker 38: thinking like, oh, yeah, this is this is the perfect
Speaker 38: film that I would want to do, because it's just
Speaker 38: just that Cameraussell had so many crazy ideas with it
Speaker 38: and pulled in so many incredible visual ideas into one place.
Speaker 38: And then I was kind of overwhelmed for a minute
Speaker 38: of what I was going to do with it because
Speaker 38: there were kind of too many options, but yeah, I
Speaker 38: just wanted something really kind of explosive really for the cover,
Speaker 38: So I drew the whole thing on a scrape on
Speaker 38: like a scraperboard and a clayboard, so it's all actually
Speaker 38: just it's not drawn in pen and ink like I would
Speaker 38: normally do. It's actually just scraped into a black scraper
Speaker 38: board that reveals white underneath with it like this little
Speaker 38: old we advantage tool that I use. But I kind
Speaker 38: of discovered a new process on this piece. Specifically, I'd
Speaker 38: always been obsessed with Bob Peak, who did like all
Speaker 38: of the Excalibur art Arrow Video put out recently, the
Speaker 38: excal of It set with and the thing I love
Speaker 38: about it, they actually just used all of his art.
Speaker 38: They just printed all of it, which is incredible because
Speaker 38: no one needs to ever revisit that film in that
Speaker 38: way because it's he That's not my favorite art of
Speaker 38: all time for a film, you know, But I always
Speaker 38: wanted to do something with that because he has all
Speaker 38: of those bright shods of light in it, and it's
Speaker 38: a very specific thing, and I was like, if I
Speaker 38: can smash that together with my pen and ink work,
Speaker 38: and with the visuals of Alted States, and that was
Speaker 38: the vision for it really, so it's like that inspired
Speaker 38: by Bob Peek, but then trying to put that through
Speaker 38: the filter of a completely different style because he used airbrush,
Speaker 38: so for airbrushing, all of that makes complete sense to
Speaker 38: have these shods of light flowing around, and it doesn't
Speaker 38: really lend itself to pen and ink, but somehow I
Speaker 38: found a way to. Yeah, I feel like I discovered
Speaker 38: something new for myself on that project.
Speaker 2: I get something so nice as part of this community
Speaker 2: to see an artist that doesn't ever get to talk
Speaker 2: about these doesn't get notified that like people even like
Speaker 2: this stuff. He kept going on and on with me
Speaker 2: about how he's not into the technology side of things,
Speaker 2: so he is so part of the pun here but
Speaker 2: disconnected from the entire home video industry. And seeing him
Speaker 2: like immediately get emotional when I told him the community
Speaker 2: voted for him to win. I man, it meant so
Speaker 2: much in that moment that I love that he could
Speaker 2: do that. And then to hear so much, like what
Speaker 2: else are we going to hear about the process of
Speaker 2: him creating a brand new process to make this art?
Speaker 2: It was so cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and I mean the most recent Criterion sale.
Speaker 5: I didn't even really learn to appreciate the Altered States
Speaker 5: cover until it was next to and alongside a bunch
Speaker 5: of other Criterion titles, and I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 5: this stands out. And I also just want to shout
Speaker 5: out because I know it got a lot of criticism,
Speaker 5: but the History of Violence artwork is so good, so
Speaker 5: good in contrast to the movie, and it got such
Speaker 5: a like a harsh reaction upon the announcement, and I
Speaker 5: felt like I was on the few that was like, dude,
Speaker 5: this fits so well in some weird way. And that's
Speaker 5: another one that looks great on the shelf as well.
Speaker 2: I agree. One thing that I love, of course, is
Speaker 2: all the on disc supplements. So that's the next portion
Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about. I'm going to do
Speaker 2: the first category, which is going to be Best Interview,
Speaker 2: and right after this one we'll get into our next giveaway.
Speaker 2: So let's cover the best Interview from twenty twenty five.
Speaker 34: Okay, okay, thanks for sitting down with us today. Welcome
Speaker 34: to the twenty twenty six Shelf Shock Rewind Awards. Now,
Speaker 34: for the record, can I have you state your name?
Speaker 8: Sure, I'm Dustin Putman.
Speaker 34: And what would you say you're best known for in
Speaker 34: the creative space.
Speaker 8: Well, I've been a film critic for literally decades. Lord
Speaker 8: help me. I'm the author of the book The Fright
Speaker 8: File one hundred and fifty Films to See Before Halloween. Well,
Speaker 8: I've been fortunate enough to appear as a guest on
Speaker 8: several different film related podcasts and YouTube shows these last
Speaker 8: few years. And oh, and coming up, I contributed an
Speaker 8: essay to New Way Videos upcoming Blu Ray release of
Speaker 8: Narico's Dinner Table.
Speaker 17: Wow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did not ask you all that.
Speaker 34: Oh, can you tell me the category you're presenting?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure thing. I'll be presenting the award
Speaker 8: for Best New Interview and the nominees are.
Speaker 5: Kicking against the Pricks. Interview with John Waters cecil b
Speaker 5: Demented Umbrella Entertainment interview with Mikey Madison. A Nora four
Speaker 5: K criterion collection conversation between Reiner and actor Patton Oswald.
Speaker 5: This is Spinal Tap four K Criterion collection, The Horror
Speaker 5: of Normality. Germel del Toro on Possession, Possession, four K
Speaker 5: Second Sight Films, Wild and Woody. A new Video interview
Speaker 5: with actor Willem Dafoe, New Rose Hotel Cinematograph.
Speaker 12: What an amazing lineup? Can you tell us the winners?
Speaker 13: Sure?
Speaker 8: Can. I'm so happy to announce the winners for Best
Speaker 8: New Interview, as voted on by the Creator Selection Committee
Speaker 8: and the community are one and the same, and the
Speaker 8: winner is the Horror of Normality Guerma del Toro on Possession.
Speaker 8: Possession four K from Second Site Films. Congratulations on this
Speaker 8: great honor.
Speaker 13: Excellent.
Speaker 34: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 8: Oh? Yeah, sure, just three more things. Number One, the
Speaker 8: Academy clearly wasn't ready for Possession in nineteen eighty one. Two,
Speaker 8: the film is actually about divorce. And three all hail
Speaker 8: the octopus. Thank you.
Speaker 17: Now amazing. GMO is an absolute legend, and he was
Speaker 17: kind enough to take us for tea and scones in
Speaker 17: London when he was doing a location Wreki for Frankenstein
Speaker 17: and Yeah, he heared that we were putting out Possession
Speaker 17: and he was like, please put me on the disc.
Speaker 17: I need to talk about this film. I love it,
Speaker 17: And he was true to his word.
Speaker 2: Any story about Gearble del Toro treating somebody too good?
Speaker 2: Tea and Scones is like, we gotta have we gotta
Speaker 2: have that id here. I love that Philip shared.
Speaker 5: That instant envy for me. Like the moment he said it,
Speaker 5: I was like, God, how man I want that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Could you imagine tea and scones with Gearable del
Speaker 2: Toro talking about possession? Isn't that like a perfect Sunday?
Speaker 31: I don't know.
Speaker 5: If I could eat, like, I don't know, if I
Speaker 5: could drink and eat, I'd have to just I would
Speaker 5: forget and I'd just be staring into his eyes listening.
Speaker 2: Story of my life. I am so glad to see
Speaker 2: that Garble del Toro got some recognition as a big
Speaker 2: champion of physical media. I think it's an important part
Speaker 2: of having him on there. But you know what, another
Speaker 2: perfect Sunday is winning some physical media. I am giving
Speaker 2: away a stack of my own releases, things that I
Speaker 2: can part with for mine And so for this next one,
Speaker 2: I'm not sharing the titles. Just send me an email
Speaker 2: at shelf shock Rewind at gmail dot com if you
Speaker 2: can answer this question first that Chris is about.
Speaker 5: All right, this is this is for you all horny
Speaker 5: folks out there. What year did the Mitchell brothers open
Speaker 5: their famous Oh farh theater.
Speaker 2: This is another one that should be pretty obvious.
Speaker 5: When I learned this information when I was diving into
Speaker 5: the box, and I was like, of course it is yep.
Speaker 2: Chris was close on that one. But our winner is
Speaker 2: already Robert Francis. It is nineteen sixty nine. Robert, you
Speaker 2: have one. Of course, it's nineteen sixty nine. Of course, Robert.
Speaker 2: Send me an email shelf shock rewind at gmail dot com,
Speaker 2: and I will send you a stack of my own
Speaker 2: physical media all for you to love and appreciate, and
Speaker 2: I can give it a good home.
Speaker 17: Just nice.
Speaker 2: I mean, we got to say that right, like there it.
Speaker 5: Is, yeah, very nice. Yeah, you know, it's what I
Speaker 5: read that I went into this like whole Mitchell Brother's
Speaker 5: history dive, and that was the one thing that I
Speaker 5: was like, oh sixty nine, all right, all right.
Speaker 2: As somebody has already texted me saying it looks like
Speaker 2: somebody else commented first, just a heads up, it did
Speaker 2: not come first on our screen. That was the first one.
Speaker 2: We do have multiple streams watching, so somebody could be
Speaker 2: on another channel. My wife is saying, hey, a e
Speaker 2: stand comments at first. Actually know on the other stream,
Speaker 2: it was somebody else. I promise there are multiple places
Speaker 2: that we're getting comments from. But as we're talking about
Speaker 2: Adult fair and the Mitchell Brothers, let's send it over
Speaker 2: to somebody that appreciates some more of that, and maybe
Speaker 2: hear from somebody that worked on some adult films. Here
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 13: Hi.
Speaker 31: My name is Rachel Belboar and I write non visual
Speaker 31: essays for the website Comic Con. I also have a
Speaker 31: regular column and the Physical Media Advocate. Today however, I
Speaker 31: am here with my co presenter Chucky, present the award
Speaker 31: for Best Visual Essay. Visual essays are fantastic. It's a
Speaker 31: really cool bonus feature. Hopefully Morley, we'll get on that train.
Speaker 31: But like seeing Chuck you without hearing Brad Door's voice,
Speaker 31: that's a cool opportunity to actually get to hear from
Speaker 31: writers and experts whose work you probably already read, but
Speaker 31: now you get to find out what they sound like.
Speaker 31: And on the creator's side, you get to find out
Speaker 31: that certain actors' names that you've been saying in your
Speaker 31: head for years, you've been pronouncing them wrong, or maybe
Speaker 31: that's the meat problem. I'm a writer, but I certainly
Speaker 31: appreciate what goes in the visual essays of editing. There's
Speaker 31: finding clips, there's making sure you can use the clips.
Speaker 31: Because of copyright, visual essays awesome deserve all the attention
Speaker 31: and that's why we're giving them on award tonight. So
Speaker 31: without further ado, the nominees of Best Visual Essay are.
Speaker 5: Heiro Scuro, The Double Life of Antonio di Algasino by
Speaker 5: Ian Higbee, Eva Man Macagro, Sailor, Suits and Sound by
Speaker 5: Philip Jeffries, School in the Crosshairs cult Epics from Lethal
Speaker 5: Weapons to Nice Guys by Lee Singer, The Nice Guy's
Speaker 5: four K second Sight Films, Technological Oblivion and Transcendence by
Speaker 5: Suzanne Boland, rubbers Lover, New Wave Video, Ugly People Doing
Speaker 5: Ugly Things Wes Craven and The Fireworks Woman Saga Joseph Madrid.
Speaker 5: The Fireworks Woman Quality x Melusine.
Speaker 31: The winner of this year's Best Vicial Essay goes too,
Speaker 31: Thank you, Chuckie. We actually have two winners this year
Speaker 31: from the creative Selection committee. We have Kamalisa Weapons to
Speaker 31: Nice Guys by Lee Singer and that appeared on Second
Speaker 31: Site's blu ray release of The Nice Guys.
Speaker 30: Congratulations, and from the community side, we have ugly people
Speaker 30: doing ugly things. Birth Craven and the Fireworks Women saga
Speaker 30: like Jesseph Magic and that appeared on Melusine's Belief of
Speaker 30: Fireworks Women. Congratulations see both.
Speaker 17: Oh wow, what an honor.
Speaker 39: That's very lovely to hear.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay.
Speaker 39: So I've been working with Second Sight for good last
Speaker 39: few years and they are a great, you know, boutique
Speaker 39: distribution company here. I think they do absolutely beautiful box
Speaker 39: sets and special editions, and so it's been a real
Speaker 39: thrill to kind of pitch video essays or visual essays
Speaker 39: to go you know along there. They have a great
Speaker 39: usually a great roster of extras that they put onto
Speaker 39: their features, and so, you know, it's the idea is
Speaker 39: always trying and come up with something that you know,
Speaker 39: gives a bit of additional insight or analysis or commentary,
Speaker 39: you know, alongside the booklets and you know the audio comentaries.
Speaker 39: You know, you want it to be its own sort
Speaker 39: of standalone piece. So you know, I've been really fortunate.
Speaker 39: I've done maybe four or five films with them. So
Speaker 39: if I'm working on another one right now, and they
Speaker 39: give you a lot of freedom, so I would like
Speaker 39: to shout out the people at Second Sight who you know,
Speaker 39: obviously Chris Holden who got me involved in the beginning,
Speaker 39: and Philip Escott at the company, who puts in a
Speaker 39: huge amount of work, you know, just getting material because
Speaker 39: obviously the thing with the video essay is you need
Speaker 39: the clips and the films to put together, you know,
Speaker 39: for sort of broadcast quality whatever. But it's you know,
Speaker 39: they give me a great amount of freedom and support,
Speaker 39: so I'm hugely thankful to them. I usually add in
Speaker 39: some additional music. So there's a guy called Joshua Knox
Speaker 39: over in the UK who makes original music. He's on
Speaker 39: if you've got on Instagram some Night's Records, that's him.
Speaker 39: You can check him out there. But I feel that
Speaker 39: adds a lot to it as well when the music
Speaker 39: kicks in. But yeah, I mean it's it's a really
Speaker 39: you know, I make video essays and I've been doing
Speaker 39: that for about ten years or so. I'm a film
Speaker 39: journalist in the UK, but I write still, but video
Speaker 39: work has become, you know, an increasing part of what
Speaker 39: I do and I just find you know, I'm a
Speaker 39: big advocate for the form. I think it it allows
Speaker 39: you to talk about films in a different way. You know,
Speaker 39: the very fact that you're seeing stuff rather than trying
Speaker 39: to describe what you're seeing in a written medium. And
Speaker 39: I look at it as filmmaking. You know, it's with
Speaker 39: I would say, with a small f, because you're using
Speaker 39: other people's beautifully produced you know, shots, you know, scored
Speaker 39: beautifully active, beaut if you're in. But if you're doing
Speaker 39: it well, I think there's an element of filmmaking. You know,
Speaker 39: a script and your own music, and you know how
Speaker 39: you cut stuff together tempo, rhythm, et cetera. Obviously what
Speaker 39: you want to say about something. And for me, it's
Speaker 39: sort of reinvigorated my whole kind of journalistic practice. And
Speaker 39: The Nice Guys is a favor of mine.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Lee is an incredible talent and his video essays
Speaker 17: always deliver. And I know he went all out on
Speaker 17: The Nice Guys. It took him a while. He was
Speaker 17: really smugging away at that and yeah, it's great to
Speaker 17: see him rewarded for the hard work to put into that.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 40: Uh uh, Yeah, that's wild man. Who would have ever
Speaker 40: thought that I would get an award for talking about
Speaker 40: Wes Craven's Lost porn movie that's a that's a unique distinction.
Speaker 13: I think all this came.
Speaker 40: About was I gotta I got a call from my
Speaker 40: friend Elijah Drenner, who works for Vinegar Syndrome. He had
Speaker 40: had read the book that I wrote, The Soul of
Speaker 40: West Craven, which is a critical biography, and it has
Speaker 40: a whole chapter on the Fireworks Woman. He said, you know,
Speaker 40: we'd love to have you record something for this Blu
Speaker 40: Ray release. We're putting out the original, theat trial cut
Speaker 40: of The Fireworks Woman, which I had not seen at
Speaker 40: that point. So that was exciting news for me. You know,
Speaker 40: I duck up a lot of information on the Fireworks
Speaker 40: Woman when I was researching the book, but it was
Speaker 40: kind of bits and pieces. There were certain people who
Speaker 40: didn't want to talk about it for you know, maybe
Speaker 40: obvious reasons, and you know, it took some real digging.
Speaker 40: And the big discovery came about because of a conversation
Speaker 40: I had with Roy Frumkus, who was a friend of
Speaker 40: Wes's in the mid seventies and and who is also
Speaker 40: part of the Blu Ray release of The Fireworks Woman.
Speaker 40: There's an interview with him on there, and he just
Speaker 40: kind of casually mentioned at one point we were talking.
Speaker 40: You know, Wes wrote this script for this film and
Speaker 40: one of the people he shared it with was Norman Mailer,
Speaker 40: who was also working on some films in the same
Speaker 40: post house in New York where Wes was working, and
Speaker 40: so he showed the script to Norman Mailor. Mailer supposedly
Speaker 40: liked it. You know, that was just sort of a
Speaker 40: fun anecdote. But being the nerd that I am, you know,
Speaker 40: I have this habit of going down rabbit holes. So
Speaker 40: I just said, you know, I wonder where Mailer's literary
Speaker 40: papers are, and I wondered if there's any chance that
Speaker 40: he held on to this script and that this this
Speaker 40: script might be floating around in Norman Mailer's papers. So,
Speaker 40: you know, I went to the finding aid for the
Speaker 40: Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and sure enough, there
Speaker 40: it was The Fireworks Man script by Wes Craven and
Speaker 40: Roger Murphy. So, you know, I thought there was a
Speaker 40: real opportunity when Elijah came to me and said, we're
Speaker 40: putting out the theatrical cut for the first time. This
Speaker 40: is a cut of the film that unless you saw
Speaker 40: The Fireworks Woman in the theater in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 40: You weren't going to have seen this cut, you know.
Speaker 40: I'd seen the VHS cut, the VHS cuts all over
Speaker 40: the internet, you know, but it's shorter, and some of
Speaker 40: the more controversial and interesting moments of the film we're
Speaker 40: not in it. So I thought, here's a here's a
Speaker 40: really interesting opportunity to talk about what Wes's original plan
Speaker 40: for the film was, what he wrote down, what's in
Speaker 40: the script, and to do kind of a compare contrast
Speaker 40: with the theatrical cuts, so two different kind of versions
Speaker 40: of the story that you know, really until this this release,
Speaker 40: people didn't know. I mean, you can go to the
Speaker 40: Harry Ransom Center if you want read the script. It's there,
Speaker 40: but I figure most people probably aren't going to do that.
Speaker 40: So I thought it was exciting to to talk about,
Speaker 40: you know, Wes's story in its in its purest form.
Speaker 41: Uh.
Speaker 40: And that's and that's really what the guys at Vinegar
Speaker 40: Syndrome and Melosine, that's what they put out. You know,
Speaker 40: I'm grateful that this version of the film exists. I'm
Speaker 40: grateful to be a part of it, and I appreciate
Speaker 40: that you're drawing attention to it, and then it's been
Speaker 40: so well received.
Speaker 2: This man wrote, what is the best way to say this,
Speaker 2: like an exhaustive history of Wes Craven, and we got
Speaker 2: him as part of the show to talk about his
Speaker 2: long lost adult movie. And that's just beautiful to me,
Speaker 2: like the fact that he started this with a sentiment
Speaker 2: of like, haha, what are you doing awarding me for that?
Speaker 2: But we get this really wonderful story about like film
Speaker 2: history surrounding Norman Mayler and Wes Craven and that is,
Speaker 2: you know, a part of many of our shelves. Now,
Speaker 2: that's that's just amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean that book is incredible. But I
Speaker 5: adore visual essays because to me, beyond studio releases and
Speaker 5: making of documentaries, that's the gateway for people. I think
Speaker 5: that's the easiest starting point for a lot of people
Speaker 5: because there's a visual component and then from there, getting
Speaker 5: into like interviews and audio commentaries are kind of the
Speaker 5: next step. But I feel like that's kind of where
Speaker 5: my deeper foray began. It was like, I'm really into
Speaker 5: documentaries really in the the making of stuff, started discovering
Speaker 5: visual essays and then that kind of opened the door
Speaker 5: for like, I think I can sit down in a
Speaker 5: couch or on my couch and listen to an hour
Speaker 5: and a half interview, And then that turned into let
Speaker 5: me watch the movie four times with three different commentary tracks,
Speaker 5: and now it's led to me where I am now
Speaker 5: an absolute sociopath.
Speaker 2: So yes, all of us that love physical media are sociopaths.
Speaker 2: One way that you could join us and be a
Speaker 2: sociopath is by enjoying the written essays that get a
Speaker 2: lot of work put into them. Some of them will
Speaker 2: just blow your mind. There were ones that were not
Speaker 2: nominated this year that are some of the best things
Speaker 2: that I've read in years. They came out in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, and I really hope people are cracking open
Speaker 2: there like a limited editions, actually reading the books cover
Speaker 2: to cover. Check them out. If you love a movie,
Speaker 2: you will love it even more after reading up on
Speaker 2: the context behind it. And shout out to a dear
Speaker 2: friend and previous co host of this very award show
Speaker 2: to tell us who won for Best Newly Written Essay.
Speaker 42: Oh hello, good evening. My name is Celeste Leacabro. You
Speaker 42: may know me from this very channel or even previous
Speaker 42: iterations of this very award show. You may also know
Speaker 42: me from my YouTube channel, appropriately entitled Celeste Lacabro. You
Speaker 42: may also also know me from my essays that I've
Speaker 42: produced for discs from Deaf Crocodile, a new wave video.
Speaker 42: You may also also know me from my segment fifteen
Speaker 42: Minutes with You on the Punk Vacation podcast, reviewing classic
Speaker 42: and contemporary erotic cinema. You may also also know me
Speaker 42: from my general propensity to piss off Zack Sniner perverts, Republicans, fascists,
Speaker 42: and centrists on the Internet, such as my Want. I'm
Speaker 42: here with the distinct honor to present the award for
Speaker 42: Best New Written Essay. You know there's a bit of
Speaker 42: a written essayist myself. I know a thing or two
Speaker 42: about the written word. I have explored its power and
Speaker 42: its seduction intimately and thoroughly. I have and will always
Speaker 42: advocate for the written essays to not be marginalized to
Speaker 42: the limited edition.
Speaker 4: Only.
Speaker 42: The writing that my fellow critics and historians create is valuable.
Speaker 42: I'm happy to be a part of celebrating them. Without
Speaker 42: all being said, the nominees for Best New Written Essay
Speaker 42: are as follows.
Speaker 5: The Eva Man Films by Ismail Fernandez, Eva Man Manda Macabre,
Speaker 5: The Innkeepers by Heather Wickson, The Innkeeper's four K second
Speaker 5: site Films, On Possession by Elena Alazak, Possession four K
Speaker 5: second site Films, Twisted Issues by Heather Drain, Twisted Issues,
Speaker 5: Saturn's Core Audio and Video, The Sadness by Michelle Kisner,
Speaker 5: The Sadness four k ero video.
Speaker 42: And the award their best New Written Essay goes to
Speaker 42: On Possession by Ellen Alazak from Appropriately the second Site
Speaker 42: limited deluxe edition of Possession, my second favorite film of
Speaker 42: all time and my favorite release of the year. I'm
Speaker 42: very happy to have presented this. Congratulations Elena, thank you
Speaker 42: for all your wonderful work, and uh goot out Isabella
Speaker 42: Johnny forgets.
Speaker 17: Yeah. Elena is a force of nature and when it
Speaker 17: comes to horror and Artautara, she is one of the
Speaker 17: best to do it, so very well deserved.
Speaker 2: Want to shout out women who are brilliant. Lots of
Speaker 2: women nominated in this category, Lots of women nominated for
Speaker 2: visual essay for our I think it was a visual essay,
Speaker 2: but commentaries were about to see in just a moment.
Speaker 2: Women are truly incredible in this field and do not
Speaker 2: get enough attention. And for that note, I did want
Speaker 2: to point out that as we honored Alexander Heller Nicholas earlier.
Speaker 2: I didn't know this, but she was watching live as
Speaker 2: we were sharing that video with the world and she
Speaker 2: was emailing me. I invited her to come on, but
Speaker 2: she said she was too emotional after this and said
Speaker 2: that she truly loved the support and just want to
Speaker 2: say thank you to everybody that has given her love
Speaker 2: in the chat because it meant a lot to her.
Speaker 2: So that means a lot to me, the fact that
Speaker 2: people are watching this and care, so thank you, Alexandra.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. And I really need people to crack
Speaker 5: open their books when they get these releases. I feel
Speaker 5: like that's the last thing people go to and read
Speaker 5: them cover to cover and pay attention to who's writing them.
Speaker 5: Read them twice three times if you have to, to
Speaker 5: fully understand and take in the information. But please open
Speaker 5: them up and appreciate them, because some of the best
Speaker 5: work you will ever read on a film are hiding
Speaker 5: in that thing you're afraid to open.
Speaker 2: So some of the other places that you'll find a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff in audio commentaries and now you and
Speaker 2: I are somebody that will sit here, listen to an
Speaker 2: audio commentary and take a bunch of notes. But I
Speaker 2: love to see the right people get commendation for the
Speaker 2: amount of work that they're putting into these So let's
Speaker 2: cover the best audio commentary of the year.
Speaker 43: Hey, physical media lovers, this is Stephen from Beyond the
Speaker 43: Blood podcast, where we discuss our favorite horror films and
Speaker 43: dissect the audio commentaries behind them. Last year was a
Speaker 43: massive win for physical media. We had a number of
Speaker 43: boutique labels that delivered incredible four K restorations, stack special features,
Speaker 43: and thought full audio commentaries that reminded us why we collect.
Speaker 5: Alexandra Heller, Nicholas and Alison Taylor Possession four K Second
Speaker 5: Sight Films, Frank Sebastiano and Mike Hunchback, Dirty Work four
Speaker 5: K Vinegar Syndrome, Arna Venomma and Mike Leader Inflatable Sex,
Speaker 5: To All the Wastelands, def Crocodile, Sam Deagan, Altered State's
Speaker 5: four K Criterion Collection, Willow Caitlyn McLay and Kaden Mark Gardner,
Speaker 5: Eva Man, Manda Micagery.
Speaker 43: I'm honored to be announcing the winners for Best New
Speaker 43: Audio commentary. The Creators Selection Committee winner is Alexander Heller
Speaker 43: Nicholas and Alison Taylor for the Possession for k Rel
Speaker 43: from Second Save Films, and the Community winner is Sam
Speaker 43: Degan for the Altered Stage four kre release from the
Speaker 43: Criterion Collection. Two incredible selections and a reminder of why
Speaker 43: physical media and the voices behind it matters so much.
Speaker 43: Audio commentaries keep these films alive, deep in the experience
Speaker 43: and connect us to the art in a whole new way.
Speaker 43: I'm Stephen from Beyond the Blood and I'll catch you
Speaker 43: guys on the next episode.
Speaker 44: Well, I don't know about Ali, but I'm absolutely tickled pink.
Speaker 44: And as much as I would like to take credit
Speaker 44: for this, I think it's really worth pointing out that
Speaker 44: I was really there to kind of facilitate Ali, who
Speaker 44: literally wrote the book on Possession is.
Speaker 45: I will accept sharing this.
Speaker 44: Prize, this award, but it's really Ali and her amazing
Speaker 44: film brain. And I guess Ali, your dedication to this
Speaker 44: film extends to the point that you're doing this video
Speaker 44: while you're in Berlin.
Speaker 17: I mean it just felt right. It felt right.
Speaker 37: No, I think I was coming on here to say
Speaker 37: the opposite, which is. I think a lot of credit
Speaker 37: goes to Alex and the joy of lighting a bong
Speaker 37: for Bob I will never forget. But yeah, I'm in Berlin,
Speaker 37: which is just so fitting. I've just come a couple
Speaker 37: of hours ago from checking out the Red Carpet. I
Speaker 37: stood there in the rain with my little hood on
Speaker 37: and got absolutely soaked, but it was well worth it.
Speaker 13: And then I.
Speaker 37: Get to come back and talk about Possession. What a
Speaker 37: dream come true. I'm a film nerd heaven right now.
Speaker 37: But yeah, I'm super super stoked and very happy that
Speaker 37: we got voted for.
Speaker 17: That's so kind.
Speaker 37: I'm just a film nerd doing what film nerds do.
Speaker 7: And you do it so well.
Speaker 44: We Chris and Phil and you know the great Daniel
Speaker 44: Byrd of course in Possession or roads lead back to Daniel. Yes,
Speaker 44: so I'll be They're very much a part of this story.
Speaker 44: Like we quite literally wouldn't have done this commentary without
Speaker 44: those people being involved. Sorry, Daniel in particular, is you
Speaker 44: know somebody that I know that we're both immensely grateful
Speaker 44: to for a whole.
Speaker 17: Bunch of reasons.
Speaker 44: Yeah, thank you. So we're so tickled. It's really amazing.
Speaker 37: I could not have written that book without without his input.
Speaker 37: He is the Possession expert. Having spent so much time
Speaker 37: with Chiwolski, and so I've learned a great deal from him.
Speaker 37: I've learned a great deal from Alex and yeah, it's
Speaker 37: just it's really exciting. So thank you Ryan.
Speaker 17: Oh excellent, And yeah, they are two actually powerhouses of
Speaker 17: knowledge and they deserve all the acclaim the absolute legend.
Speaker 17: Alex in particular is you know, an absolute legend. And yeah,
Speaker 17: the more she wins, the better of the community is
Speaker 17: because yeah, she deserves all the awards.
Speaker 2: Possession taking it away tonight. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people in the chatter noticing, Yeah, Possession got a lot
Speaker 2: of attention this year, which is great because it came
Speaker 2: out late in the year. But also I understand the
Speaker 2: the ire some people have with that because it has
Speaker 2: been released so so many times. But I know something
Speaker 2: that you and I have talked about before are definitive
Speaker 2: editions and as of this point, there is no reason
Speaker 2: Possession ever needs to be released again unless it's coming
Speaker 2: out in the US because it's not had a good,
Speaker 2: proper current release of it, or like Italy or Germany
Speaker 2: or somewhere like that. You've got a proper Australian release,
Speaker 2: you've got a proper UK release. I think we can
Speaker 2: probably let a rest after that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think it's time. I think it's time
Speaker 5: to start working on something else. So this is the
Speaker 5: definitive release, uh, And I mean it's it's incredible that
Speaker 5: it's getting so much attention because the work behind it
Speaker 5: is years in the making and this was talked about
Speaker 5: so many times over what I feel like has been
Speaker 5: the last three years we knew it was coming from
Speaker 5: Second Site. Everybody had very high hopes for what was
Speaker 5: gonna what was gonna come from it, And I think
Speaker 5: when it got when it when that announcement officially came
Speaker 5: out and people saw what was gonna come, it tickled
Speaker 5: a lot of people in just the right spot, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, what a way.
Speaker 2: To say that about that movie. On that note, I
Speaker 2: think it's probably a good time to head to our
Speaker 2: next giveaway, which is I believe for another Odyssey gift card.
Speaker 2: Is that right? It is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Odyssey Movie Store given away another twenty five dollars
Speaker 5: gift card and kind of themed this one pretty appropriately,
Speaker 5: I think. So whoever spurs is gonna win the gift card.
Speaker 5: Your question is the first recorded audio commentary was on
Speaker 5: a laser disc release in nineteen eighty four. What film
Speaker 5: featured that commentary track.
Speaker 2: I know this has been up to debate for a
Speaker 2: couple people, but it's it's pretty documented that this first
Speaker 2: got it. I Reggie say in nineteen sixty nine, that
Speaker 2: was a good try. Look at that on the immediate
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, since he already won one, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give it to the next person. Sorry, Robert, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna share the love a little bit. Next one was
Speaker 2: Robert Hubbard of this is weird to know this offhand,
Speaker 2: but Robert Hubbard in Kansas over there winning for somebody else.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna give that one to Robert. Sorry
Speaker 2: Robert or the other Robert that is missing out on
Speaker 2: that one. And congratulations. Look Robert's all around. Yes, it
Speaker 2: was a Criterion King Kong release that got the first
Speaker 2: commentary on laser disc. Mister Hubbard, we will get you
Speaker 2: a discount code for twenty five bucks at Odystymovies dot com.
Speaker 2: Robert Francis God dang on the trigger with getting the
Speaker 2: two of them right tonight. The first amazing, very well done.
Speaker 2: That was astonishing. You know, Possession is an incredible release.
Speaker 2: It is a single feature release, and we always, as
Speaker 2: we all saw from somebody commenting earlier, it's not fair
Speaker 2: for sets to compete against single features. So let's discard
Speaker 2: some of those and talk about the best single or
Speaker 2: double feature release of the entire year throughout the entire world.
Speaker 46: Hey, everybody, it's Ryan, co host of the New World
Speaker 46: Pictures podcast, a podcast dedicated to New World Pictures from
Speaker 46: the era of Roger Corman until the nineteen nineties when
Speaker 46: they were doing TV shows and a TV movie starring
Speaker 46: Ricky Schroder directed by Fright Knights Tom Holland.
Speaker 13: It's a real thing. Look it up.
Speaker 46: Anyway, I'm here to discuss the best single or doubles
Speaker 46: of twenty twenty five. And I am so excited because
Speaker 46: I'm a huge tennis fan. I watch Wimbledon every single year.
Speaker 2: And what.
Speaker 46: This isn't for the SPS? Well, how was I supposed
Speaker 46: to know? Ryan's got his hands in literally everything these days?
Speaker 46: How Well, this was ridiculous. Then, okay, so that was.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 46: So the nominees for the best single or double feature release.
Speaker 5: Are the Beyond four K Grindhouse Releasing, Eyes Wide Shut
Speaker 5: four K Criterion Collection, Freaked four K, Umbrella Entertainment, a
Speaker 5: New Leaf four K Cinematograph, Possession four K, Second Slave.
Speaker 46: Films, and the Creator's Selection Committee winner is Possession four
Speaker 46: K from Second Sight, and the Community winner is the
Speaker 46: Beyond four K from Grindhouse Releasing. Congratulations to all. I
Speaker 46: can't think of a better and more deserving winner. So
Speaker 46: well done everyone, even to David Fair who, despite being
Speaker 46: ranked number three, never won a Grand Slam Singles title.
Speaker 46: But let's just go and enjoy some movies.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 17: Yeah, last year was an incredible year for physical media
Speaker 17: as well, so that is a true honor. And yeah,
Speaker 17: we've been huge fans of the film for many, many
Speaker 17: years now and to see it this well embraced is
Speaker 17: really heartwarming. So thank you all guys.
Speaker 25: Wow, that's great. It feels like a single release, but
Speaker 25: really there's three different versions of the movie on the disk,
Speaker 25: which kind of makes it kind of a triple feature
Speaker 25: if you want to look at it like that. But
Speaker 25: that's great too, thank you.
Speaker 2: I feel a little called out in that one from Ryan,
Speaker 2: but I'll accept it. I guess you know what, that dude.
Speaker 5: Phil Scott has spend so much time accepting awards his
Speaker 5: dog left the room. Yeah, this was like I'm done,
Speaker 5: I'm going so I'm going to another room.
Speaker 2: Yeh yeh uh. Yeah that was crazy. Phil has accepted
Speaker 2: so many Worst Night Bob's accepted his his fear Share,
Speaker 2: absolutely ridiculous set of titles to win tonight. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: the the comedy bit of Ryan holding up freaked just
Speaker 2: in the bottom. I thought that was perfect, super super
Speaker 2: great slate of releases in the hard part. Literally all
Speaker 2: of those I could have seen winning and it would
Speaker 2: have been like, yeah, that makes sense. None of those
Speaker 2: are egregious and should it be a part of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I I import a lot. Are you somebody that imports
Speaker 2: a whole lot? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean region Blu ray Player is the best
Speaker 5: purchase I've ever made in my life. I actually think
Speaker 5: probably at this point most of my boutique collection is imported.
Speaker 5: So I would say that's.
Speaker 2: A good question. I wonder what my my ratio has
Speaker 2: got to be? Pretty high.
Speaker 5: I don't even I don't even think you know how
Speaker 5: many movies you own. I don't figure that out.
Speaker 2: At least fourteen. I don't even something.
Speaker 5: We don't even know what's behind you right now. Man,
Speaker 5: I don't even know what's behind you right now.
Speaker 2: The crazy thing is anybody can name a title and
Speaker 2: usually it's within ours reach somehow. And don't bother looking
Speaker 2: at the rest of the room because it is intimidating.
Speaker 5: And your collection is rooms.
Speaker 2: No, it is not. Don't you lie to the country
Speaker 2: like that, right. Speaking of countries, let's head over to
Speaker 2: Germany to find out what the best Region B release
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five was.
Speaker 12: Warning signs of satanic behavior price.
Speaker 1: As wild, gribbly nightmares haunted his sleep.
Speaker 32: Some things you're gonna you're about to see and hear
Speaker 32: might be too graphic.
Speaker 25: Say talk to your children about not talking to strangers,
Speaker 25: and do it today.
Speaker 47: Greetings collect Us creat Us, a beautiful physical media demons.
Speaker 47: Welcome back to the shell Shop.
Speaker 48: Reminder Warts, the only awards show where the real winners.
Speaker 47: Live on our shelves forever. This next category celebrate the
Speaker 47: dark magic.
Speaker 13: Of Region B.
Speaker 47: Yeah, imports, restorations, limited editions, the releases we hunted, waited for,
Speaker 47: and paid too much shipping for.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but we did it anyway because we have no
Speaker 13: self control. And now the moment we all have waited for.
Speaker 47: The nominees for Best Region B Release are.
Speaker 5: The Curse of Frankenstein Hammer Films, The Florida Project four
Speaker 5: K second site Films, Freaked four K Umbrella Entertainment, The
Speaker 5: Nice Guys four K second site Films, Possession four K
Speaker 5: second site Films, Radical Japan Cinema and State nine Films
Speaker 5: by Nagisa Oshima, Radiance Films, Takashi Isishi, four Tales of Nami,
Speaker 5: Third Window Films, When Evil Lurks four K second site Films.
Speaker 47: Welcome back my shelf dwelling Disciples. The votes have been counted,
Speaker 47: the richards copleeded, and the winners are ready to rise
Speaker 47: from their convents. As always, we have two winners, one
Speaker 47: shows by the community and one shows by our Creator Selection.
Speaker 13: Commit the CSC who have accent tas and possibly sleep
Speaker 13: in coffins.
Speaker 47: The winner for Best Region be Released, as chosen by
Speaker 47: the Creator Selection Committee is the Curse of Frankenstein four
Speaker 47: K Hammer Films and Absolute Resurrection Beautiful four K restoration,
Speaker 47: rich colors, glorious Gothic Horror, and Peter Cushing has never
Speaker 47: looked so respectfully and now the winner chosen by the community.
Speaker 47: Oh come on, come on, guys, it's happening again. The
Speaker 47: Curse of Frankenstein four K havemmer.
Speaker 13: Films the double victory.
Speaker 48: I would guess the CSC voted for it, the community
Speaker 48: voted for it. Even the spirits in my media room
Speaker 48: voted for it. They are very into have a film
Speaker 48: and they like that stuff.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 47: So congratulations to helpers for bringing the Curse of Frankenstein
Speaker 47: back to life and stunning four K. Really so good
Speaker 47: a united collect us critics.
Speaker 13: And possibly the underworld and some spirits.
Speaker 47: Hate physical media and remember collect responsibly or don't.
Speaker 13: I'm not your priest. I don't give it.
Speaker 2: Any and our hopes. It's time to say good night.
Speaker 48: We sincerely appreciate your patronage and hope we've succeeded in
Speaker 48: bringing you an enjoyable evening of entertainment.
Speaker 9: Please drive home carefully and come back against you good night.
Speaker 2: With the upset of the night. I do got to say, though,
Speaker 2: I think this is incredibly well deserved for those of
Speaker 2: you that have not picked up the Curse of Frankenstein
Speaker 2: disc from Hammer, and I shouldn't say disc, it is
Speaker 2: I think a six disc release, which is maybe it's
Speaker 2: five some five or six discs. It is absolutely a
Speaker 2: remarkable pickup. The essays in this thing are incredible, just
Speaker 2: an astonishing pick overall. I'm so glad this is out there.
Speaker 2: Did you pick up this box?
Speaker 5: I did not, but I have a few of the
Speaker 5: new Hammer releases, and talk about a company really embracing
Speaker 5: not just the collector fans of theirs, but the just
Speaker 5: journalistic researching side and putting everything on the table out there.
Speaker 5: It's absolutely incredible what they've been doing, and I think
Speaker 5: other studios need to take serious notes because Hammer is
Speaker 5: just continuing to crush it release after release, even beyond
Speaker 5: the big giant ones, even their more minimal ones are
Speaker 5: as expansive as they can possibly be. So I'm glad
Speaker 5: they're getting some attention here well.
Speaker 2: And you and I live in Region A, so many
Speaker 2: of the discs that we pick up are Region A films,
Speaker 2: and the overall presenters for tonight, we're gonna keep it
Speaker 2: to us for Region A. So let's just talk about
Speaker 2: what the nominees are and let's roll that beautiful beaten footage.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 5: A New Leaf four K cinematograph, Dirty Work four K
Speaker 5: vinegar Syndrome Eyes Wide Shut four K Criterion Collection, Sorcerer
Speaker 5: four K Criterion Collection, The Beyond four K Grindhouse releasing
Speaker 5: Anorra four K Criterion collection, Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Speaker 5: four K, Vinegar Syndrome, The Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles four
Speaker 5: K Trilogy, Aero video.
Speaker 2: So this might be the most stacked category of the
Speaker 2: entire night. I had a terribly difficult time picking the
Speaker 2: best one for this one, and funny enough, I kind
Speaker 2: of think I ended up with a New Leaf. I
Speaker 2: think that that one. What was that? That's the one
Speaker 2: I voted for. But let's talk about what did end
Speaker 2: up winning. And the winner for both the CSC and
Speaker 2: the community is why don't you share it?
Speaker 5: The Beyond four K from Grindhouse releasing.
Speaker 2: On Astonishing Release, six disc limited edition set. It is
Speaker 2: a crazy, crazy pickup. Everybody should check that out. Let's
Speaker 2: hear jessicat to Death. Another beautiful one. The cinematograph release
Speaker 2: of a New Leaf, Astonishing dirty work from Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 2: All well and good, but of course, because it's somebody
Speaker 2: that we've seen tonight, we got to have mister Bob
Speaker 2: Raski on to talk about his win for the best
Speaker 2: Region Aid release.
Speaker 25: That's great. I mean when I when I think of
Speaker 25: so many releases that came out last year and from
Speaker 25: and I'm friends with a lot of the label so
Speaker 25: David Gregory at Severn, Joe Rubin at Vinegar Syndrome, Don
Speaker 25: Mayet Synapps, Bill Lustay, Get Blue Underground, I mean, all
Speaker 25: the incredible things that they put out, and you know,
Speaker 25: it's a little overwhelming, and I was afraid with the
Speaker 25: Beyond we would just sort of get lost in the
Speaker 25: shuffle because there were so many good things coming out.
Speaker 25: But yeah, I mean that's something to be really proud
Speaker 25: of as well, So thank you.
Speaker 2: Grindhouse does an absolutely remarkable job on every single one
Speaker 2: of their discs. You can pick up their new one
Speaker 2: right now, which looks insane. I am so excited for
Speaker 2: people to pick that up and go, why did I
Speaker 2: purchase this? Because this is so wild. But the big
Speaker 2: thing is they always award people for purchasing their discs
Speaker 2: because they've got bonus films, They've got bonus features like crazy,
Speaker 2: they've got beyond uh, you know, ridiculous insight on all
Speaker 2: of the extras. I cannot wait for Scarlet Warning six
Speaker 2: to sixty six. It looks insane. Check that out on
Speaker 2: their website now if you are into it. It is
Speaker 2: strictly limited, but one thing that was limited that you
Speaker 2: might be able to win right now, because it's time
Speaker 2: for our next giveaway, Chris, what are we giving away next?
Speaker 5: Ooh okay, so this is coming from me. I kind
Speaker 5: of wanted to, you know, spread some good wealth out
Speaker 5: there and and treat some people to uh to one
Speaker 5: of my favorite box sets of last year. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be giving you away my own copy of the v
Speaker 5: Cinema Essentials Bullets and Betrayal from Aero Video. I bought
Speaker 5: this right from the get go. I did watch every disk.
Speaker 5: I treat my stuff immaculately, I promise, and this is
Speaker 5: an absolutely incredible set, and I kind of want to
Speaker 5: spread the wealth and give it to somebody. Is going
Speaker 5: to answer this next question as perfectly as possible.
Speaker 2: Second obviously, if you already have it, please hold off.
Speaker 2: You don't need to answer and win a second copy.
Speaker 2: So please, if you already have it, let's just let
Speaker 2: other people have a chance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course. So here's your question.
Speaker 5: During a twenty nineteen interview with Howard Stern. Russell Crowe
Speaker 5: wished two of his films would get a sequel. The
Speaker 5: Nice Guys was his first, and what was his second?
Speaker 2: I love The Nice Guys by the way, great movie.
Speaker 2: What is the second Russell Crowe film that he wish
Speaker 2: got a sequel? Answer in the chat, if you're the
Speaker 2: first one to answer, you can win the Aero Video
Speaker 2: v Cinema box set from Chris himself. It was not
Speaker 2: Mastering Commander like two people said immediately, although I gotta
Speaker 2: admit Master and Commander would have made it a pretty
Speaker 2: decent sequel.
Speaker 5: Good sequel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ronzent ropper stopper. Oh my god, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Uh wow, Um, somebody answered, but I'm gonna give it
Speaker 2: to uh Couch Odyssey because the first one to answer
Speaker 2: was my wife. My wife got it right. We already
Speaker 2: had the box set. Good job, baby, but uh couch
Speaker 2: Odyssey has won for the night. LA Confidential is the
Speaker 2: correct answer, and Couch you can go home with that
Speaker 2: beautiful box set. Email me at shelf shock Rewind at
Speaker 2: gmail dot com. Uh, that ropper stopper answer was hilarious,
Speaker 2: absolutely threw me off. And how did my wife just win?
Speaker 48: That.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 13: Uh uh?
Speaker 2: That is amazing. Yeah, you forgot about virtuosity. I bet
Speaker 2: he wants to forget about virtuosity. One thing that we're
Speaker 2: not forgetting about is incredible box sets. So let's check
Speaker 2: out the win for best box Set of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 49: I'm Jordan from the movie Den where I cover horror,
Speaker 49: physical media and getting those special editions that make us
Speaker 49: say I never need to buy another version of this
Speaker 49: film again. I'm here to present the category for best
Speaker 49: box Set, honoring the releases that delivered the full package, presentation,
Speaker 49: restoration and all the extras that are really worth digging into.
Speaker 49: And now here are your nominees.
Speaker 5: Michael Hannickle Collection, Umbrella Entertainment, A Nightmare and Elmstreet four
Speaker 5: K Steal Book Collection, Warner Brothers Shoscope Volume four Ero Video,
Speaker 5: The Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles four K Trilogy, Ero Video,
Speaker 5: The West Anderson Archive Ten Films twenty five Years four
Speaker 5: K Criterion Collection.
Speaker 49: And now we've come to the results for Best box Set.
Speaker 49: Now this category recognizes two winners. One was selected by
Speaker 49: the Creators Selection Committee and the other was a community vote.
Speaker 49: And the winners are the Michael Hannike Collection from Umbrella
Speaker 49: Entertainment and the community winner, We've got a Nymer in
Speaker 49: Elm Street, Steelbook collection from Warner Brothers. Two outstanding releases
Speaker 49: and two excellent reasons to upgrade your shelving.
Speaker 2: Those horror fans, they'll just vote for anything to win.
Speaker 2: I knew that they would get Nightmare on Elm Street. Sadly,
Speaker 2: there's a couple others that I felt like could have
Speaker 2: done very well in this category that I can't put
Speaker 2: my thumb on the scale or anything, but I feel
Speaker 2: like we could have done a little bit better than
Speaker 2: night Mare on Elm Street this time.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the Umbrella collection getting some love is a
Speaker 5: very very very nice kind of mix in there.
Speaker 2: It's it's truly incredible. We got Zach in the chat
Speaker 2: saying it's a huge upset. Not only that, I I
Speaker 2: think it really shows the attention to detail from our
Speaker 2: csc our Creator Selection committee that they are paying attention
Speaker 2: to these releases in a special way. Because that Hannicke
Speaker 2: a box set is special. It is one that if
Speaker 2: you want to have a a I'll say it a
Speaker 2: not great night, but enjoy the cinema that you're watching.
Speaker 2: If you want to feel a major downer, you should
Speaker 2: pick up that Hannic a box set. And if you
Speaker 2: don't pick that one up, you should check out the
Speaker 2: Curzone release in the UK if that might be cheaper. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's get to do what I have.
Speaker 5: I have the Curzon release, and I was having a
Speaker 5: great day until I watched Benny's video on a random
Speaker 5: pick one day and uh, yeah, that was a bad
Speaker 5: night after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see why that. That makes perfect sense
Speaker 2: of a dow. Uh. So let's let's go into the
Speaker 2: actual label recognition now. So one thing that is really
Speaker 2: interesting about labels is there are so many different types
Speaker 2: of labels. They obviously focus on genre, sometimes they focus
Speaker 2: on world cinema, sometimes they focus on certain things. But
Speaker 2: it's kind of easy to break these up into those
Speaker 2: that are releasing around fifteen ish or less releases every
Speaker 2: year and those that are releasing a much larger number
Speaker 2: than that usually. So we have our small slate boutique
Speaker 2: labels and our large slate boutique labels. So let's start
Speaker 2: with these small slate boutiques and let's throw it over
Speaker 2: to that one.
Speaker 50: Hey, everybody, Jason Kleeberg here from the Force five Podcast.
Speaker 50: There are a ton of small slate boutique labels out there,
Speaker 50: and they are doing fantastic work. Whether it is finding
Speaker 50: an old gem that you've never heard of before or
Speaker 50: just sprucing up an old favorite. They're making sure that
Speaker 50: these films look and sound as good as possible with
Speaker 50: sometimes very limited resources. Here are your nominees for the
Speaker 50: best annual slate from a single small slate boutique label.
Speaker 5: Deaf Crocodile, Fun City Editions, Khani Releasing, Second Sight Films,
Speaker 5: Terror Vision.
Speaker 50: All of these nominees deserve your attention, so please check
Speaker 50: them out and support them. But we got to have
Speaker 50: a winner, and this year the Creator Selection Committee winner
Speaker 50: are my homies, Deaf Crocodile. Congratulations, you put out an
Speaker 50: awesome product. I got some of the stars over your
Speaker 50: somewhere behind me, and uh we're not stopping there. We
Speaker 50: got the Community winner. The community winner of the best
Speaker 50: single small slate boutique label goes to Second Site Films.
Speaker 50: Congratulations everybody, Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay.
Speaker 15: I honestly, this year I was just like we had
Speaker 15: two good years, like.
Speaker 5: You know, nothing, nothing's happening this year, which is.
Speaker 15: Fine, Like you know, we're not a new label anymore. People,
Speaker 15: you know, the shininess was worn off. But no, that's
Speaker 15: that's awesome. Thankfully we had to release just the Ship late.
Speaker 14: It just got in under the wire. Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 14: And we buy from all of the other labels as well,
Speaker 14: so that's yeah.
Speaker 2: And I do I.
Speaker 15: Do, I do love this this past years, those fifteen
Speaker 15: titles are pretty darn diverse.
Speaker 2: I do love that.
Speaker 15: You know, we have fans that love our stuff. It
Speaker 15: still does drive me a little crazy that when people
Speaker 15: always are like, yeah, they put out all the Russian
Speaker 15: or Eastern European films, I'm like, yeah, we do do
Speaker 15: a lot of that, but there's.
Speaker 2: So much more. Yeah, and and and and.
Speaker 15: Honestly, and I've said it before and it's worth repeating,
Speaker 15: is is the more exposure you have to all these
Speaker 15: other cultures and all this other cinema, the more you
Speaker 15: realize we're all the same. Like the otherness is just
Speaker 15: it's it's like lines in a map that don't really exist.
Speaker 2: Like, just see.
Speaker 15: More films from all around the world and you'll start
Speaker 15: to understand them, like, oh, yeah, we're we're all just
Speaker 15: kind of the same. We're all telling the same story.
Speaker 17: Well that means yeah, because obviously we're not the most
Speaker 17: prolific label, so we do spend time putting these things
Speaker 17: together and we appreciate everyone's patience. And yeah, that's really touching.
Speaker 17: So thank you all very much.
Speaker 2: Guys, Sorry about that. Came back to early on that
Speaker 2: first one. Congrats to Deaf Crocodile on Second Site, two
Speaker 2: very different companies that are reaching a lot of people
Speaker 2: across the world right now, and gosh, the amount of
Speaker 2: just amazing work from both of those companies should be recognized.
Speaker 2: I am always always stoked to see some recognition for
Speaker 2: both of those companies. Any thoughts on Second Side or
Speaker 2: Deaf Crocodile.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Second Site is one of my favorite labels.
Speaker 5: Their announcements are always very, very like they've become kind
Speaker 5: of like the new event when there's the Second Side
Speaker 5: announcement coming up, because there's not many of them, and
Speaker 5: I feel like when they do come, they hit and
Speaker 5: people want them and they're in demand, and that waiting
Speaker 5: period between hitting the pre order button and it being
Speaker 5: delivered is always when I'm most eager and checking the
Speaker 5: shipping every five minutes, even though I do that all
Speaker 5: the time anyways. But I think the biggest point there
Speaker 5: people need to take home is taking a chance on
Speaker 5: just film from all around the world. Yeah, and taking
Speaker 5: those lessons. I think, you know, if you if you
Speaker 5: limit yourself only to what is coming out in the US, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I think you're really restricting. You know, you're
Speaker 5: you're just restricting yourself. And I feel like you're you're
Speaker 5: only going to do yourself, you know, harm by by
Speaker 5: not reaching out and seeing what else is out there
Speaker 5: and kind of learning different cultures and learning different worldviews.
Speaker 5: And that's why I think these companies are important, because
Speaker 5: they're putting in the work to educate us on this stuff.
Speaker 5: We just need to be the ones to take a
Speaker 5: chance and open our minds and I think we'll be
Speaker 5: better for that.
Speaker 2: Well, on that note, we have a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of large slate boutique labels that are making us
Speaker 2: challenge ourselves with world cinema and trying new things. So
Speaker 2: let's find out the winner of that one.
Speaker 51: Hi, everyone, my name is Michael from the Movie Room.
Speaker 51: At the Movie Room, we celebrate physical media, film collecting
Speaker 51: and the incredible boutique labels that keep film history alive.
Speaker 51: If you share that passion, we'd love for you to
Speaker 51: visit us at the movieroom dot com. It's a genuine
Speaker 51: honor to present the Shelf Shock rewind Award for the
Speaker 51: best annual slate from a single large slate boutique label
Speaker 51: for twenty twenty five, in award recognizing the companies that
Speaker 51: consistently deliver exceptional releases and continue pushing physical media forward.
Speaker 51: These labels prove every month that physical media is not
Speaker 51: only alive, it's thriving. And all of this year's nominees
Speaker 51: represent the very highest level of excellence in boutique film releases.
Speaker 51: And now here are the nominees.
Speaker 5: Aero Video, Criterion Collection, Radiance Films, Umbrella Entertainment, Vinegar Syndrome, and.
Speaker 51: Now the twenty twenty five winners. The Creator Selection Committee
Speaker 51: Award goes to Vinegar Syndrome. I want to personally say
Speaker 51: that I'm a longtime supporter of Vinegar Syndrome and their
Speaker 51: mission of film restoration and preservation. I've been a subscriber
Speaker 51: for ten years in a row and always will be.
Speaker 51: Their dedication to rescuing and restoring cinema is truly unmatched,
Speaker 51: and the community.
Speaker 13: Choice award goes to Arrow Video.
Speaker 51: Arrow is also incredible and I own hundreds of their titles,
Speaker 51: including some of my all time favorites, Vinegar Syndrome. Arrow
Speaker 51: and all the other nominees continue to prove that the
Speaker 51: passion for physical media remains stronger than ever. Thank you
Speaker 51: for allowing me to present this award, and thank you
Speaker 51: to everyone who continues to support boutique labels and physical media.
Speaker 22: Wow Muley, Well, thank you very much everyone. I don't
Speaker 22: know what to say. I mean, we are incredibly fortunate
Speaker 22: to get to do what we do and that people
Speaker 22: are into it and that they keep coming back for more.
Speaker 22: And you know, we're very fortunate that we've developed some
Speaker 22: great relationships with studios and rights holders that trust us
Speaker 22: with that ip, that catalog, and you know, that's why
Speaker 22: a company like Warner or MG will.
Speaker 17: Give us a chance and let us do Teenage.
Speaker 22: Mutant, Ninja Turtles, or The Dollars Trilogy or all these
Speaker 22: these big titles that a few years ago would have
Speaker 22: been crazy to dream that you know, we would have
Speaker 22: ever gotten our chance to gotten the chance to you know,
Speaker 22: do any of those. And yeah, based on what I know.
Speaker 22: Twenty twenty six is going to be even crazier. So
Speaker 22: there's tons of stuff I wish I could tell you,
Speaker 22: but you know, you'll have to wait and see. But
Speaker 22: it's all very exciting. So thank you very very much
Speaker 22: to everyone who voted for us, and you know we'll
Speaker 22: try and keep impressing you and you know, giving you
Speaker 22: more reasons to come back to our video as much
Speaker 22: as we can.
Speaker 2: Jeez. Yeah, thank you. Awesome.
Speaker 52: Yeah, thank you guys for voting for us. Very much
Speaker 52: appreciated from everyone in the you know, restaret, restoration and
Speaker 52: film preservation community, everybody, you know, the fans, everyone who's
Speaker 52: done this, and you know, we can't thank you enough
Speaker 52: for is It's a lot of work, as I'm sure
Speaker 52: other labels know as well, and we at the same time,
Speaker 52: we don't plan on stopping anytime soon either, So very
Speaker 52: excited about this. So thank you very much and stay
Speaker 52: tuned for what's coming out.
Speaker 2: Hell of a year in twenty twenty five for these
Speaker 2: large labels. Any thoughts on VS or Arrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean both well deserved. I'm more shocked that
Speaker 5: Mike from the Movie Room has been a subscriber for
Speaker 5: ten years.
Speaker 2: That's a long time to subscribe to Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 5: That is legendary. Yeah, I mean there's a lot to
Speaker 5: be excited about from every single label. I think Vinegar
Speaker 5: Syndrome and Arrow is just consistently knocking it out of
Speaker 5: the park a with just the wide variety of stuff
Speaker 5: they're putting out. But be you know, the presentation the
Speaker 5: discs are always fantastic, so I think it's very well
Speaker 5: earned on that front.
Speaker 2: I got a shout out Slave to sin Him or
Speaker 2: brought up The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Didn't
Speaker 2: get any numas, but it's one of the best of
Speaker 2: last year. I really agree. I think it got like
Speaker 2: two nominations and it didn't quite get enough to be
Speaker 2: able to be in a list of nominees. I think
Speaker 2: the reason is people looked at all three of the
Speaker 2: trilogy sadly as like one release, and it's kind of hard.
Speaker 2: You can't vote for like the Man with No Name trilogy,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I get it. I wish it would have
Speaker 2: been recognized because they truly are absolutely the astonishing peaks
Speaker 2: of those films for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm s right as the Mask four K didn't
Speaker 5: get any nominations because whoever has watched that it looks
Speaker 5: and sounds phenomenal.
Speaker 2: It looks ridiculous before our next giveaway. I'm always excited
Speaker 2: to hear about new labels crop it up, so let's
Speaker 2: find out who the best new label of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five is.
Speaker 53: Hello, and welcome to another category of the Shelf Shock
Speaker 53: Rewind Awards. My name is Michael Ers, and I am
Speaker 53: the host of the Shameless Picture she podcast. For those
Speaker 53: of you who may not be familiar with my podcast,
Speaker 53: the Shameless Picture Show is built on the concept that everyone,
Speaker 53: no matter who you are, no matter how much of
Speaker 53: a sinophile you are, has a list of shame. It
Speaker 53: was the movies there for whatever reason you have missed
Speaker 53: or not seen. And what we do on our show
Speaker 53: is we watch it together, we discuss it, and we
Speaker 53: have a really open, candid conversation that is filled with
Speaker 53: positivity and has no gatekeeping and no judgmental feelings. So
Speaker 53: keeping with that feeling of positivity, a lot of people
Speaker 53: will try to tell you that physical media is on
Speaker 53: the downswire, but I don't believe that for a second
Speaker 53: because there's more and more boutique labels popping up every
Speaker 53: single year. So I'm here to introduce the nominees for
Speaker 53: the Best New.
Speaker 5: Label Bizarro, Brainstorm Media, Hammer Films, Club, Super eight, New
Speaker 5: Wave Video.
Speaker 53: All right, now that we've seen all those wonderful nominees,
Speaker 53: let's figure out who the best New label is for
Speaker 53: this year.
Speaker 17: So we're gonna do is.
Speaker 53: We're going to consult my shelf, shock rewind top Secret
Speaker 53: VHS case.
Speaker 13: All right, and as voted by the.
Speaker 53: Creator Selection Committee, the winner is Hammer Films, And then
Speaker 53: as voted by the community, the Best New Label is
Speaker 53: also Hammer Films. So thank you very much for watching, guys.
Speaker 53: Make sure you go out and check out Hammer Films.
Speaker 53: And as I always say, I will see you next time.
Speaker 53: Shame time, shame place, shameless pictures show.
Speaker 2: I hope people understand that I try to not reveal
Speaker 2: many of the counts behind it, but this was the
Speaker 2: most lopsided win of the entire night. Hammer Films got
Speaker 2: the vast majority of the votes for this one. Hammer
Speaker 2: obviously been around for decades and decades and decades, but
Speaker 2: as a label, this is a new thing. Glad that
Speaker 2: they were able to come out here and make a huge,
Speaker 2: huge presence be known pretty much immediately, and I think
Speaker 2: that they've done great work and can't wait to see
Speaker 2: what they've got coming out next.
Speaker 44: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my pick would have been new wave video, but
Speaker 5: I hammer absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 2: My pick was a new wave video as well. I
Speaker 2: love John and I love of everything that they're doing.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to share some of the stuff they've
Speaker 2: got coming out. Everybody loves a giveaway. Let's give away
Speaker 2: another stack of movies there, Chris.
Speaker 5: All right, your question is to win a Ryan.
Speaker 2: Stack second of the night. Here we go.
Speaker 5: What was the name of Vinegar Syndrome's streaming service, discontinued
Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: This is what I bet a lot of people know,
Speaker 2: so somebody's gonna get this very quickly. It's not necessarily
Speaker 2: a secret, so I'm sure that this one will be
Speaker 2: something that is just fastest fingers in the West is
Speaker 2: going to win. The winner of this one is going
Speaker 2: to send me an email at shelf shock rewind at
Speaker 2: gmail dot com, and you will get that second pile
Speaker 2: of films. The winner, Travis linthecom Exploitation dot tv, is
Speaker 2: the name of the Vinegar Syndrome streaming service. Travis, send
Speaker 2: me an email shelf shock rewind and at gmail dot com,
Speaker 2: and I will get your address please and I will
Speaker 2: send that to you this week. Congratulations on the win,
Speaker 2: Jeremy said to B that's pretty good. Yea, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: That could also be like full Moon Secondary one. There's
Speaker 5: a lot that could fall into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Uh, let's go into just giving out
Speaker 2: an award for best labels. At this point, we're really
Speaker 2: only focusing on Region A and B. There's not a
Speaker 2: whole lot of like major English friendly Region C label,
Speaker 2: so that's not a common thing. So that's why we
Speaker 2: keep it at A and B. So let's find out
Speaker 2: the winner of the best Region B label anywhere in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 23: Hey, film fans, I am Graham from man V Film.
Speaker 23: I am a hugely nerdy phone fan all the bey
Speaker 23: from Scotland and I love delving into the new boutique
Speaker 23: blurry releases. But there's nothing more satisfying and wrapping open
Speaker 23: a new film, looking at the packaging, putting on the extras,
Speaker 23: and enjoying the amazing transfer of a film that I'm
Speaker 23: just discovering. And for me, the discovery aspect of these
Speaker 23: releases are something that's truly transform intive, really expanding my
Speaker 23: knowledge base and my passion for film, which is why
Speaker 23: I'm here today to talk about the best Region Be
Speaker 23: or label, and the nominees.
Speaker 5: Are Erro Video, Imprint Films, Radiance Films, Second Sight Films,
Speaker 5: Umbrella Entertainment.
Speaker 2: So what is the best Reading be label?
Speaker 17: Heym please?
Speaker 54: The Creative Selection Committee has voted Radiance Films as the
Speaker 54: best region Be label, but the community have chosen as well,
Speaker 54: and their choice as Radiance Films as well well deserved.
Speaker 54: I love their releases. I cover as many as I
Speaker 54: possibly can, and I think they're a label who have
Speaker 54: been running for three years and.
Speaker 11: Done terrific stuff.
Speaker 23: I can wait to see where they're going to bring
Speaker 23: out in their fourth year.
Speaker 2: Well with that, about time we got some love from
Speaker 2: Radiance here. I love that we pull it out at
Speaker 2: the very end of this. Radiance absolutely deserves this incredible label.
Speaker 2: You and I haven't talked much about Radiance. Have you
Speaker 2: picked up much from Radiance? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I have quite a few. I think
Speaker 5: the die Goothic sets are some of my favorite my collection.
Speaker 5: I just picked up a couple of titles at the
Speaker 5: Barnes and Noble fifty percent off sale. You know, Radiance
Speaker 5: is one of those labels that I can blind by
Speaker 5: and be very excited for and have really like high
Speaker 5: confidence that I'm going to enjoy what they're putting out.
Speaker 5: I also just love their presentation, Like I absolutely love
Speaker 5: the OBI strips and stuff. They're one of my favorites. Man,
Speaker 5: They're They're incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. They absolutely are one of the most
Speaker 2: exciting labels out there. I think everything that they do
Speaker 2: is curated to a point where it is inspiring confidence
Speaker 2: in people that love their stuff. So it's exciting love
Speaker 2: that people appreciate them and trust them and put stock
Speaker 2: in what they're putting out. And it showed in the vote.
Speaker 2: So congrats Radiance. That's a big deal. But that's only
Speaker 2: one side of the world. Let's talk about best region
Speaker 2: a label, and for that we go to a face
Speaker 2: you might recognize.
Speaker 55: Greetings everyone out there watching the Shelf Shock Rewind Awards.
Speaker 45: My name is Joe Lynch.
Speaker 41: I'm Beacha Howard, and we.
Speaker 55: Are the hosts of a couple of old fashioned with
Speaker 55: Becca and Joe, the video podcast Four Movie Lovers by
Speaker 55: Movie Lovers, where.
Speaker 45: Each week we come up with a theme.
Speaker 55: We each pick two titles that neither of us knows
Speaker 55: which one. We come here, we talk about what the
Speaker 55: movies are. We then go to that couch watch the movies,
Speaker 55: then come back and discuss if in fact we have
Speaker 55: created the perfect.
Speaker 3: Double feature, especially for date nights.
Speaker 45: Yes, date nights especially.
Speaker 41: You can watch seasons one and two currently available on YouTube,
Speaker 41: or if you're more oratorily inclined, it's also available wherever
Speaker 41: you get your podcasts. But enough shameless plugging of our
Speaker 41: Speaking of shameless, we are here to talk about the
Speaker 41: many beautiful labels and companies that do what we consider
Speaker 41: it to be God's works, cinema gods, cinema gods taking
Speaker 41: titles from the past, from current film lives, forgotten jet
Speaker 41: cult classics and bringing them back to the world in
Speaker 41: beautiful restoration, Blu rays and four k's i E.
Speaker 55: Our favorite movies usually, and as lovers and collectors of
Speaker 55: physical media, we are thrilled to be announcing the nominees
Speaker 55: for the Best Region A Label.
Speaker 41: Yes, sadly, while we love every single one of these
Speaker 41: companies and every piece of work they put out there,
Speaker 41: as in any competition format, that can only ever be
Speaker 41: one winner, but the nominees are all winners in our hearts,
Speaker 41: and here they are.
Speaker 5: Criterion Collection Deaf, Crocodile, keinolrber Severin Films, Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 45: And they are the nominees and the winner.
Speaker 55: Fancy sorting hat right here for the best Region A
Speaker 55: label based on the CSC's voting is.
Speaker 32: We'd all know the.
Speaker 45: Winner, and the winner is Vinegar Syndrome. Are good friends
Speaker 45: at Vinegar Syndrome. Hew the applause. We love Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 45: We have many friends of Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 55: So congratulations to Vinegar Syndrome for those titles. Also, I
Speaker 55: just so happened to have a few Vinegar Syndrome titles
Speaker 55: right here, including the brand new.
Speaker 45: Four K of Trauma's Terra Firmer, which I.
Speaker 55: Am in copious amount of no bias, no, no bias
Speaker 55: at all, but also one of the greatest movies of
Speaker 55: all time.
Speaker 45: Mac and me, Yep, there you go.
Speaker 55: The Vinegar Syndrome knows the classics and they are here
Speaker 55: to bring it to you.
Speaker 37: My god, amazing.
Speaker 41: Yes, of the Best Region A label, as voted on
Speaker 41: by the community is.
Speaker 20: Yeah, what have you been doing to these all?
Speaker 45: I've been quite moist In the physical media.
Speaker 41: Round Criterion Collection.
Speaker 45: Criterion Collection. We love Criterion Collection. We love the closet
Speaker 45: with the channel, but most importantly we love those goddamn oh.
Speaker 41: Yeah, I just so happen to have a few with
Speaker 41: me one just to give you a swath of the
Speaker 41: kind of things they do. Winchester seventy three the very
Speaker 41: first of the Anthony Man James Stewart Western collections, at
Speaker 41: least originally in nineteen fifty, but then again last year
Speaker 41: with an amazing amount of new features commentary firm James Stewart,
Speaker 41: so many things, and newer releases like the Academy Award
Speaker 41: winning Anora from our beautiful friend Sean Baker. This is
Speaker 41: the definitive release with all of the making of all
Speaker 41: of the commentaries, the can panel, all the four K,
Speaker 41: all the blu ray. You haven't quite seen Anora until
Speaker 41: you've seen it like this from the Criterion Collection.
Speaker 55: So while we love all the nominees and we appreciate
Speaker 55: all the hard work you do, obviously we can only
Speaker 55: have two winners, and that is Vinegar Syndrome and Criterion.
Speaker 45: Congratulations to all the winners. Oh yes, yes, and keep
Speaker 45: physical media alive.
Speaker 41: Let's make a double feature out of some of these
Speaker 41: Criterion Collection. Vinegar Syndrome marry them up.
Speaker 45: I say, terra firmer and a noora done. Done, cheers, cheers.
Speaker 52: Wow, jeez, oh wow, that's crazy. Okay, yeah again, thank you.
Speaker 52: We can't thank you enough for voting for us for this.
Speaker 52: You know, it's crazy, especially with you know, the differ
Speaker 52: different studios and licensing and you know, keeping it region
Speaker 52: a versus you know, hopefully we could have things reaching free.
Speaker 52: But at the same time, we're very much appreciated of appreciative.
Speaker 52: We're very much appreciative of this too, and we h
Speaker 52: yeah again are it just keeps growing and growing and
Speaker 52: we don't plan on stopping anytime soon. And we again,
Speaker 52: we can't thank you enough. Everyone in the community. Everyone
Speaker 52: are our fans. Just you guys keep us going and
Speaker 52: we hope he'll be going much longer.
Speaker 2: So thank you. I love the comment that says the
Speaker 2: ying and the yang of home video right now, the
Speaker 2: vinegar syndrome and criterion absolutely the perfect dichotomy. Love that entirely.
Speaker 2: Speaking of vinegar syndrome, why don't we give away our
Speaker 2: last giveaway before we get into our big best picture
Speaker 2: win of the night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so we have a giveaway thanks to cinematograph
Speaker 5: and I believe we have how many releases to give away.
Speaker 2: In this bundle, we are giving away four cinematograph titles
Speaker 2: and whoever wins this one gets to pick the four
Speaker 2: cinematograph titles that you would like to win. So if
Speaker 2: you win this one, email me at s sheelf shock
Speaker 2: Rewinde at gmail dot com. We will get you four
Speaker 2: cinematograph titles of your choosing. So you're gonna email me
Speaker 2: the four titles that you choose and your address for
Speaker 2: us to send those two. This is a big one,
Speaker 2: so please get ready to answer. Here we go.
Speaker 5: All right, this one's for all the big Kubrick fans
Speaker 5: out there in the film Eyes wide Hut. What is
Speaker 5: the password used to enter the party?
Speaker 2: Craig says, nineteen sixty nine is in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 5: Everything happened in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 2: Everything everything happened in nineteen sixty nine. As you are
Speaker 2: want to know. Wow, we had oh so many people
Speaker 2: that know this one, but it seems like a lot
Speaker 2: of people misspelled it. Similar one to talk about Castro,
Speaker 2: but in fact it was four four four chroma that wins.
Speaker 2: Delio is the answer that is the first one here.
Speaker 2: Congrats for four for four Chroma. Go ahead and send
Speaker 2: me an email at shell jak Rewind at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2: Sorry to everybody and your you're autocorrect in the chat.
Speaker 2: Oh Man Sibner is pissed. Uh that is uh. That
Speaker 2: is fidel h fidel is upset. Gosh, congratulations to Chroma.
Speaker 2: Send me an email schelf jack Rewind at gmail dot
Speaker 2: com with your four titles you are selecting and an
Speaker 2: address to send them to. Congrats on all of that tonight.
Speaker 2: We we are leading all to this for best overall
Speaker 2: release of the year, and it is finally here. We
Speaker 2: we we have so many titles that we've talked about tonight.
Speaker 2: I hope that you have enjoyed hearing about all of them.
Speaker 2: We'll hang out a couple of moments after our announcement
Speaker 2: of the winners, but of course we got to go
Speaker 2: into some nomin and because it's the big category, we
Speaker 2: got ten nominees and Chris and I are going to
Speaker 2: stay on camera here as we show you all ten.
Speaker 2: And here they are.
Speaker 5: The Beyond four K grind House releasing Cafe Flesh, four K,
Speaker 5: Manda Macabre, Dirty Work, four K, Vinegar Syndrome Eyes Wide
Speaker 5: Shut four K Criterion Collection, Michael Hannaha Collection, Umbrella Entertainment,
Speaker 5: A Nightmare and ELM Street four K Steel Book Collection,
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers Possession four K, Second Sight Films, Shawscope Volume
Speaker 5: four Aero Video Sorcerer four K Criterion Collection, The Teenage
Speaker 5: Mutant Ninja Turtles four K Trilogy Aero Video.
Speaker 2: Guys say, it is so funny that we're like, most
Speaker 2: of these are like high art, like really nice titles,
Speaker 2: Michael Hannicut. And then we end with Teenage Mutant Ninja
Speaker 2: Turtles Trilogy four K as the last title to discuss.
Speaker 2: So these are all of our nominees guesses for Who's
Speaker 2: gonna win? Who did you vote for for this, Chris?
Speaker 5: I mean this one was tough. I mean Nightmen, ELM
Speaker 5: Street Collection was up there, but I just feel like
Speaker 5: I couldn't do that. So Possession was kind of my
Speaker 5: main one, but I just couldn't not do it. For
Speaker 5: the Beyond, I just I couldn't. Man, this was the
Speaker 5: one I sat on the longest.
Speaker 2: I hear you, The Beyond was up there for me.
Speaker 2: Possession was up there for me. Michael HANNICKEA was up
Speaker 2: there for me before we announce this is this all
Speaker 2: our last thing of the night, So I did want
Speaker 2: to say this is my fourth and final Shelf Shock
Speaker 2: rewind Awards. We hope to have somebody else continue this
Speaker 2: next year, but I did want to say thank you
Speaker 2: for everybody that's made this a very validating experience for
Speaker 2: home video over the last four years. You guys have
Speaker 2: been incredible. It has been so nice to see things
Speaker 2: happen this way. Going back multiple years to when Lee
Speaker 2: Gambit was watching live talking about he wishes we would
Speaker 2: do this every six months or multiple times a year
Speaker 2: because it is so great for the community, and now
Speaker 2: we've lost lease. Since then, it's been a crazy journey
Speaker 2: through this whole thing. Even the very first year when
Speaker 2: we did this live, we had a couple of the
Speaker 2: companies that did things like thank the award show for
Speaker 2: winning live. We had I think vinegar syndrome that first
Speaker 2: year even put a couple of titles on sale because
Speaker 2: they won some shelf Shocks. And now it's a thing
Speaker 2: like all of these labels are including it in their
Speaker 2: emails getting people to vote. It's been a pretty crazy
Speaker 2: ride to see how this has joined joined forces in
Speaker 2: the community. And get people all over the world to celebrate.
Speaker 2: So again, thanks for hosting with me this year, sir.
Speaker 5: Of course, man, of course. So to anybody who tuned
Speaker 5: into Reconnected on Thursday, I wrote you a high Q
Speaker 5: on Reconnected and this time around, I wrote you a
Speaker 5: poem as a goodbye for you on shelf Shock Rewind.
Speaker 5: Do you mind if I read it to you live
Speaker 5: in front of the world.
Speaker 2: Please let's hear it.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, Uh, so it goes. My shelves are dirty,
Speaker 5: my discs are clean. Shelf Shock rewind was once a
Speaker 5: dream Ryan and Stephen. The work was even four years
Speaker 5: later Ryan's leaving, Bye bye Ryan. Next year I'll be crying.
Speaker 5: Shelf Shock will never be the same. The next host
Speaker 5: might go insane.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say about that. Uh,
Speaker 2: why don't you have the honor of announcing who won
Speaker 2: for the CSC this year? Ugh?
Speaker 5: All right, So our CSC winner is none other than
Speaker 5: Possession four K second Sight Films.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked they did not win enough tonight, and of
Speaker 2: course that that is an obvious win if you are
Speaker 2: a part of the CSC and for the community. I
Speaker 2: gotta say I just talked about many of the companies
Speaker 2: getting out there and suggesting people vote. I have a
Speaker 2: feeling one of the reasons that this title one is
Speaker 2: because they included this in their email blast for the
Speaker 2: last month to get everybody out there and excited to vote.
Speaker 2: So the winner for the community for best overall release
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five is The Beyond four K from
Speaker 2: Grindhouse Releasing. So let's hear some words from Phil and
Speaker 2: from Bob to send the Night away.
Speaker 25: Wow, And again we're competing with a lot of other
Speaker 25: great companies like Arrow and you know, so it's it's incredible,
Speaker 25: But you know, I mean, this release was really thirty
Speaker 25: years in the making, and this is the thirtieth anniversary
Speaker 25: of Grindhouse Releasing. We Sage stallone and I started it
Speaker 25: in nineteen ninety six specifically to put out a great
Speaker 25: version of The Beyond. We both loved the movie and
Speaker 25: it had been butchered. At that point, there weren't a
Speaker 25: lot of other companies releasing this kind of stuff, and
Speaker 25: you know, we really wanted to be the criterion of
Speaker 25: these kind of overlooked horror classics and exploitation films, and
Speaker 25: sadly Sage passed away a few years years ago, but
Speaker 25: he would be so proud to hear about all of this, because,
Speaker 25: you know, the beyond was he met with Fulci when
Speaker 25: he was in Rome working on DA Daylight with his dad,
Speaker 25: and Luccio was so excited that somebody was interested in
Speaker 25: the movie and was going to participate. But then unfortunately
Speaker 25: he passed away, you know, just as we were getting started,
Speaker 25: and we were still able to meet with Sergio Silvadi,
Speaker 25: the cinematographer, and he actually did the first color crack pass,
Speaker 25: which was the basis of all of our releases, you know,
Speaker 25: and that was back in nineteen ninety six, so that's
Speaker 25: sort of been the basis for everything that we've done
Speaker 25: since then. And you know, and and and on this release,
Speaker 25: we worked with Fabio Frizzi, who did this incredible nude
Speaker 25: you know, composer's cut version that he rescored and and
Speaker 25: is included on the desk.
Speaker 13: And so it's just it's great and.
Speaker 25: Just I also want to you know, acknowledge the people
Speaker 25: who I've been working with, Ed Grinos Releasing, David Shultin,
Speaker 25: uh Dan Harrington, uh Dad Lagier, who does all of
Speaker 25: our packaging and has been doing it for years created
Speaker 25: like really some beautiful packaging for this movie. Jim Coons,
Speaker 25: who's sort of our technical director, Johnny Buell who did
Speaker 25: the authoring. Uh U C Tailman who did this Uh
Speaker 25: care about the sound? Uh the remastering of the CD,
Speaker 25: the the mix of the director's cut I'm sorry, composer's
Speaker 25: cut version of the movie. Just you know, so many
Speaker 25: people contributed to this release, to this release. Al Arnold
Speaker 25: who was the colorist, who did such a beautiful job
Speaker 25: at Photo Cam.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 25: So many supplements, you know, we had, We had these
Speaker 25: two great guys in Italy finding people and doing interviews,
Speaker 25: uh Frederick Cadio and you genial uh Eric Alani, And
Speaker 25: you know, it's just it's been it's been such a
Speaker 25: huge group project that you know, I'm just I really
Speaker 25: wanted to acknowledge everybody because it's like such a was
Speaker 25: such a big thing, and it was.
Speaker 13: It took so many years.
Speaker 25: Martin Bean who did this incredible hundred booklet that came
Speaker 25: with the release, and I mean it was so well researched,
Speaker 25: and he spent so much time. I mean I think
Speaker 25: collectively we all spent probably ten times as much hours
Speaker 25: as many hours on this release than they probably spent
Speaker 25: making the movie. But but yeah, I'm so so I'm
Speaker 25: very proud of like everything that uh you get you guys,
Speaker 25: and and of course our customers who you know, bought
Speaker 25: the movie and voted for us and have supported us
Speaker 25: all these years.
Speaker 9: So thanks so much. I'm just so honored.
Speaker 17: Thank you man. That's insane. Yeah, it's a real honor.
Speaker 17: What's what can I say? I mean you guys at Man,
Speaker 17: thank you so much. And yeah, Bebo Possession.
Speaker 2: Home, Bob Roowsk. You talked for like eight minutes. It
Speaker 2: feels like, yay, Possession. I love it. I'm ready for bed.
Speaker 2: Thank you. He's been thanking us for like the last
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. I get it. Genuine incredible year for physical media.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody for being here tonight. It has been remarkable.
Speaker 2: My my partner Antenna, Billy Race does a great job.
Speaker 2: Ran and Chris Hope. Honestly, way more exciting, unpredictable and
Speaker 2: compelling than this year's Indie Spirit Awards. That is kind
Speaker 2: of saying the Indie Spirit Awards. But thanks for hanging
Speaker 2: out here. Just a ridiculously year. Can't wait to see
Speaker 2: what what next year. Shelf Shock holds and what this
Speaker 2: year holds for physical media. So thanks for doing this
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you so much for asking me.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I mean you came to me and you're like, hey, look,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be my last year, and you know, I
Speaker 5: really want you to do this. And I was absolutely
Speaker 5: perplexed and I didn't know what to say except for yes.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's one of those things that to
Speaker 5: me goes beyond you know, just just having fun. It
Speaker 5: means a lot to be here with you and to
Speaker 5: be here with everybody, and especially for for your final
Speaker 5: year kind of you know, heading up the shelf Shock
Speaker 5: rewind Awards. So thank you so much, man, I can
Speaker 5: you know, I can't express my gratitude enough.
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Speaker 2: as of that moment, it's kind of hard to host
Speaker 2: an award show, and you are doing the thing that
Speaker 2: you're giving awards for. So I'm stepping away. Congrats to
Speaker 2: everybody for tonight and I'll hope to win one next
Speaker 2: year maybe. Thanks everybody for watching. We'll see you on
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