Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome back to The Disconnected live on another
Speaker 1: Thursday night, And once again, like I've been trying to
Speaker 1: hype up recently, we get a bunch of first time
Speaker 1: guests this week on the show, Andy Nelson, who is
Speaker 1: the man behind CinemaScope and True Story FM and lots
Speaker 1: of other stuff we'll talk about.
Speaker 2: Andy, Thanks for doing this now, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be here and to chat with you
Speaker 2: about all of these crazy releases that we're going to
Speaker 2: be seeing this popping up. So it's a busy week.
Speaker 1: We have a hell of a week to cover. Let's
Speaker 1: get into some stuff about you before we check in
Speaker 1: with everybody. Tell everybody about CinemaScope because I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people watching the show will adore this podcast.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I appreciate that. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: This is one of the several film podcasts that we
Speaker 2: have over at a True Story FM, and this one
Speaker 2: specifically is focusing on genres, subgenres and film movements and
Speaker 2: each episode looks at a specific one and I kind
Speaker 2: of have very lengthy conversations with my guests about it,
Speaker 2: including Ryan who is on the last episode talking about
Speaker 2: found footage horror. And yeah, so it's I mean, we've
Speaker 2: done osploitation, remake exploitation, We've done screwball comedy. It's just
Speaker 2: kind of like all over the place as far as
Speaker 2: the different types of things, and so it's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. And yeah, I'd love more people to check
Speaker 2: that one out. So that's one of the podcasts that
Speaker 2: we have. And then the Next Reel is a podcast
Speaker 2: where we just talk about my co host and I
Speaker 2: talk about a different film each week, each one kind
Speaker 2: of packaged into a little series of films that we
Speaker 2: are doing. And then we have another show called Movies
Speaker 2: We Like, which is where we bring on somebody from
Speaker 2: the industry to talk to them about one of their
Speaker 2: favorite movies. So lots of good stuff.
Speaker 1: Lots of stuff going on. You are a busy, busy man.
Speaker 1: CinemaScope is I don't know. It's been one of the
Speaker 1: more comforting shows, I will say, as I have in
Speaker 1: the last couple of months been forced back into the
Speaker 1: office full time unfortunately, and it has been your dulcet
Speaker 1: tones keeping me company for a lot of that time.
Speaker 1: Two episodes that I really want to highlight if people
Speaker 1: are going to try it out tonight, and please check
Speaker 1: the link of the description below, subscribe to Andy, go
Speaker 1: check out the other shows. It is a really great time,
Speaker 1: even Craig saying we were on movies, we like it
Speaker 1: was great, great felladay yep. The two episodes, one incredible
Speaker 1: episode on blaxploitation. The films covered is a really nice,
Speaker 1: really nice breadth of films with blaxploitation. There's a couple
Speaker 1: I don't know, like major films that people tend to
Speaker 1: get hung up on. And with the episode, it was
Speaker 1: I mean everything because the guest was an expert, like
Speaker 1: a full on expert of this and oh yeah, incredible conversation.
Speaker 1: Completely completely support that one.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Yeah, Odie Henderson had just his
Speaker 2: book is out and it's just, I mean this incredibly
Speaker 2: just lots of wonderful stuff in that book and it's
Speaker 2: like eight bucks for a hard bat. It's crazy how
Speaker 2: affordable that book is. Absolutely check it up or check
Speaker 2: it out. And yeah, and so we talked about five
Speaker 2: films specifically the episode, and then I'll do a member
Speaker 2: bonus section that has five additional films and that's where
Speaker 2: we like, we'll do the kind of the core essential
Speaker 2: films in that first section, and the last one we
Speaker 2: play around a little bit. You know, if it's something
Speaker 2: that's a little more obscure or kind of borders on
Speaker 2: the style, you know, we'll talk about that. So it's
Speaker 2: it allows for a lot of amazing conversations and that's
Speaker 2: that was one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 1: And speaking of more obscure, I'm sure that you're not
Speaker 1: listening to the twenty five shows on our podcast network,
Speaker 1: but just this week I gave you a pretty big
Speaker 1: shout out on the Mondo Macabre podcast because the Remo remake.
Speaker 1: This is such a hard word to say, the remake
Speaker 1: exploitation episode. Man, that hit like a ton of bricks
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when I listened to it. Finally,
Speaker 1: because there's so much in this genre that you can
Speaker 1: dive into that I mean, I say genre loosely because
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of genres under an umbrella. But remak Okay,
Speaker 1: I've done say the word. These remake films are tech.
Speaker 1: They're not remakes. They're more ripoffs. And the way that
Speaker 1: you I don't know, like in a really playful way
Speaker 1: just tour it apart and share all the details and
Speaker 1: mentioned you know, Turkish spider Man and all these other
Speaker 1: things for a couple hours. It was incredible, really really
Speaker 1: great episode. And for people that love Monta Micabre and
Speaker 1: terror visions on a couple Master videos done one. Like,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of these foreign ripoff movies that are
Speaker 1: in genuine like appreciation incredible on their own. They're not like,
Speaker 1: let's just laugh at all these they're really great, very
Speaker 1: different movies that seem to have some plot lines or
Speaker 1: characters or dialogue exactly ripped out of another movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very odd. We talked about some crazy movies
Speaker 2: in there, like the Bollywood Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff.
Speaker 2: There's one that was like it was Italian and it
Speaker 2: was like it was like Terminator but also aliens, you know,
Speaker 2: like Shocking Dog. Some strange, strange blends of the films.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it had a lot of fun digging into
Speaker 2: that one with and my guests just yeah, knows so
Speaker 2: much about it. I mean it's like studying it and
Speaker 2: you know it for a sub genre or a movement
Speaker 2: of films, they're not always easy to find. Luckily, he
Speaker 2: had links to many of them, and he's working on
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to do deals and stuff
Speaker 2: to restore some more of them, because that's the trick.
Speaker 2: Like Turkish Star Wars. Good luck figuring out how to
Speaker 2: get the licensing for that one, you know, so at
Speaker 2: least it's on the lower quality versions on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Thankfully. I got the Blu ray that was on sale
Speaker 1: for like a month a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Nice, very short lived.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that thing is very expensive nowadays. Yeah. Yeah, True
Speaker 1: story or true yeah, man can't speak tonight. True Story FM.
Speaker 1: Tell everybody what the rest of this is, because there's
Speaker 1: so much to dive into.
Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, True Story FM. So so Pete is my
Speaker 2: co host over on the Next Reel and movies we like,
Speaker 2: and this was he convinced me to start podcasting in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven, and we started up the Next Real podcast,
Speaker 2: where again we talk about a movie each week, and
Speaker 2: then we and then covid hit and I had been
Speaker 2: working in production and it kind of hit this point
Speaker 2: where there wasn't really the work that I needed and
Speaker 2: so he's just like, just podcast myth with me, and
Speaker 2: let's just do podcasting. And so since covid hit. I've
Speaker 2: been just doing full time podcasting and it's it's it's
Speaker 2: it's really fun and so True Story FM is our network,
Speaker 2: and we've got a whole bunch of entertainment related podcasts.
Speaker 2: That's where all of our movie ones fall under. And
Speaker 2: then we have a whole bunch with just a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of other clients. We have an ADHD podcast, a
Speaker 2: divorce podcast, several cybersecurity types of podcasts, you know, so
Speaker 2: the we kind of cover the whole gamut different podcasting
Speaker 2: that we do. But that's you know, that's been keeping
Speaker 2: me busy for the last five years, which is crazy
Speaker 2: to think about.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of work, believe me as somebody that
Speaker 1: also has a podcast network. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: find the scenes that you can really do to keep
Speaker 1: your time just completely entrenched in it. Yeah. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're here you love movies, so that
Speaker 1: they got some options there. But hell, if you're a
Speaker 1: divorced person with ADHD and a computer virus, there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of options for you and you.
Speaker 2: Love movies too. I mean, hey, Andy, what kind of
Speaker 2: movies do you love?
Speaker 1: You're here tonight for the first time on a physical
Speaker 1: media related show, and you don't get a ton of
Speaker 1: time to talk about physical media. So what do you
Speaker 1: what do you love? What are you looking to buy?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, my favorite five top five films I
Speaker 2: would say are Brazil, Shashank, Redemption, Charade, Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'll say Return of the King, and
Speaker 2: Doctor Strangelove. That's probably would change, you know, if you
Speaker 2: ask me again in ten minutes, But Brazil's been my
Speaker 2: number one. You can see the poster right here for
Speaker 2: Ages and Ages. So I'm all over the map.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: As far as what I like, I love. I don't
Speaker 2: know good movies is that is that a fair thing
Speaker 2: to say? I just really love good movies. But I
Speaker 2: love exploring cinema. And you know, is somebody who went
Speaker 2: to film school. I just, uh, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just fell in love with just the the incredible with
Speaker 2: and breadth of this medium and just how many films
Speaker 2: and you know we have and just exploring into other
Speaker 2: cultures and and just there's there's a lot to see.
Speaker 2: There's a lot, and yeah, it's it's hard to it's
Speaker 2: hard to just pin down just a few. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot. As far as physical media, it's always like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm always you know, after upgrading to
Speaker 2: four K, I'm just like, well, I'm only going to
Speaker 2: buy the four K releases now. But then it's just like, oh,
Speaker 2: but this is coming out now, Wow, I need that.
Speaker 2: And so you know, then you know, you say, you're
Speaker 2: still just buying all sorts of stuff, and I'm still like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm one of these people who has like
Speaker 2: a ridiculous number of letterbox lists and all these different things,
Speaker 2: like I'm trying to complete these sorts of lists and
Speaker 2: and so I hit somewhere, I'm just like, this movie
Speaker 2: that I want to watch for this list isn't available
Speaker 2: unless I buy this DVD from from Spain. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm buying a DVD from Spain. And so that's kind
Speaker 2: of how how I am.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's in my opinion, that's the right answer.
Speaker 1: There's so many different genres there. It's so easy to
Speaker 1: just say I want to see everything and challenge yourself.
Speaker 1: And when you're doing specifically like you the shows that
Speaker 1: you cover, you kind of are forced to watch everything
Speaker 1: and just sort of flex that muscle all the time.
Speaker 1: One of the questions I was going to ask in
Speaker 1: relation to that, what's over the last I don't know,
Speaker 1: because you've been doing it a long time, so it's
Speaker 1: over the last six months. The film that you discovered
Speaker 1: for your show that you went damn like this immediately
Speaker 1: is like one of my favorites of all time. This
Speaker 1: is incredible.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's a question I wish you prepped me for.
Speaker 1: No, we got to hear organic conversation.
Speaker 2: Come on, Andy, oh Man, let's see you know in
Speaker 2: I'd say there were some when I did the Iranian
Speaker 2: New Wave over on CinemaScope, there were some movies that
Speaker 2: really surprised me. And I have to look it up
Speaker 2: right now because I'm totally blanking on the name of it.
Speaker 2: But there was this one movie that was like, it
Speaker 2: was like this meta storytelling film, and I just I
Speaker 2: was like, where are we going with this movie? And
Speaker 2: it was it was just really exciting to see something
Speaker 2: unfold the way it did, you know, And because it's
Speaker 2: about a a filmmaker who's making a film about his
Speaker 2: own life when he was young and he was more
Speaker 2: politically engaged when he was younger, and he's altercation with
Speaker 2: the police officer, and now he's casting the police officer
Speaker 2: to play the police officer, and he's playing himself, and
Speaker 2: it just like they're acting out this story, but they're
Speaker 2: also both trying to you know, think about Actually, I
Speaker 2: take it back, he didn't. He didn't cast them to
Speaker 2: play themselves, but he got the guy to like advise,
Speaker 2: and so the police officers like, oh no, no, this
Speaker 2: guy's not handsome enough to play me, and like going
Speaker 2: through all of this sort of stuff, and it's it
Speaker 2: was just such a fascinating movie. And I'm going to
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the list right now. It was called
Speaker 2: of course now I can't remember which one. It is
Speaker 2: a Moment of Innocence, I think, yeah, directed by Moosin
Speaker 2: Mark Malboff, and it was I don't know, I wasn't
Speaker 2: expecting something that was like I was kind of expecting
Speaker 2: kind of like, you know, more dramatic, but then it
Speaker 2: took this whole meta narrative with it, and I just
Speaker 2: wasn't expecting this. As they were examining both he and
Speaker 2: the police officer were examining their younger selves as they
Speaker 2: played this whole scene out and reliving the moments that
Speaker 2: they had and trying to like recontextualize like why they
Speaker 2: did it that way and everything, and I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was a really fascinating film and absolutely absolutely worth
Speaker 2: checking out. That was just one that really surprised me.
Speaker 2: That's the first one that came to mind.
Speaker 1: Amazing, and now I want to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. I don't know how accessible it is. I
Speaker 2: can't remember where I watched this. If it was a
Speaker 2: link that my guests sent to me, or if it
Speaker 2: was something I found, I might have just found it
Speaker 2: on YouTube. So a moment of innocence, It's definitely worth
Speaker 2: checking out.
Speaker 1: It's from nineteen ninety six. Sounds incredible with the show.
Speaker 1: Have you found any of the episodes you've gotten like
Speaker 1: a higher number of engagement with listeners because it was
Speaker 1: such a you know, we'll say a like inspiring type
Speaker 1: of episode, one that get really got people to pay
Speaker 1: attention and respond in a certain way.
Speaker 2: For you, you know, I will say it's funny. You
Speaker 2: never can tell with podcasting. Sometimes you're like, it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's all about horror movies. If you want to have
Speaker 2: a successful movie podcast, you got to be talking about
Speaker 2: horror movies. But I was looking at I'm like, the
Speaker 2: Screwball Comedy podcast is like through the roof, And it
Speaker 2: really surprised me because and maybe it's just the times
Speaker 2: we're living in, who knows, but it just surprised me,
Speaker 2: you know, pleasantly that that one was one that was
Speaker 2: so well received and that people really connected with. And
Speaker 2: I've had some people really excited about a number of
Speaker 2: the releases that we are the number of films we discussed.
Speaker 2: In fact, Midnight was Criterion just is putting that one
Speaker 2: out That was one of the ones that we had discussed,
Speaker 2: which was the first time. That's another one totally blew
Speaker 2: my mind. I loved that movie so much. And then
Speaker 2: then Criteria. I often joke that Criterion secretly is listening
Speaker 2: to our shows because every once in a while, like
Speaker 2: I'm like, we just talked about that like three months ago,
Speaker 2: and here's Criterion putting it out there. So but anyway,
Speaker 2: that yeah, so that one really kind of seemed to
Speaker 2: hit a nerve, which, you know, I'm like, maybe I
Speaker 2: need to talk about more comedy.
Speaker 1: Well, not only that there's not a lot of people
Speaker 1: talking about that type of comedy specifically, you know that
Speaker 1: it's a genre that we don't really get much anymore,
Speaker 1: especially the way that we were getting back then with
Speaker 1: it being a staple every single year. Now it's like
Speaker 1: once every seven or eight years. You might have a
Speaker 1: really good one that you can kind of fit into
Speaker 1: that mold. But even now, like the modern the modern
Speaker 1: ones are not the same as the ones that were
Speaker 1: coming out in the forties and fifties.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it's definitely a different tone comedies taken.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, everybody's saying comedy needs another renaissance, and
Speaker 1: comedies are rare now. It's all about horror, absolutely because
Speaker 1: the comedies you simply don't make money. Sadly, I do.
Speaker 2: I do hope that naked I see the comment about
Speaker 2: naked Gun. It may might not start it, but I
Speaker 2: am at least hoping. I'm like, hey, if Liam Neeson,
Speaker 2: if Oscar Schindler can pull that off, then I'm I'm
Speaker 2: all for it.
Speaker 1: I am, I'm for some reason quite hopeful about this one,
Speaker 1: Like the at least the trailer. If feel like that
Speaker 1: nailed the tone kind of yeah, yeah, I think. So
Speaker 1: let's get into some regular stuff. What have you been
Speaker 1: picking up on physical media recently, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: incredible wall behind you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I bought that. I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is so much space, and then instantly is full. I'm
Speaker 2: just like, you know, it's impossible to ever have enough.
Speaker 2: All right, you ready for this? I've got way too
Speaker 2: big of a pile that I pulled here. First of all,
Speaker 2: I'll just they're not really organized. They're kind of organized
Speaker 2: in some capacity. Well, here's the Criterion pickups that I
Speaker 2: just did out their sales. So I finally got in
Speaker 2: the mood for Love, which I've been anxious to get,
Speaker 2: and the Grifters. This is a DVD upgrade for me
Speaker 2: because nice. I mean, I love the movie, but that
Speaker 2: DVD is really an old one. And then I picked
Speaker 2: up The Philadelphia Story, which I've always loved. But I
Speaker 2: went to watch it. I have the DVD still and
Speaker 2: I opened it and the disc is gone, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: did I loan it out to somebody? I couldn't have
Speaker 2: figured it out, So I'm like, hey, guess it's time
Speaker 2: to buy it. All right, then, I excuse me. I
Speaker 2: live in the Phoenix area and recently we had our
Speaker 2: our version of Comic Con, the Phoenix Fan Fusion, and
Speaker 2: lo and behold, Severn had a booth there, which was fantastic.
Speaker 2: I guess they have a place right here in town
Speaker 2: where they ship from. So I was like, I chatted
Speaker 2: with the team and everything. So I picked up Opera,
Speaker 2: which I've been wanting to grab. I picked up the
Speaker 2: documentary about Island of Doctor Merau, which I've been very
Speaker 2: curious to watch, Lost Souls, so I'm very excited to
Speaker 2: see that one, Blood on Satan's Claw, So looking forward
Speaker 2: to digging into that one. And then last but not least,
Speaker 2: The Day of the Beast. So that's my love that movie.
Speaker 2: This is This was largely a set of films that
Speaker 2: I'd never seen and I'm just but I've been like
Speaker 2: very curious about So yeah, I figured they're here, they're
Speaker 2: giving me a discount. Why not.
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of that, nice nice prelude, that next Thursday night,
Speaker 1: when we're here live again, the seven Summer Sale will
Speaker 1: be starting that night, So come hang out. We'll be
Speaker 1: chatting up and talk about all the new titles. And
Speaker 1: the guest for next Thursday is someone that has had
Speaker 1: a hand at a bunch of seven titles, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about all kinds of stuff, Severn, So
Speaker 1: come on back then, Man, you got some great discs.
Speaker 1: We had somebody ask, how do you feel, Reggie says Andy,
Speaker 1: do you think Criterion did Brazil justice with their four
Speaker 1: K release?
Speaker 2: That's frustratingly one I haven't picked up yet.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I know, I've been very reticent to grab that one
Speaker 2: yet I want to. I've been kind of looking at
Speaker 2: all the feedback and everything, and so I really want
Speaker 2: to pick it up though anyway, So so yeah, it's
Speaker 2: I mean, it's such a great movie though, it's hard
Speaker 2: for me to not want to just grab it.
Speaker 1: So you got another comment about Midnight Criterions of Midnight
Speaker 1: with Claudette Clbert and John Barrymore and everybody Else is
Speaker 1: a great screwball comedy beautiful Blu Ray. Yeah, supposedly that
Speaker 1: one looks great. I've not seen that disc yet, but
Speaker 1: I've heard it looks incredible.
Speaker 2: Well, it's, i mean, such a great movie, so it's
Speaker 2: an easy one to just pick up blind.
Speaker 1: I think a handful of pickups for me. I get
Speaker 1: a couple of people that are in our discord that
Speaker 1: I did some trades with. Actually the first one I
Speaker 1: never got, Hal Hartley's Long Island Trilogy on Blu Ray
Speaker 1: and mister Aaron West, who was on the show a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, traded me that once. Now I
Speaker 1: think I only have the one that is like four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on eBay, so I hope somebody else puts
Speaker 1: that out eventually. And then my friend Bill we just
Speaker 1: traded for this. I've been trying to pick up some
Speaker 1: of the deluxe Jackie Chan four k's have been coming out.
Speaker 1: Missed this one before it went out of print, and
Speaker 1: eighty eight Films kind of killing it with their Jackie
Speaker 1: Chan stuff, and then forcing myself to like Jess Franco
Speaker 1: as much as I can. Blue Underground coming out with
Speaker 1: the Blood of Fu Manchu and Castle of Fu Manchu,
Speaker 1: both on four K titles I never expected to see
Speaker 1: on four K. Can watch these. I'm still waiting patiently
Speaker 1: for a couple other Jess Franco announcements coming this year,
Speaker 1: so can't wait for those. And then finally I got
Speaker 1: two more releases here and they are thick boys, very
Speaker 1: very excited about these. First is the Australian imprint release
Speaker 1: of Raging Bull. This is a four K release. It's
Speaker 1: got the documentary from two thousand and four as the
Speaker 1: second disc on this, the four K looks incredible. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of new stuff on this disc. This
Speaker 1: is mostly just if you really love this movie and
Speaker 1: you want Dolby Vision. The Criterion release doesn't have a
Speaker 1: Dolby Vision, so the colors might be slightly improved on this.
Speaker 1: To my eye, it's not that noticeable of a difference,
Speaker 1: but it does. It looks incredible, I mean, the photography
Speaker 1: and this is like stark be unbelief, so incredible looking disc.
Speaker 1: And then if you're gonna pick that up, you might
Speaker 1: as well go over the other Scorsese that came out
Speaker 1: at the same time New York, New York that does
Speaker 1: not have a like, really nice release in the US.
Speaker 1: So we got this one. This is a three disc release.
Speaker 1: It's got the documentary from uh, I don't see the
Speaker 1: year on here, but this one has all kinds of
Speaker 1: new stuff. Daniel Kramer, he's had his hands and a
Speaker 1: bunch of the imprint stuff recently. He's got Oh, that's right,
Speaker 1: it's the European theatrical cut, which is the second thing,
Speaker 1: and you've got the director's cut. Yeah, this is pretty
Speaker 1: much everything you could want on this release. Kind of
Speaker 1: crazy that New York, New York waited this long, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm still surprised we don't have some Scorsese titles on
Speaker 1: Blu ray let alone, like Fancy four K releases. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: twenty forty five, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I got to call one more out that
Speaker 2: I didn't mention, but it's it's only because they sent
Speaker 2: it to me. It's the intacto disc that they that
Speaker 2: they have because they were kind enough to want to
Speaker 2: use a clip of our podcast for very minute. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's exciting. That was our first actual dip into
Speaker 2: supplemental material. So here we are with a little clip
Speaker 2: of our show that they cut into a little video
Speaker 2: ess That's it's kind of fun. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They made a visual essay with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I was really glad that they they did
Speaker 2: it because it played really well with the conversation.
Speaker 1: So excellent. Well, I mean, the whole point of all
Speaker 1: of these is the films. So what have you been
Speaker 1: watching recently?
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, let's see. In preparation for Jurassic Park or
Speaker 2: Drastic World rebirth, my wife and I decided to do
Speaker 2: a marathon and we watched the previous six films over
Speaker 2: the holiday weekend, so it was like it was a
Speaker 2: lot of dinosaurs and and I can't say it was
Speaker 2: I mean it was fun to watch. I really have
Speaker 2: a soft spot for just watching people in dinosaurs on
Speaker 2: screen together, but watching them all together, I'm just like, God,
Speaker 2: like every single one of these movies it's about stupid people,
Speaker 2: Like they're just all really dumb people making really bad decisions,
Speaker 2: as much as I enjoy them. But so we watched
Speaker 2: all of those and then we did the I threw
Speaker 2: it in the short films too, just because I wanted to.
Speaker 2: My wife was just like, no, I'm done. And then
Speaker 2: we then we took in Rebirth, which I we neither
Speaker 2: of us enjoyed, but the audiencer did. They loved it,
Speaker 2: applauded at the end, and we were just like, okay,
Speaker 2: So it was a little bit of a disappointment, but
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it was because I just watched,
Speaker 2: you know, twelve other hours of dinosaurs. I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm out. So so that was the big thing. And
Speaker 2: then Superman I watched, which I don't know. I've seen
Speaker 2: some comments how they've loved it. I didn't. I Superman
Speaker 2: I've always struggled with as a superhero, Like I love
Speaker 2: the idea of Superman, but I find that it's I
Speaker 2: don't know, just like the idea of a super character
Speaker 2: like him. It's just like, oh, there's not much he
Speaker 2: can't do unless there's Krypto not around, and so I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just get a little bored. I love
Speaker 2: the original Christopher Reeve, I've struggled with all the other
Speaker 2: solo films. I don't know. I think Channing Tatum might
Speaker 2: be one of my favorite Superman this one. And you know,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. I mean, I know that's saying
Speaker 2: a lot of positive things and all of that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff, and people love it, and I'm sure they should.
Speaker 2: It just isn't for me, And to me, it just
Speaker 2: felt like it's just another James Gun movie, Like this
Speaker 2: is what James Gun makes now, it's like Guardians, the
Speaker 2: Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 2: They're all like it's his cookie cutter style, which you
Speaker 2: know it, I mean, he delivers, I guess you know it,
Speaker 2: just I didn't like it that much.
Speaker 1: It seems that's kind of what he got hired to
Speaker 1: deliver too.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, right, yeah, I'll be I heard somebody talking
Speaker 2: about it, like, I'll be curious to see where DC
Speaker 2: goes after this with films where he's more of the
Speaker 2: Kevin Feigey type of figure, just overseeing somebody else writing
Speaker 2: and directing. You know, that's I'm more curious about that.
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see how much of his flavor
Speaker 1: gets thrown into somebody else's movies and how they can
Speaker 1: make that jive in a way that feels consistent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rightous.
Speaker 1: I do want to shout out because you got this comment.
Speaker 1: My friend Brian loves the movie in Tacto and he
Speaker 1: says the visual essay on the Blu ray is very good.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: He sold me on that movie and I somehow do
Speaker 1: not have my copy yet. It is on the way
Speaker 1: Australian shipping comes from the other side of the world
Speaker 1: and takes few days, so it's all the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also watched Superman. I think, uh I liked it
Speaker 1: sounds like a bit more than you. But also I've
Speaker 1: never been a DC guy. I'm more of a Marvel person,
Speaker 1: and it's weird to see that shift because I've not
Speaker 1: liked much Marvel over the last five years. Six years,
Speaker 1: and this came out of nowhere. I think the only
Speaker 1: other DC movie I've seen in the last like twelve
Speaker 1: years is Gunn's Suicide Squad, and I feel like this
Speaker 1: was much better than Suicide Squad. The Batman stuff was,
Speaker 1: you know, Nolan's Batman is fine. I was a Batman
Speaker 1: kid growing up, so I was fine with that. But like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I was ever even tempted to put
Speaker 1: in any of the Zack Snyder stuff. Nothing about that
Speaker 1: is appealing.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's funny. Is like his four hour Justice League,
Speaker 2: like for me, was the ultimate payoff to everything that
Speaker 2: had come before. Like I love that movie, which I
Speaker 2: was surprised at because I hated the JJ Abrams cut,
Speaker 2: you know, and so I don't know, it just it
Speaker 2: just felt like he was doing something more with it,
Speaker 2: and so so yeah, but I hear you, though, I know,
Speaker 2: it's definitely a different universe that he was creating over there.
Speaker 1: I had kind of a really weird week of movies.
Speaker 1: So other than Superman, I've been trying to catch up
Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty five films that I missed in
Speaker 1: the first I don't know, five months of the year
Speaker 1: before I was going to the theater a lot more
Speaker 1: this year, and well, the one we chose this week
Speaker 1: was wolf Man, which seemed to get mostly cold responses
Speaker 1: from everybody. Yeah, I didn't hate it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was okay. When I say didn't hate it, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say I loved it, But it was I thought
Speaker 1: it was like better than average. I think that they
Speaker 1: could have really killed the story and they only kind
Speaker 1: of killed it. Maybe it's just because everybody had prepped
Speaker 1: me for such a terrible movie. I was just like, oh, yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: Abbott is a really good actor and he's selling this
Speaker 1: very well. I thought the way that they did like
Speaker 1: the werewolf perception thing where they changed his hearing and
Speaker 1: her hearing was a really cool touch. The ending was
Speaker 1: not great, and a lot of it could have been
Speaker 1: much better. I will obviously grant that the writing is
Speaker 1: pretty bad, but I don't think this was like the
Speaker 1: genre killer that everybody looked at Tom Cruise's Mummy or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But it was a fun time. At
Speaker 1: least it was worth it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, fun was something I didn't have with that one.
Speaker 1: It was very.
Speaker 2: It was a slog but interesting. There were interesting elements.
Speaker 2: I will give you that my.
Speaker 1: Slog this week. I forced myself to go to an
Speaker 1: indie movie in the theater this weekend, and that was
Speaker 1: Abraham Abraham's Boys, a Dracula Story. This is a movie
Speaker 1: that'll be coming to Shudder in like a month and
Speaker 1: a half or two months. I believe. This is a
Speaker 1: brand new movie starring Jocelyn Donahue, who I loved in
Speaker 1: so many things, but most recently in The Last Open
Speaker 1: Yuma County. And she is completely wasted in this movie.
Speaker 1: She's like, she's a main character that is mostly just sick,
Speaker 1: and not like the cinematic sick where they're, you know,
Speaker 1: doing the Exorcist performance and she gets to ham it
Speaker 1: up or anything. No, she's just laying there sick. This
Speaker 1: movie is a very different take on a Dracula story,
Speaker 1: and essentially it's we are seeing people make the trip
Speaker 1: to California and now they're staying on a farm in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen hundreds after leaving the whole Dracula European
Speaker 1: scene and getting caught for some of that. And I
Speaker 1: just did not like the story. I thought it was
Speaker 1: It was well acted, but it could have been like
Speaker 1: an eighteen minute short and delivered everything that you needed
Speaker 1: to see, and instead it was an hour in eighteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and I felt like I wasted an hour of my
Speaker 1: life at the very least. But the big thing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the big thing for me this week, though, is I
Speaker 1: showed my kids Dick Tracy and good lord is that
Speaker 1: movie fun as hell? After watching Superman and wanting to
Speaker 1: watch a different style of quote, super is not a
Speaker 1: superhero movie, but a very comic inspired movie. Dick Tracy
Speaker 1: fit the bill perfectly. I need a four K for
Speaker 1: this pretty much immediately. Warren Batty acting is fine and
Speaker 1: all that, but man, the direction in this is incredible.
Speaker 1: The cast in this, I forgot how perfect the casting is.
Speaker 1: But the best thing is this feels like this feels
Speaker 1: like they got Dario Argento straight off of the Suspiria
Speaker 1: set and said, can you please direct this? This next
Speaker 1: live action season of Batman, the animated series and all
Speaker 1: of the colors mixed together is so perfect. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: movie is. It holds up very very well. The comedy
Speaker 1: hits hard. Love this movie. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: Dick Tracy?
Speaker 2: I love the the production design, the style of costumes,
Speaker 2: like it kind of explodes off the screen. It's it's
Speaker 2: a really stunning film. I that was the era when
Speaker 2: movie theaters would do things like my I went to
Speaker 2: the special preview screening when it came out, and my
Speaker 2: ticket was an actual shirt I had, like a special
Speaker 2: Dick Tracy and it had a big ticket on the
Speaker 2: front and Dick Tracy and all this stuff. I loved
Speaker 2: that shirt. I had it for years. But and the
Speaker 2: film I think largely works. I think that I don't know,
Speaker 2: there's there's a whole meta world of Warren Baty as
Speaker 2: Dick Tracy that's arisen from this whole thing that I
Speaker 2: still can't wrap my head around. And I think that
Speaker 2: war does either by the way, I don't know, Yeah
Speaker 2: who if he's caught onto that, but he like he
Speaker 2: I will say, he embodied the character like and so
Speaker 2: it's clear that he had this real personal connection with
Speaker 2: it and everything. There are things that work better than
Speaker 2: others in it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's one of those movies that the thing that I
Speaker 2: always think about is there was a character I think
Speaker 2: his name is Little Face who. My impression is my
Speaker 2: understanding is that the team behind the effects were always
Speaker 2: disappointed with how they filmed him. Because they filmed his
Speaker 2: close ups like they would film other actors close ups,
Speaker 2: but you lose the effect of the entire point of
Speaker 2: the actual face and it should be shot like giant head,
Speaker 2: little tiny face in the middle of it, but they
Speaker 2: shoot it so you're just seeing the actors like expressions,
Speaker 2: and so I don't know. That's one of those things
Speaker 2: that I always think about with that movie is just
Speaker 2: a little a little gaff but otherwise, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: the character design, everything about it's really just super cool.
Speaker 1: It's one of those movies that every single time another
Speaker 1: scene happened, I went, oh my god, they're in this
Speaker 1: and it's funny because I had not seen this movie
Speaker 1: and probably I don't know, eighteen years something like that,
Speaker 1: and watching it again after I've started to enjoy like
Speaker 1: movies in general. Oh man, if you want people from movies,
Speaker 1: this has everyone you can dream And it's that blending
Speaker 1: of like the old Hollywood era and the people that
Speaker 1: were still alive mixing with the giant actors of that
Speaker 1: day with some up and coming names that now is like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, how are they also in this movie. It's incredible,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: Guest. Yeah, no, I actually check that one out. You've
Speaker 2: convinced me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing that, but I know, and then I
Speaker 1: guess neither one of us said the word Madonna. Also
Speaker 1: one of the main stars, which is wild to see that.
Speaker 2: Was the Madonna Warren Baty era, which those of us
Speaker 2: who live through it again our time forgetting.
Speaker 1: But nineteen ninety that is a huge star at the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I mean I love Madon. I think
Speaker 2: she's she's great and I've listened to that her soundtrack
Speaker 2: of that many times. But yeah, it's it's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's a fun film. Danny Elfman does the score.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a really it's a cool movie.
Speaker 1: Before we get into announcements, I want to shout out
Speaker 1: that after tonight, I have to go through all the announcements.
Speaker 1: We're going to be covering Jahorror broadly, sort of in
Speaker 1: a cinema scope style discussion, not like five favorites, just
Speaker 1: shouting out five titles and discussing them. We are going
Speaker 1: to be going over a lot of announcements tonight. But
Speaker 1: before we go into that, any upcoming cinema scope that
Speaker 1: you want to highlight or be able to tell us
Speaker 1: about before you get started well.
Speaker 2: Conveniently, I'm working on planning my Jay horror episode right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I know, right.
Speaker 2: I've also been talking to somebody in India trying to
Speaker 2: work out a plan to do something with in Indian cinema.
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure. I'm kind of pushing for kind
Speaker 2: of like the big the Masala musical types of films,
Speaker 2: which I think would be a lot of fun, but
Speaker 2: so I'm not exactly sure where I'm gonna land with
Speaker 2: that one. We're still sorting it out. I've also been
Speaker 2: chatting with someone for I think a year now trying
Speaker 2: to coordinate the time to talk about heist films, which
Speaker 2: I think would be a really fun episode to discuss.
Speaker 2: So those are a few that are that are currently
Speaker 2: in the works.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Yeah, for anybody that missed the beginning,
Speaker 1: please go subscribe CinemaScope. Really incredible show well researched with nowadays,
Speaker 1: I mean there's something about shows that actually put the
Speaker 1: work into discussing titles that mean so much more than
Speaker 1: like the Hangout podcast to me, and you could tell
Speaker 1: that they are important well read podcast compared to others
Speaker 1: that are like Sit on the couch and Discuss and
Speaker 1: those have their place. Nothing against that's just right now,
Speaker 1: very much into the let's let's deep dive and actually
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about type of podcasts.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Means the world. Let's get into some announcements. Then we're
Speaker 1: starting on sort of a weird note this week because
Speaker 1: the first thing is a replacement program. Radiance announced their
Speaker 1: first replacement program, and this one was odd because it
Speaker 1: seemed to only be affecting people that had Panasonic players
Speaker 1: and people that did not have Panasonic players. It just
Speaker 1: play just fine, so you may not even need a
Speaker 1: replacement disc. But just so you know, Radiance sent out
Speaker 1: a message saying that they have discovered what happened. Finally.
Speaker 1: They wanted to announce this a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't even figure out what caused the air.
Speaker 1: So there was a formatting error when the disc was
Speaker 1: sent for replication, and it wasn't present in their files,
Speaker 1: and it somehow got corrupted on the way to the printer.
Speaker 1: So the replacement discs are now being manufactured and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be sent to those that bought it straight from Radiance.
Speaker 1: Anybody else you can info. You can email info at
Speaker 1: Radiancefilms dot co dot uk show that you purchased the
Speaker 1: disc and they will get you a disc sent to you.
Speaker 1: And they did say this is good for anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world. You don't have to worry if you bought
Speaker 1: this in Australia or something, they will still ship it
Speaker 1: to you. There are new discs still being made of
Speaker 1: this title and it will have the replacement disc already
Speaker 1: with it, so you don't need to worry about that.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work, but kuda's to them for
Speaker 2: figuring it out.
Speaker 1: It's a ton of work. Mozart saying do they not
Speaker 1: test a disc at the plant, and yes they do.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about another another label at issues later,
Speaker 1: but yeah. There are lots of ways to test the discs,
Speaker 1: and most of the companies do in different ways. But
Speaker 1: when something is so specific like this, sometimes it just
Speaker 1: gets missed somehow, and it depends sometimes that the air
Speaker 1: doesn't happen until fourteen minutes into the feature or only
Speaker 1: on the special features. There's a lot of different ways
Speaker 1: that these can go wrong without being able to be
Speaker 1: caught because they're not sitting there testing after they've done QC.
Speaker 1: Like some of these companies do QC more than thirty
Speaker 1: times on the whole disc after they're pressed. They're not
Speaker 1: testing all of the disc yet. Again, they would be
Speaker 1: completely bogged down and just doing QC for the rest
Speaker 1: of their lives. So thanks Radiance, this is the right
Speaker 1: way to handle it. Good job. Okay. So we talked
Speaker 1: about seven a little bit ago. We also talked about
Speaker 1: their sale coming up next week. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about a handful of titles coming as part of their sale.
Speaker 1: This first one is Night of the Sharks from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight. This is the first time it's been on
Speaker 1: disc anywhere in North America, coming on Blu rays scan
Speaker 1: from the only surviving thirty five millimeter print. It will
Speaker 1: have the bonus soundtrack CD with it. Love that Severn
Speaker 1: still does this, but this is one starring treat freakin'
Speaker 1: Williams and cannot wait to get this. This is gonna
Speaker 1: have a trailer on it. Not much for extras, but
Speaker 1: I have heard about this movie many many times and
Speaker 1: have never had a chance to see it. Night of
Speaker 1: the Sharks. Are are you a shark e'xploitation person? Because
Speaker 1: we're gon be talking about sharks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we are. I have never seen this, hadn't
Speaker 2: heard of it, but I mean Treat Williams and the
Speaker 2: fact that his character has a pet shark named Cyclops,
Speaker 2: like totally won me over as soon as I saw
Speaker 2: all that. I'm like to have to check this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great sounding cast in this. This looks like a
Speaker 1: hell of a lot of fun. Definitely on my radar
Speaker 1: for the sale.
Speaker 2: I want to just call out with that one that
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of film scores and soundtracks, and
Speaker 2: I love the bonus feature idea of actually throwing in
Speaker 2: the soundtrack like that is one of my favorite things,
Speaker 2: especially because neither of the Sharks is not the sort
Speaker 2: of soundtrack that's exactly like a common item to pick
Speaker 2: up anywhere. So like that's definitely for me, like something
Speaker 2: that I always look at as a big selling point
Speaker 2: when I'm looking at whether I decide to purchase something
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: I love the comment we just got can you see
Speaker 1: a shark at night? I mean yeah, if it's flight.
Speaker 1: Thanks Rag. Now let's see next up. Airplane to the
Speaker 1: sequel coming to four K from Keena Lober on September
Speaker 1: twenty third. This is a brand new HDR Dolby Vision
Speaker 1: Master from a Ford K scan of the OCN. For
Speaker 1: Airplane two, we got a new audio commentary on here
Speaker 1: by Mike White from the Projection Booth podcast. New audio
Speaker 1: commentary by Patrick Walsh as well. The Blu ray that
Speaker 1: comes with this is not gonna have as many bonus
Speaker 1: features as they normally throw in on the Blu Ray,
Speaker 1: but it's got both those commentaries. Still. You can get
Speaker 1: this on standalone Blu ray as well. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about Airplane two?
Speaker 2: The sequel I grew up, I mean Airplane was a
Speaker 2: regular in my house. We watched that all the time.
Speaker 2: I have a good half of that movie easily memorized,
Speaker 2: just so many quotable lines. This is one that I
Speaker 2: had fun with. William Shatner's my favorite part in it.
Speaker 2: I never watched it as much as Airplane, but I
Speaker 2: still found it to be pretty fun.
Speaker 1: I made this argument a couple of weeks go because
Speaker 1: they Keno did the classic thing of We're going to
Speaker 1: announce the title and not tell you anything or the
Speaker 1: date or anything, and then three months later reveal it.
Speaker 1: So when I brought this up, I've said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say that this is a better movie. However,
Speaker 1: Airplane two has like all of the great stuff from
Speaker 1: Airplane and more jokes. It's also really great. Yeah yeah, anyways.
Speaker 1: Next up from Keno a Blu ray release of Radio
Speaker 1: Land Murders, coming on September twenty third. This is one
Speaker 1: with Mary Stewart, Masterson, Brian Benben. I have never seen
Speaker 1: this one. I'll get a new audio commentary on here
Speaker 1: by Brian Reeseman and Max every There's also a new
Speaker 1: interview with Brian Benben on here. Have you seen the
Speaker 1: Radio Land Murders?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this was a movie that they when it
Speaker 2: came out, they were really plugging the fact that George
Speaker 2: Lucas was involved. Everyone was like, what is this guy
Speaker 2: doing now that Star Wars is over? This is like
Speaker 2: that period where nothing was happen happening in the Star
Speaker 2: Wars world. And so he was like, he wrote this.
Speaker 2: You know, he's one of these people. He loves he loves,
Speaker 2: you know, the fifties driving culture, and he also really
Speaker 2: loves the world of old radio. And so wrote the
Speaker 2: story for this and then was the EP on it.
Speaker 2: And it's a zany fun movie. I mean, I've it's
Speaker 2: been quite a number of years since I watched it,
Speaker 2: but I remember having a lot of fun with it,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's just they throw in some like
Speaker 2: actual old people, like I think George Burns pops up
Speaker 2: as somebody who's who's doing some radio in it and everything,
Speaker 2: and I just I had a lot of fun. It's
Speaker 2: definitely one that I'm just seeing the fact that they're
Speaker 2: putting this out made me want to revisited it and
Speaker 2: see how it holds up.
Speaker 1: Perfect time for that, you get a brand new two
Speaker 1: K Master coming on the disc. Speaking of brand new version, September. Second,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be an Amazon exclusive of the four K
Speaker 1: Superman Sealbook Library set that they did way back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Over the summer, they're doing that exact
Speaker 1: same set, but they're losing the fifth steal book that
Speaker 1: in the first one had comic books and a certificate
Speaker 1: of authenticity in like six other things. And all that
Speaker 1: is great that they're putting us back out, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not one of those people that if I had the
Speaker 1: first one, I'm not going to complain because the value
Speaker 1: might go down slightly. The big deal here, though, is
Speaker 1: that they are fixing a bunch of errors that were
Speaker 1: in there for the first time. So when they put
Speaker 1: this out in the very first set in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the first movie had a six track audio set and
Speaker 1: it did not have the two point zero audio and lossless.
Speaker 1: They screwed up the audio track for some reason that
Speaker 1: got fixed in this one. There was a Christopher Reeve
Speaker 1: credit glitch that happened in that first movie, which that's
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal to overlook Chris for Reef
Speaker 1: that has been fixed. Superman two has an improved Adobey
Speaker 1: Atmos mix that corrects the various wows that were problems
Speaker 1: in the audio mix, and there were some pitch issues
Speaker 1: as well. Superman two, the Richard Donner cut disc has
Speaker 1: a video fix for the geometry of the iconic final
Speaker 1: shot of the movie and a couple other random things
Speaker 1: that was squished horizontally. Superman three the disc was fine,
Speaker 1: so that one's identical, and then Superman four The Quest
Speaker 1: for Piece includes an improved atmost mix as well that
Speaker 1: had some various alternate and incorrect musical performances that were
Speaker 1: wrong on that first release. So the hard part here,
Speaker 1: if you have that first release, you have the fancy
Speaker 1: limited set with all of the broken discs. So what
Speaker 1: should you do. I'm not gonna say that they will
Speaker 1: do this, but I will say Warner Brothers actually has
Speaker 1: a decent track record for this. If you had the
Speaker 1: original Rambo set of all the four ks, those were
Speaker 1: littered with theirs as well, and people when they re
Speaker 1: released those unfixed them. People that bought the original set
Speaker 1: were able to email Warner Brothers and get fixed discs.
Speaker 1: So if you got this first set, I highly suggest
Speaker 1: emailing Warner Brothers. They might be able to help you
Speaker 1: out because that's a lot to fix and feel slighted
Speaker 1: by if you got that first one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a tough one. I would hope that
Speaker 2: they will actually send replacements to people.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I agree with Mozarready says I, if you
Speaker 1: can provide proof of purchase, you should be able to
Speaker 1: get the fixed discs. Which there's the hard part too,
Speaker 1: is this has been a set that has sold second
Speaker 1: hand a lot in the last two years. So pull
Speaker 1: out those emails, see what you can do. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're fixing this. I'm glad they're re releasing these.
Speaker 1: I didn't buy the first set, but with my kid
Speaker 1: loving Superman this last weekend. I almost feel kind of
Speaker 1: obligated to show them all the original Superman's on four K,
Speaker 1: and this is the way to do it. They also
Speaker 1: have a standard set that will have all the fixes
Speaker 1: eventually as well, so may need to check something out
Speaker 1: there you go. September ninth, we are getting Dark Winds
Speaker 1: season three from AMC. This is not a show I
Speaker 1: had ever heard of before I posted this announcement. Do
Speaker 1: you watch Dark Ones? It sounds like you you know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't, but I've definitely heard of it. It's one that
Speaker 2: George R. Martin has been behind and so I and
Speaker 2: I love Zoon mcclarn and, who is the lead in it.
Speaker 2: He was, you know, one of my favorite characters in
Speaker 2: Doctor Sleep and he just think he's just a fantastic actor.
Speaker 2: So it's one of these I have so many movies
Speaker 2: that I'm trying to watch that TV is very limited
Speaker 2: because it takes up so much time. But this is
Speaker 2: one that I've had my eye on for quite some time,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I might have to see about checking
Speaker 2: these out at some point.
Speaker 1: Supposedly it's an incredible movie or show, really like really
Speaker 1: high quality. Everybody that was commenting on this scene to
Speaker 1: love it, so yeah, I will consider it eventually. It's
Speaker 1: based on some series of books, says Colton Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the Leehorn and che series.
Speaker 1: And Ronnie, who does watch a lot of TV, says
Speaker 1: it's been on the watch list for a while, so
Speaker 1: I get it moving right along. Here is a fun
Speaker 1: one coming soon. So we don't have a date yet,
Speaker 1: but we are getting a four K of Remo Williams
Speaker 1: from Keno Lber. They have released this on Blu Ray already.
Speaker 1: You can pretty much guarantee all the extras that were
Speaker 1: on that will be on this. They might even do
Speaker 1: a new commentary when this gets a date and all
Speaker 1: that and stuff. How do you feel about Remo Williams.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is one that you had to
Speaker 1: have seen.
Speaker 2: Oh. I watched this all the time when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, so much fun. I actually revisited it when
Speaker 2: fred ward passed away a few years ago, just to
Speaker 2: kind of like check it out, because like, when I
Speaker 2: think of fred Warden, that's where I go. It's either
Speaker 2: that or Tremor's Tremors for me. Yeah, yeah, or Henry
Speaker 2: and June, which is a little bit different, probably not
Speaker 2: the one that I'm jumping to put on.
Speaker 1: But Tremor's Rebote Williams and Henry and Juice.
Speaker 2: But I loved Rema Williams so much as a kid.
Speaker 2: I revisited it and it was It's still a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. But Joel Gray's character was a little difficult
Speaker 2: to watch these days. But I still had fun with
Speaker 2: the movie, and I love Joel Gray. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those what you just kind of look past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Miami Blues. That's a good one. Adam love
Speaker 1: that movie.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Miami Blues is one of those weird ones that was
Speaker 1: kind of hard to see on disc for a while,
Speaker 1: and then it got like three releases in the span
Speaker 1: of eighteen months. It's like, oh, now everybody has seen it.
Speaker 1: This is nice.
Speaker 2: Everybody's putting out suddenly.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, next again not a dated release, but Keno
Speaker 1: Olber putting out a four K of Runaway Train from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. How do you feel about Runaway Train.
Speaker 2: It's a great movie, and it's I think the thing
Speaker 2: to know about it is it's not it doesn't end
Speaker 2: up being the movie that you think it's going to
Speaker 2: be when it starts. You know, it's like run away.
Speaker 2: You're watching the escape Convince escaping on a train and
Speaker 2: it becomes a runaway train, and then it becomes this
Speaker 2: like internal character piece as they're trying to figure themselves
Speaker 2: out and stuff, and great movie. Kurosawa, Kira Kurosawa wrote
Speaker 2: the screenplay, or they adapted a version of the screenplay
Speaker 2: that he had written for this, and it's definitely worth
Speaker 2: checking out. I recommend it quite a bit.
Speaker 1: It's a good movie. I certainly like Tony Scott's take
Speaker 1: on it. I'll keep going. Filmmasters putting out on August
Speaker 1: twenty sixth they blu ray of Invasion USA. But not
Speaker 1: the one that you probably think of immediately when you
Speaker 1: hear Evasion USA. This is the nineteen fifty two double
Speaker 1: feature of the Cold War era. We were getting two
Speaker 1: films bonus film on this one, Rocket Attack USA. Film Masters.
Speaker 1: These are always pressed discs. I got that question a
Speaker 1: lot this week when I posted these announcements. Just a
Speaker 1: heads up, Yes, these are press discs. It'll be a
Speaker 1: great release, promise this one brand new four K restoration
Speaker 1: of Invasion USA from archival Elements. New four K restoration
Speaker 1: also of Rocket Attack USA. From the original sixteen millimeter
Speaker 1: archival elements Crazy and then new audio commentary by Jason A.
Speaker 1: Nine for Invasion USA. New essay by Toby Rohan on
Speaker 1: Invasion USA. New audio commentary by c. Courtney Joyner and
Speaker 1: Mark Jordan Leagan for Rocket Attack USA. New essay by
Speaker 1: Don Stradley for Rocket Attack USA. And then Ballyho Motion
Speaker 1: Pictures did Better Dead Than Read Hollywood versus Communism in
Speaker 1: the fifties, a little documentary for this, and then a
Speaker 1: new featurette with Anthony Moore, son of the star Gerald Moore,
Speaker 1: the Mystery Science Theater three thousand episode with Rocket Attack USA.
Speaker 1: Recut trailers of both like, there is a ton of
Speaker 1: stuff on this disc. This is reagion free, so you
Speaker 1: can get this anywhere in the world. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch it. This is a crazy looking release. I've
Speaker 1: not seen either of these films. Is this something that
Speaker 1: you're into or.
Speaker 2: I've seen I haven't either, but just interesting fact. Dano
Speaker 2: Hurleyhey shows up in Invasion USA. So you've got the
Speaker 2: last star Fighter RoboCop Halloween three connection to it. So
Speaker 2: there you go.
Speaker 1: Since Sinda kitt the podcast says Rocket Attack USA from
Speaker 1: Newdy QD master Barry Mahone always happen to see Mahone
Speaker 1: get the HD treatment and to get a brand new
Speaker 1: four K scan of archival elements for something like Invasion USA.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is really doing that besides film Masters for
Speaker 1: a title like this, this is a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: I will be supporting this one. This is the one
Speaker 1: that I want to see more stuff like this for sure.
Speaker 2: I love that they're actually releasing it as a double feature.
Speaker 2: I think that's such a great idea.
Speaker 1: Most of their mainline they call them special edition releases.
Speaker 1: Most of them are double features. And what I appreciate
Speaker 1: is for both of the features, they get supplemental features
Speaker 1: to put some sort of context on it, whether it
Speaker 1: be about the director or the genre or anything like that.
Speaker 1: They do really great work, really great work.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. What if they do or they should do
Speaker 2: a reversible cover where you flip it over and it's
Speaker 2: a Rocket Attack USA with your bonus. So yeah, that'd
Speaker 2: be cool to see them.
Speaker 1: I don't have one within reach. I forgot. I just
Speaker 1: moved it and I was about to check to see
Speaker 1: if they do that, and I forgot. Oh god, this
Speaker 1: is such a terrible cover.
Speaker 2: I forgot this was I hate this type of Yeah,
Speaker 2: these covers.
Speaker 1: So MGM themselves aka Amazon, putting out on July fifteenth,
Speaker 1: which you'll notice is in the past. They literally announced
Speaker 1: this like two days before it released. And I believe
Speaker 1: this is going to be a BDR, but don't quote
Speaker 1: me on that. I think it is July fifteenth. They
Speaker 1: got a blu ray of Town Without Pity from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one, and all they do is photoshop a couple
Speaker 1: scenes from the film together into the most awkward looking
Speaker 1: cover art. Obviously Kirk Douglas movie, this is one that
Speaker 1: probably should have been treated fairly well, and this is
Speaker 1: what we got. Have you seen Ten Without Pity? No?
Speaker 2: But I know this is one of those where you know,
Speaker 2: he had worked quite a bit with Dalton Trombo when
Speaker 2: he was blacklisted, and this is one that he had
Speaker 2: Trombo come in. And I don't know how much of
Speaker 2: the screenplay he worked on, but I know that this
Speaker 2: is one that he had touched the screenplay a bit
Speaker 2: and of course didn't get credits.
Speaker 1: Right, Adam says, even AI would be embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Right, it's an awful cover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is this is truly Bad Next from
Speaker 1: Severn as part of their sale is Fearless Dragons from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. This will go on sale as part of
Speaker 1: the summer sale next Thursday night going into Friday. This
Speaker 1: is the first time on Blu Ray in North America
Speaker 1: at all, and this says from iconic seventies Hong Kong
Speaker 1: Studio gold Digg Films Limited. The Dragon Libs Again and
Speaker 1: Duel the Seven Tigers came from that same studio. Comes
Speaker 1: one of the favorite action comedies in the history of
Speaker 1: the genre. When two Wiley con men martial arts movie
Speaker 1: legends Philip Coe and Brian Lung, they are framed for
Speaker 1: hijacking a trunk full of charity funds, built joined forces
Speaker 1: to find the real bandits and a wild series of
Speaker 1: adventures that lead to an utterly fantastic final battle ranked
Speaker 1: among the most exciting two on one fight scenes ever,
Speaker 1: which with that sentence sold special features on this first
Speaker 1: off scanned in four K from the OCN. Incredible job
Speaker 1: with that Severn. That's amazing audio commentary with Frank Jing
Speaker 1: and Michael Wirth, who are great at all of these
Speaker 1: commentaries that they do. There's an interview with the director
Speaker 1: Lee Chew there is actor Philip Coe remembers Fearless Dragons
Speaker 1: and a trailer and again region free anywhere you live.
Speaker 1: You can get this and watch it on Blu ray Player.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic.
Speaker 2: I would just pick it up for purely the positions
Speaker 2: that each of the people jumping are in right in
Speaker 2: the middle of it, especially the guy on the left
Speaker 2: and the right. Like that alone sells me on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Shapes films are really fun. This is gonna be great.
Speaker 1: And this is not a Bruce Floitation film. I had
Speaker 1: a couple of people ask this was going to be
Speaker 1: in their next Bruce Ploitation box set because severn Is
Speaker 1: announced a second one on the way, no date or
Speaker 1: anything yet, but no, this will not be in that
Speaker 1: box because it's not Bruce Ploitation. Interesting, this was a
Speaker 1: fun thing this week. Dark Force Entertainment, who I don't
Speaker 1: talk about a lot, but this is an important movie.
Speaker 1: They are putting out the movie Mama's Dirty Girls from
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. This is coming as part of their
Speaker 1: Drive In collector series. This is going to be a
Speaker 1: double feature as well, so you've got this one Mama's
Speaker 1: Dirty Girls. This is directed by John Hayes, who also
Speaker 1: did Grave at the Vampire and A Garden of the Dead.
Speaker 1: The original uncut thirty five millimeter negative was found and
Speaker 1: they were able to scan this one. That is really
Speaker 1: damn cool. But then the second hit is the extremely
Speaker 1: rare nineteen seventy German erotica film How to Make Love
Speaker 1: to a Virgin, which that's pretty damn cool that they're
Speaker 1: putting this in here. The only special feature on these
Speaker 1: drive in specials from Force, they have their drive in mode,
Speaker 1: which means they will show both films back to back
Speaker 1: with a little intermission in between the two movies, which
Speaker 1: I think is a really incredible sort of gimmick to
Speaker 1: put on these. I just wish we had some sort
Speaker 1: of contextual extra because these movies deserve somebody to talk
Speaker 1: about them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, Gloria Graham of all people, shows
Speaker 2: up in the film, and I mean she's like been
Speaker 2: in so many amazing films, and then I'd love some
Speaker 2: context of like her career leading to this. You know,
Speaker 2: that'd be a really interesting but special feature that I'd
Speaker 2: love to check out.
Speaker 1: Gary's pointing out she has huge hands. Yeah, the perspective
Speaker 1: here is not great at all. Craig wants to know.
Speaker 1: Can they pipe in mosquitoes into your living room? Thankfully
Speaker 1: that technology does not exist yet.
Speaker 2: Uh the worst.
Speaker 1: That and like crying babies from three cars over next,
Speaker 1: this is an odd one. So I'm not gonna mention
Speaker 1: this for too long because it actually did not last.
Speaker 1: But for a long about eight minute period, Lionsgate Limited
Speaker 1: had restocked The Man who Fell to Earth four K
Speaker 1: steel book that has been going for decent money secondhand,
Speaker 1: and so it looked like there's gonna be another chance
Speaker 1: to pick this up. But it has disappeared from their
Speaker 1: website pretty much immediately after I posted this, and then
Speaker 1: everybody started crying because they couldn't go buy it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: What I'm getting from this is this will likely get restocked.
Speaker 1: They just probably were not able to have it available yet,
Speaker 1: so if that does happen, I will try to update.
Speaker 1: This is one of those times where if you remember
Speaker 1: the Patreon of a part of the discord, you'll get
Speaker 1: updated much quicker that way, most likely, So please come
Speaker 1: hang out if you want to. This is the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that doesn't always deserve another post, but if
Speaker 1: it does, we will absolutely be talking about it in
Speaker 1: the discord. Great movie, incredible looking steel book on this
Speaker 1: I don't always love steel books, but the way they
Speaker 1: designed the Bowie Steel Book is kind of perfect here.
Speaker 1: It's worth a watch, It's worth an own, absolutely, absolutely
Speaker 1: something to look forward to if you're after it.
Speaker 2: I'd love to pick that up if if it pops
Speaker 2: up at the right moment when I'm looking at their site.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the hard part. Hopefully it's back for
Speaker 1: good soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, this surprised me. This week September ninth, Universal releasing
Speaker 1: a four K of Cissy says Cissy Spasic Man my
Speaker 1: tongue Twisters tonight are bad coal miner's daughter from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty getting a four K release. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about this one, Andy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a great musical biopick, like if you
Speaker 2: like those films. I mean, they do a great job
Speaker 2: with this one. I believe it's Tommy Lee Jones who
Speaker 2: plays her husband, right yeah, and it's I mean Cissy
Speaker 2: Spacek just nails the role and does it so well.
Speaker 2: I would be curious to actually revisit this one and
Speaker 2: see how it played for me after all this time.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm a little well tuckered out
Speaker 2: on music biopics at the moment, so it's not urgent,
Speaker 2: but this is one that I would be more inclined
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 1: I watched this a lot as a child. My grandmother
Speaker 1: and that whole side of the family was very conservative minded,
Speaker 1: at least when it came to movies. So like I
Speaker 1: grew up watching like Fried Green Tomatoes was a movie
Speaker 1: that I saw probably once a week, and this is
Speaker 1: one of those that was just in that rotation. So
Speaker 1: I've seen this countless times. But because I saw it
Speaker 1: so much, I don't think I've seen this movie in
Speaker 1: like twenty eight years, I've had no desire to watch
Speaker 1: it again. That being said, I remember really enjoying it
Speaker 1: and to own it on four K and be able
Speaker 1: to watch it again in twenty twenty five that way
Speaker 1: is kind of incredible, no kidding. And yeah, Sibners saying,
Speaker 1: got to give you Universal credit. It's definitely been longer
Speaker 1: than six months since they put out the Blu ray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Universal is doing really well at the moment actually, But yeah,
Speaker 1: the biopic thing is is tough. It's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to watch any music biopick, especially after Dewey Cox that
Speaker 1: ruined them for me, because it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just put that in then and and Weird back
Speaker 2: to back, and that pretty much covers the whole gamut
Speaker 2: of expectations.
Speaker 1: Uh, Weird, Did you like Weird?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know, I didn't actually watch it. I'm It's
Speaker 2: one that I'm very curious to, but every time I
Speaker 2: go to put it on, it's like there's always something
Speaker 2: else to do.
Speaker 1: But I mean to it's all right, I feel again,
Speaker 1: I hate to say it because it was another parody,
Speaker 1: but like dewey Cox even like took the wind out
Speaker 1: of the sales of Weird. If that happened earlier, it
Speaker 1: would have been like, oh, this is a masterpiece, and
Speaker 1: then dewey Cox could have won uped it. But no,
Speaker 1: dewey Cox has just kind of ruined the entire genre.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's really funny.
Speaker 1: Uh. Next, we got some details on the How to
Speaker 1: Train Your Dragon release from this year. This is the
Speaker 1: live action remake. I'm sure most of us sort of
Speaker 1: agree about the live action remake thing. Are you somebody
Speaker 1: that's watched those are a fan of them? Or are
Speaker 1: you blatantly against them? Like most of us.
Speaker 2: I there was a period I mean, you know, we
Speaker 2: started with things like one hundred one Dalmatians and Glenn
Speaker 2: Close was amazing, and there were there were reasons where
Speaker 2: they could do something and it could play okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then it just hit like shot for shot sorts
Speaker 2: of remakes and I'm like, if you're gonna go live action,
Speaker 2: do like a Maleficent or Honestly, my favorite of all
Speaker 2: of them is probably Pete's Dragon, which takes that I mean,
Speaker 2: I loved it as a kid, but it's not actually
Speaker 2: that great if you visit it, but they made an
Speaker 2: amazing movie out of it, like that's how you do
Speaker 2: a live action remake of something. And it's just like
Speaker 2: these are all just like just rehashes, and I just
Speaker 2: I would love to actually just to test and see
Speaker 2: if audiences are buying into it in re like, take
Speaker 2: something that's that's a live action movie, like I don't
Speaker 2: know what's a like like I don't know, Hirs of
Speaker 2: the Caribbean and do a shot for shot animated version
Speaker 2: of that, and are they gonna make money? Sadly probably
Speaker 2: they would, yeah, yeah, for sure. So but it's just
Speaker 2: one of these things like we just don't need them,
Speaker 2: and so this is not one that I'm interested in
Speaker 2: because I love the original trilogy so much.
Speaker 1: I do too. I've got all three of the original
Speaker 1: trilogy four K steel books right over here. They're They're gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Love those. I went and saw this, took my kids amazingly.
Speaker 1: It was great. Uh, not really anything to complain about
Speaker 1: the funny part. It's just the exact same movie, Like
Speaker 1: I have no Yeah, I had no reason to go
Speaker 1: see this. It was just there. I mean there were
Speaker 1: scenes in this where I I I think I made
Speaker 1: the show a couple of weeks ago, but when I
Speaker 1: came home, I was thinking, like, did they even make
Speaker 1: the guy's hair move the exact same way as it
Speaker 1: was in the animated version, because it looked that identical.
Speaker 1: I again, this will look beautiful. It's crazy. But then
Speaker 1: there's stuff like the quote live action lion King that
Speaker 1: was literally just animated too, Like.
Speaker 2: What are we doing? I know, it's bizarre. The whole
Speaker 2: thing is just a strange way to make more money.
Speaker 1: It's weird. So this is all coming on August twelfth.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a four K steal book, a standard
Speaker 1: four K, a Blu ray, and a DVD that you
Speaker 1: can get of How to Train Your Dragon from Universal
Speaker 1: HDR Dolby Atmos. On the four K release, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a director's commentary on the whole film, which is
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I kind of want to hear this,
Speaker 1: even though I do not want to purchase this disc.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what the same director is going
Speaker 1: to say about making this film live action after he
Speaker 1: did everything else. You got deleted scenes, you've got making of,
Speaker 1: you've got walking onto the set, whole bunch of features.
Speaker 1: They're kind of doing this right at least for the
Speaker 1: physical release, but I don't know, again, not necessary at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love this question. Where's the live action remake a
Speaker 1: belladon of Sadness? That is a great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw somebody else throw in Sophie's choice. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's se there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one could do well. Siba says, what's my
Speaker 1: shelving order? I have Mary Poppin's shelves. It's not that
Speaker 1: they're everywhere, it's that I have. I don't know how
Speaker 1: good this will show up. I have little acrylic display
Speaker 1: shelves for steal books, so I've got just nine of
Speaker 1: them set up right there. But it's a trilogy and
Speaker 1: these three are perfect for it, so yeah, they're right there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Let's go to our next one. Speaking of animation,
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Panda two, which is probably the best one
Speaker 1: in that series, is getting a four K release from
Speaker 1: Universal on September ninth. No new extras on this, but
Speaker 1: I actually really like the century into the franchise, so
Speaker 1: I might pick this one up. I don't have Shrek
Speaker 1: yet either, which I also loved. But are you into
Speaker 1: any of these animation ones?
Speaker 2: I love them, the Kung Fu Panda ones. It's it's funny.
Speaker 2: It's the first trilogy or first series of films where
Speaker 2: like I took my kids to it, and then the
Speaker 2: fourth one came out and my son's like, oh, my
Speaker 2: friends and I are going to see it. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to take it now, we want to go together.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, just like I realized, I lost my
Speaker 2: buddy to go see some of these within the theater,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, all right, have fun. Yeah, but they're
Speaker 2: great movies. I do enjoy them quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're surprisingly good, and the casting is great,
Speaker 1: like the fact that we have jack Black and Jackie
Speaker 1: Chan as two of the main characters in these is incredible.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, it's a fantastic group of people that
Speaker 2: they have going.
Speaker 1: To the next one another really awfully photoshopped cover. Universal
Speaker 1: releasing My Dead Friend Zoe from this Year on Blu
Speaker 1: Ray on September sixteenth. No extras on this, But the
Speaker 1: big thing that you can get is, I think that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be Morgan Freeman and this is supposed to
Speaker 1: be Ed Harris.
Speaker 2: What is Wow? Just the worst? This is so bad? Like,
Speaker 2: were were they not able to access the the movie.
Speaker 1: Poster to itself? Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, geez, it's a terrible poster. I've heard nothing
Speaker 2: but good things about the film. Really want to check
Speaker 2: it out. But yeah, this this poster is atrocious.
Speaker 1: Atrocious is almost even being too kind, which is hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Natalie Moralis, who secretly is
Speaker 1: kind of always incredible. Yeah, I definitely want to see
Speaker 1: this one. I've heard it's good.
Speaker 2: I'm actually looking at that that is the same as
Speaker 2: the theatrical release poster. It just looks like they even
Speaker 2: extra photoshopped it, like put extra shading on people's faces. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yikes. Del's The cover looks like AI got rogue. Oh man,
Speaker 1: yeah this this posters? Yeah, Megan two point zero. Did
Speaker 1: you see this one?
Speaker 2: No? I was. I enjoyed the first movie. It was fun.
Speaker 2: It wasn't one that I wanted to return to, but
Speaker 2: I thought they did it. They made a really fun
Speaker 2: film with it. And then I saw the trailer for
Speaker 2: the second one. I'm like, wow, they took that in
Speaker 2: a direction I wasn't expecting at all, And then I
Speaker 2: just didn't hear anything good. So I just I didn't bother.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Saw the first one. I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1: I didn't love the first one like everybody else, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was fine. This one I hated. This
Speaker 1: was not great. But we got some details. September twenty third,
Speaker 1: four K steelbook and a standard four K Blue ray,
Speaker 1: plus they're doing a DVD released and a Blu ray
Speaker 1: and all that. But also they're doing a double feature
Speaker 1: four K release and a Blu Ray release if you
Speaker 1: want both movies at once. But the big thing is,
Speaker 1: when I saw the first movie, it was not in theaters.
Speaker 1: I watched it at home and I watched the unrated version,
Speaker 1: which I then saw the theatrical and I found I
Speaker 1: loved the unrated version way more than the theatrical I
Speaker 1: didn't love either one, but the unrated definitely made it better,
Speaker 1: And of course they're going all in on that as well.
Speaker 1: So the second one has an unrated version. It says
Speaker 1: upgraded with enhanced kills, deleted scenes, and more blood and carnage.
Speaker 1: You probably should have released that in theaters. It might
Speaker 1: have done better. Yeah, this one has an HGR presentation
Speaker 1: for the movie. We've got Dolby at most and then
Speaker 1: some featurettes on here. There's a scene breakdown, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Not too shabby on the features. This one is interesting.
Speaker 1: So I was on Reddit checking out some of the
Speaker 1: physical media subreddits that they have, and there's a user
Speaker 1: who is a Tractoris twelve who posted that he made
Speaker 1: a Blu ray price tracker. You can find this at
Speaker 1: valueflick dot com, except it's v a l u flick
Speaker 1: dot Now. I am not affiliated with the site or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I just found that I thought it
Speaker 1: would be useful and so I wanted to share it
Speaker 1: with the world when I came across it, he says
Speaker 1: on the website. I built valueflick because my own steel
Speaker 1: books and limited run discs were piling up and I
Speaker 1: had no clue what they were worth from one week
Speaker 1: to the next. Spreadsheets were paying price threads were all
Speaker 1: over the place, so I wrote some code to pull
Speaker 1: in recent sales, graft the swings, and keep my shelf
Speaker 1: cataloged in one tidy spot. It's still just be tweaking
Speaker 1: the site between movie nights, but I've opened it up
Speaker 1: in case other collectors want the same quick reality check
Speaker 1: before buying, trading, or selling. If it saves you a
Speaker 1: little guest work and maybe a few bucks, I'll call
Speaker 1: that a win. So I saw this and I immediately thought, well,
Speaker 1: if I want to buy something that seems valuable to me,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to overspend, so if I see
Speaker 1: something as trending on the lower side, I don't have
Speaker 1: to go, you know, on like a Facebook group and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you're selling this for ninety dollars, I'll buy it for
Speaker 1: ninety dollars if it's only selling for like sixty bucks.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to go through eBay and parts
Speaker 1: through all these so this is pretty cool to me.
Speaker 1: What's interesting, though, is I posted this and the guy
Speaker 1: who coded the site, DMed me about four hours later
Speaker 1: and said, hey, I posted this to Reddit and not
Speaker 1: much happened, but then you posted this and the site crashed.
Speaker 1: Me posting this brought him a ton of traffic, and
Speaker 1: so he started asking what compelled me to even post
Speaker 1: about it, and if I had any ideas that he
Speaker 1: could implement. And so we've been chatting every day since
Speaker 1: I posted this, and I've given him a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: He's got all kinds of things he's tweaking behind the
Speaker 1: scenes on this that actually are probably going to be
Speaker 1: super useful. So if everybody is keeping an eye on this,
Speaker 1: this will be changing pretty much daily. He is working
Speaker 1: on this kind of NonStop. Sibner says, do we have
Speaker 1: to enter each and every title in there? If you
Speaker 1: mean like to search for it at the moment? Yes,
Speaker 1: but you can make a collection. So if you've got
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff, you can scan and log in
Speaker 1: and make an account and make a collection on there,
Speaker 1: and that way you can track your stuff all in
Speaker 1: one place. We got a question that says, I wonder
Speaker 1: how accurate the tracker is. It's scraping straight from eBay
Speaker 1: sold prices, so it's there's not even a question on
Speaker 1: if it's accurate these are actually what they're selling for.
Speaker 1: The hard part is there's all kinds of older or
Speaker 1: more obscure or rare titles that there's nothing in there
Speaker 1: because there's no sales, So that part isn't entirely useful yet. However,
Speaker 1: he's got some ideas, and I gave him some ideas
Speaker 1: that I think will make it much more useful. I
Speaker 1: agree Zepam. I think it would be useful if you
Speaker 1: could import from other apps, because right now I'm not
Speaker 1: scanning eleven thousand releases to put it in there. But also,
Speaker 1: like for me, I don't I don't need to know
Speaker 1: what my collection's worth. That's not why I would use it.
Speaker 1: I guess if I was trying to sell something, I
Speaker 1: might use it as a gauge rather than searching on eBay.
Speaker 1: And yes, I believe you can search by isbn krinn.
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure by that. I think you can,
Speaker 1: though I know that he already since I did this,
Speaker 1: he already implemented a new feature that's not in the screenshot,
Speaker 1: where you can enter in titles yourself so that he
Speaker 1: can add those to the database so you can go
Speaker 1: check that feature out. But yeah, to me, at least,
Speaker 1: I think this seems like something that could be useful,
Speaker 1: especially if he does implement some of the things we've
Speaker 1: talked about. So keep an eye on it.
Speaker 2: I love the idea. Yeah, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And again, not to sell things. I had a
Speaker 1: lot of people say you shouldn't be, you know, taking
Speaker 1: your collection, speculating and only holding things because there were something.
Speaker 1: I agree, That's not why I want it. I want
Speaker 1: it because if I want a title, like I just
Speaker 1: traded for this Jackie Chan thing. To find out if
Speaker 1: I should trade for it or go buy it, I
Speaker 1: had to go scour a bunch of sites and find
Speaker 1: out that none of them had it listed, find out
Speaker 1: what it had sold for, see about what it's worth,
Speaker 1: and if I could just do that in one place,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Yeah, awesome. Next up Lionsgate Limited. Again, we
Speaker 1: were talking about them a moment ago. They announced a
Speaker 1: four K release of High Tension, the two thousand and
Speaker 1: three new French extremity released from Alexander Aja. This has
Speaker 1: all kinds of what they're calling lines Gate Limited extras,
Speaker 1: which are I believe are all the same that we're
Speaker 1: on the second site release of this when it got released.
Speaker 1: But this is a four K steal book. You can
Speaker 1: get this and it will be shipping on August twelfth,
Speaker 1: that is the release date. And the other things is
Speaker 1: this has a legacy bonus features on here. It's got
Speaker 1: the audio commentary with the AJA and the writer from
Speaker 1: years ago, another scene specific audio commentary. It's got some
Speaker 1: other featurettes that I don't believe these were on the
Speaker 1: second site release. So yeah, high Tension, are you a
Speaker 1: new French extremity fan?
Speaker 2: You know, it's fun film. I had a great time
Speaker 2: watching it until the twist when I found myself struggling
Speaker 2: with it quite a bit. But largely I think that
Speaker 2: AA is doing, like did some great work with it,
Speaker 2: and you could see why Hollywood pulled him in to
Speaker 2: do some other things over here.
Speaker 1: Yes, z Pam says, unfortunately the artwork is missing Morgan Freeman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. The big thing here a lot of people
Speaker 1: not loving the artwork or absolutely loving the artwork. This
Speaker 1: is the same artist Mexifunk that does the steal books
Speaker 1: for Screen Factory lately that are just overall mostly bad
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Sorry Mexifunk. No shade meant to you,
Speaker 1: but uh, just not my style. But it seems like
Speaker 1: they're clicking with some people. Not not for me though.
Speaker 1: The other Steel book, Oh, I guess we'll get to
Speaker 1: that one in just a minute, because Criterion I was
Speaker 1: announcing and they completely interrupted my life and stuff. Let's
Speaker 1: get into Criterion first, fire walk with Me. Got a
Speaker 1: four case steal deal book that'd be weird from Criterion
Speaker 1: fourt coming on October seventh. Tell us about your love
Speaker 1: of Twin Peaks and David Lynch.
Speaker 2: Sir, I love David Lynch. What's funny is that I
Speaker 2: only just like in the last year, finally decided I
Speaker 2: needed to do Twin Peaks, like that was my big
Speaker 2: gaping hole in my Lynch filmography. So I actually plowed
Speaker 2: through the entire nineties show, watched this movie, watched the
Speaker 2: new show, and I loved it all.
Speaker 1: This movie worked.
Speaker 2: I mean, it worked so well for me the way
Speaker 2: that it really gave us the story of Laura Palmer
Speaker 2: that we really weren't getting otherwise, and so I found
Speaker 2: it to be probably the most powerful of the entire
Speaker 2: run for me. I mean, it was surprisingly like I
Speaker 2: just wasn't expecting it to hit as emotionals.
Speaker 1: It did. Yeah, especially when absorbing Twin Peaks as a whole,
Speaker 1: this movie hits really hard. I don't know. It's Lynch,
Speaker 1: so obviously there's already something special there. But this movie
Speaker 1: is sort of, I don't know, a weird anomaly and
Speaker 1: how like how personal it feels because of how lived
Speaker 1: in some of the characters are, at least for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, truly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again it's Criterion, so no new extras or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but October seventh. This will look beautiful in
Speaker 1: four K, I'm sure. Then another one that has banded
Speaker 1: looked beautiful, Eyes without a Face from nineteen sixty getting
Speaker 1: a four K released from Criterion on October fourteenth. No
Speaker 1: new extras, but you've got the four K disc and
Speaker 1: the blu ray disc. Eyes Without a Face tell me
Speaker 1: about it, Andy.
Speaker 2: This is one that I have yet to see, and
Speaker 2: I even had a friend send it to me. So
Speaker 2: I have the disc sitting right back here, and I
Speaker 2: just I keep forgetting that I have it sitting there.
Speaker 2: I absolutely need to just pull it out and check
Speaker 2: it out. So in fact, I will as soon as
Speaker 2: I've been here that I'm going to write a note
Speaker 2: that's what I'm going to finally watch.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie. Everybody should check this out. It
Speaker 1: is fantastic. October twenty First, they are releasing a blu
Speaker 1: ray of David Cronenberg's The Shrouds. Now, what's odd here
Speaker 1: is this is coming as part of their Criterion Premier's line.
Speaker 1: So this used to be the Janis Contemporaries line that
Speaker 1: they had done, and then a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: they announced the first Janis Premiere or Criterion Premiers, and
Speaker 1: this is now the second. So this will be the
Speaker 1: exact same thing thirty dollars MSRP. But what gets to
Speaker 1: a lot of people is this is Cronenberg. This isn't
Speaker 1: like some nobody that is an indie director doing this
Speaker 1: as their first time. This is going to have a
Speaker 1: Meet the filmmaker's featurette on here, which we get on
Speaker 1: all of the Janis Contemporaries and now Criterion Premiers. But
Speaker 1: it's Kronenberg. Most of us have heard of him before,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that this will be the first movie
Speaker 1: for some. But it is sort of odd to give
Speaker 1: this a release like this and not a mainline release
Speaker 1: when it's Cronenberg I've said that a lot. Now. The
Speaker 1: other big complaint, I've had a lot of people ask
Speaker 1: about a four K release. I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to choose to do four K for this line because
Speaker 1: they want to keep that MSRP at thirty bucks, and
Speaker 1: when it goes on sale for fifteen there's no way
Speaker 1: they're selling a four K disc for fifteen bucks. They
Speaker 1: will lose money. Literally.
Speaker 2: My hunt with this is like I'm trying to figure
Speaker 2: out like what their motivation is, and I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: they're just testing this one out, because i mean, the
Speaker 2: theatrical play of this was very short, and I'm wondering
Speaker 2: if they're just doing kind of a test run to
Speaker 2: see if there's a big crowd for this one, and
Speaker 2: if so, they might pull it into Criterion as a
Speaker 2: four K down the road, you know.
Speaker 1: Would be an interesting choice, especially if they filled it
Speaker 1: with extras. I've still not seen The Shrouds. I was
Speaker 1: supposed to see it at the film festival here in
Speaker 1: Kansas City called Panicfest and ended up not being able
Speaker 1: to drive up that night. But I am worried I
Speaker 1: am going to hate this, but I'm very curious to
Speaker 1: check it out. Yeah, I did not like the most
Speaker 1: recent one before this, so we shall see interesting speaking
Speaker 1: to Cronenberg History of Violence coming on four K and
Speaker 1: Blu ray from Criterion on October twenty First, now, we've
Speaker 1: talked about some art tonight that people have liked and disliked.
Speaker 1: This by far has been the most divisive art of
Speaker 1: the week. I have never seen so many hateful comments
Speaker 1: about a piece of art. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: I would say it's definitely art. It's not just like
Speaker 2: a photo from the film, like they're doing something really
Speaker 2: interesting and creative with it. And to that end, knowing
Speaker 2: the film, I actually think that there's something interesting that
Speaker 2: they have going on with it. I wouldn't say I
Speaker 2: hate it. I wouldn't say it's my favorite piece of art,
Speaker 2: like cover design that they've come up with, but I
Speaker 2: do think that it's for a Cronenberg film. It actually
Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I again, I'm going to say almost the exact same
Speaker 1: thing the mozart ist here. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: like this, but I think this is great to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, this person and shrouded with this red very different,
Speaker 1: like very evocative color up against this very idyllic background
Speaker 1: is the movie that is History of Violence, Like, I
Speaker 1: feel it fits perfectly. I don't hate anything about this.
Speaker 1: I mean the clouds are almost Simpsons like, like there's
Speaker 1: almost this borderline like Norman Rockefeller or Norman Rockwell type
Speaker 1: of filling, like to the overall Americana of it all.
Speaker 1: I really like this new four K digital restoration supervised
Speaker 1: by the DP and approved by Cronenberg. You had a
Speaker 1: five point once around DTSHD Master audio soundtrack. You do
Speaker 1: have Dolby Vision HDR, so this is gonna look pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. We got an audio commentary with Cronaberg on
Speaker 1: this new interview of the screenwriter Josh Olson, conducted by
Speaker 1: Tom Bernardo, excerpts from Cronelberg and Vigo Mortensen in conversation
Speaker 1: with the twenty fourteen Tiff Festival, a documentary on the
Speaker 1: making of the movie, a bunch of older archival featurettes,
Speaker 1: and then an essay by Nathan Lee. Excited to pick
Speaker 1: this one up. This was definitely gonna be in October
Speaker 1: or depending on the sale the flashhill for the site,
Speaker 1: either October or Barnes and Noble pickup in November for sure. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: lots of comments on the art, Let's let those lie next.
Speaker 1: The most exciting thing from Criteria for me this month
Speaker 1: October twenty First, a four K and blu ray release
Speaker 1: of Ken Russell's Altered States. Have you seen Altered States? Sir?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, in the theater too on thirty five back
Speaker 2: in the day, not on its initial release, but it
Speaker 2: came through campus and when I was in college. And
Speaker 2: it is a just a whack of do trip of
Speaker 2: a film. But I mean, Patty Chayevsky is such a
Speaker 2: fantastic screenwriter, and just the Ken Russell craziness of it
Speaker 2: all that we have going on here. It is a
Speaker 2: really crazy, trippy film, absolutely worth checking out. And if
Speaker 2: you can see this one in a theater, I mean,
Speaker 2: it really plays well on the big screen.
Speaker 1: I've never seen this in a theater and I'm so
Speaker 1: jealous right now. I adore this movie. I've seen this
Speaker 1: movie probably at least five or eight times, fairly recently
Speaker 1: watched it again to talk about on another show, and man,
Speaker 1: this movie still hits hard. There's a lot of really
Speaker 1: relevant discussion in it. I really appreciate the way that
Speaker 1: Russell does the like the tightrope balancing act of making
Speaker 1: a very smart movie without condescending to the audience like
Speaker 1: we get in a lot of modern filmmaking. He just
Speaker 1: sort of assumes that you're going to meet him halfway.
Speaker 1: And what's great is that sort of relevant to the
Speaker 1: storyline as well. Like William Hurt absolutely does that to
Speaker 1: every single person, sometimes to his detriment. But it a
Speaker 1: beautifully made movie. I'm certainly you know, the final couple
Speaker 1: climactic moments I have never looked great. I'm sort of
Speaker 1: worried how that's gonna look in for K. But this
Speaker 1: movie will absolutely shine in every way. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are scenes in this that are extra dark that will
Speaker 1: look beautiful in four K. Just very very excited about this.
Speaker 1: I will say I don't see anything on this that
Speaker 1: tells me that there's a hint here, but this being
Speaker 1: a Warner movie directed by Ken Russell, I can't help
Speaker 1: but feel like we're getting actually closer to a release
Speaker 1: of The Devils. I'm not gonna conjure that necessarily, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that might actually be a realistic possibility soon.
Speaker 2: Who knows this is what there is there shint Ken
Speaker 2: Russell film that they've put out at least Yeah, Jackie.
Speaker 2: I can't remember if there's more, but yeah, and I
Speaker 2: will just say this one. The cover art is spectacular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by far the best of the week. Like, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely astonishing cover art and even compared to the
Speaker 1: one that I like that we just talked about, this
Speaker 1: is mind blowing. I really hope that this artist, who
Speaker 1: is I will shout him out Richie Beckett, gets a
Speaker 1: lot more work because it is beautiful. I love the
Speaker 1: the DM I just got from Craig about the art specifically.
Speaker 2: It is Criterion, second is women in Love and then this.
Speaker 1: I was loading that in another time, so thank you.
Speaker 1: We had Dolby Vision on this, so yeah, to look great.
Speaker 1: New audio commentary with the one and only Sam Degan,
Speaker 1: which is incredible. I'm so stoked that she was able
Speaker 1: to speak on this one. That's gonna be amazing. Archival
Speaker 1: interviews with Ken Russell and William Hurt, new interview with
Speaker 1: the special effects designer Brand Farren, and then an essay
Speaker 1: by Jessica King. Yeah, this is a must for me.
Speaker 1: I may even pre order this one, watch it literally
Speaker 1: just as soon as possible. I think this is a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: This is an odd one now, so October twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: we're getting a four K Blu ray dual format release
Speaker 1: of Germo del Toro's Nightmare Alley. However, it is quite
Speaker 1: different because this is the black and white version of
Speaker 1: the film, So this is Nightmare Alley Vision in darkness
Speaker 1: and light, a new black and white extended director's cut
Speaker 1: supervised by del Toro. Of course, this one is going
Speaker 1: to have a four K digital master of the theatrical
Speaker 1: version of the film with it with Dolby atmost two
Speaker 1: four K discs, so you've got Dolby Vision on both
Speaker 1: two Blu rays, with the films and special features. New
Speaker 1: audio commentary by del Toro on the extended director's cut,
Speaker 1: new documentary on the film's performances, visual language, costume and
Speaker 1: production design and score, new conversation between del Toro and
Speaker 1: the producer Bradley Cooper, new conversation between del Toro and
Speaker 1: the Coast Green writer Kim Morgan, and then an essay
Speaker 1: by crime fiction and true crime expert Sarah Wineman. This
Speaker 1: is a really cool release. I also really enjoyed the
Speaker 1: cover art on this one. I sadly have still not
Speaker 1: seen del Toro's Nightmare Alley at all. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about this release.
Speaker 2: Sir, I am very excited. I they released the I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't the extended cut of it, but they released
Speaker 2: the black and white version of it theatrically around the
Speaker 2: time that the film came out, and I went and
Speaker 2: saw that in the theater and I loved it.
Speaker 1: It just was it worked.
Speaker 2: It played so well in black and white for this story.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited for what they're doing here. I'm
Speaker 2: curious because it's got the the theatrical cut, but does
Speaker 2: it say if it's if it's color or are they
Speaker 2: only releasing the Is this disc only black and white
Speaker 2: versions of it?
Speaker 1: They don't really specify here. I'm not entirely sure. I
Speaker 1: know that they've got the theatrical version, but that could
Speaker 1: also just be black and white too, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Well, it's a great one. I'm always fascinated when
Speaker 2: filmmakers take their film and whether they intentionally wanted to
Speaker 2: or not, like release it in black and white, and
Speaker 2: then they actually get the chance to actually do so.
Speaker 2: I'm always excited about about that, and so because I
Speaker 2: think that it can play in such a different way,
Speaker 2: and this was a film that worked really well in
Speaker 2: both ways.
Speaker 1: Ben is saying it will be color. That's what the
Speaker 1: theatrical cut was. Guys, well, I think.
Speaker 2: That theatrical cut was. Yeah. I was released black and
Speaker 2: white as well.
Speaker 1: As well at the same time, so it could kind
Speaker 1: of go either way. And the hard part with this,
Speaker 1: I think this was Universal that he made this through.
Speaker 1: I think Universal has a four K out already of
Speaker 1: the original version. Whoever the studio was, I think it's Universal.
Speaker 1: It is possible that they're they theoretically could make a
Speaker 1: contract with Criteria that says you can't release it in color.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they did, but yeah, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: not sure. Interesting it was played in black and white
Speaker 1: literally at the same time when the original came out,
Speaker 1: because he if I remember, he'd at least New York
Speaker 1: and LA he played the black and white version like
Speaker 1: for the Oscar stuff, right when the original release was.
Speaker 2: They were I mean it it was maybe like it
Speaker 2: came out like a few weeks later or something. It
Speaker 2: was at a period where you know, people were not
Speaker 2: wanting to go back to the movie theaters and so
Speaker 2: they're coming up with ways, what can we do, and
Speaker 2: this was something that they said, Oh, now you can
Speaker 2: watch this the black and white version.
Speaker 1: So I wonder which, as I tried to vampire, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you feel about Del Toro as
Speaker 1: a whole? I, you know, I love how incredibly creative
Speaker 1: he is and the worlds that he creates.
Speaker 2: I often find that I love his creativity more than
Speaker 2: his output where I land down but night. Morally, it
Speaker 2: actually may be my favorite film of his films, wow,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if that speaks to kind of
Speaker 2: like what I generally think of the other films. I
Speaker 2: think they're interesting, like incredibly creative, but I just have
Speaker 2: never I have just never quite loved them, you know.
Speaker 1: So on their website for this release, they have screenshots
Speaker 1: in color as well as black and white, so I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that it would be in color. To me,
Speaker 1: it would be kind of weird false advertising if they
Speaker 1: included the color ones and did not have the color
Speaker 1: version on there. Right. Yeah, Oh, look at that. Aaron
Speaker 1: just went and did the exact same thing. The Criteria
Speaker 1: website has color still swamp taking that as color of
Speaker 1: black and white. Oh, that was almost perfect. You had
Speaker 1: to have been typing that like as I started speaking.
Speaker 1: That was perfect. Del Toro as a whole. Did I
Speaker 1: say that?
Speaker 2: Well, how do you think of Del Toro as a whole?
Speaker 1: Like, oh, look at the cover, Look at the right,
Speaker 1: that's the whole I'm talking about. Not never mind. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: like I said, we had a couple of these mixed
Speaker 1: up lines. Gate Limited. The second steel book that they
Speaker 1: announced coming out on August twelfth is this is It
Speaker 1: follows from twenty fourteen. This is a tenth anniversary four
Speaker 1: K edition with Dolby Vision HDR, first time on four
Speaker 1: K in the US. The big thing is this is
Speaker 1: the second Site four K master and all of the
Speaker 1: extras on here we're on the second site release except
Speaker 1: for the legacy special features that they're including here. We're
Speaker 1: not able to be licensed to Second Site, So there
Speaker 1: is stuff on this that is not on the second
Speaker 1: site disc and second site. If you've got the limited edition,
Speaker 1: you've got the booklet, I guess. But literally, it's the
Speaker 1: exact same restoration, it's the exact same on disc, supplemental
Speaker 1: features and more so, this is a pretty compelling release
Speaker 1: if you are into steel books and you don't have
Speaker 1: that deluxe release, and it's to me, like this is
Speaker 1: a pretty steal book. I like the cover, I like
Speaker 1: that the inside is kind of gruesome. For this movie,
Speaker 1: good movie. Have you seen it?
Speaker 2: Follows? I have? And actually it fits well into like
Speaker 2: our upcoming Jay Horror conversation because it very much feels
Speaker 2: like something like with this never ending curse that you
Speaker 2: just can't get rid of, right, And so yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a movie that plays. I think it plays really well.
Speaker 2: I'm close to compelled to pick this one up. Nice.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful movie. Very curious to see how this
Speaker 1: whole sequel thing comes out that they're working on right now,
Speaker 1: so we shall see. And then there was a Criterion
Speaker 1: title that I had posted all the announcements, and I
Speaker 1: guess I got there before Criterion had finished loading them all.
Speaker 1: So I didn't see this one at first, but then
Speaker 1: somebody said that they were intrigued by this one. I went,
Speaker 1: what is Deep Crimson? Criterion also releasing on October twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: a four of Deep Crimson. They're also releasing this on
Speaker 1: Blu Ray. This is from nineteen ninety six and it
Speaker 1: says one of the peaks of subversive Mexican director Arturo
Speaker 1: Ripstein's Cinema out Cinema of outsiders. This deliriously perverse portrait
Speaker 1: of obsessive love dares audiences to see the humanity and
Speaker 1: the most sordid of anti heroes. A lonely hearts advertisement
Speaker 1: leads lusty nurse Coral to Nicholas, a con man with
Speaker 1: whom she forges an increasingly intense, twisted bond as they
Speaker 1: crisscross nineteen forties Mexico, robbing and murdering the women he seduces.
Speaker 1: This sounds kind of incredible. I'm very curious to check
Speaker 1: this out. Love the color on this one. The cover
Speaker 1: art looks great. New four K digital restoration of the
Speaker 1: director's cut, supervised and approved by the director. You got
Speaker 1: a four K disc of the movie and a Blu
Speaker 1: ray with the movie in special features new interviews with
Speaker 1: a director and screenwriter. There's a panel discussion from the
Speaker 1: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences featuring the director
Speaker 1: and a couple others, hosted by Christina Venegas film scholar
Speaker 1: Hayden Guessed and uh yeah, Owen Owen Smith kind of
Speaker 1: killed the cover art on this. I think, deep Crimson.
Speaker 1: Have you seen or heard of this one?
Speaker 2: I hadn't, but I mean everything about it sounds so
Speaker 2: up my alley. It's just it sounds like such a compelling, interesting,
Speaker 2: dark story, you know, and so I haven't even heard
Speaker 2: of the director. So it's it's one of these that
Speaker 2: I'm just I feel like I just need to start
Speaker 2: with this s director or start right here. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm very curious.
Speaker 1: Lots and lots of good comments, So yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: this sounds incredible. I definitely need to check this one out.
Speaker 2: The story sounds a little bit the Honeymoon Killers esque.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, kind I just talked about that one
Speaker 1: with someone else and look Krinn just it's just commented,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh perfect timing. Uh okay.
Speaker 3: So uh.
Speaker 1: Culture Shock releasing a company that we have not talked
Speaker 1: about very much over the last two and a half years.
Speaker 1: There's still a lot and they just put out a
Speaker 1: re release of the movie Thrust that they had released
Speaker 1: when they were a Vinegar Syndrome OCN partner label. Except
Speaker 1: it's kind of a re release and kind of not.
Speaker 1: This is Thrust the Punk cut, so this is a
Speaker 1: completely different cut of the movie. It's also got new
Speaker 1: bonus features and essentially the director was not happy with
Speaker 1: the previous release and wanted to do a bunch of
Speaker 1: different stuff, and so here it is now. It can
Speaker 1: still be in print. They've got this available. You can
Speaker 1: pre order this from the tearr Vision website or the
Speaker 1: Gray Face website. Lots of good stuff attached to this one.
Speaker 1: I think that people are gonna be happy if you
Speaker 1: liked the first release. This is not just a re
Speaker 1: release the exact same thing. I think that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be stoked that you're getting something different. At least. Re
Speaker 1: releases are not great usually, but considering the difference, I'm
Speaker 1: okay with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds interesting. I've never heard of this one, but
Speaker 2: it sounds really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably true of a lot culture shock title.
Speaker 1: Sadly going to our next one. This is so far
Speaker 1: one of the more enticing Severn titles for me. They
Speaker 1: are releasing on Blu ray Ferret Vampire from nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 1: and this is going to be a really nice looking
Speaker 1: sideloading release. You've got the booklet with us and everything.
Speaker 1: This is the first time on home video in America ever.
Speaker 1: This is from jajh Hers, the award winning writer director
Speaker 1: of Morgiana, The Ninth Heart and The Cremator. Cremator is amazing,
Speaker 1: by the way and subversive genius of the Czech new
Speaker 1: wave comes the disturbing Shocker driven by cultural provocation, political paranoia,
Speaker 1: and a supercharge take on the vampire mythos now on
Speaker 1: disc for the first time ever in America, and it
Speaker 1: says when Ferrett Motors introduces a new high performance sports car,
Speaker 1: a trauma doctor investigates a bizarre theory that the vehicle
Speaker 1: is a biological machine fueled by human blood. That just
Speaker 1: sounds incredible. This is going to have a commentary by
Speaker 1: Michael Brook who does great on check films. There's an
Speaker 1: archival commentary with Lars Dryer Winklman that was revised and
Speaker 1: re recorded in English. Actually, there is a person undergoing
Speaker 1: a strange sequence of events actress that is in this
Speaker 1: remembers the film. There's a piece with a screenwriter Legend
Speaker 1: of the Blood Car visual essay by Steven Brumer, who
Speaker 1: does a lot of experimental filmmaking under his label up
Speaker 1: in Canada, so that's cool to get him on here.
Speaker 1: From archival interviews and a look at the prototype that
Speaker 1: was used for the ferret in this movie. There's also
Speaker 1: a nineteen ninety two Check TV movie based on Vampire
Speaker 1: Limited author Joseph and Nibaba's nineteen sixty six short story
Speaker 1: More Dare that's really damn cool. And then there's a
Speaker 1: booklet with the original short story that was in this
Speaker 1: and then a new introduction by Check science fiction historian
Speaker 1: Ivan Adamovic. Yeah, this to me seems like a must.
Speaker 1: This looks incredible.
Speaker 2: It sounds I've never heard of it, but it sounds
Speaker 2: just total crazy and definitely something that I would love
Speaker 2: to pick up. So just a vampire car thing like
Speaker 2: I don't even know. Yeah, you know, but like you
Speaker 2: don't see that every day, right.
Speaker 1: No, I mean this sounds like Christine on steroids. I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this sounds incredible. Yeah, and the art looks very good.
Speaker 1: A lot of people commenting on the art. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: art for this looks very fun. All right, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this for a second. Michael Madson passed
Speaker 1: away recently, coming as a shock to everybody in the
Speaker 1: discord that has made that too a running joke, which
Speaker 1: is hilarious. By the way, I got asked to contribute
Speaker 1: a small piece in memoriam to a cinepunk's right up
Speaker 1: that we did. There's like fifteen people that wrote on
Speaker 1: Michael Madson, all covering different films, very very fun pieces
Speaker 1: to read through and just kind of revisit everything that
Speaker 1: Madson has touched over the years. A lot of great names.
Speaker 1: Billy Ray Bruton is the one that kind of brought
Speaker 1: everybody together for this. You got Winter Mitchell, who is incredible,
Speaker 1: bj Colangelo who's amazing, Austin Proctor, all kinds of people,
Speaker 1: Jason Schahan, Jason Kleeberg, Michael Weyers. Yeah, lots of great names.
Speaker 1: Go check out over on Sinepunk's It's a fun ride Up.
Speaker 2: What film were you talking about?
Speaker 1: The one that I used the picture for Sin City
Speaker 1: when I first heard that he passed, Like one of
Speaker 1: the scenes that I first thought of was that doc
Speaker 1: scene and him and Willis going back and forth in
Speaker 1: front of the little girl in this movie is just man,
Speaker 1: it's so so rough to watch in that moment. I
Speaker 1: love this movie and God, this movie is beautiful. Next up,
Speaker 1: the film that kind of frustrated some people. This week,
Speaker 1: we are getting on September twenty third, a Blu Ray
Speaker 1: release of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two. Starring, of course, Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1: Frustrating because this already has a Blu ray, but they
Speaker 1: were not able to get a OCN scan. I think
Speaker 1: the only thing that exists for this anymore is an
Speaker 1: a positive. So this got a two K scan of
Speaker 1: that thirty five millimeter interpositive that is a brand new master,
Speaker 1: so it will look better than the old blue ray probably.
Speaker 1: There's also a new audio commentary on this by Paul
Speaker 1: Anthony Nelson and Perry Cummings, another new audio commentary by
Speaker 1: Brian Reisman and Max every and then some archival extras.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is one that I would say, like,
Speaker 1: don't wait on a four K because they're probably never
Speaker 1: going to get a at least not a not an
Speaker 1: actual four K release on this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun film for sure. I mean, we
Speaker 2: did a Colin Higgins series over on the next reel
Speaker 2: looking at is sadly very short filmography, and this was
Speaker 2: It was a very lively fun film to end on,
Speaker 2: and I as I mean as much fun as Burt
Speaker 2: Reynolds and Dolly Partner are in them as Charles Derning,
Speaker 2: who totally totally stole the show for me. It is very,
Speaker 2: very funny, So if you haven't seen, it's definitely worth
Speaker 2: checking out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this movie's a blast. There is a I guess spoiler,
Speaker 1: but there's a piece being written for a issue of
Speaker 1: the magazine coming up on Burt Reynolds, and I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to watch like ten of his movies back to back,
Speaker 1: so this might be a good time to get started. Imprint,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so Imprint had all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: that we get to talk about. We've got Tales of
Speaker 1: Adventure just pouring out of every poor It seems like
Speaker 1: these are all coming out on Blu Ray on September
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, and we're getting three different Tales of Adventure
Speaker 1: box sets. This first one collection number seven, already number seven.
Speaker 1: This has The Thief of Baghdad from nineteen twenty four,
Speaker 1: and if that wasn't enough, you get The Thief of
Speaker 1: Baghdad from nineteen forty. I still not had your full
Speaker 1: the Thief of Baghdad from nineteen sixty one. So all
Speaker 1: of these are takes on the one thousand and one
Speaker 1: Night's Story. Of course, you get a bunch of extras
Speaker 1: on this. You got new visual essays by Martin Terrio,
Speaker 1: some commentaries. All of them have extras on here, including
Speaker 1: Let's see the nineteen forty version as a new commentary
Speaker 1: by Josh Nielsen, This says, new visual essay by David Huckvale.
Speaker 1: This is a lie. Huckfiel didn't do anything for this release.
Speaker 1: That's actually Philip Jeffries who did a piece on this one,
Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be great. So I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see that one. And then the newest film from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one is new commentary by Adrian Smith, new visual
Speaker 1: essay by FELIPA. Barry. Yeah, are you into the adventure
Speaker 1: style films that Imprint has done?
Speaker 2: You know, I always checking them out when they release them.
Speaker 2: I haven't picked any of them up yet, you know.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that they're intriguing to me,
Speaker 2: but I haven't quite wanted to push the button just yet.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but every one of them has I found intriguing.
Speaker 2: Probably be happy with any of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The hard part is they are quite expensive. So,
Speaker 1: as Chris says over on Facebook, if you want to
Speaker 1: own all of these, it's only about two thousand dollars, right,
Speaker 1: and a couple of them I think like the first
Speaker 1: four maybe are out of print already and go for
Speaker 1: some change, So good luck with that. The next one
Speaker 1: is much larger than the one we just talked about.
Speaker 1: Tells of Adventure Collection eight just spans from nineteen sixteen
Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy one. This has so much in it,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea from nineteen sixteen, Master
Speaker 1: the World from nineteen sixty one, Valley of the Dragons
Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty one that's the first time ever on
Speaker 1: blu ray in the World War, Gods of the Deep
Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty five, Rocket to the Moon from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven, and then The Light at the Edge of
Speaker 1: the World from seventy one. Just like the last one,
Speaker 1: limited to only fifteen hundred copies for the hard box.
Speaker 1: They'll likely do a standard release when this sells out.
Speaker 1: I think they have for the other ones that have
Speaker 1: sold out. But if you want, like if these are
Speaker 1: your jam and you absolutely want them, you may want
Speaker 1: to take a look at the you sooner than later,
Speaker 1: because some people really like these movies, and this one's
Speaker 1: got a film that people have wanted for quite some time.
Speaker 1: We've got new extras on a bunch of these, another
Speaker 1: new Philip Jefferies visual essay on Master the World, new
Speaker 1: visual essay by Andy Marshall Roberts on Visit Price on
Speaker 1: that disc as well. War Gods of the Deep gets
Speaker 1: a new commentary by Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons. There's
Speaker 1: some archival extras, more new commentaries, including one with Kim
Speaker 1: Newman and Stephen Jones, and then they poured it over
Speaker 1: the Light at the End of the World extras that
Speaker 1: were on the previous release of this supplemental features, Andy,
Speaker 1: what type of features do you prefer?
Speaker 2: You know, I love commentary, that's usually kind of the
Speaker 2: first one that I look at. I already talked about
Speaker 2: my love of soundtracks when they include those, But I
Speaker 2: really enjoy strong visual essays or like just interesting visual essays.
Speaker 2: You know, I think they're great, and I mean any
Speaker 2: just like critical thought that goes along with it, like there.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of them have some fantastic write
Speaker 2: ups that come with with discs. You know, I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of any of that sort of stuff. There
Speaker 2: was a day where I would like watch all of
Speaker 2: the trailers when they would include trailers, or flip through
Speaker 2: all the different posters, and you know, sometimes I'll still
Speaker 2: take a glance at some of that, but I've I
Speaker 2: don't know, I feel like I hit my limit with those,
Speaker 2: and now I'm just looking for like the interesting conversations
Speaker 2: about things.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. Commentaries are
Speaker 1: difficult nowadays. I really just love a really well researched
Speaker 1: visual essay. I think, yeah, well that's a lot of adventure,
Speaker 1: but that's still not enough. We've got collection number nine here,
Speaker 1: which I think is the one that most people are
Speaker 1: by far the most excited about. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: this one's going to sell pretty quickly for them. Once again,
Speaker 1: limited only fifteen hundred, so pay attention to that. This
Speaker 1: is covering from nineteen seventy four to seventy eight, so
Speaker 1: nice tight time span here. But we get the land
Speaker 1: that time forgot at the Earth's core, the people that
Speaker 1: time forgot, and then the big one for so many
Speaker 1: people for the first time on Blu ray anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world, Warlords of Atlantis from nineteen seventy eight. So
Speaker 1: I saw quite a few people saying they were going
Speaker 1: to buy this simply to get that last film on
Speaker 1: Blu Ray finally, which more power to you. That's that's
Speaker 1: some dedication again. Lots of new extras. We got new
Speaker 1: commentary by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones, new interviews with
Speaker 1: the director Kevin Connor, who directed this in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1: That's pretty freaking special. More new commentaries and interviews. There's
Speaker 1: just a lot like the if this is your type
Speaker 1: of film, Imprint is giving you a lot of value
Speaker 1: with these movies, for sure.
Speaker 2: And The Land of the Time for God is the
Speaker 2: only one of any of these three sets that I've
Speaker 2: actually seen, and it's a fun movie. It's it's kind
Speaker 2: of crazy, but it's definitely one that I would like
Speaker 2: that that is the one that would peak my curiosity
Speaker 2: to pick this setup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, you know we were talking about
Speaker 1: bad art earlier. I just want to shout out how
Speaker 1: great these old school poster art always were. Like for
Speaker 1: some of these movies, the poster is the best part
Speaker 1: of the film.
Speaker 2: Sure, even if half the stuff on the poster doesn't
Speaker 2: actually happen in the film almost never.
Speaker 1: But I also love too that Imprint is kind of
Speaker 1: embracing that craziness on the actual box art too. These
Speaker 1: are great looking sets. Yeah, yeah, more Imprint. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before Bewitched. They're putting out two seasons at
Speaker 1: a time because they're really restoring these properly. They're going
Speaker 1: above and beyond to do it right. And so on
Speaker 1: September twenty fourth, they're doing the fourth set of these.
Speaker 1: We got season seven and eight covers nineteen seventy to
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. This is an eight disc set. You
Speaker 1: also have one hundred and twenty six page hardcover book
Speaker 1: for all of you hardcore Bewitched fans, which there are
Speaker 1: still a lot of people. This has some new extras
Speaker 1: on here. There is fifty four different episodes by Sony
Speaker 1: and they're gonna look incredible. I mean, yeah, Imprint does
Speaker 1: really great with TV work. I'm just glad to see
Speaker 1: a boutique putting time and energy into TV, which does
Speaker 1: not happen all that often.
Speaker 2: And Bewitched, I mean it was a staple, you know,
Speaker 2: growing up. Yeah, I mean I couldn't tell you how
Speaker 2: many episodes I've seen and didn't see from all the
Speaker 2: reruns that I watched as a kid, but I mean
Speaker 2: I watched a lot of Bewitched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie
Speaker 1: and I Love Lucy, and probably one other show we're
Speaker 1: on every single day when I got home from school
Speaker 1: for I don't know, twenty four years straight, something like that.
Speaker 2: Happy Days was in there.
Speaker 1: Revival House says, Hey, Ryan and Andy follow you on Twitter,
Speaker 1: just fanned you on YouTube. You guys are great.
Speaker 2: Oh look at that. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Oh a lot of pressure, I know. We'll try to
Speaker 1: keep doing. Okay Next from imprint, Yeah, we're still on
Speaker 1: imprint Space nineteen ninety nine, which they have done as
Speaker 1: the big box set release previously. This is now coming
Speaker 1: on September twenty fourth for a Blu ray of Super
Speaker 1: Space Theater from nineteen seventy five to eighty two. This
Speaker 1: is where they took some of the episodes and re
Speaker 1: edited them into essentially TV films. And so we've got
Speaker 1: Destination Moon Base Alpha from seventy eight, Alien Attack from
Speaker 1: seventy nine, Journey through the Black Sun from eighty two,
Speaker 1: Cosmic Princess from eighty two, and then Spatzio nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: From nineteen seventy five, you had a five discs set,
Speaker 1: a hundred page hardcover book with the comprehensive guide to
Speaker 1: every movie housed in a limited edition hard box. If
Speaker 1: you love Space nineteen ninety nine, there's extras on these.
Speaker 1: They are going all out to make these incredible. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what to say, Like, there's just so
Speaker 1: much stuff.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. It's just truly mind boggling the amount
Speaker 2: of work that they put into cranking these out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a lot. Craig is pointing out those
Speaker 1: Imprint Adventure collections aren't that pricey. Seventy eight USD for
Speaker 1: four films seems pretty fair. That is for one of them.
Speaker 1: One of them is fifty eight because it's only three films,
Speaker 1: and then the one that's six films is one seventeen,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I don't think any of them are crazy
Speaker 1: over priced. The hard part is if you only want one,
Speaker 1: you got to pay for Australia to wherever you are shipping,
Speaker 1: which suddenly seventy eight is now ninety eight, and that's
Speaker 1: where it starts to get a little crazy. However, if
Speaker 1: you're buying a whole bunch of stuff from Imprint and
Speaker 1: you're getting free shipping, oh it's worth it. Pile it on,
Speaker 1: get like five or six releases, and suddenly you're getting
Speaker 1: an absolute steal because you're not paying for shipping, and
Speaker 1: it's going practically the entire world.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's finally all of Imprint and we go from
Speaker 1: that super niche action adventure stuff to Batman the Dark
Speaker 1: Knight Trilogy.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: So on this fall we are getting a library steel
Speaker 1: book re release of the Dark Knight Trilogy, which clearly
Speaker 1: everybody wants another release of these on four K. These
Speaker 1: are all the exact same discs. There is nothing brand
Speaker 1: new in these. This is just if you are a
Speaker 1: Nolan superfan Batman superfan and you really want these bright
Speaker 1: white steel books for these very dark movies, this is
Speaker 1: the way to do it. The US release of this
Speaker 1: will be an Amazon exclusive. Over in the UK, this
Speaker 1: is available on Zombie, will be a few other places.
Speaker 1: No idea about Canadian release or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: this is going to be pretty widely available. If you
Speaker 1: really want this, you'll be able to get a copy.
Speaker 2: I promise.
Speaker 1: Nice set. Speaking of a nice set, this is one
Speaker 1: that I think of many many people are very excited
Speaker 1: about this week August fifth, which keep in mind that's
Speaker 1: only in like three weeks. This is very soon. We
Speaker 1: are getting a four K steel book of Master and
Speaker 1: Commander the Far Side of the World. This is a
Speaker 1: big deal because this is a Fox title which has
Speaker 1: been locked away in the Disney vault since they purchased them,
Speaker 1: and we are now getting a four K UHD release
Speaker 1: of this movie. Unfortunately, the big story here is that
Speaker 1: it is not going to be including the wonderful DVD
Speaker 1: special features that we got on that big two disc
Speaker 1: release that a lot of collectors still have. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: do not have it anymore, and I need to get
Speaker 1: a second hand copy because this is not going to
Speaker 1: include all those bonus features, like there's a documentary and everything.
Speaker 1: So this thing is coming. It's going to have a
Speaker 1: wonderful looking steel book. I actually think this is a
Speaker 1: really classy release. The UK is getting this exact same
Speaker 1: steel book and a standard four K release, so if
Speaker 1: you don't want to steal book, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pick up the UK one. It is very much like
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven. For some reason, you are if you
Speaker 1: love this movie, this is going to look amazing. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have Dolby Vision, it looks impressive. You've got immersive audio,
Speaker 1: like everything about this is going to be a stellar
Speaker 1: release guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is such an amazing film. I am very
Speaker 2: excited about this one, and I do have that two
Speaker 2: disc box set that you are talking about, but I'm
Speaker 2: still tempted to pick this one up just because it
Speaker 2: would be so beautiful, such a great film.
Speaker 1: Z Pam says that Dark Knight Trilogy set is on
Speaker 1: Amazon Canada. Nice, so Canada, we'll get a release. Orbit
Speaker 1: is not taking pre orders for Sony and Disney Steel books.
Speaker 1: It's a bummer, but I get it. They want to
Speaker 1: make sure they can fulfill and that's the hard part
Speaker 1: with these I don't understand what's going on necessarily, but
Speaker 1: Mark has had trouble like taking pre orders for titles
Speaker 1: and then simply not getting them in stock, and that
Speaker 1: causes giant problems on the back end. I mean refunding people.
Speaker 1: You're paying credit card processing fees and you can't charge
Speaker 1: that to the customer. There's a lot there. But this one,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta find a way to get a
Speaker 1: copy of it. Absolutely. Okay, So we talked about another
Speaker 1: replacement program. Let's talk about the issues that have played
Speaker 1: terror Vision over the last couple weeks. So this is
Speaker 1: kind of Crazy. One of their titles, the one that
Speaker 1: you can see on the screen right now, Suddenly in
Speaker 1: the Dark. This was announced in January and this title
Speaker 1: has essentially been cursed for us. This has caused so
Speaker 1: many problems to just completely spiral. So let's go through it.
Speaker 1: The first thing, The Devil's Sword. This is a movie
Speaker 1: that I produced a bunch of the special features for.
Speaker 1: I've been excited to get this in hand for so long,
Speaker 1: and as it looks like a bunch of the discs
Speaker 1: are not playing. Now here's where it gets crazy. Because
Speaker 1: we talked earlier about them checking the discs. What's hard
Speaker 1: is about forty percent of these discs were working when
Speaker 1: they got to the warehouse. TerrorVision put in a few
Speaker 1: of them and they worked just fine, so they started
Speaker 1: shipping them out. But then when people were getting them,
Speaker 1: a bunch of people were messaging and saying, hey, this
Speaker 1: disc is pointing out that it is not a completed disc.
Speaker 1: So something happened in the actual manufacturing process because the
Speaker 1: files were exactly what they needed to be. And the
Speaker 1: replicator is definitely gonna have to be the one to
Speaker 1: cover this because they're the ones that screwed it up.
Speaker 1: So no need to email TerrorVision. The only discs that
Speaker 1: went out were for people that had purchased directly, so
Speaker 1: you're just gonna get a brand new disc and you
Speaker 1: don't have to ask for it. So if your disc works,
Speaker 1: you get to give on to a friend because you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a second disc. Just just give it away.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie. Then the second title, The Children
Speaker 1: of Violent Rome, another movie that I did some special
Speaker 1: features for. My friend Sam Cohen, who's in the discord,
Speaker 1: got him to write a piece on this one. The
Speaker 1: disc is fine on this, but all of the slipcovers
Speaker 1: came in completely mingled, not anything to do with TerrorVision,
Speaker 1: the shipping partner. They all just came in completely thrashed.
Speaker 1: So these are getting reprinted and as soon as they
Speaker 1: get there they will be sent with a fresh batch
Speaker 1: to everybody. If you got one, you got one of
Speaker 1: like the very small number of titles that were in
Speaker 1: this that were not damaged. So congratulations, you're the exception,
Speaker 1: certainly not the rule. Now the big one, Suddenly in
Speaker 1: the Dark has been just completely ruined and ruined and
Speaker 1: ruined time and time again. This was weird because in
Speaker 1: QC something got caught and we went to fix it,
Speaker 1: and then that fix screwed up the entire digital master
Speaker 1: for some reason, and so we had to go in
Speaker 1: and fix that again after that. And now the curse
Speaker 1: is coming because the disc is finally fixed and the
Speaker 1: discs have arrived at the warehouse, but unfortunately, all of
Speaker 1: the packaging was shipped to Florida instead of Georgia, where
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be, so Terror Vision had to
Speaker 1: go with a trailer, rent a truck and trailer drive
Speaker 1: to Florida, and then package them themselves after they were
Speaker 1: sent to two different places. So this is going to
Speaker 1: be happening over the next few days. They planned to
Speaker 1: have all of these fixed and shipped out to people.
Speaker 1: Over the next week. You will finally be getting Suddenly
Speaker 1: in the Dark. I did a bunch of stuff for
Speaker 1: this disc, so I've been patiently waiting because this movie
Speaker 1: is gorgeous. Have you ever seen Suddenly in the Dark.
Speaker 2: I haven't, but I've just was reading about it while
Speaker 2: you're talking, and it sounds like a crazy, crazy movie.
Speaker 1: It is amazing, like this movie is sort of an
Speaker 1: underseen masterpiece. I really hope people check this out because
Speaker 1: it's incredible. But I'm just glad that it will finally
Speaker 1: be out there. The other big thing is we are
Speaker 1: waiting for updates on Arbor Day an Invader, and then
Speaker 1: hopefully nothing else happens to those, and then there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some more updates on Sledgehammer and Gator Bait one
Speaker 1: and two, and as soon as they know more, they
Speaker 1: will be announcing those and I will do my best
Speaker 1: to cover them. All that to say, like, manufacturing so
Speaker 1: many titles is hard. It's very difficult to be patient sometimes,
Speaker 1: especially like Suddenly in the Dark has been plagued with
Speaker 1: issues for almost six months. Now. I get that that's
Speaker 1: a long time. Try to have some sympathy for people
Speaker 1: in these companies that they are working to make sure
Speaker 1: that it comes perfect. They don't want there to be errors.
Speaker 1: That costs them money too, I mean they're losing you know, customers,
Speaker 1: losing faith in them. They just want everybody to have
Speaker 1: the best experience. They love these movies too, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it really is an interesting element of the
Speaker 2: business that you don't think about, is like all all
Speaker 2: the business behind just getting the movie to you. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: and how many countries that you're dealing with for all
Speaker 2: the different pieces to come together, especially these days with
Speaker 2: all the extra craziness happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean countries, companies, shipping problems that can happen.
Speaker 1: It is wild, right, Speaking of wild, let's go to
Speaker 1: our next one. This is one of the most sodd
Speaker 1: after titles for the last couple of years because Keino
Speaker 1: announced in October of twenty twenty three that they were
Speaker 1: releasing the four Ilsa movies on four K, and we
Speaker 1: finally have details on the very first one September thirtieth.
Speaker 1: We are getting a four K release of Ilsa she
Speaker 1: Wolf of the SS from nineteen seventy five. This is
Speaker 1: number thirty seven in the Keno Coult line. This has
Speaker 1: a brand new HDR Dolby vision Master. There's an audio
Speaker 1: commentary by the actress Diane Thorne, the director, Don Edmunds,
Speaker 1: producer David F. Friedman, moderated by Martin Lewis. That's an
Speaker 1: archival commentary. There's a new commentary by Kat Ellinger and
Speaker 1: Eugenie Melodic. There's an interview with Dot Edmunds that Elijah
Speaker 1: Drinner was able to do I believe earlier this year.
Speaker 1: And then a trailer. Now, a lot of people was
Speaker 1: thinking that these were going to be a box sets.
Speaker 1: Now we are still going to get a box set.
Speaker 1: Keno has said that in the various forums that they've
Speaker 1: been talking about this and commenting the hard part is
Speaker 1: we have no idea when they're not going to do
Speaker 1: a box set until all four of the standalone releases
Speaker 1: have been released and people have bought all those up,
Speaker 1: and then they will put them all together in a
Speaker 1: box set. So make sure if you're wanting all four
Speaker 1: of them and you want to save some bucks, it
Speaker 1: will likely be at least slightly cheaper. The hard part,
Speaker 1: you've already waited almost two years for this is to
Speaker 1: come to fruition. You could be waiting another I don't
Speaker 1: know year, year and a half before that buck sits,
Speaker 1: So I'd be saying, how much do you want them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nazi sploitation. Have you ever checked out many Nazi exploitation films?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I haven't, But this one's been on my radar, largely
Speaker 2: because we're doing a series later this year. We're for
Speaker 2: the next reel we're doing. We're jumping back like we're
Speaker 2: we did a twenty twenty five film talking about Ballerina
Speaker 2: that we're doing two thousand, nineteen seventy five, nineteen fifty,
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five, so we're doing nice whole series and
Speaker 2: for seventy five we're doing like pioneering visions in global cinema.
Speaker 2: And I was really intempted to include this on the list,
Speaker 2: but at the very least, what I'm wanting to do
Speaker 2: is like throw this out out as a potential member
Speaker 2: bonus episode, see if the members vote on it. But
Speaker 2: I'm very curious about this one. For sure.
Speaker 1: Corna is pointing out Gestapo's Last Orgy is amazing, and
Speaker 1: then Adam says, The Beast and Heat rocks. No, not really,
Speaker 1: that's true. The movie is bad. However, I believe where
Speaker 1: is it is that the one that's got the documentary
Speaker 1: on it? So the Beaston Heat, Yes, So this release
Speaker 1: from Severn of the Beast and Heat is the one
Speaker 1: that has it's called Fascism on a Thread, The Strange
Speaker 1: Story of Nazi Exploitation cinema new feature length documentary. You
Speaker 1: should own this disc for that documentary.
Speaker 2: I really should.
Speaker 1: The movie is not great, but I probably shouldn't say
Speaker 1: that the week before a seven sale. But by the
Speaker 1: disc just not for that reason. Don't even watch the movie,
Speaker 1: watch the documentary. Speaking of Severn, they are putting out
Speaker 1: a four K release of Brian to Palma's Sisters inspired
Speaker 1: remake from two thousand and six. That was mean. I
Speaker 1: should not have said it like that. Sisters, directed by
Speaker 1: Douglas Buck and starring Chlobe Sevenier. I've never heard much
Speaker 1: great about this movie. I've never seen this one. Have
Speaker 1: you seen this one?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this one. Yeah, I would be curious
Speaker 2: to It would be an interesting side by side comparison.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes with these sorts of remakes, I find it
Speaker 2: like that's kind of an interesting way to do it,
Speaker 2: just to really see what they try to figure out
Speaker 2: what they were going for, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean supposedly this is like pretty shot for
Speaker 1: shot for a lot of it, at least until the ending,
Speaker 1: which is an interesting choice to like have have the
Speaker 1: gumption to say I'm going to remake it to Palma
Speaker 1: movie shot for shot because I could do that.
Speaker 2: Is that's a choice that it really is? It really is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is gonna have an audio commentary with
Speaker 1: Dre and with David Gregory of Severn. There's an archival
Speaker 1: documentary on here as well. This will have a soundtrack CD,
Speaker 1: just like we talked about with the other Severn stuff.
Speaker 1: There's some archival extras on the Blu Ray release, including
Speaker 1: Glass Eye Pictures Presents Tales from Beyond the Pale Hidden
Speaker 1: Records by Douglas Buck with Kevin Klein and Tony Todd.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that is, but I kind of
Speaker 1: want to check that out. Uh, interesting, it sounds very interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is one that I'm more curious in
Speaker 1: the features than the film. I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, again, it would be interesting to kind of
Speaker 2: just look at and see what they were intending to
Speaker 2: do with it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I love the comments here. Gary says, yeah,
Speaker 1: that worked out well for the Psycho remake, and then
Speaker 1: Sibners says, like someone trying to remake a Hitchcock film
Speaker 1: shot for shot, But who would ever do that?
Speaker 2: You know? I this is my what I always say
Speaker 2: with that is like if I were gust fans at
Speaker 2: and a studio offered me the chance to do that,
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, like the things that you could learn as
Speaker 2: a filmmaker of actually crafting like a Hitchcock film shot
Speaker 2: for shot, Like I feel like he probably learned so
Speaker 2: much in the process of just how to cut a film,
Speaker 2: construct it everything. I mean, it's just like invaluable and
Speaker 2: you're getting paid to do it, like I would absolutely
Speaker 2: do it. But yeah, it's then you have the result
Speaker 2: and you have to live.
Speaker 1: With that, I suppose, the ramifications of remaking a master's work. Hoobolly.
Speaker 1: Next one, man, I'm very curious about this one because
Speaker 1: I have never seen this movie, and I'm sure many
Speaker 1: of you in the chat have very curious because I
Speaker 1: seem to really like Kevin Coster's at least around this era.
Speaker 1: I know that he's kind of an asshole right now,
Speaker 1: but uh, October seventh, we're getting a four K steel
Speaker 1: book from Sony of Silverado from nineteen eighty five. Now,
Speaker 1: this coming from Sony, I guarantee this is going to
Speaker 1: look amazing. Of course, it's a steel book only release,
Speaker 1: which sucks. I'm not standing up for that at all.
Speaker 1: But how do you feel about Silvato? Have you seen this?
Speaker 2: It's a very fun movie. I think my initial reaction
Speaker 2: to it was confusion because I didn't think a Western
Speaker 2: should be funny, and I think like it, Like I
Speaker 2: struggled with that initially, and then I got over myself
Speaker 2: and it's just it's a very very fun movie. And
Speaker 2: I mean the cast is great with Kevin Klein and
Speaker 2: John Cleese is in it, and it's just it's kind
Speaker 2: of a great time. It's a very easy fun movie
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, especially with that cast. I yeah, it
Speaker 1: certainly is one that I'm probably gonna give a watch too.
Speaker 1: I love that Adam has me pegged and says Ryan
Speaker 1: doesn't watch westerns. I do. That's not many, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right at him. I'm sorry, it's no fan Dango.
Speaker 1: I still have not watched Fan Dango. Damn it. I
Speaker 1: need to. And then Silverad is a fun film and
Speaker 1: great soundtrack, thanks Dah.
Speaker 2: Great soundtrack.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, going to our next one. This is
Speaker 1: an incredible movie. We've got August twenty sixth from Warner Archive,
Speaker 1: a four K of Get Carter. Now. The hard part
Speaker 1: here is BFI released this on four K twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two or twenty twenty three. This is literally the exact
Speaker 1: same release, So if you've got the BFI, you certainly
Speaker 1: don't need this. This is literally the same restoration they're
Speaker 1: using the BFI. They even reference it. I believe this
Speaker 1: has all of the exact same extras. If anything, the
Speaker 1: BFI might even have one extra one, but they're pulling
Speaker 1: over like some of the talks that happened over at
Speaker 1: the BFI. So not a lot that you're going to
Speaker 1: be missing either way. But this movie is a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Get Carter?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely love it. It's a great film. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen the remake. It was not a remake that
Speaker 2: I was itching to see, but I haven't heard terrible
Speaker 2: things about it, so maybe it's it's worth a check.
Speaker 2: But and you know, I mean, I have such an
Speaker 2: easy time watching Michael Caine, you know, in pretty much anything,
Speaker 2: even when he's doing even when he's doing his Jaws
Speaker 2: the revenge is you know, but this, you know, I
Speaker 2: just an a Michael Caine thing. I'd love to see
Speaker 2: them do a four K of Gambit, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: one of my favorites in this era of Michael Kine.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, Carter is absolutely a fun one.
Speaker 1: I think did not I think Keino released it on
Speaker 1: Blu ray on Blue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have the Blue at that came out like
Speaker 2: three years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not too too long. Ago. Yeah, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: So I mean it's Keno. I wouldn't have put it
Speaker 1: passed him to put.
Speaker 2: That on four K, I know, fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: So that's the beginning of where archive. This is their
Speaker 1: third four K release. Just keep in mind it's the
Speaker 1: first one was announced like last November I think it was,
Speaker 1: and so in eight months they've announced three. They've already
Speaker 1: said they're not going to be doing a lot of
Speaker 1: four k's, so probably three or for a year is
Speaker 1: probably about the pace that we're gonna get from more Archive.
Speaker 1: That being said, they do incredible work on their restorations
Speaker 1: and the bf I did great with this, so being
Speaker 1: able to see them put that amount of work into
Speaker 1: a four K, if we're only getting three or four
Speaker 1: at least, they're going to be incredibly high quality. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And now some more from this slate from them, we
Speaker 1: get that Midnight Kiss from nineteen forty nine, another one
Speaker 1: that I've not seen Technicolor musical. Have you seen that
Speaker 1: Midnight Kiss?
Speaker 2: I have not seen this one. I'm trying to look
Speaker 2: at it and see if I've even heard of this one.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a yeah, it's just one of
Speaker 2: these ones that completely escaped me. But it looks interesting.
Speaker 2: And this just going back to like posters and art.
Speaker 2: I love when they do you just use old art
Speaker 2: post art like this. It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Arael, director is very big in the Elvis films.
Speaker 1: M interesting. So this four K scan of the original
Speaker 1: nitrate Technicolor Negatives which just chef's kiss. This is gonna
Speaker 1: look beautiful, guaranteed color film and then special features. Wise,
Speaker 1: they got a deleted musical out take called one Love
Speaker 1: of Mine, which that's really cool that we're getting this
Speaker 1: so many years later. There's a classic MGM cartoon on
Speaker 1: here called Heavenly Puss, and one called signor Drupe, and
Speaker 1: then you got the trailer. I'm glad that they threw
Speaker 1: some extras on here. That's a big deal because at
Speaker 1: least one or two of these do not have any extras.
Speaker 1: Next up is a movie called Seven Women from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six, which is directed by a little known director
Speaker 1: you may have heard of called John Ford. This is
Speaker 1: I believe his last film and a movie that people
Speaker 1: have been dying to see on Blu Ray for quite
Speaker 1: some time. Four K scan of the OCN, another color
Speaker 1: movie special features on this. We've got an MGM cartoon
Speaker 1: that won, an oscar called the Dot in the Line,
Speaker 1: and a trailer john Ford. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: john Ford?
Speaker 2: I mean, fantastic filmmaker. I think that he does some
Speaker 2: really interesting things. I think I I struggle with some
Speaker 2: of them, just more because of just like I'm less
Speaker 2: interested in some of the content. But I enjoy how
Speaker 2: he puts his films together. I'm wondering, like, is a
Speaker 2: is this his version of Seven Samurai? I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: reading this synopsis here and Bancroft stars in this moving
Speaker 2: drama set in nineteen thirty five about a remote Chinese
Speaker 2: mission run by American women that's overtaken by warring bandits.
Speaker 2: I just like, do the seven women stand up?
Speaker 1: Or do?
Speaker 2: Or do they?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It piques my curiosity.
Speaker 1: Now that is possible. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going. But yeah, john Ford, obviously this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. I had a lot of people exploded
Speaker 1: when this got announced. Quite happy with it. Nineteen forty
Speaker 1: nine's Intruder in the Dust is the next one. By
Speaker 1: the way, I don't knowe that I said the date.
Speaker 1: I apologize all These are coming on August twenty sixth
Speaker 1: from Order Archive. Intruder in the Dust has a four
Speaker 1: K scan of best preservation elements and for special features
Speaker 1: on this one, you got MGM shorts Playlands of Michigan
Speaker 1: and Counterfeit Cat. Not a lot I know about this one,
Speaker 1: but I know that I've seen this poster many many times.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're including this. It's a Clarence Brown film.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this though. Do you know
Speaker 1: anything about this one?
Speaker 2: No, I'm just looking at it. Sounds like an interesting one,
Speaker 2: so this might be one worth checking out too, Warner.
Speaker 1: Okay, pretty much only only puts out the stuff that
Speaker 1: they can make sound interesting. At least, I will say true.
Speaker 1: The other one that I'm excited about this one this
Speaker 1: drop is nineteen forty three's The Hard Way with Ida
Speaker 1: Freakin' Loopino. This is a powerful film featuring an unforgettable
Speaker 1: performance by leading lady Ida Lupino. The Hard Way is
Speaker 1: a gripping drama that in certain ways is a precursor
Speaker 1: the same story dynamics to be found years later and
Speaker 1: the remarkable musical play Gypsy Lupino takes on stage, so
Speaker 1: to speak, as Helen Chernin a strong willed woman who
Speaker 1: wants to get herself and her talented kids sister Katie
Speaker 1: out of their Jerkwater hometown. And if that means using
Speaker 1: people and throwing them away, that's what Helen will do.
Speaker 1: It's got a four K scan of the original nitrate
Speaker 1: negative as well, and as far as extras, you get nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean anything would have been nice to see on
Speaker 1: the disc. There's a lot of people that would love
Speaker 1: to work with Warner Archive for freaking free, yeah, the
Speaker 1: hard way. Ida Lupino, any Ide Lupino love for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, she's a great, great performer,
Speaker 2: and I just think that she's I've seen too little
Speaker 2: of I think is probably what I should say. But
Speaker 2: I've enjoyed seeing her in stuff and it would be
Speaker 2: the sounds interesting. So I am I'm very curious now
Speaker 2: to check this one out.
Speaker 1: Yep. And if that was somehow not enough from Warner
Speaker 1: Archive for you, what is possibly the biggest release for
Speaker 1: them this month, especially in terms of running time. We
Speaker 1: are also getting The Huckleberry Hound Show, the complete original series.
Speaker 1: This is an eleven disc collection running two thousand, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five minutes. This is wild. This also
Speaker 1: has black and white commercials interspersed in all the color cartoons.
Speaker 1: There's some special features we got. These are all ported
Speaker 1: over from the DVD we got Huckleberry Quotes, the remix
Speaker 1: music video celebrating memorable Hound quotes Huckleberry Hound a linguistic
Speaker 1: linguistic masterpiece, hound speak as humorously interpreted by a linguistics professor. Which,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the legendary sound of Das Butler, an
Speaker 1: affectionate remembrance the brilliant voice artists who lent his sounds
Speaker 1: to voice Huck and Yogi, among many other beloved characters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This for me, to get all sixty eight episodes of
Speaker 1: The Huckleberry Hound Show in one collection on Blue is
Speaker 1: kind of amazing. Brand new HD masters from the original
Speaker 1: camera negatives for all of these is huge. And for
Speaker 1: somebody that loves animation, I cannot wait to own this.
Speaker 2: And I loved Huckleberry Hound as a kid like that,
Speaker 2: these cartoons and Droopy Dog and just like all of
Speaker 2: these sorts of characters were so fun, and so this
Speaker 2: is pretty exciting. This is an exciting one to see.
Speaker 1: Another one that made a lot of people comment and
Speaker 1: get very excited about. But again, eleven discs. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be a little more expensive than the Warner Archive
Speaker 1: stuff usually is, but it's sixty eight episodes, all brand
Speaker 1: new remastering. I don't normally say this, but like, this
Speaker 1: is one that I'm going to support simply to support
Speaker 1: because I want them to keep doing stuff like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, that is it.
Speaker 1: For Warner Archive. And we go from Huckleberry Hound to
Speaker 1: Freakin' Martyrs from two thousand and eight. Quite a shift,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a shift. October twenty seventh, Eureka
Speaker 1: in the UK is releasing the new French extremity masterpiece
Speaker 1: from two thousand and eight, Martyrs. This is going to
Speaker 1: get a limited edition hardbound release that is limited to
Speaker 1: four thousand copies. This will have a four K and
Speaker 1: a Blu ray disc. This is the uncut version of
Speaker 1: the film. It says new artwork which I think is great,
Speaker 1: although I guess the front cover is slightly spoiler ish,
Speaker 1: which is a little tough. This has a hundred page
Speaker 1: hard case or sorry, one hundred page book featuring new
Speaker 1: cover art and everything. Lots of new writing, new extras
Speaker 1: on here, new commentary with Nia Edwards Bay, co director
Speaker 1: of Arbitoire Home Horror Film Festival. New interview with one
Speaker 1: of the actors, New interview with New French extremity expert
Speaker 1: Alice Halett, bran new visual essay on Martyrs and Body
Speaker 1: Horror by Xavier al Dona Rees. Then a bunch of
Speaker 1: archival extras. This is the this is amazing. How do
Speaker 1: you feel about Martyrs? Have you? Have you taken the
Speaker 1: time to sit down and watch Martyrs?
Speaker 2: I have not seen this one, but it's been on
Speaker 2: my list forever. You know, I saw it, I don't know,
Speaker 2: ages ago on one of those like, you know, best
Speaker 2: horror films to check out of the decade or whatever,
Speaker 2: and so it's been on a list for me. It's
Speaker 2: it's sitting in my watch list. I absolutely need to
Speaker 2: check it out. And you know, the new French extremity
Speaker 2: is such an interesting kind of a subgenre that I
Speaker 2: would love to explore also or on CinemaScope.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 2: Again haven't gotten around to it. But this one, this
Speaker 2: one really fascinates me. I might pick it up just
Speaker 2: to give myself the reason to finally watch it.
Speaker 1: I was about to say that would be a pretty
Speaker 1: incredible CinemaScope episode because you can cover most of the
Speaker 1: genre with your bonus episode and with the regular episode total.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we might have to talk after the big
Speaker 1: thing with Eureka. As Gary is pointing out, Eureka has
Speaker 1: free international shipping with no minimum. So if you are
Speaker 1: ever after a Eureka title and you don't want to
Speaker 1: go like to Orbit DVD because you got to get
Speaker 1: three titles for free shipping, Eureka ships anywhere in the world,
Speaker 1: even if you buy a single disc for zero dollars
Speaker 1: and they don't charge you tax I don't know how
Speaker 1: they have a deal with the Devil, but I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I not support that. I mean that's pretty great.
Speaker 2: No kidding, how do they That's wild.
Speaker 1: I don't know how, but they do it. And the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is that if you like pre order five
Speaker 1: titles and they come out at different times, they ship
Speaker 1: you each one as they're available, so you never pay
Speaker 1: for shipping. You have five ship It's maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they do that. That's wild.
Speaker 1: So Martyrs, I know that a lot of people have
Speaker 1: never seen this. Based on reputation alone, I will say
Speaker 1: this is a very bloody movie. It is a very
Speaker 1: gory movie. However, this movie is a deep movie. It
Speaker 1: is definitely one that I think is important for people
Speaker 1: to see. I adore this movie. I think that is
Speaker 1: a tough watch, but one that most people should if
Speaker 1: you think you might be able to handle it. I
Speaker 1: love that Stan says I must have this, but I
Speaker 1: will never watch it. Once is enough and I get that,
Speaker 1: But like I could watch Martyrs probably once or twice
Speaker 1: every couple of years at least. Yeah, I need this
Speaker 1: on four K. This is gonna beautiful. The Shark Hunter
Speaker 1: is the next title coming from Severn as part of
Speaker 1: their sale. The Shark Hunter is from nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: will also have the soundtrack CD, as they're doing on
Speaker 1: many of these releases special features. For this, we got
Speaker 1: a reunion between Enzog Castelari and the actor Franco Nero,
Speaker 1: some big names in this one. We got an interview
Speaker 1: with the producer Enzo Doria. There's a trailer and then
Speaker 1: the soundtrack CD. And this is so cool that they
Speaker 1: have now done three different shark movies as part of
Speaker 1: just this one sales slate. And we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: more in just a minute. But yeah, Shark Hunter, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that this is probably not one that has passed
Speaker 1: your radar.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at that look at that art right there,
Speaker 2: like it just it makes me want to push play
Speaker 2: on it. It's just like these movies like they've tapped
Speaker 2: into something with this crazy just the the weird and
Speaker 2: over the top nature of these Italian films, and so
Speaker 2: this is one that I really want to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Italian shark exploitation genre that they are hitting
Speaker 1: hard right now has to be very, very fun. And
Speaker 1: for those that don't know, NZG. Castelari is also the
Speaker 1: director of The Last Shark, which is like the infamous
Speaker 1: Essential Jaws ripoff that is getting a Blu Ray from
Speaker 1: Treasured Films in the next month, I think. Actually, so
Speaker 1: lots of shark stuff right now if you're super into it.
Speaker 1: Next up, Quino Lober on September thirtieth is putting out
Speaker 1: a four K and a Blu ray set and single
Speaker 1: releases of The Airport for film collections, So you can
Speaker 1: buy each individual movie if you only like the first
Speaker 1: one or the Concord or whatever, or you can buy
Speaker 1: all four at once in a set. The set will
Speaker 1: have this sleeve style packaging, which I kind of hate.
Speaker 1: Instead of cases, and it will also have a booklet,
Speaker 1: or you can buy the standalone single releases with the
Speaker 1: slip covers. Really good looking release overall that they're putting
Speaker 1: us out. I'm glad they're doing it. But the films,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal. We've got Airport, We've got
Speaker 1: Airport nineteen seventy five, Airport seventy seven, and then the
Speaker 1: Concord Airport seventy nine disaster movies from the seventies. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about Oh.
Speaker 2: They are fun. It is definitely its own whole subgenre
Speaker 2: that popped up at that period of time. I have
Speaker 2: a lot of fun with these movies. These were movies
Speaker 2: that I watched a lot on TV when they would
Speaker 2: play Like my grandma and I would watch all of
Speaker 2: these and there are so many characters that you get
Speaker 2: to know in these films that I lose track of,
Speaker 2: like which ones were in which movie that I watched.
Speaker 2: But regardless, I just I have a lot of fun
Speaker 2: with them. That being said, I haven't seen I watched Airport,
Speaker 2: I don't know, probably the last ten years or so,
Speaker 2: but I haven't seen the other three. I'd be curious
Speaker 2: to see how they how they hold up today.
Speaker 1: You know, Delt's pointing out that in one of these,
Speaker 1: George Kennedy flies a concord upside down.
Speaker 2: George George Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Speaking of George Kennedy, the names that show up in
Speaker 1: these movies, so Bert Lancaster, Dean Martin, Charlton Heston, Jack Libin,
Speaker 1: Elaine de Laud, James Stewart, Christopher Lee, Robert Wagner, and
Speaker 1: of course George Kennedy. There is so much in here.
Speaker 1: One of the things I really want to point out, though,
Speaker 1: is their restoration information. So the very first one, which
Speaker 1: arguably is the most important here because it kind of
Speaker 1: started the whole thing, led to airplane. Like all of
Speaker 1: this stuff, this is a brand new HDR Dolby Vision Master.
Speaker 1: Now here's where it gets interesting. From a four K
Speaker 1: scan of the thirty five millimeter interpositive reduction element, which
Speaker 1: all that to say, this is not going to be
Speaker 1: a great looking four K. We lost a lot of
Speaker 1: fidelity from the OCN getting to this point. This is
Speaker 1: not great source material, and I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: they really just needed to put all four of them
Speaker 1: on four K to make the set work, because really
Speaker 1: this probably shouldn't have had a four K with that
Speaker 1: element being the best that they got, they probably should
Speaker 1: have only done the blu ray for that one. The
Speaker 1: other three sequels though four K scans of the OCN,
Speaker 1: so those are all going to look pretty great, guaranteed this.
Speaker 1: We got new commentaries on all four movies from people
Speaker 1: like Julie Krugo, c Courtney Joiner. We've got Steve Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Thompson, Peter Hancoff, Julie Kergo again, lots of good
Speaker 1: stuff here. Craig says reduction element Was it shot in
Speaker 1: seventy No, I believe it was shot in sixty five?
Speaker 1: Which yeah, again not great here, not great.
Speaker 2: It looks like yeah, actually, look on Wikipedia says seventy
Speaker 2: milimeters aoh.
Speaker 1: Huh, maybe I was wrong, all right, seventy milimeters reduction
Speaker 1: element for a four K. Yeah, I'm very curious to
Speaker 1: see how that one looks. I want these because I
Speaker 1: love seventy disaster movies. But now I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should just maybe swing for the blue for the
Speaker 1: first one. So we'll see. Yeah, I'll wait on reviews.
Speaker 1: That's free.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this looks really good. Actually. August nineteenth, Well, go USA,
Speaker 1: is releasing Invincible Swordsman from this year. This sas fabled
Speaker 1: swords been ling Hu Chong was ready to retire his
Speaker 1: sword when a chance encounter with the dangerous cult leader
Speaker 1: forced him back into the action. As the evil Invincible
Speaker 1: East threatens the peaceful realm of Xiang, who with her
Speaker 1: demon cult, Chong picks up his weapon and defends the
Speaker 1: land with the ragtag crew of misfit warriors and this
Speaker 1: mystical Wusha throwback starring Tim Hoying as chong Jiang Yuki
Speaker 1: as Invincible East and featuring a guest appearance from the
Speaker 1: One and Only Samo Hung in twenty twenty five. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: this looks great. Watch the trailer. It looks really fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very curious about this. Oh there you go. Gary
Speaker 1: found the answer. It was shot in sixty five, but
Speaker 1: it was made for seventy millimeters. Prints. There you go,
Speaker 1: and see. I wonder like, does the sixty five millimeter
Speaker 1: exist still on airport because you could have scanned that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's I mean, it's an Academy Award
Speaker 2: nominated movie, and so you'd think that they would put
Speaker 2: some money behind it. But yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: mean it could just be it's it doesn't look pretty.
Speaker 2: I don't know, all right, So Invincible Swordman this looks great.
Speaker 2: Watch the trailer. It looks looks really really fun. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: it sounds great.
Speaker 1: We only got a couple left. The next one is
Speaker 1: The Night of Death from nineteen eighty. This is coming
Speaker 1: on September eighth on Blu Ray in the UK from
Speaker 1: Nucleus Films. This is part of their European Cult Cinema collection.
Speaker 1: This one sounds super interesting. I've not seen that this
Speaker 1: got a different Blu Ray, so very curious about this
Speaker 1: new transfer in one dot sixty six ratio from the
Speaker 1: original camera negative. They're very specific about that. This is
Speaker 1: the uncensored version with the new audio commentary with Jonathan
Speaker 1: Rigby and Kevin Lyons. There's some archival extras on here,
Speaker 1: and Nucleus has been stepping up and doing a couple
Speaker 1: random releases. This seemed to be pretty good. So I
Speaker 1: like the poster on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the poster, it's a really nice poster, kind of
Speaker 2: with the river of blood coming down from the house everything.
Speaker 2: It looks really interesting. I haven't heard of this one,
Speaker 2: and I mean, but it's one of those that like
Speaker 2: the poster that just cover alone would make me curious
Speaker 2: to pick up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looks like a very nostalgic poster for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Arcane League of Legend Season two is getting a release
Speaker 1: from Shout Studios. This is getting a four K steal book,
Speaker 1: a Blu Rays steal book, and then a standard Blu ray,
Speaker 1: all in the US coming on October twenty first. You
Speaker 1: can pre order those. Now, I know nothing about this,
Speaker 1: but I know that a lot of people seem to
Speaker 1: love the show. So Arcane League of Legends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a show I've heard good things about, but
Speaker 2: I haven't checked it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the shark exploitation stuff. After all of this,
Speaker 1: Seven came out and said, listen, we're putting out three
Speaker 1: shark movies that are all Italian shark exploitation films. Of
Speaker 1: course we're going to put it in a box. So
Speaker 1: they're releasing Feeding Frenzy, the Italian Shark Exploitation Collection box
Speaker 1: there saying that since you already know that this is
Speaker 1: going to include the three titles, we can now reveal
Speaker 1: that this trilogy of teeth to tail fin the Lights
Speaker 1: belongs to a shiver we call Feeding Frenzy, our exclusive
Speaker 1: Rigid slipcase with a new killer illustration by Rondo Awards
Speaker 1: Artist of the Year Mark Spears Houses. All three titles
Speaker 1: will be available separately or in various bundles during the sale.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need a bigger shelf.
Speaker 2: I just love the art is right there, its own
Speaker 2: little ripoff of Jaws. Plays very well, yeah, very well.
Speaker 1: This looks good. I love shark movies. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: need these eventually. Sadly, I don't know. I need the box.
Speaker 1: They're probably not great, but I need them.
Speaker 2: But they'll be fun. It will be That's more important, of.
Speaker 1: Course it is. We got a couple kind of low
Speaker 1: key movies from Keynote. We got September ninth getting a
Speaker 1: blu ray of Deer Ruth from nineteen forty seven with
Speaker 1: William Holden and Joan Caulfield. This has an audio commentary
Speaker 1: by far and Smith's name. Not a movie that I've
Speaker 1: ever heard of before today. Have you heard or seen
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 2: No? But I want to say this is one that Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it falls into kind of that period of
Speaker 2: like the war, like you know, positive support for the
Speaker 2: war type of films that were coming out. At the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quite a few. There was a lot of those movies.
Speaker 2: There were a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The next one from them is Father Brown Detective
Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty four, coming on Blu ray from Keino
Speaker 1: on September sixteenth, This one with Walter Connolly and Paul Lucas.
Speaker 1: This has an audio commentary with Jason A. Nine And
Speaker 1: another thirties detective movie coming out that I have not seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've This is one that I feel like I've
Speaker 2: heard the title, but I think that's it, So I'm
Speaker 2: curious to get a sensus to what it's about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, solid, solid sounding film at least, Yeah, that is it,
Speaker 1: which there's a lot. I can't believe we've heard that much.
Speaker 1: This week busy week, and next week for releases, not
Speaker 1: just announcements, but next week for releases is gonna be
Speaker 1: a big one too. Reminder that tomorrow the Hans Zimmer
Speaker 1: Live in Prague four K comes out. I've got that
Speaker 1: one on the way and cannot wait. It got delayed.
Speaker 1: But then next Tuesday, tons of stuff. So we've got
Speaker 1: the Cobra four K from Arrow, the Stuff four K
Speaker 1: from Arrow as well, Small Soldiers four K Steel Book
Speaker 1: is finally gonna be shipping in a lot of people
Speaker 1: were excited about that one. You can count on Me
Speaker 1: four K and Carnal Knowledge four kble from Criterion, Danger,
Speaker 1: Diabolic four K from Keno, Matta Gascar four K from
Speaker 1: the Studio, Brand New Final Destination, Bloodlines four K, Blu
Speaker 1: Ray and Steel Book and all that fancy stuff that
Speaker 1: is getting released next week. Night Writer the Complete Series
Speaker 1: on four K coming out next week, be which the
Speaker 1: complete series is finally getting released here in the US.
Speaker 1: We've got the Serenity Serenity four K Steel book dropping
Speaker 1: that had that controversial art that people did not seem
Speaker 1: to love, The Beast to Die from Radiance, Silent Screen
Speaker 1: four K from Darkforce and Keno together the night Watch
Speaker 1: Collection from Arrow, Little Buddha four K from Keno, Rosa
Speaker 1: La Rose, Philipublique from Radiance as well Strangers with Candy,
Speaker 1: the film from two thousand and six, Blu Ray from Shout,
Speaker 1: Fight or Flight coming out next week as well from
Speaker 1: the Studio. All We Imagine is Light from Criterion, Detonation,
Speaker 1: Violent Writers from eighty eight Films, Ash from Shutter, Sarah
Speaker 1: Ban for Dead Lovers four K from Indicator, The Last
Speaker 1: Voyage of the Demeter. Four K Steel Book is coming
Speaker 1: out as an Amazon exclusive from Shout The Tattoo Dragon
Speaker 1: from eighty eight Films. I believe mister Peters Pets and
Speaker 1: everybody loves it. Noody Cuti Triple Feature is coming from
Speaker 1: Keno next week. Original Sin Northern Lights, Solo Leveling Season,
Speaker 1: Walking with Dinosaurs from the BBC. A bunch of anime
Speaker 1: stuff man Lots next week. Are there any of these
Speaker 1: that are on your list there? Andy?
Speaker 2: You know, the night Watch collection is one. I'm really
Speaker 2: curious about picking that one up. And you know, we
Speaker 2: were talking about the you know, kind of the Kung
Speaker 2: Fu Panda. The Madagascar films are also ones that the
Speaker 2: kids and I had a lot of fun with and
Speaker 2: so it's entirely possible that one will end up getting
Speaker 2: picked up. And Danger Diabolic is a wackado film. I
Speaker 2: would have fun rewatching that one for sure. It is beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love that. As I was reading this, I got
Speaker 1: a shipping notification for my Hans Zimmer Live and Progress. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cant cannot wait next week. Lots of stuff coming out.
Speaker 1: I still have not got Cobra or the stuff in
Speaker 1: four K that is on the way to me as
Speaker 1: well from Brother Belile and the stuff is one of
Speaker 1: my favorites, so I'm very eager to see that. Look
Speaker 1: at that right there, Look at that. Yeah, beautiful looking release.
Speaker 1: I can't believe they got the work print. Like this
Speaker 1: is a pretty big week for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well we covered all the releases. That's huge. Thanks for
Speaker 1: going through all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean a lot of really interesting movies
Speaker 2: that will be fun to pick up and revisit.
Speaker 1: Update from Deaf Crocodile. Reprints of our sold out visitors
Speaker 1: from the Arkana Galaxy, Bubble Bath, and The Assassin of
Speaker 1: This Are are all coming by the end of the month.
Speaker 1: Each will have limited slipcover editions available from Diabolic DVD.
Speaker 1: Really really cool there. Let's get in to jayhor So,
Speaker 1: jayhor what was your first foray into Jayhorr.
Speaker 2: It was probably around the time that they started remaking
Speaker 2: them with The Ring, the American remake that garver bin'sk
Speaker 2: you did in two, and then The Grudge in four,
Speaker 2: and that pushed me to go back and see the
Speaker 2: originals and and and I had a buddy at the
Speaker 2: time who was like, oh, well, then you also got
Speaker 2: to check out like these ones and so like Suicide
Speaker 2: Club and like all of these different movies, and so
Speaker 2: it just kind of pushed me to start watching a
Speaker 2: lot of these things. And I don't know, I just
Speaker 2: there's it's it's a different feel for what you're getting
Speaker 2: from typical horror movies and stuff, you know, And so
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I really enjoy the tone
Speaker 2: of the way that they're exploring different elements of their society,
Speaker 2: and I find that to be such an exciting piece
Speaker 2: of all of it.
Speaker 1: What are for anybody that's not ever really given a
Speaker 1: deep dive, how how do you define? Because obviously there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of different genres, but like, what are some
Speaker 1: some landmark traits of jahorr that you find interesting?
Speaker 2: Landmark traits of jay horror is there's a lot like
Speaker 2: you're not getting as much gore necessarily that you would
Speaker 2: get in like Western horror. There's a lot more psychological
Speaker 2: and a lot more trauma. I know. It's so funny
Speaker 2: because you know these these dumb terms, like you know,
Speaker 2: like elevated horror or things like that, that it's just like,
Speaker 2: really it's just it's horror, and like that's kind of
Speaker 2: where you were going with this sort of stuff first,
Speaker 2: but also I love when they start exploring technology and
Speaker 2: our relationships with with that, you know, and I think
Speaker 2: that there the Japanese culture looks into some of those
Speaker 2: in such interesting ways, whether it's like videotapes or the
Speaker 2: Internet or whatever, and just how it how it kind
Speaker 2: of explores that in the horror scape, which so often
Speaker 2: when they get remade in America just don't capture the essence.
Speaker 1: They lose their nuance quite a bit, sadly. And there's
Speaker 1: been some good ones obviously, Like one of the ones
Speaker 1: that is most likely going to get brought up tonight
Speaker 1: is Ringu, and I really enjoy the remake for that,
Speaker 1: but it's it's still a very different feeling remake. But
Speaker 1: I think they both definitely have their merits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that in the Grudge, I think both actually
Speaker 2: we're pretty strong, and then you start getting like one
Speaker 2: missed call and and things that just it's like they're
Speaker 2: not hitting the same exactly.
Speaker 1: One of the other big things that you see a
Speaker 1: lot in jahorr is this focus on the supernatural and
Speaker 1: a very specific style of way, like the Jay horror
Speaker 1: depiction of a ghost is a very common thing that
Speaker 1: has become troped overall, and it is something that is
Speaker 1: probably going to come up in at least a couple
Speaker 1: of these that were talking about tonight. That is a
Speaker 1: pretty good primer on this. It is kind of an
Speaker 1: odd thing to discuss. I guess in a way it
Speaker 1: should bring up the idea of jay horror k horror
Speaker 1: as a genre in itself, because in all reality, it's
Speaker 1: just horror from a country, and really all we're talking
Speaker 1: about is Japanese horror films. So there is a lot
Speaker 1: that you could break this down into, like different eras
Speaker 1: or movements within jay horror, but really there's kind of
Speaker 1: a defining time frame where jay horror exploded, and I've
Speaker 1: certainly got some from that on my list and I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about But I tried to go a
Speaker 1: little wider too, just to capture some some different eras
Speaker 1: and a lot a lot of my picks are going
Speaker 1: to feel very obvious, but I don't think they get
Speaker 1: talked about in the idea of jayhor itself, and more
Speaker 1: so just like the pantheon of horror as a wider topic,
Speaker 1: and so very curious to see how those feel in
Speaker 1: discussion in these tonight so.
Speaker 2: Well, And it's interesting because you, like, as I was
Speaker 2: talking with one of my guests for our upcoming episode
Speaker 2: about it, I was asking that too. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, should we include things like, you know, cron
Speaker 2: echo or quite on in it? And they're like, well,
Speaker 2: that's not really Jay horror. It's like Japanese horror. And
Speaker 2: so it's like, so I'm really curious to like have
Speaker 2: that conversation with them to like narrow down the specifics.
Speaker 2: But for them, like the way that they define it
Speaker 2: is like jay horror is a specific subgenre within Japanese
Speaker 2: horror that really kind of rose in the nineties, and
Speaker 2: so you started really seeing a lot of the different
Speaker 2: specific ways that they were taking the direction of horror
Speaker 2: films at the time. So I'm very curious to learn
Speaker 2: more from them about all of that.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hear what is the first jay horror film
Speaker 1: that you want to bring up tonight?
Speaker 2: The first one that I want to bring up is
Speaker 2: it's a I hadn't even heard of this before. It
Speaker 2: was in that Great Jay Horror box set that came
Speaker 2: out oh years ago, Norroy the Curse and directed by
Speaker 2: Koji Shiaishi, and it is told as a I mean
Speaker 2: fitting for you know, talking about this with you, because
Speaker 2: you know, we just discussed found footage horror. It very
Speaker 2: much fits into that kind of found footage vibe. It's
Speaker 2: like a pseudo documentary as we're following this paranormal investigator
Speaker 2: who is exploring this, this world of this this this
Speaker 2: curse that's happening where this this house had burned well,
Speaker 2: his house had burned down, and so it's actually other
Speaker 2: filmmakers who are now following him. It gets kind of
Speaker 2: that that meta found footage nature of it because he
Speaker 2: ended up getting he started, he finished this project, and
Speaker 2: then ends up dead, and so now you have these
Speaker 2: other filmmakers who are exploring his story as he goes
Speaker 2: through this process and he's investigating this this woman and
Speaker 2: her son and that that like dead birds are showing
Speaker 2: up around them, and it's like this they're annoying their
Speaker 2: neighbors because the neighbors keep hearing all these crying babies
Speaker 2: and they're like, what is going on? And so he's
Speaker 2: like trying to talk to this woman and she's just
Speaker 2: so nasty and he never can talk to her, and
Speaker 2: he keeps just kind of like following this investigation and
Speaker 2: eventually kind of leading to kind of a better understanding
Speaker 2: of what's actually going on with this curse. But what
Speaker 2: is so interesting about the way that the film is
Speaker 2: constructed is like it literally feels like you're watching a
Speaker 2: TV episode exploring how this this like this person following
Speaker 2: this curse trying to figure it out. Like we cut
Speaker 2: to news clippings and they're like reading through the newspapers,
Speaker 2: and we cut to other TV shows, like we cut
Speaker 2: to this completely unrelated show that happened to have this
Speaker 2: psychic come on, and you know, like this appears with
Speaker 2: the psychic who then attacks this woman, and both of
Speaker 2: those characters end up becoming very important later. It's it
Speaker 2: is a wild film, and it's probably my favorite of
Speaker 2: that whole box set. It's a really interesting one. It
Speaker 2: gets better every time I watch it, So that's where
Speaker 2: I wanted to start that box set.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good box set. I think Neroy for
Speaker 1: me is the best film in the box set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is quite enjoyable. This this is a really good
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna start with one of like the
Speaker 1: giant names like Juwan or Ringu, I think Neroy is
Speaker 1: actually one of the better starting points to get into
Speaker 1: Jay Horror, because it's a very good bridge film, because
Speaker 1: it feels it feels a bit Western in some of
Speaker 1: the ways that it's shot and some of the ways
Speaker 1: that you can like ingest this movie, but definitely has
Speaker 1: has roots in Jay Horror that are very very important here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love this movie. I think that this is a
Speaker 1: very very great choice to bring up here. That box
Speaker 1: set from Air is big. I hope they keep doing more,
Speaker 1: somebody does. I had heard from some people I know
Speaker 1: that you know, we've been seeing a ton of Hong
Speaker 1: Kong releases over the last four years now that have
Speaker 1: just been inundated by every label out there, which is great.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're getting releases. Nothing against them, but by
Speaker 1: you know, eventually, when you're releasing that many, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to keep that glut of titles coming. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna have elements for all of them or rights
Speaker 1: for some of them. So from what I'm hearing is
Speaker 1: that we might start seeing a little slight shift to
Speaker 1: the Japanese area. And if this is an indication for
Speaker 1: Arrow that, hey, we feel confident in putting out a
Speaker 1: box set like this. I hope people supported it in
Speaker 1: a way that we get more because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of really great jay horror that has never been you know,
Speaker 1: like outside of Netflix in the US, there's some that
Speaker 1: have gotten some like digital release for a year and
Speaker 1: then never seen again illegally at least, and it would
Speaker 1: be really great to see many of those come to
Speaker 1: disc And this is one that people had wanted for
Speaker 1: a long time. So I'm glad I got a respectful release.
Speaker 1: It is a great title, definitely, Okay. So I was
Speaker 1: trying to determine what order to go through here because
Speaker 1: chronological is just kind of I wanted to make it fun,
Speaker 1: but I just happened to still go with the oldest
Speaker 1: one first, because this is one that I feel like
Speaker 1: is kind of the granddaddy for me in so many
Speaker 1: different ways, because it's so surreal and supernatural and weird
Speaker 1: in so many different ways. But I wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be able to talk about jay Or without bringing up
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven's House Nobody he was wondering is one
Speaker 1: of those people. And obviously right now I'm working on
Speaker 1: like four Obiyasha titles for cult epics, and he is
Speaker 1: so stylized and carries so much of that over through
Speaker 1: films like School in the Crosshairs, which has very specific,
Speaker 1: very House related imagery, because he learned how to do
Speaker 1: it with how some people loved it, and then he
Speaker 1: carried that over. That House is just special if somehow
Speaker 1: you have never seen House. It has a beautiful criterion release,
Speaker 1: but this is essentially about somebody that is trying to
Speaker 1: find a connection to her mother that passed away, and
Speaker 1: she takes a trip to the countryside to visit her relatives.
Speaker 1: I think it's an aunt and uncle or just aunt whatever,
Speaker 1: but she she brings a bunch of her friends, and
Speaker 1: through this journey there's a bunch of weird stuff that happens.
Speaker 1: It weird is putting it lightly, but you're gonna see
Speaker 1: imagery that you've never seen in any other movie. There
Speaker 1: are like floating cat heads, there are weird, surreal things
Speaker 1: that just make you feel And it's not even like
Speaker 1: that's scary of a movie. It's just it's it's deranged
Speaker 1: in a weird way, and it's it's a weird foundational
Speaker 1: like introduction to just this frenetic style that is wild,
Speaker 1: and Obiyashi, like I said, carries that over to so
Speaker 1: many of his other movies, So I not only is
Speaker 1: it a fun weird gateway into like starting Jahorr to
Speaker 1: get into his filmography, this is such a great one
Speaker 1: to inspire you because it's probably the most accessible of
Speaker 1: those as in terms of the weird ones. But he
Speaker 1: does have some very like normal films after that still,
Speaker 1: so there's still a little lot to see. But Obyashi
Speaker 1: is just great with I don't know, leaning into like
Speaker 1: the the medium of making this movie and making you
Speaker 1: feel things based on seeing the absurd. These are not
Speaker 1: things that are realistic in any way. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of this is just a wild movie and I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I like it. You should watch
Speaker 1: House from nineteen seventy seven if you haven't.
Speaker 2: It is crazy. That's like my words. My fish like
Speaker 2: was a crazy ass movie. It is bonkers, off the wall,
Speaker 2: but it's it's very alive and it's full of this
Speaker 2: manic energy. So it's it's definitely one to check out,
Speaker 2: but be prepared for that type of movie when you
Speaker 2: step into it, because yeah, some people are like, I can't,
Speaker 2: I can't with this, it's too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're wanting like a calm ghost story.
Speaker 2: This is not it looks like a like almost like
Speaker 2: a comic strip the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, what is the next one for you?
Speaker 2: I'm jumping to twenty thirteen with a film directed by
Speaker 2: Maria Sato called By Location, which is you know, it's
Speaker 2: an interesting you can probably call it Jahore. You could
Speaker 2: probably also call it like I don't know, like psychological
Speaker 2: sci fi sort of movie. Like there's different ways you
Speaker 2: could look at this. But it's a story about doppelgangers,
Speaker 2: is really what it is. And you have our protagonist
Speaker 2: who wants to be a painter, and she ends up
Speaker 2: falling in love and with a man who comes to
Speaker 2: her door when she moves into or moves into the building,
Speaker 2: and so they fall in love, and then she's like torn,
Speaker 2: like do I pursue my life as a painter or
Speaker 2: do I just pursue my family life? And in this
Speaker 2: particular world, there are a few people where it happens
Speaker 2: where when you have that moment in your life where
Speaker 2: you feel pulled in two different directions, you actually there's
Speaker 2: a doppelganger version of you that gets created and they
Speaker 2: don't live for very long. When they appear, it's like
Speaker 2: I can it's very specific like twenty three minutes and
Speaker 2: fifty eight seconds or something, and they have to appear
Speaker 2: within a certain range of you. But that makes it
Speaker 2: really interesting because suddenly and they have like all the
Speaker 2: same feelings that you do and everything. So if you're doppelganger,
Speaker 2: if you're in love your husband and your doppelganger appears
Speaker 2: and sees your husband, then you're the doppelganger is going
Speaker 2: to want to be with him. And you end up
Speaker 2: if there are two versions of you that have like
Speaker 2: the memories and the same desires and everything, which which
Speaker 2: one are you? Then you know? And the film really
Speaker 2: kind of starts pursuing that to a point where as
Speaker 2: you go you don't even realize that I actually probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't even spoil it. I'll just say it's fascinating the
Speaker 2: way that Asato chooses to tell the film, because you
Speaker 2: really start you can't tell if you should be rooting
Speaker 2: for the person or their doppelganger, And there ends up
Speaker 2: being like this whole like there's a club of people
Speaker 2: who get together who are suffering from having their doppelgangers,
Speaker 2: and they're getting together to try talking about it. This
Speaker 2: cop has a dappelganger who isn't like has pulled into
Speaker 2: all of his incredibly violent reactions that he can't do
Speaker 2: when he's on the job because he has to be
Speaker 2: calm and collected, and so he split because he needs
Speaker 2: an outlet for that violence, and his violent doppelganger starts
Speaker 2: doing some terrible, terrible things. I just watched the I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about it on my upcoming show, but I
Speaker 2: hadn't heard of it, and it was like instantly, just
Speaker 2: like a favorite discovery of mine. So I absolutely check.
Speaker 2: I recommend checking this one out.
Speaker 1: By location, how do you see this one?
Speaker 2: It's on to be right now.
Speaker 1: Shit, I have to watch this movie now. You said
Speaker 1: the magic word. I adore doppelganger movies and I've never
Speaker 1: seen this one, and that sounds kind of incredible.
Speaker 2: I think you'd love this one.
Speaker 1: By location on to be great. I have to watch it.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 1: One of the first things that sprung to mind when
Speaker 1: we decided to talk about jay horror is I knew
Speaker 1: that I had to talk about I think this was
Speaker 1: the first jay horror movie that I ever saw, and
Speaker 1: that is Kenji Fukusaku's Battle Royale from two thousand. This
Speaker 1: movie is one that most of you have probably seen.
Speaker 1: It's been sort of a beat to death like Texas
Speaker 1: Chainsaw Masker. Over the last ten or fifteen years with
Speaker 1: a bunch of different fancy releases. Arrow has got all
Speaker 1: the blood out of this Stone many many times for
Speaker 1: sure with their releases, but this movie is still I
Speaker 1: don't know, like under disgust since it's so prolific now,
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody just sort of sees it as
Speaker 1: a given, even though this movie is kind of a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: I mean, you take a classroom full of ninth graders,
Speaker 1: you drug them, put them on an island, and then
Speaker 1: say go kill each other. And this movie is so
Speaker 1: unafraid to hold back at anything. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: everybody that is willing to take just the craziest of weapons,
Speaker 1: put them in a hand of a young teenager and
Speaker 1: say go kill your best friend. And they do, and
Speaker 1: they show most of it like this is everybody choked
Speaker 1: around that this was the inspiration for the Hunger Game,
Speaker 1: and undoubtedly this definitely played a big part in that
Speaker 1: for sure, But it is so much better than the
Speaker 1: the at least the first Hunger Games, because you don't
Speaker 1: Hunger Games is so tame compared to this movie, But
Speaker 1: I mean the way that you go through the psychological
Speaker 1: torture of if you don't follow the rules in this
Speaker 1: quote game that we're playing will kill you and we
Speaker 1: don't care. And they prove that like twelve minutes into
Speaker 1: the movie, and so the rest of the movie, there's
Speaker 1: just this underlying boiling tension that is waiting to spill
Speaker 1: over on the edge of your pot as you're watching
Speaker 1: this movie. And so with every movement that you like,
Speaker 1: this kid's about to go around the corner, I'm empathizing
Speaker 1: with him, is somebody about to shoot him? It is
Speaker 1: because of that this it's like uncut gems for me
Speaker 1: when I watch this movie every time, my heart rate
Speaker 1: is a NonStop for this entire movie, because there's everything
Speaker 1: that everything is the enemy. Nothing in this movie is
Speaker 1: something that you can trust, and you find that out
Speaker 1: many times. There's so many betrayals in this film. There's
Speaker 1: so many things that you just see this incredible display
Speaker 1: of like wonderful acting, really great twists in the story
Speaker 1: that aren't treated as twists, just like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that was crazy that they chose to do this. And
Speaker 1: then of course, throughout this entire movie, you're you're watching
Speaker 1: some of these kids just do the worst things, all
Speaker 1: forgetting that beat. Takeshi is one of the main stars
Speaker 1: of this movie, and you've watched them in some of
Speaker 1: the best movies of all time. I like bat Royal
Speaker 1: is not respected enough, even though again it's kind of
Speaker 1: like ubiquitous for people because it's just always there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting point. It really does feel like,
Speaker 2: because of the violent nature of it, that people view
Speaker 2: it as, oh, it's too much of kind of a
Speaker 2: it's a cult film, or it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 2: a dark foreign version of Hunger Games. Know if they
Speaker 2: don't know which one came first, and you you just
Speaker 2: get this sense that they just they just dismiss it
Speaker 2: too easily without realizing where it came from and everything.
Speaker 2: It's it's a powerful, solid film and just these the
Speaker 2: way that these kids, you know, have to take on
Speaker 2: this this role, for the method, the reason for the
Speaker 2: whole thing, and it's it's it's dark. It's like a
Speaker 2: frightening glimpse of some sort of like a you know, terrible,
Speaker 2: terrible dystopian future, and it plays in a really incredible way. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: great movie. I haven't seen the follow up, but I
Speaker 2: I feel like I need to But yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 1: It's it's worth the watch once. The follow up is
Speaker 1: it doesn't hold even as well a mostly burned down
Speaker 1: candle to the first movie. It is quite disappointing after
Speaker 1: watching that. It was definitely just let's try to make
Speaker 1: some money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's too bad.
Speaker 1: It happens, especially with horror. I mean that's a common thing. Sadly.
Speaker 1: All right, your third choice, my third one.
Speaker 2: This was one that I, again I had never heard of,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to be talking about this one on
Speaker 2: the show. The guests recommended this one because it's an
Speaker 2: interesting starting place. It's called Psychic Vision Jagonray. It is
Speaker 2: a it's a short film. It's only I think forty
Speaker 2: nine minutes long. It's like very very short, but it's
Speaker 2: it's fascinating because it's been made in nineteen ninety nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight by terryoshi Ishi, and it's a we're following
Speaker 2: a reporter who is doing a story about a new
Speaker 2: pop singer, and so in most of the construction of
Speaker 2: the film, you're really looking at a movie that's a
Speaker 2: documentary of a very specific time in Japanese kind of
Speaker 2: eighties of their just the way that these producers and
Speaker 2: studios create their pop singers. And so that's kind of
Speaker 2: like what we're feeling because we're following as as this
Speaker 2: singer is prepping this new song and it's all about
Speaker 2: this new song that she's going to sing called Lovecraft.
Speaker 2: But the mystery here is like she's going to sing
Speaker 2: the song. The producer was sent this the lyrics for
Speaker 2: this song, but it has no idea who wrote it,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of the crux of this. And then
Speaker 2: the composer writes the music and we start we get
Speaker 2: to the point where we're actually filming the music video,
Speaker 2: and then just crazy stuff starts happening, and it's is
Speaker 2: a quick film forty nine minutes, absolutely something worth checking out,
Speaker 2: just I mean, mainly because it does such an interesting
Speaker 2: glimpse into that pop singer culture in Japan and then
Speaker 2: shifts the whole thing over with kind of a jay
Speaker 2: horror ghost and everything.
Speaker 1: This sounds great and would probably make a pretty fun
Speaker 1: pairing with one that I wasn't gonna mention tonight, but
Speaker 1: it would be great to see this with Perfect Blue.
Speaker 2: It sounds like, hey, there, you go yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is one. I don't know if anyone's ever released it,
Speaker 2: but you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Nice and short film. I mean it's minutes. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is just happenstance. But I'm gonna choose another semi short
Speaker 1: film that came out just the next year, one that
Speaker 1: is fundamental for me with Jay Horror, because i mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, this filmmaker is one of the best
Speaker 1: of all time, But nineteen eighty nine's Tetsuo the Iron
Speaker 1: Man I felt like needed to be discussed tonight. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a movie that is kind of hard to
Speaker 1: discuss because it's just one that you sort of have
Speaker 1: to experience. Tetsuo the Iron Man is a industrial body
Speaker 1: horror movie about a man that gets cursed that starts
Speaker 1: putting metal all throughout his body and living a completely
Speaker 1: just transformed life as the film goes on, all leading
Speaker 1: to just a weird ending at the end that again
Speaker 1: you just sort of have to be there to live
Speaker 1: through the moment of this man turning into Tetsuo the
Speaker 1: Iron Man. It is a beautifully shot film. It once
Speaker 1: again feels very frenetic as you're watching it, because like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is happening while you're seeing this random
Speaker 1: imagery being here by Shinyasukamoto's just beautiful cinematography, and the
Speaker 1: way that they choose to tell the story is like
Speaker 1: quiet in a way, but at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, the it feels so and it's obviously
Speaker 1: a little a little stereotypical to say it's a body
Speaker 1: horror movie, so it feels Chronamburgian, But there's something about
Speaker 1: this that is much more Chronambergian than other body horror
Speaker 1: movie because it just feels so lived in by the
Speaker 1: time you get to the film the end of the movie,
Speaker 1: like it reminds me the feeling of the fly, like
Speaker 1: you've been there for the entire transformation, You've lived through.
Speaker 1: This guy was just normal human to he is a
Speaker 1: completely different thing by the very end. And Tetsuo is
Speaker 1: one of those movies that will stick with you. You
Speaker 1: at the end will feel like quite frustrated because you
Speaker 1: have seen so much change and felt sort of invaded,
Speaker 1: just like our main character is in this movie. It
Speaker 1: is one that will stick with you for a while.
Speaker 1: Tetsuo is again a little hard to explain, but one
Speaker 1: of those that pretty much everybody should probably watch at
Speaker 1: least once. Sukamoto brilliant, brilliant director. I know that we've
Speaker 1: said Arrow a lot tonight, but the Arrow box set
Speaker 1: that they did of his stuff is kind of a
Speaker 1: masterclass in his filmmaking. Some really great extras in there.
Speaker 1: I think that his films are very specifically Suko and
Speaker 1: worthy of his own discussion on its own, for sure.
Speaker 2: It's my experience was it was a very difficult film
Speaker 2: to watch because it's like, it's like sixteen millimeters black
Speaker 2: and white, so it's very like you think of things
Speaker 2: like Eraserhead or pie Like. It's very stark. It's a
Speaker 2: relentless pace. There's this pounding industrial score with it, and
Speaker 2: I like, I was like, this is never going to end.
Speaker 2: But it became one that was less about understanding what
Speaker 2: was going on in the story and more just like
Speaker 2: the experience of it, you know, like that's kind of
Speaker 2: where I went with this one, and like it it
Speaker 2: I when I was a kid, I'll this is the
Speaker 2: story that's going on. I didn't mean to go into
Speaker 2: this story, but when I was a kid, I would
Speaker 2: have every time I had a high fever, I would
Speaker 2: have what I have since dubbed my steel wool nightmares,
Speaker 2: where like literally I was just like whatever dream I
Speaker 2: was in, all of a sudden, it's like steel wool
Speaker 2: coming in, just like eating everything around me, and I
Speaker 2: would just run and the steel wool was just kind
Speaker 2: of like keep crunching down on everything around me until
Speaker 2: it finally like I was narrowed down to like a
Speaker 2: corner of a room or something, and then it would
Speaker 2: eat me and I'd wake up. Every time I was sick,
Speaker 2: I had that nightmare, and this movie made it feel
Speaker 2: like I was reliving those nightmares like it was, So
Speaker 2: it was a little extra challenging for me. But it's absolutely,
Speaker 2: like I mean, to be able to kind of create
Speaker 2: that visceral experience for me, I think it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Vispian says here, supermotive filmography is nearly flawless.
Speaker 1: I would agree. Again, I think this one is sort
Speaker 1: of difficult because of the very nature of the way
Speaker 1: that this is made. But I think it's an important
Speaker 1: way to step into and it's it's obviously it's his
Speaker 1: most well known film, and it's one that yeah, you
Speaker 1: should you should see. It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely you really have to see it. It's
Speaker 2: just a tough one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, your fourth film.
Speaker 2: I was debating, like it, do I want to go?
Speaker 2: Do I want to include any that are a little
Speaker 2: more well known? I mean, I guess I include Noroy,
Speaker 2: But the other one I want to include is just
Speaker 2: it's I think equally important in a different way. This
Speaker 2: is Kyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse from two thousand, which is we
Speaker 2: talked about kind of like that technological look into into films,
Speaker 2: and that's definitely where this film is going. You have this.
Speaker 2: It's really a story about the Internet and how everyone
Speaker 2: can connect instantly, but it's kind of also created like
Speaker 2: this mass, big of loneliness around and that's really been
Speaker 2: growing especially. I mean, this film was really precient because
Speaker 2: it's only gotten progressively worse with all the different social
Speaker 2: media tools and everything. To mention pandemics and everything else
Speaker 2: that we've been living through. This film made in two
Speaker 2: thousand and one, so the Internet wasn't even around for
Speaker 2: a decade by the time he made this, And it's
Speaker 2: it's a story following some just like some people who
Speaker 2: are like kind of starting to like lose people that
Speaker 2: they like, they're they're just not showing up for work
Speaker 2: or something, and like they go over to their house
Speaker 2: to figure out like what's going on, and and they're there,
Speaker 2: but they're kind of not there, and it's it's very
Speaker 2: I mean, it's very slow paced. If you know Kyosha
Speaker 2: Kyoshi Krosawa's films, definitely kind of that slow paced, very
Speaker 2: kind of like mood horror, and that's what you get here,
Speaker 2: as like you walk into your talking to somebody and
Speaker 2: then you they kind of go into the other room
Speaker 2: and and you follow along after a few minutes and
Speaker 2: find that they've hung themselves. Since it's like wow, okay, uh.
Speaker 2: It just and it keeps going from there as people
Speaker 2: are kind of getting more affected by this and it's
Speaker 2: growing also, which is the other thing. It's a fascinating film,
Speaker 2: and it was I don't let's say I saw Cure.
Speaker 2: I was trying to remember my first my introduction to
Speaker 2: CHROs how I think was Cure and then this, But
Speaker 2: both of them I think are just such top notch films.
Speaker 2: But Pulse is it's haunting. This is what I would like,
Speaker 2: an absolutely haunting film in the way that it tackles
Speaker 2: like technological loneliness.
Speaker 1: So I must admit I've been dying to see Pulse
Speaker 1: for quite some time. I have stayed away primarily because
Speaker 1: I did not like Cure. Oh interesting, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I'm probably wrong, I understand. I mean, obviously everybody loves
Speaker 1: Cure and worships it for some reason, it just didn't
Speaker 1: land with me, and so Pulse sounds way more my
Speaker 1: style of film, even though Cure should have been my
Speaker 1: style too. That's why I'm worried. But I really think
Speaker 1: I will like this one. But yet not liking Cure
Speaker 1: has sort of pushed me away, So I will be
Speaker 1: watching this one soon. Well, I mean he's got that
Speaker 1: new film Cloud. Yeah, that maybe you start with that
Speaker 1: one and then you kind of work your way back
Speaker 1: to Pulse. Appreciate the comment from Stan This says, yes,
Speaker 1: I am wrong, thanks to Chime.
Speaker 2: Actually, Chime is another interesting one that you could check out.
Speaker 2: That's again, it's only forty five minutes, and I think
Speaker 2: that one. I think I watched it on YouTube. It's
Speaker 2: also I don't know. If you don't like Cure, I
Speaker 2: wonder where you'd stand with it. But if you're looking
Speaker 2: for something shorter at least, that might be another thing
Speaker 2: to like test the waters with before you jump into Pulse,
Speaker 2: which is a good two hours.
Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned, I was trying to go from
Speaker 1: like four or five different to eras isn't really the
Speaker 1: right word, but like groupings of films, and I felt
Speaker 1: like I needed to have one that was much more modern.
Speaker 1: But also this one sticks out like a sore thumb
Speaker 1: amidst the rest of what I'm talking about tonight, and
Speaker 1: it's because it's so damn charming. I had to bring
Speaker 1: up this movie, and I feel terrible because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be another one that I can't talk about most of
Speaker 1: the movie, but I'm gonna do my best here. Twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen's One Cut of the Dead. This movie is a
Speaker 1: masterpiece in my opinion. This is a movie that if
Speaker 1: you are ever somebody that's ever played around with the
Speaker 1: video camera at home, or had the dream of making
Speaker 1: short films with your friends, or watched movies and immediately said,
Speaker 1: I want to be able to make a story like
Speaker 1: that one day. One Cut of the Dead, I feel like,
Speaker 1: is one of the most consistent modern movies that when
Speaker 1: I watch it with other people, we walk away going,
Speaker 1: do you want to go make a movie? Right this moment,
Speaker 1: because my god, I'm super charged. One Cut of the
Speaker 1: Dead is a zombie movie about a bunch of individuals
Speaker 1: being attacked in this abandoned warehouse. You see them fighting
Speaker 1: off the zombies and trying to escape. And it's a
Speaker 1: film that is still feature length, it's not like an
Speaker 1: extra short film. But it flies by because of the
Speaker 1: way they tell this story. And you are completely turned
Speaker 1: on your head part way through this film to find
Speaker 1: out that the movie that you thought you were watching
Speaker 1: is not the movie you were watching at all. For
Speaker 1: those that have never seen One Cut of the Dead,
Speaker 1: that is a frustrating way to explain this. But please
Speaker 1: do not go watch a trailer. Do not find out
Speaker 1: from anybody else what this movie is about or what
Speaker 1: they thought of it. Don't read letterbox reviews first. Go
Speaker 1: watch this movie and know nothing about it. Truly a masterpiece. Now,
Speaker 1: this movie was carted out by Third Window Films a
Speaker 1: handful of years ago, and they're a company over the UK,
Speaker 1: and they took it worldwide. They made this movie explode,
Speaker 1: And so around twenty nineteen, like early twenty nineteen or
Speaker 1: late twenty eighteen, this finally left mainland Japan and we
Speaker 1: get over here, and everybody finally saw it, and it
Speaker 1: has been everywhere since then. It had a really nice
Speaker 1: run on shutter. There's been foreign remakes of this movie
Speaker 1: because it's such a brilliant way to make a film.
Speaker 1: Please go see One Cut of the Dead if you
Speaker 1: have not seen it. It is not like a quote
Speaker 1: zombie movie. You're not going to get the same sort
Speaker 1: of feeling like you would just hearing that this is
Speaker 1: a movie about zombies. This is one of the most
Speaker 1: cinematically grounded films of inspirational like just making a fucking
Speaker 1: movie already type of feeling because it's such a simplistic
Speaker 1: way to make a movie, and god, dang, is it
Speaker 1: just exciting One Cut of the Dead. Please tell me
Speaker 1: you've seen this and you love this.
Speaker 2: I love this movie so much. It was such a
Speaker 2: fun I'm not put this on mychael, but it's something
Speaker 2: that I've been I've had on my list forever, and
Speaker 2: so I'm just like trying to watch even more and
Speaker 2: just kind of get and like I knew very little
Speaker 2: about it other than just kind of like a curse
Speaker 2: like tagline sort of thing, and so I had a
Speaker 2: sense as to what was going to happen. But the
Speaker 2: way that they played it was just so effective. I
Speaker 2: mean I definitely say, just like Ryan said, go in
Speaker 2: not knowing anything about it. Just that's the best way
Speaker 2: to just go in and enjoy it. Is such a
Speaker 2: fun movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so unique. That's the other thing. Like I
Speaker 1: have never seen anything remotely that gave me the feeling
Speaker 1: that this movie did.
Speaker 2: It's pure fun. I mean, I completely agree with you,
Speaker 2: like you feel invigorated by the time it ends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, your final movie, sir? What is number five?
Speaker 2: Final movie? This is one that I unfortunately it's probably
Speaker 2: hard to track down, but it's a really interesting film
Speaker 2: called The Inerasable from twenty fifteen, directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura,
Speaker 2: and it's a the story of a novelist who rights
Speaker 2: It's an interesting premise, like a novelist who writes novels
Speaker 2: based on like true ghost stories that people send into her,
Speaker 2: and then she takes those and adapts them and kind
Speaker 2: of creates a whole novel about it. So she gets
Speaker 2: a letter from a student about these these sounds from
Speaker 2: her roommate or from her room in her apartment, and
Speaker 2: they start investigating and talk and it becomes like this
Speaker 2: investigative reporter sort of thing with this author and this
Speaker 2: student as they then go around trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what is going on, and it plays like it's almost
Speaker 2: like this detective story is really what it ends up
Speaker 2: feeling like, because it's these two women who are who
Speaker 2: end up basically tapping into a particular property, or not
Speaker 2: even property, but just the land that even the property
Speaker 2: is on and everything else that had been built upon it.
Speaker 2: And they keep doing research and they find this terrible
Speaker 2: thing had happened, and they think that's the story, but
Speaker 2: there's there's a thread that makes them go, there's something
Speaker 2: else here. Let's talk to this person and they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: there's also this whole other thing that had happened before that,
Speaker 2: and you start seeing it's it's kind of like if
Speaker 2: you're familiar with the Grudge or jew on that franchise,
Speaker 2: Like it's this haunted place and it just kind of
Speaker 2: like keeps attacking anybody who happens to come by. It's
Speaker 2: similar to that in the in the kind of the style,
Speaker 2: because there are all these different hauntings and somehow they
Speaker 2: all end up kind of becoming related to each other.
Speaker 2: And you start seeing why and so they go back
Speaker 2: like I think over a century by the time you
Speaker 2: get to the final stories and you start seeing and
Speaker 2: then and also the sense that it's gone even before that.
Speaker 2: But you get this sense that and this is something
Speaker 2: I find that these Jay horror stories is the sense
Speaker 2: that something doesn't just go away, right. You can't just
Speaker 2: solve it, like in an American horror film where you're
Speaker 2: just like, oh, I found this piece of jewelry that
Speaker 2: proved that this person was incriminating. This is the incriminating
Speaker 2: of evidence. We need to prove that this person killed
Speaker 2: that person, and now the ghost is free. Like that
Speaker 2: just doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, the ghost is still there,
Speaker 2: and now they're pissed and all these other things are
Speaker 2: going to happen. This is one of those. It's definitely
Speaker 2: deliberately paced, I will say, and that you can kind
Speaker 2: of feel that in the tone, but it had this
Speaker 2: sense of dread that it carried along with it that
Speaker 2: it worked well for me. The inerasable.
Speaker 1: I have never heard of this one. I feel like
Speaker 1: this is not a title that gets out there very often,
Speaker 1: so there no good Oh.
Speaker 2: It's very few people. I mean only on letterbox seven
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety four people have watched it, so's if
Speaker 2: you can find a copy of it, it's it's worth
Speaker 2: checking out. Or if anyone who distributes is looking at
Speaker 2: picking it up. Who's listening?
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, this this sounds really good as well. Geez,
Speaker 1: some great recommendations tonight. I I love Jay Horror. There's
Speaker 1: so much in her. Again, I was trying not to
Speaker 1: pick the biggest titles, but there's one that we've talked
Speaker 1: about sort of all of the like sub genres of
Speaker 1: Jay horror that have gone the eclectic route, the industrial route.
Speaker 1: There's a couple that I'm trying to choose from. As
Speaker 1: my last I surprisingly had eight on my list. I
Speaker 1: was just like, hey, if he says one I have,
Speaker 1: I guess. But I'm for some reason finding myself drawn
Speaker 1: to one of the more extreme titles. And so this
Speaker 1: is one that again probably many of you have seen,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it still does not get enough
Speaker 1: attention because it has a reputation. So I got to
Speaker 1: talk about nineteen ninety nine's audition Takashi mik This was
Speaker 1: really by arro In I think twenty nineteen, and I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised at all if this was released
Speaker 1: in four K at the end of this month. This
Speaker 1: is one of those movies that deserves more recognition. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: But so this is a kind of a very tough
Speaker 1: movie to watch. Our main character, I think his name
Speaker 1: is Schigaru or Shagiru. He works at a film studio
Speaker 1: and he is widowed. He lost his wife handful of
Speaker 1: years prior and wants to replace her finally, and so
Speaker 1: understanding that he works at the studio, he says, let's
Speaker 1: hold some auditions, and so they bring all these women in.
Speaker 1: They hold these auditions, and they find one that he
Speaker 1: thinks is great, and of course it's a jay horror movie,
Speaker 1: so she's not as she seems. And this character is
Speaker 1: a Sami and this movie goes from This movie goes
Speaker 1: from zero to like one hundred and fifty and breaks
Speaker 1: the scale because they're some crazy things that happen in
Speaker 1: this movie. There's some very effective, like pretty extreme gore shots.
Speaker 1: There's a really great scare in this movie that I
Speaker 1: don't know it's again, this is a really popular movie.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry if I'm spoiling this for you, but
Speaker 1: it will still be effective if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: There's a scene where you see this person Asami, like
Speaker 1: preparing some things, and in the background you see like
Speaker 1: some stuff behind her, and then eventually you realize that's
Speaker 1: a garbage bag on the ground that eventually moves, and
Speaker 1: it's not even it's not the forefront of this scene.
Speaker 1: It is captured because Takashi Mike is directed like one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four movies, so he's kind of good
Speaker 1: at it. At this point. He's got this framed in
Speaker 1: a way where she is like your sole focus and
Speaker 1: you finally realize that this is like just some garbage
Speaker 1: behind her. But when that moves, it is such an unsettling,
Speaker 1: under your skin, creepy moment that I will live with
Speaker 1: that moment and that feeling for the rest of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of very famous scenes, like with piano
Speaker 1: wire in this movie, and uh, some stuff that will
Speaker 1: as acupuncture needles are pretty intimidating. Yeah, this movie is very,
Speaker 1: very effective, and it's it's actual horror here, which I
Speaker 1: understand a couple of mine I've leaned away from that
Speaker 1: from the industrial side. And then one cut of the dead,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I had to really lean in. This is
Speaker 1: one that people are like genuinely terrified of. This is
Speaker 1: a very effective Takashi Mike film, probably one of his
Speaker 1: most most seen obviously, but one that does not discuss
Speaker 1: in the uh in the pantheon of jayhor as a whole.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to get its due because it's not
Speaker 1: like quote unquote stereotypical like your Juwons and your Ringus.
Speaker 1: And it is a really really well made movie and
Speaker 1: also came out in ninety nine, it was never going
Speaker 1: to be able to stand out when it's literally discuss
Speaker 1: is one of the best years of film ever and
Speaker 1: it's most people are watching one hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 1: other masterpieces that year. It is so great, and if
Speaker 1: you can get through some of the extreme stuff, it
Speaker 1: is competing with your Irreversibles and your other films like
Speaker 1: that that are disgusting and terrifying and crazy that absolutely
Speaker 1: your masterpiece is just like Martyrs, like we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: It's deeply philosophical, deeply psychological. It's a damaging movie. It
Speaker 1: is a movie that you will probably think about for
Speaker 1: two or three days after watching. At the very least,
Speaker 1: tell me how you feel about Audition.
Speaker 2: What's so fascinating about the film is that it doesn't
Speaker 2: set itself up as what it ends up being, right,
Speaker 2: and like you start the film like, this is why
Speaker 2: I think it works so well, and this is why,
Speaker 2: honestly the bulk of the art that goes along with
Speaker 2: it really kind of pisses me off because it kind
Speaker 2: of you give so much of it away and you
Speaker 2: don't need to do that. It sets up a film
Speaker 2: that feels like it starts kind of as a drama
Speaker 2: and then it shifts. Okay, I think we're going to
Speaker 2: go into kind of erotic thriller territory as we get
Speaker 2: to that point where they're at the resort and he
Speaker 2: wakes up and she's gone right, and it's like it
Speaker 2: so you feel like, Okay, now we're going to get
Speaker 2: into like the the basic instinct erotic thriller thing that
Speaker 2: where the rest of the story is going to go.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't. And I think that was such an
Speaker 2: interesting way to kind of like shift the story into
Speaker 2: such a dark, dark way. But because I mean the
Speaker 2: whole first half of the film we're looking at like
Speaker 2: the destruction, like how destructive may be in relationships and
Speaker 2: the power that they wheeled over women, right, Like that's
Speaker 2: really what so much is going on in the story,
Speaker 2: and it's disgusting how these men like set up let's
Speaker 2: do an audition and find you a new wife. I
Speaker 2: get's like a horror viley. These people are the worst.
Speaker 2: You kind of like want what happens to happen later. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but then it gets into like everything else and I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's just like it's kind of the result
Speaker 2: of the way that they behave and I don't know,
Speaker 2: I found it to be a really effective build for me,
Speaker 2: and man, it's it is a film that I will
Speaker 2: not forget, particularly her lovely lilting voice. Yeah, which is deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper.
Speaker 2: It's like, man, oh.
Speaker 1: I need to rewatch Audition. It's been some time. This
Speaker 1: movie sticks with you, like I understand. You know, people
Speaker 1: are earlier were saying that only watch Martyrs once. This
Speaker 1: is one of those movies for a lot of people. God,
Speaker 1: I love this movie and I think, if I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's something about k horror that has always been just
Speaker 1: top of the list for me. But if not, like
Speaker 1: this movie would be competing up there because it is
Speaker 1: so great. I love this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an easy one.
Speaker 1: What are some other ones that you considered talking about tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, Suicide Club was one that was on my list
Speaker 2: of things to talk about. I mean, and you mentioned
Speaker 2: like we were trying to avoid all the big ones
Speaker 2: like all the jew on the Curse and and Ringu
Speaker 2: and all of those, but I had in the in
Speaker 2: the realm of Shimizu's films. I wanted to watch the
Speaker 2: whole trilogy before we had our conversation, but he he
Speaker 2: did a trilogy more recently that's based on like urban legends,
Speaker 2: and they're all urban legends around particular locations. And the
Speaker 2: first one's called Howling Village. That's the only one I
Speaker 2: managed to watch. But it wasn't as good as I
Speaker 2: was hoping it was, but it was still really fascinating. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like an interesting trilogy of Shimizu films
Speaker 2: that you can check out. It's like the Curse. I
Speaker 2: don't can remember. It's like the Cursed Village trilogy something
Speaker 2: like that, But Howling Village was an interesting one I
Speaker 2: was debating about. There's another another Maria Sato film called
Speaker 2: Under Your Bed, which is a dark film about. It's
Speaker 2: a weird film because it's about it's a really it's
Speaker 2: about abuse and a woman who's stuck in a very
Speaker 2: very physically abusive, mental abusive relationship and a man who
Speaker 2: loves her from the outside and realizes what's happening. But
Speaker 2: it's in the weirdest way possible because he's stalking her
Speaker 2: and his cameras in her house and everything, but he
Speaker 2: loves her. It's a weird one. It's a very weird one,
Speaker 2: but it's an interesting one for sure. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: there's there's a wide variety of things to choose from.
Speaker 1: What about You the only two that we haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: at all. I had a couple of those ones as well.
Speaker 1: The movie Versus, which is not really a horror movie,
Speaker 1: but it definitely has scenes that are very rooted in horror.
Speaker 1: It's a weird kind of amalgamation film. It's from two thousand,
Speaker 1: directed by ryu Hey Kidamura, and the story behind how
Speaker 1: they had to make this movie will explain to you
Speaker 1: why the movie ends up the way it does, because
Speaker 1: essentially they would film some and then they had to
Speaker 1: go like earn money to film the next day, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they didn't and so they had to go do
Speaker 1: things for like three months and then finally get stuff
Speaker 1: together to be able to film those next couple of scenes.
Speaker 1: There was one time they were filming on the mountain
Speaker 1: and essentially got kicked out of that area and had
Speaker 1: to go find a similar looking place on another mountain
Speaker 1: to keep filming, And it ends up being like this
Speaker 1: weird mashup of like five different genres. There's like some
Speaker 1: martial arts aspects, there's some action epic type of scenes
Speaker 1: I really really enjoy versus it's pretty damn great. But
Speaker 1: the main one that I feel awful about not being
Speaker 1: able to include, and it's because it's got some of
Speaker 1: the best names in all of horror history, not just horror,
Speaker 1: but just Japanese cinema, and it's not one that has
Speaker 1: a really great HD release. So I'm gonna do my
Speaker 1: best to try to speak this into the ether now.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and four's Three Extremes anthology horror with some
Speaker 1: of the best names. Like I said, ever, fruit Chants,
Speaker 1: Kashi Mike, and Park Chan freakin' Wook. You've got dumplings
Speaker 1: in this, You've got cut, and you've got box. Three
Speaker 1: different stories that are piled together in a really unsettling
Speaker 1: anthology that will mess you up for it. Yeah, unsettling
Speaker 1: is probably not even strong enough.
Speaker 2: There's one story in particular that I had people walk
Speaker 2: out of the theater when I was when I saw
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is again it's because it's shorts. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to spoil any of them, but
Speaker 1: I would say anthology anthology horror is classically very hit
Speaker 1: or miss. Like most the time, if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of Western anthologies, you'll get a new one and you
Speaker 1: be like, man, there's seven stories. I hope two of
Speaker 1: them are at least enjoyable. Three extremes is all gas,
Speaker 1: no breaks this whole. I really like all three of these.
Speaker 1: I think they're made. I mean they're three incredible directors,
Speaker 1: so that they're made with like this panache that feels great.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's a hard anthology to watch because
Speaker 1: it's not not easy stories, but it's one that everybody
Speaker 1: should see. We do have a question, Sip says, where
Speaker 1: do you know where you can get an English version
Speaker 1: of Under Your Bed?
Speaker 2: That's a very frustrating one because it's on Plex. But
Speaker 2: the Plex version that's on there when you hit play
Speaker 2: is actually the Korean remake, so it's not it's not
Speaker 2: the Japanese one, even though it is. I don't know
Speaker 2: if there is an easy way. There's a I think
Speaker 2: there's a version of it on YouTube that has no
Speaker 2: subtitles at all. I happen to have a copy that
Speaker 2: I can't share, unfortunately, from my guest who sent it
Speaker 2: to me. So but I know, I take that back.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I think it was a different film that
Speaker 2: I can't share, but this one, I think is actually
Speaker 2: on daily Motion, which.
Speaker 1: That one great streaming service daily Books.
Speaker 2: You know what, if they carry it though it's you know,
Speaker 2: it can work. So yeah, I can. For some reason,
Speaker 2: I can't join the chat because it's not liking my
Speaker 2: YouTube account for some reason, so I will private chat
Speaker 2: it to you and then you can post it. But
Speaker 2: this is the daily Motion link, which as far as
Speaker 2: I know, is not something that's that I can't share.
Speaker 1: So all right, if anybody wants to watch this movie,
Speaker 1: there is the link to daily Motion the chat. I
Speaker 1: am saving the link on my end because I mean
Speaker 1: it sounds great, man, this conversation. I do not get
Speaker 1: to talk about Jay Horror enough, So I think you
Speaker 1: picked a really great topic. Thanks for doing this, Andy.
Speaker 1: I know that you're not live shows, and coming on
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours is a big ask.
Speaker 2: Well, considering my show runs three hours. It's not too bad.
Speaker 2: It's not too bad. But no, it's a blast. I
Speaker 2: mean geez, like all of the We've covered a wide
Speaker 2: array of things tonight and it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I hope people enjoyed this. Let me know. I want
Speaker 1: Andy back. Let me know that if you enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm going to ask Andy to come back hopefully.
Speaker 1: Says yes, Well, we'll I have to think of something
Speaker 1: specific like this again.
Speaker 2: This was a damn good time. Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1: CinemaScope links for all that. True Motion F.
Speaker 2: Three and a half hours, folks, three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: True Story FM not True Motion. I was reading Daily
Speaker 1: Motion at the same time. A True Story FM link
Speaker 1: in the description below. Please go subscribe to that thing
Speaker 1: that I can't say out loud properly. Lots of great episode.
Speaker 1: CinemaScope is my favorite, but you've got other shows that
Speaker 1: you can find that you're involved in and that you
Speaker 1: help produce. Great stuff. Andy, fantastic you've been incredible guests.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much for inviting me. I
Speaker 2: really had a blast.
Speaker 1: Well Andy wants to go to bed, I'm sure, so
Speaker 1: thanks everybody for hanging out. It's been a long show.
Speaker 1: Next Thursday, like I said, Severn sales, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: be up checking out the sale, talking about titles, giving
Speaker 1: recommendations our guest next week. The list we're going through
Speaker 1: is just recommendations for the Severn sale because he and
Speaker 1: I have been with Severn for a long time, so
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about. Yeah, thanks Andy,
Speaker 1: you're amazing.
Speaker 2: Likewise, buddy, we'll see all next Thursday.
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