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Speaker 2: and welcome to another live Thursday night on Reconnected. This
Speaker 2: week with somebody that I've had the wonderful pleasure meeting
Speaker 2: in person, mister Connor.
Speaker 4: Hold Hi Connor, Hi Ryan. Thank you so much for
Speaker 4: having me. I'm thrilled the beer and hello to everyone
Speaker 4: watching listening.
Speaker 2: Love the background, love the shelves. How how's everything been lately? Oh? Dinner? Right?
Speaker 4: I just got back from a trip home to Minnesota.
Speaker 4: That was fun, high school friend's wedding. Yeah, and you
Speaker 4: know back in LA and what he was prizingly warm Minnesota.
Speaker 4: It was very disappointed. I was ready for sweater weather,
Speaker 4: but it was actually kind of a heat wave. And
Speaker 4: it's still pretty warm here in a lake because it's
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, so not with the October in my mind,
Speaker 4: but I know it is, but doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 4: So maybe my name event November?
Speaker 2: Who knows you've been doing kind of a lot of
Speaker 2: traveling over the last months. Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was over in Ireland for a wedding too.
Speaker 4: I have family in Ireland, so I was there for
Speaker 4: a cousin's wedding. Yeah, it was a great time. Hadn't
Speaker 4: been there in many years. And then yeah, my biggest,
Speaker 4: you know, for me, biggest trip of the year was
Speaker 4: I went over to Pennsylvania for the ninth annual VHS
Speaker 4: Fest at the Manhoneyan Drive in Theater. My first time
Speaker 4: ever going to that, So that was pretty awesome. That's
Speaker 4: been a pretty a bit of a fan of VHS.
Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say for anybody that
Speaker 2: doesn't know or doesn't see, as you can see from
Speaker 2: the name on the screen, VHS Spectacular is what his
Speaker 2: name is across social media. So why the VHS love.
Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody asked that in twenty twenty five, but
Speaker 2: I think it's important, especially on the night when we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about a studio VHS release as part
Speaker 2: of the announcement. That's kind of weird, You're right.
Speaker 4: I think that's just indicative of how VHS is coming back. Baby,
Speaker 4: As you know, as a as a nineties kid, I
Speaker 4: grew up with a VHS. I have a lot of
Speaker 4: memories of popping in those tapes, renting them from a
Speaker 4: Hollywood Video or Blockbuster, whatever you chose, and and.
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of nostalgia for me.
Speaker 2: But then.
Speaker 4: Definitely it was around like twenty eighteen, I started like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, I really like VHS. I think it's it's
Speaker 4: kind of a it's fun to collect the look of it,
Speaker 4: the feel of it nostalgia, but also realizing there were
Speaker 4: a lot of films that weren't available on DVD or
Speaker 4: Blu Ray, so I wanted to collect those or different versions,
Speaker 4: like you know, edited versions or unreleased versions. So I
Speaker 4: started collecting those, and then over during COVID there was
Speaker 4: a big explosion of people creating Beature's accounts, sharing, swapping tapes, selling, buying,
Speaker 4: and then once things open up again here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: we had two stores open up right afterwards. We had
Speaker 4: be Kind Video and Whammy, both places that sell VHS
Speaker 4: tapes like in a real location. And there's been so
Speaker 4: many VHS swaps now here in Los Angeles because I
Speaker 4: started seeing them like in like Austin or Seattle. Hey,
Speaker 4: we got to this a last angers and now in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles has so many of them, like every week,
Speaker 4: every weekend is a VH swap and names. So there's that,
Speaker 4: and now we're seeing studios put out these social anniversary vhs. Actually,
Speaker 4: you know, right here, I saw the TV Glowe VHS tape.
Speaker 4: Look at that baby, like, and this one feels right
Speaker 4: to me because a it's a film that wasn't a
Speaker 4: v HS but it obviously should be based on the movie.
Speaker 4: It is like what's in the movie and the topic
Speaker 4: because it's exploring, it makes sense on VHS. So I'm
Speaker 4: so happy that exists. I also want don't want to
Speaker 4: open it. It's too precious. But I think that's what.
Speaker 4: You know, we've seen the vinyl grow and grow every year.
Speaker 4: Some musicians put out their albums on cassette tapes now
Speaker 4: as well. So I think now now we're seeing these
Speaker 4: new VHS tapes. We're seeing this like, hey, you know
Speaker 4: people will pay for an eschallenge.
Speaker 2: Is that but tonight that was on VHS that you know,
Speaker 2: American Psycho is something that was previously on VHS and
Speaker 2: so to get it again.
Speaker 4: I know it And that was funny because like it
Speaker 4: was at leased on VHS or yeah, so like now
Speaker 4: it's a new VHS, like, so is it better than
Speaker 4: my old VH whatever?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's new, but you can you can guarantee
Speaker 2: no mold.
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4: I remember, hopefully years on the on the Pulp Fiction
Speaker 4: DVD or one of his interviews turn to talking about
Speaker 4: how like he wasn't a fan of you know, VHS
Speaker 4: because of pan and scans, but I personally approved it.
Speaker 4: So I have personally done all the panning scanning myself,
Speaker 4: so it's a good VHS.
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
Speaker 4: I approve all the panny and scanning that happens in
Speaker 4: the film. All right, well he checked it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh so. Yeah, I mean lots of VHS love
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years from from multiple companies.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got places like lunch Meat that's still
Speaker 2: doing special editions multiple times a year. You've got Terror
Speaker 2: Vision doing stuff on VHS. You've got A twenty four
Speaker 2: has done a few. Now I think it's.
Speaker 3: Not just yeahvid a Climax as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the other ones. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean more and more of these are doing well.
Speaker 2: I mean even like Scarecrow Video you can still rent vhs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, scro shout out to Scarecrow. What an incredible video store. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the fact that they have vhs so many available to rent,
Speaker 4: like you have to like put.
Speaker 3: Out a deposit, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Scercow does allow you to rent DVDs for the mail,
Speaker 4: which is awesome. I've done that, but yeah, you can't
Speaker 4: rent the vhs through mail. They're protective, which is good.
Speaker 4: But here in La I volunteer with the Vidiots, which
Speaker 4: is a major video store and it has a cinema
Speaker 4: as well, but they have a huge collection of hs
Speaker 4: as well, so they are I'm helping volunteer with them
Speaker 4: to catalog and eventually digitize all of their rare VHS tapes.
Speaker 4: So hopefully in a few years maybe we'll be able
Speaker 4: to rent those as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would be would be swell.
Speaker 3: There's so many that just we can't.
Speaker 4: You know, we'll talk about one tonight that I didn't
Speaker 4: think would get a Blu ray and it's be announced tonight,
Speaker 4: so we'll talk about that. But like, yeah, just like
Speaker 4: you don't know. Sometimes you you may wait years and
Speaker 4: it still isn't available on disc.
Speaker 2: That's true. You also, I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 2: much you want to reveal. You work some in the industry,
Speaker 2: can you show, yeah what you do?
Speaker 4: I work in post production, mostly in reality TV. So yeah,
Speaker 4: Like I moved out here to Los Angeles after college.
Speaker 4: Uh so I'm happy to working in the industry doing
Speaker 4: something creative.
Speaker 3: But I love that.
Speaker 4: I also have hobbies like my Instagram account and and
Speaker 4: I do a lot of VHS swaps here and I
Speaker 4: just love I love it.
Speaker 3: Like, there's some things to do in LA. I can
Speaker 3: volunteer at a cinema.
Speaker 4: I can volunteer at Gardina Cinemai's a little family run
Speaker 4: independent cinema. I can check out Beyond Fest or uh
Speaker 4: Sinecon Classic Film Festival.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wrote about uh Silent Silent and classic films that
Speaker 3: aren't available on disc either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the next thing I was gonna
Speaker 2: bring up. I've also written gosh, and now it's been
Speaker 2: the vast majority of the r physical media Advocate. You've
Speaker 2: been incredible, which has led to us meeting in person.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what what what are what are some of
Speaker 2: the better stories that uh, you know have have gone
Speaker 2: on for writing for that because I know Cinnecon was
Speaker 2: a big deal. Alex Ross Perry was a big deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was really great that I trust.
Speaker 4: Perry did the documentary Video Heaven this year, which if
Speaker 4: you're a video store guy like me, it's just catnap.
Speaker 4: It was just that was your catenamp. It was amazing
Speaker 4: to watch and gain to talk to him about the movie,
Speaker 4: and he was great because he's just like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: open to anyone who wants talk about it. I'll talk
Speaker 4: about it any any publication. I just want to vote
Speaker 4: this movie. It's it's I know that there's fans of
Speaker 4: video stores out there. I want to make sure they
Speaker 4: hear about it. So he was very nice to talk.
Speaker 3: To and I got to meet him.
Speaker 4: He was at I ran to a VHS fest and
Speaker 4: then I came to LA for a Q and A,
Speaker 4: so I said him twice then. Yeah, So like, it
Speaker 4: was very cool to talk to him, and I gave
Speaker 4: him a physical copy of the magazine, so he was
Speaker 4: very appreciation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, speaking of that, you do a lot
Speaker 2: of events around LA and all that stuff too. What's
Speaker 2: been one of the more exciting ones for this year
Speaker 2: for you that are specifically in LA that people around
Speaker 2: the country. You really can't get to well.
Speaker 3: You know, like beyond fest just here in La. That
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 4: I went to a anniversary screening of the Ring with
Speaker 4: Gorovinski there to introduce it.
Speaker 3: Nice son.
Speaker 2: And La.
Speaker 4: So many things, uh, too many things, like there's the
Speaker 4: Bob Baker Marionette Theater, there's screenings at Whammy and b
Speaker 4: Kind Video, and there's VHS swaps. So many VHS vendors
Speaker 4: I work with and we do swaps all year round.
Speaker 3: I did a.
Speaker 4: Screening, I hosted a screening recently of El Mariachi on VHS.
Speaker 4: We projected it on a movie screen on VHS.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 4: It looks surprisingly good, like actually like that that tape
Speaker 4: holds up. It looks good like it was, you know,
Speaker 4: a low budget film, but it feels right almost on
Speaker 4: VHS because he made that film for the VHS market.
Speaker 2: So it's Rodriguez. I think most of his films kind
Speaker 2: of fit on VHS too, and now we're now we're
Speaker 2: getting some of them in four K. It's crazy, I.
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, that's the craziest thing.
Speaker 4: And definitely check out like that the The Mexico Trilogy
Speaker 4: box set from who Was It In the in England
Speaker 4: it was Arrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: My friend Carlos Aguilar wrote the essay for that box set.
Speaker 2: So okay, uh, well, not only vhs, you buy a
Speaker 2: lot of physical media and promote all of that. What
Speaker 2: what else have you been getting in lately?
Speaker 3: Oh? You know, Will I'm a big nineties guy.
Speaker 4: And then it's nostalgia, so I'm also, yeah, I collect
Speaker 4: a couple, you know, toys and figurines. I feel like
Speaker 4: I I feel like I I'm not saying my parents
Speaker 4: didn't buy me stuff as a kid, but I feel
Speaker 4: like I just there was a certain unspoken like, hey,
Speaker 4: you get Christmas, May Birthday, that's it, and now adult money.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go in a little haywire here with all Hey,
Speaker 4: I never bought all the Hook toys, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: kind I'm gonna collect all the Hook toys.
Speaker 3: I deserve those.
Speaker 4: I've got the I've got the Hook Happy Meal toys
Speaker 4: and everything else.
Speaker 3: I'm not everything getting there, getting there.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be upset if I were to pick up
Speaker 2: the Batman the animated series bat Cave again that I
Speaker 2: had as a kid. That cave is so perfect.
Speaker 3: That sounds fun.
Speaker 2: So what about some blu rays and stuff, anything you
Speaker 2: want to show people.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, here, I'll go through it some like things
Speaker 4: I've been picking up. So so a VHS fest here.
Speaker 4: I got Bebey's Kids on VHS. I know it's on
Speaker 4: blue right now. I'm very happy's the Blue r But
Speaker 4: this is pretty cool, like a nactual I just started
Speaker 4: as years ago. I think it's terrific, so much fun.
Speaker 4: Underrated film? Uh Alien from La Nice?
Speaker 3: What's his name?
Speaker 2: Peon?
Speaker 3: Definitely, you know Kookie film, a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Another one that I would say pretty much everything he's
Speaker 2: done fits on VHS.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And I have his film Radioactive Dreams, which is still
Speaker 4: trapped on VHS.
Speaker 3: Hopefully one day gets the Blue Room.
Speaker 4: Uh So, I was in Ireland and I picked up
Speaker 4: Adam and Paul, which is what's his name, Lenny Abramson
Speaker 4: who did Room. This is one of his first films,
Speaker 4: but it's not available in the US. No one released
Speaker 4: in the US. And also the fun thing is that
Speaker 4: it's tower records because Dublin still has a tower records.
Speaker 4: It's Dublin and Tokyo the only cities in the world
Speaker 4: that still have tower records. So glad I could support them.
Speaker 4: All right, what else we got here?
Speaker 2: Some Tower records in the twenty twenties.
Speaker 4: Exactly, all right, some of the recent pickups. Northern Lights.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of this movie. I'm so happy
Speaker 4: this is finally out. I actually talked to the directors
Speaker 4: like two or three years ago and I was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I can't I hope this someone get the Blue Rays
Speaker 4: some day, Like, well, we're working on working on it,
Speaker 4: and finally this year it finally happens. So I'm so thrilled.
Speaker 4: We'll love great Minnesota or Midwest film. Yeah, North Dakota classic,
Speaker 4: really beautiful film.
Speaker 2: Xana Do.
Speaker 3: I heard you guys talk about this like, oh I
Speaker 3: gotta get that love zan Do.
Speaker 4: What a what a film? So wild, so kooky. There
Speaker 4: was like a forty fifth anniversary here in Lap months
Speaker 4: ago where what's his name, what's his name? Michael Beck
Speaker 4: was there, had a screen I missed the screening, but
Speaker 4: I went to like the after party.
Speaker 3: People were hanging out. That was fun. Just super fans.
Speaker 3: We love this movie so much. Great La movie too,
Speaker 3: filmed all over the city.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Tragedy of Man from Deaf Crocodile got release.
Speaker 3: Got check us out because I love.
Speaker 4: Yankovik's other film, The Love Son of the White Mayor
Speaker 4: and Johnny Corn Cob so y I checked this out.
Speaker 4: I love Def Crocodile. I love what they do, beautiful releases.
Speaker 4: A gunbuster. It's an anime OVA series from this is.
Speaker 3: From Discotech Media.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so happy this exist because it's from what's
Speaker 4: his name Hideakiano before he did Evangelian, so one of
Speaker 4: his earlier works but very hard to find for a
Speaker 4: long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Disco Tech doing some great stuff lately.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I love Discothech, you know. I'm so happy
Speaker 4: we have Discotech for all the anime vintage stuff, and
Speaker 4: then we have Def Carcodile for all the non anime
Speaker 4: and the miles we have g kids there as well.
Speaker 4: Kind of between the three of them we get a
Speaker 4: lot of great animation.
Speaker 2: True what we got it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, from from Cinematograph, I've got Breathless.
Speaker 2: They were they.
Speaker 4: Did a pop up here in La in person, so
Speaker 4: it's great to pick this up. I need to watch
Speaker 4: this because I need I love La movies, so I
Speaker 4: need to watch this one because anything shot in La
Speaker 4: interests me. And then finally, I've got blood cults, uh
Speaker 4: from the Gossiper video. This one's crazy because it's not
Speaker 4: extreamy anywhere. So I haven't even seen this one yet.
Speaker 4: But I don't really do blind vis that often. I
Speaker 4: try to relimit it somethings, I you know, I love it, really,
Speaker 4: I try to keep more to that. But this one
Speaker 4: straight up isn't streaming, and it's the first shot on
Speaker 4: video horror film, so I was like, I need, I
Speaker 4: need to get this.
Speaker 3: I can watch it.
Speaker 2: So it's a piece of history exactly.
Speaker 4: So because this is you know, and as the joke goes,
Speaker 4: I love when these obscure horror films have hours and
Speaker 4: hours of special features, interviews, making os, and then you
Speaker 4: have like Best Picture winners that have a trailer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe the classic interactive menu as a special feature.
Speaker 4: Oh interactive menu.
Speaker 2: I've got that are pretty special. One that I've not
Speaker 2: seen many people talk about. And there's there's a couple
Speaker 2: of loud people complaining about these not being perfect. So
Speaker 2: I'm kind of curious to see how imperfect they are.
Speaker 2: But I personally, I don't think I've talked too much
Speaker 2: in depth about this. But I have five tattoos, two
Speaker 2: of them movie related. One is the Muppets, which I've
Speaker 2: said many times. The other one is I have a
Speaker 2: Peanuts tattoo. So here is the pe Nuts Ultimate TV
Speaker 2: Specialist Collection that just came out. For what this is,
Speaker 2: I feel like this was very fairly priced. It's like
Speaker 2: sixty five or seventy dollars and this is literally like
Speaker 2: all of the TV specials that they can release. I
Speaker 2: think there's still four or five that have not been
Speaker 2: released on I think they might be on DVD.
Speaker 3: Be the musical in there.
Speaker 2: I think it is okay, but thought that.
Speaker 3: Was the rarest one.
Speaker 4: I've seen that film on VHS, but I wasn't sure
Speaker 4: if it was available on DVD.
Speaker 2: Now it's mostly like licensing problems like the Snoopy at
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl one that they can't ever show. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there's like four do they have the number in here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: There are forty full specials in this, and I thought
Speaker 2: that's pretty incredible for like sixty buckscept bucks.
Speaker 4: Because you can buy like a Blu ray of just
Speaker 4: the Trybron Christmas for like twenty right, it's just on Christmas,
Speaker 4: and they charge you twenty for that, like if you
Speaker 4: just want to get them all sixty.
Speaker 3: That seems like a pretty good deal.
Speaker 2: It's a decent deal. Yeah, just got this in so
Speaker 2: I haven't checked it out yet, but BFI's Short Sharp
Speaker 2: Shocks Vol. Four. I have enjoyed all of the ones
Speaker 2: that they've done for these. There's always been at least
Speaker 2: half of them that I've never even heard of, let
Speaker 2: alone seen, and they are they're genuinely like short not
Speaker 2: they call them shocks. I won't say they're all horror,
Speaker 2: but they're all like cult or cult adjacent at least
Speaker 2: or genre adjacent. So yeah, eager to get into this one.
Speaker 2: They I hope they just keep going with these. This
Speaker 2: line is really really cool another classic animation, since I
Speaker 2: knew that you and I would both be championing that
Speaker 2: a little bit. But Warner Archive, I feel like, has
Speaker 2: had a killer year and a half the Frankenstein, Juter
Speaker 2: and The Impossibles. This was just recently on sale. I
Speaker 2: couldn't say no, Like it's been on the wish list
Speaker 2: for the longest time, and I mean for a two
Speaker 2: disc really great release, it was way too cheap. And
Speaker 2: then you also share deaf Crocodile. I just got in
Speaker 2: serious and for anybody that has not seen, not only
Speaker 2: like the film because most people have not yet, but
Speaker 2: just the art on this is like I don't normally
Speaker 2: harp too much on the physical package, but Deaf Crocodile
Speaker 2: does literally like one of the top two or three
Speaker 2: companies in the game for the art that they do.
Speaker 2: And speaking of that, new pre orders are tomorrow morning
Speaker 2: at nine am Pacific for their next release. It is
Speaker 2: a trilogy of films with art. My friend of the channel,
Speaker 2: mister Sam's myth that did the art for his first
Speaker 2: release for Deaf Crocodile, and it is pretty incredible and
Speaker 2: I really hope people check it out, although it is
Speaker 2: very different from every Deaf Crocodile release so far for
Speaker 2: their art, and I think some people are gonna be
Speaker 2: like kind of taken aback by it. But you got
Speaker 2: to take a moment and look at the picture because
Speaker 2: there's there's like a message in the message and it's
Speaker 2: it's really wonderfully done.
Speaker 3: Nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: What you've been watching the last few weeks, Well.
Speaker 4: I just saw the new Kiss the Spider Woman the news. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it. I think uh and Diego Luna
Speaker 4: are phenomenal together. Yeah, they're really fantastic. I really enjoyed
Speaker 4: the musical numbers with Jennifer Lopez. I haven't seen the
Speaker 4: original actually, so now I'm curious to go back and
Speaker 4: watch that to see how it compares.
Speaker 3: But I thought it was really, really good. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: just hopefully people check it out.
Speaker 4: I know it's kind of you know, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a busy time in the box office, but hopefully people
Speaker 4: will go see it.
Speaker 3: I think it's worth checking out.
Speaker 2: It. Uh. It surprised me. I had never seen the original.
Speaker 2: I went into this, uh, knowing very little about the
Speaker 2: film itself. But yeah, the the two leads and not
Speaker 2: I know, Diego Luna, because he's like very well known,
Speaker 2: is probably gonna get a little bit more of the
Speaker 2: spotlight between the two of them. But man, they they
Speaker 2: both are just hundred percent on fire in this field.
Speaker 2: Really well acted, really vulnerable roles. I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 2: did not go into the movie expecting them to have
Speaker 2: a multiple minutes long conversation about diarrhea and uh he's prison.
Speaker 4: Man is gives hunger. The course the film about Belfast,
Speaker 4: like the painting, the swirls on the walls with feces, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, prisons Prison's rough Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a good movie. It's quite in
Speaker 2: your face queer, which I really enjoyed about it. It
Speaker 2: did not hold anything back. Nice to see. I I
Speaker 2: liked it quite a bit. Anything else from you?
Speaker 4: What is it? One battle out for another really good
Speaker 4: DiCaprio killing it as usual. He's he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: he's he's always good. He's he's he's one of our paths. Really,
Speaker 4: but also Sean Pan, Tiana Taylor del Toro, just phenomenal performances,
Speaker 4: and that at that ending, that final chase.
Speaker 3: Scene one of the best scenes of the area.
Speaker 2: Growing up in the high desert in southern California.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ye, that last like twenty minutes of that movie was
Speaker 2: so like, I feel like I'm back home because so
Speaker 2: many of those like as a kid that you see
Speaker 2: the road go up and down like that and you're
Speaker 2: just stuck in it. Oh my gosh. It was so
Speaker 2: perfectly shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I saw I was looking up here in
Speaker 4: a leg. I got to see it on VistaVision at
Speaker 4: the at the Vista Theater here Tarantino owned theater, and
Speaker 4: that was really, really, really great and just like it's
Speaker 4: been sold out, like almost every day, every showing sold out.
Speaker 3: It was like two weeks.
Speaker 2: So you're in La, I have to go see its. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had to see it at ten am on my Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The night crew from the night before were still working.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 4: I just saw what's his name, Dennis min Yeah the
Speaker 4: or was it about the River Bend screen?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want to go to that.
Speaker 4: I wish I could have gone to that because I
Speaker 4: think I have River been on VHS somewhere because.
Speaker 3: I picked it up one time.
Speaker 2: No way, that's once again.
Speaker 4: That was a film that was on VHS for decades
Speaker 4: and now it's coming out on on on Blu Ray.
Speaker 3: I think, so, hey, you never know, you know, things
Speaker 3: will happen.
Speaker 2: Coming out on Blu ray. After a six K restoration, like,
Speaker 2: that's amazing, amazing for a Sam Furst and Berg film.
Speaker 3: I won't even know what six K that is.
Speaker 4: That does a six K play in the sphere in Vegas? Like,
Speaker 4: what is the point of a six K?
Speaker 2: There was it Wizard of Us? Something played the Spear
Speaker 2: but something recently got a twelve K restoration. I don't
Speaker 2: remember which one it was.
Speaker 3: When will they learn how many ks do you need?
Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff that's awesome that you got riverbend on
Speaker 2: VHS this last week.
Speaker 3: Mountain the vhs that I can't.
Speaker 2: This last week. And I also saw a Good Boy, uh,
Speaker 2: the dog focused horror movie. I don't say much about it.
Speaker 2: It's it didn't dazzle me or anything, although the dog
Speaker 2: is incredible. But I think it's really interesting that we
Speaker 2: get a Good Boy in Presence from Soderberg in the
Speaker 2: same year because they're both like haunted house movies perspective
Speaker 2: of something else.
Speaker 4: Well, it's like, what's it called? I just watched on
Speaker 4: the plane. I watched Drop, the thriller about the woman
Speaker 4: who gets thing like Mesaine phone you don't tell anyone,
Speaker 4: you know, follow my rules or your kid dies, which
Speaker 4: is like, huh. I just saw carry On last year,
Speaker 4: which is about a uh TS agent's like starts gating
Speaker 4: messages like, you know, follow my rules or your wife dies.
Speaker 4: Like is this the thing, like the the uh mysterious
Speaker 4: stranger in your ear telling you to do kill someone
Speaker 4: or you or you die?
Speaker 3: Like is this a trend?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: That's the next one gonna be like on your Apple Watch?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I liked you know, I like, you know that one's
Speaker 4: an airport, this one's a restaurant. It's like I heard
Speaker 4: a joke one time. You know, they had stakes in
Speaker 4: a plane, you know, you know thrillerund tight space. Nexty're
Speaker 4: gonna have a bear on a ski lift even smaller space.
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, Adam Green's Frozen came out
Speaker 2: in twenty ten, and then, truly, you're right, we didn't
Speaker 2: as close as you can get to.
Speaker 3: The There wasn't a bear, though they should have had
Speaker 3: a bear.
Speaker 2: There was wolves, just not well.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, well I didn't see it. There we go
Speaker 3: watched it.
Speaker 2: I also got lucky enough see Black Phone two a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago. In an early screening. I liked
Speaker 2: this quite a bit more than the first one. Not
Speaker 2: that I hated the first one, but this is a
Speaker 2: very big departure from the Black Phone. It is an odd,
Speaker 2: very different, like supernatural take on the continuation of the story.
Speaker 2: It's also one of those sequels that is also a
Speaker 2: sequel and prequel baked in one, because they not that
Speaker 2: they're like ret conning thing, but they're taking the lore
Speaker 2: and expanding it in a way that you have to
Speaker 2: know a little bit more about it, so they do
Speaker 2: that somewhat okay, but it's good. I think the acting
Speaker 2: is pretty pretty spot on throughout the whole thing. There's
Speaker 2: a couple of comedic moments that are quite funny, but
Speaker 2: I think it's scarier. I think the essential like Nightmare
Speaker 2: and Elm Street Rift that they go for in it
Speaker 2: is pretty pretty decent. For a film that seemed like
Speaker 2: there was no way to do a sequel, I thought
Speaker 2: they held their own pretty well.
Speaker 4: I saw Megan two on the Plane as well, which
Speaker 4: is also sequel. Not as much fun as the first one,
Speaker 4: but like all I appreciate like trying to expand. It
Speaker 4: just wasn't quite as good but still entertaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm eager to see Megan Tokyo Drift next.
Speaker 3: Meghan in space please.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's let's boot her out of here. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be honest. My My big surprise from this last
Speaker 2: weekend was roof Many Channing Tatum film. I was just
Speaker 2: completely taken with both chanting Tatum and Kirsten Dunst is
Speaker 2: incredible in the movie. She doesn't even have like a
Speaker 2: ton to do, but just being the actress that she
Speaker 2: is like the lines on her face in every scene
Speaker 2: are telling a story. She's a wonderfully responsive actor, and
Speaker 2: the story itself is compelling. I do think people that are,
Speaker 2: you know, checking this out because they love like mainstream
Speaker 2: Channing Tatum are probably gonna walk into a theater and
Speaker 2: be slightly disappointed because it They're gonna say it drags
Speaker 2: a little bit in the middle of it. But really,
Speaker 2: I felt like all it did was like it gave
Speaker 2: proper like not just explanation or exposition, but like you
Speaker 2: start to really empathize with all of the characters. And
Speaker 2: with a movie like this, that's kind of a rare thing.
Speaker 2: Usually it's like, let's just get to the next plot
Speaker 2: point and call it a day. But they actually give
Speaker 2: them room to breathe in this, and I gotta be honest,
Speaker 2: I was very surprised with how successful the entire thing was.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: I've been a Dunst fan my whole life, man, all
Speaker 4: the way back to any of the Vampire and Jumanji
Speaker 4: drop dead gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Man, here's a Dunce awesome actress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep her in that Dunst cap. That was a
Speaker 2: terrible trike. Any anything else that you want to shout out.
Speaker 4: Not much else really, yeah, yeah, you know support you
Speaker 4: know it's halloweens, so you know, support your repertory cinemas
Speaker 4: if you can. I thought a lot of cinemas are
Speaker 4: playing like here here your Screams and your Nymer album
Speaker 4: streets or your Halloween's, but you know, go support them.
Speaker 4: The repertory cinemas are a wonderful thing. And if you can,
Speaker 4: we got one near you. Go out and buy a
Speaker 4: big popcorn and have a good nime because we got
Speaker 4: to support these cinemas as well as our physical media,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: Of course, I uh, speaking of physical media, I just
Speaker 2: remembered because I must have forgotten to put it in letterbox.
Speaker 2: But we showed our kids child's play this week. It
Speaker 2: was uh, it was a good time. I put the
Speaker 2: four K of it, which I gotta say, that movie
Speaker 2: a lot grainier than I remember, a very grain heavy
Speaker 2: film scan on that one. Good movie. It's fun. It's
Speaker 2: nowhere near even like my top four of the whole
Speaker 2: franchise probably, but.
Speaker 4: I've only seen the first one actually, so yeah, what's
Speaker 4: the best sequel?
Speaker 2: I truly love Bride of Chucky. And even if you
Speaker 2: don't go that deep into like the comedy, because by
Speaker 2: by Bride of Chucky they're full in just camp mode.
Speaker 2: Child's Play two is very, very good. I think that's
Speaker 2: the best one by a long shot. I just think
Speaker 2: it was hilarious because we put in Child's Play and
Speaker 2: when I don't, it takes a minute to see the
Speaker 2: title screen, so my kid didn't know what it was
Speaker 2: at first, and then when we it might have been
Speaker 2: like the good guy doll Packaging finally shows up and
Speaker 2: he went, is this Chucky? And I said, yes, this
Speaker 2: is Child's Play? And he goes he put his hands
Speaker 2: like this and says, is it rated R? And I said,
Speaker 2: yes it is. He was my first rated R.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that a tough choice picking your first
Speaker 3: R rated film.
Speaker 2: For him, it kind of has been because first off,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of really great PG thirteens that set
Speaker 2: set the stage. And then this for a for a
Speaker 2: rated R film, this is really tame, like they they
Speaker 2: say fuck three times, and I think that's the only
Speaker 2: reason that it's rated R. But right, okay, and he's
Speaker 2: not even much gore.
Speaker 4: There's yeah, he's creepy, but he like he like he
Speaker 4: like just tries to strangle her or pull her hair,
Speaker 4: but like yeah, like it's not like gory. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: like because at the screening of The Ring, Rabinsky talked
Speaker 4: about like making The Ring as P thirteen ye, and
Speaker 4: how that was that was always intention because they wanted
Speaker 4: to be available for a wider audience. But like, that
Speaker 4: film is a pretty hard p to thirteen, And it
Speaker 4: was definitely like a lot of kids, that was probably
Speaker 4: their first like really scary horror film in theaters, Like, whoa,
Speaker 4: this is really scary for that I can go see
Speaker 4: you know. Uh, they pushed, they pushed as far as
Speaker 4: they could that be thirteen. But my first rate of
Speaker 4: film I think at home. Honestly, it might have been
Speaker 4: like Braveheart because my dad's a big like historical epic guy.
Speaker 4: So I might have been like Brave Heart maybe same
Speaker 4: probably Ryan or something like my dad loves war films
Speaker 4: like that, so or Danceing with is it Dance With
Speaker 4: Wolves are rated? I might have seen that probably yeah, probably,
Speaker 4: I thought.
Speaker 2: I think there's some nudity in that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I thought I thought that pretty young too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we love those kind of sweeping epics. And then my
Speaker 4: first R rated in theater I don't think was to
Speaker 4: grind House.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 2: That's a fun first rated R thunder. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what my first R in theater was. That's a
Speaker 2: good question. I technically I guess at home. My first
Speaker 2: R was also Child's Play. I just got together. But
Speaker 2: I was four years old and a babysitter showed me
Speaker 2: I should not have been watching it. Oh man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the first R that I will like remember
Speaker 2: was Halloween. I was eight years old. My parents showed
Speaker 2: me Halloween and it scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the night, I was like completely frozen,
Speaker 2: would not move, my limbs, couldn't do anything.
Speaker 4: I remember seeing never the ghost bumps, goosebumps, the haunted mask,
Speaker 4: the mask that will come off.
Speaker 3: I saw that as a kid. That freaked me out for.
Speaker 2: Days, unplanned. But I'm wearing a guy right now.
Speaker 3: Incredible episode, incredible stuff.
Speaker 2: I love me some goosebumps growing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was a goose. I didn't grow up
Speaker 4: with all you afraid of the dark. I didn't have that,
Speaker 4: but I had goosebumps.
Speaker 2: Nice. All right, We ready to talk about some Normally
Speaker 2: i'd say blue Rays, but VHS even tonight all the table,
Speaker 2: let's do it before I show the first title. I
Speaker 2: got a shout out. Most weeks after the show, I
Speaker 2: hang out for a while and I talked to my
Speaker 2: dear friend in the chat here, mister d Sibner, And
Speaker 2: last week we were talking and we said, when the
Speaker 2: hell is Second Site actually going to reveal Possession? And
Speaker 2: last Thursday night I said, watch, I have a feeling
Speaker 2: it's gonna be tomorrow morning. They're gonna announce it, and
Speaker 2: it's gonna come out on December fifteenth, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a wonderful four K box set with the original
Speaker 2: art so they don't piss people off. And all of
Speaker 2: that came true, except for I was off on the
Speaker 2: release date by one week. So our first title, Possession,
Speaker 2: coming on four K Blu Ray in the UK from
Speaker 2: Second Site on December eighth. We got a brand new,
Speaker 2: producer approved four K restoration with HDR and Dolby Vision.
Speaker 2: We got a dual format three disc edition with a
Speaker 2: four K and two Blu ray discs. If you go
Speaker 2: for their Deluxe you've got the North American edit and
Speaker 2: the uncut edit on here as well. There's a new
Speaker 2: audio commentary by Alexander Heller Nicholas and Alison Taylor. We've
Speaker 2: got some archival commentaries as well. We got a new
Speaker 2: r new commentary on the North American edit version from
Speaker 2: Daniel Byrd and Manuela Lazac. We've got Kat Ellinger speaking
Speaker 2: on Possession. We've got the US reception featurette on here
Speaker 2: interviewed with a composer, all kinds of archival extras. And then,
Speaker 2: of course big book two hundred and twenty page hardback
Speaker 2: book with new essays by Daniel Bird, Elena Lazik and
Speaker 2: Alison Taylor, plus some old writing on the film. And then,
Speaker 2: if that's not even enough, another book two hundred and
Speaker 2: eleven page original shooting script with notes by Schwefski himself
Speaker 2: and Frederick Tuten. Yeah, this is a hell of a release, Possession.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Possession.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it actually, but it's crazy. I've been
Speaker 4: told to watch it so many times. I see all
Speaker 4: the time, Oh I got it more Possession. I doinitely
Speaker 4: feel it's simply one of those like I feel in
Speaker 4: the last few years people are discovering it, like, oh,
Speaker 4: you gotta watch this, so I'm late to the party.
Speaker 3: But definitely. This is this is gorgeous.
Speaker 4: The fact that you know, it's it's always incredible to
Speaker 4: see what they're doing with physical media, how much they're
Speaker 4: giving you the script, you know, the box set.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just it's wild.
Speaker 4: And like it's I haven't seen that, but like it's
Speaker 4: like there are certain movies like if My fair movie
Speaker 4: got this box set, like, oh my god, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: So Stan is asking in the chat, how overpriced is
Speaker 2: it now for a four K and two Blu ray
Speaker 2: disc release with two giant books in a full box
Speaker 2: set with six art cards and all the second site
Speaker 2: extras and all that stuff. Yeah, US retailers are selling
Speaker 2: this for sixty five dollars. To me, that doesn't seem
Speaker 2: overpriced at all for this giant of a release. I
Speaker 2: will point out that a studio this week announced a
Speaker 2: VHS release of American Psycho and that was thirty dollars
Speaker 2: and that sold out. So yeah, this is uh to me,
Speaker 2: this seems very fairly for four hundred pages worth of
Speaker 2: books plus three discs in a box. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: that's a decent price.
Speaker 4: Like I said, like, if this is your favorite movie, Hey,
Speaker 4: my friend Joey's there. Hey, my friend Raizor Crank there.
Speaker 2: He wants you to watch Possession with him.
Speaker 4: We can watch it together, Joey, Because yeah, like I think,
Speaker 4: but if this is your favorite movie and you're obsessed
Speaker 4: with you known more about it, then this is what
Speaker 4: you want to get. This is what you want. I
Speaker 4: get it, Eric Vincent, I understand. Like I just bought
Speaker 4: the internationally. Yeah, that's happened. We'll talk about one of
Speaker 4: the one of these films tonight. Like I was, I
Speaker 4: was almost gonna buy it. I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna wait,
Speaker 4: and then yes, a US relief came, Like, ah good,
Speaker 4: I don't have to buy the for and pay the shipping. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but you're right, that's always the should I wait, should
Speaker 4: I get now?
Speaker 3: You don't know, it's.
Speaker 2: Tough, especially when you start talking about territories and Possession
Speaker 2: will likely eventually also get a US release. But I mean,
Speaker 2: at this point, sixty five bucks is not that bad
Speaker 2: for what you're getting for this, for sure. But if
Speaker 2: that's not enough, you could also on the same day
Speaker 2: get a wonderful four K box set of Reanimator from
Speaker 2: Second Site. Now this one's interesting because we do have
Speaker 2: a US release of this that probably less people than
Speaker 2: normal gots because the US release of this is roughly
Speaker 2: about eighty five dollars US and this thing, which has
Speaker 2: almost the same amount of features, there's a few less,
Speaker 2: but you know it's the same scan all that stuff.
Speaker 2: This will only fifty bucks. And that's importing it from
Speaker 2: another country. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, fun.
Speaker 4: After that turns forty years old this week, I think
Speaker 4: that's yeah, yeah, that's a fun movie. I haven't seen
Speaker 4: the sequel, but man Reanner is a good time. It's
Speaker 4: a wacky, wacky fun movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love this movie. Love me everybody associated with
Speaker 2: the Silly franchise. I mean, it's it's hard to turn down.
Speaker 2: Barbara Crampton and Jeffick Coombs and Stuart Court like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is amazing. Check out Reanimator. I will say the
Speaker 2: four K looks amazing. This will make anybody happy that
Speaker 2: has either never seen it or maybe you're upgrading all
Speaker 2: the way from VHS or DVD. It's huge. If you
Speaker 2: already got the Blu Ray, the Aero Blu Ray, it's
Speaker 2: it is a step up, but don't feel like you
Speaker 2: have to get it that Aero Blu Ray was absolutely
Speaker 2: incredible when it came out, for sure. Yeah all right,
Speaker 2: so that was second site and now it's time to
Speaker 2: get into Terror Vision putting out their Shoe String Slashers
Speaker 2: Volume two box set. This is coming in first quarter
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six. You can pre order this now
Speaker 2: as part of their thirteen Weeks of Halloween. Use the
Speaker 2: code combine all capitals if you want to save on shipping.
Speaker 2: You've already got something in the films in this We've
Speaker 2: got blood Symbol. This one is on the next page,
Speaker 2: so I don't know the year nineteen ninety two. The
Speaker 2: next one in the box set is Night of the Dribbler.
Speaker 2: I shall be cut on the it's such a silly cover.
Speaker 2: It is such a fun cover, Night of the Dribbler.
Speaker 2: I am lost. This one is nineteen ninety and then
Speaker 2: the third and final one in here is Blood Spell,
Speaker 2: and that is nineteen eighty eight. I believe at least
Speaker 2: two of these were shot on video this time. It
Speaker 2: might even be all three. But these are pretty damn fun.
Speaker 2: I won't say that they're all incredible movies, but they're
Speaker 2: definitely fun. And if you like obscure Slashers. It really
Speaker 2: doesn't get more obscure than what they've done in their
Speaker 2: Shoestring Slashers box sets. So far, I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: be happy. Plus all of them lots of extras. We've
Speaker 2: got people that are involved in the films. Alexander Heller,
Speaker 2: Nicholas is doing visual essays. There is a lot to
Speaker 2: get into here, new commentaries, new interviews. Every single film
Speaker 2: gets a bunch of new extras. Have you seen any
Speaker 2: of these three? No?
Speaker 3: I haven't sad any of these, but know so.
Speaker 4: Once again, I'm happy that we're at a point where
Speaker 4: even the most obscure films are getting proper releases. That's
Speaker 4: very exciting. I think that's that's a good thing for everyone.
Speaker 4: But man, yeah, I have never heard any of these.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is That is the way to do it,
Speaker 2: especially when you're calling it shoe string. Then we got
Speaker 2: a whole bunch, Like Warner Archive has stepped up their output.
Speaker 2: For a long time, we were happy getting maybe three
Speaker 2: releases in a month, and now they're like, screw it,
Speaker 2: We're releasing everything. So we've got a big month. All
Speaker 2: of these coming on November eighteenth on Blu Ray in
Speaker 2: the us from Warner Archive. First one, We've got the
Speaker 2: Marx Brothers at the Circus from nineteen thirty nine. This
Speaker 2: has the Our Gang comedy short Dog Days on it,
Speaker 2: the MGM cartoon Jitterbug Follies. We've got the Leo Is
Speaker 2: on the Air radio promo, which is an ODDI only thing,
Speaker 2: and then a theatrical trailer on here Marx Brothers. Seen
Speaker 2: much from them.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen this one, but I love duck Soup.
Speaker 3: That's a classic. Yeah, I've seen duck Soup and I've
Speaker 3: seen is it? Uh, Marx Brothers. Is it the Opera?
Speaker 3: Is it? That's the one? The other one? I forget
Speaker 3: the one? That one.
Speaker 4: Duck Soup definitely great. But I definitely should see more
Speaker 4: Marx Brothers. It's one of those like I keep saying
Speaker 4: I should just like a couple of things. There's like
Speaker 4: I should just watch all Mark Blows, I should watch
Speaker 4: I never seen any w. C.
Speaker 3: Fiel. I should watch all of w. C. Field.
Speaker 4: You know, I've seen, like, I love Chaplain, so I've
Speaker 4: seen basically every Chaplain film. But it's definitely Night of
Speaker 4: the Opera, Thank you. There's definitely some like.
Speaker 3: Uh like thin the Thin Man, series.
Speaker 4: I've seen none of those. There's like five six of
Speaker 4: those movies. I just watched those sometimes.
Speaker 2: That's a good series. Yeah, so that's the Marx Brothers.
Speaker 2: Next is The Iron Mistress. This is from nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: two with Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo. This one as
Speaker 2: the WB cartoons Cracked Quack and Hair Lift, and then
Speaker 2: the trailers on there as well four K scan of
Speaker 2: the original Technicolor camera negatives on this one. This is
Speaker 2: bound to look gorgeous. More Archive just does incredible work
Speaker 2: on their restorations. I had somebody comment on this one,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it was somebody here. It might
Speaker 2: have been Jim Tutor's Jim, if you're watching, Hi, I
Speaker 2: think you said, I'll take an Alan Ladd please hold
Speaker 2: the Mayo and I laughed quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Next up, speaking of The Thin Man, We've got
Speaker 2: the two stars of The Thin Man, William Powell and
Speaker 2: Myrna Loy in I Love You Again. This is from
Speaker 2: nineteen forty. This one's gonna have the lux Radio Theater
Speaker 2: broadcast with Myrna Loy and Carrie Grant and then Fitzpatrick TRAVELTOK.
Speaker 2: Short subject Cavalcade of San Francisco, plus an MGM cartoon,
Speaker 2: The Milky Way, and a trailer once again four K
Speaker 2: scan of the preservation elements. I've never seen this one,
Speaker 2: but Pall and Lawyer are great together, so I'm sure
Speaker 2: this is incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, definitely sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: Moving to our next one, We've got It's Love I'm
Speaker 2: After with Leslie Howard, Betty Davis, and Olivia de Havlind
Speaker 2: someone is from nineteen thirty seven. We had a classic
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers cartoons, Porky's Building and Porky's Bad Time Story
Speaker 2: and a trailer. I know nothing about this. I know
Speaker 2: a couple of the actresses, and that is it.
Speaker 4: I'm always I got them curious. How do they pick
Speaker 4: which cartoons go with which release? I'm wondering do they
Speaker 4: thematically linked? Is it just whatever was next on the availability?
Speaker 4: But I wonder if it was, how much decision making
Speaker 4: goes into picking the cartoon.
Speaker 2: If George Feldstein ever answers my emails, that will be
Speaker 2: one of the questions I've asked because I've always wanted
Speaker 2: to know, like, yeah, I mean, it could be, it
Speaker 2: could be chronological. I guess, like, do they come out
Speaker 2: the same year as The Face.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure that could be it. Yeah, I'd love to know.
Speaker 2: God, I'd love to know. All right, that's that one.
Speaker 2: Next up is The Miracle from nineteen fifty nine. This
Speaker 2: has a cartoon Bonanza Bunny and Harrabian Nights on here
Speaker 2: also as a trailer. And then again, like we talked
Speaker 2: about with the riverbend, six K scans the original Technicolor
Speaker 2: camera negatives. Yeah, like wo e, It's gonna be beautiful,
Speaker 2: no doubt, just amazing. Next up is Silver River with
Speaker 2: Errol flynnring we talked about him and just for minute
Speaker 2: again November eighteenth. For this one, again, this is from
Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight. We got the classic Warner Brothers cartoons
Speaker 2: Rabbit Punch and Two Gophers from Texas, plus the trailer
Speaker 2: on here. And this one is a four K scan
Speaker 2: of the original nitrate negatives. And then The Bride Came
Speaker 2: cod from nineteen forty one with James Cagney and Betty Davis.
Speaker 2: I have always heard that this one is great, have
Speaker 2: not had a chance to see it. This one has
Speaker 2: quite a lot of extras. For Warner Archive, We've got
Speaker 2: Warner Night at the Movies nineteen forty one, a short
Speaker 2: subject gallery, vintage newsreel, musical shorts, Carnival of Rhythm, and
Speaker 2: the Oscar nominated forty Boys in a Song. We've got
Speaker 2: classic Warner Brothers cartoons, Porky's Pooch Rhapsody and Rivets and
Speaker 2: Saddie Silly. We all are sorry, Saddle Silly. We've also
Speaker 2: got the theatrical trailer for Honeymoon for three, plus a
Speaker 2: bonus cartoon, The Bird Came Cod, then a Lux Radio
Speaker 2: theater broadcast of The Bride Game Cood with Bob Hope
Speaker 2: and Hetty Lamar, plus the trailer. And yes, this is
Speaker 2: a four K scam, Like that is a lot for
Speaker 2: a Warner Archive disc and this is gonna go on
Speaker 2: sale for like thirteen bucks. How do you argue with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, And what's called?
Speaker 4: Like, I think a lot of these films, I wonder
Speaker 4: I'm you know, Snecon called the film Mustval I one
Speaker 4: of the one of a lot of these played there
Speaker 4: maybe over the years, and now they're finally coming to
Speaker 4: Blue rays.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure with someone out there is like, oh, finally,
Speaker 3: I've been waiting for this film for years.
Speaker 2: So I just wish there was a way to order
Speaker 2: this cod as well, So that is that for Warner Archive.
Speaker 2: Next up, we've got interesting rollout for how Severn is
Speaker 2: doing this. We had it revealed that on December eighth
Speaker 2: they are releasing a four K of The Wild Geese,
Speaker 2: but only in the UK. As it turns out, there
Speaker 2: also releasing this in the US, but that will be
Speaker 2: early next year. So if you're over in the UK,
Speaker 2: you can order this from the Seven Films dot co
Speaker 2: dot UK website. Now, this is a three disc limited set.
Speaker 2: It's going to have an exclusive fifty Men in the
Speaker 2: Valley of the Shadow, a three hundred and sixteen page
Speaker 2: color hardbound book on the making of The Wild Geese
Speaker 2: by Tony Earnshaw. There's an original soundtrack CD on this.
Speaker 2: There is six UK Lobby Guard reproductions and then brand
Speaker 2: new commentaries, brand new extras, all kinds of stuff coming
Speaker 2: in this and yes, all of this will be coming
Speaker 2: to the US, but you got to wait till later
Speaker 2: this year to be able to pre order. I had
Speaker 2: a lot of people ask if this is the first
Speaker 2: seven UK release, not at all. They actually have many,
Speaker 2: well many is relative compared to what they've done in
Speaker 2: the US, but they have more than a handful. They
Speaker 2: put out the russ Meyer stuff in the UK. Years ago,
Speaker 2: they put out Basket in the UK. They've done some stuff,
Speaker 2: but they don't do quite enough over in the UK
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: No, I've never heard of this film, but you know
Speaker 3: said from the Good Company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they do some solid stuff. And I had
Speaker 2: a lot of people ask this is a weird one
Speaker 2: for seven to put out. I think Seven puts this
Speaker 2: out because I think this is a David Gregory favorite
Speaker 2: because it was popular in the UK and he's from.
Speaker 3: The UK, so this is personal favor for him.
Speaker 2: That and all the video nasties are all his share,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Sure. Sure.
Speaker 2: This year's film, Red Sonia, is getting a Blu Ray
Speaker 2: release from Golden Films on November eleventh. I have heard
Speaker 2: the just most polar opposite feelings of this, that this
Speaker 2: is amazing and that this is a crime against humanity.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling you have not seen this one yet.
Speaker 3: I don't even know it existed. I remember Robert Riguez and.
Speaker 4: Rose McGowan were trying to make this remake like ten
Speaker 4: years ago and never went anywhere. I was like I was,
Speaker 4: I've never I had no idea that they finally made it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that poster doesn't give much hope.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta be honest, most unless it's an even then I
Speaker 2: was gonna say, unless it's a giant theatrical film that
Speaker 2: the modern posters don't do a lot for me. But
Speaker 2: many of those aren't doing great either. I feel like
Speaker 2: I feel like we're letting streaming services dictate poster choices nowadays,
Speaker 2: and streaming services the key art.
Speaker 3: That they use for those, yeah, yeah, are just.
Speaker 2: The most atrocious and bland pieces of crap ever.
Speaker 3: Yep, totally agree. Just close up of a face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're lucky and like maybe maybe the title sometimes.
Speaker 3: Eh, you like George Clooney, click on his face.
Speaker 2: You'll watch anything. But that's the lob in it. Uh.
Speaker 2: Speaking of terrible posters, coming on October twenty seventh in
Speaker 2: the UK on Blu Ray from Dazzler Media is Diced.
Speaker 2: This is the worst title ever Dice reloaded. I have
Speaker 2: heard this is awful. It definitely looks awful. Adam, thank
Speaker 2: you for that. I'm gonna go back to that last one.
Speaker 2: As we were talking about it, I meant to bring
Speaker 2: us upt the beginning and totally forgot. It's kind of
Speaker 2: crazy in a week where we have lost Hollywood great
Speaker 2: in Diane Keaton, a music great in Ace Freely that
Speaker 2: possibly overshadowing both of them, is by far the most prolific,
Speaker 2: most well known cinematic poster artist of all time, mister
Speaker 2: Drew Strusan. He has done many of the most famous
Speaker 2: posters that you've seen, The most famous posters for Star
Speaker 2: Wars that are giant are just some of the examples
Speaker 2: of stuff that you've appreciated from him and just probably
Speaker 2: not even known the name for many people. Drew is
Speaker 2: a powerhouse of talent. He's had books dedicated to his ubra.
Speaker 2: He is just.
Speaker 3: Documentary about him as great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible. Oh God, see Brendan brought up D'Angelo
Speaker 2: for some reason, I thought D'Angelo was last week. That's
Speaker 2: why I didn't say anything. It's been a crazy week
Speaker 2: for for big deaths.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, Drew Trews. They'll be out. Like some of
Speaker 3: my favorite posters of all time are Drews.
Speaker 4: And like you know, just last week, just a few
Speaker 4: weeks ago, we lost the Italian poster artists. Yeah, who
Speaker 4: did all the posters for when the play in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, but yeah, it's rough, Like you know, I
Speaker 4: I know he had been he had been sick for
Speaker 4: a while there, but still it's it's all major lungs.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Diane Keaton though, that was really shocking to me. Actually,
Speaker 4: you know, I think I just didn't expect it, so
Speaker 4: that would caught me off guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pneumonia too, they just announced that today. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: How quick that Yeah?
Speaker 3: M hmm.
Speaker 2: All right, we go from drews Hreusen to Thriller A
Speaker 2: Cruel Picture but December first four K in the UK
Speaker 2: from screen Bound, this keeps happening that they are putting
Speaker 2: out Vinegar Syndrome titles essentially on the same disc, but
Speaker 2: over in the UK, all of this is likely going
Speaker 2: to be nearly identical to the Vinegar Syndrome release. You
Speaker 2: got a sticker sheet and a poster if you want it,
Speaker 2: and for anybody in the UK this will likely be
Speaker 2: cheaper if you did not get the Vinegar Syndrome one. Yet,
Speaker 2: that being said, I would still trust the Vinegar Syndrome
Speaker 2: disc over this one. It's probably got better, better encoding
Speaker 2: and stuff. But yeah, Thriller A cruel Picture. Next up,
Speaker 2: this year's Anemonee is coming on four K. I think,
Speaker 2: and I only say I think because of the way
Speaker 2: that they designed the cover for this I really kind
Speaker 2: of do wish that they'd stop printing the words four
Speaker 2: K ultrade HD. When the case says it says it
Speaker 2: as well, but this one says Blu ray and Digital
Speaker 2: code at the top instead of four K and Blu
Speaker 2: ray and Digital code. This one is able to pre
Speaker 2: order now over on Groove And for those that maybe
Speaker 2: recognize the title, this is the film that brought out
Speaker 2: the uh semi hiatus retired mister Daniel day Lewis. Both
Speaker 2: men on the screen gave a wonderful performance in this film.
Speaker 2: I know that I'm gonna pissed off Silent Manial a
Speaker 2: little bit. I didn't love this movie. I feel like
Speaker 2: they did you get see this one? I did?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I think the two of them are terrific.
Speaker 4: I wish I wish day Lewis is phenomenal. H I
Speaker 4: wish Johnny's good. Wish he had more more to do
Speaker 4: in the film. I feel like they he sees a
Speaker 4: lot of the big moments.
Speaker 3: To day Lewis. I think it should be more of
Speaker 3: the more of a two hand or I think and yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting.
Speaker 4: He has elements like okay, it's it's it's it's got
Speaker 4: something to say, but just doesn't come together satisfying, And
Speaker 4: I think it's It's fascinating to me because day lewis
Speaker 4: uh some of his most famous roles in the Name
Speaker 4: of the Father and the Boxer about Northern Ireland, where
Speaker 4: he plays Irish and irishman trapped in Northern Ireland in
Speaker 4: that conflict in the troubles, and now we have, oh
Speaker 4: for all these ears, the reverse of that, now he's
Speaker 4: playing a former British soldier. That was just very fun
Speaker 4: to see him, Like, of all things to come back
Speaker 4: and do after ten years, this is the project that
Speaker 4: he brings. He comes back with em he co wrote
Speaker 4: with his son, So that was fascinated as like a
Speaker 4: bit of his own like metatextual quality of his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he's good in it.
Speaker 4: I'm happy he's acting in it, but I just wish
Speaker 4: there was more meat in the bone or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that fully. That being said,
Speaker 2: I will say I really have high hopes for Ronan
Speaker 2: da Lewis to direct more. It was shot beautifully, Yeah
Speaker 2: it was. There's a couple of scenes in this specifically,
Speaker 2: like the storm scene is so well done in Kinetic,
Speaker 2: And yeah, I would like to see this one again
Speaker 2: on four K at home in a dark room. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good movie. Check it out. It's just not
Speaker 2: a great movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next, I am so surprised this is getting a release
Speaker 2: in credible December. Second Universal is releasing Scott Pilgrim takes
Speaker 2: off the complete limited series. This was a Netflix limited series.
Speaker 2: You can preorder this now. Quite inexpensive too for what
Speaker 2: it is for it being a Netflix title. Expected more.
Speaker 2: This is kind of a big deal for a lot
Speaker 2: of people that were fans of the film because it
Speaker 2: got pretty much the entire original cast to come back,
Speaker 2: and even edgar Wright is involved. Like there, you could
Speaker 2: not ask for a better version of an animated show
Speaker 2: for such a beloved fan base. You clearly love it.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love this show and it's phenomenal and it's
Speaker 4: so funny meause I have a friend who like, I
Speaker 4: like Connor, but I wish they had just done the
Speaker 4: graphic novel.
Speaker 3: And I understand that argument.
Speaker 4: Like because if you've seen the show, you know it
Speaker 4: takes a lot of changes and kind of rewrites the story.
Speaker 4: But I think what it does with that, I think
Speaker 4: the changes it makes, that the alternative reality it creates
Speaker 4: is so clever and so unique. It makes it makes
Speaker 4: me think about it in some different ways, brings up
Speaker 4: new you know, makes characters I thought were one way,
Speaker 4: completely throws them on her head and shows a different
Speaker 4: side to them, I thought. And I love the animation
Speaker 4: by by Science Sorrow. It's it's just beautifully made. Love
Speaker 4: the cast going back for this, and yeah, I was
Speaker 4: just so shocked to see it getting in a Blue Ray.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm thrilled by that.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Uh. Next up in Australia, we got a
Speaker 2: couple of four K announcements. These are both coming on
Speaker 2: four K steel book from Imprint, and this first one
Speaker 2: is a beast Master from nineteen eighty two, the same
Speaker 2: film that was put up by Vinegar Syndrome a handful
Speaker 2: of years ago. This has the I believe, pretty much
Speaker 2: everything that was on the Vinegar Syndrome. We've got special
Speaker 2: VFX cut on a Blu ray as well, So it's
Speaker 2: a big three disc release, tons of extras on here.
Speaker 2: If you love the film, this is gonna be a
Speaker 2: great way to get it. It is a steel book
Speaker 2: from Imprint, which means it's pricey. But it's not like
Speaker 2: the Last Seduction pricey or Halloween pricey. It's it's medium pricey.
Speaker 4: There's pricey, and it's almost pricey.
Speaker 3: You're lucky, your friend is almost pricey.
Speaker 2: And if beast Master is not enough for you, one
Speaker 2: that a lot of people lumped together. We also have
Speaker 2: The Sword and the Sorcerer. This one was released here
Speaker 2: in the States by Scream Factory. Another Albert Pune like
Speaker 2: you're talking about. We've got a two disc release here again,
Speaker 2: four K steel book. Both of these coming on January
Speaker 2: seventh of twenty twenty six. And yeah, looks like fun releases.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just praying for the day we get
Speaker 4: the Radioactive Dreams Blu ray. Someone out there, come on
Speaker 4: figure out the legal the some kind of like copyright
Speaker 4: or you know, contract, and that's why it's stuck on VHS.
Speaker 4: But hopefully one day I would love to see that
Speaker 4: film get like a fancy edition like this.
Speaker 2: I wish. Michael Smith in The comment is responding to
Speaker 2: the Warner Archive question from you know, twenty minutes score
Speaker 2: or whatever. He says that George has said in the
Speaker 2: past that they try to find out which shorts actually
Speaker 2: accompanied the films when they came out, and Uh, if
Speaker 2: they can't figure that out, they'll do something thematically, which
Speaker 2: that makes a lot of sense. I'm glad they do
Speaker 2: something instead of like Subner had said, which was literally
Speaker 2: drawing paper out of a hat.
Speaker 4: No, you can pretend you're back in the in the
Speaker 4: theater like how they would have shown it.
Speaker 3: Uh, and you can. You should have.
Speaker 4: Also, they should have you know, they should find the
Speaker 4: newsreel that went with it too, because I love talking
Speaker 4: to my grandpa about like, you know, yeah, Connor, I went,
Speaker 4: I was a kid, I'd go to the theater. There'd
Speaker 4: be a newsreel, then a cartoon, then at double feature,
Speaker 4: and you to be a cowboy film or an action movie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like I was, like, you want the full Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: nineteen fifties forties experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is absolutely true. Next up, we got kind
Speaker 2: of an odd one to cover. So I do post
Speaker 2: some Kickstarter Indiegogo type campaigns. Sometimes this one is for
Speaker 2: a company that we all pretty much know and love,
Speaker 2: and it's from AGFA. But the interesting thing here is
Speaker 2: that it's very different from what many of us would
Speaker 2: be used to seeing in a Kickstarter campaign. So AGFA
Speaker 2: is raising money to restore the Blood trilogy from Herschel
Speaker 2: Gordon Lewis. This will be Blood Feast, two Thousand Maniacs
Speaker 2: and Color Me Blood Red in four K from the
Speaker 2: original Negatives, as well as the eighteen additional Lewis films,
Speaker 2: including Jimmy the Boy, Wonder, Blast Off Girls, that have
Speaker 2: only ever been released on VHS or DVD. They're partnering
Speaker 2: with Something Weird on this and they're going to release
Speaker 2: that on four K d and in theaters afterwards, while
Speaker 2: the additional films will be released on Blu Ray for
Speaker 2: the first time ever. They're looking to do like new
Speaker 2: color grading. They have to get a couple of new
Speaker 2: pieces of equipment and all that stuff. There's a list
Speaker 2: of all the films that it is. But what has
Speaker 2: been hard for a lot of people to swallow with
Speaker 2: this one is you can support the project, but there's
Speaker 2: no award to get the discs. So a lot of
Speaker 2: people are like, well, that's cool, but I don't want
Speaker 2: a digital file of the film your AGFA. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to buy the discs through this, and
Speaker 2: so I'm worried that they're not going to get to
Speaker 2: their campaign. I haven't looked. Maybe they've already done it,
Speaker 2: and I'm an idiot for saying that I'm worried about it.
Speaker 2: But I feel like if they would have offered I
Speaker 2: don't know, all three for like one hundred bucks, I
Speaker 2: feel like a lot more people would have been happy
Speaker 2: to lock down.
Speaker 4: I always think that's like the scene, isn't obvious that
Speaker 4: one of the rewards, you know, a small reward for
Speaker 4: digital copy and then a larger reward for a physical copy.
Speaker 4: That just seems obvious. But I don't know what. Maybe
Speaker 4: there's a reason.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I don't know. I need to look into
Speaker 2: this one more. Because I've not donated or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I have not not considered. But yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: people kind of irritated in the comments, which in a
Speaker 2: way I kind of get it. Sure, speaking of being irritated,
Speaker 2: I bet a lot of people are irritated about this.
Speaker 2: In late November, Vinegar Syndrome is releasing The Keep on
Speaker 2: four k what is this. They've done that already. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're doing it again as part of a new imprint
Speaker 2: called VSR IN that stands for Vinegar Syndrome Retail. It
Speaker 2: is a retail focused initiative designed to provide indie retailers
Speaker 2: with exclusive re releases. Beginning with Michael Manns The Keep.
Speaker 2: This sold out so fast that a lot of people
Speaker 2: were not able to get a slip cover with it
Speaker 2: or the booklet. But now you can get both again
Speaker 2: almost a year after it's been sold out, and many
Speaker 2: people have bought standard editions. So yes, that is the
Speaker 2: part where people are gonna get frustrated. You can already
Speaker 2: pre order this at Orbit Diabolic, brother Belile, I think
Speaker 2: Odyssey Movies has it, lots and lots and lots of people.
Speaker 2: You can pre order this from online with art done
Speaker 2: from a front of the channel, mister Sam Smith, as
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier for The Deaf Crocodile released coming out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, I can see why people would be
Speaker 2: upset about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that's that's you're right.
Speaker 4: It's the nature of these Some of these physical media
Speaker 4: releases are like sold as limited editions, so you get
Speaker 4: one chance and then you know, but if if it
Speaker 4: sells out, maybe they're like, I'm gonna make some more.
Speaker 4: But then we've aw these limititions. Well you know, we
Speaker 4: made more than you know, so I'm happy people can
Speaker 4: say check it out. This is a this is a
Speaker 4: strange film, Like I definitely I'm hoping for today we
Speaker 4: get the whatever the director's cut, or at least the
Speaker 4: unedited versions. Watching it several years ago like this feels
Speaker 4: like there's scenes missing for sure, that there's subplots missing.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping for one day.
Speaker 4: Maybe we get the the you know it's just a
Speaker 4: bootleg or something, just give me the actual full version,
Speaker 4: because it's like I made this list on letterbox. It
Speaker 4: was like early films by great directors that are in
Speaker 4: the sci fi horror genre that they've just owned, but
Speaker 4: they're still pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: We've got the Keep for Michael Man, we got David.
Speaker 4: Lynch's Dune, Fincher's Alien three, and I'm those three right now.
Speaker 4: Maybe there's more, but those are all like all of them,
Speaker 4: so like, ah, yeah, it was a total mess. I
Speaker 4: hated working on it and it cuts so much, like
Speaker 4: but yeah, but there's still cool stuff in it.
Speaker 3: I still like these movies, but yes, I would.
Speaker 4: I would have loved to have seen their unfiltered versions.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but hey, man, I'm a big fan of
Speaker 4: the Lynch's Dune despite all the problems it has.
Speaker 3: But you know, these films.
Speaker 4: Are fun on They're interesting, you know, and they're part
Speaker 4: of a filmography that you might love, may love, so
Speaker 4: you should check it out.
Speaker 2: I would love for somebody to unearth it. So I
Speaker 2: know Michael Manas said that the material doesn't exist anymore,
Speaker 2: but man, that was not a pun on this name.
Speaker 2: But man, man, it would be wonderful if if somebody
Speaker 2: could ever do that. But yeah, I'm not crossing my
Speaker 2: fingers for that one. Next keto over December. Second Blu
Speaker 2: ray Coming of Hannah Kay. This is from nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: It was starring Gabriel Byrne Jill Clayburgh. And this has
Speaker 2: a new audio commentary by Elaine Silver and James Ersini.
Speaker 2: There's a new interview with the actor David Clennon. It's
Speaker 2: almost twenty minutes long. I know nothing about this other
Speaker 2: than here.
Speaker 4: I've seen this because I have the VHS nice.
Speaker 3: And I would I picked this up.
Speaker 4: I don't know a year ago or something, and like, oh,
Speaker 4: I should watch this and then lo and behold, I see,
Speaker 4: Oh wow, it's finally coming to It's never been on
Speaker 4: this before. I believe he's not in the US. Uh,
Speaker 4: So I I checked it out. It's very interesting. It's
Speaker 4: considered the first America or Western film to address the
Speaker 4: Palasini Israeli conflict and be sympathetic towards the Palasinian character.
Speaker 4: The mains as a character in the film, uh played by.
Speaker 3: Where's his name?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sure get his name right. He's a Palastinian actor.
Speaker 4: Who is is he's still working today.
Speaker 2: He's Mohammed Bakri, Maha Bakri.
Speaker 4: How he has become kind of one of the most
Speaker 4: prominent Palacin actors now. He is children and all actors too.
Speaker 4: And he plays this man who is arrested for crossing
Speaker 4: the border uh illegally because his home falls under Israeli
Speaker 4: land jurisdiction now. And she is his lawyer, who is
Speaker 4: who is the fending his right to return home to
Speaker 4: his his family ancestral home. So that's really interesting and
Speaker 4: he's very good in the film. Unfortunately, I feel like
Speaker 4: it's it takes a lot of like there's a detour.
Speaker 3: Now it's a that's half part of the film. There.
Speaker 4: Half the film is she's like, she has a husband
Speaker 4: in France, but she's having an affair with her with
Speaker 4: a with Uhl, a soldier in Israel, and she has
Speaker 4: a kid. But so there's a lot of like personal
Speaker 4: stuff that I feel like detracts from that. What's really
Speaker 4: interesting to me about the story the actual political story.
Speaker 4: So it's a bit of an unwieldy film, I feel,
Speaker 4: but it's still a fascinating piece of history, the fact
Speaker 4: that it is the sort of landmark film in depictions
Speaker 4: of Palestine.
Speaker 3: So I'm really happy it's it's going to be available. Uh,
Speaker 3: at least people.
Speaker 4: Can talk about it, uh and check it out for themselves,
Speaker 4: because you know, it's it's it's you know, it's worth
Speaker 4: checking out. I seen a film in these the times
Speaker 4: we're living in right now, looking back to the eighties,
Speaker 4: and how sadly things have been violent for a long time.
Speaker 3: It's been very situation for a long time.
Speaker 4: So I'm happy to see a positive, palasating character in
Speaker 4: a film get some discs.
Speaker 2: I think saying it's been a long time is quite
Speaker 2: underselling how long the content has been happening exactly Next
Speaker 2: on December ninth, Kino is releasing the anthology horror film
Speaker 2: Dead of Night from nineteen forty five. I talked about
Speaker 2: this one fairly recently saw that Connor have his moment,
Speaker 2: but as far as I can tell, no new extras
Speaker 2: on list. It does carry over the commentary from Tim Lucas,
Speaker 2: have you seen Dead of Nights? Sir? I have not. Sorry, interesting,
Speaker 2: I definitely recommend it if you like horror. Anhalis, I
Speaker 2: love this is the brand daddy.
Speaker 4: I love the idea that it's like multiple directors. That's
Speaker 4: very cool. Yeah, that's really interesting to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is pretty damn good. It definitely did a
Speaker 2: lot to set the tone for anthologies. Here's a big one.
Speaker 2: Next year, Keino is releasing a four K of Norman
Speaker 2: jewis Sen's Jesus Christ Superstar. Have you seen this one, Connor?
Speaker 3: I haven't. I was. I was talking to my mom.
Speaker 3: She said he's a big fan of the musical, so
Speaker 3: I feel I should check this out. I know some
Speaker 3: of this. I know the main song Jesus Christ. Yeah,
Speaker 3: superst I know, but I've never seen it.
Speaker 2: No, it is absolutely worth the watch. Definitely definitely worth
Speaker 2: your time. This year's Lurker. Did you get to see Lurker?
Speaker 3: No, I've heard good things, Yeah, but I missed this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This one is from this year, coming on November
Speaker 2: twenty fifth on Blu Ray from movie Here in the US.
Speaker 2: From what I can tell, no extras that I can
Speaker 2: find on this one. This is a good movie. This
Speaker 2: is definitely one that they are entering into, like the
Speaker 2: stalker fandom, sort of relationship dichotomy type of genre that
Speaker 2: has been being built over the last few years. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed this one in the theater and I walked out,
Speaker 2: not that I hated it, but it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that was a nice, like three three and a half
Speaker 2: star film, And then it just didn't leave my mind
Speaker 2: for like a week, and I went, oh wait, did
Speaker 2: I love that movie? Okay, yeah, it's quite good. The
Speaker 2: two main performances in this are incredible, very vulnerable, really
Speaker 2: well done, really really happy with it. Cool, big for
Speaker 2: this crowd. Gabby's Dollhouse is getting a Blu Ray release
Speaker 2: on November twenty fifth from Universal. No joke. I've heard
Speaker 2: this is actually pretty good. I likely will not see it,
Speaker 2: but hey, Kristin Wig is funny.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Chris Woins, right, I'm glad she's just doing stuff.
Speaker 4: You're a scene. What's the film she made. It's a
Speaker 4: comedy where she gets her own talk show. Oh god,
Speaker 4: what is that film?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Welcome to Me. Welcome to Me. That's a
Speaker 3: that's a fun movie. That's a wild movie.
Speaker 4: She plays this woman who inherits a lot of money
Speaker 4: and like it's her own talk show where she interviews
Speaker 4: people in her life.
Speaker 3: That's a wild film. But a very good performance from her.
Speaker 2: She's always always funny. I mean even in small parts,
Speaker 2: like in adventure Land. She's a great. Adventure Land is amazing.
Speaker 4: Barbin Star's so good, so good in that that's not
Speaker 4: a fun movie.
Speaker 2: Next up is The Big Blue coming to four K
Speaker 2: Steel book over in the UK from Studio Canal on
Speaker 2: December first. This is the brand new four K restoration
Speaker 2: that has been going around. You've got a few different
Speaker 2: discs in this one. You've got the extended cut and
Speaker 2: the theatrical cut on four K and Blu ray. It
Speaker 2: also has a making of documentary and I've I've not
Speaker 2: seen this one, but it is one of the Luc
Speaker 2: Passan films that's in that upcoming collection that was announced
Speaker 2: as well. Cool. Yeah, this looks like a good steal
Speaker 2: book too. Speaking of steel books, next one is a
Speaker 2: jar Head coming to four K steel book and standard release.
Speaker 2: The is coming in the UK on December ninth, in
Speaker 2: the US on December tenth. This one has a bunch
Speaker 2: of archival extras. Uh, no interviews or anything that's brand
Speaker 2: new from what I can tell, but uh, four K
Speaker 2: should look good because the blu raye in this did
Speaker 2: not look very good. So I'm hoping this is a
Speaker 2: nice big update. Is a good movie. It's a semi
Speaker 2: hard movie to watch. Uh, did you ever see jar Head?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: It's about Is it about the the Desert Storm? Or
Speaker 3: is it about which? Which war?
Speaker 2: Is it? I think it is? Yeah, I just.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: But I was like, what the what is the defining
Speaker 4: film about, like like the nineties Desert Storm conflict. I guess, well,
Speaker 4: I guess three Kings really is the Yeah film, probably,
Speaker 4: but look, you know, and it was like, is there
Speaker 4: a fining film about the Iraq War of the two thousands?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, uh, you know, is there a
Speaker 4: is there a platoon up for that that war.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, I never seen it.
Speaker 2: Good movie. I kind of like Jake just said, I
Speaker 2: don't think i've seen this since theaters, so it's been
Speaker 2: a long time on this one. That was also not
Speaker 2: to make it super personal, but it was also a
Speaker 2: really weird time for me to see this in theaters
Speaker 2: because I was eighteen when this came out and I
Speaker 2: had multiple friends being shipped out to Afghanistan. So watching
Speaker 2: this movie was like, oh, this is not a good
Speaker 2: time for me to try to be worrying about people.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Next, it is time for the Arrow Harvest season sale.
Speaker 2: This is happening right now, going on till November three.
Speaker 2: As usual, the UK sales prices are at least a
Speaker 2: little bit better than the US prices, so if you
Speaker 2: are region free, I would check that out. But also
Speaker 2: remember there's some Arrow stuff that if you're not region free,
Speaker 2: it's actually a region free disc, so you don't need
Speaker 2: to worry about that, and you could get from the
Speaker 2: UK side if I remember right. The math is that
Speaker 2: if you get like four titles, at least the free
Speaker 2: not not free shipping, but the shipping becomes where it's
Speaker 2: worth it and stuff is actually cheaper than buying from
Speaker 2: the US site. So if you're planning on spending more
Speaker 2: than we'll say, four titles, I think it makes sense
Speaker 2: to at least check it out. I gotta be honest,
Speaker 2: I've not been doing a lot of Arrows buying as
Speaker 2: far as sales titles recently. But what about you, Colton?
Speaker 2: You check it or not? Colton? I was reading Colton
Speaker 2: and the Chat. I was still living at Colton's comment
Speaker 2: where he said Jarheads a movie I watched only for
Speaker 2: Jake Jillen.
Speaker 4: But hey, you know, we all have our personal choices.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, Arrow, I don't remember the last
Speaker 4: time about Arrow.
Speaker 3: I picked up. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Recently, I picked up The Arrows, a Blu Ray edition
Speaker 4: of a Legend of the That's legend that that's an
Speaker 4: old lease, but I just picked ups.
Speaker 3: I love that film. Underrated with the Scott movie.
Speaker 2: It is literally one of the best depictions of the
Speaker 2: devil in any film.
Speaker 3: Tim perry Man Legend every Time.
Speaker 2: Next The America is the complete limited series from this year,
Speaker 2: is getting a four K and Blu ray release here
Speaker 2: in the States from Universal. I love the cover image
Speaker 2: that this they're watching you. Truly, I've heard this is incredible.
Speaker 2: I have not even seen a scene from it, but
Speaker 2: supposedly this is one of the first times that like
Speaker 2: for true nature documentary filmmaking, they're using like proper drones
Speaker 2: and robotic filmmakings. They've been able to capture things that
Speaker 2: they couldn't before.
Speaker 3: That's great. That's funny story.
Speaker 4: I was in Norway a few years ago with family
Speaker 4: and we were at like we were meeting some like
Speaker 4: it was like up in northern northern Norway, and we
Speaker 4: met a reindeer herder and they said, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: what's it called. You know, we used to use like
Speaker 4: you know, you know dogs are herding dogs. But now
Speaker 4: we found a great solution. We had drone and we
Speaker 4: have it a little audio speaker that plays the herding
Speaker 4: dog sounds. We can get drone and just flide around
Speaker 4: and like bark, bark, bark, bark, and then and then
Speaker 4: the reindeer moves, so like it's we're using modern technology
Speaker 4: to hurd the reindeer.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, that's a very clever drone.
Speaker 2: This as bark is one of the funniest.
Speaker 3: Walking in the woods, Like what's that? Oh, it's a
Speaker 3: drone a.
Speaker 2: You hear wolf amongst static for some reason. Amazing. All right.
Speaker 2: Next up, a new boutique label, as far as I
Speaker 2: can tell, has risen from the Obscurity over in the UK.
Speaker 2: Uh and these are both releasing this month on Blu Ray.
Speaker 2: We are getting Laid to Rest, the Chrome's Slasher from
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. This is kind of a big
Speaker 2: deal because this film has never been released on Blu
Speaker 2: Ray in the US or the UK, I believe, I think,
Speaker 2: only the sequels on Blu Ray. So if you are
Speaker 2: into modern slashers, this might be the one for you.
Speaker 2: If you buy from them, you get four postcards, you
Speaker 2: get a slipcover, and then a reversible sleeve for extras.
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of archival extras. But they also I'm
Speaker 2: kind of curious to see what this is. They have
Speaker 2: a torture porn FEATURETTE. I wonder how they spent their
Speaker 2: time doing that. But also if you want, you can
Speaker 2: double it up and get the sequel coming out of
Speaker 2: the exact same time Laid to Rest two Chrome Skull
Speaker 2: comes out. Yeah. I've never even seen these. Have you
Speaker 2: seen these?
Speaker 3: I never heard of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very very curious about this one because, like Jake,
Speaker 2: I've heard of it a few times. I think there's
Speaker 2: a German blu ray of both of them, but that
Speaker 2: was the only way that you could get it for
Speaker 2: the longest time, so now it's nice that people will
Speaker 2: be able to get it. Unfortunately, if you live in
Speaker 2: the US, you cannot buy these directly from their site,
Speaker 2: so I'm just hoping that once they get released, you'll
Speaker 2: find him on Orbit or Diabolic or Brother Belile or somebody.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Next up is Scars of Dracula. We talked about
Speaker 2: this last week, I believe, coming from Studio Canal over
Speaker 2: in the UK, but this is the US version, coming
Speaker 2: from Keno on December ninth. This has a new audio
Speaker 2: commentary by Tim Lucas which is going to be exclusive
Speaker 2: to this one and not on the Studio Canal released,
Speaker 2: so lots of Tim Lucas fans might be double dipping
Speaker 2: on this one. Have you seen Scars of Dracula.
Speaker 4: No, I've only seen the first Christopher Lee Dracula film,
Speaker 4: so I know he made so many Dracula films, but
Speaker 4: I'm in the first one, so I'm curious how because
Speaker 4: I was struck in the first one that he was
Speaker 4: relatively young. I think he was like in his thirties
Speaker 4: me that, and he just seemed almost too young that like
Speaker 4: I imortal, but its too young, almost like a scene
Speaker 4: where he had jump on a table, It's like he's
Speaker 4: too agile. Dracula shouldn't be that adgile and jumping on tables.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Uh, it's it's a right film.
Speaker 4: But I am a pretty big fan of the Lagosi
Speaker 4: Dracula film.
Speaker 3: That's my at the heart of it, that's my Dracula.
Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, but I love that he made so
Speaker 3: many Draga films, so many. What is this?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 3: Number five? Is number twelve? What is this? I don't
Speaker 3: even know.
Speaker 2: If I remember. I think it is five or sack
Speaker 2: six or seven, something like that. Yeah, it's it's certainly
Speaker 2: late in the Do you call it a franchise?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, you're right, Like are they even meant to
Speaker 4: be the same Dracula or are they all just like
Speaker 4: a Dracula a different non connecting films?
Speaker 3: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a good question, all right. Next up
Speaker 2: is The Blues Brothers. This is getting a new anniversary
Speaker 2: steel book release. This is from nineteen eighty, so looking
Speaker 2: at forty five years of the Blues Brothers. This year,
Speaker 2: December ninth, this comes out, and the only thing that's
Speaker 2: new here is there is a new featurette called at
Speaker 2: Amission from God, the story of the Blues Brothers, going
Speaker 2: behind the scenes on the chaos, comedy and car crashes
Speaker 2: with new interviews and never before told stories from the
Speaker 2: cast and crew.
Speaker 3: That's cool. I haven't seen this in years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a fun movie down with the Illinois Nazis
Speaker 4: Boo Nazis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time for me as well.
Speaker 2: I certainly would not mind seeing again. But I already
Speaker 2: got the old four K. I don't need it just
Speaker 2: for a new bonus feature, sadly, Yeah, I get it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. Next up is Lionsgate Limited. We've kind of
Speaker 2: been counting down the days for this. I do like
Speaker 2: that on their site they post when the next one
Speaker 2: coming out is going to be, so you know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't need to come back to the site if
Speaker 2: I'm not buying anything until this date. But we've only
Speaker 2: got details on the Descent. This is the one that
Speaker 2: people been waiting on for a little bit. This is
Speaker 2: coming out fairly quickly too, November eleventh on four K
Speaker 2: steel book, and I really like the way that they
Speaker 2: designed the steel book on this looks nice. There's probably
Speaker 2: gonna be some depossing going on if you get this.
Speaker 2: The lions Gate Limited extras that they have will be
Speaker 2: the poetic pain, the film score and what lies beneath
Speaker 2: re exploring the Descent, plus a whole bunch of archival extras.
Speaker 2: This does have both versions of the film, so you
Speaker 2: don't need to worry about if it's getting the American
Speaker 2: ending or the UK ending. It's got both. Don't worry.
Speaker 2: Of course. Now with this being announced, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are asking if anybody else is going to put
Speaker 2: this out and speculating that it might be Second Sight,
Speaker 2: which wouldn't surprise me. They've already done stuff that le
Speaker 2: liones Gate Limited is done. But tell me, sir, have
Speaker 2: you seen The Descent any thoughts?
Speaker 3: They haven't.
Speaker 4: It's a big blind spot for me. A man, I've
Speaker 4: heard about it for years. Definitely need to check it
Speaker 4: out sometime.
Speaker 2: It is a wonderful film. It is quite terrifying and
Speaker 2: it's one I am. I'll see what the chat says
Speaker 2: because I understand that this is very scary, but this
Speaker 2: is one of the ones I'm considering showing my kids
Speaker 2: this month because even though it's very scary, like there's
Speaker 2: hardly any like, there's no nudity, there's nothing really sexual
Speaker 2: other than like there was an implied affair between a
Speaker 2: couple of people. But it's not even like implied on screen.
Speaker 2: They talk about it very little profanity. It's just terrifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard good things.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I am down to traumatize my kids this month.
Speaker 3: Problem.
Speaker 2: So here it is. We mentioned it earlier. American Psycho
Speaker 2: coming to a limited edition VHS from Lionsgate Limited. This
Speaker 2: releases on December ninth, and as far as I know,
Speaker 2: this was sold out earlier today. Unless they put up
Speaker 2: more copies of this, this was up there for thirty
Speaker 2: bucks thirty bucks and it sold out Connor in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm happy people are buying it, you know, happy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: people are embracing hopefully. No, I'm only I'm looking like,
Speaker 4: are they going to sell a VCR to go with it?
Speaker 4: Like a lot of people, I feel like a lot
Speaker 4: of people don't have VCRs.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 4: So people who buy this, hopefully they buy a VCR too,
Speaker 4: and then they'll buy other VHS tapes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that is the only thing that hurts
Speaker 2: with this, I think is like, sure, vinyl was pretty
Speaker 2: popular still, but we're still selling turntables, and we're still
Speaker 2: making turntables. If we were making and selling VCRs actively
Speaker 2: and I didn't have to buy them at a thrift store,
Speaker 2: I'd be a lot more supportive.
Speaker 4: I wonder if someone will take up that job and
Speaker 4: start making like I don't know, like even if they're
Speaker 4: really you know, just consumer friendly, low you know, even
Speaker 4: low quality was like make some VCR make new VCRs.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I don't know what the you know,
Speaker 4: the parameters that are, but I think there could be
Speaker 4: a market there. If this keeps happening with boutique vhs
Speaker 4: from major distributors, maybe someone can start making VCRs again.
Speaker 2: It It would be a good sign if people wanted
Speaker 2: to go down that route. Hardware is normally where like
Speaker 2: the confidence comes and that's you know everybody starts talking about,
Speaker 2: is physical media going away. They're still making four K players.
Speaker 2: If the last manufacturer shuts down, then I'll start to
Speaker 2: get pretty worried. Yeah, but if you don't want it
Speaker 2: on VHS, don't worry. They are releasing American Psycho on
Speaker 2: a four K not steel book, but in this collector's
Speaker 2: edition presentation. Here, they've got a CD jewel case that
Speaker 2: is here to playoff of the Huey Lewis music in
Speaker 2: the film. We've got a twenty fifth anniversary four K
Speaker 2: premium collector's edition within the outer box featuring the iconic
Speaker 2: Christian Bale image. And then we've got some new extras
Speaker 2: in here, savage satire, American Psycho at twenty five, a
Speaker 2: world of perfect surfaces, visual aesthetic and amuse bousch main title,
Speaker 2: and then Q and A with a co writer and
Speaker 2: director Mary Herron, plus all kinds of archival extras. I've
Speaker 2: already got the old four K, so again, I have
Speaker 2: no reason for this. However, if you just never have upgraded,
Speaker 2: this is a pretty neat package. If you like the movie.
Speaker 3: I do like the cover. That's quite nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, good movie like it? See it next
Speaker 2: up Walking Tall from two thousand and four getting a
Speaker 2: four K release from Keto On December ninth. We got
Speaker 2: a new audio commentary by Brandon Strusnig. We've got a
Speaker 2: couple of archival commentaries that are on here, and then
Speaker 2: all kinds of archival extras on a blu ray. Have
Speaker 2: you seen Walking Tall? I have not.
Speaker 4: This is I'll say I'm a big Okay, all right,
Speaker 4: I get it, def carct I get it. You know, VHS,
Speaker 4: let me have my VHS. Don't need to criticize you, man.
Speaker 4: I'm a big defender of a scorpion king. When it
Speaker 4: comes to young young Dwayne Johnson, I'm a big fan
Speaker 4: of that movie.
Speaker 3: That's a good.
Speaker 2: Tongue, PlayStation one graphics cutscenes, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, come on him and Michael Hart duncan you know,
Speaker 4: kicking ass and like you know, fantastical Egypt or whoever
Speaker 4: it is, you know, good fun times. But yeah, Wyn Johnson, yeah,
Speaker 4: I haven't seen this one, you know. And I haven't
Speaker 4: seen a Smashing Machine either. His new film, which.
Speaker 3: I've heard is okay, I have heard good to mix things.
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe I'll see it.
Speaker 2: I will support the word mixed in that one, because okay,
Speaker 2: there we go. I'm I'm on the other end of
Speaker 2: that spectrum for sure. Another one from Keno two thousand
Speaker 2: and six is Natcho Lebre, getting a four K release
Speaker 2: on December ninth. This is the Jack Black starring film
Speaker 2: from Jared Hess, who has done of course, Napoleon Dynamite
Speaker 2: and this year's amazing the Minecraft movie. We've got all
Speaker 2: kinds of archival extras on this one as well, plus
Speaker 2: a new interview with the actress Anna de la Riguera.
Speaker 2: I love this movie. He showed this movie to my
Speaker 2: kids a few months ago. They loved this movie. I
Speaker 2: will absolutely be upgrading this to four K. I think,
Speaker 2: I think this is one of the best, like under
Speaker 2: the radar ish and like certainly not mainstream comedies over
Speaker 2: the last twenty years. And yeah, it's a favorite.
Speaker 3: I've never seen them.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm a big I'm a big Jack Black fan,
Speaker 4: so I really should check it out. I was just
Speaker 4: at a theater here in La the freeda Cinema down
Speaker 4: in San Ana, and they did like a screening of
Speaker 4: it recently and it was huge. Of over one hundred
Speaker 4: people showed up for it. So like there's fans. It's
Speaker 4: not a Hulp fandom, So yeah, I can see why
Speaker 4: it's getty of four K.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a wonderful movie. It is really well done.
Speaker 2: Please check out Nacho Lee Bra if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: Rarero Video through Keno is putting out Young, Violent, Dangerous
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy six. This is written by Fernando de Lao.
Speaker 2: It's got an audio commentary by the guys from the
Speaker 2: Wild Wild Podcast Adrian Smith and Rod Barnett, plus an
Speaker 2: archival documentary if I remember right, I think this was
Speaker 2: included in one of their box sets, or maybe they'd
Speaker 2: put it out on DVD, but I think this is
Speaker 2: an upgrade from them. I have not seen this one.
Speaker 2: Cool cover though, Yeah, yeah, I love the old Italian
Speaker 2: style arth that they go sometimes back down Under in Australia,
Speaker 2: we are getting December tenth, a four k of aon
Speaker 2: Flux or Eon Flux or however we're pronouncing that non
Speaker 2: letter these days. No new extras from this as far
Speaker 2: as I can tell, but it is coming in a
Speaker 2: lenticular hard case with some art cards. And then on
Speaker 2: that same day they are also putting out the Perfectly
Speaker 2: paired with that film John Carpenter's Vampires from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Same thing, lenticular hardcase and some art cards. Have you
Speaker 2: seen either of those.
Speaker 3: Nope.
Speaker 4: I feel like they're both like disappointing films from otherwise
Speaker 4: good directors. You know, I love Carpenter and Karen Gusama
Speaker 4: made the what's it called The Invitation, That's terrific. So
Speaker 4: like a good director is just you know, big budget misfires.
Speaker 4: But you know, hey, if you're a super fan, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you watch all of them.
Speaker 2: They let you do it, you can get away with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This year's film, The Roses, coming to Blu Ray on
Speaker 2: November twenty fifth from Searchlights. This is going to have
Speaker 2: a gag reel, a behind the door look at the
Speaker 2: epicenter of the film, which is their really nice house
Speaker 2: that they have. There's going to be some use with
Speaker 2: some cast and crew talking about stacking the cast with
Speaker 2: a bunch of wonderful faces in this. Lots of good
Speaker 2: stuff coming on the disc. I hate this poster art,
Speaker 2: but decent movie. I saw this this year and it's
Speaker 2: a it's alright, it's not amazing, but it's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't see it, but I saw that this post
Speaker 4: ar on billboards all over LA for like a month,
Speaker 4: so I've seen this post art.
Speaker 2: I imagine I think this is the trailer that I
Speaker 2: saw the most this year, and by the time this
Speaker 2: came out, I really wanted to strangle Benedict Cumberbatch. Look
Speaker 2: at that. Even Aaron is saying the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this trailer played so many times this year. Next up,
Speaker 2: one that I've heard is actually pretty good. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of eager to see this one December ninth in the
Speaker 2: US from Wellgo Beast of War that came out this year.
Speaker 2: This movie starts as a war film and then a
Speaker 2: plane gets shot down and it turns into a shark movie.
Speaker 2: And that just sounds like an amazing setup.
Speaker 3: That's that's it. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ok, you're right, combine I mean two different genres
Speaker 4: like that, because I saw The Shallows feriously, that was
Speaker 4: pretty good shark movie. Yeah, but Shallows, but what if
Speaker 4: what if she was a soldier?
Speaker 3: There we go? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, and this one is directed by the same
Speaker 2: guy that did Wormwood. I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: love that one, So yeah, this, I mean to me,
Speaker 2: seems quite promising. Cool, very eager to see that. Next up.
Speaker 2: Criterion criterions starting January twenty twenty sixth heavy like lots
Speaker 2: of titles. Another thing on top of all the titles
Speaker 2: we're about to talk about, House Party just got delayed
Speaker 2: to January for some reason. It was due out in November,
Speaker 2: but they just had to come out and change the
Speaker 2: release date on that one. It had been I think
Speaker 2: the end of November announced January twenty seventh. So now
Speaker 2: they're going to have like eight titles coming out in January,
Speaker 2: which is so much for Criterion. So let's go through these.
Speaker 2: January sixth, we've got Jim Jarmush's Dead Man coming to
Speaker 2: four K from nineteen ninety five. This one is a
Speaker 2: great movie starring Johnny Depp. Have you seen this one before?
Speaker 4: No, it's one I haven't seen. I love Olden Lover
Speaker 4: Left Alive, so definitely to see more.
Speaker 3: Jar Mush.
Speaker 2: It's a good movie. Good movie.
Speaker 4: I really the Dead Don't Die, which I think some
Speaker 4: people were kind of mixed on. I really enjoyed that film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say this one is leagues better than The
Speaker 2: Dead Don't Die, for sure, but not that I hated
Speaker 2: The Dead Don't Die. But this is better all right.
Speaker 2: Next up from two thousand, four K released coming of
Speaker 2: what many have hailed the best film since two thousand
Speaker 2: and that's Edward Yang's yee. This is no new extras again,
Speaker 2: but in four K this movie is just going to
Speaker 2: be stupendous. I cannot wait to see this one in
Speaker 2: four K. Yeah, this is a must purchase for me.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: Then, the long awaited return of Martin Scorsese's World Cinema
Speaker 2: Project comes on January twentieth. This is box number five
Speaker 2: in the series. Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of people
Speaker 2: complaining because of the number of films in this There's
Speaker 2: not a there's not a ton in the box set.
Speaker 2: But everything looks to be really great. Specifically, The Fall
Speaker 2: of Otrar is one that I've been wanting to see
Speaker 2: for a while. There's gonna be a three disc box set.
Speaker 2: You've got extras for everything. I'm just glad to see
Speaker 2: this series continuing. Any any thoughts on these Have you
Speaker 2: seen any of them or any of the other World
Speaker 2: Cinema Projects?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't, But I'm just I'm just thrilled that
Speaker 4: Scorsese does this. I'm just so happy that, you know.
Speaker 4: I love it when you know successful artists, you know,
Speaker 4: put their their influence and their money to good use,
Speaker 4: you know. Tarantino buy movie theaters, Scorsese cure, it's box
Speaker 4: sets of rare films. I'm happy to see. If you
Speaker 4: got the name power, do some good with it.
Speaker 2: They use their power for good and the world is
Speaker 2: a slightly better place now.
Speaker 4: Someone can just buy the Cinemama Dome here in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles and reopen it.
Speaker 3: That would really be appreciated.
Speaker 4: Come on, Taron, Chris fin Nolan, I don't know, someone Anderson,
Speaker 4: you got the money line around?
Speaker 2: Come on, anybody, but here is one that we've heard
Speaker 2: complaining about for so long that it's missing. And finally,
Speaker 2: January twentieth, a four K blu ray DVD and vhs
Speaker 2: I'm kidding not VHS of Captain Blood starring Errol Flynn
Speaker 2: from nineteen thirty five. This is again a very big deal.
Speaker 2: Pretty much, anytime an Errol Flynn film is announced, people say, great,
Speaker 2: but where's Captain.
Speaker 3: Blood, Billy, that's interesting?
Speaker 2: Wow, every single time. Now that being said, I am
Speaker 2: shocked how many people saw this announced and said, well,
Speaker 2: where is the Adventures of Robinhood on four K? I'm
Speaker 2: like us, just be happy, come on, well.
Speaker 3: Those are the two the best ones.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, yeah, obviously this has a new
Speaker 2: four k's digital restoration with the uncompressed mono soundtrack. We've
Speaker 2: got an audio commentary with Alan k Roady. We've got
Speaker 2: a documentary from two thousand and five on the making
Speaker 2: of the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the film. There
Speaker 2: is a new essay by far and Smith name and
Speaker 2: that is it. So yeah, I do wish there were
Speaker 2: some more extras on this. However, just to see this
Speaker 2: film in HD and delivered with this beautiful cover, and
Speaker 2: I mean four K on Captain Blood, Like, how do
Speaker 2: you argue with that?
Speaker 3: No, it's true.
Speaker 4: I'm a big pirate guy. I've been a pirate fan
Speaker 4: my whole life. So this is definitely, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a top tier pirate movie, one of the all time greats,
Speaker 4: you know, up top five pirate films. Got we got
Speaker 4: Captain Blood, Cutthard Island, Mumpa, Tuder Island, till Yeah, those
Speaker 4: are definitely the three. Well, the first Pirates of the
Speaker 4: Caribbean that's a pretty great one. That first one's awesome, and.
Speaker 3: Then fifth one, um, that's tough. I got, I got,
Speaker 3: I got ones that I'm a fan of.
Speaker 2: But I mean not, I was gonna say you mentioned
Speaker 2: it earlier I was totally expecting Hook to.
Speaker 3: Be no hook.
Speaker 4: I guess we'll do hook. Well, that's like those are
Speaker 4: the those are the five like it's you know. Peter
Speaker 4: Pan in general was a great classic, uh pirate story.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, when you first held up your hand,
Speaker 2: I was totally waiting for Okay, we got Captain Blood.
Speaker 2: I'll give it to Pirates of the Caribbean. But then
Speaker 2: Pirates of the Caribbean dead Man's Chest and I like it.
Speaker 4: I like two and three okay, but like the first
Speaker 4: one is perfect. Oh and then uh, Treasure Planet, love
Speaker 4: fer Planet, so good, terrific aptation, you know, and there
Speaker 4: are other there's so many graptations of Treasure Islands a
Speaker 4: great book, but Treasure Muppet Muppet version and Disney versions
Speaker 4: so good, great persons.
Speaker 2: I love him pet Treasure Island.
Speaker 3: The writer of the film was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, I totally forgot about that. January twentieth
Speaker 2: as part of the Criterion Collection presents or Criterion Premier's
Speaker 2: line that they're doing is Caught by the Tides from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I had heard about this one for
Speaker 2: a bit. I need to see this. We've got as usual,
Speaker 2: just to meet the filmmaker, sort of interview on here
Speaker 2: and then some notes by film critic Carlos Aguilar. My friend,
Speaker 2: there you go. Look at that.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled that he's writing the notes for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on a Criterion release. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He did the boklet for The Shape of Water that
Speaker 4: last year or was that earlier this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice, very nice. I don't know Criterion. That would be
Speaker 2: an intimidating company to do something like that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Next up is John Houston The Dead from nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it, sir.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I screamed, I cheer when I saw this.
Speaker 4: Ah Dead, John Houston's final movie, anaptation of the James
Speaker 4: Joy story The Dead from his book. Dubliner's phenomenal movie.
Speaker 3: Just an all time great film. What a film to
Speaker 3: go out on.
Speaker 4: It's such a powerful story about life and death and
Speaker 4: accepting that we're all going to die, and regrets and
Speaker 4: celebration and family. It's a beautiful film, wonderful adaptation. I
Speaker 4: literally just was on a friend's podcast, the Skylight Books
Speaker 4: Bookstore podcast this summer talking about the film and the
Speaker 4: book and say, oh, I really hope we get a you.
Speaker 3: Know, this should come to Blu ray one day.
Speaker 4: And then a two months ago they announced the Australian
Speaker 4: Trilogy box set from the Imprint, which had his three three.
Speaker 3: Of his movies.
Speaker 4: I was like, ah, do I want that? There's a
Speaker 4: lot of money. Do I want to get it? But
Speaker 4: I waited and I'm so glad I waited because this
Speaker 4: was great Criterion love the cover, beautiful cover art, crazy
Speaker 4: and also includes this phenomenal documentary John John Houston The
Speaker 4: Double News, which is a documentary they filmed on the set.
Speaker 4: It was like, you know, they were there on on
Speaker 4: location and I've seen like it's on YouTube. It it
Speaker 4: was on VHS, so I've seen like vh's rip on YouTube.
Speaker 4: But uh, it's a terrific documentary, you know, great to
Speaker 4: see on set talking to the cast and Jelkie Houston
Speaker 4: and John Houston about the film as they were making it.
Speaker 4: But it's never been on DVD. So I'm thrilled that
Speaker 4: this because the Imprint edition doesn't include that.
Speaker 3: It's like, ah, I'm so glad I waited, and it's
Speaker 3: so cool. They also have like it's fascinated. It has like, uh.
Speaker 4: Parts of her uh from a Jelic Houston's memoir, like
Speaker 4: rather than a new interview.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like, uh, what is it? It's audio excerpts.
Speaker 4: That's funny because I did pick up her memoir and
Speaker 4: she does have a whole chapter about this, Like oh
Speaker 4: okay that it is a good chapter. So that's just funny,
Speaker 4: Like all right, Rob, then I guess she said everything
Speaker 4: she's to say about it. We'll just use the use
Speaker 4: the memoir enough she does talk.
Speaker 2: About So this this is coming on January twentieth on
Speaker 2: four K blu ray. It's a big deal. Lots of
Speaker 2: people very excited about this and really that that documentary specifically,
Speaker 2: the fact that they could get that is pretty big
Speaker 2: for Fancus and.
Speaker 4: I'm loving it because yeah, that's that's I'm always saddened
Speaker 4: when a new release has to drop the documentary you
Speaker 4: or if you be, I couldn't get license, couldn't get
Speaker 4: the rights to it, like oh no. But the fact
Speaker 4: that this is getty ant, thank god, thrilled.
Speaker 2: Well, that was already like six new announcements from Criterion
Speaker 2: and they're not even done yet. Even it's not even
Speaker 2: one more. But they've got like arguably the biggest title left,
Speaker 2: and that is two thousand and four's Birth Finally coming
Speaker 2: January twenty seventh on four K and blu ray from Criterion.
Speaker 2: This is the Jonathan Glazer and he directed Nicole Kidman
Speaker 2: starring We've got a four K disc of the film
Speaker 2: with Dolby Vision. We've got an interview with Glazer and
Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman on Charlie Rose from two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: New documentary on the making of the film with behind
Speaker 2: the scenes footage and interviews. A new program on the
Speaker 2: film cinematography. Yeah, lots of great stuff to make this amazing.
Speaker 2: That being said, I know that I mentioned him earlier
Speaker 2: and he made fun of me tooting my own horn.
Speaker 2: I will toot sibiners horn. Mister Daniel Sibiner is in Birth.
Speaker 2: He helped work on the film, and so mister Sibner
Speaker 2: is in the Criterion collection. Congratulations, Dan, that's awesome Birth.
Speaker 2: Have you seen Birth? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a while now, but this is terrific movie.
Speaker 4: And it's so fascinate because it got very mixed reviews
Speaker 4: when it came out. A lot pu old did not
Speaker 4: like it when it came out, so to see after
Speaker 4: all these years, twenty years later now is going in
Speaker 4: the Criterion Collection at the vindication you know, for all
Speaker 4: people who believe in this movie. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 4: a trivick movie. Great performance from Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big six months for Nicole Kidman. I
Speaker 2: mean two major titles come to the Criterion Collection. You
Speaker 2: dump Keith Urban the they shortened your amc intro like
Speaker 2: everything is.
Speaker 3: Coming up Kidman.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But and she's really one of our one of our
Speaker 4: great actresses and the victor. She's managed to keep being
Speaker 4: relevant and trying new things, you know, like Baby Girl
Speaker 4: last year, Like she's a really she's a daring actress
Speaker 4: who's still trying, you know, pushing herself the year after year.
Speaker 3: And but this is the looking back. This is one
Speaker 3: of our best performances.
Speaker 2: I still think, still very relevant, still great at what
Speaker 2: she does. I mean, no fault there. Yeah, good stuff
Speaker 2: and fine. Finally from Criterion we mentioned it earlier. Kiss
Speaker 2: of the Spider Woman from nineteen eighty five getting a
Speaker 2: four K and blu ray released from Criterion on January
Speaker 2: twenty seventh. This will be the best way to see
Speaker 2: the William Hurt and Raoul Julia starring a Kiss of
Speaker 2: the Spider Woman. Never seen it. I will likely purchase
Speaker 2: this because I love William Hurt and Raoul Julia. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know how I've never seen this so cannot wait.
Speaker 3: No, definitely want to see this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Terry is saying, someone give us BMX bandits for seriously,
Speaker 2: it's on the way. Umbrella has already said that they're
Speaker 2: working on a four K of BMX Bandits.
Speaker 4: And in the picture she's still a fan, like she
Speaker 4: wore the T shirt one time like that. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm proud of that film.
Speaker 3: Good for you, Unicle.
Speaker 2: All these years later and she still loves it. On
Speaker 2: a Kiss of the Spider Woman, We've got an interview
Speaker 2: with Susan Angel Levine, the biographer of Kiss of the
Speaker 2: Spider Woman's author Manuel Puig. We've got Making of Kiss
Speaker 2: of the Spider Woman from two thousand and eight, eight
Speaker 2: feature length doc. We've got a short program on Puigue.
Speaker 2: We've got an essay by the Ruby Rich. So yeah,
Speaker 2: just very very curious to check this one out for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, that is Criterion. Next, we get a Ghost
Speaker 2: in the Shell four K steal book coming over in
Speaker 2: the UK on December first. There's a couple options for
Speaker 2: you for characters. They've got like two different colors to
Speaker 2: choose from to make sure you're looking at those depending
Speaker 2: on which one you want. And uh, yeah, it looks
Speaker 2: like a fun release if you like Ghosts in the
Speaker 2: Shell traffic film.
Speaker 3: Excellent classic anime.
Speaker 2: I've heard it's amazing. I've still never had a chance
Speaker 2: to see it. And too oh, I didn't even know
Speaker 2: there was this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ghost the Shell two Innocence also really great.
Speaker 2: This next one. This is the first time that we
Speaker 2: have seen one of these in a long time. And
Speaker 2: I do kind of want to highlight this for a
Speaker 2: minute because I tend to shit on VCI a lot. Now.
Speaker 2: VCI has done a lot of rough things over the year,
Speaker 2: as far as half assing many of their discs, but
Speaker 2: I will say their Classic Mexican Cinema line is one
Speaker 2: of the best things they've ever done, and they've not
Speaker 2: released any on the line in a long time. So
Speaker 2: here we got. January twentieth, they're putting out The Body
Speaker 2: of Crime, also known as El Querpazzo del Delito. This
Speaker 2: is from nineteen seventy. There's no extras on this, but
Speaker 2: It is a comedy told in three episodes, and that
Speaker 2: alone seems interesting. Nobody else is going to be putting
Speaker 2: out a Mexican comedy from nineteen seventy. I will absolutely
Speaker 2: be buying this. I will absolutely be watching this if
Speaker 2: you are into checking out world cinema, and specifically world
Speaker 2: cinema comedies which don't get a lot of love because
Speaker 2: all the time comedy does not do well with the
Speaker 2: international audiences. But I will absolutely watch this.
Speaker 3: That's a good point, actually, right, not very cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, cannot wait. Next up, this year's Dead of Winter,
Speaker 2: coming to Blu Ray on December ninth from Vertical Entertainment.
Speaker 2: This is the Emma Thompson kind of survival crime horror thriller.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to explain this one. I liked
Speaker 2: this one. I didn't love it, but yeah, Metompson was
Speaker 2: great in it.
Speaker 4: I need to see it because I'm curious. How about
Speaker 4: her Minnesota accent?
Speaker 3: What do you think of it?
Speaker 2: It wasn't terrible. It was very clearly not her actual actress. However,
Speaker 2: it's a great Minnesota accent. Is pretty difficult to pull.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, It's very interesting.
Speaker 4: Like Belson back, they shot it like in Finland too,
Speaker 4: which is just yeah, find me a Minnesota film starring
Speaker 4: a British actress. It shot in Finland, like all right, okay,
Speaker 4: well all.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I will say this gives rise to another
Speaker 2: wonderful Judy Greer performance, who is kind of quietly like
Speaker 2: one of the best actresses working. I was just stoked
Speaker 2: to see what she did with this. So yeah, check
Speaker 2: out Dead of Winter. And then another one that we've
Speaker 2: not heard from in a while, Cinema Gild putting out
Speaker 2: a blu ray on December sixteenth of Hank Sing Sue's
Speaker 2: In Our Day from twenty twenty three. I've only ever
Speaker 2: heard great things about this one, have not had a
Speaker 2: chance to see it because Honk Sanng Sue releases it
Speaker 2: seems like a movie every four days. Four Oh my god,
Speaker 2: this one is going to have a conversation with Ki
Speaker 2: Ju Bong and Keiju Young. There is a trailer on
Speaker 2: here in a booklet with an essay by mattis Pinero
Speaker 2: and reversible art. This is a Korean film and it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be great. Yeah, I have not seen it.
Speaker 2: Next celebrating one hundred year anniversary in the one hundredth
Speaker 2: anniversary edition, even though it's only coming out ninety nine
Speaker 2: years after it came out nineteen twenty six. Is bou
Speaker 2: Guest getting a Blu ray release on November twenty fifth
Speaker 2: from I think this is a new company called film Preserve.
Speaker 2: It seems like they're an offshoot of the Rialta Report
Speaker 2: and possibly working with somebody from Paramount. I tried to
Speaker 2: find some better information, but I cannot find anything that
Speaker 2: they're hosting online anywhere, so more hopefully to come from them.
Speaker 2: I also have no word on extras on this. I
Speaker 2: have a feeling there are some considering this was a
Speaker 2: kickstarter project, but yeah, bo Guest with Ronald Coleman tell
Speaker 2: me about it, Connor, I feel like you've got some
Speaker 2: experience with some people here.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it, but it did play at the
Speaker 4: Senecon Film Festival this year, the restoration, so this restoration,
Speaker 4: so I missed it, but yeah, definitely, I've heard it's
Speaker 4: very good, so I'm glad it's finally coming to disc.
Speaker 2: Excellent the Legend of Ochi from this year getting a
Speaker 2: four K release overseas. This only got a Blu ray
Speaker 2: here in the US from A twenty four but It's
Speaker 2: getting a four K Blu ray and DVD from Entertainment
Speaker 2: in Video in the UK on October twenty seventh. You
Speaker 2: can pre order this now and yeah, we'll see if
Speaker 2: that's a big improvement over the A twenty four Blue.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 3: It was a fun movie.
Speaker 2: Nice. I've been dying to street. I heard the creature
Speaker 2: design is fun.
Speaker 3: Really great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the creatures are really impressed that they write that
Speaker 4: oach there is very cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun movie to you.
Speaker 4: That's very kind of like I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: not groundbreaking anyway, but some well done.
Speaker 3: Bondafoe always loves saying Won Dafoe.
Speaker 2: Always Another one from this year is Zeno xeno. I
Speaker 2: don't I've never heard anybody say this out loud. I
Speaker 2: always would say xenomorph, so I'm gonna say xeno. This
Speaker 2: is coming out November twenty fifth on Blu Ray from
Speaker 2: Blue Fox Entertainment. I've heard this was not bad. I've
Speaker 2: heard it wasn't ground same as Legend of OCHI. I guess,
Speaker 2: like not groundbreaking, but a fun take on this type
Speaker 2: of story. And yeah, I'd watch it.
Speaker 3: It's the tagline that reminds me of a Tarzan two words, one.
Speaker 2: Desk to me. I think we've gotten two singing moments
Speaker 2: from Connor Town. And our last announcement for the week
Speaker 2: is the Ice Storm from the Great Angley is getting
Speaker 2: a Blu ray release over in the UK on November
Speaker 2: twenty fourth. This is coming from Studio Canal. I am
Speaker 2: not seeing any extras for this one yet, but I
Speaker 2: think there's probably gonna be at least some archival ones
Speaker 2: on this. You can pre order it now. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing this one. It's supposed to be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Kevin Klein, Scorney Weaver, Christina Ricci. That's a hell of
Speaker 2: a cast.
Speaker 4: No, I never seen it, you're right, but yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a couple of angle if I that mess, you know.
Speaker 4: Obviously I have seen I love Crutch Tiger, Brooklyn Mountain,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I haven't seen a lot of his earlier
Speaker 4: work yet. Like I just saw what's it called, like
Speaker 4: the Wedding Banquet the remakes on that. I need traditional
Speaker 4: wedding Banquet.
Speaker 2: Now, same, definitely need to see it. That is it
Speaker 2: for announcements. Let's go into what is coming out next week.
Speaker 2: In case you forgot the big ones from Criterion next week.
Speaker 2: A History of Violence four K an Altered States four K.
Speaker 2: Now we good stress. These are a big deal, not
Speaker 2: only because they come out next Tuesday, but the Criterion
Speaker 2: Flash Sale will be happening next Tuesday as well on
Speaker 2: their website, so everything will be fifty percent off, including
Speaker 2: these brand new titles. So these four k's you can
Speaker 2: get at twenty five bucks. I believe these are both
Speaker 2: fifty dollars four ks. The A twenty four Eddington four
Speaker 2: K that was a site exclusive four K the Blu
Speaker 2: Rays released widely that is going to be out now.
Speaker 2: I think if you bought it from the site is
Speaker 2: probably shipped already. The Shout Factory No Spratu the Vampire
Speaker 2: four K is shipping now. The Place Beyond the Pines
Speaker 2: four K is one that I definitely need to get.
Speaker 2: The Clue four K steal book from Paramount is out there.
Speaker 2: Rampage four K from Keto another one I need to get.
Speaker 2: Trying to beef up my Freedkin collection. The ex Trilogy
Speaker 2: from A twenty four should be shipping here soon. Three
Speaker 2: and three Extremes from Arrow is out now. Pretty much.
Speaker 2: We've got the Shrouds from Criterion next week as well.
Speaker 2: Savage Is four K from Shout Factory, Furious Swords and
Speaker 2: Fantastic Warriors. The Chin Chay box set from Uh that
Speaker 2: was Eureka that put that out.
Speaker 3: Oh the a Bengelian movies very cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah are those are those the first release of that?
Speaker 2: Are those re released released? Yeah?
Speaker 4: They released by different company now G Kids I believe
Speaker 4: is re releasing them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. We got the Radio Land Murders from Keno
Speaker 2: my my vote for worst cover art in a long time.
Speaker 2: Relay is coming out next week. I really enjoyed the movie,
Speaker 2: but man, these aren't These aren't even like properly photoshopped.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was done in like MS paint
Speaker 2: is pretty bad. Uh. The X coming out from Keno,
Speaker 2: Larber and UH Dark Force Entertainment together. The last screening
Speaker 2: is not shipping from Terror Vision next week, I promise you,
Speaker 2: even though showing up there. We've got Project Genesis four
Speaker 2: K next week, Shakespeare ship Storm four K.
Speaker 3: From My Family. Fun shows by Mike Hero Academia Big Fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The anime shows.
Speaker 2: Overlord season one, Overlord Season two, Other Lord season three,
Speaker 2: Tulsa Teyor Is another one from VCI is coming out
Speaker 2: next week we got some standard editions Marley mattinin the
Speaker 2: documentary from Keno solely main story from Keno as well,
Speaker 2: and that is about it. Any of those anime titles
Speaker 2: worth picking up for people that have not checked them out.
Speaker 4: The Evangelian films are going back to Scott pugm takes
Speaker 4: off the idea of like taking a story and then
Speaker 4: the new story reinvents it. Exhibition direction that come. I
Speaker 4: don't know their first one, but that Evagilant did the
Speaker 4: similar thing. The show was really great from the nineties,
Speaker 4: and then they made his movies ten fifteen years later,
Speaker 4: where the first movie starts like, oh, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a straight remake of the show but a bigger budget.
Speaker 3: But then the second was like, we're going a whole
Speaker 3: different direction here.
Speaker 4: Now, you know, if I'm gonna remake the show as movies,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna takeet there's new things with it now. And
Speaker 4: that kind of divides on it's like, oh cool, new
Speaker 4: stories are like oh why didn't just stick to the story,
Speaker 4: but like, yeah, it's they're interesting there worth the work check.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're.
Speaker 4: A Evangelian fans, because just it's just to see how
Speaker 4: the you know, the artist has he's he's grown over
Speaker 4: ten years, he has new interests.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, well that's not works.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, definitely couple here that I'm gonna check out
Speaker 2: Gary Hat asking the comments about the nos Faratu release
Speaker 2: from Shout. As it turns out, yes, can confirm the
Speaker 2: Shout Factory nos Fratu four K looks leagues better than
Speaker 2: the d n RT to All Hell release that came
Speaker 2: out from BFI. I absolutely fully endorse the Shout Factory
Speaker 2: nos Fratu. Check it out if you are into that film,
Speaker 2: which you absolutely should be because it's a masterpiece. Tonight,
Speaker 2: because it's October, we are talking about obscure horror recommendation,
Speaker 2: So things that are not usually brought up in lists
Speaker 2: like this or in uh, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 2: fancy TikTok recommendation video or top ten releases in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two or whatever. These are ones that tend to
Speaker 2: be overlooked, forgotten, smaller. Many of these have probably gotten
Speaker 2: physical media releases at some point or still available. Check
Speaker 2: them out if they are. But we're gonna be going
Speaker 2: back and forth sharing a handful of them. Connor's got
Speaker 2: a few extra that I don't so, Connor, why don't
Speaker 2: we do your first two? Sure? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was definitely hard to you know, to narrow it down.
Speaker 4: So I was thinking, you know, what is obscure? How
Speaker 4: do you define obscure? You know, it's a tough thing
Speaker 4: to define. But first of all, Otto mentioned it's not
Speaker 4: a horror film per se. But my favorite, like halloween film,
Speaker 4: obscure allowing film is The Halloween Tree, the animated TV
Speaker 4: film in the nineties.
Speaker 3: Ray Bradbury aptation.
Speaker 4: Love that film, kind of my personal favorite, like Halloween
Speaker 4: Watch you know that and Something Something Wicked. This becomes
Speaker 4: just too great Bradburry aptations. They're really scary per se,
Speaker 4: but there's really autumnal and spooky and halloweeny.
Speaker 2: So definitely Something Wicked is getting a bunch of attention lately.
Speaker 2: I think it just showed up on streaming for.
Speaker 4: The first Yeah. Yeah, Disney Plus. They finally put it
Speaker 4: on Disney Plus. Like it was available, you could, you could,
Speaker 4: you could buy it from the iTunes, but they finally
Speaker 4: put on Disney Plus, which is always like, guys, you
Speaker 4: have Disney Plus, why did it take you six years
Speaker 4: toload it? Did you forget to click upload, Like what happened? Like,
Speaker 4: you own the movie, Disney, why was it taking you
Speaker 4: six years?
Speaker 3: Ridiculous?
Speaker 2: You you own the rights, Just press the button already.
Speaker 4: But like let me think, yeah, so here, so yeah,
Speaker 4: here's one like definitely in the same vein as like
Speaker 4: something becomes We've got Company Wolves a rate, you know,
Speaker 4: very fantastical dream like in the woods kind of film.
Speaker 4: Once again, I wouldn't knowly scary per se, but it's
Speaker 4: it's it's at wear wolves, it's got gore. There's an
Speaker 4: amazing scene we're like, well a werewolf transformation where the
Speaker 4: wolf literally comes out of his mouth. Incredible scene. So
Speaker 4: I adore this film. Neil Jordan, really great Irish filmmaker,
Speaker 4: one of his best films. And I'm so happy that
Speaker 4: there's this four K in blu ray from from Screen Factory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible performance from Angela Lansbury in this. And if
Speaker 2: you've if you've somehow never seen The Company of Wolves,
Speaker 2: this is really great gateway horror. Like this is one
Speaker 2: that's also on my list for my kids right now
Speaker 2: because it's there's like nothing offensive about this whatsoever. It
Speaker 2: is perfectly benign.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so yeah, all right, there you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've only got five, so after this one, I'll
Speaker 2: let you do too.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I went and grabbed one because the last time I
Speaker 2: showed this was a few years ago on the show,
Speaker 2: and people had never seen this. I think this is yes,
Speaker 2: it's a German release from NSM Records. This is a
Speaker 2: movie that came out what years I think it's like
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. You're gonna recognize a lot of
Speaker 2: the names associated with it, but many people have still
Speaker 2: not seen this. And I had to talk about this
Speaker 2: wonderful release of The Midnight Meat Train. This movie is
Speaker 2: so well done. It is a movie starring Bradley Cooper
Speaker 2: in a genuine horror movie about this weird thing that
Speaker 2: happens on a subway in New York after hours. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of blood, there's some creatures. This movie is
Speaker 2: great and not ever really discussed in the pantheon of
Speaker 2: like great creature films or even like great horror movies
Speaker 2: from the two thousands and beyond. I definitely think Bradley
Speaker 2: Cooper can act, and so he did very well in this.
Speaker 2: There's a couple other faces that you recognize. You'll probably
Speaker 2: recognize the director it's a hey kid mura. He's done
Speaker 2: a handful of other movies that you've definitely seen. I
Speaker 2: love The Midnight Me Train. Have you seen this one?
Speaker 4: No, I definitely, I definitely heard of it, but like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but you're right now. It feels almost like, oh, probably
Speaker 4: Cooper's in a horror film. It's one of those things,
Speaker 4: like right, it sadly one of those things like once
Speaker 4: you become famous, you don't do you don't go horrors,
Speaker 4: like a step down. It seems almost like I'm happy
Speaker 4: he made at least one horror film became before he
Speaker 4: became super famous, just like Johnny Depp as Nightmare.
Speaker 2: Great. You know, it seems like most people have at
Speaker 2: least one, and I always love Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's a smart an actor.
Speaker 4: You should do it a horror film because no matter what,
Speaker 4: horror fans will remember you for the rest of their ribs.
Speaker 4: They will always, So you should always do a horror
Speaker 4: film as an actor, because you never know.
Speaker 3: You need to sign autographs. Horror fans will want your autograph.
Speaker 2: Simner Is reminded me through that whole thing I did
Speaker 2: not say. But it is written by CLIVEE. Barker as well.
Speaker 2: Which is a really big sod point so.
Speaker 4: Not I don't know if it's obscure, but like Rawhead Rex,
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of raw Head Rex. I think
Speaker 4: it's a fun movie. It's silly, perhaps, but it's enjoyable.
Speaker 4: All right, Here's I'll do two together, two films kind
Speaker 4: of about like questioning reality and what's real and what's not.
Speaker 4: Paper House and they look like people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at people. Really great. I saw this at
Speaker 3: h I saw that slam Dance.
Speaker 4: I was there. I think I was there or I
Speaker 4: saw it right afterwards. But really great film about this
Speaker 4: two friends and one of them starts thinking that that
Speaker 4: there there's there's forces at work. He's like a paran
Speaker 4: Is he paranoid? Is he actually depicting? He believes people
Speaker 4: are shape shifters? And like is he right? Is he crazy?
Speaker 4: Really kind of creepy, very low budget, well done indie
Speaker 4: film Happy It's on blue right now from Yellow Veil Pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then paper House. This is the first film from
Speaker 4: the director of Candyman Bernard Rose. Really terrific film based
Speaker 4: on Believes based book, but about a girl who starts
Speaker 4: she has been dreams about what she draws. She draws
Speaker 4: a house and then she has a dream of a house,
Speaker 4: and she she dreams of the boy in the window,
Speaker 4: and then she then she goes back to the dream
Speaker 4: and the boys there, and the boy says we're in danger,
Speaker 4: like why are we in danger? And starts to turn
Speaker 4: into the nightmare. Really phenomenal film, uh kind of. It's
Speaker 4: on DVD in the US, but this is the French DVD,
Speaker 4: which has like interviews and like and more special features.
Speaker 4: So I really think it needs an American Blu Ray release.
Speaker 4: It's really overdue because it's a phenomenal film. If you
Speaker 4: like Candy Man. It's not the same kind of like
Speaker 4: dream like horror to it, but just for children.
Speaker 2: I had heard of this at some point, I think,
Speaker 2: and I totally forgot it this existed. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: wanted to see this ages ago, and I don't remember
Speaker 2: this ever popping up on streaming or physical media really
Speaker 2: like widely popular or anything.
Speaker 4: It's also the German Blu Ray. It's out there, but
Speaker 4: I really think it's overdue. I would love to see
Speaker 4: Vinegar Syndrome or Savern. I think we'll do a great job.
Speaker 2: With it, I imagine, So I mean, yeah, yeah, maybe I
Speaker 2: gotta admit, over the last few years, with Severn's deep
Speaker 2: dive into folk horror, especially international folks, Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: fallen in love with folk corp time and time again.
Speaker 2: I feel like every few months I'm discovering a new favorite,
Speaker 2: and there's one that does not get a lot of
Speaker 2: attention because people don't typically go to Indian films. But
Speaker 2: I really wanted to bring up twenty eighteen's Toumbad. This
Speaker 2: movie is so underrated, so underseen. It is bloody, It
Speaker 2: is genuinely scary. It is like this creepy folk horror
Speaker 2: around a guy that's obsessed with gold and he there's
Speaker 2: a lot of like a message about exploiting the earth
Speaker 2: in this and it's a really interesting take on folk
Speaker 2: core and I hope people see it. This is one
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of faith in it getting
Speaker 2: a US release. Unfortunately, a lot, especially modern Indian films,
Speaker 2: are really tough to put out because on one hand, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: the distributor might make some money, but it's crazy when
Speaker 2: you compare it to the fact that if they just
Speaker 2: re release the film themselves through like a theatrical run
Speaker 2: only in India, they'll make like five times the amount
Speaker 2: that they'll make compared to the physical media release in
Speaker 2: the States, And that alone is like, why do we
Speaker 2: even waste our time? We could just like do this
Speaker 2: one quick thing and make way more money. So it's
Speaker 2: it's rare that stuff like this is going to get
Speaker 2: a good release here, but toumbad it is. It is
Speaker 2: deserving way more than a lot of films. I feel
Speaker 2: like it definitely was able to pierce through ever so slightly,
Speaker 2: and the zeitgeist and those that have seen it really
Speaker 2: love it. It is a truly wonderfully made movie.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely, that's not very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of like Folkore, there's a great fulm my
Speaker 4: love called November from twenty seventeen. It's this black and
Speaker 4: white Estonian film. It's about sort of set you know,
Speaker 4: in the past in the woods, like a village during
Speaker 4: the plague, and it's about this the kind of the supernatural,
Speaker 4: how in how they all get involved in supernatural, Like
Speaker 4: there's you can sell your soul the devil at the Crossroads,
Speaker 4: and you can there are like these magical creatures called
Speaker 4: cross which are basically like human souls infused with like
Speaker 4: mechanical objects to like do your chores for you, and
Speaker 4: there's like a girl turns into a wolf. It's always
Speaker 4: got fantastical things involved, and it's beautifully shot black and white.
Speaker 4: Really a wonderful film. It's from a piloscope so you
Speaker 4: can get it on Blue RD, but I really wish
Speaker 4: that me. Honestly, I think it should be a Criterion collection.
Speaker 4: I think it's a phenomenal And really, if you love
Speaker 4: like Company Wolves, like, if you like you know, fantastical
Speaker 4: fairy tale horror film, really worth checking out.
Speaker 2: And I was just I'm not saying this one either.
Speaker 3: I've got to really great. And then I don't know
Speaker 3: is Alison's birthday? Is that folk horror? I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's folks.
Speaker 2: I don't know's it's folks.
Speaker 4: That's where I heard about it. Sorry, I did hear
Speaker 4: about it. Yeah, it's in the seven that one.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: I just watched that for the first time earlier this year.
Speaker 3: That's really terrific.
Speaker 4: You know, uh, small Australian horror film, but a girl
Speaker 4: and uh and her mysterious grandparents who are raising her
Speaker 4: for what purpose have they looking after and why do
Speaker 4: they really want to celebrate her birthday? And the boyfriend
Speaker 4: who starts slip wondering, I think your family is dangerous.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't trust them. Really good horror film, really creepy, great,
Speaker 4: incredible ending, what an ending?
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed that. Yeah, oh it is Novembers in
Speaker 3: the Severn Folk Corps A box two. Oh great.
Speaker 2: I think Eureka released it as well in excellent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, terrific. That's good to hear because it's yea, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Folk core. You're right, but you're right folk. Yeah, definitely'
Speaker 3: right it's folk core because.
Speaker 4: Like the whole like we reveal, like there's like the
Speaker 4: pagan ancestry to the film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's cool. I like that a lot.
Speaker 2: My next one is one that I swear I hear
Speaker 2: nobody talking about anymore. But I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of people, if they see it, would feel like this
Speaker 2: immense nostalgia for like early two thousand's horror comedy in
Speaker 2: a way. So picture this Texas chainsaw Masacer plus jeepers,
Speaker 2: creepers without a pedophile director plus Duel Good, and you
Speaker 2: get two thousand and threes. Monster Man. This is about
Speaker 2: two individuals driving this giant ass truck. It is funny,
Speaker 2: it is creepy. It is well made. It is kind
Speaker 2: of like similar to Tucker and Dale versus Evil in
Speaker 2: a few ways, because there's like some we we actually
Speaker 2: have no idea what's going on aspects to the film.
Speaker 2: Monster Man is quite silly, and I think that's one
Speaker 2: of the reasons why it gets overlooked. But watching it
Speaker 2: back now, it is so much more of what I
Speaker 2: appreciate because back, you know, before like we started to
Speaker 2: lose it in like two thousand or two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: but by about two thousand and four or five, everything
Speaker 2: was just we have to make everything for the cheapest
Speaker 2: amount possible, so we're not going like to any interesting
Speaker 2: looking locations. We're making this for as cheap as we
Speaker 2: can with like I don't know my grandma's backyard for
Speaker 2: the for the setting or something. But Monster Man looks good.
Speaker 2: It is fun. I think this got a Blu Ray
Speaker 2: release for Wicked Vision in Germany, and I feel like
Speaker 2: one on one Films may put it out at some point,
Speaker 2: but I've not verified that one. It is so good,
Speaker 2: it is definitely under scene. Highly recommend Monster Man. It
Speaker 2: is it is genuinely fun cool.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of like like a really kind of low
Speaker 4: budget once one bedroom or one br you ever heard
Speaker 4: of this? I think I have a bootleg, but yeah,
Speaker 4: this one, this one's fun. A shout out, toot my
Speaker 4: own horn here. I'm on this one actually on the
Speaker 4: special features. Because I had a podcast called One Week
Speaker 4: Only with my friend Carlos. We did like we specialized
Speaker 4: in reviewing small indie films and international films. So I
Speaker 4: saw this at Beyond Fest here in La if you're
Speaker 4: back in twenty I think in twenty nineteen. And then
Speaker 4: I interviewed the filmmaker for my podcast audio and then
Speaker 4: they said, hey, we're doing the Blu ray. Can we
Speaker 4: put your audio interview on the blue rays? Like, oh
Speaker 4: sure will so, yeah, that's I'm on the blue ray here.
Speaker 4: Sound very funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is not the one I was thinking of.
Speaker 2: But oh okay, well I I yeah. As soon as
Speaker 2: you said, I was like, no, way that this is
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 4: No, this is One's about a girl, a young woman
Speaker 4: who moved to Los Angeles and find an apartment one bedroom,
Speaker 4: and she starts to and it seems perfect.
Speaker 3: It's a lovely apartment building. Everyone's friendly.
Speaker 4: They do barbecues in the patio and then like, wait,
Speaker 4: maybe there's something wrong here. I don't I don't want
Speaker 4: to spoil them, but like, wait a second, everyone's a
Speaker 4: little too friendly.
Speaker 3: What's going on here? Very kind of very economical, you
Speaker 3: know this is all in one building.
Speaker 4: Uh, smart use of minimal resources, very cool, good ending.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So really just you know, looking for clever, low budget
Speaker 4: horror filmmaking. Definitely worth checking out.
Speaker 2: Well, it is in my Amazon I'm Kart and I
Speaker 2: will be watching you soon. That that's awesome that you're
Speaker 2: on the disc. That's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Another one going back to the international horror.
Speaker 4: I think it's good to point out in national horror films,
Speaker 4: Tiger's Not Afraid You love them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's good.
Speaker 3: I feel like once again, I feel like people know
Speaker 3: about it. But if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: Tiger's Are Afraid Mexican horror film by Isa Lopez. She
Speaker 4: did the new season of True Detective, but this is
Speaker 4: where her breakout film about children trying to survive with
Speaker 4: like dealing with cartel violence and then take some supernatural
Speaker 4: twists and turns really good, really creepy, really excellent film.
Speaker 4: So if you haven't seen it, definitely worth checking out.
Speaker 2: Some of the best child performances. Yeah, last twenty years
Speaker 2: by from her Yeah yeah mine. This is probably like
Speaker 2: the least obscure one on my list, but I really
Speaker 2: wanted to bring out this one because I think it's
Speaker 2: getting forgot in the whole, Like two thousand and nine
Speaker 2: to twenty sixteen, when we had this giant glut of
Speaker 2: fan footage films that were either really awful or like, yeah,
Speaker 2: passable at best. I think that there is a lot
Speaker 2: to discover in the Last Exorcism. This is starring Patrick Fabian,
Speaker 2: and I think Ashley Bell is her name. This movie
Speaker 2: is about Patrick Fabian thinking that he is like essentially
Speaker 2: living a lie. He's going out performing exorcisms and knows
Speaker 2: that it's fake, and he's faking it for those that
Speaker 2: he is doing it for, and he is going out
Speaker 2: to do his last one and somebody's documenting it, and
Speaker 2: of course because it's his last one, it ends up
Speaker 2: being very real. The acting of this is stupendous. Ashley
Speaker 2: Bell is like contorting her body in ways that are
Speaker 2: far beyond the limits of what human should be able to.
Speaker 2: I will say this movie has a really awful last
Speaker 2: like forty seven seconds, but just as long as you
Speaker 2: forget that, the rest of the movie is really great.
Speaker 3: Forty seven seconds.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's true, it's true, but it's it's a it's
Speaker 2: a pretty good story. I really like like the skepticism
Speaker 2: nature of it, and the found footage actually really works
Speaker 2: for this. I think it's important to tell us because
Speaker 2: it's it's essentially a mockumentary that goes wrong and that
Speaker 2: lends itself in a smart way to the medium, and
Speaker 2: really it has the found footage kind of breathe new
Speaker 2: life of the idea.
Speaker 4: Though I think found footage, I think you are right, it's
Speaker 4: kind of overdone, but it can be really effective. I
Speaker 4: honestly think two of the scare it my favorite movie.
Speaker 4: Its scare me the most, honestly are Blair Witch Project
Speaker 4: and The First Paramotivity. Like most ones do terrify me
Speaker 4: because they really, you know, because they.
Speaker 3: Do convince you it it's real.
Speaker 4: They convince you that this feels legitimate, it feels like
Speaker 4: it could have been I'm one making this, and that's
Speaker 4: that's that's always a hard thing, like if it's if
Speaker 4: you're scared, why are you still filming?
Speaker 3: But like those films make it work or I'm so
Speaker 3: caught up. I don't mind.
Speaker 4: But yeah, because like I think about this with horror films,
Speaker 4: like like.
Speaker 3: I love the fantastical horror.
Speaker 4: I know they don't they don't scare me in the
Speaker 4: sense that like I'm looking around the corner, but like
Speaker 4: they scare me because I love the all of the
Speaker 4: horror and the and the effects. But then there are
Speaker 4: films like you know, like what's it called fall from
Speaker 4: you know a few years ago? That's terrifying because that's
Speaker 4: like legitimately you could fall off a tower and die,
Speaker 4: Like is that not scary to you? Like, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: scary in a very realistic sense. There's no no goblins,
Speaker 4: no monstrous it's just yeah, falling to your death. That's terrifying.
Speaker 2: And some vultures. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So like you know, horror, it can be a you know,
Speaker 4: like what what is it scary?
Speaker 3: Because it actually makes you think, oh no, that can
Speaker 3: happen to me? Or is it scary? Like what if
Speaker 3: vampires it exist? That would be scary?
Speaker 4: Like And then you know, like here like two horror
Speaker 4: films that are kind of always like well, one's like
Speaker 4: comedy and one's kind of more just like kind of
Speaker 4: fun shlocky horror film.
Speaker 3: But they're both.
Speaker 4: But video stores, like you mentioned earlier, Video Store Day
Speaker 4: is this Saturday across the country. If you got a
Speaker 4: video store, guys, go check them out. Support your local
Speaker 4: video stores. So here's two video store horror films we've got.
Speaker 4: We've got Video Violence one and two. Hell yeah, and
Speaker 4: then we've got Beyond the Gates. It's very small.
Speaker 2: Gates is good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, So Video Violence to me, it's it's
Speaker 4: kind of iconic. It should be talked about more, but
Speaker 4: it's a iconic shot on video horror film. The best
Speaker 4: to yeah, one of the private probably one of the best.
Speaker 4: H Gary Cohen and and some actor friends. They made
Speaker 4: these like tiny lotw budget films back in the eighties.
Speaker 3: But it's about a key. It's a great story. I
Speaker 3: have a video store.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 4: It's set in the video store. So it's about a
Speaker 4: couple who own a video store and uh, someone returns
Speaker 4: unmarked movie and the movie is like of a tape
Speaker 4: of someone being murdered and who in the town did it?
Speaker 4: Who turned this tape in? And it's super low budget,
Speaker 4: you know, shot on video, but it's got a great
Speaker 4: you know, you know, can do spirit to it. It's
Speaker 4: got some fun commentary on eighties you know horror fandom,
Speaker 4: uh and and and and the whole idea was like
Speaker 4: he had parents who come in like, just does something
Speaker 4: have any violence in it? Not much for my kids,
Speaker 4: but no violence? Oh no, well yeah, is there any
Speaker 4: sex in the movie? I can't have anything sex? Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: no sex in the movie, but got tons of violence. Oh,
Speaker 4: violence is fine. It's almost no sex in the movie.
Speaker 4: It's like, it's so messed up. Your morality is so weird,
Speaker 4: so you want to make a film pointing that out.
Speaker 4: And then there were two almost do It's so much fun.
Speaker 4: Like it's also like goes even further into like a
Speaker 4: found footage movie.
Speaker 2: Almost.
Speaker 4: It's like a really good terrific I'm happy it's available
Speaker 4: now from Terror Vision. And then Yeah, Beyond the Gates,
Speaker 4: two brothers inherit their family's video store and find out
Speaker 4: that their dad's with it. Their dad's soul might be
Speaker 4: trapped in an evil VCR board game. Really fun, just
Speaker 4: kind of low budget for you know, low budget, but
Speaker 4: you know, does what it can. And Barbara Crampton as
Speaker 4: the evil host of the Big board game. She's fun
Speaker 4: and I love it because it was shot at this
Speaker 4: video store called Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee here in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles that's sadly closed during the pandemic. So for me,
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, look, I can relive that video store
Speaker 4: now through the movie.
Speaker 3: I can walk the shelves again, and I can still smell.
Speaker 4: It was a great, dusty, old video store with lots
Speaker 4: of VHS tapes, So I'm glad it was preserved on
Speaker 4: film in some way.
Speaker 2: I yeah, like, it's not like an amazing movie. It's
Speaker 2: clearly very low budget for modern movie, but for what
Speaker 2: they were trying to do, I feel like they were
Speaker 2: surprisingly successful for it. Not to mention I mean anything
Speaker 2: with Barbara Crampton, I'm gonna watch just, let's be honest.
Speaker 3: A great little small role from her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. My last one that I wrote
Speaker 2: down is a by far the funniest one on my list.
Speaker 2: I really love this one with some weird like nostalgia
Speaker 2: glasses on it now, which is hilarious because it's not old.
Speaker 2: This is from like twenty nineteen or twenty twenty. I
Speaker 2: think this is a movie that I went and got
Speaker 2: foot surgery and I was laid up for a week
Speaker 2: and in just a rotten mood and put this movie
Speaker 2: on and it changed the tone of my entire week.
Speaker 2: And that is the movie Benny Loves You. This is
Speaker 2: a splatter horror comedy, essentially like child's play done to
Speaker 2: the extreme way. That is a doll coming to life.
Speaker 2: And I will pan the camera ever so slightly. This
Speaker 2: red creature at the top here is actually Benny. I
Speaker 2: could probably pull it down. He's hanging out under animal.
Speaker 2: He's always watching over the show. He is hilarious. He's
Speaker 2: got like a bunch of little catchphrases. I think the
Speaker 2: movie is completely underseen. It's got a blu ray release
Speaker 2: from Dread Pictures. They're the same ones that put out
Speaker 2: the original Terrifier at first and it is just hilarious,
Speaker 2: way bloodier than you're ready for for like something that
Speaker 2: sounds childish. Just massive amounts of like limbs and blood
Speaker 2: flying against windows. It is so over the top and ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's a blast, super fun. It'll make you happy. Check
Speaker 2: it out. It's great.
Speaker 4: That's fun. Oh that's cool that it reminds me. That's
Speaker 4: a great bray More films. It's a fun horror calm
Speaker 4: called Hey, stop Stabbing Me, which is it's.
Speaker 3: From the writers.
Speaker 2: Yeah you see that. I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the writers of Song of a Hedgehog Movies and
Speaker 4: Violent Knight.
Speaker 3: But they're one of their earlier films.
Speaker 4: They made and wrote and directed about a guy who
Speaker 4: moves in with a serial killer.
Speaker 3: It's just it's such a funny, silly movie.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, to wrap it up, all right, I'm
Speaker 4: kind of just wrap other kind of things.
Speaker 3: Horror documentaries, I think I think that's the understanding.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, it's not a lot of them,
Speaker 4: but I mean, somebody's true crime is horror in some ways.
Speaker 4: So The Nightmare from Rodney Asher, uh, the director of
Speaker 4: Room two thirty seven. But this is a documentary about
Speaker 4: sleep paralysis and how people you know, see like sweet
Speaker 4: sleep browels demons in their sleep.
Speaker 3: And he had.
Speaker 4: So it's about injuring people and then kind of trying
Speaker 4: to film their nightmares and recreate them in real life.
Speaker 3: Very creepy.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: I host the screening of this because it turned ten
Speaker 4: years old here in La at the be Kind Video.
Speaker 4: We had Rodney there for a Q and A. Was
Speaker 4: fun to talk to him.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very creepy film.
Speaker 4: And there's a film called It's a film's called The
Speaker 4: Blackouts Experiment, The Blackout Experiments. It's a documentary about people
Speaker 4: who really love being scared. So there's a company you
Speaker 4: can sign up for where like you waive all rights
Speaker 4: to your safety and they will literally kidnap you and
Speaker 4: take you to a haunted house in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3: And I would never do this, but there's people who
Speaker 3: want this right Like, you.
Speaker 4: Can tell them I'm scared of like I'm scared of
Speaker 4: of snakes, and they'll purposely make it all about snakes
Speaker 4: just to make it as scary as popular.
Speaker 3: Why would you want this?
Speaker 4: But it's a fascinating documentary, And uh, so that's a
Speaker 4: scary documentary. I think it's a interesting little you could
Speaker 4: say it's a sub class. And then finally, animation. I
Speaker 4: love animation, so, uh there's a film called Wicked City.
Speaker 3: It's by what's his name? His name is Yoshiaki kawa Jiri.
Speaker 4: He's the director of Ninja's Scroll and he also did
Speaker 4: a film Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, which is also really great.
Speaker 4: But Ninja, we could say one of his first films
Speaker 4: because it's his first film. It's a film about there's
Speaker 4: a there's the human world and the demon world, and
Speaker 4: it's about two cops from both sides of a human
Speaker 4: cop and a female demon who has team up to
Speaker 4: save both their worlds from like being destroyed by darkness.
Speaker 4: And it's got lots of great gnarly monsters and body horror.
Speaker 3: Because I feel like, I feel.
Speaker 4: Like anime these days there's a lot of like anime
Speaker 4: has a perception of these days of being like that
Speaker 4: about high schoolers and action like Naruto or One Piece,
Speaker 4: you know, fun action shows and or high schoolers like
Speaker 4: anime in the eighties and nineties to have like even
Speaker 4: go to the shell adults and horror and violence, Like
Speaker 4: there's a lot of there's still some of that today,
Speaker 4: but I think there was. There was definitely a different
Speaker 4: kind of anime being made back then. So if you
Speaker 4: like really dark, r rated anime, checkout Wicked City. And
Speaker 4: then finally, you know, once again not super underrated these days,
Speaker 4: but Perfect Blue.
Speaker 3: You talked about it last week and I was like, ah, no,
Speaker 3: I have to buy it again because I have.
Speaker 4: This is the the the UK Animal limited box set
Speaker 4: with the storyboards. It's the Blu ray, but it comes
Speaker 4: with the whole storyboards, So now, like, do I need
Speaker 4: to buy the four K now too? But Perfect Blue
Speaker 4: Sosia CON's first film, a terrifying thriller about a young singer,
Speaker 4: termed actress who is being stalked online and she's not
Speaker 4: sure who the stalker is. She's they're basically trying to
Speaker 4: take over their life. Really great thriller, horror about fame and.
Speaker 3: Identity. Really terrific film if you haven't seen.
Speaker 4: But all Social Cons are my favorite filmmakers, all four
Speaker 4: of his films, and Paranoia Agent his TV show.
Speaker 3: It's a phenomenal show.
Speaker 4: You know, sadly he was he died far too soon,
Speaker 4: but what he left behind is some of the best
Speaker 4: animation of all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this movie and it's one of like
Speaker 2: less than five anime films I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Okay, all right, what have you seen? What
Speaker 3: have you seen?
Speaker 2: Literally like a couple of giblis and this okay and
Speaker 2: like TAM twenty ten Okay, yeah, not much else?
Speaker 3: Okay, did do you like? Do you like what you've seen?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Do you like the gibbly you've seen?
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean it's Shipley like he is a masters.
Speaker 3: Seen a couple though, so what you've seen?
Speaker 2: Uh uh no, I've still not seen Totoro Hell's Moving Castle.
Speaker 2: And then uh what is the other? There's at least
Speaker 2: one more the way it's not okay, no, it's like not,
Speaker 2: it's not one of the big ones. It might be
Speaker 2: pawn Panyo.
Speaker 3: Okay about the Little Fish Girl, I think so okay.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well you've got a Spirit of the Way,
Speaker 4: Prince Zaman okay, Grave of the Fireflies by the Great
Speaker 4: East South takahatah Man. Well, definitely, I think con is terrific,
Speaker 4: perfect blue. Then you've got Millennium Actress, which is like
Speaker 4: an actress looking back on her life and her career.
Speaker 4: Really beautiful, look at like twentieth century Japanese cinema. And
Speaker 4: you've got Toku Godfathers. Three homeless people find a baby
Speaker 4: and dumpster and they have to try and find his mother.
Speaker 4: Really on Christmas, gone Christmas Eve, really cool, fun Christmas movie.
Speaker 3: And then his last.
Speaker 4: Film, Paprika about a scientist and main machine where you
Speaker 4: can enter other people's dreams and of course someone steals
Speaker 4: it and starts train dreams and the nightmares. So cool, uh,
Speaker 4: what's his name? Mamoro Soda is a great anime director.
Speaker 4: He has a film called Summer Wars about a Basically,
Speaker 4: it's like what if an Ai got into Facebook and
Speaker 4: started messing with Facebook and like finding everyone log blocking
Speaker 4: bloud and just finding their you know, their house codes
Speaker 4: and turning off the water and messing with nuclear warheads.
Speaker 4: Like very very relevant film, maybe you know twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: Wolf's Children about a woman who gives birth to two
Speaker 4: children who can shape ship between wolves and humans and
Speaker 4: how they she has to raise them by herself because
Speaker 4: the husband died. Really beautiful film about motherhood and raising kids.
Speaker 4: A mind game by uh Misaki Yuasa. It's a crazy film,
Speaker 4: but three people will get swallowed by a whale and
Speaker 4: have to rethink their lives and if they want to
Speaker 4: escape or if they can escape. Oh man, and I
Speaker 4: love anime. So yeah, there's so many great anime out there.
Speaker 2: We found the spot for you at night? What hell?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, there's so much else there. Oh your name,
Speaker 3: that's a great one you should check out. Have you
Speaker 3: heard of your name?
Speaker 4: Okay, your name is a great one that went Everyone
Speaker 4: can enjoy that one time sort of a body swap.
Speaker 4: You know, high school fantasy romance really great.
Speaker 2: I need to just I'd love the marathon through a
Speaker 2: bunch of these. But the big thing is now instead
Speaker 2: of me getting withheld from I want to be able
Speaker 2: to share them all with the kids. I mean raised
Speaker 2: on Ghibili.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but Totoro pontio kiki.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I didn't really grow up with myself actually,
Speaker 4: like you know, I grew up with with you know,
Speaker 4: Disney films and Pixar films. I didn't discover Ghibli until
Speaker 4: maybe high school actually, so I came in late. I
Speaker 4: wish i'd grown up with Gibli Moore Base Now it's
Speaker 4: my favorite. My favorite film is my favorite filmmakers. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think those are some of the best things.
Speaker 2: You kid, excellent. Yeah, this has been This has been
Speaker 2: a fun topic. I think the the obscure things, yeah,
Speaker 2: brings out so many, so many different sides because it's
Speaker 2: easy to you know, talk about which Halloween is the greatest,
Speaker 2: but to find stuff that is buried below the surface
Speaker 2: is not something we always go to. Many of these
Speaker 2: like Monster Man, I haven't I haven't even thought about
Speaker 2: in ages and that movie is so fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I think, yeah, And I think that's.
Speaker 4: Why a lot of times when I'm looking for movies
Speaker 4: to watch, I'm looking for those like obscure cult films.
Speaker 4: I want to find a movie that like, show me,
Speaker 4: a movie that has devote fan base, and I want
Speaker 4: to because I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to. I want to join that fan But.
Speaker 4: Hopefully I love mood too, and I can be part
Speaker 4: of that fan base because yeah, like I keep meaning
Speaker 4: to watch the Halloween sequels.
Speaker 3: I love Halloween, but I've only seen Halloween one and
Speaker 3: Halloween three. I've never watched it. It was like I've
Speaker 3: always heard their other mixtures they're good, bad or whatever.
Speaker 4: Well, fine, I don't need to see those. Mind, now
Speaker 4: I'm watch I'm gonna check out some obscure stuff. I'm
Speaker 4: the those those hidden gems that excites me more usually. So, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think looking for the like I just watched them
Speaker 4: Kenny and Company recently, which is not really a scary film,
Speaker 4: but it's a film about two team related Yeah, but
Speaker 4: it's set in October and they and they go trick
Speaker 4: or treating a Halloween and they bought friendship and growing
Speaker 4: up and it's a fun little movie.
Speaker 2: Where's Blu ray people.
Speaker 3: Come on, I know I had to.
Speaker 4: Watch it on YouTube because vhs rip because I'm hopefully
Speaker 4: one day that gets an actual proper release.
Speaker 2: So yeah, good movie. Good movie. On that note, and
Speaker 2: speaking of exciting things, Uh, what are you doing for
Speaker 2: video store? To you anywhere that you got plans for?
Speaker 3: Well, if anyone's here in LA I'll be at vidiots.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The videots is doing there there.
Speaker 4: They've got a whole bunch of doing a sale of
Speaker 4: like I got a whole bunch of vhs and Blu
Speaker 4: rays they have for sale in their lobby. And then
Speaker 4: they're going to show three video store movies. They're gonna
Speaker 4: show The Water, which is a phenomenal great film about
Speaker 4: queer black filmmakers and also set mostly in a video store.
Speaker 3: Then we've got Ghost World.
Speaker 4: Love that film and it has a great scene where
Speaker 4: they go to they go like a chain video store,
Speaker 4: complain about nothing to watch, and then they're gonna show Scream,
Speaker 4: which of course has what's his name Jamie Kennedy Jimmy
Speaker 4: Kennedy working in a video store and yelling at the
Speaker 4: customers for not knowing things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So three good choices for videos from movies,
Speaker 4: because obviously, if you have you seen Video Heaven, the documentary.
Speaker 2: I have not finished it yet. I was given I
Speaker 2: was given a screener. I saw like half of it,
Speaker 2: and then my screener expired, no doubt, so I need
Speaker 2: to be able to see it. But well, speaking of
Speaker 2: that too, I should say, and I don't even think
Speaker 2: I've said this to you yet, You're the one that
Speaker 2: got me hooked on the movie. I love movies. Ay,
Speaker 2: I saw you talk about it and immediately when I
Speaker 2: need to check this out, and I watched it and
Speaker 2: got enamored with it. That movie is so first off,
Speaker 2: so Canadian. I love it so freaking like wholesome and
Speaker 2: like relatable in the most autistic ways. I just I
Speaker 2: love that movie so much. Everybody needs to watch I
Speaker 2: love movies.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just a great story about this, you know. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: definitely extremely relatable story about being an awkward teenager.
Speaker 3: And and.
Speaker 4: You know, finding solace in movies. Yeah, and also but
Speaker 4: some very heartfelt moments about friendship, friendship breaking up and
Speaker 4: what are you gonna do after high school? Like it's
Speaker 4: a really well bought out, really well written movie. Great performances. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just a huge fan of that film. I'm happy
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's out there. You can get it.
Speaker 4: It's on DVD, it's on streaming. But like I wish
Speaker 4: people would check it out because it's just a wonderful film.
Speaker 2: It's worth it. But yeah, since Connor's here, I will
Speaker 2: happily stress please go check out Video Story Day this weekend.
Speaker 2: Wherever you are, there's probably somewhere within I don't know.
Speaker 2: It might be a long drive. We'll say nine for something.
Speaker 2: Probably check out anywhere. I mean, if you're near Atlanta,
Speaker 2: go to Video Drome. If you're near Seattle, go to Scarecrow.
Speaker 2: If you are near any of the Vinegar Center archive stores,
Speaker 2: go it one of those. There is.
Speaker 4: Is Beyond Video in Baltimore, New York has not Film
Speaker 4: Noir Cinema Video and also the Animal Draft House. Locations
Speaker 4: around this country have video stores and their lobbies. Usually
Speaker 4: there's a bunch in La there's in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Speaker 4: there's a video store, the video Library. There's some there there.
Speaker 4: There are fine oh and we love video. Down in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2: There are out Saint Louis Static Tape Video and Muskegan, Michigan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there are places everywhere. There's a Viper video in Tampa,
Speaker 2: all kinds of places.
Speaker 3: So they're out there. Yeah, and they need your support.
Speaker 2: They do, especially now more than ever. And that's the
Speaker 2: hard thing is. I know it's easy to say go support,
Speaker 2: but even literally just to go browse or tell people
Speaker 2: about it is the kind of thing that he keeps
Speaker 2: these places open. Twenty twenty five is not easy to
Speaker 2: survive in for many in the world. It's not just
Speaker 2: you that's struggling. We're all hurting right now. So you
Speaker 2: don't even need to pay anything. But if you can
Speaker 2: and you want something, sure pick it up. But just
Speaker 2: keep in mind it's like the library. Literally, going and
Speaker 2: renting books will get them funding because they'll see that
Speaker 2: it's being used. So if you're going in there, give
Speaker 2: them your patronage, bring a friend, tell people about it,
Speaker 2: and celebrate Video Story Day. All right, On that note
Speaker 2: to Connor, this has been fun. Thanks for having Connor.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. Man, this is awesome.
Speaker 2: You got a hell of a week. We got we
Speaker 2: got a VHS announcement to cover, we got Criterion. You
Speaker 2: did real well this week. So thank you.
Speaker 3: I got lucky, real lucky.
Speaker 2: Well again. Check out all of the I hate to
Speaker 2: say it like this, but like almost every issue of
Speaker 2: the Physical Media Advocate has something from Connor. So there.
Speaker 2: There's even been what two or three times we printed
Speaker 2: two different things I know. Uh yeah, the next issue
Speaker 2: we got a Synicon piece coming up. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great time. Connor, thanks for all your contributions.
Speaker 2: You're amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and follow me guys on Instagram. I'm at VH
Speaker 4: VHS at VHS Spectacular. Uh you know, I'm posting all
Speaker 4: things about all things VHS, all things physical media, all
Speaker 4: things movie locations.
Speaker 3: I love going on.
Speaker 4: I was just in Pennsylvania went to the Monroeville Mall
Speaker 4: where they filmed on the Dead. But they say it
Speaker 4: sadly might be closed in the next year or two.
Speaker 4: So if you get chance, don't miss it. Go check
Speaker 4: out the Dead Mall.
Speaker 2: Yep, all the Connors links in the description below, including
Speaker 2: the Medium blog so you can follow everything. Thank you
Speaker 2: all for hanging out, and we'll see you next week
Speaker 2: for another big Halloween episode of Reconnected. We'll see you then.
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