The Haunting of Winchester House AKA Horror House (2009) Blu-ray 3D [Region Free]

[Richard--W]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521787/

http://www.theasylum.cc/

The Asylum Home Entertainment Company produces extreme low-budget digital horrors written and directed by mostly first-time filmmakers and by the company's executives. Based in downtown Burbank, they have a lot chutzpuh, piggybacking home video titles like Snakes On a Train on the theatrical releases of studio productions like Snakes On a Plane, etc. Thus far, their only 3-D film is A Haunting In Salem (2010):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZOF48U?ie=UTF8&me=

Although typical of The Asylum's product, A Haunting In Salem was shot with two Red Ones aligned by a beam splitter. While I'm not saying it's perfect, the 3-D is authentic and expertly done. The depth is deeper than most contemporary films. To get the most out of the haunted house story, it helps to turn the sound off and just watch the film for its depth.

While searching for 3-D films on Euro amazon sites I came across another haunted house title by The Asylum released in anaglyph. So I emailed the company's Chief Operating Officer to ask if The Haunting of Winchester House were an authentic 3-D film and if it could be released that way domestically:

Richard,

Sorry it’s taken me so long to respond.

Thanks for writing.

The film was shot in actual 3-D.

We don’t currently have any plans to release it in BD, but we’ll definitely consider it.

Paul

From: Richard W[mailto:richardw]
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:02 AM
To: Paul Bales
Subject: regarding The Haunting In Winchester House

Mr. Bales, I remember you when you were running the indy department at SAG.

Regarding The Haunting In Winchester House. There is an anaglyph (red and blue glasses) version on DVD. Was the film shot in 3-D or converted after the fact to anaglyph? If it was shot in 3-D, I wish you'd release it on 3-D blu-ray, in the authentic stereo system. It would do very well selling to 3-D enthusiasts.

Since this email exchange, the film has been released on blu-ray by Echo Bridge, but not in 3-D. It is unusual for The Asylum not to release its own titles on home video. Let's everybody send an email to The Asylum requesting that The Haunting of Winchester House be released stateside in authentic 3-D for polarized viewing. If the 3-D is half as good as in their other film it will be worthwhile. Here are the addys:

Paul Bales, Chief Operations Officer
bales@theasylum.cc

David Michael Latt, Partner/Production Executive
latt@theasylum.cc

David Rimawi, Partner/Worldwide Sales and Strategic Planning
rimawi@theasylum.cc

[Zivouhr]

Thanks for the info. Would be interesting to see if it's eventually released on blu 3D.

[levcore]

I own Haunting in Salem and another one called Horror House, both in 3D. I thought they were both Asylum but perhaps Horror House isn't Asylum.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Richard--W

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521787/

http://www.theasylum.cc/

The Asylum Home Entertainment Company produces extreme low-budget digital horrors written and directed by mostly first-time filmmakers and by the company's executives. Based in downtown Burbank, they have a lot chutzpuh, piggybacking home video titles like Snakes On a Train on the theatrical releases of studio productions like Snakes On a Plane, etc. Thus far, their only 3-D film is A Haunting In Salem (2010):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZOF48U?ie=UTF8&me=

Although typical of The Asylum's product, A Haunting In Salem was shot with two Red Ones aligned by a beam splitter. While I'm not saying it's perfect, the 3-D is authentic and expertly done. The depth is deeper than most contemporary films. To get the most out of the haunted house story, it helps to turn the sound off and just watch the film for its depth.

While searching for 3-D films on Euro amazon sites I came across another haunted house title by The Asylum released in anaglyph. So I emailed the company's Chief Operating Officer to ask if The Haunting of Winchester House were an authentic 3-D film and if it could be released that way domestically

Since this email exchange, the film has been released on blu-ray by Echo Bridge, but not in 3-D. It is unusual for The Asylum not to release its own titles on home video. Let's everybody send an email to The Asylum requesting that The Haunting of Winchester House be released stateside in authentic 3-D for polarized viewing. If the 3-D is half as good as in their other film it will be worthwhile. Here are the addys:

Paul Bales, Chief Operations Officer
bales@theasylum.cc

David Michael Latt, Partner/Production Executive
latt@theasylum.cc

David Rimawi, Partner/Worldwide Sales and Strategic Planning
rimawi@theasylum.cc

I have The Haunting Of Winchester House on 3D blu-ray, it's freely available in Germany with English audio, though get the standalone disc and avoid the Horror House Box as the version on that disc only has a German dub. The third film on that disc, The Haunting Of Whaley House, is also only in German and is a conversion to boot.

I can't say I think much of the film or the 3D though, I wasn't impressed by Haunting In Salem either - they may have been shot in real 3D but neither uses it effectively and both are miserable failures when it comes to using the negative parallax.

Pretty much every Asylum film ever made is available in 3D in Germany, but apart from these two and Sex Pot they are all autoconversions. For completists only I'd say, but at the same time, if they can be released in Germany then they should be released everywhere...

Originally Posted by levcore

I own Haunting in Salem and another one called Horror House, both in 3D. I thought they were both Asylum but perhaps Horror House isn't Asylum.

Horror House is just an alternate title for The Haunting Of Winchester House - perhaps in an effort to trick people into buying the same film twice, Asylum films are often released in Germany under multiple titles...

[levcore]

Thanks for confirming mate, I guess I own both of them. Surprised the OP says Haunting of Winchester House wasn't available on 3D blu when one can order it from Germany.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by levcore

Thanks for confirming mate, I guess I own both of them. Surprised the OP says Haunting of Winchester House wasn't available on 3D blu when one can order it from Germany.

He says he was browsing Euro sites and came across the anaglyph version so I guess he just didn't spot the real 3D one. I feel really sorry for anyone trying to watch this one in anaglyph 3D...

[levcore]

I watched Horror in Salem and it was so boring and poor, i still haven't got round to the other one, apart from watching the start which was absolutely terrible.

[Richard--W]

I didn't see the Real D edition of Haunting of Winchester House when I was exploring Euro sites over a year ago. Only the anaglyph edition came up then. As a rule I do NOT watch anaglyph. Since I live in the U.S. I don't spend as much time on the Euro sites as some of you. As I stated in my initial post, the film is typical of The Asylum's product; that's my way of being tactful.

Had no idea The Asylum was converting its titles for the German market. It does seem to me that they are the one production / distribution company that is uniquely positioned to be making really good 3-D genre films on a regular basis. Yet that is precisely what they are not doing. Instead they are converting bad movies into bad stereo. What a waste.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Richard--W

I didn't see the Real D edition of Haunting of Winchester House when I was exploring Euro sites over a year ago. Only the anaglyph edition came up then. As a rule I do NOT watch anaglyph. Since I live in the U.S. I don't spend as much time on the Euro sites as some of you. As I stated in my initial post, the film is typical of The Asylum's product; that's my way of being tactful.

Had no idea The Asylum was converting its titles for the German market. It does seem to me that they are the one production / distribution company that is uniquely positioned to be making really good 3-D genre films on a regular basis. Yet that is precisely what they are not doing. Instead they are converting bad movies into bad stereo. What a waste.

My days of watching anaglyph 3D are done too, though I still hold on to a few (like Friday the 13th Part III) in the absence of real 3D versions.

The Asylum's films are almost entirely worthless and would certainly be enhanced by filming in 3D, proper conversions or at the very least cheesy pop-out 3D effects like the ones in Day Of The Dead 3D. But I suspect their conversions are all machine automated and no human ever touches them...

The problem with low budget effects-heavy 3D is that the effects are really hard to incorporate and often make your brain hurt. Night Of The Living Dead Re-Animation is a good example of how to do it wrong, with Hidden being a good example of how to do it right...

Originally Posted by levcore

I watched Horror in Salem and it was so boring and poor, i still haven't got round to the other one, apart from watching the start which was absolutely terrible.

Yeah, Haunting Of Winchester House and Haunting In Salem are both absolutely terrible. My brother was real mad with me for wasting his time when I watched the latter. If you must watch an Asylum film in real 3D then Sex Pot (aka Bikini Car Wash) is the most tolerable, but even that has some scenes that look messed up... (and avoid the anaglyph version, of course!)

[Richard--W]

Was SEX POT / BIKINI CAR WASH filmed in 3-D? or converted?


There's some good material in A HAUNTING IN SALEM. It has the virtue of relying on practical story telling with NO computer generated imagery, as I recall. With a slight tweak to the script and a minor adjustment here and there, it could have been a much better film. But some of the key decisions made in casting and execution are hard to fathom.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Richard--W

Was SEX POT / BIKINI CAR WASH filmed in 3-D? or converted?

There's some good material in A HAUNTING IN SALEM. It has the virtue of relying on practical story telling with NO computer generated imagery, as I recall. With a slight tweak to the script and a minor adjustment here and there, it could have been a much better film. But some of the key decisions made in casting and execution are hard to fathom.

Sex Pot was filmed in 3D: http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-p...ng-sex-pot-3d/

I agree that Haunting In Salem has a refreshing absence of the terrible CGI that Asylum films are known for, it should really have been a much better film, but this is The Asylum we're talking about after all...

[Jbug]

https://www.amazon.com/Horror-3d-Unc...n%3A2650305011

Here is another movie that has me curious. Anyone have this and if so how is it as a movie and how good is the 3D. It's region B and has a German and DTS 5.1 language track. I don't remember seeing this discussed here. I'm in the market for something new and not Hollywood.

[Impossible]

Looks like a terrible German 'conversion'.

[Jbug]

Originally Posted by Impossible

Looks like a terrible German 'conversion'.

I've heard they have some bad conversions but would still like to hear from someone who has seen it.

[RickStar]

It's just Haunting of Winchester House with an alternative title.

[Jbug]

Originally Posted by RickStar

It's just Haunting of Winchester House with an alternative title.

OK. Looked that up and I think I'll pass. I wish I could rent a few of these types of foreign movies.

[levcore]

Surprisingly solid 3D on this one. I watched the first half hour last night. It's cheesy and badly acted but the 3D is certainly helping the movie. Will report further when I've finished it.

[Richard--W]

Originally Posted by levcore

Surprisingly solid 3D on this one. I watched the first half hour last night. It's cheesy and badly acted but the 3D is certainly helping the movie. Will report further when I've finished it.

Thanks for the report.
Which edition did you watch?

[levcore]

The one that is just called Horror House from Germany. The movie isn't great but it has some decent stuff and a nice little twist at the end. The 3D varies in strength but there are a lot of good 3D scenes and shots in terms of depth, the director doesn't do much their the framing though to make the most of the 3D. It's not something I'll be rushing to watch again any time soon but the 3D is solid enough and the movie offers basic horror thrills and there were even some brief moments that reminded me of Lucio Fulci lol.

[Tonppa]

I'm trying to find out which movies from the low budget film company The Asylum have been shot in native 3D.

Seems to be very hard to find out information about this issue. For now I have found out these:

- Bachelor Night (2014) https://www.amazon.de/Bachelor-Night...dp/B00OBZLHOS/
- Haunting in Salem (2011) https://www.amazon.de/Haunting-Salem...dp/B007A23DIW/
- Haunting of Winchester House (2009) https://www.amazon.de/Haunting-Winch...dp/B0077HPUCM/
- Sex Pot (2009) https://www.amazon.de/Sex-Pot-Blu-ra...dp/B0093VY1ES/

Does anyboby know more Asylum 3D movies?