TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE/GIANT LEECHES now available from Retromedia

[Jobla]

In stock at Amazon right now is a new Retromedia widescreen two-fer Blu-ray release of TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE and THE GIANT LEECHES.

[DaBargainHunta]

How is the PQ/AQ?

Teenagers From Outer Space is a fantastic '50s b-movie.

Leeches would be a blind buy.

[revgen]

Based on screenshots from previous Retromedia releases posted at DVDBeaver, I'm not too encouraged to buy.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film6/blu-r...an_blu-ray.htm

[RalphoR]

Leeches was always a Saturday afternoon spooker for me so I'll get it after I hear about the picture quality.

[babybreese]

Retro usually release digital dung.
Love to see a quality transfer of LEECHES but this won't be it.

[NoirFan]

I didn't have any issues with Alien Factor or Alien Dead, but Octoman was a disaster, and their other double-feature discs were all average. Still, I enjoy the two films enough (for, not in spite of, their limitations), so I shelled out the 17 clams.

[The Great Owl]

I just placed an Amazon order for...

Teenagers from Outer Space/The Giant Leeches
The Ape/The Black Raven
The Mysterious Mr. Wong/The Living Ghost

I'm assuming that the order issues with The Ape/The Black Raven have been remedied by now.

[evilive]

I may bite. I've seen Leeches only once and remember liking it.

[Gorgon]

Both "Leeches" and "Teenagers" are in the Elvira Coffin Set, which, though in dvd, make them all the more fun for me!
I'll pass on this (at least until I hear word on PQ/AQ).

[WaverBoy]

Review anyone?

[Zillamon51]

Originally Posted by Gorgon

Both "Leeches" and "Teenagers" are in the Elvira Coffin Set, which, though in dvd, make them all the more fun for me!
I'll pass on this (at least until I hear word on PQ/AQ).

If you care about PQ, you can't be happy with the Elvira set. Those are some very poor DVDs, blocky and pixelated like '90s video downloads. I understand her format has its own draws, but there's no reason for the episodes to look like that.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Review anyone?

It just started shipping today, so no reviews yet.

[Gorgon]

Originally Posted by Zillamon51

If you care about PQ, you can't be happy with the Elvira set. Those are some very poor DVDs, blocky and pixelated like '90s video downloads. I understand her format has its own draws, but there's no reason for the episodes to look like that.

No argument, quality sucks but then, so do most of the fliks in the set..
The fliks are not the only reason I bought it. The cheesy camp humour Elvira injects keeps the ball rolling.

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I just placed an Amazon order for...

Teenagers from Outer Space/The Giant Leeches

Any updates on PQ/AQ? Thanks!

[sa5150]

update of the leeches ?

[Q-Tip]

I also wanna know what the PQ is like. I like both these bad flicks. Haha

[babybreese]

Tim Lucas says the double bill is 'nice looking' and there is a decent looking widescreen cap on his blog.
Other posters @ CHFB have stated reports from FB say LEECHES is from 16 mm,
and their viewing seems to bare that gauge out as the source.
Still looks like this might be one of Fred's better blu's.
http://videowatchdog.blogspot.com/20...t-leeches.html

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Any updates on PQ/AQ? Thanks!

Oops. I haven't watched it yet. It's in my still-unwatched stack, where it might stay for a while.

[WaverBoy]

Finally got round to ordering this, found it for original retail price of $17.99 at Forbidden Planet, $24 with shipping. I’ll post my thoughts after watching.

[WaverBoy]

Got this in today. Both films are mastered from 16mm. Teenagers from Outer Space has nice detail and decent contrast but there are a few splices, some lines here and there, and a fair amount of speckling. Still, this is the best I’ve ever seen it; waaaaaay better than the old Scream Gems VHS I had back in the day. And I must not have ever watched it all the way through because I only remembered the opening scenes. I gotta say, this is now one of my fave no-budget ‘50s sci-fi/monster films. Perfectly, wonderfully cheesy, with charmingly amateurish but earnestly played acting, an extremely junky-looking flying saucer and a fascinatingly ridiculous giant monster, the film is well paced and pretty brutal, with one of the highest body counts I’ve seen in a ‘50s genre flick. The handsome good alien boy and the absolutely adorable Earth girl have great chemistry together. The dialogue is insanely goofy. Some of the same library music from Night of the Living Dead turns up on the soundtrack. And somehow it all just works. Very glad to have finally watched this scrappy little homemade gem in its entirety, because it RULZ.

Attack of the Giant Leeches looks to be in much better shape; after the opening scene and credits it looks quite nice with a minimum of speckling, lines or splices, and good detail for 16mm, if perhaps slightly softer looking than its co-feature. Again, by far the best I’ve ever seen it (I had a Scream Gems VHS of this one too, and perhaps one from Sinister Cinema as well). This one I had seen a few times before, and the seedy schlocky entertainment value is still there. Yvette Vickers is sexier than ever, and the swampy atmosphere, low-rent repulsive leech monsters and the weird noises they make still deliver the psychotronic goods. This drive-in cult classic is a much more professional polished low-budget product compared to the co-feature, as one would expect from the AIP team (Roger Corman’s brother Gene produced).

The unrestored soundtracks get the job done, with dialogue perfectly intelligible throughout and no real discernible distortion. The included trailers could be much better quality, especially the terrible-looking one for Teenagers that looks like a bad pixelated download, but at least they’re on there.

So, for these two it’s just film in, film out, with no restoration, but they look the best they ever have, and they’re entertaining as all hell. And somehow I don’t think they’ll be getting remastered from original 35mm elements any time soon. This most welcome release is highly recommended to all MonsterKids.