The Mothman Prophecies (2002) - March 31, 2021 - Imprint Films

[DawnShadow]

***Note that this is not actually a worldwide first, it has been released multiple times in multiple territories including Australia***

A WORLDWIDE FIRST ON BLU-RAY!
After his wife dies in a bizarre car crash, a newspaper reporter finds himself in a small town, where a series of strange events may be linked to a mysterious creature.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
Audio Commentary by Director Mark Pellington
Making Of featurette
Half Light music video by Low
Deleted Scenes
Search for the Mothman Documentary
Day By Day – A Director’s Journey Pt 1: The Road In documentary
Day By Day – A Director’s Journey Pt 2: The Road Home documentary
Theatrical trailer
English DTS HD 5.1 surround
Optional English subtitles
Limited Edition slipcase on the first 1500 copies.
*More bonus materials to be announced

This is a pre-order title and will be dispatched in the week leading up to its March 31st release date. Special features and artwork subject to change.

Imprint No 39

Pre-order : https://viavision.com.au/shop/the-mo...ophecies-2002/

[Clark Kent]

An underrated movie. Hard to categorize in terms of genre. Somewhat of a thriller but far more dramatic and haunting in tone.

[Alister_M]

This should be good, I avoided all previous releases of this film because they were half-assed cash-in jobs.

[Monterey Jack]

Can't wait. Tremendously underrated and eerie film.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Can't wait. Tremendously underrated and eerie film.

Yes I agree. Deserving of a 4K release although wishful thinking on my part.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by Alister_M

This should be good, I avoided all previous releases of this film because they were half-assed cash-in jobs.

And this will be the same, an outdated old master, unless all you care about it meaningless extras. After a strong start, Imprint has been massively disappointing with using existing transfers that look terrible. Day of the Locust was an absolute travesty and a complete waste of money.

[Davidian]

Just quoting myself for posterity in regards to the German title cards on the Madman:

Originally Posted by Davidian

Unfortunately in this case Madman/Viavision just released what they were given without too much forethought. taking the German master meant a couple of burnt in titles were not able to be translated:

I.E: "2 Jahre spater" - 2 Years Later AT 17 mins in, and later "Wenn das Light aufleuchtet, druke 0 fur ,,Nachricht" at 1 hour 21 mins. (They're may be more.)

Expecting this to be the same.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

An underrated movie. Hard to categorize in terms of genre. Somewhat of a thriller but far more dramatic and haunting in tone.

It's part of the horror genre.

[InuYashaCrusade]

I'll most likely give this a buy. I've got the Madman/Viavision release but I love the packaging on this.

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

And this will be the same, an outdated old master, unless all you care about it meaningless extras. After a strong start, Imprint has been massively disappointing with using existing transfers that look terrible. Day of the Locust was an absolute travesty and a complete waste of money.

I'll be happy enough with lossless audio and a lack of random German subtitles. The old Via Vision release had plenty of extras, that was never the issue.

[DawnShadow]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

And this will be the same, an outdated old master, unless all you care about it meaningless extras. After a strong start, Imprint has been massively disappointing with using existing transfers that look terrible. Day of the Locust was an absolute travesty and a complete waste of money.

How did they have a strong start? They did the same thing with Sorry Wrong Number (also arguably made it worse) and that was in Wave 1.

[PaulBerriman9]

Good film! I have an old Aussie local DVD release.
I really wanted to get the ViaVision bluray but just missed it. I'm actually surprised they are claiming in the Imprint press release that this is a worldwide first bluray when it was Viavision themselves who released it a couple of years ago!

[THS]

For U.S. folks, now available for Preorder at Deep Discount:

https://www.deepdiscount.com/mothman.../9337369024639

[StrayButler91]

I really, really hope that Via Vision is dragging this one out again because they sourced a better HD master without the burnt-in German subtitles... I mean, most of us called them out on the German subtitles, so you'd think they wouldn't be dumb enough to do it again...

Right?

Right?!?

Anywho, holding out for a canary to grab this one and report back.

[Davidian]

I seriously doubt it.

[Monterey Jack]

Pre-ordered from Deep Discount. With their 15% off coupon, I shaved a hair over $5 off the price, plus with Paypal funds, managed to get it down to $22 and change. Can't wait to own this.

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by StrayButler91

I really, really hope that Via Vision is dragging this one out again because they sourced a better HD master without the burnt-in German subtitles... I mean, most of us called them out on the German subtitles, so you'd think they wouldn't be dumb enough to do it again...

Right?

Right?!?

Anywho, holding out for a canary to grab this one and report back.

Audio is lossless this time, presumably the DD track from the old one was all they could get when porting the German master, so by that logic it should be an entirely different encode surely.

[Neutron82]

I emailed them about the transfer, here is their response:

"Unfortunately, I do not have further details of the picture quality for our The Mothman Prophecies release at this stage but should know more closer to its release date on the 31st of March."

[Member-222782]

Waiting for Diabolik to put this up for preorder. I could go with Deep Discount but they drag their feet too long. I don't care if it's an old master - as long as it's coming to Blu-ray. Maybe Shout will put it out at some point but I don't feel like waiting.

[hepburn13]

According to JB Hifi, the release date is now 28 April 2021