Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[ryanmj1993]

I'm really hoping that the comedies recently bode well for Death Becomes Her. That is if they get another Universal deal. Speaking of Universal they need to get Psycho IV still.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

There are a great many 1970s and 1980s movies out there that could use Scream treatment, although many of them would require extensive work in the same way that The Final Terror did.
One such film that comes to mind right away is The Alien Factor (1978).

Wait, we're not talking about THIS Alien Factor, are we?

Cinematic Titanic - The Alien Factor - YouTube

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by RandyK

At this pace, it'll be 31.

Just reading the synopsis for Class of 1984 makes it seem like it fits the brand in the same way Assault on Precinct 13 does. Looking forward to checking it out.

I'm thinking the same thing. If there's another announcement tomorrow we'll know for sure

[BarnDoor]

I reckon we'll get 3 more separate announcements this month, with one being a double feature.

[TripleHBK]

Is there any connection outside of the similar titles between Class of 1984 and Class of 1999? I surprisingly enjoyed Class of 1999 last year when I first viewed it... not so sure about 1984 though.

Damn you Lionsgate, I'm begging to throw money at you and yet you do so little. It'd be nice if these recent box sets were a sign of collections to come though. Plenty of Lionsgates horror DVD releases came very late in that format, so perhaps the same thing will happen with Blu Ray. It'll be annoying having to buy Blu Ray collections with 3-4 unrelated movies per disk just to get them in HD, but I'll do it if it means I can get Chopping Mall, The Unholy, Waxwork, etc.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

Is there any connection outside of the similar titles between Class of 1984 and Class of 1999? I surprisingly enjoyed Class of 1999 last year when I first viewed it... not so sure about 1984 though.

Damn you Lionsgate, I'm begging to throw money at you and yet you do so little. It'd be nice if these recent box sets were a sign of collections to come though. Plenty of Lionsgates horror DVD releases came very late in that format, so perhaps the same thing will happen with Blu Ray. It'll be annoying having to buy Blu Ray collections with 3-4 unrelated movies per disk just to get them in HD, but I'll do it if it means I can get Chopping Mall, The Unholy, Waxwork, etc.

I'm thinking Lionsgate should just put out an Anthony Hickox 4 Film Collection to test the waters (Waxwork 1&2, Sundown, Warlock: The Armageddon).

Also, I'm surprised nobody mentioned this... I believe Class of 1984 is StudioCanal. EDIT: Nope. It is either Lester himself or Anchor Bay. Going with Lester...

[returnofthemack]

Originally Posted by demonknight

I'm thinking Lionsgate should just put out an Anthony Hickox 4 Film Collection to test the waters (Waxwork 1&2, Sundown, Warlock: The Armageddon).

Also, I'm surprised nobody mentioned this... I believe Class of 1984 is StudioCanal. EDIT: Nope. It is either Lester himself or Anchor Bay. Going with Lester...

I mentioned this in the leprechaun thread but I'll say it here as well. I need some warlock blu rays. Especially Warlock Armageddon, I like it better then the original and I find the original to be pretty entertaining. The dvd for WA is one of the worst dvds I've ever owned but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. I would love to see lionsgate get more active in releasing some of their excellent catalog titles.


On a more related note I watched the battery last night and I thought that the movie was really good. I could see how it might turn some folks off but I loved it and the runtime seemed to breeze by... And that ending... perfect.

[odriley]

I'm insanely happy about this announcement. Class of 1984 is one of my all time favorites. Im loving that they are doing a collectors edition for it.

[iank]

I'd like to see Class of 1999 myself. Any chance of that one?

[DenOfEarth]

2 nice announcments! i can't wait for Class of 1984 CE and Once Bitten/Love at first bite double feature, i always enjoyed them

Class does fit since they not only do horror and sci-fi but thrillers and suspense movies too remember?

[Talyn]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

There are a great many 1970s and 1980s movies out there that could use Scream treatment, although many of them would require extensive work in the same way that The Final Terror did.

One such film that comes to mind right away is The Alien Factor (1978).

It would also be fun to see possible high definition transfers of not-horror-but-close-enough titles, like The Teacher (1974) and Trip with the Teacher (1975).


For those of you familiar with The Teacher, I apologize profusely for making that theme song go through your head today with this post.

Would love to see Phantasm......or "My Science Project".....just sayin', just sayin'

I would have said God Told Me To but that's actually happening....

[cakefactory]

My Science Project was a Disney movie wasn't it?

[wickedmiranda]

I hope the Class of 1984 announcement means they are going down a more 'action'/exploitation horror route ala Assault on Prencint 13. There are so many amazing films during that period they could release. Those sleazy pre-Guiliani New York crime films (as well as their downtown L.A. counterparts) could get more horrifying and nasty than some of the slasher films around the same time. Tenement, Enemy Territory, Night of the Juggler, 10 to Midnight, Cruising, Driller Killer, Vice Squad, 3:15.

Speaking of which is Fear City now out of print or something? I really wanted to finally grab it but now its $40(?) at Amazon.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Wait, we're not talking about THIS Alien Factor, are we?

Yes, that's it.

I don't believe that The Alien Factor picked up any Academy Award nominations in 1978, but I still had fun watching it on television during childhood.

The movie lost some of its luster when I revisited it on one of the Mill Creek 50-movie sets a few years back, but the alien costumes are still pretty impressive.

I used to buy the Mill Creek 50-movie packs, sift through the stones to find the occasional jewel, and then sell the sets back to a local used store.

There were quite a few movies in those sets that stand out in my memory...

Let's see...

Naked Massacre (1976)
This is the most disturbing movie that I have ever seen in my life. A traumatized Vietnam vet terrorizes a group of beautiful nurses in a house and kills them one by one. I've seen worse when it comes to violence and visceral effects, but the emotionless and clinical way that the movie plays out is what freaks me out more than anything. I saw this one once, but I never want to see it again.

All the Kind Strangers (1974)
Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar play a couple who are stranded at a backwoods farm by a group of kids who kill random passerbys and dispose of their cars under the water of a nearby river. Not a great film, but an interesting one, to say the least. If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were remade as a Lifetime Channel/Disney flick, then the result might be along these lines.

Alien Contamination (1980)
Actor Ian McCulloch (Zombie) uncannily shares the same name with the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen, whom I consider to be the best vocalist of the 1980s. That irrelevant observation aside, this movie about a ship full of alien spores, drags its feet quite a bit, but it has an interesting concept.

Alien Prey (1981)
An alien lands, assumes the human identity of a man whom he kills, and then crashes at a remote house with an attractive lesbian couple. Chaos ensues. Imagine a gory version of The Man Who Fell to Earth, and you're not far off the mark.

The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
In the days before computer-generated images, there were quite a few dinosaur creature films with innovative and tangibly convincing special effects.
This movie is not one of them.

The Creeping Terror (1964)
A terrifying alien creature arrives on Earth with a clearly focused mission...to devour a lot of girls in such a way that the camera gets some decent upskirt shots while the girls are sticking out of the creature's mouth. This movie is pretty godawful, because the creature looks like a bunch of flex-pipes glued together. I read, at some point, that the real creature design was stolen from the studio the night before filming, hence the flex-pipe alien creation that was improvised on the spot. That wouldn't surprise me.

Galaxina (1980)
Dorothy Stratten was lovely, but this movie isn't quite as lovely.

(Imagine my surprise just now when I looked and found out that there actually is a Blu-ray double feature of Galaxina and The Crater Lake Monster. Just look at the cover art for Galaxina, but go no further. It's a bad movie.)

It's Alive (1974)
This is actually an honest-to-goodness decent film that could use a Scream Factory release. Babies are scary enough as it is, but this particular baby kills everyone in the delivery room, and then crawls into the city to kill again.

Funeral Home (1980)
This is another one that would not be too bad for a Scream Factory release.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by wickedmiranda

I hope the Class of 1984 announcement means they are going down a more 'action'/exploitation horror route ala Assault on Prencint 13. There are so many amazing films during that period they could release. Those sleazy pre-Guiliani New York crime films (as well as their downtown L.A. counterparts) could get more horrifying and nasty than some of the slasher films around the same time. Tenement, Enemy Territory, Night of the Juggler, 10 to Midnight, Cruising, Driller Killer, Vice Squad, 3:15.

Speaking of which is Fear City now out of print or something? I really wanted to finally grab it but now its $40(?) at Amazon.

I see you're from Australia. We have a much cheaper Region B (Shout's is locked A) release of Fear City on blu ray from Cinema Cult.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

It's Alive (1974)
This is actually an honest-to-goodness decent film that could use a Scream Factory release. Babies are scary enough as it is, but this particular baby kills everyone in the delivery room, and then crawls into the city to kill again.

100% certain this is a WB film.

Damn those Mill Creek packs are dodgy.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

100% certain this is a WB film.

Yes, according to this site's DVD listings, It's Alive and the two sequels are all Warner Bros. films.

I mean, I'm not in an emergency panic mode to have this movie on Blu-ray or anything, but it would be fun to see it helmed by Scream Factory in the format.

[Ruemorgue10]

Originally Posted by wickedmiranda

I hope the Class of 1984 announcement means they are going down a more 'action'/exploitation horror route ala Assault on Prencint 13. There are so many amazing films during that period they could release. Those sleazy pre-Guiliani New York crime films (as well as their downtown L.A. counterparts) could get more horrifying and nasty than some of the slasher films around the same time. Tenement, Enemy Territory, Night of the Juggler, 10 to Midnight,Cruising, Driller Killer, Vice Squad, 3:15.

Speaking of which is Fear City now out of print or something? I really wanted to finally grab it but now its $40(?) at Amazon.

I want all of those, plus the uncut version of Death Wish II.

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by wickedmiranda

Speaking of which is Fear City now out of print or something? I really wanted to finally grab it but now its $40(?) at Amazon.

As a Shout! Select title, it's sold exclusively through shoutfactory.com or through it's Amazon store Route 66. No international shipping though.

[davidthenikonuser]

Originally Posted by wickedmiranda

I hope the Class of 1984 announcement means they are going down a more 'action'/exploitation horror route ala Assault on Prencint 13. There are so many amazing films during that period they could release. Those sleazy pre-Guiliani New York crime films (as well as their downtown L.A. counterparts) could get more horrifying and nasty than some of the slasher films around the same time. Tenement, Enemy Territory, Night of the Juggler, 10 to Midnight, Cruising, Driller Killer, Vice Squad, 3:15.

Speaking of which is Fear City now out of print or something? I really wanted to finally grab it but now its $40(?) at Amazon.

Fear city is $16.99 at shouts site.