Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

During my lunch break today, I bought Squirm and Final Exam from Movie Stop.

The packaging of Squirm looks great, with the slipcover art and the disc art. I'm really looking forward to revisiting this movie again for the first time in a few years. I saw this film repeatedly during childhood, and I even owned the old DVD edition.

Final Exam was a blind buy, but it comes from the early 1980s magic era of slasher films.

You now, you're really lucky to still be able to walk into a store and buy this stuff. Nothing beats the thrill of walking out of store with movies as opposed to waiting around for the mailman. Online shopping is made out to be this perfect thing but there's so much that can go wrong, like ordering from a retailer that only ships via DHL, which takes forever. Waiting in a line with an armload of movies used to be one of my favorite pastime

[nousefouraname]

Originally Posted by demonknight

Sense is made. If it had features, I may be coaxed to buy Poltergeist III (as 2 is my favorite of the trilogy).

Yeah, it'd have to be a double feature. I don't know that I'd have the appetite to buy II and III seperately at Screams prices. Maybe II as I avoided the previous bare bones release, but certainly not III. They just aren't good enough to warrant separate releases like Psycho II and III. A double feature for $19.99, I could handle and certainly want at this point.

They could really sweeten the deal with a couple of in depth featurettes on the series as a whole though. This series has been devoid of really anything like that. Even the supposed 25th anniversary edition of the first one had literally zero features on the series.

If Scream could somehow put together a decent package of interviews with cast members (where they happen to talk about the series as a whole even though the first movie wouldn't be included), it would be a day 1 sort of thing for me.

[jthefrank]

Originally Posted by cine74

You now, you're really lucky to still be able to walk into a store and buy this stuff. Nothing beats the thrill of walking out of store with movies as opposed to waiting around for the mailman. Online shopping is made out to be this perfect thing but there's so much that can go wrong, like ordering from a retailer that only ships via DHL, which takes forever. Waiting in a line with an armload of movies used to be one of my favorite pastime

...or accidentally using the wrong shipping address, and having no way to modify the order, and getting no response from the seller :\

The stores do have their perks

[spawningblue]

I hope the deal was with Universal, that may explain the transfer materials comment as well. Universal has so much gold to mine, Scream needs to make a deal with them to survive, as the recently announced double features (Mind you I enjoy several of them), and a few small deals here and there won't keep them a float. With Kino, Arrow, and Twilight all taking titles from MGM there just isn't too many quality titles left. With Warner supposably releasing some Hammer titles next year, I would love Scream to release a Hammer collection with what Universal has. Hell, I'd be happy of a re-release of this collection on Blu:

Hammer Horror Series, The - The Franchise Collection
- Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961)
- Phantom of the Opera, The (1962)
- Paranoiac (1963)
- Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
- Nightmare (1964)
- Night Creatures ( Captain Clegg ) (1962)
- Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by willo007

What's left

@ MGM?

1973 Raw Meat
1984 The Terminator - Collector's Edition
1986 Troll
1986 Manhunter - Collector's Edition
1988 I, Madman
1989 After Midnight
1991 Sometimes They Come Back
1993 Malice
1994 Needful Things
1995 Species - Collector's Edition / or Box Set
1998 Disturbing Behavior
1999 Stigmata
2001 Hannibal - Collector's Edition
2004 Bubba Ho-tep

@ FOX

1982 The Entity - Collector's Edition
1988 The Fly II
1990 Frankenstein Unbound - Collector's Edition
2006 The Tripper
2007 Perfect Creature - Collectors Edition

Obligatory title to throw in:

1988 Fright Night Part II

Between MGM and Amazon Instant Video:

1. The Beast with a Million Eyes
2. Beyond the Door III
3. The Brain that Wouldn't Die
4. Breeders
5. Burn Witch Burn
6. Burnt Offerings
7. Creature
8. Cry of the Banshee
9. Dance Macabre
10. Dark Tower
11. Dead of Winter
12. The Dunwich Horror
13. Edge of Sanity
14. The Falling (aka Alien Predator)
15. Highway to Hell
16. House of Long Shadows
17. House Where Evil Dwells
18. Howling II
19. The Immortalizer
20. It! The Terror from Beyond Space
21. Lady in White
22. Lemora, the Lady Dracula
23. Madhouse
24. The Man from Planet X
25. The Mephisto Waltz
26. Monster Dog
27. Murders in the Rue Morgue
28. The Oblong Box
29. Pale Blood
30. Panga
31. The Resurrected
32. The Return of Dracula
33. The Rift
34. Scream and Scream Again
35. The Screaming Skull
36. Shredder
37. Solarbabies
38. The Spell
39. Spellbinder
40. Spellcaster
41. Sugar Hill
42. Superbeast
43. Tales of Terror
44. Theater of Blood
45. Time Bomb
46. Tintorera
47. The Tomb
48. Twice Told Tales
49. The Vampire
50. Vicious Lips
51. Voices
52. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
53. Zone Troopers

That's still missing a bunch of stuff like that MGM doesn't seem to have catalogued online or that I simply overlooked.

[dsman71]

I doubt its any Hammer horror titles from Universal - they just re-released all their titles .. on DVD but that's major studio logic for you

They did say often requested. Something else to consider is Criterion did license some titles from Warner.. could Shout Factory have done the same ? Probably not likely but just throwing it out there.. Critters is often requested.. so is Bubba Ho Tep.. Rawhead Rex and the titles Zbinks mentioned... all are requested a lot...
If its an MGM deal maybe Bubba Ho Tep and Return of Count Yorga are the two titles - part of a new deal with MGM..

If its with Universal I could see them going after The Thing (despite all the times it was shot down) and Village of the Damned..

It sure is fun trying to figure this stuff out

[DetroitSportsFan]

As for Critters, WB is planning a new digital series for the franchise, so I expect them to release at least the first and second films on Blu.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=124271

[captainjoe]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

As for Critters, WB is planning a new digital series for the franchise, so I expect them to release at least the first and second films on Blu.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=124271

Does digital series mean it's a computer animated series or is it live action distributed digitally?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by captainjoe

Does digital series mean it's a computer animated series or is it live action distributed digitally?

Distributed digitally. It could be live action or CGI.

[demonknight]

Got my copy of Lifeforce today. I'm watching it Friday night.

[Terrorfirmer]

Originally Posted by Undeadcow

I know Scream has more Collector's Editions to announce but part of me wonders if they're not stepping away from the higher price point titles and de-emphasizing special features relative to before. Double features seem to retail for $19.99 as do many non-Collector's Editions (versus $29.99 Collector Editions). Maybe this is a result of plowing through top tier titles they had convenient access too or just coincidental nature of recent announcements rather than a shift of production focus.

i doubt theyre moving away from their collector edition format, i think theyre just getting out everything they can from mgm and looking for new deals...maybe theyve made enough to pry some stuff away from lionsgate (wishful thinking)

[JMDiaz718]

Wish they'd release some older tv movies. Would love to see A Cold Night's Death, Snow Beast (77), It Happened At Lakewood Manor, Curse of the Black Widow, etc..

[Donl1282]

@Fox
Out of list of Fox titles, what about Omen IV the Awakening?

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by demonknight

Got my copy of Lifeforce today. I'm watching it Friday night.

You are in for a good time. I saw it for the first time a few months ago and totally fell in love with it. Hopefully you like it as much as I do.

[Mystic]

Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

Wish they'd release some older tv movies. Would love to see A Cold Night's Death, Snow Beast (77), It Happened At Lakewood Manor, Curse of the Black Widow, etc..

Curse of the Black Widow would be a great title for Scream Factory to pick up.

[CrazyHorse42]

Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

Wish they'd release some older tv movies. Would love to see A Cold Night's Death, Snow Beast (77), It Happened At Lakewood Manor, Curse of the Black Widow, etc..

A double bill of both Kolchak movies - Night Stalker & Night Strangler - would be great and I'm sure would be a popular release for Scream.

[Alfredlynch]

Maybe they've found a way to get The Hitcher.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by RodChester

You are in for a good time. I saw it for the first time a few months ago and totally fell in love with it. Hopefully you like it as much as I do.

I already know I do. $15 is too much for a blind buy for me.

[JMDiaz718]

Originally Posted by CrazyHorse42

A double bill of both Kolchak movies - Night Stalker & Night Strangler - would be great and I'm sure would be a popular release for Scream.

Yes!! That would be an awesome double feature.

[jaws3dfan]

Originally Posted by zbinks

Between MGM and Amazon Instant Video:

1. Monster Dog

Monster Dog would be great if they could obtain the original Alice Cooper Voice tracks