Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[k_huntington]

Originally Posted by Wickerman1972

So if you order from SF's site do they always show up with slips ....?

nope. i ordered Prison and Deadly Blessing from them, no slips. i was able to acquire slips elsewhere though after the fact.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Wickerman1972

Anybody ordered Shout Factory titles from Amazon and get screwed on slipcovers? Wondering cuz I'm considering ordering The Funhouse, The Howling, Pumpkinhead, and They Live but am having a tough time deciding if I want to order from Amazon or directly from Shout Factory. Partially because of free shipping I can get em cheaper from Amazon but am concerned about whether or not they'll have slipcovers and Amazon's tendency to ship out media that is in wrecked condition. But then again I don't know how good of condition titles ordered from SF tend to arrive in cuz I've never ordered from them before.

you're not getting "screwed" on slipcovers... you have the choice to pay a few bucks more when the titles come out and then for sure you get one... if you cheap out and wait forever you're really not entitled to them...

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Wickerma[RIGHT

[/RIGHT]n1972;9960428]Thanks for the replies. So if you order from SF's site do they always show up with slips and in good shape?

Not necessarilly.

[nousefouraname]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

you're not getting "screwed" on slipcovers... you have the choice to pay a few bucks more when the titles come out and then for sure you get one... if you cheap out and wait forever you're really not entitled to them...

Yeah, I don't get how someone would think they are getting "screwed". You're talking about movies that came out almost 3 years ago in some cases. You're not guaranteed anything.

And, what makes it more shifty is the crazy slipcover people that order copies from places like Amazon with the sole purpose of stealing the slipcover and then returning the item guaranteeing that the next person doesn't get one. Some do it to sell, some do it because the one they originally got has a tiny ding on it.

I get OCD, but above all, I'm glad I never got obsessed with slipcovers. Honestly, I have saved the scream factory ones that I have, but they are in a box. I don't even display them with the slipcover. Maybe I'll sell mine someday.

FWIW, I just got Prince of Darkness from Amazon with slip a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't in perfect shape, but it was pretty good.

[Mr. Thomsen]

Originally Posted by dsman71

Well you said you have no inside knowledge and thats your downfall right there. I talked to a person who knows and IS in the business and knows Arrow is a rich UK company. They don't even need the money to do their USA business. Rich companies don't want people to know their rich...its actually a pretty good strategy.

If that source is Bill, then he pretty much labels anyone who is more succesful than him as 'rich'. This includes the likes of Vinegar Syndrome and Synapse.

[StingingVelvet]

This site should be renamed slip-cover.com.

[kngtmat]

Originally Posted by dissention

Making Contact would be better paired with this:

I really like that film. The last time I saw it was a Library VHS they don't have any more. I even made a wish list thread for it and hope someone like Scream was able to get it.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

This site should be renamed slip-cover.com.

what would really be great is having the MOD's transfer all slip cover questions to one thread.. that way everyone can laugh at the combined total of "does this come with a slip cover" questions on a daily basis!

[jdw89]

Is VP II worth getting?

[k_huntington]

Originally Posted by nousefouraname

I get OCD, but above all, I'm glad I never got obsessed with slipcovers. Honestly, I have saved the scream factory ones that I have,

same hear. i hate slips ordinarily, beacuse its more trouble to get to the disc, and the art is just redundant. but the scream ones on the CEs are nice because they can display a completely different cover if you flip the inserts. so thats a nice touch. any other slip covers, i just generally don't care for.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

This site should be renamed slip-cover.com.

I'm all for this.
Formats come & go, slipcovers are eternal.

[kataxu36]

So i watched The Battery and i thought it wasn't that great. Why do people like this movie so much? I found it really slow with a really bad ending..

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by jdw89

Is VP II worth getting?

Do you like Vincent Price? Do you like horror films from that era?

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by k_huntington

same hear. i hate slips ordinarily, beacuse its more trouble to get to the disc, and the art is just redundant. but the scream ones on the CEs are nice because they can display a completely different cover if you flip the inserts. so thats a nice touch. any other slip covers, i just generally don't care for.

Yeah, same here. I use slips when they're different from the inside artwork. Iron Man and Penny Dreadful are two other examples. Otherwise I put them in a drawer.

Even for Scream ones though I don't really care much. If I got a disc in the mail without one I would just pick a cover and put it on the shelf. The disc is what really matters.

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by Mr. Thomsen

If that source is Bill, then he pretty much labels anyone who is more succesful than him as 'rich'. This includes the likes of Vinegar Syndrome and Synapse.

No actually it is not Bill

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by jdw89

Is VP II worth getting?

Do you have two arms, two legs, 2 eyes and a nose ?

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

what would really be great is having the MOD's transfer all slip cover questions to one thread.. that way everyone can laugh at the combined total of "does this come with a slip cover" questions on a daily basis!

Too bad blu-ray.com doesn't have a slipcover forum.

Oh wait...it does:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=157

I guess it's too bad the slipnuts can't be bothered to read more than one page of this thread (if they did, they wouldn't ask the same question four times per day) or be bothered to actually use the slipcover thread.

And it's a legitimate question: Why do the mods allow this increasing cascade of slipcover questions when a slipcover forum exists?

Most of the topics involving Scream releases on the entire message board have been rendered useless by these off-topic slip discussions.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Dex Robinson

And it's a legitimate question: Why do the mods allow this increasing cascade of slipcover questions when a slipcover forum exists?

There's honestly so much slip-cover hysteria on here it would be a full time job to move all of it to that sub-forum.

[Thomas Irwin]

Originally Posted by Wickerman1972

Anybody ordered Shout Factory titles from Amazon and get screwed on slipcovers? Wondering cuz I'm considering ordering The Funhouse, The Howling, Pumpkinhead, and They Live but am having a tough time deciding if I want to order from Amazon or directly from Shout Factory. Partially because of free shipping I can get em cheaper from Amazon but am concerned about whether or not they'll have slipcovers and Amazon's tendency to ship out media that is in wrecked condition. But then again I don't know how good of condition titles ordered from SF tend to arrive in cuz I've never ordered from them before.

Just a heads up. I ordered The Funhouse from the recent sale at Shout and it came without a slipcover, though YMMV.

[demonknight]

To the people complaining about the slips...