Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by Sunderland

Triple; anybody frequent these this thread that goes to Comic Con? I wonder if this thread of horror fans just might not be the group that the announcements are tailored too. Like maybe Comic Con is their chance to draw a new market to their label. For example, Drag Me is directed by Raimi who I think is pretty popular to comic book fans seeing as he made Spider Man 2 and well, Darkman makes sense for this reason too. Idk target age of Comic Con, but it could explain newer releases to draw in a younger crowd as well. I mean Garbage Pail Kids last year is kinda pop culture and then there's the Shout announcements with Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks as well as Pee Wee. Their announcements year round seem to draw fans to this thread at least looking for close to one or more releases each month. Plus 4k is latest thing especially since game systems are adopting it. Steelbooks had been an ongoing trend that people were clamoring for as well. To summarize, different audience maybe?

That's as good of an argument as any I suppose. If this is their mindset though I'd like to see them fully embrace it and go 100% for that market. Make all the announcements re-releases of big name films and make things nice and clear that their goal is to attract new buyers and that this "event" isn't for the core fanbase that has supported them since the beginning.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Sunderland

Triple; anybody frequent these this thread that goes to Comic Con? I wonder if this thread of horror fans just might not be the group that the announcements are tailored too. Like maybe Comic Con is their chance to draw a new market to their label. For example, Drag Me is directed by Raimi who I think is pretty popular to comic book fans seeing as he made Spider Man 2 and well, Darkman makes sense for this reason too. Idk target age of Comic Con, but it could explain newer releases to draw in a younger crowd as well. I mean Garbage Pail Kids last year is kinda pop culture and then there's the Shout announcements with Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks as well as Pee Wee. Their announcements year round seem to draw fans to this thread at least looking for close to one or more releases each month. Plus 4k is latest thing especially since game systems are adopting it. Steelbooks had been an ongoing trend that people were clamoring for as well. To summarize, different audience maybe?

This makes a LOT of sense and now I'm suddenly feeling a weird feeling of relief

[Merrik]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I just finished watching my Scream Factory Blu-ray of Species.

The problem with Species, if it even is a problem, is that I cheer for Sil the whole time.

Agreed I hadn't seen the film in such a long time that I kind of had forgotten about how much I wanted her to win. When you start the film off with what essentially amounts to trying to kill a scared child, you don't set the "good guys" up for too many victory laps in the eyes of the audience lol

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The cast of characters assigned to track Sil down, including the aforementioned Ben Kingsley, along with Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Forest Whitaker (Arrival, Platoon), Alfred Molina (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Boogie Nights, Spider-Man 2), and the sexy Marg Helgenberger (CSI), are likable enough, but their characters are trying to kill Sil, and, therefore, they suck and I want them dead.

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Species spawned a litter of sequels, none of which I have seen. I should remedy that someday.

I had me a Species marathon when I received the first in the franchise. I owned the other releases because I had already seen the first one (but so long ago) that I figured buying the sequels was fine. Thankfully Scream released this one and I was able to do all four basically back to back! The second one is a decent continuation I thought. The best of the cast from the original is back, which is nice. The third one hurts my brain to think about... how the second one and the third one are 0.1 away from each other in ratings on IMDB is absolutely beyond me lol. It's still nice to have for the whole series though. The 4th one I still haven't really made any decisions about. It's not as good as the first two, it's better than the straight to video cheap Canadian low budget television looking third one... but it's kind of an entirely different film all to it's own really. I can't quite figure out how much I like it... or don't like it. (The third one also has the least impressive transfer... there's quite a bit of blur and drag I found, which makes some of the darker scenes annoying to sit through, which could also be why the production felt so cheap... I mean... other than it was cheap obviously ).

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

This Scream Factory Blu-ray looks pretty fantastic, considering the fact that the film style was never particularly spectacular, in the way that many mid-1990s films never looked particularly spectacular. I've got nothing but good things to say about the 4K restoration.

Agreed! I said earlier in this thread somewhere that I was worried after seeing screen caps... that it appeared like a blue or teal tint had been applied or something, that maybe the transfer had been mishandled somewhere along the way... and then after watching it I realized for the hundredth time, and always seem to forget, that screen caps somewhere on the internet just really don't give the full picture... The transfer looks fantastic in my opinion, I was really impressed with it, very natural looking when it calls for it, the (somewhat dated) special effects come through nicely, great clarity, great depth... a really impressive effort.


Great review!

[splintersan]

I can't wait to revisit Species. Part 2 is my favorite but one is pretty damn good as well.

[travisbickle]

Bottom line... A SNDN CE was announced.

Therefore Scream Factory's SDCC was a success.

[babybreese]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW

Coming from Severin later this year.

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by Sunderland

Triple; anybody frequent these this thread that goes to Comic Con? I wonder if this thread of horror fans just might not be the group that the announcements are tailored too. Like maybe Comic Con is their chance to draw a new market to their label. For example, Drag Me is directed by Raimi who I think is pretty popular to comic book fans seeing as he made Spider Man 2 and well, Darkman makes sense for this reason too. Idk target age of Comic Con, but it could explain newer releases to draw in a younger crowd as well. I mean Garbage Pail Kids last year is kinda pop culture and then there's the Shout announcements with Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks as well as Pee Wee. Their announcements year round seem to draw fans to this thread at least looking for close to one or more releases each month. Plus 4k is latest thing especially since game systems are adopting it. Steelbooks had been an ongoing trend that people were clamoring for as well. To summarize, different audience maybe?

There's also a matter of timing. SDCC, seemingly, comes too late in the year for Scream Factory to make their big title announcements for September and October, probably the biggest two month period of the release calendar for a horror-centric label. Instead, those announcements are made in the weeks leading up to SDCC and the convention gets a bunch of intermittent titles that will be released after the Halloween season, but well before the following Halloween season.

[Donl1282]

Originally Posted by travisbickle

Bottom line... A SNDN CE was announced.

Therefore Scream Factory's SDCC was a success.

The SNDN series had so much potential with a killer Santa joining iconic horror villains like Leprechaun, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, etc but they drove the series into the ground starting with SNDN 2. Why didn't they make a real sequel instead a halfquel with half the movie being flashbacks to the original.

[skinjob69]

Over the moon with the SNDN announcement! One of my favorite films of all time.

I'm cautiously optimistic they are able to locate and scan the full uncut version to HD. Also, considering the film's rich controversial history, it should easily justify a 2 disc feature packed edition.

'You see Santa Clause tonight, you better run boy! You better run, for your life!'

[BluRayBuddy98]

Did everyone receive the duplicates email, even if you yourself didn't receive duplicate shipments?

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by BluRayBuddy98

Did everyone receive the duplicates email, even if you yourself didn't receive duplicate shipments?

Nope... no e-mail (and no duplicates).

[BluRayBuddy98]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

Nope... no e-mail (and no duplicates).

Yeah I got it...makes me think I'll have to send those duplicates back or they'll end up charging me

[LeeFanatic007]

I received duplicates, but did not get the email.

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by BluRayBuddy98

Yeah I got it...makes me think I'll have to send those duplicates back or they'll end up charging me

They can't charge you for items you didn't order.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/article...ed-merchandise

[travisbickle]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

The SNDN series had so much potential with a killer Santa joining iconic horror villains like Leprechaun, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, etc but they drove the series into the ground starting with SNDN 2. Why didn't they make a real sequel instead a halfquel with half the movie being flashbacks to the original.

I actually like part 2 alot. A cheese classic.

3-5 suck, 3 being the worst. An absolute snoozefest...

[GasmaskAvenger]

Yeah, the Monte Hellman helmed entry is reeeeaaaaaally bad. Which really sucks since it not only has Ben Horne, but also the lead chick who's not Naomi Watts in "Mulholland Drive". It also commits the biggest sin of not having ‎Bill Moseley go all out as Ricky after filling in the legendary Eric Freeman's shoes. Should've been the best recast in slasher film history, but Hellman screwed the pooch with that one.

The one Brian Yuzna directed was alright and so was the one with the killer robotic toys, though.

[El_Fez]

Originally Posted by LeeFanatic007

I think a lot of us were hoping that Scream/Shout had made a new deal with somebody, because they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel over at MGM, I'm sure Universal has some good stuff, but they only do a deal with them every 5-6 months it seems.

The annoying thing is that there's still a ton of Cannon horror that hasn't been released yet that should be controlled by MGM. Why not hit something like Alien from LA or America 3000?

Mind you, they did just announce a better edition of Cyborg, so that's a plus in my book at least.

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by travisbickle

I actually like part 2 alot. A cheese classic.

3-5 suck, 3 being the worst. An absolute snoozefest...

And yet I'd love a box set of all of them if possible.

[SMOOT]

Originally Posted by Jobla

I hope that MATINEE will have the MANT! film as a separate featurette.

I agree.

Mant as a featurette is on the old Laserdisc and I hope it will be on the Blu-ray.

[GasmaskAvenger]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

And yet I'd love a box set of all of them if possible.

Me too.

Maybe with a re-release of the 2012 pseudo remake (featuring Malcolm McDowell, Knives Chou and Harvey Bullock) re-encoded on a BD-50 too.