Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread - Page 3721 - Blu-ray Forum

DukeTogo84 · 01-01-2021, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by philip74

I`m curious if there will be a few March or April announcements before February

March titles were announced a few weeks ago. Pretty much nothing in terms of catalogue titles. It sounds like we won't get much for April either.

Captain.Monkey · 01-01-2021, 04:52 PM

Lol does anyone hope for Ghost and The Darkness?

I feel its the perfect release so not sure why Shout hasn’t obtained the rights oe someone has tried to release it?

therealjondoe · 01-01-2021, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain.Monkey

Lol does anyone hope for Ghost and The Darkness?

I feel its the perfect release so not sure why Shout hasn’t obtained the rights oe someone has tried to release it?

I'd love that .
Such an underrated film

bkhage01 · 01-01-2021, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain.Monkey

Lol does anyone hope for Ghost and The Darkness?

I feel its the perfect release so not sure why Shout hasn’t obtained the rights oe someone has tried to release it?

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Originally Posted by therealjondoe

I'd love that .
Such an underrated film

I love that movie too. I was just contemplating purchasing that on Vudu since it hasn't been released yet. If I do, you all can thank me because then it will probably be announced!

Michael24 · 01-01-2021, 06:16 PM

I would love to have The Ghost and the Darkness.

jonali · 01-01-2021, 06:35 PM

New site listing for a "4 Cult Thrillers promotional blu-ray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/4-Cul...lu-ray/283788/
Cross my fingers Creature and The Philadelphia Experiment will be released soon...

Savage_Blu · 01-01-2021, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonali

New site listing for a "4 Cult Thrillers promotional blu-ray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/4-Cul...lu-ray/283788/
Cross my fingers Creature and The Philadelphia Experiment will be released soon...

Interesting.... Would day 1 both Creature & Philadelphia Experiment as well. Even if its a 4 movie DVD or BD budget release..

dwk · 01-01-2021, 06:56 PM

Um, they've lost the rights to Ninja III and I, Madman, so I don't think that is going to be released.

Dailyan · 01-01-2021, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonali

New site listing for a "4 Cult Thrillers promotional blu-ray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/4-Cul...lu-ray/283788/
Cross my fingers Creature and The Philadelphia Experiment will be released soon...

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Originally Posted by Savage_Blu

Interesting.... Would day 1 both Creature & Philadelphia Experiment as well. Even if its a 4 movie DVD or BD budget release..

The user that made that listing has made other "collection" listings that do not exist.

Savage_Blu · 01-01-2021, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dailyan

The user that made that listing has made other "collection" listings that do not exist.

*sigh*
Skunked on Creature again.

Thanks for the info...I had a feeling it was bogus based on Ninja III and I Madman.

Member-222782 · 01-01-2021, 08:36 PM

Boo. Overzealous member? Troll? What?

TripleHBK · 01-01-2021, 11:41 PM

So what's the recourse for such a transgression? Do we ask a mod to take the listing down, or... Do we have some fun with those entries and go and tweak the few he's created to better reflect what we think of them?

Personally I think we need to change the titles and bundle id's to something a bit more racy. As Dailyan pointed out, he's created a few of these compilations. My guess is that he's burning bootleg .mkv's with the aforementioned titles on a single disc and this is how he's tracking what he owns. It might make for a bit of fun to swap out some titles on those listings.

ravenus · 01-02-2021, 04:52 AM

Saw The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas last night on the Shout blu. Scientific adventurer Peter Cushing in Tibet meets up with an American party headed by Forrest Tucker to look for the mythical Yeti. Cushing slowly realizes that Tucker is basically in for the money, looking to capture the creature and put it on show. He tries to dissuade him, but without much avail. As the party heads deeper into Yeti territory, they are either more prey to delusions in the rarefied atmosphere or the Yeti are a more advanced race than previously imagined, able to drive their would-be captors to madness and death.

NIgel Kneale's screenplay has interesting additions to the Yeti legend. Cushing brings his customary dignity and rigor to the part, and Tucker proves a good foil, giving his character more depth than the usual caricature villain. I feel the film moves a little too hurriedly for its own good - with a slower progression they could have achieved a more subtle depiction of the men's descent into fear. For a Hammer film, some of the location shoot is stunning (I understand none of the actors were actually there, and it was all second unit work). It's generally mixed well with the Bernard Robinson sets and believable as a whole. The sound design is the Achilles heel, not doing enough to bring the atmosphere of the mountains to the studio shoots.

The Shout transfer is quite decent, although of course, the SD inserts are a significant step-down in quality. I feel there might have been some better encoding but that's a minor nitpick. The audio has limitations too. Some of it is inherent to the film's age and rapid style, dialog from characters with different accents flying fast, but it felt boxy and muddled sometimes. The subtitles (thick and yellow) drop the ball in some instances (either using wrong words or simply giving up) - the person who did this was a lazy ass. Extras include the trimmed fully HD version of the film, a decent look-back with Hammer aficionado Jonathan Rigby, a World of Hammer episode concentrating on Peter Cushing (it's just a collection of clips with a bare narrative by Oliver Reed), short Trailers from Hell piece with Joe Dante, film trailer and image gallery (which is a single video that plays stills from the film).

I love the front cover and the inside art based on original poster work.

lildemon666 · 01-02-2021, 05:35 AM

You think next year we fans will get the ultimate Hellraiser set with all films? The rights revert back to Barker and SF knocked it lit of the park with Halloween and Friday the 13th and they know fans will pick this set up if done right loaded with extras especially the later sequels.

My wish list for the set
4K scans of films 1/2/3/4
R and Unrated cuts of 3
Bloodline “true” directors cut with extra footage and in order with directors vision and theatrical cut.

omahajon · 01-02-2021, 03:26 PM

I'd like to make an amendment to any Best of 2020 lists including my own, with Brides of Dracula CE. I picked it up on street date but I got super busy at work for Nov/Dec and finally watched it last night.

While we all were still high off that F13 set, this is perhaps one of their finest CEs. Stellar PQ, amazingly in-depth and robust amount of extras, this might be their finest Hammer release. The movie is in my Top 10 of Hammer horror too.

Z0mbicide · 01-02-2021, 06:20 PM

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-K...4643/#Overview

For people talking about Creature... is this 3-pack legit? I see no one talking about it. Is this a BD-R that everyone avoids or something, or are the transfers VHS ripped garbage?

Savage_Blu · 01-02-2021, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Z0mbicide

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-K...4643/#Overview

For people talking about Creature... is this 3-pack legit? I see no one talking about it. Is this a BD-R that everyone avoids or something, or are the transfers VHS ripped garbage?

Check out page 9 here:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...=199585&page=9

Apparently its BD-R and Creature is an upscale rip of the Widescreen Directors Cut DVD director William Malone put out In 2015 before MGM stepped in and shut it down. I've always been curious about that 3 pack from SGL....

Sometime last year I asked Kino Insider about the possibility of getting Creature licensed from MGM. See page 10 of the thread I posted above.

Malone has his own 35mm print of the film, but it seems rights issues are holding it up, which is a shame. Funny how that happens with low budget films. Creature is a top 10 favorite movie of mine, and my #1 grail release..

Rayjg · 01-02-2021, 08:11 PM

It’s too bad that crappy release will scare most labels away from giving all three films the releases they deserve.

JMDiaz718 · 01-02-2021, 09:41 PM

Can’t believe it’s 2021 and we still don’t have HD releases of Kong ‘76, Fright Night Part II, Dawn of the Dead ‘78, Blood Beach, Day of the Triffids ‘63, Scared to Death ‘80 or Alligator in the US.

xXx$uicide_Ma$terxXx · 01-02-2021, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

Can’t believe it’s 2021 and we still don’t have HD releases of Kong ‘76, Fright Night Part II, Dawn of the Dead ‘78, Blood Beach, Day of the Triffids ‘63, Scared to Death ‘80 or Alligator in the US.

DOTD has a BD but it's just been OOP forever.

01-01-2021, 04:52 PM	#74402
Captain.Monkey Expert Member Member since:Apr 2016 4K collection:146 Blu-ray collection:389 DVD collection:13 Trading Score:11	Lol does anyone hope for Ghost and The Darkness? I feel its the perfect release so not sure why Shout hasn’t obtained the rights oe someone has tried to release it?

01-01-2021, 06:16 PM	#74405
Michael24 Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Nov 2009 Location:California 4K collection:11 Blu-ray collection:552 DVD collection:164 Trading Score:2	I would love to have The Ghost and the Darkness.

01-01-2021, 06:35 PM	#74406
jonali Senior Member Member since:Oct 2011 4K collection:424 Blu-ray collection:3514 DVD collection:20	New site listing for a "4 Cult Thrillers promotional blu-ray: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/4-Cul...lu-ray/283788/ Cross my fingers Creature and The Philadelphia Experiment will be released soon...

01-01-2021, 06:56 PM	#74408
dwk Blu-ray Ninja Member since:May 2010	Um, they've lost the rights to Ninja III and I, Madman, so I don't think that is going to be released.

01-01-2021, 08:36 PM	#74411
Member-222782 Blu-ray Archduke Member since:Jun 2012 4K collection:645 Blu-ray collection:4556 DVD collection:474 Trading Score:140	Boo. Overzealous member? Troll? What?

01-01-2021, 11:41 PM	#74412
TripleHBK Blu-ray Duke Top contributor Member since:Aug 2012 Location:Lincoln, NE Home Theater Gallery:52 4K collection:249 Blu-ray collection:3649 DVD collection:742 Blu-ray reviews: 17 Trading Score:47	So what's the recourse for such a transgression? Do we ask a mod to take the listing down, or... Do we have some fun with those entries and go and tweak the few he's created to better reflect what we think of them? Personally I think we need to change the titles and bundle id's to something a bit more racy. As Dailyan pointed out, he's created a few of these compilations. My guess is that he's burning bootleg .mkv's with the aforementioned titles on a single disc and this is how he's tracking what he owns. It might make for a bit of fun to swap out some titles on those listings.

01-02-2021, 04:52 AM	#74413
ravenus Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Dec 2010 Location:India Home Theater Gallery:6 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:1205 DVD collection:144 Blu-ray reviews: 184 Trading Score:8	Saw The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas last night on the Shout blu. Scientific adventurer Peter Cushing in Tibet meets up with an American party headed by Forrest Tucker to look for the mythical Yeti. Cushing slowly realizes that Tucker is basically in for the money, looking to capture the creature and put it on show. He tries to dissuade him, but without much avail. As the party heads deeper into Yeti territory, they are either more prey to delusions in the rarefied atmosphere or the Yeti are a more advanced race than previously imagined, able to drive their would-be captors to madness and death. NIgel Kneale's screenplay has interesting additions to the Yeti legend. Cushing brings his customary dignity and rigor to the part, and Tucker proves a good foil, giving his character more depth than the usual caricature villain. I feel the film moves a little too hurriedly for its own good - with a slower progression they could have achieved a more subtle depiction of the men's descent into fear. For a Hammer film, some of the location shoot is stunning (I understand none of the actors were actually there, and it was all second unit work). It's generally mixed well with the Bernard Robinson sets and believable as a whole. The sound design is the Achilles heel, not doing enough to bring the atmosphere of the mountains to the studio shoots. The Shout transfer is quite decent, although of course, the SD inserts are a significant step-down in quality. I feel there might have been some better encoding but that's a minor nitpick. The audio has limitations too. Some of it is inherent to the film's age and rapid style, dialog from characters with different accents flying fast, but it felt boxy and muddled sometimes. The subtitles (thick and yellow) drop the ball in some instances (either using wrong words or simply giving up) - the person who did this was a lazy ass. Extras include the trimmed fully HD version of the film, a decent look-back with Hammer aficionado Jonathan Rigby, a World of Hammer episode concentrating on Peter Cushing (it's just a collection of clips with a bare narrative by Oliver Reed), short Trailers from Hell piece with Joe Dante, film trailer and image gallery (which is a single video that plays stills from the film). I love the front cover and the inside art based on original poster work.

01-02-2021, 05:35 AM	#74414
lildemon666 Power Member Member since:Jun 2009 4K collection:982 Blu-ray collection:2451	You think next year we fans will get the ultimate Hellraiser set with all films? The rights revert back to Barker and SF knocked it lit of the park with Halloween and Friday the 13th and they know fans will pick this set up if done right loaded with extras especially the later sequels. My wish list for the set 4K scans of films 1/2/3/4 R and Unrated cuts of 3 Bloodline “true” directors cut with extra footage and in order with directors vision and theatrical cut.

01-02-2021, 03:26 PM	#74415
omahajon Power Member Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Omaha 4K collection:189 Blu-ray collection:1702 DVD collection:193 Digital collection:4 Trading Score:1	I'd like to make an amendment to any Best of 2020 lists including my own, with Brides of Dracula CE. I picked it up on street date but I got super busy at work for Nov/Dec and finally watched it last night. While we all were still high off that F13 set, this is perhaps one of their finest CEs. Stellar PQ, amazingly in-depth and robust amount of extras, this might be their finest Hammer release. The movie is in my Top 10 of Hammer horror too.

01-02-2021, 06:20 PM	#74416
Z0mbicide Member Member since:Aug 2016 4K collection:251 Blu-ray collection:2012	https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-K...4643/#Overview For people talking about Creature... is this 3-pack legit? I see no one talking about it. Is this a BD-R that everyone avoids or something, or are the transfers VHS ripped garbage?

01-02-2021, 08:11 PM	#74418
Rayjg Blu-ray Champion Member since:Aug 2016	It’s too bad that crappy release will scare most labels away from giving all three films the releases they deserve.

01-02-2021, 09:41 PM	#74419
JMDiaz718 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Aug 2007 Location:DC Metro Area Blu-ray reviews: 1	Can’t believe it’s 2021 and we still don’t have HD releases of Kong ‘76, Fright Night Part II, Dawn of the Dead ‘78, Blood Beach, Day of the Triffids ‘63, Scared to Death ‘80 or Alligator in the US.

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