Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[jstxanothrxstory]

If I ordered the UHDs of They Live and Prince of Darkness directly from Shout’s website, are is there a way of knowing if they’ll have the slipcovers still or not?

[Jlouisbarrett]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

If I ordered the UHDs of They Live and Prince of Darkness directly from Shout’s website, are is there a way of knowing if they’ll have the slipcovers still or not?

There’s no real way of “knowing,” but I believe they do “guarantee” slips up to 3 months after release.

[TravM]

If they end up releasing Halloween 5, there's really no excuse to not include all of the deleted footage that IS still in existence and available. And if that's the case, it gives hope they might provide more, as far as special features, for the other films. There are deleted scenes from H2 and H4 that have never been released as well.

And seriously, just drop $10k for that lost footage from the original already. The guy paid $4k for it to not end up in the dump and has preserved it all these years. They can split the payment between Scream and Trancas, and everyone will be nicely rewarded in the long run. ��

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by TravM

If they end up releasing Halloween 5, there's really no excuse to not include all of the deleted footage that IS still in existence and available. And if that's the case, it gives hope they might provide more, as far as special features, for the other films. There are deleted scenes from H2 and H4 that have never been released as well.

They no longer have any of the deleted footage for H2 that wasn’t used in the television cut. Universal lost it all in a fire way back when. Our best hope would be a situation like with the second Friday the 13th film were a crew member just has some of the excised footage on a VHS tape somewhere.

[classicmaterial]

Maybe this has already been discussed but has anyone confirmed the ALONE IN THE DARK news?

[TravM]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

They no longer have any of the deleted footage for H2 that wasn’t used in the television cut. Universal lost it all in a fire way back when. Our best hope would be a situation like with the second Friday the 13th film were a crew member just has some of the excised footage on a VHS tape somewhere.

What a shame. You know this for certain?

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by TravM

What a shame. You know this for certain?

Yeah, it was talked about back when Universal put out the original H2 blu-ray in 2012 and the deleted scenes were upscaled. Nothing exists for II and SOTW anymore.

That said, the shooting script follows the finished film + television footage pretty closely. The two big notable exceptions are the reporter’s death (the one that talks to Dana Carvey), which was never filmed, and when Robert Mundey shows up to the hospital. The latter is the only thing that we’ve never seen, but there are photos of the scene at least.

As for Return - I’m not sure if they ever actually found the footage. It was announced back when AB did the original Blu-Ray, but someone at the official Halloween movies website then later said they weren’t able to actually find the footage. I haven’t heard anything since.

They (this time, they meaning Trancas) did find some of the original discarded negatives for Revenge, but it was at the same time that AB was closing up shop and Lionsgate bought them our, so there was nothing special that was gonna happen with that title.

[TravM]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

Yeah, it was talked about back when Universal put out the original H2 blu-ray in 2012 and the deleted scenes were upscaled. Nothing exists for II and SOTW anymore.

That said, the shooting script follows the finished film + television footage pretty closely. The two big notable exceptions are the reporter’s death (the one that talks to Dana Carvey), which was never filmed, and when Robert Mundey shows up to the hospital. The latter is the only thing that we’ve never seen, but there are photos of the scene at least.

As for Return - I’m not sure if they ever actually found the footage. It was announced back when AB did the original Blu-Ray, but someone at the official Halloween movies website then later said they weren’t able to actually find the footage. I haven’t heard anything since.

They (this time, they meaning Trancas) did find some of the original discarded negatives for Revenge, but it was at the same time that AB was closing up shop and Lionsgate bought them our, so there was nothing special that was gonna happen with that title.

I'd love to find a link to clarify that about H2 and H3 - just to ease my mind!

They actually did shoot the reporter's death, at least partially - per Rick Rosenthal and the actress Catherine Bergstrom. Aside from that, I believe there was another sequence where Michael is stalking Karen in the children's ward and sets off a cymbal-banging monkey toy. /jumpscare

H4 - I remember that and I don't know what to think of it. They have footage. Whether its for both Return or Revenge, they have footage - likely for both. Whether they were allowed to go through the trouble of looking for it and paying to process it, at that time, no idea. That might be the culprit on that. A pretty hefty typo. No doubt there's always plans to do more for these discs and sometimes plans fall through - even when the material exists.

Still holding out hope for H5. The search for that - which definitely yielded some stuff - occurred a year or so after Anchor Bay had already folded into Lionsgate. Lionsgate may not have been likely to do anything with it, but fingers crossed on Scream.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

There’s no real way of “knowing,” but I believe they do “guarantee” slips up to 3 months after release.

I was familiar with their 3-month guarantee, but wasn’t sure if their website had a way of telling you like 88 Films’ does.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by TravM

I'd love to find a link to clarify that about H2 and H3 - just to ease my mind!

I’ll see if I can find a link somewhere. Unfortunately most of my trivial Halloween knowledge is from OHMB.net, which went down a couple years ago and wasn’t really archived at the Wayback Machine.

[Donl1282]

Originally Posted by Scarface33

Has Shout confirmed that they are releasing Halloween 8 on UHD? I thought it was only 1-4?

Shout hasn’t confirmed they are releasing any of the Halloween UHD yet. But 1-4 is expected to be announced.

[tangerinewolf]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

I was familiar with their 3-month guarantee, but wasn’t sure if their website had a way of telling you like 88 Films’ does.

No, they do not (yet). I say "yet" because they've been revamping their website. They do tell you when the collector's edition posters run out. They should say when the collector's slips are gone, ordering from their website. I've always wanted to know this.

[Donl1282]

Originally Posted by Kap6289

Thank you! Hopefully we'll hear something about that release soon 🤞

Jack-O is coming to BD? Is there a link to the source that it’s coming? I tried searching but couldn’t find anything.

[TenYearLurker]

Originally Posted by classicmaterial

Maybe this has already been discussed but has anyone confirmed the ALONE IN THE DARK news?

I believe Scream mentioned their announcements are happening this coming week, so we should have official confirmation soon

[Donl1282]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I think the assumption is that 1-4 will be released in September with 5-8 in October

I’m not confident about 6-8 coming in October.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

I’m not confident about 6-8 coming in October.

Who knows what's possible. If 5 is the last one, you would think they would announce that with 1-4 and not have everyone wait a month for just one more. Who knows. Halloween is a pretty big franchise. If it's just 1-4 I would think they would have waited until October.

[TravM]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Who knows what's possible. If 5 is the last one, you would think they would announce that with 1-4 and not have everyone wait a month for just one more. Who knows. Halloween is a pretty big franchise. If it's just 1-4 I would think they would have waited until October.

None of them have technically been announced. There were hours between the postings of 1-4, and the site took down the listings probably before H5 could be posted as well. If it is included, it's probably dropping on the same day.

And it's likely just 1-5.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by TravM

None of them have technically been announced. There were hours between the postings of 1-4, and the site took down the listings probably before H5 could be posted as well. If it is included, it's probably dropping on the same day.

And it's likely just 1-5.

If it is 1-5, would be odd to have these come out in September, and not October which is where they usually reserve their big guns. I don't think there is anything bigger they could announce, outside of a Nightmare on Elm Street set which I would think they would space out from the Halloween franchise. You're probably right, but just seems slightly odd to announce 1-4 or 1-5 for September.

[Donl1282]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

If it is 1-5, would be odd to have these come out in September, and not October which is where they usually reserve their big guns. I don't think there is anything bigger they could announce, outside of a Nightmare on Elm Street set which I would think they would space out from the Halloween franchise. You're probably right, but just seems slightly odd to announce 1-4 or 1-5 for September.

Not necessarily, Halloween 2 and 3 came out on BD from SF in September 2012 (9/18) as the first launch titles and I don’t remember them releasing anything big for October of that year.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

Not necessarily, Halloween 2 and 3 came out on BD from SF in September 2012 (9/18) as the first launch titles and I don’t remember them releasing anything big for October of that year.

I think the key in your statement is first launch titles. The last few years we have gotten some pretty nice boxsets during October. October is when there is the highest sales potential for horror as everyone wants something new ready for Halloween. I would think they are saving some big guns for October.