Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[Mushi Minion]

I watched Alligator last night and had a blast. Easily one of the best Jaws knock-offs of the 80's.

[gimmeshelter]

Originally Posted by Mushi Minion

I watched Alligator last night and had a blast. Easily one of the best Jaws knock-offs of the 80's.

That will be my Saturday night viewing this week. I'll have the house to myself and was hoping for Vinegar Syndrome Valentine's sale viewing, but my box won't be here in time, so ALLIGATOR is my backup. I'm really excited to watch the 4K as it seems like it's getting universal praise; haven't seen the movie in about a decade or so but it's a favorite!

[Frantic Canadian]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

Hope Shout/Scream does UHD 4Ks CEs of the Elm Street movies (i wouldn't want 5 and remake though as i dislike those).

Originally Posted by Chie Satonaka

That's already been shot down. They can't get the rights.

Originally Posted by Starman22

Cliff (cmac) mentioned from A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection thread

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=6511

That sucks! I've been holding off on picking up the series on Blu because I figured that after their Halloween and Friday The 13th sets that Scream Factory would naturally do the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise next. Sucks that Warner won't license them out. Given what they did with their previous two franchise sets you just know that they'd do an amazing job with NOES as well.

[DenOfEarth]

Hope Olive gave up rights for Running Man and Monster Squad as we can sure use UHD 4K/blu combo Collector's Edition packs of those movies with extras abound and new 4K restorations from original materials and those would be best sellers.

[Chie Satonaka]

Originally Posted by Frantic Canadian

That sucks! I've been holding off on picking up the series on Blu because I figured that after their Halloween and Friday The 13th sets that Scream Factory would naturally do the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise next. Sucks that Warner won't license them out. Given what they did with their previous two franchise sets you just know that they'd do an amazing job with NOES as well.

I mean there was a 6 year gap between the Friday and Halloween boxsets. Maybe things may change in a few years but a nightmare boxset wasn't imminent once the Friday boxset came out. I'd like one as well, but we'll see.

[TripleHBK]

You know Warner will do something for the 40th Anniversary in '24... if they won't license the films out (dumb) then at the very least I'm hoping that they'll release the franchise themselves on 4k with each film getting it's own disc. Whatever they'd assemble for extras and the physical presentation would pale in comparison to what Scream Factory would provide, but just give me a comparable set to that original DVD set but with 4k discs and I'd still be thrilled.

Why Warner wouldn't license now and allow Scream Factory to release a definitive Blu Ray set is beyond me as the inevitable 4k releases will attract the same fans back again in a few years.

[locomotive]

Originally Posted by 314carpenter

That's MR. to you... LOL...I purchased over 1000 movies in the past 12 months, Ichabod Crane. $200 this week already. The members who have posted in this thread have all been very helpful of my request. I have considered each of their comments. Thank you all again.

This is the cull list...
The Night of the Sorcerers / The Loreley's Grasp
Hand That Rocks The Cradle

[Show spoiler]https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=19882996&postcount=80504

Wow safe some for food will you.
Or are you starting your own store or rental place.
Don't have the money for that and my wife will kill me for sure.

[RyGuy1496]

I know this is nothing new on here, but wow, Shout’s shipping productivity really is horrible isn’t it? Ordered on the 14 and it’s still radio silence on their end except my confirmation email.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

You know Warner will do something for the 40th Anniversary in '24... if they won't license the films out (dumb) then at the very least I'm hoping that they'll release the franchise themselves on 4k with each film getting it's own disc. Whatever they'd assemble for extras and the physical presentation would pale in comparison to what Scream Factory would provide, but just give me a comparable set to that original DVD set but with 4k discs and I'd still be thrilled.

Why Warner wouldn't license now and allow Scream Factory to release a definitive Blu Ray set is beyond me as the inevitable 4k releases will attract the same fans back again in a few years.

The Elm Street series do need a fresh reappraisal and I would take any re-release over nothing but, man, tbh my enthusiasm levels would be near the bottom if it's Warner who end up doing it. Majors studios have very little sense of creativity and vision when it comes to physical media. Just look at that Blu-ray set they released all those years ago. New Line did a fantastic job with their DVD set, though, but I think they were still an indy studio when that set came out? We need something like that for UHD.

[tangerinewolf]

Originally Posted by Slob

Blood of the Vampire showed up yesterday. Looks like Scream licensed it from Universal. Both the back cover credits and copyright read Universal. I didn't think Universal still controlled this in U.S.
So I guess the main feature is from what source material Universal has. The bonus version (not mentioned on cover) is the version that's going to be on the region B disc.

Does it have the Universal International logo at the beginning of the film? I ordered the region B Nucleus Films version.

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by RyGuy1496

I know this is nothing new on here, but wow, Shout’s shipping productivity really is horrible isn’t it? Ordered on the 14 and it’s still radio silence on their end except my confirmation email.

I ordered on the 13th and it didn’t ship until the 23rd. It just arrived today. They normally ship within a day or two if they have everything in stock. If not, they wait until they have everything in your order before shipping. Just be patient - you’ll get it.

[Luke Dodge748]

Originally Posted by RyGuy1496

I know this is nothing new on here, but wow, Shout’s shipping productivity really is horrible isn’t it? Ordered on the 14 and it’s still radio silence on their end except my confirmation email.

Same here. I've only gotten crickets so far...

[Luke Dodge748]

I really would've liked to see Scream Factory put out a Nightmare on Elm Street set, but I think Warner will give us a 4K of at least the first film, if not the first 5. It's got to be coming... It's one of their biggest franchises. I expect them to put out The Lost Boys and Lethal Weapon soon too. (Fingers crossed so hard.)

[TolerancEJ]

I’m glad they’re not responding to shipping inquiries. That takes time away from actually packaging and shipping the orders. Just wait longer. Your orders will ship.

[Luke Dodge748]

I didn't mean they did not respond to my inquiry. They did, and they are always outstanding in the customer service dept. But I think it's normal to wonder about your package nearly 2 weeks after it was placed. Obviously it's going to show up. But when is a normal question to ask.

And customer service reps are usually not the shippers in most companies.

[kp404]

Originally Posted by RyGuy1496

I know this is nothing new on here, but wow, Shout’s shipping productivity really is horrible isn’t it? Ordered on the 14 and it’s still radio silence on their end except my confirmation email.

Same here, no movement at all for over 10 days. Its strange because Shout usually is the fastest shipper to me. So I'm guessing there is a big problem there for it to be this bad now.

[Slob]

Originally Posted by tangerinewolf

Does it have the Universal International logo at the beginning of the film? I ordered the region B Nucleus Films version.

Nope. I stuck it in the check. There's only one version of the movie on the disc. I'm thinking it's the same version as the region B disc. No bonus features.
I'm thinking that Universal still has the U.S. rights, and that the film was licensed from whoever owns it, same people Nucleus version licensed from, but had to be cleared with Universal in order to release in U.S even though Universal didn't supply anything.
In short, only Universal has the rights to release any version, from any source, in the U.S and Scream had to clear it with them.
Does have "copyright 1958 Universal Pictures" on cover. No other copyright.

I had wondered if this was a leftover title from Universal deal with either the classic horror, 50s sci-fi, or Hammer and Scream was throwing it out as limited exclusive to do it and be done.

[sancho]

Watched Alligator last night. Such a great, kick ass release.

[omahajon]

Can confirm: Alligator 4K looked as good as a Blue Underground 4K.

[Frantic Canadian]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

The Elm Street series do need a fresh reappraisal and I would take any re-release over nothing but, man, tbh my enthusiasm levels would be near the bottom if it's Warner who end up doing it. Majors studios have very little sense of creativity and vision when it comes to physical media. Just look at that Blu-ray set they released all those years ago. New Line did a fantastic job with their DVD set, though, but I think they were still an indy studio when that set came out? We need something like that for UHD.

That's exactly how I feel about it. That DVD set is the last time I purchased any of the NOES films, and I bought that DVD set over 17 years ago. I definitely want to upgrade to at least Blu-ray, but I am holding out until a quality set is released. And I just know that if I give in and pick up the current blu-ray set that as soon as I do SF is going to announce that they're releasing a complete franchise box set. That's what happened to me with Friday The 13th. I held out for years and then I came across the original Paramount set on blu for 20$ at Future Shop. I figured for that price I might as well since it didn't look like SF would be announcing a set any time soon. And wouldn't you know it? Not long afterwards that's exactly what happened.