Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[jaws3dfan]

Q: The Winged Serpent in August!!

Thank you Scream Factory

[redrunner97]

Originally Posted by cmac

I have tried to find the rights holder for SILENT MADNESS for many years, but no luck

Im still grateful for all the others!

[Member-222782]

The Scream Factory thread is the first one I click on when I visit this site since it's the most exciting one for me but reading posts from Cliff always makes it better - welcome back!

[kngtmat]

Originally Posted by MTRodaba2468

It's worth it to import the UK ROTLD. You can bypass the "Incorrect Region" screen by hitting the Top Menu button on the remote. If your player and TV can transmit PAL, then you won't have any issues with the SD extras on the disc, either.

The thing is I shouldn't have to go to some overseas Country to get something that should be made & sold here in region 1.

It's also too much of a waste of money & time having to go through overseas shipping & customs hassles either when shipping's bad enough to do at some places here. Especially when my BD budget isn't enough to do that.

[redrunner97]

BD & COMBO PACK RELEASES:

01) "Halloween II" - Collector's Edition - September 18, 2012
02) "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" - Collector's Edition - September 18, 2012
03) "Terror Train" - Collector's Edition - October 16, 2012
04) "The Funhouse" - Collector's Edition - October 16, 2012
05) "They Live" - Collector's Edition - November 6, 2012
06) "Death Valley" - December 11, 2012
07) "The Island" - December 11, 2012
08) "Deadly Blessing" - Collector's Edition - January 22, 2013
09) "The Nest" - February 19, 2013
10) "TerrorVision" / "The Video Dead" - Double Feature - February 19, 2013
11) "Prison" - Collector's Edition - February 19, 2013
12) "Phantasm II" - Collector's Edition - March 26, 2013
13) "From Beyond" - Collector's Edition - March 26, 2013
14) "The Vampire Lovers" - April 30, 2013
15) "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" w/ "The Evictors" - May 21, 2013
16) "The Burning" Collector's Edition - May 21, 2013
17) "Ninja III: The Domination" - June 11, 2013
18) "Lifeforce" Collector's Edition - June 18, 2013
19) "The Howling" Collector's Edition - June 18, 2013
20) "Dead Souls" - June 25, 2013
21) "The Fog" Collector's Edition - July 30, 2013
22) "The Incredible Melting Man" - July 30, 2013
23) "Swamp Thing" - August 2013
24) "Dark Angel" (aka "I Come in Peace") - August 2013
25) "Q: The Winged Serpent" - August 2013
25) "Hospital Massacre" (aka "X-Ray") / "Schizoid" Double Feature - Late Summer 2013
26) "Cockneys vs. Zombies" -Late Summer 2013
27) "Day of the Dead" Collector's Edition - Fall 2013
28) "Scanners II" / "Scanners III" Double Feature - Fall 2013
29) "Night of the Comet" Collector's Edition - Late Fall 2013
30) "The Horror Show" - Late Fall 2013
31) "The Amityville Horror" Collection Box Set - Pre-Halloween

[Show spoiler]"The Amityville Horror"/ "Amityville II: The Possession" / "Amityville 3D"

32) Vincent Price Collection Box Set - Pre-Halloween

[Show spoiler]"The Fall of the House of Usher" / "The Pit and the Pendulum" / "The Haunted Palace" / "The Masque of Red Death" / "Witchfinder General" (aka "Conqueror Worm") / "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"

DVD-ONLY RELEASES

01) "The Vagrant" - Late Fall 2013
02) "The Godsend" - Late Fall 2013


Cliff has already said "no" to the following titles (please review before asking about a potantial release). Special thanks to zbinks for compiling the list and to NoirFan for requesting that it be added to the OP.

[Show spoiler]Update:

Since the start of 2013 Cliff has said "No" to:

More Roger Corman Cult Classics releases
cartoons (Blu-Ray)
blaxploitation flix
Steelbooks / Digibooks


Albert Pyun's Films Other Than Captain America
American Ninja 1 and 2
April Fool's Day
At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
Autopsie
Barbarian Queen 1&2
Bells
Best Little *****House In Texas, The
Biker Mice From Mars
Blood Diner
Blood Games
Brain Damage
Brain Dead (1990)
Candyman 2
Career Opportunities
Carrie
Charles Bronson Flicks
Child's Play Sequels
Chopping Mall
Class of 1984
Cold Comfort Farm
Coldblooded
Commandments
Creepshow 2
Critters 1-4
Curtains
Death Spa
Death Wish
Deathstalker 1&2
Demonic Toys
Dolls
Dolly Dearest
Dracula (1979)
Dream Team, The
Eaten Alive
Eliminators (Blu-Ray)
Enemy Territory
Escape From New York
Fire Starter
Foxy Brown
Ghost Story
Ghosthouse
Ghoul, The
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Halloween 6
Heart And Souls
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
House
House II
Iceman
In the Mouth of Madness
Jesus' Son
John Woo's Hard Boiled
John Woo's The Killer
Leaving Normal
Legend of the Werewolf, The
Les Demons
Leviathan
Lorenzo's Oil
Mad Dog And Glory
Melvin And Howard
Milagro Beanfield War, The
Motel Hell
Mr. Mom
Ms. 45
My Bloody Valentine
My Little Pony (Blu-Ray)
Needful Things
New Year's Evil
Nightbreed (Cabal cut or otherwise)
No Retreat, No Surrender
Pam Grier Collection
Parents
Petticoat Junction: Season 3
Phantasm II: Workprint
Phantom Of The Opera (1988)
Pinocchio's Revenge
Prom Night II
Pumpkinhead
Radioland Murders
Razorback
Return of the Living Dead Parts 2 and 3
Rollerball (1975)
Rolling Vengeance
Savage Streets
Serpent And The Rainbow
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Simon & Simon: Seasons 5 thru 8
Six String Samurai
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland
Snow Falling On Cedars
Sonny Boy
The Terror Within
Splitting Heirs
Squirm
Stone Cold
Street Sharks
Street Trash
Suspiria
Tag: The Assassination Game
Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Tank
The Dead Pit
The Death Angel
The Golden Child
The Howling II
The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
The Taking Of Beverly Hills
The Terror Within 1 and 2
The Vampire Lovers (DVD)
The Wicker Man
Trancers
Trespass
Trigger Effect, The
Two Family House
UHF
Underneath, The
Vamp
Waking The Dead
Wet Hot American Summer
Without Warning

He has also indicated "Probably Not / Unlikely" to:

Any Echo Bridge/Miramax titles
Euro Horror Cult movies
Casper Films
Head of the Class
Jack's Back
The other Howling sequels
Troma Filma
Full Moon Titles

On a sidenote, titles from Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony and Lionsgate should be presumed to be "No's" until/unless Cliff says otherwise.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by kngtmat

It's also too much of a waste of money & time having to go through overseas shipping & customs hassles either when shipping's bad enough to do at some places here.

It takes no more effort and time than ordering something from Amazon's US site - all of your info is already saved on the UK site (and all international Amazon sites), you just have to log in like you would on Amazon in the US, and the layout is identical. It'll take you five seconds to order it.

[Sherlock_Jr]

Originally Posted by kngtmat

The thing is I shouldn't have to go to some overseas Country to get something that should be made & sold here in region 1.

It's also too much of a waste of money & time having to go through overseas shipping & customs hassles either when shipping's bad enough to do at some places here. Especially when my BD budget isn't enough to do that.

Considering that shipping isn't that much more, and the discs are often cheaper overseas, you come out to about the same price. And there's no "customs hassles."

[dlshelt]

CLIFF,HOW about Halloween 4&5,any chance of you guys getting a hold of these titles.

[balthazar_bee]

Originally Posted by kngtmat

The thing is I shouldn't have to go to some overseas Country to get something that should be made & sold here in region 1.

It's also too much of a waste of money & time having to go through overseas shipping & customs hassles either when shipping's bad enough to do at some places here. Especially when my BD budget isn't enough to do that.

I sympathize, my friend. In this case, however, you might want to make an exception. I don't own a region-free player, and the idea of importing stuff sounds like an ordeal, but this transaction was about as pain-free as I can imagine.

I'm in Canada, and I received my copy faster than I usually receive stuff from the States. Plus, it wasn't much more than $20 Cdn. including shipping. As I remember, the amazon.co.uk site even had my shipping/payment information from the .com site already loaded.

Not a mark on the steelbook either (if that's important to you).

[redrunner97]

Originally Posted by dlshelt

CLIFF,HOW about Halloween 4&5,any chance of you guys getting a hold of these titles.

Check the list on page 1 that tells the titles he has already denied. It's a really good reference guide.

And, no offence, but you can not get every movie just because you want it really bad. I would love for them to get the remaining 'Halloween' films, but 4 & 5 they are with Anchor Bay. And they do not sub-license, so no, unfortunately. At least not right now. Assuming AB even have the rights to do so.

Hope that helped.

[cropsy]

As soon as i heard scream were releasing Halloween 2&3 i bought a region-free player after dithering for awhile.Now i can't imagine not having one.The Burning,The Fog The Howling etc is just too much too miss out on.I payed £25($40 app) for my player and the most (TTaside) i pay for an imported Blu-ray is about the same as id pay for a chart blu-ray here(UK) and many much less.The only downside i can see is the wait,buts thats just my wanting them straightaway and its better than not having them at all.Id honestly advise anyone to just get one,theres not much reason not too imo.

[Metallix87]

Cliff, how about some 50s / 60s sci-fi horror? I mean titles like The Brain from Planet Arous, The Killer Shrews, The Creature from the Haunted Sea, etc. Any chance of those titles getting the Scream treatment at some point down the line?

[Momma]

Originally Posted by Metallix87

Cliff, how about some 50s / 60s sci-fi horror? I mean titles like The Brain from Planet Arous, The Killer Shrews, The Creature from the Haunted Sea, etc. Any chance of those titles getting the Scream treatment at some point down the line?

Do you know how much it costs to put a movie on blu-ray? In some cases, particularly with Public Domain titles, it can be up to or more than 10xs DVD prices. Dvds are cheap compared to Blu-rays.

Lets leave Public Domain films to someone who is not already spending a ton to get out films that haven't been on dvd, literally, hundreds of times.

I worked for Sony for years and there is so much money that goes into these releases. Stickers, Upc, Shrink Wrap, suitable prints, replication, duplication, covers, editing, slipcovers, remastering, audio restoration, production of special features and making them HD, menu design, layering, etc, etc, etc...

I dont see it happening... Too Bad though.

[Terrorfirmer]

Originally Posted by kngtmat

The thing is I shouldn't have to go to some overseas Country to get something that should be made & sold here in region 1.

It's also too much of a waste of money & time having to go through overseas shipping & customs hassles either when shipping's bad enough to do at some places here. Especially when my BD budget isn't enough to do that.

Definitely don't see how its a waste of money, I can't count how many items I've gotten from amazon UK that were way cheaper then they're north american counter parts. Off the top of my head: spider man trilogy, matrix trilogy, universal monsters box set ( coffin ) actually I was about to order the scream release of vampire lovers from the UK as it was actually cheaper to buy it from amz UK as an import then to buy it from amz.ca until the price just dropped...be a wise shopper my friend, much easier to expand your collection, lighter on the wallet too.

[Terrorfirmer]

Originally Posted by cropsy

As soon as i heard scream were releasing Halloween 2&3 i bought a region-free player after dithering for awhile.Now i can't imagine not having one.The Burning,The Fog The Howling etc is just too much too miss out on.I payed £25($40 app) for my player and the most (TTaside) i pay for an imported Blu-ray is about the same as id pay for a chart blu-ray here(UK) and many much less.The only downside i can see is the wait,buts thats just my wanting them straightaway and its better than not having them at all.Id honestly advise anyone to just get one,theres not much reason not too imo.

Yeah, its definitely worth having a region free player, I picked up my Seiki bd660 for $50 at Walmart and I love it, it opens up a whole other world in Blu .

[kngtmat]

I don't use credit cards or PayPal and not even the pre-paid cards because they are just as much trouble as the other two. Just cash or U.S. money orders if I know the person I am buying from has a great reputation with MO's.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by cmac

There's not much we can do if a rights holder won't license us a film.

Yup. Fortunately you're doing marvelous work with what you have acquired.

The Lionsgate hold up is too bad because of MST3K, too. I believe eight of the episodes are for films they have current rights to.

[Movie-Brat]

Just to be sure, is Sony is among the companies who refuse to sub-license or there might be a chance?

[MovieManiac82]

Originally Posted by cropsy

As soon as i heard scream were releasing Halloween 2&3 i bought a region-free player after dithering for awhile.Now i can't imagine not having one.The Burning,The Fog The Howling etc is just too much too miss out on.I payed £25($40 app) for my player and the most (TTaside) i pay for an imported Blu-ray is about the same as id pay for a chart blu-ray here(UK) and many much less.The only downside i can see is the wait,buts thats just my wanting them straightaway and its better than not having them at all.Id honestly advise anyone to just get one,theres not much reason not too imo.

I love being region free. If you're a serious movie collector, then a region free player is essential.

[cmac]

Originally Posted by Movie-Brat

Just to be sure, is Sony is among the companies who refuse to sub-license or there might be a chance?

No, they are not