Ghosthouse / Witchery - 6/30 (Scream Factory)

[Oscar Rothman]

**NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT!**

Two tales of supernatural Italian-made shenanigans are both coming to blu-ray for the first time! 1988’s GHOSTHOUSE (directed by Umberto Lenzi of Nightmare City and Cannibal Ferox fame) will be doubled-billed with WITCHERY (which sports Linda Blair AND David Hasselhoff!?) for a planned June 30th release. Pre-order links should go up next month.

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[redrunner97]

Amazing news!! I wonder if they might have the Italian covers on the reverse? Not a deal-breaker if they don't include them, but it would definitely be cool.

[returnofthemack]

Nice. I want

[heebiejeebie]

I've never even heard of either of these movies but count me in for a blind buy.

[UniSol GR77]

These movies were made to capitalize on the huge popularity the first 2 Evil Dead Movies had in Italy back in the eighties. Indeed, "The Evil Dead" (in Italy: LA CASA) and "Evil Dead II" (In Italy: LA CASA 2) were such huge hits here that they made these two movies (and many others) as "sequels":

Ghosthouse, in Italy re-christened "LA CASA 3"
and
Witchery, in Italy re-christened "LA CASA 4"

When I was a kid, I always wondered what was the exact "continuity" running inside the series and connecting these later movies with the first 2, until the time I found there was none of it and the movies were not true sequels.

[Wernski]

Originally Posted by UniSol GR77

These movies were made to capitalize on the huge popularity the first 2 Evil Dead Movies had in Italy back in the eighties. Indeed, "The Evil Dead" (in Italy: LA CASA) and "Evil Dead II" (In Italy: LA CASA 2) were such huge hits here that they made these two movies (and many others) as "sequels":

Ghosthouse, in Italy re-christened "LA CASA 3"
and
Witchery, in Italy re-christened "LA CASA 4"

When I was a kid, I always wondered what was the exact "continuity" running inside the series and connecting these later movies with the first 2, until the time I found there was none of it and the movies were not true sequels.

Ha ha They should totally put Evil Dead 3 & 4 on the box, like Shriekshow did with all the fake Zombie and Demons knockoffs!

[dissention]

This review is raving about the PQ and the prints that were used. Now I'm excited. Praying there aren't any of the usual issues on this disc.

[Mahadeva]

Originally Posted by dissention

This review is raving about the PQ and the prints that were used. Now I'm excited. Praying there aren't any of the usual issues on this disc.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Mahadeva

[PowellPressburger]

These seem like really good/bad midnite movies I am going to have to order it up for my july 4th weekend.

Diabolik currently has stock of this title.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by dissention

This review is raving about the PQ and the prints that were used. Now I'm excited. Praying there aren't any of the usual issues on this disc.

The print for Ghosthouse does look clean, I will give it that. Like many Italian-sourced transfers, the PQ is closer to quasi-HD than a solid film transfer.

The BDInfo scan for Ghosthouse:

                                                                                                                Total   Video                                            
Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
-----                                                           ------  ------- --------------  --------------  ------- ------- ------------------                        ---------------------
00003.MPLS                                                      AVC     1:34:39 18,587,197,440  38,614,781,811  26.18   22.88   DTS-HD Master 2.0 1858Kbps (48kHz/24-bit)

[RiFiFi1955]

Yeah been holding off ordering on the off chance they came out looking terrible but any positive reviews will get me to order.

[PowellPressburger]

Watching Witchery now, this b!tches voice is getting on my last nerve. Why would Hasslehoff even being trying to get with her haha.

Maybe I should have started with the first film. This one is ludicris with a screenplay that is redic bad.

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Watching Witchery now, this b!tches voice is getting on my last nerve. Why would Hasslehoff even being trying to get with her haha.

Maybe I should have started with the first film. This one is ludicris with a screenplay that is redic bad.

How is the PQ?

[SleepDealer]

I prefer Ghosthouse over Witchery, Ghosthouse had better gore I thought. Plus it had that that reaper guy at the end.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by SleepDealer

I prefer Ghosthouse over Witchery, Ghosthouse had better gore I thought. Plus it had that that reaper guy at the end.

but WITCHERY had Linda Blair and The Hoff!!!! There is NO comparison.....

[SurlyGnome]

I put a couple tracks from Piero Montanari's soundtrack for Ghosthouse on my trick-or-treat playlist and am reminded once again how great his score is. I would not be surprised if, a couple years from now, we see some kind of 4K + CD release for Ghosthouse. And I'll probably buy it

[Member-167298]

Over the summer I was able to visit the house from Ghosthouse / House By the Cemetery. My friend and I were lucky enough to actually get invited in by one of the resident artists and get a brief tour, including the attic. One cool thing we noticed was that there was an original promo 8x10 from House by the Cemetery over the mantle.