The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

[gates70]

Thank god, now I can finally stop seeing people ask for it all the time.

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by gates70

Thank god, now I can finally stop seeing people ask for it all the time.

I just hope they make enough initial copies for all the demand.

[The Great Owl]

Blah blah blah looking forward to this for a long time. Blah blah blah Harryhausen. Blah blah blah blah day one.

[Crispy Noodle]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I need this, One Million Years B.C, and Mighty Joe Young and my Harryhausen Collection Will be complete. I am not paying $30 for 3 World of Gulliver and it's not even stop motion.

While I haven't been able to bring myself to pay $30 for Gulliver either to complete my collection, I do want to point out there are 3 stop motion sequences in the film. That said, only the alligator fight has any real interest. DVD Drive-in has some interesting info about what happened with this film in their review.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Crispy Noodle

While I haven't been able to bring myself to pay $30 for Gulliver either to complete my collection, I do want to point out there are 3 stop motion sequences in the film. That said, only the alligator fight has any real interest. DVD Drive-in has some interesting info about what happened with this film in their review.

I wonder if the new DE release coming in March will be region free. If it is I will just wait for that to drop in price.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Blah blah blah looking forward to this for a long time. Blah blah blah Harryhausen. Blah blah blah blah day one.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Blah blah blah looking forward to this for a long time. Blah blah blah Harryhausen. Blah blah blah blah day one.

[Jobla]

This is good news, but I'm still waiting for QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE.

[The Batman Professor]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Blah blah blah looking forward to this for a long time. Blah blah blah Harryhausen. Blah blah blah blah day one.

Back in the 90's, I was asked to introduce Harryhausen at a convention in Boston. It was a great honor, and he signed my GWANGI onesheet in the green room before we went on stage.

So yeah, this is a big deal for some of us.

[Andrew354]

Yes ! Day 1 !!


The Blu-Ray gods are smiling down upon us today

[Akijama]

I believe y'all misunderstood Owl's post. The dude is one of the good guys.

[JMDiaz718]

Originally Posted by Partyslammer

At last, my Harryhausen feature film Blu-ray library will be complete.

Wow. One Million Years BC, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Island of Terror and now Gwangi!!! Awesome news.

Now we need Behemoth The Sea Monster, War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Tarantula, Deadly Mantis, Incredidle Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Fiend Without A Face, the Quatermass movies, King Kong 76, X The Unknown and The Day of the Triffids. My childhood favorites collection is almost complete!!

[StingingVelvet]

It's a great time to be alive.

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by Jobla

This is good news, but I'm still waiting for QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE.

Never seen that one, but it looks interesting, personally I would like to see 7 Faces Of Dr Lao get a blu-ray release.

[chriszilla]

Originally Posted by dragon53

Many years ago I saw THE VALLEY OF GWANGI on tv when I was in college and thought it was not as good as THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND----but I'll get it to see Harryhausen's fantastic special effects and dinosaurs.

It's certainly a fair debate to discuss where GWANGI ranks in Ray Harryhausen's filmography, overall.

But I will say, the stop motion in this film surpasses his efforts in the films you mentioned. The sequence where the cowboys lasso GWANGI while on horseback, and attempt to control him, still holds up amazingly well today, and I imagine would have been jaw-dropping in 1969 for how real it looked.

It's definitely one of my favorite Harryhausen's, right up there with 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD and JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, even though it's not nearly as celebrated as those films are.

[chriszilla]

Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

Wow. One Million Years BC, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Island of Terror and now Gwangi!!! Awesome news.

I agree. It's been a great couple of months for some long-sought-after genre favorites!

[Alfredlynch]

Another coveted release. Going to be a great year by the looks of it.

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by JoeDeM

Never seen that one, but it looks interesting, personally I would like to see 7 Faces Of Dr Lao get a blu-ray release.

I second that notion .. Queen of Outer Space is every bit as cheesy as World Without End.. IMHO you would probably enjoy it and have a few laughs

[EManT2200]

Mine, it's mine, it's all mine ! ! ! !

[CraigThom]

NEW 2017 1080p HD REMASTER

I guess this could just mean a new encode or something. They've shown an HD version on TCM. The interiors look decent, but the outside shots, especially the process one, look soft and a little washed out. I'm not sure how much they can do with that, given that Harryhausen's effects tend to add grain, but we'll see. And of course I'll be buying it.