Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[Max Solo]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Mädchen Amick is 10 times more beautiful now in 2018 than she was during the early 1990s. It was a true joy to see her again in the newer Twin Peaks episodes, and I cannot wait to see her interviews on the new Sleepwalkers disc.

I met her ( and took a picture with her ) during SDCCs Twin Peaks autograph session and she is everything you think and more. She ( and her daughter ) were extremely cool also.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by redrunner97

Wait... "unwatched" as in you've never seen them before or never watched the Scream Factory blu-rays specifically?

I've never seen the second and third Sleepaway Camp movies. I should triple feature all three movies one of these weekends.

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've never seen the second and third Sleepaway Camp movies. I should triple feature all three movies one of these weekends.

I re-visited all three in June or July in just that fashion. All the movies are enjoyable and zip along pretty nicely. The 3rd is expectedly the weakest of the bunch but still a fun time. This is one of the better trilogy's from Scream Factory's lineup of offerings and are all highly recommended.

[theEXORCIST]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

I re-visited all three in June or July in just that fashion. All the movies are enjoyable and zip along pretty nicely. The 3rd is expectedly the weakest of the bunch but still a fun time. This is one of the better trilogy's from Scream Factory's lineup of offerings and are all highly recommended.

Sleepaway camp 1 & 2 are soo mean spirited and nasty the cook talking about raping kids the curling iron up the vagina the little kids found hacked to death the girl being stuck with a stick in the outhouse toilet they are gross films part 3 was not as nasty from what I remember

[cakefactory]

Yeah, 1 really is a horror movie while the other two are mostly just a fun time. 3 seems like a direct-to-video sequel, it's bizarre how censored it seems compared to 2.

[fitprod]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Double-posting from a dedicated thread once again. This movie is so much fun!

I can really explain the appeal of this film, besides being so dumb it’s brilliant. I remember when it came out on Laserdisc back in the day. Was stunned and pleased it was released on Blu-ray. (Much like MVDs Pending Nemesis collection)

Fitprod

[Petemo2010]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

I re-visited all three in June or July in just that fashion. All the movies are enjoyable and zip along pretty nicely. The 3rd is expectedly the weakest of the bunch but still a fun time. This is one of the better trilogy's from Scream Factory's lineup of offerings and are all highly recommended.

I've been a huge fan of the first one since the VHS days and later caught the sequels on cable which I didn't really care for at the time, because of the comedy direction they took. I decided to give 'em another try recently and to my surprise I enjoyed them immensely the second time around. The chick that plays Angela is so likeable that you end up rooting for her and cheering every time she takes out another horny teen aged sinner.

[Pete Rock]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Yeah, 1 really is a horror movie while the other two are mostly just a fun time. 3 seems like a direct-to-video sequel, it's bizarre how censored it seems compared to 2.

Sleepaway Camp 3 does have an unrated version that was released on dvd in Germany. Scream Factory wasn't able to bring it to bluray in all its uncut glory because of film element issues.

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1605

[redrunner97]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've never seen the second and third Sleepaway Camp movies. I should triple feature all three movies one of these weekends.

Oh boy (or... girl? ), you're in for a treat! I love the sequels, even more than the original film. I practically owned my video store's copies because I would hoard them for so long, over and over. Racked in a lot of late fees on those two bad boys. They're both basically semi-serious riffs on the '80s slasher genre, with tons of references to Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, etc. It's almost impossible for any fan of golden age slashers to not love these two.

They were actually shot back-to-back (and the story is fairly interwoven). The docs Scream Factory commissioned are amazing too. They're split into two parts that flow together quite nicely, almost like one big, definitive documentary on them both (or as definitive as possible, since I sadly doubt anyone will ever convince Pam Springsteen to talk about her stint as Angela).

I love both of them, but I gotta say III was the one I rented the most, partly because it was most often available. But I fell in love. Unfortunately, it got butchered by the MPAA, even worse than the first two films. There are whole death sequences cut from the final version of the film (viewable in SD on the blu-ray's workprint version). But if you can look past the unfortunate lack of gore, the comedy is on point and the roughness is very charming.

Hope you enjoy them! Can't wait to read your reviews, I assume in the respective thread.

Originally Posted by theEXORCIST

Sleepaway camp 1 & 2 are soo mean spirited and nasty the cook talking about raping kids the curling iron up the vagina the little kids found hacked to death the girl being stuck with a stick in the outhouse toilet they are gross films part 3 was not as nasty from what I remember

I wouldn't call II or III "meanspirited." Maybe the first film, since it has a much nastier tone, but the sequels are too fun to be labeled so harshly.

[Michael24]

It's amazing that Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 were shot back-to-back, yet the third one (IMO) feels completely devoid of the energy and fun that the second had. The third is pretty sluggish at times and the kills aren't nearly as good aside from a couple, even though they are somewhere weakened by the above-mentioned edits. Pamela Springsteen's performance also feels like a bit of a letdown from the second one, where she was just a blast of energy and looked like she was having a ball the whole time. She's still enjoyable to watch, though, and seeing Michael J. Pollard play such a perv is hilarious, but on the heels of Part 2 I thought it was rather disappointing.

[TwiStedByDeSign86]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The cook in Sleepaway Camp creeps me out way more than the ending of the film.

Incidentally, the two sequels are still in my unwatched stack. I should get on that.

Man, I couldn't go unsaid here as the Sleepaway Camp films are some of my favorite horror films ever, and probably my favorite horror franchise as it has so much crazy history, as most slasher films do from this era. After every movie I much recommend the featurettes as they're just as great.

But man the first movie.. absolutely incredible in my book for slasher movies. The amateur film maker Robert Hiltzik has this heart man. He stumbled through a lot of the dialogue making it believable. Being a young kind seeing this movie for this first time after obsessing over all the F13s, Halloweens, and Nightmares. Already being exposed to the Prom Nights, my bloody Valentine, ect. With Sleepaway Camp, I found kids my age doing what they do. Being *******s but realistic. Being vulgar but realistic. Just being a kid. The baseball scene which many found boring or a so called snooze fest, which I can some what understand, was to me so real to how I would bullshit with my friends even in the 90s. Which in all made the kills and shocking ending all that more wild! These are normal teens/preteens getting sliced and diced. It feels real despite the cheese some might see. All round amazing work.

For the sequels... Love them!! I bought the first sequel, Unhappy Campers off EBay on Vhs in like 00' and I passed it around my middle school class and boy it was a hit. With this one you have to go into it knowing it is a different director, different style, different Angela (it being the boss Bruce Springsteen's sister helps) and then maybe just maybe you can enjoy this awesome cheese fest for the fun it is. It has heart as well just like the original but this time around the blood splatters more and the body count is higher! It is a horror comedy and Pam Springsteen's performance might be what makes this one, Felissa Rose knowss I love her dearly but Pam is the Boss right here! The bit characters were fun to watch too being named after the 80s beloved Brat Pack. I loved T.C., he's like fit Joey Gladstone.

Any who. Sleepaway Camp 3, had not watched this one until maybe 2002, when BestBuy released those Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit 1,2,and3, including the lost halfassed unfinshed work print of Sleepaway Camp 4 The Survivor. 3 was fun, I love the Camp setting same one used for part 2, which they were filmed back to back. Fun characters this time being named after West Side Story and Brady Bunch characters. Pam is back in this one too and much more menacing and pissed off. Not as good as 2 but is just as much as fun.

Now we just need A Return to Sleepaway Camp on bluray. While the weakest in the series it is Robert Hiltzik and Felissa Roses return to the series, with Jon Tiersten making a few appearances.

[NeMo_ET]

I have to agree with many of the above posts. The Sleepaway Camp series are some of the best releases Shout has done. They were also some of the ones I most looked forward to after they announced them. I think the first one may have been one of my first SF purchases. I remember blindly watching them on some horror TV channel we used to have and immediately thought they were great. They may not have started the whole camping slasher movie but I would say they definitely took it to a different level. I'd probably argue Friday the 13th was a "better" movie, but Sleepaway Camp takes what they did with F13 and takes it to the extreme.

[RedHarvest]

Originally Posted by Michael24

Haven't seen a lot of his films but I've listened to one or two of his podcast episodes and seen some videos where he's interviewed others, and the guy's knowledge (and interview skills) is impressive. The new Fangoria posted an old video recently where he was interviewing a really young Jamie Lee Curtis at some unknown event. It wasn't dated but clearly had to have been early-80s, and I was like "Jeez, he's been doing this kind of stuff forever it seems."

Mick Garris has been interviewing people in the horror community since the 70s. His podcast is great.

[RedHarvest]

Bloody Bloody Bible Camp is a great return to form for the "camp slasher." Has some great cameos in it, and it gets the tone right without going too over the top with silliness, which is what a lot of these "throwback" films suffer from. It has a very nice uncut German Blu-ray for those interested.

[20th Century Boy]

Never got around to Sleepaway Camp 2 or 3 because I've had doubts that they could match the original but these endorsements have me reconsidering.

[Cutter_]

Originally Posted by BrianJoynt

Mick Garris has been interviewing people in the horror community since the 70s. His podcast is great.

Mick's done a lot of King besides Sleepwalkers. Two for television I'd love to see by Shout, or just on blu by anyone, would be Desperation and Bag of Bones. Not everyone loves these titles, but I enjoy them.

[MJD64]

Was great to see Madchen Amick will be involved in the new supplements for Sleepwalkers; she was my favorite Twin Peaks lass back in the day (a not inconsiderable achievement when her competition included those dark Irish beauties Lara Flynn Boyle and Sherilyn Fenn ) and she still looks great.

I remember catching Amick in the 1990 TV-movie I'm Dangerous Tonight directed by Tobe Hooper and though it was no great shakes, it was campy fun and Amick's presence certainly made it watchable. It'd make for a neat little contribution to the Scream library if they choose to release it (I believe Universal holds the rights) and genre stalwarts Anthony Perkins and Dee Wallace both lend solid support.

[NeMo_ET]

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

Never got around to Sleepaway Camp 2 or 3 because I've had doubts that they could match the original but these endorsements have me reconsidering.

2 & 3 aren't in the same camp as 1 but I definitely found both entertaining. Very glad to have all 3 in my collection. They're all good, solid, fun slashers. 2 & 3 are nothing more or less than that in my opinion.

[bb8977]

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC Special Features

DISC ONE (118 minute Cut):
NEW 2K scan from original film elements
NEW Audio Commentary with director John Boorman
NEW Audio Commentary with project consultant Scott Bosco
NEW What Does She Remember? – aninterview with actress Linda Blair
NEW interview with editor Tom Priestley

DISC TWO (102 minute Cut):
NEW 2K scan from original film elements
NEW Audio Commentary with Mike White of The Projection Booth blog
Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailer
Still Galleries – Color and B&W Stills, Behind-the-Scenes, Deleted Scene photos, Posters and Lobby Cards

[dantexaiver]

Originally Posted by bb8977

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC Special Features

DISC ONE (118 minute Cut):
NEW 2K scan from original film elements
NEW Audio Commentary with director John Boorman
NEW Audio Commentary with project consultant Scott Bosco
NEW What Does She Remember? – aninterview with actress Linda Blair
NEW interview with editor Tom Priestley

DISC TWO (102 minute Cut):
NEW 2K scan from original film elements
NEW Audio Commentary with Mike White of The Projection Booth blog
Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailer
Still Galleries – Color and B&W Stills, Behind-the-Scenes, Deleted Scene photos, Posters and Lobby Cards

They Couldn't get Linda in for Commentary?