Blood And Black Lace (1964) (VCI Entertainment) - October 23, 2018

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The Arrow situation reminds me of Universal's Hammer releases, in particular BRIDES OF DRACULA. The DVD was nearly perfect in terms of colour and framing, but the later releases were cropped to 2.20:1, due to someone reading the film cans, which indicated that as Universal, did, in fact, crop them down for U.S. theatrical release. This does not make that right, and anyone who knew anything, or could be bothered to do 20 minutes of research, could see that.

A mistake was made and Arrow did not see to fix it. Stunning colors, but misframed, like a painting with a bad frame on it. Much like when the BF stated on their restoration of DRACULA, they they did not want to make it look like a Technicolor movie(!).

I hope VCI gets this right. The commentaries listed come from good people who love Bava. It looks very enticing.