Vinegar Syndrome Discussion Thread

[guccipunkstar]

Originally Posted by DaveyJoe

How I sound to you is how you sounded to me so glad we have that understanding. Unless your a scalper why would you care "Oh no more people will have a chance at something cool !! dammit!! " literally who cares. do you get mad when anyone re-releases a title that has gone oop?

[gbm82]

I forget how seriously some people take this place...

[meremortal]

I'm confused. Are releases with both a slipcover and a standard edition completely going out of print once the standard edition tally hits 0? I've noticed a few that are getting low for the standard but can't tell if they get a restock.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by meremortal

I'm confused. Are releases with both a slipcover and a standard edition completely going out of print once the standard edition tally hits 0? I've noticed a few that are getting low for the standard but can't tell if they get a restock.

If the description at the top doesn't say anything about going OOP or being a one time pressing it's likely getting reprinted. Though it can take months sometimes and a few titles seem to have gone OOP without a word lately.

[jmilo61]

Originally Posted by phobicsquirrel

I can't believe beastmaster sold out, I looked last night and saw over 1000 copies on there. That's crazy so many grabbed it. I'm glad because it's a fantastic release, just shocked.

I've said it already but hopefully VS will see it, do RED SONJA next!

The limited edition sold out its last few hundred copies in minutes of the sale starting.

The standard edition has been available since, and there's still over 1000 of it in stock.

[Alan T]

I'm with the majority on the topic of re-printing slipcovers - just a bad idea. Don't mess with a proven and highly successful formula.

As far as a "generic" slip, unless I missed some details, I don't see how that is an interesting idea either. A blank cover with only the VS logo and the movie title in black generic font? Who'd want to look at that instead of artwork? The spine would also stick out like a sore thumb if your VS are sorted together. I would buy the lower priced non-slip version any day over something like that.

[spatafore]

Originally Posted by bsend

The "Add to my existing order" is one of the most clever inventions in the history of the world

Exactly that's one of the great things about VS.

I wish that other labels do the same, like Indicator on his sales. With Indicator and others I need place one big order without knowing with titles go down on numbers or pay shipping again and again for every small order, is a pain!!!

[GasmaskAvenger]

Originally Posted by spatafore

Exactly that's one of the great things about VS.

I wish that other labels do the same, like Indicator on his sales. With Indicator and others I need place one big order without knowing with titles go down on numbers or pay shipping again and again for every small order, is a pain!!!

Severin also does it during their sales too

[mikevieira]

I love VS but to be quite honest I'm not into much of their catalogue. The only movie I've purchased is Beastmaster awhile back and I got some dvd keep cases that work pretty well.

Im curious what other movies are you guys buying over the weekend?!

[spatafore]

Originally Posted by GasmaskAvenger

Severin also does it during their sales too

Good to know, due the last severin issues with the site on sales, I just have some Severin releases, I like some releases but many others don't.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Sommerswerd

Does Vinegar Syndrome tend to include English subtitles for their English special features?

Not that I’m aware of, most labels don’t. Major studios often do, and the BBC has done it with Doctor Who boxsets.

Originally Posted by bsend

VS is rolling in money and it's awesome. Looking forward to being a 2022 subscriber.

I have too much else to watch and buy and too selective with reviews to want to get every title though.

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I know that this review might get lost in the shuffle, but I'm bringing it anyway, since this one goes in the top tier of titles from this label.



Hoping to get laid, three teenagers try to impress their girlfriends by stealing a dead body from the local morgue, taking it to a cemetery, and using Satanic rites to bring the corpse back to life. Instead of getting laid, they end up badly dead.

So it’s a film about being laid to rest? Or, with the juxtaposition of sex and death, a film about le petit mort?

Originally Posted by FulciLives1016

I can’t tell if the add to existing sale order is more of a curse than a blessing for me right now. Just added Altered Innocence vol. 1


I also want to mention about the slipcovers since no one else is

Despite the shiny I’m not a fan of the slip, think I’ll just get the standard. Adoration doesn’t seem like a great slip either, just okay.

Originally Posted by shadownrice

We are getting close to VS being 10 years old, a big fancy coffee table book of the first decade of releases would be a cool way to celebrate that.

Worked well for Criterion but not for Arrow

Originally Posted by Mrdugan

Except that they’re advertised as limited to X amount of copies.

XXX amount of copies

[HallowedSZ]

Originally Posted by phobicsquirrel

I can't believe beastmaster sold out, I looked last night and saw over 1000 copies on there. That's crazy so many grabbed it. I'm glad because it's a fantastic release, just shocked.

I've said it already but hopefully VS will see it, do RED SONJA next!

Not possible. It's been under 1000 for quite some time now. In fact, it was at 477 when the site came down.

[TheHorrorNerd]

I posted this a few pages ago but I'm still seeing people getting bummed out that Beastmaster LE is sold out.

Grindhouse still has copies of it and Don't Panic with the slips

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...3d6fc4d1&_ss=r

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...a222b9ac&_ss=r

[Savage_Blu]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I'm with the majority on the topic of re-printing slipcovers - just a bad idea. Don't mess with a proven and highly successful formula.

As far as a "generic" slip, unless I missed some details, I don't see how that is an interesting idea either. A blank cover with only the VS logo and the movie title in black generic font? Who'd want to look at that instead of artwork? The spine would also stick out like a sore thumb if your VS are sorted together. I would buy the lower priced non-slip version any day over something like that.

This.

Reprinting slips is just a waste of time for VS, imo. The whole point of buying LE's direct from VS and a few other online retailers is for the slipcover. If you want the LE slip, buy it before it sells out.

[latehong]

Originally Posted by Sommerswerd

Does Vinegar Syndrome tend to include English subtitles for their English special features?

This is an important question and I'm happy to confirm that YES, THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FROM THEIR NOVEMBER 2019 RELEASES AND MORE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW AND TALK ABOUT IT!

I repeat: From the November 2019 releases on, Vinegar Syndrome has included English subtitles for their English special features except for feature audio commentaries (and maybe some other audio-only extras). This is nothing less than a heroic act, something that almost no other boutique label cares to do. And it's doubly heroic, considering the amounts of their supplements. I mean, these crazy people subtitled the entire six-part new documentary on The Beastmaster as well as the 55-minute archival making-of! And they've been doing it for every release for the last year and a half. Imagine the workload.

And what's crazy is, as far as I know, VS has never boasted that they're doing it, so many people probably don't even aware of this.

I myself have been steadily following and collecting VS releases from the mid-2017, but just found out about it early this year, thanks to their partner label Fun City Edition release of Alphabet City, which was the label's first release as well as my introduction to them. On the main menu, there's an option to watch the feature with the director's intro. I selected that and pressed the sub button on my remote immediately without much thinking, just to watch the feature with subtitles, not the intro. And voila, the intro also had subtitles! At first, I just thought 'well, it's only about 30 seconds and attached to the main feature, so...' But that lucky accident led me to try the same button for the other supplements and to my surprise, 22-minute director interview and 5-minute video essay also had subtitles!

What's funny about it was, the subtitles for the supplements were better-timed than those on the main feature, which were slightly but annoyingly off as many VS releases usually do. So my guess at first was that Fun City Edition added their own efforts for the supplements while VS only did the main feature. I vividly remember thinking, 'wow, this Fun City Edition guy went a step further than Vinegar Syndrome!' lol

Of course, 'but maybe...?' followed soon enough and my jaw dropped when I tried the same with the supplements on the Martial Law 1&2 disc. 'When did they start doing this? Why didn't they say anything!?'

From then on, I backtracked their releases I had and found that The Angel Collection, released in November 2019, had subtitles, while Beyond the Door III, released in October 2019, didn't. So I guess they've been doing it since November 2019. Of course, I couldn't check every single supplement on every single disc, and I found one exception of the audio essay by Rachael Nisbet on The Police Are Blundering in the Dark of Forgotten Gialli: Volume 1 (Jan, 2020), but I can say I checked enough and the results were more than promising.

[pixote]

Originally Posted by TheHorrorNerd

I posted this a few pages ago but I'm still seeing people getting bummed out that Beastmaster LE is sold out.

Grindhouse still has copies of it and Don't Panic with the slips

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...3d6fc4d1&_ss=r

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...a222b9ac&_ss=r

Don't Panic Slipcover edition at half price lasted 2 minutes.

Don't Panic Slipcover at full price has been sitting on Grindhouse all day...

People are waiting for VS reprint it so they can buy it during the BF sale

[toxic-shock]

Tbh I wouldn't mind if they release a 2nd slip for movies like Demon Wind and Ice Cream Man where they had text in the back and it kind of looks like they just reprinted the sleevejacket art onto the slipcover. I think what they could do is instead of reprinting the old art /reprinting the old slips is that they use new artwork for the second version and have those slips also be limited, just like what they've done for Spookies, Cutting Class and Fade to Black. Other companies like Grindhouse Releasing and Cauldron Films put out second limited edition alterations. It gives Collectors options of which version they prefer to collect.

[DetroitSportsFan]

1 copy of Necromancer left!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Leeon0

A bit surprised there chief. I didn't expect that from you. I think they're wonderful, leaving just a bit for the imagination.

[Show spoiler]

I see what you did there! It slipped by me when I first read it.

[DetroitSportsFan]

1 copy of Spellcaster left!