The Vincent Price Collection - Volume 1 (OOP)

[Sinbad75]

Quick follow-on. How has the quality been with Scream Factory's releases? I would assume that they are given the masters from the controlling studio for their pressings. All of the Price films in the above listing have been aired in HD on various cable channels, and the prints are superb. Here's hoping the Blu-ray ports are at least equally impressive in PQ!

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

I'd rather they release completely different films, more selection for the (region-free) consumer. Obviously there's only a slight market crossover though, so no way to avoid the redundancies between Arrow and Synapse/Scream.

I agree, but when they do cross paths, I think it is the right thing to do - when one studio announces a title , the other should as well. It is just to avoid the buyer conflict which I had.
And there still so many great MGM titles to be had and who knows who will release them...Planet of the Vampires and Without Warning for starters...
Die Monster Die, Angry Red Planet and Reptilicus would be great too...
Wow my Midnite movies collection is going to shrink down big time now ! Here's to upgrading to better quality..although the DVDs were great in their time

[oscarmerkx]

Originally Posted by sinbad75

this is fantastic news! Can't wait for these titles, plus the other corman/poe/price classics that must surely follow!

+ 1

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Sinbad75

Quick follow-on. How has the quality been with Scream Factory's releases? I would assume that they are given the masters from the controlling studio for their pressings. All of the Price films in the above listing have been aired in HD on various cable channels, and the prints are superb. Here's hoping the Blu-ray ports are at least equally impressive in PQ!

I own Halloween III and They Live. I think they both look good, even though I do know some here have taken issue with the They Live transfer because of instances of DNR.

[Dex Robinson]

Hmmm...

Perhaps the single greatest announcment in the history of Blu-ray.

[octagon]

2013 was starting to look like a pretty shaky catalog year.

This announcement alone might salvage it.

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by octagon

2013 was starting to look like a pretty shaky catalog year.

I can't agree with that statement. 2013 has started as the best catalogue year ever and it keeps getting better.

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

If this goes well I'm sure they'll put out a Vincent Price set number 2 since there's still plenty they could draw from.

Yup, I sorted out a Vol.2:

Tales Of Terror
The Raven
The Tomb Of Ligeia
The Comedy Of Terrors
The City Under The Sea
Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Are Shout Blu's multi-region?

[Ignotum]

Wow!! Really great ****in news!!!

[shredking9000]

Sounds good. Don't see why they wouldn't add The Last Man on Earth though, considering that it's in the public domain.

[*PREACHER*]

Awesome news about Scream releasing this...may double dip on House of Usher steelbook Arrow is releasing...great day of announcements overall today!!!

[octagon]

Originally Posted by shredking9000

Sounds good. Don't see why they wouldn't add The Last Man on Earth though, considering that it's in the public domain.

That does seem odd particularly since there appears to be a pretty decent source available. It was on MGM-HD several months ago and looked pretty good.

Obviously one shouldn't read too much into that but it was definitely encouraging.

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

Are Shout Blu's multi-region?

Region A only per their license.

[WildWingMafia]

Has House On Haunted Hill been released in blu format yet?

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by octagon

That does seem odd particularly since there appears to be a pretty decent source available. It was on MGM-HD several months ago and looked pretty good.

One thing you have to realize is that while a movie itself may be in the public domain, that doesn't mean that the physical source material is in the public domain.

MGM would likely have access to the original camera material via their acquisition of United Artists which, in turn, had most of the old American International Pictures properties. So, while the movie, as intellectual property, is in the public domain, the best source material would still be the private property of MGM. You can't just show up at MGM and say, "We're doing a BD of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH so give us your camera negative".

I would LOVE for SHOUT FACTORY to do THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. In a perfect world, they could do a deal to get their hands on the source that MGM used. But, failing that, they would have to find their own source material.

And we don't know what kind of GOOD source material is available outside of MGM.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

Yup, I sorted out a Vol.2:

Tales Of Terror
The Raven
The Tomb Of Ligeia
The Comedy Of Terrors
The City Under The Sea
Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Works for me.

[hagios]

I'm there day1

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Dex Robinson

One thing you have to realize is that while a movie itself may be in the public domain, that doesn't mean that the physical source material is in the public domain.

MGM would likely have access to the original camera material via their acquisition of United Artists which, in turn, had most of the old American International Pictures properties. So, while the movie, as intellectual property, is in the public domain, the best source material would still be the private property of MGM. You can't just show up at MGM and say, "We're doing a BD of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH so give us your camera negative".

I would LOVE for SHOUT FACTORY to do THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. In a perfect world, they could do a deal to get their hands on the source that MGM used. But, failing that, they would have to find their own source material.

And we don't know what kind of GOOD source material is available outside of MGM.

Maybe I've gotten ahead of myself a step or two.

Looking at the titles I had pretty much assumed these were all licensed from (and presumably transfered by) MGM but I suppose that's not necessarily the case.

But if this is a deal with MGM then The Last Man on Earth would be an odd omission (unless they've dealt it to Criterion or TT or the like).

[rkolinski]

Even though I already own Witchfinder General, I would double dip to purchase this set. Also, I'm still waiting for the original 1958 The Fly, my favorite movie with Vincent Price!

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by octagon

But if this is a deal with MGM then The Last Man on Earth would be an odd omission (unless they've dealt it to Criterion or TT or the like).

TT did announce that they have no horror titles planned other than The Blob, for what's its worth. I can't see Criterion releasing it either.