Dark Force Entertainment Discussion Thread

[slasherdisc]

Originally Posted by miribeau

How soon is sooner? I would double dip, if the quality was high enough, as I have someone who would appreciate the CR as a gift, even though it was used, assuming the new one really is better and arrives while that person is still alive. Here's hoping.... Do we have a release estimate?

It’s been on the radar since last year. No one knows if and when it’s coming to be exact.

[dawnofthediscs]

All I am saying is $27 is outrageous, to me at least. I did get it for $15 a year or two ago

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...island-blu-ray

$17 plus $4 shipping

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by dawnofthediscs

Yes and I wouldn't pay a cent more than what Hamilton Book are selling them for. Except for Assault on Paradise, which is painfully underrated and under-seen. Sorry I have no affiliation with Vinegar Syndrome, so I can't offer an estimate.

I think I got a couple of them at that exact price and a couple for about two dollars more, or only one, but my copy of Maniac was another for which I paid 18 and it was also worth every penny. I tend to buy at 18 or 20, hence the excitement over MM II and Swinging Barmaids being 19.50 each in the sale package.

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by dawnofthediscs

All I am saying is $27 is outrageous, either way.

https://grindhousevideo.com/products...island-blu-ray

$17 plus $4 shipping

Maybe not outrageous so much as several dollars over what you would expect. I would have expected, given free shipping and the possibility that you always get some customers placing orders for just one item, something in the neighborhood of 22.

[miribeau]

Store is temporarily down for maintenance. Wonder what they're adding. I know they said Steel Arena is going up.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by miribeau

Store is temporarily down for maintenance. Wonder what they're adding. I know they said Steel Arena is going up.

Seems to be working OK now.

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Seems to be working OK now.

A couple of film changes. No Steel Arena. Not yet then.

[Jack.A.Napes]

I placed my first Dark Force order, the Swinging Barmaids/MM II package and the Ultimate Drive-in Collection bundle. Of the drive-ins I only really wanted God's Bloody Acre and Cop Killers, but they were $52 purchased separately, or $60 for the bundle with the other three discs, so a bit of a no-brainer even though I'm doubling up on a few. I can always flip the duplicates at some point.

$11 flat rate shipping to the UK, and the order was shipped within the hour. So far so good.

[miribeau]

I received my order and scanned through my copies of Swinging Barmaids and Raven Dance, as I couldn't wait to see the picture quality. Now I can't wait to watch them.

SB looks really good, given age and a few little baby issues with the source, of the same type we often see, a tiny line here, a fleck there, that you can't remove without sort of scrubbing out all the detail on someone's face. The restoration looks as good as mondo digital said it did.

Raven Dance looks amazing. I didn't expect it to look that good and I'm kind of surprised that it was stored well enough to not degrade. The sections I viewed were sharp where they should be and were only soft when it was meant to be, based on the way it was filmed. The exteriors, at times, reminded me of a couple of shots in The Omen, which had a brilliant and horrible restoration. There were scenes that failed to capture detail but some exteriors that looked incredibly crisp and real and those are the scenes that MM II reminded me of. In other words, it reminded me of the very best in another film with a nice creepy mood. It was a welcome surprise. As soon as I finish work, that's the one I'm going for. Also, I forgot Sally Kellerman was in it, so there's a nice bonus.

[miribeau]

Update:

I just finished MM II Raven Dance. It looks and sounds wonderful and was quite a lot better, as a film, than I had remembered, but, the quality of what I had seen previously was rather awful, and that included the picture and sound. Even though I had seen it before, I now feel like I just saw it for the first time.

The HD visual on the Blu is wonderful and nearly always hovered between 25 and 35 mbps, with the highest levels where you would expect it, on those wonderful exteriors and inside the church sanctuary, when you have the most color saturation and more complex images, and the 25s in dark sequences, in smaller spaces. With the exception of a blip at the very beginning of the very first scene, a dimly lit flashback, and then deliberate artifacts in the artistically rendered credits (a blue and black montage of moving images), the film doesn't have lines or blips or scratches or dust and maintains a nice layer of grain throughout, for those who care.

The sound was clear and the music was actually really atmospheric, in that uniquely 90s way. I had remembered it as a quiet film but the music was actually present and manipulating in this presentation and, it turns out, I had misunderstood dialog the first time, so the movie made more sense, since I could finally understand the ramblings of Veronica Cartwright.

And, since I love the ending, I really enjoyed it. I hope some others will too. I think this little 90s film has a bad reputation because of the terrible SD presentation, including sound. There is a scene involving, in some capacity, the camera showing a hand. In the version I previously watched, the hand was not visible, because the image was too dark. In this version, that image is clear, as are all other images in that very important sequence.

Thank you to those who restored it and please post as soon as you have a semi-firm date for the January/February/March/April release of Mirror Mirror I.

[Frightener22]

"HUGE UPDATE:

STEEL ARENA has arrived at the new DARK FORCE SUPERSTORE and will finally be available for sale individually and some great package deals as soon as the store re-opens BUT WAIT....THERE'S MORE...

we combed through the rubble of the Code Red store and got our hands on some GREAT super rare stuff that Dark Force has never had before. So be sure to stay tuned right here for more details on the re-opening of the DARK FORCE SUPERSTORE. We'll announce what we got and how many and when the store opens it's first come first serve! STAY TUNED RIGHT HERE AT DARK FORCE ON FACEBOOK FOR DETAILS!!!
darkforcesuperstore.com"

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by Frightener22

"HUGE UPDATE:

STEEL ARENA has arrived at the new DARK FORCE SUPERSTORE and will finally be available for sale individually and some great package deals as soon as the store re-opens BUT WAIT....THERE'S MORE...

we combed through the rubble of the Code Red store and got our hands on some GREAT super rare stuff that Dark Force has never had before. So be sure to stay tuned right here for more details on the re-opening of the DARK FORCE SUPERSTORE. We'll announce what we got and how many and when the store opens it's first come first serve! STAY TUNED RIGHT HERE AT DARK FORCE ON FACEBOOK FOR DETAILS!!!
darkforcesuperstore.com"

Any idea when that's happening?

[cloudnine]

Dark Force was supposed to reveal which competitor (label) was responsible for both Code Red and their Big Cartel demises. What happened?

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by zbinks

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...2%3A%22R%22%7D

Dark Force should pull a Distribpix and sell, at a higher price that includes Amazon's fee, still shipping themselves, from the Marketplace. The only caveat, for something like MM II, is he'd have to list it under the DVD listing with the all caps Blu-ray alert, like people do with Mortuary and Devil's Wedding Night. I think DWN usually shows up under the VHS listing. Anyway, that is a way to sell when the store is down without using ebay, although I don't know whether Amazon has set up its own new tax program. I imagine the DF Superstore is having to set that up as well....

I kind of wonder if Morowitz would ever admit to how many copies he sells as Distribpix on Az Mkt vs Distribpix's official website.

[miribeau]

Originally Posted by zbinks

People do that for Mortuary and Devil's Wedding Night because the Blu-Ray releases don't have any UPC/EAN/ISBN codes, since they were only ever intended for direct sale.

Mirror Mirror 2 actually has a UPC code (790404976970) on the packaging, so an Amazon listing could be created solely for the Blu-Ray, based on that.

I always figured they did that to stay under the radar but this makes sense.

[nekromantik]

any news on mirror mirror?

[Ruined]

Superstore reopening within next 20min apparently for those who want the rare CR stuff and steel arena.

[frakking toaster]

I had to shut off the live stream. Felt like I was watching a case of elder abuse. Bill sounds like he's dying while this dude is making him dance like a monkey.

[DaveyJoe]

Originally Posted by frakking toaster

I had to shut off the live stream. Felt like I was watching a case of elder abuse. Bill sounds like he's dying while this dude is making him dance like a monkey.

Ugh, I can't believe I'm stuck at work and missing this.

[Ruined]

If Dark Force puts up Light Blast DVD or something old school like that would be really cool