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DetroitSportsFan · 09-30-2009, 04:32 PM

My copy of New York Ripper is on the way. Looking forward to seeing it.

Schonfelder · 09-30-2009, 09:12 PM

Can´t wait to put my hands on this copy of New York Ripper and, like many said before, looking forward for more Argento, Bava, Fulci, Soavi, and all the great italian directors on blu.

In the case of Argento, more specifically, i think that they´re kind of warming up with the releases of lesser-known titles, to bring on the heavy ones later.

demoni · 10-01-2009, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Schonfelder

In the case of Argento, more specifically, i think that they´re kind of warming up with the releases of lesser-known titles, to bring on the heavy ones later.

Wouldn't call The Bird With The Crystal Plumage a lesser known title... Many fans holds this as his crown jewel, and I think the only Argento title that has made some kind of "known to all" reputation is Suspira.

So those who know about Tenebre, Opera and Phenomena, sure know about The Bird With The Crystal Plumage as well.

redtornado · 10-01-2009, 06:34 PM

As for Uncle Sam, Lustig directed it, and Larry Coehn wrote it. It fits in perfectly with Blue-Underground. I know its not as good as his other movies, but I still enjoyed it.

Now Hit List and Vigilante are on my wish list. Id also kill to get a Maniac Cop trilogy released on blu.

SpiderBaby · 10-01-2009, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redtornado

As for Uncle Sam, Lustig directed it, and Larry Coehn wrote it. It fits in perfectly with Blue-Underground. I know its not as good as his other movies, but I still enjoyed it.

Now Hit List and Vigilante are on my wish list. Id also kill to get a Maniac Cop trilogy released on blu.

Vigilante is f'n awesome.

Ator the Invincible · 10-01-2009, 07:29 PM

I just got Dead & Buried in the mail literally 5 minutes ago. It's my first Blue Underground title on blu-ray, though I do have a few of them on DVD. It was also a blind buy for me, and I can't wait to check it out. Unfortunately, my HDTV crapped out on me a few days ago, and now I have to wait for it to get repaired to watch the movie. Hopefully next week sometime.

LordCrumb · 10-01-2009, 07:44 PM

are Blue Undergound titles region-free? or most of them region-free?

benricci · 10-01-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by KaiGusto

are Blue Undergound titles region-free? or most of them region-free?

Yes, they have all been region free so far. I doubt this will change.

demoni · 10-01-2009, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ator the Invincible

I just got Dead & Buried in the mail literally 5 minutes ago. It's my first Blue Underground title on blu-ray, though I do have a few of them on DVD. It was also a blind buy for me, and I can't wait to check it out. Unfortunately, my HDTV crapped out on me a few days ago, and now I have to wait for it to get repaired to watch the movie. Hopefully next week sometime.

Remember that the grain is intended! Great movie, and I hope you enjoy it.

EricJ · 10-01-2009, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redtornado

As for Uncle Sam, Lustig directed it, and Larry Coehn wrote it. It fits in perfectly with Blue-Underground. I know its not as good as his other movies, but I still enjoyed it.

Now Hit List and Vigilante are on my wish list. Id also kill to get a Maniac Cop trilogy released on blu.

Maniac Cop 1 being Exhibit B that Larry Cohen could infuse a little bit of sneaky cool into ANY B or C-thriller, no matter how micro-budget.

Nowhere near the level of "The Stuff" or "Best Seller", but you always know when Cohen's had his hand on the script.

Elvis · 10-01-2009, 10:08 PM

Speaking of Blu Underground...

I sent a letter to Blu Underground, Criterion and Anchor Bay to check into aquiring rights to a film that has been so overlooked. Do any of you remember "High Risk" (1981) a film where James Brloin, Clevon Little and a few others (just everyday guys) go to South America and rob a drug Lord played by James Coburn. Then they run into Bandits led by Anthony Quinn. The Tag line was "Getting in was easy, getting out was hard". Anyway the film is public domain I believe and its been put out on DVD by several different companies with VHS or worse quality Pan and Scan (those 3.99/5.99 jewel case) titles. It was originally "American Cinema" that released it in the theater and I know Anchor Bay has released a few of those. I would just love to see this film cleaned up and given at least a 16x9 presentation on Standard DVD.

deadhatetheliving · 10-23-2009, 09:24 PM

Review for The New York Ripper-
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-N...y-Review/5837/

Review for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue-
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-L...y-Review/6165/

New release news-
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3592

Just in time for the release of the remake on 2/26/10

demoni · 10-24-2009, 10:19 AM

Gotta love Blue Underground!!!

redtornado · 10-25-2009, 05:46 AM

I should be getting my copy of Fire and Ice soon. Cant wait. Havent seen it in years. New York Ripper is coming from ebay (Damn you White Elephant Media bastards!) Now if I could just find some time to watch Fast Company.

deadhatetheliving · 10-25-2009, 07:19 AM

Review for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue from dvdbeaver.com-
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ue_blu-ray.htm

Love the screen caps.

Eidolon · 10-25-2009, 11:00 AM

BU BDs seem to generally split people regarding thier quality. In a no-DNR person myself, but theres been a lot of complaints on onter fourms about BU BDs being excessively over-griany. Givne that it seems to affect so many titles, I think it's a telecine issue, rather than genuine filmgrain. Anyway, NYR and LDAMM seem to imporve on these issues.

Personally I was going to get NYR until I saw the screen grabs, and found it rather lacking in contrast. It just looked flat to me, and also turned out to be missing one scene which is inlcuded in all the European DVD releases of the film. I've decided to give it a miss and go for the AWE DVD from Scandanavia instead, which is complete, packed with extras and apparently upscales beautifully.

I'm really looking forward to getting the BU BD of LDAMM though, I have the Anchor Bay UK DVD which is a nasty NTSC to PAL conversion, as so many of our DVDs here sadly are, especially from Anchor Bay and Tartan.

OpFeRmEtZgER · 10-25-2009, 11:06 AM

i LOVE Blue Underground! And i will receive Dead&Buried,New York Ripper,Let sleeping corpses lie at the end of this month.So far i have only watched Stendhal Syndrome on Blu Ray and even though this transfer is far from perfect i am very happy that they are releasing all those old classics on blu ray!
Oh...and THANK YOU Blue Underground for bringing your discs out region free! so us europeans can also enjoy your great releases!

Wegga · 10-25-2009, 12:52 PM

What I like about the Blue Underground releases is that they really do care about delivering hi quality product to the fans. This isn't always the case when it comes to dist companies.

My favorite release so far is easily Fire and Ice. That movie literally jumps off the screen. I also have New York Ripper which again, has hi image quality.

Have you guys noticed though that the special features are thin? They're clearly holding out for special editions, which sort of sucks.

yoxodo · 10-25-2009, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Wegga

Have you guys noticed though that the special features are thin? They're clearly holding out for special editions, which sort of sucks.

Yeah, i noticed that too. I was hoping Fire and Ice would have the Frazetta docu that was included with the limited edition DVD, but sadly it wasn't. However, the Fast Company blu had everything that was on the limited DVD, including Cronenberg's early shorts, Stereo and Crimes of the Future (in SD).

So far Blue Underground's products have been top-notch. The only blu of theirs i didn't care for was Two Evil Eyes. Besides being a little too grain heavy, there were scenes in The Black Cat segment where the audio seems to get turned down somehow, and people sound as if they're talking from the next room.

demoni · 10-25-2009, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eidolon

BU BDs seem to generally split people regarding thier quality. In a no-DNR person myself, but theres been a lot of complaints on onter fourms about BU BDs being excessively over-griany.

The people who complain about grain on some of the Blue Underground titles have to be people who don't like grain... period. Blue Underground have always been known for putting love and care into theire releases, and I have most of the Blu-ray's they have released so far, and they all look they way they're supposed to be.

If you don't like grain, buy a Disney animation.

10-01-2009, 10:08 PM	#31
Elvis Banned Member since:May 2009 Location:The Jungle Room Home Theater Gallery:1 Blu-ray collection:327 DVD collection:45 Blu-ray reviews:10 Trading Score:18	Speaking of Blu Underground... I sent a letter to Blu Underground, Criterion and Anchor Bay to check into aquiring rights to a film that has been so overlooked. Do any of you remember "High Risk" (1981) a film where James Brloin, Clevon Little and a few others (just everyday guys) go to South America and rob a drug Lord played by James Coburn. Then they run into Bandits led by Anthony Quinn. The Tag line was "Getting in was easy, getting out was hard". Anyway the film is public domain I believe and its been put out on DVD by several different companies with VHS or worse quality Pan and Scan (those 3.99/5.99 jewel case) titles. It was originally "American Cinema" that released it in the theater and I know Anchor Bay has released a few of those. I would just love to see this film cleaned up and given at least a 16x9 presentation on Standard DVD. Last edited by Elvis; 10-01-2009 at 10:34 PM.

10-23-2009, 09:24 PM	#32
deadhatetheliving Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Virginia Beach, VA Home Theater Gallery:51 4K collection:812 Blu-ray collection:2693 DVD collection:90 Prime collection:1 Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:7	Update bump Review for The New York Ripper- https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-N...y-Review/5837/ Review for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue- https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-L...y-Review/6165/ New release news- https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3592 Just in time for the release of the remake on 2/26/10

10-25-2009, 11:06 AM	#37
OpFeRmEtZgER Active Member Member since:Oct 2009 Location:Germany	i LOVE Blue Underground! And i will receive Dead&Buried,New York Ripper,Let sleeping corpses lie at the end of this month.So far i have only watched Stendhal Syndrome on Blu Ray and even though this transfer is far from perfect i am very happy that they are releasing all those old classics on blu ray! Oh...and THANK YOU Blue Underground for bringing your discs out region free! so us europeans can also enjoy your great releases! Last edited by OpFeRmEtZgER; 10-25-2009 at 10:17 PM.

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09-30-2009, 04:32 PM	#21
DetroitSportsFan Hot Deals Moderator Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:Michigan 4K collection:439 Blu-ray collection:2226 Trading Score:93	My copy of New York Ripper is on the way. Looking forward to seeing it.

09-30-2009, 09:12 PM	#22
Schonfelder Active Member Member since:Sep 2009 Blu-ray collection:730	Can´t wait to put my hands on this copy of New York Ripper and, like many said before, looking forward for more Argento, Bava, Fulci, Soavi, and all the great italian directors on blu. In the case of Argento, more specifically, i think that they´re kind of warming up with the releases of lesser-known titles, to bring on the heavy ones later.

10-01-2009, 06:34 PM	#24
redtornado Special Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Fox Valley, Wisconsin Home Theater Gallery:12 4K collection:1 Blu-ray collection:323 Digital collection:159 Blu-ray reviews: 20 Trading Score:553	As for Uncle Sam, Lustig directed it, and Larry Coehn wrote it. It fits in perfectly with Blue-Underground. I know its not as good as his other movies, but I still enjoyed it. Now Hit List and Vigilante are on my wish list. Id also kill to get a Maniac Cop trilogy released on blu.

10-01-2009, 07:29 PM	#26
Ator the Invincible Power Member Top contributor Member since:Oct 2008 Location:Scranton, PA, USA 4K collection:502 Blu-ray collection:6292 DVD collection:2715	I just got Dead & Buried in the mail literally 5 minutes ago. It's my first Blue Underground title on blu-ray, though I do have a few of them on DVD. It was also a blind buy for me, and I can't wait to check it out. Unfortunately, my HDTV crapped out on me a few days ago, and now I have to wait for it to get repaired to watch the movie. Hopefully next week sometime.

10-01-2009, 07:44 PM	#27
LordCrumb Moderator Top contributor Member since:May 2009 Location:New Zealand Home Theater Gallery:4 4K collection:405 Blu-ray collection:2924 DVD collection:109 Blu-ray reviews: 12 Trading Score:67	are Blue Undergound titles region-free? or most of them region-free?

10-24-2009, 10:19 AM	#33
demoni Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray reviews:1	Gotta love Blue Underground!!!

10-25-2009, 05:46 AM	#34
redtornado Special Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Fox Valley, Wisconsin Home Theater Gallery:12 4K collection:1 Blu-ray collection:323 Digital collection:159 Blu-ray reviews: 20 Trading Score:553	I should be getting my copy of Fire and Ice soon. Cant wait. Havent seen it in years. New York Ripper is coming from ebay (Damn you White Elephant Media bastards!) Now if I could just find some time to watch Fast Company.

10-25-2009, 07:19 AM	#35
deadhatetheliving Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Virginia Beach, VA Home Theater Gallery:51 4K collection:812 Blu-ray collection:2693 DVD collection:90 Prime collection:1 Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:7	Review for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue from dvdbeaver.com- http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ue_blu-ray.htm Love the screen caps.

10-25-2009, 11:00 AM	#36
Eidolon Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Aug 2009 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:1148	BU BDs seem to generally split people regarding thier quality. In a no-DNR person myself, but theres been a lot of complaints on onter fourms about BU BDs being excessively over-griany. Givne that it seems to affect so many titles, I think it's a telecine issue, rather than genuine filmgrain. Anyway, NYR and LDAMM seem to imporve on these issues. Personally I was going to get NYR until I saw the screen grabs, and found it rather lacking in contrast. It just looked flat to me, and also turned out to be missing one scene which is inlcuded in all the European DVD releases of the film. I've decided to give it a miss and go for the AWE DVD from Scandanavia instead, which is complete, packed with extras and apparently upscales beautifully. I'm really looking forward to getting the BU BD of LDAMM though, I have the Anchor Bay UK DVD which is a nasty NTSC to PAL conversion, as so many of our DVDs here sadly are, especially from Anchor Bay and Tartan.

10-25-2009, 12:52 PM	#38
Wegga Member Member since:Jul 2007 Trading Score:15	What I like about the Blue Underground releases is that they really do care about delivering hi quality product to the fans. This isn't always the case when it comes to dist companies. My favorite release so far is easily Fire and Ice. That movie literally jumps off the screen. I also have New York Ripper which again, has hi image quality. Have you guys noticed though that the special features are thin? They're clearly holding out for special editions, which sort of sucks.

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