Albert Pyun on blu-ray

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD5OPADfPoY

Got a release date for this yet?

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Got a release date for this yet?

Looks like it only played a few film festivals. Fingers crossed for a disc release.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Full Moon Pictures will be releasing the Charles Band production Arcade (1993), directed by the late great Albert Pyun, on Blu-ray on July 15th.

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[Mikezilla3k]

Some info on the Yippee-Ki-Yay Mothervideo release of the director's cut of Captain America:

Originally Posted by xenago

My copy arrived today. Really glad this was able to be released, it is wonderful to see the full film preserved and made available in high quality. Thank you to William Lu, Cynthia Curnan, and everyone involved for making this happen.

Some screens:

Originally Posted by Nissen

Got mine delivered up here in Norway as well. Haven't played the disc yet, but just wanted to share what the set looks like. In a word: Phenomenal!! The art by Juan Jose Saldarriaga is gorgeous!





Specs:

[Rayjg]

Wow, this release completely flew under my radar. I regreted not picking up the director’s cut he was selling direct but this is vastly superior. All 35mm, different score, 14 more minutes, and it’s a pressed disc I’ve been curtailing my buying lately but didn’t want to miss a chance to pick this up. Who knows, considering the companies involved, how long it will be around.

[ultrastereo]

radioactive dreams hasn't even got a proper DVD release
though i doubt i could make it thru the whole movie again

as bad as they are i somewhat enjoy his movies though - they have style

[tonylopez]

I act like I'm fine but deep down inside I just want a proper bluray of DOWN TWISTED.

[Rayjg]

Are any of the other director’s cuts from Yippee coming from film elements or is Captain America the only film Pyun had a 35mm work print of?

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

Are any of the other director’s cuts from Yippee coming from film elements or is Captain America the only film Pyun had a 35mm work print of?

Not sure about the source quality but I preordered the director’s cut of Cyborg and Road to Hell. I’ll be happy just to have ‘em. There’s also a preorder up for Cyborg 2: The Kingdom of Metal, which is the director’s cut of Knights. I think I need to get in on that one too. I’m just starting to explore the Pyuniverse. So far I have a VHS of Down Twisted, a boot DVD of the widescreen German DVD of Radioactive Dreams, a 4K of The Sword and the Sorcerer, and Blu-rays of Vicious Lips, Dangerously Close, Alien from L.A., Cyborg, Captain America (director’s cut), and the first four Nemesis films. Mean Guns, Blast, Knights, and Brainsmasher…A Love Story are on my want list. I’ve only seen three of his films in their entirety so far (Sword, Vicious Lips, and Cyborg, and loved all three) so I have a long road (to Hell) ahead of me!

From what I’ve seen so far, Albert Pyun is a unique and remarkably passionate and interesting filmmaker, with much more talent than he’s given credit for. I’d like to see any other director get the same mileage out of the budgets he had.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by tonylopez

I act like I'm fine but deep down inside I just want a proper bluray of DOWN TWISTED.

I just snagged this off eBay so it’ll probably hit Blu any day now. You’re welcome.

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by tonylopez

I act like I'm fine but deep down inside I just want a proper bluray of DOWN TWISTED.

At this point, I'll take a DVD with the correct aspect ratio.

[WaverBoy]

Just watched Down Twisted for the first time tonight. Very entertaining and likably goofy neo-noir/adventure, with an appealing and very game cast, excellent cinematography, intoxicating ‘80s aesthetic, bangin’ soundtrack, and that distinctively peculiar Pyunishness all over the script and direction, which is all exactly what I wanted. Loved it. A shame it’s not on Blu, or even DVD fer chrissakes. Although, watching it on craptastic VHS was kinda cool for nostalgia purposes, and Media were kind enough to throw on trashy trailers for Ministry of Justice, Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, and Rabid Grannies. Oh, those hazy days of video yore.

[WaverBoy]

I just watched the original version of Arcade a couple nights ago (first time watch of the film in any incarnation), courtesy of the VHS screener rip on archive.org, and I loved it. This has the goofy quirkiness, appealing cast, nutty dialogue, low-rent-but-enjoyable special effects, and budget-exceeding ambition I appreciate about Albert’s work. Sucks that the original version will apparently remain imprisoned in a badly done extremely low-rez VHS rip (if I ever get my hands on a copy of the screener I’ll do a proper rip and upload a larger file), but I’ll probably still pick up the Blu for the extras, and it will be interesting to see the rejiggered version with the re-edits, different takes, and replacement CGI and music score. Also, on the way to me are the MVD Blu-rays of Blast, Mean Guns, and Crazy Six, as well as the Columbia Tri-Star VHS of Deceit. Yes, I have a problem.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD5OPADfPoY

The King of Cult Movies doc REALLY needs a Blu-ray release, dammit.

[Mikezilla3k]

Dollman getting a new release with the Demonic Toys movies in the UK.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Dollman getting a new release with the Demonic Toys movies in the UK.

Dammit, this box has more films, but the Full Moon Fright Box Vol. 1 has more extra features for the included films, like audio commentaries. I’d be picking up either set mainly for Dollman. What to do…

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Dammit, this box has more films, but the Full Moon Fright Box Vol. 1 has more extra features for the included films, like audio commentaries. I’d be picking up either set mainly for Dollman. What to do…

Just get both.

[WaverBoy]

My latest adventure in the Pyuniverse…



DECEIT (1990) was, incredibly, shot by Albert in three days during forced reshoots for CYBORG (1989) in the same locations, at a cost of $22,000; a classic Roger Corman move. It’s basically a filmed stage play, and a really fascinating and oddly feminist one, with David Mamet-ish dialogue, in which two sex-obsessed alien agents named Bailey and Brick (Norbert Weisser and Scott Paulin) come to Earth in order to destroy it because it’s contaminating the galaxy with pollution. They inhabit the bodies of two recently deceased Earthlings, and before they get down to business, they try and get down to OTHER business by kidnapping a gorgeous babe named Eve (Samantha Phillips) and proceed to try and get in her panties before they blow up Earth and head off to the next offending polluter planet; this proves to be waaaaaaay more difficult than they could have possibly imagined. The title is absolutely apt, as you will discover. This is a film that only Albert could have made; absolute insanity, and definitely not for all tastes, but I had a great time with it. Both this and DOWN TWISTED desperately deserve to be rescued from VHS purgatory; until that happens, I made DVD-Rs of them and slipped them into my Blu-ray cases of CYBORG and DANGEROUSLY CLOSE, respectively. Nice little unofficial extras.

[Minko]

Brah, we need Knights!

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Minko

Brah, we need Knights!

Yep I’ll take that one too. Another one still imprisoned in VHS purgatory, although it apparently hit DVD in France, but I think that release is French-dubbed only with no English track — can anyone confirm? Looks like there’s a decent quality YouTube upload which I’m guessing was ripped from the French DVD, with an English track which I’m guessing was ripped from the VHS.

https://youtube.com/watch?si=TEf5eauV655FSXjg&v=SgzCtNHCZl0&feature=youtu.be