Hellraiser Trilogy from Arrow (Oct 26th 2016)

[HotRats]

The Anchor Bay DVD cube was packed with extras so I'm looking forward to seeing the details of this offering. I'm glad I managed to restrain myself from buying the Japanese set now. The only thing I dislike is the cover art, the UK had a very nice standee similar to the US one sheet art but three dimensional and with an eye-catching piece of diffraction grating above the puzzle box, reproducing this in miniature would have been a great front piece for the Arrow box or even going all out for an even more expensive small run in a well made (unlike some of the so-called replicas available) wood and brass box

[Bumblefeet]

So do you guys think it's still worth getting this documentary as well?

http://www.leviathan-hellraiser.co.uk

I wouldn't mind if Arrow could strike a deal to include it or port over some interviews.

[FreddyK]

I wasn't expecting this. I ended up getting the Italian version a while ago and pretty happy with it. It was less than £15 delivered at the time too.

I have bought these films so many times over the years, I am still interested in this if the PQ is better and eventually in a amaray case.

[Cinematt]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

We already knew the set was limited, it was in the original press release. Anything more than 5,000 for a boutique label in today's home video market is not limited (the 10k runs of Nightbreed and TCM 2 aside, the latter of which doubtless has many thousands of copies left, as it has been part of Arrow sales and still hasn't received any 'limited stock' updates, 20 months after release).

I'm happy they overshot with TCM2 as I got it super cheap! But yeah, there must be plenty of them left, it's in every sale going. Shame though, really lovely set, more people should take a punt on it.
Less happy Shout upped the Nightbreed run after 5k were snapped up (as I got in there early!) it did make the price seem much less reasonable, especially given how cheap the single disc version went for in comparison. I'd have been happier if the limited version also had the crap-o-vision Cabal cut on it too, just for completism's sake (I saw it at Frightfest ant parts were just various blurred shades of nearly black!)

[NoirFan]

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[dissention]

Originally Posted by bowiee1984

But An Old B Grade Horror Trilogy Only Re Mastered In 2K Which will still suffer from artifact compression amongst other flaws from having limited data storage size disc is going to cost an Australian $140 AUD....

Hold up, is this a Scream Factory release?

[roundasapound]

I just purchased the Italian import of the trilogy from Amazon UK for £10.
Being delivered tomorrow on Prime.

It says it's Region B locked.
ASIN: B009VTOVMO

There is a US import pack with 4 movies for about £6 but these are the later movies, which I'm not sure about.
ASIN: B00LVZJWRK

[Titus37]

Originally Posted by Bumblefeet

So do you guys think it's still worth getting this documentary as well?

http://www.leviathan-hellraiser.co.uk

I wouldn't mind if Arrow could strike a deal to include it or port over some interviews.

I'm very pleased with the Leviathan DVDs. The runtimes of each disc are just insane:

Disc 1: The Story of Hellraiser is approx. 4 hours 37 minutes
Disc 2: The Story of Hellbound is approx. 3 hours 19 minutes
Disc 3: Bonus Features is approx. 3 hours

I haven't had time to tackle discs 1 and 2 yet, but the documentaries on the Bonus disc have been excellent. There's no way that the Arrow set is going to interview all of the people who ended up on the Leviathan set.

[csg91]

Originally Posted by roundasapound

I just purchased the Italian import of the trilogy from Amazon UK for £10.
Being delivered tomorrow on Prime.

It says it's Region B locked.
ASIN: B009VTOVMO

There is a US import pack with 4 movies for about £6 but these are the later movies, which I'm not sure about.
ASIN: B00LVZJWRK

In my opinion Bloodline is a fun movie, some would agree some might not. I recently watched Inferno after not seeing for a long time I still liked it. I don't remember Hellseeker as for Hellworld I didn't care for it. Now all that you need is Deader.


I suppose if you're a completionist then you should get Revelation

Originally Posted by Titus37

I'm very pleased with the Leviathan DVDs. The runtimes of each disc are just insane:

Disc 1: The Story of Hellraiser is approx. 4 hours 37 minutes
Disc 2: The Story of Hellbound is approx. 3 hours 19 minutes
Disc 3: Bonus Features is approx. 3 hours

I haven't had time to tackle discs 1 and 2 yet, but the documentaries on the Bonus disc have been excellent. There's no way that the Arrow set is going to interview all of the people who ended up on the Leviathan set.

I'm curious was there any interviews done with Ashley Laurence?

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by bowiee1984

Ok so some of us know company's like to extort consumers (capitalism) so they put shit on the market and call it a red rose and people are stupid enough to buy most of it. And that goes for all forms of consumption food, health products etc.

OMG! Words of such wisdom! I have been converted! I'm gonna burn all my stuff and go be a "told ya so" hermit.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by csg91

In my opinion Bloodline is a fun movie, some would agree some might not. I recently watched Inferno after not seeing for a long time I still liked it. I don't remember Hellseeker as for Hellworld I didn't care for it. Now all that you need is Deader.


I suppose if you're a completionist then you should get Revelation




I'm curious was there any interviews done with Ashley Laurence?

To me Inferno is my favourite of the series. I like how they tried taking it in another direction, and a good story that was reminiscent in some ways of Jacob's Ladder

[csg91]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

To me Inferno is my favourite of the series. I like how they tried taking it in another direction, and a good story that was reminiscent in some ways of Jacob's Ladder

Yeah I agree Inferno is great. I remember when I first got it. I bought a VHS rental promo copy for in store promotional use. Then a little while back I bought the DVD set with The Prophecy movies and Hellraiser 3-8 and recently decided to get around to opening it up and that's the first thing I watched. Now that I think about it I remember Hellseeker also because that feature Ashley Laurence in it also. Hellseeker was a fun movie as well.

I have always had a soft spot for Hellraiser I actually open a few of the figures like:

18 inch motion activated Pinhead
Hellraiser Cenobite Lair (figures of Pinhead, Chatterer, Butterball and female Cenobite) from Spencer's Gift which was limited to 2,500 and included a lithograph and is signed by Barker

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Bumblefeet

So do you guys think it's still worth getting this documentary as well?

http://www.leviathan-hellraiser.co.uk

I wouldn't mind if Arrow could strike a deal to include it or port over some interviews.

Thanks for the link - this release wasn't even on my radar, but I decided to splurge on what looks to be the final word on the first two films. They're PAL discs, but region zero, for those in the US.

[KarmaNL]

Originally Posted by Bumblefeet

So do you guys think it's still worth getting this documentary as well?

http://www.leviathan-hellraiser.co.uk

I wouldn't mind if Arrow could strike a deal to include it or port over some interviews.

Thanks for this, never knew about this but just ordered it

[tenia]

Originally Posted by bowiee1984

But An Old B Grade Horror Trilogy Only Re Mastered In 2K Which will still suffer from artifact compression amongst other flaws from having limited data storage size disc is going to cost an Australian $140 AUD...

There are so many inexactitudes in this one sentence I don't even know where to start with.
You certainly don't care about the movies talked about in this topic, and you certainly don't know who is involved in this release and what their reputations are.

So may I ask you why you're writing about this since there is so little care and knowledge in your post ?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

To me Inferno is my favourite of the series. I like how they tried taking it in another direction, and a good story that was reminiscent in some ways of Jacob's Ladder

I've always liked Inferno and, to a lesser extent, Hellseeker (why they cut that deleted scene with Kirsty & Pinhead on the DVD is a mystery). The rest are atrocious, even Bloodline, which is nothing but 80 minutes of exposition the series didn't need.

[FreddyK]

I don't mind Bloodline. I even got it on blu ray just to pretend the series ended there. I do have Inferno and Hellseeker but not upgrading my DVD's. Rest I have ignored up to now.

[unkie fester]

I still want a 9 movie Box set along the same lines of Halloween and Friday the 13th

[ghostgate2001]

Hmmm, never did like the third film much. Apart from a few interesting flashback scenes with a pre-Pinhead Doug Bradley, it was (IMHO) just gaudy and trashy - and those "new" Cenobites (camcorders and CDs?!) were terrible ideas, even when it was first released, and can surely only serve to date it horribly now.

Got a bit of a soft spot for the fourth film, though, and wish this set had encompassed the first four films, not three. That would feel more "complete" to me, as a box-set. I liked what Bloodlines tried to do, and (after disliking the third film) Bloodlines felt, to me, like something of a return to form for the series. Which isn't to say it's a great film, per se, just that it came as a blessed relief to me after the trashiness of its predecessor.

I'm aware that Bloodlines was heavily compromised - it's an "Alan Smithee" film, after all (i.e. disowned by the director due to third-party meddling) - so it's amazing it's as passable as it is under those kinds of circumstances. It would be interesting to see a proper restoration of the director's original version for Bloodlines, if the footage still exists. Hopefully its absence from this set will be a positive, not a negative, as it leaves the door open for a proper standalone "director's cut" restoration, a la Nightbreed. I'd buy that.

[AlexIlDottore]

Originally Posted by bowiee1984

Ok so some of us know company's like to extort consumers (capitalism) so they put shit on the market and call it a red rose and people are stupid enough to buy most of it. And that goes for all forms of consumption food, health products etc.

But An Old B Grade Horror Trilogy Only Re Mastered In 2K Which will still suffer from artifact compression amongst other flaws from having limited data storage size disc is going to cost an Australian $140 AUD....

Let me guess. You've had at least one day of schooling which enabled you to write all that?

More schooling is needed.