Amityville 3-D 3D Blu-ray (1983) [Region Locked / Free]

[TravelSteveR]

The Amityville Horror Trilogy 2 x Blu-ray + 3D Blu-ray USA - Region A locked

Amityville 3-D 3D Blu-ray Spain - Region Free

Amityville La Trilogie 2 x Blu-ray + 3D Blu-ray France - Region B locked and be warned that this release includes forced French subtitles with the English audio

Amityville 3-D 3D Blu-ray Germany - Region B locked

Amityville 3-D 3D Blu-ray (also including anaglyph 3D version as a bonus feature) + DVD Germany - Region B locked (Mediabook - a variety of covers are available. Please note that only the anaglyph 3D version is mentioned on the packaging.)



Original post:
Scream Factory has announced a Blu-Ray box set of the first three Amityville Horror films before this Halloween and will announce this summer whether Amityville 3D will be in 3D. Let's keep our fingers crossed. It's not a great film (I prefer the 2nd one), but the 3D is good.

[hotandserious]

Originally Posted by TravelSteveR

Scream Factory has announced a Blu-Ray box set of the first three Amityville Horror films before this Halloween and will announce this summer whether Amityville 3D will be in 3D. Let's keep our fingers crossed. It's not a great film (I prefer the 2nd one), but the 3D is good.

I hope so! Has Cliff been asked about 3D blus of Cat-Women of The Moon and Robot Monster? I'd LOVE to have those too!

[hotandserious]

They just replied on FB re: Amityville 3:
We'll confirm the "3D" in the Summer.

So that sounds like a Yes!

[Jsmith82]

Count me in for this one!

The movie in its entirety is out on YouTube in anaglyph format but it's so old and crappy, there is no justice to the extra dimension. Having watched about 5 minutes of it, skipping here and there, my first hope other than clarity restoration or perhaps a new scan, is that they go through and steady the film out - the original was very jumpy.

[Taygan315]

I'm all in on this one. Can't wait for official 3D confirmation...but it sounds promising that it will have a 3D version in the set.

[Impossible]

I was gonna buy the original the other day, glad I held off on it as hopefully the transfer will better on this.

The 1st and 2nd films were scary as hell. Never saw the 3rd so looking forward to seeing it in 3D.

[Taygan315]

Hopefully they will do the 3D justice and give it the best conversion they can and not a rush job.

[Impossible]

Originally Posted by Taygan315

Hopefully they will do the 3D justice and give it the best conversion they can and not a rush job.

It was in 3D originally from memory.

[Jsmith82]

Originally Posted by Impossible

It was in 3D originally from memory.

+1

Good old 1983 Native.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by hotandserious

They just replied on FB re: Amityville 3:
We'll confirm the "3D" in the Summer.

So that sounds like a Yes!

Thanks for getting this info! Amityville Horror series has some good scares here and there so this will be on my radar, especially the 3D disc.
I'm still thinking about that old lamp stand in one movie that really was creepy. It's been many years, I'm pretty sure that was from Amityville 2 or 3? The flies by the windows

[Show spoiler] in the attic, the demon monster face in the picture photo, the evil face in the window from outside, good stuff!

[UFAlien]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I'm still thinking about that old lamp stand in one movie that really was creepy. It's been many years, I'm pretty sure that was from Amityville 2 or 3?

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes was about a possessed lamp. And it was hilarious. A CBS TV movie starring Patty Duke.

I'm all for this box set. I think the original Amityville Horror looks pretty good on Blu as-is, but I'll love having the theatrical sequels in HD. And maybe we can get some actual special features, which the original release lacks. I'm not super-fond of the video quality we've seen from a lot of Scream Factory's Blu-rays, as it tends to be a bit filtered, but it's still better than DVD and I like the movies well enough to splurge unless they're somehow awful, literal upscales.

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

[Student Driver]

Originally Posted by UFAlien

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

That copy you have is probably copied from the Japanese VHD, which was a so-so quality analogue capacitance format roughly equivalent to CED in video quality (and defects); barely above VHS. I appreciated getting to see stuff in 3D thanks to the VHD copies that were floating around, but like you, I'm definitely interested in seeing a proper transfer.

[UFAlien]

It wasn't a VHD source, actually; it was sourced from the UK anaglyph DVD, and then separated back into left and right image files. It was done well enough that it does look better than just watching it in anaglyph, and the colors are mostly pretty good, but there's quite a bit of encoded ghosting when a clean enough separation couldn't be achieved. Oddly enough, for most of the movie one of the eyes actually has more image area than the other (the top letterbox bar is thinner), which is a... strange and somewhat uncomfortable mismatch. There's also one scene in which the right eye view is out of focus, but that (sadly) may have actually been a problem from the original filming. I suppose we'll find out!

[Student Driver]

Oh, interesting, haven't seen any of those conversions. Probably does look better, then.

[UFAlien]

In terms of detail maybe, though the VHD probably didn't have the crosstalk problems. But hopefully we'll get a pristine 1080p Blu-ray 3D and not have to worry about the tradeoff anyway!

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by UFAlien

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes was about a possessed lamp. And it was hilarious. A CBS TV movie starring Patty Duke.

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

Thanks UFAlien. All I remember is a floor lamp with a rounded top and mood music, but as a kid, it was effective enough. A possessed lamp. That is original.

Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack had a ghost episode about a possessed bunk bed as a note.

[UFAlien]

Here's the original promo for it (and it was NBC apparently, not CBS). The funny thing is how the promo makes it sound like the movie actually takes place in the Amityville house, when the entire plot is about how the demon from the house hides in the lamp and gets taken to California instead XD

Amityville 4 NBC Promo - YouTube

[Zivouhr]

Thanks for posting the video on the lamp Amityville movie, UFAlien. I remember now something about a sale and someone noticing the lamp in the beginning.

[Akijama]

From SF's FB:

***BREAKING! AMITYVILLE 3-D NEWS***

We can now officially confirm that our upcoming Amityville Horror Trilogy blu-ray box set will include the film AMITYVILLE 3-D (1983) in Blu-ray 3-D!! (2-D version also included too.)

To our knowledge, this marks the first time an 80's 3-D film has been presented in a Blu-ray 3-D format. Needless to say, we are very excited about this and hope you will be too.

The release is planned for October. More specific details (artwork, extras) will be announced in the Summer.

[Taygan315]

Originally Posted by Akijama

From SF's FB:

CANNOT WAIT TO GET THIS!! Awesome news!!