Last House on Dead End Street - Vinegar Syndrome 2014

[redrunner97]

THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET:

Originally Posted by Vinegar Syndrome

So before we head out of here next week for our little holiday break (we'll still update the page and take orders, but nothing will probably go out between next tuesday-thursday), we'd like to give an update on some great things to come in 2014:

- LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET (aka THE FUN HOUSE): All we'll say on this is that it is being worked on and handled with the utmost care for a release in 2014. All other details remain CLASSIFIED...

[Liquid_Swords]

I never got around to seeing this. I keep thinking its like The Last House On The Left or House On The Edge Of The Park.

Nevertheless. Trailer looks AWESOME!

[zbinks]

Definately looking forward to this.

[KillerJuan77]

This is one of the grimiest and ugliest horror films from the 70's. The poor voice-overs somehow get combined with the hideous and somewhat surreal atmosphere and they create one of the most ominous horror films out there.

It was shot for 800 or so dollars (The budget was 3000 bucks but they spent the rest on crystal meth) on 16mm and I have to say it's one of the worst looking films in my collection so I'm curious how good it's going to look on Blu-Ray. Judging by Vinegar Syndrome's track record it's probably going to be utterly stunning compared to the DVD's out there.

[Beauvoir]

I have the 2 DVD set from Barrel Entertainment.

Looking forward to upgrading to blu-ray although I can't imagine they can do much with this one!

[redrunner97]

This is Vinegar Syndrome were talking about... If anyone can, its them.

[iamnoone]

As good as the Barrel DVD set was for its time, there's a lot of improvement that could be done for the film itself. Also, a decent portion of the evisceration scene that was cut from many prints was presented from a video source and inserted into the film on the Barrel dvd. The quality goes way down in that segment and there's artifacting and bad morphing, even looking worse than the uncut Sun Video vhs tape. If Vinegar Syndrome comes up with a truly uncut film master to do their release, it will be revelatory.

[bgart13]

How does the neg sound?

[iamnoone]

Originally Posted by bgart13

How does the neg sound?

[fuzzymctiger]

Oooh someone bumped this thread, I hope we see the original full version

[Brett C]

Will be interesting to see what improvements are made over the DVD transfer,
using the Negative sounds promising.

[bgart13]

They found they neg a couple of years ago, but naturally it's in rough shape:

Originally Posted by John Lyons

I did find the negative for THE FUNHOUSE version (which was later retitled LHODES).

Unfortunately, it's in awful shape. Bad deterioration. Around 10 min worth of shots are so badly deteriorated that they're unusable. I have a complete (and very good shape) 35mm print that could be used to supplement the deteriorated shots but I'm not sure how fans would feel about this. Thoughts?

http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...t-The-Funhouse

[bruce holecheck]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

I hope we see the original full version

It'll still just be the standard release version.

[Brett C]

Originally Posted by bgart13

They found they neg a couple of years ago, but naturally it's in rough shape:



http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...t-The-Funhouse

Even as a composite transfer, it would be a huge improvement in quality over what has been available before.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by bruce holecheck

It'll still just be the standard release version.

Ahhh alright.

Well anyway, still fantastic to see something like this being preserved on blu ray, especially by a company that truly cares for their films.

[Beauvoir]

Originally Posted by Brett C

Even as a composite transfer, it would be a huge improvement in quality over what has been available before.

A step up for sure.

[grape_jelly]

I really hope this BD pulls through, I've heard great things. A friend of mine even once told me this was even better than Last House on the Left. Not sure how true that is, but I'm dying to find out!

[davidthenikonuser]

Had the DVD of this and tried watching it a couple times, but fell a sleep both times. Ended up selling it and never finished watching it.

Maybe time to revisit it in HD? Is it worth trying again?

[redrunner97]

Originally Posted by grape_jelly

I really hope this BD pulls through, I've heard great things. A friend of mine even once told me this was even better than Last House on the Left. Not sure how true that is, but I'm dying to find out!

That's a strange comparison. Last House is definitely (infinitely) supersior but they aren't that similar. Like comparing Rosemary's Baby and Friday The 13th.

[zbinks]

Originally Posted by redrunner97

Last House is definitely (infinitely) supersior but they aren't that similar.

Last House on the Left is superior to Last House on Dead End Street or vice versa? I'm pretty sure I know which one you mean, but using "Last House" as shorthand isn't all that helpful in this case.