All the Colors of the Dark (1972) coming from Severin

[Akijama]

https://twitter.com/cinematic_void/s...0%7Ctwterm%5E3


On Sunday, Oct. 7: we are beyond excited to present @severinfilms new restoration of one of our all time favorite films, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK. Free screening at 4:00 PM in the @shudder theater at @beyondfest. https://t.co/jbE293TpvC https://t.co/5YFTJAionD

[DaveyJoe]

Wish it had been Arrow.

[Akijama]

They hinted at it on their FB page, I believe yesterday. They said it's a new 4K scan. It should look great.

[javi92]

Hopefully it won't have Severin's usual rubbish encoding

[leoganzi]

Even if the encoding is not great, I'll definitely grab this new one since the Shameless release is extremely terrible.
Well, there's no option for this title anymore.

[Brian81]

Ughhhh

[cakefactory]

How have their last few releases, the ones with new transfers, been? I haven't followed the threads closely since I wasn't that interested in buying any of them, but weren't the issues just with encoding instead of the actual restorations? The last disc of their's that I actually put in the player and watched (I have a few sitting in my massive "watch" pile) was Nightmare Castle!! I saw that The Changeling had issues compared to the Arrow one, of course. Is there any hope for this, or are we going to get both a bad transfer and a bad encode?

[leoganzi]

Originally Posted by Brian81

Ughhhh


There IS the possibility that the Shameless could be better.

Well, it's going to be a long shot. It appears the same LVR noisy master as the German release but the encode on the Shameless is simply a joke compared to German's. Actually, both are terrible but Shameless is even worse.

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[leoganzi]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

How have their last few releases, the ones with new transfers, been?

From what I've seen their some recent titles, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, After Death and Shocking Dark, for instance, there's no problems with the encodes and I'm happy with them. Zombi 3 is meh, though.

[Member-222782]

Wasn't this the film that received a single DVD release years ago that went OOP and was going for crazy money?

[splintersan]

It's not the worst but definitely not my first choice. I'll be buying this no matter what though. Do you think they got The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh as well?

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Wasn't this the film that received a single DVD release years ago that went OOP and was going for crazy money?

I don't think so? I got the DVD a couple years ago when there were no blu-ray releases and "only" paid about 25-30 bucks used in great condition. Maybe that's crazy by your definition though, IDK.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

How have their last few releases, the ones with new transfers, been? I haven't followed the threads closely since I wasn't that interested in buying any of them, but weren't the issues just with encoding instead of the actual restorations? The last disc of their's that I actually put in the player and watched (I have a few sitting in my massive "watch" pile) was Nightmare Castle!! I saw that The Changeling had issues compared to the Arrow one, of course. Is there any hope for this, or are we going to get both a bad transfer and a bad encode?

The Changeling has a better encode than the Second Sight/UK release. The issues with the Severin Blu that aren't on the Second Sight release are a skipped frame and missing audio on the remixed track (I believe the original audio mix is fine)

[cakefactory]

Whoops, Second Sight. Shows how closely I was following news on that movie X_X

Thanks, this is somewhat reassuring. I had a bunch of their older releases and they weren't very good, but based on what I was seeing in thread titles and OPs it looked like they were putting a lot more effort in in the last year or two.

[splintersan]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Whoops, Second Sight. Shows how closely I was following news on that movie X_X

Thanks, this is somewhat reassuring. I had a bunch of their older releases and they weren't very good, but based on what I was seeing in thread titles and OPs it looked like they were putting a lot more effort in in the last year or two.

Zombie 3 has terrible compression. They put minimal effort into their release of The Devil's Honey, looks like no color correction, bad compression. A big meh for that release, but the movie is awesome and it's the only bluray of it so I bought it.

As for this DVD, I was looking at buying it a few months before Shameless put out the bluray, it was running for $50-$90 on ebay. Same with Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh. I'm sure they have come down since the bluray releases though.

[leoganzi]

Originally Posted by splintersan

Do you think they got The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh as well?

From the US Arrow thread :

Originally Posted by ianungstad

A member of criterionforum.org posted that the recent Martino book from Arrow has a discography section that confirms the forthcoming release of Torso. (US only).

The AGFA who handle theatrical bookings for Arrow was also credited with The Strange Vice of Mrs.Wardh when it screened at the Egyptian theater a few months ago. (Cinematic Void event)

These are all in print from Shameless in the UK. Looks like Arrow had a chance to scoop up the major Martino giallos but for the US only.

I really hope this becomes reality sooner rather than later

[frakking toaster]

Originally Posted by splintersan

It's not the worst but definitely not my first choice. I'll be buying this no matter what though. Do you think they got The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh as well?

Nope Arrow does.

[prkchopexpress]

glad this is getting put out. hope they announce a date soon.

[The Great Owl]

Good news!

[DarknessBDJM]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Whoops, Second Sight. Shows how closely I was following news on that movie X_X

Thanks, this is somewhat reassuring. I had a bunch of their older releases and they weren't very good, but based on what I was seeing in thread titles and OPs it looked like they were putting a lot more effort in in the last year or two.

Severin is a mixed bag, they clearly love the films they put out, but sometimes you get an excellent encode and sometimes it has compression problems. If they stick with the encoder for The Changeling (and if I recall The Devil's Rain looks quite good as well) they shouldn't have any problems.