Re-Connected July 17th, 2025: Announcements and J-Horror with Andy Nelson!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.

(00:33):
Hello and welcome back to The Disconnected live on another
Thursday night, And once again, like I've been trying to
hype up recently, we get a bunch of first time
guests this week on the show, Andy Nelson, who is
the man behind CinemaScope and True Story FM and lots
of other stuff we'll talk about.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Andy, Thanks for doing this now, Thanks for having me.
I'm thrilled to be here and to chat with you
about all of these crazy releases that we're going to
be seeing this popping up. So it's a busy week.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
We have a hell of a week to cover. Let's
get into some stuff about you before we check in
with everybody. Tell everybody about CinemaScope because I think that
a lot of people watching the show will adore this podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Thanks, I appreciate that. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
This is one of the several film podcasts that we
have over at a True Story FM, and this one
specifically is focusing on genres, subgenres and film movements and
each episode looks at a specific one and I kind
of have very lengthy conversations with my guests about it,

(01:38):
including Ryan who is on the last episode talking about
found footage horror. And yeah, so it's I mean, we've
done osploitation, remake exploitation, We've done screwball comedy. It's just
kind of like all over the place as far as
the different types of things, and so it's a lot
of fun. And yeah, I'd love more people to check

(02:00):
that one out. So that's one of the podcasts that
we have. And then the Next Reel is a podcast
where we just talk about my co host and I
talk about a different film each week, each one kind
of packaged into a little series of films that we
are doing. And then we have another show called Movies
We Like, which is where we bring on somebody from
the industry to talk to them about one of their

(02:21):
favorite movies. So lots of good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Lots of stuff going on. You are a busy, busy man.
CinemaScope is I don't know. It's been one of the
more comforting shows, I will say, as I have in
the last couple of months been forced back into the
office full time unfortunately, and it has been your dulcet
tones keeping me company for a lot of that time.

(02:46):
Two episodes that I really want to highlight if people
are going to try it out tonight, and please check
the link of the description below, subscribe to Andy, go
check out the other shows. It is a really great time,
even Craig saying we were on movies, we like it
was great, great felladay yep. The two episodes, one incredible
episode on blaxploitation. The films covered is a really nice,

(03:08):
really nice breadth of films with blaxploitation. There's a couple
I don't know, like major films that people tend to
get hung up on. And with the episode, it was
I mean everything because the guest was an expert, like
a full on expert of this and oh yeah, incredible conversation.
Completely completely support that one.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thank you very much. Yeah, Odie Henderson had just his
book is out and it's just, I mean this incredibly
just lots of wonderful stuff in that book and it's
like eight bucks for a hard bat. It's crazy how
affordable that book is. Absolutely check it up or check
it out. And yeah, and so we talked about five

(03:47):
films specifically the episode, and then I'll do a member
bonus section that has five additional films and that's where
we like, we'll do the kind of the core essential
films in that first section, and the last one we
play around a little bit. You know, if it's something
that's a little more obscure or kind of borders on
the style, you know, we'll talk about that. So it's
it allows for a lot of amazing conversations and that's

(04:09):
that was one of my favorites as well.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And speaking of more obscure, I'm sure that you're not
listening to the twenty five shows on our podcast network,
but just this week I gave you a pretty big
shout out on the Mondo Macabre podcast because the Remo remake.
This is such a hard word to say, the remake
exploitation episode. Man, that hit like a ton of bricks

(04:33):
a few weeks ago when I listened to it. Finally,
because there's so much in this genre that you can
dive into that I mean, I say genre loosely because
it's a bunch of genres under an umbrella. But remak Okay,
I've done say the word. These remake films are tech.
They're not remakes. They're more ripoffs. And the way that

(04:54):
you I don't know, like in a really playful way
just tour it apart and share all the details and
mentioned you know, Turkish spider Man and all these other
things for a couple hours. It was incredible, really really
great episode. And for people that love Monta Micabre and
terror visions on a couple Master videos done one. Like,
there's a bunch of these foreign ripoff movies that are

(05:17):
in genuine like appreciation incredible on their own. They're not like,
let's just laugh at all these they're really great, very
different movies that seem to have some plot lines or
characters or dialogue exactly ripped out of another movie.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, it's very odd. We talked about some crazy movies
in there, like the Bollywood Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff.
There's one that was like it was Italian and it
was like it was like Terminator but also aliens, you know,
like Shocking Dog. Some strange, strange blends of the films.

(05:54):
And yeah, it had a lot of fun digging into
that one with and my guests just yeah, knows so
much about it. I mean it's like studying it and
you know it for a sub genre or a movement
of films, they're not always easy to find. Luckily, he
had links to many of them, and he's working on

(06:15):
trying to figure out how to do deals and stuff
to restore some more of them, because that's the trick.
Like Turkish Star Wars. Good luck figuring out how to
get the licensing for that one, you know, so at
least it's on the lower quality versions on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Thankfully. I got the Blu ray that was on sale
for like a month a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Nice, very short lived.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, that thing is very expensive nowadays. Yeah. Yeah, True
story or true yeah, man can't speak tonight. True Story FM.
Tell everybody what the rest of this is, because there's
so much to dive into.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Absolutely yeah, True Story FM. So so Pete is my
co host over on the Next Reel and movies we like,
and this was he convinced me to start podcasting in
twenty eleven, and we started up the Next Real podcast,
where again we talk about a movie each week, and
then we and then covid hit and I had been

(07:10):
working in production and it kind of hit this point
where there wasn't really the work that I needed and
so he's just like, just podcast myth with me, and
let's just do podcasting. And so since covid hit. I've
been just doing full time podcasting and it's it's it's
it's really fun and so True Story FM is our network,
and we've got a whole bunch of entertainment related podcasts.

(07:32):
That's where all of our movie ones fall under. And
then we have a whole bunch with just a whole
bunch of other clients. We have an ADHD podcast, a
divorce podcast, several cybersecurity types of podcasts, you know, so
the we kind of cover the whole gamut different podcasting
that we do. But that's you know, that's been keeping
me busy for the last five years, which is crazy

(07:55):
to think about.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's a lot of work, believe me as somebody that
also has a podcast network. There's a lot of stuff
find the scenes that you can really do to keep
your time just completely entrenched in it. Yeah. But yeah,
you know, if you're here you love movies, so that
they got some options there. But hell, if you're a
divorced person with ADHD and a computer virus, there's all
kinds of options for you and you.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Love movies too. I mean, hey, Andy, what kind of
movies do you love?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're here tonight for the first time on a physical
media related show, and you don't get a ton of
time to talk about physical media. So what do you
what do you love? What are you looking to buy?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, you know, my favorite five top five films I
would say are Brazil, Shashank, Redemption, Charade, Lord of the Rings.
I don't know, I'll say Return of the King, and
Doctor Strangelove. That's probably would change, you know, if you
ask me again in ten minutes, But Brazil's been my

(08:51):
number one. You can see the poster right here for
Ages and Ages. So I'm all over the map.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Really.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
As far as what I like, I love. I don't
know good movies is that is that a fair thing
to say? I just really love good movies. But I
love exploring cinema. And you know, is somebody who went
to film school. I just, uh, I don't know. I
just fell in love with just the the incredible with
and breadth of this medium and just how many films

(09:18):
and you know we have and just exploring into other
cultures and and just there's there's a lot to see.
There's a lot, and yeah, it's it's hard to it's
hard to just pin down just a few. But yeah,
there's a lot. As far as physical media, it's always like,
I don't know, I'm always you know, after upgrading to
four K, I'm just like, well, I'm only going to

(09:40):
buy the four K releases now. But then it's just like, oh,
but this is coming out now, Wow, I need that.
And so you know, then you know, you say, you're
still just buying all sorts of stuff, and I'm still like,
you know, I'm one of these people who has like
a ridiculous number of letterbox lists and all these different things,
like I'm trying to complete these sorts of lists and
and so I hit somewhere, I'm just like, this movie

(10:01):
that I want to watch for this list isn't available
unless I buy this DVD from from Spain. I guess
I'm buying a DVD from Spain. And so that's kind
of how how I am.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's I mean, that's in my opinion, that's the right answer.
There's so many different genres there. It's so easy to
just say I want to see everything and challenge yourself.
And when you're doing specifically like you the shows that
you cover, you kind of are forced to watch everything
and just sort of flex that muscle all the time.
One of the questions I was going to ask in
relation to that, what's over the last I don't know,

(10:33):
because you've been doing it a long time, so it's
over the last six months. The film that you discovered
for your show that you went damn like this immediately
is like one of my favorites of all time. This
is incredible.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh man, that's a question I wish you prepped me for.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, we got to hear organic conversation.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Come on, Andy, oh Man, let's see you know in
I'd say there were some when I did the Iranian
New Wave over on CinemaScope, there were some movies that
really surprised me. And I have to look it up
right now because I'm totally blanking on the name of it.

(11:10):
But there was this one movie that was like, it
was like this meta storytelling film, and I just I
was like, where are we going with this movie? And
it was it was just really exciting to see something
unfold the way it did, you know, And because it's
about a a filmmaker who's making a film about his

(11:37):
own life when he was young and he was more
politically engaged when he was younger, and he's altercation with
the police officer, and now he's casting the police officer
to play the police officer, and he's playing himself, and

(12:01):
it just like they're acting out this story, but they're
also both trying to you know, think about Actually, I
take it back, he didn't. He didn't cast them to
play themselves, but he got the guy to like advise,
and so the police officers like, oh no, no, this
guy's not handsome enough to play me, and like going

(12:22):
through all of this sort of stuff, and it's it
was just such a fascinating movie. And I'm going to
I'm looking at the list right now. It was called
of course now I can't remember which one. It is
a Moment of Innocence, I think, yeah, directed by Moosin
Mark Malboff, and it was I don't know, I wasn't

(12:47):
expecting something that was like I was kind of expecting
kind of like, you know, more dramatic, but then it
took this whole meta narrative with it, and I just
wasn't expecting this. As they were examining both he and
the police officer were examining their younger selves as they
played this whole scene out and reliving the moments that

(13:08):
they had and trying to like recontextualize like why they
did it that way and everything, and I don't know.
It was a really fascinating film and absolutely absolutely worth
checking out. That was just one that really surprised me.
That's the first one that came to mind.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Amazing, and now I want to see it.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, right. I don't know how accessible it is. I
can't remember where I watched this. If it was a
link that my guests sent to me, or if it
was something I found, I might have just found it
on YouTube. So a moment of innocence, It's definitely worth
checking out.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's from nineteen ninety six. Sounds incredible with the show.
Have you found any of the episodes you've gotten like
a higher number of engagement with listeners because it was
such a you know, we'll say a like inspiring type
of episode, one that get really got people to pay
attention and respond in a certain way.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
For you, you know, I will say it's funny. You
never can tell with podcasting. Sometimes you're like, it's you know,
it's all about horror movies. If you want to have
a successful movie podcast, you got to be talking about
horror movies. But I was looking at I'm like, the
Screwball Comedy podcast is like through the roof, And it
really surprised me because and maybe it's just the times

(14:27):
we're living in, who knows, but it just surprised me,
you know, pleasantly that that one was one that was
so well received and that people really connected with. And
I've had some people really excited about a number of
the releases that we are the number of films we discussed.
In fact, Midnight was Criterion just is putting that one
out That was one of the ones that we had discussed,

(14:49):
which was the first time. That's another one totally blew
my mind. I loved that movie so much. And then
then Criteria. I often joke that Criterion secretly is listening
to our shows because every once in a while, like
I'm like, we just talked about that like three months ago,
and here's Criterion putting it out there. So but anyway,
that yeah, so that one really kind of seemed to

(15:11):
hit a nerve, which, you know, I'm like, maybe I
need to talk about more comedy.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, not only that there's not a lot of people
talking about that type of comedy specifically, you know that
it's a genre that we don't really get much anymore,
especially the way that we were getting back then with
it being a staple every single year. Now it's like
once every seven or eight years. You might have a
really good one that you can kind of fit into

(15:37):
that mold. But even now, like the modern the modern
ones are not the same as the ones that were
coming out in the forties and fifties.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, yeah, it's definitely a different tone comedies taken.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
But uh yeah, everybody's saying comedy needs another renaissance, and
comedies are rare now. It's all about horror, absolutely because
the comedies you simply don't make money. Sadly, I do.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I do hope that naked I see the comment about
naked Gun. It may might not start it, but I
am at least hoping. I'm like, hey, if Liam Neeson,
if Oscar Schindler can pull that off, then I'm I'm
all for it.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I am, I'm for some reason quite hopeful about this one,
Like the at least the trailer. If feel like that
nailed the tone kind of yeah, yeah, I think. So
let's get into some regular stuff. What have you been
picking up on physical media recently, which, by the way,
incredible wall behind you.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, you know, I bought that. I'm like, oh, this
is so much space, and then instantly is full. I'm
just like, you know, it's impossible to ever have enough.
All right, you ready for this? I've got way too
big of a pile that I pulled here. First of all,
I'll just they're not really organized. They're kind of organized
in some capacity. Well, here's the Criterion pickups that I

(16:49):
just did out their sales. So I finally got in
the mood for Love, which I've been anxious to get,
and the Grifters. This is a DVD upgrade for me
because nice. I mean, I love the movie, but that
DVD is really an old one. And then I picked
up The Philadelphia Story, which I've always loved. But I
went to watch it. I have the DVD still and

(17:11):
I opened it and the disc is gone, and I'm like,
did I loan it out to somebody? I couldn't have
figured it out, So I'm like, hey, guess it's time
to buy it. All right, then, I excuse me. I
live in the Phoenix area and recently we had our
our version of Comic Con, the Phoenix Fan Fusion, and
lo and behold, Severn had a booth there, which was fantastic.

(17:33):
I guess they have a place right here in town
where they ship from. So I was like, I chatted
with the team and everything. So I picked up Opera,
which I've been wanting to grab. I picked up the
documentary about Island of Doctor Merau, which I've been very
curious to watch, Lost Souls, so I'm very excited to
see that one, Blood on Satan's Claw, So looking forward

(17:56):
to digging into that one. And then last but not least,
The Day of the Beast. So that's my love that movie.
This is This was largely a set of films that
I'd never seen and I'm just but I've been like
very curious about So yeah, I figured they're here, they're
giving me a discount. Why not.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Now, speaking of that, nice nice prelude, that next Thursday night,
when we're here live again, the seven Summer Sale will
be starting that night, So come hang out. We'll be
chatting up and talk about all the new titles. And
the guest for next Thursday is someone that has had
a hand at a bunch of seven titles, so we're
gonna be talking about all kinds of stuff, Severn, So
come on back then, Man, you got some great discs.

(18:37):
We had somebody ask, how do you feel, Reggie says Andy,
do you think Criterion did Brazil justice with their four
K release?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's frustratingly one I haven't picked up yet.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I know, I've been very reticent to grab that one
yet I want to. I've been kind of looking at
all the feedback and everything, and so I really want
to pick it up though anyway, So so yeah, it's
I mean, it's such a great movie though, it's hard
for me to not want to just grab it.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
So you got another comment about Midnight Criterions of Midnight
with Claudette Clbert and John Barrymore and everybody Else is
a great screwball comedy beautiful Blu Ray. Yeah, supposedly that
one looks great. I've not seen that disc yet, but
I've heard it looks incredible.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, it's, i mean, such a great movie, so it's
an easy one to just pick up blind.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
I think a handful of pickups for me. I get
a couple of people that are in our discord that
I did some trades with. Actually the first one I
never got, Hal Hartley's Long Island Trilogy on Blu Ray
and mister Aaron West, who was on the show a
couple of weeks ago, traded me that once. Now I
think I only have the one that is like four
hundred dollars on eBay, so I hope somebody else puts

(19:53):
that out eventually. And then my friend Bill we just
traded for this. I've been trying to pick up some
of the deluxe Jackie Chan four k's have been coming out.
Missed this one before it went out of print, and
eighty eight Films kind of killing it with their Jackie
Chan stuff, and then forcing myself to like Jess Franco
as much as I can. Blue Underground coming out with

(20:15):
the Blood of Fu Manchu and Castle of Fu Manchu,
both on four K titles I never expected to see
on four K. Can watch these. I'm still waiting patiently
for a couple other Jess Franco announcements coming this year,
so can't wait for those. And then finally I got
two more releases here and they are thick boys, very

(20:37):
very excited about these. First is the Australian imprint release
of Raging Bull. This is a four K release. It's
got the documentary from two thousand and four as the
second disc on this, the four K looks incredible. There's
not a lot of new stuff on this disc. This
is mostly just if you really love this movie and

(20:57):
you want Dolby Vision. The Criterion release doesn't have a
Dolby Vision, so the colors might be slightly improved on this.
To my eye, it's not that noticeable of a difference,
but it does. It looks incredible, I mean, the photography
and this is like stark be unbelief, so incredible looking disc.
And then if you're gonna pick that up, you might
as well go over the other Scorsese that came out

(21:19):
at the same time New York, New York that does
not have a like, really nice release in the US.
So we got this one. This is a three disc release.
It's got the documentary from uh, I don't see the
year on here, but this one has all kinds of
new stuff. Daniel Kramer, he's had his hands and a
bunch of the imprint stuff recently. He's got Oh, that's right,

(21:42):
it's the European theatrical cut, which is the second thing,
and you've got the director's cut. Yeah, this is pretty
much everything you could want on this release. Kind of
crazy that New York, New York waited this long, Like,
I'm still surprised we don't have some Scorsese titles on
Blu ray let alone, like Fancy four K releases. Yeah right,
twenty forty five, what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Right? Yeah? I got to call one more out that
I didn't mention, but it's it's only because they sent
it to me. It's the intacto disc that they that
they have because they were kind enough to want to
use a clip of our podcast for very minute. So yeah,
so that's exciting. That was our first actual dip into

(22:25):
supplemental material. So here we are with a little clip
of our show that they cut into a little video
ess That's it's kind of fun. So that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
They made a visual essay with it.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah. Yeah, I was really glad that they they did
it because it played really well with the conversation.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
So excellent. Well, I mean, the whole point of all
of these is the films. So what have you been
watching recently?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh? Well, let's see. In preparation for Jurassic Park or
Drastic World rebirth, my wife and I decided to do
a marathon and we watched the previous six films over
the holiday weekend, so it was like it was a
lot of dinosaurs and and I can't say it was

(23:10):
I mean it was fun to watch. I really have
a soft spot for just watching people in dinosaurs on
screen together, but watching them all together, I'm just like, God,
like every single one of these movies it's about stupid people,
Like they're just all really dumb people making really bad decisions,
as much as I enjoy them. But so we watched
all of those and then we did the I threw

(23:31):
it in the short films too, just because I wanted to.
My wife was just like, no, I'm done. And then
we then we took in Rebirth, which I we neither
of us enjoyed, but the audiencer did. They loved it,
applauded at the end, and we were just like, okay,
So it was a little bit of a disappointment, but
I don't know, maybe it was because I just watched,

(23:54):
you know, twelve other hours of dinosaurs. I'm just like, yeah,
I'm out. So so that was the big thing. And
then Superman I watched, which I don't know. I've seen
some comments how they've loved it. I didn't. I Superman
I've always struggled with as a superhero, Like I love

(24:14):
the idea of Superman, but I find that it's I
don't know, just like the idea of a super character
like him. It's just like, oh, there's not much he
can't do unless there's Krypto not around, and so I
don't know, I just get a little bored. I love
the original Christopher Reeve, I've struggled with all the other
solo films. I don't know. I think Channing Tatum might

(24:37):
be one of my favorite Superman this one. And you know,
don't get me wrong. I mean, I know that's saying
a lot of positive things and all of that sort
of stuff, and people love it, and I'm sure they should.
It just isn't for me, And to me, it just
felt like it's just another James Gun movie, Like this
is what James Gun makes now, it's like Guardians, the
Suicide Squad.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
This.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
They're all like it's his cookie cutter style, which you
know it, I mean, he delivers, I guess you know it,
just I didn't like it that much.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
It seems that's kind of what he got hired to
deliver too.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Like yeah, right, yeah, I'll be I heard somebody talking
about it, like, I'll be curious to see where DC
goes after this with films where he's more of the
Kevin Feigey type of figure, just overseeing somebody else writing
and directing. You know, that's I'm more curious about that.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'm very curious to see how much of his flavor
gets thrown into somebody else's movies and how they can
make that jive in a way that feels consistent.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, rightous.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
I do want to shout out because you got this comment.
My friend Brian loves the movie in Tacto and he
says the visual essay on the Blu ray is very good.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
He sold me on that movie and I somehow do
not have my copy yet. It is on the way
Australian shipping comes from the other side of the world
and takes few days, so it's all the way.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
I also watched Superman. I think, uh I liked it
sounds like a bit more than you. But also I've
never been a DC guy. I'm more of a Marvel person,
and it's weird to see that shift because I've not
liked much Marvel over the last five years. Six years,
and this came out of nowhere. I think the only

(26:26):
other DC movie I've seen in the last like twelve
years is Gunn's Suicide Squad, and I feel like this
was much better than Suicide Squad. The Batman stuff was,
you know, Nolan's Batman is fine. I was a Batman
kid growing up, so I was fine with that. But like,
I don't think I was ever even tempted to put
in any of the Zack Snyder stuff. Nothing about that

(26:46):
is appealing.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, yeah, it's funny. Is like his four hour Justice League,
like for me, was the ultimate payoff to everything that
had come before. Like I love that movie, which I
was surprised at because I hated the JJ Abrams cut,
you know, and so I don't know, it just it
just felt like he was doing something more with it,

(27:10):
and so so yeah, but I hear you, though, I know,
it's definitely a different universe that he was creating over there.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
I had kind of a really weird week of movies.
So other than Superman, I've been trying to catch up
with the twenty twenty five films that I missed in
the first I don't know, five months of the year
before I was going to the theater a lot more
this year, and well, the one we chose this week
was wolf Man, which seemed to get mostly cold responses
from everybody. Yeah, I didn't hate it. I thought it

(27:40):
was okay. When I say didn't hate it, I'm not
gonna say I loved it, But it was I thought
it was like better than average. I think that they
could have really killed the story and they only kind
of killed it. Maybe it's just because everybody had prepped
me for such a terrible movie. I was just like, oh, yeah, Like,
Abbott is a really good actor and he's selling this
very well. I thought the way that they did like

(28:01):
the werewolf perception thing where they changed his hearing and
her hearing was a really cool touch. The ending was
not great, and a lot of it could have been
much better. I will obviously grant that the writing is
pretty bad, but I don't think this was like the
genre killer that everybody looked at Tom Cruise's Mummy or

(28:23):
anything like that. But it was a fun time. At
least it was worth it.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah. Yeah, fun was something I didn't have with that one.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
It was very.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
It was a slog but interesting. There were interesting elements.
I will give you that my.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Slog this week. I forced myself to go to an
indie movie in the theater this weekend, and that was
Abraham Abraham's Boys, a Dracula Story. This is a movie
that'll be coming to Shudder in like a month and
a half or two months. I believe. This is a
brand new movie starring Jocelyn Donahue, who I loved in
so many things, but most recently in The Last Open
Yuma County. And she is completely wasted in this movie.

(29:01):
She's like, she's a main character that is mostly just sick,
and not like the cinematic sick where they're, you know,
doing the Exorcist performance and she gets to ham it
up or anything. No, she's just laying there sick. This
movie is a very different take on a Dracula story,
and essentially it's we are seeing people make the trip

(29:25):
to California and now they're staying on a farm in
the early nineteen hundreds after leaving the whole Dracula European
scene and getting caught for some of that. And I
just did not like the story. I thought it was
It was well acted, but it could have been like
an eighteen minute short and delivered everything that you needed

(29:45):
to see, and instead it was an hour in eighteen minutes,
and I felt like I wasted an hour of my
life at the very least. But the big thing, Yeah,
the big thing for me this week, though, is I
showed my kids Dick Tracy and good lord is that
movie fun as hell? After watching Superman and wanting to
watch a different style of quote, super is not a

(30:08):
superhero movie, but a very comic inspired movie. Dick Tracy
fit the bill perfectly. I need a four K for
this pretty much immediately. Warren Batty acting is fine and
all that, but man, the direction in this is incredible.
The cast in this, I forgot how perfect the casting is.

(30:30):
But the best thing is this feels like this feels
like they got Dario Argento straight off of the Suspiria
set and said, can you please direct this? This next
live action season of Batman, the animated series and all
of the colors mixed together is so perfect. Yeah, this

(30:50):
movie is. It holds up very very well. The comedy
hits hard. Love this movie. How do you feel about
Dick Tracy?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I love the the production design, the style of costumes,
like it kind of explodes off the screen. It's it's
a really stunning film. I that was the era when
movie theaters would do things like my I went to
the special preview screening when it came out, and my

(31:20):
ticket was an actual shirt I had, like a special
Dick Tracy and it had a big ticket on the
front and Dick Tracy and all this stuff. I loved
that shirt. I had it for years. But and the
film I think largely works. I think that I don't know,
there's there's a whole meta world of Warren Baty as

(31:43):
Dick Tracy that's arisen from this whole thing that I
still can't wrap my head around. And I think that
war does either by the way, I don't know, Yeah
who if he's caught onto that, but he like he
I will say, he embodied the character like and so
it's clear that he had this real personal connection with

(32:03):
it and everything. There are things that work better than
others in it.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's one of those movies that the thing that I
always think about is there was a character I think
his name is Little Face who. My impression is my
understanding is that the team behind the effects were always
disappointed with how they filmed him. Because they filmed his
close ups like they would film other actors close ups,

(32:31):
but you lose the effect of the entire point of
the actual face and it should be shot like giant head,
little tiny face in the middle of it, but they
shoot it so you're just seeing the actors like expressions,
and so I don't know. That's one of those things
that I always think about with that movie is just
a little a little gaff but otherwise, yeah, I think

(32:52):
the character design, everything about it's really just super cool.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's one of those movies that every single time another
scene happened, I went, oh my god, they're in this
and it's funny because I had not seen this movie
and probably I don't know, eighteen years something like that,
and watching it again after I've started to enjoy like
movies in general. Oh man, if you want people from movies,

(33:18):
this has everyone you can dream And it's that blending
of like the old Hollywood era and the people that
were still alive mixing with the giant actors of that
day with some up and coming names that now is like,
oh wow, how are they also in this movie. It's incredible,
absolutely absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Guest. Yeah, no, I actually check that one out. You've
convinced me.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
I wasn't doing that, but I know, and then I
guess neither one of us said the word Madonna. Also
one of the main stars, which is wild to see that.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Was the Madonna Warren Baty era, which those of us
who live through it again our time forgetting.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
But nineteen ninety that is a huge star at the time.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh yeah, And I mean I love Madon. I think
she's she's great and I've listened to that her soundtrack
of that many times. But yeah, it's it's I mean,
it's it's a fun film. Danny Elfman does the score.
I mean, it's a really it's a cool movie.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Before we get into announcements, I want to shout out
that after tonight, I have to go through all the announcements.
We're going to be covering Jahorror broadly, sort of in
a cinema scope style discussion, not like five favorites, just
shouting out five titles and discussing them. We are going
to be going over a lot of announcements tonight. But
before we go into that, any upcoming cinema scope that

(34:42):
you want to highlight or be able to tell us
about before you get started well.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Conveniently, I'm working on planning my Jay horror episode right now.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm sure, I know, right.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
I've also been talking to somebody in India trying to
work out a plan to do something with in Indian cinema.
I'm not exactly sure. I'm kind of pushing for kind
of like the big the Masala musical types of films,
which I think would be a lot of fun, but
so I'm not exactly sure where I'm gonna land with
that one. We're still sorting it out. I've also been

(35:14):
chatting with someone for I think a year now trying
to coordinate the time to talk about heist films, which
I think would be a really fun episode to discuss.
So those are a few that are that are currently
in the works.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
I can't wait. Yeah, for anybody that missed the beginning,
please go subscribe CinemaScope. Really incredible show well researched with nowadays,
I mean there's something about shows that actually put the
work into discussing titles that mean so much more than
like the Hangout podcast to me, and you could tell
that they are important well read podcast compared to others

(35:51):
that are like Sit on the couch and Discuss and
those have their place. Nothing against that's just right now,
very much into the let's let's deep dive and actually
know what we're talking about type of podcasts.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Well, thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Means the world. Let's get into some announcements. Then we're
starting on sort of a weird note this week because
the first thing is a replacement program. Radiance announced their
first replacement program, and this one was odd because it
seemed to only be affecting people that had Panasonic players
and people that did not have Panasonic players. It just

(36:25):
play just fine, so you may not even need a
replacement disc. But just so you know, Radiance sent out
a message saying that they have discovered what happened. Finally.
They wanted to announce this a couple of weeks ago,
but they couldn't even figure out what caused the air.
So there was a formatting error when the disc was
sent for replication, and it wasn't present in their files,
and it somehow got corrupted on the way to the printer.

(36:47):
So the replacement discs are now being manufactured and they're
gonna be sent to those that bought it straight from Radiance.
Anybody else you can info. You can email info at
Radiancefilms dot co dot uk show that you purchased the
disc and they will get you a disc sent to you.
And they did say this is good for anywhere in
the world. You don't have to worry if you bought
this in Australia or something, they will still ship it

(37:08):
to you. There are new discs still being made of
this title and it will have the replacement disc already
with it, so you don't need to worry about that.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
That's a lot of work, but kuda's to them for
figuring it out.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
It's a ton of work. Mozart saying do they not
test a disc at the plant, and yes they do.
We're going to talk about another another label at issues later,
but yeah. There are lots of ways to test the discs,
and most of the companies do in different ways. But
when something is so specific like this, sometimes it just
gets missed somehow, and it depends sometimes that the air

(37:42):
doesn't happen until fourteen minutes into the feature or only
on the special features. There's a lot of different ways
that these can go wrong without being able to be
caught because they're not sitting there testing after they've done QC.
Like some of these companies do QC more than thirty
times on the whole disc after they're pressed. They're not
testing all of the disc yet. Again, they would be

(38:02):
completely bogged down and just doing QC for the rest
of their lives. So thanks Radiance, this is the right
way to handle it. Good job. Okay. So we talked
about seven a little bit ago. We also talked about
their sale coming up next week. We're gonna be talking
about a handful of titles coming as part of their sale.
This first one is Night of the Sharks from nineteen
eighty eight. This is the first time it's been on

(38:23):
disc anywhere in North America, coming on Blu rays scan
from the only surviving thirty five millimeter print. It will
have the bonus soundtrack CD with it. Love that Severn
still does this, but this is one starring treat freakin'
Williams and cannot wait to get this. This is gonna
have a trailer on it. Not much for extras, but

(38:45):
I have heard about this movie many many times and
have never had a chance to see it. Night of
the Sharks. Are are you a shark e'xploitation person? Because
we're gon be talking about sharks.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, yeah, we are. I have never seen this, hadn't
heard of it, but I mean Treat Williams and the
fact that his character has a pet shark named Cyclops,
like totally won me over as soon as I saw
all that. I'm like to have to check this.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, great sounding cast in this. This looks like a
hell of a lot of fun. Definitely on my radar
for the sale.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I want to just call out with that one that
I'm a big fan of film scores and soundtracks, and
I love the bonus feature idea of actually throwing in
the soundtrack like that is one of my favorite things,
especially because neither of the Sharks is not the sort
of soundtrack that's exactly like a common item to pick
up anywhere. So like that's definitely for me, like something

(39:40):
that I always look at as a big selling point
when I'm looking at whether I decide to purchase something
or not.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I love the comment we just got can you see
a shark at night? I mean yeah, if it's flight.
Thanks Rag. Now let's see next up. Airplane to the
sequel coming to four K from Keena Lober on September
twenty third. This is a brand new HDR Dolby Vision
Master from a Ford K scan of the OCN. For

(40:10):
Airplane two, we got a new audio commentary on here
by Mike White from the Projection Booth podcast. New audio
commentary by Patrick Walsh as well. The Blu ray that
comes with this is not gonna have as many bonus
features as they normally throw in on the Blu Ray,
but it's got both those commentaries. Still. You can get
this on standalone Blu ray as well. How do you

(40:30):
feel about Airplane two?

Speaker 2 (40:32):
The sequel I grew up, I mean Airplane was a
regular in my house. We watched that all the time.
I have a good half of that movie easily memorized,
just so many quotable lines. This is one that I
had fun with. William Shatner's my favorite part in it.
I never watched it as much as Airplane, but I

(40:55):
still found it to be pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I made this argument a couple of weeks go because
they Keno did the classic thing of We're going to
announce the title and not tell you anything or the
date or anything, and then three months later reveal it.
So when I brought this up, I've said, I'm not
going to say that this is a better movie. However,
Airplane two has like all of the great stuff from
Airplane and more jokes. It's also really great. Yeah yeah, anyways.

(41:25):
Next up from Keno a Blu ray release of Radio
Land Murders, coming on September twenty third. This is one
with Mary Stewart, Masterson, Brian Benben. I have never seen
this one. I'll get a new audio commentary on here
by Brian Reeseman and Max every There's also a new
interview with Brian Benben on here. Have you seen the
Radio Land Murders?

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah, And this was a movie that they when it
came out, they were really plugging the fact that George
Lucas was involved. Everyone was like, what is this guy
doing now that Star Wars is over? This is like
that period where nothing was happen happening in the Star
Wars world. And so he was like, he wrote this.

(42:06):
You know, he's one of these people. He loves he loves,
you know, the fifties driving culture, and he also really
loves the world of old radio. And so wrote the
story for this and then was the EP on it.
And it's a zany fun movie. I mean, I've it's
been quite a number of years since I watched it,

(42:28):
but I remember having a lot of fun with it,
and you know, it's just they throw in some like
actual old people, like I think George Burns pops up
as somebody who's who's doing some radio in it and everything,
and I just I had a lot of fun. It's
definitely one that I'm just seeing the fact that they're

(42:49):
putting this out made me want to revisited it and
see how it holds up.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Perfect time for that, you get a brand new two
K Master coming on the disc. Speaking of brand new version, September. Second,
there's gonna be an Amazon exclusive of the four K
Superman Sealbook Library set that they did way back in
twenty twenty three. Over the summer, they're doing that exact
same set, but they're losing the fifth steal book that

(43:16):
in the first one had comic books and a certificate
of authenticity in like six other things. And all that
is great that they're putting us back out, Like I'm
not one of those people that if I had the
first one, I'm not going to complain because the value
might go down slightly. The big deal here, though, is
that they are fixing a bunch of errors that were

(43:36):
in there for the first time. So when they put
this out in the very first set in twenty twenty three,
the first movie had a six track audio set and
it did not have the two point zero audio and lossless.
They screwed up the audio track for some reason that
got fixed in this one. There was a Christopher Reeve
credit glitch that happened in that first movie, which that's

(43:58):
kind of a big deal to overlook Chris for Reef
that has been fixed. Superman two has an improved Adobey
Atmos mix that corrects the various wows that were problems
in the audio mix, and there were some pitch issues
as well. Superman two, the Richard Donner cut disc has
a video fix for the geometry of the iconic final
shot of the movie and a couple other random things

(44:20):
that was squished horizontally. Superman three the disc was fine,
so that one's identical, and then Superman four The Quest
for Piece includes an improved atmost mix as well that
had some various alternate and incorrect musical performances that were
wrong on that first release. So the hard part here,
if you have that first release, you have the fancy
limited set with all of the broken discs. So what

(44:44):
should you do. I'm not gonna say that they will
do this, but I will say Warner Brothers actually has
a decent track record for this. If you had the
original Rambo set of all the four ks, those were
littered with theirs as well, and people when they re
released those unfixed them. People that bought the original set
were able to email Warner Brothers and get fixed discs.
So if you got this first set, I highly suggest

(45:06):
emailing Warner Brothers. They might be able to help you
out because that's a lot to fix and feel slighted
by if you got that first one.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah, that is a tough one. I would hope that
they will actually send replacements to people.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
And yeah, I agree with Mozarready says I, if you
can provide proof of purchase, you should be able to
get the fixed discs. Which there's the hard part too,
is this has been a set that has sold second
hand a lot in the last two years. So pull
out those emails, see what you can do. But yeah,
I'm glad they're fixing this. I'm glad they're re releasing these.
I didn't buy the first set, but with my kid

(45:43):
loving Superman this last weekend. I almost feel kind of
obligated to show them all the original Superman's on four K,
and this is the way to do it. They also
have a standard set that will have all the fixes
eventually as well, so may need to check something out
there you go. September ninth, we are getting Dark Winds
season three from AMC. This is not a show I

(46:06):
had ever heard of before I posted this announcement. Do
you watch Dark Ones? It sounds like you you know, I.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Don't, but I've definitely heard of it. It's one that
George R. Martin has been behind and so I and
I love Zoon mcclarn and, who is the lead in it.
He was, you know, one of my favorite characters in
Doctor Sleep and he just think he's just a fantastic actor.
So it's one of these I have so many movies

(46:35):
that I'm trying to watch that TV is very limited
because it takes up so much time. But this is
one that I've had my eye on for quite some time,
and so yeah, I might have to see about checking
these out at some point.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Supposedly it's an incredible movie or show, really like really
high quality. Everybody that was commenting on this scene to
love it, so yeah, I will consider it eventually. It's
based on some series of books, says Colton Nice.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, it's the Leehorn and che series.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
And Ronnie, who does watch a lot of TV, says
it's been on the watch list for a while, so
I get it moving right along. Here is a fun
one coming soon. So we don't have a date yet,
but we are getting a four K of Remo Williams
from Keno Lber. They have released this on Blu Ray already.
You can pretty much guarantee all the extras that were

(47:28):
on that will be on this. They might even do
a new commentary when this gets a date and all
that and stuff. How do you feel about Remo Williams.
I feel like this is one that you had to
have seen.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Oh. I watched this all the time when I was
a kid, so much fun. I actually revisited it when
fred ward passed away a few years ago, just to
kind of like check it out, because like, when I
think of fred Warden, that's where I go. It's either
that or Tremor's Tremors for me. Yeah, yeah, or Henry
and June, which is a little bit different, probably not
the one that I'm jumping to put on.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
But Tremor's Rebote Williams and Henry and Juice.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
But I loved Rema Williams so much as a kid.
I revisited it and it was It's still a lot
of fun. But Joel Gray's character was a little difficult
to watch these days. But I still had fun with
the movie, and I love Joel Gray. So you know,
it's one of those what you just kind of look past.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, Oh, Miami Blues. That's a good one. Adam love
that movie.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Miami Blues is one of those weird ones that was
kind of hard to see on disc for a while,
and then it got like three releases in the span
of eighteen months. It's like, oh, now everybody has seen it.
This is nice.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Everybody's putting out suddenly.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Right yeah, next again not a dated release, but Keno
Olber putting out a four K of Runaway Train from
nineteen eighty five. How do you feel about Runaway Train.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
It's a great movie, and it's I think the thing
to know about it is it's not it doesn't end
up being the movie that you think it's going to
be when it starts. You know, it's like run away.
You're watching the escape Convince escaping on a train and
it becomes a runaway train, and then it becomes this
like internal character piece as they're trying to figure themselves
out and stuff, and great movie. Kurosawa, Kira Kurosawa wrote

(49:16):
the screenplay, or they adapted a version of the screenplay
that he had written for this, and it's definitely worth
checking out. I recommend it quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
It's a good movie. I certainly like Tony Scott's take
on it. I'll keep going. Filmmasters putting out on August
twenty sixth they blu ray of Invasion USA. But not
the one that you probably think of immediately when you
hear Evasion USA. This is the nineteen fifty two double

(49:50):
feature of the Cold War era. We were getting two
films bonus film on this one, Rocket Attack USA. Film Masters.
These are always pressed discs. I got that question a
lot this week when I posted these announcements. Just a
heads up, Yes, these are press discs. It'll be a
great release, promise this one brand new four K restoration
of Invasion USA from archival Elements. New four K restoration

(50:12):
also of Rocket Attack USA. From the original sixteen millimeter
archival elements Crazy and then new audio commentary by Jason A.
Nine for Invasion USA. New essay by Toby Rohan on
Invasion USA. New audio commentary by c. Courtney Joyner and
Mark Jordan Leagan for Rocket Attack USA. New essay by
Don Stradley for Rocket Attack USA. And then Ballyho Motion

(50:34):
Pictures did Better Dead Than Read Hollywood versus Communism in
the fifties, a little documentary for this, and then a
new featurette with Anthony Moore, son of the star Gerald Moore,
the Mystery Science Theater three thousand episode with Rocket Attack USA.
Recut trailers of both like, there is a ton of
stuff on this disc. This is reagion free, so you
can get this anywhere in the world. You'll be able

(50:55):
to watch it. This is a crazy looking release. I've
not seen either of these films. Is this something that
you're into or.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I've seen I haven't either, but just interesting fact. Dano
Hurleyhey shows up in Invasion USA. So you've got the
last star Fighter RoboCop Halloween three connection to it. So
there you go.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Since Sinda kitt the podcast says Rocket Attack USA from
Newdy QD master Barry Mahone always happen to see Mahone
get the HD treatment and to get a brand new
four K scan of archival elements for something like Invasion USA.
Nobody else is really doing that besides film Masters for
a title like this, this is a really cool thing.
I will be supporting this one. This is the one
that I want to see more stuff like this for sure.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I love that they're actually releasing it as a double feature.
I think that's such a great idea.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Most of their mainline they call them special edition releases.
Most of them are double features. And what I appreciate
is for both of the features, they get supplemental features
to put some sort of context on it, whether it
be about the director or the genre or anything like that.
They do really great work, really great work.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
That's awesome. What if they do or they should do
a reversible cover where you flip it over and it's
a Rocket Attack USA with your bonus. So yeah, that'd
be cool to see them.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
I don't have one within reach. I forgot. I just
moved it and I was about to check to see
if they do that, and I forgot. Oh god, this
is such a terrible cover.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
I forgot this was I hate this type of Yeah,
these covers.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
So MGM themselves aka Amazon, putting out on July fifteenth,
which you'll notice is in the past. They literally announced
this like two days before it released. And I believe
this is going to be a BDR, but don't quote
me on that. I think it is July fifteenth. They
got a blu ray of Town Without Pity from nineteen
sixty one, and all they do is photoshop a couple

(52:46):
scenes from the film together into the most awkward looking
cover art. Obviously Kirk Douglas movie, this is one that
probably should have been treated fairly well, and this is
what we got. Have you seen Ten Without Pity? No?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
But I know this is one of those where you know,
he had worked quite a bit with Dalton Trombo when
he was blacklisted, and this is one that he had
Trombo come in. And I don't know how much of
the screenplay he worked on, but I know that this
is one that he had touched the screenplay a bit
and of course didn't get credits.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Right, Adam says, even AI would be embarrassed.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Right, it's an awful cover.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yeah, yeah, this is this is truly Bad Next from
Severn as part of their sale is Fearless Dragons from
nineteen eighty. This will go on sale as part of
the summer sale next Thursday night going into Friday. This
is the first time on Blu Ray in North America
at all, and this says from iconic seventies Hong Kong
Studio gold Digg Films Limited. The Dragon Libs Again and
Duel the Seven Tigers came from that same studio. Comes

(53:47):
one of the favorite action comedies in the history of
the genre. When two Wiley con men martial arts movie
legends Philip Coe and Brian Lung, they are framed for
hijacking a trunk full of charity funds, built joined forces
to find the real bandits and a wild series of
adventures that lead to an utterly fantastic final battle ranked
among the most exciting two on one fight scenes ever,

(54:10):
which with that sentence sold special features on this first
off scanned in four K from the OCN. Incredible job
with that Severn. That's amazing audio commentary with Frank Jing
and Michael Wirth, who are great at all of these
commentaries that they do. There's an interview with the director
Lee Chew there is actor Philip Coe remembers Fearless Dragons

(54:31):
and a trailer and again region free anywhere you live.
You can get this and watch it on Blu ray Player.
That is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
I would just pick it up for purely the positions
that each of the people jumping are in right in
the middle of it, especially the guy on the left
and the right. Like that alone sells me on this.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, Shapes films are really fun. This is gonna be great.
And this is not a Bruce Floitation film. I had
a couple of people ask this was going to be
in their next Bruce Ploitation box set because severn Is
announced a second one on the way, no date or
anything yet, but no, this will not be in that
box because it's not Bruce Ploitation. Interesting, this was a

(55:13):
fun thing this week. Dark Force Entertainment, who I don't
talk about a lot, but this is an important movie.
They are putting out the movie Mama's Dirty Girls from
nineteen seventy four. This is coming as part of their
Drive In collector series. This is going to be a
double feature as well, so you've got this one Mama's
Dirty Girls. This is directed by John Hayes, who also

(55:34):
did Grave at the Vampire and A Garden of the Dead.
The original uncut thirty five millimeter negative was found and
they were able to scan this one. That is really
damn cool. But then the second hit is the extremely
rare nineteen seventy German erotica film How to Make Love
to a Virgin, which that's pretty damn cool that they're

(55:54):
putting this in here. The only special feature on these
drive in specials from Force, they have their drive in mode,
which means they will show both films back to back
with a little intermission in between the two movies, which
I think is a really incredible sort of gimmick to
put on these. I just wish we had some sort
of contextual extra because these movies deserve somebody to talk

(56:16):
about them.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, I mean, well, Gloria Graham of all people, shows
up in the film, and I mean she's like been
in so many amazing films, and then I'd love some
context of like her career leading to this. You know,
that'd be a really interesting but special feature that I'd
love to check out.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Gary's pointing out she has huge hands. Yeah, the perspective
here is not great at all. Craig wants to know.
Can they pipe in mosquitoes into your living room? Thankfully
that technology does not exist yet.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Uh the worst.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
That and like crying babies from three cars over next,
this is an odd one. So I'm not gonna mention
this for too long because it actually did not last.
But for a long about eight minute period, Lionsgate Limited
had restocked The Man who Fell to Earth four K
steel book that has been going for decent money secondhand,

(57:15):
and so it looked like there's gonna be another chance
to pick this up. But it has disappeared from their
website pretty much immediately after I posted this, and then
everybody started crying because they couldn't go buy it. I'm sorry.
What I'm getting from this is this will likely get restocked.
They just probably were not able to have it available yet,
so if that does happen, I will try to update.
This is one of those times where if you remember

(57:37):
the Patreon of a part of the discord, you'll get
updated much quicker that way, most likely, So please come
hang out if you want to. This is the kind
of thing that doesn't always deserve another post, but if
it does, we will absolutely be talking about it in
the discord. Great movie, incredible looking steel book on this
I don't always love steel books, but the way they

(57:57):
designed the Bowie Steel Book is kind of perfect here.
It's worth a watch, It's worth an own, absolutely, absolutely
something to look forward to if you're after it.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
I'd love to pick that up if if it pops
up at the right moment when I'm looking at their site.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's the hard part. Hopefully it's back for
good soon.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Man, this surprised me. This week September ninth, Universal releasing
a four K of Cissy says Cissy Spasic Man my
tongue Twisters tonight are bad coal miner's daughter from nineteen
eighty getting a four K release. How do you feel
about this one, Andy.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
I mean, it's a great musical biopick, like if you
like those films. I mean, they do a great job
with this one. I believe it's Tommy Lee Jones who
plays her husband, right yeah, and it's I mean Cissy
Spacek just nails the role and does it so well.
I would be curious to actually revisit this one and

(58:54):
see how it played for me after all this time.
But I don't know. I'm a little well tuckered out
on music biopics at the moment, so it's not urgent,
but this is one that I would be more inclined
to watch.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
I watched this a lot as a child. My grandmother
and that whole side of the family was very conservative minded,
at least when it came to movies. So like I
grew up watching like Fried Green Tomatoes was a movie
that I saw probably once a week, and this is
one of those that was just in that rotation. So

(59:31):
I've seen this countless times. But because I saw it
so much, I don't think I've seen this movie in
like twenty eight years, I've had no desire to watch
it again. That being said, I remember really enjoying it
and to own it on four K and be able
to watch it again in twenty twenty five that way
is kind of incredible, no kidding. And yeah, Sibners saying,

(59:53):
got to give you Universal credit. It's definitely been longer
than six months since they put out the Blu ray. Yeah,
Universal is doing really well at the moment actually, But yeah,
the biopic thing is is tough. It's kind of hard
to watch any music biopick, especially after Dewey Cox that
ruined them for me, because it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Yeah, just put that in then and and Weird back
to back, and that pretty much covers the whole gamut
of expectations.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Uh, Weird, Did you like Weird?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Uh? You know, I didn't actually watch it. I'm It's
one that I'm very curious to, but every time I
go to put it on, it's like there's always something
else to do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
But I mean to it's all right, I feel again,
I hate to say it because it was another parody,
but like dewey Cox even like took the wind out
of the sales of Weird. If that happened earlier, it
would have been like, oh, this is a masterpiece, and
then dewey Cox could have won uped it. But no,
dewey Cox has just kind of ruined the entire genre.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's really funny.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Uh. Next, we got some details on the How to
Train Your Dragon release from this year. This is the
live action remake. I'm sure most of us sort of
agree about the live action remake thing. Are you somebody
that's watched those are a fan of them? Or are
you blatantly against them? Like most of us.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
I there was a period I mean, you know, we
started with things like one hundred one Dalmatians and Glenn
Close was amazing, and there were there were reasons where
they could do something and it could play okay, yeah,
and then it just hit like shot for shot sorts
of remakes and I'm like, if you're gonna go live action,
do like a Maleficent or Honestly, my favorite of all

(01:01:33):
of them is probably Pete's Dragon, which takes that I mean,
I loved it as a kid, but it's not actually
that great if you visit it, but they made an
amazing movie out of it, like that's how you do
a live action remake of something. And it's just like
these are all just like just rehashes, and I just
I would love to actually just to test and see

(01:01:56):
if audiences are buying into it in re like, take
something that's that's a live action movie, like I don't
know what's a like like I don't know, Hirs of
the Caribbean and do a shot for shot animated version
of that, and are they gonna make money? Sadly probably

(01:02:16):
they would, yeah, yeah, for sure. So but it's just
one of these things like we just don't need them,
and so this is not one that I'm interested in
because I love the original trilogy so much.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
I do too. I've got all three of the original
trilogy four K steel books right over here. They're They're gorgeous.
Love those. I went and saw this, took my kids amazingly.
It was great. Uh, not really anything to complain about
the funny part. It's just the exact same movie, Like
I have no Yeah, I had no reason to go
see this. It was just there. I mean there were

(01:02:52):
scenes in this where I I I think I made
the show a couple of weeks ago, but when I
came home, I was thinking, like, did they even make
the guy's hair move the exact same way as it
was in the animated version, because it looked that identical.
I again, this will look beautiful. It's crazy. But then
there's stuff like the quote live action lion King that

(01:03:12):
was literally just animated too, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
What are we doing? I know, it's bizarre. The whole
thing is just a strange way to make more money.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
It's weird. So this is all coming on August twelfth.
There's gonna be a four K steal book, a standard
four K, a Blu ray, and a DVD that you
can get of How to Train Your Dragon from Universal
HDR Dolby Atmos. On the four K release, there's gonna
be a director's commentary on the whole film, which is

(01:03:43):
kind of interesting. I kind of want to hear this,
even though I do not want to purchase this disc.
I want to hear what the same director is going
to say about making this film live action after he
did everything else. You got deleted scenes, you've got making of,
you've got walking onto the set, whole bunch of features.
They're kind of doing this right at least for the
physical release, but I don't know, again, not necessary at all. Yeah,

(01:04:08):
I love this question. Where's the live action remake a
belladon of Sadness? That is a great question.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Yeah, I saw somebody else throw in Sophie's choice. I'm like, yeah,
let's se there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Yeah, that one could do well. Siba says, what's my
shelving order? I have Mary Poppin's shelves. It's not that
they're everywhere, it's that I have. I don't know how
good this will show up. I have little acrylic display
shelves for steal books, so I've got just nine of
them set up right there. But it's a trilogy and
these three are perfect for it, so yeah, they're right there.
I'm sorry, Let's go to our next one. Speaking of animation,

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Kung Fu Panda two, which is probably the best one
in that series, is getting a four K release from
Universal on September ninth. No new extras on this, but
I actually really like the century into the franchise, so
I might pick this one up. I don't have Shrek
yet either, which I also loved. But are you into
any of these animation ones?

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
I love them, the Kung Fu Panda ones. It's it's funny.
It's the first trilogy or first series of films where
like I took my kids to it, and then the
fourth one came out and my son's like, oh, my
friends and I are going to see it. I'm like, oh,
I want to take it now, we want to go together.
I'm like, oh, just like I realized, I lost my
buddy to go see some of these within the theater,

(01:05:29):
so I'm like, all right, have fun. Yeah, but they're
great movies. I do enjoy them quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
I mean, they're surprisingly good, and the casting is great,
like the fact that we have jack Black and Jackie
Chan as two of the main characters in these is incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Oh, I know, it's a fantastic group of people that
they have going.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
To the next one another really awfully photoshopped cover. Universal
releasing My Dead Friend Zoe from this Year on Blu
Ray on September sixteenth. No extras on this, But the
big thing that you can get is, I think that's
supposed to be Morgan Freeman and this is supposed to
be Ed Harris.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
What is Wow? Just the worst? This is so bad? Like,
were were they not able to access the the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Poster to itself? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
I mean, geez, it's a terrible poster. I've heard nothing
but good things about the film. Really want to check
it out. But yeah, this this poster is atrocious.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Atrocious is almost even being too kind, which is hilarious. Yeah,
Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Natalie Moralis, who secretly is
kind of always incredible. Yeah, I definitely want to see
this one. I've heard it's good.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I'm actually looking at that that is the same as
the theatrical release poster. It just looks like they even
extra photoshopped it, like put extra shading on people's faces. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Yikes. Del's The cover looks like AI got rogue. Oh man,
yeah this this posters? Yeah, Megan two point zero. Did
you see this one?

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
No? I was. I enjoyed the first movie. It was fun.
It wasn't one that I wanted to return to, but
I thought they did it. They made a really fun
film with it. And then I saw the trailer for
the second one. I'm like, wow, they took that in
a direction I wasn't expecting at all, And then I
just didn't hear anything good. So I just I didn't bother.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Yeah. Saw the first one. I thought it was fine.
I didn't love the first one like everybody else, but
I thought it was fine. This one I hated. This
was not great. But we got some details. September twenty third,
four K steelbook and a standard four K Blue ray,
plus they're doing a DVD released and a Blu ray
and all that. But also they're doing a double feature

(01:07:54):
four K release and a Blu Ray release if you
want both movies at once. But the big thing is,
when I saw the first movie, it was not in theaters.
I watched it at home and I watched the unrated version,
which I then saw the theatrical and I found I
loved the unrated version way more than the theatrical I
didn't love either one, but the unrated definitely made it better,
And of course they're going all in on that as well.

(01:08:15):
So the second one has an unrated version. It says
upgraded with enhanced kills, deleted scenes, and more blood and carnage.
You probably should have released that in theaters. It might
have done better. Yeah, this one has an HGR presentation
for the movie. We've got Dolby at most and then
some featurettes on here. There's a scene breakdown, stuff like that.

(01:08:36):
Not too shabby on the features. This one is interesting.
So I was on Reddit checking out some of the
physical media subreddits that they have, and there's a user
who is a Tractoris twelve who posted that he made
a Blu ray price tracker. You can find this at
valueflick dot com, except it's v a l u flick

(01:09:00):
dot Now. I am not affiliated with the site or
anything like that. I just found that I thought it
would be useful and so I wanted to share it
with the world when I came across it, he says
on the website. I built valueflick because my own steel
books and limited run discs were piling up and I
had no clue what they were worth from one week
to the next. Spreadsheets were paying price threads were all

(01:09:20):
over the place, so I wrote some code to pull
in recent sales, graft the swings, and keep my shelf
cataloged in one tidy spot. It's still just be tweaking
the site between movie nights, but I've opened it up
in case other collectors want the same quick reality check
before buying, trading, or selling. If it saves you a
little guest work and maybe a few bucks, I'll call
that a win. So I saw this and I immediately thought, well,

(01:09:41):
if I want to buy something that seems valuable to me,
because I don't want to overspend, so if I see
something as trending on the lower side, I don't have
to go, you know, on like a Facebook group and say, hey,
you're selling this for ninety dollars, I'll buy it for
ninety dollars if it's only selling for like sixty bucks.
And I don't want to go through eBay and parts
through all these so this is pretty cool to me.

(01:10:04):
What's interesting, though, is I posted this and the guy
who coded the site, DMed me about four hours later
and said, hey, I posted this to Reddit and not
much happened, but then you posted this and the site crashed.
Me posting this brought him a ton of traffic, and
so he started asking what compelled me to even post

(01:10:24):
about it, and if I had any ideas that he
could implement. And so we've been chatting every day since
I posted this, and I've given him a bunch of stuff.
He's got all kinds of things he's tweaking behind the
scenes on this that actually are probably going to be
super useful. So if everybody is keeping an eye on this,
this will be changing pretty much daily. He is working
on this kind of NonStop. Sibner says, do we have

(01:10:45):
to enter each and every title in there? If you
mean like to search for it at the moment? Yes,
but you can make a collection. So if you've got
all kinds of stuff, you can scan and log in
and make an account and make a collection on there,
and that way you can track your stuff all in
one place. We got a question that says, I wonder
how accurate the tracker is. It's scraping straight from eBay

(01:11:08):
sold prices, so it's there's not even a question on
if it's accurate these are actually what they're selling for.
The hard part is there's all kinds of older or
more obscure or rare titles that there's nothing in there
because there's no sales, So that part isn't entirely useful yet. However,

(01:11:28):
he's got some ideas, and I gave him some ideas
that I think will make it much more useful. I
agree Zepam. I think it would be useful if you
could import from other apps, because right now I'm not
scanning eleven thousand releases to put it in there. But also,
like for me, I don't I don't need to know
what my collection's worth. That's not why I would use it.
I guess if I was trying to sell something, I

(01:11:50):
might use it as a gauge rather than searching on eBay.
And yes, I believe you can search by isbn krinn.
I'm not entirely sure by that. I think you can,
though I know that he already since I did this,
he already implemented a new feature that's not in the screenshot,
where you can enter in titles yourself so that he
can add those to the database so you can go

(01:12:11):
check that feature out. But yeah, to me, at least,
I think this seems like something that could be useful,
especially if he does implement some of the things we've
talked about. So keep an eye on it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
I love the idea. Yeah, it's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Yeah. And again, not to sell things. I had a
lot of people say you shouldn't be, you know, taking
your collection, speculating and only holding things because there were something.
I agree, That's not why I want it. I want
it because if I want a title, like I just
traded for this Jackie Chan thing. To find out if
I should trade for it or go buy it, I
had to go scour a bunch of sites and find

(01:12:47):
out that none of them had it listed, find out
what it had sold for, see about what it's worth,
and if I could just do that in one place,
that's perfect. Yeah, awesome. Next up Lionsgate Limited. Again, we
were talking about them a moment ago. They announced a
four K release of High Tension, the two thousand and
three new French extremity released from Alexander Aja. This has

(01:13:12):
all kinds of what they're calling lines Gate Limited extras,
which are I believe are all the same that we're
on the second site release of this when it got released.
But this is a four K steal book. You can
get this and it will be shipping on August twelfth,
that is the release date. And the other things is
this has a legacy bonus features on here. It's got

(01:13:32):
the audio commentary with the AJA and the writer from
years ago, another scene specific audio commentary. It's got some
other featurettes that I don't believe these were on the
second site release. So yeah, high Tension, are you a
new French extremity fan?

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
You know, it's fun film. I had a great time
watching it until the twist when I found myself struggling
with it quite a bit. But largely I think that
AA is doing, like did some great work with it,
and you could see why Hollywood pulled him in to
do some other things over here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Yes, z Pam says, unfortunately the artwork is missing Morgan Freeman. Yeah,
that's perfect. The big thing here a lot of people
not loving the artwork or absolutely loving the artwork. This
is the same artist Mexifunk that does the steal books
for Screen Factory lately that are just overall mostly bad

(01:14:33):
in my opinion. Sorry Mexifunk. No shade meant to you,
but uh, just not my style. But it seems like
they're clicking with some people. Not not for me though.
The other Steel book, Oh, I guess we'll get to
that one in just a minute, because Criterion I was
announcing and they completely interrupted my life and stuff. Let's
get into Criterion first, fire walk with Me. Got a

(01:14:58):
four case steal deal book that'd be weird from Criterion
fourt coming on October seventh. Tell us about your love
of Twin Peaks and David Lynch.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Sir, I love David Lynch. What's funny is that I
only just like in the last year, finally decided I
needed to do Twin Peaks, like that was my big
gaping hole in my Lynch filmography. So I actually plowed
through the entire nineties show, watched this movie, watched the
new show, and I loved it all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
This movie worked.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
I mean, it worked so well for me the way
that it really gave us the story of Laura Palmer
that we really weren't getting otherwise, and so I found
it to be probably the most powerful of the entire
run for me. I mean, it was surprisingly like I
just wasn't expecting it to hit as emotionals.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
It did. Yeah, especially when absorbing Twin Peaks as a whole,
this movie hits really hard. I don't know. It's Lynch,
so obviously there's already something special there. But this movie
is sort of, I don't know, a weird anomaly and
how like how personal it feels because of how lived

(01:16:11):
in some of the characters are, at least for me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Yeah, truly.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Yeah. Again it's Criterion, so no new extras or anything
like that, but October seventh. This will look beautiful in
four K, I'm sure. Then another one that has banded
looked beautiful, Eyes without a Face from nineteen sixty getting
a four K released from Criterion on October fourteenth. No
new extras, but you've got the four K disc and

(01:16:36):
the blu ray disc. Eyes Without a Face tell me
about it, Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
This is one that I have yet to see, and
I even had a friend send it to me. So
I have the disc sitting right back here, and I
just I keep forgetting that I have it sitting there.
I absolutely need to just pull it out and check
it out. So in fact, I will as soon as
I've been here that I'm going to write a note
that's what I'm going to finally watch.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
It's a great movie. Everybody should check this out. It
is fantastic. October twenty First, they are releasing a blu
ray of David Cronenberg's The Shrouds. Now, what's odd here
is this is coming as part of their Criterion Premier's line.
So this used to be the Janis Contemporaries line that
they had done, and then a couple of weeks ago
they announced the first Janis Premiere or Criterion Premiers, and

(01:17:22):
this is now the second. So this will be the
exact same thing thirty dollars MSRP. But what gets to
a lot of people is this is Cronenberg. This isn't
like some nobody that is an indie director doing this
as their first time. This is going to have a
Meet the filmmaker's featurette on here, which we get on
all of the Janis Contemporaries and now Criterion Premiers. But

(01:17:45):
it's Kronenberg. Most of us have heard of him before,
and I'm sure that this will be the first movie
for some. But it is sort of odd to give
this a release like this and not a mainline release
when it's Cronenberg I've said that a lot. Now. The
other big complaint, I've had a lot of people ask
about a four K release. I don't think they're going

(01:18:08):
to choose to do four K for this line because
they want to keep that MSRP at thirty bucks, and
when it goes on sale for fifteen there's no way
they're selling a four K disc for fifteen bucks. They
will lose money. Literally.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
My hunt with this is like I'm trying to figure
out like what their motivation is, and I'm wondering if
they're just testing this one out, because i mean, the
theatrical play of this was very short, and I'm wondering
if they're just doing kind of a test run to
see if there's a big crowd for this one, and
if so, they might pull it into Criterion as a

(01:18:40):
four K down the road, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Would be an interesting choice, especially if they filled it
with extras. I've still not seen The Shrouds. I was
supposed to see it at the film festival here in
Kansas City called Panicfest and ended up not being able
to drive up that night. But I am worried I
am going to hate this, but I'm very curious to
check it out. Yeah, I did not like the most
recent one before this, so we shall see interesting speaking

(01:19:07):
to Cronenberg History of Violence coming on four K and
Blu ray from Criterion on October twenty First, now, we've
talked about some art tonight that people have liked and disliked.
This by far has been the most divisive art of
the week. I have never seen so many hateful comments
about a piece of art. How do you feel about it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
I would say it's definitely art. It's not just like
a photo from the film, like they're doing something really
interesting and creative with it. And to that end, knowing
the film, I actually think that there's something interesting that
they have going on with it. I wouldn't say I
hate it. I wouldn't say it's my favorite piece of art,
like cover design that they've come up with, but I

(01:19:50):
do think that it's for a Cronenberg film. It actually
it's kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
I again, I'm going to say almost the exact same
thing the mozart ist here. I don't know why I
like this, but I think this is great to me.
I mean, this person and shrouded with this red very different,
like very evocative color up against this very idyllic background

(01:20:16):
is the movie that is History of Violence, Like, I
feel it fits perfectly. I don't hate anything about this.
I mean the clouds are almost Simpsons like, like there's
almost this borderline like Norman Rockefeller or Norman Rockwell type
of filling, like to the overall Americana of it all.
I really like this new four K digital restoration supervised

(01:20:39):
by the DP and approved by Cronenberg. You had a
five point once around DTSHD Master audio soundtrack. You do
have Dolby Vision HDR, so this is gonna look pretty
damn good. We got an audio commentary with Cronaberg on
this new interview of the screenwriter Josh Olson, conducted by
Tom Bernardo, excerpts from Cronelberg and Vigo Mortensen in conversation
with the twenty fourteen Tiff Festival, a documentary on the

(01:21:03):
making of the movie, a bunch of older archival featurettes,
and then an essay by Nathan Lee. Excited to pick
this one up. This was definitely gonna be in October
or depending on the sale the flashhill for the site,
either October or Barnes and Noble pickup in November for sure. Yeah, yeah,
lots of comments on the art, Let's let those lie next.

(01:21:28):
The most exciting thing from Criteria for me this month
October twenty First, a four K and blu ray release
of Ken Russell's Altered States. Have you seen Altered States? Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Oh? Yes, in the theater too on thirty five back
in the day, not on its initial release, but it
came through campus and when I was in college. And
it is a just a whack of do trip of
a film. But I mean, Patty Chayevsky is such a
fantastic screenwriter, and just the Ken Russell craziness of it

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all that we have going on here. It is a
really crazy, trippy film, absolutely worth checking out. And if
you can see this one in a theater, I mean,
it really plays well on the big screen.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
I've never seen this in a theater and I'm so
jealous right now. I adore this movie. I've seen this
movie probably at least five or eight times, fairly recently
watched it again to talk about on another show, and man,
this movie still hits hard. There's a lot of really
relevant discussion in it. I really appreciate the way that

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Russell does the like the tightrope balancing act of making
a very smart movie without condescending to the audience like
we get in a lot of modern filmmaking. He just
sort of assumes that you're going to meet him halfway.
And what's great is that sort of relevant to the
storyline as well. Like William Hurt absolutely does that to

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every single person, sometimes to his detriment. But it a
beautifully made movie. I'm certainly you know, the final couple
climactic moments I have never looked great. I'm sort of
worried how that's gonna look in for K. But this
movie will absolutely shine in every way. I mean, there

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are scenes in this that are extra dark that will
look beautiful in four K. Just very very excited about this.
I will say I don't see anything on this that
tells me that there's a hint here, but this being
a Warner movie directed by Ken Russell, I can't help
but feel like we're getting actually closer to a release

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of The Devils. I'm not gonna conjure that necessarily, but
I feel like that might actually be a realistic possibility soon.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
Who knows this is what there is there shint Ken
Russell film that they've put out at least Yeah, Jackie.
I can't remember if there's more, but yeah, and I
will just say this one. The cover art is spectacular.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Yeah, by far the best of the week. Like, this
is absolutely astonishing cover art and even compared to the
one that I like that we just talked about, this
is mind blowing. I really hope that this artist, who
is I will shout him out Richie Beckett, gets a
lot more work because it is beautiful. I love the

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the DM I just got from Craig about the art specifically.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
It is Criterion, second is women in Love and then this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
I was loading that in another time, so thank you.
We had Dolby Vision on this, so yeah, to look great.
New audio commentary with the one and only Sam Degan,
which is incredible. I'm so stoked that she was able
to speak on this one. That's gonna be amazing. Archival
interviews with Ken Russell and William Hurt, new interview with
the special effects designer Brand Farren, and then an essay
by Jessica King. Yeah, this is a must for me.

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I may even pre order this one, watch it literally
just as soon as possible. I think this is a masterpiece.
This is an odd one now, so October twenty eighth,
we're getting a four K Blu ray dual format release
of Germo del Toro's Nightmare Alley. However, it is quite

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different because this is the black and white version of
the film, So this is Nightmare Alley Vision in darkness
and light, a new black and white extended director's cut
supervised by del Toro. Of course, this one is going
to have a four K digital master of the theatrical
version of the film with it with Dolby atmost two

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four K discs, so you've got Dolby Vision on both
two Blu rays, with the films and special features. New
audio commentary by del Toro on the extended director's cut,
new documentary on the film's performances, visual language, costume and
production design and score, new conversation between del Toro and
the producer Bradley Cooper, new conversation between del Toro and
the Coast Green writer Kim Morgan, and then an essay

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by crime fiction and true crime expert Sarah Wineman. This
is a really cool release. I also really enjoyed the
cover art on this one. I sadly have still not
seen del Toro's Nightmare Alley at all. How do you
feel about this release.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
Sir, I am very excited. I they released the I mean,
it wasn't the extended cut of it, but they released
the black and white version of it theatrically around the
time that the film came out, and I went and
saw that in the theater and I loved it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
It just was it worked.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
It played so well in black and white for this story.
So I'm very excited for what they're doing here. I'm
curious because it's got the the theatrical cut, but does
it say if it's if it's color or are they
only releasing the Is this disc only black and white
versions of it?

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
They don't really specify here. I'm not entirely sure. I
know that they've got the theatrical version, but that could
also just be black and white too, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Interesting, Well, it's a great one. I'm always fascinated when
filmmakers take their film and whether they intentionally wanted to
or not, like release it in black and white, and
then they actually get the chance to actually do so.
I'm always excited about about that, and so because I

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think that it can play in such a different way,
and this was a film that worked really well in
both ways.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
Ben is saying it will be color. That's what the
theatrical cut was. Guys, well, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
That theatrical cut was. Yeah. I was released black and
white as well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
As well at the same time, so it could kind
of go either way. And the hard part with this,
I think this was Universal that he made this through.
I think Universal has a four K out already of
the original version. Whoever the studio was, I think it's Universal.
It is possible that they're they theoretically could make a

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contract with Criteria that says you can't release it in color.
I'm not saying that they did, but yeah, I'm not sure,
not sure. Interesting it was played in black and white
literally at the same time when the original came out,
because he if I remember, he'd at least New York
and LA he played the black and white version like
for the Oscar stuff, right when the original release was.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
They were I mean it it was maybe like it
came out like a few weeks later or something. It
was at a period where you know, people were not
wanting to go back to the movie theaters and so
they're coming up with ways, what can we do, and
this was something that they said, Oh, now you can
watch this the black and white version.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
So I wonder which, as I tried to vampire, how
do you how do you feel about Del Toro as
a whole? I, you know, I love how incredibly creative
he is and the worlds that he creates.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
I often find that I love his creativity more than
his output where I land down but night. Morally, it
actually may be my favorite film of his films, wow,
which I don't know if that speaks to kind of
like what I generally think of the other films. I
think they're interesting, like incredibly creative, but I just have

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never I have just never quite loved them, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
So on their website for this release, they have screenshots
in color as well as black and white, so I
have a feeling that it would be in color. To me,
it would be kind of weird false advertising if they
included the color ones and did not have the color
version on there. Right. Yeah, Oh, look at that. Aaron
just went and did the exact same thing. The Criteria

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website has color still swamp taking that as color of
black and white. Oh, that was almost perfect. You had
to have been typing that like as I started speaking.
That was perfect. Del Toro as a whole. Did I
say that?

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Well, how do you think of Del Toro as a whole?

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Like, oh, look at the cover, Look at the right,
that's the whole I'm talking about. Not never mind. Okay, So,
like I said, we had a couple of these mixed
up lines. Gate Limited. The second steel book that they
announced coming out on August twelfth is this is It
follows from twenty fourteen. This is a tenth anniversary four

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K edition with Dolby Vision HDR, first time on four
K in the US. The big thing is this is
the second Site four K master and all of the
extras on here we're on the second site release except
for the legacy special features that they're including here. We're
not able to be licensed to Second Site, So there
is stuff on this that is not on the second

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site disc and second site. If you've got the limited edition,
you've got the booklet, I guess. But literally, it's the
exact same restoration, it's the exact same on disc, supplemental
features and more so, this is a pretty compelling release
if you are into steel books and you don't have
that deluxe release, and it's to me, like this is
a pretty steal book. I like the cover, I like

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that the inside is kind of gruesome. For this movie,
good movie. Have you seen it?

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Follows? I have? And actually it fits well into like
our upcoming Jay Horror conversation because it very much feels
like something like with this never ending curse that you
just can't get rid of, right, And so yeah, it's
a movie that plays. I think it plays really well.
I'm close to compelled to pick this one up. Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
It's a beautiful movie. Very curious to see how this
whole sequel thing comes out that they're working on right now,
so we shall see. And then there was a Criterion
title that I had posted all the announcements, and I
guess I got there before Criterion had finished loading them all.
So I didn't see this one at first, but then

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somebody said that they were intrigued by this one. I went,
what is Deep Crimson? Criterion also releasing on October twenty eighth,
a four of Deep Crimson. They're also releasing this on
Blu Ray. This is from nineteen ninety six and it
says one of the peaks of subversive Mexican director Arturo
Ripstein's Cinema out Cinema of outsiders. This deliriously perverse portrait

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of obsessive love dares audiences to see the humanity and
the most sordid of anti heroes. A lonely hearts advertisement
leads lusty nurse Coral to Nicholas, a con man with
whom she forges an increasingly intense, twisted bond as they
crisscross nineteen forties Mexico, robbing and murdering the women he seduces.
This sounds kind of incredible. I'm very curious to check

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this out. Love the color on this one. The cover
art looks great. New four K digital restoration of the
director's cut, supervised and approved by the director. You got
a four K disc of the movie and a Blu
ray with the movie in special features new interviews with
a director and screenwriter. There's a panel discussion from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences featuring the director

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and a couple others, hosted by Christina Venegas film scholar
Hayden Guessed and uh yeah, Owen Owen Smith kind of
killed the cover art on this. I think, deep Crimson.
Have you seen or heard of this one?

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
I hadn't, but I mean everything about it sounds so
up my alley. It's just it sounds like such a compelling, interesting,
dark story, you know, and so I haven't even heard
of the director. So it's it's one of these that
I'm just I feel like I just need to start
with this s director or start right here. Yeah, but yeah,

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I'm very curious.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
Lots and lots of good comments, So yeah, I agree,
this sounds incredible. I definitely need to check this one out.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
The story sounds a little bit the Honeymoon Killers esque.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Yes, yeah, yes, kind I just talked about that one
with someone else and look Krinn just it's just commented,
oh yeah, oh perfect timing. Uh okay.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
So uh.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
Culture Shock releasing a company that we have not talked
about very much over the last two and a half years.
There's still a lot and they just put out a
re release of the movie Thrust that they had released
when they were a Vinegar Syndrome OCN partner label. Except
it's kind of a re release and kind of not.
This is Thrust the Punk cut, so this is a

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completely different cut of the movie. It's also got new
bonus features and essentially the director was not happy with
the previous release and wanted to do a bunch of
different stuff, and so here it is now. It can
still be in print. They've got this available. You can
pre order this from the tearr Vision website or the
Gray Face website. Lots of good stuff attached to this one.

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I think that people are gonna be happy if you
liked the first release. This is not just a re
release the exact same thing. I think that you're gonna
be stoked that you're getting something different. At least. Re
releases are not great usually, but considering the difference, I'm
okay with this.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
Yeah, sounds interesting. I've never heard of this one, but
it sounds really interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
Yeah, that's probably true of a lot culture shock title.
Sadly going to our next one. This is so far
one of the more enticing Severn titles for me. They
are releasing on Blu ray Ferret Vampire from nineteen eighty two,
and this is going to be a really nice looking
sideloading release. You've got the booklet with us and everything.

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This is the first time on home video in America ever.
This is from jajh Hers, the award winning writer director
of Morgiana, The Ninth Heart and The Cremator. Cremator is amazing,
by the way and subversive genius of the Czech new
wave comes the disturbing Shocker driven by cultural provocation, political paranoia,
and a supercharge take on the vampire mythos now on

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disc for the first time ever in America, and it
says when Ferrett Motors introduces a new high performance sports car,
a trauma doctor investigates a bizarre theory that the vehicle
is a biological machine fueled by human blood. That just
sounds incredible. This is going to have a commentary by
Michael Brook who does great on check films. There's an

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archival commentary with Lars Dryer Winklman that was revised and
re recorded in English. Actually, there is a person undergoing
a strange sequence of events actress that is in this
remembers the film. There's a piece with a screenwriter Legend
of the Blood Car visual essay by Steven Brumer, who
does a lot of experimental filmmaking under his label up

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in Canada, so that's cool to get him on here.
From archival interviews and a look at the prototype that
was used for the ferret in this movie. There's also
a nineteen ninety two Check TV movie based on Vampire
Limited author Joseph and Nibaba's nineteen sixty six short story
More Dare that's really damn cool. And then there's a
booklet with the original short story that was in this

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and then a new introduction by Check science fiction historian
Ivan Adamovic. Yeah, this to me seems like a must.
This looks incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
It sounds I've never heard of it, but it sounds
just total crazy and definitely something that I would love
to pick up. So just a vampire car thing like
I don't even know. Yeah, you know, but like you
don't see that every day, right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
No, I mean this sounds like Christine on steroids. I guess. Yeah,
this sounds incredible. Yeah, and the art looks very good.
A lot of people commenting on the art. Yeah, the
art for this looks very fun. All right, I guess
we'll talk about this for a second. Michael Madson passed
away recently, coming as a shock to everybody in the
discord that has made that too a running joke, which

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is hilarious. By the way, I got asked to contribute
a small piece in memoriam to a cinepunk's right up
that we did. There's like fifteen people that wrote on
Michael Madson, all covering different films, very very fun pieces
to read through and just kind of revisit everything that
Madson has touched over the years. A lot of great names.

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Billy Ray Bruton is the one that kind of brought
everybody together for this. You got Winter Mitchell, who is incredible,
bj Colangelo who's amazing, Austin Proctor, all kinds of people,
Jason Schahan, Jason Kleeberg, Michael Weyers. Yeah, lots of great names.
Go check out over on Sinepunk's It's a fun ride Up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
What film were you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
The one that I used the picture for Sin City
when I first heard that he passed, Like one of
the scenes that I first thought of was that doc
scene and him and Willis going back and forth in
front of the little girl in this movie is just man,
it's so so rough to watch in that moment. I
love this movie and God, this movie is beautiful. Next up,

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the film that kind of frustrated some people. This week,
we are getting on September twenty third, a Blu Ray
release of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas from nineteen
eighty two. Starring, of course, Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
Frustrating because this already has a Blu ray, but they
were not able to get a OCN scan. I think
the only thing that exists for this anymore is an

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a positive. So this got a two K scan of
that thirty five millimeter interpositive that is a brand new master,
so it will look better than the old blue ray probably.
There's also a new audio commentary on this by Paul
Anthony Nelson and Perry Cummings, another new audio commentary by
Brian Reisman and Max every and then some archival extras.
But yeah, this is one that I would say, like,

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don't wait on a four K because they're probably never
going to get a at least not a not an
actual four K release on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
Yeah, it's a fun film for sure. I mean, we
did a Colin Higgins series over on the next reel
looking at is sadly very short filmography, and this was
It was a very lively fun film to end on,
and I as I mean as much fun as Burt
Reynolds and Dolly Partner are in them as Charles Derning,

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who totally totally stole the show for me. It is very,
very funny, So if you haven't seen, it's definitely worth
checking out.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Yeah, this movie's a blast. There is a I guess spoiler,
but there's a piece being written for a issue of
the magazine coming up on Burt Reynolds, and I've been
wanting to watch like ten of his movies back to back,
so this might be a good time to get started. Imprint,
Oh my gosh, so Imprint had all kinds of stuff

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that we get to talk about. We've got Tales of
Adventure just pouring out of every poor It seems like
these are all coming out on Blu Ray on September
twenty fourth, and we're getting three different Tales of Adventure
box sets. This first one collection number seven, already number seven.
This has The Thief of Baghdad from nineteen twenty four,

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and if that wasn't enough, you get The Thief of
Baghdad from nineteen forty. I still not had your full
the Thief of Baghdad from nineteen sixty one. So all
of these are takes on the one thousand and one
Night's Story. Of course, you get a bunch of extras
on this. You got new visual essays by Martin Terrio,
some commentaries. All of them have extras on here, including

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Let's see the nineteen forty version as a new commentary
by Josh Nielsen, This says, new visual essay by David Huckvale.
This is a lie. Huckfiel didn't do anything for this release.
That's actually Philip Jeffries who did a piece on this one,
and it's supposed to be great. So I'm excited to
see that one. And then the newest film from nineteen
sixty one is new commentary by Adrian Smith, new visual

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essay by FELIPA. Barry. Yeah, are you into the adventure
style films that Imprint has done?

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
You know, I always checking them out when they release them.
I haven't picked any of them up yet, you know.
It's one of those things that they're intriguing to me,
but I haven't quite wanted to push the button just yet.
But yeah, but every one of them has I found intriguing.
Probably be happy with any of them.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Yeah. The hard part is they are quite expensive. So,
as Chris says over on Facebook, if you want to
own all of these, it's only about two thousand dollars, right,
and a couple of them I think like the first
four maybe are out of print already and go for
some change, So good luck with that. The next one

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is much larger than the one we just talked about.
Tells of Adventure Collection eight just spans from nineteen sixteen
to nineteen seventy one. This has so much in it,
twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea from nineteen sixteen, Master
the World from nineteen sixty one, Valley of the Dragons
from nineteen sixty one that's the first time ever on
blu ray in the World War, Gods of the Deep

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from nineteen sixty five, Rocket to the Moon from nineteen
sixty seven, and then The Light at the Edge of
the World from seventy one. Just like the last one,
limited to only fifteen hundred copies for the hard box.
They'll likely do a standard release when this sells out.
I think they have for the other ones that have
sold out. But if you want, like if these are
your jam and you absolutely want them, you may want
to take a look at the you sooner than later,

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because some people really like these movies, and this one's
got a film that people have wanted for quite some time.
We've got new extras on a bunch of these, another
new Philip Jefferies visual essay on Master the World, new
visual essay by Andy Marshall Roberts on Visit Price on
that disc as well. War Gods of the Deep gets
a new commentary by Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons. There's

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some archival extras, more new commentaries, including one with Kim
Newman and Stephen Jones, and then they poured it over
the Light at the End of the World extras that
were on the previous release of this supplemental features, Andy,
what type of features do you prefer?

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
You know, I love commentary, that's usually kind of the
first one that I look at. I already talked about
my love of soundtracks when they include those, But I
really enjoy strong visual essays or like just interesting visual essays.
You know, I think they're great, and I mean any
just like critical thought that goes along with it, like there.

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You know a lot of them have some fantastic write
ups that come with with discs. You know, I'm a
big fan of any of that sort of stuff. There
was a day where I would like watch all of
the trailers when they would include trailers, or flip through
all the different posters, and you know, sometimes I'll still
take a glance at some of that, but I've I

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don't know, I feel like I hit my limit with those,
and now I'm just looking for like the interesting conversations
about things.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. Commentaries are
difficult nowadays. I really just love a really well researched
visual essay. I think, yeah, well that's a lot of adventure,
but that's still not enough. We've got collection number nine here,
which I think is the one that most people are
by far the most excited about. I have a feeling

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this one's going to sell pretty quickly for them. Once again,
limited only fifteen hundred, so pay attention to that. This
is covering from nineteen seventy four to seventy eight, so
nice tight time span here. But we get the land
that time forgot at the Earth's core, the people that
time forgot, and then the big one for so many
people for the first time on Blu ray anywhere in

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the world, Warlords of Atlantis from nineteen seventy eight. So
I saw quite a few people saying they were going
to buy this simply to get that last film on
Blu Ray finally, which more power to you. That's that's
some dedication again. Lots of new extras. We got new
commentary by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones, new interviews with
the director Kevin Connor, who directed this in nineteen seventy four.

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That's pretty freaking special. More new commentaries and interviews. There's
just a lot like the if this is your type
of film, Imprint is giving you a lot of value
with these movies, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
And The Land of the Time for God is the
only one of any of these three sets that I've
actually seen, and it's a fun movie. It's it's kind
of crazy, but it's definitely one that I would like
that that is the one that would peak my curiosity
to pick this setup.

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
Yeah, and I mean, you know we were talking about
bad art earlier. I just want to shout out how
great these old school poster art always were. Like for
some of these movies, the poster is the best part
of the film.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
Sure, even if half the stuff on the poster doesn't
actually happen in the film almost never.

Speaker 1 (01:46:15):
But I also love too that Imprint is kind of
embracing that craziness on the actual box art too. These
are great looking sets. Yeah, yeah, more Imprint. We've talked
about this before Bewitched. They're putting out two seasons at
a time because they're really restoring these properly. They're going
above and beyond to do it right. And so on
September twenty fourth, they're doing the fourth set of these.

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We got season seven and eight covers nineteen seventy to
nineteen seventy two. This is an eight disc set. You
also have one hundred and twenty six page hardcover book
for all of you hardcore Bewitched fans, which there are
still a lot of people. This has some new extras
on here. There is fifty four different episodes by Sony

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and they're gonna look incredible. I mean, yeah, Imprint does
really great with TV work. I'm just glad to see
a boutique putting time and energy into TV, which does
not happen all that often.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
And Bewitched, I mean it was a staple, you know,
growing up. Yeah, I mean I couldn't tell you how
many episodes I've seen and didn't see from all the
reruns that I watched as a kid, but I mean
I watched a lot of Bewitched.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Yeah, I feel like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie
and I Love Lucy, and probably one other show we're
on every single day when I got home from school
for I don't know, twenty four years straight, something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
Happy Days was in there.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
Revival House says, Hey, Ryan and Andy follow you on Twitter,
just fanned you on YouTube. You guys are great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
Oh look at that. Thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
Oh a lot of pressure, I know. We'll try to
keep doing. Okay Next from imprint, Yeah, we're still on
imprint Space nineteen ninety nine, which they have done as
the big box set release previously. This is now coming
on September twenty fourth for a Blu ray of Super

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Space Theater from nineteen seventy five to eighty two. This
is where they took some of the episodes and re
edited them into essentially TV films. And so we've got
Destination Moon Base Alpha from seventy eight, Alien Attack from
seventy nine, Journey through the Black Sun from eighty two,
Cosmic Princess from eighty two, and then Spatzio nineteen ninety nine.
From nineteen seventy five, you had a five discs set,

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a hundred page hardcover book with the comprehensive guide to
every movie housed in a limited edition hard box. If
you love Space nineteen ninety nine, there's extras on these.
They are going all out to make these incredible. I
don't even know what to say, Like, there's just so
much stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
That is incredible. It's just truly mind boggling the amount
of work that they put into cranking these out.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot. Craig is pointing out those
Imprint Adventure collections aren't that pricey. Seventy eight USD for
four films seems pretty fair. That is for one of them.
One of them is fifty eight because it's only three films,
and then the one that's six films is one seventeen,
and honestly, I don't think any of them are crazy
over priced. The hard part is if you only want one,

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you got to pay for Australia to wherever you are shipping,
which suddenly seventy eight is now ninety eight, and that's
where it starts to get a little crazy. However, if
you're buying a whole bunch of stuff from Imprint and
you're getting free shipping, oh it's worth it. Pile it on,
get like five or six releases, and suddenly you're getting
an absolute steal because you're not paying for shipping, and
it's going practically the entire world.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:49:46):
Okay, that's finally all of Imprint and we go from
that super niche action adventure stuff to Batman the Dark
Knight Trilogy.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
So on this fall we are getting a library steel
book re release of the Dark Knight Trilogy, which clearly
everybody wants another release of these on four K. These
are all the exact same discs. There is nothing brand
new in these. This is just if you are a
Nolan superfan Batman superfan and you really want these bright

(01:50:17):
white steel books for these very dark movies, this is
the way to do it. The US release of this
will be an Amazon exclusive. Over in the UK, this
is available on Zombie, will be a few other places.
No idea about Canadian release or anything like that, but
this is going to be pretty widely available. If you
really want this, you'll be able to get a copy.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
I promise.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
Nice set. Speaking of a nice set, this is one
that I think of many many people are very excited
about this week August fifth, which keep in mind that's
only in like three weeks. This is very soon. We
are getting a four K steel book of Master and
Commander the Far Side of the World. This is a

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big deal because this is a Fox title which has
been locked away in the Disney vault since they purchased them,
and we are now getting a four K UHD release
of this movie. Unfortunately, the big story here is that
it is not going to be including the wonderful DVD
special features that we got on that big two disc

(01:51:24):
release that a lot of collectors still have. Unfortunately, I
do not have it anymore, and I need to get
a second hand copy because this is not going to
include all those bonus features, like there's a documentary and everything.
So this thing is coming. It's going to have a
wonderful looking steel book. I actually think this is a
really classy release. The UK is getting this exact same

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steel book and a standard four K release, so if
you don't want to steal book, you're gonna have to
pick up the UK one. It is very much like
Kingdom of Heaven. For some reason, you are if you
love this movie, this is going to look amazing. It's
gonna have Dolby Vision, it looks impressive. You've got immersive audio,
like everything about this is going to be a stellar

(01:52:07):
release guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Yeah, this is such an amazing film. I am very
excited about this one, and I do have that two
disc box set that you are talking about, but I'm
still tempted to pick this one up just because it
would be so beautiful, such a great film.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
Z Pam says that Dark Knight Trilogy set is on
Amazon Canada. Nice, so Canada, we'll get a release. Orbit
is not taking pre orders for Sony and Disney Steel books.
It's a bummer, but I get it. They want to
make sure they can fulfill and that's the hard part
with these I don't understand what's going on necessarily, but
Mark has had trouble like taking pre orders for titles

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and then simply not getting them in stock, and that
causes giant problems on the back end. I mean refunding people.
You're paying credit card processing fees and you can't charge
that to the customer. There's a lot there. But this one,
I gotta I gotta find a way to get a
copy of it. Absolutely. Okay, So we talked about another

(01:53:06):
replacement program. Let's talk about the issues that have played
terror Vision over the last couple weeks. So this is
kind of Crazy. One of their titles, the one that
you can see on the screen right now, Suddenly in
the Dark. This was announced in January and this title
has essentially been cursed for us. This has caused so
many problems to just completely spiral. So let's go through it.

(01:53:29):
The first thing, The Devil's Sword. This is a movie
that I produced a bunch of the special features for.
I've been excited to get this in hand for so long,
and as it looks like a bunch of the discs
are not playing. Now here's where it gets crazy. Because
we talked earlier about them checking the discs. What's hard
is about forty percent of these discs were working when
they got to the warehouse. TerrorVision put in a few

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of them and they worked just fine, so they started
shipping them out. But then when people were getting them,
a bunch of people were messaging and saying, hey, this
disc is pointing out that it is not a completed disc.
So something happened in the actual manufacturing process because the
files were exactly what they needed to be. And the
replicator is definitely gonna have to be the one to

(01:54:11):
cover this because they're the ones that screwed it up.
So no need to email TerrorVision. The only discs that
went out were for people that had purchased directly, so
you're just gonna get a brand new disc and you
don't have to ask for it. So if your disc works,
you get to give on to a friend because you're
gonna have a second disc. Just just give it away.
It's a great movie. Then the second title, The Children
of Violent Rome, another movie that I did some special

(01:54:32):
features for. My friend Sam Cohen, who's in the discord,
got him to write a piece on this one. The
disc is fine on this, but all of the slipcovers
came in completely mingled, not anything to do with TerrorVision,
the shipping partner. They all just came in completely thrashed.
So these are getting reprinted and as soon as they
get there they will be sent with a fresh batch

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to everybody. If you got one, you got one of
like the very small number of titles that were in
this that were not damaged. So congratulations, you're the exception,
certainly not the rule. Now the big one, Suddenly in
the Dark has been just completely ruined and ruined and
ruined time and time again. This was weird because in

(01:55:17):
QC something got caught and we went to fix it,
and then that fix screwed up the entire digital master
for some reason, and so we had to go in
and fix that again after that. And now the curse
is coming because the disc is finally fixed and the
discs have arrived at the warehouse, but unfortunately, all of
the packaging was shipped to Florida instead of Georgia, where

(01:55:40):
they were supposed to be, so Terror Vision had to
go with a trailer, rent a truck and trailer drive
to Florida, and then package them themselves after they were
sent to two different places. So this is going to
be happening over the next few days. They planned to
have all of these fixed and shipped out to people.

(01:56:01):
Over the next week. You will finally be getting Suddenly
in the Dark. I did a bunch of stuff for
this disc, so I've been patiently waiting because this movie
is gorgeous. Have you ever seen Suddenly in the Dark.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
I haven't, but I've just was reading about it while
you're talking, and it sounds like a crazy, crazy movie.

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
It is amazing, like this movie is sort of an
underseen masterpiece. I really hope people check this out because
it's incredible. But I'm just glad that it will finally
be out there. The other big thing is we are
waiting for updates on Arbor Day an Invader, and then
hopefully nothing else happens to those, and then there's gonna
be some more updates on Sledgehammer and Gator Bait one
and two, and as soon as they know more, they

(01:56:38):
will be announcing those and I will do my best
to cover them. All that to say, like, manufacturing so
many titles is hard. It's very difficult to be patient sometimes,
especially like Suddenly in the Dark has been plagued with
issues for almost six months. Now. I get that that's
a long time. Try to have some sympathy for people

(01:57:00):
in these companies that they are working to make sure
that it comes perfect. They don't want there to be errors.
That costs them money too, I mean they're losing you know, customers,
losing faith in them. They just want everybody to have
the best experience. They love these movies too, So yeah,
it's it's hard.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Yeah, it's it really is an interesting element of the
business that you don't think about, is like all all
the business behind just getting the movie to you. Yeah, right,
and how many countries that you're dealing with for all
the different pieces to come together, especially these days with
all the extra craziness happening.

Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
Yeah, I mean countries, companies, shipping problems that can happen.
It is wild, right, Speaking of wild, let's go to
our next one. This is one of the most sodd
after titles for the last couple of years because Keino
announced in October of twenty twenty three that they were
releasing the four Ilsa movies on four K, and we

(01:57:59):
finally have details on the very first one September thirtieth.
We are getting a four K release of Ilsa she
Wolf of the SS from nineteen seventy five. This is
number thirty seven in the Keno Coult line. This has
a brand new HDR Dolby vision Master. There's an audio
commentary by the actress Diane Thorne, the director, Don Edmunds,

(01:58:20):
producer David F. Friedman, moderated by Martin Lewis. That's an
archival commentary. There's a new commentary by Kat Ellinger and
Eugenie Melodic. There's an interview with Dot Edmunds that Elijah
Drinner was able to do I believe earlier this year.
And then a trailer. Now, a lot of people was
thinking that these were going to be a box sets.
Now we are still going to get a box set.

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Keno has said that in the various forums that they've
been talking about this and commenting the hard part is
we have no idea when they're not going to do
a box set until all four of the standalone releases
have been released and people have bought all those up,
and then they will put them all together in a
box set. So make sure if you're wanting all four

(01:59:02):
of them and you want to save some bucks, it
will likely be at least slightly cheaper. The hard part,
you've already waited almost two years for this is to
come to fruition. You could be waiting another I don't
know year, year and a half before that buck sits,
So I'd be saying, how much do you want them?

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Nazi sploitation. Have you ever checked out many Nazi exploitation films?
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
I haven't, But this one's been on my radar, largely
because we're doing a series later this year. We're for
the next reel we're doing. We're jumping back like we're
we did a twenty twenty five film talking about Ballerina
that we're doing two thousand, nineteen seventy five, nineteen fifty,
nineteen twenty five, so we're doing nice whole series and

(01:59:49):
for seventy five we're doing like pioneering visions in global cinema.
And I was really intempted to include this on the list,
but at the very least, what I'm wanting to do
is like throw this out out as a potential member
bonus episode, see if the members vote on it. But
I'm very curious about this one. For sure.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
Corna is pointing out Gestapo's Last Orgy is amazing, and
then Adam says, The Beast and Heat rocks. No, not really,
that's true. The movie is bad. However, I believe where
is it is that the one that's got the documentary
on it? So the Beaston Heat, Yes, So this release

(02:00:29):
from Severn of the Beast and Heat is the one
that has it's called Fascism on a Thread, The Strange
Story of Nazi Exploitation cinema new feature length documentary. You
should own this disc for that documentary.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
I really should.

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
The movie is not great, but I probably shouldn't say
that the week before a seven sale. But by the
disc just not for that reason. Don't even watch the movie,
watch the documentary. Speaking of Severn, they are putting out
a four K release of Brian to Palma's Sisters inspired

(02:01:02):
remake from two thousand and six. That was mean. I
should not have said it like that. Sisters, directed by
Douglas Buck and starring Chlobe Sevenier. I've never heard much
great about this movie. I've never seen this one. Have
you seen this one?

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
I haven't seen this one. Yeah, I would be curious
to It would be an interesting side by side comparison.
Like sometimes with these sorts of remakes, I find it
like that's kind of an interesting way to do it,
just to really see what they try to figure out
what they were going for, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:01:34):
Yeah, I mean supposedly this is like pretty shot for
shot for a lot of it, at least until the ending,
which is an interesting choice to like have have the
gumption to say I'm going to remake it to Palma
movie shot for shot because I could do that.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
Is that's a choice that it really is? It really is.

Speaker 1 (02:01:57):
Yeah. So this is gonna have an audio commentary with
Dre and with David Gregory of Severn. There's an archival
documentary on here as well. This will have a soundtrack CD,
just like we talked about with the other Severn stuff.
There's some archival extras on the Blu Ray release, including
Glass Eye Pictures Presents Tales from Beyond the Pale Hidden
Records by Douglas Buck with Kevin Klein and Tony Todd.

(02:02:19):
I'm not sure what that is, but I kind of
want to check that out. Uh, interesting, it sounds very interesting. Yeah,
this is this is one that I'm more curious in
the features than the film. I think.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Yeah, yeah, again, it would be interesting to kind of
just look at and see what they were intending to
do with it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:41):
But yeah, I love the comments here. Gary says, yeah,
that worked out well for the Psycho remake, and then
Sibners says, like someone trying to remake a Hitchcock film
shot for shot, But who would ever do that?

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
You know? I this is my what I always say
with that is like if I were gust fans at
and a studio offered me the chance to do that,
Hell yeah, like the things that you could learn as
a filmmaker of actually crafting like a Hitchcock film shot
for shot, Like I feel like he probably learned so
much in the process of just how to cut a film,

(02:03:14):
construct it everything. I mean, it's just like invaluable and
you're getting paid to do it, like I would absolutely
do it. But yeah, it's then you have the result
and you have to live.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
With that, I suppose, the ramifications of remaking a master's work. Hoobolly.
Next one, man, I'm very curious about this one because
I have never seen this movie, and I'm sure many
of you in the chat have very curious because I
seem to really like Kevin Coster's at least around this era.
I know that he's kind of an asshole right now,

(02:03:47):
but uh, October seventh, we're getting a four K steel
book from Sony of Silverado from nineteen eighty five. Now,
this coming from Sony, I guarantee this is going to
look amazing. Of course, it's a steel book only release,
which sucks. I'm not standing up for that at all.
But how do you feel about Silvato? Have you seen this?

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
It's a very fun movie. I think my initial reaction
to it was confusion because I didn't think a Western
should be funny, and I think like it, Like I
struggled with that initially, and then I got over myself
and it's just it's a very very fun movie. And
I mean the cast is great with Kevin Klein and

(02:04:25):
John Cleese is in it, and it's just it's kind
of a great time. It's a very easy fun movie
to watch.

Speaker 1 (02:04:34):
It sounds like, especially with that cast. I yeah, it
certainly is one that I'm probably gonna give a watch too.
I love that Adam has me pegged and says Ryan
doesn't watch westerns. I do. That's not many, but yeah,
you're right at him. I'm sorry, it's no fan Dango.
I still have not watched Fan Dango. Damn it. I
need to. And then Silverad is a fun film and

(02:04:55):
great soundtrack, thanks Dah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
Great soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (02:04:59):
Absolutely all right, going to our next one. This is
an incredible movie. We've got August twenty sixth from Warner Archive,
a four K of Get Carter. Now. The hard part
here is BFI released this on four K twenty twenty
two or twenty twenty three. This is literally the exact
same release, So if you've got the BFI, you certainly

(02:05:20):
don't need this. This is literally the same restoration they're
using the BFI. They even reference it. I believe this
has all of the exact same extras. If anything, the
BFI might even have one extra one, but they're pulling
over like some of the talks that happened over at
the BFI. So not a lot that you're going to
be missing either way. But this movie is a masterpiece.

(02:05:42):
How do you feel about Get Carter?

Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
Yeah, I absolutely love it. It's a great film. I
haven't seen the remake. It was not a remake that
I was itching to see, but I haven't heard terrible
things about it, so maybe it's it's worth a check.
But and you know, I mean, I have such an
easy time watching Michael Caine, you know, in pretty much anything,
even when he's doing even when he's doing his Jaws

(02:06:06):
the revenge is you know, but this, you know, I
just an a Michael Caine thing. I'd love to see
them do a four K of Gambit, which is, you know,
one of my favorites in this era of Michael Kine.
But I mean, yeah, Carter is absolutely a fun one.

Speaker 1 (02:06:21):
I think did not I think Keino released it on
Blu ray on Blue.

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
Yeah, they have the Blue at that came out like
three years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:06:29):
Yeah, not too too long. Ago. Yeah, twenty twenty two,
So I mean it's Keno. I wouldn't have put it
passed him to put.

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
That on four K, I know, fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 (02:06:40):
So that's the beginning of where archive. This is their
third four K release. Just keep in mind it's the
first one was announced like last November I think it was,
and so in eight months they've announced three. They've already
said they're not going to be doing a lot of
four k's, so probably three or for a year is

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probably about the pace that we're gonna get from more Archive.
That being said, they do incredible work on their restorations
and the bf I did great with this, so being
able to see them put that amount of work into
a four K, if we're only getting three or four
at least, they're going to be incredibly high quality. Absolutely,
And now some more from this slate from them, we

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get that Midnight Kiss from nineteen forty nine, another one
that I've not seen Technicolor musical. Have you seen that
Midnight Kiss?

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
I have not seen this one. I'm trying to look
at it and see if I've even heard of this one.
It's kind of like a yeah, it's just one of
these ones that completely escaped me. But it looks interesting.
And this just going back to like posters and art.
I love when they do you just use old art
post art like this. It's great.

Speaker 1 (02:07:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Arael, director is very big in the Elvis films.

Speaker 1 (02:07:52):
M interesting. So this four K scan of the original
nitrate Technicolor Negatives which just chef's kiss. This is gonna
look beautiful, guaranteed color film and then special features. Wise,
they got a deleted musical out take called one Love
of Mine, which that's really cool that we're getting this
so many years later. There's a classic MGM cartoon on

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here called Heavenly Puss, and one called signor Drupe, and
then you got the trailer. I'm glad that they threw
some extras on here. That's a big deal because at
least one or two of these do not have any extras.
Next up is a movie called Seven Women from nineteen
sixty six, which is directed by a little known director
you may have heard of called John Ford. This is

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I believe his last film and a movie that people
have been dying to see on Blu Ray for quite
some time. Four K scan of the OCN, another color
movie special features on this. We've got an MGM cartoon
that won, an oscar called the Dot in the Line,
and a trailer john Ford. How do you feel about
john Ford?

Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
I mean, fantastic filmmaker. I think that he does some
really interesting things. I think I I struggle with some
of them, just more because of just like I'm less
interested in some of the content. But I enjoy how
he puts his films together. I'm wondering, like, is a

(02:09:14):
is this his version of Seven Samurai? I mean, I'm
reading this synopsis here and Bancroft stars in this moving
drama set in nineteen thirty five about a remote Chinese
mission run by American women that's overtaken by warring bandits.
I just like, do the seven women stand up?

Speaker 1 (02:09:31):
Or do?

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
Or do they?

Speaker 1 (02:09:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:09:33):
It piques my curiosity.

Speaker 1 (02:09:34):
Now that is possible. I don't know anything about it.
Let's keep going. But yeah, john Ford, obviously this is
a big deal. I had a lot of people exploded
when this got announced. Quite happy with it. Nineteen forty
nine's Intruder in the Dust is the next one. By
the way, I don't knowe that I said the date.
I apologize all These are coming on August twenty sixth

(02:09:55):
from Order Archive. Intruder in the Dust has a four
K scan of best preservation elements and for special features
on this one, you got MGM shorts Playlands of Michigan
and Counterfeit Cat. Not a lot I know about this one,
but I know that I've seen this poster many many times.

(02:10:16):
I'm glad they're including this. It's a Clarence Brown film.
I don't know anything about this though. Do you know
anything about this one?

Speaker 2 (02:10:22):
No, I'm just looking at it. Sounds like an interesting one,
so this might be one worth checking out too, Warner.

Speaker 1 (02:10:30):
Okay, pretty much only only puts out the stuff that
they can make sound interesting. At least, I will say true.
The other one that I'm excited about this one this
drop is nineteen forty three's The Hard Way with Ida
Freakin' Loopino. This is a powerful film featuring an unforgettable
performance by leading lady Ida Lupino. The Hard Way is

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a gripping drama that in certain ways is a precursor
the same story dynamics to be found years later and
the remarkable musical play Gypsy Lupino takes on stage, so
to speak, as Helen Chernin a strong willed woman who
wants to get herself and her talented kids sister Katie
out of their Jerkwater hometown. And if that means using
people and throwing them away, that's what Helen will do.

(02:11:12):
It's got a four K scan of the original nitrate
negative as well, and as far as extras, you get nothing. Yeah,
I mean anything would have been nice to see on
the disc. There's a lot of people that would love
to work with Warner Archive for freaking free, yeah, the
hard way. Ida Lupino, any Ide Lupino love for you?

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
Yeah, I mean, you know, she's a great, great performer,
and I just think that she's I've seen too little
of I think is probably what I should say. But
I've enjoyed seeing her in stuff and it would be
the sounds interesting. So I am I'm very curious now
to check this one out.

Speaker 1 (02:11:53):
Yep. And if that was somehow not enough from Warner
Archive for you, what is possibly the biggest release for
them this month, especially in terms of running time. We
are also getting The Huckleberry Hound Show, the complete original series.
This is an eleven disc collection running two thousand, one

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hundred and seventy five minutes. This is wild. This also
has black and white commercials interspersed in all the color cartoons.
There's some special features we got. These are all ported
over from the DVD we got Huckleberry Quotes, the remix
music video celebrating memorable Hound quotes Huckleberry Hound a linguistic

(02:12:36):
linguistic masterpiece, hound speak as humorously interpreted by a linguistics professor. Which,
oh my gosh, the legendary sound of Das Butler, an
affectionate remembrance the brilliant voice artists who lent his sounds
to voice Huck and Yogi, among many other beloved characters. Yeah.
This for me, to get all sixty eight episodes of

(02:12:57):
The Huckleberry Hound Show in one collection on Blue is
kind of amazing. Brand new HD masters from the original
camera negatives for all of these is huge. And for
somebody that loves animation, I cannot wait to own this.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
And I loved Huckleberry Hound as a kid like that,
these cartoons and Droopy Dog and just like all of
these sorts of characters were so fun, and so this
is pretty exciting. This is an exciting one to see.

Speaker 1 (02:13:28):
Another one that made a lot of people comment and
get very excited about. But again, eleven discs. This is
gonna be a little more expensive than the Warner Archive
stuff usually is, but it's sixty eight episodes, all brand
new remastering. I don't normally say this, but like, this
is one that I'm going to support simply to support
because I want them to keep doing stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (02:13:49):
Yeah. Absolutely, that is it.

Speaker 1 (02:13:52):
For Warner Archive. And we go from Huckleberry Hound to
Freakin' Martyrs from two thousand and eight. Quite a shift,
a little bit of a shift. October twenty seventh, Eureka
in the UK is releasing the new French extremity masterpiece
from two thousand and eight, Martyrs. This is going to
get a limited edition hardbound release that is limited to

(02:14:16):
four thousand copies. This will have a four K and
a Blu ray disc. This is the uncut version of
the film. It says new artwork which I think is great,
although I guess the front cover is slightly spoiler ish,
which is a little tough. This has a hundred page
hard case or sorry, one hundred page book featuring new
cover art and everything. Lots of new writing, new extras

(02:14:40):
on here, new commentary with Nia Edwards Bay, co director
of Arbitoire Home Horror Film Festival. New interview with one
of the actors, New interview with New French extremity expert
Alice Halett, bran new visual essay on Martyrs and Body
Horror by Xavier al Dona Rees. Then a bunch of
archival extras. This is the this is amazing. How do

(02:15:01):
you feel about Martyrs? Have you? Have you taken the
time to sit down and watch Martyrs?

Speaker 2 (02:15:05):
I have not seen this one, but it's been on
my list forever. You know, I saw it, I don't know,
ages ago on one of those like, you know, best
horror films to check out of the decade or whatever,
and so it's been on a list for me. It's
it's sitting in my watch list. I absolutely need to
check it out. And you know, the new French extremity
is such an interesting kind of a subgenre that I

(02:15:27):
would love to explore also or on CinemaScope.

Speaker 1 (02:15:30):
I just.

Speaker 2 (02:15:32):
Again haven't gotten around to it. But this one, this
one really fascinates me. I might pick it up just
to give myself the reason to finally watch it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:40):
I was about to say that would be a pretty
incredible CinemaScope episode because you can cover most of the
genre with your bonus episode and with the regular episode total.
So yeah, we might have to talk after the big
thing with Eureka. As Gary is pointing out, Eureka has
free international shipping with no minimum. So if you are

(02:16:01):
ever after a Eureka title and you don't want to
go like to Orbit DVD because you got to get
three titles for free shipping, Eureka ships anywhere in the world,
even if you buy a single disc for zero dollars
and they don't charge you tax I don't know how
they have a deal with the Devil, but I mean, well,
I not support that. I mean that's pretty great.

Speaker 2 (02:16:23):
No kidding, how do they That's wild.

Speaker 1 (02:16:27):
I don't know how, but they do it. And the
crazy thing is that if you like pre order five
titles and they come out at different times, they ship
you each one as they're available, so you never pay
for shipping. You have five ship It's maybe.

Speaker 2 (02:16:39):
I don't know how they do that. That's wild.

Speaker 1 (02:16:42):
So Martyrs, I know that a lot of people have
never seen this. Based on reputation alone, I will say
this is a very bloody movie. It is a very
gory movie. However, this movie is a deep movie. It
is definitely one that I think is important for people
to see. I adore this movie. I think that is
a tough watch, but one that most people should if

(02:17:03):
you think you might be able to handle it. I
love that Stan says I must have this, but I
will never watch it. Once is enough and I get that,
But like I could watch Martyrs probably once or twice
every couple of years at least. Yeah, I need this
on four K. This is gonna beautiful. The Shark Hunter

(02:17:26):
is the next title coming from Severn as part of
their sale. The Shark Hunter is from nineteen seventy nine,
will also have the soundtrack CD, as they're doing on
many of these releases special features. For this, we got
a reunion between Enzog Castelari and the actor Franco Nero,
some big names in this one. We got an interview
with the producer Enzo Doria. There's a trailer and then

(02:17:47):
the soundtrack CD. And this is so cool that they
have now done three different shark movies as part of
just this one sales slate. And we'll talk about that
more in just a minute. But yeah, Shark Hunter, I'm
sure that this is probably not one that has passed
your radar.

Speaker 2 (02:18:04):
I mean, look at that look at that art right there,
like it just it makes me want to push play
on it. It's just like these movies like they've tapped
into something with this crazy just the the weird and
over the top nature of these Italian films, and so

(02:18:24):
this is one that I really want to see.

Speaker 1 (02:18:27):
Yeah, the Italian shark exploitation genre that they are hitting
hard right now has to be very, very fun. And
for those that don't know, NZG. Castelari is also the
director of The Last Shark, which is like the infamous
Essential Jaws ripoff that is getting a Blu Ray from
Treasured Films in the next month, I think. Actually, so

(02:18:49):
lots of shark stuff right now if you're super into it.
Next up, Quino Lober on September thirtieth is putting out
a four K and a Blu ray set and single
releases of The Airport for film collections, So you can
buy each individual movie if you only like the first
one or the Concord or whatever, or you can buy

(02:19:11):
all four at once in a set. The set will
have this sleeve style packaging, which I kind of hate.
Instead of cases, and it will also have a booklet,
or you can buy the standalone single releases with the
slip covers. Really good looking release overall that they're putting

(02:19:31):
us out. I'm glad they're doing it. But the films,
this is a big deal. We've got Airport, We've got
Airport nineteen seventy five, Airport seventy seven, and then the
Concord Airport seventy nine disaster movies from the seventies. How
do you feel about Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:19:47):
They are fun. It is definitely its own whole subgenre
that popped up at that period of time. I have
a lot of fun with these movies. These were movies
that I watched a lot on TV when they would
play Like my grandma and I would watch all of
these and there are so many characters that you get

(02:20:07):
to know in these films that I lose track of,
like which ones were in which movie that I watched.
But regardless, I just I have a lot of fun
with them. That being said, I haven't seen I watched Airport,
I don't know, probably the last ten years or so,
but I haven't seen the other three. I'd be curious
to see how they how they hold up today.

Speaker 1 (02:20:26):
You know, Delt's pointing out that in one of these,
George Kennedy flies a concord upside down.

Speaker 2 (02:20:35):
George George Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (02:20:36):
Speaking of George Kennedy, the names that show up in
these movies, so Bert Lancaster, Dean Martin, Charlton Heston, Jack Libin,
Elaine de Laud, James Stewart, Christopher Lee, Robert Wagner, and
of course George Kennedy. There is so much in here.
One of the things I really want to point out, though,
is their restoration information. So the very first one, which
arguably is the most important here because it kind of

(02:20:58):
started the whole thing, led to airplane. Like all of
this stuff, this is a brand new HDR Dolby Vision Master.
Now here's where it gets interesting. From a four K
scan of the thirty five millimeter interpositive reduction element, which
all that to say, this is not going to be
a great looking four K. We lost a lot of

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fidelity from the OCN getting to this point. This is
not great source material, and I have a feeling that
they really just needed to put all four of them
on four K to make the set work, because really
this probably shouldn't have had a four K with that
element being the best that they got, they probably should
have only done the blu ray for that one. The

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other three sequels though four K scans of the OCN,
so those are all going to look pretty great, guaranteed this.
We got new commentaries on all four movies from people
like Julie Krugo, c Courtney Joiner. We've got Steve Mitchell,
Nathaniel Thompson, Peter Hancoff, Julie Kergo again, lots of good
stuff here. Craig says reduction element Was it shot in

(02:22:04):
seventy No, I believe it was shot in sixty five?
Which yeah, again not great here, not great.

Speaker 2 (02:22:15):
It looks like yeah, actually, look on Wikipedia says seventy
milimeters aoh.

Speaker 1 (02:22:22):
Huh, maybe I was wrong, all right, seventy milimeters reduction
element for a four K. Yeah, I'm very curious to
see how that one looks. I want these because I
love seventy disaster movies. But now I don't know if
I should just maybe swing for the blue for the

(02:22:43):
first one. So we'll see. Yeah, I'll wait on reviews.
That's free.

Speaker 2 (02:22:47):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:22:48):
Yeah, this looks really good. Actually. August nineteenth, Well, go USA,
is releasing Invincible Swordsman from this year. This sas fabled
swords been ling Hu Chong was ready to retire his
sword when a chance encounter with the dangerous cult leader
forced him back into the action. As the evil Invincible

(02:23:08):
East threatens the peaceful realm of Xiang, who with her
demon cult, Chong picks up his weapon and defends the
land with the ragtag crew of misfit warriors and this
mystical Wusha throwback starring Tim Hoying as chong Jiang Yuki
as Invincible East and featuring a guest appearance from the
One and Only Samo Hung in twenty twenty five. Wow, yeah,

(02:23:29):
this looks great. Watch the trailer. It looks really fun. Yeah,
I'm very curious about this. Oh there you go. Gary
found the answer. It was shot in sixty five, but
it was made for seventy millimeters. Prints. There you go,
and see. I wonder like, does the sixty five millimeter
exist still on airport because you could have scanned that.

Speaker 2 (02:23:51):
Yeah, I mean it's I mean, it's an Academy Award
nominated movie, and so you'd think that they would put
some money behind it. But yeah, I don't know. I
mean it could just be it's it doesn't look pretty.
I don't know, all right, So Invincible Swordman this looks great.

(02:24:12):
Watch the trailer. It looks looks really really fun. Actually, yeah,
it sounds great.

Speaker 1 (02:24:18):
We only got a couple left. The next one is
The Night of Death from nineteen eighty. This is coming
on September eighth on Blu Ray in the UK from
Nucleus Films. This is part of their European Cult Cinema collection.
This one sounds super interesting. I've not seen that this
got a different Blu Ray, so very curious about this
new transfer in one dot sixty six ratio from the

(02:24:39):
original camera negative. They're very specific about that. This is
the uncensored version with the new audio commentary with Jonathan
Rigby and Kevin Lyons. There's some archival extras on here,
and Nucleus has been stepping up and doing a couple
random releases. This seemed to be pretty good. So I
like the poster on this.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
Yeah, the poster, it's a really nice poster, kind of
with the river of blood coming down from the house everything.
It looks really interesting. I haven't heard of this one,
and I mean, but it's one of those that like
the poster that just cover alone would make me curious
to pick up.

Speaker 1 (02:25:14):
Yeah, looks like a very nostalgic poster for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:25:17):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:25:19):
Arcane League of Legend Season two is getting a release
from Shout Studios. This is getting a four K steal book,
a Blu Rays steal book, and then a standard Blu ray,
all in the US coming on October twenty first. You
can pre order those. Now, I know nothing about this,
but I know that a lot of people seem to
love the show. So Arcane League of Legends.

Speaker 2 (02:25:40):
Yeah, it's a show I've heard good things about, but
I haven't checked it out.

Speaker 1 (02:25:44):
Okay, So the shark exploitation stuff. After all of this,
Seven came out and said, listen, we're putting out three
shark movies that are all Italian shark exploitation films. Of
course we're going to put it in a box. So
they're releasing Feeding Frenzy, the Italian Shark Exploitation Collection box
there saying that since you already know that this is
going to include the three titles, we can now reveal

(02:26:05):
that this trilogy of teeth to tail fin the Lights
belongs to a shiver we call Feeding Frenzy, our exclusive
Rigid slipcase with a new killer illustration by Rondo Awards
Artist of the Year Mark Spears Houses. All three titles
will be available separately or in various bundles during the sale.
You're gonna need a bigger shelf.

Speaker 2 (02:26:29):
I just love the art is right there, its own
little ripoff of Jaws. Plays very well, yeah, very well.

Speaker 1 (02:26:37):
This looks good. I love shark movies. I'm probably gonna
need these eventually. Sadly, I don't know. I need the box.
They're probably not great, but I need them.

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
But they'll be fun. It will be That's more important, of.

Speaker 1 (02:26:52):
Course it is. We got a couple kind of low
key movies from Keynote. We got September ninth getting a
blu ray of Deer Ruth from nineteen forty seven with
William Holden and Joan Caulfield. This has an audio commentary
by far and Smith's name. Not a movie that I've
ever heard of before today. Have you heard or seen
this one?

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
No? But I want to say this is one that Yeah,
I think it falls into kind of that period of
like the war, like you know, positive support for the
war type of films that were coming out. At the time.

Speaker 1 (02:27:26):
Yeah, quite a few. There was a lot of those movies.

Speaker 2 (02:27:28):
There were a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:27:29):
Yeah. The next one from them is Father Brown Detective
from nineteen thirty four, coming on Blu ray from Keino
on September sixteenth, This one with Walter Connolly and Paul Lucas.
This has an audio commentary with Jason A. Nine And
another thirties detective movie coming out that I have not seen.

Speaker 2 (02:27:48):
Yeah, I've This is one that I feel like I've
heard the title, but I think that's it, So I'm
curious to get a sensus to what it's about.

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
Yeah, solid, solid sounding film at least, Yeah, that is it,
which there's a lot. I can't believe we've heard that much.
This week busy week, and next week for releases, not
just announcements, but next week for releases is gonna be
a big one too. Reminder that tomorrow the Hans Zimmer

(02:28:21):
Live in Prague four K comes out. I've got that
one on the way and cannot wait. It got delayed.
But then next Tuesday, tons of stuff. So we've got
the Cobra four K from Arrow, the Stuff four K
from Arrow as well, Small Soldiers four K Steel Book
is finally gonna be shipping in a lot of people
were excited about that one. You can count on Me
four K and Carnal Knowledge four kble from Criterion, Danger,

(02:28:43):
Diabolic four K from Keno, Matta Gascar four K from
the Studio, Brand New Final Destination, Bloodlines four K, Blu
Ray and Steel Book and all that fancy stuff that
is getting released next week. Night Writer the Complete Series
on four K coming out next week, be which the
complete series is finally getting released here in the US.

(02:29:03):
We've got the Serenity Serenity four K Steel book dropping
that had that controversial art that people did not seem
to love, The Beast to Die from Radiance, Silent Screen
four K from Darkforce and Keno together the night Watch
Collection from Arrow, Little Buddha four K from Keno, Rosa
La Rose, Philipublique from Radiance as well Strangers with Candy,

(02:29:26):
the film from two thousand and six, Blu Ray from Shout,
Fight or Flight coming out next week as well from
the Studio. All We Imagine is Light from Criterion, Detonation,
Violent Writers from eighty eight Films, Ash from Shutter, Sarah
Ban for Dead Lovers four K from Indicator, The Last
Voyage of the Demeter. Four K Steel Book is coming

(02:29:48):
out as an Amazon exclusive from Shout The Tattoo Dragon
from eighty eight Films. I believe mister Peters Pets and
everybody loves it. Noody Cuti Triple Feature is coming from
Keno next week. Original Sin Northern Lights, Solo Leveling Season,
Walking with Dinosaurs from the BBC. A bunch of anime
stuff man Lots next week. Are there any of these

(02:30:12):
that are on your list there? Andy?

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
You know, the night Watch collection is one. I'm really
curious about picking that one up. And you know, we
were talking about the you know, kind of the Kung
Fu Panda. The Madagascar films are also ones that the
kids and I had a lot of fun with and
so it's entirely possible that one will end up getting

(02:30:37):
picked up. And Danger Diabolic is a wackado film. I
would have fun rewatching that one for sure. It is beautiful.

Speaker 1 (02:30:47):
I love that. As I was reading this, I got
a shipping notification for my Hans Zimmer Live and Progress. Yeah.
Cant cannot wait next week. Lots of stuff coming out.
I still have not got Cobra or the stuff in
four K that is on the way to me as
well from Brother Belile and the stuff is one of
my favorites, so I'm very eager to see that. Look

(02:31:08):
at that right there, Look at that. Yeah, beautiful looking release.
I can't believe they got the work print. Like this
is a pretty big week for them.

Speaker 2 (02:31:17):
Yeah, fantastic.

Speaker 1 (02:31:19):
Well we covered all the releases. That's huge. Thanks for
going through all that.

Speaker 2 (02:31:23):
Yeah, no, I mean a lot of really interesting movies
that will be fun to pick up and revisit.

Speaker 1 (02:31:29):
Update from Deaf Crocodile. Reprints of our sold out visitors
from the Arkana Galaxy, Bubble Bath, and The Assassin of
This Are are all coming by the end of the month.
Each will have limited slipcover editions available from Diabolic DVD.
Really really cool there. Let's get in to jayhor So,
jayhor what was your first foray into Jayhorr.

Speaker 2 (02:31:50):
It was probably around the time that they started remaking
them with The Ring, the American remake that garver bin'sk
you did in two, and then The Grudge in four,
and that pushed me to go back and see the
originals and and and I had a buddy at the

(02:32:13):
time who was like, oh, well, then you also got
to check out like these ones and so like Suicide
Club and like all of these different movies, and so
it just kind of pushed me to start watching a
lot of these things. And I don't know, I just
there's it's it's a different feel for what you're getting
from typical horror movies and stuff, you know, And so
I don't know, I just I really enjoy the tone

(02:32:36):
of the way that they're exploring different elements of their society,
and I find that to be such an exciting piece
of all of it.

Speaker 1 (02:32:47):
What are for anybody that's not ever really given a
deep dive, how how do you define? Because obviously there's
all kinds of different genres, but like, what are some
some landmark traits of jahorr that you find interesting?

Speaker 2 (02:33:00):
Landmark traits of jay horror is there's a lot like
you're not getting as much gore necessarily that you would
get in like Western horror. There's a lot more psychological
and a lot more trauma. I know. It's so funny
because you know these these dumb terms, like you know,
like elevated horror or things like that, that it's just like,

(02:33:23):
really it's just it's horror, and like that's kind of
where you were going with this sort of stuff first,
but also I love when they start exploring technology and
our relationships with with that, you know, and I think
that there the Japanese culture looks into some of those
in such interesting ways, whether it's like videotapes or the

(02:33:48):
Internet or whatever, and just how it how it kind
of explores that in the horror scape, which so often
when they get remade in America just don't capture the essence.

Speaker 1 (02:34:03):
They lose their nuance quite a bit, sadly. And there's
been some good ones obviously, Like one of the ones
that is most likely going to get brought up tonight
is Ringu, and I really enjoy the remake for that,
but it's it's still a very different feeling remake. But
I think they both definitely have their merits.

Speaker 2 (02:34:23):
Yeah, yeah, that in the Grudge, I think both actually
we're pretty strong, and then you start getting like one
missed call and and things that just it's like they're
not hitting the same exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:34:37):
One of the other big things that you see a
lot in jahorr is this focus on the supernatural and
a very specific style of way, like the Jay horror
depiction of a ghost is a very common thing that
has become troped overall, and it is something that is

(02:34:57):
probably going to come up in at least a couple
of these that were talking about tonight. That is a
pretty good primer on this. It is kind of an
odd thing to discuss. I guess in a way it
should bring up the idea of jay horror k horror
as a genre in itself, because in all reality, it's
just horror from a country, and really all we're talking

(02:35:18):
about is Japanese horror films. So there is a lot
that you could break this down into, like different eras
or movements within jay horror, but really there's kind of
a defining time frame where jay horror exploded, and I've
certainly got some from that on my list and I'm
going to talk about But I tried to go a
little wider too, just to capture some some different eras

(02:35:40):
and a lot a lot of my picks are going
to feel very obvious, but I don't think they get
talked about in the idea of jayhor itself, and more
so just like the pantheon of horror as a wider topic,
and so very curious to see how those feel in
discussion in these tonight so.

Speaker 2 (02:36:00):
Well, And it's interesting because you, like, as I was
talking with one of my guests for our upcoming episode
about it, I was asking that too. I'm like, well,
I mean, should we include things like, you know, cron
echo or quite on in it? And they're like, well,
that's not really Jay horror. It's like Japanese horror. And
so it's like, so I'm really curious to like have
that conversation with them to like narrow down the specifics.

(02:36:21):
But for them, like the way that they define it
is like jay horror is a specific subgenre within Japanese
horror that really kind of rose in the nineties, and
so you started really seeing a lot of the different
specific ways that they were taking the direction of horror
films at the time. So I'm very curious to learn

(02:36:41):
more from them about all of that.

Speaker 1 (02:36:45):
Well, let's hear what is the first jay horror film
that you want to bring up tonight?

Speaker 2 (02:36:49):
The first one that I want to bring up is
it's a I hadn't even heard of this before. It
was in that Great Jay Horror box set that came
out oh years ago, Norroy the Curse and directed by
Koji Shiaishi, and it is told as a I mean

(02:37:10):
fitting for you know, talking about this with you, because
you know, we just discussed found footage horror. It very
much fits into that kind of found footage vibe. It's
like a pseudo documentary as we're following this paranormal investigator
who is exploring this, this world of this this this

(02:37:34):
curse that's happening where this this house had burned well,
his house had burned down, and so it's actually other
filmmakers who are now following him. It gets kind of
that that meta found footage nature of it because he
ended up getting he started, he finished this project, and
then ends up dead, and so now you have these

(02:37:55):
other filmmakers who are exploring his story as he goes
through this process and he's investigating this this woman and
her son and that that like dead birds are showing
up around them, and it's like this they're annoying their
neighbors because the neighbors keep hearing all these crying babies
and they're like, what is going on? And so he's

(02:38:16):
like trying to talk to this woman and she's just
so nasty and he never can talk to her, and
he keeps just kind of like following this investigation and
eventually kind of leading to kind of a better understanding
of what's actually going on with this curse. But what
is so interesting about the way that the film is
constructed is like it literally feels like you're watching a

(02:38:38):
TV episode exploring how this this like this person following
this curse trying to figure it out. Like we cut
to news clippings and they're like reading through the newspapers,
and we cut to other TV shows, like we cut
to this completely unrelated show that happened to have this
psychic come on, and you know, like this appears with

(02:38:59):
the psychic who then attacks this woman, and both of
those characters end up becoming very important later. It's it
is a wild film, and it's probably my favorite of
that whole box set. It's a really interesting one. It
gets better every time I watch it, So that's where
I wanted to start that box set.

Speaker 1 (02:39:20):
It's it's a good box set. I think Neroy for
me is the best film in the box set. Yeah,
it is quite enjoyable. This this is a really good
If you're not gonna start with one of like the
giant names like Juwan or Ringu, I think Neroy is
actually one of the better starting points to get into
Jay Horror, because it's a very good bridge film, because

(02:39:41):
it feels it feels a bit Western in some of
the ways that it's shot and some of the ways
that you can like ingest this movie, but definitely has
has roots in Jay Horror that are very very important here. Yeah,
I love this movie. I think that this is a
very very great choice to bring up here. That box
set from Air is big. I hope they keep doing more,

(02:40:01):
somebody does. I had heard from some people I know
that you know, we've been seeing a ton of Hong
Kong releases over the last four years now that have
just been inundated by every label out there, which is great.
I'm glad they're getting releases. Nothing against them, but by
you know, eventually, when you're releasing that many, it's gonna
be hard to keep that glut of titles coming. We're

(02:40:24):
not gonna have elements for all of them or rights
for some of them. So from what I'm hearing is
that we might start seeing a little slight shift to
the Japanese area. And if this is an indication for
Arrow that, hey, we feel confident in putting out a
box set like this. I hope people supported it in
a way that we get more because there's a lot
of really great jay horror that has never been you know,

(02:40:45):
like outside of Netflix in the US, there's some that
have gotten some like digital release for a year and
then never seen again illegally at least, and it would
be really great to see many of those come to
disc And this is one that people had wanted for
a long time. So I'm glad I got a respectful release.
It is a great title, definitely, Okay. So I was

(02:41:05):
trying to determine what order to go through here because
chronological is just kind of I wanted to make it fun,
but I just happened to still go with the oldest
one first, because this is one that I feel like
is kind of the granddaddy for me in so many
different ways, because it's so surreal and supernatural and weird
in so many different ways. But I wasn't going to

(02:41:28):
be able to talk about jay Or without bringing up
nineteen seventy seven's House Nobody he was wondering is one
of those people. And obviously right now I'm working on
like four Obiyasha titles for cult epics, and he is
so stylized and carries so much of that over through

(02:41:50):
films like School in the Crosshairs, which has very specific,
very House related imagery, because he learned how to do
it with how some people loved it, and then he
carried that over. That House is just special if somehow
you have never seen House. It has a beautiful criterion release,
but this is essentially about somebody that is trying to

(02:42:11):
find a connection to her mother that passed away, and
she takes a trip to the countryside to visit her relatives.
I think it's an aunt and uncle or just aunt whatever,
but she she brings a bunch of her friends, and
through this journey there's a bunch of weird stuff that happens.
It weird is putting it lightly, but you're gonna see

(02:42:32):
imagery that you've never seen in any other movie. There
are like floating cat heads, there are weird, surreal things
that just make you feel And it's not even like
that's scary of a movie. It's just it's it's deranged
in a weird way, and it's it's a weird foundational
like introduction to just this frenetic style that is wild,

(02:42:57):
and Obiyashi, like I said, carries that over to so
many of his other movies, So I not only is
it a fun weird gateway into like starting Jahorr to
get into his filmography, this is such a great one
to inspire you because it's probably the most accessible of
those as in terms of the weird ones. But he
does have some very like normal films after that still,

(02:43:19):
so there's still a little lot to see. But Obyashi
is just great with I don't know, leaning into like
the the medium of making this movie and making you
feel things based on seeing the absurd. These are not
things that are realistic in any way. It's just a
matter of this is just a wild movie and I
don't know why, but I like it. You should watch

(02:43:42):
House from nineteen seventy seven if you haven't.

Speaker 2 (02:43:44):
It is crazy. That's like my words. My fish like
was a crazy ass movie. It is bonkers, off the wall,
but it's it's very alive and it's full of this
manic energy. So it's it's definitely one to check out,
but be prepared for that type of movie when you
step into it, because yeah, some people are like, I can't,

(02:44:08):
I can't with this, it's too much.

Speaker 1 (02:44:10):
Yeah, if you're wanting like a calm ghost story.

Speaker 2 (02:44:12):
This is not it looks like a like almost like
a comic strip the way.

Speaker 1 (02:44:18):
Yeah, absolutely, what is the next one for you?

Speaker 2 (02:44:22):
I'm jumping to twenty thirteen with a film directed by
Maria Sato called By Location, which is you know, it's
an interesting you can probably call it Jahore. You could
probably also call it like I don't know, like psychological
sci fi sort of movie. Like there's different ways you
could look at this. But it's a story about doppelgangers,

(02:44:44):
is really what it is. And you have our protagonist
who wants to be a painter, and she ends up
falling in love and with a man who comes to
her door when she moves into or moves into the building,
and so they fall in love, and then she's like torn,

(02:45:05):
like do I pursue my life as a painter or
do I just pursue my family life? And in this
particular world, there are a few people where it happens
where when you have that moment in your life where
you feel pulled in two different directions, you actually there's
a doppelganger version of you that gets created and they

(02:45:28):
don't live for very long. When they appear, it's like
I can it's very specific like twenty three minutes and
fifty eight seconds or something, and they have to appear
within a certain range of you. But that makes it
really interesting because suddenly and they have like all the
same feelings that you do and everything. So if you're doppelganger,
if you're in love your husband and your doppelganger appears

(02:45:51):
and sees your husband, then you're the doppelganger is going
to want to be with him. And you end up
if there are two versions of you that have like
the memories and the same desires and everything, which which
one are you? Then you know? And the film really
kind of starts pursuing that to a point where as
you go you don't even realize that I actually probably

(02:46:14):
shouldn't even spoil it. I'll just say it's fascinating the
way that Asato chooses to tell the film, because you
really start you can't tell if you should be rooting
for the person or their doppelganger, And there ends up
being like this whole like there's a club of people

(02:46:34):
who get together who are suffering from having their doppelgangers,
and they're getting together to try talking about it. This
cop has a dappelganger who isn't like has pulled into
all of his incredibly violent reactions that he can't do
when he's on the job because he has to be
calm and collected, and so he split because he needs
an outlet for that violence, and his violent doppelganger starts
doing some terrible, terrible things. I just watched the I'm

(02:47:00):
not talking about it on my upcoming show, but I
hadn't heard of it, and it was like instantly, just
like a favorite discovery of mine. So I absolutely check.
I recommend checking this one out.

Speaker 1 (02:47:10):
By location, how do you see this one?

Speaker 2 (02:47:14):
It's on to be right now.

Speaker 1 (02:47:17):
Shit, I have to watch this movie now. You said
the magic word. I adore doppelganger movies and I've never
seen this one, and that sounds kind of incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:47:26):
I think you'd love this one.

Speaker 1 (02:47:28):
By location on to be great. I have to watch it.

Speaker 2 (02:47:35):
Next.

Speaker 1 (02:47:36):
One of the first things that sprung to mind when
we decided to talk about jay horror is I knew
that I had to talk about I think this was
the first jay horror movie that I ever saw, and
that is Kenji Fukusaku's Battle Royale from two thousand. This
movie is one that most of you have probably seen.

(02:47:58):
It's been sort of a beat to death like Texas
Chainsaw Masker. Over the last ten or fifteen years with
a bunch of different fancy releases. Arrow has got all
the blood out of this Stone many many times for
sure with their releases, but this movie is still I
don't know, like under disgust since it's so prolific now,

(02:48:20):
I feel like everybody just sort of sees it as
a given, even though this movie is kind of a masterpiece.
I mean, you take a classroom full of ninth graders,
you drug them, put them on an island, and then
say go kill each other. And this movie is so

(02:48:41):
unafraid to hold back at anything. I mean, you have
everybody that is willing to take just the craziest of weapons,
put them in a hand of a young teenager and
say go kill your best friend. And they do, and
they show most of it like this is everybody choked
around that this was the inspiration for the Hunger Game,
and undoubtedly this definitely played a big part in that

(02:49:02):
for sure, But it is so much better than the
the at least the first Hunger Games, because you don't
Hunger Games is so tame compared to this movie, But
I mean the way that you go through the psychological
torture of if you don't follow the rules in this
quote game that we're playing will kill you and we

(02:49:22):
don't care. And they prove that like twelve minutes into
the movie, and so the rest of the movie, there's
just this underlying boiling tension that is waiting to spill
over on the edge of your pot as you're watching
this movie. And so with every movement that you like,
this kid's about to go around the corner, I'm empathizing
with him, is somebody about to shoot him? It is

(02:49:44):
because of that this it's like uncut gems for me
when I watch this movie every time, my heart rate
is a NonStop for this entire movie, because there's everything
that everything is the enemy. Nothing in this movie is
something that you can trust, and you find that out
many times. There's so many betrayals in this film. There's

(02:50:04):
so many things that you just see this incredible display
of like wonderful acting, really great twists in the story
that aren't treated as twists, just like, oh my gosh,
that was crazy that they chose to do this. And
then of course, throughout this entire movie, you're you're watching
some of these kids just do the worst things, all

(02:50:24):
forgetting that beat. Takeshi is one of the main stars
of this movie, and you've watched them in some of
the best movies of all time. I like bat Royal
is not respected enough, even though again it's kind of
like ubiquitous for people because it's just always there.

Speaker 2 (02:50:41):
Yeah, it's an interesting point. It really does feel like,
because of the violent nature of it, that people view
it as, oh, it's too much of kind of a
it's a cult film, or it's like, you know, it's
a dark foreign version of Hunger Games. Know if they
don't know which one came first, and you you just

(02:51:03):
get this sense that they just they just dismiss it
too easily without realizing where it came from and everything.
It's it's a powerful, solid film and just these the
way that these kids, you know, have to take on
this this role, for the method, the reason for the
whole thing, and it's it's it's dark. It's like a

(02:51:26):
frightening glimpse of some sort of like a you know, terrible,
terrible dystopian future, and it plays in a really incredible way. So, yeah,
great movie. I haven't seen the follow up, but I
I feel like I need to But yeah, it's a
good one.

Speaker 1 (02:51:45):
It's it's worth the watch once. The follow up is
it doesn't hold even as well a mostly burned down
candle to the first movie. It is quite disappointing after
watching that. It was definitely just let's try to make
some money.

Speaker 2 (02:51:58):
Yeah, that's too bad.

Speaker 1 (02:52:00):
It happens, especially with horror. I mean that's a common thing. Sadly.
All right, your third choice, my third one.

Speaker 2 (02:52:09):
This was one that I, again I had never heard of,
and I'm going to be talking about this one on
the show. The guests recommended this one because it's an
interesting starting place. It's called Psychic Vision Jagonray. It is
a it's a short film. It's only I think forty
nine minutes long. It's like very very short, but it's

(02:52:29):
it's fascinating because it's been made in nineteen ninety nineteen
eighty eight by terryoshi Ishi, and it's a we're following
a reporter who is doing a story about a new
pop singer, and so in most of the construction of
the film, you're really looking at a movie that's a

(02:52:51):
documentary of a very specific time in Japanese kind of
eighties of their just the way that these producers and
studios create their pop singers. And so that's kind of
like what we're feeling because we're following as as this
singer is prepping this new song and it's all about

(02:53:12):
this new song that she's going to sing called Lovecraft.
But the mystery here is like she's going to sing
the song. The producer was sent this the lyrics for
this song, but it has no idea who wrote it,
and that's kind of the crux of this. And then
the composer writes the music and we start we get

(02:53:33):
to the point where we're actually filming the music video,
and then just crazy stuff starts happening, and it's is
a quick film forty nine minutes, absolutely something worth checking out,
just I mean, mainly because it does such an interesting
glimpse into that pop singer culture in Japan and then

(02:53:54):
shifts the whole thing over with kind of a jay
horror ghost and everything.

Speaker 1 (02:54:00):
This sounds great and would probably make a pretty fun
pairing with one that I wasn't gonna mention tonight, but
it would be great to see this with Perfect Blue.

Speaker 2 (02:54:09):
It sounds like, hey, there, you go yeah, yeah, this
is one. I don't know if anyone's ever released it,
but you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (02:54:17):
Nice and short film. I mean it's minutes. Yeah, this
is just happenstance. But I'm gonna choose another semi short
film that came out just the next year, one that
is fundamental for me with Jay Horror, because i mean,
first of all, this filmmaker is one of the best
of all time, But nineteen eighty nine's Tetsuo the Iron

(02:54:40):
Man I felt like needed to be discussed tonight. Now,
this is a movie that is kind of hard to
discuss because it's just one that you sort of have
to experience. Tetsuo the Iron Man is a industrial body
horror movie about a man that gets cursed that starts
putting metal all throughout his body and living a completely

(02:55:04):
just transformed life as the film goes on, all leading
to just a weird ending at the end that again
you just sort of have to be there to live
through the moment of this man turning into Tetsuo the
Iron Man. It is a beautifully shot film. It once
again feels very frenetic as you're watching it, because like,

(02:55:27):
what the hell is happening while you're seeing this random
imagery being here by Shinyasukamoto's just beautiful cinematography, and the
way that they choose to tell the story is like
quiet in a way, but at the same time, like,
I don't know, the it feels so and it's obviously

(02:55:50):
a little a little stereotypical to say it's a body
horror movie, so it feels Chronamburgian, But there's something about
this that is much more Chronambergian than other body horror
movie because it just feels so lived in by the
time you get to the film the end of the movie,
like it reminds me the feeling of the fly, like
you've been there for the entire transformation, You've lived through.

(02:56:11):
This guy was just normal human to he is a
completely different thing by the very end. And Tetsuo is
one of those movies that will stick with you. You
at the end will feel like quite frustrated because you
have seen so much change and felt sort of invaded,
just like our main character is in this movie. It

(02:56:33):
is one that will stick with you for a while.
Tetsuo is again a little hard to explain, but one
of those that pretty much everybody should probably watch at
least once. Sukamoto brilliant, brilliant director. I know that we've
said Arrow a lot tonight, but the Arrow box set
that they did of his stuff is kind of a
masterclass in his filmmaking. Some really great extras in there.

(02:56:55):
I think that his films are very specifically Suko and
worthy of his own discussion on its own, for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:57:06):
It's my experience was it was a very difficult film
to watch because it's like, it's like sixteen millimeters black
and white, so it's very like you think of things
like Eraserhead or pie Like. It's very stark. It's a
relentless pace. There's this pounding industrial score with it, and
I like, I was like, this is never going to end.

(02:57:28):
But it became one that was less about understanding what
was going on in the story and more just like
the experience of it, you know, like that's kind of
where I went with this one, and like it it
I when I was a kid, I'll this is the
story that's going on. I didn't mean to go into

(02:57:50):
this story, but when I was a kid, I would
have every time I had a high fever, I would
have what I have since dubbed my steel wool nightmares,
where like literally I was just like whatever dream I
was in, all of a sudden, it's like steel wool
coming in, just like eating everything around me, and I
would just run and the steel wool was just kind

(02:58:11):
of like keep crunching down on everything around me until
it finally like I was narrowed down to like a
corner of a room or something, and then it would
eat me and I'd wake up. Every time I was sick,
I had that nightmare, and this movie made it feel
like I was reliving those nightmares like it was, So
it was a little extra challenging for me. But it's absolutely,

(02:58:32):
like I mean, to be able to kind of create
that visceral experience for me, I think it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (02:58:39):
Yeah, and Vispian says here, supermotive filmography is nearly flawless.
I would agree. Again, I think this one is sort
of difficult because of the very nature of the way
that this is made. But I think it's an important
way to step into and it's it's obviously it's his
most well known film, and it's one that yeah, you

(02:59:01):
should you should see. It's kind of crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:59:03):
Yeah, it's definitely you really have to see it. It's
just a tough one.

Speaker 1 (02:59:07):
Yeah, all right, your fourth film.

Speaker 2 (02:59:11):
I was debating, like it, do I want to go?
Do I want to include any that are a little
more well known? I mean, I guess I include Noroy,
But the other one I want to include is just
it's I think equally important in a different way. This
is Kyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse from two thousand, which is we

(02:59:33):
talked about kind of like that technological look into into films,
and that's definitely where this film is going. You have this.
It's really a story about the Internet and how everyone
can connect instantly, but it's kind of also created like
this mass, big of loneliness around and that's really been
growing especially. I mean, this film was really precient because

(02:59:54):
it's only gotten progressively worse with all the different social
media tools and everything. To mention pandemics and everything else
that we've been living through. This film made in two
thousand and one, so the Internet wasn't even around for
a decade by the time he made this, And it's
it's a story following some just like some people who

(03:00:18):
are like kind of starting to like lose people that
they like, they're they're just not showing up for work
or something, and like they go over to their house
to figure out like what's going on, and and they're there,
but they're kind of not there, and it's it's very
I mean, it's very slow paced. If you know Kyosha
Kyoshi Krosawa's films, definitely kind of that slow paced, very

(03:00:40):
kind of like mood horror, and that's what you get here,
as like you walk into your talking to somebody and
then you they kind of go into the other room
and and you follow along after a few minutes and
find that they've hung themselves. Since it's like wow, okay, uh.
It just and it keeps going from there as people

(03:01:03):
are kind of getting more affected by this and it's
growing also, which is the other thing. It's a fascinating film,
and it was I don't let's say I saw Cure.
I was trying to remember my first my introduction to
CHROs how I think was Cure and then this, But
both of them I think are just such top notch films.

(03:01:23):
But Pulse is it's haunting. This is what I would like,
an absolutely haunting film in the way that it tackles
like technological loneliness.

Speaker 1 (03:01:34):
So I must admit I've been dying to see Pulse
for quite some time. I have stayed away primarily because
I did not like Cure. Oh interesting, I don't know why.
I'm probably wrong, I understand. I mean, obviously everybody loves
Cure and worships it for some reason, it just didn't
land with me, and so Pulse sounds way more my

(03:01:58):
style of film, even though Cure should have been my
style too. That's why I'm worried. But I really think
I will like this one. But yet not liking Cure
has sort of pushed me away, So I will be
watching this one soon. Well, I mean he's got that
new film Cloud. Yeah, that maybe you start with that
one and then you kind of work your way back

(03:02:19):
to Pulse. Appreciate the comment from Stan This says, yes,
I am wrong, thanks to Chime.

Speaker 2 (03:02:28):
Actually, Chime is another interesting one that you could check out.
That's again, it's only forty five minutes, and I think
that one. I think I watched it on YouTube. It's
also I don't know. If you don't like Cure, I
wonder where you'd stand with it. But if you're looking
for something shorter at least, that might be another thing
to like test the waters with before you jump into Pulse,
which is a good two hours.

Speaker 1 (03:02:50):
So, as I mentioned, I was trying to go from
like four or five different to eras isn't really the
right word, but like groupings of films, and I felt
like I needed to have one that was much more modern.
But also this one sticks out like a sore thumb
amidst the rest of what I'm talking about tonight, and
it's because it's so damn charming. I had to bring

(03:03:11):
up this movie, and I feel terrible because it's gonna
be another one that I can't talk about most of
the movie, but I'm gonna do my best here. Twenty
seventeen's One Cut of the Dead. This movie is a
masterpiece in my opinion. This is a movie that if
you are ever somebody that's ever played around with the
video camera at home, or had the dream of making

(03:03:33):
short films with your friends, or watched movies and immediately said,
I want to be able to make a story like
that one day. One Cut of the Dead, I feel like,
is one of the most consistent modern movies that when
I watch it with other people, we walk away going,
do you want to go make a movie? Right this moment,
because my god, I'm super charged. One Cut of the
Dead is a zombie movie about a bunch of individuals

(03:03:57):
being attacked in this abandoned warehouse. You see them fighting
off the zombies and trying to escape. And it's a
film that is still feature length, it's not like an
extra short film. But it flies by because of the
way they tell this story. And you are completely turned
on your head part way through this film to find

(03:04:18):
out that the movie that you thought you were watching
is not the movie you were watching at all. For
those that have never seen One Cut of the Dead,
that is a frustrating way to explain this. But please
do not go watch a trailer. Do not find out
from anybody else what this movie is about or what
they thought of it. Don't read letterbox reviews first. Go
watch this movie and know nothing about it. Truly a masterpiece. Now,

(03:04:41):
this movie was carted out by Third Window Films a
handful of years ago, and they're a company over the UK,
and they took it worldwide. They made this movie explode,
And so around twenty nineteen, like early twenty nineteen or
late twenty eighteen, this finally left mainland Japan and we
get over here, and everybody finally saw it, and it

(03:05:04):
has been everywhere since then. It had a really nice
run on shutter. There's been foreign remakes of this movie
because it's such a brilliant way to make a film.
Please go see One Cut of the Dead if you
have not seen it. It is not like a quote
zombie movie. You're not going to get the same sort
of feeling like you would just hearing that this is
a movie about zombies. This is one of the most

(03:05:25):
cinematically grounded films of inspirational like just making a fucking
movie already type of feeling because it's such a simplistic
way to make a movie, and god, dang, is it
just exciting One Cut of the Dead. Please tell me
you've seen this and you love this.

Speaker 2 (03:05:43):
I love this movie so much. It was such a
fun I'm not put this on mychael, but it's something
that I've been I've had on my list forever, and
so I'm just like trying to watch even more and
just kind of get and like I knew very little
about it other than just kind of like a curse
like tagline sort of thing, and so I had a
sense as to what was going to happen. But the

(03:06:04):
way that they played it was just so effective. I
mean I definitely say, just like Ryan said, go in
not knowing anything about it. Just that's the best way
to just go in and enjoy it. Is such a
fun movie.

Speaker 1 (03:06:20):
Yeah, it's so unique. That's the other thing. Like I
have never seen anything remotely that gave me the feeling
that this movie did.

Speaker 2 (03:06:29):
It's pure fun. I mean, I completely agree with you,
like you feel invigorated by the time it ends.

Speaker 1 (03:06:35):
Yeah, all right, your final movie, sir? What is number five?

Speaker 2 (03:06:39):
Final movie? This is one that I unfortunately it's probably
hard to track down, but it's a really interesting film
called The Inerasable from twenty fifteen, directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura,
and it's a the story of a novelist who rights

(03:07:00):
It's an interesting premise, like a novelist who writes novels
based on like true ghost stories that people send into her,
and then she takes those and adapts them and kind
of creates a whole novel about it. So she gets
a letter from a student about these these sounds from
her roommate or from her room in her apartment, and

(03:07:25):
they start investigating and talk and it becomes like this
investigative reporter sort of thing with this author and this
student as they then go around trying to figure out
what is going on, and it plays like it's almost
like this detective story is really what it ends up
feeling like, because it's these two women who are who

(03:07:51):
end up basically tapping into a particular property, or not
even property, but just the land that even the property
is on and everything else that had been built upon it.
And they keep doing research and they find this terrible
thing had happened, and they think that's the story, but
there's there's a thread that makes them go, there's something

(03:08:14):
else here. Let's talk to this person and they're like, oh, well,
there's also this whole other thing that had happened before that,
and you start seeing it's it's kind of like if
you're familiar with the Grudge or jew on that franchise,
Like it's this haunted place and it just kind of
like keeps attacking anybody who happens to come by. It's

(03:08:34):
similar to that in the in the kind of the style,
because there are all these different hauntings and somehow they
all end up kind of becoming related to each other.
And you start seeing why and so they go back
like I think over a century by the time you
get to the final stories and you start seeing and
then and also the sense that it's gone even before that.

(03:08:56):
But you get this sense that and this is something
I find that these Jay horror stories is the sense
that something doesn't just go away, right. You can't just
solve it, like in an American horror film where you're
just like, oh, I found this piece of jewelry that
proved that this person was incriminating. This is the incriminating
of evidence. We need to prove that this person killed
that person, and now the ghost is free. Like that

(03:09:18):
just doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, the ghost is still there,
and now they're pissed and all these other things are
going to happen. This is one of those. It's definitely
deliberately paced, I will say, and that you can kind
of feel that in the tone, but it had this
sense of dread that it carried along with it that
it worked well for me. The inerasable.

Speaker 1 (03:09:42):
I have never heard of this one. I feel like
this is not a title that gets out there very often,
so there no good Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:09:49):
It's very few people. I mean only on letterbox seven
hundred and ninety four people have watched it, so's if
you can find a copy of it, it's it's worth
checking out. Or if anyone who distributes is looking at
picking it up. Who's listening?

Speaker 1 (03:10:05):
Wow, yeah, this this sounds really good as well. Geez,
some great recommendations tonight. I I love Jay Horror. There's
so much in her. Again, I was trying not to
pick the biggest titles, but there's one that we've talked
about sort of all of the like sub genres of
Jay horror that have gone the eclectic route, the industrial route.

(03:10:30):
There's a couple that I'm trying to choose from. As
my last I surprisingly had eight on my list. I
was just like, hey, if he says one I have,
I guess. But I'm for some reason finding myself drawn
to one of the more extreme titles. And so this
is one that again probably many of you have seen,
but I feel like it still does not get enough
attention because it has a reputation. So I got to

(03:10:52):
talk about nineteen ninety nine's audition Takashi mik This was
really by arro In I think twenty nineteen, and I
would not be surprised at all if this was released
in four K at the end of this month. This
is one of those movies that deserves more recognition. It's incredible.

(03:11:13):
But so this is a kind of a very tough
movie to watch. Our main character, I think his name
is Schigaru or Shagiru. He works at a film studio
and he is widowed. He lost his wife handful of
years prior and wants to replace her finally, and so
understanding that he works at the studio, he says, let's

(03:11:35):
hold some auditions, and so they bring all these women in.
They hold these auditions, and they find one that he
thinks is great, and of course it's a jay horror movie,
so she's not as she seems. And this character is
a Sami and this movie goes from This movie goes

(03:11:56):
from zero to like one hundred and fifty and breaks
the scale because they're some crazy things that happen in
this movie. There's some very effective, like pretty extreme gore shots.
There's a really great scare in this movie that I
don't know it's again, this is a really popular movie.
So I'm sorry if I'm spoiling this for you, but

(03:12:16):
it will still be effective if you haven't seen it.
There's a scene where you see this person Asami, like
preparing some things, and in the background you see like
some stuff behind her, and then eventually you realize that's
a garbage bag on the ground that eventually moves, and
it's not even it's not the forefront of this scene.

(03:12:37):
It is captured because Takashi Mike is directed like one
hundred and ninety four movies, so he's kind of good
at it. At this point. He's got this framed in
a way where she is like your sole focus and
you finally realize that this is like just some garbage
behind her. But when that moves, it is such an unsettling,
under your skin, creepy moment that I will live with

(03:13:00):
that moment and that feeling for the rest of my life. Yeah,
there's a couple of very famous scenes, like with piano
wire in this movie, and uh, some stuff that will
as acupuncture needles are pretty intimidating. Yeah, this movie is very,
very effective, and it's it's actual horror here, which I

(03:13:21):
understand a couple of mine I've leaned away from that
from the industrial side. And then one cut of the dead,
So yeah, I had to really lean in. This is
one that people are like genuinely terrified of. This is
a very effective Takashi Mike film, probably one of his
most most seen obviously, but one that does not discuss
in the uh in the pantheon of jayhor as a whole.

(03:13:44):
It doesn't seem to get its due because it's not
like quote unquote stereotypical like your Juwons and your Ringus.
And it is a really really well made movie and
also came out in ninety nine, it was never going
to be able to stand out when it's literally discuss
is one of the best years of film ever and
it's most people are watching one hundred and seventy eight

(03:14:04):
other masterpieces that year. It is so great, and if
you can get through some of the extreme stuff, it
is competing with your Irreversibles and your other films like
that that are disgusting and terrifying and crazy that absolutely
your masterpiece is just like Martyrs, like we talked about earlier,

(03:14:25):
It's deeply philosophical, deeply psychological. It's a damaging movie. It
is a movie that you will probably think about for
two or three days after watching. At the very least,
tell me how you feel about Audition.

Speaker 2 (03:14:38):
What's so fascinating about the film is that it doesn't
set itself up as what it ends up being, right,
and like you start the film like, this is why
I think it works so well, and this is why,
honestly the bulk of the art that goes along with
it really kind of pisses me off because it kind

(03:14:59):
of you give so much of it away and you
don't need to do that. It sets up a film
that feels like it starts kind of as a drama
and then it shifts. Okay, I think we're going to
go into kind of erotic thriller territory as we get
to that point where they're at the resort and he
wakes up and she's gone right, and it's like it

(03:15:21):
so you feel like, Okay, now we're going to get
into like the the basic instinct erotic thriller thing that
where the rest of the story is going to go.
And it doesn't. And I think that was such an
interesting way to kind of like shift the story into
such a dark, dark way. But because I mean the

(03:15:43):
whole first half of the film we're looking at like
the destruction, like how destructive may be in relationships and
the power that they wheeled over women, right, Like that's
really what so much is going on in the story,
and it's disgusting how these men like set up let's
do an audition and find you a new wife. I
get's like a horror viley. These people are the worst.

(03:16:05):
You kind of like want what happens to happen later. Yeah,
but then it gets into like everything else and I
don't know, it's just like it's kind of the result
of the way that they behave and I don't know,
I found it to be a really effective build for me,
and man, it's it is a film that I will

(03:16:27):
not forget, particularly her lovely lilting voice. Yeah, which is deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper.
It's like, man, oh.

Speaker 1 (03:16:36):
I need to rewatch Audition. It's been some time. This
movie sticks with you, like I understand. You know, people
are earlier were saying that only watch Martyrs once. This
is one of those movies for a lot of people. God,
I love this movie and I think, if I don't know,
there's something about k horror that has always been just
top of the list for me. But if not, like

(03:16:57):
this movie would be competing up there because it is
so great. I love this movie.

Speaker 2 (03:17:01):
Yeah, it's an easy one.

Speaker 1 (03:17:04):
What are some other ones that you considered talking about tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:17:07):
Well, Suicide Club was one that was on my list
of things to talk about. I mean, and you mentioned
like we were trying to avoid all the big ones
like all the jew on the Curse and and Ringu
and all of those, but I had in the in
the realm of Shimizu's films. I wanted to watch the

(03:17:29):
whole trilogy before we had our conversation, but he he
did a trilogy more recently that's based on like urban legends,
and they're all urban legends around particular locations. And the
first one's called Howling Village. That's the only one I
managed to watch. But it wasn't as good as I
was hoping it was, but it was still really fascinating. So,

(03:17:52):
I mean, that's like an interesting trilogy of Shimizu films
that you can check out. It's like the Curse. I
don't can remember. It's like the Cursed Village trilogy something
like that, But Howling Village was an interesting one I
was debating about. There's another another Maria Sato film called
Under Your Bed, which is a dark film about. It's

(03:18:16):
a weird film because it's about it's a really it's
about abuse and a woman who's stuck in a very
very physically abusive, mental abusive relationship and a man who
loves her from the outside and realizes what's happening. But
it's in the weirdest way possible because he's stalking her
and his cameras in her house and everything, but he

(03:18:38):
loves her. It's a weird one. It's a very weird one,
but it's an interesting one for sure. So I don't know,
there's there's a wide variety of things to choose from.

Speaker 1 (03:18:47):
What about You the only two that we haven't mentioned
at all. I had a couple of those ones as well.
The movie Versus, which is not really a horror movie,
but it definitely has scenes that are very rooted in horror.
It's a weird kind of amalgamation film. It's from two thousand,
directed by ryu Hey Kidamura, and the story behind how

(03:19:10):
they had to make this movie will explain to you
why the movie ends up the way it does, because
essentially they would film some and then they had to
go like earn money to film the next day, and
sometimes they didn't and so they had to go do
things for like three months and then finally get stuff
together to be able to film those next couple of scenes.
There was one time they were filming on the mountain

(03:19:32):
and essentially got kicked out of that area and had
to go find a similar looking place on another mountain
to keep filming, And it ends up being like this
weird mashup of like five different genres. There's like some
martial arts aspects, there's some action epic type of scenes
I really really enjoy versus it's pretty damn great. But

(03:19:53):
the main one that I feel awful about not being
able to include, and it's because it's got some of
the best names in all of horror history, not just horror,
but just Japanese cinema, and it's not one that has
a really great HD release. So I'm gonna do my
best to try to speak this into the ether now.
Two thousand and four's Three Extremes anthology horror with some

(03:20:15):
of the best names. Like I said, ever, fruit Chants,
Kashi Mike, and Park Chan freakin' Wook. You've got dumplings
in this, You've got cut, and you've got box. Three
different stories that are piled together in a really unsettling
anthology that will mess you up for it. Yeah, unsettling

(03:20:36):
is probably not even strong enough.

Speaker 2 (03:20:39):
There's one story in particular that I had people walk
out of the theater when I was when I saw
that one.

Speaker 1 (03:20:45):
Yeah, yeah, this is again it's because it's shorts. Like,
I don't really want to spoil any of them, but
I would say anthology anthology horror is classically very hit
or miss. Like most the time, if you're a fan
of Western anthologies, you'll get a new one and you
be like, man, there's seven stories. I hope two of

(03:21:06):
them are at least enjoyable. Three extremes is all gas,
no breaks this whole. I really like all three of these.
I think they're made. I mean they're three incredible directors,
so that they're made with like this panache that feels great.
And it's just it's a hard anthology to watch because
it's not not easy stories, but it's one that everybody

(03:21:29):
should see. We do have a question, Sip says, where
do you know where you can get an English version
of Under Your Bed?

Speaker 2 (03:21:36):
That's a very frustrating one because it's on Plex. But
the Plex version that's on there when you hit play
is actually the Korean remake, so it's not it's not
the Japanese one, even though it is. I don't know
if there is an easy way. There's a I think
there's a version of it on YouTube that has no
subtitles at all. I happen to have a copy that

(03:21:59):
I can't share, unfortunately, from my guest who sent it
to me. So but I know, I take that back.
Hold on, I think it was a different film that
I can't share, but this one, I think is actually
on daily Motion, which.

Speaker 1 (03:22:16):
That one great streaming service daily Books.

Speaker 2 (03:22:18):
You know what, if they carry it though it's you know,
it can work. So yeah, I can. For some reason,
I can't join the chat because it's not liking my
YouTube account for some reason, so I will private chat
it to you and then you can post it. But
this is the daily Motion link, which as far as
I know, is not something that's that I can't share.

Speaker 1 (03:22:41):
So all right, if anybody wants to watch this movie,
there is the link to daily Motion the chat. I
am saving the link on my end because I mean
it sounds great, man, this conversation. I do not get
to talk about Jay Horror enough, So I think you
picked a really great topic. Thanks for doing this, Andy.
I know that you're not live shows, and coming on
for three and a half hours is a big ask.

Speaker 2 (03:23:02):
Well, considering my show runs three hours. It's not too bad.
It's not too bad. But no, it's a blast. I
mean geez, like all of the We've covered a wide
array of things tonight and it's been a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (03:23:15):
I hope people enjoyed this. Let me know. I want
Andy back. Let me know that if you enjoyed it,
of course, I'm going to ask Andy to come back hopefully.
Says yes, Well, we'll I have to think of something
specific like this again.

Speaker 2 (03:23:27):
This was a damn good time. Absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:23:31):
CinemaScope links for all that. True Motion F.

Speaker 2 (03:23:37):
Three and a half hours, folks, three and a half hours.

Speaker 1 (03:23:39):
True Story FM not True Motion. I was reading Daily
Motion at the same time. A True Story FM link
in the description below. Please go subscribe to that thing
that I can't say out loud properly. Lots of great episode.
CinemaScope is my favorite, but you've got other shows that
you can find that you're involved in and that you
help produce. Great stuff. Andy, fantastic you've been incredible guests.

Speaker 2 (03:24:00):
Thank you, thank you so much for inviting me. I
really had a blast.

Speaker 1 (03:24:03):
Well Andy wants to go to bed, I'm sure, so
thanks everybody for hanging out. It's been a long show.
Next Thursday, like I said, Severn sales, so we're gonna
be up checking out the sale, talking about titles, giving
recommendations our guest next week. The list we're going through
is just recommendations for the Severn sale because he and
I have been with Severn for a long time, so
we got a lot to talk about. Yeah, thanks Andy,

(03:24:27):
you're amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:24:29):
Likewise, buddy, we'll see all next Thursday.

Speaker 1 (03:24:31):
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