Re-Connected July 24th, 2025: Announcements and Severin Sale with Blake Monahan!!

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

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hello and welcome back to another Thursday Night Live this
week for the Severn Sale with somebody that is going
to be an actual expert on Severn and I cannot
wait to dive into this. I've been logging for the
show since I first talked to you, my friend. Tonight,
we have QC Extraordinaire mister Blake Monahan. Blake, thanks for
showing up tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thank you. I love that QC Extraordinaire. That sounds awesome.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, when you sent me the resume, I was oppressed
that you actually put that on there. That's able to move.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a good choice. So first time on the show.
How you been introduce yourself to the world? Tell them
what do you want everybody to know about you?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, I mean, I guess I've been started with physical
media since I worked at Suncoast Video in the nineties,
you know, of course, I think a lot of people
can relate to that. Actually before that, probably working in
mom and pop video rental stores. You know. I am
older forty seven, probably older than a bunch of your audience.

(01:38):
I have mostly dogs and cats, you know, no children,
so that helps.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's why you look so young.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
But yeah, you know, so working around videos always and
having a desire to go to film school David Lynch.
Of course, you know, I saw Lost Highway when I
was in my formative years and was blown away. I'm like,
oh wow, this is like crazy, you know, and then
always liked the horror films and George Romero, particularly being

(02:05):
from Pennsylvania, you know, that kind of regional filmmaker really
spoke to me. And I guess, you know, we're getting
those homebrewed books like John Russo and you know, how
to make a movie type books, you know, kind of
had me, you know, wanted to go to film school,
and I dabbled in that a little bit, but of course,
you know that's a tough realm. And then you know,

(02:29):
from there started working doing I guess the way to
describe it. And that time was you know, selling, selling
movies at at conventions, you know, like DVD rs that
kind of stuff, you know, and meeting people like Mike,
license titles, those kind of things. Yeah, you know, and
this is the wild West of the nineties, of course,

(02:51):
so it's a different realm, you know, but quickly met
people like Bill Lustig, Mike Rainy. That kind of set
me on the right. And one of the things that
I really wanted to do. I was reading Bill Landis's
books Lezoid Express at the time, and the vibe of
the grindhouses, the forty second Street experience kind of really

(03:14):
made me want to like experience something like that, you know.
So I started doing some revival screenings here at home
only because of meeting Mike from Something Weird, who had
put me in touch with Eric Hayden at Hollywood Book
and Poster, and they had like all kinds of stuff HG.
Lewis and crazy, crazy reels and reels, you know, and

(03:35):
this is before AGFO and it was a little harder
to track down all of that stuff, you know. So
we did a screening of Blood Feasts and then that's
how I got hooked up with things with Bill Lusted.
We did a zombie, We did a screening with Bill
coming up to do Maniac Cop one and two, and
you know, I was really enjoying doing the programming. That

(03:55):
was awesome, you know, but it was tough to maintain,
you know around here is I live in screen, Pennsylvania.
It's a small area. You know, it's not as it
quite as now. It's a little more thriving. People can
do monthly events and things like that. But this is
like two thousand and two, two thousand and three around there,
you know, a little harder to hype, a little harder
to carry on a monthly audience, I felt like, and

(04:16):
there was like really cool things going on. Of course,
like you know, the the Zoom films guys were not
that far away doing stuff. So kind of from there,
I went and worked at Trauma, you know, and that
was that was really where I cut my teeth. For sure.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You are you are the second I think in the
last week that I've talked to that has some sort
of pretty major background in trauma. So what all did
you do with Trauma?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, early on, when I originally went to film school,
I was trying to get a job as a production
assistant on I think at the time it would have
been maybe Terror Firmer, It must have been around that time,
you know, But I you know, I just didn't think
I could juggle both. I was going to New York
Film Academy, which is just kind of like a really
intensive program where you kind of have to you know,

(05:05):
it wasn't like I had a lot of time to burn,
you know, so it took me a few years, and
it was only after doing the screenings and stuff. I
kind of went to Lloyd with like a Manila envelope
full of like newspaper cuttings and flyers of things that
I did, and like dumped them on his desk. I'm like, hey,
you know, like give me a job, and like you know,

(05:27):
they kind of like blew me off, and I was
like whatever, you know, and kind of like got on
the bus to come back home, and Michael Hurst called
me and he was like, why would you get this job?
It's a terrible job. If we don't pay you anything,
we're going to treat you like trash. Why would you
want this? I'm like, I don't know, you know, like
give him all the reasons why I want it, and
I don't know. We'll call you monday. And you know,

(05:47):
kind of went to go do that thing, you know.
There I was doing public relations and acquisitions. So basically
at that time at Troma, they still had the cool
building on Ninth Avenue, you know health Skitchen there. You know,
it was awesome, awesome building. You probably, oh, well, it
was worth a lot. Then there was a McDonald's downstairs,

(06:09):
you know what I mean. It was like, you know,
it was the building I think was probably one of
the best assets, you know, And at that time you
had to figure, like I was working with Trauma Team
video kind of I was actually just watching well I
don't want to get into that just yet, but you know,
around two thousand and three, you know, when the when
the DVD things starts to like implode, you know what

(06:32):
I mean. And that was kind of what was wild
to me getting back into physical media now was a
lot of the titles, the trauma pickup titles that were
like nobody cared for are now hot cells, you know
what I mean. And I love to see that shift
in the market and and people like, you know, seeing that,

(06:53):
like you know, fifteen years almost twenty years later, you're
like that is awesome, you know, like it's really cool
to see things finally like reach their audience.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, I mean, so many of these are getting definitive
releases that back then we had people scoffing at and
now we're all like, fucking Mother's Day has this incredible
four kre you know.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
But even then there were like really discerning fans that
were like, you have to do it right, and you know,
back then, I can't. You know, there was a lot
of scenarios where it wasn't done right because it was
a TVD and there's like, ah whatever, you know what
I mean? And I do see like the meticulous care
that goes into it now, which is incredible to me,

(07:37):
you know, truly is film restoration being the forefront and
the DVD sales almost being like after, you know what
I mean, Like it's it's cool to see so much
care important too things.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well and funny enough. I don't know if you're ready
for that stage, but you're one of the people putting
in that care nowadays. Is that? Is that what came after?
About that part?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, so, I mean I think it kind of I
don't do you remember the film The Children? Of course? Yeah?
All right, So there was a DVD release of The
Children that trumpa put out that was largely maligned, widely
low you know, and we Trauma Team Video didn't really

(08:24):
have a lot of a lot of input like as
how things went, but we sure did get a lot
of hate mail and at that time, like my inbox
is like exploded, but just like hate mail over the
transfer of the child. And I couldn't particularly tell you

(08:45):
what was wrong with it, but at that time it
kind of it kind of I was like, Okay, maybe
I need to chill on on this for a little bit,
you know what I mean. And yeah, and we tried.
We left Traumatine Video, me and some of the other
dudes and went and made our own tried to make
our own movie. It was called Kickball the movie. It
was executive produced by Lloyd and Michael. But it didn't

(09:07):
get finished. And then I went and worked on a
movie that Paul Sorbino filmed up here, which also did
not get finished.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
So I started just kind of like collecting disc a
little bit. And during the pandemic it kind of, you know,
just getting away from film and stuff getting for a while.
I was like, all right, well, kind of get away,
get away from disks and stuff for a while. But
during the pandemic I picked back up on dis and
wanted to collect disc again. Like I had picked up
a few things, you know, some standouts, liquid Sky from

(09:38):
Vinegar Syndrome. I was like, you know, that kind of
was a thing that brought me back in, but definitely
during the pandemic started collecting again to the large degree.
You know, it's a funny story how I get back
into it because around the time do you remember the
Non Exploitation box set that so they were rapid firing
putting out a bunch of stuff, you know. And around

(10:01):
that time I listened to the Seventh Films podcasts and
Andrew was talking about doing QC on Bloodford Dracula and
was like, this has been horrible, you know, like we
need somebody else to do this work. You know, probably
probably just joking, you know, and seven does like a
rapid fire release of a couple of things that they

(10:21):
post on Facebook, so on maybe the third thing, which
I believe is in non exploitation. I was like, hey,
how about I, you know, do some of that QC
work that Andrew doesn't want to do, you know, kind
of just like throwing it out there, you know, like
and sure enough, Andrew messages me and is like, hey, dude,
like do you have any experience and that actually I do,
you know, doing the Trouble Team video thing.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
So they gave me a couple of test jobs and
that was a couple of years ago, and from there
you know it's kind of expanded, you know, really just checking,
you know, as much as I can. I try to
watch as much as I can. QC is not a joke.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I know most people have probably not had to do
one for a disc yet, but it is exhausting. It
is something that takes a very specific eye. Why don't
you share some of the things that you look for
in some of these QCs.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I think it would really depend on what stage that
I get it right, you know what I mean. So
sometimes I'm looking at things like directly out of restoration
and you're just looking for restoration errors, you know, like
drop frames. You know you're gonna look at the color
correction things like that, But a lot of that is

(11:37):
color correction especially is not stuff for I work with
a lot of smarter people and kind of on my
on my end, you know, I always Andrew has put
it to me, like I'm looking at it like on
the same end that everybody else here watching is looking
at it, you know what I mean, Like I'm I'm
I'm a dude watching a disc at home. Does it work?
Do you know what I mean? Like it does? Is

(11:59):
there weird saying thing? And one thing that I'm semi
fanatical about is subtitles because the way that everything is
mixed today. Of course, I always have subtitles on, you know,
and it will drive me bananas when they're not as
accurate as they can be. I don't waste a lot
of time on it, but it's one of those things
that like you try to get right, and you try

(12:21):
to and some some labels particularly, are like, you really
want to get the tone right. You really want to
make sure that it matches what it's supposed to be saying.
You know, we're a word or two here there. I'm
sure nobody really cares, but you know, you want it
to be I want it to be spot on all
the time.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I agree to yeah, I I don't think I've mentioned
this on the show, but this year I stepped in
and I've done QC on a couple of titles for
Severn and it was post restoration before any of the
other stuff, so there wasn't even subtitles to check or
anything yet. But it was two of the titles that
are getting upgraded to four K tonight. And it is

(13:00):
crazy to see, you know, from the inside something that
you've seen on Blu Ray multiple times because one of
the titles that we're going to be talking about tonight
that I was able to do is Wild Beast, and
that movie is a classic. I mean, it's a movie
that I've seen at this point probably I mean after
QC you could probably count that for like another four
but like eight times actually trying to watch the movie,

(13:23):
and you know, it's featured in Red Rocket in a
poster in Seohn Baker's movie. It's one of those it's
one of those movies that has gained notoriety through that
first Blu ray release from Severn, and so to do
it right, they have to really just do an incredible
restoration to make this shine because it's it's kind of
a quintessential Severn title, like this is one of their

(13:44):
classic films, and man, this thing is beautiful. What are
some of the movies that you've done QC on that
have been just something that has wowed you for how
it's looked.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh, well, for sure, Sanitary, man, I mean that I
that was a favorite film of mine for the longest time,
and when I saw it in the theaters even it
was muddy. The d the DVD released, the Anchor Bay
DVD release was Muddy. I never I had the shameless
Blu Ray hit was awful. You can say it, you know,

(14:19):
but it wasn't. You know. It's something that I that
I needed to hang on to, so seeing it in
all of its glory. But I mean, I feel like
most four K restorations I watched these days like really
bowl me over, because yeah, you know, I came from
either the theater or VHS generation. So and especially the

(14:42):
VHS generation. I mean, like it's cool like that. The
collector's market of VHS is is what it is, you know,
but living living through it and having access to like
a four K of Dawn of the Dead, come on, Yeah,
I'm not one.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Of those that has nostalgia for the v h us here.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
You know what, I want to diss it, you know,
like I have all kinds of stuff, you know, but ye,
like it's just it's not quite my thing.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Not quite my thing is a great way to put it.
We're going to go through some more about the QC
for seven stuff later and that's that's the big topic tonight. Obviously,
we got a seven sale launching in the middle of
the show. Later on tonight. We got some recommendations Blake's
got ten titles. I've got somewhere between seven and ten
titles to talk about. What We'll get there as soon
as we go through the announcements. But let's do our

(15:30):
regular stuff first. What uh what do you got pickups lately?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, right before, like I mean, right before we started,
I was watching your Your five dollars recommendation, the Kim's
video documentary.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
That really put me in the mood for this conversation
because it brought back so much nostalgia and I had
no idea that mister Kim was such a gangster, like
it's a it was a really I thought it was
a really on documentary. It wasn't. I thought it was
going to be all nostalgia. It starts out that way,
but then just like he gets in this awesome you know,

(16:07):
like uh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that was really fun.
And like I said, I took a little mini vacation
so I could watch a couple finally unwrap a couple
of titles and like, you know, talk about them now.
Of course, I know you were talking about this a
couple of weeks ago, the Equator mass experiment. It is
just oh my god.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
So I did bring this up tonight, this one, and
here's the second one.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Oh no, these are.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Incredible, Like, I mean, you've been sharing some pictures. How
do you feel about these? What has been amazing?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Like It's one of those things where I look at
it and I'm like, oh my god, like eighty dollars
all right, no, no, you know, and then finally like
all right, me fine, you know, paying for whatever. Its
semi paining list. Then it shows up and you're like,
oh my god, you know, even just popping like the
first disc and there's like a million bar features. There's

(17:01):
you know, I know everybody that gets down on the
art cards and stuff. But maybe one day I'll frame them.
I don't know, they're so cool, you know what I mean.
It's just like I guess it's a way to like
inflate the price of things sometimes, but I don't know
it's so cool. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Great and I mean honestly for the price. Somehow they
feel like a steal at the end of it, Like
there's so much in there.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
There's like four four, four or five discs in there,
you know, I think, and the restorations are beautiful, Like
I did you finally get a chance to watch this
one or the first one.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
The first one I have. I've at least scanned over
the disc. I've seen quater Masts many times, so I'm
not trying to pour through it again.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Okay, so I had never seen it before, Okay, I.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Mean the three main movies are incredible. You got to
get the sequel to If you have not yet, you should.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh well, I mean, don't that a good time? Dude?
I already figured you need to talk to me to
spend some money tonight.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
So just a little bit nothing crazy, anything else you
want to you wanna flash?

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah? So, oh yeah, dude, this for sure the mystery
of the Third Planet, This Death Crocodile, Treasure of Soviet animation.
This thing plays like psychedelic Johnny Quest from Russia. It
is like what a vibe, you know what I mean? Like,
I feel like any Death Crocodile movie you just pop

(18:26):
it on and you're like, what, Like, it's just such
a vibe. You know. That in particular was so much fun.
I loved it. It was total Johnny Quest vibes.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
The uh.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
The hard thing to share about that because animation, for
some reason, when you post stills online, they're not super impressive.
These movies you need to pop the disc in and
just kind of live in the restoration for a minute.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
So it's and there's a there's a jankiness to the
animation that of course, you know, it's like this, you know,
Soviet like era like of course, it was very cheaply
you know, designed and made. But it's just the ingenuity
I have the character design, creature design space backgrounds. It's
like it competes with anything that Japanese animation has offered

(19:13):
from the seventies, you know what I mean. It's crazy
and to me it's like The Wild West. You know,
I watched that stuff. I know nothing about it, you know,
it's so cool.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, that that first release is great. And we're going
to talk about volume two tonight. In fact, I think
that's our first announcement we get to talk about awesome.
All right. I'll share a couple and then if you
got anything else you can throw it in. This is
very late. It is July twenty fourth. This released on
July first, and I just got my own copy of
the magazine that I publish, and here is issue number

(19:46):
twenty and this is the all black and white. It
look at that. Yeah, I took delayed like three weeks
to get it to my house. The author copies suck
to get, but I am so happy with this one.
It is crazy good looking in personally, I gotta.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Well, I'm happy to announce that mine came quickly from Amazon.
So I really I love the black and white photo
section in the middle. You know, that's really cool, you know,
but glamour shots. Yeah, there's a lot of a lot
of great writing in there as well. It's fun. It's
fun to pick up a zine, you know, like style publication,
but it's it's a lot slicker than the crosswords and

(20:26):
stuff or so, you know. That's the only problem with
the dude is I want to mark it up. I
want to like get my pan out. Yeah. Yeah, I
got to do it for sure. It's so much fun.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I mean, I had somebody show that they keep the
release date parts of it and they circle the ones
that they want so they can go back through and
actually cross them out when they get it in.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And that's I kind of wanted to highlight it with
the highlighter.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If anybody is not get it yet,
you got to check it out. It's it's it's some
good stuff. I see Silent mannible saying he's got to
get the physical copies. They are so worth it. Dustin saying,
got that issue is hard copies So aid arrived in
the mail.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
A week before I released it.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, Dustin always when I announce it by like the
next morning, he's like, look what I got already.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
I'm my gosh, dang it.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Next one, you talked about an OCN release, So here's
one that I wanted to share. This is the Saturn's
Core release of Twisted issues that just came out. This
is Charles Pinion soov film that I am super stoked
to get. Helped produce the commentary for this release and
could not order this fast enough when it went up
crazy like different type of like glossy slipcover for Saturn

(21:34):
Score than they normally do. But in all reality, this
is the poster that many people recognize just as an
overloaded disc as usual. I mean, the back is literally
all the way to the bottom of it, and I
think there's even there might even be one more thing
that's not listed here because there's not enough space. But
it is like every time you get a release like that,

(21:56):
I know that I got my money's worth, which I
always appreciate, so that's been nice. I got one more,
sort of smaller release, but I did get one more
that I wanted to pair with quater Mass too, because
I pre ordered this months ago, and I think a
warehouse change sort of spawned a delay. And finally I
got in this thing that is heavier than all shit,

(22:18):
and that is Wake and Fright four K from Umbrella, and.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
It's at that chalky boy. I love those translucent slips
like that. Yes, yeah, that is such a nice look.
That's really nice. Love this movie. I have not put
the four K in yet. I just watched this.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I think it was in October, but man, really eager
to watch this again. This is if you've never seen
Wake and Fright, it is one of the sweatiest movies
you will ever see. It is a very hot type
of movie, and so it's not really great to watch
in July in the middle of a freaking heat wave
in the Midwest. I'll probably watch this like mid November

(22:57):
and be able to warm up a little bit around.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
So you watch, you watch the cold movies in the
summer and the hot movies in the winter. I'm a
fat man. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
It genuinely brings me a little bit of comfort. Yeah, yeah,
it's worth it for sure.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I feel like I do the opposite because, like, you know,
we had a heat wave here and I was watching
like Hills have Eyes and stuff like that, Texas Chainsaw
getting sweaty.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Hills Advice is rough in the summer, and it doesn't
watch the original or the remake. Both of them are like, yeah,
we're just gonna suck the soul, idiot.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah I was. I was actually pricing out the I
have only seen the first of the Wrong Turn films.
Maybe your watchers can tell me if the rest of
them are worth watching, because around that time I was like, oh,
maybe I should check those out too, But I was like,
there's like eight of them or something.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
I don't think i've seen any of the rug The first.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
One is you know, you got the killer hillbilly scenario.
You know you can't go wrong with that. It's always
always plausible, I need to for sure.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
The last one, I feel like is a quite blake
type of pick. And I have the first one here somewhere,
but this one is maybe of the first two, the
one that I'm more excited about also very much goes
with the shirt throm Aring Tonight kind of on theme
because we both are into some of the something weird stuff.
This new Psychotronica set that is coming out through They're

(24:19):
they're calling it MVD visual, but I think it's actually
a piece of VCI if I remember right. So these
are this is Mondo key Hole. This is the second
release in this new line that they're doing. I think
they've announced six now. And there's some like sexploitation type titles.
There's some some stuff that is a little on the
sneezier side. They're not gonna have like amazing restorations or anything.

(24:42):
These are gonna be pretty budget type of releases. But
these are really really interesting and not getting a lot
of attention on other sort of labels. So check the
other ones out that they just did. Oh gosh, I
can't remember the name of it, but I think it's
The Mermaids of Birius or something like that is one
of them, and it's basically just a bunch of topless mermaids.

(25:05):
I mean, what's not to love there? That that's great,
But yeah, Monda Keyhole is not going to get probably
a release from anybody else anytime soon. And these are
these are decent releases. I mean we're talking too discs. Yeah,
I got reversible art. It's got some special features as
a brand new commentary on here. Uh it is if
I remember, I think this is even like a two

(25:25):
K restoration scan. But these are these are yeah, restored
in two K from the original uncut thirty five millimeter negative.
I kind of think these are going under the radar,
so pay attention to these.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
If. Yeah, I definitely need that Topless Mermaids definitely sounds
like right.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think it comes out next month. I need to
get that one in here too. But it brings up
something that is really really exciting for tonight. If you
are paying attention to the announcements. Right before we went
live tonight, I shared a video across all of my
social media for a new podcast joining the Someone's Favorite
Productions Network, And now I want to share that video

(26:02):
with all of you before we go into the announcements
only bring it.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
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(26:34):
of sexploitation, when the morals were loose, the laws were murky,
and the intercourse was all simulated. Find us now on
the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
There we go, and we're back. So yeah, really really
exciting that they're part of the network, but maybe even
more exciting we get to bring on for a few minutes.
Here the two hosts of the show. Here's Gentry Austin
and Casey Scott. Welcome, gentlemen, Hey guys, thank you for
having us and grand tradition.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
We're already talking over each other.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I am so that this is incredible. First, tell us
how sin sind Kit got started.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
Well, I'll start, I guess I started a Instagram page
probably about a year and a half ago, just dedicated
to sexploitation, mainly as a way for me to kind
of just remember all the stuff I was watching, because
if you've watched any sexploitation you know that they're very brief.

(27:58):
Ninety minutes is probably for a sexploitation film. So I
was watching so many I was like, okay, I need
to like just catalog this somehow. So I just started
a page and posted original screen caps and video clips,
and after a while I was just like, you know what,
in my research, I was like, you know, nobody's really
doing a.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Podcast about this.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
I mean, some people have been covering some of the titles,
some of the larger titles I guess, you know, the
Best Buyers and some of the doors Wishman stuff. But
I kind of saw a void there and I was
just like, well, Jesus, God knows, we don't need another podcast,
but you know, this might be fun. So you know,
Casey is a guy who you know, his name has

(28:40):
come up a lot in my research into sexploitation, so
I had sent him just a random message online. I
was just like, hey, I want to start a sexploitation podcast,
and right away he was like, let's do it. So
I was like, all right, let's let's start it. And
we just have been kind of off to the races
since then.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well in my post I shared that literally like three
minutes into hearing the first episode that I listened to,
I went, you know, we have to get this podcast
I mean, it is movies I love. It is respect
to filmmakers that don't get much respect. It is well researched,
It is accurate research. It is discussing back and forth

(29:22):
if we're going to fix IMDb pages because nobody has
over the last forty three years. And that is the
kind of autistic attention to detail that I love. Casey, Ye,
how did we get to this point in research? Because
this is incredible?

Speaker 7 (29:34):
Yeah, Casey is a stickler for their accuracy.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
All right, go ahead, Casey, I really am. Yeah, but
I've said that multiple times, you know. In our last
episode that just I think the first one on the
network was the ed Wood one, and we talked about
how there are people attributing films to ed Wood, but
I need the proof, and it's hard to find proof
on a lot of these things. So that's what I
try to do. You know, I've been doing this for

(29:57):
I've been doing this since high school and I turned
forty two this year, so I've been doing this for
a long time. I've been reaching out to people who
will talk to me and doing extras for you know,
media Blasters releases, Vinegar Syndrome releases, District picts, releases things
like that over the years. So I've thought about doing
a podcast, but I tend to stay I try to

(30:17):
try to stay in the background. I try to platform
the people that I'm writing about or that I'm interviewing.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
It's really more about them.

Speaker 8 (30:24):
But Gentry contacted me, and I said, well, I think
there's all work if I'm working with someone who's passionate
as Gentry, because then it will be I'll have someone
that can we can support each other and keep each
other passionate and interested about this. And Gentry does the editing,
Gentry does the sound bite, sound clips and everything, and no,
it's it's been fun so far, but it's it's the

(30:46):
only frustrating thing for me is that we've barely.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Scratched the surface. So we have a massive list of stuff.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
That we want to want to cover and we only
do it like once every week or every two weeks,
and we want need to do a double feature or something,
Gentry to kind of knock a few more off this list.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
Yeah, I see, Yeah, I had I had pitched that
early on, like, hey, we'll do like top ten you know,
newty qts, top ten naughty Westerns. But then I think
we kind of decided not to go that route, but yeah,
we'll see.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
I tend to do that anyway, because we cover so
much stuff in one episode on one film, and that
was actually that's something I was thinking about doing a
letterbox list of all the movies that we randomly bring
up in every episode, you know, because we really jump
all a massive list.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I always wish i'd done that when I first started,
that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
I was just gonna say, like a little background is that,
you know, we cover one, like Casey said, we cover
one film per episode, and we do a pretty deep
dive on it. We like, you know, if if you've
if you're familiar with exploitation, like, there is still a
lot of mystery around a lot of the films, so
we do our best to try to uncoll for what
we can. And Casey's a great researcher. I'm an armchair

(32:04):
researcher as well, So so give our yeah, give it
a listen, and hopefully, you know, let us know if
we if we missed anything or if there's any corrections.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
We love that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, and the kind of the kind of titles you
guys are covering. I mean you mentioned I would. You've
talked about, uh, these these sexy nwdy westerns. You've talked
about these random ass exploitation films that so many people
have just never heard of. Something weird gets brought up
pretty much every twelve seconds. And Blake, who is yesternight,
loves something weird as well.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Blake, I love something weird. Y, just do it.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Mahoning like just a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Right man, it was my so I only live like
seriously like under an hour away from there, but my
schedule and everything, I just have not gotten a chance
to go out there. But as soon as I saw
there was something weird event, yeah, we had to go.
We had a dh I had met Lisa back in
the day, you know it conventions like back then. Yeah,
but like it was nice to see her and say hi,

(33:02):
uh you know. Of course seeing that stuff though, like
on the on the drive in screen and the little
intermissions like everything. It was fourth of July. It was
like the best Fourth of July I ever hed, you know,
like it was really fun and Mahoning was just such
a good vibe. Yeah, very good vibe.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
Yeah, they did a something weird series in anthology film
markots here in New York a couple of years ago,
and you know it was with Mike uh. I think
it was after Mike could pass unfortunately, but Lisa was involved.
And they sent actual prints and they had a print
that they had two prints that actually broke while they
were testing them on the projectors. But they actually sent
the one print they had of the pick up with

(33:42):
the burnt in Danish subtitles, the one print they sent
to actually project on that. Yeah, and then one of
the only two prints of Smell of Honey they sent,
and I think Frank Frank kinelatter sent behind sat behind
me and we get whispering to each other, Oh my god, this.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Is so cool.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
I can't believe we're getting to see this. It was like,
is a really otherworldly experience.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
So any of those.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, you gotta take it. If they ever show anywhere
New you like an hour is a fair.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, I mean in New York is like scranted in
New York, very close to each other. So we you know,
we we were supposed to come for Tribeca Film Festival
this year to see the Milligan stuff, but just things
that right for us, So yeah, speaking of that.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Night, Casey, you just went on a long, long discussion
on the on the Milligan stuff. Can you share some
fun experiences from that night?

Speaker 6 (34:32):
That was one that I unfortunately was not able to make.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Alex or Alex are kind of unofficial third co host.
Alex DeSanto was able to go and he but he
is kind of like a celebrity in the Milligan world,
so he went to like a special pre screening thing
with all these Milligan actors and with Jimmy McDonough. So,
I mean, he didn't it wasn't He didn't really go
into that much detail about what that night was. But

(34:56):
I think we could have done a whole episode about
that event because he was just over the moon with that,
with that experience. But I'm excited to see those when
they come out.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
Hell yeah, like yeah, yeah, and be on the documentary
if you picked it. It hasn't been announced yet, but
I'm assuming Severn is gonna be putting out that degenerate documentary.
So keep an eye over Alex. He'll be the guy
with like the great hair you seem, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
The only one the model.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yes. Uh.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You got a question from Dan Sibner. What is each
of your favorites NUDI subgenre casey, what's yours?

Speaker 8 (35:35):
Oh God, you know I have to stay classic and
go with the Ruffies unfortunate.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
Yeah, I mean the Ruffies.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
The Ruffies were kind of the mind blowing subgenre that
I was like, oh wow, these are really kind of
hateful towards women, and it makes you think about like why,
and so it really opens up the whole can of
worms about the historical and the social context of these films,
like what led to this? How are these films? How
are these films seen then? And how are they seen now?

(36:05):
And we're really lucky we got to see any of
them because most of them are black and white, and
though it did not have any kind of home video
life at all until Something Weird came around, so like
we wouldn't know who Michael Finley was, we wouldn't know
Anton Holden or you know, the OLDA films like none
of the We would know none of those if it
wasn't for Something Weird. So definitely the Roughies for me,
which is I guess a boring answer, but I just

(36:27):
keep going back to them.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
I don't know, Gentry.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
If I remember your commentary right, it's got to be
the nudy Westerns, right.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Yeah, right, there's a lot of good ones.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I do love.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
I do like, I really like the good nudy Westerns
that we got, which are like three of them. But no,
I'd probably say the same as Casey, probably the Ruffies
or the new you could call them, probably the nudy Noirs,
same thing. But yeah, if you listen to our kiss
Me Quick episode where we talked about the Nudy Cuties,

(36:58):
you know, we talk about how it's all building up,
you know, the nudi Quts built up to the Ruffies
because you know the market was saturated with these stupid
nudy comedies where men were like not allowed to touch women.
So you know, the Ruffies were introducing this concept like Okay,
we're going to go all the way now. You know,

(37:19):
the censorship laws were lax enough that we can we
can abuse them and do you know.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Heinous things to them.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
So that's that's and then it goes we could go
further than that, but we'll keep it from we'll keep
it there.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
What about you, Blake, do you do you have one
of those that's your favorite?

Speaker 3 (37:35):
I mean, of course, anything with like monsters in it,
like what is it House on Bear Mountain or monsters
crashed the Pajama Party, you know, like those kind of things,
right dead yeah, oh man, Orgy of the Dead, the
classic classic ed would you know a theme strip tease

(37:56):
in multiple rounds with Chris Well, yeah, cannot be griswe.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
I mean I would say ruffies too, So that's already
been believed to death.

Speaker 7 (38:08):
But then they're coming off really woman hating here, classic
monster kid.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
I mean that was kind of fun. When we did
Kiss Me Quick, we kind of touched on that a
little bit. There aren't there aren't enough monster No, to
be honest, you don't make a couple naked ladies nearly enough.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
No, it's just it's such a fun.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
But those are my main interests, so.

Speaker 8 (38:31):
That tracks the interests are sex and horror, So that
might that might mean why the Ruffies are kind of
because they are really horrific at least for sure.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah, you know, I just watched a couple of the
Joe films and you know, I'm sorry, great, yeah, you know,
and the Ron Sullivan Ron Sullivan box seat from Yeah,
some cool stuff in there, man, but also very very mean.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
Yes, well, last weekend was like that's the one particular
experience whatsoever. Yeah, like I interview know about that film
and he said, yeah, I just basically live to Sam
Lake and said I was a film student to get
in Who's good graces and said, oh, I wrote this
little script and he said, here's a camera, go shoot
your movie. That's why there's all the shit that is overexposed, and.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, like he didn't know what he was doing for
what it is. Though it looks amazing now. I mean,
I think they look so good. Everything on there, it
just pops. It's so awesome. It's so awesome to see
that stuff like wrist Story did that degree.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Well, thank you guys for coming on and joining the network.
I think a lot of people in chat. Are you
going to subscribe to that podcast? Now before we go, Gentry,
tell us about this brand new episode with the ed
Wood Films.

Speaker 7 (39:47):
Yeah, we had Will Sloan on, who some of you
may know for his work he did with gold Ninja Video.
He's done a bunch of stuff with them. But he's
got a new book out about Edward. It's like a
critical analysis. And I reach out to him to talk
about a film that nobody wants to talk about, which
is the Sinister Urge.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
It's ed Woods pretty much his last.

Speaker 7 (40:07):
Mainstream movie before he couldn't get a job and just
started writing smutty novels and he wrote Orgy the Dead
somewhere in the middle there.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
But yeah, we talked to Will about Sinister Urge and
kind of how it you know where it.

Speaker 7 (40:21):
Is in the ed Wood Cannon, and going back to
the Ruffie, we talk about how it's kind of one
of the first Ruffies, maybe the first or second one,
but you'll have to listen to the episode to learn
more about that.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Cannot wait, Casey Gentry, thanks for doing this. Everybody, please
go subscribe. The links are out there. Anywhere that you
get your podcasts from, you can get the sin syndicate.
You guys are incredible, Genuinely, the amount of work that
goes into each episode should be applauded, and I know
that from experience, podcasting is rather insular, and I'm sure
you don't get that feedback a lot. So thank you
for what you do because it's incredible work.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Ali. Guys, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks for hanging.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
Out, Thank you for having us. Glad to because of guys.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Have a good night.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
You guys, you too, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
All right, I mean thanks for putting up with that Blake.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
That was awesome. That was awesome. I checked out the
podcast the other day when you told me that they
were going to be on, and it's awesome. It's very
much something that I will find myself listening to all
the time.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
So nice, cool, nice recent watches. Is there anything else
that wasn't in your pickups that you wanted to highlight
before we go into this or do you have more pickups?

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I don't remember. I do, Oh, I do have some
more pickups. Of course. I did get from the from
the from the Criterion sale. I got Thief. It took
forever to get here, you know. I don't know what
was going on with Amazon with that one, but it
was a nice price, so I had to get it,
you know. Nice. That was an essential I did get,
of course, after so going to the driving event at

(41:54):
mahoning into something weird, I had to get the teenage
Gang Debs nice right, Yeah, that that was another one
and definitely a big shout out to I got my
copy of Breaking Glass. I loved this movie. Earlier when
we talked about the QC. Of course I did not mention.
I have pretty much worked on every Fun City release

(42:15):
since Party Girl, and so this one was really fun.
And I found myself like listening to Hazel O'Connor for
like weeks afterwards, you know, like, very very cool movie.
I don't have that yet, we get it, dude.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
I wanted to pre order it with Fabulous Stains and
I was like, this up soon, right, And now it's
been like six weeks since we found out about it.
I'm like, come on, come on, get it out there.
But yeah, I'll pick it up eventually because I've never
seen that one, but I love Fabulous Stains, so I
was really hoping to get it.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, it was. It was a cool like you know,
also kind of simultaneously almost I had worked on for Keno,
the Blur documentary and the live performance, and I never
knew that Phil, Phil Daniels. Phil said his name, the actor,
Yeah he was. He's the guy that does the park

(43:10):
life pretty much spoken word for the for the Blur song.
He's from Quadrophenia. He's also in Breaking Glass, you know,
so it's got a neat little uh. I know that guy.
You know, It's cool, very cool, nice.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Uh. Any other recent watches.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
We went to go see Spinal Tap in the theater
the other day, which included a little bit of the
of the new film, which was very enticing.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
I think the trailer just dropped like right when we
went live, because they're doing this San Diego Comic Con
event thing right now too, so we'll have to see
that soon. I'm kind of worried because they're all quite
old and it's been a long time.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
The the the little clip that they played at the
end of the movie very much referenced that in in
a very hilarious way. So I'm hoping that's like the
joke that they go with kind of you know what
I mean. So it seemed, you know, we'll see't I don't,
you know, I'm not a huge comedy guy, so I
don't really watch a ton of comedy films.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, it's twenty I mean, I was gonna say twenty
twenty five, but like modern times right now is kind
of rough for comedy. I'm very curious to see how
this whole Naked Gun reboot slash remake goes over with people,
because great comedies are kind of hard to come by
right now.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Yeah, it's a tough subject, and it's probably not my
best subject because I've never been like I have a
few of course, you know what I mean that I
really enjoy, but it's just you know, yeah, definitely. It's
easy to have a nostalgic filter on comedies from when
you were younger. And that's what I always ask myself,

(44:53):
like is it that am I just getting older and
the humor is not the same for me, you know
what I mean, a lot of the stuff that's coming
out now and that's probably why I don't enjoy it,
or is it just not funny? You know?

Speaker 2 (45:05):
So yeah, I mean it's a different time. And I
mean that's a good question. You mentioned you go to
the theater for spinal tip. Are you seeing many modern movies?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Probably? Probably not. I feel like a lot of my
time is tied up in QC. To be honest with there.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I'm not surprised, Like.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
You know, I work another job too. I work three
days a week and pretty much the rest of it,
Like if I get out, it's normally I don't even
remember it was the last new thing that we saw
it was, To be honest with you, yeah, it takes
a bit to get me to go to the theater. Also,
you know, I'm not into like I might see Superman

(45:44):
because it seems you know, fun. And James Gunn So
that's an interesting story. When I worked at Troma, James
had the job that I had maybe two people ahead
of me, so he was kind of in the slither
stage of his career then and was always like very
cool when I had to like message him and ask
him questions, just some you know, low level trauma idiot,

(46:08):
you know what I mean. And you know when he
had his like bigger films come out in the Guardians and
stuff like that, I remember sending the messages and he
was always like very cool about it, you know what
I mean. So seeing also how hard the Hooe got
trolled on, I would probably want to want to go
see it just for moral reasons, you know, Like you know,

(46:29):
but I enjoy a popcorn movie, and if I don't
see it, if I don't see it in the theater,
my likelihood of seeing it is like zero, you know,
So I really would have to, you know, And I'm
not a snob about how it or anything like that.
It's just it's kind of like, you know, I just
don't that's not quite the vibe. Yeah, I look for

(46:52):
you also, Mike Ripe. I know you've seen me complain
about this on my personal Facebook. Everything is three hours long.
I don't need another three hour like comic book movie. Man,
give me like, yeah, I watched all these exploitation movies
or seventy minutes. I love it. It's like, give me
a tight eddy, let's go.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, I mean, you know, to get into what I
watched this week. Speaking of modern movies, we are. We're
at the stage where I'm trying to escape my kids
quite a bit. So we somehow talked to my mom
into watching our kids every Saturday for us to go
to the theater. So at this point I'm watching movies
that I could not possibly care less about, but I
get to stay out and in a movie theater. So
I'm basically in heaven, even though the movies aren't great.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
But this last week's enjoying the experience of going. It's
such exactly time. Yeah. Always yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
So this last weekend I was kind of worried because
things did not look amazing in the trailers. But first
film we went and saw Eddington. This is a rough
one to set your palette for the Night. The next
ari Astra film. I thought it was quite well made.
It was really well shot. They really captured New Mexico
beautifully captured twenty twenty in a way that I don't

(47:59):
think think anybody has in a film yet.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
But at the same time, just like you just said,
I think there was about forty minutes that did not
need to be in this movie. I feel like ari
Astra's at a stage in his career where nobody is
telling him no, and he just puts every single thing
that he needs in his mind to put in the movie.
And the story is great, and I like the movie.
I'm not saying that I didn't, but it definitely had

(48:26):
a lot of stuff that just playing did not need
to be in the movie. I mean, the second act
specifically is long and drawn out.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
It does definitely, you know, obviously a result of like
the limitations previously of film stock and the raw materials
and things, you know, not having to deal with that
has opened up a whole new world of wank, you know, like, yeah,
a cinematic wank, you know, like and I don't know,
man like sometimes and I you know, I like a

(48:54):
ton like I love on the Silver Globe you know
what I mean. That movie's like three hours long and
has big sections that are just spoken word. But it's awesome.
You you know what I mean. Movies that need to be long,
you know, like they need to be long, and I
could you know, that's a whole argument. This will set
off a whole entire argument. But it needs to be long,
you know. Yeah, well you want to you want to

(49:16):
trim a good twenty minutes out of the Godfather, you know,
like I don't know, you know, like, but that's really funny,
you know.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
So yeah, last Weekend, the other two real quick. I'm
gonna breeze by the second one, because god, this movie
is not easy to talk about. I know what you
did last summer at the reboot Slash remake. This is
a terrible movie. It's awfully written. That being said, it
was entertaining, like it was a fun watch, but in
no way is it a good movie. Like they they

(49:45):
spoiled it's they the movie spoiled itself like twenty minutes
into it, and I'm just lost at that stage. But
the last one is really the one that I wanted
to spend a moment on because I don't think hardly
anybody's gonna see this movie let alone in the theater, right,
I bet this is going to get very little play.
But somehow amc here was showing a film with one
of the worst titles I've ever heard, called don't Let's

(50:08):
go to the dogs tonight?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Did Ai write that.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Let's go to the dogs tonight? This is a movie
about a family of European descent that is living in
Africa in nineteen eighty during one of the wartimes that
is happening around there, and there is a period of
political tension where they're leading up to a general election
and essentially, if one candidate wins, the idea of democracy

(50:36):
feels like it's going to win. And if the other
candidate wins, like the nation of Africa that is sort
of independent away from the Europeans that are there are
they're feeling more confident that they're going to fare better.
But it's a very much a rising tension film all
leading up to this political moment. But what makes us
interesting is this a movie that is made from the

(50:58):
point of view of an eight year old. So there
is a young daughter named Bobo in this film that
we are watching the entire time, and so there's certain
things that happened that you're only catching glimpses of them
because you're the eight year old watching this. And so
there's things like the parents go into the room and
they shut the door, and she says, oh, I know

(51:18):
what they're doing in there, because the door is shut
and locked, and then there's like a brief pause and
she says, yeah, they're moving furniture and sometimes naked, and
it's just like, it's an eight year old, so they
obviously we know what they're doing, has no clue, and
it's just a hilarious setup for that. But the interesting
part is for those that loved the movie Matilda when
you were younger, this was directed and starring miss Honey

(51:41):
from Matilda. I had no idea it was her until
it started.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Good movie.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I gave it a solid three and a half stars.
It was worth the time, It wasn't super long. It
was a good film. Good time.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Now, how does your personal rating scale work? Let me
ask you, and hold on one second. My diabetic dog
is eating cat. Oliver, get over here. I told you
don't named Oliver. That was perfection. He's named Oliver Reed.

(52:14):
He's named after you know, the famed actor. Probably why
he is now diabetic is that he always had an
affinity for beer, and what he would do was if
you happen to leave a drink on the floor or
like anywhere, he would knock it over or lick the
top of it. And you know, I don't know, but yeah,
he's he's diabetic now. And I've kind of disliked whethered

(52:37):
it for the last bit of the conversation because I
didn't want to be ruined. Like but we previously discussed.
We have several rescue animals here and one of the
one of the wonderful things about doing QCs that allows
me to also care for the menagerie.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
As I explained to Blake the chat knows, I said,
you you're gonna mention the animals. I have to make
an appearance tonight. So at some point there something will
make an appearance with four links.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Oh yeah, I feel like the Orange Cats are just
getting ready for something big.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
All right, So yeah, check out some of those movies
if they sound interesting. I feel like it's time to
get into some announcements. Though we got to breeze through
some of these. We can get to Severn. Let us
do it. So first, up tonight. Is I actually like
that a little bit better. Deaf Crocodile announced their title
that is up for pre order.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
This is The Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume two. This
has in it The Snow Queen, The Scarlet Flower, and
the Key from nineteen fifty seven, nineteen fifty two and
nineteen sixty one. Now, the interesting thing about this that
is a little abnormal from Deaf Crocodile stuff. Usually they
put something up for pre order and it's going to

(53:53):
be out the end of the following month. There was
a restoration backup, and Craig has been working like crazy
and so sadly this is going to be coming out
the next month. This will be out in September, not August.
But on the bright side, you get two really great
titles in September. We're going to announce the next one
in August. Another incredible movie. I hope you guys check

(54:14):
out both of them. But this is a big deal. Specifically,
The Snow Queen is one that people have been wanting
a great restoration for for ages. We have lots of
examples of Miyazaki praising The Snow Queen, saying this is
his favorite film and Without it, Studio Ghibli would would
not exist. So that's a that's a pretty big deal.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
That's cool, man. How many volumes of these have? They
said yes.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
In the podcast episode that we just released last week,
they say there are currently six volumes Treasures of Soviet
Animation planned.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
At least I have to resubscribe because I have everything
from the beginning and it's been a little little tougher
to chase without the subscription, so I think I need
to do that again.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Well, and hopefully people watching. No, I'm not really wanted
to like hype up foma or anything like that, but
I'm also really proud of Deaf Crocodile because after leaving
OCN and going through that transition for a little while, it,
you know, some people got lost in the shuffle. Of course, inevitably,
everybody knew that was going to happen when you leave
a company like that. But now some of these edis.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
That's unfortunate because I feel like the things that they've
done in the nice hard box editions since then have
been just like really beautiful.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Right the hard part if you're not a subscriber, some
of these limited editions are starting to sell out quickly.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Now I did notice that.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yeah, there are multiple titles that have come out in
just the last three or four months that are already
gone of the deluxe edition. So if anybody's after these again,
not trying to say fear missing out, go by now
or they're gone. But on the other hand, like The
Snow Queen is a title that a lot of people
have wanted on disc for a long time. I don't

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see this volume lasting very.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Long, So Buddie, I can hear my credit cards screaming tomorrow.
All right, I knew you're gonna talk me into all
kinds of bad stuff here tonight.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Well I'm not trying, but congratulations, because you're gonna love it.
This release, by the way, lots of stuff to go over.
We've got all three films in Russian with English subs.
We have a new visual essay by Evan Chester on here,
new visual essay by John Atkins of Animation Obsessive, New
commentary tracks by Ralf Gezen on this. New artwork on

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the standard edition by Beth Morris, who does great stuff.
I love the circles that we're doing on the animation
sets for the Soviet stuff. It's such a beautiful way
to separate the three titles in there.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yeah, I listened to your interview with her the other day,
and I think that her work on this stuff has
been just awesome, just awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
And then the deluxe edition, this is Haley Bucks. She
is doing the art for all of the hard boxes
in this set for at least you know, we've got
six so far and more potentially theoretically, so that's crazy.
And then of course you get a sixty page illustrated
book with it. You've got another essay by Rolf kes In,

(57:11):
and then of course an essay by Waltshaw, who does
something for all of the book's incredible release. Check it
out now if you are into it. Nice first Severn
title of the night. So, a four K release of
kill List from twenty eleven is on the doc. This
is the first four K release of this title anywhere
in the world. Over six hours of special features. You

(57:34):
get a commentary with Ben Wheatley and Mike Hewitt on
this archival commentary with Ben and Amy Jump, another archival
commentary with some of the actors. You've got interviews that
are coming on this. You've got archival making of all
kinds of stuff. Kill List I love this movie. I
think this is one of the better folkhre movies of

(57:54):
the last twenty years, because you know, a lot of
people are gonna say that they dropped off at that point,
but this, I think is like top tier of that group.
I'm sure you've seen this one here and did you
you see this title?

Speaker 3 (58:05):
For sure? Did? Yeah? I think the only one out
of this batch that I didn't do in some form
or another was the Linda Blair film for the Summer Sale,
I should say, but this film in particular, I had
not seen before, and so when I get a title,
I just I just download it, get ready to work

(58:26):
on it. I don't if I've never heard of it,
I don't look it up. I don't want to know
anything about it. I mean, that's kind of how I
treat my film watching in general. I try not to
watch trailers if I don't have to, and things like that.
You know, so you can imagine that this one was
a what the hell you know? And I feel like,
of course, the less said about it, the better. But

(58:47):
you know, Ben Wheatley awesome, so cool. The supplements, I
feel like, really give you a feeling for the friendship
between the two lead actors, and it gives you a
better appreciation for the performance in the whole thing. It
just gives it depth, you know what I mean. But
what an awesome movie. Yeah, it's If you haven't seen it,

(59:09):
just don't just don't know anything about it.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Don't watch a trailer, don't read anything, don't go Please
don't go check reviews because one of the worst things
that you could do is hurt the feeling that this
movie is going to give you, because you will feel
quite a lot. Yeah, this movie's amazing.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
It definitely had me guessing I've until the last act,
that's for sure. Nice all right.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Next up, Keno Laber September twenty third is part of
their Keino Cult line. They're putting out Dan Curtis's late
night mysteries from nineteen seventy four. These are some made
for TV. I think they're just called made for TV movies.
In this I believe it's like three or four of them.
Nightmare at forty three Hillcrest is getting commentary by Amanda

(59:55):
Reyas and Heidi Honeycut.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Honeycut.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
I think Amanda said that at least one of these
know the ones has a commentary and Keino for some
reason did not list it in the announcement, but I
believe it's there. Yeah, this looks like a must for me.
I love Amanda Rays being on these releases. She's obviously
the authority on the made for TV stuff. Is this
something you're gonna check out there, Blake?

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Oh yeah, for sure. I love Dan Curtis. Of course.
Dark Shadows is a is a big It's a big influence.
When I was young, when I was a wee lad
and we had four channels, PBS had had Doctor Who
in Dark Shadows all the time. Yeah, and I love
the seventies and eighties television movie vibe. But he was

(01:00:38):
keen on previously put out the classic was it Classic
Ghosts or something like that. Yeah. Set Also, you know,
they're just like these are mood pieces, vibes. You know,
you can just kind of hang out and like, you know,
they're they're creepy, you know, maybe not a ton of action,
you know, if you're used to like the Italian gut
Busters or something like that, but all vibe pieces always

(01:00:58):
worth watching.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
And then the other thing is these are like genuine rescues.
It's kind of amazing that the made for TV stuff
is actually being put on disc because for years we
didn't think a lot of these were ever gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Yeah, for sure, things even like was it the one
with the little goblin guys in the basement, don't don't
look in the basement or something like that?

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Yeah, please write all of the copy for every release ever,
because that was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Green Light, It's a go picture.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Next up, very different vibe from made for TV movies.
September ninth, Vertical Entertainment putting out Liam Neeson in Ice
Road Vengeance, which is a sequel I don't even remember.
Maybe the first one was just called Ice Road.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Probably not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Uh yeah, this guy is just kind of doing his thing.
Uh are you li and guy in action movies in
twenty twenty five?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
I mean, I can't say that if I, you know,
if I didn't get a couple of teeth fowl or something,
I would watch this. You know, Land on the Couch
looks kind of like something I can I can knock
out too, But I don't know if i'd be adding
this one of the shelves anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
It looks like a painkiller movie, got it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
For sure? That's yeah? On four K.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. We don't have a date yet,
but they've already previously released this on Blu Ray. This
will likely knowing Keno, probably not yet any new extra
since they just did it on Blue, but hey, it'll
get a brand new HDR Dolby Vision Master. And there's
a lot of people that love this movie, so this
is a big deal for a lot of eighties kids.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
And this has a stacked cast otherwise, doesn't it yet?
Like Lance Henrickson, like a whole sure is in ninety
one too, like peak Lance Hendrickson, I you know this,
this seems like it could have gotten a VSU restoration.
I wonder how escape you know it would have looked
nice next to Navy sales.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Myself stuck with Kenos since they buy eight hundred and
forty seven licenses a year. All right, next up of
four K upgrade Sunday seven is releasing Asylum this year,
so this will not be available tonight. This will go
up on Sunday to get you to come back and

(01:03:24):
buy some of their four K upgrades. We got four
of those titles that they're updating that are titles that
they've released prior that are now going to four K.
Asylum is one that has a brand new interview. So
this is a new Blu ray and a new four
K disc. They're not just reusing the old Blu ray.
And I gotta say, Asylum is one that has a
history of looking pretty bad on Blu Ray. And I

(01:03:47):
don't think seven would be mad at me saying this.
They're Blue didn't even look that great. It was pretty muddled,
very grainy, like very of its time, sort of scan
last time they went back and they were able to
get the OCN for a four Okay, and this movie
is a revelation. Uh, it looks really damn great. I
will say the wrap round parts are not quite as

(01:04:09):
clean as the other parts in this film, right, I
think that's just based on the materials that they had. Unfortunately, however,
all of the shorts in this anthology look incredible. Tell
me about this one, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Like you said, I think I saw you talk about
this somewhere online. The Shimmering Suit. Yeah, I think it
looks so awesome. It finally makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Like, but you know, I am a sucker for any
kind of anthology film. I mean, that's just always been
my favorite and the Amicus anthologies for whatever reason, they're
just kind of got this you know air. You know,
they're they're a little like it's it's a little different
than Hammer, you know, and they're they're a little grittier.
They tend to like it a little more into the gods,

(01:04:50):
not the Hammer side away from it. But you know, uh,
they definitely this one, this one works for me. It's
got a lot of great stories.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
It does, it's it's it's also one of those that
has multiple memorable stories. I know that anthologies are very
hit or miss, and this one, I mean, first of all,
Christopher Lee is in one of these. You've got that
little miniature doll we're going to talk about in a
little while. They're doing an enamel pin of the doll
at the end of this year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
That ten looks amazing And I was listening to the
podcast earlier. Did I hear that it like has a
hinge like that it opens up to the guts. I
have to have that, right, I have to have that, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah, if you've seen Asylum, you know what the little
doll is at the end, and it's it's kind of
a perfect thing. I feel like, I again, I have
to own that pin at some point. But yeah, this
movie's great. I also Q see this one, and the
restoration is just so good compared to what this used
to look like. People will be very happy if they
picked us up. Funny enough, back to back. The next

(01:05:51):
Upgrade Sunday title is Wild Beasts. This is, like I said,
another one that I was able to Q see. This
is from nineteen eighty four, and this is again a
quintessential Severn title. And as I wrote here, and I
wrote this myself, like seven didn't tell me to write
this or anything I said. The Blu Ray included with
this four K Here is also a newly authored disc.

(01:06:13):
The four K was so substantial compared to the old
Blu Ray that they felt like they needed to upgrade
the Blue for everybody as well. It is sourced from
the four K Master that they used for this new
four K. And I have to admit I've always enjoyed
this movie, but seeing this with this four K Master
this time was like a brand new movie.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Dopping it lops so good. The Pope tell.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Us about your history with Wild Beasts and why you
like this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Well, I mean, I love trust Berry.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
I thought I thought you were about to say PCP there
for a moment. No, it goes with the film pretty much.
It hasn't seen it by the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Way, Yeah, I mean spoiler alert, but you know, but yeah,
it's a it's a wild premise. But like you know,
the Mono Kane films, you know, all of that stuff.
I've been a fan of Women of the World Goodbye
Uncle Tom, Like those are just this dude knew one
mode of filmmaking and it was excess like he just

(01:07:20):
never relaxed for five minutes. And like this one was
new to me because I'd only really seen the Mondo
films and not really seen much that he had done
on his own without Jaco Petty, you know, And so
seeing that I was I was really blown away by it.
You know. The protagonist or the hero is mustache is
also so impressive. It is just it is the best

(01:07:43):
mustache in Italian cinema. I mean it's just it rocks
and wow and look yeah, look at that. I mean,
you know, that's the orange cat vibe I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Exactly. I do want to fix something Adam in the
comments brought up he wasn't trying to correct me, but
I will notice that I said Christopher Lee, because of
course when you think about British films, you always get
the two of them mixed up. Peter Cushing is the
one that was in Asylum, not Christopher Lee. I'm an idiot.
I'm sorry. Yeah, chrispher Lee and Peter Cushing don't exactly
look alike, but hey, it happens.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
But they're like peanut Butter and jelly bro usually. Yeah,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Let's go to the next one. This is a four
K upgrade of The Boys next Door, directed by Penelope Sprus,
starring Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen. This one has no
new extras. This is simply an upgrade to four K.
But as we'll talk about in the recommendations tonight, this
is one of my favorite Severn films of all time.

(01:08:45):
I've not been able to see the four K on
this one, So tell me what this one's like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
I really feel like it just the cinematography pops in it, now,
do you know what I mean. It's just I had
again another one that was pretty new to me. I'd
never seen it before, you know, so, and a lot
of these eighties kind of indie you know, like under
the radar films kind of Escape Me, you know, the

(01:09:09):
one I'll mention later. But it's just again the mood
that and it's based on a true story, right, I
think it's at least inspired loosely. Loosely loosely yeah, yes, No,
it's a great movie. It's just you know, it kind
of fits into that, like at Close Range and the

(01:09:32):
other film I will mention later, you know, like I
kind of see them all in that same sub genre
of gritty eighties like coming of age movies in a way,
you know what I mean. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
It is very hard to explain because this movie starts
with one vibe and very quickly gets to a very
dark vibe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Yeah, but very worth to watch. Incredible performances for both
of the the two leads very akin to Henry Portrait
of a serial Killer, but far less nihilistic in a
weird way, because it's still very nihilistic, just somehow far
less nihilistic.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
It's got the eighties gloss. I feel like, you know,
Henry had no gloss. Henry was gritty as all hell,
you know what I mean, But you still got This
has some gloss, which keeps it slightly elevated above the book.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Yeah, I agree. Dustin had asked a question about Wild
Beast is there real animal violence in this? And I
tried to respond and YouTube did not want to display
the comment, So I will display this one Dustin. Yes,
there is some animal on animal violence in Wild Beasts
that happens.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
And also some rats were literally burned in the film.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
And that was not special effects, so I will warn
about that for sure. But I think that was the
only like animal torture by humans.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Yeah, I mean there's the scene early on where they're
like drugging the tigers. Do be is because they're really
drugging the tiger? Do you know what I mean? But
you know, yeah, it's it is the product of its time,
and if that is something that makes me uncomfortable by
all means, I would avoid it, you know what I mean.
It's not I feel like anytime an animal comes on

(01:11:16):
screen at all, despite the level of production, even a
Hollywood film, I'm like, oh boy, this is a plot point,
especially in horror films, you know what I mean. As
an animal lover, like I just I don't just leave.
Just let's not let's not include that at all, you know,
And it is something to to reconcile for sure. And
you know, if there would be one of the if

(01:11:37):
I had to say that there and this is a
planned response, I guess, and that if there was one
thing that was hard to do when you q see it,
it is films with animal violence, because having to watch
that repeatedly is not fun, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
But yeah, and like Brendan is saying here, I wasn't
trying to downplay the word some yet, like hundreds of
rats are burned in this movie and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
One yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, it's not it's
not scene. Rat's Night of Terror also has a lot
of that in it too, you know what I mean.
And I mean anytime you're taking mice and dyeing them
black to make them look like rats, I don't write
charcoal whatever they're using. I don't think it's a great
it's a great idea, you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Know, like yeah, I don't think they can scent it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
And I don't mean the laugh editor make light of it.
But it's just you know, of course being uh, you know,
in the exploitation film Realm. It's something that I feel
like we are mostly familiar with. And if you make
a choice to not want to see that it's a
you know, it's your choice, and I agree with it,
you know what I mean, But if you want to
see it. I don't agree with editing anything out exactly

(01:12:42):
what I mean, So it should be you know, retained
for for what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
That's why I love when companies give us the option
put both on there. Yeah, nothing nothing wrong with this.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Yeah, I've seen that, Like didn't they do like a
seamless branching with Cannibal Holocaust at one point where it
was like you can watch a version without you know,
it's you know, and that's you know, something that takes
a commendable amount of work for the author authoring team,
you know what I mean. That's a it's a lot
of work and it's it's it's I appreciate that. That's cool,

(01:13:15):
especially in a film like Canial Holo cos Yeah, I
mean there's a lot of other objectionable things gone out there.
It isn't exactly the Son of Music otherwise, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 9 (01:13:25):
But like.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
It reminds me of Stephen from Unearth Films. Was asked
if they were if they were going to do an
animal cruelty free version of Calamity of Snakes and he said,
we considered it, and then we realized the movie was
going to be twelve minutes long.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
That's like when you watch like hot and Saucy Pizza
Girls on YouTube and they cut out all the saucy parts,
you know what I mean. So like that's literally just
it's like just like twenty minutes. I thought it was
a Chuck E cheese commercial. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Next up September twenty second in the UK from screen
Bound is Sex with the Stars from nineteen eighty one.
This is not one I know about. Have never seen
this and it does not look like there are any extras.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Have you seen this one? I have not. It does
sound promising, though.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Very cleverly edited so that I can share this on
YouTube and Instagram. I appreciate that screen Bound, thank you
so much. Unless that's the original poster art, which is
very helpful, because man, I've been flagged many times.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
For some of the cover art I've had to post.
This reminds me when I was young, like so my
mom would allow me to have things like Jane's addiction
record with nudity on it, or a Clive Barker comment
with nudity in it, but when I would get it,
it would have bikinis drawn on everybody. My mom would
kind of like self censor the things, you know, like yeah,

(01:14:51):
when I was younger, you know what I mean. That's
what this kind of reminds me of. It's like censored.
It's like drawn in here, over the over the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Bits quite cleverly. Next up, August twenty ninth on four
K over in Germany, Wicked Vision is releasing Spider Labyrinth
on four K. Now, usually I don't announce a lot
of the Wicked Vision stuff, but obviously this movie's very
special to me. On top of doing the commentary and

(01:15:17):
the visual essay for it, which they did get from Severn,
and I provided the original track so that these could
be on here as well. The big thing is people
have fallen in love with this movie over the last
couple of years since Severn released it, and Wicked Vision
is including the Italian language audio track, which Severn was
not able to get, so this is theoretically an upgrade

(01:15:38):
for somebody that wants the original language. Severn only was
able to do the English dub, so this is actually
going to be slightly different, and it's got some exclusive
restoration stuff that they did and could look even a
little bit better.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Is this like a big box? I'm trying to understand the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
The concept photo here is that you're actually able to
choose just the film, or you can subscribe to an
Italian cinema collection, which will get you ten releases over
the next year and a half and it goes. They
send you the box with the first one and every
time you get one, you just slide it right into
the box when you get it. That's pretty cool, and
they're talking some pretty big stuff if you subscribe to this.

(01:16:20):
Did I list it here? I don't remember if I
included it. If not, I should have, I did not.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Unfortunately we'll come back to that one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
But yeah, the titles that you're able to get are
pretty big, Like I think they are looking at the
whip in the body Bava doing it in four K,
which has not happened anywhere else in the world yet,
so pretty big stuff like that. So that's it's a
pretty rad idea.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
I think. I'm sure the Bava four k's will now
start to appear across the world. As I received my
box at from shot factory. That's Monday. It's Monday, it
just ships, so it was I was on the fence
with that one, but it's Bava and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
If you don't have any of them, it's a really
great set.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
We I have some, but not enough to justify not
buying it, right, So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Yeah, and yeah, the Wicked Vision stuff, I mean for
those that have been following the channel for quite some time.
I'm friends with Ront who has done a lot of
stuff with Wicked Vision over the years, and they do
really great workover in Germany. All of their stuff, even
if they don't advertise it, I think I'm allowed to say,
but pretty much every single title has added to English subtitles,
even when they're theoretically not supposed to. So you can

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buy from Wicked Vision knowing that it's licensed material, which
isn't always the case in Germany, that it will have
English subtitles, and that it will be high quality.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Pretty much always pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Going to our Next one is House on the Edge
of the Park is the other four K upgrade coming
from seven on Sunday as part of their upgrade Sunday.
Another one that came out just a few years ago
on Blu Ray from seven that made a big splash.
This is a big deal title. How does the four
K look on this one, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Looks really good. I mean, you know, this movie kind
of has a lot of like you know, the party
scenes is very dark in the beginning, very much benefits
I feel like from four K. I know there was
an issue with the black metals in the past on
the original release of the Blu Ray. I never thought
that the Blu Ray looked bad, but like this definitely,

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I think, you know, it's a very the cinematography is
very dark, and I very much feel like it helps
with a lot of that. And you know, I mean
it's a must have in the Italian horror collection for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Yeah. And if somebody is out there and you have
not seen House on the Edge of the Park, it
is a very worthwhile movie. And if looking at this
slip cover is turning you off in anyway, this is
meant to be like a very anti thematic slip cover.
It's meant to be very different than what the actual
film looks like. It's a really good piece of art,
but the actual cover here, this is much more akin

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to the feeling that you get while watching this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Yeah, yeah, I do love that artwork, but I mean,
all the performances in this movie are really great. Davids
is awesome, David has amazing, you know, I mean, show
me a bad David Hes movie, I guess. But you know,
Annie Bell also who I love, is in this and yeah,
I just it benefits from the upgrade. It's worth having

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it and all the Italian stuff. In my opinion, there's
just some heavy hitters that you're like zombie, you know
what I mean, things like that that I'm always going
to upgrade, and this looks great, and I would say
it's worth the upgrade.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Yeah, And like sim sind the kids saying here, Lorraine
de sill is in this one and Wild Beasts, so
you get two of them and yeah, great, great look
and release David David has is the Lena Quickly of
Horrors is similar.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
That's that's pretty app Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Especially the seventies and eighties. Next up over in the
UK on September fifteenth, Studio Canal is doing a four
K release of The Man in the White Suit as
part of their Vintage Classics collection. This is a brand
new four K restoration of the movie. We've got a
new feature d on here. Matthew Sweet on the Man
in the White Suit, and then a bunch of archival features.

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You've got a sixty four page booklet and then a
poster of the original artwork. Not what I've seen. Are
you into British stuff like this?

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
That's not something I have seen either.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Know that that makes sense. I am in the same boat.
So we'll go to the next one. Oh, this title
September ninth, Blu Ray the US, coming from the decal
of the ritual from this year. This is the al
Pacino and Dan Stevens Possession movie that we talked about
a couple weeks ago. I still can't believe they got

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al Pacino to do a Possession movie in twenty twenty five,
and just based on that, even though everybody says it's bad,
I kind of want.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
To see it. Yeah, I mean I yes, that sounds
like a great performance.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
So everybody in the comments tell us how bad it is,
and then we're gonna say, yeah, but I'll still watch it. Oh,
speaking of what is supposed to be terrible. September ninth,
Blu Ray coming from Magenta Light Studios, a indie that
I have never heard of doing physical media here in
the US of Bride Hard from this year. This played

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one week in theaters and then bombed hard and now
this rebel Wilson leading film is coming to Blu Ray
on September ninth. One of those comedies that we were
talking about that are pretty rare.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Yeah, yeah, I have not seen this one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
I'm not shocked. I just talked about this one. But
you can pre order the four K steel book release
of I Know What You Did last summer, the brand
new reboot that is out there. I've gotten some questions.
I'm not seeing a standard four K of this one.
There is a standard Blu Ray available to pre order
and this four K steel book, So it looks like
Sony might be going steel book only. I'm gonna be

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saying the worst steel book like eight hundred and fourteen
times to Night Blake. Are you a steel book person?
Do you have many?

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
I don't I have? Yeah, Like I mean, I bought Tombstone.
I buy them when it's necessary. I reserved a Night
of Living Dead. Of course I don't have. There's a
lot of strong opinions on them online, is there not?
I feel like I don't know. Like, as you can
see here, I front face a lot of stuff. So
I'm a little less you know, sensitive to it. I

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feel like if I had to spine that I do
spine some of my collection, and that might I might
not like it as much. But yeah, you know, I
definitely have had a lot that have come damage. But
I mean that's that's a depending on who you get
it from. You're not getting damaged steelbooks from from Diabolic
or something, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Yeah, yeah, unless the post office decides to punt your
box to your Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
True. But I mean, for the most part, I feel
like the indie retailers really packaged things. Like when I
got my quator Mass that I bought it on Amazon
and it came international in like in an envelope that
was soaking lack. When I got it, so an.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Envelope that's dripping and then it barely it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Was like seventy bucks ship. So I was like, all right,
you know, like whatever, you know, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Next up, I clicked the wrong thing, I apologize. Next
up is another steel book. This is Disney's Leelo and
Stitch from this year. I'll breeze through this one. Since
Blake wud I much say they are doing a four
K steel book. No standard four K standard Blu Ray
and a standard DVD. This remake is not good. I

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did not need to watch this in the theater, and
for some reason I did. I don't get it. Don't
watch it. It's not great. Going to the next one.
Another British film, The Wrong Arm of the Law, coming
to Blu Ray from Keno on September ninth. This is
a Peter Sellers film, has a brand new audio commentary

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by Lawrence Luherman, and then some are extras.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
Peter Sellers is pretty fun. Have you seen much from
Peter Sellers? No, not really. I mean Pink Panther when
I was younger, but like, I'm really not familiar with
this body of work, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
Yeah, I've not seen too many either the Pink Panther
and maybe one or two others at most. Maybe next
up September sixteenth, Universal pissing a lot of people off
by releasing Speak No Evil on four K after they
release it on Blu Ray. This is last year's Speak
No Evil that people decided this will probably never go

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to four K and now, of course it is no
new extras, but this will have Dolby vision and this
is still not the original Speak No Evil, which does
not even have an English friendly HD release. Dear God,
please somebody release that film. We need it. It's very good.
Going to our next one. Two thousand and five's Cinderella Man.

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Got a four K coming up on September sixteenth. This
is Russell Crowe, Rene Zilweger. This is gonna have Dolby
Vision HDR ten. I had never seen Cinderella Man. Is
this one you got to see back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
In the day. No, I've not seen this one either,
also somehow not surprised. Yeah, I think that some of
the rom cons. Now, this looks interesting to me. I
saw this the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
I like these collections that were.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Archive is doing. Yeah, so that's very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
September second, the Greta Garbo collection. We've got four films here,
and these are pretty cheap. I mean, we're are Archive
when they come out on basically Amazon now or unless
you go to Movies in these are on release about
eighteen bucks of pop. And these are all old discs.
Let's not give them too much praise. I guess these
are just the same old discs, just repackaged.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
But they're cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
To get all four of these, it's forty bucks, which
that was basically the price of two of them on release.
So that's pretty great. We've got Anna Christy from nineteen thirty,
We've got Camille, We've got Ninochka, and we've got Queen Christina.
I don't have all the years listed to I apologize,
but I've here heard supposedly these are all like really

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great top tier movies for her.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Yeah, that looks like a lot of fun. And like
I've been trying to I have so much I don't know,
well for B films, cult films, I don't have a
lot of classics and really like you know, with the
Criterion sale or just the last couple of things like
pick up like Maltese Falcon things like that, like really
cheap when they're like, you know, fifteen bucks, eighteen bucks,

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because this is it's nice to have that collection in
the four case of these things look amazing and you know,
I mean this is blue, but you know, I'm sure
they look amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Yeah, Ronnie says, had Queen Christina on my shelf forever,
but need to watch it. Corin says, Nanachika is fantastic. Yeah,
That's all I've heard is that all four of these
are pretty much incredible We've got a couple more of
those talking about just a second, but first A twenty
four in September releasing Materialists on ray. This is a
movie from this year that wasn't terrible. I saw this

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in the theater. I liked it. It was nowhere near
as good as Selene Song's first film, but I thought
it was a good time. Good performances from everybody, that
says a commentary from Selene Song. This has a featurette
called the Math of Modern Dating making Materialists. There is
a composer Deep Dive, and then they've been doing these
postcards with all their releases, so you can look forward

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to that good movie, excited that it's getting a good release.
I know a lot of people are upset it's not
four K. Doesn't bother me. It's not something that I
needed to be in four K.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
Yeah, I definitely find a lot of there's a lot
of things I feel like I will I will settle with.
You know, I've wrestled with like you know, Nightmare and
Elm Street. You know, upgrade to four K, but like
the old Blu ray doesn't look all that great, so
maybe we'll see. Yeah, do I care though? Do I care?
Because beyond three, I mean, I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
I mean two and a half years ago, I watched
all eight of them in the theater in one day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
So I and how did you? How did you feel
about the latter half of the of the films? I
made diminishing return.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Sure, but the odd ones are great one three, Devin, Yeah,
they're pretty fun.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
What is the moment the girl with the bug arms
when she's doing the weightlifting. It's got the Tornado O'Connor song. Five.
I like that one. I do like that one.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I don't remember which one at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
I got you very off topic. I'm sorry, No, I
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
And yeah, I do want to throw out Kevin Jenkins
saying does Pedro Pescal ever sleep? He's in everything. I
realized this week that I'm going to see a movie
with Pedro pescal and It this weekend. And that's the
third one in like five weeks that I've seen him
in in the theater. That's brand new. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
I feel like there was nineties actors that might have
had that kind It was like Billy Bob Thornton kind
of show up and everything for like a hot like decade,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Sure, but he wasn't starring in like true, every big
film for three weeks in a row, and everybody's saying
that that movie you're looking for is Part four.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
It's Dreammaster already, Harlan. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
That's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
So here's one of those other Warner Archive collections. This
one is the Errol Flynn Collection. This one has six films,
and yes it is proportional. This one is sixty dollars
to pre order right now. This one has Robin Hood, Seahawk,
Santa Fe Trail, Edge of Darkness, Objective, Burma, and Don
jah Are Adventures of Don Juan. Yeah, I think out

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of these, I've only seen Robin Hood.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
But I like ten bucks of film though. For ten
bucks of film, like it's crazy, Like this is this
is why I'm always broke.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Bro Six classics for sixty bucks. That's pretty great.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Oh man, that's awesome. Well, this is the one I
was waiting for. This one. Here look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
This is maybe the most exciting of them, especially if
you don't have any of these movies. So another war
Archives on September two of World Without End Attack of
the Fifty Foot Woman, The Beast from twenty Thousand Fathoms
and Them. This is this is a great set. I
think I've seen three out of these four. Them is
a classic.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Odet and is just unbelievable. I have great memories of
watching that on TV with my family when I was young. Yeah,
that is a really great film.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
And again, forty bucks for great HD releases of these
four movies is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Kind of amazing. Absolutely, I'm stoked on it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Over in Germany on October twenty third, you can pick
up a four K steel book of Child's Play, or
a four K media book of Child's Play, or a
four K media book of Child's Play. These are all
coming from Cape Light, who do pretty good work. They've
screwed up a couple of discs, so for something like this,

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they're probably using literally like the exact same material as
Screen Factory, So don't expect like some sort of fixed
problem type of disk or anything like that. It's probably identical.
No new extras on this, but it is subtypled in English,
and that is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
I like media books. I don't have any, but I
always like if I get into that, then there's going
to be an even greater issue than there already is,
you know, I mean, shelf space has rapidly become a problem.
I'm sure that most people who haven't built their own
shelves can relate to that. It's like buying any kind

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of prefab off of Amazon recently has been really prohibitive.
It's like crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Yeah, it's it's not great. I mean, prices skyrocketing on
those since the pandemic stuff at least doubled for shelf space.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Yeah, I'm for sure a lot of that stuff is
coming from I mean, I don't know what the situation
with tariffs is, but it seems like every time I
want to buy something, there's one involved.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
If I need something that they start the tariff right
before me, right that day.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Next up, Keno Classics on September sixteenth, they're putting out
a blu ray of matchin in Uniform from nineteen fifty eight.
This is a milestone of queer cinema, and this is
supposed to be great. I know that there was a
earlier version of this, I think from the late thirties
or early forties. That it's supposed to be really great,

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and I'm just I'm glad this is coming out. I
have not seen this version, but I've heard nothing but
great things. Oh there it is, nineteen thirty one is
the original one?

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
There it is. I think the great thing about Keno's
massive slate is that it allows them to do a
lot of stuff like this and things that are like silence.
Like I worked on a big collection of made in
New Jersey. I need that set. Yeah, those were very cool,
you know, and just that's something that I'm not sure
a lot of places would take a chance on, you know,

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but they have the size to do that kind of thing,
and it's important. Those things are important as much as like,
you know, I need like the greatest chunkiest edition of
the shot on video horror film from you know, two
thousand and one. I also need a nice collection of
silence and things that it's just a nice I think,

(01:33:21):
how to cleanse the talent and balance things out sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
Yeah, it's it's absolutely needed.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Good call.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Next up is Angry Harvest, coming as part of the
Chino Classics line, also on September sixteenth on Blu Ray.
This is from nineteen eighty five and not a movie
I've ever seen, but this was nominated for the Oscar
for Best Foreign Language Movie that year and is supposedly
again really great. This one has an audio commentary by
Bill Gabierri if you've never heard any of the work
from Bilga, some great great film critique that I really

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want to highlight here because this is a movie that
probably needs the context, and I imagine the commentary on
this is astounding cool. Going to our next one, We've
got a film called Ildno, also known as The Gift
from two thousand and three, coming from Keno on September
twenty third. This is a four K restoration, has a

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trailer on here. Not a film that I'd ever heard of,
but it is one that looks really important. Definitely curious
in checking us out, I wanted to read Nazi Ronnie's
comment here. The Nazis tried to destroy the original match
In in Uniform because it was a lesbian movie, but it

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miraculously survived.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, that's awesome. That's the kind
of film preservation man that like you could really really
get behind.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Exactly. As part of Keno Distribution, Cohen Media Group is
releasing Unicorns from twenty twenty three. This is starring Ben
Hardy and Jason Battel has a trailer on here. I
had heard that this movie was good, but again, one
do you don't get to see one of these in
some festival runs. These get very difficult to see. So

(01:35:06):
I'm glad that somebody like Coen is putting some time
and energy into releasing it because I wanted to see
this and it sounds really great. It's the same producing
team that did The Kids Are All Right and Broke
Back Mountain, and it's supposed to be great nice. This
is a big deal for so many people. First off,
crazy cover on this release. September thirtieth, Keno is releasing

(01:35:30):
a four K of Yorgos Lanthemos's Dog Tooth from two
thousand and nine. They had had this on Blu Ray
for quite some time, but this got a brand new
HDR Dolby Vision Master, all supervised by your Ghos, and
it looks to be an incredible release. The theatrical screenings
have gotten good reviews and all that. This is also
gonna have a booklet, which Quino does not do a

(01:35:52):
ton of. There's an interview with Yorgos in that booklet
that Letterbox did and then on the extras on the
four K disc. There's an audio commentary with a few
people on there that there is a archival commentary, and
then there is a blu ray of special features as well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
I feel like this is a must if I remember right,
I believe this is.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
The first Yrgos film to get to four K. I
haven't seen any of his work, so I definitely need
to catch up, right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Yeah, knowing some of the stuff that you like, I
really feel like this would probably be.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Your jan It's been highly recommended to me, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
He makes what on a very understated way of selling
this to you. He makes weird movies. I like weird movies, Right,
That's a must. Yeah, people need to see this. This
is the most random thing I've seen from Keno in
at least twelve seconds. September thirtieth, they're putting out the

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Lake Trilogy from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two. This
is Slovenian and it is a crime drama series on
the novels of Tadej Globe. It is in many ways
Slovenia's Alpine answer to the Nordic noir craze, a cinematic
police procedural and a scenic winter landscape with a dark

(01:37:12):
and troubled protagonist. Yeah, this sounds really interesting. It's got
a really great bunch of cinematography that is just not
anything I get to see living in the middle of
Kansas City. But the old murder mysteries are always fun. Absolutely,
and what a wild poster. It's just a dude reflecting

(01:37:35):
on a lake. I will take it. But yeah, he
definitely looks cold out there. Going to our next one,
another Keto title through RaRo. On September thirtieth, they are
putting out the forty four Specialist. This is also known
as Mark Strikes Again and so yes, this is a

(01:37:58):
sequel and they have not released the first one, nor
does it matter, nor the second one. I believe this
is the third one, which is hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Is this like Leonard Part six? In a way? In
a way?

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
We got an audio commentary by Rachel Nisbitt on this.
Glad they're putting us out. This is probably a good
time to announce and share. I believe Rero has quietly
canceled the last title they announced. I am trying to
do some research on that, so I will share if
I can find something else soon. We talked about that
about a month ago, but now it has quietly disappeared

(01:38:36):
from every site on the internet. So we shall see
going to the next one Hammer, so we spent some
time talking about Kuiter Mass. Their next four K title
is The Man in Black from nineteen fifty. Is this
one that you are excited about, Blake?

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
Yeah, these smaller ones, the smaller Hammer special editions like Shatter,
Foresighted Triangle. I haven't gotten any, so I haven't seen
them even really in the wild, but I want every
last one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
So these smaller ones, they are much smaller than the
ones that Blake and I shared earlier. They're less than
I think half the size of those, and these are
This is a two disc release, specifically, it's got a
four K disc and a Blu ray disc. And just
to share how much work Hammer puts into these, this
has English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles. What other

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boutique label is doing that for their releases.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
I'll tell you one thing I wouldn't want to see that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Well, and if that's not enough, that you have to
check in five different languages, two brand new commentaries, lots
of new interviews, lots of new featurettes, visual essays, plus
a giant booklet, like there is so much.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
Yeah, they really, I mean it's it's just like I
go on the site and I want to buy like
every last thing that they have, like I pretty much.
You know, when the Anchor Babe Boutique DVD explosion started,
you had a lot of Hammer films getting snapped up
in that wave, you know what I mean. And that

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was a lot of my you know, the vhs even
they had vhs dragging the Prince of Darkness. I remember
doing the Clamshell releases if you remember those. And so
the Hammer stuff was really like when I started collecting
the stuff that I started buying first, and it was
very much it brought me back like I had seen
a lot of the stuff on television when I was younger,

(01:40:30):
but didn't really know you know what I mean. You'd
always catch something on broadcast halfway through, you know. But
all of it is just that there's a lot, I mean,
there's definitely a lot of Hammer films that are boring
kind of you know what I mean, But these aren't
any of them that I've seen so far.

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
Yeah, I like that that's a good way to say,
because yeah, there are quite a few Hammer films that are.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
A couple of snoozers in there, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Well forgettable, there's probably the kindest way to say that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
I still, you know, and I feel like I like
to revisit things though every couple of years, you know,
and your attitudes towards things always change, you know, And
things I did not like at all before are things
that I like a lot now. And so you know,
maybe you think it's boring when you're a gore hound
and you're just looking for Fulty movies and stuff like that,

(01:41:20):
but you revisit it as an adult, it's like, oh,
this is actually pretty cerebral and cool. You know. I
don't know if I would have like connected something with
like quator Mass Experiment like I did watching it now,
you know, if I watched it when I was seventeen.
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Yeah, Well, and the reality at least for me. I'm
not trying to speak on your behalf too, but when
I watch things, I just go through cycles. So sometimes
on a Wednesday, I might think it's boring, but a
month later BE like, oh, it's Tuesday. This movie is
fantastic now.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
And I always refer to it as like the the QC.
Stockholm syndrome two is like, sometimes sometimes I'll watch something
I'm like, I hated that, Like damn, I hate that movie.
It sucks, you know what I mean. And then like
I go through the commentary, I go through the extras,
then I watch it in Italian and then I'm like, oh, no,

(01:42:12):
it doesn't suck. I just didn't understand it at all
the first time, or I didn't have the context to
necessarily get what I was looking at, you know, And
I think, you know, not everybody. I don't know if
I would if I had the time, if I was
just watching stuff for fun, to be like, yeah, I'm
gonna fully explore this movie I hate, you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Like, but but you know, sometimes when you do it
for work, it could be a very positive experience because
I feel like, well, I asked you before about how
you rate your films on Letterbox and I can't remember.
I was listening to a commentary once and for work,
of course, and they were talking about how on Letterbox

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they always start with a three star rating because like,
you made a movie, you did something phenomenal and hard,
you know what I mean. All of the nuance in
my rating is between three and five you know what
I mean, Unless I really hate it, then I'll give
it a hard one, you know what I mean. And
that's rare. That's rare. You know, it's rare that I
really really hate something.

Speaker 2 (01:43:13):
Yeah, that's that's pretty close to exactly how I do it.
And on that note, I know what you did last summer.
I got a solid three.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
Didn't give it a little bit, yeah, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
The whole QC fatigue experience with some of these is
so real. I mean not to like pause in the
middle of the announcements for just a minute, But a
couple months ago I shared on here that I had
that giant accident basically while I was in LA where
my wife and I both lost our laptops and they
were ruined. And I was in the middle of qcing
Asylum at the time that that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
My god, that was a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
I was running up against the deadline, lost my computer,
and so I was in there trying to get it done.
I had two visual essays that I was about to
turn in and this QC that were all roughly at
like sixty percent complete, and so getting back into getting
it done when I was already past the deadline, and
I didn't want Severn pissed at me. I was working
at like one o'clock in the morning, going, Nope, I

(01:44:12):
gotta do this. Like you see, you have to be
completely one hundred percent in I think I watched the
end of that movie. I'm not kidding, maybe like eleven times.

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
Yeah, and and like we can get into it when
you're done, But it's it's not it's not work that
you can force, do you know what I mean? Because
like you you really have to be like one hundred
percent when you and and and it's really easy to
get fatigued really fast, you know. And I know we
talked about that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
But yeah, yeah, if we got more time at the end,
we can throw more in there back you say, yeah, crazy,
But first we got to talk about this edgy motherfucking
release uh A Dark Sky. As part of their Dark
Sky Selects line, they're putting out a blu ray steel
book of Faces of Death, that movie that your brother's

(01:44:58):
friend showed you in nineteen ninety two because he found
it under a blanket in his best friend's van. This
thing gets a brand new extra on here called many
Faces of Death, and nothing else new except for the
packaging overall, I don't want to try to steer anybody
into buying this or not buying this. But one note

(01:45:20):
is I have heard that if you want all of
the Faces of Death films, you may just want to
wait a little bit longer and see if something were
to happen in the world, because you might be hearing
more about the series soon.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
Yeah, I feel like I would. There's a nostaligia factor
that makes you want to revisit this, but maybe one time.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
Yeah, I don't know about owning this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Like you know, it's of course most of it is
just stage or you know, it's like a Mondo film,
an American Mondo film. I guess. Yeah, I don't know
if I feel an inclination to own it. But it
is a very attractive looking steel book. Tho'll look at that.
The inside artwork is very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Very very very classic and evocative of this title.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Let's go over some of the Severn stuff after the
rest of the announcements. We're gonna cover all this in
just a minute, so I'm gonna skip over that indicator
put out some crazy looking titles just this morning. First
one is plot of fear. This is getting a four
K and blu ray release over in the UK on
October twenty second.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Not a US release. This is a.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Film that's going to get a new commentary with Eugenie
Orkilani and Troy Howarth interview with the first ad on
this film, new presentation of an interview from twenty thirteen,
a bunch of newly edited stuff. Eugenie orka Lani really
kind of crushed the extras on both of these. He
did so much. Eighty page booklet with new essays, some

(01:46:50):
really good stuff. And then to go with it, they
got Franco Niro in Hitchhike.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
From that movie is a that's a great movie. I
highly recommend this one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
This is the big winner of these two. I love
this movie. Uh. This is also four K and blu ray,
also coming in the UK only also on October twenty second.
Lots of new extras from Eugenio again some really great
looking stuff. Tell the world about Hitchhike.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
Yeah, I will be snapping this one up. It is.
I feel like it's a good double feature with the
with the Bava film. Yeah what is it Babby Dogs
or has another name too? Yeah it does. Yeah, something
like that. Yeah, I like this is a double feature,
very kind of cool Italian road movie with Well David

(01:47:37):
has sprinkled in here, right, isn't he in the one?
He is one? Yeah, so he's always as we discussed
earlier just on eleven that guy. Yeah, different, a different
breed dude.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Yeah, this this is a This is a pretty big deal.
This is gonna look incredible. Franco Nero just being amazing
in this movie. Also, it's a more more coney soundtrack.
You pretty much have to have it at that point.
So yeah, I think this is a beautiful piece of
cover art too.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
All of their stuff I have, I'm, you know, a
big Genrelyn guy, and I have all of the Indicator
stuff that they've put out so far, and just gorgeous
special editions. I've bought those films so many times now.
I bought them on laser disc and the original DVDs
and then again on blue ray. I finally had finished

(01:48:27):
the collection from Kino when these ones started getting announced.
But you want to talk about four K upgrades that
like are just completely a world beyond the old scam. Yeah,
they are the rillin stuff. I mean, I thought I
was a fan before and I know now it's gorgeous, gorgeous,
like they just pop.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Yeah, they they look incredible. And then not to mention,
not to just harp on packaging, but I am a
huge fan and I happen to have not that I
play on this, Sibnard, you don't need to to comment
on that. I happen to have an indicator one right here.
This is Cardinal Knowledge that they just did on four
K over in the UK. And this is a hard
box release. Wow, look at this. It is a thin

(01:49:12):
packaging and it's got the disc and it's got a
booklet all in this hyper thin but extra like fancy
packaging to show that this is a prestige title. We're
giving it just something special and it's essentially like barely
over the size of a Blu ray and it's a
hard box release, Like this is the way to do
something like this. I love this.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Yeah, they do really nice work. The booklets included with
these two are phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
Oh man, this is hilarious. And yeah, just like Wave said,
their boxes don't take up the entire shelf. It's great.
Everybody needs to adopt that packaging. It is probably my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
I do have one gripe though one of them I
can't remember. I can't see it from here, but the
one of the real in titles, maybe two, is taller
than all the other ones. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
I think they were still getting used to it and
they were not quite right.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Like, bro, it drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
Just off the top.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Oh yeah, let's just shave a little off the top.
That'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
October seventh, in the US, we are getting a four
K steel book of Dangerous Animals that just came out
this year. This is from IFC and Shutter working together.
This is the movie that they marketed as a shark
attack film that has zero shark attacks.

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
It is. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
A lot of people hate this movie, but I thought
it was pretty fun. It is another one of those
that's not a good movie, but I had a good
time with it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
I feel like there's a lot of animal attacks films
going on right now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
For some reason, I'm getting the shark feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:50:46):
Yeah, it's sark week.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
It's not shark week. Let's not go down. The August nineteenth,
Sony as part of the Sony Pictures Classics line, they're
putting out the House of Sand from two thousand and
five not what I've seen, but it stars Fernando Torres
and this is supposedly incredible one that I had multiple
people message me about today and it sounds like I

(01:51:11):
need to pick this up because it sounds amazing. Were
you able to see this one ever?

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
I have not seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
No, for everybody that can see this on Facebook, Jeremy
is a friend. It is not my birthday. He always
does this. Thank you for moving right along. Turbine over
in Germany keeping the three D dream alive. On Luck fourteenth,
they are releasing a three pack of three D tiles

(01:51:37):
new to Blu Rays. So we've got Fast and Furious
ten or Fast X, Puss in Boots, the Last Wish
and then Trolls banded together. All of these on four
K or not four K three D for the first
time anywhere in the world. They are region free discs
and they are super high quality. Turbine does really great
work on these, and if you are just like wanting

(01:51:58):
to keep your three D dreams alive home, they do
a really like really affordable bundle on these, so if
you want all three or like if you're saying, hey,
I want to these and maybe I could do the third,
you just kind of get all three and it's cheap
and it's not a bad deal.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
Nice. I did see you put some boots. That's a
great movie. Did you like it? Of course, dude, fucking amazing.
You got an orange cap protagonist. Of course I'm gonna
like that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
Next up is The Island. This is from nineteen eighty five,
getting a Blu ray release from Eureka in the UK
on October thirteenth, North America on October fourteenth. This says
it is perhaps the most accomplished genre picture directed by
British Chinese filmmaker Po Chi Long, which I've heard is
an incredible movie. Very curious to check this one out.

(01:52:50):
It looks like a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
I had this in my cart earlier today.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
And mine right now.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
It sounds so good. It's like what like Texas Chains
or something like that they compare it to.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Yeah, it's definitely one that I need to need to
check out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
And really it's really economical. I had that and I
think Diabolical Doctor Z in my cart and it was
like fifty bucks ship for the two of them, which
really is not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Well, and keep in mind Eureka Free Worldwide shipping if
you order direct, which is yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
That's what I'm saying. That's a crazy deal. Like, I mean,
you know, they're a little more expensive even just to
order them domestically.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
Yeah, not bad, especially if you only want one somehow,
Still free shipping, no threshold, free shipping.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
How do you argue with this? The thing that was
houlding me up was I have Diabolical Doctor Z on
another disc, so knowing that I might dis order this guy, then.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
I will say, we're about to cover Diabolical Doctor Z
in like twelve seconds. But there is something on that
disc that might entice me at least, so I'm keeping
an eye on it. The Island has a new commentary
with Frank Jang and a new commentary with Mike Leader
and Art Venoma. There's an interview with the director from
twenty twenty three. This sounds like a really great, fun release,
But Diabolical Doctor Z is going to be after this one.

(01:54:08):
I forgot this one was here. October thirteenth, Blu Ray
in the UK of the Ambulance, Larry Cohen's nineteen ninety
really fun movie with Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones
that everybody should see. At least once, if not seventeen times,
because it's that good. New commentary by Steve Mitchell. Archival
commentary with Larry Cohen, moderated by Steve Mitchell. There is

(01:54:30):
a new visual essay on The Ambulance and Medical Horror
by Murray Leader. New interview with the writer Michael Doyle,
and this is great. Have you ever seen the Ambulance?

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
I have not, But Eric robertson Larry Cohen sounds like,
oh wait, no, I feel like I did see this.
This was a HBO or Cinemax, Like, yeah, dude, I
did see this one. Yeah, this is a good one
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
Yeah, it's a fun movie.

Speaker 3 (01:54:54):
But now, Eric Roberts is always a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:54:57):
Diabolical doctor Z coming out in the u UK on
Blu Ray on October twentieth. The Jess Franco film from
nineteen sixty six, Eureka, going all in on the Just
Franco titles this one on the disc we have a
commentary by Tim Lucas. We also have a new discussion
of European Gothic horror in the nineteen sixties, the Xavier

(01:55:19):
Ald Donna Rees. There's a new visual essay on Mad
Science in Gothic Horror from Mary Shelley to Jess Franco
by Sam Degan, and that is going to be a
blast to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:55:30):
That sounds awesome. I'm a big fan of the essays
these days, the visual essays and things like that. It's
like a two very nice, concise way to get your
perspective and voice heard out there. You know, it's just
like rather than perhaps a full commentary or you know,
I mean, I know that, Like I myself am trying
to get more into reading booklets and minor notes because

(01:55:52):
there's just so much information in there, you know. But
the visual essay it's a great way to get that across,
I agree fully.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Over in Germany on November fifth, you can get a
four K steel book of the Silence of the Lambs,
or a four K media book of the Silence of
the Lambs, or a four K media book of the
Silence of the Lambs. Yes, for the record, that is
the second time I've been able to do that in
the last minutes. This is also coming from Cape Light
Over There no new extras. This is likely the arrow restoration,

(01:56:21):
so it's probably gonna look great. This is primarily if
you didn't get the Arrow four K limited edition, and
you're like, man, I've always wanted this in a steel
book with a completely different language than I speak on
the cover, Or I really like the media book art
and I really want a booklet attached to a film
that I can't read in German. Yeah, this is a
great option for you. Another German title, So many of

(01:56:47):
those this week play on. On October twenty, Second is
releasing a four K media book of Argento's Phantom of
the Opera from nineteen ninety. This is not the cover art.
This is just one of the posters that was used
on the film. But this is pretty widely regarded as
the worst Argento film. Have you seen this?

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
Yeah? It is. It is most certainly the beginning of
where it starts to get not great. Now. I know
there's some highlights in there, Sleepless, I feel like things
like that, but this is where I started to drop
off as a fan. I think, you know, I'm again,
maybe this is something that if I revisit it now
I might have a better appreciation for for what it is.

(01:57:31):
But you know, I remember it looks looking really bad,
like maybe that was just that was just the DVD
release at the time. But maybe I just feel like
there's a lot of like subpart cinematography, I feel like,
and a lot of the later Argento films, And I
don't know if that's just a product of like that

(01:57:52):
era of straight to video, like even like Trauma is
a little you know, you know, like yeah, and are
used to the Garris lighting in the Argento style of
course his younger years. You're not going to eat it's
like what you know, but you just I feel like
you see that in general with kind of Italian films
as they kind of get into that mid to later

(01:58:14):
eighties period or early nineties, you know, things get very drab. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
So in the comments, wave is saying a terrible Argento
film and VS isn't releasing it. I guess there's always
time for them to put it out. So here's the joke.
We found out during Subscriber Week just this month that
in the second half of twenty twenty five, Vinegar Syndrome
is releasing a four K of in Argento film. I
would not be surprised in any way if it was

(01:58:41):
this fanom of the opera, considering we've not heard anything
about this being upgraded. This was released previously by Scorpion,
So this is probably able to be licensed in the
US because that was at least five years ago. So
theoretically that could be the one that we're seeing coming
at the end of the year. There's also the quite

(01:59:02):
high chance that it is the card Player. That would
not surprise me in any way, or not the card Player. Sorry,
that just happened, Sleepless, that's the other way. Sleepless. For
some reason thinks.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
Are they all like the same production company, like, because
they're kind of a similar era, right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
Yeah, similar era. I believe they all have historically been licensed,
like in a bundle, if you're going to get one,
you're going to get all of them. So it would
not surprise me for sure. All Right, only a few
things left. Like I said, we'll come back to the
Severn stuff. September twenty third, Kino putting out French Without
Tears from nineteen forty. This is a Ray Milan film.

(01:59:42):
This has a new audio commentary by Gary Garani. I'm
assuming this is not a family classic that you've seen
seventy two times.

Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
No, it is not.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
Yeah, same here. Had never heard of this before this week,
and I don't know anything about it. So we'll talk
about that later. We got to replacement program that probably
isn't going to affect too many of you. But Warner
Archive is having some trouble with their High Society release.
If you remember, we already talked about the fact that
many of these went out without slipcovers, and they were like, hey,
we're so sorry. If you want a slipcover, even if

(02:00:14):
you didn't buy it, email us and we'll send you
a slipcover. Which, for the record, nobody's gotten a slipcover
yet that I know of, so hey, Warner Archive, you
should probably send those. But also they have found that
one of the batches of the discs was pausing and
skipping at seventeen minutes and forty seven seconds. So if
your copy does that, you will need to email disc

(02:00:35):
services at allied von dot com. If yours does not
do that, you should not email them just to get
another copy of that four K disc for free. So,
just for the record, check your release. You may want
to check it out.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
QC.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
How does that work? Hey blick.

Speaker 3 (02:00:56):
Yeah, I mean a lot of this stuff I feel
like that I've been seeing recently. I mean, there are
definitely things that I've seen that have happened on the
end that would have been things, you know, that we
would have caught. But mostly I'm seeing stuff that's like
replication and you know, like stuff that's happening and at
the manufacturing and you know, like, you know, I feel

(02:01:18):
like at least you know, with I mean seven, you know,
there's several layers of us watching things, you know, and
we have Todd, our fearless QC leader, who really has
like the eagle eye, and working with him has been
such a learning experience that dude is like on it,
you know what I mean. But there's a couple of
us watching everything, and you know, I mean, I know

(02:01:41):
a lot of the smaller labels, you know, I've kind
of like stepped in to help them with things sometimes
and they're working with like really short turn around times.
Like I got asked to do something today and they're like,
can we have it like tomorrow? Like no, you know
what I mean, But I could definitely get it as
fast as I can, you know. But you know that's

(02:02:05):
like I said, I feel like and really, you know,
I feel like it's important to say I only speak
for myself. I'm freelance, you know what I mean. I
don't represent any companies and things like that, but it
just seems like the majority of things happen, you know
that I've been seeing. You know, there's there's definitely been
one or two things that I've seen that you know,
that might have or should have been caught on the

(02:02:25):
other end. But there's the things that are so hard too,
you know what I mean. Like it's just you see
how you could watch something a thousand times and then
on the thousand and first time find something new, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Yeah, yeah, considering I watched the second half of Asylum
eleven times.

Speaker 3 (02:02:45):
Yeah yeah, and it really it is like trying to
identify deal breakers, you know, or disc breakers. I mean,
that's that's constantly what I'm trying to do is break
the disc you know, when I get it, at the
point that I get disc emulation phase, I am trying
to break it, you know what I mean. Like I
am just like you know, going through everything, stopping it,
going back, pop up menu, this, that, back out, you

(02:03:08):
know what I mean, Like, and you will break them sometimes,
you know what I mean. Like, So that's.

Speaker 2 (02:03:13):
Yeah, the QC stuff is not able to be overstated enough.
How much work goes into some of these I mean
we're talking the entire disc being looked through for some
of these companies, like upwards of thirty plus times, with
different people on different setups, with different TVs, different players,
checking for different.

Speaker 3 (02:03:33):
Things, and it's impossible to like, you know, create every scenario.
Like I'm a video game guy too, you know, I
love video games and and things like Bethesda games which
are so complex but always broken. You know, those things
could be fixed, you know, you know kind of after
the fact. You can't really fix the disc after the

(02:03:55):
fact that unless it's like a replacement program, which gets prohibitive,
and you know, you know, it's it's great. I see
so much in the boutiques where they're really for the
most part on it, like we're as a major. It's
like some things that never got fixed, you know what
I mean. As I've tried to go through and sell
off kings like Blu rays and DVD's older releases, you

(02:04:17):
find out like, oh, well this had a flaw and
if you didn't get the you didn't get the replacement
just then, Like I can't sell that to somebody. I
can't know only now you know what I mean, Like
sell a flawed to somebody.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
That is true. We got one more that is not
Severn and then we will get into the seven stuff.
On September thirtieth, Neon and Dekel are working together to
put out a four K of the Life of Chuck
from this year and so also get a Blu ray release.
This is a Stephen King story that was made into
a film by Mike Flanagan, starring at Tom Hidlston che

(02:04:50):
would tell Edgy four, Karen Gill and Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill,
a bunch of other faces that you recognize. This is
one of my favorite films of the year. This movie
was profound love this movie. Audio commentary from Flannagan on
the disc. We've got a making a feature atte exclusive
onset interviews with a bunch of the actors, trailers, teasers
and they say and more, which sounds great. This is

(02:05:13):
This is absolutely an astounding movie and if you missed it,
because it was easy to miss it, you should try
to make time to watch this movie.

Speaker 3 (02:05:20):
It is glorious. I heard you talking about the cinematography
and stuff in it the other day, I believe on
one of your pods and some of the some of
the you said some of the shots that he gets
away with and stuff, and it is pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
Yeah, he does stuff that I've never seen somebody try
to do in a movie. And it's just I don't know,
it's it's one of those movies that you watch and
at least for me, I watched and felt like in
awe and not just like, oh, this is a beautiful shot.
I'm amazed that they could do this like one of
those where it actually made me feel like small in

(02:05:53):
the universe while watching it like that, I loved. I
had a great time with it. All right, So that
is it for this week, really quickly, in case you
have forgotten, here's what is coming out next week. We've
got some big ones. Gonna skip over some of the
VS stuff since most people have had those shipped already.

(02:06:14):
We've got a Spinter Repet Detective four K from Shout
Billy Madison four K from Keno, the Thunderbolts four K,
Steel Book and Blu Ray and all that standard and
whatever standard four K, all that coming from Disney to
Catch a Thief four K coming as well the beyond
standard four K, which is I believe pretty much identical

(02:06:34):
to the limited four K at least in terms of
the discs. The packaging is a little different. I believe
that's finally getting out there and shipping. The Venetian scheme
four K. The new Wes Anderson is out there. We've
got They Died with Their Boots On from one our archive,
the jet Leek collection. This is the first of that
new Golden Princess titles that Shout is putting out that

(02:06:55):
is going to be out there. This looks great. Cannot
wait to get mine in. We've got Faded to Black
four K from Screen Factory finally releasing. Nobody is getting
another four K release. We've got Hiding Out in four
K the John Cryer title from Keno.

Speaker 3 (02:07:11):
I love that movie.

Speaker 2 (02:07:13):
Have you never seen it?

Speaker 3 (02:07:14):
Oh? Great, dude, it is. That's another HBO eighties classic.
It's like this great scene where I think he's like
on the run from the mob and he's like in
you know, kind of on his own, decides it like
disguise himself as a high school student, and you know,
he's got this scene where he's like in the office
and like what's your name? And he's looked at a
can of coffee. He's like, it's Maxwell Houser and they

(02:07:37):
just like go with it. It's like the original Kaiser Susday.
It's amazing. It's totally totally worth a watch. That's that.
And you know what really needs a release is Morgan
stort Is Coming Home. Have you ever seen that one?

Speaker 7 (02:07:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:07:50):
Yeah, that's another John Cryer, I believe, and he's like
a gorehound obsessed with like George Romero in the film.
I found it on the on the internet archives not
that long, but that's begging for a release for sure.
Very nice.

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
Some more Warner archive this week we got Nights to
the Roundtable and the Cobweb from nineteen fifty five. Kind
of really long awaited titles. Tear Vision stuff will finally
be releasing over the next few days to the subscribers
and then the wholesalers. We've got Suddenly in the Dark
and the other titles Children of Violent Rome and The
Devil's Sword that people have been waiting on. Suddenly the

(02:08:25):
Dark has been the cursed title that people have been
waiting on since January finally going out. This has had
multiple QC problems that we were just talking about that
happened in manufacturing, and then there were some other issues.
One of them we caught it in QC, went to
go fix it, and then all of the SINC went
out for some reason when we fixed it.

Speaker 3 (02:08:42):
So that's been like that. I mean, that's another thing too, right,
There's so many moving parts that texting one might throw
everything else out.

Speaker 2 (02:08:50):
Yep, Super Nightmare, Gotta love It, curdled on four K
from Keno this week as well, Prisoner of Zenda from
Warner Archive, The Castle and Blow of Fu Manchu four
K releases from Blood from Blue Underground. Oh, Blood Underground.
That's a crazy title arcade from full Moon this week.
We've got Terrifying Girls High School, a couple of those

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coming out from Disco Tech, Bright Leaf from Warner Archive
this week, All Years from Film Masters, Common Writer X
from Disco Tech as well, Brainstorm from Warner Archive, Melinda
from More Archive, one that I really need to pick
up two weeks with Love from More Archive as well,
the Diabolic Trilogy from Keno Lorber.

Speaker 3 (02:09:31):
We have I think one or two more that I
wanted to bring up.

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
Oh yeah, Rust, the Alec Baldwin film getting its studio
release this week. If you were after that one, and
then of course all of the titles that we were
talking about earlier with the seven stuff and then Mondo
Keyhole from the Psychotronica line that I shared at the beginning.
Lots of stuff coming out next week. Pretty exciting dang week.
But tonight is about the Severn sales. So let me

(02:10:00):
let me switch back to what I was going to
share for our bundles, because we have not gone through
all of the bundles yet.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:10:12):
A lot to share. Let's go through the policies real quick.
So this starts tonight. Sale will be going until eleven
nine pm on let's see where is Tuesday, seven twenty
or sorry, twelve one am on Tuesday, so basically Monday

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night going into Tuesday, the sale will stop. In this sale,
we have ten brand new titles, fifty percent off of
most everything Severin and Intervision except for the stuff that's
come out in the last nine months. And then that
of course includes the stuff that is brand new to
this sale slate four k UHD upgrade on Sunday. Those
are the four titles we already discussed. There will be

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new merch items Saturday will be a box at sale.
Will talk about those in just a minute. There will
be a bunch of merch that is on sale. There
will be a bunch of titles on sale for the
first time that we have not seen before, like Cemetery
Man that Blake called out earlier, The Devil's Honey four K,
The Church four K, The Sect four K, Butcher Baker,

(02:11:17):
Nightmare Maker four K, the Mad Bomber, Blu Ray, lots
of titles that have come out in the last nine
months the people have wanted and now will be on
sale for the first time. This is where a lot
of people are gonna get a lot of bang out
of their buck. Severn's Box Sale Saturday Sale. This will
be from midnight to midnight all day July twenty sixth.

(02:11:37):
The ones that are gonna be on sale all the
Haunts Byres Volume one, The Lensie Baker Collection, Cushing Curry Curiosities,
Donze Macabra Volumes One through three, The Dungeon of Andy Milligan,
The Eurocrip of Christopher Lee Volumes one and two, Game
of Clones, the Bruce Floitation Set, House of Psychotic Women,
The Ray Dennis Steckler Box Set, the Non Exploitation set

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that you talked about earlier. Then we've got the Black
Menuel Box and the Lenzi Milan collection. Lots and lots
of box sets going on sale. Any of those that
you want to shut up before we go to the
next bundle, that's part of the seal.

Speaker 3 (02:12:15):
Yeah, for sure. Actually, of course, like one of my
picks for the sale, if you're going to buy anything,
for sure would be my absolute favorite, The Central World
of Black Menuel.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
Yeah, go into it, tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:31):
This set is just it was. When I started working
with Andrew, I feel like I would ask about this
all the time, like when do we have to black menul?
When do we do with Black men? Well? You know,
and then finally, you know, I started to work on
some of the titles and see a lot of stuff
I'd never seen. You know. First of all, I mean

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the book in this thing, look at this all right,
I mean that is just that in itself. You got
a little rundown of the films, all kinds of like
essays and the thing that I like about this, these
films kind of would have been lost. I feel like
if it weren't for a serious critical feminist reevaluation of

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the films themselves, because it would be so easy to
dismiss them as just exploitation films and there's so much
more going on there, you know, and appreciating, you know,
Laura Gemzer as like the female James Bond like of
the time, Like they're like traveloge films, like you can
watch that that is a summer vacation in a box.

(02:13:37):
You will go all over the world, you know what
I mean. And it's just such a I mean, what
a monumental feat to track down all of those films
and find the best quality sources that you can find,
and they look beautiful, you know my pick for the
ten just the the the restoration on it is just

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mind blowing. You can just I feel like when you're
so accustomed to seeing this stuff. I either saw it
on cable, you know, like through an old TV, you know,
all the coaxial cable like TV, or I saw I
saw a VHS tape, you know, a rental tape that
had been rented a thousand times or later I saw

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you know, third fourth generation bootleg VHS tapes of these films,
something like a Manuel on the Last Cannibals, you know,
like which is a classic. You know, you'd always to
buy a bootleg of that at the conventions for years,
and then you see it cleaned up and in the
context of the other films, and just with all the
analysis that's on there, and like the commentaries, there's just
so much to dive into and you'll walk away from it.

(02:14:41):
Like I mean, I feel like seven puts so much
into the extras in so much like comprehensive material that
each disc is almost like a film school in a box.
Like if you really want to know something about an
you know, a film or a director or a creative team.
I mean, like you you can you could probably write
a doctoral thesis by going through the extras on a

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few of the discs, you know what I mean. And
that is like no slatch. That is such a great set.
It's just the design. It's heavy as hell as you
might know, right, you know, like I noticed it was
getting marks and it from being on the shelf we
like right here because it was like front facing. So
it's just because it's just so heavy. But then you
got the little wheel, you know, the term. I don't

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know if I want to turn it too much because
it's I don't know what's going to pop up on YouTube,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, what a great box set.
And of course all the haunts is you know, the
full core stuff. Eyes of Fire alone in that set
is just such a great film. And again, you just

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that box set has such a witchy vibe to it. Man,
you can like just dive into all the extras, the
short films, a little like you know, a little animated things.
There's just so much to love about it. But when
it comes to box sets like seven really like they
nail it. You know. We some of the stuff that
I've worked on for them just is just like I mean,

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Steckler was kind of coming together when I first started
with them, you know, it was just there's so much
in there, like it's crazy. It's again, you want a
comprehensive director box set, you know, there's quite a few.

Speaker 2 (02:16:24):
Yeah, And one of the easy ways to get some
of those is during that box set sale. But also
if you love some other stuff, they got some crazy bundles.
So this time we've got what is called the Fistful
of Finns Bundle. This is going to be the four
Italian shark exploitation titles that they got. So you got
The Shark Hunter, You've got Monster Shark, you got Night
of the Sharks, and then you've got the Shark book

(02:16:47):
that they're putting out there. I said four shark exploitation,
I definitely meant three. And then you also get the
slipcase that comes with it. That's the fourth thing. This
is a pretty good price. I think one hundred and
sixteen bucks for all three of these plus the book.

Speaker 3 (02:17:00):
Yeah, and like the box is very cool, and these
movies are just so much fun. I mean, Frank on
Neiro in The Blonde Wig, it's just that movie opens
with like he's just like cooling on the rocks, like
being a beach bomb, you know, and it's just like
this totally like he's got he's got his his fishing

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line out, and he sees he gets a little he
gets a little pole, and he goes running down and
he just like pulls up a little shark. It's just
like the most casual shark hunting beach bum because of
course it's Frank Onneiro. You can do that, you know.
And then you get Treat Williams of course in the
In the Last Shark, which is also you know, just

(02:17:41):
a phenomenal action film. It's so weird to see him
pop up in an Italian action action film.

Speaker 2 (02:17:48):
Yeah, I need I need to see that one. Yeah,
this is a good looking bundle. And then we talked
about kill List earlier. They've got this bundle with ki
List that has the four K release. It's got the
killst t shirt and then a Glow in the Dark
com manual emanual. I was thinking of black Commanuel enamel
pin with this and this thing. Sixty five bucks for
a brand new four K release and a shirt and

(02:18:09):
a pin. I mean, people used to complain about seven prices,
but I feel like they're pretty good this time.

Speaker 3 (02:18:15):
A good shirt will run you thirty five dollars most
prices now plus shipping. So yeah, that's a pretty good deal.
And I love the enamel pins. I have like a
little corkboard that I put them on the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:18:27):
And then on this little panel that I've got here.
The Baskin release is a part of the Turkish Delight bundle.
This one you get the four K release of the
film and then this art of Baskin book. Now. They
shared a little video on this, and so a little note.
If you love the world of Baskin, you need this

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companion book. They say features more than one hundred and
forty pages of rare photos, storyboards, illustrations behind the scenes,
production shots, cast and crew recollections and everything else you
want to know about this film. And best of all,
it is autographed by the director. So for sixty seven bucks,
this is a pretty cool deal too.

Speaker 3 (02:19:08):
Yeah. I mean, I liked this movie a lot. This
was something I had not even really heard of before
I watched it, and it's a lot of fun. Have
you seen it?

Speaker 2 (02:19:18):
I have seen it. I've got the screen Factory released
that they put out years ago, and I love that movie.
It's psychotic about it. It loses control kind of quickly
in a weird way, and you go, you go to
some weird places. It's a movie that's very difficult to
actually describe because man, there's some indescribable things that happened

(02:19:39):
in that movie.

Speaker 3 (02:19:40):
And again it's one that, like I feel like is
best left like kind of you know, if you can
go in too. I feel like it increases my ability
to enjoy phones so much more if I just going
completely blind, you know what I mean. Like, I'm willing
to accept it for what it is, you know, And
that one in particular has some twists and turns that
really worthwhile, some big ones.

Speaker 2 (02:20:02):
Oh yeah, the next bundle that they have is the
just the discs bundle, and so you get the ten
brand new releases, not the four K upgrades, just the
ten brand new ones that are new to the sale,
and that is Basking, four K kill Us, four K Sisters,
four K, Dead Sleep, Blu Ray, Skinheads, Blu Ray, Fearless Dragons,
Blu Ray, Ferret Vampire, Blu Ray, Monster Shark, Blue Ray,

(02:20:25):
Shark Under Blu Ray, Night of the Sharks, Blu Ray,
and then the slipcase to catch all of those shark'sploitation movies.
All of these for two hundred and sixty bucks twenty
six dollars of release is kind of incredible for brand
new releases from Severn.

Speaker 3 (02:20:41):
I think that's a great deal. I mean, man, like
I you know, like I said, I did not see
the Linda Blair film, but just about everything else that
I've seen this in this slate has been a lot
of fun.

Speaker 2 (02:20:52):
Well, and I could throw out there because we're featured
on the discs for the Linda Blair film. Yeah, it's
it's a fun movie. It's not the best Linda Blair movie,
but it is a crazy story that is all like
it's it is based on an actual doctor taking advantage
and killing people.

Speaker 3 (02:21:09):
Yeah, I listened to that. They discussed it on the
seven podcast. I listened to it earlier today and they
were talking about how is a true story. It's like,
although as much as a relaxation clinic where they put
you in new coma sounds very appealing to me. If
I could maybe get up in three and a half years,
that would be awesome, you know what I mean? But yeah,
I don't know if it would work out.

Speaker 2 (02:21:30):
So the next that they have is the Everything Bundle.
So this gets you all of the discs. It also
gets you all of uh the like little shirts and
books and all those little trinkets that are coming with
everything else for that price for all of these brand
new things, that is quite a lot of stuff to
get for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:21:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:21:51):
And then you get the four K Upgrade Bundle. This
is the Sunday for four K upgrades that we talked
about earlier. All of the for one hundred and thirty
five bucks. So basically, if you want every single thing
that Severn is doing brand new during this sale, you
need these two bundles, and yes, combine them, you're at
almost five hundred dollars and that's a ton of money.

(02:22:13):
I'm not taking that away. However, fourteen new releases, shirts, books,
enamel pins, slipcovers on most of the releases. This is
a ton of stuff. Severn is kind of doing a
massive slate here.

Speaker 3 (02:22:31):
Yeah. I always love their bundles, you know, they always
put together like the coolest little drinkets and stuff too,
you know, in the shirts. You know, we're always I
have my Steckflo shirt on right now. As a matter
of fact, you know, nice.

Speaker 2 (02:22:44):
So this is a lot. We have recommendations, but we're
only about eight minutes away, seven minutes away from the
site opening. I'm gonna stop sharing this, blake. Why don't
you run through you already talked about black and Menuil
give us well three more and then we'll see if
that gets up right up to the sale time. Then
we'll open up the sale and then we'll go through

(02:23:05):
the rest of our lists.

Speaker 3 (02:23:06):
Sure, I would recommend Midnight if you haven't seen it yet,
John Russo's Midnight, you know, being a like we talked
about this earlier, like the regional regional filmmaking, regional films,
and I think this one's great. It's got John Ampliss,
who you know, you know, from Martin Daye Dead. He

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plays like a bad cop. We got Lawrence Tierney in here,
also kind of playing like a bit of a sleeves bag,
you know. But it's a great restoration. All of the
extras are really cool. If you're like a Romero or
like Latent Image, you know, the early like Pittsburgh Filmmaker
Crew fan. I think there's a lot of stuff there
to dive into. It's a it's a great disc and

(02:23:48):
definitely you know, one to pick up on the sale, and.

Speaker 2 (02:23:52):
It's it's one that's been there for a long time,
so it will absolutely be on sale. It will probably
be pretty damn cheap too. That's one that's been a
for sure. Yeah, you're like twenty nineteen something like, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:24:03):
I mean I made sure one of my picks. Of course,
Jess Franco's Thong Girls, which is probably one of the
best movies I've seen in a long time, is not
going to be on sale today, so I made sure
that everything else is going to be and we'll have
to save that one for another another discussion.

Speaker 2 (02:24:20):
Well, even then, Thong Girls is it. I think it
was only like twenty two.

Speaker 3 (02:24:23):
Dollars on this It is the best Jess Franco movie.
I mean, like it is just so much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:24:31):
And on top of that, I think on Amazon it
was only going for like eighteen for a while, so
if you can't wait for sale, that's basically a sale price.

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
Yeah, if you're a Franco fan, you need that one.
I mean, it's just it's it's totally so different than
what I'm used to for Franco, but also kind of
like ahead of its time, like going to like a
lot of the subject matter, and it I think is
like very relevant now more so maybe than it was,
or you know, more easy to talk about. I think

(02:24:58):
it's definitely could find an audience. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:25:03):
Uh, Franco is Franco, and obviously he gets a lot
of releases, but he is I don't know, He's done
so many different things. So we'll see who gets grabbed by.
What what's your next one?

Speaker 3 (02:25:15):
I love Gwendolyn? Have you ever seen Gwendolen? This is
also by the director of The White Emmanuel, whose name
I will never believe because of course my brain does
not want to ever pronounce it like it's supposed to
be used. Yeachin, you know what I mean. But this one,

(02:25:35):
you got what Brett Hoff, Right, you know, he's amazing
in this and just it's every set piece is kind
of like you know, you know how White e Manuel
very much is like very because because us is like
a photographer, so he's got very great Nissan san In
this movie in particular, it's just very like kind of gaudy,

(02:25:57):
you know what I mean, definitely ridiculous, over the top,
like I'm not even sure what it's about sometimes, you
know what I mean? But what a great watch Man.
That movie is just so much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:26:08):
I am kind of shocked they have not upgraded that
one to four K yet. This is another one of
those that's like a quintessential Severn title.

Speaker 3 (02:26:16):
It definitely feels like it, you know, the threat of
one liners throughout it too, or just like amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:26:22):
Yeah, if you were making a list of Like when
I think of Severn, I think of these ten titles,
I feel like Gwendolyn kind of has to be on
there because it was a foundational one.

Speaker 3 (02:26:30):
For them for sure. For sure.

Speaker 2 (02:26:32):
All right, let's do let's do one more and then
I will share one of mine after.

Speaker 3 (02:26:36):
That cool staying in that vein kind of I would
do massacre in Dinosaur Valley. This one has it all.
It's got a little Indiana Jones, it's got a little Cannibals,
it's got a little plane crash. It's clearly like just
kind of rolling a camera in an office space with
fake windows and they're like putting up against the trees
like it's just and Michael Softkeev also is just a

(02:27:00):
another quite essential Severin Staple actor you know from After
the Fall of New York. He's kind of Brett Huffish,
you know, the quipping American guy who's not quite sure
why he's there, but he's just gonna wise crack his
way through it.

Speaker 2 (02:27:15):
It's a good, good choice, good choice. This is a
fun one. I've not watched this one, I think since
it came out, and I got to be honest, I
don't remember a lot of this movie. I need to
see it though. Again. The one I'm gonna shout out,
which we talked about just a minute ago before I
talk about another full title because we kind of already
mentioned this. Spider Labyrinth will absolutely be on sale. And yes,

(02:27:38):
I'm on the disc with Will, But have you got
an ending forget forget me being on the disc. This
movie is amazing It is essentially a just weird, weird
setting over in Budapest, and we've got an individual that's
gone over there from the US to investigate some things,
and things just start to get a little weird. The

(02:28:01):
townspeople are starting to be at a place and suddenly
it is a just special effects masterpiece of an ending
that I love so so much.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
The last of that movie, you'll have your jaw, hang
it off your face.

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
It may be a climactic moment.

Speaker 3 (02:28:21):
And like that. That's a film that I had not
heard of before, and like, you know, I've considered myself
fairly well versed in the European and Italian stuff and like,
you know, all right, what's this all about? But boy, yeah, yeah,
that's that's a payoff, buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:28:36):
The other one to go a little depressing after that.
This is a title that Severn's had got way longer
than twenty nineteen. I think it was like a twenty
seventeen title. This is the documentary The Killing of America.
This is a documentary from nineteen I think it's eighty one,
and it's essentially about like gun control and how we've

(02:28:58):
sensationalized violence in a lot of things and it's a really,
really great narrative on here, Sibner saying, the site is live,
so I will refresh here we go. So I'm going
to check out some of this and show everybody some
sales prices. But while I finished that, we'll talk about
Killing of America, because it is a really great movie,

(02:29:19):
a good documentary, one that is important and sadly still
incredibly relevant. Man, this is their seventy five percent offset.

Speaker 3 (02:29:30):
Wow, I look at this, man, there's some great stuff
in here.

Speaker 2 (02:29:34):
Six and seven dollars on.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
First of all, if you don't have Overboard four ninety nine,
now is your chance. I mean, I would snap that
up in a heartbeat. It's such a great slip cover too,
with a slipcover, Okay, like book, this is the best movie.
Like it's phenomenal. I don't know if it translates into
today's environment. And man, it's another staple HBO movie. I

(02:29:57):
believe I saw that one in the theaters.

Speaker 2 (02:30:01):
Yeah, it's a good movie. It's definitely a little some
of the storylines in twenty twenty five I am perfect,
but you'll still.

Speaker 3 (02:30:08):
Appreciate it for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:30:11):
Some other really good things in here that are I
mean all of these are under ten bucks.

Speaker 3 (02:30:16):
Chris Lee Stuff Castle Living Dead Crypt of the Vampire
would be a must have for me. Endgame Joe Demato's
Endgame awesome post apocalyptic film.

Speaker 2 (02:30:25):
Mastering Dinosaur Valley that you just shouted out.

Speaker 3 (02:30:27):
Seven. Yeah, you will not spend a better seven dollars today,
I promise you.

Speaker 2 (02:30:34):
But they do have Gwendolyn also for seven to fifteen,
not the one that you just shouted out. Peanut Butter
Solution I think is really great. That's one of their
seven kids titles.

Speaker 3 (02:30:43):
So it's really funny. That's a like when I, you know,
I work at a bar a couple of days a week,
and I tell the guys what I do, and they're like,
you know, mostly met with blank stares, and then I recently,
not recently, but when I had started working there. I
mentioned one of the guys I worked on the Peanut
Butter Solution, and he was awestruck. I had to get
him a copy. Yeah, it's like he watched it with
his son, which really was to me like the best

(02:31:04):
part about it, like exposing a new generation to the
peanut butter Solution. Yes, seven fifty Gwendolen, you have the
Mondo films here also really cool. I like the Jane
Mansfield one. You know, can't beat that.

Speaker 2 (02:31:17):
A weird one for everybody. Saint Bernard. Have you seen
Saint Bernard dip Blake?

Speaker 3 (02:31:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:31:22):
I have not, so Saint Bernard is a crazy, crazy
exercise in practical effects. Gay Bartolos directed, and it is
a guy dragging around a Saint Bernard head for the
entire film with some crazy stuff. Just the setting of
this film is wild. It is. It is absolutely worth

(02:31:44):
the watch. Very philosophical movie. I love that movie. Nice Man.
Some in crazy crazy prices on.

Speaker 3 (02:31:54):
These Jack the Ripper six.

Speaker 2 (02:32:00):
The Old UK release a basket for seven fifty if
you don't want the four K upgrade.

Speaker 3 (02:32:05):
Shocking Dark. I would also highly recommend.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Shocking Dark is great future Shock The Story two thousand
and eight d is a must burdevic. Seventh, there you go,
there's the Killing of America for seven fifty. H Man
the I'd love the the trailer compilations that so many

(02:32:31):
of these companies have put out. Oh yeah, that's exploitation
and kung fu trailers a fury.

Speaker 3 (02:32:35):
People need those. Yeah. When I went to David's premiere
of the Clones of Bruce that Tribeca two or three
years ago. They were giving away copies of that like
an old goodie bag. And I do love trailer collections.
There is a cat here in case you're seeing tail.

Speaker 2 (02:32:56):
I got to be honest looking at the brand new
releases here, Blu rays with out slipcovers twenty one dollars.
That is a very fair price for a brand new
Blu ray from seven something with a slipcase like Ferrete
Vampire twenty seven bucks. That's not a bad deal at all.

Speaker 3 (02:33:12):
That movie is very cool for anybody who has been
like me and had not heard of it prior. I
think it's it's you know, it's got a little political
commentary in there, but you can just watch it kind
of for what it is, and it's kind of just
a weird addition to the Vampire films. Very cool, very
cool car in it too. You know a lot of

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history of the car. I guess it's like a legendary
car in Czechoslovakia.

Speaker 2 (02:33:38):
I mean it looks pretty amazing. The slipcover on that
looks great too.

Speaker 3 (02:33:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, I love the artwork they did for that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
Yeah. So now all that stuff is the main titles
there are listed at the front, and then you've got
the sale stuff, which we should be able to go
through and look at pretty much everything else that's a
catalog title. We'll need to go to like the second
page here to get to some of the cheaper stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:34:03):
But gosh, here's what.

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
Like thun Girls twenty bucks not on sale, but even
on sale, it's only gonna be fifteen.

Speaker 3 (02:34:11):
Yeah, twenty is not bad at all. You will not
regret that purchase.

Speaker 2 (02:34:17):
Moving down, we should be approaching. Okay, so this is
where stuff starts getting on sale here. So we've got
like the Creature fifteen bucks dog called Vengeance fifteen bucks.
The Dario Argento Deep Cuts is twenty seven to fifty.
I might need to get on that.

Speaker 3 (02:34:33):
Yeah, there's there's a couple of great episodes. A lot
of that Italian TV stuff that has been servicing is
really worth watching. And I feel like, you know, I
have a I'm a sucker for Lambert Obama. There's just
some kind of vibe to his movie. He's like kind
of cheesy once he gets past demons and stuff, you know,
but like they're just like a comfortable sweatshirt, you you

(02:34:56):
know what I mean. And that's how I felt about these, Like,
there are a lot of on I think it was
Eyewitness that I watched that I like the most, But
the Prince of Terrors, like it's a trip as well,
you know, it's got a it's got a killer ending. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35:09):
I have not seen any of them, and I've heard
that it's actually a really good release. And I love
I mean, I love Argento, so I definitely want to
see it.

Speaker 3 (02:35:15):
Yeah. Yeah, the the Argento Deep Cuts with the Door
in the Darkness has just got some really cool stuff
on there, and then there's all kinds of really like
shorts that he did like on other shows, and a
lot of that was new to me. So definitely check
that out if you get a chance, and especially if
you're an Argento a completist.

Speaker 2 (02:35:31):
Yeah, The Mad Bomber is that one that you saw
and q se there Blake.

Speaker 3 (02:35:35):
Yeah, I did watch that one. It's it's it's different,
it's a different it feels that one feels kind of like, uh,
something weirdy to me, kind of you know.

Speaker 9 (02:35:46):
Very like exploitative, exploitative. It's got like a lot of
gore in the explosion scenes. It seems like it was
maybe they'd try to do a topical thing like, uh,
you know who is in that. There's like Joe Don
Baker or somebody's in the right like crazy like seventies Stalwart.

Speaker 3 (02:36:02):
You know another tip Chuck Connor's. That's Chuck Connors, that's
the guy. Yeah, so you know, I mean, if you
like that kind of stuff, but it's not going to
be something that wins you over if you're not into
the vibe of like the seventies kind of like, I
don't know who would be watching this, It might not
be into that. It's right, it's definitely. It's definitely fun

(02:36:24):
and worth watching, and it's got a great explosive.

Speaker 2 (02:36:27):
Ending reminder that this is not a sale price, but
this is usually hard to get unless you're at a convention.
They've got the Four Flies on Gray velvet four K
release up fifty five bucks, solid release. Again, this is
it's pricey compared to the other stuff we were just
talking about, but it is a wonderful release of this movie.

Speaker 3 (02:36:46):
I loved the restoration on this one. I had. This
was really hard to track down in the in the
early days. I feel like YEP, four Flies and Cat
of nine Tails were always kind of the ones that
the liars, but this one in particular, and I really
like the uh the crazy music kind of starts out
with like very like like frantic like drumming music and stuff.

(02:37:09):
It's just you could see Argento cutting his teeth, I
feel like, for for What's to come.

Speaker 2 (02:37:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's great restoration, absolutely worth watching. One that
I have still not seen the full movie of, but
when Severn announced it, I went and found a version
to watch and it looked it really really intriguing. What
is the Red Light Banded all about? Did you see
that one?

Speaker 3 (02:37:32):
I did? Now that's like a brazil like Brazilian right, Yes,
it's kind of like a It reminded me a bit
of like a stream of consciousness type filmmaking, you know
what I mean, Like, yeah, hallucinatory and amazing manifesto. So
it's like, yeah, it's I'm trying to is it's very

(02:37:56):
avant garde, you know what I mean, Like it's it's
hard to just just tribe what it's about, but it's
definitely very artie and and very political.

Speaker 2 (02:38:11):
It looks good, it really.

Speaker 3 (02:38:13):
I mean for seventeen forty eight, hell.

Speaker 2 (02:38:17):
Yeah, that's a great price for that.

Speaker 3 (02:38:22):
Yeah, it's got the short films on there too. I
actually do remember the short films. Yeah, those are very cool.
There's three different lions that had short now. Yeah, so
that's that's got some cool stuff on it.

Speaker 2 (02:38:33):
Uh. I have to ask if they're here from your
friend's list, because I'm not on the East Coast. Is
it actually your birthday on Friday the twenty fifth here, Blake? No, okay, good,
So they're just doing the Jeremy thing like I got earlier.

Speaker 3 (02:38:45):
Perfect, it's in November.

Speaker 2 (02:38:49):
Amazing, Okay, So we talked about Ruffies earlier. Hot Spur
is definitely one that people should get.

Speaker 3 (02:38:56):
Hell yeah, Hot Spur and Scavengers all right next to
the the commentary that Andrew and Joe Rubin do on
both of us. It's just that's worth the price of
admission alone. When when I saw Lisa from Something Weird,
I she asked what I was up to these days,
and I told her about working QC and doing working Severn.
She had the pickup and like, oh, you didn't bring

(02:39:17):
Scavengers and Hotspurs. She's like, yeah, no, I kind of
left those ones. I didn't know if they are a
little too much to bring to the family certainly environment,
but the The commentaries I don't know are are so
much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:39:33):
Yeah, we are looking through Blu rays only right now,
but I'm gonna switch over to four K in just
a second. I wanted to go down to this title
right here, so Close Circuit. I think I've been ringing
the bill a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:39:46):
That's my number two pick for today. Yeah, look at that.

Speaker 2 (02:39:49):
Yeah, just in case you have never seen Close Circuit,
Close Circuit is a secret masterpiece in Severn's catalog that
so many people have still not seen. And it is stupendous,
incredible story. All takes place in a movie theater and
it is just a wonderful, wonderful premise.

Speaker 3 (02:40:10):
But a cast of characters in that right, Like as
they go through an interview, it's like each each person
gets their time to shine as their own little weirdo,
unique character. And there's definitely like you can't tell me
that they didn't see that when they wrote Demons. I
don't care what anybody says. Okay, Like there is so
many there's so much demons vibe to that movie that

(02:40:34):
like it just had to be, but it is it.
The ending is just another one. It's best to not
know too much about.

Speaker 2 (02:40:43):
Yeah, that is true. So here we are with the
four k's the first one that we got in this list.
That's unseale. Here is the Opera five disc. This is
the set that is massive and incredible operas theoretically. I
still call it my favorite Argento I this movie and
this four K is beautiful, just amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:41:05):
Yep, A tremendous, tremendous amount of work. I feel like
this this group of titles was had a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (02:41:12):
Yeah, twenty twenty, Texas Gladiators on sale for the first time.
Castle of Blood four K on sale for the first time.

Speaker 3 (02:41:18):
I had Texas Gladiators as a pick for tonight. I
would highly recommend that one as well. Al Kliver, I
feel like Zombie, you know, you know, the mustachio ginger
man who shows up in a lot of Fulci and
other assorted Italian films, Joe Tomano. He gets his chance
to shine as the lead in this one, and it's like,
if you like fall Out and those kind of things,
it's kind of like a post apocalyptic vibe, but kind

(02:41:42):
of like a spaghetti western. I don't know. Man, highly
recommend that as well. And anytime you're gonna get the
soundtrack in there to this Italian stuff, it's like you
gotta jump on that.

Speaker 2 (02:41:51):
Yeah, I actually listen to these CDs and it's so
nice to have some of these in high quality, like
proper recordings. It's it's a god say and seven does
great stuff on that.

Speaker 3 (02:42:01):
I'm sure it's no surprise that, Like I'm a big
vinyl guy, and I listened to a lot of vinyl. Yeah, right,
like CDs especially, I've kind of gotten back into and
like cause I like to you know, I do a
lot of streaming, but I like the uh being you know,
listening to one album at a time, you know, whereas
with streaming, you know, you kind of you drift off

(02:42:22):
and you don't listen. You just kind of just continue, continue, continue.
Vinyl it forces you to like refocus your attention every
time you flip the record, you know. But I don't
always have that kind of time if I'm cleaning the
kitchen or something. But if I still want to do that,
a CD may sound so good. Put them across my
five point one system. They sound great.

Speaker 2 (02:42:41):
You know, like this is uh, this is gonna be ridiculous,
but just uh, it was a two days ago. I
think I finally remembered a password for a hard drive
that I had from years ago from all of the
CDs that I collected for years, and was able to
get into it to load it into my current hard
drives and found out it was four hundred and fifty

(02:43:04):
gigabytes of like my entire life in music, and I'm
so stoked just to go through everything again.

Speaker 3 (02:43:11):
It's awesome. Like I was definitely like on this lime
wire phase or whatever you want to call it, whereas
it's like for a while, you know, kind of And
that's one thing, you know, physical media collecting has its
ebbs and flows. I had a big VHS collection and
sold it off, you know what I mean. And I
had a lot of DVDs and sold them off. And
when I did that, it was like I hung on

(02:43:31):
to all the euro stuff and the things that I
thought would be obscure and sold off, like the Jason's
and the Freddy's and the things that I knew would
get another release, you know, And like collecting kind of
has ebbs and flows to it. You know. There was
a while where I was like, I'm just gonna fill
hard drives with stuff, but then I never watched any
of it, you know what I mean, Like a hard
drive full of stuff is not as cool as like, Hey,

(02:43:52):
you know, I.

Speaker 2 (02:43:55):
Never stopped buying CDs. My whole thing is this just
became the passion that was more than music. Music used
to be my number one, with movies being number two.
And it's just it's flipped and I don't see that
changing back anytime soon, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:44:08):
Yeah, and especially as I get older, I feel like
I have more of an emotional reaction to film cinema
than an easier time connecting to new work. I should say,
you know, when it comes to film than music.

Speaker 2 (02:44:25):
Yeah, I would agree with that there, and that's for sure.
I don't think I've ever seen this similar is asking
is Echo and Forbidden any good? Have you seen that one?

Speaker 3 (02:44:33):
Blake? I have not seen that one.

Speaker 2 (02:44:35):
I think that's one of the Mando double features that
they have.

Speaker 3 (02:44:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:44:39):
I think I came out around the same time as
the Jane Mansfield one.

Speaker 3 (02:44:42):
Okay, yeah, those were a little bit before me. I
just got the Jane Mansfield myself. I think I'm one
of the last sales because it was really cheap. I
do like Mondo films. As we discussed before, you know
they're kind of but again, that's something that you can
and kind of haplessly wander into animal violence if you're
not careful.

Speaker 2 (02:45:00):
Right right, that that does happen. I am keeping my
eyes on Butcher Baker nightmare Maker.

Speaker 3 (02:45:08):
I might pick that up a peak.

Speaker 2 (02:45:10):
I might pick that one up. I've been very very
wanting it since it went for sale with them because
I remember seeing that years ago, and I need the
four K.

Speaker 3 (02:45:19):
I think, yeah, it's a lot of fun. Man. I
know Andrew loves that one a lot, so he was
really stoked when we were working on that one.

Speaker 2 (02:45:28):
I'll shout out the psychic, really great fulcy film. The
four K looks very very good here it is.

Speaker 3 (02:45:35):
That's as good as that movie is ever gonna look,
man like. Indeed, I do like that later era Folg too.
You know there's this It's charming, if not his best work.

Speaker 2 (02:45:48):
Oh no, dude, McMahon is saying, they've got Cruel Jaws
back up.

Speaker 3 (02:45:53):
Oh let me pull that up real quick.

Speaker 2 (02:45:55):
Is it with the slip or is it just with
Oh okay, so it's the the blu ray of Cruel Jaws.

Speaker 3 (02:46:06):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:46:06):
Yeah, this was gone for quite some time. So this
is this is convention stock, so like like four Flies
on gray velvet, it is not gonna have a slip.
It is not going to.

Speaker 3 (02:46:14):
Be on sale.

Speaker 2 (02:46:16):
This is just it's hard to get and now you
can get it on Blu Ray, which is cool. I'm
glad they had this opportunity back up there for some people.

Speaker 3 (02:46:28):
Did we talk about Fearless Dragons?

Speaker 2 (02:46:31):
I think it was mentioned, but not like in depth yet.

Speaker 3 (02:46:33):
No, that is so fun. I mean that if you're
looking for a good time pizza and beer kung Fu movie, like,
that thing is just a blast.

Speaker 2 (02:46:47):
Dude McMahon is saying, Mask of Satan. Too bad, it's
not on sale. This one is not gonna be on
sale till the next sale. I believe Black Friday is
the first time that will be on sale because this
one was just released last Black Friday. Some of their
older four K stuff are great titles that I would

(02:47:07):
recommend as well. Nightmare looks really great on four K.

Speaker 3 (02:47:13):
Yeah, oh yeah, Nightmare is amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:47:15):
I saw you reaching. I was like, are we going
to go into it?

Speaker 3 (02:47:18):
No? No, we got a cat that's all perfect.

Speaker 2 (02:47:22):
The Five Days and oo there Argento, that one's on
sale for that four K Love me, the Axiom Mutante,
the Alex Deela Glacia titles that they've done are just incredible.

Speaker 3 (02:47:33):
Here's what I see that I could recommend faceless nice
Jess Franco for people who don't like Jess Franco. That
is true, you know. And it's got an unforgettable theme
song that you just cannot get out of your head.
For better or for worse, I'm thinking about it right now.
But it's got a lot of great gore effects in it,
which I think that, like, I don't really can't think

(02:47:55):
of a lot of Franco where it gets gory other
than Bloody Moon maybe, yeah, know, like this one is
just and the restoration on that is just, oh my god,
Like it's you know, I feel like I went to France. Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:48:09):
Two of that I can mention that are on the
screen that I had in my stack. I think these are, yeah,
my only four k ones that I was going to
talk about other than Spider Labyrinth Out of the Blue,
not a very common Severn title.

Speaker 3 (02:48:22):
This is kind of my number one pick.

Speaker 2 (02:48:24):
Look at that the uh this is like one of
their art house type of titles. This is Dennis Hopper
at his absolute best.

Speaker 3 (02:48:33):
I saw this thing in the worse depending on what.

Speaker 8 (02:48:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:48:39):
It is an incredible movie. It is a.

Speaker 2 (02:48:43):
Depressing, nihilistic movie at some points, but it is quite
worth the watch with a just Gangbusters ending that people
will love if you've never seen it before, and then
they're very very first. Four K is one on my
list that I have to recommend because Santa Soandre is
an incredible release from them. Nice little package that they

(02:49:05):
put together here this is I think it's a four
disc set. Yeah, four disc set. It's got some like
art cards in here, and the restoration on this thing
is just incredible. It is a hot or asci film
through and through. But man, this is this was shocking

(02:49:26):
when when Severn first put this out because it was
a film that people were like, oh, yeah, this is
pretty good, and then they did their four K restoration
was oh my god, this is jaw dropping.

Speaker 3 (02:49:36):
Yeah, what a great movie. So the rest of his
work really needs four K restoration? Right? Did Errow do?
Four K is a blu ray? Just blu ray? Right? Yeah?
And I don't know what the state of the elements,
you know are or rights ownership. I think that was

(02:49:56):
always a big thing because it was owned by like
Alan Klein right, El Topo was like the Beatles manager
guy who tend to be as it here in the US. Yeah,
he's the reason my the Verve had to handle their
royalties over to the Rolling Stones for for their Sweet Symphony.
You know, the guy. The guy's a bulldog for the
rights of his Internet intellectual properties. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:50:20):
Yeah, that's a common thing. Unfortunately with him. Uh, it happens.
I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:50:26):
I mean, you know, it's like Richard Rubensin and Donnovan Dead.
It's it's it's an unfortunate well yeah, man, I never
forgave him since like the late nineties when he sent
season distance letters to the Donna the Dead fan pages.
Like I was, like, I had like my first compact

(02:50:47):
for Sario computer and I'm just like discovering the whole.
Like you were talking about the Internet third spaces the
other day, you know, like if you if you if
you lived in a small area or you liked a
certain kind of like you know, I you know, I
had a few friends that really this kind of stuff.
But getting into broader conversations you know with people came
through you know, going on all message boards and fan

(02:51:09):
sites like that and everything. You know, it was so
much harder to obtain information about movies and stuff then,
you know, if you you couldn't just pull out the
IMDb for Donovan Dead or you know, it almost like
things would take on like a mythical status. You would
hear of them but never see them.

Speaker 2 (02:51:25):
Yeah, and to literally pull away like one of the
only resources was just the most asshole of movies.

Speaker 3 (02:51:31):
Yeah, and so he's always been and he's definitely not
hurting for money since he produced like Doom and things
like that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:51:37):
But you know, right, So some of the seven merch
is on sale, not at necessarily fifty percent off, although
some of them are fifty percent. Some of them are
even more on sale than fifty percent. But I mean,
shirts just over fifteen bucks is a pretty good deal.
You've got stickers for like a dollar fifty, hoodie for
thirty eight bucks for seven is pretty good.

Speaker 3 (02:52:00):
I love the hoodie, and I can't speak highly enough
about the water bottles. There's two of them. I have
one of them here, and I love the bottle. Yeah,
and the metal one is also great.

Speaker 2 (02:52:09):
But I don't have any of the water bottles. I
guess I'll have to look at that.

Speaker 3 (02:52:12):
Yeah, I'm into the glasswear brot. I think I've got
the pint glass. I think I've got the coffee mag Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:52:18):
I've got the Little waken Fright pint glass.

Speaker 3 (02:52:21):
Nice. Nice. Yeah, I'm a glassware dork. Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:52:27):
So yeah, the opera shirt is is a really nice one.
I love this seven podcast logo tea that they've got
some really good stuff to look through here. Let's go
through a couple more of your recommendations, Blake, that we
haven't talked about.

Speaker 3 (02:52:40):
Sure. I mean, for the most part, I kind of
blasted through a couple in there because you mentioned them.
You know, we got Faceless, We've got Texas Gladiators. I know,
I haven't brought it up yet. This was one of
my favorite films. I love cemetery Man. However, the QC
process on this is quite rigorous, and I don't know
if I watched it again. So it's an amazing set up.

(02:53:03):
And again, like I spoke of it earlier, like it
looks better than the film has ever looked. You know.
It's yeah, it's just there's so much detail on the
cinematography of that it was just missing from from every
other presentation of it before and the five point one
or the I think it's at most on this one.
Is it not great sound mix? Great sound mix.

Speaker 2 (02:53:24):
That set also some really great extras to that don't
get praised enough. Just truly an all together, really really
wonderful set yep.

Speaker 3 (02:53:34):
And i'd say otherwise Vampyros Lesbos, you know, yeah, that's
just Franco fan or if you're just getting into the
Severn stuff, that is definitely one that you have to have.
It's Franco. I'd say that there's two entry points there
for Franco, depending on which angle you want to take
in my recommendations. You got Faceless, which is a little

(02:53:54):
more of a straight up like kind of exploitation, I
don't want to say slasher movie, but horror movie. And
then there's Vampires Lesbos, which is just like free, free
jazz Dracula yep.

Speaker 2 (02:54:06):
And and it's good. That's the big thing.

Speaker 3 (02:54:09):
Yeah, that's good. That is d Franco film. I think
for a lot of people, I mean for me, it
brought me back listening or watching the documentary about Kim's
video That's where I had first picked up this. This
is kind of how Jess Franco got on my radar.
This is like a big record kind of in the
nineties for like DJs and stuff. It was the Sexadelic
Dance Party and had like, I think some stuff from

(02:54:31):
She Kills in Ecstasy and Vampiris Lesbos on it. I
had actually heard that long before I saw the movies
and kind of just like would stare at the cover
like this seems so cool, and then I was not
disappointed when I saw it.

Speaker 2 (02:54:47):
Craig is asking if it's possible to add more to
an existing order, and yes, during the sale it is.
I believe it'll give you the option at checkout.

Speaker 3 (02:55:01):
All right, give us another give us another title there,
blakeh boy, geez, let's see when we went through Gwendolyne
Massacre and Dinosaur Valley, do we talk about Voludo Nero
my pick that was out of the Black Emmanuel set
I think a little bit another Al Kliver, great great
character actor from Italy. He's you know, he's in the

(02:55:24):
Texas Gladiators, Zombie all that stuff. He plays a bit
of a cult leader. It's kind of like disaffected rich
people sex vacation, weird trip out movie, but like it's
got a lot going on, and yeah, that's definitely. I
don't know if that would get a standalone release. I
know the the I'm sorry, what is in the Tales?

(02:55:45):
The Spanish TV series?

Speaker 6 (02:55:47):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (02:55:49):
If you have not seen it, I would highly recommend
it's kind of like got you know, like a Twilight
Zone vibe or like you know, outer Limits.

Speaker 2 (02:56:00):
And if I remember right, this thing is like a
shocking amount of content in here.

Speaker 3 (02:56:07):
I feel like there's a bunch of episodes right yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:56:11):
The runtime almost fifteen hundred minutes. Yeah, and if you
buy it right now, it's seventeen dollars and forty eight cents.

Speaker 3 (02:56:19):
I feel like I worked on that for like half
a summer.

Speaker 2 (02:56:22):
Like, let's see, do you think the Pickup is going
to sell out before it goes on sale? No? I
don't even think it's limited, So no, definitely not.

Speaker 3 (02:56:36):
I would snap up, you know, if my personal sale
approach to this one, to snap up a lot of
those those chief titles right away, because absolutely that is
like a great way to bulk up your seven shells.

Speaker 2 (02:56:48):
No, and some of those seven fifty ones are likely
closer to selling out or at least going out of print.
Pickup is limited to two thousand. I did not realize that.
If that's the case, maybe, I don't know, it's not
one that I see in a lot of like hall
posts or anything.

Speaker 3 (02:57:06):
I think the leaf ross is a little bit of
a tough cell.

Speaker 2 (02:57:08):
Maybe yeah, in twenty twenty five, I can see that
case for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:57:13):
But again, like I said with Black and Manuel, like
all it takes is the right re evaluation and the
right the right lens on these things to kind of
you know, and appreciates cinema as a time capsule, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:57:28):
On that note, one that is super relevant right now,
I think I'm close to coming up to it here,
so I will scroll for a second to verify there.
It is one of my favorites. And the entire Severn
catalog is the Canadian film Siege.

Speaker 3 (02:57:47):
Have you seen that? The one that is a very
cool one.

Speaker 2 (02:57:50):
So this is a movie that starts with some people
in a club that is a not great situation when
they are encroached upon by people that are just looking
to pull out a planned attack on this group and
they essentially have to go hole up and keep themselves alive.
And it's something sort of similar to like Assault on

(02:58:12):
Precinct thirteen, And it's incredibly incredibly mesmerizing. The movie is
really well acted, It is tense through and through. It
is a really poignant ending ending, and the whole thing
sort of stems from a period of time in Canada
where some of this is based on not quite like
a true story, but a real series of events that

(02:58:35):
happened that learning about the history that was kind of crazy.
So definitely we're checking.

Speaker 3 (02:58:41):
Out another one where the bonus features give you some
historical context to appreciate the film a little more.

Speaker 2 (02:58:46):
Absolutely, I still can't believe Overboard is five.

Speaker 3 (02:58:49):
Bucks by two. What a great Christmas present.

Speaker 2 (02:58:56):
Hello, Hello, Grandma, I bought you a Blu ray copy
of Overboard. You can't play and it is probably problematic in.

Speaker 3 (02:59:03):
Twenty if you love Grandma, n if you buyer a
Blu ray player too, Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:59:08):
Yes, indeed, lots of fun stuff in their catalogs starting
around this time, and going back that a lot of
people still have not seen. Night of the Demon is
the classic severin We're Gonna Rip off your dick, Bigfoot movie.

Speaker 3 (02:59:22):
Don't Go in the House. Also great movie there, I
love that one.

Speaker 2 (02:59:25):
Fantastic.

Speaker 3 (02:59:27):
That's a Stockholm syndrome movie. That's a movie that I
thought that I hated until I started working on it
and that I discovered that I actually love it.

Speaker 2 (02:59:35):
Dude McMahon is saying the free shipping thrushold was one hundred,
but it's wanting to charge me ten bucks. Did they
stop or do they change that? Let me look up
their policy here that we just had pulled up, because
as far as I'm aware, I thought one hundred was
still the free shipping.

Speaker 3 (02:59:51):
I think you had to choose that. It's a selected
checkout if you look at.

Speaker 2 (02:59:56):
The Yeah, is it giving you the option to get
free shipping if you select something else? McMahon, Yeah, it
says free med email shipping over one hundred just selected
at checkout, So there should be an option there for
you when you're in the process. You shouted out Midnight earlier,

(03:00:18):
and then I want to shout out Cannibal Man. This
is why I had to watch a couple of times
to appreciate. I did not love it the first time,
and then watching the second time, and after learning about
all of the political context behind the Franco regime and everything,
Cannibal Man is really well acted. I think people will

(03:00:39):
appreciate that if they have never seen it, it's worth
the watch.

Speaker 3 (03:00:43):
I think when you're looking at a lot of the
Spanish stuff as a reaction to the end or the
dying throws of the Franco regime, it makes it all
the more interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:00:53):
Yeah, and it explains a lot some stuff. If you're
watching it for the first time of that context, it
might seem a little nonsensical even, but finding out why
the film had to do that is a completely different story.

Speaker 3 (03:01:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:01:06):
I know that we're talking about shark'sploitation stuff a lot
because of what is in the brand new titles, but
we should probably point out Deep Blood, the Joe Tomato film,
which in the seven catalog before it did not have
a lot of friends other than cruel Jaws, and now
it's got quite a few that it can hang out with.
Demato is always wild, but this is one that if

(03:01:28):
you want a fun Jaws ripoff, you should check it out.
It is it is worth the watch. Not the best
shark exploitation film, but definitely worth owning.

Speaker 3 (03:01:40):
And it's it's pretty cheap right now. Yeah, for sure.
I mean, any Joe to Moatto, in my opinion, is
it's worth owning.

Speaker 2 (03:01:49):
I would agree.

Speaker 3 (03:01:50):
There is the Caligula film, the Joda motto caligular film
is that one on sale? I like that one a
lot too, it is, of course that would be a
good one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:02:01):
I pull up all the demodel that you can and
add to Kart because they are the two.

Speaker 3 (03:02:06):
Dis Colegula and Messalina. Is only seventeen forty eight, for sure.
You got two cuts of the movie, the X rated
cut and the unrated cut, for sure, worn't it so? Uh?

Speaker 2 (03:02:18):
Somebody was asking about this film earlier in the chat,
and I just wanted to say, if you've never seen it,
Day of the Animals is one of the most fun
animal attacks films that you can watch. I mean you
literally see Leslie Nilsen your face light.

Speaker 3 (03:02:36):
Up right, I'll allow you to continue.

Speaker 2 (03:02:44):
You see Leslie Nilson like get in a boxing match there, Like,
is that the best way to say it?

Speaker 3 (03:02:52):
Yeah, there's there's hands involved. Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:02:57):
Day of the Animals is a really interesting premise for
a film.

Speaker 3 (03:03:02):
Bunny of the Animal, Grizzly, you know, any of the
animal Wild Beasts of course also kind of fits in that,
although that's the only one I think where they're on VCP. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03:12):
Yeah, less less nature, more man made. Yeah, but yeah,
Day of the Animals is probably my favorite of that
era of the Animals attacks films. It's it's a fun story,
it's it's got actual animals that they do some crazy
stuff with real animals in that movie that probably would
never be allowed on a set.

Speaker 3 (03:03:33):
I know. Yeah, good stuff. Dang deep Blood is only
seven fifty. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:03:41):
I spent a lot of money on Deep Blood once.

Speaker 3 (03:03:44):
Yeah, you could. You could definitely build a nice collection
with some of these prizes seven fifty.

Speaker 2 (03:03:53):
It seems like the free shipping option disappears if you
check out through the shop app. This happened to me.

Speaker 3 (03:03:59):
Yeah, I could do the guest thing right, check out
as a guest.

Speaker 2 (03:04:02):
Yeah, I was about to give that as the recommendation.
But I don't know if this is a hot take,
but fuck Shop, Like I hate how much they're like
controlling the checkout process on so many of these sites.

Speaker 3 (03:04:15):
And like I prefer to use PayPal paying for and
they kind of like unless you do the checkout as
a guest, sometimes they will pigeonhole you into using your
shop app and then they give you like the bogus
like here's ten dollars in cash that you can't use
on anything, and if you try to it's like the
prices are different. So it's a you know, but coming
from the this is the school of I'm gonna send

(03:04:39):
beg my mom for a check so I could send
it out for a catalog, and when I would get that,
six weeks later, send out another check so I could
get my movies. And maybe they showed up, maybe they didn't,
you know what I mean. I guess I'll settle for
shop for the shot aapp. I can, like, you know,
keep an eye on where things are and get excited,
like today when I was like, oh my god, my
Mario Bama set is on.

Speaker 2 (03:05:02):
I want to shout out def Crocodile, who just posted
in the chat. I just removed the check out with
shot feature in our store. Yes, thank you, that's why
you're incredible.

Speaker 3 (03:05:10):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (03:05:13):
Let's see some other ones. Tales of the and Canny
is definitely one that people should see if you have
not seen it yet. Severn is a kind of incredible
at these in house production documentaries and this is the
story of anthology horror and it's just really well done.
Fifteen bucks can't beat that. Just perfect. Let's see Cruel

(03:05:36):
Jaws back in stock. Like we mentioned earlier, some of
the more classic Severn stuff popping up here.

Speaker 3 (03:05:43):
The Beast Must Die. I love that one too. It's
so classic. That's Amicus as well, is it not.

Speaker 2 (03:05:53):
I believe it is.

Speaker 3 (03:05:53):
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (03:05:56):
If you are not one of the lucky, like nineteen
people that still have the Al Adamson box set, the
Al Adamson Documentary is one hundred percent worth your time.
One of the craziest stories of somebody's life that you
will ever hear again. In house documentaries from Severn is
kind of David's like Forte that's what he was doing

(03:06:17):
way back in the day at in kirbay Uh and
then helping with Blue Underground and now doing it on
his own. Severn is pumping out some of the best
documentaries out there. I mean, look at what they're doing
with the Susanna story right now.

Speaker 3 (03:06:29):
I mean, working with these guys, David Carl Andrew Todd,
their passion for the movies like it's it's it's just
a world different than you know. Had I had, you know,
I worked for these guys first before everything else that
I did, I probably would have had a much different
experience in the industry. Than I did back then. You know,

(03:06:50):
these are guys that are absolutely fans first and foremost,
and just like you know, you realize that, you know,
I've been around this whole collecting scene for decades now,
you know, and it's a small group of people that
kind of you know, perpetuate a lot of this stuff.
And it's it's people like you and everybody. This is
like watching and commenting that keep this stuff alive, you know.

(03:07:11):
And it's and it's funny like how you'll you know,
like when I met Bill Leussig, he's like, oh, my
partner David Gregory, and like years later that's somebody that
I'm working for, you know what I mean. Like it's
just kind of you see how it's really driven by,
you know, people with passion for the physical media and
for the films themselves. And it's nice to see younger

(03:07:31):
generations of people you know, watching your show or you know,
getting into collecting. And like I was saying before, like
films that were trauma pickups that we couldn't give away
seeing them finally find an audience. You know, a story
of a junkie that that VSL put out, it was amazing.
I love that movie. It was like one of my
favorite pickups, you know, and it's just when like the

(03:07:53):
boutique company is being run by fans and people who
are actively keeping this stuff alive doing documentaries rather than
you know, soulless corporations. That's why we get stuff that's
so comprehensive and why like, you know, something will get
delayed so we could put an extra bonus feature on
there or a CD soundtrack, you know. That's that little

(03:08:16):
stuff to go the extra mile, like is so huge,
and that's what attracted me to Severe in the first place,
made me want to work with them, you know, just
because it just seemed like you weren't just selling me
some crap. You know, like so much goes into presenting
this the best possible way. And you see that when
they get a find a new source or finally dig
up a negative, you know, they go out of their

(03:08:37):
way to make a nice restoration and do it right. Yeah.
They just did that with.

Speaker 2 (03:08:45):
Oh, the Franco movie or not Franco, the klaus Kinski Dracula.

Speaker 3 (03:08:51):
Yeah, yeah, they just did that again.

Speaker 2 (03:08:53):
It was something that like, oh, we're never gonna be
able to find this, let's just put this out.

Speaker 3 (03:08:57):
They did it.

Speaker 2 (03:08:58):
It was great, and then suddenly they did find it
and they went through the process of making just an
incredible release out of it, which many of the labels
would have just said, we can't do anything.

Speaker 3 (03:09:07):
Sure, And it never it never feels like a cash grab.
It always just feels like, you know, we are doing
this because we found a better source. We want to
give you the best possible version.

Speaker 2 (03:09:16):
You know. I wanted to point out Blood on Satan's Claw.
This is another one of the convention stock titles, one
that you can't always get from Severn. So if this
is a title that you want, you may want to
prioritize that during this weekend sale.

Speaker 3 (03:09:30):
Great movie as well.

Speaker 2 (03:09:32):
Yeah, V, if you have never seen it or you
don't have plans to pick up the first box set
All the Haunts by Hours because it is in that
box set. V is a really wonderful movie. It has
one of the most memorable final fifteen minutes in a
film that you will ever see. It has some of
the most shocking imagery that they I still can't believe

(03:09:54):
how they got some of those shots in that film.

Speaker 3 (03:09:56):
Yeah, the Eastern European stuff from that era is just
like it's again, a whole new world to explore.

Speaker 2 (03:10:02):
Yeah, yeah, now you're getting into like the old era
of seven. A lot of these are stuff that people
that got in like post pandemic that many people had
not even seen many of these titles because these were
released in like twenty eighteen and previously love a lot
of these. Next to Kin is a really great film.

(03:10:22):
Have you seen that one? No Xtakin is good. People
need to check that out. Skinner that is one that
will make you feel a little creepy for sure. All
the Colors of Giallo is another one of the documentaries
you should check out. They also have All the Colors
of the Dark. That was a sale two disc title.
Came into this little fancy dual package that they put

(03:10:45):
out back in the day. What else Anthropophagus and Absurd
I believe these said that both of these are coming
in four K eventually. I think they're working on restorations
those still, so may if you're not, like I have
to hop on four these would be a goodbye right now.

Speaker 3 (03:11:02):
But if not, you may want to hold off on those.

Speaker 2 (03:11:06):
The Changeling this is another one that is a title
that Seven has put out multiple releases of and their
four K of the Changeling looks great, and this is
just an amazing classic horror.

Speaker 3 (03:11:15):
Movie, probably one of the creepiest ghost stories. I feel
like it might be my favorite. Yeah story, it's very good. Yeah,
it's so worth checking out. It is a great, great
time see seven coffee mug is only seven dollars. I'd
like to point out, very very worth it for the

(03:11:37):
glass beaar fans off. There very nice.

Speaker 2 (03:11:41):
Some classics here, like The Devil's Rain and Devil's Honey.
Devil's Honey is a four K now, Threads is one
that I have recommended quite a few times. However, that
one is another one that's rumored to be getting a
four K soon, So I don't know if that'll be
seven or somebody else, but you might want to check
it out.

Speaker 3 (03:11:59):
Nice, Yeah, that one. I think Diabolic posted a couple
of weeks ago or a couple weeks ago saying that
like sales had gone up on it, like after like
some one of the most recent crises. I don't know
if it was I ran or one of those things
like that's certainly a choice you like of your viewing. Yeah,

(03:12:22):
just embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (03:12:25):
Yeah, more of these trailer compilations listen on this last
page here. Dark Waters is another one that is that
one's in the first all the haunts.

Speaker 3 (03:12:33):
Right, I think so yeah, Yeah, that one's.

Speaker 2 (03:12:36):
A different disc even so if you want everything, I
think this one has different special features that are not
in the box set.

Speaker 3 (03:12:43):
Cathay's Curse, but that's the older Blu ray.

Speaker 2 (03:12:46):
Yeah, and that one is on four K. Now.

Speaker 3 (03:12:47):
Doctor Butcher MD has a four K now as well. Uh,
Doctor Butcher four K would always be in my top recommendations.

Speaker 2 (03:12:56):
Uh. The Lost Soul documentary. This is one that everybody
should probably see at least once. If you're into the
island of doctor Moreau's story, you gotta check this out.
And then there we go Vampius Lesbos and She Killed
in Ecstasy. Both are if you're getting into seven you
probably should have both.

Speaker 3 (03:13:16):
Of these for sure, definitely must have.

Speaker 2 (03:13:21):
That is the end of the Blu Rays. Let's go over.
I'm gonna look closer at some of this merch stuff.
Seven dollars coffee mug is intriguing. Geez, that is cheap.

Speaker 3 (03:13:34):
Yeah, I recommend it's a nice one.

Speaker 2 (03:13:38):
Seven Shock class that definitely already have one of those.
I don't need a flask for anything. Why do I
feel compelled? Cloud Mage says The Changeling is unbelievable, one
of the most shocking opening standing movie ever. Love it
been putting off the four kp grade, but the sale
might force my hand. Agree about next of kin and

(03:14:01):
change links? Is Couch Odyssey? Two good movies? What else
we got website exclusives? Lots of stuff gonna be on
sale in this one. They've got a lot of slipcover
stuff that you can't get anywhere else that's on sale
this time. Nice gosh, seventeen fifty for some of these

(03:14:25):
titles that I've been wanting for a while, might be
forcing my hand.

Speaker 3 (03:14:28):
I gotta admit.

Speaker 2 (03:14:36):
Let's see any other questions or recommendations from the chat.
I just realized they're still selling The Kathy's Curse for
K box.

Speaker 3 (03:14:48):
I didn't didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (03:14:51):
I might need to pick that up.

Speaker 3 (03:14:53):
I have one. I don't think it lights up.

Speaker 2 (03:14:56):
I'm not surprised.

Speaker 3 (03:14:57):
I don't think it ever did. But I think that
was one that I just asked for, and I was like,
I don't care if it works to send me one,
you know, like it.

Speaker 2 (03:15:05):
Was a good idea.

Speaker 3 (03:15:07):
Yeah, I mean I remember the old dead pit VHS
slip back in the day. But it is a gorgeous
looking cover regardless. I mean, I like, you know, I
love the slips yep uh.

Speaker 2 (03:15:20):
Cloud Mage wants to ask what Gwendolen is, Like, why
don't you talk about this one again?

Speaker 3 (03:15:23):
There, Blake, Yeah, it's kind of I won't say it's
a comedy, but it's definitely funny, you know. It's kind
of like I said, it's on part with Emmanuel the
Sylvia Crystal one in that, like it's got great Nissan
Son everything is set up perfectly, but it's just really goofy,

(03:15:45):
and I guess it would be like kind of a
sex comedy. It's got Tawny Katain in it shwing, you know,
like can't go wrong there, you know. But yeah, it's
just it's a lot of fun, you know. It's goofy.
It's it's not like it's certainly not a neurotic film
like a Manu. Yeah, it's it's it's it plays its

(03:16:07):
hand goofy, like right from the beginning. It kind of
plays like a great value John Carpenter movie or something
like that, you know, And like I said, the protagonist
is always kind of like you know, or Brett Hooff
is always kind of like doing quips, you know. And
the original title of it was like like the Perils
of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik Yak or

(03:16:29):
something like that, which kind of I feel like that
gives you like a better idea of the vibe of
the movie. It's like goofy kind of you know. Again,
I think that's Andrew's term, like the pizza and beer movies,
like one of those things you want to throw on, like,
hey guy, I'm gonna say it's something fun, you know,
like sometimes some of this stuff I could watch gets
a little grim or or or boring or repetitive and

(03:16:51):
something like that you could just bust on. It's a party,
party film. Yeah. It's also got a great soundtrack by
Pierre Boshet, who does some music for some of the
Men All films.

Speaker 2 (03:17:02):
I don't think I knew that was the same composer,
and now that makes perfect sense.

Speaker 3 (03:17:06):
I think he did maybe the second because Serge Gainsburg
does like the third right, something like that, something like that.

Speaker 2 (03:17:16):
I want to shout out one that I was going
to grab and forget all about it. All about evil
is a really great watch some great extras on this
Disso were you were you doing QC.

Speaker 3 (03:17:25):
Yeah, that was one of the first ones that I did.
That was a lot of fun, and that was kind
of like, you know, like I kind of had an
aversion to newer films and so or things that were
like so OV until I started doing QC, you know,
and that's kind of got like a really fun like
John Waters vibe to it almost. You can tell it.
They're like kind of going for that, you know, but

(03:17:46):
it's not it's not like annoying or or overt in
a way that like makes it less original. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:17:55):
Yeah, it's definitely worth the watching. Sasha Leone great in it,
and again it's really great, really great extras on that disc.

Speaker 3 (03:18:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:18:06):
Yeah, I have mentioned so many titles tonight, and I
feel like there's more than I wanted to say, But yeah,
what else you got, Blake.

Speaker 3 (03:18:20):
Yeah, it's tough when you're trying to like I mean,
I would just recommend so many of them, you know,
like there's so much stuff here. Castle of Blood, of
course is amazing. I don't know, if that's something that
is fifty percent off, that's a great four K upgrade.
If you don't have it, of course. I don't think
we've talked about the clones of Bruce, you know, if
we're going to go for the box set Sunday or

(03:18:42):
is that Sunday Saturday? Sorry, Saturday Saturday? You know, the
clones of Bruce. If you're a fan of martial arts,
I mean, you could grab Fearless Dragons and Fearless Dragons
on that and call it a day. You know. There's
just so much and there's so much fun in that
Bruce set, you know, and kung Fu films Asian films
in general are kind of another thing that I've kind
of just really started to get into through work. You know.

(03:19:05):
I did a little bit of work on one of
the Shaw Brothers sets, I think Sharve's three, and that
was when I kind of started like, Okay, maybe I
do really like this stuff and you know, get a
little more appreciation for the choreography and things like that
in the films.

Speaker 2 (03:19:20):
Yeah, I am. I think the Bruce Ploitation Box is
the main thing on my mind for the sale, for sure.
I for some reason I've been holding off, and now
it's just time.

Speaker 3 (03:19:33):
Yep, don't wait any longer, bro.

Speaker 2 (03:19:38):
I mean yeah, it'll be one hundred bucks. And for
those that have been like on the fence on that price,
don't forget that the Severn Store release has a full
extra disc that the wide release does not have for
that title.

Speaker 6 (03:19:50):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (03:19:52):
So these are some of the newer ones that we
haven't spent a lot of time on. But keep in
mind some of these bundles are limited. So like the
the Everything Bundle is limited to only fifty, the Turkish
Delight Bundle is only to one hundred and fifty. So
if you're after like that art book, you might want
to jump on those sooner than later. I bet that

(03:20:13):
the Everything Bundle will probably sell out in like the
next twelve hours. It pretty much always does. And then
the Turkish Delight Bundle. Baskin is kind of like a
low key, pretty big movie. I think a lot of
people love that one.

Speaker 3 (03:20:25):
Yeah, that's a good one. I would definitely check it out.

Speaker 2 (03:20:30):
Let's while we're just scrolling through some of these things,
let's go through the QC process some more, because for
those that don't understand, what are some examples when you're
looking post restoration? What are some of the things that
you're looking for?

Speaker 3 (03:20:47):
I mean, I think the biggest thing. You know, you
want to find any kind of like dropped frames or
any kind of like weirdness going on. It always seems
like more often not things that get miss or things
in the periphery like where there's scanning the film, you know,
you'll see things that kind of like we'll slide to
one side making sure that things are framed correctly. And

(03:21:08):
especially when they're doing like recreations of the edits from
the o C and there's a lot that go wrong there.
And you know, it's a lot of you know, digital
stuff and digital artifacts, restoration artifacts, flashing. There's a million
things that could go wrong. And that's just in that stage.
You know, I don't you know, I obviously am not

(03:21:30):
working alongside of like the color of correctionists and things
like that. But when something is wrong, you know what
I mean, or like Dolbi vision things like that aren't
working like you're going to know, you.

Speaker 2 (03:21:39):
Know, yeah, so post the restoration and they get everything
ready on the disc, how are you checking the disc
to make sure that it's good for production?

Speaker 3 (03:21:50):
So I either use and like the old APO two
three player, which you can basically get like a disc
image or emulation and play it off of that to
or I could burn it, depending if I want to
try it on different machines. Sometimes I have a PlayStation,
I have an Xbox, and if I have time, I
like to pop things in different machines, different configurations of sound,

(03:22:14):
whether I'd be running through an optical cable or an HDMI.
The other day I found an audio issue that manifested
on something. Not when it was plugged in through the HDMI,
but if you plugged it into the optical, like all
of the channels were wrong, you know what I mean.
But when it was down mixed into PCM, it was right,
you know what I mean. So it was like when

(03:22:35):
it but you know, So that was something that like,
you know, I feel like I learned something all the time,
and that was that was a big one. Crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:22:46):
I love that you brought up the player that you have,
and it's hilarious because I have an OPO two of
three and I let Andrew know, and that was the
moment where he was like, oh my god, how are
you not doing QC for us?

Speaker 3 (03:22:59):
Yeah? Opo, that is like a leg up that allows
me to do a lot of stuff four K, especially
because a Blu Ray DVD I can burn, you know
what I mean, But a four K I can't really burn.
And that allows me to run the four K from
a file like it was a disc. Essentially it acts
exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (03:23:19):
Yeah, the APO two three for those that don't know,
it's not been manufactured since I think twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (03:23:26):
So now the secondary market prices on them insane.

Speaker 2 (03:23:30):
Yeah, like starting at like two thousand dollars. Literally, it's stupid.
It is absolutely stupid. I might have to plug in
here really quick. Can you give you one second of course?

Speaker 3 (03:23:39):
Yeah, all right, I'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (03:23:42):
So, yeah, I have that player as well, and it
is something that will allow you to put in basically
any format and it will be able to read it
and play it. For a lot of people, the OPO
is like the the main thing that you want to
basically be able to throw anything at it in your

(03:24:03):
collection and it will be able to find a way
to read it. And considering the second prices, they are
not easy to come by nowadays. Sadly, let's see picked
up the Baskin Bundle and feeding Frenzy Nice. Danny Mozart
says OPO is too good, it couldn't last yeah, that is.

Speaker 3 (03:24:27):
True for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:24:29):
M dude McMahon, what is your audio setup for QC.
I'll ask Blake that in a second. I have not
been one to do QC for audio. I've only done
QC for video. I don't have a good audio setup
for that, sadly, so yeah, I'll ask him that just
a second. Paul is saying what is comparable to the OPO?

Speaker 3 (03:24:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:24:52):
This is the sad thing is why it's valuable and
still like cost two grands on the second hand market.
There is nothing comparable to the OPO now. There's nothing
being manufactured that you will play everything like the OPO did.
There is nothing that has all of the options that
the OPO had. There's nothing that has been reliable like

(03:25:13):
the OPO is. So it is something that is difficult
for sure. This name how did you get to the
web store exclusive section? When you go up to the
menu and go to shop, it shows on the left
side here under formats web Store Exclusive slipcover section. Blake,

(03:25:34):
we had a question of what is your audio set
up like for QC.

Speaker 3 (03:25:39):
It really depends. I use like an LG seven to
one system. I also try to check on like just
the TVs I have an LGC two that's my main monitor.
I feel like the LGC two gives you like the
best Dulby Vision color representation. I'm sure there's nicer models,
but that's just been the one that I've been working
on for a while. But I use an LG seven

(03:26:02):
to one. Nothing fancy, you know what I mean. It
is just a store lot, best buy, yeah type thing.
And then I also I tend to check with headphones
a lot, especially commentaries. Commentaries tend to have a lot
of weird anomalies in them, and two point zero mixes.
I check in headphones a lot too. But I mean,
I'm only ever limited by how much time I have

(03:26:24):
to work on something because I would love to go
through it, like on every machine, with every audio and
visual configuration. It's like, you know, if you've ever recorded
music on indie music for yourself, like you want to
listen to it in the car, You want to like,
you know, listen to it everywhere. So I mean I
try to to be as extensive as I can, like
even go as far as like a lot of times

(03:26:46):
looking for things like in supplements like misspelled chirons or
like you know, just in subtitles. Of course, that's always
the that could be its own job.

Speaker 2 (03:26:58):
Yeah, that's I mean, there's a lot that you can
find in some of these things. And I think that
is kind of the unsung hero of this QC process
that people aren't realizing, because gosh, you can discover just
almost anything, and so many different stages.

Speaker 3 (03:27:12):
Of this and and you know, like I said, like
it's a matter of breaking things like trying to you know,
you know, like just knowing the way that my system worked,
knowing that like you know, I wasn't to get the
pure you know, DTS mix. I had to use the
optical you know, so like they just but it would

(03:27:33):
be easy if I'm just doing two point out, just
be like, oh, I'll just use the HDMO, you know
what I mean, check it that way, right. It's just,
you know, you you learn that there is just and
it's always like a terrible feeling if I see a
note about like a disc recall or something and I'm like,
oh my god, I raised my notes. I'm like, did
I work on that? Like, like you know so, but

(03:27:54):
thankfully I haven't experienced that too much. Knock on wood.

Speaker 2 (03:27:59):
I mean, yeah, that is a worrisome thing with QC.
For sure, you don't want to be the person that
caused something to get missed.

Speaker 3 (03:28:05):
Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's and it's hard,
like you are, you know, more covered with some scenarios
than others, Like some places like it might you know,
smaller labels, it might be me and the person who
runs the label looking at it, and that's it, you
know what I mean. The person who runs the label
might be fatigued from looking at it a thousand times,

(03:28:27):
you know. So that's and that's the thing. It's like
fresh eyes are always going to be or fresh look
at something. That's why I always try to like take
breaks or come back to it, you know, and you can't,
like you can't race through it. You cannot race with
the word like I have all this work to do,
it's gonna take me x amount of hours, Like no,
you don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:28:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a lot more tiring than people
probably understand.

Speaker 3 (03:28:51):
I Mean.

Speaker 2 (03:28:52):
One of the things with QC is your eyes kind
of have to be open the entire time, Like blinking
is a problem.

Speaker 3 (03:28:59):
I'm I'm a professional napper, like I will take like
if I get slightly tired and I find myself my
attention drifting, and especially this time of the year where
it's so hot, if I find my attention drifting, I
will go and take a nap just to get back
on it with fresh eyes. Because, like you said, watching
the end of Asylum like eight times, like that's what happens.

(03:29:20):
Like if you're trying to force something, you're trying to
get through the deadline, you're trying to watch something at
the last minute. Sometimes it's better just to go to
bed and look at it, you know, get up, set
your alarm for four am, and get up and look
at it again, you know, take a nap, go to
sleep for an hour.

Speaker 2 (03:29:35):
Blake am I right? And assuming that because you're plugged in,
you can't use the headphones now yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:29:40):
Correct? Sorry, making sure are you getting some feedback?

Speaker 2 (03:29:45):
Ever so slightly? Plus you're a little quieter than you were,
but that's okay.

Speaker 3 (03:29:50):
I might be able to switch back in the second
I met like seventeen percent everywhere, it's not pretty cracked.
Quick here.

Speaker 2 (03:29:57):
Understood, and now your sideways?

Speaker 3 (03:30:00):
Oh oh all right, well let's see if you can come
back here we go, Yeah, you're good, all right, I'll
try to be louder.

Speaker 2 (03:30:11):
Uh, well, maybe we. I mean we've looked through most
of the titles. We're probably close to the end here.
Did you have any on your list that you wanted
to share that we haven't yet?

Speaker 3 (03:30:20):
I feel like between the two of us we covered
all ten of them. I would say out of the
Blue is my number one. Closed Circuit would be my
number two.

Speaker 2 (03:30:32):
I love this movie. I love Close Circuit.

Speaker 3 (03:30:34):
I love that we were on the same page for
both of those. Yeah, out of the Blue is like
that eighties renegade filmmaking vibe that I was talking about before.
I had a great quote that I had the right
that starts off that that film in particular, and goes
to show you the mind space of Hopper. At this
point he said, for a person like me, it's a

(03:30:55):
miracle that I get the opportunity to direct a film
because I don't listen to anybody, And it seemed like
he was in that phase of not listening to anybody.
Oh yeah, it shows in the movie. Yeah, he's ripping
beers the entire time, very very clearly.

Speaker 2 (03:31:13):
Of the ten brand new films on the slate, what
are like top two that you would recommend for people
that you think are just the most fun.

Speaker 3 (03:31:21):
I would do Ferrat Vampire for sure, and it would
be a tough decision for me to decide between Last
Shark or The Shark Hunter. So it depends you, like,
do you like Treat Williams or do you like Frank
o'neiro in a wig? God, that's hard, it is hard.
They're both essentially. I feel like they talk about how

(03:31:42):
it's kind of the same story for like at least
half of the film, but they both really work for me,
man and I like, you know, we didn't mention it,
but Doug Buck's Sisters is actually a good watch. Cloye
Sabini's great in it, Stephen Ray is great in it,
and it's I mean, it takes balls the size of

(03:32:04):
Cincinnati to remake a Brian de Palmer movie. So I
give Doug Buck credit for that for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:32:11):
Yeah, that's that is a bold move to do that,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (03:32:15):
But yeah, it definitely I do not hate it. It's
it's a decent watch.

Speaker 2 (03:32:21):
Anymore any more questions out of the chat before maybe
we call it for the night. As people are thinking
and maybe writing out a question, I just want to
say thank you. You've been incredible, Blake. You've answered so
many fun questions. Here's a question. Plan nine wants to know.
I'm half Hispanic, but I'm curious about skinheads. Any info

(03:32:41):
on the movie.

Speaker 3 (03:32:43):
Yeah, it's like Clauia Pragosa and roseal Vanieri, like like
our Drudy what's her last name? Sorry, I'm thinking of
two different people. It's like their take on Robber Stomper.
You know, it's uh and it's got like, you know,
the Fergaso charm. So it's it's it's serious, which is

(03:33:07):
you know, when you look at Foragasso's other work, it's
hard to take it serious. But it actually is a
pretty good movie, a decent story, and it's like again
contemporary thing to that Robber Stopper, maybe American history X
era of them being like, hey, look, we could make
something serious too. And I mean obviously the storyline of
like disaffected like male youth like kind of is relevant

(03:33:31):
right now. You know.

Speaker 2 (03:33:33):
Yeah, it's the first time I'm blu Ray anywhere in
the world. And it's Rosella Drudy.

Speaker 3 (03:33:38):
Is the name Rudy, Yes, that's it. Yeah, thinking Rosalvanieri
and Rosella Drudy.

Speaker 2 (03:33:44):
Say that five times fast. Yeah, but genuinely, I mean
great behind the scenes on all the QC process. I've
only been involved in the post restoration steps, so it's
nice to hear about all the other stuff. But to
hear somebody that's seen all of these in the last
few months and so much work and all the titles
that we're all about to enjoy, just thank you.

Speaker 3 (03:34:03):
I mean, I know that this is not a process
that you're.

Speaker 2 (03:34:06):
Getting fan mail for all your hard work on these,
so genuinely thank you for what you do.

Speaker 3 (03:34:11):
No, dude, I really appreciate this. This is a lot
of fun and thank you. I mean, at the point
that I started doing QC, I started listening to you
pretty much and really got my discollecting and high gear.
And the enthusiasm that I had, you know, for this
and continue to have for it is mostly because of
people like you, Andrew David, Jonathan Hurstberg from Fun City,

(03:34:33):
like everybody that I work with, it is just so
enthusiastic about you know, you know, we're all fans on
top of of you know, working on this stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:34:45):
One thing I do want to say for anybody that
did not see it. Blake's letterbox Facebook, Instagram, all that
is in the description below. Go give him a follow.
He is somebody that you should absolutely keep an eye
on throughout the years. I mean, he's watched so many
of these movies that we're all interested in. He gets
to watch them before us and prepare us for it.
So yeah, it's worth it.

Speaker 3 (03:35:04):
And I had post lots of pictures of cats. If
you like cats, I got lots of them. I'm surprisingly
one made a brief appearance tonight, very brief. I better
go check there, probably lighting the house on fire.

Speaker 2 (03:35:16):
Hilton says. Any thoughts on Ozzy lost this week obviously?

Speaker 3 (03:35:20):
Yeah, man, that's a bummer, you know, Like I feel
like all the heavy hitters, the legends from the seventies
lou reed Ozzy, you know, and what a terrible year
of David Lynch, you know, all the legends. I definitely
feel like the world that I came from is starting
to not exist anymore, you know.

Speaker 2 (03:35:40):
Yeah, it's crazy to lose Azzy, but I mean, to
be fair, we got a lot more Ouzsie than I
think many of us ever expected.

Speaker 3 (03:35:47):
Oh yeah, what a way to go out. I mean,
if you saw the footage from that concert, like, yeah,
so awesome, So cool and just like, what a touching
tribute to the man. You know, dude's been around Like me,
you can't. I've seen a lot of people trying to
discount his contribution to music, and that's crazy fan or not.
You can't do that, not at all. I mean, he
is a legend literally for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:36:09):
Well that's all we got tonight. See everybody back next Thursday.
Enjoy the rest of the sale. Keep in mind stuff
changes every day, so like the box set sale will
be there on Saturday, the Sunday will be the upgrade day.
Keep an eye on the stock counts. I mean, some
of this stuff, for all we know, could sell out.
There's stuff that's limited. There's stuff that I mean some
of the stuff that's only seven to fifty could be

(03:36:30):
nearing the end of their license theoretically, so they could
literally just run out of them. So keep a close eye.

Speaker 3 (03:36:36):
Cheers man, Thank you, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (03:36:38):
Blake, have a good night. We'll see you all next Thursday,
and have a good week. Stay safe everybody. Yeah, another
new first time guest next Thursday too, so come hang
out awesome see you then. Thank you for watching The Disconnected.
On the way out, make sure that you are subscribed
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Speaker 4 (03:37:05):
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(03:37:36):
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Speaker 10 (03:37:51):
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