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Re: The Amityville Trilogy coming from Scream Factory (reply) Watched AMITYVILLE II again last night, after seeing a HD rip of the original last month. Looking forward to listening to the Kim Newman/Stephen Jones commentary, which I'm guessing won't be on the Scream Factory release. It's not as... |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 04/10/13 3:04 PM |
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Re: DRACULA (1958) UK BD - March 18th (reply) Stuart4th wrote:But wasn't the blue-heavy look of LE CERCLE ROUGE closer to Melville's original intentions and the original French release?I don't know, Stuart, but I know which one looks better...never liked blue snooker tables!... |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 02/15/13 5:08 AM |
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Re: DRACULA (1958) UK BD - March 18th (reply) We need Criterion to release it Stateside. The blue tint was noticeably absent from their LE CERCLE ROUGE: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare2/cerclerouge/cerclerouge3.html |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 02/14/13 4:34 AM |
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Re: DRACULA (1958) UK BD - March 18th (reply) Professor X wrote:Joe Karlosi wrote: UNDERWORLD is a vampire movie, from 2003. Its not coming up for me there does not change the fact that blue-tinted horror movies like UNDERWORLD, THE RING, and SAW (and probably... |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 02/13/13 9:51 AM |
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Re: Following "Dracula" blu-ray (reply) todmichel wrote:I don't understand very well where is the problem with Academy ratio. If you think these movies were planned for a 1.66 presentation, it's easy with modern TV to cut off the upper and lower sides of the image.How? It's... |
Hammer Horror | 11/29/12 6:24 AM |
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Re: WESTWORLD Blu-ray 3/5/13 (reply) professor liebstrum wrote:This was the first AA film I saw at the cinema, you had to be 16. I think I was approaching 15. My cousin got me in. We were both pretty baby faced, so the usually hostile lady in the booth must have been... |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 11/26/12 11:38 AM |
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Re: The Devil Rides Out with CGI Enhancements. Views and Opinions (reply) Godziwolf wrote: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956) and Gojira (1954) are treated officially as separate movies. As they should be -- they are very different films. I want to see the Japanese sub-titled version of Godzilla: King... |
Hammer Horror | 11/10/12 2:44 AM |
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Re: The Devil Rides Out with CGI Enhancements. Views and Opinions (reply) Godziwolf wrote:Miles Wood wrote:No, it isn't. Restoring cut footage doesn't necessarily make a film "different". One is just seeing more, just as if one first saw a film pan-and-scan on TV and then saw it letterboxed; I'm seeing more,... |
Hammer Horror | 11/02/12 12:39 AM |
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Re: The Devil Rides Out with CGI Enhancements. Views and Opinions (reply) Azazel02 wrote:There are different kinds of revisionism and those that are yelling 'revisionism!' over TDRO are the same people who are happy to accept sticking censored material into Dracula where it did not originally appear... |
Hammer Horror | 10/26/12 7:29 AM |
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Re: The Devil Rides Out with CGI Enhancements. Views and Opinions (reply) FRANNY wrote:Just so sad that folk appear to be jumping on the bandwagon with the "I'm not buying it." Isn't their love for the film enough to purchase it and then feedback their opinion? It isn't like anyone is forking out a huge amount... |
Hammer Horror | 10/26/12 1:58 AM |
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Re: Kim who? (reply) MJ Simpson wrote:Sorry - it's this: http://monsterkidclassich...ror-Revival-my-next-book Maybe Elley is well-known in America. His name meant nothing to me - not now, and not during the three years in the late 1990s when I was working... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/16/12 2:04 AM |
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Re: The Films of Donald Pleasence (reply) JessieLilley wrote:I read his Peter Cushing book. I'll pass.That indictment plus the cover means I probably will too. Thanks Jessie. |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/16/12 1:54 AM |
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The Films of Donald Pleasence (topic) Is this the first book about the actor? I'm not aware of any others. As such it's of obvious interest to me and I'm sure to others here, but I'm immediately put off by the terrible cover design, which suggests to me this might be thin on... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/15/12 5:47 AM |
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Re: Kim who? (reply) MJ Simpson wrote: I'm curious why I should have heard of Derek Elley. I don't read Variety.I don't read Variety either, but I'm well aware of Derek's - you don't mind if I call him Derek, do you? - standing as a film... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/15/12 5:38 AM |
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Re: X-Cert British Independent Horror Films (reply) John Hamilton wrote:Miles Wood wrote:It's a shame the book isn't available from amazon.uk as - on the strength of the reviews here - I would have added it to my next order. It is Miles, or least its available to order through Amazon,... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/15/12 5:29 AM |
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Re: X-Cert British Independent Horror Films (reply) It's a shame the book isn't available from amazon.uk as - on the strength of the reviews here - I would have added it to my next order. |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/12/12 12:32 AM |
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Re: Kim who? (reply) It’s nothing to do with how familiar someone is with Kim Newman before they start reading the book (see above). The only other critic who gets a healthy number of mentions is Variety’s London correspondent Derek Elley. Never heard of... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/12/12 12:30 AM |
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Re: Kim who? (reply) MJ Simpson wrote:Here's an example. Bear in mind that not only has "Kim Newman" been mentioned about 9 or 10 times so far in the book, but I've also singled him out as being an authority in the field whose views are particularly... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/10/12 4:35 AM |
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Re: Kim who? (reply) MJ Simpson wrote:In my forthcoming book, after the first handful of references to Kim Newman (mostly quoting his reviews), I frequently just refer to "Kim in Empire wrote..." or "...said Kim in Video Watchdog."Just curious: would anybody... |
Horror Film Books and Magazines | 10/09/12 5:19 PM |
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Re: The Devil Rides Out - BluRay (reply) Azazel02 wrote:You also have to accept that there are people, like me, who actively enjoy this trend of having fun with old titles. Because that's my personal taste and sensiblity.My initial thought when reading the news of the revisions... |
Classic Horror on DVD, Blu-Ray and Streaming | 10/01/12 2:52 PM |
