Re-Connected August 4th, 2022: Announcements, Collector Discussion with Will Dodson, and More!!

Hey, Hey, there everybody, and welcome back to Reconnected. I am here with a fairly new friend of mine, Will Dodson. I had him on the show last week, and I hope a lot of you have seen that video that we put up now, because I would love it if you had any questions that came up after viewing that to be able to ask Will tonight, because man, oh man, he is a Toby Hooper expert and he's got a lot of other knowledge and he would be more than happy to

share. And let's get into it. Will, how are we doing today? I'm doing good. Yeah, thanks for having me again. I'm really excited to be here and really enjoyed the Toby Hooper interview. Already got some good comments and saw circulating around them the social media netasphere. But I'm also excited to kind of diversify a little bit talk about some other films and filmmakers. So yeah, let's have at it nice. We already are getting some

people shuffle in. So again, if you saw anything last Friday about Toby and you want to know some more, Will is literally the expert on Toby Hooper, so please just get those questions. We'll get to them as soon as we can. Got a lot to talk about tonight. There have been we knew this week was going to be heavy. We got Arrow announcements, we got Vinegar Syndrome and all their partner label announcements. We've got a smattering

of some others. And on top of that, we got some redefining reasons to discuss physical media this week, as HBO Max has suddenly deleted I think it's six or eight titles or something like that off of their service which were HBO Max originals. So where else would they go? Any thoughts from you on they're deleting those, Well, there's all the hubbub going on about Batgirl being being canceled, and you know, you got to feel for all the

people involved on production when something gets canceled so close to completion. But there's also been, you know, some controversy over the fact that Netflix is re editing episodes of Stranger Things, which I'm mildly concerned about. I haven't seen.

I was waiting to watch the last season with my daughter, and now I'm not not even sure it's artistically viable, right, But you know, it goes to a lot of the conversations we have about the importance of physical media for archiving and preserving films and filmmakers because streaming services there's no guarantee they're gonna keep stuff on US licenses expired for their original content, they can shelve

it for tax purposes, as we've seen with the merger or acquisition. I guess of what is a Discovery Plus right, kind of an ironic name for a company since they're hiding everything. Really odd to like put their hat on Discovery Plus. It seems like as well, it seems odd to put all of your bets behind that. I don't know. Yeah, the whole situation is is sad and uh, the the two films that were canceled with That

Girl and Scoob. I not only you know, for the the stars that were you know, potentially going to have life changing roles, but I mean the the amount of crew that works on these films that are now not going to have exposure, that are not going to have the ability to have this on the resume, that aren't going to have, you know, something to show their kids. I know for a lot of people that work on it will be like Scoob, that's a that's a big deal. For them,

and now that is just taken from them. They had no say in it. So the only things that are guaranteed are things that you physically hold in your hand. So it shows that this is all that much more important. And I hope that we see some sort of resurgence again. And we keep getting these random things that cause resurgences and I love that, but just never seems enough to get all of society behind it again. But I don't know that we'll ever get that sort of resurgence again. Yeah. Man, you

know, well, it keeps getting hot. People are gonna have to stay inside and they need something to do. That is very, very true. So speaking of that, you got anything new that you want to show to everybody? See what you got picked up here recently? Oh? Yeah, I had a couple of things come in maybe some some of these are kind of older releases that I'm just kind of catching up with. Let's say one, I'll mention, No, there's some strooms that got announced today that we'll

probably talk about. But I just picked up This is the Mill Creek release of the twelve pack of Randolph Scott films. I mainly got this because I think all seven of the films he made with the director of Bud Buddeker are on there. They all really deserve MH remastered high definition ven maybe even some four K releases. This isn't that, but it's the best we have for

now. Still no high definition even Blu ray release of seven of them from now which is the best movie with Randall Scott and oh yeah, that's not in here. So not all of this, but well most of them. We'll see one I want to talk about later. I want to get into some announcements, but we'll see. I get I got a Walter Hill film, Crossroads Nice with Ralph Marcio. I'm pretty excited about that, you know, boxing This is an older release, came out a few years ago from

Keno, but I always like mentioning this. I always teach at least one of her films in my general intro film appreciation class, and that's the Idol Lupino. She was a real pioneer as an actress and a director. I think at one point she and Dorothy Arsner were the only women and the director's guild. But she was also a pioneer in independent filmmaking. And here's a strange factoid. She was one of the innovators of product placement and movies as

a way to raise money for for independent productions. Interesting that we have her to day for the you know, perfectly placed bottles of tostedos that we see today, among some other So I'm pretty excited about that set. It's got some great films at the Bigamist, the Hitchhiker, which is probably our best known film. Nice I got some in this week. These are in from for review from Imprint. They actually sent me these to share with the channel.

The first one we got Barabbas and this is nineteen sixty one, and this is a pretty decent looking disc has got ten ADP high f presentation, an audio commentary by Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman from this year. And then Richard Fleischer looking back, an interview with the Hollywood director, and then film History and Sheldon Hall on Barrabas and that's from this year. So lots of good stuff on this one. And again Imprint just killing it with what they're

putting out. I love Richard Fleischer. He is a director who deserves a lot more exposure. Partly I think people don't really pay attention to him, to his career because he did so many different genres of film, he's not really known right A particular one. One of my favorites is a sort of daytime more heist film called Violent Saturday with Lee Marvin in just full villain mode, just nasty, nice bank heist movie. But you know he did twenty

thousand leagues under this scene. I mean, so many great movies. I haven't seen a Bravisa. I don't want to spoil the end, but it's sad. I've heard that. The next one is another director that I really like, and they seem to get really really heavy in the directors for the month of July. Ken Russell film of horror, and this one we got an audio look at that. Look at that audio commentary by Alexander Heller,

Nicholas and Josh Nelson on this from this year. There's an interview with actress Teresa Russell from this year, which that's kind of a pretty big deal, and then an interview with Ginger Lynn Allen which is exciting, and then interview with the writer Deborah Dalton X rated at Tour Bruce Le Bruce on Ken Russell's Horror, Legitimate and Illegitimate Women in Ken Russell's Horror, a video essay by Kat Ellinger, which was the first thing that made me go, I gotta

get this to see what Kat says on that. And this one for those that don't know, it's from nineteen ninety one, so it's a fairly modern Ken Russell compared to a lot of the stuff that people know. And I saw that years ago and can't wait to see that again. Yeah. I think I saw Late Night on Skin a Max when I was fourteen years old. Yeah, it wasn't quite well at the adolescent self, it was a little disappointed. It wasn't wasn't like that, yep, but I thought,

but great, it really is a great film. Yeah, I'm so it's going to get rediscovered. And I mean, anytime you can get a Kim Russell film, you should at least see it at least ones. Yeah. Next one is Andy Garcia in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead. This is a pretty unique movie. This one's from nineteen ninety five, not one that a lot of people nowadays have been talking about. So I'm again, just like Horror, I'm really glad this one's out there right for rediscovery.

This one's got things to write in Denver when You're Dead, an interview with the screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, Things to direct in Denver when You're Dead, interview with the director Gary Fleeeder, and then things to Perform in Denver when You're Dead, an interview with actor Andy Garcia, a modern interview with Andy Garcia on this film, which that's pretty damn cool, and then also an interview with the production designer. That's kind of a lot to get for something

like this that has not been getting a lot of attention lately. But the biggest one this month box set Oh Jim Sheridan films, four Irish films, My Left Foot, the Field, in the Name of the Father, and The Boxer. And obviously some of these are titles that people know very well, especially this one had got I think it's a shout select release in the Name of the Father, and then The Boxer also had a shout select release,

I believe. But to get all these together, that's that's a really cool set for them and another director that you know, had a moment in the in the early mid nineties who really needs to be rediscovered. Yeah, so this is an excellent opportunity. I really love the Boxer. I'm a big fan of that film. The Boxer is great. Gosh, another one that's been years since I've seen. So Daniel day lewis just obviously amazing and at this point seems to be retired, but we'll see if he ever comes

back. That would be swell. Let's go through who all is here before we start going through the announcements. What's going on? Startists? He says, welcome to Will. Oh hey, thanks Lissa, how are we doing? And christians Hobby Blog says, yay, Will, what's going on? Big fan of Christian's hobby blog? Jeff, What's going on? Evening Sartists wanted to share that he watched the UT at Austin Roundtable on Hooper. You guys did awesome. Thanks glad you get to check that out. A lot

of great interviews in there. Joe, Bob Greggs of course was great. Scaltefolia, Stan Geezy, Julius bandon Chris was such a fun talk once again that Roundtables in the description below tonight, So if you want to save that for later, make sure you open that in a new tab and go back to it after this show. Terry, what's going on? Flickering waves. Eric is here. Sartis just spent two hundred dollars on partner labels at Vinegarson

Room. We'll talk about those a lot tonight. Christians Hobby Blog wants killer Condom on Blu Ray. I don't know that one. Oh yeah, you gotta check that out Trauma Licensed. So a current theme for Christians Hobby Blog is please Vinegar Syndrome. Since they have that, they get a lot of those trauma license releases. It's a great film based on a comic book and it's about mid nineties and it's it's about uh really, it's a it's a it's a pretty enlightened for its time, you know, the defense I guess

of queer identities specifically in this story. And the film is about a moralizing group that's trying to stamp out sin using killer condoms. It's great, like a perfect pairing for that. What is Visual Vengeance release of La Age Jabber that's about to come out? Oh absolutely, I got my pre order at grind House for that one. Nice Hilton wanted to point out that Peacemaker is coming out on Blue Has that been confirmed for the US? Because I know

it got confirmed for Canada. I've not heard for sure that it's coming to the US. Let me know if somebody else has seen that here. Yeah, I really do hope. Netflix says the same as Sandman. I don't understand some of these places, Like, obviously they want to get subscribers in to watch their stuff. But if you're not gonna get people that are collecting physical media, just release something and make some money. That's better than no

dollars. Yeah, that's why I really like what Shutter does this, But you know, putting out several of there yeah titles, and at least that way they give themselves an exclusive they get it for like four or five months before it comes out on Blue. That's perfect. I'm totally fine with that. Sure. Uh. Lissa wanted to share she just watched Life Force last weekend, one of my favorite Toby Hooper directed movies. Cam's here. What's going on? Cam? John is probably working as he listens. What's up?

John? Dude, McMahon, you are at the live stream? Nice? Happy you're here. Christian says, I watched One Eyed Jacks recently. It's a new favorite Western of mine. Uh. Jeff says the Hitchhiker, that's one of his favorite noirs and Dave's here, what's going on? Dave? Let's see, are we in the golden age of film collecting? I say, yes, uh, maybe maybe you did that interview a couple of

weeks ago with was his name Adam from Adam from Window. I liked his answer to that question, like yes and no. Right, but the the margins are so difficult for eternal profit reducing high end physical media. Right. But it certainly is a rabid collecting community. And you know, if you're a film student, film fan, you definitely have more options than you've ever had before. So there's that, But the business is tough. Yeah.

I do think that in the the like the golden age of the DVD era, I guess as a decent way to put that, I think we had more films being released on DVD. But I think we are in perhaps the golden age of treating everything with love and passion as much as humanly possible. Yeah, for the most part, don't. I don't miss the VHS days,

even though I still feel nostalgia for the video store. I worked in a video store for four years when I was in college, and I liked the fact that I could look at the boxes for at the time, there are I think thirteen Witchcraft movies and I watched them all and I don't regret it, but I'll never do it again. But I liked that they were there, right, But VHS is a format I have no nostalgia for. Yeah, not really. Dave, what's going on? Dave got an Arrow

order in Jallo Essentials, the Red Box and the Andromeda Strain. I love the Andromeda Strain. Robert Wise, Yeah, oh, look, t s artist does two? Neil's here? What's going on? Neil and Steve? Hey, Steve, Okay, I think we are ready for some announcements. This is a rough week because I was I was posting announcements on the fly. My sister was here on vacation, so I was spending a lot of time with her. I know that I missed BFI announcements this week, but

I will get those up and we'll talk about those next week. So let's dive in. The First thing we got last Friday was Arrow. Arrow Video put out a pretty interesting month after taking a couple really light months. We are getting the count Yorga collection. This is coming on October twenty fifth, and this has let me see here. It's got Disc one, we got

count Yorga Vampire, and then Disc two the Return of count Yorga. This is gonna have a blu ray for both movies, the original audio subtitles of course, and then there's a collector's book in this first the limited release that they always do, fold out double sided posters for both films featuring commissioned artwork by Heather Vaughan, twelve double sided postcard sized lobby cards reproduction press book for count Yorga Vampire, which that's a really cool piece to add, I think.

Then we got brand new audio commentary by Tim Lucas, which is pretty damn exciting. Then a new appreciation of count Yorga by Heather Draine and Chris O'Neil, new interview with Frank Darabant in which the award winning filmmaker talks about his love for count Yorga Vampire, and then a new interview with actor Michael Murphy. And there's even more on that disc. There's some old legsy features

coming on there. And then on disc two for the return, we get a new audio commentary by Stephen Bissett, the count and the Counterculture, a brand new interview with critic Maitland mcdonnaugh, Chamber of Music of Horror, a new interview with Dave Huckville about the scores for both films, and then again some old legacy features on there. What do you think about count Yorga? Wow? So when I first saw it, I was like, damn, because I've got the Twilight Time, the Blu Ray of count Yorga and the

Shout release of Return. But I imagine these are going to be some refreshed and I'm really I'm pretty excited about. Like I like seeing interviews with Baytlan mcdonna. You know, she wrote one of the first really good books about Daria Argento, Broken Mirror's Broken Mind. Chris so Neil did a video essay for the I'm Dangerous Tonight Blu ray that that I contributed to. Uh, of course Tim Lucas, And yeah, there's a lot of good stuff in

there. I think that's gonna be worth checking out. I might have to might have to finance that by selling my out of print Twilight Time. There's a lot of people still after those old Twilight Time days, that's for sure. Yeah, what's going on? Dead Sea Life? Glad You're here. Dude says he remembers seeing all those Witchcraft movies at the family video down the street. Wanted to run them all into a marathon, but never did.

You saved yourself some pain, but it's doable. Spaghetti wants us to start over because he was a little late, and we're gonna do that right now. So welcome to reconnected. This is I'm just kidding, Let's get right back to this. What's going on? Spaghetti? Glad you're here, next one up from aerow. This was heavily rumored earlier this year, and I'm really glad it came to fruition because this might be my favorite Chronimberg nowadays.

I think that other than I mean this is I think we talked about this either last week or the week before. It's really difficult to say that when he has a life changing film in The Fly. So I'm not even going to count The Fly. The Fly is a classic everybody. Yeah, that's like the most one of the most amazing films of all time. This,

other than The Fly, is probably my favorite Chronimberg at this point. So in the UK only, they are putting out a four k uhd of videodrome once again, they are doing what they've done with some of their other releases and basically copying everything about that Blu Ray release that they did and just putting a four K disk in it. But also they are doing a version of

this with the og poster artwork, and that is an aerosite exclusive. And as far as I remember, I don't think there are any new features on this at all. Yeah, I think everything I'm seeing is from the original. Now. One thing to point out, the original release of Video Drome it had the David Cronenberg early works. This does not. So you are losing quite a bit if you try to get rid of your old limited edition and then replace it with this. Now, they do have the David Cronenberg

early works that they sell separately. But I don't know. This is a pretty incredible film and I really can't wait to see it in four K. Well till Lucas is talking over everything. Now, look at that, I guess that's got to be new, right, I mean, I don't think so. I think that was on the original. I'd have to look. Wow, I don't remember it being there. It maybe Bill Wilson, So

I've looked at it. I remember watching though that that fear on film Roundtable from nineteen eighty two with Cronenberg and Carpenter and Landis and mc garrison and I remember John Landis no offense to John Landas he didn't care. It was real like extra on that shit, you know, any a minute and just watching Carpenter's eyes rolling in the back of his head getting annoyed, because it's almost worth watching that before any of the other features. It's a wonderful conversation.

I definitely suggest people seek that out if you have not seen it. Yeah, really good. Uh, I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. I'd say he's probably I don't know. When people ask him of my favorite filmmaker, I have a different answer every day, but I'd probably say David Cronenberg more often than any other filmmaker. And like you, this is probably my first or

second favorite film. And I like to think about it as a as a triple feature with Existence and Crimes of the Future, the new Crimes of the Future, not the original experimental film, with this film being kind of the the analog exploration of the media theory of Marshall mccluan, and then Existence getting into virtual reality and cybernetics and then finally Crimes of the Future, this sort of evolution, devolution of older man's perspective on these same things. I'm excited

about this coming out so that I can do all three again. I need to revisit Crimes of the Future, because I got to be honest, I did not love it in the theater. It is A it's a it's a. I don't know. It seemed like there was a lot of meat left on the bone there that they could have done more with sort of an anti climactic ending for me. But yeah, I definitely see the trilogy idea there. And Man, excess Tends really needs more attention nowadays, really does Sure?

Quiet Rob, what's going on? My friend? He is also excited for Video Drome. Antoine's also here What's going on? Video Store says, I want Canada to host the Olympics so Cronenberg can direct the opening ceremony. That would be amazing. Yeah. Next up from them, they are putting out something called Take Back the Night from twenty twenty one and I don't normally say something like this, but man, this movie does not look like one

I would enjoy. Yeah, you know, I hadn't heard of this and I assumed, and it turned out rightly that this kind of fits into the sort of revitalized rape revenge genre. Although this scene I watched the trailer today and got pretty intrigued. But this genre movie, I don't know if enjoy is the right word anyway, you know, right, it's kind of an an experience, an experience that hopefully will lead to some some some positive insights

and reactions. I actually found that this is straightening on to be so uh so, I think I'm gonna check it out this week or weekend and see see how it looks. But the package is really cool, you know, it's decent. I think it probably really jibs with the overall tone of the film very well. From what I saw from the trailer, it looks like

that's going to fit right in. Uh this one. For those that have not read into this one, it says, finding yourself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her, but our troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface, causing her family, community, and the author used to question her account. Alone in he fight Jane starts to doubt her own memory

of the attack and to wonder if the monster exists at all. So this is fueled by formidable female talent both in front of and behind the camera, and Take Back the Night's a terrifying suspense thriller that's both an eye opening expose and a powerful rallying cry. This one has an audio commentary by Gia Elliott and Alexandra Heller Nicholas, author of Rape Revenge Films A critical study, and Alexandra Heller Nicholas has been everywhere lately, wonderful author. By the way,

that's a great book. She's fantastic. Yeah, So I'm looking forward to this. And then Please Don't Say the word go ahead, I said, I was looking forward to this, and I was like, well, that's kind of a weird thing to say for this particular genre I'm really interested in seeing. Then after that we got Please Don't Say the Word Monster on national television. A visual essay by Emma Westwood. Another visual by film critics Cerice

Howard, exploring the idea of safe spaces, sanctuary and vulnerability. And then what is a Body? Another visual essay by Justine Smith examining bodily autonomy and monsters are Real. Another visual essay by film critic BJ Colangelo or Sorry Colangelo looking at survivor, Unity, sexual violence and social media theatrical trailer and BJ and her wife They are wonderful. Just we're on one of the podcasts that I produce. Take a look at their work. They do some really really

interesting stuff. They are just amazing critics and some really really good commentary out there on Film Video Store says I do wish labels reached out to more contributors. I think on more work by Alexandre Heller Nicholas than David Lynch. I gotta be honest, I see that there is really a small little club lately, and some of these boutiques on people contributed. But it's also hard to find good talent for stuff like this, willing to do it for how little

they're able to pay. Yeah, well, it's hard hard to get exposure. Hopefully, hopefully support more people will get into the club. I was about to say, how's the commentary on something that just came out recently from Keno there will Yeah, Well, you know, I'm dangerous tonight Blu ray

that came out last week it's been getting some some decent reviews. I mean, obviously that the focus should be on the film, but it really is packed with with with extras, as we talked about on the interview, and some of the reviews that have come out about the Blu Ray have been have been nice. And yeah, we'll see. I hope it does well. I hope that it leads to more of Toby's television work coming out and you know, see what happens. I agree. So that's Take Back the Night.

And then next up they put out one that looks pretty damn intriguing to me. This is Two Witches from twenty twenty one. Expectant young mother Sarah is convinced she has been given the evil eye from a mysterious, blank eyed old hag while she is dining with their bullish and insensitive partner Simon. When the couple go to visit his new ag friends Dustin and Melissa, dark forces are unleashed after an ill advised attempt at consulting a Ouiji board to allay her

fears. Meanwhile, tensions grow between grad school student Rachel and her new roommate Masha after a violent incident involving a man at a man that the strange and impulsive young woman has brought home. This is from a first time feature director who also shot, edited, and contributed to the soundtrack, which is pretty

dang cool. This one's got a new audio commentary by the director, new audio commentary by the producer behind the movie, a two part behind the scenes featurette, and then some interviews the score, an interview with the composer, and some others like a Q and A at Grimfest twenty one. And then of course in the first pressing you got one of those books two Witches.

Any thoughts on this one? First, I'm hearing of it, but I mean, I'm always excited to check out obvious passion projects like this, when when you know filmmakers put together something that's so personal, right, you know, I will say that at this day and age, everybody should know never consult a Luigi board for comfort. But I will forgive that trope, and definitely I'll give this a watch. I'm intrigued. Tropes are tropes for a

reason. Then they put out a very interesting one. This is called Gothic Fantastico, featuring Lady Morgan's vengeance, the blanche Field Monster, the third and The Witch. This is going to have brand new two K restorations from the OCN for all four movies. These are all Blu rays of course, and then we got optional Italian and English front and end titles on a few of

them. We got subtitles of course. New video introduction stage film by Italian film devote Mark Thompson Ashworth, eighty page booklet which is pretty dang cool for something like this, fulled out double sided poster. And then again audio commentaries and video essays by Kat Allinger, Alexandra Heller, Nicholas Erica Blanc, Paul Muller and Moore. There's all kinds of names on this because this is going to have four pretty stack discs for these films. Well, I'll tell you

I'm most excited about The Witch. This film. This is one of the first films by Domiano Domiani, who is not as well known as he should be. Uh Blue under Round has put out a couple of his films pull Up for the general How to Kill a Judge. He's probably best known for films about the Italian mafia, his masterpiece Moglia Pubella and The Most Beautiful Wife, which was the first film with Muti. That's that's a fantastic film.

And he's probably best known in America for directing the best Amityville movie in my opinion, Amityville two of the Possession. One of the last things he did, I'll actually hold up was an Italian television show about the mafia, La Povre and Octopus. He directed the entire first season of that show. Can

You Tell I Love Domiano? Domiani were actually and I'm not familiar with the other three films, but I'm gonna I'm gonna check them all out because of The Witch, which is kind of an avant garde gender politics, exploration of terror intention for anybody wondering, I do think one or two of these is on to be right now for free to be able to stream, So if you want to check out one or two of them before putting down it's like

a sixty or seventy dollars set or whatever. This is looking to me like one of the ones that's genuinely worth it because of the amount of work put into these, so much content, so much love and passion put into this, and it looks just like really interesting four pack of films. Then we started getting some others once again. You showed some Milk Creek titles earlier. This is one that mil Creek put out a couple of years ago, and

Keino Lober on October eleventh is now releasing Blind Fury with Rutger Howard. Now stepping away from what they've been doing with a couple these other recent announcements. This one actually has a new audio commentary, which the other ones they were getting nothing new now. There's nothing new about a restoration or anything like that, so it's all gonna be the same except for that audio commentary, So

there is If you're really into Rutger Howard, you might want this. The commentary is done by screenwriter Charles Robert Carner, moderated by filmmaker Douglas Hasdale and Blind Fury Rutger Howard Thoughts oh Man, don't forget Terry o'quinn's in it and Meg Foster and Randall Tech's cop This is a fun movie. Might be a good double feature with Hubbo with a shotgun, so you get kind of meg career Rutger Howard and late career Rucker Howard. Philp Noise did Dead Calm,

which is a really good thriller. Yeah, I'm pretty interested in this one. Terry O'Quinn is great, always a really wonderful actor. Yeah, Blind Fear Fun sought a couple of years ago. It's it's worth the watch at least once. And this one most likely will be one of the very cheap Keynote titles, so this should be pretty easy to pick up even in a sale. Yeah, add on to get the free shipping. There you go.

Uh Now, this one is a very timely one to talk about because these are going up for pre order tomorrow this Friday, August fifth, at ten a m Eastern nine am here in the Central Standard time zone, and I'm excited for the next air four four four four releases. First up, we got Centipede Horror. This is coming with slipcase limited to one thousand.

There's a booklet, three stickers, some lobby cards, double sided poster, and then a Margaret Lee card and then there is also another slipcase limited to one thousand with all of the same items. Then their second title is Red Spell Spell's Red limited to one thousand on this slip and of course a second slip Red spell Spells Red. All right, Asian Wacky Horror will what are

your thoughts on that. I'm a big fan of Centipede Horror, which I saw on a really terrible DVD release I think I got from Netflix when Netflix was mail order a long time ago. And it is like all the other films that are for four four four has put out so far. I guess the technical term is it's pretty fucked up. I haven't seen Red Spell Spells Red before, but if they're coming out together, then I'm willing to take

the chance because some pet horror is it's something. These look really interesting to me. I've not seen either one of these before. I am kind of curious to see how people respond to the pricing. The fact that we get options is really cool. I think there are more people that will be able to get a copy, as long as we don't get people that buy both of them immediately or all four of them. Technically, I just you know, thirty six bucks for a Blu ray release. That is getting on the

price of your side for a Blu Ray. But I get it. It's boutiques, and you know things have changed for some of these, and then a lot of people are going to point out stuff like vinegar Syndrome for a four K release is forty five fifty dollars, and then we get box sets going up to eight all that so I get it. Prices arising, it's tough, I'm probably going to do it. So this is going to have for special features on the first film, Centipede, who a two K restoration

of the uncut film elements. Then there's an animal cool street cut, which I always love when companies do that for people that don't want to see it. And it's only going to be missing less than a minute of footage, so not too much predicting ultra violence, Hong Kong's Cat three rating. That's just a little featurette. And then spot the different Centipede horror censorship. I'm really curious about seeing that. And then they've got some newly translated English and

Mandarin subtitles on Red Spell Spells Red. We're getting again a two K restoration that is uncut, an animal cruelty free cut. That one is going to be almost three minutes cut out of the film. And then how to make a successful Hong Kong Black Magic film. A little featurette there, and then again newly translated subs. They're doing a lot of stuff on these, Yeah,

I always appreciate refreshed subtitle translations. I have feeling that the version of Centipeede Horror that I watched was not the most accurate translation, so I'm looking

forward to an enhanced doing experience. I did a conversation on the other channel for Discovering Cinema with me and Flip and Frank Jang, who did a lot of the older Asian titles back in like the mid two thousands, and he's doing a lot of commentaries, especially for like Eureka lately, and there's so many things that he has done to retranslate because a lot of these subs they're still using his subtitles from like fifteen years ago, and it just was not

was not done perfectly. So he's fixing some of those and I'm just glad that they're getting better releases nowadays. Yeah, Christian Tabby Blog wants to point out there the release of Robotrock Robo Tricks Can't Speak. Has a great essay on CAT three and then I Believe It's the Untold Story from Unearthed Films has a really nice doc on CAT three Films. Oh, I love the un

Told Story of the movies. Is such a good movie. And then for this they are doing a VHS collaboration with lunch Meat, and those vhs will be up for grabs during the pre order. There's going to be fifty of them for Centipede Horror, fifty for Red Spell Spells Red, and fifty for Anatomia Extinction, which was their very first release. Now they also have some bundle options, So for eighty dollars, you can get one of the Centipede Blue Rays, one of the Red Spell Blue Rays, and it will have

all four of the slip cases and that's eighty bucks. Or you can for ninety dollars have one of the Centipede Blue Rays, both of the limited slipcases for Centipede and the extras, the VHS for it and the shirt for it. Or for the Red Spell you can get one Blu Ray, both slipcases, the VHS and the shirt for ninety dollars, or the limited Centipede and

Red Nico Bundle you can get Centipede and Scorpions. A Nico Films Zoology limited rigid box includes exclusive art on both sides and a magnetic clasp limited book inside containing newly commissioned comics of both Centipede Horror, and Red Spell Spells Red by Mark Gross, plus the novelization of Red Spell Spells Red translated to English for the first time ever with photos and artwork. It will also include a centiped Horror Blu Ray, a Red Spell Blu Ray, all four limited slipcases,

and all of the limited extras. Holy gosh, I think there's another one though there's another bundle? Oh is there? Yeah? I will have to look it up because I'm I must have men it. I think for one hundred and eighty you get everything that's right. It wouldn't let me upload that one. Yeah, let me let me share this picture so I don't know how I missed that one. Again. It's from having my sister here this week. That's what I'm gonna blame. I shouldn't have said anything. So

I want to get one of those, and not that many. It's only limited to twenty. Dear gosh, all right, let me let me stop hearing the screen and we'll share that one for a second. Man, limited to twenty Shoot, what time does that go on? Sale? Ten am Eastern? So Centipede and Red Megabundle this is limited to twenty for one hundred and eighty dollars you get everything that they had listed there one hundred and eighty dollars, it's around nine fifty eight. I don't have to pretend I'm getting

an emergency phone call so i can jet out of work. I'm interviewing another label tomorrow and it will be over right as that goes on sale, So I'm gonna I'm gonna have to jet out of there quickly. All right. So that is air four four four four. Lots of cool stuff. I'm

I'm curious to see what else we have on the horizon. Yeah, they they've done kind of a lot already, but also they've really been around since like early in the pandemic, and they've only put out a handful of titles now, so it shows that they're I mean, either there's been a lot of delays or they're they're putting a lot of time and energy into each one, and it looks like it's the latter, because they they are really delivering

the good stuff. All right, you got something else? No, I was just gonna say, I I really I appreciate the boutique labels whose identity is kind of wrapped up around releasing one thing at a time. Yeah, very similar, although they've been around much longer and have a much larger catalog. But at the same time, I'm mindful of the labels to have much larger catalogs, like like Third Eye and of course fini Er Syndrome seven.

And I like the fact that there are so many different identities for the different labels. It kind of makes it less transactional to me, like that they all have their own personalities. I mean, it is transactional, but it's it's less exploitive. You know, there's almost a personality there because they seem

to be going down a very specific round. And I think this is a good example of how you know, you can work in a capital I don't want to get to esoteric, but how you can work in the capitalist system but still have kind of a an ethic about you, you know, where the profit isn't the only margin. You have to make profit to stay viable, obviously, but you're also really paying attention to quality and and interaction with your customer base and so on. And you know, it wouldn't it be

nice if that's how it was. Speaking of esoteric, Jeff wants to know, does we'll get a lot of pushback or disapproval in your classes when you discuss some of these films. You know, that's a good question, And shockingly the answer is no, not really. I teach a lot of courses to non majors, so they're they're first and second year students who don't have

a whole lot of background in film studies. And then I teach courses to upper level students, especially like my Cult Films course is more for upper level, and I do I do give a trigger warning, and in the sense that I say, like, look, some of these movies are going to feature material that can that can be upsetting. And I've shown them Cannibal Holocaust several times, and I frame it said, look, I'm not I'm not showing this because I want to upset anybody or shock anybody. I'm showing this

because you know, this is a significant film and it deserves analysis. That's the argument that I'm making. I think it deserves analysis. You may disagree, and we can have that conversation. And I've had a couple of people, you know, I've been teaching seventeen years. I've had a couple of people who have said, you know what, I don't I don't really want to come this day, I don't want to. I've had two people opt out of seeing Cannibal Holocaust, which is totally fair. I think the only

time anybody's ever walked out of the movie was actually Tromeo and Juliet. A guy got up and said and came over and we said, I'm sorry, I just can't take it. And I said, you can see that, you know, go ahead, you know, we're excused. But no. I think if you're fortunate enough to teach in a situation where you can really have a conversation with the students and let them be involved and give them background on the films, even when you're showing stuff that that can be really upsetting

and shocking, they're prepared for it. They're watching it as a group, and it's you know. I of course, semester starts in two weeks, so I could get reported to the provosts like right away, you know. But but now so far, you know, one thing I can say, and I'll leave this as my legacy in the world. Anybody who comes to my school and majors and media studies is probably going to see Franken Hooker. They're probably going to see one of the films that we'll talk about when we

get to The Vinegar Syndrome, Partner and several others. And I'm really proud of that because so many of these underground cult films have so much to say socially and and artistically that otherwise, you know, wouldn't wouldn't make the cut.

So I'll throw out there as well that trigger warning in the context that's given before showing these That is the perfect reason to really dive into these physical releases because the commentaries, these essays that we've already mentioned tonight, these featurettes, they do this wonderful, literally almost film school level job of delivering context, of delivering an exploit, an explanation of what was happening during that era, what the director's vision was, or you know, so many things that

can affect what an actual film is produced to be, whether that be something from the studio or an actor or whatever. There's so much that can happen on a film production that context can be genuinely important to not only your enjoyment

of the film, but what it actually means. And you understanding, yeah, and you know, the gold standard want immediately thought of when you started saying that was Joe Bob Briggs commentary track and I Spit on Your Grave, which is a deeply unpleasant movie and should be to watch, you know, the but his commentary contextualizes in such a way that you really appreciate what what

the film is. And so many others, like like many of the names that that you've mentioned tonight, who are kind of dominant in in the commentary world, do something really similar and and and not just analyzing but advocating for the for the films. I got a couple more now that we're talking about this that not really trying to get a degree. They're just there to take

a class because they enjoy film. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll let them in if you want to if if if any student wants to be there, I want him there, you know, because so many people don't really want to, you know, they're taking it for a credit and whatever. And part of my job is to try to get people into it. But if somebody is already enthusiastic on video store wants to know, how do you screen the films? Is it in a cinema type theater or just wheel out an old VHS are twenty two and c R T t V well, I'm at

the University of kind of on the Greensboro. We don't quite have the Chapel Hill budgets. We do still have VHS players, but we do have a projector with Blu Ray capability now in many of the rooms. There are some rooms that I teach him we have to wheel out. I got a sixty inch TV with a Blu Ray. We don't have any four K or anything like that. That'll that will never happen. I don't think we were going we can show VHS when necessarily we have streaming that we can do library streaming

services. So there are a lot of different formats that we use to show things. But yeah, when I when I wheel it, when I wheel out the TV, it's always kind of funny because it feels so like eighties about to watch the Driver's add video or something. Substitute teachers here, time to watch something to get you all to shut up. Last one on this for now, Stan says, what's your favorite Toby Hooper movie and why is it? Spontaneous Combustion. Stan Geezy, the author of Smoldering embers on the

set of Spontaneous Combustion. I think Spontaneous Combustion should be on the list of everyone's favorite Toby Hooper film films, and if they read Stan's book, it definitely won't leap up the standings. Back to air four four four, I want to point out what Brian says, so excited to get Red Spell and Centipede releases. Never thought this would happen. And that is the reason to keep supporting companies like this, because there are lots of films out there that

there are fans of that are still thinking may never happen. But if we are able to keep some forwarding these companies, it just may be that film for you. Next up is will just a reminder that if you have not seen the video that we put up last week, please go watch our conversation about Toby Hooper. It is a really in depth look and a really fun conversation about everything from Vietnam to current politics to why if you ask who directed

poultry guyst you are a dick. That's the truth. But you know, you know, we didn't have time to talk about everything. Somebody pointed out in the comments that we didn't talk about the fun House, and my friend Chris is going to kill me because I forgot to talk about Night Tares, which is one of our favorites to watch together, So we might have to do a part to at some point. Oh no, yeah, Funhouse was a glaring emission for sure. There's probably a lot more that could be said

about Eating Alive. There's somebody out there. I mean, he just had such a varied career. Anyways, Keno announced that they are putting out a release of Assassination from nineteen sixty seven with Henry Silva. This is a new four K restoration only coming on Blu Ray. This will not be a four K disc, but still pretty cool. Nice you know, little crime film

here by Emilio mira Aglia. I think I said that right, the same one that did the Night Evelyn came out of the Great and the Red Queen Killed seven times, both of those put out by Arrow and that little double pack box set got years ago. At this point, that had to have been like a gosh, probably six or seven year old release. Now I have the old No Shame DVD releases that come with the figurines. Oh wow, I love Amelia maragl Those and those two films Evelyn and the Red Queen

are gorgeous. So I'm really looking for I've never seen assassination well Henry Silvia, so this is exciting. They've they've been doing a lot of work over at Keno. It seems like they slowed down a little bit here after after I'm Dangerous tonight and we got a little bit of a reprieve for a couple of weeks. But man, they're still just cranking out these announcements. So there's still lots more from Keno on the horizon. Next up some interesting ones

that I know. We got some fans of on here, so even though I know nothing about them, I know you guys are excited. Some disco tech stuff. We're getting a release of Space Sheriff Gavon from nineteen eighty two, all episodes in HD. This is the first time ever released with English subs, and it will contain a reunion discussion with the lead actor Kenji Oba and director Osamu Kaneta. There's a photo gallery and then a historical essay by

Mike Dent. Are you into any of these types of shows for back then? These are outside of my wheelhouse, but I'm interested and filling the gap there. You know. I do teach a course on the origins of anime but I'm not an expert, so it really is kind of an intro and a lot of these live action shows that kind of connect to the genre, right, I'm looking forward to checking out lots of kaiju releases from Discothech,

lots of old like Tokusatsu. The next one they announced, speaking of Legend of Dinosaurs and monster birds, this is one of the last kill the whatever I don't I don't remember what it was called the episodes of Mystery Science Theater and they are not able to have that commentary. This is coming in twenty twenty two. A new HD transfer looks sillier than ever vintage Frontier Enterprises. Dub Is included new subtitles, which is really cool for something like this,

and this is coming on Blu Ray twenty twenty two. Okay, Next is Keno is putting out The rain Maker. This is how Wallace is the rain Maker with Burt Lancaster and Catherine Hepburn. And there was a lot of discussion from this title. I don't know if you saw any of this commentary that came out. I think this was announced on Sunday. People are freaking out because this is being remastered in HD by paramount from a six K scan of

the thirty five millimeter VistaVision original camera negative. So I wanted to see if everybody could get on the same page a little bit about what that means. So essentially, this is still only going to be a ten eighty P Blu ray disc, but they are doing it in a restoration that has done even higher than a four K restoration, and it is it has nothing to do with the six K disc or anything like that. It is about restoring it

and archiving it at the highest possible quality. There are other films that have been restored in like eight K, ten K I got. I think there was even something like sixteen K on one of those a few years ago. And it doesn't have any effect on you necessarily. It's just on how people are getting it remastered. So don't think that from this there's gonna be a six K player or anything like that. You're never going to have a six

K disc that you're buying. You're never going to have, you know, any type of physical media at home that you need to buy a new six K TV. For any thoughts or anything to add on that front, there will Yeah, well, this division only lasted about six or seven years.

Yeah, before before the technology kind of outpaced in terms of the fine film ray, but it was kind of the progenitor of what we now noahs imax, And I imagine that this that this scan is is to kind of help make up for the fact that the film grain is a little less fine than than the processes that came out in the late fifties early sixties. That's that's my guess. I'm not an I'm no expert there, but it's a pretty good movie, say, and there were there were a handful of things that

were done like that over the years. I mean, Technicolor is a big thing obviously, h Panavision was a big one when it came out that we've got the oh, gosh, what is that? Uh? Is it smile Vision that Warner Archive just put out that one recently? Gosh, what is it? There's the one that's like for a circular type screen. Do you remember the one I'm talking about? Uh? I cannot remember the actual title

of it. But yeah, there were a handful of these methods that were used to make films and so to preserve them at the highest possible quality. It makes sense. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, if we can there, we go. Thank you, Terry. I knew you'd come through Cinerama and Smilebox. Smilebox is the one I was thinking, Hey, my sister, she must have landed in Texas. Look at that. Glad

she's safe. Yeah, so Cinerama and Smilebox, there are other Essentially, there are other formats out there that we are going to have to, you know, to restore them at the highest possible quality. It's going to be different, and that's okay, nothing wrong with that at all. I mean, Burt Lancaster and Captain Hepburn's gonna move some utes so they can afford to do a good restoration exactly. Spaghetti says, I want old Bert to pop out of the screen and shake my hand with that remaster. At the truth,

Anthony looking forward to watching my six k digital files. I eat my rehydrated pizza Hut Pizza maybe someday in the future. And then I kind of brought this up for a second, but it looks like we have Chris to blame, he says. I started it on the cult site on Facebook. So yeah, there is no new anything coming. It's just a really great restoration of a film. Oh boy, speaking of Polisians, what's the phrase polishings and turns? Yeah, I'm super nostalgic for h two. Oh I

don't love the others, but let's go through this. Shout Factory announced their October titles, the long rumored and finally confirmed Halloween four K. They're calling this a collection from nineteen ninety five to two thousand and two. Lots of information has come out on these on it through like reply on Twitter. So first off, this is not available to Canada. Usually, Shout Factory sells all their stuff in Canada as well. This one, they could not get

licensing in Canada. They could not get licensing to sell these separately, so these will only be available in the box set. These are not going to come out as single releases at all unless they amend the contract later, which is really interesting. I have a feeling that they did that because they were probably not going to sell many of Halloween Resurrection. The diehard collectors would get one of all of them, but the others at least have a following.

Resurrection is sort of behind on that front. Maybe. I mean Buster Rhymes fans would probably get into it absolutely, of course, if you order from Shout Factory, you'll get the box set and then they are doing the three different roll posters of these if you want them to match the first five you

got last year. Extras are in progress and we'll be announced later. The four K for the Halloween six is going to have the theatrical and the producers cut on UHD, which is pretty crazy that we're getting the producer's cut in four K. I did not think they would be able to pull that off,

but that's awesome. I'd be interested in seeing how that looks. You know, Chris and Michael Myers is in some ways of betrayal of John Carpenter's vision of Michael Myers having no you know, motivation or backstory and per se. But it's kind of interesting to think about, you know, Druidic rights and legends, and you know, Paul Rudd, that's kind of neat to see him in that context. But H two O is a pretty good movie. I mean, Steve Miner is a good filmmaker. He made Thirteenth two

and three, several good films in his career. I thought hgot really refreshed the franchise, so that's I think that's worth seeing. For sure, Josh Hartnett coming straight out of the faculty and into H two oh, not changing wardrobe or hairstyle at all. Jamie Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee both in H two O, which is kind of a cool thing. Yeah again, I don't know why I'm so nostalgic. I love H two Oh. It is a wacky film. It is off the wall compared to the franchise, but

it exists and it's it's fun. A lot here all leads to everybody talking about the art on that box. The box art leaves a lot to be desired, but it does. I mean, it's very much inspired by the films. The drawing of Michael Myers is from the film. There's so much that just I don't know. There's a lot here and I'm hoping that there it does say extras in progress. I'm hoping they're able to get a lot

for this. That's new. I know we get confirmation on at least a new commentary coming because somebody announced that on Instagram or something like five months back, which is how we knew something was coming for these Well, if anybody at Shell Factories listening and wants a frame by frame analysis of the fight between Michael Myers and Busted Rhymes. I'm available. I want to hear all of

the analysis with very analytical terms. This also pretty much confirms that the zombie films are not coming on four K. I believe the rights now for those two are with lions Gate. I think after everything that went down, so it seems like we are probably not going to get those and time will tell. I think if they were going to do it, it would probably be this fall, after Halloween ends or around Halloween ends, so time will tell.

But the other exciting thing is coming to four K, which means back in print in the United States as the Collector's edition is the Return of the Living Dead. This is gonna come with one of their pin sets, and this is coming with a poster of course, and extras are in progress and we'll be announced later, just like Halloween set, which means again I hope

they get some more. However, this is going to be the same as the first time where they are unable to get that one random music track that they couldn't put on their first release, So it is not going to be the one hundred percent perfect music rights. The only release still in the entire world on Blu ray is the second site Steel Book had everything intact. Everything else is missing at least one music track, which is crazy. Collect them

all. It's great that it comes with a pen because then you can put it on your jacket and say, you think this is a fucking costume. This is the way of life. I only paid fifty seven dollars for these pins. Right, Oh man, weirdest possible announcement ever, I think now Factory is putting out Bad Santa Too on Blu Ray on October fourth. Now, the reason this is so odd this has a standalone four K release.

It does. Yes, the original film doesn't even have a four K release, but this gets another Blu Ray release after the four K is out. Well, this is This is by the director of Mister Popper's Penguin, so that's obviously we want to see the visual design. Definitely surprised it did not come with a sign poster then, thanks Anthony. It says deadbeat Dance, Deadbeat Dance by the Damned? Is that missing song? I always forget the title of that, and it should be really obvious with that film. Next

up one of their studio Ghibli films. They're putting out when Warney is there from twenty fourteen in a steal book. And then there's of course going to be a standard release as well. This is coming on October eleventh, same thing exclusive booklet, feature length storyboards, the making of some behind the scenes

stuff like that. Gibli, you a Ghibli fan. Anytime I teach the anime class, I always show Grave of the Fireflies and I bring several boxes of tissues for students, and of course you know, play me az Aki films, and I like when Marni was there. I saw that several years ago, beautiful. I'll tell one studio Ghibli story, real book. I took my daughter to see who she was about seven at the time, to see Pompoco had been released in the theaters, and I'd never seen it before.

I just knew the studio Ghibley, and I was on these magical raccoons and they were sitting on these like bouncy balls. Whe are those things? And then I realized there were the testicles, which is where the magic came from. And I looked around to see if the parents noticed, and everybody just played it cool while these raccoons stretched their testicles into ang gliders. And pulled magical dust out of them and stuff, and so far she seems okay,

she's almost ten, hasn't mentioned it. I'm gonna have to show my seven year old those magical raccoon balls soon. No testicles in when Marnie was there that I can recome. That's a plus. Speaking of four K from Shout, they are also putting out Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure on four K. This is only going to have a four K disc. It will not have the Blu ray. They are saying that they're going to try to get some extras later. They were going to confirm those, as they do quite

often, at a later date. Interesting sort of release that they're just putting this out. Yeah, I'm wondering if you know, you drop your forty bucks for it now and then next year they do a box set with about three films you know, well no, well know, yeah. I this is one I I hesitate to say this publicly because I don't know if I could stand by it, but this is one where the sequel may still be my favorite of the two. So I don't know how ye uh yeahs Bogus

is maybe my favorite of the two. I think Carlin. Carlin was special man. I yeah, anyways, I could talk about Carlin for hours. Excellent adventure. This comes out October eleventh and four K coming from the shout Select line, but possibly the bigger deal. They've never released this film. We are getting the last detail in four K from Jack Nicholson. Obviously, this is the Ashby film. This is coming October twenty fifth to the shout

Select line. This is kind of a very out of nowhere shout Select like classy title compared to what they've been putting out on shout Select lately. And damn it, I just got the indicator Blu Ray like a month ago. Got tired of waiting for the last detail. The big hal Ashby fan of course, harolda Mama being there, the Landlords, so many good films. Yeah, double dip, gotta do it. This is This is bound to look pretty incredible in four K. This is just one of those movies that's

special. Jack Nicholson back then was on fire, absolutely incredible, incredible actor. Yeah, this is from nineteen seventy three, so it just the height possibly of everything Jack Nickson was doing back then. The last detail is great. Everybody should check this one. Out. I'm curious to see if they're able to get anything from the Indicator release, because they could license some of it. Yeah. Well, yeah, there's hardly anybody left to talk about

the film. It's very true from cast and crew, so hope. So I doubt Nicholson would be able to say much coherent about it at this point. Yeah, this is another Ghibli film. We were getting Ocean Waves from nineteen ninety three. I don't know anything about this one. Have you seen this one? I'm with you on that one. I've you know, seen the icon and little Ghibli catalogs and websites, but I've not. I've not

looked at it before. Just from reading the description, you know, I like, I like, I especially like animated films that have a bit of melancholy too, the trauma. So this looks like something that I'll we want to check out and enjoy. I missed this joke. I wanted to share this because video Store is hilarious. The last detail with extras to be confirmed later. The irony. Yes, they did not get any details. Nicely done, and then they are putting out in a steal book. On October

eighteenth, a Silent voice from twenty sixteen. Yet again nothing on my end on this one. Yeah, I mean either. But now I should probably start planning my next anime course, and this will be a good excuse to use some school funds to do some research. I gotta admit this art probably gonna look really nice on a steel book. Yeah it does look and again the description looks good. Yeah, definitely does. But one that I'm genuinely

excited about. Shot on the sheep movie Farmageddon from twenty nineteen. This is coming out on October eighteenth from Shout Factory. I think I'm gonna get this one and show my kids. I always love finding some of these old animated horror adjacent titles that we can share with them, So yeah, this will definitely be coming this year. Yeah. Anything I can do to steer my youngest away from like those sing movies and get a turns to the quality stuff,

I'm happy to be a part of that. So I support farm Agavin as well. Amen to that. Then this is The Possessed from twenty twenty one. This is coming on October eighteenth, and I am blanking on who it was, but somebody I think it was in my discord was saying that they are or no. I apologize. It was a friend of mine that I know from Oklahoma that he's in some of the Facebook groups. He sent me a message saying that his buddy is the one that made this film.

So congrats to him for getting this put out by Shout This is Again from twenty twenty one. Jacob Chandler is an ordinary man with an ext extraordinary gift. A true accidental exorcist, Jacob and his nephew Liam have forged a career clearing demons from the bodies of their clients. Lately, something has changed. As possessions are increasing. Jacob fights to keep those he loves safe, the burden weighing heavily on his shoulders. When he crosses paths with Liam's new girlfriend,

Adalie Carlyle, he recognizes something in her dark, broken gaze. She too can see what lies beyond the world of the living. Jacob never expected to meet anyone else like himself, nor did he anticipate needing her help. And for all slipcover lovers, this is going to be one of those indie films that's not a collector's edition that will come with a slipcover on it. From Scream Factory so if you're trying to get all of those, this is

one. I gotta admit. I'm a sucker for possession movies. I was just about to ask, if you're the same, I really enjoy them. What about I was gonna ask. I talked to my sister about this. Just I think it was last night, The Last Exorcism. Did you ever see that movie? Oh? Yeah, you know, that wasn't bad. I thought it was decent, and then at the very end I hated the last three minutes of that movie. Oh well, you know. Yeah, the genre kind of lends itself to disappointing endings, Ain't that the truth?

Yeah? I think The Last Exorcism was fun, But I'm curious to see a nice modern take on a possession film. Yeah, I'll check that out. Yeah. Then, God, they're doing a lot of stuff in October from Shout Factory. The Deer King. This is from twenty twenty one. I know nothing about this. Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is up ended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease

attack leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside, but are pursued by nefarious forces intent on protecting Una at all costs. Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom and its possible cure. Well, now this sounds like the exact plot of Nicholas Cage's Season of the Witch.

Well, I have no value judgment on that. No, no, that could be interesting quite as bizarre as that as season of which one I hope not. But let's get to main event for everybody this week. Everybody has been talking about the Vinegar Syndrome and partner label titles. There is so much coming every single month, and this month does not disappoint. We have so

much to go over here. First, up Forgotten Jolly Volume five, which includes a White Dress for Mariel I Believe It's How You Say It from nineteen seventy two, Tropic of Cancer also from seventy two, and nine Guests for a Crime from seventy seven. All three of these are region free. The all three films are getting newly restored in four K from the OCN and then

some interviews, some audio essays. We got Rachel Nisbett on White Dress and actually she's on cancer and crime as well, and then some interviews with some

actors. We got some interesting things. We don't have any commentaries, which had a few people point out, Yeah, now, the only one of this group I'm familiar with is a White Dress from Mariau, which was released under another title, Spirits of Death, and it's got Ivnan Rasimov in it, who I really like, from Dave Dada's Jungle Holocausts and a ton of stuff. Yeah, and that one's a real slow build. I don't mean,

I mean I think anybody gets killed until like an hour in. But it's very atmospheric, stylish, you know, as the genre demands, of course. So I'm a subscriber, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna see these no matter what. So how do you how do you feel about Jallo as a

whole? Mm hmm, gosh, what a question. Well, you know, like like many fans of my generation, Argenta was the first entree into you know, like noir, it's not it's it only became a genre in retrospect right right in the Italian industry, like Hollywood kind of cannibalizing, and so the style got quickly internalized by so many filmmakers who you know, Jolly Like like any other genre, most of them are crap, but but there are also so many gems and sometimes you just have to wade through. Yeah,

you know, that's that's how I feel about it. I don't mind. I don't mind wading through, which with the Forgotten Jolly series, you really have to some of them. Some of the titles in the series so far have not been great. I think we've had a couple of really good box sets, one that was pretty good and then one that was a little lesser. Uh, this one, I think I've seen Tropic of Cancer, but that may just be my memory messing with me. With y'all. O.

My big thing is I am just a sucker for murder mysteries. Yeah, and it's at the basis of all of these, no matter what. And because of that, there's just always something intriguing there, and it's it's so much fun just to try to guess along or you know, see that they're playing this like a mystery. But they accidentally showed the killer eight minutes into the film, so you know who it is all along, but they're like, who is it? Or all the other random mistakes that happen in

these films. It's so so interesting now to look back with an I from sixty years after and say, what were you doing? Yeah? Well, you know, I think I think you can compare fans of Jolly to fans of like true crime podcasts and true crime documentaries on Netflix, because there's a kind of familiarity with the forum that that kind of comforts Une and wells in.

But then when anybody does something different to tweak that formula, like, oh that's cool, and then for whatever are raising because we're human beings are We're just attracted to stories about people being brutally murdered. That's that seems to be a primal feature of our I always love with Yallo that if you find somebody that really likes Yallo, they are able to talk about a film and a lot of the time it's that unique thing that they that that that specific

film has that they grab onto. So like with The Forgotten Jolly, there's sister of Versula. So everybody's like, but that weapon, right, I mean everybody that they just want to talk about that weapon or you know with Fulci there's oh that one scene where the kid dies. That's kind of a big deal, right, and you just grab onto these one things and it really it lends to discussion, well, it lends to remembering the movie better than a lot of other films that could come across as kind of say me,

so, yeah, Jolly is super great for that. You know, last year speak of a faulty and jalla Jolly film. Last year I decided to sh Don't Torture at Duckling and in my cult films class as an example of Jolly, the other one I should I should too Jollo Films deep red with the other by Argenta, And I thought I thought they were gonna hate Torture. They loved it. Uh. Look, they got so into it and really latched onto the kind of commentary about the Catholic Church and and uh

and all of that. I was, I was really surprised. That's such a great movie. Uh. Next up in the oh and by the way, if you are, you are getting all of the Vinegar Syndrome titles this month. That was announced on the first they For some reason, this has not been in the description for the last couple of months, so it's been confusing some people. I think the last time they did it was in the the Halfway Sale titles, so July and August both did not have those descriptions

in there. So, yeah, you are getting everything this month, except for the stuff that we're going to talk about at Summerfest, which came out of nowhere. Yes, we'll talk about that in a minute. Next up, we are getting a really really interesting double feature for me. We are getting Hot Snake from nineteen seventy four. This is the cover of the slip for this, but this is a double feature, and on the back guns and guts and I got to hide a little bit of that from nineteen seventy

six. These are two random Mexican westerns. Yeah. Well, if Fernando Rojas made like one hundred movies between nineteen sixty nine and about two thousand, mid two thousands, just cranking them out at like Jess Franco speed, Hot Snake I think was one of his early films, six or seven. I saw this a long time ago. I know I did. I swear to God I saw it. I can tell you nothing about it except for the trivia I just shared. I am actually really excited that they're branching out of

this. I know a lot of people have been asking about westerns from Vinegar Syndrome for a long time. A lot of those people are asking about spaghetti westerns. But I think this is even cooler and lends to the idea of what Vinegar Syndrome does a little more for that preserving cinema that will likely not

be preserved elsewhere. So for something like this, we are getting new four K restorations from the OCN on both films, and then on Guns, Guts and Gosh what is the title, Guns and Guts, we are getting an interview with Renee Cardona, the third on that one, and then of course they got the reversible artwork on there. There is not a whole lot of extras, but again it's a double feature. This looks pretty damn sweet cool.

I've just started to get familiar with Cardona stuff because set stuff out right, and Vinegar Syndrome put out the Cardona Collection. Oh, they did the Cardona Collections. Yeah, and it had been planned. I believe it's a trilogy of box sets, and then the tragic thing happened. Well, first of all, they got a lot of backlash because well, not a lot.

I think that there were a handful of very vocal people online that didn't like the films, and they complained a whole lot about the Cardona collection. But then as they were working on the second collection, one of the Cardonas passed away, Like Brad Henderson was scheduling an interview for the following day on the phone with him, and he passed away that night. Oh way,

I didn't know that. Wow. Oh that's too bad. So production on those have kind of skidded into a halt publicly, at least, they haven't said much on if they're going to continue to put those out. I imagine they will. I mean, they pay for the rights and the respirations, I'm sure. But on top of that, it was their their first magnetic box, so they were planning on getting the other ones right next to it. Well, here come, you know, I'm looking forward to guns and

guns. No. Yeah, I can see why somebody would not like the films of Cardona, but I think they're kind of interesting to look at. Yep, I get it. This is kind of a big one. We are getting the incredible Melting Man from nineteen seventy seven in four K. This is another one that was recent well not recently. It was also put out on Blu ray from Scream Factory. It is now long out of Prance a couple of years now. Really great looking slip cover. In my opinion on

this one lends itself to the title very very well incredible. Melting Man is genuinely a fantastic movie. So this is one that I'm glad is getting a nice upgrade. Have you seen the one I saw? I saw the Mystery Science Theater version. It was season seven, the last season on Comedy Central, the shortened season. But so I've always wanted to see the uncut version and I never got a chance to look at the Shell Factory. So I'm

really excited about that. It's going to be gross, yeah, oh yeah, because of course the Mister Science Theater, all the gross stuff is kind of cut out. So I'm really I'm giddy. I feel like a little kid about this one. This is a four K UHD and then there is a region A locked Blu ray in the set as well. Of course we have HDR on it newly scanned restored in four K from the OCN. We got a commentary with the director, new interview with the director, new interview

with the script supervisor, and then some small archival featurettes in there. But the cool thing is just genuinely a great movie. This is the one that they were hinting at for a while of a four K release of a classic drive in title. People were speculating on this one for a long time and it it It really fits the bill for this and seems right up there with

some of the best releases from Vinegar Syndrome. Love this movie. I don't know why, but I'm a big fan of a I hate using this word because some people don't like it, but a big fan of goopy movies like Body Melt that they put out is one of my not like top ten from Vinegar Syndrome because they put out some really great stuff. But Body Melt is fantastic. Stuff like Street Trash is amazing, of course, Yeah, some of these goofy movies. That's like Day of the Dead. I really love

the ending of that because it just gets so gross. That's share that I says this is the best release of August, which is interesting maybe, and that is leading us to what is probably not the best release of August. We are getting the birds too. Land's end from nineteen ninety four, and some people very unhappy that this is getting any sort of release. But again, as I say, everything deserves some sort of release. Jeff, damn it. Goopy is definitely a genre. We just made it a genre.

This is I've never seen this one. It's directed by Rick Rosenthal. It's supposed to be god awful, but it's probably really fun to laugh at. Ted and Mary have just moved with their two young daughters to the sleepy coastal town of gull Islands so that Ted can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn't seem more picturesque about their new seaside home, that is, except for

the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds. After surviving an unprovoked nighttime avian invasion, Ted becomes determined to figure out the cause of their unusual behavior, an investigation which leads him to uncover the sinister goings on in the nearby waters. All the while the birds increase. They're now deadly attacks, moving up from

family pets to human victims. This is never released on disc previously. Many of Your Syndrome brings this notorious sequel to Blu Ray, newly restored from the thirty five interpositive and featuring comprehensive interviews with the cast and crew. We get a fifty four minute extensive making of documentary called Don't Remake Hitchcock, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, then a seventeen minute interview with the composer,

and a locations featurette with the production assistant Craig Edwards. Commentary track on top of that with film historians Amandareas and I don't want to make fun of this, but if this is a real name, Sam, I mean, how do you have a name like Sam Pancake? I want to not jump into something like commentary tracks. That's amazing. Stan wants to say it is night unwatchable. I'd say stands probably right, but it's common, so I'm gonna check it out. Dude, mcmahon'says, my heart sunk when I saw the

rumors about birds do was true? What a tremendous waste of time and talent. Yikes, I've never seen the birds too? Is this one of your favorites there? Will? I've not seen the birds too. I am glad that you know. As I said before we were talking about I'm dangerous tonight, I'm really glad that so many television films are getting released, because obviously there's gonna be a lot of stuff that is lesser quality, just like everything

else. But if it opens the possibility for for some some work by directors that we love, like to the Hooper, Less Crave, and you know so many people who worked in in television. I have not seen The Birds too. I had an opportunity to see it when it came out on cable. I chose not to. That was a decision I made at the time. Yeah, the televised terror set was was really good. I will not

fault Vinegar Syndrome for putting it out. They had the opportunity. They calculate they can make a little profit out one, and if that that helps out in future things, then I'm supported. I'm gonna check it out just because I've never seen it, but I definitely take the warnings in mind, and I'll have a backup film ready to go if I can't make it through. Smart and Smart and Smart possibly the most exciting thing that came out of what. Wow, that's a whole lot of spam. Let me delete that.

Sorry that Yeah, that was I think a representation of the Birds too. That makes sense. This came out of nowhere. I don't think there was any rumors or anything about this. We are getting what they are calling Summerfest twenty twenty two. And some of their verbiage here is interesting. It says this will be a film preservation sales event from August nineteenth through August twenty first,

a select group of titles will be fifty percent off. There will be one new VSA, two new Pikorama titles, two catalog slipcovers, and new merch And these are all things that if you're a sub you're gonna have to buy separately. Those are not going to be included in your subscription at all. But the whole film preservation focused sales event is an interesting take on that. Yeah, and the wording is a little vague because one it says a

select group of titles. Does that mean titles that have already been released or is this new stuff that's being announced that they have been working on. It's unclear. Even more odd is I didn't copy over their verbiage directly, but it did say something along the lines of from our archives specifically, which means, I mean, first of all, for those that don't know, Vinegar Syndrome has literally one of the largest archives in the entire US. They have

a ton of titles, them, AGFA, a handful of others. They are up there with some of the biggest and they have a lot of stuff in their archive that they've not released, And just the way they were did that, it made it sound like there was going to be some stuff that they have either not released previously, or titles that are not going to be Vinegar Syndrome titles or something. So I am very curious to see what leads from this. That's my that's my initial interpretation too. So hey, they're

they're doing their job right right it. They're making us curious and racking our brains about it, and then when it comes out, we'll be like, Okay, I'm doing it. By the way, the Pea Karamas that they're putting out supposedly one of them is four K again, so that I think that'll be the third or fourth Pea Karama title in four K, which is crazy, absolutely crazy. I'm so glad they're doing that though. Yeah.

Now we get into where a lot of people get most excited nowadays, and that is all of the partner labels Video Store wanted to say currently being preserved, which is what they said about their archive. It implies it is yet unreleased, which is exactly what I first thought, so we shall see. I also wanted to point out Christians Hobby Block says we need a remaster slip cover of Pale Blood, Malabimba and Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy. I don't know if that's an inside joke, but just to in case it's not.

They have said they will not re reallyse slipcovers for anything, So Pale Blood, Malabimba in Nine Lives if they I believe all three are sold out, those are those are gone for good? Sadly? Yeah, all good titles. I'm a huge fan of Pale Blood. I was gonna say Pale Blood is for me, by far the best there. Malabimba's actually surprisingly great too, But Pale Blood is a very unique film, and I really like I hate to rub salt in the wound here, but I really like the

slipcover They done that too. It looks really nice in the head. Yeah too. This first one after Blue Dirty Paradise from Altered Innocence. This is from twenty twenty one. This is the front of the slip, and here is the backside one of the more artistic looking slips from Altered Innocence. Have you have you dabbled into any of the Altered Innocence titles? You into them at all? Oh? Yeah? Several? Pull up a couple of their titles. I got work computer, but vinegar syndrome they block on my work

computer side. Lapt up. Yeah, I just actually ordered the jack be Nimble nice. I really like Pals. I like Ari Bato, Death of Nintendo Wild Tigers. I know it's pretty good too. So, yeah, several of their releases I've enjoyed. I think Knife plus Heart is still my favorite from them, and then Adoration is a just a beautiful movie overall. Yeah, yeah, what's going on? All that is? Man happier here?

Brian Christian's hobby blocks is the commentary for Nine Lives is awesome? Degan, right, I believe so she's on I think she's on a couple of the adult titles. She says so much stuff. Well, that's one that's one of those like we were talking about before, where they coming to track really contextualizes the film and applicate for it because otherwise, Yeah, I agree

there. This one seems really interesting for Altered Innocence, just for the first couple of sentences here, it says, in a faraway future, on a wild and untamed, female inhabited planet called after Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous and sensual assassin from her prison. I mean that alone, that's a kind of a wild premise already. This is directed by Bertrand Mandico, which has gotten a lot of releases seemingly this year

with the Apocalypse after Set coming from Monto Micabro and then Altered Innocence. Same thing Ragnar says could be wrong, But isn't Altered Innocence a gay and lesbian inspired films? They I believe what they've said is is it like caters towards the queer community at least? So there's a lot there for sure. This one, like I said from twenty twenty one, it's a region a locked blu ray. We've got unseen footage by the director. There's a short film

by the director on here, and then a twenty page booklet. Again, so glad that a lot of these partner labels are suddenly doing more booklets because they help so much to contextualize what you can't do on some of these with featurettes. Yeah, it's nice timing too, with the sort of resurrection of Kate Bush thanks to Stranger Things. I have to assume that this is inspired by the real Kate Bush. The character the murderer character is named Kate Bush

in this film described as lesbian al topo in space. Yeah, that's worth watching. I'll check that out immediately, worth watching. Yeah, this is stunning thirty five millimeter in camera, practical effects, other worldly set pieces, and a dazzling score. So yeah, there is a lot on the bone here for this one. For me, this seems very very interesting. Next up is one that is brand new to the list of partner labels. This is a title called The corn Shucker, and it's spelled differently as you'll see

there. This is the backside of the slip. This is from nineteen ninety seven and is only sixty three minutes long. From the new partner label, VHS hit Fest. Supposedly, I believe they used to be called VHS shit Fest. Yeah, that's how I read it, and I think that was on purpose. VHS has been uncovering and releasing movies on video for over a

decade across DVD and VHS. Now they are moving on to Blu Ray with the same goal to showcase the most unique, crazy and obscure movies that they have discovered through years of collecting vhs, allowing even more people to actually be able to experience these nearly lost gems in the best versions possible. Now, this was a lot of people thought this was originally an SOV film. This was actually shot on sixteen millimeter, so it is worthy of an upgrade in

that front. And then on top of that, we've got some other stuff coming up. We got any audio commentary and interview at Music Video, and a whole bunch of others on here. But yeah, this looks like an interesting introduction to a new partner label. Any thoughts on lost VHS films? Well, you know, no, you know, I really appreciate I know this is shot on sixteen but I've really appreciated some of the titles that like Saturn's Core is released and had a great interview with it was it Ross,

Yeah, Ros Schneider, that was fantastic. You know, I remember as a kid renting stuff like Cannibal Hookers and cannibal camp out, you know, sv stuff. The fact that this is shot on sixteen really I'm interested. I'm interested in seeing what looks like. I have a lot of corn shucking based jokes just from where I grew up that probably not safe for the channel,

but lamb on me, I'm all ears. Oh. On top of the sixteen millimeter, this is also shot in really weird looking black and white, super unique, So I kind of I'm really interested on seeing what this is going to look like on disk. Yeah, it looks odd, so let's take a look at it. The story behind this one, it says the corn shucker is a mythical creature who has lived simply and peacefully with nature, but now he is besieged by urban sprawl. With nowhere else to go,

he is forced to deal with varmints and outlandishly odd townsfolk. Well this is the same story as pomp Poco. I can't wait to see the short corn Shucker's balls. Oh man almost missed myself up there. As his food supply diminishes, the cornshucker is confronted by the bigoted old man Thomas I'm an act of desperation. The cornshucker is forced to do the unthinkable. His existence is in peril, and the mysterious world he inhabits could be destroyed. Only

nature in the townsfolk will decide his fate. Swear to God. Man, that's pomp poco. But okay, yeah, we'll talk about that one later. I'm sure at some point we should speak ahead when it comes out, we should devote a whole show just the corn shucker analysis. I might be down for that. Let's see what it actually is if there's enough to put it down. This one is Speak of the Devil. We just talked about Saturn's Core Dead North from nineteen ninety one, and a really really shot on

video inspired slipcover on this one, which I tend to love. I think it looks pretty great on the slip here. And again Saturn's Core just doing great work. Nineteen ninety one, when three couples escaped to the woods together for a weekend camping trip, their idyllic vacation quickly becomes a desperate struggle for

survival when a deranged X wielding psychopath begins murdering them one by one. An impossible web of marital infidelities leads to a meandering mosaic of endless red herrings, deranged non vets, bitter office rivalries, perilous pungeee pits, and puffy brown plaid couches. First off, I want to give another tip of the hat to the wonderful copywriter at Vinegar Syndrome and their partner labels. It's probably all

ATOCN because oh man, they do some great jobs every single month. Yeah, they truly captured the right tone, you know, in the tradition of blood cult. Dead North is a hypnotic shot on video soap opera, slasher, epic, never said those words together, I don't think, and an early non custom passion project from director Gary Witson and his new Jersey based company

Wave Productions. Dead North continues to stupefy underground movie fans with its beguiling blend of head scratching who done it, homespun gore effects, and charming regional eccentrist eccentricities. Again, this is a Wave film from nineteen ninety one, and the just the term Wave Productions turns off a lot of people. But this is not one of those custom films, so it might be a little more

tolerable for you on that front. Well, I hope so, since that features a feature length remake of the If you don't watch the movie once, you get to see it twice and if you want to watch it even more.

There's an audio commentary with the director, moderated by Ros Schneider, co director of Mail Order Murderer, who was on this channel earlier audio commentary with Richard Moog, author of Analog Nightmares, The Shot on video Horror Films from eighty two to ninety five interview with Gary Witson himself, and then The Pineland Murders directed by our director. Gary Witson's twenty twelve feature length remake Like It

Was Just Said from twenty twelve, That's Wild. The Hanging Judge a nineteen ninety one custom short from Wave featuring the cast of Dead North and it's forty five minutes long, Crushed Gary Witson's nineteen ninety five short featuring Dead North stars Clancy McCauley and Avon Warren, and Lunch Meet Midnight Stack, a twenty eight page booklet featuring rare vintage news articles plus writings by a handful of people.

That's really cool that they're putting this out. So cool, you know, I had a student close to a decade ago who was really into SOV did a whole project for class and really proselytized the virtues of SV filmmaking to me. And I wish you were able to be here now because there's so so much more than you to have access to. Plus with all the extras and real respect given, you know, making the movies hard, it is,

I have nothing but respect. I want to throw out another thing that I mentioned and Ross and I talked about in our interview on Saturn's Core stuff that these films, Yes, they're shot on video, and so a lot of people scoff at why are we getting them on Blu Ray? They can't look any better. I understand that, but also look at everything that is on this disc because this is not something that you could ever see in a package, you know, on VHS or even in the heyday of DVDs, because

there's so much content coming in this package that is just astounding. Yeah, you know, anybody who can convince their friends, coworkers, family members to work on these films as a character, you know, and I want to know about them, not only that, and then have them come back for a couple of shorts after because they didn't hate the first experience enough. And

it just continues and continues. First off, I'll throw out there, as much as we're going to talk about this film, this slipcover is already sold out and it is the fourth of August. We are getting from Yellowville Pictures Faults from twenty fourteen. Nice looking slip here that nobody else is able to purchase. The front and back here looks decent. This says Claire is under

the grip of a mysterious news sorry, mysterious new cult called False. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth, to kidnap and deprogram her. However, once the process is underway, Anzel realizes he may not be the one in control, which just sounds fricking incredible to me. This one is directed by Riley Stearns, which is making a bit of an impact lately. He

just put out the film Duel on Blu Ray. A lot of people love and Riley stuff recently Austin, Texas, fella Yeah, and then of course

we are getting a whole bunch of stuff on here. We get the original cast commentary from twenty fifteen with the cast which includes Mary, Elizabeth Winstead and the director, and then a new crew commentary from twenty twenty two with the DP Michael Reagan, the editor and the director of course reprogramming faults and interview with the director, a deprogramming fault discussion on cult deprogramming between low La Blanc

cult survivor turned filmmaker and director Riley Stearns, which that just sounds incredibly fascinating to me. Riley Sterns Sundance selected short film called The Cub from twenty thirteen, and then a transcribed discussion between the director Alex Ross Perry from her Smell and then director Riley Stearns in an illustrated twelve page booklet, which is an interesting idea to include on here. Yeah, that's really cool. I'm sad

that I missed the slipcovers, but I'm gonna check it out. It went very quickly, and this month was a little odd because they had four or five titles that were only limited to a thousand, which has seemingly been happening a little more lately, and this has been an element of discussion and as a subscriber, I'll ask you, because the subscriber totals, they've been raising

the totals on how many they're printing for the last couple of years. So a couple of years, well, not a couple of years ago, now, gosh, five years ago. Now a lot of them were only limited to one thousand to fifteen hundred because venderary syndrome was so small. And now we're getting titles with you know, ten thousand slipcovers, and it's a big change now these one thousand limit on the partner labels. Do you think that is I'll use the word nefarious. Do you think it is in any way

OCN trying to get people to buy titles that they wouldn't otherwise purchase. I mean, it would be nefarious for sure if they print a thousand, kind of create an artificial shortage and then print another thousand, you know, right, But so far, I don't think I've seen any of that. Have you seen any of that? They've never done that, And I've heard this sort of argument of they're just trying to get people to buy these, which

I mean, you don't have to buy them. One thing that I would like and you know, I don't mean to be snooty or anything, but you know, part of the reason to do the subscriber package is to kind of be part of that you know, inside group that's going to get stuff, you know, before everybody else. And and you know, the more the more titles are printed, the less exclusive the club is, and so there's that that could hurt the incentive. I'm still going to remain a subscriber.

I support Fingers Decentric. I'm wrapping them with my T shirt tonight. But I wonder if it's possible for them to create a second subscriber option, like a partner label subscription, that might you know, kind of recapture that that feeling of being in a small select club of people who throw away all their all the money they would have caught Christmas presents for the family with in

November, you know, and I'd probably be one of them. I think the Liberty has come out and said that they can't do that, just because not all of it is planned so far in advance. But I think it would be really interesting if they made a way to say you're able to get you know, fifty titles and you just choose them throughout the year email us and we'll add it to it, and it's just a very specific total.

However, they would have to say, like this title is a box set and it's not able to be chosen or something like that, right, well, you know, something like that. Maybe maybe they can think about it down the road. It's hard, Like if you're a completist, then I get pretty obsessive about complete aism with labels. It's really hard to keep up with partner label titles. That's not really a complaint because I'm so happy that so many of these films are getting you know, ice releases and getting that

kind of attention, but it's it's tough to keep up. Well, I mean on top of that, I mean there's twenty two partner labels now, so that is an astonishing number. In some months we're getting fifteen new titles. So a subscription would be just insane. But also just to incentivize the Vinegar Syndrome subscription, that's why it's also going to be a subscriber, because you always get these partner label titles at the fifty percent off sales price.

Yeah, that's a that's a real godsend, especially because of the next title that I've already ordered, all right, so false looks and sounds pretty dang good. And the next one we are getting the films of Doris Wishman, The Moonlight Years. And this is one of the sideloading sets. It's got the magnet in it to capture, you know, the same first set that they put out. Good God, another one come on. This one is called The Moonlight Years because it's from nineteen sixty five to nineteen sixty nine.

And I believe they said in the interview they did with me, which by the way, you need to watch that because it's pretty incredible what they talk about. I believe this is going to be the biggest of the three sets. And then they also said that in twenty twenty three they're going to be putting out another standalone outside of those three sets through AGFA from Doris Wishman. Ooh, well, this one has some of her most important titles, Bad

Girls Go to Hell. It's the other film that I always show. And I'm a big fan of Another Day Another Man in Decent Desires too, But I'm getting ahead of myself. Go ahead and give the introduction. There is so much in here, as you can probably see here six hundred and twenty three minutes of combined film. We are getting, Gosh, what is this? I think it's three discs, So yeah, a three disc release.

The first one has Bad Girls go to Hell from sixty five, in Decent Desires from sixty eight, and a Taste of Flesh from sixty seven, and then dis two has Another Day, Another Man from sixty six, My Brother's Wife from sixty six, and Passion Fever from sixty nine. Then Disc three has The Sex Perils of Paulette from sixty five, the Hot Month of August

from sixty six, and Too Much, Too Often from sixty eight. Now, one complaint I've seen people say is that we are only getting some of the s VHS masters and they're not able to get any any better film masters

that they're able to remaster unfortunately, which I do get. Thankfully, we are able to get a commentary with Frank Hennen Lauterer on Bad Girls go to Hell, and then we got a commentary with queer film historian Liz Purcell for Indecent Desires, then a booklet with writing from Lisa Patrue, which is a

big, big deal to be able to get that in this Uh. Then a Let's See My Brother's Wife gets a commentary from Wishman biographer Michael Bowen and a photo gallery on that one as well, and then finally, The Sex Perils of Paulette gets a commentary from Lisa Petrucci herself. I'm I'm so stoked that she is still involved and able to do something like this because she does not have to at all. Yeah, I'm you know, complaints about quality

aside, I'm just so glad that these are getting released at all. You know, Wishman is such a unique and fascinating story and a lot of her films are surprisingly cool and interesting and weird, so this is great. A lot of them are also a lot more relevant and timely than people think,

because she was very much an outlier at the time. So this is one that is going to be bringing a lot of people onto a completely different like level of understanding Doris Wishman than you've ever thought possible considering what they're packaging together. I do agree with Flickering Waves here, he says, I'm all about the Wishman box sets, but I think the third box may prove to be

my favorite. I think that third box may prove to be most, maybe the most accessible to a lot of people, and possibly at least the one that they remember the most cool. I'm offer that, you know, every year when I teach Bag Girls Go to Hell, several students get obsessed with

Wishmen. And then when they check out films like you know, Let Me Die a Woman and and discover that these kinds of stories and these kinds of conversations, and obviously the language has changed over time, but but the fact that someone was trying to tell these stories, even if it's someone in an exploitive way, I just really responded that, like, oh, I had no idea there was this whole you know, world of cinema that that Michael

Bay didn't make, you know exactly. And what's really exciting to me is that this is eventually going to turn into basically a single cohesive collection that will rival some of the bigger ones like that severn Is put out with the Milligan and the Radentis Steckler and all of these, because it's going to have almost all of her films across the three and then whatever the standalone releases, which if you know Wishman's filmography, there's a couple of guesses that you could throw

out there, because it's they're really nic could be missing that much as soon as they're done. I'm curious because also we could get a Pikorama title from Vinegar Syndrome with a couple of the missing ones as well. She denied she ever made any of those kinds of stuff. We shall see, though, Go ahead. I just hope they managed to somehow get Dildo Heaven. God. Yeah, I really hope. So. Again, to kind of visualize how much is in this set, here is the listing on the back of

all of the titles. Again, it is a three disc set and really really important to really just dive into her filmography if you have that first set and just keep it going, because there's still a third set coming this year as well. Moving right along, we are getting from Gunpowder and Sky Hearts Beat Loud, which is from twenty eight and possibly a little more mainstream than

people were expecting. I'm really glad because I didn't get the first Blu ray release, and I've actually been wanting to see this for quite some time. This is the front of the slip and then here is the back. This movie stars Nick Offerman, Keirsey, Clemens Blithe Danner, one of my favorite actors of all time, possibly Tony Colette, sash Lane, and Ted Dancing.

This is basically about a single dad and a record store owner named Frank who is trying to connect with his I believe daughter a little bit more. Yeah, So the father and daughter start to perform together and it's basically just a feel good music movie which really speaks to who I am. I can't wait to see this for the first time. Finally, have you seen this

one? No? I mean it seems sweet, you know, and as somebody who's about to send we're about to send our oldest daughter to the college here in a couple of weeks and kind of dealing with the emotional impact of that. I don't know, I might have trouble getting through this one. So this one has all kinds of new stuff, which is really unexpected.

We got a new feature length audio commentary with the director and a co writer and composer recorded this year, new interview with the director recorded this year, new interview with Nick Offerman recorded this year, and then feature length audio commentary with the director interview from a few years ago. We even got Tony Collette interview on here and just a bunch of stuff. We're getting a lot of the behind the scenes, all kinds of stuff. Plus then a booklet featuring

a new essay by writer BJ Colangelo. Like I mentioned earlier, great stuff. Yeah, it's a killer cast. I don't know anything about it. I'm kind of surprised I hadn't heard anything about it. With that cast, it definitely flew under the radar quite a bit. Oh and the director, I just looked him up because I thought his name looked familiar. Graduate of the North Carolina School of Arts right right down the road for me in Winston Salem. So nice. Now I have to check it out because he's a

hometown guy. Let's see what else we got, because we are barely getting started. From Canadian International Pictures, we are getting the kid Brother. Here is the front of the horizontal slip and here is the back. Now, this is one that some people are championing, championing so hard and I have never seen this, but good gosh, after reading everything on this, I can't wait to watch this. This says going through life without legs. Thirteen

year old Kenny. Kenny easter Day is playing a version of himself on this film. Is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs. He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny's parents, brother, and absentee sister bring long simmering tensions to the surface, shaking Kenny's delicate sense of balance.

Determined to better understand his place in the world, he hits the road for a daring journey of self discovery at the age of thirteen, and just to sell it a little bit more, Canadian International says an unprecedented cinematic achievement that has earned acclaim, awards and disbelief all over the world, while remaining largely unknown in North America. The Kid Brother is a one of a kind coming

of age triumph. In his one and only film role, Kenny easter Day lights up the screen with an infectiously appealing performance full of charm and playful abandon. This is going to be a scan in four K from the OCN restored by Elephant Memoir du Cinema French Whatever, with sound transferred and restored from the original thirty five millimeter magnetic film four track final mix, which is really cool.

They don't always go that extra step. There, We've got an audio commentary featuring author and film historian and Canadian Kila Denise and writer film critic Ralph Elawani, and then from twenty twenty two, a thirty three minute interview with

the writer and director. Then also from this year, an interview with Gagnan's longtime producing partner Yuri Yoshimura Gayan, and then nine minute long memories from the film's international festival tour, Then again a booklet featuring Rick Tremble's motion picture Purgatory comic strip on the film, and a new interview with co star Jesse easter

Day Junior. You know what I think about Kenny I remember vaguely, well not vaguely because I remember him, but I remember he used to film the Jerry Springer Show as a guy's not not one of the you know, red wrecks fights shows, but what you know, when they would kind of get, you know, a little bit exploited because it be like the inspirational story type of stuff. But but I remember him being a guest, and that's about it. He died not too long ago, a few years ago.

Kenny Easterly did yesterday which is sad, of course, but so yeah, I'm really I'm really interested in this. I've never heard of this. He had to have been pretty young, probably forties ish, Yeah, early forties. Very interesting, alrighty. Next one from Enjoy the Ride Records. Another one that I had on here for an interview. This is one that screamed something I have to watch and very soon we are getting. Low Sound Desert from twenty fifteen, two chapters on rock music. This is a documentary by

Jerg Steineck about the rock music scene in the low Desert of California. What was started by revolting punk rock kids hidden from narrow minded authorities of suburban desert communities in the early eighties gave birth to bands like Caius and Queens of the Stone Age. With its unique artistic approach, the film provides a deep,

intimate insight and captures the attitude of the Coachella Valley's music scene. From jamming all night in the middle of a surreal desert landscape to headlining European stages, desert rock continued its underground spread and became international treasure. Low Sand Desert is narrated by Josh Hami Mario Lali, Brant, Bjork, Alfredo Hernandez, Scott Reader, Sean Wheeler, and many more from bands like Caius, Queens of the Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso, Jetson, Mondo Generator, among

others. This is going to be region free and then they've got an hour of additional footage on here. And I grew up in California and grew up in the music scene. I did not get to anything in this area. I never really went anywhere near the Coachella area, never went among palm springs, nothing like that. So I am super curious to dive into this. Oh man, that's the same daughter there were about us in the college.

I just got into Caius, and I'm proud of myself for doing so, because they kill it in Queens and stone Age evolved out of that band. I'm really interested in what who among others are going to be right the other band? You know, the stone of rock and punk rock bands, and how you know how far south are they going? Are they getting into some of the Arizona bands too, like Neat Puppets and stuff like that. I wonder, I don't know, it could be. I mean, they're very

close to the Arizona Boarder there for sure. Now I'm definitely going to get into this one. Start to says, I passed because I never heard of any of these musicians. I highly wreck Man checking out Caius and Queens of the Stone Age. Specifically Queens of the Stone Age has ever since they started putting out music many they speak to my soul. Yeah, you got the group man. Next up a big title from Fun City Editions with the man

Hel Holbrook. This is Natural Enemies from nineteen seventy nine. What do you feel about Fun City and Hal Holbrook? There will love how Holbrook just watched him and his boy recently and Girls Night Out there under Slasher movie. I like that this this release is advertised as you know, coming from the director of Revenge of the Nerds and true Beverly Hills yep, which is for my generation. That's like, oh awesome. You know, so I've never heard

of Natural Enemies. I loved Revenge of the Nerds growing up. Still love parts of that movie, other parts of not aged well. The Troop Beverly Hills is a family classic for our for our family for a long time, So say, yeah, this is this looks really interesting. To me. Oh, Louis Fletcher's in It Cool. The plot on this one, too, sounds wild. It says, what causes a man who seemingly has everything, a thriving business and family, to snap and throw it all away?

It's the question that this provocative and intelligent psychological drama investigates. Successful New York magazine publisher Paul Stewart has reached his breaking point, and today is the day he has decided to kill himself, his wife, and their children. Holy

shit, his marriage to Miriam has grown cold and distant. On this final day, he seeks the answers that might relieve him of his despair through encounters with a psychiatrist, an astronaut, a friend who survived the Holocaust, five prostitutes in a brothel, and a lonely woman on the train ride home. I mean, I have to see that. That's a hell of a day, So go ahead. So this this is the movie that would have happened if the parents and Troop Beverly Hills had not gotten divorced. Yeah, this

is ten years later. Video Stores's Natural Enemies is a great, great film. It's like if Michael Hannica directed Save the Tiger. Oh, Wow, they should get that on the back of the back of the box. That's at endorsement. Interesting. Interesting. So this is region free, new two K restoration from the thirty five millimeter deposit print held at the Library of Congress.

Booklet with a new essay by j Bailey, newly recorded audio commentary by Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast, and then a newly filmed two part video interview with the director, Jeff Canoe, and then there's a video introduction by that director on there, which, Man, this is great. I am so glad that this is getting a new release again, a director that people knew for completely other types of films and I cannot wait to see this.

And that cover art is boss. It is perfect. And then this is the backside, what goes around just going through her head? Yep, I love the prostitutes on top of the the quote here on the back today Paul Stewart is planning to kill his wife, his children, and himself. They are not messing around with this, No, not even any comments. This is going straight through, dude, says. Happy to see early Jeff

Canoe getting some attention. He's kind of underrated just because he'll always be the revenge of the nerds guy, which nowadays that that's not always a positive thing unfortunately. But yeah, I agree. I do think that he's been overlooked a little bit for some of this, and he's he's got a bit of a filmography. It's it's something that's not been dipped into too many times. Yeah, this might, this might lead to a resurgence. Someone start checking

out. And again, Fun City has been just crushing it with their releases. They are almost at one hundred percent. I think there's one or two titles that a lot of people have been hit or miss on, especially like Bill Tis. A lot of people did not like. Oh morever in Collar fantastic. I'm so happy they put that out. Coca Cola Kid, I mean, yeah, you're right, and they did the prime time Panic. I think that Christian was mentioned in the chat. A lot of good titles

and fantastic for sure. Next up from Canny or Connie, however you say it out loud Robinson's Garden from nineteen eighty seven, which, first of all, one of the most vibrant slipcovers we've seen in quite some time, very very interesting colors. Here. This says on a drunken walk home. Bohemian drug dealer Kumi discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast and untapped space rampant with luxuriant vegetation, she promptly sells all of

her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island out of the concrete squat and wiles her days away growing cabbage and expressing herself in any way. She pleases. This one is going to be a region a locked release. We've got a couple of interviews on here. New art and then new writing by k. F. Wadanabe. Very interesting, very interesting for sure. I'm super interested in the fact that Tom Deciller ton to Ceto, I can never remember how to pronounce his name. Shot this, I mean,

you know his obviously. The films listed there, Living Living, Johnny Sway, several others really good. And yeah that it's kind of propped up in that early to mid eighties hunk no Wave scene sounds pretty interesting. Slipcover looks like the trapper keeper I had when I was a kid. I'm kind of entranced by it. Ye Flickering Wave says that Robinson Garden slip would make for a wild shirt. It would look like a perfect ninety shirt, especially if

they really use that left side. Yeah cool man. Let's see two of Jeff Canows films are on the going out of print sale at Keno. Says dude McMahon. That's interesting. Which ones, dude, if you don't mind sharing so we can tell everybody there. Next up, this is the one coming from Culture Shock releasing. This is Streets of Death from nineteen eighty seven. Here is the front of the slip and here is the back. The censoring is by me. It will be uncensored when you get this slip.

This says in dumpsters, in the gutters, and even hanging from hooks, the streets of Los Angeles are being littered with murdered sex workers. As you do, A sinister john with a sizeable wallet is tempting desperate women into dangerous traps. If the police cannot find the killer, then who will. Maybe it will be a former detective, or perhaps it will be a couple of guys shooting a documentary about prostitution. I know nothing about this one. This

is Regent Free. Interview with the director is on here. Interview with actor Larry Thomas, who you may recognize as the Soup Nazi, and Tommy Kirk old Yeller, Hey Kirk, Yeah, oh yeah, this one is. We also got a full length commentary by movie Milt Grindhouse and Exploitation Podcast. I've not listened to them, so I'm not sure how that's gonna be. Wow, let's see, dude. McMahon answered and said, tough guys and via v I Washowski are the ones that are in the keynote going out of

print sale. Good to know, Thank you, dude. Let's see somehow missed Robson's Garden sounds like my type of movie. Also, gonna have to go back to get Kid Brother natural enemies in this It's just a solid That's the hard thing is it's a solid month every single month right now, it really is, And somehow we're still not done. Summer of Blood is coming from Factory twenty five, which I gotta admit the stuff that they keep putting out is it can be a little odd and a little varied, but they

are doing some great work over a Factory twenty five. They're the ones that did other music and then The Oregonian and a couple others that they's still a fairly new partner label. Here's the front and the back of the slip here interesting back. I'll leave that when there for a second, This says writer director Owner Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious, and commitment shi Eric Sparrow, who is dumped by his career woman girlfriend

when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already deteriorating confidence, until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead lady killer with a maniacal sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision of absurd self deprecating wit and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious horror comedy with a clever bite all its own. This is from twenty fourteen

region free. We got two different commentaries by the director and main star on here something really cool. We got a twenty nine minute vampire interview with Larry Fessenden and then a twenty five minute vampire interview with somebody named Lloyd Kaufman. I wish they were together. Yeah, that would have been cool. We got some behind the scenes, some deleted scenes, some trailers in here, and then again another booklet. We got a twenty four page illustrated booklet with

essays by Simon Bacon and the director. I got to mention Simon Bacon, whose work I'm familiar with. He's a really, really knowledgeable scholar, especially on all things vampire. He's written like, I don't know, one hundred and fifty books about vampires, not really that many, but a lot. And the guy knows his stuff really fun to work with, So that's worth the price of admission right there. I don't know what it is, but there's been a lot of stuff brought up about vampires lately, so I'm glad

that we're getting more about this again. It's a genre that seems to go in cycles, and we seem to be in a little lull for vampire films right now, so I'm I'm glad we're getting this. Yeah, it goes zombie vampires, zombie vampire, and then every now and then there's like a werewolf movie. I actually I actually wrote an essay in a film International several years ago about zombies and vampires from Reagan to Trump and how the how the

film's come evolved in that period. And it was really it really is a cycle. You know. It was really interesting doing the research seeing you know, which films and television shows were coming out. Man, right now, zombies are making most of the money, but the vampires are still still kicking. Zombies have been hot pretty much ever since, like Sean of the Dead ish. Yeah, and they just won't go away. They're relentless. You know. They really are make money as video games, yeah, not a

lot. Zombies are better for video games, you can't. Empires are more difficult. You can get great stuff like Castlevania, but you can't do the shoot them up. It's very true. I mean that original Left for Dead video game from like fifteen years ago or so, that game was so great. Yeah, we got a few more left here, I think, or maybe it's just one or two from Utopia, you know what. I think This is the last one. This is You Can't Kill Meme. You Can't

Kill Meme from twenty twenty. This is a film by Haley Garigis. I think it's pronounced. This is the back of the slip here. This is a hybrid documentary feature film about the genesis of mimetic magic and its application by the alt right in the United States. This is gonna have a sick steaming at Q and a from the Fantasia Festival. It's a region free blue. But other than that, not a lot on this disc. I'm curious to

see this doc though I'm not seen this one. This seems pretty crucial to the times, and now that I know what it's about, the cover makes a lot more sense, a whole lot more sense. Yeah, let's see. It's starring Sean Bell, Billy Breugo or Breujo, Carol Mike Michayla Kirk R. Peckwood, and Nick Peterson. Yeah. I've not even heard of this one, but this sounds pretty great. And that was it for partner

labels. So again a strong month. I believe we are up to twenty two different Vinegar Syndrome partner labels right now, which every single month we talked about. It's a lot to keep up on, but again, the quality, it's not taking away from anything by having twenty two partner labels. They are all doing great work. Most of them are gosh, I can't even say that. I think there's a good five or seven of them that don't put out stuff all that often, and then there's a good eleven to fourteen

of them that seem to release at least one title every month. So it's very great to see what we're getting from all these Yeah, and really for people who really want to seek out films that they don't know a lot about, it's so nice to have Vineger Syndrome as a hub that collects all this

stuff together, because so much easier than tracking things down. So major appreciation to get Beneger's Syndrome for that great question from Video Store, I am right, and assuming if something is region free, it probably won't see a release in other territories. Not one hundred percent of the time, but that is

I'm gonna say that is generally true. There are there are some exceptions to that, especially when we see things like the Air four four four release that was tied in with the third Window Films release of The Wicked Forest and the other one that came with that. Those I believe are both region free because they worked together so it was time to came out at the near the exact same time and no matter where you got it, you're getting mostly the same

content. But really it's all about the licenser. Some of them just playing, don't care. And it seems like Australia gets a lot of region free releases of titles that are coming out elsewhere, so it's not always correct, but usually next up. Got a few more left. I mentioned earlier I put out an interview with the guys from AGFA and I think it's a pretty good one. Spend some time with that if you haven't. They do talk

about stuff coming out over the next year or so. They drop a couple of things that they're working on which are pretty exciting and they haven't mentioned it elsewhere, so a little exclusive there. But things that are getting re released. We mentioned the Keno lawber Mill Creek re releases. This is another one coming out, Eyes of Lower Mars from nineteen seventy eight. Genuinely a fantastic

film. This is one of the better ones out there from around this time, and we got the special features that were on the previous release, but nothing on here is new, and that Mill Creek release is not super old, so it's really odd how they seem to have picked up a handful of titles that were just recently released by mill Creek, and some of them are less than like two and a half years old, and they're already getting brand

new releases. I'm very curious as to why or what they think they're getting out of that good film. Have you seen Eyes of Laura Mars? Oh yeah, John Carpenter one of his earliest writing credits. And you know Urban Kershner is king of the sequels, right the Empire strikes back Robo Cup two. This is a nice little thriller, you know if Faye Donaway and Tolly Jones are really good and it's pretty early in Tommy Lee Jones' career, very

young. Yeah, this is like right after he did Rolling Thunder I think, which I just watched the other night. That holds up nice Hiley Jones has some of the best lines. I'm gonna go kill a lot of people. So yeah, I has a lot of Mars. I don't think I'll be upgrading my copy, but I might watch it again here now that's getting re released. Highly recommend. This movie is basically what we're getting at yet another one, But this is another interesting one where we get some new special

features. Happy Birthday to Me is getting a release from Keno on October eighteenth, and it's one of the most iconic imageries from a film cover of all time. I swear this poster was basically required to be in every video store for like five years. That was in the contract or something. Dude says Keno in this Mill Creek thing is making me wonder if I should keep waiting on Renegades. I haven't picked it up yet. That's a good question.

This gets a new interview with actress Tracy E. Bergman and a new audio commentary by co screenwriter Timothy Bond, moderated by Daniel Kreamer, and not a whole lot else on here. Happy Birthday to Me, it's a it's not what I love, it's it's fun. What do you think A Happy Birthday to me? Well, as a Jay Lee Thompson completist, you know you can't. You can't go through his whole career without making a pit stop with

late Charles Bronson and Happy Birthday to me. It's not. It's not my favorite movie in the world, not my favorite slasher, but uh, I recall enjoying it and it's it's I would say it's kind of indifferently made. You know, Glenn Ford doesn't look too happy to be there. But you know, we're talking about Jollo's and the Jolly and and the formula and kind of picking out interesting bits from the from the dreg you know, Happy Birthday.

Yeah, Jamie Thompson isn't a derated director. He's fantastic. And even the late Charles Bronson movies that have some problematic politics or are taught action movies and and get the most out of the budgets. Happy Birthday to me though, is you know, it's kind of a middling slasher movie. If you like slasher movies, this is gonna be fun watch for you. It's not

gonna like convert anybody to the genre. Now, okay, but the poster iconic I swear this movie has had gosh so many releases on every format. This is like one of the most released movies. At least it feels like next up. Speaking of AGFA, we just spoke on them. Smut Without Smut, Volume one is coming from One to One Film's UK as part of

their AGVA partnership. Now, one of the reasons that this might be interesting is that this was a fully limited release in the US, So the title is a print, which means if you want these two titles, this is gonna be the cheapest way to get these. And I believe in the US it's fully fully gone out of print. You're not able to get this unless you're getting it secondhand. Again, this is literally the the X rated genre

movies with the X rated bits removed. These are interesting. And then they have the smut without smut versions and the uncut versions both included if you want to see everything on there with them without smut. Yes, they also have the commentary track on Things to Come with the AGFA team, which is one of the better listens because they you know, they put a lot of love into stuff like this, so it's really nice to hear from the people that

are restoring us and putting it out what they think of the film. Yeah, I missed, I missed the set without smut but went out of print, so this will be a good chance for me. Check these out definitely. And then another AGFA title coming out from One on one Films in the UK is Scary Tales, which, I gotta be honest is one of my favorite AGPA releases. I think that this is one of their more more fun

titles. I will really point out they've got this notice here. This movie was shot on VHS and edited on tape, and it definitely shows it's not the highest quality, but it is a little anthology film and it's fun. And then on top of that, they've got the commentary track with the director

on here. There's a demo version which is really interesting. They've got vintage TV promo appearances with the director which I watched on the agfadisk here from the US and it's hilarious seeing these guys on like a public access show with an actual news team and really interesting take on it. And then there's a bonus movie on here from nineteen ninety four called Darkest Soul plus early horror shorts from

the director. This is one of those discs that just has everything encapsulated on this to make this a giant, giant package for everybody that purchases it. Definitely recommended from me. Have you seen Scary Tails yet? No? It looks really cool. I saw that. Oh I can't remember the label now, but they've announced a limited edition of Mazes and Monsters, you know, the made for TV Dungeons and Dragons, Satanic scare movie with young Tom Hanks.

Yep, Plumeria Pictures. Yeah, ah, that's what. That might make a good double feature with this, although actually Darkest Soul might make a double feature with it. Mazes Monsters isn't very good. I mean, Scary Tales is certainly not the highest quality either, but it's it's certainly fun and a nice little snapshot into that time. Nineteen ninety three was a wild time for shot on tape stuff for sure. Then Second Site has announced their next

limited edition title. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but we got the beauty shots here and the date and all that. So you can pre order this now from Second Site. And I'm only seeing now that we don't have an actual release date on there. Let me see what they say on their website. This is coming on September twenty six from Second Sight. This is a fairly new film. This is from twenty twenty one.

A brutal enforcer returns home after a ten year absence to embark on a gruesome quest for vengeance against the crime family that kidnapped his son and left him for dead. Now, everybody that I've heard that have seen this film seems to really love it and think it's one of the better modern crime films. And somehow I've never seen it. I never even heard of it before they announced it. I just completely missed out on this one. Have you seen this

one? No? But when I saw the announcement for this release, I got kind of excited because this, again, like possession movies, this is a sub genre of action sci fi western movies that I don't know. I just get into that long, simmering revenge film. I'm excited about that. Packaging looks great, really cool. Yeah, nice art on the cover of this one. Again, lots of stuff. Second Site always does great with

these. They've got audio commentary with the writer and director and some actors, new interview with the director, an interview with the producer, and then an interview with another one of the producers. Then, of course, their limited edition will have that big hard box set with the softcover book on the inside with new essays from Andrew Graves, Elena Alazak, and Megan Navarro, plus the six collectors art cards you see there. It is currently available to pre

order, and it's relatively cheap, I gotta be honest. Twenty four ninety nine British pounds. That's not that bad. And finally, coming on October eleventh, from Keno, we get Blue Iguana from nineteen eighty eight. Again, I feel like I'm just saying this a lot tonight. This is one that I somehow have not seen before. We've got a decent cast on here with somebody named Dean Stockwell. Some people may have heard of Jessica Harper from

Suspiria's in this. We've got Flee in this colorful eighties neo noir, hilarious spoof that's part mystery, part thriller and all fun. And on top of that, Dylan McDermott is in this. He stars as a Vince Holloway, a poor excuse for a bounty hunter with a problem. The people he tries to bring back alive keep winding up dead, and in the bounty biz,

no pulse means no paycheck. So Vince accepts a high risk offer from the IRS to recover twenty million dollars from a crooked bank and the sleepy little town of Diablo, Mexico. Once of It's hits the Diablo, he discovers a notorious bar called the Blue Iguana. It's loaded with thugs, killers, smugglers and evil women. Vince feels right at home, but he'd feel more like making a run for it if he knew what awaits him. This has a trailer on it, and that is it. Here is the inner art that

they're also going to be using, and that comes on October eleventh. Wow, I've seen this one. This So this is flee halfway between Suburbia and The Big Lebowski or no, the chase. I think the chase came between what a Cast? Yeah, and I don't say this because Dean Stockwell is in it, but the premise sounds somewhat Lynchian, you know, a bit yeah, so kind of wild at hardish. Yeah, yeah, let's check this out. I know nothing. This one certainly looks fun to me.

And again I'll throw out what Stan says. Right there, Keena Lober is just doing it up right. They seem to always do, I mean, putting out like five or six titles seemingly a week. You kind of have to do a lot at a time. Christian, I barely beat you there. I just threw out wilder heart could Yeah, as we always do. Let's go over what is coming out next week on a disc just in case you forgot, and then we will go over a fairly quick Q and A

time with Will if anybody has anything else from the video. So next Tuesday we are getting Heat on four K, which seemingly has some people saying that it's too dark on the four K, But I gotta wonder how much of that is up to people using either poor poor screens on their TV or not using great equipment. Too many people are using like a PS five to play four K films or Xbox one X or whatever. I yeah, you got to do it right if you really want the highest picture quality on these.

We're getting Event Horizon in four K. Both of those are studio discs. Of course. Crimes of the Future finally comes out next Tuesday. That got to mention earlier from US Sonic The Hedgehog two four K. My kids been dying for that for months. Men from A twenty four and Alex Garland is

the director on that one that's finally getting the blue release. I'm not gonna mention dooman four K we got from Paramount Presents Back to the Beach, which a lot of people seem to be waiting on Flying Guillotine too, from eighty eight Films. A lot of people getting that one in already. Same with Doctor Lamb from Unearthed Films. We got some reviews popping up on that one. Finally, from the film Detective Battle of the Worlds from nineteen sixty one,

the next code red title made in Sweden with Christina Lindbergh. That's kind of a big one for a lot of people. That was finally getting released. Down to Earth with Chris Rock. That's one I remember a lot of people loving back then Vivo. I saw this one earlier this year. Actually not that bad. I've got kids, so I see a lot of these animated films. I've seen Worse State of Grace with Sean Penn and ed Ed

Harris and Gary Oldman is getting its release. La Age jabber I mentioned that one earlier that is coming out from Visual Vengeance famous TNA two with Darcy, the male girl from the Last Drive in That is Full Moon putting that one out, and that seems to be selling like gangbusters for a lot of retailers

right now. I'll tell you why. In addition to the lovely Talentsed Darcy, Jacqueline Levelle, the Pride of Full Moon, video aim end to that from Keno we're getting I believe these are both Keno little Man What Now and Next Time we Love? This one Next Time we Love has James Stewart in it. And then I think we're getting some re releases, which is why Murder Made Easy This is from Screen Team Releasing. I think that's getting a re release Yellow Brick Road. I can't remember who put that one out,

but I've heard some people say that's a decent one. I need to check that one out. And that's the bulk of them as far as I remember. Oh, I apologize. I forgot Trauma was releasing their version of Death by Temptation. Yeah, that is what next week looks like. So, now that we are done with announcements and what's coming out next week, any questions for Will on Toby Hooper on our discussion that we released last week or anything else. And as you type those out, Will, I think you

got some stuff to talk about that's coming up soon. You want to share with the class what's going on in the world. Well, I'm kind of excited. Tomorrow I'm going to be recording a podcast sent him a Death Cult with Adam Boger about we're going to talk about Wes Craven's television films, which I'm pretty excited about. Yeah, it's I'm working on a project about writing about those films, Summer of Fear, Chiller, Invitation to Help Casebusters,

and the unreleased Night Visions. I think that's all, and so I'm excited about that. So that'll become an album to the podcast universe in a week or so, and and hopefully that that bit of writing will be coming out next year. We'll see. Oh yeah, I was mentioning to you before we got started. There's a new book coming out around Christmas about Todd Browning. I'm really excited to be part of. Did some research on his film

Devil Big Todd Browning guy. Anybody who's into classic macabb and horror, I hope is too. Yeah, So those are some some things that I'm working on, excited about, really looking forward to seeing how people respond to the I'm Dangerous Tonight Blue write, which I should mention Stan Geezy Is is also a part of He was a videographer on the film and there is and contributed amazing behind the scenes footage of Toby Hooper directing and casting crew working. So

there's my little promotional real. As I said last time, all the links for will are in the description below, where to follow him, where to get some of the books that he's helped edit. And then on top of that, the I'm Dangerous Tonight Blu ray available now pretty much everywhere. Keina Lober has distribution everywhere, so make sure you check that out. Toby Hooper made for TV film. We got our first question for you, what movie

do you want to see? Vin Ger Centram put out the most Well, I think they're already going to answer that question with Texas Chainsaw and answer for two. But you know, I don't want to sound like a program both. The PI Karama label is the only place I could think of that would release, that could release the uh that could hear welcome stand uh. The Peak Aarama label is the only place that I think could potentially release Wes Craven's

pornographic film. West Craven directed a film under the non diplome abe Snake called several titles, but I think Angela is the fireworks woman is the most common one. And he did that between here right, you know, he did it right before between Last House and Left and he'lls have eyes and the film features a lot of the themes about family and the kind of rot of the American middle class that that you see in his his uh wu on movies.

So I'd love to that'd probably be be the one. I actually did it a two hour long you know with on Christian's hobby blog, which we went through about forty different films we wanted to see released in high definitions. So nice if you want to kill some time. That'd be worth checking out too. The the Wes Craven porn film that he just brought up that has been guessed by a lot of people as coming from Vinegar Syndrome with some of the

hints that they've put out previously, and it's never came to fruition. I would love to see that. It would be nice just as a hey, let's get all of you know, this incredible director's films out there. It

would it would be really nice to see overall. Yeah, you know the little feature on the Vinegar Syndrome website where they lets you suggest a movie every six or eight months or so. I'll have just like one too many glasses of wine and I'll get on there and I'll say, Angela's the fireworks, Will I'll type it in And then the next question is do you have any idea where the film elements are? Do you have any access to them? I'm like, no, I just I'm asking you to do all the work.

Please do it all in your classes? Do you talk about Hitchcock a lot? Kind of cliche for a film teacher, but he was obviously a groundbreaking filmmaker. And the reason that Birds two is such an insult to film lovers is everybody cool with Gus van Sant Psycho though, would be cool with that? Yeah. I actually don't teach Hitchcock a lot, just because the

older were established tenured professors tend to focus on the cannon right filmmakers. But I usually when I teach Hitchcock, I usually do a lesser known film, like The Lady Vanishes is when I recently did. I'm a big fan of Frenzy, so I try to get slipped that one in. There sabotage, So I tend to leave the most well known titles to other faculty. And you know, my tendency is always to show the stuff that they're not going to see anywhere else, whether obviously why I teach my cult film scores.

That specifically was for when I teach, you know, even film appreciation, and my job is to teach basic film technique. Film for them. I can show Citizen Kane, and I often do, but I could also show The Hitchhiker by Idolipino. I can show Pale Blood, in which I'm going to show in October for HALLOWEENA so I always try to get stuff off the beating pat. I love Hitchcock I've got fifty some of his films in my collection. Jeff says Lifeboat has underlooked. I think it definitely is got to

I think that's got to release from Keno I remember, right. And then Christian says, watch Sabatur by Hitchcock recently and loved it. It's as good, but you also have to see Sabotage. It's too. Speaking of Christian, he says, who's a cult director? That you have more exposure by these labels, more exposure tough questions. That is a tough one. Well, now that Jeff Canoe is getting his day in court, we can,

uh, we can try to highlight some others. You know, I'm gonna have to think about that question for a second actually, because you know, I would like to see some directors who haven't had smaller filmographies that haven't been explored, like Deborah Brock who did Summer Party Massacre too. She also did Rock and Roll High School Forever, which needs it needs a good release because that movie is bonkers. I'd like to see a little love over there.

Gosh, well they got out Adams and covered Ted Michaels. We need some more Ted Michaels films released in high definition. It was a great documentary, The Wild World The t ten. Michael's out ten years ago. Most of his stuff is still only available on DVD. Who puts out the corpscribers? Is that vineger syndrome? Yeah, so at least have that. Is there anywhere we can find your list of favorite films? I don't have a list any sort of like blog or anything like that you can plain people to,

you know, I really need to do that. I was telling I was telling you last time we talked to I've just recently got a Twitter. I've stayed largely off the internet. I technically have a letterbox tocount. I just haven't really done anything with it. I need. I'm gonna have to do that soon. I'm pretty pretty sure that's like standard issue for professors now you have to have a website hawk your wares and promote your work. So coming soon, coming soon. But you know, shows like this, I pretty

much say all I have to say. Here's a good one favorite film book of all all time American Twilight The Cinema of Toby Hooper. That's a tough one too. I I'm not trying to be difficult with the answer, but it really kind of depends on the sort of sub genre film book. The book that really got me into film studies was David Skull and Elias Savada's Dark

Carnival, The Biography of Todd Browning. But you know, I've been very fortunate to be a student of and now a friend to David A. Cook, who wrote the History of Narrative Film, which is probably the best single volume I think history book. That's pretty good read too. It's about eight hundred pages, so it's not it's not going to be in one sitting or

anything. I really like the work of Gwendel and Audrey Foster. She writes a lot of you know, really great analyzes and reclamations of underseen films. Especially by women directors, directors of color, Wheeler Winston Dixon, who's written like a hundred books. They're all really good at Christopher Shared, who's a big influence on me. This is just going to keep going, so I'll stop there. But oh yeah, you know, one last one I really like is Gary Rhodes. He writes a lot of great stuff. Really,

his research is really deep. Dives into the archives. He goes through drafts of scripts, noting every change. He finds all of the memos and really pieces together how films got made. He is the authoritative biographer of Bill and Legosi's written four or five books on ASI. All right, I'll stop there. Film books are always difficult for me to read because I end up taking notes and just want to go deep dive into thirty four different movies before starting

into the next chapter. Yeah, it's one of those things where you highlight every sentence. Definitely, Video stores is that you've seen the Art of Dying, And if so, why didn't it win the best picture. I've not seen the Heart of Dying yet. Ever since I had kids, I've started lagging about five or six years behind films as they get released. Yep. But I'll put that to the top of my queue, and as soon as I see it, I will answer the question is what on wait? What

what won Best Picture? What year? Was that? I don't even know h thoughts on The Mangler. It's one of the few films where I actually fell asleep in the theater. Stands gonna come for you. The Mangler is definitely not Toby Hooper's best movie, but it's one that I think rewards rewatching.

That's a real shame that that was his last theatrical release. I think that the New Shout Factory release, and I think Ero just did a UK release that's got a USA by Scalptifolia, who is the most effusive champion of that film I've ever met. I think when you when you get to revisit it and kind of think about it in context of his other films, there Mangler improves. I think, you know, a lot of it is the concept kind of throws people off, like it's a haunted laund you know,

but it's not. It's not that. It's it's the machinery that that grinds a working class to gristle, you know. It's it's it's really a very gooey metaphor for you know, in the book Americans, Twilight with two essays on the main load. It's the only film that gets two essays, and one analyzes it as a There's a lot of different things, I'm boiling down fine. One analyzes as a metaphor for the Hollywood machinery, and then another

more broadly capitalism and in general. So I'd recommend getting the book and rewatching the ad as as obtuse of a question this is, do you think there is a clear Toby Hooper like objectively best made film and worst made film.

I mean, he's tempting to say to the Texas Chainsaw Mascer is the best made film because it's just so perfectly formed, you know, But certainly Hooper had higher budgets after not much higher, but higher budgets after that, that she could make the argument that on a technical level, other films are more accomplished. Toby Hooper's worst film mhm. I mean, for me, probably Eggshells is the least entertaining. I'm going to look at, you know,

his twenty thirty some film filmography. That's not the first one want to choose, but even it's pretty well he was a super talented guy on a technical level, and the people he collaborated with were just top notch. He didn't he didn't work with a lot of you know, shitty editors or or or cinematographers. So I don't know. I have to think on that one as well. I'll say, for now, Eggshells is probably my least favorite, and Chainsaw two is just mind like growing up was always my favorite stuff.

Let's go for a fun one and then we'll close it out with a pretty heavy question here. First off, what is the best barbecue? And I'll say there's not necessarily a right answer, but there's definitely a wrong answer. Well, so I'm from North Carolina, you know, and we make it a certain way that might not appeal to you. As long as the answer is not Texas, I'm fine with that. Well, no, it's it's it's it's not Texas. You've got a pretty good barbecue place right here in

Greensborough called Stadius Barbecue. I like it, but we gotta some vinegar style to the barbecue here. For COVID, it was a nice festival that would come through the Winston Salem area area that I used to go to. Haven't been since I think it's reopen. Yeah, I must say, I want to say Stany's Barbecue right here in Nice, all right here it is Why is film academia important? And what can it give us that the internet cannot?

You know that that's a really good question, because yeah, I think Sam Deagan was talking about this a little bit in her interview a couple of weeks ago. You know, there's definitely a large faction of academia that's kind of closed off. You can interpret it as elitist or or just community of people that have developed a type of jargon that just won't admit anybody else. And I think, you know, you can read a lot of academic film

books and find them just impenetrable. Same for literature. And in that way, some of the best film criticism and film journalism I've ever read has been you know, what we'd call amateur you know, fan fan scholars, you know, people who are just really interested in it and do it as a hobby. Some of the best YouTube shows I've seen are done about people in their spare time, on their own time. So, uh, to the to that part of the question, what can academia give people that the Internet

can't I would say not a lot. But one thing that film academia can give the first you know, and if you go to school for this sort of thing, you get a concentrated time and opportunity to really expand your range and and draw from people who have spent their lives doing this kind of research and working hard to archive and preserve films and also to contextualize them in the

history. And you know, people can do that on their own as well, but the university gives a kind of concentrated place and archive, a library, uh and a collection of talent that that can be accessible for you know, the students who are were there. You know. In publishing, and this is a good or and a bad thing. You know, there's an

academic publishing you have to go through a lot of gatekeepers. So one thing you can be s of is that you know, if you look at a book like American Twilight, it's written in a way that successful you do not have to be a film scholler and understand it. It's pretty pretty much jargon free. But you also but you also know it's gone through the ringer right.

Experts in the field have read it, critiqued it, we've had to respond to those criticisms and apart work it apart and and that part of the gatekeeping I think is really valuable as opposed to to books that don't go through that process, that that that can be a little bit sloppier in their in

their research. On the other hand, you know, a lot of books don't make it through the gateway because there's some kind of resistance to the subject matter or or there's a radical approach that that entrenched minds just don't get. And so this is a really long answer that basically says both and are are

important. And and you know, there are a lot of people. I don't want to say that I'm in any way special, because there are a lot of people like me who kind of straddle the lines if that lovely image of straddling who who who work in academia and and kind of can speak speak English, but are really like I'm not a filmmaker. That's not part of my talent. But I am a pretty good writer, and I'm passionate about film, and I don't want to be an archive archivist and an advocate for

film that reaches as wide an audience is possible. And I think I think a lot of academics, especially in this generation and the younger generations, are that. A lot of film journalists are are that, you know, Internet Scott, Internet critics. The few remaining print critics are that. Yeah. I think what academics have to offer is a certain talent pool and a certain depth of research that hopefully they make available to the wider public. I'd agree

there. I mean that accessibility is really one of the most important things, and that leads to the overall idea of film in general. When we're talking about archiving all of these works, and that's why these extra features that we get on physical media is so important, because we get some of the voices that you will not be able to have if you just stick to a streaming method where there's no special features. You get access to families that were affected

by these films. You get access to a producer from a film from fifty years ago that remembers everything about it and can share everything. I mean the fact that we have Franco Niro interviewed in twenty eighteen talking about Djingo made fifty two years prior, and you can literally remember day to day stories. It is wild how much context we have lost with so much of this, and

I just hope we never stop archiving some of this. Yeah. Yeah, film is one of the youngest art forms, but it's also in art films most in need of preservation and quickly right as people do pass on. I recently listened to a podcast about some Warner Archive titles than they just upgraded to Blu ray. The Errol Flint movie The Adventures of Don Juan, directed on Vincent Sherman, and they were able to port over audio commentary that Sherman did

before he passed away. It's fantastic, great stories. As awful as this whole situation is, we got to end it with talking about this for the final time. What is with the decades long rumors about Spielberg directing poultry guys? Yeah, what is with that? Well, there's a nice uh piece about that in the book and and uh, let's see Chris, Chris Wofter and I were on Cinema Defficult podcast addressing it, and then uh, in the interview with Ryan last week, we addressed it. You know, I'm

gonna go with to sum it up. Uh. Joe Bob Briggs pointed out that one thing that Toby Hooper was never good at was glad hand handing and and schmoozing and playing the game. And for whatever reason, you know, a couple of folks who were potentially on the set and spread that rumor, as as Spielberg, who was a collaborative producer and co writer of the film

with Hooper, was setting up a second unit unit shot. But you know, as we were saying in the interview last week, if you watch Spielberg's movies and you watch Hooper's movies, and then you watch Poultu, guys, the only reason Poulter Gee might look a little bit like a Spielberg movie is

because of the money. Ye. The themes, the sense of humor, the darkness, the scares, those are those are all in the style of Hooper, and Hooper and Spielberg worked together several times after that, amazing stories

taken and so on. So it wasn't I think that this this rumor definitely caused problems between them, but not problems that were left totally unresolved from all accounts, and of credits, staying easy for his insight because he knew slightly more than slightly actually really well and friends with Hooper son Tony Toby Hooper was kind of a reclusive guy, retiring guy, put his energy into communication on the set and then after that kind of come off to his own devices.

Where Spielberg, and this is knock on, Spielberg is much more of a personality. You know, big man very much so. But you know, watch watch the films, and it's it's a dumb rumer, really is I would agree there if you enjoy conversations like this, This is my one time tonight that I will bring up, not that any of us are educators or anything like that, but over on our Patreon, which I will say thank

you to all of our patrons now, including our one Kevin Smith. On there, we have a lot of conversations about stuff just like we've been talking about all day over in our discord and the ability to just share everybody having these different opinions and analyzing films and talking about quality of films and releases and you know, just different focuses and cycles on the hobby. It's a really

great place if you are curious about that. The link for the Patreon is in the description below, and the really the only thing to say tonight will just thank you so much for your time. I really hope everybody enjoyed this. There's so much education to pass along and to get free access like this to an educator is just priceless. So thank you, oh man. Happy

to be here. Hey, I'll throw out a rumor for you who directed Jaws, because I have incredible authority that Steven Spielberg couldn't figure out how to make it work without showing the shark and stomped off the set and the producer had to finish it so spread that around the internet video stores is funny and nobody mentions how Hooper directed eighty percent of Saving Private Ryan. Let's get these

going, oh man, everybody, thanks for watching tonight. I know it's been a long show from this time from two collectors to all of you. Hope you have a good night. We'll see you next Thursday. More videos coming out this week from the Disconnected see then, Thanks everybody,