Re-Connected July 31st, 2025: Announcements and Underrated Shudder with Carlin Cook!!

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Carlin, thanks for coming on day.

Thanks for having me. I'm very excited about this if I can stay awake.

I'm worried about that too.

I I've talked about it on here a few times, but what I've been doing recently is staying up until about one or two in the morning and then waking up at four forty five to go to work.

And this week is particularly bad.

My apologies for that one. That sucks.

It's a part of the transition, I guess. So Carlin's channel. Everybody needs to go check this out, because one, you watch a lot of Vinegar Syndrome stuff I do, and a lot of shutter stuff, and there are a lot of people that will.

Mention both of those things.

Very very rarely do we get in depth reviews or discussion on every single title from somebody that actually watched them. So, I mean, first I want to find out because I don't know that I ever heard you tell the story.

How'd you first find Vinegar Syndrome.

I think some years ago I had made like a one time purchase because I wanted ice cream Man really bad. And then I also was just like, well, I'm not just gonna buy one thing, so you know, you look around, and I think at the same time, I ended up buying Spookyes, like just on a whim, Yeah, and fell in love with Spookys and was just like, oh my gosh. And then like some years later, I was like, well, does that say it again? So I eventually went back and then I got very hooked after that.

Yeah, you can tell you're pretty hooked cause you get you get some hauls every month.

Yeah, yeah, I have some to show over here too, a lot.

Yeah, we're gonna be going in depth into all of those and then Shutter. You've kind of like we were talking about before you got in like on the ground floor with Shutter. How how that originally happened.

Yeah. So I had gotten Shutter myself and was really enjoying a lot of the stuff that they had on their service, and then I was just kind of like, I want to do movie reviews. Maybe if I kind of hitch my wag into this kind of fledgling horror streaming service, right that I can get something cool like

Yeah, I mean, I feel like what they've gotten has has cut down but perhaps gone up in quality.

It feels like a lot of the time.

It's here and there. Look, I'll let you in on a secrete. One of my one of my things when when I get these screeners is that, uh, if it's a if it says it's a Shutter original and it's made the United States, it's probably not going to be great. Yeah, But if it's a Shutter original made in another country, there is a chance it could be very good.

Right.

So that's what's one of my roles. Exclusives could be you know, most likely exclusives are going to be pretty good, but you never know.

Yeah, exclusives, if I'm remembering right, generally just stuff that they're distributing because they saw it somewhere and it was great and they wanted Yeah. Okay, so right, I thought, so yeah, tonight after the announcements, we're going to be covering underrated Shutter original Slash exclusive things that maybe people aren't talking about as much.

It's not on my list.

I kind of doubt it's on yours because it's getting pretty big press at the moment. But for an example, even though it's getting talked about, one of mine would be The Ugly.

Stepsister from this year.

I think it is getting talked about very highly but also not enough.

That movie is kind of incredible. Did you enjoy that one this year? I don't remember.

I really enjoyed it right now. Of all the new horror films I've seen this year, it's my number two behind Sinners.

Same here.

I think you were the first one that is aligned with me on that. That's awesome. We got about forty seven comments about a cat in your place, so if it makes an appearance tonight, they would like to see it up close.

Yeah. I have two. The one is probably not going to make an appearance Willow because she's a little bit older. She's kind of settled in Josie though, is very active. She's actually running around right now, so you might see.

Her nice well.

Talking about this year, let's before we do pickups, what have you been watching recently? Because I always love hear hearing you talk about these titles. Okay, so I have a stack here.

Vinegar Syndrome obviously, and actually I just the other day did my actually yesterday, just did my video for all the July releases I got from Vinegar Syndrome, ranking and reviewing all of them, because that's what I do every single month for these for people who don't know, so that's not available for everyone on my channel right now. It's just members have access at the moment for about a week, and then it will be available for everyone.

I think I mentioned this the maybe the week after it was announced. Maybe I did it on here. Maybe it was only the discord, but I've found out from Justin lit Liberty they were told they were not allowed to do anything for this disc MGM is the worst studio to work with, and they literally said, you cannot do anything for this release.

Why would they that? It makes no sense. But I also the Blu Ray did not play either, and I verified that on multiple players.

Wow.

But the great thing is Vinegar Syndram's customer service is phenomenal.

Yeah.

I emailed them on a Sunday and the next day they emailed me back like pretty early, saying replacement in the mail. Got to meet within two days after that and it all fine. Yeah, no problem.

Death Rattle in the chat wants to know if you're on letterbox so they can follow up on these.

I am what is my name? I just I don't pay attention to things like that. Who am I? I think it's just yeah, Carlon Cook same.

Yeah, that should be easy when it's on the screen. There you go, CARLN.

Cook?

Yeah all right, I can. I could rip through more of these. I gotta I gotta be careful with this one. Take off.

Fragile, don'te that makes such over the nipples.

So this is you and Celeste's fault because I was not buying adult titles until you guys had that episode where you're like, this is why it's worth buying these adult titles, and then I'm like, yeah, that sounds legit. So now I've been buying a lot of it, and take Off is a pretty good time. The story is very engaging. The acting is a lot of fun in it. You know, the sex scenes with a lot of these Golden Age films are just like a lot is the same, you know, like the same scene after the same scene

Kind of Liking it is better than loathing it, so that's nice.

Yeah, but the special features are great. Essays are great. A big fan of that stuff. Then I also did Jungari Monster from the Deep. It's okay. It has its own charm, you know, South Koreana and Kaiju film. It has its own charm here and there, but it's pretty slow. Kind of hope.

Are you normally a big monster fan?

Well, I will say that the last two years I really liked what they were putting out in July of Reptiloicus, and then a year before that, Gorgo Love Gorgo. Gorgo's wonderful, and then Reptilicus was a lot of fun. This is the weakest, so I think if they stick with this every July, unfortunately, I think it might be going down. Yeah, but you know, it's still fun to see it one time and then I can get rid of this. Special features are solid, so that's good.

But yeah, the special poster thing they do in all of these is really cool.

The X ray thing, Yeah, he dances though, and I was just like, I don't know about that. And then the card Player, which I had been forewarned by you. The Argento film, I mean, it's a very annoying film in the beginning. In the beginning, like probably at least the first half of it, I was very annoyed by the amount of video poker in it, the fact that you're watching someone play video poker and there's someone constantly screaming while you're trying to watch it, Like I was overstimulated.

About that, but I the first time I saw The Card Player, I think my first thought similar to that when I found out Simon Eddy again. I was like, Wait, all these people that used to be incredible made this movie and they all just decided to be terrible together.

Yeah, they all forgot how to do their craft right.

Yeah, what they were known for, what they were lauded for.

Yeah, yeah, yep. Well then I did the Gosser five Dead on the Crimson Canvas. I mean, I love this artwork. The artwork's a lot of fun. I'm a sucker for Giallo, which is why I got it. It's shot on video. For how low budget it is, there are some pretty impressive practical effects in it, I thought. And you know, there's the Giallo mystery in it, so I like it as a Giallo homage. There is a special feature on here called is it Giallo? And they say, have some

Oh nice, I was.

I was kind of interested in it. It's it's like a screwball comedy from nineteen seventy one. I fell in love with this film from like the first fifteen minutes. It is so real well written, it is so witty, it's so well acted. It's phenomenal. And then all the special features, like Cinematograph has been doing such a good job, and I think a lot of people are sleeping on their stuff because it's not like the typical vinegar syndrome.

Matt dannelin May kind of always incredible, so I know I knew that was gonna be great.

And then I'll just throw this as my last one. I've been liking some VHS hit fest nice. The Killing Tide is ridiculous. This is a shot on video action film. It's like action revenge and it is. It just goes hard like. The pacing is unbelievable. I've never seen a shot on video film that has pacing like this. It's just so much fun. There's so much action to it, really ridiculous characters. The dialogue is horrendous, but in a really fun way. That acting isn't good, but in a

Yeah, this reminds me, and this is not a This week watch. I was trying to track down the rights to see if I could work with somebody to put this out, but I cannot find the director, so I'm just gonna throw it out there to see if anybody else is gonna work on this. Similar to VHS hit Fest, go on YouTube and look up a full movie called The Skid Kid if I remember right, it is from like nineteen ninety and essentially.

This is a I don't even know how to explain this.

There is a kid that sits down on the street on nothing and drives and they film it in stop motion and it's fucking incredible. It is the most VHS Hit Fest title that I've not seen on VHS hit Fest. It is really funny. There's some really genuinely good comedy. I think it came out of Saint Louis, so kind of close to for me. Was really hoping I could find the owner and then go over there and try to interview a bunch of people. But it is a hell of a good time. Go everybody should go find

Sounds good recent watches.

I'm going the exact opposite of you, because I watched just a ton of new stuff. This last weekend was a ridiculous five feature day, back to back in the theater for me and my wife, and it was very all over the place. The low's first because these are less fun to talk about. I don't know why, but I watched Bambi The Reckoning in a theater this weekend.

Bad movie.

First of all, the CGI is god awful, but I swear about like thirty five minutes of this movie where somebody asking where's your grandma or where's this person I left you in the room with because now they're missing it, now they're in danger. Watch Bamby the Reckoning. It is an absolute waste of time. It's not even fun kills. There's complete nonsensical everything. Why did we make that?

Guys? Come on.

Next one that's also bad. The Home starring Pete Davidson. Watched that this last weekend. It is essentially Pete Davidson is a I think he's meant to be like an older teenager, even though he's like thirty seven or however old he is. He's probably only like twenty six, but he's been aged like everything. He is somebody that got in trouble and now he has been sentenced to go

Oh dang, the Society got me like.

I love right right right?

I love Society, one of my favorite movies of all time. But then there are the other three that I watched that day, and these are all pretty decent. Not like killer, amazing movies, but if you're gonna watch them, these are decent. The first one is oh Hi, which I think is going to go under a lot of radars this year. It is being advertised as a rom com that isn't necessarily a rom com. It basically turns into like a thriller after about twenty minutes into the film, and it's

Usually the next one, this one is.

A hell of a swing, and that is House on Eden, which is TikTok stars Selena and Chris Collins.

This is a found footage film. Did you see this one?

I think this one's coming to shutter, I believe so, yeah, yeah, it's it's not there yet. I haven't seen it yet, but I know I will be seeing it. That's all.

So it's a found footage movie, and that if you're not in on found footage, you were gonna hate this movie because it leans heavily into found like it's it's kind of a little too shaky in some of the scenes. This is one of those things that I was more impressed that they made this movie than loved the movie. Chris Collins directed it, and there's literally only three people

At the end of this movie, you're.

Fucking Marvel and you can't get decent CGI to show a baby moving like that. That pissed me off beyond belief because it was it took you out of the entire movie.

It was awful. But that's Marvel for you in twenty twenty five.

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm actually I'm actually going through, sorry, actually going through and watching all the Marvel movies with my father.

And how's that going? Watching them back into.

Our next one is The Eternals, and I'm not excited. I'd seen it before and I just know I'm in for a bad time again.

I mean, at least that one was a swing and different than everything else, but it still wasn't good. Yeah, you do some major incredible Haul videos.

So let's hear your fantastic pickups this week.

Okay, first of all, I got some movies from Diabolic DABD because it had been a little bit since I had ordered from them, and they had a pre order on Cafe Flesh uh, and I really wanted to get my hands on this because I found out about the original release of it, which I guess was like the special edition from your podcast.

But I listened to it like a week late, and then it was gone, and so I was like, oh crap, because I wanted to check this out because isn't it the same person who did Doctor Caligari yep, and that is such a weird movie. But I enjoyed it how weird it was, so I just had the had to. So I got Cafe Flesh from them, and then I just picked up some other stuff because like I said before, I can't just buy one thing. I gotta make it

Oh nice. I wanted to see that one.

Looks really good. Don't know much about it, but I just you know, it looked awesome. It's very highly rated from what I saw in letterbox, so I was like, yeah, I should get this because it was on sale. I'm like, let's do that VHS hitfest night. I heard this is like some like schlubby homely vampire dude in the city. It looks stupid, but my kind is stupid, so I'm very interested in that. Also got well, I got to

Want to get special features there.

I've never seen it, been wanting to see it for quite some time, so I had to get it. Finally, the Lost Boys on four K because I don't have it, and I was like I should, and also coincidentally I got this, and then I booked. I got tickets to go to the Mahoning Drive in in Pennsylvania to see this a thirty five millimeter and a one hour concert from Tim Capello before the showing.

It's a lot of saxophone.

Yeah, pretty excited. Well, he works with this this band I really like called Gunship, and he phenomenal work with that, so I'm hoping he does some of their stuff. So Lost Boys, and then the last two things I got were Terror Vision. Been really wanting pop Atopoulus because it

That's probably it.

That's like not damage really to me, Like, yeah, I've had vinegar syndrome stuff damage worse than that.

But all I can say is, have you met anyone on the internet because they about that.

I won't.

And then the last thing I got was the Newly deads which I've been wanting to check out, so I have some spaces in what I want to pick up from terror Vision still, so this has helped out.

So when you get to the pop a topless disc, please let me know what you think of our visual essay, because man, was it?

Oh that's right, you have something on there. I forgot about that.

Yeah, we got wheeled and a wig on that disc.

Oh okay perfect.

I always try to like show people one of our more like fun side of things that we did, and I can't share that link because there's nudity in it and YouTube blocks it, so yeah, ruins everything. I have some off the wall picks that are not like normal stuff that I would show and I just kind of wanted to make it fun, different type of things. So I heard that Hamilton Book was going to be having a really great drop compared to normal this last time,

How do you say no to that?

Right? Yeah? Take the Chance exactly.

Some off the wall other picks that I don't get to talk about enough, disco texts Neon Nights series, they've been doing some really great, you know, titles that I would normally have to put my finger over like you did, but they do.

Some really creative editing.

So this is their Terrifying Girls High School Animal Classmates. This just came out very clever editing on the cover there. I've been trying to get more of these because pretty much every title they've picked for this line has been really fun, and not all of them are adult risque pink like this. Some of them are just fun and

Sounds like a lot of fun.

I didn't know that existed.

Yeah, I think they did. And they're numbered on the side. I don't know what the highest number is, but they've got like sixty of them. They only did I think two of them in Blu Ray out of that entire line.

The rest are DVD.

We just don't have great elements for a lot of them, unfortunately. So yeah, other than that, your channel, we talked about Vinegar Center, we talked about Shutter. You do like trying snacks and stuff on your shorts, But you also have a podcast.

Tell everybody about your podcast.

So I quit my pot is it?

Okay?

Okay? So I did for thirteen years. I did a craft beer podcast, and then I ended up quitting earlier this year because I just gave up drinking alcohol altogether for health reasons. Because GI issues basically, and it's just

I know this is not and I don't even drink, but I'm like fascinated with what is the what is the technology change?

But we'll talk about that later.

Yeah, right, I was going to go into it.

Stuff on your channel. Anything coming up that you want to highlight.

Well, I am trying to figure out so every year what I would do during October is that I would eat the new edition of the bean Boozled.

Yep.

So I can't do that this year because I have braces now, So next year I should be fine, though, But I'm trying to figure out, like what else can I do? So I'm trying to figure out should I eat something else like gross or something I don't know. I thought about getting like food grade insects or something to try, you know, something like that, because it's spooky. I mean, I've added some food grade insects before, but yeah, I think people get grossed out by that stuff.

Absolutely they do.

But I don't have anything like super exciting coming up. Just I love doing like my Vinegar Syndrome haul videos or any other random ones that I end up doing. But I get very excited about actually recording the ranking and review videos that I do for those, because I

I was trying to think if I could guess based on what I've seen you like in the past, Just tell me what's number one.

Let's scare Jessica to death. I love that fucking movie, and there were release the essays and the special features add so much extra context to it. It's an unbelievable release.

I don't remember what you said about what did you think of the Dirty Work release?

Are you into that?

Yeah?

Comedy, I quite liked it.

It was very good.

It's less Yeah, I'm thrilled that they got into it, and I kind of think it's hilarious that so many people are like, oh, why is Vinegar Syndrome released in this It's it is so perfect, the amount of work that they went into to make that release incredible, Like that is exactly what Vinegar Syndrome has always been about.

What the hell? Definitely all right? Uh, I think that's it. Ready to get into some announcements because.

Man, you've got a crazy week. I didn't think it was gonna be that heavy, and Jesus you got some titles to cover.

Well, I'm just excited when we get to arrow because there are two films in particular that I'm pumped about.

Well, they are the first up tonight and we get to cover the Sadness first. This is one that got announced previously that it was going to be coming through this partnership with Shutter and it is a UK only title. This is coming on October twentieth on four K. This is the standard cover art that you'll get everywhere, but if you want, you can order straight from the site and get this ridiculous Johnny Ryan cover art. And it's

Because I don't know about you.

I don't order direct from Arrow anymore at all, I do. I mean I haven't in probably about a year or so, but I.

Would, so the sadness funny enough a Shutter original. We'll talk about that in just a minute. This one has a new audio commentary with the writer, director and the cinematographer on here, two different archival commentaries, five behind the scenes featurettes, some comparisons. A lot of this stuff is just archival from a couple of the other extras that have already come out previously. And then nice looking slip cover.

It's a gross out, intense, ridiculously violent film from Taiwan, I believe if I'm remembering correctly, Yeah, I remember quite enjoying it when it was when I saw the screener before it hit shutter and really telling people, Hey, if you're like gorehounds and you want some real gross out stuff that's just like over the top, think inspired by like a Takashi Mika type deal, this is your jam. Basically.

I love a movie that in the we'll say month after it releases, in reviews, you frequently hear the word skull fucking, and that is something that you hear about this movie.

It happened, It happened.

Good movie.

It's very much like a send up of how multiple governments handled the pandemic it is.

It's not even hiding that at all.

I mean you can tell that that's the case like eight minutes into this movie.

Well made movie. I think this was the director's first film. Do you remember that?

Yeah? It was. Yeah, he was like a like a US X pad or something.

Yeah, in Taiwan.

Yeah, and he honestly crushed it for a first time director. Very well made. There are a couple scenes in this that you will likely never forget. I mean there's the scene on the train that is incredible, and then the basketball court scene is a big one for a lot of people. But yeah, I love that you say basketball court and something goes, oh yeah, fun movie.

If you're not in the gore, you will hate this, so do not care.

Next up from then, the classic return Living Dead is hitting four K and Blu ray in a deluxe edition on October thirteenth over in the UK only. Obviously, Screen Factory has the rights in the US, so it's not coming out here and it will not be able to come out here.

This is a good looking release.

A lot of this is on the previous release, but the big thing the second disc has the More Brains documentary, which is really really good. Makes this a pretty stacked release even that has bonus features, which is nice. But then the big question for everybody that is a purist about this, the Deadbeat Dance is still not on this release. Somehow Second Site in their Blu ray steal book that was released. Gosh, we got to be going on like

I really enjoy the film, and you know, maybe I need to get this because I just have like an old Blu ray. I forget who released the one that I have? Did shout? Did screen Factory do it?

They did a blue Yeah, and there's a couple like the studio even did an old blue here I believe.

Yeah, I think it's the screen Factory one I have, So I might have to I might have to do this.

Yeah, I bet this is gonna be a great release. The screen Factory four K looks good. This is likely the same scan, but it's arrow encoding, so it might even be slightly better, but it'll be at least as good as the screen factory for sure.

This though, is that this is the one, This is the one.

I'm so excited about the same one.

October twenty seventh in the UK, October twenty eighth in the US on four K and Blu Ray. Miss forty five able from nineteen eighty one. Incredible rape revenge movie that is just a masterpiece that used to be on Blu Ray here in the US from draft House has been out of print.

For ages for a long time. It was fetching like eighty dollars on eBay. I hope you didn't.

Pay that, because this is a glorious release that will absolutely blow it out of the water this release. New commentary by of course Alexander Helder Nicholas. She literally wrote the book. She had to be on the commentary. I'm glad she's on here. New feature ratte with bj Clangelow, who is incredible. Great choice for this new featurete with Kat Ellinger who will do great. A bunch of archival interviews. Also,

Just great.

The fact that they got these, we got a sixty page perfect bound book with new writing by a bunch of people, including Kayla Janie and Brad Stevens, who are on here with archival writing this movie.

Tell us about it and why you're excited.

It's a wild ass film.

Like I was.

I do typically in October, like whole day long watch parties, yeah for you know, my channel, just whoever wants to join. And one year I had everyone pick a movie and someone picked Miss forty five, which I had not seen before, and I was just floored watching this movie. It's one of those, you know, assault revenge films, and I'm typically not huge into those, but the way this is shot, it's so interesting. The character is so interesting because she's

Yeah, this is very good.

One thing I did want to highlight, which I didn't mention at first, but I have to point this out. One of the best in the game, Sister Hide the artwork for this, which could have just been the original poster and all of us would have been happy. But the way this is a perfect homage of that poster and the character. This is a master work, and this is one I would likely hang the poster for this

Stoked on this, So next up from them.

We just talked about this recently and everybody knows it, so we won't spend a ton of time on it. But on October twenty seventh in the UK October twenty eighth in the US, they're doing a steel book version of their Trigger Treat four K released from two thousand and seven, the Michael Doherty Anthology. It's a great movie,

This has nothing in it that will interest me. I don't need to steal a book for this movie.

Yeah. I actually bought the four K very recently to upgrade because I had it on DVD, and then I upgraded to blue, and then I upgraded again to four K because I watch it every year. It's one of my favorite Halloween films. But yeah, I just yeah, And for people who don't know, they're actually going to be putting out a new a new comic follow up, I got in on the Kickstarter for that, so nice should be. I hope the stories are good.

And then the quote sequel, I guess has been in development hell for like forever eleven years literally, Yeah, like they came out I can't remember. I think it was at a convention or like a weekend event or something like that. They came out and said we're announcing Trigger Tree two and they've never nothing has happened from that since then. Yeah, next up, though, I will take full credit for this because clearly they put this together this quickly.

Or was that last week. Time is not a real thing anymore.

I begged for a Blu ray release of three Extremes and literally immediately got it answered.

Very very happy that this is coming out.

Not to mention the fact that they also have three as part of this, I did not think they would because three Extremes is the big draw for most people. Very stoked on this. Even though it does not have the full length release of Dumplings, we don't need it necessarily, like it would have been a nice icing on the cake sort of situation. But new two K restoration of both movies by Arrow just incredible. We are getting new interviews on pretty much every single thing that we're getting

Have you seen Three Extremes?

Yeah? I own it. Actually, I've actually been doing a series of short videos on my YouTube channel that are just for the people at the highest level of membership, the possession level of hidden gems in my collection. And Three Extremes was one that I did. It's very good. All the shorts are really well done. My favorite is cut the one by Well I say, Chamwiok Park. I know everyone says Park Chamwook. I think that sounds better is Chamwick Park? So yeah, phenomenal, big fan of that director anyway.

Yeah, this is a knockout anybody that's been, you know, crying for this release for years. This is exactly what we could have wanted for anybody who's never seen it. I'll bring it up again. Three Extremes specifically, I think is the better of these two. But it's three shorts. They're not as short as like most other anthologies that people refer to when they talk about anthologies, but they're twenty five ish minutes long, all three of them, all

This is a must.

Own, very good.

I'm so stoked for this one.

I'm less stoked for October sixth in the UK, October fifth in North America.

They tease this earlier this year.

We are getting a four K or a Blu ray release of Spawn from ninety seven. This if you love the movie. This is a pretty good solid release of this. We got four K disc. We'll have the director's cut. You got a new commentary with Dave Baxter, who is a podcast host and comic book expert. You've got a new interview with Michael J.

White.

You've got a new interview with Melinda Clark and d B. Sweeney, new interview with the special effects artist Howard Berger and Greg Nacato, new interview with the music supervisor Happy Walters.

There's even more.

Plus they got archival featurettes on here, and then there's a second four K disc of the theatrical cut, And the fact that you're getting both on their own disc is just really telling of the quality that they're putting into this. This is going to be a really solid release for them. Are you a spawn fan Carling.

I do like this movie and like one of the best soundtracks out there. Honestly, if you have if you haven't heard the music from the sound it's pretty good soundtrack for it, very very good. I like the film. Yeah, it's not great. I love how stupid John Legozama's performances and it's like so over the top and ridiculous, like he was feeling on himself when he was making this movie. But it's my kind of stupid. I really enjoy it.

Yeah, yes, we got the comment here isn't spawned that movie with a really bad cgikpe. Yeah, the CGI in this movie is really terrible, and honestly, I am kind of worried about what the four K is gonna make the CGI look like, because there's no way in hell they went back to rerender all of it.

So yeah, who bully.

Yeah, one that I wouldn't mind rewatching, but this is not one that I'm gonna pue. And then for many people, this was maybe the biggest title of this month. October twenty seventh of the UK. October twenty eighth in North America, A four K only released no blu ray disc of John Carpenter's in the Mouth of Madness.

Amazing movie. This is not one that.

Gets enough attention ever, and it's because it's Carpenter. If this was almost any other director, this would be their best movie.

It is. It is that good.

Sammy is incredible in this movie. Some of the effects and what they do with the setting of this movie are surreal in the best of ways. This is just really great lovecraft. As far as extras, we got a new commentary by Rebecca mckendrey and Elrick Kine, who you've heard on podcast for years if you're a horror fan. Newly filmed interview with Sandy King Carpenter, which is really great, a new interview with Jurgen prac Now, and then all

This is a masterpiece. And look at that. We got a cat.

This is Willow. This is the older one. I thought she wouldn't show up, but she's also a lab pound.

She loves laps, had to make an appearance.

Nice she's a gorgeous girl. She also has very stubby limbs.

So in the mouth of madness, how are you feeling about this one?

I really enjoy this film. I think this film is great, Sam Neil, like you said, is phenomenal, and it's it's a very effective horror film, but it's also really fun at the same time, like getting all the pieces of the Sutter Kane story that end up manifesting in this town. It's a great ride. I love it.

Yeah, there's so much about this movie that makes it unique and special, and if you've never seen it, please please make an effort to even if you're like not a fan of usual Carpenter things he has done, Just like Aaron is saying the chat, He's done so many off the wall different genres mixed in with things. I mean, Assault on Precinct thirteen is a Western basically, but this is an absolute masterpiece in his filmography. I think it's

No?

Actually I still actually haven't even seen Buffy. But she we actually named her Willow because she actually went through a lot before we got her, and willow trees, there's this whole thing about bending but not breaking type thing, So it was this poetic thing about all the stuff she's been through. She had a lot of health issues, her previous owner passed away, she was separated from her brother. Like, yeah, she had a hard time, but she's been doing great now.

Well, and she's older, so must be good on well she's six.

Yeah, all right, go into our next one, which again crazy that you got this line up this week because we got a lot of fun stuff to cover. The next Mondo Micabro pre order session is going to be Thursday, next Thursday, August seventh, at nine am Pacific noon Eastern. All three of these are coming on Blu Ray, and they are going to be limited lower than usual. Again, not inducing fomo in anyway. If you don't like these titles,

Don't quote me on that one.

I will have to check my notes, and they added it after I posted these. There is a short video that's just teaching you about the film. And then in the extras they got a twenty four page booklet on the history of Argentinian genre films, which to me, like that sounds like a musk read sort of thing. Monta Acabra. Have you other than what you just showed in the pickups? Have you checked out much from them in the past?

Not a lot. I did purchase Bahachi Bushido, which I have not watched. Amazing movie, and there was something else I had gotten from them, and I can't remember what it was. Oh, In the Folds of the Flesh, which is a really wild Giallo film. I'm big into Giallo, by the way. I have a ton of Giallo reviews and giallo esque reviews on my channel. I went through a stint of like two years where I was watching and in depth reviewing tons of those films. But In the Folds of the Flesh is one of the wildest

Yeah, Yeah, this is one that's a must for me for sure, especially I really want to read that essay. Next up, Forbidden Game of Love from nineteen seventy five. This one says again the first English friendly release of this film. It is fully uncut and restored from the original negative. Here this is a new four K restoration from the negative. The Angel Sala, who is the Citrus Film Festival director. There is a piece on here by

Yeah, I'm not familiar with this one.

Same Josh says.

The thing I love about Mona Micabro is that about ninety percent of their releases are films I've never seen or heard of. And I feel the same way about

And then we got a question.

Silent Manawal says, Ryan, you said these are only limited to a thousand. Yes, but they will likely still get a standard later, so don't don't feel pressured to buy the limited necessarily. I just if you're one that is going to get the limited, you might want to get it earlier than later, and it will still like the If you're going to buy all three, they do a bundle discount and you get I think a couple bucks off of the price and a couple bucks off of shipping.

So if you really want all three, it is kind of a good way to get all of them.

And then Reservoir says I blind by every Mondo Macabro title.

They've earned it.

Yeah, I honestly say, exactly the same. And their last one, which is one that I may be the most excited about, this is called I Hate My Body from nineteen seventy four, and this is sort of continuing their gender questioning releases that they've been putting out recently, and I just wanted to read this one because it sounds so interesting. Lectrois businessman Ernest and Peter go out for an evening of

Morgue.

Casting aside all scruples, Berger begins the operation. This outrageous film, which now has much contemporary relevance, was directed by horror specialist Leon Klimowsky, the man behind Paul Nashy's Werewolf and the Vampire Woman and numerous other Spanish Fanca TAYR classics. Immediately on that last part, I am super in brand new four K restoration from the OCN. This is the one where they got the dubs, so not that earlier. One choice of the English dub or the original Spanish

It sounds wild, and I'm gonna bat make it a prediction that the first thing this dude does when he wakes up in a woman's body is played with his new titties.

It would not surprise me in the leg It.

Has to like, I feel like that's what they would do.

Siboner is saying Adolf Berger was the rejected McDonald's character back in the seventies. I heard that was the fifties. But anyways, let's keep going. So yeah, that's Monta macab next Thursday, nine am Pacific twelve Eastern in the morning. Check that out if you are into Monto Macabre. Limited to one thousand for all three Imprint last week during this show, they don't give me any rest. Of course, brand new releases for their Imprint Asia line September twenty fourth.

The first one is.

Father Knows Best, a trilogy directed by the one and only Ang Lee. This includes Pushing Hands from nineteen ninety one, The Wedding Banquet from nineteen ninety three, and Eat Drink Man Woman from nineteen ninety four. There are new interviews on here. There is some archival extras. There is kind of a lot on these three films, and if you are into ang Lee, this looks like a pretty great release. Very very happy to see that they're doing something as

Actually, yeah, I don't know anything about these films.

I don't either, but Angley is really great and I definitely want to see these Agreed.

Agreed.

Brian says, Pushing Hands is very worth watching. Nice, the original wedding Banquet is great. Haven't seen the other two? An Angley box set, says Craig, Yeah, check it out, Craig, U, Let's go to our next one. This is the Autumns Sorry and Autumns Tale from nineteen eighty seven. This is Imprint Asia number twenty nine. This is limited to fifteen hundred copies. This has a new audio commentary by Walt Cha who is on all of the Deaf Crocodile releases writing in their booklets.

Great writer, great critic.

Gonna be an incredible, incredible commentary, guaranteed a couple interviews on here. But not a title that I have seen before, although I think this was released by eighty eight Films if I'm remembering right.

Yeah, I haven't seen this either, but that that dude looks very awkward standing the way he is.

Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.

An Autumn's Tale was released by them over in the UK. Yeah, last last July.

Funny enough, the not the greatest cover art but no, but that's probably the original poster.

Sadly going to the last one from them. This is nineteen ninety four's picture Bride. This is the first time this has been on Blu Ray anywhere in the world. This is it was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and this has the big draw for this one. Tashiro Mafune in his final film role in nineteen ninety four. That is pretty damn rad. We got a new visual essay on this by Walt Shaw, so he's on two

Yeah to shear Muffune, you into Muffune at all.

Not familiar whatsoever, but this artwork looks better.

Kurisawa's right hand man and.

Most of his folks okay, perfect.

Let's keep going, man. Maybe one of the most controversial announcements of the week, except I've posted about a nightmare on Elm Street, so probably not.

But uh.

September twenty third US release from Decal of Watch the Skies from twenty twenty two. Now why is this controversial? So listen to this second paragraph. Watch the Skies is the world's first theatrical full length feature to use AI for immersive dubbing, making the characters appear to be speaking English even though the original film was shot in Swedish.

You know what?

That might be true, but the crazy thing you watch this trailer, some of their lips look like they're from a.

Looney Tunes cartoon.

Don't know.

This does not look good to me. This is a hard no.

I'm also pissed because they did not give any details on if it includes the original version. It's like they only listed, Hey, we are dubbing this with our own voices. Be proud of us. This is a crazy thing to do, especially because this got a short festival run in the original Swedish in the US already. Why are we going through the trouble of doing this?

Yeah, I don't. It's one of those things where it's like we can do it, so we're gonna do it. Didn't think whether it was a good idea or not. And I mean that's just AI in general, I think.

But yeah, there there is so much problematic in this announcement. For me, I agree with Colton here. Don't get rid of subtitles. There are many of us that are not even necessarily hard of hearing itself.

But many of us are, first of all.

But second, there are a lot of us that just can't capture it all by listening and watching the visuals at the same time. And so we want a way to back up the dialogue in case you miss a part of a line. And this is just a bad idea through and through. I don't know if this is just an I don't know, like a try to grab the dumb American audience essentially of hey, we don't go to foreign films, Well you don't have to.

This is in English.

If that's the case, Like just overall, boo, this is a bad, bad move.

Not into it. I will I'm not gonna watch it.

And that's the shitty part. I've heard. This is really good.

Even Josh just said he saw it on the festival circuit and it was good in the original Swedish.

And we just don't need.

This, So will it be available in Swedish anywhere in the US. Will you be able to stream it somewhere?

I'm not sure. They've not announced if the original will be available. The worst thing is this is available in the original Swedish overseas without English subtitles, So if you want the original and they don't do it here, you're probably fucked. Yeah, yeah, and that sucks. Carrying on, we are getting a release soon from a Bushel Productions, which is just the production company of the director for this. This is Cheech and Chong's last movie from twenty twenty four.

I haven't seen a single movie. I mean, I could enjoy it potentially, but I don't know. It's It's never really appealed to me that much. It seems a little too dumb for what I'm into. I don't know.

On top of the appealing there we were just talking about a the art on this is very clearly really bad AI pretty much across the board, on the front and the back.

Yeah, this is also not for me, not a fan.

Back to back November third, over in the UK, they are putting out a four K steel book of the Bride of Frankenstein. They shouldn't be surprising. They at universalos milk to these for the last almost one hundred years and they will continue to forever. But to me, this might be the worst art I've seen for a Universal

Ye are you into those?

I actually have not seen any of them. I have the whole box set, the Blu ray box set, and I keep meaning to watch through them like some October or something, and I just haven't gotten there. There's just too many movies.

Yeah, that is unfortunately the truth. I love this comment from Chris, so I wanted to point this out. I didn't see this wording on the last announcement. It said includes never before seen features on a streaming movie's physical media release. So yeah, of course nobody has seen them. It's a brand new film and this is the first release that isn't on a shitty streaming service. Oh man, that's funny, And of course I have to do that at least once a week.

Next up.

I believe this was announced tech comicm this last weekend, September twenty third. We are getting a four K blu ray and DVD release here in the US from Warner Brothers of as Tech Batman Clash of Empires from just this year. Now, to me, this sounds really cool, and I really like this cover art. I gotta admit I watched the trailer and I'm not stoked on the animation style on it, but I do kind of want to support this. DC is usually really great with animated stuff

I like this idea overall.

There's some behind the scenes stuff on here, some interviews with some of the screenwriters and stuff. Yeah, DC Animation, Are you into any of that stuff?

Well, I think that word may have been tenactitlan.

Most likely potent. Yeah, but I do like.

Some animated stuff here and there. The as tech aspect of it sounds very interesting to me. As far as the animation style thing goes. I was not a fan of the animation style of Predator Killer of Killers. But I ended up really liking that film, Like I just got used to it after a certain amount of time, So don't let it hold you back.

The big thing I want to point out here I love that DC did this because what they are burying the lead with here is they went and hired all Mexican animators to make some thing for Mexican animation. I believe this is the entire studio that did this is all for Mexico. Love that they did this, Love that they did something so unique and used styles in a way that was just really great.

Yeah.

I am super curious to check this out, but I will wait for reviews for sure. I don't post a lot of the music ones, but this one was so damn personal to me I had to. September twelfth, We're getting a blu ray here in the US from Warner Music of Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free The Making of Wildflowers from twenty twenty one. This is so cool because in early twenty twenty a collection of sixteen millimeter film was discovered in Petty's archive, including never before seen

This poster is hilarious.

In October, we are getting a Blu Ray release in the US from Keno and Dark Force joining forces on this one of the X from nineteen ninety six.

This is.

Directed by Mark Lester, who did Class of nineteen eighty four and Firestarter Commando Showdown a Little Tokyo. They make sure that they highlight that the art is not final here, but this is the theatrical poster, which if that is telling you of the quality of this movie, there you go.

It reminds me of the CGI in Wish Master, which I love wish Master, but that part where like I think it's Kane Hodter's character like flies apart, like it looks like that.

Yeah, it is bad.

Yeah, I don't like that scene. I remember Ronnie saying, I hope you'll consider posting more music Blu Ray news. I do for at least when it's visual. The hard part is a lot of these classic albums are getting Blu ray releases right now to get the highest fidelity of audio, so we'll see.

I'll do my best, Runnie, I promise.

We talked about this show fairly recently when the first one got announced, so we won't go too deep into this, but September one, Old Gold Media over in the UK is releasing the Sweeney series two. Are you Are you super into like British shows?

I used to watch a bunch with my parents when I was younger, and my mom is like all about britt Box and a Quorn TV and stuff like that, so this is probably something she would be interested in.

Yeah.

I just I think that it's incredible that they're genuinely restoring all of these episodes.

That is really cool.

I mean this is yeah, this is from nineteen seventy five, so a fifty year old show that doesn't have like any pop culture relevance right now unless you're from that generation. It's really cool that they're willing to go back there and do that. There is all kinds of extras on here, interviews, introductions, commentaries, but solid looking set.

If you're into British TV, I.

Am going to take a bathroom break. I'll be right back.

Please do. I'll know you got it. I'm gonna keep going with a couple of these. September twenty ninth, we are getting a four K only release in the UK from screen Bound Pictures of the Return of Swamp Thing from nineteen eighty six. This is a decent looking release compared to the US release. There is only archival stuff on here, but they do have some like paper extras if you're into those things. But the big thing here

Haven't seen anything from them.

They got some good titles. Definitely recommend checking them out. Weber is asking when is the announced Fun City release of Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Staints coming. It has been sort of delayed that they had some work coming on it, but we never got an announcement date on it yet.

So it is coming, we just don't don't know exactly when.

September one, We're getting a four K release over in the UK of The Alto Knights from this year. This is starring Robert de Niro and Robert de Niro, one of multiple films this year with an actor playing multiple roles. I've heard this is terrible. I will not be buying this, but I know Craig has probably seen this or we'll be seeing it. Did you see the Auto Knights this year?

No?

And the artwork looks not great. And I don't know, like, is DeNiro doing good stuff now?

I mean he did with Killers of the Flower Moon at least.

I haven't seen that, but I heard great things.

It's a great movie.

I think that one's even sort of slept on for his Corsese movie. Craig says he needs this. Oh man, we got jokes. I prefer soprano Knights, and then I prefer Shanghai.

Aaron and Adam. That was pretty good.

Next up the Tom Savini Notither Living Dead, which we covered on here a couple of weeks ago. Just wanted to point out that this is getting a release in the UK, just like I speculated. This will be coming on September twenty second, which means the US release will be coming the following day, September twenty third, which is ending up being a very busy day for releases in the US. If you are into horror, September and October are going to be a troublesome time for you and your bank account.

Yeah. And even though this is getting a nice look and release and it is a good movie, I bet Tom Savini is still salty.

Probably even though he got his exact cut on here, which is crazy. It's just Sevinien and he's always salty.

Yep.

By the way, this was approved for the uncut release over in the UK, so all of the release details will be the same for here in the US and the UK, so you don't have to worry about that. I know a lot of people are worried about getting this release because it's sold very quickly on Amazon. If you see a store selling the u K release.

It's the same thing. Just picked up. Man, this is so cool.

So October fourteenth, cult EPEX putting out School in the Crosshairs from nineteen eighty one. This is the Nobahiko Obayashi film that is just sort of beautiful. This is the same director of house and if you've never seen this, which this was released by Third Window Films over in the UK a few years ago in a box set of all of the Katakawa films. This is a really hard to describe film and that's why the art looks like this, because it is sort of bonkers all across

I hope you check it out. This is fantastic.

And also there is a twenty four page reproduction of the original Japanese booklet that was put out for this movie in this release.

Yeah, this is incredible. Yeah, anything you want to say about this one.

When you said, the same guy who did House, I love how ridiculous House is. And once you said that, then the cover art made made sense, right, I was just like, this looks wid And then I'm just like, oh, the same dude who did House. Okay, makes sense.

Well, And not only that, there are things in this that are like legitimately a send up of some of the things in the House where he's like, it's almost like an in Easter Eggue sort of situation where he's doing it for his own movie.

I think people will truly appreciate this.

There are like great Japanese pop stars in this that really really great singers, and there's a lot of music. Music is a big part of these part of this. And then there is an upcoming release of Too Old to Die Young that Philip Jeffries did another piece on that.

I hope you can check it out.

And then kind of on my selfish side, I just want to point out PHILP. Jefferies has taken a wild swing for me. He is writing a piece on American fascism for my magazine, The Physical Media Advocate, which will be coming out the next few months, and it's gonna rock your world because we've talked about what it's gonna include, and it's it's gonna go there.

Well, it's not topical at all.

No, no, no.

I thankfully there's nothing happening that that will be looked at as inflammatory or anything.

So that's great.

I will say a little interesting fact about me, I like jpop music makes me the favorite artists Little Glee Monsters, pretty good, Bump of Chicken, Lisa, great of chicken yeah bump, yeah yo yo. Soob's good. There's a lot of good ones.

All right, let's go to the next one, which is, of course a paramount rehashing of a title October seventh, We're getting a four K steal book of the masterpiece Clue. Now, this might be a little weird because Shout Factory already released a four K of Clue, and this will probably be the exact same disc essentially. They might they might even bungle the encoding because this paramount and they do that sometimes.

But I love this. I gotta be honest. I think this is a masterpiece.

And yeah, I hope people check this out if you've never seen it, because it is still very very good with an immaculate cast.

How do you feel about Clue?

I love it. It's a phenomenal film. I love like the multiple endings thing they do in it, and just the whole cast works together so well in the film. The story is so well put together for being based off a board game.

Yep.

And just like Tim Curry in it, like how that scene where he's just like running all over the place and saying like and then this happened, and this happened it's phenomenal. I do love this movie. My wife loves it too, We watch together every now and then.

Yeah, it's it's stupendous. I really want to point out Mozart's ghost comment here, which is the year of the steel Book. Honestly, that has been a depressing part of this week is I feel like every single announcement is just a steel book, and I know most people don't want that, which is rough. I mean, we're gonna start alienating a portion of the collectors to make a portion that will spend all of their money on steel books very happy, and that sucks at the end of the day.

I get that there.

Could be like a small bump in color grade if you do a really great HDR pass. This doesn't need to be on four K. The whole era from like ninety eight to twenty twelve ish is always going to be questionable and if they should be in four K, but specifically this movie, this is a bad choice.

I've not seen this movie. I just remember that I saw like a clip of it where like she almost fell on some blades of grass that were like kind of alive and like super sharp about to like get her in the chant or something. It was weird.

Yeah, uh yeah, Craig is exactly right because there are cry babies that are four K or die, which will also kill the physical media industry very very.

Quickly if they don't stop. Hey.

I put up a new interview this week with Anthony from Petrick Glyph Media. They're the ones that put out this funeral Siniestro and Triangulo de Oro double feature. This is their first and still only release. I hope you check it out. They are a very very small operation doing their best to raise enough to do a second title. And I think it's a good conversation nice in short like thirty minutes.

Yeah, yeah, I listened to it. It is a very good conversation.

Nice.

Appreciate that I wasn't gonna do this. I was just gonna sort of quietly drop it tomorrow. But fuck it, why not? So I'm gonna tease something that's pretty big. I put up a story on Instagram and Facebook today that had a picture of Honey Shrunk the Kids that said, on Disconnected tomorrow. I am stoked that I have other than Sean Baker, probably my biggest interview yet on my channel dropping tomorrow. And I still can't believe this happened.

I'm pretty excited about that because he's phenomenal and it's always great to hear that people whose work you really appreciate are actually great people in real life.

So yeah, but other than society, what are some of your favorites of him?

I mean, his involvement with the re Animators obviously. Wasn't he involved with the Silent Night Deadly Knight four initiation yep, which that whole franchise is a lot of fun, except for three. Three is horrendously bad. I cannot watch that ever again. But all the other ones great time. But yeah, I think five is underrated for sure. Also, wasn't there wasn't there a movie that he was involved with, Necronomicon that, like, is there a release for this ever?

Like?

I tried to watch it some years ago and I couldn't find it anywhere.

There is a release, it's in the UK or Germany. It's on Blu Ray, and I think it's region free, but it is if I remember. I think there's something with licensing.

That it's quite likely it will never be on in the US unfortunately.

Uh Jesus. Jim says, Brian is a good friend of mine. He comes over to my house to watch Blu rays. What in the world, gym that's wild?

Uh oh.

Josh says, there's a French Blu Ray. Is that the one I have? Is that the only Blu ray release?

Josh? Huh? Interesting. Yeah.

One of the other reasons I want to talk about this is tomorrow, I think, depending on the timeline of Amazon approving it, either tomorrow or Saturday. The newest issue of The Physical Media Advocate is dropping, and there's a big piece on us.

Not at the end, because.

Jeremy went to a Q and A with him recently and we talked about him and a couple others and yeah, it's a you're gonna enjoy it. It's a really, really great conversation. Next up, let's get into the quote biggest news of the week, which everybody makes a big deal about. September twenty third in the US. Here we are getting a standard release of A Nightmare on Elm Street four K seven film collection. The UK release is going to be the day before. It'll be on the twenty second.

Street five, the Dream Child.

They're gonna have three D glasses for the portion of Freddy's Dead the Final Nightmare, and it says there will be blood curdling special features and we don't have release details on that front yet. Now, this is crazy. Everybody went nuts for this. You can pre order this still.

I think it's a really good franchise. I quite enjoy it. I mean it's no like Phanfasm franchise. I will say, like that's my favorite, but no, it's very strong. You know. It gets talked about up there with Friday the thirteenth for good reason. Halloween franchise not for a good reason. But I don't like this artwork, Like it looks just super lazy and just like, can't you do something kind of interesting.

Historically, other than the theatrical posters, which are incredible, I've got one of them up on my wall up in the corner there. The Knightmarreen Elm Street artwork forever has been real bad and I don't understand why. It is literally the most iconic horror villain maybe.

Of all time.

I mean, he was a pop culture phenomenon for years and we can't get anything better than this.

Drink some water from him.

Yeah, this is even that. It's good.

It's not great, Yeah, I know it's but yeah, the poster, the original poster art for those movies is unreal.

For all of them, they're all great.

They should have just taken that same art style, yeah, and applied it to this I mean, come on.

Yeah, it is better than that AI art that other YouTubers went nuts for a few weeks ago.

But that's not saying much.

But this is what made people most excited is we got the cover art from the German site play on Pictures.

Yeah.

I've got nothing to complain about this other than it really sucks to put this available for pre order and have it sell out. Yeah, if something is available for pre order, I would suggest using that as a gauge on having to make rather than saying it's limited to whatever and we're gonna just turn off the faucet.

Yeah, I agree with that for sure, but that like, this does look great, and I it makes me consider getting it because what I have currently was their DVD library of the movies.

Yeah, and that one's decent, even though it's had like the that's the one of the crappy snapper cases.

Right. Yeah.

The art on there, though, is its not bad. It's probably the best that we've gotten on physical media. Yeah, and I love everybody saying uh, let's see uh mozarts go says I want actual fabric on the outside of the steel locker. We're probably not going to get that. Sibner has a theory that the red and green is going to be like a c through pet slip cover around it to protect it. You'll take the sweater off to get into it, which I think.

Nipples under there, like burnt burnt nipples.

It'll be the dirty word art again.

Yeah, that'd be great. But no hair because the fire would have taken care of that.

Oh god, it'll be all flesh textured.

Yeah.

So yeah, this is this is neat.

At the moment when this was announced to I speculated that this was gonna be the same art worldwide, And now we know that this is the same art worldwide. We'll talk more about that in a little while. But yeah, this is rough because again you can't pre order it everywhere. It's still available in the UK, still available in France. In the US, I think you can pre order it from Brother Belisle still. Now, this is the other hard

Oh, but it's someone's favorite.

It's not somebody's favorite restoration.

I will say that it's somebody's favorite movie, and that's why it deserves this respect, and I'm glad that getting it.

So we shall see.

And Stan says, only to be quite honest, seven movies from a studio in four K and steelbooks for one hundred and sixty seven dollars in twenty twenty five. That's that's a pretty decent deal. I mean we're talking to like one Disney movie in a sealbook that's in four K is costing like fifty right now. So to me, like, I don't know if that makes me cynical or whatever, I don't think that is a terrible price for on

Did you watch any of the show?

Yeah, the first two seasons. I did. Actually it took up a large part of my time when I was quarantined with COVID, and yeah, I really enjoyed that, really kept me going that in twitch.

Nice.

Yeah, but it's I will say also, like franchise wise, the Chucky franchise is one of the top franchises I feel like quality wise, because it's been very quality all the way throughout pretty much.

On top of that, it is literally the same creator the entire time, which kind of does a lot for the quality.

Well, and same with Phantasm, well except for the very last film, but he was kind of consulted on that one. But yeah, like when you can keep people involved, I think Tremors is the same way as well. That franchise, same people involved.

To a degree. I think at least one or two are always.

Like the writers. I think we're involved all the way through. But that's underrated. That's a very underrated franchise, Tremors.

It's one of my favorites, even the ones, the last three that are just CGI, it's still so much fun.

Yeah, so much fun.

Did you see the TV show?

I have seen one episode of it and I've never got around the whole thing.

Need to. You can still buy the whole season on DVD through Best Buys website.

I did not know the best buy part. Interesting.

Yeah, lots of comments on the Chucky thing, Ronnie saying really enjoyed the Chucky series. Stinks that it got canceled. It deserved a fourth season. Now, Mancini has said he's not done. He does plan on continuing this, whether it is another season or another film. He's saying, yes, this ended on a cliffhanger, but it's not done yet, there will be something to wrap it.

Up, so look forward to that. It's Mancini. He's probably never gonna stop at this point.

Yeah, let's see. Chucky is so wild. It took huge swings and I loved it. I gotta be honest, I've still not seen any of the show I need to. These are for anybody that bought the series or the seasons as they came out. These a gonna be the same discs. There's not anything new or exclusive. This is mostly just getting people to buy the entire series, which they will because it's a steal book. And as we

Yeah.

I got one of the most hateful dms that I've gotten ever for Disconnected this week. Literally somebody said the words seeg Kile and sent me two pictures of eight balls, which, if you are familiar with hateful rhetoric, you know what that means. But Jesus Christ, it was unhinged for sure. Next up another steel Book September twenty third, we are

I like that.

Yeah, that looks phenomenal. We need more creative stuff like that, Like, do more of that stuff?

Yeah?

Cool, that's a good movie too.

I'm fine with these. It's the super lazy steel books that pissed me off. Is something like this. I'm all about it.

Yeah, all right.

So after that, we got just for fun another new four K steel book, a Beetlejuice. Beetle Juice from last year coming on it yet again, the most popular date of the fall, September twenty third. Nothing new on this. I think they're just trying to capitalize on the Tim Burton Love and the Jena Ortega Love with Wednesday coming back,

It was an ok movie, like, yeah, nothing great, it was okay.

Yeah, aggressively fine like Fantastic four.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a good way to put it.

Nice. Josh has a corpse right, theatrical poster in his classroom. That's great. It's a good movie. Very good movie. Uh Okay.

So there were some people speculating on this when we got some answers on yet again, the most popular date in the world, September twenty third, we are getting standard four K releases of the entire Sean Connery run of James Bond. This is one that just got one of those steel book library collections that we were just talking about. It also got a standard of the entire run all

Yes, Actually, my wife and I do James Bond January every January, where we watch as many as movies through the month as we can and then cut it off at the end of the month. But it usually ends up being like four or five. But I had gotten the Blu rays set, and I mean, how much better is it gonna look on four K honestly, you.

Know, and probably a lot.

Actually that artwork looks terrible though, like come on, I.

Mean it's kind of pulpy. I don't hate these. I think that they probably could have done at least some splash of actual art with the text. But other than that, I don't hate these.

I will say the Pierce brosen As much as I like Pierce Brosnan, the Pierce brosenan James Bonds not fun.

Yeah yeah, Gary says, I love that artwork.

People said it was lazy, but they don't get graphic design.

I don't think it's bad. I would I don't know. I just like a little splash of art with it. At least it does feel sort of like the novels that these are based off of.

The old infleming pulp books.

So next up, let's go to a four K release over in the UK from Studio Canal of Diva. This is also getting a Blu Ray release both of these on October six. This is from nineteen eighty one. This is supposedly a super stylish film that I have never seen. This is a brand new four K restoration produced from the thirty five millimeter negative and the sound negatives as well, scanned in four K by Transperfect Media. The image was then digitally graded and cleaned to remove imperfections from the

Everybody seems to love it, interestingly.

Also from Studio Canal on four K in the UK on October sixth is Baby Blood from nineteen ninety.

This is one that was released previously by Keno here in the States.

This has a new featurette on here called The Concepts behind French Horror baby Blood, and that is by Kim Newman, and it's Kim Newman's birthday.

Happy Birthday, Kim Newman.

All of the extras that were on the Keuno release are ported over, and that includes all kinds of stuff that we're I believe not on the Keuno release as well, including the Lee Gambon and Jerrick Kahan commentary Glad that is on there. Again, Lee Gamma deserves to be remembered on every release.

I'm gonna attempt to make a Will Dodson joke on that one, do it. You know, babies shouldn't really be joining gangs.

That is the most Will Doddson joke by somebody not named Will Dodson that I've ever heard maybe, and I love it.

I will.

If you are listening later, please let me know, because yeah, that is going to be dots and approved. Also over in the UK on August eighteenth, which is right around the corner, Cult Films is releasing one Deadly Summer from nineteen eighty three. This is an Isabella Johnny film that supposedly great, another one that I've not seen. There are some decent archival extras on here, new two K source elements restored for the sixteen to nine version, and some

Yeah, I'll I would see anything she's in. Just based off of Possession.

And Adam says, this is a very steamy movie, just warning you, just warning that means I have to buy it.

Oh well, I'm watching adult titles now because of Ryan and Celeste.

So so proud by the way.

Probably.

And yeah, Ronnie, I completely agree. The title on the spine facing the wrong way on these films drives me.

It's yeah yeah.

Uh.

Next up, the first of two times that we were talking about this tonight, August twenty fifth, Fabulous Films on the UK is releasing Night Gallery, the Complete Series. This is going to be essentially the Kenolber releases for another territory. Have you ever seen any the Night Gallery episodes?

I haven't, but I'm down to try.

It's a very good series.

The hard part is you're inevitably going to compare it to Twilight Zone and it's no Twilight Zone. It was never going to be, but it's very good. There are some very special standout episodes. Cool next one of my most exciting releases for this week, October seventh, we are getting a Blu ray and DVD release from Warner Brothers of Peanuts, the seventy fifth Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection,

You know?

I watch them as a kid. It didn't really like resonate with me so much that I like care to watch it nowadays. But I hope that tattoo you have is kind of like over your belly button, like the thug life type tattoo.

Now I'm regretting that it's not said, yeah, it's on my leg, but it is very sentimental. My wife calls me Snoopy and I call her woodstock.

Oh, that's cute.

Next up from Viz Media here in the US, we are getting Castlevania the Complete series. This is the Netflix anime show, which is somebody that has not watched a lot of anime. I watched most of the first season of this, and I gotta say, the animation in this is fucking incredible. Not necessarily my style of storytelling, but I could see myself like Stockholm syndrom ing into loving this.

I mean, you're either getting this or you're getting The Nightmare in Elm Street Box.

That's true.

That strame amount, so that is true. It is wild how much they are throwing into this that I would not expect that. But I did watch some of the Castlevania show and I thought it was pretty good. I just kind of got distracted and didn't go back.

Yeah, I always meant to finish that first season, and now I gotta be honest, I probably won't ever. We got some release details on twenty eight years later. This is all coming on the most famous release date of the fall, September twenty third, four K steelbook and standard. We've got a Blu ray and DVD release, all coming from Sony as far as the extras, it will have

Did you see twenty eight years Later this year?

I didn't, but I'm going to attempt another Will Dodson joke on this one. The follow up is going to be called twenty eight inches Later.

Yes, the movie famous for zombie dong, which is a weird sentence. I never saw myself saying here we are. Yeah, good movie. I liked it quite a bit. You talked about liking British TV shows earlier. This is a very British movie, and if you're not prepared for that, it might be slightly off putting.

So keep that in mind.

Oh man, this is a release that made a lot of people go wild. This week November fifth, Umbrella is releasing Freaked from nineteen ninety three the Alex Winter Joint, and.

They went.

Saying they went all in on This is kind of underselling it. Even Freaked is incredible. Have you seen Freaked before?

Yeah?

I actually own the DVD release of it that has like the c through slip cover, although my old my cat who passed away last year, puked on it and so it like smells bad because you can't really clean that up so much, so I probably need to upgrade it.

I'm I'm glad that you kept it though.

Well yeah, I mean, it's the Disparting Memories. It's it's a good it's a good film. It is. It's a lot of fun.

Yeah, this is wild and for a number of number of reasons. One that we probably should say, Umbrella has rights for this in Australia, in the US and the UK.

Now they've not said, they've.

Not said if they're gonna be doing different releases, so I'm not saying necessarily you have to buy this version because the odds are that this is going to get released from draft House here in the States the UK. Not sure it could be anybody. Hell, they could have licensed it to a arrow or something, but we'll find out in due time. But they went all in and all of the discs that come out in the future are likely going to be the same for this because

Yeah. It's great to see this getting such a good release because it I know, it's a movie that a lot of people have been talking about within the horror community, specifically because it is underappreciated for the most part, and it's the practical effects are just so much fun. It's so over the top in zany to be seen.

Josh says.

Draft House sent out promotional emails today advertising this Australian import, which is interesting. So maybe it won't get a US release from draft House or anybody. Maybe it is this one that is very bizarre. That also could have just been an Umbrella contract thing where they said, hey, you can release this later, but you need to advertise ours.

First or something. Who knows.

Jay Weber saying, release from draft House on Burned on demand. These are not going to be mod discs. These are all going to be pressed ahead of time.

They are.

They are making many of these, I promise. Yeah, Gary, Like I said, Umbrella owns the US release rights, but they can license those out to anybody because they own it, and can they can license that to anybody because they have the rights.

Yeah, this is this is crazy. Anybody that has not seen this movie, what would you compare it to?

Carln I I don't know, because it's kind of its own thing in a way, like it's kind of it kind of reminds me a little bit of like a pee Wee's playhouse type vibe to it, Yeah, but a little more adult with Randy Quaid.

Way to put a button on that. Yeah.

The closest thing that I would say is it's probably closest to the early Peter Jackson stuff, but even that is still very different. Gary is saying, should we wait? The question is do you love this movie? If you love this movie, this is likely going to be the best release of this. If you have never seen this movie and you just want like the cheapest release of this, I would probably wait and just speculate. This will be in print from Umbrella for years, even if they don't

So you know.

Actually, actually the tone of the film kind of reminds me a little bit of the Aussie film Body.

Melt Ooh that is a good call. I love I love Body.

Melt Yeah, fun, real, ridiculous.

Yeah, and uh yeah, just like Jay Weber's about to say in the chat, he says speaking of the early Peter Jackson stuff. For those that didn't hear, he surprise debuted a four K restoration of Dead Alive in the last week. I did not post anything about that yet because there's no real tangible facts about it yet, but he even recorded an intro and talked about how he is like thrilled that the restoration has done for his stuff.

I know.

One of the big ones that people have been asking about recently is the Frighteners that got a German four K release from Turbine about four years ago.

Now.

From what I've heard in the past, and this is an open secret, I'm not like revealing anything. Ero put some of their postcards in some of their titles years ago that they were releasing the Frighteners. They still are. From what I hear, the stipulation was that Turbine had a five year exclusive window on their release, and we're coming up on five years, so the arrow release of that should be coming in the next eighteen.

Months or so, I would buy that love.

I just hope it as the documentary within, because the documentary on that movie is great. Yeah, Heavenly Creatures needs a new release. Completely agree, Ronnie.

It's a lot of crying.

Stan says, once you've seen Freaked, you will love it and wish that you had purchased this edition.

Yep, So maybe maybe just trust it.

Yeah, just go with it.

Yeah, move into our next Umbrella title. This is the one that was shocking to me. We didn't know this was coming. November fifth, We're getting a blu ray in Australia from Umbrella of Cecil Be Demented.

Are you a John Waters guy?

So I haven't seen a ton of John Waters stuff, but I live near Baltimore and I am naturally a John Waters fan for that reason, and I've met the guy, super super nice. Got him to sign my as he put it, non neutered version of a Dirty Shame, which was great. I do love that movie. But yeah, no, I haven't seen Cecil Be Demented, but I had it highly recommended to me recently.

Actually, it's very good.

It's also very relevant to twenty twenty five and if you are into stuff that feels tongue in cheek, perfect to watch right now. This is one of those really great titles. Cecil is a lot of fun. Watched this with my Patreon in the discord here a couple months ago, and yeah, it's a really great group watching movie. Pretty much everything John Waters is, so check it out if you've not seen it. This is the first proper Blu

But it's a fun movie.

It's also very different from Waters from the rest of the stuff. If you've seen some of his other stuff and not the later stuff. There are a lot of people that feel like there is a very clear line of classic Waters and then not great Waters after that.

I don't really agree with.

That, but this does fall into the later stuff obviously, with them being released in two thousand. This does have a forty eight page booklet with it, this custom artwork case and all that stuff like they always do, and then new stuff. This has the John Waters commentary that was done previously. There's a new interview with John Waters. There's even a new interview here with Melanie Griffith, which

A must if you're a Waters fan boy.

I didn't even realize there's a new interview with mink Stole on here, so check that out.

This is a great release.

Cool.

Next up is The Fire Within from nineteen sixty three.

Not what I've seen.

This is a film that's going to have a forty eight page booklet as well, new artwork as usual, they've got the art cards, a reversible poster, new audio commentary with Adrian Martin, who is a very scholarly commentator on the releases that he does. This is directed by Louis mal We got Louis mall speaks on his movie here, and there is a piece by Cat Ellinger as well.

I have not. I will say like this. When I'm first seeing this artwork, I'm like, this isn't my bag as far as nightwork goes. But as you were like going through the photos, I was like, it's kind of alluring.

Though to degree, Yeah, I've not loved everything Louis mall that I've seen, but when he hits for me, he hits hard, and yeah, I'd say the same thing. I've not seen this one, but it definitely feels intriguing. Oh, Aaron says he loves this movie. There you go.

Uh yeah.

Let's go to our next one, which is the last of the Umbrella titles, and that is All of Me from nineteen eighty four. Also coming up Blu Ray November fifth. If you recognize this title, that's because this just a Vestron release, which is still very odd to me here in the US. From Lionsgate Limited. This is the Steve Martin film with Lily Tomlin. This has a forty eight page book with essays by Cynthia Wayang, Nadine Whitney, and

I haven't seen this one, but I do typically like Steve Martin stuff. Yeah, so I would be interested to see it. I don't think I'm gonna buy it.

Adam says it's top tier Martin. That's interesting to hear.

Yeah, I've never seen it either, Noodles, I'm very curious.

Yeah, this looks fun at least. Okay, this is the.

Second time we're talking about Night Gallery Imprint has done this quite a few times. If somebody announces something and they have it coming, they kind of rush out and say, hey, hey, hey, don't forget about us. We're also releasing this, and they are putting out Night Gallery, the complete series sometime soon as well. This is gonna be packed with special features housed in a limited edition packaging, kind of like.

They always do.

There will be a hardcover booklet and it will have all kinds of new stuff on it guaranteed.

No clue when this is coming out.

They've kind of like pre announced a lot of these, like they're doing Jade. They did the same with the Keep. They've got a lot of really cool stuff. In fact, tonight they're also announcing their next title, which is a four K sci fi film from the eighties, and pretty much everybody speculating that they're gonna have a really fancy edition of the thing to make us all jealous of.

On top of.

That, there was news of them removing a couple of special features that were previously announced, So some details on this. They said, We've had many questions on the state of these upcoming sets, and after some unexpected production delays, we are thrilled to now move ahead with these with some changes. Both will be strictly limited to one thousand, Every single copy will be individually numbered, and there will be no standard edition for these collections at all. It's now on

Has been removed entirely.

And then there's an audio commentary that was also removed now to me because of the way they pulled it down.

It seems to me.

Josh's pointing out that literally just a minute ago, Imprint announced Life Force. Oh yeah, not the thing. So there's a big fancy release of Life Force out there.

Well that sounds good.

So yeah, they pulled a commentary and a documentary. To me, the screams like a licensing problem. That's why it was halted for a moment. And something happened behind the scenes. Somebody found out they were releasing this and said, who wha, woa, you can't do that, And now they've been forced to change their release, which which sucks, especially for the documentary.

I did want a disc of that one.

Wow. Yeah, this really sucks for people who didn't necessarily get in on the pre order but found out about it later and we're like, oh, I'd like to pick that up. Well guess what.

Yeah, you can still order this from a couple places, but it is selling quickly. People are buying us simply from the idea of fomo, and don't fall prey to that if you are not like incredibly interested in these That being said, there are a couple titles on here that have not been on Blu Ray before, and that it's hitchcock. So for a lot of people that is

If that doesn't work, out.

We're still gonna put it out on four K, except for one of the reels, we'll have to go down to SD unfortunately, but it'll still look great for the rest of the disc and it looks very very good, So just wait for that to come out. And now the big thing is their video Club subscription, which, if you're not aware, Terror Vision sort of like Vinegar Syndrome. They do this whole subscription model thing where you can get a certain number of titles and then not have

Now, yeah, I mean that doesn't surprise me with the way they've been doing things. And I am a subscriber, although I'm not the best subscriber because I keep emailing and saying I don't want this one, I don't want this one. Keep that kind of deferring. But I actually have gotten to a point where I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna let it ride from now on. Just whatever shows up, it shows up.

I will say the end of this update, they tease something and it says most important of all Terror Visions thirteen weeks of Halloween starts August eighth. I will say, the rest of this year and the following handful of months for TerrorVision are going to surprise the hell out of some people.

All Right, well, maybe I need to increase my subscription.

There are titles coming that people are going to be shocked. TerrorVision were able to get and the extras that we are putting on there are incredible. You are very much going to be hearing a lot more from TerrorVision in the coming months.

I'm very excited about that.

Just wait, August eighth is gonna be the kickoff, and there's man thirteen weeks in a row and doing it right this time. I know that they tried this before and it floundered, but it's gonna be a lot of fun.

Next up.

Just earlier today, Flicker Alley announced September ninth they're releasing a blu ray of their Flicker Fusion series Getting He Who Gets Slapped from nineteen twenty four, starring Lon Cheney. This is center stage as He, a tortured clown who signature ACKed, is receiving an endless series of slaps to the face, essentially as part of therapy for him. In a way, this looks like a really loaded release. I'm so stoked that they're giving us much love and attention

It kind of makes me think that that's what the sequel two hundreds of Beavers should look like, just like it would be like hundreds of clowns. Next.

Yes, yeah, that would be terrifying for a lot of people. Dustin is asking our ERVision planning another YouTube video for the thirteen weeks weeks of Halloween. I will say the answer is no, They're not planning another YouTube video for thirteen weeks of Halloween. We're gonna have a lot of fun with it.

Just you wait.

Next, Sony is releasing a four K steal book as usual of the Quicken the Dead from nineteen ninety five, coming on October seventh. This looks to me, I believe the exact same four K release that was released previously. I don't think that first one had Dolby Vision on. This one did. And that's what Sony does. They re released things and slap Dolby Vision on it, put it in a steel book, and say, hey, give us forty bucks.

Yeah, I don't know in this, but maybe I should.

I Have you seen this one?

Yeah, I've seen it. There's this thing with me where I have this kind of I'm drawn to movies that have like a tournament aspect to them, like kind of like Mortal Kombat, Quick in the Dead, like that type of thing. It's like, now this person versus this person. Yeah, I don't know why.

It's a good movie. In fact, it is a great movie. It's got kind of a mind blowing cast. For anybody that's never seen it, it is certainly one to look into. It's nineteen ninety five, so some of these people are young. But it is great, really really great. Next, another update from air forty four to forty four, who have said that their latest limited editions of P mack Alone and Mermaid Legend will finally be shipping starting the week of August fourteenth.

This has been one.

Of the longest running sagas of twenty twenty five. This in the Brevidio Giallo box set from Cauldron, which is also shipping as of right now.

This is going to.

Include standard editions which were also ordered from them. I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but they have had a hard year with manufacturing. It has been so bad that on this graphic they even say at the bottom please contact us if you have address updates.

That's how long it's been.

They expect that people have moved since they ordered stuff, So.

This is crazy.

If you need to update your address, contact them and they will help you out. I do not envy the emails that they have probably been receiving for the last seven months.

No, sounds like a nightmare.

Next up another weird update, Keino announced that they're packaging for the Airport four K box sets will have to be changed. So they say the key art for the slipcase and digipack of the Airport box sets will be revised. We will share the new art with everybody soon. The street date for this may also have to be changed due to this unforeseen delay. Now a lot of people are asking why. The honest answer here, you'll never know why.

Yeah, very popular franchise, So why so few?

It's a good question.

Although manufacturing for this is definitely gonna cost them a fortune, although they would make it all back immediately, so I'm not sure this is a big one if you were after this. Like I said earlier, it is sold out in the US. It's an Amazon exclusive. However, the US release or the UK release is still available from a few sites. Just get it quick. The standard release is available. Make a choice if you want.

It or not. That's it.

That's all we wrote on the announcements. Let's go into what is coming out next week For those that forgot, it's not a huge week, but a couple of big titles at least Master and Commander in four K. Have you ever seen that movie? No, I'm stoked on that one. That thing is gonna look beautiful in four K. It's

In that list, No, not from that one.

It's kind of a slow week, which yeah, odd for what we're seeing over the next couple months, but that's probably why is everything's gearing up for big September and October announced.

But yeah, and I mean Vinegar Syndrome has new stuff dropping tomorrow, so I'm gonna be shelling out some ducats for that.

It's a busy day, that's for sure. I mean I'm gonna be posting announcements for like two and.

A half hours tomorrow probably.

Yeah.

Friendship for me, Josh, for sure, that's a big one. So now we were talking about Shutter you mentioned earlier You've been covering their stuff for quite some time. There is a weird spectrum of Shutter titles that have ran the gamut of quality.

What are some some.

Ones that have not made your list tonight that you would still recommend that people check out, or maybe that aren't like underrated but are still very very good movies.

Okay, so these would should I just go? Are you talking about my honorable men?

Yeah, let's do honorable mentions.

I'm just I don't know how in depth you would like me to go on them.

But as in depth as you want, okay, so just.

A little bit. And I ranked them basically. So I'm doing five of my honorable mentions that I do think are quite underrated as far as exclusive and originals for shuttergo the bottom one I would recommend, but still a really good time available on Shutter right now. Vicious Fun

I think so this is I made a weird list that Shutters got some of those titles that I have. I know that I've seen them and I can't remember anything about them.

Yeah, yep, yep, Yep, there are one of those. Yeah, there's some for me like that for sure.

It's tough because they like, over the years, they've cranked out.

A lot, yes, a lot of stuff.

Yeah I think this Does this one have a blu ray from Shutter?

I don't think so.

Okay, Yeah, and they a lot of those earlier ones they did get a lot of blue rays, but unfortunately some weird ones that were actually like pretty decent never got some some discs.

So yeah, I probably need to rewatch this one, worth it all right? Next one from you?

All right? My number four is after Midnight eight, So this one is actually not on Shutter anymore, but it's free on to be, Pluto, TV and Hulu, so you can check it out in all those areas. It was done by Jeremy Gardner, who also did The Battery if anyone's seen that. Really low budget film also has Bria Grant in it, who does a great job, really good

This is one, and don't feel bad or anything. This was on my list of five. I think this is highly highly underrated.

He is.

He's one of those filmmakers that you can tell most likely does his best work under very specific limitations with this in the Battery. Yes, it is quite obvious that he didn't have even like a moderate budget. They are both quite small, but he pulls things off with these that other filmmakers would dream to do. He definitely has skills that people do not display on other films. I probably prefer The Battery at least a little bit. But

Is it shout Factory that did it?

Yeah? That rings a bell? You might be right on that or.

No, it's a good Deed did this one. There is a another title called After Midnight from years ago that Shout Factory did.

Oh Aero UK did it?

That must be what I'm thinking, Thanks Josh. All right, so that's one from my list. What else you got?

I can knock some more off? Number three for me of the honorable mentions, And this one did get a physical release summer of eighty four. Yeah, this one is available on Prime, Apple TV and YouTube currently, so you can check it out there. It's got like this kind of like summer vibe to it, like kind of like it or like the Goonies something like that with young kids and they're basically in this neighborhood and they think that one of the neighbors in the neighborhood is potentially

It's kind of jarring at the end of this because it is the rest of the movie doesn't really fit that vibe. But they sort of like they made a I think they sort of just made like a very particular choice to say, we're swinging for the fences at the end of this, so.

That when people walk away, they're going whoa.

And it works, I think because if you if you left it like feeling like the Goonies of the Burbs. I feel like this could have felt a little samy to some other films, sort of like a Disturbia with Shila buff ever so slightly in some of the scenes. But the end of this is very good and it goes from like a pre teen level of movie to very much like a oh yeah, like this this movie was made for me type of ending.

Yeah.

And this this one came out kind of many years ago on Shutter and a lot of people just hand it.

And got a four K from Gunpowder and Sky, which looks incredible.

It's good stuff, all right. I guess I'll go to my number two. This one is free on two B. At the moment, I do recommend a palate cleanser after you watch it. It is incident in a ghost land not seeing this one. So this one's done by Pascal Lagier, who also did Martyrs, so you might know what it's gonna feel like a little bit not good. It is a very good film, though, but it's a home invasion.

Some iconic imagery from this movie has got a very memorable poster with the face on it, one that has been on my watch list for far too long.

I need to see this one.

Yeah, definitely, well free on twob crisis runny enough.

I think I have a media book of this and I've just not been able to put it in yet.

But I need to know there you go.

And then my number one honorable mention is Coco d Coco Da. This is a Scandinavian film. It's free on Fandango at home right now and free on tub so you can check it out both places. So this one is it's basically about a couple who lose their child in very heartbreaking fashion and they go away for a camping trip and they are beset upon by some menacing characters who do terrible things to them. But then it

This is quite good and it was Blu ray released. Was it the Canalog? Do you remember? Offhand?

That sounds right? But I said that before when I was wrong.

So I think it was the Canalog.

It might be somebody else, but I will say the Canalog has done a number of films like this.

I'm gonna say it like nineteen times. Let me make sure I'm saying the right thing. Coco D I think it was.

Oh damn it is dark Star. Oh okay, so dark Star. No, I will say, check out to Cantalog. They've done some stuff that feels like this film actually, but dark Star did a really good job on this release. This is one that sort of came out of nowhere from that label. Dark Star has done like a lot of very low budget sort of I don't want to trash the label like I love I love the owner. I've talked to him a handful of times, but.

Most of the movies have not been for me.

And this is one of like the seven or eight from them that I've really liked. And it was quite quite different from their usual fear. If you have not seen it, I think it's definitely worth watching it is you'll remember it, that's for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, gosh, shutters, that's such an extensive library.

Some of these I don't even remember being shuttered. Yeah, that's the crazy thing.

Yeah, all right, so you covered one of mine. I'm gonna throw out another one since you've been heavy detailing yours, so that we can get a break for a moment. But I feel like most people know this filmmaker. In fact, you've already said his name tonight.

Once.

Everybody knows When Evil Lurks, but so many people slept on Damian Rugnan's first film, Terrified, the when we when we finally decided on this topic, Terrified was the first thing that I knew I wanted to talk about because I I was ringing the bill for this movie from day one. I think I saw this the day it was put on shutter and ever since then, like this, to me, this is at least as good as When

There are two specifically that really gets you.

The one that everybody talks about is the dinner table scene, and it's I'm a gonna say that because you have to watch it, and it's such a wonderfully, wonderfully built up to device that he so earns the shock that you get there. And what's crazy, it's not like, you know, we just talked about Martyrs first plit. Second, it's nothing like Marders, there's nothing like Gore shock.

It's just the.

Actual tension and anxiety that he's built within you that dinner day will see will make you like your heart flutters if you're invested in this film.

The other thing I really love about this movie is in.

The second half of the film, it starts to get this awkward, surreal vibe going on that doesn't happen in a lot of films, especially in the US. And because it's this Argentinian, really great sort of like very unique take on this mythological sort of MYSTICI I don't know the best way to say that, but it's.

Like a very spiritual movie at the end of it.

I think that they they approach this movie with with the way that gives it just this great dignity and a very unique feeling. It does not feel like an American film in any sense of that.

I've actually not seen it. Yeah, being the person who does all the shutter stuff, so it was on Shutter before I started getting screeners and doing reviews.

Oh wow.

So there were a few movies that, like, I never found myself going back to take care of them. I did want to, but I just got wrapped up with other stuff. But it's been on my list. I have seen the clip of the dinner table scene you were talking about, though, and it was masterfully done, and even outside of the context of the whole film, it had a lot of impact for when I saw it.

So yeah, one more scene that I really wanted to shout out is there's this one thing where this couple is looking across the street through the curtains of their window, and it's one of those things like we see in a lot of American horror movies where they do like the mirror trick where they show you a mirror and some like empty scene and so you're blatantly thinking, oh, when they close the mir or something's going to be there, and it's not. But they do like the violin strike

It makes these movies so much better.

Agreed, definitely, all right, what do we got from you?

Number five?

Okay, so let's you don't want to do more honorable mentions.

I'll bring up a couple at the end. I don't.

I don't want to cross everything on your list. So just in case you're going to.

Say, okay, so getting to my actual top five list of the most underrated, My number five is The Headhunter. Now, this one is extremely low budget. It's basically about a it's like medieval setting, but it's kind of like fantastical where it's this guy who literally is a headhunter who kind of goes out for his kingdom that he's a servant of killing creatures, killing like these mythological creatures. There's no dialogue whatsoever. The sound design is great because obviously

I've never used Fandago at home to stream. That sounds fantastic. I didn't know they had so much available that is like that they did.

This did get a Blu ray release over in the UK from One on one Films did do you know did it get one in the States.

I think it did. I remember seeing a physical release of it at some point somewhere.

It looks like you got a German release maybe and the UK release and that is it. But the UK release is really good. I wanted to look this up because I remember this being short, but I how short. It's seventy three minutes. This movie is really good. This was on my Honorable Mentions list, so it's kind of perfect because this is another one of those movies that you can just tell looking at this they didn't have to have a budget for this.

They they do so much.

With so little for this, and there's so little dialogue and it's literally just this incredible world that they create visually that you immediately get lost in and I feel like hardly anybody has seen it.

Noodles.

The title is The Headhunter and this is from Oh gosh, I forgot what this was like twenty eighteen.

Twenty nineteen. Yeah, sounds about right.

Very very good.

And the One on one Film's release I believe is still in print and it's a solid disc. I know One on one Films has kind of hit or miss, but it's one that I had to get from them. I've got it right up there. It's it's genuinely a great movie and for sure worth watching. And the hard part is again it's short and it's not a lot of dialogue, So it's another one that you kind of got to force yourself to put the phone down and really immerse yourself in because without the dialogue, it's easy.

To get lost. But it's rewarding, it's you'll you'll appreciate it.

And that ending. Yeah, I did not see the ending coming and it was. It's it's a good ending, so satisfying.

My next one, I was going to ask you, hoping that you are the expert on this one. Uh, the movie is The Furies? Is this a shut Is this a Shutter original.

Or I think it is. I think it was an original that was towards the beginning of when I started covering these things.

So this is not appearing on lists when I find like the list of Shutter originals, But the blubray release says a Shutter exclusive, so it's got to be one of the ones that they distribute something. No, it definitely is, because I remember getting a screener for it and reviewing it. Uh, yeah, The Furies is one. This was on my list because

That being said, this is a damn fun movie.

This is about a woman that gets kidnapped and she wakes up in this I don't even know what to call it, like this area.

And like desert, like a desert but with trees.

Yeah, I don't know how to describe this. It is essentially a game where she is being hunted by these mass dudes and then finds out that she's not alone. There are other people being hunted as well. There are some gnarly deaths. There are some really intense scenes of like cat and mouse type of running. It's it's a very good movie and I feel like it came out it got a lot of talk for like a week, and then everybody forgot it existed. The Furies is quite good,

Yeah. I agree, it's pretty solid. I again, not like a great, great film, but it's definitely one of those films that you should give it a shot just because of effort that went into it. And like you said, there are some pretty gnarly kills in it. It's kind of one of those ones. Maybe put it on watch with like a buddy or like have it on when you're doing something else in the background, you know, one of those.

Yeah, it's a good time. Next up for you.

Okay, So my number four is still available on shutter right now. I don't think anywhere else. This is gwar. It is a documentary. Scott. Shout out to Scott Barber, the guy who made this documentary, because when I put my review up, he actually commented on it and thanked me for the review, which was very nice of him. He definitely did not have to do that. Phenomenal documentary.

This is the great version of a music documentary where you could literally know nothing about the group that they are covering and still walk away from the documentary going that was a very compelling watch and honestly may not even be driven to check out the music, but still feel fulfilled. It is truly an enjoyable, enjoyable conversation the entire time. The work put into this, you can tell

Probably.

I think this is a blast, And yeah, definitely made me fall more in adoration and with some of the people that have been associated with Guar over the years, for sure.

And I mean if your only.

Influence from Gwar has been like the Joe Lynch and Adam Green side of things, because Gwar has been attached to them obviously for years, then you'll probably even still really appreciate this because they definitely focus on that side of.

Things for sure.

And for me watching it plot twist weird. Al Yankovic is interviewed in it, I was just like, what I love, We're it out?

I do as well.

So I'm in just a few years ago here in Kansas City. So incredible show, So good you went.

With the documentary.

So I'm gonna move one of mine up so that we can talk about docs for a minute. And this is one that people are probably gonna scoff at this being called underrated, but I think this is one of the best things that Shutters has Shutters Shutter has ever made in house, and I think it's one of the more almost like required viewings from Shutter, and people still don't treat it as such, and so I really wanted

They truly like.

You get a lot of love for Ganja and Hess, you get a lot of love for even like things that most of us know are incredible and like canon titles that you have to watch, like Tales from the Crypt, which obviously is a super influential title, but you get stuff behind the scenes of those things that we've never heard from you get people that made those films, that were in those films, that were influenced by those films

And it's great. Everybody should watch. This is incredible.

Yeah, And I will say that there are a lot of portions where they're talking to Tanana Reeve Do and I could listen to her talk about horror all day, Yeah, all day.

Yeah. I mean, Ernest Dickerson is great in this.

Oh yeah, yes, it is.

There's so many faces in this that immediately I'm like, God, I just want to take you for a coffee and then not like leave for four hours and make you tell me stories.

Agreed.

All right, Uh, since uh I listed one of mine earlier, why don't you do two in.

A row now?

Okay?

Uh?

My number three? Also still available on Shutter is an Indonesian film in Pedigore Nice Joko, an war film. So if anyone seems like Satan's Slaves or Satan Slaves Communion, or there were some other ones that I'm probably missing at the moment, im Pedigore is really good. So the way it starts out, it's a woman who's just working her job and some guy comes to try and kill her, who she doesn't even know who he is. Then there's something discovered on her person that creates a little bit

So yeah, this is great. I will happily.

Uh one of my long list of honorable mentions with Satan Slaves Joco is. I mean, he's one of those tour directors where you can tell he's very much got a style and uh, you can't really go wrong watching one of his films. So yeah, yeah, and Pedigor is great. Also had a disc release.

I believe.

I don't know.

I don't feel like I have that.

It's possible.

It's bad that I can't remember.

Yeah, in Pedagor, Yeah, it's got that's right, because it's got the the eyeball cover, yes, the dripping eyes whatever, It's on sale on Amazon right now for twelve bucks. So if you are curious about this, that's a great look at disc for twelve bucks.

Or if you have Shutter, it's still there.

There you go.

Oh Josh met Joco met him in an elevator in Korea before a screening of Sitting.

Oh my gosh. I hope he was. I hope he was as nice as I want him to be because his filmmaking is unbelievable, unbelievable.

All right, sir, you're number two, all.

Right, my number two. I believe this is a finish film. It is Dogs Don't Wear Pants And this one is still on shutter. Oh is this on your list too?

On honorable mention I've talked about before, so I didn't want to go too in depth about it.

But incredible. This is such an underrated movie.

Yeah, so this one, this one really gave me a lot of feels. To be honest, It made me feel good in the end of the film. It made me feel vulnerable, emotional, bad at times. But it's basically about a guy who loses his wife in a drowning accident in the beginning, and it's about the fallout after that. Of him not feeling like he even knows who he is anymore, like what his life should be. And he has a daughter, so you know that relationship isn't working

So I love this movie.

This was on my honorable mention list, like I said, But the big thing I think that's a problem here is that the dominatrix aspect of the story is like the main thing that the marketing for this film has

Yeah.

I can't remember if I first saw that that was not a word, ORST saw this on shutter or I think the way I first originally found it was it was actually released on Blu Ray in the UK first by Anti Worlds, which is essentially a sister company of Indicator, and they do mostly modern films, and they released this and I was the opp away because at heart of a freak, I guess I just showed Nakatsu titles and stuff.

Yeah and yeah to kind of what you were saying. Like, for me, the biggest strength of this film is turning out to be something I didn't expect it to be.

Yeah, Josh says, I had to buy the US DVD of Dogs Don't Wear Pants because I had a quote from my review on the cover that isn't on any other edition.

Nice, I mean, yeah, you should have that, Josh. Good job.

That's not vain, that's just pride. So my number two this is noodles. I've wanted to do this for so long, but it takes so much to prepare to be able to show a poster of each of the movies. My number two is a weird one because just like the Furies. This is not one that I even now think about as loving. But I think this movie took such a unique swing that I don't even remember people talking about this movie when I first got released, and I hope you liked it. Twenty nineteen saw.

The release of The Beach House.

This movie is so interesting because it's not I don't know, there's nothing like majorly compelling about the story. The acting is not like the best you've ever seen, the script is not astounding, but there is specifically this chunk of the film that is so surreal and unique in the way that they show it visually that I knew I

You know.

I mentioned a few minutes ago that Shutter has done so many films that I just watch and then forget immediately.

This was not one of those movies.

And again I don't even love it, but it will stick with me for so long because that one specific chunk of the film I don't know that I've seen much like it, Like it felt like it got very like color out of Space for ample minus with this film. And I love that side of the Lovecraft world that not a lot of people can grasp visually, and the filmmaker's behind this truly did a wonderful job with it.

Yeah, I kind of pin this as like low budget love Craft, and the scene with the foot in particular like really kind of hit people for anyone who watched it. And it's really funny because leading up to this, when I was working on my list, I was talking to my best friend and he was like, I told him what the topic was, and he goes like, are you gonna put on the Beach House? And I was just like no, because I didn't love it that much. But yes, it is underrated and pretty solid.

Yeah, and even if you're only seeing it to appreciate that it's not a scene, I guess it's like I don't even remember how long it was because I was lost in it. But yeah, the movie's not amazing and you're not gonna after it, sit down and go, dang, this is a four an AFTAR film or anything, but you're going to really appreciate the filmmaking style there, all right, most underrated film on your list, sir.

Okay, it's another documentary. It is free right now on TV and Pluto TV, so you can check it out there. And it is Scream Queen My Nightmare on Elm Street.

Such a good doc very.

Important viewing in my opinion. It's it's the documentary about Nightmare on Elm Street Too that everyone hated because it was too gay, But it was about about Mark Patten, who starred in it, and how it kind of really ruined his life, but then how he grew to reclaim his life and confronting people involved in you know, making the film what it was without telling people what it was supposed to be and putting him in a really

So yes, this documentary is a masterpiece and incredibly important. One of the things that I really wanted to point out here, which not a lot of people are probably

For sure.

I think this is other than the incredible Never Sleep Again. This is the only other part that should be required viewing with somebody that is like discovering a Nightmare on

Yeah, agreed. And if people want to see a later acting role of Mark Patten that was only a few years ago, the film Swallowed. It's not a great it might still be on shutter. Actually it's not a great film, but Mark Patten's role in it, Yeah, in so enjoyable. What Mark Patten does. Mark Patten is the reason to watch that film straight up, because just you could tell he was having a great time with that role and it's yeah, it's great.

So this feels a little underwhelming following all of that. But my most underrated film. I feel like the people that are super deep into horror know all about this, but the people that are like, I'm going to see what it's recommended to me on Netflix today and call of today, because that's the best thing I'll see. That crowd is not watching this and that sucks. And this

God.

This is a movie that got a US remake last year starring James McVoy that I'm gonna be honest, it surprised me that I liked it as much.

As I did.

It's pretty good.

McAvoy is incredible in it. The ending has no teeth, but we knew it wasn't going to. The sad reality is it didn't need to exist. This film is astonishing in what it pulls off, again with a film that pretty much needed no budget. They just needed a couple fun locations and a really great script. This is a film that is a fairly unique story about a family

A US remake, I can just watch that one.

Yeah, will only depress me, probably even more than the ending of the original, which is shocking, because it's really depressing.

Yeah. So I did quite like this film the original, and I also did like, to a certain degree, the remake. I actually saw the remake at a drive in theater. It was the second feature after the original PHANFASM Yes.

And so fun night.

Yeah, that was a good night. So my wife, who's not in horror but was with me, she stayed up through Phantasm and she's like, I'm going to go to sleep for Speak No Evil. But she started watching it and she couldn't go to sleep because it was so riveting, and she was like, oh, so she I had told her ahead of time that like, this is a remake.

Especially James macavoy. If it was like a no name actor, there might have been a small chance.

Yeah. So throughout the movie, she kept asking me, was that in the in the original? Was that in the original? And then at the end after it was done, and she was like, oh that was good. We're driving away and I was telling her, Okay, well this is what the actual ending was, and she was like, oh, I'm glad it wasn't that, and I was just like, I

Yeah, I agree, it sounds weird to call this one underrated, but I feel like it's still somehow just underseen. And I guess maybe that's a weird distinguishing word to make here, because it's for most people that have seen it, it is pretty highly lauded, but the vast majority of people just have never given it an opportunity for a multitude of reasons. The reality is Dutch films like this rarely get proper distribution, and we're lucky that this was on Shutter.

I think it has an.

English friendly DVD overseas if I remember right. But like, this is a movie that deserves to be seen in HD and properly, you know, subtitled with like a couple extras to give it some context and explain the tension behind this movie and the unnecessary just feelings that when you watch this movie you feel disgusting in a couple of scenes and wonder why that you are the way that you are. Yeah, Yeah, any other shutter titles you want to throw out?

No, but I thought you had maybe a few more on.

I do have a couple others, and I'll pull up a couple here. And of course I closed the tab right before one. One big one that is about to get some more praise that I think is probably a little less underrated, which is why I didn't make the full list. But Hellbender, I really loved it. Is from the Adams family. They've done a hand on more than a handful now, they've done like nine or ten films together or something like that. I think it's very good

This is good stuff.

If you like which movies, Hellbender is a must, you will probably appreciate it. Another one, and I've named probably three or four others so this is probably five, so I'll stop here. But Scare Me is another one that didn't get a lot of attention. I you know, having interviewed for the channel Josh Rubin, this is one of the things that I saw because it had Josh Ruben attached to it, and I expected it to be pretty bad, and it surprised me.

It is not terrible.

It certainly isn't the highest quality thing the Shutters ever put out by a country mile, but it's fun.

It's a good time.

And another one that I feel like gets unnecessary hate, So I think kind of falls squarely in the underrated category on this one.

Agreed. Oh and going back to the Hellbender one, I thought I thought that was a solid film. I liked their film where the Devil Roams a lot more than I will say.

I like The Deeper You Dig even more. And I don't think that one was a Shutter original, So I couldn't include that. This has been really fun. I mean, Shutters had such a deep catalog was this was tough to narrow down for me.

I'm sure you had some struggle struggles on that bus too.

Yeah, at one point my list was like thirty five, forty movies, so I had to whittle that down. It was tough.

Yeah, that is pretty telling that you can have that many high quality releases that you can list as underrated. That you've done pretty good over the years. That being said, ten years is a long time to put stuff out, and Shutter has been mostly consistent over that time.

That being said, there's been a lot.

Of dogshit titles too, I will be happily honest about that.

The Scary of sixty first, Oh my god.

Hate that movie. Absolutely hate that movie. Carlin, thanks for doing this. This has been a really fun episode.

I hope people go subscribe to your channel and follow you on Letterbox.

Go look up Carling Cook. Anything else you want to shout out for tonight.

I do just want to say, like, if you are struggling with mental health issues, reach out to people. I like to kind of throw the stuff out there and I talk about it sometimes on my channel because I personally went through some really tough mental health struggles no surprise during COVID that's when the wheels fell off. But I then realized I had been dealing with anxiety kind of all my life to a certain degree, So you know, anxiety, depression,

Even for the two of us.

I think that we are some of the people that I would strongly recommend reaching out too. Specifically, you feel like you have nobody else seen you be responsive to other people in comments and stuff. I hope most people will understand by now that if you message me anywhere, I pretty much will always respond, sometimes shockingly fast, because I also have mental health problems and I feel like

Part of it.

Thank you for having me on. I was overjoyed when you asked me to be on. I really was, and I'd come back again. I would do it for sure.

All right, we'll have you back. Thanks God.

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