The Shelf Shock Rewind Awards 2024!!! The Third Annual LIVE Awards Show for Physical Media!

What's up on Kyle Gowner and welcome by Shock.

Hello, and welcome everyone to the third annual Shelf Shock Rewind Awards with Me tonight is Michelle Kisner, my co host. Michelle, thanks for doing it this year.

Thanks for asking me on. I'm really excited to see all the winners tonight.

How about you tell everybody what you do for physical media before we get into this.

Well, I am mostly, like you know, a working film critic, and I also do essay work. You might have seen me and some I've done stuff for Arrow, I've done stuff for Vinegar Syndrome, Umbrella just recently Terror Vision Severing. So I've been in quite a few boutique releases and I have a lot of stuff coming up this year too that hasn't been announced. But that's mostly what I do, just film critic and essay writer.

Before we get too deep into this, wanted to say thanking Michelle, but also a second person who helped create this thing with me very first year. Let's bring on mister Steven Billings.

Oh sorry, I wasn't ready.

Wow this quickly. Wow.

Thank you guys, Thank you guys for having me back on at the beginning of the show just for charity, just to throw me back in back in here.

I'm like that benefactor.

I'm like the benefactor, Like he the owner of the football team that nobody wants to hear from.

But he's got to come in and like be like, hey, guys, what's up.

You know, I don't do anything I.

Did stuck by the scenes. Appreciate me.

Yeah, but it's awesome. Third year, Ryan, did you think it was going to make it this far?

Honestly, No, definitely not especially. I mean we just got an intro from Kyle freakin Gellner, who's like one of the biggest names in horror. That's a big deal.

Exactly, man. And and you know, I'm not as I'm not with it, you know, Like Ryan is doing most of this work. Man, He's he's killing it. He's getting all these people, he's making connections. He's doing a fantastic job keeping this alive. I do some I do video work for it, that's it, you know. But Ian's killing this thing. He's keeping this dream alive that me and Ian started a few years ago.

And it's it's looking beautiful.

Man.

I love it.

This is getting funner and funner every year. So Michelle. I'm glad to see. I like that we're doing a new host co host every year. It's good to see new faces.

And there's my co host.

Hi.

Now usually you're used to seeing every year I do an ad. You know there is gonna be something this year. Unfortunately, she will not be starring in any Wives Love Physical Media this year. I didn't get to do that one with the wife and the kid. But she is going to say hey real quick and so you can see her grow up through every shelf shock. But I do have something for you guys this year. You'll see it midway through the show. I hope you guys enjoy it.

Having night, Stephen, thank you so much.

See Yeah.

Okay, so before we get into our first award, really wanted to shout out tonight that the show this year is all the dedication to Lee Gambon, who we lost last May. The last time that we did this in February, Lee was once again in the comments as we were live, championing how great this was and wishing that we could do it over and over and over again. In fact, if you go back and watch last year's you see him ask if we can do it every six months, and I say, God, know, that is so much work.

Hello.

I'm Chris O'Neil.

I am a filmmaker who has contributed several video essays and audio commentaries to various physical media releases, and I am also the cinema programmer here of the Triscal Art Center in Cork, Ireland, where we're filming this segment, and today I am presenting the award for Best pre Code Silent Film Release.

Dante's Inferno, Tear Vision, Hackson from Radiance Films, Laurel and Hardy Year two Flicker Alley, Luis Fuyad The Complete Crime Serials nineteen thirteen to nineteen eighteen Eureka Entertainment Pandora's Box Criterion Collection.

So there are two awards.

The first is for the Creator's Selection Committee and the winner of the Best pre Code Silent Film as voted by the Creator's Selection Committee release is Luis Fuad The Complete Crime Serials nineteen thirteen to nineteen eighteen from Eureka Entertainment, and the winner as voted by the community is Hickson by Radiance Films.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I never really think about these things in advance. At anytime there's a win, it's a great surprise, you know. And obviously we poured a lot of love into Hackson, and yeah, I'm glad that people have appreciated it, and and you know, all the hard worker is kind of being rewarded in a way.

So yeah, it's an honor to receive the award.

Thank you very much.

All right, congratulations to Radiance. Got Hackson right here, incredible look and release. This is a good time to be able to share with everybody that in each category we're gonna have two winters to night. One is from the Creator Selection Committee, which is essentially our version of the Academy.

I didn't pick up because I like already had a release and I'm trying to not double dip on things. But it's a fantastic movie. I mean, if I already didn't have it, I would have totally got that set because it's beautiful. So yeah, definitely deserve that one, for sure.

It absolutely did. But also the exact opposite of silent films is contemporary suiting films. And to that we go to one of my favorite people, my dear friend, mister Jeremy Long.

Hi one ticket for the ignore her star Wars stuff on Dave, Dave, Dave Jamdy Christ.

How many times do I have to tell you, Papa Rozzi, that I'm not Dave Gruel, Okay.

I'm Jeremy Long, the male portn star.

No, the comedian.

I wrote Clickbait the Netflix show.

Well, whoever you are, can you present the Award for the Best Contemporary Studio Relief.

Hey guys, it's me Jeremy Long, comedian writer, and.

Hey listen, and I guess apparently Dave Gruhle with a lot of guys.

Suppose.

Anyways, it's an honor to be back for a year three of the Shop Shock rewind Awards, and once again for the third year in a row, I'll be presenting the award for Best Contemporary Studio Release. Without further ado, let's just dive right into it. The nominees are.

You may remember last year I dressed up as Barbie to announce the award for Best Contemporary Studio Release. Well, unfortunately for you, I created an only fan since then, So no free content this year.

But if you want the.

Link, viam me after the show.

Don't know Ryan.

Okay now one of the nominees.

Civil War four K Amazon exclusive, A twenty four lions Gate, The Fall Guy four K, Universal Studios, furiosa A Mad Max Saga four K Warner Brothers. I Saw the Tea bo a twenty four Shop exclusive, Love Lies Bleeding four K, a twenty four Shop exclusive.

Welcome Back, and the winner both the CSC and community vote is.

Some role please, furios I'm Mad Max.

Saga on four K, and unfortunately you caught me out in about at the movies, so you're probably wondering does he have the release to hold up? And the answer is nope. Back to you, Ryan and Michelle, Dave.

Girl, you heard that.

Yeah, that is a big deal. Mad Max is continuing to put out incredible films. I love the people love that one, and yeah, a big deal for freaking George Miller in his least old eighties doing this stuff. I love it.

Yeah, you know, and I felt like that movie kind of got pooped on a lot by people, but I thought it was pretty good. Like I mean, obviously it's not Fury Road because that's nothing will ever be Fury Road ever again. But I thought it was good for what it was. And you know, guys eighty making movies and they're like that action pack that's pretty crazy. So let's ask earlier if I was wearing a Mullahulan Maholland

So yeah, congratulations to mad Max Fury not Fury Road Furio. So mad Max Saga love that Warner Brothers is doing great stuff with that but not only are we getting obviously brand new titles released on physical media, but studios are still doing their best with catalog titles and for that we are already into.

Our My name is Kevin Tutor and I'm one of the hosts of Almost Major, a movie podcast where we talk about the mini major studios and the film's they release today. I'm here to talk about the best studio catalog releases. But first let's go to the nominees.

A Nightmare on Elm Street four k, Warner Brothers, Bringing Out the Dead four k from Paramount Pictures Chinatown four k, Paramount Pictures, north By Northwest four k from Warner Brothers, The Searchers four k from Warner Archive.

And the winner as the creator's community voted for nine Mare on Elm Street four k, and also that was the community's vote as well, because that's a two for two and I did something that is very papped for this.

Please hand me this dog. What the fuck is this? Kevin is amazing. Everybody needs to go check out the Almost Major podcast. Congrats to Warner again for the Nightmare Elm Street four K. I got the UK version of this one, and of course now we're seeing an indication that we are getting a full box set on four K this year potentially, which is I'm.

Glad I waited because I was like, if they did that one, maybe they're coming, you know. And again, I'm trying not to double it. I'm trying to be an informed consumer.

You know.

I wish I would have done the same. Yes, although I won't be too upset. We'll see what they can do.

With it different extras.

Anyways, you got a history of Nightmaray and Elm Street. When's the first time you watched that one?

Gosh, when I was a kid, that was one of the horror movies that I watched with my dad. We watched like pretty much everyone that came out until we'll be like, you know, after my parents got force, obviously I adn't seem as much. But yeah, especially Dream Warrior. That was the one we watched together all the time, we had it on tape. And yeah, so that's still my favorite one too, is the third one. So if they throw a four K out of that one, I will buy that immediately.

In a heartbeat. We are going to do one more award before our first giveaway, so everybody get ready for that. When we do giveaways tonight, We're going to have to have a question and the first person that we see a correct answer from your getting it. We'll explain that after we do this award, though, Let's go over to Dustin with Best Animation Release.

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Oh Hi, I'm Dustin Putman, physical media enthusiast, author of The Front File, two time guests of Reconnected, and film critic to literally thousands of reviews at the film file dot com.

I'm so pleased to be here today to present.

The twenty twenty five Shelf Shock Rewind Award for Best Animation Release. Animation is a medium in which, quite literally anything could be made possible, the only limit being the imagination of the artists involved, and it is because of this that it's one of my favorite categories. The nominees for Best Animation Release are.

The Boy and the Heron four K Steelbook from Shout Studios, Fella Day four K DEF, Crocodile Tamla twenty ten, A Punk Cat in Space def Crocodile Transformers one, four K Steelbook, Paramount Pictures, The Wild Robot four K from Universal Studios.

Oh, it seems like the cats might have already gotten into the envelope.

Hello everybody, my name is Honam, and I borrowed Danny's phone to announce the winner for both the community vote and the Creator's Selection Commity vote, the award goes to Fella Day four K. Congratulations to def Crocodile for this tacastic release.

By now.

That that honestly surprises me, given the other titles that were in the in the the running, I mean, I'm glad it was, you know, obviously my favorite and anxiously waiting for this disc to come out for so long, So that's that's awesome. When I saw the nominations list, I'm like, oh, well, it's nice to be nominated.

Honestly for the director, Michael Shack, for Paul Boulder, for all of the incredible members of the animation team who supported this release.

So happy.

You know, this movie really kind of slipped between the cracks when it came out.

It never got an official.

Release in the US. And it's such a dark, amazing kind of combination of a cult thriller film noir detective story with cats and catacombs and skeletons and all sorts of crazy stuff. And even given the insane world we find ourselves in right now. It's got a very kind of prescient sort of socio political message as well about ethnic cleansing. Not to give any spoilers away, but I think it's a good moment for people to watch Felladay and kind of pay attention to what it's saying. So

You know, which is which is tough? Which is tough.

Apparently when the film came out, they sort of marketed it in Germany for kids, and I can't even imagine being a kid at that time going to see Feladay.

All right, here is Peladay four K an incredible release. I had some people asking earlier where the good doctor was Doctor Will Doddson. He's on this release. Go check out the commentary. He and I discuss this film and it's a it's a really great release, incredible film. One thing that we don't get a chance to honor during these a lot is indie studios. We get a lot of places like Scream Team Releasing or independent filmmakers that

All right? So the trivia question for Close Calls from Scream Team Releasing is what was Close Calls director Richard Stringham's day job before becoming a writer and director.

And now we'll let you go look that up. Why don't we repeat that one?

Just know that off the top of their head. For sure, nobody would cheat and look that up. At all.

First of all, that gets it is going to win. Promise. Indie studios and indie film is a big deal. Everybody should check those out. Things like Kickstarter and indie Gogo are home to some of the future actors that you'll see in years that are making indie horror that are oh good god, these comments are hilarious. Hey Jack Cane, you are our winner for tonight. Please go ahead and send your address to Shelfshockrewind at gmail dot com. I will get this out to you this week and thank

This is Kala from Kaleb's Kung Fu Cinema. First off, I want to thank Ryan and Michelle for asking me to be a presenter on this year's Shelf Shock Rewind Awards. For those of who do not know me, I am a host for a YouTube channel called Kalbs Kung Fu Cinema. I've been doing that for about five years now, and I really just use this channel to talk about things that I love, which are martial arts movies and other action movies. And I also like to document my ever growing collection of Blu Rays.

DVDs and the like.

But enough about me, Yes, today, I am here to present the award for Best Martial Arts Release. Obviously, there are many releases that came out the previous year that are deserving of this award, but as we all know, here at the Shelf Shock Rewind Awards, we're here to see who will be taking it home. So the nominees for Best Martial Arts Release are.

The Game of Clones, Bruce Boitation Collection Volume one, Severian Films, Golden Harvest Volume one, Supernatural Shockers, Shock Studios, The Heroic Trio, Executioners four K, Criterion Collection, Ninja Terminator, Neon Eagle Video, Shasco Volume three, Errow Video.

And the award for Best Martial Arts Release has voted by the Creator Selection Committee Goes too. It is a tie between Shasco Volume three and Game of Clones Volume one, and the award as voted by the community, goes to Game of Clones Volume one. Thank you and congrats to our winners.

Thank you, thank you for this award for the I think it's the best martial arts release of the year.

What is so Yes, we are working on more so we thank.

You, oh Man, David Gregory went all that for that. I'm so grateful. I've got Shasco Volume three here, really incredible release from Arrow, and you've got Game of Clones Volume one. We get a volume two coming eventually. No word on a release date.

Yet, but through my mind that this came out, like these movies have been so hard to find. There are like all bootlegs, Like that's all I got rid of, like all my bootlegs because of this release. Like how cool is this? This is like we're living in a golden age. Guys, appreciate it right now because the hell.

It's a pretty impossible release and the fact that it's volume one huge deal.

I do want to give a little bit more of a shout out to be a Terminator because I fucking love this movie so hard and this release is incredible. Like if you like Ninja Terminator, this is the release to get. And I had the original movie that like they stole parts of to like combine it into to make Ninja t It's just this release is fantastic, so like I'm just giving this, I'm just giving it a little extra love. You know, I didn't win, but it won in my heart.

Okay, Well, even then, Neon Eagle Video does not get enough attention. The titles that they're putting out are really fun. They sell out very quickly.

There.

They're doing great work, mostly under the guys of Jared Honor who's also from Mondo Micabro. Great curation, really good time. Martial arts a major Heyday right now through home video of course, and really maybe only second to horror, which seems to win no matter what. That's always the big release that people love is anything related to horror slashers. So it's a time for our best horror release haping.

My name is Katie. I make videos on YouTube about horror movies. I have a specific interest in euro horror and Italian horror, so feel free to stop by my channel and say hello. That channel is Katie of the Night. But more importantly, I am here today to present to you the best Horror release category in Shelf shock Rewind Awards. The nominees for Best Horror Release are.

All the Haunts Bres a compendium of FULK Horror Volume two, Severin Films, The Blair Witch Project from Second Site Films, The Hitcher four K Second Site Films, Hush four K, Screen Factory Opera four K from Severin Films.

It is now time to present the winner of Best Horror Release. The winner of Best Horror Release, as voted by the Creator's Selection Committee is All the Haunts be Ours, a compendium of Folk Horror Volume two by Severin, and the winner, as voted by the community is All the Haunts Bres. A compendium of Folk Horror Volume two from Severin.

All right, this is a reminder of all the hard work that goes on these box sets. This thing is a legendary release, just like the first one was. The first release won a ton of awards here when it first came out, and now we have a second volume. So that might not be the last time you hear that title announced tonight. But next we have our next

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My name is Francis Gloopi. I'm a filmmaker, physical media collector enthusiast. I just realized I'm wearing a physical media hat. That was not intentional, but here we are anyway. Ryan and Jeremy I wrote The Disconnected, asked me to come on and talk about some of my favorite releases of twenty twenty four. There was a lot to choose from, so this was tough, but I picked five. I'll try and make it quick. I'm going to start with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid from Criterion on four K.

If you would have told me two years ago when we were doing this for the first time, that the director of one of my favorite movies of last year was going to be sharing his favorite picks on the show, I would have laughed so hard at you.

And he picked some good stuff. I had that Rolling Thunder set. It is a great set. That was actually the first time I watched the movie as well, so and it's fantastic film.

Very dark, sure is, and it's one of the better transfer Shout has worked on the last couple of years, that's for sure. Yeah, look great, all right. One area that gets overlooked a lot in physical media is documentaries. I love documentaries a lot, and I'm glad that we've seen a bit of an uptick in some documentary release. So now we go over to somebody who just released a pretty incredible documentary himself. Let's go here from RYE Levy.

Hello, everybody, my name is Ry Levy. I am a documentary filmmaker and I am honored to be able to be here to present the Physical Media Award for Best Documentary Feature Release. Documentary feature films have often been a little overlooked in the physical media space. However, we've seen an increase of incredibly beautiful and wonderful releases in that spectrum.

American Movie four K Sony Pictures, The Battle of Chile It Chris Films, Enter the Clones of Bruce, Seven Films, Papatopolis, Terror, Vision Scala, Severn Films.

In both categories, the Creator Selection Committee Award and the Community Award to my very good friend David Gregory, director of Enter the Clones of Bruce, released by the incredible Several Films. Congratulations David, and to all the other nominees and winners.

Oh thank you.

Wow.

This is a real honor. Thank you so much to CSC and community for voting a documentary among the best documentary releases. And I want to give thanks on behalf of my co producers who I couldn't have done it without Frank Jang, Michael Wirth, Vivian Jang and Jim Koons. And yeah, this is beautiful. It is actually because it's a piece of the staircase of the original Texas Chains or Massacre House, and it's another special Easter egg for the community.

Thanks.

Here is a photo of Bruce Leigh One of a kind board on a train circa nineteen eighty two.

Cooler board on a train than I've looked in my entire life.

It's annoying, isn't it? Oh Man, that is so cool. I love that people have loved this documentary. They worked their tail off on these things. Severin puts so much time into their box sets and this one is no joke either. And if you've not picked it up, don't forget. Buying it from their website gets you an exclusive film, like if you buy the wide release, you don't get the extra disc. So check it out on their site if you were looking into it after tonight's show. Now

My name is Brian Dembinsky, and I write the out of print column for the Physical Media Advocate. I also review long forgotten movies on letter LD for days as a day job by my production sound mixer, and I've done a fair share of TV shows and films, so I know how important it is to hear the dialogue and how bad sound can sink a good movie. However, when the sound is great, it takes the movie watching experience to a whole other level. This year, the nominations for Best Audio Presentation.

Are Alien Romulus four K, Twentieth Century Studios, Civil War four K, Amazon Exclusive A twenty four and Lions Game, Dune Part two four K, Warner Brothers, Godzilla minus one four K from Toho Opera four K, several films.

The winner for Best Audio Presentation as voted by the Creators Selection Committee is Godzilla minus one from Toho Congratulations, and the winner for Best Audio Presentation I was voted for by the community is also Godzilla minus one from Toho. Congratulations.

Toho.

I can't wait to hear what gets released in twenty twenty five.

I don't have this one. I really need to pick this one up.

Oh god, it's a very sexy set with all the extras don't have subtitles.

That is a monster of a release, that's for sure.

Look at that except his award for Okay, well put that away.

I mean they did that with the oscars, so it makes sense to do it here. Love it with audio. We got to go straight to video. And I know that I made the joke about the last one being upsete. Oh look at that. Got Celestian said, is Godzilla here to accept his award before you did it? That was great. Let's go straight to Australia to talk about the best video presentation. Hello.

My name is John Matthews and my involvement with the physical media world is on the podcast side. I'm involved with Indicator casts but also quite heavily involved with Imprint casts with my colleague and co host, Tony Mitches. I'm also involved with some of the Facebook groups like the Imprint group and also the Indicator group. And today we're honored to be presenting this. I'll pass it over to my colleague Tony.

Hi, everybody, my name is Tony Mitchis. I'm also involved heavily involved in the Facebook community groups is for the Imprint Film's Black Like in Span group, and the Imprint Cast Facebook pages and of course co host with my partner and colleague John here for Imprint Cast as well as frequent collaborator on Indicator Cast. And I would like to thank Michelle and Ryan personally for inviting us along to be a part of the Shelf Shop Round Awards for the second time in the row.

So we're very honored to be talking and presenting the best Video Presentation category. Obviously, in this world of physical media, video presentation is very important with the amount of extensive work put into restorations.

Well, it is important for film lovers in particular because, as John and I rip you us basically like we love watching movies in thirty five millimeter or seventy millimeter on film at the cinema, but also in the physical media world, even though you won't get that exact same feel, at least you have to have a decent presentation on home video now with four K, can't get any better than this.

It's very important now because the bar has been raised from various labels and it seems like every month we're getting more and more amazing releases, and I think the four K format has pushed it to a whole new level and labels that of just you know, working with the new technology and obviously the HDR technology in various formats, it really has pushed it up to the next level. So we're I guess honored to be presenting this because we're very spoilt as film lovers to have amazing presentations

The Case of the Bloody Iris four K, Celluloid Dreams Opera four K seven Films, the Hitcher four K, Second Site Films, the Keep four K Vinegar Syndrome, the Silence of the Lambs four K Ero Video.

Okay, And the CSC winner for Best Video Presentation goes to the Hitcher four K from Second Site Films.

And the Community winner for Best Video Presentation also goes to the Hitcher four K from Second Side Films.

Congratulations, well deserved released, I'll tell you that right now.

Absolutely, And just to comment, the amount of time that was put into this was worth it. I know there was a long wait on the Hitcher as you know, Tony, I think they announced it maybe two years ago, but it was worth it because what we got was one of the best possible video presentations we could have got for the film in four K.

Couldn't agree more.

Thank you all and congratulations once again.

Thank you here it is the hitcher four K one that people have been waiting for years for in a ginormous release from Second Site. They never fail to put out literally the definitive release of the films that they're releasing.

Yeah, I got to replace. I had the call the German Blue Blue Ray. I think it was like an upscaled It didn't look great. Also, I don't understand German, so I couldn't read any of the extras. Well, this was in English, so I enjoyed it quite a bit more.

It's a big deal, huge release. Not to mention the fact that the studio allowed Second Sight to go back to the actual elements, which was one of the main reasons why this was delayed for so so long. And now we have a film that people wanted for years. And funny enough, many of the ones that we're covering tonight we're on that list of like this will never be able to be released, and somehow we're holding them our hand. Twenty twenty four was a massive year for

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Josh from Lunchmate here, lunch meet VHS on the internets. How you doing, glad to.

Be here, Thanks for having me.

If you like VH stuff, VHS stuff, if you like it, come and get it at lunch Meat. We got it everything you've ever wanted on VHS, which is a good segue into and the nominees for Best Home Video Restoration Upgrade are.

Bringing Out the Dead four K Paramount Pictures, The Case of the Bloody Iris four K from Celluloid Dreams, The Hitcher four K Second Site Films, The Jar from Terror Vision, The Keep four K Vinegar Syndrome.

And the winner of the Best Home Video Restoration Upgrade as voted by the Creators Selection Committee is The Hitcher from Second Site Films, the Community Winner.

The Keep from Vinegar Syndrome.

Both great things, both great films.

Congratulations to the winners, and I'm gonna go watch The Keep on VHS in the other room, Rwander die.

Hey, all right, well listen, I'm really glad, thank you. The Keep was a lot of Obviously, that was the title that a lot of people had been looking forward to seeing come out, myself included, so to be a part of that restoration was really great. A lot of work went into that one, so thank you. I'm glad it's being recognized.

All right. Obviously, a pretty huge title in twenty twenty four is Michael Mann's The Key.

Sad No Slip Case, and it's in a plastic which makes me look like a poser. I've seen this movie for it. You guys have a last stuff. I'm a big stack.

It's it's a big deal. Obviously, sold like crazy. I think it was like thirty four hours to sell like fourteen thousand copies, including a couple of thousand that were not in slip covers. Good stuff from Vinegar Syndrome, Glad it looks great. Congratulations on the win. This again another like giant Grail title that people have said for years we were never going to get, and here it is

Hi, my name is Rachel Belvoir.

I write for the website Comic Con and have a regular callum and the Physical Media Advocate, But today I'm here to talk about packaging.

Packaging is important.

It's the difference between waiting for that package of Blue Rays to come in the mail and finding out that the discs are loose or they're scratched, or my personal favorite man, you try to take the disks out and it feels like you're gonna break them.

That fun.

Uh.

I don't know about you, but I find sometimes the most expensive sets out of Verse defenders usually the more discs involved, So I guess in that sense it makes sense, but it doesn't. And sometimes it's your favorite TV show.

Are All the Haunts be Ours a Compendium of Folk Whore Volume two, seven films, The Hitcher four K Second Site Films, The Never Ending Story, four K Imprint Films, The Tenant four K Vinegar Syndrome.

Through the Looking Glass four K mel You Scene.

C Ife and Community Binner for Best Packaging Design this year is Well the Hunts b Are the Compendium of Folks Volume two from seven films. Congratulations seven Films.

Shout out to Rachel for that tribute to Lee Gambin on the shelf there. I love that.

I love it.

Yes, All the hauntsvirs beautiful sets. This is one of those sets, of course, that has the ability to house a book, a book lit and then all of the discs are in this that you can reach into and I gotta be honest, they have improved from their old box sets. They are easier to go and I'm glad they're being recognized for this because this is a pretty incredible package. Hope people that have not checked it out check it out.

I will say, though that numberriting story in Prince I have that big it's over there, like it was too big to bring over here. I was like, I don't know my cousin accent or something, but it was beautiful. Just it's so but it is definitely big, like it's hard to display, but one of the best looking sets I've ever seen in my life. It's absolutely gorgeous.

One that is beautiful. That is causing me some fomo? Is that one? But Stephen Billings, who was here at the beginning of the show, wanted to speak out about people that are perhaps experiencing some fomo. So here's a message from our founder, mister Stephen Billings.

Hello, my friends, I'm Stephen Billings, and I'm here to talk to you today about something I think all of us physical media collectors have gone through at some point, the fear of missing out or fomo as we call it, whether it's a limited edition slip cover, or just the limited a number of copies that it's made for a certain release. We've all been through it, and not only that, just the financial stress that physical media collecting can have on a person. But I do have a service today

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Twenty other times, We're here for you. And if you call today, you get a free Nicholas Cage emotional support pillow. Whenever that movie that you really want to buy but you don't have the money for it comes up, you just take up.

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Oh man. I know a lot of people loved his commercials last year. This was this was a big step up from last year.

My boyfriend is that service for me in which he just like he every time he comes over and he's like, oh, is that new, And I'm like, oh, that's like a six month old pre order, but it's a lie. It's I bought it a week ago. And he's probably watching this, you know, because he loves me, so now he knows my lies over the years.

He probably already knew. He just understands. I hope everybody's having a good time so far. We've got a couple more awards to go before our next big portion of the show. So let's go into one of my favorites, which is best Steal Book.

Hey, Cheff shock Rewinders. It's me Ryan, one of the co hosts of the New World Pictures podcast, where we talk about every movie released by New World Pictures, New World Video, New World Television, New World International, et cetera. And I'm here to introduce the Steel Books of the year.

Steel Books. You know, we all love steel books.

I bet even one of the co hosts of this very show absolutely loves steel books. Steel books like Rock and Roll High School or Forbidden World or Battle Beyond the Stars all films released by New World Pictures that we covered on our podcast. Maybe if you like those movies, you'd like to check out an episode. I don't know. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to tell you who won. And the nominees for the Best Steel Book of the.

Year are.

Body Double four K from Sony Pictures, The Crow nineteen ninety four four K from Paramount Pictures, A Nightmare on Elm Street four K Warner Brothers saw X four K from lions Gate Thanksgiving four K Sony Pictures.

And the winner of the Best Steel Book of the Year, as chosen by the Creator Selection Committee, is the Body Double four K by Sony Pictures. And the community winner of the Best Steel Book of the Year is also the Body Double four K steel Book released by Sony Pictures. Congratulations to everyone having the exact same opinion and those of you who only have this do you even like physical media?

Ask yourself, that's the exact one I have.

I love that not only is it the Indicator release, but it's just the blue Indicator release and not like the limited edition one.

I do have the limited edition one. At the very least, I.

Will say I do have the body double steel book, and I think it just proves we all really just want the original poster art like this. This is gorgeous on a steel book. We don't want some you know, crazy new pop art that is just not great.

I will say I'm not I don't like steel books. So when he was like one of us like steal books, it wasn't It wasn't me.

I don't.

I just like clanky and they get scratched and they're always like they always make like seven, so like you never can get them, and everybody's really angry about not getting them, and you feel like, you know, sit an alarm like for two am on a random Tuesday to buy it.

That's true. Josh Artado says the crow shouldn't even count since I don't believe anyone ever got that steel book.

Yeah, they made three of those, you know, three and.

A half for some reason. But really the important part on steel books is the artwork, and of course many these releases that are not steel books have great artwork as well. And I still can't believe we did this, but I hope people like who we got to do the announcement for this section.

Hi guys, a huge honor to be here as part of this awards ceremony. My name is Ellen Sheedy of Uncle Frank Productions. I'm a horror artist working on posters, blu rays, storyboards, the whole nine yards. You can see some of my stuff over my shoulder behind me, but a lot of it you can't because YouTube will let you. But you can see that stuff on Instagram by going to Uncle Frank pro and saying hi to me there and going through my artwork. Anyway, the reason we're here

Against the streaming services.

Being able to hold these great innovative pieces of art in your hands that both elevate the films themselves and give a platform for some of the most amazing artists in our industry to kind of find fans of their work.

It's just there's so much.

Passion and so much beauty behind these really, really, really interesting projects. A shelf of blu Rays in this day and age is like going around a gallery or a museum, and I honestly think that the future of the industry lies in the hands of a lot of these artists. Without further ado, here are the nominations for Best Artwork, All.

The Hard to Be Ours and Compendium of four Core Volume two, Luke Insect seven Films, Demon Pond four K, Yuko Shima, Zoo Criterion Collection, Kerro Astra zero Criterion Collection, The Hitcher four K, Adam Strathard, Second Site Films, a Simple Plant four K, Matt Griffin.

Erro Video, fantastic work all rounds. You're all winners in my eyes, but I'm going to have to announce a winner now, Okay, So according to the Creator Selection Committee, the winner for best Artwork goes to All the hornsby Hours, a Compendium of Folk Horror Volume two released by several films. Yeah, insert sound effects to you, and also the community said the same thing, So that's basically two awards. So congratulations

Once again, shout out Alon Sheety over in the over in Europe being able to announce these. You know, he has produced some of the best media book art around. You can pick up some of his original prints over at brother Blile dot com right now. Go check it out. Some really great stuff. And for everybody's saying, like Reggie, I do love the original posters, but I have to admit original art for physical releases often more interesting. I

Sergio Mimes was best known as a Chicago based film critic and the co founder of the annual Black Harvest Film Festival, but he also championed classical music, especially the works of black composers. Sergio died in October twenty twenty two at the age of sixty seven and left behind a legacy of encouragement, education and passion.

The past two recipients of the Sergiomms Memorial Award were Kayla Denise and Sam Degan. Both continue to work tirelessly to deliver high quality analysis on film through various outlets. We will continue to give an award in Sergio's name

Augenio Erkulani is a writer, producer, film historian, documentarian, and an incredible creator of countless Blu Ray special features.

Eugenio has contributed audio commentaries, visual essays, interviews with some of the most unique minds in the history of film, and newly written pieces to releases from eighty eight Films, Aero Video, Cauldron Films, Nola's Entertainment Cult Epics, Terror, Vision, seven Films, Vin Syndrome, and more.

Augenio has appeared on countless releases alongside his frequent collaborators Troy Harworth and Nathaniel Thompson. His work on the ground from London to Rome is felt on some of our favorite releases each and every year.

Eugenio has written multiple books on a wide variety of topics, including Friedkin's Cruising and Italian genre directors across a range of decades. He has contributed to many issues in my magazine, The Physical Media Advocate, and is currently finishing up a book with Troy Howarth and much.

Of Augenio's work a passion for film and archiving the voices of our film history rings throughout the stories that Aeugenio is able to pull out of individuals who have been interviewed time and time again for the last fifty years shows his natural ability to get his interview subjects on his side, but his relationships with lesser known names is what makes his contributions most exciting.

We would like to say thank you to Eugenie Orclani for his prolific list of accomplishments, his ability to tie his own history to every random individual involved in film and Italy over the last sixty years plus, and his passion for physical media, from a list titles to what many would call Z list trash.

We also have some words of appreciation from a few with peers and collaborators to share with all of you.

I value him very much, not only as a colleague. We've worked together on numerous projects, going all the way back to Oh Boy. I can't even remember at this point when we started. It would have been within the last three or four years. I suppose he helped me very much on my book about in Bertellnzi. We have since collaborated on a upcoming book that hopefully will be coming out sometime this year. We have several other projects

But also, you know, the uh.

The the work that we've done in over these last several years, which will hopefully continue for many years to come. I think it's long overdue that he gets some recognition because I don't think there really is anybody in this business who works harder than him. He is insanely prolific.

He's one of the good.

Ones, so long overdue and very richly deserved.

Hi there, Nathaniel Thompson, and I'm just wanting to say congratulations, Eugenio.

It's very well deserved.

I've been honored to sit with you on several audio commentaries and pitching on quite a few other projects over the years, and especially working with you alone and working with you with Troy on some tracks.

It has just been a real pleasure.

And you are passionate knowledge for not just the Italian film industry, but film as a whole is just all inspiring. You truly are inspiration and I can't wait to work on many, many more things with you, And thank you for all you've given all of us, and for setting all these things down for the record that we really need while these talents are still around. It is so important and you are truly doing major, major work. And again, congratulations. I can't think of anybody more deserving.

Hello.

My name is Marcus Schtigdeka. I am a professor of film studies in Germany and I've been producing a bonus material for film releases on Blu Ray for about twenty years now. About eight years ago I met a young guy from Italy whom I got along very well with, and this guy was Eugenio A.

Kolani.

We met at a film festival and talked about our favorite film and things we are interested in, and we even discussed possibilities to do books together because we shared some certain interests. And one of those interests actually resulted in a book some years later, which was our book about the film Cruising by William Friedkin. And this book was released in the Devil's Advocate series and is still available and get some good reviews, and we are really

Lot of things in future.

We've been in contact all over these years and we've been discussing film matters and had a lot of fun meeting in Rome in Berlin, and so I think there is a very vivid working process with Iogenio, which I really appreciate, and I know a lot of his stuff. He keeps sending me his releases, and so I'm well aware of what he did over the years, and it's a plenty of stuff, and he has a lot of

Mister believe we got a random film professor from Germany to speak about it. Fantastic in honor of Sergio Mims and Eugenio Erculani. We would like to encourage everyone to dive deep into film film studies and give the contextual supplements features a moment of your time when consuming the physical media that we love. So here's the Sergio Mims, here's the Eugenio air Coolone.

Thank you to everyone that contributes to these releases. Encourages us all to broaden our understanding of film and film history.

On that note, let's go into Best Interview, since that is one thing that Eugenio is great at.

What's up, y'all. It's KB from KB Loves Movies. On my channel, I have an interview series called The Conversation. It's a great way to get to know fellow movie lovers, whether they are cinema goers, love streaming, or physical media collectors. It seems appropriate that I would introduce the nominees for Best New Interview, so the nominees are.

Doomed to live interview with c. Thomas Howell, The Hitcher four K from Second Sight Films. Conversation between director Gregor Raki and filmmaker Richard Linklater, Gregor Rocky's Team of Trilogy Criterion Collection Interview with Harmony Kareene Gumbo four K from Criterion Collection, A rumination on Salvation, Nicholas Cage on Bringing Out the Dead, Bringing Out the Dead four K Paramount Pictures, a video interview with writer director Paul Schrader Touch Cinematograph.

And the winner of the best interview, as ordered by the Creative Selection Committee is conversation between director Gregor Rocky and filmmaker Richard Linklater on Gregor Roki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Criterion Collection, and the winner is voted by the community is Doomed to Live interview see Thomas Howell The Hitcher four K, Second Side Films. Congratulations to both winners.

All right, here is that Tina Apocalypse Trilogy from Criterion, another big release that people have been wanting for quite some time. Yeah, so glad we got that, and of course some killer titles coming out from Criterion all year. Glad that they've been able to step up on a bunch of pretty big titles. You know, we just saw Harmony Krinn and a couple others that have been pretty big.

You're feeling the heat now because they used to be the only game in town and now they're not. And in fact, I think get scooped quite a bit on releases that people would normally say, oh, that's going to be a criterion. So I think they've they and they started going into four K, which is good for them. I know they kind of you know, we're waiting. I felt, I think a little too long to do it. But they've caught up with the times.

Yeah, they're doing pretty great. Got quite a few nominations this year and they did not get any I think the first year, the second year one of the two, so that's a nice change for them. Yeah, all right. As far as supplemental features, what's your favorite supplemental feature, Michelle, are you a visual essay, commentary, written essay interview person?

I like the written essays, and not just because I do those as well, but I'm just more of like a reading type person. That's the best way I can, like retain information. But I'll never say no to a good visual essay. I always watch all the visual essays on everything.

But yeah, written for me, yeah, I would agree. For the most part. Commentaries are hard to give that much time to. I do it when I can, But written essays or our next category, which is visual essay, is one of my favorites. So let's go back over to Nathaniel Thompson's incredible movie Room to hear from them.

Hey, there are shell Shock Rewinders. I'm Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and you might have heard me on.

God knowess how many commentaries.

I can't even count them all, but it is my pleasure to be back here again this year presenting for the shell Shock rewind Awards, and I will be presenting the winners for Best New Visual Essay and the nominees are.

Coffin Joe's Sedina Underworld by Lindsay Hallam. Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe from Arrow Video, Desperate Times, Call for Desperate Measures by Chris O'Neil, Red Rock West Cinematograph.

Don't let the.

Title fool you. Little Darlings Beyond the Teen Sex Comedy by Sam Deagan Little Darling's four K from Cinematograph. The Kids Aren't All Right by Erica Schultz, Run and Kill from Error four four four four, Tom York Spells the Music of Suspiria by Philip Jeffries Suspiria twenty eighteen four K in print Films.

Okay, well that was some very tough competition. I know we all really want to who the winners are. And first of all, uh huh, there we go. The winner for the Creator Selection Committee, Actually it's a tie. It's Don't Let the Title fool You, Little Darlings Beyond the Teen Sex Comedy by Sam Deagan from A Little Darling's four K by Cinematograph, and the Kids Aren't All Right by Erica Schultz from Run and.

Kill Era four four four. And the winner for the public vote is.

Let's see, it's Don't let the title for you, Little Darlings Beyond the Teen Sex Company by Sam Deagan a Little Darling's four K Cinematograph. Congratulations, rounded, applause, and back to the show.

Congrats, Here's Little Darlings. This is the first title announced by Cinematograph over this last year. An incredible release for a movie that people have wanted for quite some time. And special shout out to Erica, just contributor to many of these releases. I've been honored to work with her a few times and every single time is impressive.

Look all right, the Sweetest Taboo This book is incredible, Well Erica wrote it just doesn't say that, but uh this book if you like want to like know every kid that ever died in a movie ever, like in graphic detail, and you want a book about it that's hilarious. To get this book. I think it's sold out. I don't know if she's going to reprinted, so you might have to buy it secondhand, because I know she it

It's a big deal. Air forty four. Forty four does not get enough attention. Glad that Eric and Sam are getting their due there. But when it comes to essays, a lot of people want to know about the written essays, So let's go for best written Essays to the Good Doctor.

Everyone will Dodson here, and I am thrilled to be here for the third annual Shelf Shock Rewind Awards, presenting Best newly written Essay, not oldly no reprints, all brand new Scholarship and nominees.

Are Heather Donahue and The Imperfect Woman by Mary Beth McAndrews, The Blair Witch Project, Second Sight Films, A Man of All Genres by Erica Schultz, Corpsmania four K, Vinegar Syndrome, Tall Dark Stranger, Robert Harmon's The Hitcher by Heather Draine, The Hitcher four K, Second Site Films, Shout at the Devil, Trick or Treat and Heavy Metal Horror by Sam Began, Trick or Treat four K, Redshirt Pictures, Synapse Films, We Got to Get Out of This Place by Josh Hurtado

The CSC winner is Tall Dark Stranger Robert Harmon's The Hitcher by Heather Draine for the Second Site Films four K release of The Hitcher Excellent and the Community winner Shout at the Devil, Trick or Treat and Heavy Metal Horror by Sam Degan for the Synapse film Red Shirt Pictures produced Trick or Treat four K. Congratulations to Heather drain and to Sam Deacan, well done. We all enjoy reading your works, so keep it coming. In twenty twenty.

Five, Oh my god, that's insane.

That is insane to be even Brodie Lee, my dog is flub mixed.

That's incredible.

I don't I'm especially because that release by Second Sight is just chock full of absolutely brilliant creators and the fact that this category is brimming with people that are so talented, so smart, so established. So I don't know how I got my little gribblin ass in here, but I'm so grateful and I'm grateful to be part of this.

I think these awards.

What's cool about what you do with these is this is just something that is celebrating both physical media, which is such a key part of film preservation, but it's also just part of all of us. We're all a tribe, we're all united by our love of these wonderful, weird, sometimes very underloved movies, and we're all just fighting the good fight.

So I'm so honored.

Thank you, and thanks to Chris Holden, who is the one that brought me on. He's the one that originally reached out to me back in twenty twenty that wild second second site worked there, BLAT's off to get this out and get it right, So so definitely huge kudos to them.

But yeah, thank you so much.

I'm so I'm so honored and absolutely just to be gaggled and be dazzled and all of the bees.

Yeah, you know, all credit there is really do to Sam. I can you know, speak to her talent endlessly, but she's the one who did it, you know, it's for me with Little Darlings. Little Darlings was the first release for Cinematograph, and it was very important to me to not only bring in people who knew what they were doing and kind of set the bar for what the label would be, but with Little Darlings, I also really wanted to have the contributors be women, just by virtue

All right, congratulations to Heather and Sam. Here is Trigger Treat, which has not gotten enough love. This is a pretty crazy release from Synaps and Red Shirt. It's very fancy, especially for a title that people had wanted for decades literally, especially in HD. It's it's pretty remarkable.

Yeah, I'm so happy to see all the ladies kind of cleaning up you know, the awards there. I'm into it.

They've been doing very very well on that note. We've got more from the ladies coming up after this, but first our next special video for everybody. Here's somebody that wanted to share some of their favorites releases from last year as well, So check this out.

Hell everybody, this is Sean Baker, independent filmmaker and lover of physical media. I hope you're all enjoying the Shelf Shock Rewind Awards. Ryan and Jeremy of The Disconnected asked me to come on and tell you guys about some of my favorite releases of the year.

So here we go.

I'll make a fast Grindhouse Releasing's Hollywood nine zero zero two eight, a beautiful release and restoration of pretty much a lost movie which is really a time capsule of a seven Los Angeles. You have Severn's trilogy of the russ Meyer films. My god, this is such a long time coming and they did such a wonderful job. Thank god these films are out and available again. You have criterions Happiness, Todd Salance's masterpiece. Hello, this was so this

Yeah, So Erratick at the end just wanted to get every single thing that he could have.

Those Director Company releases are fantastic. I've been wanting to see a lot of those movies. I feel like the nineteen eighties era in Japan is very unrepresented in physical media, and I was just over the moon that they started releasing those because there's so many films I've been on my watch list that I finally got to knock off and every release is fantastic, two great, great extras on them, and it's crazy you had time to do that, like in between me and Sean Baker. But he has a letterbox.

He definitely has. He consumed so much of it, and I love I love that he knew collectors. We're going to watch this and he's like, hey, this is sealed because I bought two I promise.

I was totally thinking that I'm not gonna lie. I was like, where did I seal await poser?

No.

He he is a voracious consumer of this stuff. And one of the things that I've heard him talk about before is loving commentaries. Let's go over to Senate Journeys to share the best commentary.

Come and live from my house in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm Chill Blake. This is Aaron West. This is Ruby and we are from senat Journey Cina journeys dot com.

We are the co founders.

And owners of Cena Journeys, a community for cinophiles, and we've got a lot of great things coming on immagin. Sarah Smith is going to be leading a class on palin Pressburger. We also have our good friend Millie to Cheriko who is going to be leading a class in the summer.

A lot of great things happening.

Yeah, and we had to do this because she was going to bark and.

I'm out of breath because she's really heavy.

And so I have a book, the A twenty four New Wave As we have a crowd fun campaign that's about to end, I think this week when this airs. But we are presenting the nominees for the Best New Commentary. Hey, and the nominees are commentarys are amazing. Make more commentaries.

Go Blu rays that.

Yeah, we'll take a DVD.

You could just shout me a commentary and I will take that.

Ribby will take a commentary at any time.

The nominees are.

Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloane, John Gallagher Junior, and Michael Trucco, Hush four K from Scream Factory, Alexandra Heller Nicholas, The Hitcher four K Second Site Films Alexandra Heller Nicholas and Josh Nelson, The Blair Witch Project Second Site Films, Chris O'Neill and Erica Schultz Deep in the Heart from Fun City Editions, Kevin Smith the four thirty movie four K lions Gate.

And the winners of that new commentary are Alexandra Heller Nicholas for The Hitcher Second Site Films. She's an amazing, huge release. She does great commentaries, so I'm very happy for that. And the community winner is Hush four K from Screen Factory.

Do you want to read the name?

Sure?

Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloane, John Gallagher Junior, and Michael.

My personal favorite from Battlestar Galactic Truth.

All right, thanks, so hello, thank you for this award. My name is alex Heller Nicholas, beaming to you now from the bottom of the planet down here in Australia, and what a joy it is to have such a

It's magical.

It's a magical film, a magical team at Second Sight, and it's such an honor to have played such a small part in this incredible release.

I'd also like to.

Dedicate this award if I made, to Lee Gambon, the late Australian film critical Lee Gambon, who of course is not a new name if you're familiar with audio commentaries at all from boutique labels over the past decade or so. We lost Le in twenty twenty four, and he's with me and so many people every day, and especially in the work that I do in this space.

Thanks thank you to everyone who voted for Hush as Best Commentary. It's one of my all time favorite productions. That was for Shout Factory. Mike Flanagan and his wife Katie, they really rolled out the red carpet for us for several days. They let us really take over their home and it was unforgettable. Mike and I bonded very quickly over our shared love of Stephen King. I walked in his office and immediately noticed a Caine sitting by the door,

We've heard the hitcher butt fifteen times tonight wanted to make sure that we've got a shout out to Hush, which, no kidding, maybe the best release from Screen Factory in like years. This is, you know, first time to disc this was on streaming only for quite some time, and it looks incredible. It's got the brand new cut on here. Not to mention, the commentary is not just a regular commentary. They did a video commentary for this, which I wish

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a video commentary honestly where they just set up a camera and show everybody and the recording it. That sounds really cool. I'll have to check that one out.

Yes, it's it's a pretty great And we've got one more announcement before or one more category before we go into our next giveaway, So get ready to type if you are one of the giveaway types. Next, we're going to our best single or double feature release. So basically, anything that isn't a buck set was available here. It had to be one or two films, and that is it. Let's jump over the pond to hear.

From physical media people. I am crit from Cripprit Productions, a channel where this Internet nerd gets to talk about movies. I'm here upon the glamorous request to present the award for best Single or Double Feature Release. Our nominees are.

The Blair Witch Project Second Site Films, The Conan Chronicles four K Era Video, the Hitcher four K second Site Films, Hollywood nine zero zero two eight, Grindhouse Releasing looking for Mister Goodbar four K Vinegger Syndrome.

And the winner for best Single or Double Feature Release by way of our creators Selection Committee, is The Conan Chronicles four K released by our ow Video. And our winner, chosen by our wonderful community is looking for Mister Goodbar on four K by Vinegar Syndrome.

Wow.

Okay, all right, that's that's exciting.

You know again, another title that went overlooked for a number of years. People had requested it, we had been after it for a while. It took a lot to get it going and to get it out, so thank you. A lot of hard work went into that one. I will be one hundred percent honest. We didn't know how that title was going to be received. We knew that there were fans of it and people who wanted to see it. But I'm excited to see it get as much love as it is, So that's that's surprising.

Thank you.

I'm glad.

So two titles we haven't heard much about tonight, The Conan Chronicles. This is the double feature from Arrow, which is a pretty astonishing release. If you've not picked up either of these, still get them.

I don't like this the other movie, so.

Most people do not. That makes it not to mention your artwork is incredible on that one.

Yeah, the art works really nice on it too. That was another like winning up. This is like a really great release, like I'd never I feel like I've been watching like a dusty version forever, and I was like, wow, this is actually a very colorful, kind of deep, like huge movie and I've never seen it look like that before. I've always watched the old washed out they left it out in the sun copy or something.

Uh and then of course uh literally, I would say one of the best movies released last year Looking for Mister Goodbar incredible. Get for Vinegar Syndrome, a title that people have had on their list of like will never be released on physical media ever, And they showed up like crazy in November alone that most of their slate were Grail titles, which how do you top that? Moving forward? That seems dangerous.

I know they must have some even more cool stuff coming.

Well. Speaking of cool stuff coming, they always do really great things for their April Fool's Day. This year they gave away this wonderful Side Roads blank slipcover and Michelle's got something to show you.

I this is. This is the limited edition version. You need to zoom in on like the abs. I spent thirty minutes were on those abs in it. As you can tell, I, guys, I have as taco meat chest hairs on there. You know what, Boobs are hard to draw. I'm never gonna talk shit about dudes dat drawing boobs bad ever again, because hits are hard to draw.

Man.

I don't know what happened there, but as you can see, I can't draw with the shit. But this will be on sale on eBay for five hundred dollars. The yeah, that's gonna be. That's gonna start after the award show, so you guys can get your pocket, you know, get your phones ready for that.

Well, if you want to do your version of your own, we are giving away a copy of Side Roads sealed with the draw your own slipcover markers and everything. Right now, let's hear the question for this giveaway.

So the question is what year was Vinegar Syndrome founded?

First one to answer gets it, and I'm expecting this one to get answered much quicker than our first question tonight. Look at that.

Wow, one second, geez.

Eric Johnson is correct. Twenty twelve is the first year they were a label. The archive was around for a little bit longer than that, but vin Ger Syndrome itself as a label was twenty twelve. That's a huge deal, Eric, send me an email to remind me already got your address, but I will get this out to you as soon as we're done. This is such a great thing. I'm glad the people have been able to fall in love with this brand new idea of dryer on slipcover. Curious

This, folks, The Vegan Satanist Year from Germany. My second time for the shell Shop rewind Awards.

I'm so glad to be back.

OK, but that doesn't matter. Now I should introduce myself here and tell you who I am. For those who don't know who I am, I told you I'm the Vegan Satanist. So if you know who I am, you know that I'm the Vegan Satanist. Anyhow, anyway, what have I done? Well, I've done a documentary about Incentprise, which is coming this year, keep your eyes up.

And also I was working for some.

Labors in Germany, so that gave me the reason to represent the award for Best Region BEE Release. Yes, even the Europeans have some releases in Region B which should be awarded, and that is what I do. Solap your hands, everybody. The nominees for Best Region BE Release are ah, guys, I don't know.

Bellatar occurs on Collection Curson, The Blair Witch Project second site Films, Columbia Noir Number six, The Whistler Indicator, Green Room four K second site Films, The Hitcher four K second site Films.

Luis Fullad, the Complete crime Serials in nineteen thirteen to nineteen eighteen, Eureka Entertainment.

Nothing Is Sacred, three Heresies by Lewis Boonwell, Radiance Films, The.

Third Man four K from Studio Canal.

We're back, all right, Okay, so the winner for best Region be release. So we have two selections. We have community right and we have CSC, which is create a selection committee.

It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up.

This section here is specially because obviously I'm the guy who's hosting it. But we can make it short here because voted by the CSC and voted by the community are the same winner. Yes, like Helenda, there can only be one. And this time it's the movie and you can get it now. It's a room you ready, all right? Which is the movie with Rutka Howard not sitting on the roof and crying. Yeah, that's only yeah.

You got me.

It's Sitcher four K from Second Signed Films. Voted by CSC and voted by community. Congrats guys, great job, great release.

I love that.

Keep on doing that shit because you know we need more physical media anyhow, it was nice to have me on the show, and I wish you a lot of fun.

Keep it physical.

We see us down there on the road, and yeah, watch out for the Winston Price documentary. Over and art from the Vegan Satanist and I try to riddle this puzzle again. Couldn't be sorry, right, it's easy, It's I don't know, it's French.

I must say. I'm like super into their entire everything that was happening. They're little. I thought I throw it out there.

I was just I like their look out Laurent, who's in the chat obviously the hitcher cleaning up tonight. Incredible release. Glad people are into that. I really want to shout out to Laurent's documentary on Vincent Price. I'm about halfway through it right now, doing some QC with him, and it's incredible. Cannot wait for people to see it. It is a remarkable achievement. He's done some great work and I just I don't know. I wish I could share with everybody right now. It is so damn good.

It's incredible quick of Vincent Price. That b a vice that they put out with his cooking with Vincent Price was a fantastic release too. I mean it's like all the recipes like if you cook them, they would be gross, but it's just like fun to watch him, you know, just like you know, freeballing all the recipes and he obviously didn't study any of them or try them out at any point beforehand. And it's a really great release. Like if anybody wants more Vincent Price, I.

Agree, Yes, it is one that everybody should have. It is a lot of fun. Shout out to my friend John who did some editing with the interview that's on that disc as well with Victoria Price, Vincent's daughter. We've had Region B. Let's get to Region A and find out what the best Region A releases.

Hi, I'm justin beam with Reverend Entertainment. I'm a producer of special features for a number of different studios and labels like Paramount, Shout Factory, Umbrella, Arrow Video, and a bunch of others. I'm really honored to be part of these awards this year. I think it's a wonderful thing you guys are doing in terms of celebrating physical media, something that is needed now more than my category to present his best Region A release, And here are the nominees.

All the Haunts Byres a compendium of Full Core Volume two from several films. Frank Capra at Columbia Collection four K Sony.

Pictures, Hollywood nine zero zero two eight, Grindhouse Releasing, The Keep four K Vinegar Syndrome, Looking for Mister Goodbar four K Vinegar Syndrome, Opera four K Severn Films, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid four K Criterion Collection, The Tenant four K Vineger Syndrome.

And the selection committee and community winner is All the Haunts be Ours Volume two from sever in films. I'm a huge fan of both of these releases and cannot recommend them highly enough.

Cheers to David Gregory.

And everyone else who is involved in both of these especially that volume two that's won both categories this year for Region A.

Seven. Cleaning up this year with All the Haunts bi Ores Volume two.

Man, Wow, it's a great release. I mean, I'm not surprised honestly.

Yeah, especially when you are bringing so many, I mean thirteen different discs. There are I don't remember fifteen or sixteen films in this thing. It's a hell of a big package to put out there. And David Gregory killed it with this and Kila Jenny's incredible producer. Probably not much of a surprise after those who hear about best box set, but let's jump right into it.

Bill media lovers, I'm Jason Kleeberg from the Fource five podcast to show where I forced my guest to come up with a movie themed two five list topic and then we reveal our picks on air. There's nothing quite like a good box set, stuffing all kinds of films and special features into one great looking package that looks amazing on your shelf. And let me tell you, twenty

All the Haunts Bars a Compendium of Folk Horror Volume two, severin Films, Frank Kaepra at Columbia Collection, four K Sony Pictures, Dia Gothic Japanese ghost stories from Radiance Films, The Game of Clones, Bruce Playtation Collection Volume one from Severin Films.

The House Is of Doom Cauldron Films.

All right, let's open the Toy Story toy chest and see who the winners are. Oh, we got a good one here, all right. The Creator's Selection Committee winner is All the Haunts Be Hours, a compendium a full CORR Volume two from Seven Films. An amazing achievement, to be sure. And the community winner is also All the Haunts Be Hours, a compendium of Full Core Volume two by Severn Films. Make sure to pick that box set up. Make sure to pick up the first one too, because both great sets.

That you love.

Shout out to the Toy Story box sets.

I've never seen that one before.

Yeah, that one was pretty rare if I remember right again, Seven just absolutely killing it. Obviously. All the Haunts BRS Volume two is big on everybody's mind as they were voting this last January. Reminder that we are likely going to be doing this again next year. As you are buying stuff throughout the year. If you want to be nerdy about it, take some notes. Hey, I love this one.

Oh hi, it's me Oscar Bescher, archivist and vault manager for Vinegar Syndrome and all around depressing guy to be around. Every act of film preservation starts small and ends big, whether it's the first splice on the soul surviving moldy element or exorbitant fees paid to find and license a forgotten classic. I delivered that line perfectly. Unfortunately, small in film preservation usually means not getting the credit you deserve

Crocodile, Fun City Additions, Connie Release, Mondo, Macabre, Second Site Films.

And the Oscar goes to I mean, the award goes to the wickedly talented nef Crocodile.

Okay, Mike and camera are off.

That's pretty good.

Did I get everything that I was supposed to get?

You did what you did? Forget the Community Award?

Okay, let's do really quickly, really quickly.

Okay, one, two, three, And more importantly than anything else, the Community Award this year was given to the great and powerful Second Site Films. Thank you to the Academy.

That is awesome.

Wow.

Okay, I didn't see that coming either.

That's that's very cool.

I was.

I was mentioning though, like this, probably with the with the amount of put stuff we're putting out now, I don't think we'll qualify for that next year.

Wow.

That's that's awesome.

Thank you to whoever was out there and voted force. That's again. I honestly I saw the denominees this year and I was like, well, we ain't getting anything this year.

Twenty twenty four was really a watershed year for US as a as a small boutique label because we made the big transitions, as you know, from working with OC and Vinegar Syndrome to our new partner, Diabolic DVD. So I'd like to first extend any normal US thank you to Jesse Nelson and everyone at Diabolic dvd dot Com for helping us UH. You know, there were a couple of months there we were like are people going to

Is very very very very unexpected.

Thank you. Shout out to Deff Crocodile. They want to see sc vote by one vote. Second Site almost swept this one. They barely barely eked out a win over Second Site, which is huge, one of my favorites.

I love them, and I wanted to shout this release out a little bit more. It got nominated. It's hardl like because I'm like reversed. Okay, it got nominated, but I didn't win. But I wanted to see a good copy of this forever forever. I had like this terrible bootleg and it was like you could hardly see anything and had terrible subtitles. And this is so great, and Walter chaw is on it, and I'm a chaw head. I just made that up. But we can all sit, we can all cause off chawhands. But This is just

Uh yeah, it's a great release. That movie blew my mind the first time I watched it. Really really well done. All right, Well, we've heard about the small slate, so let's look at large slate, which is anything over fifteen releases in one year. And uh, I still can't believe that one of my favorite critics, Jim Tutor, made this incredible video for us. Check it out.

Hi.

I'm Jim Tutor.

I'm a film critic prozikfilm dot org and screen anarchy dot com. And it's my great honor to be here tonight to present you award for best single Slate from a Large Slate boutique label. You know, these boutique labels have been knocking it out of the park in the year twenty twenty four, and I'm sure we can look forward to such great work in twenty twenty five. And that, to me above all proves that physical media is not dead.

I mean, good grief.

If physical media were dead you, show me the grave.

Show me the.

Well, dear.

Well.

The nominees are.

Ero Video, Criterion Collection, Keino, Lorbers, Severin Films. Vinegar said, drawl, no, no.

This can't be.

This can't be.

Ray Hey, I.

Bet the winner's right here.

Physical media fairs as hell.

Let me is this a cherry parody?

The winner of the Creator Selection Committee is.

Seven.

The winner of the Faith Community is Vinegar Syndrome.

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Hello, hey, come on, I'm shock and get out of the ward.

Uh thank you. I mean that's that's great to hear. We try really.

Hard to make that we have a little bit something for everyone. You know.

We know we have fans here at VS who've been with us since the very beginning, and we'd never want to forget about our roots. We are doing more studio titles these days, which is great, but we still try to pick titles and curate like an overall selection that appeals to a wide audience, but essentially our core fans and you know, we have we're all about film preservation restoration here, but we recognize that, you know, the fans want to see the movies.

We want to see the sleazy movies.

The Grindhouse movies, the slasher movies, all that kind of stuff. So even our studio titles we try to cultivate to fit our brand and but also give a little something for all the different genre fans out there.

So thank you.

That's really great. We try hard to make sure we have a good catalog for all the fans out there.

So thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you to the CSC for voting ass slate as impressive for last year.

It was, and we were very very.

Very proud to have worked so hard on it and to bring all the releases out. And I would venture to say we have an even more ambitious slate this year, as you can see from the whiteboard over there, So I won't be relaxing anytime soon, but I thank you anyway.

I don't even know how to follow that up. That was a lot.

Is that arcade machine and Severn? What game is that? Is it just the machine with another game?

And it?

Does anybody know? That's not trivia question? By the way, I'm just curious. You win nothing if you answer this, but.

My respect, I'm laugh. If somebody has that answer, queue up and that would be great. I'll have to look because I actually was able to go to seven HQ this year, so I'll see if I took a picture of it. Yeah, that was incredible. Glad to see vs and Severn getting their due there. Big shout out to Jim Tutor for that incredible carry parody.

It was amazing. I'm logging that on my letterbox. When we're done.

The Tutor carry parody, We've got one more category before our last giveaway of the night, So let's go take a look at best new label. Hi.

I'm Adam and I'm Charlotte, and together we're per Damage. We're a husband and wife team that work in the film industry.

That's right, and this is a show where we talk about the hidden histories of Hollywood and about film restoration.

I work in production and I work.

In film restoration at the oldest studio still in Hollywood. And speaking of film restoration, film restoration is a collaboration. And you know what else is a collaboration. PERF Damage is and you know what else is a collaboration physical media production. And without the right labels doing the work, we wouldn't get the best versions of our favorite films.

And as people who spend way too much time talking about film formats, way too much green structure and new transfers. We're honored to introduce this year's best New Label.

That's right.

They've done the work, they've preserved the art, and they've given us one more reason to rearrange our media shelves.

And let's be real, we're all out of space, but we keep buying the releases anyway.

Yes he does, Yes I do. But this is truly a vintage worth celebrating.

Well, cheers to that.

And the nominees for Best New Label are.

Bleeding Skull, Cartoon Now, Celluloid Dreams, Cinematograph, Grave Faced Films.

You know it opens with a bouquet of freshly struck nitrate of finely aged acid tate in a bit of archital dust.

Oh yeah, and you know what I'm getting pints of masterly crafted hard boxes blended with a piquance of media book splinter.

I don't really get that, but you know it does finish with this crisp, clean finish of free of digital noise and unnecessary dn R.

And the winner for Best New Label, as voted by the Creators Selection Committee is.

Matagraph.

You know it lingers like a long lost director's cut meticulously restored to its former glory.

I can see that for sure.

And the winner for best New Label, as voted by the community is Cinematograph.

That's yeah.

I I.

Wasn't expecting it, Honestly.

I was kind of really worried about it.

I didn't think it was something that was a given, just in terms of the other you know folks who are nominated, who I think I'll bring something really exciting to the table for what we're doing, you know, just boutique home video. So I never for once took this for granted. I actually honestly thought it was not gonna happen, which maybe was the best way for me to go into it. But yeah, I'm extremely grateful that, you know,

Justin a shout out for Cinematograph also, so it just brought up the name and how much he had to do with it. So on your keyboards, giveaway number four, Where did Cinematograph get their name? Where did Cinematograph get their name? Whoever gets this one right is going to win three brand new limited edition Cinematograph titles that are in stock of your choice. Three cinematograph titles of your choice.

Let's got it, Oha me.

Look, I'm gonna go with the best one. Here is Celeste actually that names everything, Lumier Brothers and inventing the camera. We got French Cinema, French theater, Lumier Camera close there, but I'm gonna go Celeste was the most right. Celeste. I will message you and we will get get it figured out which three Cinematograph title you would like to send to you. Incredible, incredible releases from Cinematograph this year. I know a lot of people are happy about what

They're not in German. Nice a lot with German, I just don't speak it correct.

Correct, So that's huge. It is nice to see that we're continuing to get really underseen releases from them. They've done a lot of great work. Touch coming out from them was a big deal for a lot of people. Obviously, Little Darling's Red Rock West was a huge win early in the year from them. They've got some big titles coming up that I can't wait to get and exciting to see what they've been able to do so far. So congrats Leste, and send me a message. We'll get

To everyone watching at home, I'm Rich Johnson, writer an educator on film. You can check out my work at rich pieces dot com. But today I'm here to announce the nominees for the category Best Regent be Label.

The nominees are.

Ero Video, Imprint Films, Indicators, Radiance Films, Second Sight Films, and.

The winner is.

It's Radiance Films Bravo. No surprise there, knocking out of the park as usual. I can't even keep up with these releases, but huge congratulations.

Yeah amazing.

I mean, you know, I can't kind of get over all the the accolades that we've received as as a label. You know, I kind of think like Hacks and Planet of the Vampires Masaravivil. You've got these titles where people going to be like, yeah, this is great. But to have the recognition for the label as a whole is amazing, And you know, it's it's why we do this, you know. It's it's the fan recognition, It's the integration with the fans.

You know, people who've got sort of more of a.

Direct focus, and that's great, and sometimes I think are we doing too much. But then it all is just kind of like, this is cool, let's do that so that people agree is amazing.

Radiance takes it for Region B again, it's it's their second year.

I love them. They're one of the few I get every single release they put out because just every single one is like a good movie, even if I've never heard of it before. And their releases are just outstanding in every single way.

Not only are they like you know, well packaged with a great transfer and great extras, they're titles that people have either never heard of or we find out are incredible films that have just gone long forgotten, and now here we are delivered in a beautiful package. Radiance absolutely killing it. Fran doing great work over there, and can't wait to see what they got next. That was Region B. Now the question is who wins for Region A. Let's head up to Seattle, Washington to find out.

Everybody.

I'm Matt Lynch, I'm Emily Soaderback.

We are from Scarecrow Video. We are the hosts of Scarecrow's YouTube show Viva Physical Media, and we are here to introduce the winners for the category of best Region A Label. But before we get to that I'll tell you about Scarecrow. Scarecrow is the biggest nonprofit video archive on the planet, basically the biggest video store on Earth. We have over one hundred and fifty thousand individual titles, more than any other streaming services combined. You can rent

And the nominees for Best Region A Label.

Are Aero Video, Criterion Collection, Keno Larber, Severin Films, Vinegar Syndrome.

And the winner for Best Region A Label as voted on by the Creator Selection Committee is Vinegar Syndrome. Got some good Vinegar Syndrome discs here Congo underappreciated. I wrote the book let essay for Virtuosity, so make sure you pick.

That one up.

And the winner for Best Region A Label as voted by you the community is once again Vinegar Syndrome.

Amazing job.

We love Vinegar Syndrome here, congratulations, check.

Out some of their releases and thanks bye.

Okay, all right, well listen.

You know, first and foremost, we're company, which means that you know, we we specialize in releasing films here to the you know, the US, the region A you know, I don't know to say the region a district if you will. You know, there's a lot of companies out there throughout the world doing good stuff, and you know, we try to make sure that we represent our area and do the best that we can.

And thank you.

That's great. That was a surprise.

Congrats Vinegar Syndrome. That's a big, big deal. They have put out a lot of legendary titles and again they had an incredible November slate last year that alone was just magnificent.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely fantastic entire year. Really, I've picked up a lot of their stuff. Also, like there are a lot of their partner labels. They have like a really good selection array of different types of like people that put stuff out so of like whatever your taste in film is, you can find a label that kind of case, which is I think is cool too.

Speaking of finding films that match your taste. You'll notice that somebody's in the chat sharing some comments. Tonight, we got one last special video and just a warning, he's gonna laugh at this buckle in. It's a ten minute video, but this is absolutely worth it. Here is our last surprise of the night and thank you ahead of time. Joe.

Hello all you physical media lovers. Hi, I'm Joe Lynch. The lovely folks at Disconnected, Ryan and Jeremy Yea. Ryan and Jeremy over at Disconnected asked me to reach out and give a little video testimonial of some of my favorite physical media releases from last year. Now truth be told. Two disclaimers here one. Not all of these came out

Sorry.

The transfer is amazing if you haven't seen what I consider maybe one of russ Meyer's finest work. I know that they had the wonderful Severn collection that they reproduced this past year, but I needed to get beyond the value of the dolls, and god damn it, I did. I've always been a Sam Fuller fan, but I never really got the enjoyment of seeing one of his I guess you could say like one of his non noir film because I was always knowing him for his noir.

Fuck is going on there? Amazing. Thank you Joe.

I can listen to him talk like he needs to make like a three hour video and it's just him going through every single movie is cutching and telling me about it. I would watch that definitely.

Three hours is really underselling it.

I think.

If you guys are into Joe Lynch want to hear more. There's actually an interview with him on my channel. You can check that out. We talked about suitable Flesh quite a bit and depression. If you're into both of those, Thanks Joe for doing that. We only have one more award to give out tonight, and this is this is like our Oscar for Best Picture. This is best overall release. This is a huge deal. Twenty twenty four was a massive deal for physical media, and I am just baffled

All the Haunts be Ours a compendium of Full Core Volume two, Severin Films, The Blair Witch Project, Second Site Films, Frank Capra at Columbia Collection, four K Sony Pictures, The Game of Clones, Grouse Politation Collection Volume one, sever In.

Films, Hollywood nine zero zero two eight, Grindhouse Releasing, Shasco Volume three, Aero Video, The Hitcher four K Second Site Films, The Keep, four K Vinegar Syndrome, The Never Ending Story, four K Imprint Films, Trick or Treat four K red Shirt Pictures, Synaps Films.

Will Uh. Lots of great titles up for Best Release, Michelle, you want to share who our winner is? Here?

Oh well, let me look. I don't want to, like, you know, like that one Oscars where they were like, oh it's Lola and whoops, you know, like I don't want you that one. So the best overall release h for the Critics Choice is All the hauntspi hours, and the winner for the People's Choice is also All Hantspiars. It won both awards everybody that release. It's the best.

It is incredible. I hope people check it out. It is a remarkable one. And finally, since we have not heard anything about all the hauntspiars all night, let's get a word from the master producer herself, Cala Jannie.

Hi.

Everyone, I just want to give huge thanks to the Shelf Shock rewind Awards for the incredible honor of God, all these awards for all the HAUNTSPI Hours Volume two, which I have here.

Next to me, God to win.

I think we got best Horror Release, Best region a Release, Best overall release, many different awards that that I mean like are incredible because I know the amazing competition that's out there. I buy a lot of discs from other companies, and I get inspired every day by all my colleagues

The bulk of the box set.

The outer box, the inner sleeves, the booklet that came with it, and Luke Insect designed the first box set. He's also designed many other projects for me. He's a UK based artist I work with a lot because he's really versatile and really interesting. He has a really psychedelic vision, you know for his art that I try to tap into with a lot of my projects. And Drayson Cosjen, who's a Canadian illustrator who designed all of the artwork for the book of fiction that came with the box sets.

So thanks everybody, So.

Once again, congrats to Severn and Kayla Denice and David Gregory, Andrew Furtado and everybody at Severn, Carl Daft. It's a huge accomplishment. All the hotsprs won a shit ton of awards. It's an incredible box set. I hope people check it out. That being said, it's the end of the show. Hopefully you enjoyed. I'm gonna be updating the descriptions for all the videos with links to everybody that presented tonight, with links for everything that you might need to find resources on.

Definitely. I'm so glad you invited me on. I hope that I lived up to everybody's expectations because I have really bad anxiety, so I was worried. I was, but Godzilla gave me powers, he kept me company. This is my comfort, Godzilla. So that's actually why I brought it out here. But I hope you guys had fun, and I hope I wasn't too weird or anything.

Not at all. Everybody seemed to love your nails. That's that was a big thing.

O my purple nails.

All right, everybody, make sure you subscribe to see more videos coming out here and in the future. Thanks to all the special guest Sean Baker, Joe Lynch, fran Galoopi, the entire cast from Dinner in America incredible, had a blast tonight, guys, thank you all so much for watching, and most likely we'll see you next year.

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