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Our Favorite Releases of 2025 - A Physical Media Episode · Beyond The Blood: A Horror Movie Commentary Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast Network.
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  Speaker 2: If you're looking for more horror outside of the mainstream,
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody to the Beyond the Blood of Podcasts.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Chris Higgins, and as always I'm joined
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  Speaker 6: What's up, Dude, what's happening the Man?
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  Speaker 5: We're back, dude, Welcome to twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 6: New year.
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  Speaker 5: Say us right, nothing's changed, nothing's changed, so we're not
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  Speaker 5: Look man, we're not in it yet though, because we're
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  Speaker 5: here to kind of talk about twenty twenty five, talk
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  Speaker 5: about some of our favorite physical media releases, kind of
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  Speaker 5: recap on the show a little bit, and then we
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  Speaker 5: can kind of fast forward back to the present talk
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  Speaker 5: about kind of what's coming this year for the show
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  Speaker 5: and just kind of where we're at and what we
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  Speaker 5: what we want to plan to do. So, I know,
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  Speaker 5: we both hope everybody's Christmas and New Year's or whatever
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  Speaker 5: holidays you celebrated went well, and we're fun and we're
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  Speaker 5: very festive. We hope you watched Silent Night, Deadly Night,
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  Speaker 5: Southern Night, Deadly Night Part two, Soundly Christmas Race, Silent Night,
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  Speaker 5: Daily Night Part four, then Night Night Part five, Silent Night,
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  Speaker 5: and then went to the theaters to see Silent Deadly Night.
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  Speaker 6: Got to.
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  Speaker 3: Just got to keep that going.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be complaining. I'll leave it at that.
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  Speaker 3: How about you, man, how's your holidays wonderful?
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  Speaker 6: I got caught up on a bunch of Christmas horror
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  Speaker 6: movies leading up to the holiday, and isn't that all
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  Speaker 6: we can ask for? Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't watch as much as I thought I
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  Speaker 3: was going to.
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  Speaker 5: I had this whole stack sitting on top of my
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  Speaker 5: region free player, and I didn't get to any of them.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think well.
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  Speaker 6: I will say it was tough getting through the amount
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  Speaker 6: of movies that I was ambitiously trying to get through
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  Speaker 6: before Christmas. Yeah, And I will also say trying to
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  Speaker 6: narrow this down today for the releases that we picked
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  Speaker 6: out of countless exciting releases that we got in twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty five was very tough.
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  Speaker 5: This was a crazy year, man, Because I think I
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  Speaker 5: kind of talked about this on my Instagram a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I think this year was really definitive for physical media collectors.
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  Speaker 5: We saw a big push for new collectors, which if
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  Speaker 5: you're listening to your new collector, don't listen to what
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  Speaker 5: anybody says. You are welcome, Please ask questions and get
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  Speaker 5: into it and tell us your favorite releases, do all
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  Speaker 5: the things that you feel the need to do, because
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  Speaker 5: we welcome you with open arms.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Between the volume of new collectors the volume of releases,
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  Speaker 5: I think we learned a lot this year about what
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  Speaker 5: to spend money on, what not to, how to hold
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  Speaker 5: off for some sales, you know, what to pull the
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  Speaker 5: trigger on immediately. There was a good amount of kind
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  Speaker 5: of controversy around some things, and I think it was
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  Speaker 5: pretty well balanced with the good and the bad. Probably
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  Speaker 5: a little bit more good this year in our space,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think so. I think that there was
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  Speaker 5: a lot too, I think cubatively, a lot of us,
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  Speaker 5: specifically in the horror genre. We all kind of had
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  Speaker 5: right about the same list of like top ten releases
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  Speaker 5: of the year. It kind of felt like the biggest
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  Speaker 5: releases were pretty definitive for everybody, and then you know
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  Speaker 5: around kind of maybe that that upper or that lower
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  Speaker 5: of that ranking, there's kind of something that come in
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  Speaker 5: and now, as you'll see, like our picks today are
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  Speaker 5: very different. We went very different directions with our picks, but.
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  Speaker 3: A great year. Nonetheless.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I feel like even even the ones and
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  Speaker 6: we'll obviously dive into them here shortly, but the ones
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  Speaker 6: that you picked out, there's like a mutual respect for
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  Speaker 6: him because I love those movies just as much. So
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  Speaker 6: very excited to have a chance to talk about both
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  Speaker 6: of our selections.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of stuff this year. A lot of
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  Speaker 5: movies people were looking to get upgraded. We we've had
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  Speaker 5: released from multiple labels you know, over us, which I
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  Speaker 5: think is is good thanks to our access through through uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, through through the websites we shop through the
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  Speaker 5: Movie Room, Orbit, Diabolic, brother Lyle Valoria. You know, we're
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  Speaker 5: able to get our hands on releases that weren't intended
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  Speaker 5: for us, and that's kind of created a lot of
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  Speaker 5: conversation because Company A released something into US, and then
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  Speaker 5: Company B releases something into UK, and then people like
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  Speaker 5: the the UK won better people like ours. But there
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  Speaker 5: was so much of that this year.
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  Speaker 6: I think now more than ever, I feel like it's
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  Speaker 6: almost tough as a collector trying to decide is this
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  Speaker 6: something that I need to pull the triggerund immediately or
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  Speaker 6: is there gonna be another boutique label that ends up
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  Speaker 6: releasing it a later point. And there's a couple releases
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  Speaker 6: that will how we talk about here on this episode,
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  Speaker 6: that are getting multiple releases, And that's kind of the
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  Speaker 6: challenging aspect about you know what we so much.
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  Speaker 5: We just talked about it before we went live with
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  Speaker 5: John Wu's Hard Boiled. You know, you bought the US
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  Speaker 5: screen Factory, I held off and bought the Arrow four K,
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, I don't know really what the difference is
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  Speaker 5: between the two outside of packaging, but it just came
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  Speaker 5: down to I think it wasn't I want I Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I wanted the Shout Factory one, but when the Era
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  Speaker 5: one came out, it just was a more attractive price
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  Speaker 5: and I ended up liking the appearance of it better.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I will say for Hard Boiled, I believe that
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  Speaker 6: this was one of the would you say it was
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  Speaker 6: one of the first releases in the midst of Scream
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  Speaker 6: Factory Shout Studios transitioning over to Groove basically as like
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  Speaker 6: the storefront.
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  Speaker 5: It came out like right in the middle of everything
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  Speaker 5: that was going on. I remember, because I think there
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  Speaker 5: was some a lot of people were mad because they
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  Speaker 5: couldn't get access to it.
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  Speaker 3: It sold out temporarily, sold.
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  Speaker 6: Out very quickly, and I didn't really expect that. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: now it's more readily available, but there was a point
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  Speaker 6: in time when it was initially released where it was
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  Speaker 6: really hard to come by. And yeah, I have to
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  Speaker 6: respect Shout Studios for planting the flag with this film
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  Speaker 6: because this release was so exciting for those out there
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  Speaker 6: who have seen this movie before or were holding out
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  Speaker 6: for more of a definitive release, whether it's for Shout
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  Speaker 6: Studios or Errow eventually, but this one, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 6: this movie in years, and to see it probably in
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  Speaker 6: the best format that we'll ever get for this movie.
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  Speaker 6: Between you these releases, I was very impressed. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 6: amount of movies that Shout Studios is in the process
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  Speaker 6: of getting ready to release. I mean, we already have
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  Speaker 6: the Killer Better Tomorrow trilogy. I believe City on Fire
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  Speaker 6: was another one that just recently got a release.
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  Speaker 5: Bullet in the head I think just came out or
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  Speaker 5: is coming out like this week.
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  Speaker 6: Yep. So there's there's a lot of exciting stuff coming
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  Speaker 6: out of Shout Studios. And we know that they've also
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  Speaker 6: struck a deal with with Aero Video as well, so
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  Speaker 6: it's good to have options. Right with this release, it
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  Speaker 6: was so refreshing to see something come out of Shout Studios.
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  Speaker 6: I was legitimately excited about this year, and this movie delivered.
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  Speaker 6: It looked wonderful. It was just from start to finish,
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  Speaker 6: it was on the edge of my seat, you know,
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  Speaker 6: after not seeing this movie in such a long time.
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  Speaker 6: But the four K transfer looked excellent. There's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of new features that was added on to this release.
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  Speaker 6: So there was a couple audio commentaries that had gotten
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  Speaker 6: added on specifically for this release, so have an audio
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  Speaker 6: commentary with director John Wu and film journalist Drew Taylor.
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  Speaker 6: Also one with film historian don't kill me if I'm
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  Speaker 6: butchering his name, Frank Jing. And then it looks like
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  Speaker 6: that there were a few archival commentaries on here as well.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this is loaded with special features, so there's
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  Speaker 6: actually a couple new interviews with director John Wu, actor
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  Speaker 6: Anthony Wong, producer Terrence Chang, screenwriter Gordon Chan, let's see
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  Speaker 6: interview with screenwriter Chung Han Kou, interview with composer Michael Gibbs,
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  Speaker 6: and let's see author Leon Hunt, and academic ling thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just happy that I made it through all
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  Speaker 6: those notable interviews without hopefully not butchering too many names.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, if you're looking to get into
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  Speaker 6: some of John Woo's films, this is a perfect starting point.
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  Speaker 6: I was really impressed. I haven't really been blown away
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  Speaker 6: by any of like Shout Studios releases in some time,
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  Speaker 6: and this one for sure has a definitive place on
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  Speaker 6: my shelf.
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  Speaker 5: And it was a cool look too, with the green
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  Speaker 5: cover and it kind of artistic look like that.
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  Speaker 3: Not artistic. Obviously it was artistic, but.
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  Speaker 5: The art choice, the style kind of contrasting The Killer,
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  Speaker 5: which was red.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it looked very very good.
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  Speaker 5: I love the shell Factory to the kind of hard
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  Speaker 5: box with the booklet inside, kind of the thinner hard box.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's something different, you know. It's not just your
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  Speaker 6: standard with the slip, which is cool. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 6: they've done that for a few of the other releases
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  Speaker 6: that they've had in this line, But I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess is it because I don't have it?
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  Speaker 5: Is it like the Creep Show release, the original Creep
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  Speaker 5: Show Blu ray release, or like the Halloween four K
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  Speaker 5: like that kind of squidbox.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of it's a little I think that this one's
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  Speaker 6: a little bit thicker.
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  Speaker 5: So oh yeah it is. Okay, So for those who
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  Speaker 5: can't see he's just showing it.
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  Speaker 6: Off, I would say it's almost like twice twice the
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  Speaker 6: size of a standard case. Okay, but yeah, the Killer,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, same format for that. Highly recommend that film
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  Speaker 6: as well, but I had to pick Hard Boil because
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  Speaker 6: that was the one that really stood out to me
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  Speaker 6: the most.
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  Speaker 5: I think The Killer became this year my favorite John
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  Speaker 5: wu movie.
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  Speaker 6: That's so good.
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  Speaker 5: The Killer is great, man. I mean, hard Boiled is
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  Speaker 5: essential viewing, you know, no doubt, but The Killer really
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  Speaker 5: I watched it on I think it was maybe September
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  Speaker 5: October Criterion was I had a whole bunch of John
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  Speaker 5: wu stuff on the Criterion Channel and I watched a
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  Speaker 5: good handful of them, and The Killer was the one
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  Speaker 5: that really blew me away. I had seen Hard Boiled,
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  Speaker 5: but The Killer was the one that, like, really, you know,
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  Speaker 5: my knocked my socks off, man, and it was a
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  Speaker 5: ton of fun.
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  Speaker 6: That's another one if you for those listening, if you
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  Speaker 6: you know I want to get into any of these films,
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  Speaker 6: that's another great entry that would strongly recommend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to get into kind of one that
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  Speaker 5: we both decided we had to at least mention and
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  Speaker 5: bring up. And with that, I kind of have to
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  Speaker 5: thank Monster Mall Shop for kind of an opportunity that
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  Speaker 5: I got. I've never worked with a Monster Mall shop.
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  Speaker 5: I've never purchased from them before. I and I just
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  Speaker 5: love telling this story because I think it's it's one
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  Speaker 5: of the coolest things that happened in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 5: for me personally. When it comes to collecting the Nightmare
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  Speaker 5: on Elm Street four K collection, the Big Steeal book set,
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  Speaker 5: which is kind of one that we're mutually saying is
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  Speaker 5: an honorable mention from this year. I had pre ordered
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  Speaker 5: on Amazon and.
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  Speaker 3: It was months.
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  Speaker 5: Before it was the first hour that somebody had posted
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  Speaker 5: the pre order was live. I got on, I found it,
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  Speaker 5: I pre ordered it. There was no artwork left. We
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  Speaker 5: had no idea what this thing looked like. We had
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  Speaker 5: no idea how much it costs. We didn't know anything.
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  Speaker 5: And I pre ordered it.
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  Speaker 6: It was a shot in the dark, it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just like, I'm buying this. There's no like,
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  Speaker 5: how do you argue against that?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 5: And then I got all the way until the art
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  Speaker 5: was released, and I still had my pre order, all
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  Speaker 5: the way to the point where I had to release,
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  Speaker 5: like I had a delivery date, and then I canceled
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  Speaker 5: it because at the time, the amount of money it
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  Speaker 5: was costing, I just didn't feel comfortable putting out at
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  Speaker 5: that time of year.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pretty big investment, yeah, and it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was something that when I canceled it, I knew
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't going to pay the three hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 5: the UK version of it that came with the Blu rays,
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  Speaker 5: and I kind of came to terms with the fact
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  Speaker 5: that I was never going to own it. I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to cancel it. This is going to sell out,
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  Speaker 5: They're not going to reprint it. I'm going to lose
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  Speaker 5: out on it. I'm just going to get the standard edition.
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  Speaker 5: And I was okay with.
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  Speaker 6: That, which is still really nice by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, still super nice, and you know me like I'm
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  Speaker 5: not really like a packaging guy concerned with the disc,
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  Speaker 5: but I was still like upset that I was missing
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  Speaker 5: out on such a cool physical piece to have for
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  Speaker 5: Nightmaren Elm Street. So it comes out, I watch everybody,
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  Speaker 5: all my friends, all of our friends unbox it, and
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, it's so cool. Sucks, I'm never
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  Speaker 5: gonna own that. And then one day I see that
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  Speaker 5: Monster Mall shop is doing a giveaway and the number
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  Speaker 5: of the grand prize is the Nightmare elm Street four
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  Speaker 5: case steel books at never associated with them before, never
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  Speaker 5: purchased anything. I just think like we followed each other
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  Speaker 5: on Instagram. That was about it, and I did what
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  Speaker 5: I had to do to get in for the contest
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  Speaker 5: and straight up kind of forgot about it. I had
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  Speaker 5: no idea until one night. I'm sitting on the couch
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  Speaker 5: and I watching a movie with my wife. I go
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  Speaker 5: on Instagram and I have a It was tagged in
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  Speaker 5: a story from Monster Mall Shop, and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: why would I be tagging one of their stories? And
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  Speaker 5: I actually closed it out because I didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: be I didn't I forgot about the contest, so I
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  Speaker 5: closed it out because I was like, whatever this is,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to feel obligated to have to answer
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  Speaker 5: right now. Like I was like, I'll I'll get back
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  Speaker 5: to this later. And I'm sitting there and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: why would I open it back up?
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  Speaker 3: And I want it crazy? Is yeah, insane.
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  Speaker 5: So they got it out to me so quick, and
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  Speaker 5: the message I sent them and replied to his story
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  Speaker 5: was holy shit, thank you, and they were like, holy shit,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: you're welcome.
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  Speaker 6: I actually I met both of them over at Scarefest
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  Speaker 6: this past year and they were They were very nice
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  Speaker 6: in person. Had a really great conversation with them, and
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: it's like you love to be able to connect with,
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  Speaker 6: you know, kind of putting a face to a name,
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  Speaker 6: especially when you're going to you know, horror conventions. I
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  Speaker 6: feel like it's just such a cool way to you know,
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  Speaker 6: connect with people that way, whether it's you know, through
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  Speaker 6: social media or you know, supporting smaller businesses like that.
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  Speaker 6: But kudos to you, man, that's that's a huge that's
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  Speaker 6: a huge win in twenty twenty five. Dude.
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  Speaker 5: I almost cried, like I was, like, I can't believe
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  Speaker 5: because it felt like it felt like it felt like
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  Speaker 5: kind of like the universe was paying me back for
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  Speaker 5: making like a grown up decision that being like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm okay spending this money right now,
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  Speaker 5: make that sacrifice.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's going to make you appreciate it that
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  Speaker 6: much more having it in the collection, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean?
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  Speaker 5: It does, It does, And you know, I felt so
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  Speaker 5: bad because they were kind of receiving some grief from
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  Speaker 5: some people that were upset about how the giveaway went,
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  Speaker 5: and they had posted, particularly about someone that that was
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  Speaker 5: messaging them saying that I had won the set because
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  Speaker 5: I was considered like media, like I guess, like a
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  Speaker 5: new like a just like an influencer, I guess, And
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  Speaker 5: they responded so professionally back to this person.
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  Speaker 3: That I would have absolutely ripped apart, and I've.
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  Speaker 5: Been in in in hands of the response to that message,
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  Speaker 5: but they handled it so well and never once was
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  Speaker 5: there a conversation about me showing anything off or working
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  Speaker 5: with them. You know, the only company I probably work
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  Speaker 5: with is Movie Room. I know you work with Gloria Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Two incredible companies. And you know, I felt bad that
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  Speaker 5: they kind of did that, because it was so nice
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  Speaker 5: of them to put on this giveaway, and they were
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  Speaker 5: very transparent and said that somebody that they actually worked
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  Speaker 5: with was the first winner, and they had to spin
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  Speaker 5: it again. And that's how I landed on it, or
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: that's how I got landed on. But all that to
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  Speaker 5: say that, I don't think we could talk about the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: best of twenty twenty five without mentioning owning all the
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: night right now the streets on four K.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: It was a turbulent ride. Let's just leave it at that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: I feel like that this has been a long time coming,
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: especially after getting the first four K, but to finally
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: have that in each of our possession, I don't know, man,
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: it feels like for me at least, I feel like
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: it lived up to what I was expecting.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was shocked at how much I watched so
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Far two and three, and I was shocked at how
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: good they looked. Genuinely, you, Freddy Trevene looked phenomenal.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I love that movie.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Dream Warriors looked also so good. It was darker, which
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I wasn't expecting, darker, much more contrasty, and I really
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: dug it. I think it looked phenomenal and just happened
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: to own, you know, such a set that I feel
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: like actual effort went into. And I think the reason
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: it doesn't make like my actual top for the years
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: is because there's not a ton of new bonus features
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: and stuff throughout the set.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some, but I would have really liked to have.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Seen I think clearly some commentaries or maybe some stuff
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: like that, but we didn't get any of that. So
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: but we did get more effort than we usually get
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: from the typical studio.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: I was gonna say, I mean, do you remember when
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I think the the pre order went live? Wasn't it
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: in like July of last year around that time?
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: And it was just I don't think it was that
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: long ago.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I think it went in the wait, oh no, I'm sorry,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: you're saying last year, meaning twenty twenty five. Yeah, I
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: think it was July they went up and then September
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: were the photos.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: And it was I remember there was a leaked image.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Obviously we know that that wasn't the final image, but
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: the bed with Freddy's face on it or something like that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: It was so ridiculous. I'm thinking myself, if that's the case,
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I'm canceling this preorder.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah that was good, No, that was yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: But we got here, we made it right, yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we had to put that
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: on our list.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: And then I know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: For my other honorable mention, I just wanted to shout
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: out one of my favorite releases of the year, another
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: one that we knew going into twenty twenty five was
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: going to happen.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Or I don't know. Yeah, we knew it was going
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: to happen.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I think maybe going into the year, but I don't know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: because time doesn't really feel real anymore. One of my
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: other honorable mention is coming from Aero Video, and that
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: is their release of the two thousand and three marcusnes
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Spell directed the Texas Chainsaw mass Here, which is one
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: of my favorite TCM movies outside of the original and
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: the four K looks phenomenal. I don't want to I
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: don't want to act like it doesn't. It looks great.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: For me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: It was just the excitement of getting a great release
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: for this movie. I'm so happy that we had Steve
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Barton and Michael Felscher return for a new, brand new
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: commentary track like they did on Jason x Jason Gozahell.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I was really shocked at how much this release really
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: felt to me, and I thought I was gonna feel
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: the same way about The Beginning, which they also released
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: hand in hand with this, but that movie actually went
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: down in my ranking. When I saw it on four K,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I was like, Oh, it's still good, but you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: didn't love it. Oh wait, no, it wasn't with Michael Felscher.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: It was with.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Christ mc gibbon from the Spooky Picture Show podcast on
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: that commentary track.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Correction. But yeah, I freaking love this release. Man.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: It comes with the Chainsaw Reducs documentary, a bunch of
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: brand new interviews, that brand new audio commentary.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Just a huge fan of what they did here. Except
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: for the artwork. That's the only.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah there was. I'd seen some concept artwork that had
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: been floating around around the time that this got released,
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: and I'm not knocking it by any means. I mean,
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: I'm just happy to have that movie in each of
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: our collections now at this point. But you know, it
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: always makes me wonder. I can't hate on the artwork
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: too much.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I can't. It's just the artwork isn't bad.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: It's just a little it takes a minute to realize
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: what's happening and what you're looking at.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: A little bit of a it kind of does. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: appreciate new artwork, but I feel like I've seen some
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: pretty great key art pieces for that movie that could
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: have been used.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: But it is what it is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: It's cool to see that the two thousands horror now
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: is finally getting tapped into where we've got you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: we had that release last year. We've got Cabin Fever
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: coming up. We just recently got The Descent, you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: some of the Saw movies we had gotten in four K.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: So it's cool to see that they're finally getting their
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: dues and you know, of course in very nice releases.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: It's about goddamn ton, tell them you want to go
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: ahead with with your other honorable mention.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah. So the next honorable mention that I have was
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: released from Criterion, and that is none other than Sorcerer.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: So William Freakin's Sorcerer. This one. I have been eagerly
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: awaiting getting a nice four K release for some time.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: And I'm a big fan of this movie, big fan
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: of William Freakin just in general. The Tangerine Dreams soundtrack,
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: everything just as a whole has been everything I could
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: ask for.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: This is one people were really excited about.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I can't recommend this one enough. It's it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: an experience keeps you on the edge your seat the
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: entire time. Obviously we have like the four K restoration
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: that comes with this one. There's Freaking Uncut, which is
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: a documentary that's on here.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Anything about anything, anything about William freaking is worth the
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: price of admission of whatever you're paying.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. And it's just been this past year.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Another one that didn't make the cut was Cruising, which
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: is another movie that I absolutely love, and that four
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: K from Arrow is incredible. So on this there's a
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: new conversation between filmmaker James Gray and film critic Sean
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: uh Fantasy.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, from the picture show Yep, yep.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: And then there's a conversation from twenty fifteen between Freakin
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: and filmmaker Nicholas Winding. How do you how you pronounce
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: his last name?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Nicholas Winding?
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Refin Yeah, thank you with the assist And there's also
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: some archival audio interviews on here as well, plus some
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: behind the scenes footage. So you know, this is one
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: that I've really grown to appreciate a lot more as
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: time has gone on. And again, I can't recommend this
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: one enough. So if you can, you know, you pick
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: it up now, wait for one of the Criterion sales.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Definitely worth a spot in your collection.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: It was on my list to pick up from the
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: last Criterion sale, and I just didn't. I Like, I
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: think I found some stuff in my store that just
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: took precedent over Criterion's always tough for me because I
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: know it doesn't go out of print yep. So there's
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: so much stuff that I can be like, I'll just
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: wait till next sale to get that. Sorcerer was part
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: of that.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: I will say watching this movie again. Once I picked
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: this up immediately, Tangerine Dream is just a whole experience
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: listening to them and to hear it just in the
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: in the background of this film. I'm just a big fan.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I really enjoy it. I just recently watched Thief to
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: hear them, you know, scoring that film as well. It's
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: just incredible. Even the Keep. I just watched The Keep
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: recently too, That's another great one.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they it's so funny, dude.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen a lot of the Tangerine Dream composed movies,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: but I know the music because I just tend to
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: go on, like so good their Spotify page and just
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: you know, speaking of dreams. Tapping into my top three,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: this was a super tough choice for this year, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I knew that there was kind of a definitive number
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: one released for me, and I kind of had a
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: couple different things bouncing between two and three here, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: so third place for my favorite release of twenty twenty five.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I really wanted to find something that I feel like
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: I heard a lot of when it came out, not
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: a lot of kind of after I feel like I
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: feel like the title I'm about to talk about people
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: thought was gonna be one thing, and then when they
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: got something else, the conversation kind of had shifted unfortunately
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: in kind of the general public, and I'm talking about
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: nine or nineteen nine, Oh my god, nineteen seventy one's
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: A Short Night of Glass Doalls released by Salulloyd Dreams.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: This is two for two Soluloid Dreams. Probably three for
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: three with Hyena is safe. I just haven't gotten mine yet.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I can confirm three for three.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Okay, three for three. This was kind of a big
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: deal this year because Case of the Bloody Iris came
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: out and really, I think blew us all away. I
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: was not familiar with Case of the Bloody Iris, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: F four K was pretty much flawless, and coming from
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: a company that was brand new, I think everyone kind
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: of had the reservations about kind of what was quality
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: you were going to get, what are the movie choices
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: going to be like? And a second release for a
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: label like them is so important because it's it's cementing
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: who you are and what you stand for, and Celluloid
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Dreams kind of it was like.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, hold our beer. And they released.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: A release in a slip box, a siloting slip box,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: very similar to like You're probably very similar to the
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Hard Boiled Shout Factory release with a booklet and this
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: was one that you had you seen.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Short Night of Glass Dolls before this release, right, you
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: were already familiar with us?
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean not in this nice a version. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: can't remember where I initially had saw it, but the
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: last time I had watched it before this release came
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: out was in a less than ideal version of it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean this again, it's elevating what they're
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: putting out there because the Case of the Bloody Iris,
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: you know, that was just a standard slip with that one.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: This is the hard box case. There's just so much
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: more love that went into this release. I feel like,
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: at least compared to their first one.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I love the variety so far.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: You the four K is the slip cover or the
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Case of Bloody Iris was a slip covered. This is
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: a hard box with the booklet. You have Hyen in
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: the safe, which is a blu ray with a slip cover.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: You know, they've kind of done Each release has been
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: slightly different, but Short Night, Short Night.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Of Glass Dolls is a a auto lato.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Film and for people who really aren't familiar. His other
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: biggest project is probably The Night Treen Murders, which seven
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: released in four K this year.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: Right, it was twenty twenty five, right, I believe the
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: seven release was the year before, and then eighty eight
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: Films had a release that came.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Out last year, Toddy Man Time Is.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: And ironically eighty eight Films also did their own release
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: for this film as well.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: They did, Yes, they did.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: I think what I found most interesting about this movie
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: in general going into it is how kind of anti
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Jalie it is. Doesn't have a black glove killer, there's
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: really not that much violence in general, but it has
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: one of the most nerve racking endings ever. It was
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: one of the most tense experiences I've ever had at
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: home watching movie, and it's an ending that makes you
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: want to watch the movie again because it you just
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: have to go back again and kind of watch it
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: from the perspective of where it's going as opposed to
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: going and blinded. Both experiences watching it knowing what happens
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: and watching it not knowing what happens, I feel like
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: are equal thrills.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would agree with that the four.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: K looked fantastic. You have two audio commentaries on here.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: One was with Autolato, the other one with the crew
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: from CELLULARID dreams. Let me just pull this up forget
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: linking on the names. Oh it was from film credit
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Guido Hinkle. So you have two audio commentaries, a bunch
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: of featurettes of course the booklet, and it's a fantastic, uh,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: just just incredible release, man, And I think it's a
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: movie when I was kind of introducing it, that people
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: were expecting one thing, and then.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's also the case with House with
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Laughing Windows.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: It's like everyone was really excited for it because they
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: thought it was gonna be one thing, and then it
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: came out and everyone realized that it's not what they
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: thought it was. So the conversation sort of ended pretty
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: quickly when people were not for me.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not for me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know, that was like one of my
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: white whales for ghiallow films I had been waiting for,
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: and I remember hearing it talked about for such a
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: long time, and then once work got out there that
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Aero was going to be releasing it, that like my
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: hype and excitement went through the roof.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was really And it sucks, man, because I
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: never want to see people get excited because they're expecting
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: one thing and then receive it. It's not what they
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: were expecting. That that sucks. That's the worst thing I
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: think you can do set yourself up for that kind
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: of disappointment and also doesn't benefit the movie or the
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: studio or the label.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's fair. I remember kind of being the
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: same way with not knowing what type of movie it
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: was with Night Train Murders when I had seen it
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: a while back, because I was familiar with Eldado's short
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: night glass styles and also who saw Her Die, which
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: I really recommend. But I thought at the time that
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Night Train Murders was going to be a shallow film
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: and it's not. Yeah, it's it's definitely not that. So,
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: but yeah, I can definitely understand where maybe someone would
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: be coming from if if they were expecting one thing,
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: got something very different.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, my number three this year short night
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: of Glass Dolls beautiful.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: What do you got for your number three?
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Man, I'm coming fully loaded, all.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Right, d let me see what you got back up, Chris, exciting.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: I have, Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to showcase
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: this one. But I've got Arrow's release for Abel fer
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: Era's Miss forty five.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, there.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: It is in a in a chunky box set.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: No less is getting the love.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Listen, I'm still holding out hope we'll get Driller Killer
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: at some point, but not a bad year if if
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: you're a fan of Abel Ferira, got this bad Lieutenant
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: already had King of New York. So I was so
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: happy to finally get this in not only four K,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: but to get it, and you know, to be honest,
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of surprised. It's got a chunky box set
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: in all honesty, but I'm not complaining. So there's a
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: lot to love about this. If you like that gritty,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: violent exploitation style of film, this is definitely it. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: would definitely consider this a cornerstone in his filmography. But
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: let's see what do we got. So we have on
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: this release, obviously the four K transfer, there's a new
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: audio commentary by Alexandra Helen Nicholas, The Voice of Violence,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: a new featurette with film critic bj Colangelo. Yep, we
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: also have Where Dreams Go to Die, a new featurette
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: with film critic Kat Ellinger. You know, we were talking
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: talking a little bit about that earlier. There's some archival
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: interviews on here and those are really the main things,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: and there's a couple of short films in the special features.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: So I just want to say too, like, what an
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: incredible lineup whomever produced the bonus features for that release.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: You know bj Colangelo I've followed for a long time
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: for her work with Slash Film. She also wrote along
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: with her partner, an incredible book that I didn't get
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a chance to read in preparation for but about the
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: genre or the the kind of about the gender specifics
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: around sleep Away Camp, which is an incredible book I
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: think everybody should read. I'll make sure I linked that
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: in a bio, having Kat Ellinger, but then also Alexander
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: Heller Nicholas, who actually just this Christmas, I received two
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: of her books to read this year, So what an
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: incredible stack of contributors for release, like like Miss forty.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Five even just look at it now. It just makes
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: me so happy to finally have this one.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: And I want to just real quick. I mean, I
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: don't know how much you've taken the plunge into that release,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: but one of the things that was so crazy to
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: me kind of diving into the movie and dinning into
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: the bonus features. So I wasn't I've seen the movie,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: but I didn't know a lot about it, But learning
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: about I think I don't know if you say her
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: name is Zoe or Zoe Lund, but just kind of
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: the unfortunate incident with her. She passed away very young,
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: tragic thirty seven years old man and some of the stories.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: There's an interview on that disc with Abel Ferrera kind
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: of talking about not not specifically with her, but kind
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: of talking about some of the kind of rougher edges
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: of kind of her addictions that were popping up on
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: set and stuff. And it's really really tough to hear,
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: you know, because she's pretty stunning in this role.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know, it's it's a film. Especially with
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: some of the films that Ferrara's put out in the past,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: it almost makes you wonder if these films would be
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: able to be made today, just because I feel like
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: the content that they tackle, it's just definitely pushing the envelope,
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: especially for that time was early eighties, and but there's
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: something to be said about I love for Ara's work
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: because it captures that really gritty, grimy feel to New
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: York and that's just something that I just feel like
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: we don't really get that aesthetic anymore in more like
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: modern film.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: So yeah, not at all. Oh love it at all.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: But that Yeah, that that's an incredible release.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Man, that that was a big one in between Era
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: with that and some of the work that Vinegar Syndrome's
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: been doing with some able FORER Era stuff. It's I
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: think they just put out in December their Slate Cinematograph
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: put out an able for ERA title. I'm pretty sure.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: I just forget which one it was. Let me take
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: a look off fan.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: I forget. I think it was cinematic.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: I think it was the last Cinematograph announcement was an
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: able for ERA.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Film. If I'm wrong, then you can throw me out
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: a window.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: Hopefully it doesn't come down to that. Just all right, Chris, anyways,
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: before you do that, Yeah, what's what's that next release
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: that you got on deck?
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: So, speaking of controversy that I don't agree with number
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: number two, I had to pick one of my favorite
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: movies of all time, getting a release that was out
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: of left field from a company that none of us
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: were expecting. I was very excited about it because I
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: was familiar with the company who put this out, and
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I'm very happy to see the success that they've gained
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: from this release and from a couple other releases that
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: they've announced. I think that a lot of the criticism
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: towards this is kind of unwarranted, but you know, the
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: it can be a rough place. I'm talking about Ignite
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Film's release of Reanimator, which was probably one of the
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: biggest announcements of the year, and it got a bunch
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: of slack from people due to the costs, and I
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: don't know, I don't agree, I don't agree with them.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: It was I felt like when the announcement came out,
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: it was out of left field because it wasn't at
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: least for me, I wasn't super familiar with the label
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: prior to this announcement. What do you think did that
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: live up for you?
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely?
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: You know, Ignite Films put it out in the US
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: and Second Site released a film in the UK, and
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: I know that there was kind of some issues with
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Second Site enabling it out to US retailers with Ignite,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: but the work that Ignite did here is incredible, and
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: they're a company who hadn't really had the chance yet
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: to put out anything too crazy. You know, they did
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: a g I Joe documentary, and then they did I
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: think their first release was Now I'm blanking right when
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: I start talking about it, my brain's like, no, you
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: don't remember, uh, Like Invaders from Mars Okay was the
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: first release I remember them doing. And I feel like
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: people were People were shocked more because it wasn't coming
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: from the big label. That's that's where kind of the
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: initial shock was. It wasn't coming from Aero Video had
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: lost the rights between the Blu ray and the four
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: K at some point people were upset that that wasn't happening.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: But the amount of attention Ignite has gained since this,
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: and now they've announced Bride of re Animator.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: I can't wait, very excited for that. That's gonna be.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: We should have pre orders probably within the next couple
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: of months for that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: I think we're in good hands with the Night Films.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I mean, you got this incredibly chunk key
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: box release. The four K transfer looks phenomenal. There's a
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Reanimator at forty booklet in here that's really really nice.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: There's some really great new interviews and insights. Especially there's
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: one that I love about re Animator, the live stage
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: performance there's also a documentary on here about the Organic
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Theater Company, which was Stuart Gordon's theater company back in
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: his pre film days. You know, I had a lot
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: of fun with everything that came with this release, and
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: the four K transfer is phenomenal. Like they they the
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: amount of work that went into this release, going frame
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: by frame, trying to clean it up while also kind
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: of maintaining a very filmic appearance, and it's not too clean.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: It was like eye candy. The first time I watched it,
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: I couldn't look away because the transfer. I don't know
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: like however they went about it, but it looked breathtaking.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: It was unreal, absolutely unreal, man.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: And I feel like since the initial release, people have
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: kind of talked about this versus Second Sight and kind
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: of the price difference, and you know, I think this
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: was worth every penny. I think people will just find
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: anything to complain about. And I hope that, yeah, I
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: hope that this and Bride of re Animator continues to
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: keep Ignite films at the front of people's minds.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: You know. I it's just very exciting for me, man.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Was this was a huge one.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: And if it wasn't for the quality and the sheer
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: love that went into my number one. This would be,
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: this would be, this would be at number one, not
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: number two.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: For me. Yeah, so I can't I can't argue that.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: Well, I can't wait to see what you're pulling out
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: for number two.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Well, I figured this release is perfect for right around
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: the time of year that this this came out, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: that is none other than Stanley Kubrick's Eyes White Shut Man.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: You bought that. Just see Nicole Kidman naked Kidding.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: I am not going to confirm or deny that man
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: talk about eye candy not well Nicole Kidman.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, perfect diving dude.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: But let me tell you, whatever Criterion did to bring
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: out the best of this movie was front and center.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: I'm not talking about Nicole Kidman.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: And it just keeps going back.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it definitely does. But oh my gosh, man, this
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: was another release that I have been pounding the table
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: for for such a long time, whether it was Criterion
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: or any other label. I was holding out hope that
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: we would finally get it this year, and we had
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: well last year, and they delivered this one. Blew me
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: away when I watched it. And let's see, so we
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: have new interviews with director of photography Larry Smith, set
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: decorator and second unit director Lisa Leoni, and archivist Georgina
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: or Jill. There's also archival interview with Stanley Cooper's wife,
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: and there are a few other featurettes that are on
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: here as well. What can I say, I feel like
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: Stanley Cooper films that they're being released under Criterion. They
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: definitely went the extra mile with ensuring that we're getting
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: probably the best this film we'll ever look in this format.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: And I'm just so excitic to finally have this movie. Yeah,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: another one that I can't recommend enough. You know, take
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: advantage of it on the next Criterion sale. This Sorcerer.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: You're both great movies that get my highest recommendation.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting to Criterion releases in a row.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: I was kind of surprised at that. Honestly, I know
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: that most of the time. I think in past years,
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I would have covered them quite
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: as much. But listen, I gotta give credit where credits due.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: No not complaining at all.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: I don't want me to talk more about Nicole Kidman,
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: isn't it I've seen? Yeah?
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Right, I like Milk.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: I don't know how I feel about that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: I just feel like Criterion gets the shaft a lot
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: of times with their There's people who review them very positively,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: but I feel like when it comes to best of
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: lists or kind of like top favorites, I feel like
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: for some reason, they just kind of get shafted and
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: nobody mentions how good their releases are because I don't
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: know if there's it's like expected to be of that
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: quality or if people feel like they're just that prestigious one.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: I think being able to not only cover them, I
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: probably could have added a few more titles from Arrow
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: onto the lists. That was the tough part about trying
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: to narrow it down, but knowing what each of us
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: was bringing to the table for this discussion. I love
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: that we had an opportunity to highlight some smaller labels
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: that are doing incredible things. And yeah, like I said,
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess it is what it is. I
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: can't I can't help, but I like what I like.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, yeah, absolutely, man, And I want to shout
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: out just a couple more kind of quick honorable mentions
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: before I get to my number one.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: This wasn't planned it's just just riffing.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but just some stuff from this past year that
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: I really want to kind of shout out Synapps with
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: their release of The Deadly Spawn.
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: Oh that's a good one.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: Incredible, man, the movie looked phenomenal. I thought the hard
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: box release from them was incredible, and another one from
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: them this year, Trick or Tree, was absolutely incredible too.
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: Fantastic releases from Synaps and Red Shirt Pictures this year.
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: Was was Rumpel Stilt Skin that was this year, wasn't it?
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: That was parlier?
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Terror Vision, Rumble Stilt Skin. Shout out to TerrorVision,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: Shout out to Terror Vision, Shout out to someone's favorite productions,
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: our producer Ryan from Disconnected, who produced a whole bunch
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: of bonus features for that release. That's an absolute stunner.
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: Another big one for me that I know a lot
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: of people were disappointed in Screen Factory's release of the
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Mario Baba Collection.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: I'm so happy to have.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was I mean, I was a little butt
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: hurt that it was two hundred dollars and then when
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: they were switching over to Groove, it dropped it like
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: almost one hundred dollars. I was a little upset about that,
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: but what can I do?
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: No, it's it's it's not for Scream Factory, it's for Mariobaba.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Just put it that way. Yeah, I put out the
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: money for Mario what he would want.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: But yeah, there's just so much great stuff this year
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: to shout out. It was really difficult to nail it down,
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: but I think.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: I almost I just want to say before we move on,
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: the two that were very tough not to include on
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: the lists, where the house with laughing windows from arrow
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: and then Cruising from Herrow. Yeah, I've won thief Thiefs
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: another one.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: I've watched so many best of Physical Media release videos
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: the last couple of days, and those are always on
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: there well represented.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people with Mario Bava.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: Set kind of didn't get anyone on anyone's radar because
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: there's no four k's in there. To me, I'm just
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: happy to have a bunch of it's on your other
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: side on your Oh.
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: I was just trying to see if there's any other
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: ones missing, because.
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I would also give it to like
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: the High Tension set from seven Limbertobaba Cauldron, also doing
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: Bravito Yallo from Libertobava. It was a great year for
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Bava on Physical.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: Martyrs from Eureka. I thought that was a really great release.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: Umbrella doing the French extremity collections. They've released four five,
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: six seven movies between those two volumes that were incredible,
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: including In My Skin and Uh Martyrs and High Tension
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: and a whole bunch of a whole bunch of great
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: French extremity from from Umbrella, as well as a bunch
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: of other stuff they've done this year.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: I also want to plug from one on one Films
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: Bad Lieutenant.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bad Lieutenant.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: I got mine from Keno, but yeah, the one on
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: one films one is also very.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: We also got Castle Freak this year from One on
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: one Films.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: You know so I love Castle Free Yeah, man, Castle
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: Freak rules, dude, so so much to shout out and
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: it's it's very It's a near impossible task to say
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: that any list I'm giving you is concrete.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Anything can kind of swap in and out.
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: Can I just plug eighty eight films before we move on?
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Only if you want to, I do, And I'm in
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: shout out to eighty eight Films. They do great things.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: I love I love their releases. I'm just gonna leave
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: it at that. I can think of that it they
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: got Night Train, Murders, Murder Rock, There's too many to name.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: There was a lot, Oh my god, there was so much.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: What was it? What's the one? Nine guests for a
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: crime crime?
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: Yep?
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: That was that was a standout this year. Uh, Species
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: on four K from them? I believe that was twenty
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: twenty five.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: I think it was well Rats leaving off rats Man, Yeah,
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Rats Terror.
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: It's it's hard because I'm such a severin fanboy, but
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: eighty eight Films did do incredible work with them.
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: Oh last one, because I'm floored that this actually came
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: out from Mascar Video, Hackle Lantern.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Oh my god on four K.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: What a journey, the highs and low that came with
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't pre order it, but the highs and low
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: that came with this release. And let's just say, we
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: all came out and the better, the better side of
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: get through the experience. Yeah.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: Why is nobody talking about Mascar Video putting out blood
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: on four K?
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: What the heck?
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: I'll talk about it, that's fair.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: I'll talk about it on another another podcast episode in depth.
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: I'm ready by myself.
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: So my number one is going to I think, and
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: not not surprise anybody. I've been a longtime collector of
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Grindhouse m they I like where this is going, consistently
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: been one of my favorite labels to collect. They actually
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: just put out something for preorder today yesterday that I
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: still need to get.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: But last year, Hollywood or twenty twenty.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: Four, I think it was Hollywood nine zero two eight
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: was one of my favorite releases of the year. I
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: couldn't talk well enough on that film, and they had
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: been teasing something for a long time that finally landed
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five. And of course I'm talking about
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: the Lucio Folges the Beyond four K, a release from Grindhouse.
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't really know what more to say
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: about this. This thing is massive. It comes with a
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: four K three.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Blu rays, a DVD, a CD.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: Absolutely the most comprehensive probably release of any Lucio Fulci
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: film ever on physical media. The four K looks miraculous.
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: There's so many interviews on here. You also have the
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: Composer's cut, which is the kind of reimagined score from
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: Fabio Fritzi, with three separate audio commentary tracks on here.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: You also have the bonus DVD, which is seven Doors
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: of Death, which is the Aquarius Releasing version. You also
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: have the bonus CD, of course, which is the new
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: track for the composer's cut. Just fucking dude, such a
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: great release. There's a one hundred page booklet in here.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: Absolute baller, dude, Like this release is why I collect
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: physical media.
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, without a doubt that I have so much love
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: for that release. It's not even funny.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: It's my every time I come into my movie room, man,
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: because Grindhouse is like eye level on my shelf.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Every time I come in here, I have to look
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: at this. Dude.
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: I just it's like a work of art.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: Man, It's unreal. And this is the first time they
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: had ever done anything like this. I'm really hoping that
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: physically this is what we're gonna get for a kind
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: of a Holocaust in twenty twenty six.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: I'm hoping Fulci lives.
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: FULTI does live. But this is another release that I
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: think really kind of The Grindhouse releasing was always in
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: the kind of cult area very well. I mean Hollywood
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: nine OO two eight and see a lot of people
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: talking about even the year before they released Death Game,
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: not a lot of people really talked about it. They've
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: put out Cannibal Holocaust was probably the most noticeable with
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Cannibal Pharaoh and Captain's Brain Pieces. Yeah, so they have
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: a couple, you know, really kind of really well known releases,
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: but I think The Beyond really kind of pushed them
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: into that next level of public attention from collectors. And
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: I'm so happy that people have gotten exposed to them
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: because this is kind of an ideal example of the
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: quality and the effort that goes into everything that they do.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: And I wish Grindhouse Releasing and everybody associated with them
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: only the best moving forward. Man, They're you know, I'm
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: still gonna be there buying every single release.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: So what you're telling me is that there's a chance
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: that we could get pieces on four kN that same format.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, only if it comes in like the puzzle box,
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: you know, because I'm kind of hoping that Cannibal Holocaust
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: it just comes in like like a box of flesh.
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: That's right, Like what are you gonna you know, The
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: Beyond does the Book of Ibon, so it's like how
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: do you It's how do you? How do you theme
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: it better for accountable Holocaust? You just got to put
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: it in some skin, you know what I mean? Flesh
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: it up. Long live the New Flesh.
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Well, I don't know. You know, that's
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: that's quite an ambitious release. Then if that's the case,
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: who are.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: They going to get the flesh from?
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: I don't want to know.
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: It'll be like the Anchor Bay Evil Dead releases, you know,
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: the Necronomicon ones that after ten years just kind of
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: started melting in people's.
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, those things look so nasty now.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: But anyway, that's my number one. I doubt you're going
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: to be better than mine.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: But oh come on, come on now, Okay, this is
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: one I would say it's it's probably neck and neck
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: in my eyes between this and The Beyond, But both
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: of these releases, it's felt like an eternity for us
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: to actually get these on physical media, and that is
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: none other. So my number one choice is Possession.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: That thing is a chunk.
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: Look at this, it's a unit. Man, Damn, you could
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: kill somebody with this. It's beautiful. This was well worth
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: the wait. I don't even know where to begin on this.
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: I I don't really feel like I've I've given this
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: the right amount of attention, but this definitely was was
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: for the longest time. This is one of my more
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: anticipative releases, and second site definitely delivered. Outside of this
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: just being the equivalent of like home security in case
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: anyone breaks in.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: That's how I feel about my umbrella super Mario Brothers.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, yep. I would have to say it's not
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: too far off from that. So this release is absolutely
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: stacked with There's a few new audio commentaries on here,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: one of which is from Alexandra Heller Nicholas and Alison Taylor.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: There are a number of I believe existing audio commentaries
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: on here as well. There's also a new audio commentary
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: by Daniel byrd in Manuela Lasac. Let's see what else
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: we got on here. We also got the Future at
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 6: the Shadow We carry Uh from Cat Ellinger. There's an
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: archival documentary on here from the director and the Other
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: Side of the Wall, which is the making of Possession.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: This movie is just batshit crazy. Chris. I know you
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: said you have a different release, correct.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: I have the Blu ray the Velvet box or not velvet,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: whatever that material.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: Is, because there was that there was that one? And
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: then wasn't there an Umbrella release as well?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's an Umbrella release. Okay, So I mean it's
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: a four K.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: Mins is a Blu Ray. It's like the it's got
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 5: like a fur texture of mine does.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: Okay, It's it's good to have options, right.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: Mine. I'm I'm so happy I didn't agree. Mind comes with.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: I just prefer the Actually, you know, I just based
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: on some comparisons, I kind of like the look of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: the Blu Ray over the look of some of.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: The four k's.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: But that's just going off of screenshots I've seen from people.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: It's just one of those movies that, like, I didn't
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: really feel the the need like, oh I have to upgrade.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: It's not a movie that I frequent, you know, throw
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: on on a on a Tuesday afternoon.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: You know, yeah, you gotta be in the right mood.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: But I will say yet again, for people listening, if
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: you're seeing names like Alexander Heller, Nicholas and Kat Ellinger
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: on a release, it's best to perk your ears and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: pay attention because there's some incredible people being being asked
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: to contribute to these releases, and Second Sight knows better
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: than a lot who to commission for works like these.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: In a movie like Possession, you know, you want to
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: really get people who who understand and and have a
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: and have an appreciation and appreciation and a language to
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: speak on the movie. Because Possession is not an easy
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: movie to digest. No, so when you're when you're producing
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: bonus features for a film like that and for a
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: release like that, you really have to.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: You really have to walk.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: A fine line between who can talk about this movie
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: to help people better understand it, but to also understand
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: how much is being drawn from the story because it's
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: it's a pretty exhausting experience of a film that's incredibly
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: overwhelming the first time that you watch it.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely a movie that I feel like it
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: definitely sticks with you if you've never seen it before.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: It's quite the experience. Yeah, just a remarkable movie. Definitely
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: a very controversial movie that when it came out at
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: the time. But I mean, seeing this on the shelf
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: after finally getting this in just stunning man. Probably one
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: of the bigger collections I own or box sets.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, well, we'll be talking more about Possession later
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty six here on beyond the blood, I'm
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: very imported.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: I'm sure by then, I'm sure by then will I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: will be able to give this release the love and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: attention deserves.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Man. You know, I don't really know how to.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: How to kind of even begin a conversation about twenty
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: twenty five without first just saying thank you to anybody
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: and everybody who's given this show a chance, I think
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: more than none. I just kind of have to talk
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: about some people that were very key and to.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: All of this, one being you, Steve.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: I don't think I really need to say that, but
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: I have to say that, you know, I mean clearly
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: appreciate it. Yeah, But also massive thank you to Ryan,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: which all of you know from the Disconnected, for making
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: us a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: Somebody who's really pushed I know, myself and the show
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: and everybody that he surrounds himself with to always strive
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: for new heights. And he's somebody who's incredibly motivating to me,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: somebody who I'm very honored to call like a working
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: partner and a friend. You know, what he's doing for
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: for physical media, what he's giving without getting back in return,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: is incredible and I can never you know, sing the
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: praises of him as a friend and as a mentor
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: and as a partner enough.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: I appreciate him believing in us with this podcast completely.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like absolutely.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: Also, for those who have been listening since the beginning,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: since January of twenty twenty five, when Beyond the Blood launched,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: I have to thank Chuck oh yeah for kicking off
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: the show with me. And you know what Chuck brought
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: to this show.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: His DNA is in every single episode, you know.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: He This was such a you know, I feel like
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: a wild idea for me and I kind of grabbed
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: Chuck and I was like, hey, you're going.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: To do this with me.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: He never had a choice, So.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: I can't, you know, thank him enough. He no matter
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: where the show goes or what the show does, you know,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: he is He's responsible for it being here in the
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: first place and getting with me and making this a reality,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: you know what.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, It's part of the foundation, one hundred percent. Dude.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: He's always there.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: And then again, just everybody who ever listens, you know,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: even if you've only listened to one episode, or this
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: is your first episode, or maybe you're listening to this
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: back because you found us in twenty twenty six. Podcast
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: stats are very hard to track. It's very hard for
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: us to get an accurate idea of how many listeners
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: we have, and from what I can track, it's way
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: more than I ever expected to have. And you know,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, that's not the focus
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: of this show. I really don't care. It's just kind
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: of shocking to see sometimes a number pop up on statistics.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: You're like, wait, hold on, that many people gave this,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: you know, a chance. But to everybody who posted us
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 5: coming up on their Spotify wrapped, to anybody who's ever
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: tagged us in the story, to anybody who's ever shared
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: one of the episodes, thank you from you know, the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: bottom of my heart for.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: Supporting this. And it means a lot to us, that's
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And especially you know, another huge thank you to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: my wife for putting up with me and having to
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: you know, I know it's I'm not forcing her to.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: She is the most supportive person I've ever met.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: In my life.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: And you know, she's the reason that I'm here right
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: now recording this and and and that this even exists,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: That she believed in this idea of mind and was like, yeah,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: you need to go after it, and she's you know,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: only putting more pressure on me to go after this
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: crazy dream of mine. In twenty twenty six, so as always, can't.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: Thank her enough.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: Very exciting.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: I feel like I just want an Oscar man.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: In my heart, you did?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: I feel like I should be accepting something. Hold on,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Hold on right.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: People can't see this at home, but I'm currently accepting
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: my Oscar. It is the Grindhouse releasing copy of The Beyond.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: That's what Lucio Faultchi would want anything that say to,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: you know, just reflecting on the show in twenty twenty five, men,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, this last year has been incredible. The amount
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: of supportive listeners and connections that we've built, you know,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: along the way, has has just been astounding. I feel
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: very fortunate that we've really connected with so many people
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 6: over this last year and being able to share a
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 6: love of movies and physical media and special features. And
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 6: it's definitely became a place where, you know, movies can
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: become the centerpiece of conversations with those that we know
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 6: and in new phaces. So I think that that aspect
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: about it is really special and I'm just very thankful,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: Like we've we've been able to do a lot in
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 6: this last year that I never thought would be possible,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 6: and you know, to have so many great people out
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 6: there that are actively listening. We really appreciate it.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, and I just want to go back and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: kind of.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: Thank you know, anybody outside of the kind of typical
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: you know, you and I for being involved.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: You know, this year we were able to interview.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: Jesus and it's crazy even say this, Karen Fields, Catherine Comedy,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: and Thomas Van Dell from sleep Away Camp, which was
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: absolutely yeah, absolutely remarkable.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: We teamed up with in Psychopocalypse Publications, Mark Allen Miller
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: and his incredible team over there for our sleep Away
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: Camp episode, which we're gonna be doing again this year.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: We can't wait to talk more about that. Massive thank
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: you to Anthony Cousins for hanging out with us for
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: two and a half hours discussing all things frog Man.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: Lauren Marie Taylor from Friday Thirteenth, Part two MM came
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: on and hung out with us. We did three hours
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: with day It's soder Grin.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: This year.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: Philip Escott from Second Sight Films. We did, you know,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: two hours with him, which was remarkable.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: It was a lot of fun.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Dude, It's insane.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: And you know, we kicked off the second half of
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: the year with Adam Marcus, which was an interview we
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: teamed up with Jordan from the movie Den for It's
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: It's insane, dude. We also launched fear by Year, which
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: is Jordan's podcast that we teamed up with him to
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: kind of break down our favorite harror movies for year.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: It's it's pretty in this moment, I mean, right now,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: sitting down and looking at it, it's really hard to
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: like comprehend that all of that was in a single year.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: It goes by so fast that it's so easy to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: feel like how little you've accomplished, but really looking at
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: it and talking about it like that is like, holy shit, dude.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, I was gonna say, because I mean, we're
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: not too far off from Adam Marcus has his release
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: of Hearts of Darkness that's gonna be coming out soon.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 6: Is that through? Is that through? Uh? Is it Red
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: Shirt Pictures? Who's releasing that?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: Uh? Why am I blinking right now? I think maybe it's.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: Let's see.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: To anybody home, they're like, what is this guy talking
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: about Man, everyone's kind of like, what's going on? And
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: why is why are my posts coming up?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: Oh? Here, right here?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, my posts are coming up. I was like,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: why is this happening? Let's see, where's this Blueberry release
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: at Best documentary? Why is this so hard to find?
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: Did I miss something here?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: I just know that it's on the horizon.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: Went out this year. Man, It's like it's like all
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: of a sudden, I need to find something.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: It's just not.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: Popping up. I know I shared it. Maybe it's here. No,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: it's not. Okay, is it here? Let's see. No, that's
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: just literally it's I clicked on a hashtag and it
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: says there's a hundred post and it's just our interview
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: with him.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: Oh nice, I'm not complaining.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: So there's so much cool stuff, you know, looking back
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: on to to celebrate and shout out, and you know,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: until this moment, I didn't really understand how much it
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: was that we did and very very thankful for every
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: every single second of it.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: Well, I think I can say that this next year,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: I think, well, twenty twenty six is gonna be twice
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: this big. No, you know, got some exciting stuff in
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: the works.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's so much coming we're very excited for.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 5: There's kind of gonna be a different way that we're
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: approaching talking about what's coming this year than we did
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: last year. But uh, this is you know, the first
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: kind of official episode of twenty twenty six. We officially
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: kick off season three in uh. Just so you're gonna
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: be listening to this on the fifth, eight days after
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: you listen to this, if you're listening to this on
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: day one, we're releasing our first actual episode of twenty
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: twenty six, the first episode of season three with Sergio
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: martinoz Torso, and we're gonna have it's so much fun. Yeah,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: we're gonna have Ryan on from Disconnected for that and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 5: you know, don't really want to lay it all out
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: on the table what we got coming in the next year,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: but very very very excited for for all of it.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: And I hope, you know, I hope if you're just
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 5: now discovering the show, that you know you stick around
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: because I think you're gonna like what.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: What we have in store for you.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: I'm here for it, I hope.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: So, I mean you are of the show, if you're
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 5: if you weren't here, i'd be a little upset myself.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope everyone had a great New Year's any
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: any last words for the for the audience before I
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: jump out of a window again.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: I hope it doesn't come down to that because I
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 6: need a co host. But no, I'm I'm just I'm
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 6: excited for everything that we have in the works for
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 6: us next year. Definitely, if you guys are listening, follow
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: us on social media, keep up with us. I can't
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: wait to see what physical media releases we get to
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: this next year. I have a feeling that probably some
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: some very very exciting movies they're gonna be in the works.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: I've already spent too much money twenty twenty six, We're
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: only two days in.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: Be real, Chris, that is a personal problem.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: Okay, So yeah, anyway, As always, guys, make sure you
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: find us over on Instagram.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: We're terrible at posting on there, but.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: At least we keep up on you know, new episodes
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: that is beyond the Blood Pod. You can always find
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: me over there at Bearded Film Guy and Steve. How
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: can they find you over there?
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: You guys can find me at after Hours Video, on
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 6: Instagram and basically everywhere.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: Else, Yeah, follow them, one of the best to ever
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to keep up with you, Chris.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: Why you're my co That that that compliment is why
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: you're my co host.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: I know what to say when to say.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: Well, guys, we'll see you in uh in just over
• 1:17:01
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