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I got lots of bootleg discs from showa video, guy does good work putting together the best versions of classic Japanese fantasy/sf for collectors
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Def-Con 4 has one hell of a poster for such a grubby little post-nuke potboiler: Based on some older SF art by one Angus McKie: 
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King Vidiot posted:The only real nunsploitation film you ever need to see is Ken Russell's The Devils. Bruno Mattei's The Other Hell is shockingly good
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Most obscure disc I own is probably The Roots of Japan Were Ancient Israel? which I got years ago for free off a weirdo Japanese evangelical's site. It's just a home-brew disc compiling the dude's tv appearances explaining how - get ready - the roots of Japan were ancient Israel. It's buried in a binder somewhere or I'd pull it out and see if his website's still up.
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dorium posted:well... in a fugue state at 1am I ordered The Bees from VS...
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Aug 5, 2022 02:47
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PinkoBastard posted:I will never stop buying movies. We really are spoiled now with these boutique companies like VS and Severin and so on.
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PinkoBastard posted:It would have been inconceivable to me as a kid, not just in terms of the breadth but also the quality at which the movies are presented. That reminds me I also enjoy the vintage monster magazines, where they aren't quite correct in some fact or another because you can't pause and rewind in 1975. And authors would just make poo poo up out of thin air too, because how many people would actually be able to contradict them? A really egregious one I remember was an author calling Rodan an aquatic monster based on one promotional still of him coming up out of the water.
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bowmore posted:Was a bit silly in the vinegar syndrome sale Sex World is very good uh *whispers* pornography and Raw Force is a very terrible film - haven't seen the VS version to be fair but a widescreen VHS boot from years back
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Sep 17, 2022 00:23
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Raw Force has a lot of fun moments but also a lot of very “hrmmmm I should have a shower after this” moments. It's one of those films where no matter how much wacky poo poo they pack in it just feels so listless and lifeless to me! Just going through the motions.
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Gripweed posted:Space Monster Wangmagwi is up for preorder. They're only making 2,000 copies and this is the first time Wangmagwi has ever had a home video release so its probably gonna go pretty fast. Thanks for posting this!
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Oct 2, 2022 17:18
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Haha I love SRS's bullshit copy saying they "found" a print of this "lost" film, it's exciting enough that they apparently got the OK from the Korean Film Archive to release it, why all the nonsense? IIRC the KFA has even screened the film before, they've just always refused home video requests. Unless I'm confused and they really did find another print and avoided the KFA altogether?
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Oct 2, 2022 17:21
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Casimir Radon posted:I’ve only ever seen Amityville Horror 2 and Amityville 3D because the local ABC affiliate showed them on a Saturday night double feature they used to do when I was in high school. This was also how I saw The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf which is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Also saw Highway to Hell on it. Went in thinking it was going to be terrible and ended up rather loving it. A truthful biopic about the Warrens would be fun, pedophilia and all
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Oct 7, 2022 02:54
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Casimir Radon posted:Hadn’t heard about the pedo stuff. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. https://www.inverse.com/article/39376-conjuring-true-story-ed-lorraine-warren-alleged-underage-sex At the center of THR’s reporting is Judith Penney, who claims that she began a sexual and romantic relationship with Ed in 1963 at the age of 15 with Lorraine’s knowledge. In a sworn declaration given in November 2014, Penney, now in her 70s, claimed to have lived with the Warrens as Ed’s “lover” for 40 years. Penney was even arrested shortly after moving in with the Warrens for the simple fact that she’d moved in with a married man.
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Oct 7, 2022 13:14
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Boywhiz88 posted:Sales are starting. Looks like a bunch of Warner Bros. on Amazon. Just got the Raimi Spiderman Trilogy UHD set for $24.99 via Best Buy. He was such a great crank, I mean that sincerely. Always blowing up on FB at pirates or ungrateful customers, always talking like he was on the razor's edge of the abyss. Code Red has been the unsung workhorse of the cult film scene for like 20 years now.
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PinkoBastard posted:Noice Special Silencers is ... special, but even if it wasn't I want to see every obscure Asian horror brought to HD so I'd still be stoked
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Used to have like 400 kung fu DVDs and maybe 200 VHS until I ripped them all and donated the hard copies. Haven't ever watched them all of course but I have the collector acquisition bug bad when I get into something.
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PinkoBastard posted:Gold Ninja also did a version of The Mad Monster that I’d love to get, I love old 30s and 40s horror stuff. Anything with George Zucco or Lionel Atwill is A-OK in my book. Mill Creek used to put out plenty of these old films on their horror 50 packs, back when they were just another "public domain" bootlegger company. Some crummy prints straight from VHS or ripped from other companies' bargain DVDs. They definitely had a couple weirdo George Zucco films. Another random title I remember is One Body Too Many, a goofy dark house slapstick farce about an insurance guy who shows up at a classic old dark house and gets mistaken for a detective, leading to wacky misunderstandings and hijinks. Seconding the Gold Ninja love, I have their Jackie Chan exploitation pack and the beautiful Thrilling Sword release. The thoughtful presentation counts for a lot, and I'm beyond amazed at seeing an 80s "laser wuxia" get a nice HD release. Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Feb 5, 2023 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:My best Mill Creek weird find was The Harrad Experiment, which is like a college boner comedy but played completely straight without any attempt at humor. And you see Bruno Kirby’s dick. Mill Creek also introduced me to Night Train to Terror and Dungeonmaster. And I think Eliminators. I first saw Bloodtide on the sci-fi pack, watched it over and over as a kid, and now it's got a great HD release from Arrow, incredible. Some more highlights I remember are Night Train to Terror, Legend of Bigfoot, Deadtime Stories, and a goofy Bill Rebane comedy about an intelligent monster truck called Twister's Revenge.
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worms butthole guy posted:These all look amazing and I want them all They're a ton of fun. Mostly dogshit transfers like Lumbermouth said, but there was a treasure hunt appeal and it was so nice to throw a disc in and just let it play through. The spaghetti western 44 pack stole a bunch of 4:3 letterboxed transfers of some classics like Mannaja, Keoma, and Run Man Run, plus the Sartana films. Originally the packs came in sturdy cardboard boxes with thick paper sleeves for all the discs, but at some point Mill Creek "upgraded" to big plastic clamshells which look super slick but unfortunately are very brittle and prone to breaking. Beware if you want to pick any up used. Plus the rereleases swapped out a few titles here and there due to copyright issues. Here's a pic of their old style cases, stolen from reddit:  The Warriors pack of sword and sandal films was another cherished set for me, 100% bad VHS rips taken from awful color rotted TV prints but some fantastic titles nonetheless. The Sci-Fi Invasion pack is one of their later ones and has some great trash titles like ROTOR, Topline, and Raiders of Atlantis. Now, who wants to try to wax nostalgic about Videoasia? Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Mantis42 posted:These ones were what I was talking about. There's also a smaller box of Kung Fu films that contains some Bruceploitation and Crippled Masters, and a tin full of spaghetti westerns. Very mixed quality transfers and if you buy enough of these you'll end up with like 20 copies of Night of the Living Dead, but it's cool to pick one based off the title and jump in blind. They also had 2 different 50 pack collections of martial arts films which I still love to death:   First one is a really wide swath of kung fu, with Godfrey Ho ninjas, Carter Wong escapades, some Bruceploitation, the incredible ozploitation Day of the Panther, all around good flick Shadow Ninja (aka Killer Wears White), and Polly Shang Kwan in the fantasy wuxia Return of the Kung Fu Dragon. The original release also had some Sonny Chiba Streetfighter entries which got replaced later for copyright reasons. Also features Weng Weng in the Impossible Kid and a couple episodes of Lee Van Cleef's show The Master. The transfers are all over the place and the original release includes the cool ANE VHS logo with the hawk before Ninja Wars - the rerelease keeps this title but replaces the print!!! The second pack was released in 2014 in a belated attempt at riding the coattails of Man with the Iron Fists, and is one of the last 50 packs Mill Creek released. Title include some great (non-ninja) Godfrey Ho flicks - mostly South Korean ones he dubbed, reedited, and slapped his name on, like Five Pattern Dragon Claws or Marvelous Stunts of Kung Fu - and a tight selection of Bruceploitation. Another highlight is The Woman Avenger starring Hsia Kwan Li of The Leg Fighters fame, this one has a really brutal final fight. Mostly clean 4:3/letterboxed transfers here, along with nice looking versions of Nine Deaths of the Ninja and Scorpion.
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Mantis42 posted:This looks like the ultimate Mill Creek box I googled for reviews and was not disappointed: 
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wa27 posted:They're probably on Archive.org. Yeah or youtube. Bootlegger George Tan of videoasia/xenon/ground zero runs the Wutang Collection on youtube which has lit. 1000s of old kung fu film uploads. He's got some kind of app you're supposed to pay for to get ad free viewing, classic Tan scammery. There's an excellent story in the book These Fists Break Bricks from an early video guy about getting ripped off by Tan in the 80s: Tan was renting his legit Shaw Bros import tapes and duping them for his own Dragon Video, story ends with the dude chasing Tan down the street when he finds out.
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Mantis42 posted:E: there should totally be a Kung Fu movie about tape bootleggers tho could have a New York Ninja/Miami Connection vibe awhile back I found a huge stack of Black Belt kung fu magazines at goodwill, they had some great old ads for kung fu tapes. These 2 are taken from this cityonfire article: https://cityonfire.com/evolution-of-collecting-kung-fu-asian-film/ edit: another good article http://www.coolasscinema.com/2014/06/fists-kicks-and-kung-fu-theater-growing_29.html   Dr. Jerrold Coe fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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RichterIX posted:Not really the same thing because these were actually some pretty decent transfers but the time, but I really miss Tai Seng Video Marketing. I owe my love for martial arts movies to the guy at my local comic book store transferring a bunch of Tai Seng laserdiscs to VHS for me, and after that all the way through the DVD era if I saw a Tai Seng logo I bought it no matter what. Yeah, even their 4:3 prints were nice and clean, it's how I watched The Legfighters before VCI's bluray.
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Basebf555 posted:Joey Bologna didn't have a very prolific (movie)acting career but I do see on his filmography that he was in Alligator II: The Mutation, which I've been meaning to check out. So I'll be enjoying Joey Bologna's work at some point in the near future. it's a good one! not as good as Alligator (it's hard to come close to that honestly) but definitely top tier monster movie. good pick for a movie night with beer, pizza, and friends - not for so-bad-it's-good laughing, but for a rollicking fun time. richard lynch does his own version of henry silva's role in the original, love that dude. now i want to watch it again.
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caligulamprey posted:They're goofy as poo poo, but they were on at 1 AM on USA Up! All Night on weekends throughout my teen years and I love them very much. I love the tunes from the first Nuke 'Em High too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfuxWqeGsyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5JsH5QKUUg
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is ALF covering up his wang in that shot, and if so will the Blu-ray finally give us the uncut version we’ve been waiting for since the 90s. I'm hoping there's an option for an animal cruelty free cut like with some releases of Cannibal Holocaust
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Egbert Souse posted:Shout! Factory will be releasing The Shaw Brothers Collection, Volume 1 in June, with 11 films included. hell yeah
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caligulamprey posted:PHYSICAL MEDIA WILL NEVER DIE jesus loving christ
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ultraviolence123 posted:Severin's Black Emanuelle boxset officially announced, coming in June, $195. You can find out more info at Severin's website, but note that it's impossibly NSFW. thank god for afterpay
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dorium posted:Ugh let’s stop talking about the Emanuelle boxset till I can properly afford it pwn posted:I desperately want to get it but i just don't have the money Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:thank god for afterpay It's one hell of a monster, to be sure
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Mantis42 posted:what the hell is black emmanuelle? it's got 2.4 on letterboxd Black Emanuelle was made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle with Sylvia Kristel, which was released the year before.[citation needed] Albertini claims it was he who omitted one m in the name of the lead character, in contrast to the French Emmanuelle character.[3] It was deliberately omitted to avoid copyright claims.[citation needed] so the basic story of some enterprising Italian filmmakers riding a trend, making something way more interesting due to budget/creativity
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King Vidiot posted:That Hammond in the bottom right kills me every time. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Went to my local used DVD/game store, got some good stuff but I think one of my new favorite pieces in my collection is now this extremely weird Night of the Living Dead DVD release that comes in a slim jewel case and to me evokes the idea of a Sega CD game. god I miss the early days of DVD when everything was hosed up and weird
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I got an old Sony DVD-r recorder which can hook up to a VCR, cute little machine marketed for home movie preservation but it dupes any old tape without copy protection. records in real time, I burned all my old kung fu tapes to dvd-r and then bundled those onto some bd-rs because I have a problem. Somehow I want to save space but still need physical media   Here's disc art I made for one of my comps:  Can't tweak the video quality of the rip like I know lots of people like to do but I don't care!
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Oh that's a super cool little device! I might have to invest. How do you get the disc art onto your discs? I'm never totally satisfied with my attempts to print onto label paper because it's always off-center. I got mine years ago but just checked now and they're down to like $50! I get the discs with printable faces which otoh are NOT cheap (like $2 a pop):  and use a printer like this one which has an insert for printing onto cd/dvds. perfect shot every time  print a cover onto some nice paper and then bam, the total package  can't forget the interior art!  the hkmdb has tons of great old kung fu posters/stills/lobby cards in decent resolution
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LionArcher posted:Are you talking just the stuff that the big sites put out, or you talking about buying actually porn disks in 2023? Is this an actual thing? (Not shaming, just legit curious). There's a niche market now for restored/remastered '70s pornos, Vinegar Syndrome has put out quite a few
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I gave up and bought the German Blu-ray. Who needs English subtitles? The Germans love releasing old Bruceploitation in nice editions for some reason and about 1/2 of them have the old English dubs, some also use the English language credits. The only issue is figuring out sometimes which film it actually is because they also loved retitling them.
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I can't remember the specific title but the German release for one of Bruce Le's old imitation flicks had a beat up 16mm American print (still widescreen) as a bonus feature for its German dubbed and titled restored main feature, thank you I'll take that
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yeah despite the poor picture quality and limited lifespan, you could kick a VHS around the room and they'd be fine meanwhile, terrorvision are working on restoring ANOTHER old obscure kung fu from VHS hell, tbr sometime 2024: https://twitter.com/BradFHenderson/status/1737273395794854180
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