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Originally Posted by will graham  But what ticks me off with the gothic box tales set is that 2 of those films were released less than 6 months ago. |
The Pit and the Pendulum did indeed come out fractionally under six months ago, but
The Fall of the House of Usher came out in August 2013.
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Does anyone here really think that Arrow only came up with the boxset idea within the last couple of months?.
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The last three months, to be strictly accurate.
Although a couple of individual titles had already started development, the box set was indeed only proposed in August, when it was clear from sales of the Phibes titles,
The Pit and the Pendulum and
Theatre of Blood that there was considerable interest in more Vincent Price films, and that a Christmas box set might be a very good idea. And since Arrow could get hold of six out of the seven Price-starring Corman/Poe films, this seemed like the obvious route, as they could weave the Poe theme throughout the entire package (with a quick Lovecraftian detour on
The Haunted Palace).
Although certainly tight, this wasn't as impossibly extreme a schedule as it looks - with two producers involved (both of whom were already very clued-up indeed about these films and potential angles to cover) and two existing discs already, it essentially boiled down to one title per producer per month (September/October), plus a bit of extra work on the packaging and the book.