Upcoming Non-UK Blu-ray Releases

[the blob]

Originally Posted by bgart13

Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU is getting released next month in France:



Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit [Blu-ray]: Amazon.fr: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Popol Vuh, Werner Herzog: DVD

Unfortunately, it's not English-friendly. Who owns the rights in the UK? In the US, it's been Anchor Bay (and they certainly won't be releasing it anytime soon in HD).

Damn! I would absolutely love this on Blu. I think this is the creepiest and most atmospheric of all the Dracula movies. Kinski really plays the tortured soul superbly and the film would look gorgeous in HD.

Bgart, I think I'm holding onto my Criterion Third Man after seeing the SC screenshots. Sorry.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by stevoj

Oh yes! Jan 11th 2010. Day one purchase for me.

I think you may have missed it by 9 months, mate.

As for Herzog's Nosferatu, it's one of my all-time favourite films and probably my favourite Dracula adaptation. It's truly stunning in every respect. The film simply oozes atmosphere, but not the frilly Gothic grandeur we're used to - but rather here we have decay, death and pestilence. Dracula isn't the towering majestic monster of Christopher Lee, but rather he is a sad, lonely creature full of self-loathing for his cursed condition. The scene when Nosferatu arrives at civilisation and the town descends into madness - death and decay in such a place of beauty, all to the haunting strains of Tsintskaro - is one that has stayed with me since. A film that is devastating in its beauty; albeit a terrible beauty. Absolutely love it and hope it turns up on BD in an English-friendly release soon. Please!

[the blob]

Seems Gaumont are also releasing Eyes Without A Face in October. That would be a great one too. Region coding is no match for French film distributors.

[bdc]

Coming in Germany,Netherlands/Belgium,France.

[antmumford]

Now that is too cool for school

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Received an e-mail from Play.com to say that the release date for Shriek Show's Zombie Holocaust Blu has been moved from 28.09 to TBA.

Also: Even though I'm not a huge fan of the films, that B2TF set looks sweet, b.

[nekromantik]

I love BTTF
but after Alien and Lost I cant afford it!

[bdc]

I was a bit puzzled about the US edition having 6 discs,but seems those are the digital copies?

[Hugh]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye

Received an e-mail from Play.com to say that the release date for Shriek Show's Zombie Holocaust Blu has been moved from 28.09 to TBA.

Just got the same


Even though it's region A, and I'm locked to B, I still want to own it for when I do go multi region.

Don't want to go multi region and find out that the disc has gone OOP.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Just a little heads up for everyone. After seeing the words "confirmed region free" on dvdworldusa concerning Shout Factory's Star Crash BD, and my copy arriving this morning, I decided to test it myself. Just to make sure, I set my Player to region B and stuck in my Anchor bay Evil Dead BD. As expected, I was hit with a wrong region code message. I then put Star Crash in and hey presto!, it played I can say with certainty that Star Crash is REGION FREE!!!!!!!